Inside the Democratic Machine | Evan Barker

Former Democratic Party insider, Evan Barker, left the Party, posted a Tik Tok resignation which went millions viral. She talks, with The Free Press, of her experiences as a fundraiser, in the heart of the Democratic Party.

Zoomers flipping Republican

Many of them say they find the their new conservative friends, tolerant. Willing to listen to counter arguments.

One possible reason? Universities lean massively Left. In some faculties close to 100%. Any conservative student has to learn to get along. 

Many of these ex-liberal women say they now realise they were lied to.

It’s a fun watch. Maybe even for you, Miss (still) Lefty…

“What happened to the Democrats?” | Stephen Daisley

I love the writing of Stephen Daisley. The image of these Communist loonies, these “Hideous creatures”, as “Keffiyeh-clad Buffalo Bills”. Love it. 

The rest of his article is here. 

I’ll say it again: I warned you. I did warn you! About the “Democratic” Socialists of America. I warned you in 2018. 

No qualifiers in front of “Socialism”can  change the fact that it’s Socialism. Not “warm and cuddly”, not “unthreatening-and-not-at-all-dangerous”; and no, not even “Democratic”. It’s always Socialism. And, in my experience, Socialism = communism. There’s no practical difference. The DSA is consuming and reshaping, socialist-ising the Democratic Party. 

Result? The Democrats’ constituents today:

 

Today’s Democrats wouldn't tarnish their karma by attempting to win the votes of white men. They are strictly the party of unmarried women, status-conscious graduates, identity- and victimhood-based groups, and the unfathomably aggrieved offspring of assimilated immigrants. 

And their policies?

It used to be said that Democrats were for acid, amnesty and abortion. Today, they are the party of Palestine, pronouns and police abolition.

Hail, President Cortez! President of the People's Republic of America

No worries, AOC. The DSA wants to rip it up anyway...

Look. I told you. I did tell you. Didn't I? I told you!

Way back in 2018, I warned that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were out-and-out Socialists. With a horrible platform that amounts to out-and-out Communism.

By the way, for me these days, there's no difference between Socialism and Communism. I say that after living in China, a socialist country ("with Chinese characteristics") run by a Communist Party (with Marxist-Leninist characteristics). After working and visiting many other socialist/communist countries in the world: North Korea, East Germany before the fall of the wall, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Today, Britain….

There used to be a fine, and basically very small, distinction made between one and the other, mainly as to when the State would "wither away”. But I don't think that's relevant any more. So here on I use Socialism and Communism interchangeably.

Back to AOC and the DSA. 

My post of 18 August 2018:

The People’s Republic of America. Brought to you by the Democratic Socialists of America!

In that post of 8 years ago, I went into a deep dive on its platform. And tore it apart. I got some pushback from Occasional Readers along the lines of "it's no big deal, nothing to see here". But clearly there is. And I was right. 

Now I'm pointing out that what once seemed unthinkable is not just thinkable, but might even happen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), as a credible candidate for president of the United States in the 2028 elections. In a recent poll she leads in New Hampshire. In other polls she's nipping at the heels of Gavin Newsom. 

One Leftie loony and then another; even loonier. I mean, actually, it's tough to pick which is which. 

The full text of my post, unaltered from that date, is below the fold.

These Interesting Times, post of 18 August 2018:

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Whose Playbook?

In memory of the late Scott Adams... 

Compilation of Democrats defending Graham Platner

Short answer to The New Yorker. No, he can’t. He’s a Nepo Nazi. Funded by mummy to
Maine’s most expensive private schools. A Vet-hating Vet. Then a wastrel and a
fraudulent “Oyster Farmer”. And now… a failed Senatorial candidate 

This is all about one Graham Platner. Until ten minutes ago unknown. Until five minutes ago the Democratic candidate for Senator to the United States Congress in the State of Maine.

He’s got a Nazi tattoo. Smack bang right there on his chest. Not just any old Nazi tattoo, but the Totenkopf. The “Death’s Head” tattoo of the S.S., Hitler’s most enthusiastic Jew-extinguishers. Then pretended (ie, lied) that he didn’t know what it was…

Dems: He’s a Nazi? No worries. He’s a lying Nazi? Even better! 

Platner is a bogus “oyster farmer”. In reality shucks a few oysters for his Mum’s restaurant.

Dems: He’s a fraud? No worries. “We’re not hiring a priest”. “Give him grace”. I mean, who cares!

Platner is a member of the Marxist-Leninist DSA.

Dems: He’s a Communist? No worries. We love communism!

Platner: “All Cops are Bastards”.

Dems: No worries. We hate cops too!

Platner: “Rural Americans are racist and stupid”.

Dems: Right on, brother! As saint Hillary said, they’re all Deplorables!

Platner: Says Purple Heart veteran Terry Daniels “doesn’t deserve to live”.

Dems: No worries, bro. We hate vets too!

Platner: Calls for theft of private property.

Dems: He wants to impoverish America? No worries. He wants to steal stuff from Republicans? Fine, as long as it’s for us, no problem.

Platner: Calls for Open Borders. 

Dems: You want to illegally import Democrat voters and steal working-class job? Great!

Platner. Accused of sexual misconduct. 

Dems: No! That’s beyond the pale. Resign buddy!

So he has. He’s now resigned. He steps down from the race in the crucial state of Maine. Crucial to the Dems obsession with taking back the Senate this coming mid-term.

The link here is to a compilation of Dems in complete lock-step about just a wonderful candidate Platner was. Until he wasn’t. 

Sure, anyone can make a mistake supporting a candidate who turns out to be flawed. But the Dems seem to have a particular genius for picking weird heroes. Think of Lenin, Stalin, Mao. More prosaically: think how they drooled over Michael Avenatti… as a presidential candidate! Whoopi and the ladies of The View loved him! He’s now in jail. Couldn’t they see that at the time? The View? Jimmy Kimmel? All the late-nighters? I mean, even I could see it, sitting here in Hong Kong. 

Then there’s James Talarico in Texas. The lads of the Ruthless  pod take that apart. Here.

Conservative Black Voices mentioned on my blog

Adam B. Coleman
Allen West
Amala Ekpunobi
Briahna Joy Gray
Byron Donalds
Carol M. Swain
Chloe Valdary
Christian Watson 
Clarence Thomas 
Coleman Hughes
Condoleezza Rice 
David Webb
Delano Squires
Esther Krakue  
Glenn Loury
Greg Foreman (YT: "Black Conservative Perspective")
Ian Rowe 

Jacinta Nampijimpa Price
Jason Riley
John McWhorter
John Ogbu

Katharine Birbalsingh
Kemi Badenoch 
Larry Elder
Morgan Freeman 
Nathaniel Broughty (YT: "Nate the Lawyer")
Shelby Steele
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Sowell
Tim Scott
Walter Williams  

Warren Mundine
Wilfred Reilly 
Zuby

Huh? Why post this?? Dunno really. Was keeping a list anyway, now put here for reference. 

On the Left it’s assumed that People of Colour vote Democratic. Or vote Labour in England, vote Labor in Australia. Or, worse, vote Green. Most do. But many others do not. They have their own views. They are independent thinkers. Not driven by their peers to do “what’s expected”. Not afraid to “go off the plantation”. Most, above, are from America, some from Oz, some the  U.K.. Heterodox, strong, brave, commonsensical voices. That’s the people above. Not the “Silent majority”, but of the Loud Dissenters. 

And that’s why I post it.

Communist-Islamists win big in New York

This is not me being crazy. This is not me being deluded in calling them Communists and Islamists. They themselves make no secret of it.

Who? Who am I talking about? 

This has happened in the last few days, in the Democratic Primary for New York State elections. The Democratic Party candidates who won their primaries were all endorsed by Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of NYC and himself a self-declared Islamist and Communist. They have all offered their fealty to him, the new kingmaker of the Dems.

Each of them has said they hate America. Actually hate America. Yet representing people in New York State. Each has said that 911 was a good thing. Which they celebrated. They love and celebrate Hamas. They call for worldwide revolution. To “globalise the intifada”. Each glazes communism. Each is a member of the crypto-communist Democratic Socialists of America. 

They despise America and its flag. One has said she used the American flag as toilet paper. Using the Flag as toilet paper! Shouldn’t that be disqualifying?! 

But they’re winners of Democratic Primaries to be Representatives! In the Congress of New York State.

Sure, Free Speech and all. But these are Representatives. Who — to repeat and be extremely clear — have said they hate the country in which they live, they hate its flag and they support international terrorism. And yet are now one November election away from Representing the State of New York. 

We must ponder this. Where in earth are we? And where is New York? Where is America? 

Asmogold above is Zach Hoyt. He reckons this is a good thing because it makes clear where the Democratic Party is. Where that is, he reckons the majority of Americans is not going to like. So he thinks this is good for Republicans. Which is where he now stands. Or sits. 

Like me, Asmogold is an old time Democrat. Like from the era of Bill Clinton or even Barack Obama. For sure I could buy into Clinton”s agenda, or even first-term Obama’s, of Free Markets, closed borders, stopping illegal immigration, law and order, helping the working class while expecting them to work if able. Staying out of foreign entanglements. Trying to control the budget.

But that’s no longer the Democratic Party of today. It’s changed and changing behind recognition.

I don’t agree with a hell if a lot of Asmogold’s views. But I do with many. His analysis of how this all came about is interesting and I largely buy it.

I sure hope Asmogold is  right that the majority of Americans won’t buy this Communist- Islamist bullshit. And that these Communist-Islamist flunkies won’t win in November. If he’s wrong then America and the west is in real trouble. 

Communism is bad enough. Islam is worse. The combination is like Russian nerve poison. 

The Ruthless Podcast has the four fellas, all veterans of political campaigns, give us their take. Which is along similar lines as Asmogold, though less “ranty”. 

Something’s Wrong in the State of California

Bridget Phetasy brings the receipts. 

Fraud and corruption in the state of California. Here focused on the weird results in the current voting results for mayor of Los Angeles.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…. And so on…

The CA ruling elite are scared rotten of their corruption being exposed by LA  Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt. So they had to drum him out of the race. 

Just recently the CA legislature passed a “Stop Nick Shirley Act”. Which criminalises not the acts of fraud and corruption, but the person trying to uncover them. Prompted by the amazing reporting by young Nick Shirley of widespread fraud and corruption in Minnesota and California. 

CA lawmakers were questioned about this Act. But they passed it anyway.

Just one more bit of “California legalises fraud” story of Bridget’s. 

Spencer Kills

 

Bridget Phetasy is so talented. 

Good coverage of the Independent candidate for Mayor of LA, Spencer Pratt. We cross fingers for him, and not the likes of the present Mayor, Karen Bass, who has helped to turn LA into the dumpster fire that it is. 

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. 

California heydays. The Beach Boys. Haight-Ashbury. The Hippies. The Grateful Dead. All that was cool was California.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers sang  Californication:

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...

Conspiracy “theory” becomes Reality. Case #34517

X post from Kevin Dalton:

The Left: "Stop saying we are pushing for illegal immigrants to vote in elections."

Also the Left: "All we’re saying is we want illegal immigrants to vote in elections."

H/t Kevin D.

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Me: I remember when we wondered -- I wondered -- why the Biden administration was opening the borders, letting in, willy nilly, millions of unvetted immigrants. Many/most/all illegal. 

Perhaps it was the John Lennon "Imagine" reason. Imagining a "world without borders". Cool, baby. Peace ☮

Perhaps was their simple incompetence at sealing the southern border. 

Or... or...

Perhaps it was because the Democrats were looking for more voters! 

For illegals will always vote for the party that gives them free stuff.  Like the Dems. Like we've seen them doing, most egregiously, in Minnesota. 

"Conspiracy theory nutters", scream the Dems. It's "without evidence" (one of their favourite phrases). 

Turns out that last reason is the true one. It wasn't a conspiracy theory. It was just a conspiracy. Which turned out to be true. 

The Dems are going to allow all immigrants -- "undocumented" or not, non-citizens or not -- vote in American elections. That's insanity. From a national interest POV, but most certainly from a Rep POV.

But it's completely understandable from a "we-must-win-at-all-costs, no-matter-what-the-cost, and by-any-means-necessary" Democrat Party. Starting first, of course, with that testing ground for all progressive ideas, California. 

Californicating America.  

The real existential threat to America: Leftist Political Violence

 

And no, it's not "there's violence on both sides". It's almost exclusively from the Left. From the Far-Left, if you will. 

The violence is against what they claim is an "existential threat" to "our democracy", from Donald Trump. 

But that's based on a delusion. That he's a tyrant. That he's Hitler. That the law enforcement officers of the state are Gestapo Goons. That people who vote for him followers are Nazis. All that is nonsense. It's objectively false. That vast swathes of Democrats truly believe it... doesn't make it true.  

Instead we have the Left trying to overthrow an administration that won two elections, the latest with both the popular and the electoral college vote. 

A democratically-elected administration that they try to overthrow, with lawfare, with obstruction on the streets, with obstruction in the Congress.

And with murderous violence. Repeatedly. 

While denying that it's a problem of the Left. As did Obama in his reaction. But. This is the problem of the Left. 

Josh Hammer is the senior editor of Newsweek. I've followed him for a while. I'm rather of his view on this whole thing, in the vid above. Which is, like, "whaaa? What are we doing?? This is crazy!"

Indeed it is. And the future of the Republic, the future of possibly the last bastion of western civilization, is at stake here. 

Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?

I've been meaning to write a post on "Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?" 

I would say that it's because he changed from a centre-left Democrat to a Trump supporter. So, word: Trump. 

Before that, the Left loved Elon. A major player in climate change, with his Electric Vehicles and Solar City. 

Then, he says he'll support Trump in 2024, and all that goes. They hate Elon. Just as they hate Trump. 

The reason why he migrated to support Trump, is that he thinks that reducing the national debt is an existential issue. Neither side has been good with this, but the Trump admin tried harder. They did. With DOGE, which was to tackle Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Which sent the left into paroxysms. Because, it turns out, the whole of the NGO, the non-profit, the charity sector is one big boondoggle to wash money for Democrats. But that's another story. 

Then there's a twist I heard about the other day from the likes of the creaky centenarian Democrat Strategist, James Carville, that they think Elon "stole the 2024 election" for Trump. Which is not true, because the swing states that Trump won, the 7 balance states, had zero input from Elon. What's more, the Dems spent way more money than the Reps, 1.5 billion to around 800 million. So there's that. 

Now there's another reason, by the insightful Cathie Wood, of Ark Invest. 

Namely that the Left hate that Elon is actually doing something for Climate Change. And if he manages to solve it, then there's nothing more for them to campaign on. A new twist on the stuff relating to NGOs. That they don't want to solve the problems they've been set up to tackle. For then the money flow stops. They have to stop feeding at the trough.

Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.

She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.

Not as praise. As a pattern.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.

Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.

The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.

Start with Tesla.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.

Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.

Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.

Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.

Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.

A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.

Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.

SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.

Which is exactly what the press counts on.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

Mars was never the exit.

It is the lab.

Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.

You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.

Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.

He is not running from the cradle.

He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.

But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.

Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.

Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.

That is what terrifies the establishment.

Not that he might fail.

That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.

A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.

So they do the only thing they have left.

They send the media after him.

Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.

It has worked on every builder before him.

It will not work on this one.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.

The stones always come from inside the walls. From Dustin.

Another attempt on Donald Trump's life

This time at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. 

It was a teacher from California, now in custody with numerous charges. 

Conservatives are saying "this has to stop". 

They seem think that reasonable Democrats will realise that their non-stop rhetoric of hate towards president Trump has consequences. And that it ought to stop. 

What these commenters don't seem to realise just how far gone are very large and influential parts of the Democratic party. 

Who only want to see more of this. 

When you have Democrats celebrate the cold-blooded murder of a health care executive on the streets of New York...

When you have vast swathes of Dems bemoaning that the bullet in Butler didn't go "just an inch to the right" and blow out the brains of a presidential candidate on live TV...

When you have glee, joy, celebrations, singing, dancing, at the death of a young Republican Charlie Kirk, on live television...

When you have the media and senior Dems everywhere calling the president Hitler...

When the Dems and media label all Trump supporters as Nazis....

When anti-Trump activists call law enforcement "Trump's Gestapo", when they shout to "kill all cops“ and "kill an ICE agent"... 

When you have all this, these are not people the least bit interested in the message that "enough's enough".

No, for them, enough is never enough. Even the murder of a sitting president. For then it will be: we must take back all power from the democratically elected administration. And punish them.

"Elections have consequences". Today, this means: if Republicans win an election, Democrats will erupt in fury and violence. 

Their only regret about this California teacher failing to to kill Trump?... is that he failed to kill Trump.  

ADDED: 2.5 minutes of Democrats urging violence against Trump and Republicans.

Wow! Virginia referendum will hit HARD! Nuremberg ahoy!

1812 cartoon of the first "gerrymander" redistricting, favouring
Democrats, approved by governor Gerry. A dragon-like monster
later likened to a salamander, hence "Gerry-Mander".

Whaaaa? 

Have I landed on the most boring topic of the day? What referendum? Where? Why? WTF?!

Yeah, well. It was all about “redistricting”. Or, more honestly, about redistricting's evil twin: gerrymandering. 

A super quick primer: the United States lower house, the House of Representative is made up of 435 seats. The idea is that the number each party has broadly represents the country's voter split. 

So: in 2024 it was Trump 50%, Kamala Harris 48%. And that’s how the House seats broadly split: 220 to Republicans and 215 to Democrats. 

Each of the 50 states has a certain number of Representatives, based on its population, one representative for every 700k residents. So, a state with 7 million population gets 10 Representatives to the House. And it divides the electorates in the state (“districts” in the United States) so that they broadly represent the split between the main parties.

So far so good? 

Now to Virginia. With its population of 8 million it gets to choose 11 Representatives. Right now they’re split 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans. That’s in a state that voted 52% Democrat and 48% Republican in the last election. So the 6-5 split seems fair and reasonable, right? Just a bit more for the Dems. Per the overall vote.

