WHEN THE LAW OF THE LAW OF MERITED IMPOSSIBILITY REBOUNDS TO EUROPE: Here Come the Riots.

Anti-immigrant violence erupting in the United Kingdom was as predictable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West.

I knew it was coming. Elon Musk predicted it. Konstantin Kisin, ditto. Anybody with half a brain could see it coming.

Seeing it coming is not the same as wanting it to come. Cassandra didn’t want the evils she foresaw to come to pass, and, unfortunately, those of us predicting the inevitable were reviled as much as she was for telling people the truth. British politicians threatened to prosecute Musk for merely saying what any sane person knew.

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As Rod Dreher wrote numerous times during the previous decade, the Law of Merited Impossibility states: “It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.

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Which seems odd, considering that during June of 2020, Starmer was quite happy to encourage violence and disorder that threatened America, and had little desire for calm or “letting the police get on with their work:” George Floyd death: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes a knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement.