Archive for 2025
August 30, 2025
INSIDE THE TRANS, VEGAN DEATH CULT:
There may be a tendency to treat the Zizians as just another crazy cult in a long history of crazy cults. But what is interesting about this particular crazy cult is just how contemporary it is. Uniformly transgender or nonbinary, and convinced they can make the world a better place even if that involves violence, the Zizians could only exist in the present-day West.
The story of their key figure, Jack Amadeus ‘Ziz’ LaSota, is certainly very much of our time. Growing up in Alaska, LaSota and his two younger siblings were largely home-schooled by their middle-class parents. LaSota’s father taught instructional design at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. According to one of his later blogposts, LaSota said that as a pre-teen, he began to see puberty as an ‘evil’ imposition – a belief that would fuel his embrace of transgender ideology.
By all accounts, LaSota was a bright, if troubled youth. He graduated from Fairbanks with a computer-science degree, but dropped out of graduate school. He was offered placements at both Oracle and NASA, before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 – ‘for proximity to the tech industry which I considered sort of my destiny’, as he put it in a 2019 blog post. His ‘destiny’ was a reference to the other credo alongside transgenderism to which LaSota desperately cleaved – namely, so-called rationalism.
Rationalism here refers not to a broad Enlightenment faith in the power of human reason, but to a very 21st-century belief system. Cliquey, elitist and Very Online, the rationalist movement insists that supposedly bias-free scientific thought and probabilistic reasoning can solve virtually any issue and make the world a better place. It is a technocratic, elitist creed beloved of tech geeks. It is also an apocalyptic movement, obsessively preoccupied with the threat of AI. A fair few rationalists live in perpetual fear that machines will one day subjugate humans if preventative steps are not taken now.
Read the whole thing.
Earlier, from Andy Ngo in January: Killing of border patrol agent appears linked to ‘Zizian’ radical leftist trans cult.
And from Stacy McCain in February: Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large.
EVERGREEN: GERMANS STILL GOOSESTEPPING INTO THE ABYSS.
Here’s the underlying article on the German Website Bild, published by Berlin’s Axel Springer SE (which purchased Politico and Business Insider in the US), translated in rather clunky English by Firefox, but you get the gist:
Bizarre muzzle agreement in the Cologne local election campaign! CDU, SPD, Green, FDP, Left and Volt have signed on the initiative of the association “Kölner Round Table for Integration” not to speak negatively about migration during the election campaign.
This so-called “fairness agreement” of the parties (the AfD had not even been asked at first) stipulates that “migrants, migrants and refugees must not be held responsible for negative social developments such as unemployment or the threat to internal security”. Basically, the parties signed that the election campaign “not at the expense of people living among us with a migrant background.”
Consequence: The only relevant party in the Cologne election campaign that addresses negative aspects of immigration is the AfD.
“That our parties are so stupid …”
“It is a tactical stupidity not to fill topics and to leave them to the AfD,” says political scientist Werner Patzelt about BILD. He is speechless “that our parties are so stupid that they don’t see the tactical disadvantage and that they are so weak on their chests that they don’t see that they themselves damage our democracy by not wanting to talk about important issues.”
As David Frum quipped in 2018 about the first Trump administration, “If liberals insist that enforcing borders is a job only fascists will do, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won’t.”
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But for others, like Josh McDowell, writing great books that are bought and read by millions is among his greatest of passions. This is nowhere so well-illustrated as by his classic of Christian Apologetics, “More Than A Carpenter.” More than 15 million copies of MTAC have been printed and sold since the first edition hit the bookstands in 1977,
Over at HillFaith, I have for several years had a standing offer of a free copy of MTAC to anybody willing to share their name, snail mail address and email address. More than 500 folks, including a bunch of Instapundit readers, have taken me up on the offer.
Periodically, I receive thoughts and/or thank yous from folks who have asked for and received a copy of MTAC. Tom Colson did so recently and I so appreciated his comments that I asked him for reprint permission, which he gladly granted. It’s a useful reminder of a great offer of a wonderful book. Check it out here.
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NARRATOR: IT HAD, IN FACT, BECOME OBVIOUS THAT SHE COULDN’T DO HER JOB.
For the love of God, can you just do your job?
Can you attend to the city of Los Angeles?
What are you doing on national news shows?
Unless you're running for President, we don't see the purpose. Use your time instead to fill our potholes, deal with the city's crime, get the… https://t.co/eNOKaHyZxP— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 30, 2025
I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC:
Well sure, he looks a bit unconventional, but he really knows his science:
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RACISM DOESN’T VANISH OVERNIGHT: Med schools still accept black students with lower MCATs than rejected Asians, whites.
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WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS:
— Jekyll&Hyde (@SLNTnomore) August 29, 2025
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST:
Think about this for a second
The CDC is utterly useless if it is not seen as credible by the majority of the country, and yet they employed a guy with massive satanic tattoos who wore bondage gear during a photo shoot as their point person on immunization
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 29, 2025
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AND GUESS WHAT THE ‘PALESTINIANS’ ARE DOING THIS WEEKEND IN DETROIT: A bunch of radical far-Left political activists are meeting, again, this Labor Day weekend in Detroit to plot new deceit and destruction about and of Israel in the U.S., according to award-winning journalist Richard Pollock.
One key to understanding where and why these folks are headed for the coming months is found in understanding the influence of Saul Alinksky, the mind-master of Barack Obama and thousands more New Left radicals in America. Pollock knows these plays backwards and forwards, having been among Alinksky’s American followers for years before his own ideological rebirth:
“This is the model for the pro-Palestinian protesters. It is to intimidate, instill public fear, and for the authorities, to be regarded as the enemy. At all of the previous pro-Palestinian college encampments, only radical students were permitted to enter and they exuded intimidation. They barred Jewish students from entering the encampments or engaging their fellow students in open dialogue who were inside the Palestinian strongholds.
“Across the country’s campuses, radical Palestinian activists disrupted classes, attacked students who wore Jewish symbols, hunted down Jewish students, occupied buildings, painted Swastikas in student dormitories, and in some cases, beat security guards who tried to help.
“The ‘fear factor’ was one of their best weapons. And I suspect, they intend to use it again this fall. I think we can expect that we’ll soon see the ‘next phase’ of Palestinian ‘resistance. Get ready.”
Cauz it ain’t gonna be pretty!
IT’S A REAL MYSTERY: Democrats Wonder Why So Many Men Are Abandoning The Party.
THE WSJ’S NEWS OPERATION HASN’T COVERED ITSELF WITH GLORY (CONT’D): The Wall Street Journal’s Silence on Jimmy Lai: There’s Always a Cost: The WSJ News Team Makes a Deal with the Devil.
NO, THEY DON’T.
Undoubtedly, the funniest thing about the current political scene is hearing people scream about fascism descending on the US in one breath, then advocating censorship and disarmament of civilians in the next.
Do they even listen to themselves?
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 30, 2025
NO, THE PALESTINIANS ARE THE COLONIZERS: Among the many endlessly repeated lies from the Left about Israel, Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinians is the one that claims Israel is the illegitimate foreign conqueror and colonizer of lands the Palestinians historically own. The truth, as Rod Martin explains this morning on Substack, is the exact opposite. Once that fact is recognized, all the rest of the lies fall into place.