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February 21, 2025
LIZ TRUSS: Britain Is A Failed State.
IS IT A DAY THAT ENDS IN “Y?” Watch: Did a Senate Democrat Just Call for an Insurrection?
Do you remember when Democrats accused former President Trump of incitement for telling his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol to make their voices heard? Well, fast forward to today, and we have a sitting senator engaging in rhetoric that does far more than make a call for peaceful assembly. Earlier this week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) advocated for “revolution” while standing outside in snow-covered Boston, a site steeped in revolutionary history.
“Massachusetts is where revolutions are born,” Markey began. “And the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk starts here.”
“This is the city of revolutionaries from the American Revolution to create checks and balances in the United States Constitution so that we did not have a dictator — a king — the way those colonists were living under it. And they fought all along Massachusetts Avenue. All coming out, the men and women to say, ‘no taxation without representation.’ We want to have a balance, we cannot have a king.”
Markey’s choice of words raises an important question: is “revolution” just a dog whistle for “insurrection”? His post on X proudly calls for this upheaval, and he pinned it to his account to make sure people see it. Perhaps he believes this kind of incendiary language is acceptable when those on the left wield it.
Markey’s words also raise another important question: Why is Markey now talking about the American Revolution and “no taxation without representation” and “we want to have balance,” when in 2019, he was in full “ban all things!” mode when he backed AOC’s infamous Green Nude Eel:
While Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal bill in the U.S. House in February 2019, Markey introduced a Senate version of the same bill.
Here’s the sort of “balance” that AOC and her colleagues was calling for at the time:
● The Green New Deal’s War on Cows.
● Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat.
● “The authors state that the GND would like to replace every ‘combustion-engine vehicle’ — trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars — within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built “everywhere,” though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.”
● Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Aims to Eliminate Air Travel.
As Jim Treacher wrote earlier this week, Apparently, the Green New Deal Runs on Gaslight.
The following year, Markey also didn’t sound very keen about America’s founding:
On Thanksgiving Day in 2020, Markey tweeted the following about the Thanksgiving holiday:
“While we celebrate all that we are grateful for today, we must also remember the true history of Thanksgiving and recognize the atrocities committed against Native Americans, as well as the widespread disease brought by European arrival which decimated the Native population. In Massachusetts, on this 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival, we continue to stand with the Wampanoag people who first met the Pilgrims and celebrate their continued sovereignty and land rights.”
Given the Covid restrictions still in place in Massachusetts, and a governor who was saying, “The science on this one’s pretty clear — gathering in groups indoors for an extended period of time with family and friends is likely the worst possible scenario for spreading the virus…If you gather with people outside your household, limit guests as much as possible and keep it to your limited social network, who you see on a regular basis,” I’m sure Markey’s boilerplate leftism sold particularly well that Thanksgiving.
THIS IS HOW THE WAR ON BOYS ENDS, OR AT LEAST BEGINS TO END: JD Vance to Young Men: Don’t Let Them Turn You Into ‘Androgynous Idiots.’
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The capper to Siobhan Miller’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day was a dog, tied to the stop sign. She hates dogs. She’s terrified of dogs, and that was a big dog. Looking sad and lonely, tied to a stop sign. That was not okay. She was the only one around, so she took him home. Only to find that he wasn’t a dog, but one of the Good People, under a curse. And there were more of them.
And they were all after her. And all she had was the dog (who wasn’t a dog) to help keep her from being taken away from all she’s ever known. Because that dog? He and his twin sister are family that she didn’t know she had, and their appearance has upended everything she’s ever known about herself. Including that she was human to begin with. She has a lot of questions.
Starting with curses, and how and why they sometimes spread.
WHEN YOU POINT ONE FINGER FOUR POINT BACK AT YOU: Pritzker’s Nazi Germany Remark Prompts Backlash From Illinois Republicans.
DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS WITH BYLINES: The Associated Press’ Latest Statement About Trump Gave the Whole Game Away.
HEH. A SINGER FROM CANADA’S HAT HAS DELUSIONS! 4 Nations anthem singer intentionally changed ‘O Canada’ lyrics over Trump’s 51st state comments.
If changing their own anthem in a grammar-abusing way makes the poor woman feel powerful, who are we to stand in her way?
FLUSH THE NONSENSE DOWN! Low flow no more? Trump to roll back rules on toilets, showers and lightbulbs.
THE END OF NATO? NATO RIP – Ukraine, Europe etc.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Former Staffers Say India’s Biggest IT Firm Was Gaming the US Visa System.
ABSOLUTELY! Asteroid Threat? X-Prize It.
I DON’T KNOW. WE ALREADY HAVE ONE CALIFORNIA: There are compelling reasons for Trump to make a play for Canada. And it is not so unrealistic to expect that Canadians will change their mind about this.
I’M HAVING THOUGHTS OF BLUE GLASS: IDF: Kfir and Ariel Bibas ‘Brutally Murdered,’ Third Body is Not Shiri.
WHICH IS A GOOD THING: Data Isn’t Transparency: Why USASpending.gov Buried the Truth (and DOGE Dug It Up).
FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE IS WHERE SURVIVAL IS: Sticks and Stones…
JORDAN PETERSON ASKS SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE: What Really Happened on January 6th. (It’s a Video.)
THERE’S NO POINT REGRETTING THE PAST. ALWAYS WORK FOR THE FUTURE: The Years Undone.
A LOT OF INDIE AUTHORS COMING OUT OF THE WOOD WORK: Another Standing For Liberty Promo Post.
February 20, 2025
IF ISRAEL TREATS GAZA LIKE THE ALLIES TREATED DRESDEN OR TOKYO, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL REALLY CARE?
The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed al-Haddad, reportedly stated after watching the scenes of dead Israeli babies being paraded in coffins in Gaza:
‘Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before.’
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 20, 2025
Related:
🔴 Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia:
"What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah." pic.twitter.com/hPKi7T8QNN
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 20, 2025
I think these reactions are basically a go-ahead.
A FRIEND WRITES:
I have to assume Kash Patel is taking all precautions to keep himself from being set up by the premier set-up law enforcement agency on the planet.
Anything from straight-up assassination to some kind of golden showers child porn fakery, whatever.
You know they aren’t just thinking about it. Someone’s working on it.
You’d be crazy to think otherwise at this point. But I think Kash knows that better than we do.
OPEN THREAD: Happy Thursday.