These Interesting Times
The Blog of Peter Forsythe in Hong Kong
Saturday, 9 May 2026
Unkind Truth vs Kind Lie
Kind Lie: Boys can become Girls. As in become. Actually become. Unkind Truth: no, they can’t.
Kind Lie: Islam is a “Religion of Peace”. Unkind Truth: no, it’s not.
Kind Lie: All illegal immigrants are good and productive. Unkind Truth: no, they’re not.
Kind Lie: all cultures are equal. Unkind Truth: no, they’re not.
Kind Lies lead to dysfunctional systems. As in dysfunctional cities. As in those run by progressive Democrats, people full of Kind Lies. Look at the mess in: LA, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Minneapolis.
All of them went soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on illegal immigration, soft on allowing sleeping g in streets. And we see the outcome. It’s there in front of our faces. LA has the additional stain of its shockingly incompetent handling of last year’s wildfires. Which burned thousands of houses and killed 15 homeowners.
Unkind Truths vs Kind Lies
Kind Lie: Boys can become Girls. As in become. Actually become. Unkind Truth: no, they can’t. Kind Lie: Islam is a “Religion of Peace”. Unkind Truth: no, it’s not. Kind Lie: All illegal immigrants are good and productive. Unkind Truth: no, they’re not.
Why support this barbaric theocracy?
Kavya K asks “ How can anyone claim to care about women while supporting this barbaric theocracy?”
My answer:
- Because the progressive Left hates Trump more than they love women.
- Because they hate Trump more than they love freedom
- Because they hate Trump more than they’ll defend the west against Islamist encroachment
- Because they hate Trump more than allowing nuclear weapons to genocidal theocratic tyrants
- Because they hate Trump more than any effort to crush terrorism in the world
- Because they hate Trump more than they want to constrain the world’s largest supporter of international terrorism.
In short, Because they hate Trump more than anything.
“Ifyou support Iran’s regime, you’re not anti-war.
You’re anti-woman.” Listen to Kavya K expose the massive hypocrisy of those who defend the Iranian regime.
She reveals the brutal truth: women in Iran have zero freedom. They are beaten, arrested, raped, and killed for daring to oppose the regime simply for wanting basic human rights.
This is not “resistance.” This is one of the most misogynistic regimes on Earth.
How can anyone claim to care about women while supporting this barbaric theocracy?
Three communists walk into a bar…
Three communists walk into a bar: one orders a $15 mixed cocktail, another a $10 Martini, and the third a $6 beer. When the bill arrives, based on their mantra, they are forced to split it equally.
The following week, the three return to the bar once again, but this time they request separate checks, so the bartender asks them why they're not splitting the bill equally, since in communism, everyone pays the same fair share. The three communists reluctantly agree, and once again they divide the bill into three equal parts.
The following week, the three communists return, but with a mob of devoted followers, and they protest against the bartender to change the prices of all their drinks to the price of the cheapest drink on the menu.
Out of fear that his business will be vandalized or burned down, the bartender agrees. So the following week, all the communists enter and enjoy their drinks at $6 with equalized prices, and celebrate the successes of communism.
The communists continue with this for several more weeks, until one Friday they return to the bar and find it closed, with a sign outside saying that the bar has shut down due to bankruptcy.
And that, comrades, is how communism works.
H/t Hombre Imparable
Friday, 8 May 2026
Democrat Lawfare
A follow on from the story of Democrat hypocrisy over illegal immigration I posted yesterday. Here is a list of Democrats Lawfare against Trump:
🚨Peak Obama hypocrisy just hit different.🚨
Watching Barack Obama lecture President Trump about the “dangers” of weaponizing the DOJ against political opponents — with ZERO remorse for what his own side did — proves exactly what a colossal hypocrite he is.
Here’s the actual record of lawfare they unleashed on Trump and Republicans:
Obama laid the foundation:
• Crossfire Hurricane: FBI launched a full counterintelligence op on the Trump campaign using the fake Steele dossier (Clinton-funded dirt). FISA abuse on Carter Page, spies in the campaign, illegal unmaskings. Obama was briefed.
• IRS scandal: Conservative and Tea Party groups systematically targeted, harassed, and delayed for years while liberal ones got fast-tracked. Lois Lerner and the rest weaponized the tax code.
Biden turned it into all-out war:
• Four bogus indictments designed to bankrupt, gag, and jail Trump during the campaign — Manhattan hush-money zombie case, Georgia RICO election nonsense, Jack Smith’s two federal cases.
• Coordinated raids, leaks, gag orders, and endless lawfare from DOJ, local Democrat prosecutors, and the White House.
• Hunter Biden sweetheart treatment while Trump world got the full Gestapo.
They tried to remove him from ballots, brand him a “convicted felon,” bankrupt him, and lock him up — all to rig the election. Then Obama has the nerve to lecture about “democracy” and “norms”?
No apology. No sympathy for the victims. Just more gaslighting.
This is why trust in institutions collapsed. Americans watched the Russia hoax, IRS abuse, two impeachments, and lawfare circus in real time — and they rejected it.
Trump survived it all and won anyway. The American people saw through the weaponization of justice.
Share this far and wide. The hypocrisy needs to be called out every single time. No more pretending. 🇺🇸
H/t Jordan Wells
Thursday, 7 May 2026
Hamas murders its own
Women much more Left wing
From a Gallup poll. So, pretty reliable.
I must say, I’ve noticed the trend. I’ve seen women I know well over the years, veer sharply left in recent times. Some due to Trump, no doubt. But not all. More of it down to social media.
Democrats want to control illegal immigration!
Chuck Schumer, head of the Democratic Party in the Senate, rails against illegal immigration. in 2009. So did other Democratic luminaries: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton. All said the same thing then that Donald Trump does now.
So, yeah. Democrats support control of illegal immigration. Then. Today, they support illegal immigration. Because… Trump. And… because illegal immigrants are a new voter base for Democcrats.
The only difference, the only one, is that then was them, and now is Orange Man Bad. It was a matter of national security then, which they now ignore because they hate the man saying it.
Imagine that your deeply held values are so lightly held that they evanescence when the person voicing it is someone you don’t like.
That is the crassest hypocrisy. That is enraging national security because of personality. It’s horrid.
Clip Maze Moore:
2009. Chuck Schumer gives one of the strongest speeches against illegal immigration ever given by a politician, from either side of the aisle.
This speech is mind-blowing. Hearing Schumer now insult ICE and Border Patrol and advocate for illegal immigrants, it's hard to believe that this video is real but it is.
Virtually every word of his 30 minute speech was about the need to curb illegal immigration. Schumer hit on everything from border security to biometric verification systems.
Schumer was not alone back then. Obama, Biden, and Hillary all took similar stances against illegal immigration during their campaigns for the 2008 Presidential election.
The Democrat party has moved so far left on immigration that by 2021, a Democrat President had effectively opened the border and ended deportations. The party just keeps moving further left on immigration. Democrat politicians now regularly incite violence against ICE by calling them nazis and gestapo.
Click for the video of Chuck.
Jeremy Boering on rhetorical tricks
Why I don’t go along with the pro-Hamas, hate-Israel crowd: because I don’t buy the rhetorical tricks.
Which are, courtesy Grok:
Here is a summary (names only) of the 18 rhetorical techniques Jeremy Boreing discusses in the video:
1. Pre-suasion
2. Presupposition
3. Assertion stacking
4. Asymmetric skepticism
5. Authority transfer
6. Illusion of insight
7. False consensus signal
8. Epistemic closure
9. Burden shifting
10. Social proof
11. Motivated reasoning
12. Elaborated truth effect
13. Thought-terminating phrase
14. Framing
15. Repetition
16. Hedges
17. Inversion
18. Narrative-driven sales
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
The Aid Industrial Complex
When Bono, darling of the left, major supporter of all sorts of “Aid” events, says this, you know it’s true.
Government money >> Aid agencies, NGOs >> vast majority Left wing >> vote for Democrats >> donate to Democrats >> who ensure the free money keeps flowing.
Meantime the administrators of the Aid agencies, NGOs enrich themselves before any intended recipients. Sometimes/often none of the money reaches intended recipients.
That’s the “NGO Industrial Complex”.
Which explains the fury directed at Elon Musk when DOGE, which he ran for a few months, came after Waste, Fraud and Abuse in government. It was a threat to the Gravy Train.
Jews fighting back
This war has revealed a bitter truth | Ahmed Khalifa
This war has revealed a bitter
truth for us Arabs & real Muslims
in the UAE & the Gulf:
Europe is no longer the Europe
we used to know.. The Europe of
beauty, culture, humanity & art
the one we looked up to, studied in
& learned so much from, is gone !
Now it feels like a third-world
country a refuge for failures
a safe haven for extremists
run by the Muslim Brotherhood
IRGC agents & every terrorist who
got kicked out of the Middle East!
Europe has sadly lost its identity.
Soon the the native European will
feel like strangers in their own land
watching their society get worse
& worse all with the blessing of their
own leaders!!
It’s a painful, pathetic joke..
I’m sorry, but I have to post this
warning (Video) again. It was from
10 years ago. I don’t know if it’ll make
any difference anymore, but I’m
sharing it for the fifth time anyway!
Monday, 4 May 2026
As goes California, so goes America
"As goes California, so goes America"
Well, we better hope not. Because --
The story of California in my life time has been --
California: from Leader to Laggard.
It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the East, at least it settled in a final location
No longer. Who wants to Californify? People are leaving CA faster than rats off a sinking ship. Companies too. People and companies have had enough. Those that stay are not Grateful, just Dead. Because of endless green tape, red tape, buck tape.
Gavin Newsom, the CA governor who made this happen, denies reality. Harps on about the size of the CA economy. But that's old news, which he had nothing to do with; and in any case is destroying.
Today California is no.1 in:
- Highest cost of housing
- Highest cost of petrol
- Highest cost of electricity
- Highest grocery costs
- Highest unemployment
- Highest poverty rate
- Highest homelessness
It doesn't help that many of these failures are the outcome of well-meaning policies. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
And yet, Newsom is leading the polls for the Democrat nominee to the 2028 presidential election.
Heaven help us.
Adam Carolla, Mr Common Sense, talks to Congressman Kevin Kiley. About all this and other things. E.G.: the hi-speed train to nowhere that will never be finished.
It's worth anyone from anywhere watching this. Because it's not just As goes California, so goes America. It's also "As goes America, so goes the World". Much as the world denies it, because of their TDS.
Can the tide be turned? Like "Californication's'' creative destruction?
Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation...
Greens (and BBC) deny Reality of Islam
Victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome
It's a useful summary of those in the media. The ones that fuelled the craziness. I remember it all. I remember being dubious about the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff at the time, as every day, with every promised "bombshell" revelation, nothing actually came out.
And then I read, I actually read and notated, the Mueller Report, which found nothing at all that Trump could be charged with. Essentially, Not Guilty.
And I thought that that's it.
There's nothing there, nothing in the Mueller Report, so they, the TDS people, will accept that and move on. After all, it was their Report.
Except they didn't. They still believe it. Despite the Mueller evidence that they, the Dems, the Trump haters, the TDS-afflicted, had demanded and had constructed and had filled with Democrat lawyers looking into every nook and cranny of the issue.
Then I knew we had a real problem. Not one easy to solve. And one that's got worse over time. Now in his second term, the TDS folks are crazier than ever....
Sunday, 3 May 2026
Immigrants JOKE about Germans working to support them
Make sure to click on the link below to get the video of the joke. It’s sad-funny, and true.
Germany is so far gone that even immigrants have their own jokes about themselves all being on welfare while the natives work to pay for their lifestyle.
I will never understand this continent's willingness to put itself into servitude for the entire third world.
It's sad.
H/tip: Nioh Berg
Blarney Castle, Ireland
Conspiracy “theory” becomes Reality. Case #34517
Democrats Dreaming of Murdering the President
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Communism Redux
Friday, 1 May 2026
Pit Bulls and... guess who?
Thursday, 30 April 2026
The most foolish Islamic beliefs





