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Archive for 2025
September 28, 2025
THEY’RE EVIL SOCIALIST TWINS: Google Tells us that the Creator of Fascism was Anti-Socialist: But was He? Fascism, Nazism and Socialism are all terms which are misunderstood and misused today. Even Google gets it wrong, such as when it says historically false things regarding key historical figures.
THE MEMES, THE MEMES! Everything The Sun Touches Is Memed.
THERE’S A POISON SEEPING INTO OUR REASONING: It’s All In The Movies.
September 27, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.
21ST CENTURY LAWYERING: Court Throws Out Case After Finding Plaintiffs Submitted Deepfake Videos and Altered Images.
READER FAVORITE: Toniiq Ultra High Purity Quercetin Capsules. #CommissionEarned
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Green Meltdown: Trump’s Second Term Breaks the Back of Climate Activism.
STACY MCCAIN: How to Become a Good Communist.
Given the extraordinary craziness of our own era, with political violence rampant and apparently increasing, many people have forgotten how crazy things were in the 1970s. Back when I was in middle school and high school, you had all kinds of wacky radicals running around. The nation had gone through a series of crises — the drama of the Civil Rights Era, the assassination of JFK, the Vietnam War, etc. — and a lot of people couldn’t handle the stress and just lost their minds.
You had the Manson Gang murders in 1969, then the Weather Undeground bombers, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and the Symbionese Liberation Army, and let’s not forget the Peoples Temple and Jonestown. It was during that decade-long national nervous breakdown that JoAnn Chesimard assumed the moniker “Assata Shakur” and decided that the Black Panthers weren’t radical enough for her tastes.
The Black Liberation Army (BLA) emerged as an ultra-violent splinter of the Panthers, in association with other black radicals, spewing Marxist-Leninist jargon as a pretext for killing cops and committing robberies. “According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the Black Liberation Army was suspected of involvement in over 70 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1976. The Fraternal Order of Police blamed the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers.” Arguably the most infamous of their crimes was the 1981 Brinks robbery in Nyack, New York, where BLA members joined forces with Weather Underground radicals calling themselves the May 19th Communist Organization. In the Nyack robbery, this radical gang killed Brinks guard Peter Paige and police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown.
Read the whole thing.
SOROS COORDINATE! SOROS COORDINATE! Philly’s Lefty DA Larry Krasner Gets Asked to Explain How Trump Is a Fascist (Guess What Happened Next).
All they have is their talking points. Even when peacefully confronted like this. https://t.co/lVDrWj6amH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 27, 2025
They’re not used to being asked that question by the corporate media, who mostly just nod their heads in agreement when a Democrat calls Trump a fascist.
Calling his would-be interviewer “un-American” is a nice, McCarthy-esque touch, though implying that because he’s 22, he’s too young to debate Krasner is a tacit admission that the 26th Amendment should be repealed. Not something I was expecting, but I’ll take the bipartisan support where I can!
In any case, as Tom Cotton wrote at the end of 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
IT’S BAD WHEN YOUR CAR GHOSTS YOU: The Fisker Ocean Disappeared From Our Long-Term Garage. We Just Found It.
ED MORRISSEY AND CARLA ONDRASIK: ‘Stop Trying!’ How to End Self-Sabotage and Find Success.
DAVID THOMPSON: If You Notice Our Dishonesty, We Will Punish You.
I paraphrase, of course. Though not, I think, wildly:
A man in Switzerland is facing 10 days in prison after refusing to pay a fine for an “offensive” social media post. Emanuel Brünisholz, a wind instrument repairman from Burgdorf, was convicted under anti-discrimination laws for making a statement emphasising skeletal evidence of binary sex.
Sorry, still pondering the Swissness of wind instrument repairman.
Brünisholz’s ordeal began in December of 2022 when he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner. In his comment, Brünisholz wrote: “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”
Well, he’s not wrong. We could, I suppose, list things like pelvis shape, skull shape, bone density, Q-angles and whatnot, and we could mention the very high accuracy of sex determination via forensic examinations based on such variables, but it all seems rather obvious. Almost too silly.
Meanwhile, BBC newsreader Fiona Bruce is terrified of a potential trip to Room 101:
It’s such a massive question that it can be answered with a single word: ‘yes.’ What’s truly massive is the chicanery of members of the commentator class who’re too scared of ideologues both inside and outside their workplace to permit that single word to be uttered. https://t.co/Qt3YwpWBx4
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 27, 2025
As Wikipedia notes:
The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, has said George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), “reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from the novel “on a room he had worked in whilst at the BBC.”[52]
On 7 November 2017, a statue of Orwell, sculpted by the British sculptor Martin Jennings, was unveiled, outside Broadcasting House. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with the following phrase: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. These are words from his proposed preface to Animal Farm and a rallying cry for the idea of free speech in an open society.
Some exceptions apply at the BBC of course, rendering Orwell’s phrase appropriately Orwellian in 21st century Airstrip One. No word yet how they’re preparing in Room 102 for Bruce’s potential arrival:
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KEEP YOUR NAILS TRIMMED: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned
I LOVE A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: How Fashionable Lefty Mission Creep and Allegations of Racism All But Destroyed One Prominent Gun Control Operation.
IT’S RED WINE AND HUMMUS FOR ME: Mediterranean diet leads to 75% symptom reduction in patients with mild to moderate psoriasis.
THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Researchers say dangerous ‘Benadryl Challenge’ still active on TikTok.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:
We should cull 98% of education researchers and replace them with 20 good stats nerds.
Just imagine the database of IQ info we could have built up by now. A sample of size of 100 million, showing correlation levels between every facet of being you could ever imagine. Lung…
— Matt Hart (@Hardymatt0) September 27, 2025
OPEN SOURCE CODES OF CONDUCT:
I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source.
After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 27, 2025
CELEBRATING A COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY COP-KILLER WHO WAS BROKEN OUT OF PRISON AND THEN FLED TO CUBA IS JUST SOMETHING TEACHERS UNIONS DO FOR THE CHILDREN:
By the way, how many Democrats who take teacher union money (that’s all of them) are going to get tough press coverage until they condemn this?
We know the answer. https://t.co/24PsyL8aEx
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 27, 2025
Related (From Ed): Meanwhile, the London Telegraph has 830 “unexpectedly” glowing words on “Sara Jane Moore, attempted assassin of Gerald Ford who campaigned for fellow prisoners’ rights,” who died at age 95 on Monday:
Remarkably, it was the second attempt on the US president’s life that month. On September 5 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of the Charles Manson cult, had aimed a pistol at Ford at point-blank range at a rally in Sacramento. Officials had disarmed her before a shot was fired. Both women spent more than 30 years in prison, with Moore paroled in 2007 and Fromme securing her own release in 2009.
While reports at the time of Sara Jane Moore’s arrest and sentencing focused on her “ordinariness” of her life as a suburban mother and housewife, subsequent revelations painted a more complex picture. She herself gave conflicting accounts of the thinking behind her actions on September 22.
Early on she claimed to be motivated by anger against the government and the Marxist ideology of her radical friends. She saw her actions as “a protest against the system” which, had they been successful, “could have triggered a revolution in the country”. “I’m not sorry I tried,” she said at her sentencing in federal court. Thirty years later, however, she expressed some measure of regret to a US television network, saying: “I am very happy I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try.”
In 2024 she was the sole interviewee on a documentary about her life, Suburban Fury (she had agreed with the filmmaker, Robinson Devor, that no one else would appear on camera). Insisting once again that she was not insane, she gave a strikingly matter-of-fact account of her early life, from her time in the Women’s Army Corps to her dive into revolutionary politics. Uninterested in introspection, at times hostile to the interviewing process, she proved a frustrating and fascinating subject.
Devor intercut her testimony with archival footage illustrating the protest movements of the day: tensions arising from the Vietnam war, racial and economic discrimination, and the political fall-out from the Watergate scandal. The events of September 1975 continue to reverberate across America today, with political violence once again the subject of fevered discussion in the wake of the two attempts on the life of President Donald Trump, and the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month.
Nixon had pursued a policy of massively scaling up the amount of South Vietnamese soldiers, and thus greatly reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam. He had expanded LBJ’s affirmative action program for minorities. Ford was a liberal Republican and as a congressman for a quarter of a century, a go-along to get-along RINO. Curiously though, NBC’s nascent Saturday Night Live viewed him as the antichrist, as did Moore and Fromme. What could have fueled their rage? In 2022, Glenn wrote of “Nixon’s Revenge:”
It is difficult for people accustomed to today’s media environment to appreciate what a monoculture the media was back then, in that pre-Internet, pre-Cable, pre-Limbaugh era. The press still pretended to be neutral and objective, and was determined enough to maintain that pretense that it would at times even actually be so. There were more limits to what the ruling class was willing to tolerate, in terms of peculation and revealed dishonesty among its own, than there are today. There was in some ways more tolerance for opposing views, with people like William F. Buckley and Billy Graham receiving respectful hearings on mainstream programs in a way that would be impossible today.
But ultimately, that tolerance—and even the ruling class self-policing—was the product of deep-seated security in power. The liberal establishment of that era, which had crushed Sen. Barry Goldwater’s campaign like a bug, saw no one who might challenge it.
This is why Nixon’s election was so traumatic for them. Like Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, the election of a Republican seemed somehow fundamentally wrong. Republicans in Congress could do things, and could even occasionally snatch a short-lived majority. But after four Roosevelt inaugurations, and a string of Democratic presidents interrupted only by Dwight Eisenhower, who could have had the nomination of either party and who showed no inclination to interfere with the post-New Deal federal gravy train, the presumption was that the Executive and the bureaucracy would stay essentially Democratic forever.
Then, Nixon. Not the Camelot-redux hoped for with Bobby Kennedy, or even the party-establishment regime promised by Hubert Humphrey, but Nixon. A man from a small college instead of the Ivy League, a sometimes-awkward introvert, a fervent anti-communist when anti-communism was seen as declassé, Nixon was very much not our kind, dear.
Plus ça change.