Ok, so what’s the problem? 

It's the Gerrymander, Stupid!

Just two days ago, on 21 April, they held a referendum in Virginia to approve a proposal to change the borders of the 11 electorates. It passed by a slim margin. The result is that at the next elections, due this coming November, that the split of seats in VA will be 10-1. That’s 10 Democratic seats to just one Republican seat. 90% of the Representatives will be Democrats just 10% Republicans, in a state that’s purple, more or less split down the middle.

Plus four to the Dems; Minus four to the Reps. That's a swing of 8 right there. Enough, just by itself, to flip the House. To 219-216 to the Dems. On that one state alone. That's the HARD hit of this week's referendum. 

That's the gerrymander. The redistricting, not to get a fair outcome, but to get a partisan result. And here in VA it's been done to the max. 

How can this be fair? Is it legal?

No, of course it’s not fair. But it is legal. 

Current districts, (6-5) top, are to change to the bottom:
four divisions shifting from Red to Blue, (10-1), bottom

So what's the problem? 

If you're a Democrat, nothing. If you're a Republican, lots. 

This could be the start of other gerrymandering in other Democratic-controlled, but purple states (that is, evenly split Dem-Rep). 

The most immediate impact is on the November mid-term elections. 

This one state, this one move in Virginia, flips the House. Gives it to the Dems. That gives them leadership of all the House Committees. And of the majority vote in the House. That will stop dead what Trump is trying to do: keeping the border closed, deporting illegal aliens, reducing taxes and regulations, pushing meritocracy vs DEI, finishing Iran... 

More seriously it's the first step to the Dems winning the Trinity: presidency, senate and house in 2028. Then they will move to stack the Supreme Court with four more Justices, all Democrat, with converting Washington DC and Puerto Rico into States, giving them four more Senators and control of the Senate forever. 

James "it's the economy, stupid!" Carville, senior Dem adviser, has openly advised this. And more. 

This will lead to the Unaparty for America. A place run by a single party. This may be very congenial for Democrats, but obviously not for Republicans. It's not what we've always been told in western democracies that we're about: namely multi-party democracy. I like the fact that there's at least two parties. In my lifetime it's been one a bit left and another a bit right. And if you don't like one or the other, you can always, as Don Chipp said "kick the bastards out". What happens when you can't do that? Would even centrist Democrats like it if the only choice was a far-left Dem party, which is the way they're headed? 

Then there's the revenge. Democrats have said they're going to "go after" Republicans who "are complicit" in supporting Donald Trump and his administration. 

Nuremberg Redux?

Democrats have so convinced themselves that Trump is Hitler, that ICE agents are his Gestapo goons, and his MAGA supporters all Nazis, that they are now talking of a "Nuremberg-type" set of hearings to "bring to account" and jail all those who were "complicit" in helping the Trump administration. Including hangings, as per the original Nuremberg? Who knows. They're sufficiently deluded and filled with rage for revenge that nothing's out of court. 

They're saying it out loud. And who can doubt that any craziness is possible, in today's febrile climate?

Massive electoral fraud AND the rape scandal. "All at levels never seen" | Raja Miah

 

Surely the Labour Party, surely Keir Starmer & Co, cannot go on ignoring this. 

This may be the most important video you will watch this year. Please share widely. 

Britain thought it got rid of the corrupt politics of "rotten boroughs" in the 19th century. According to Raja Miah, they are alive and well in the Pakistani & Bangladeshi communities of the North of England, the Midlands, Tower Hamlets, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds. All the major cities in England. 

Worse still, Labour is fully aware of going on but as it has been the beneficiary of these practices, many politicians have turned a wilfully blind eye to it all - just as they did with the grooming gangs. He joins Rafe Heydel-Mankoo to discuss the widespread corruption and political intimidation in these communities as well as broader issues such as the origins and root causes of the grooming gangs.

U.S. Civil war in 2030…

Green Beret’s prediction, below, strikes me as plausible. Why? Because Democrats tell us that that’s what they’re going to do. Pack SCOTUS, open borders to increase their voter base, create new states that will be Democrat, gerrymander purple and red states, arrest anyone who was in the Trump administration, or anyone MAGA. They tell us that on CNN, in The New York Times.

Result: a supermajority for Democrats. All America becomes like California, where Republicans have no hope of winning state power ever again. i.e. America becomes a One Party State. A UniState. Now you might approve of this because you like the Dems. But traditionally we’ve thought very dimly of one party states. At the very least authoritarian. 

The Democrats are far better organised than the Republicans. Who can’t even bring themselves to pass the SAVE Act….

Green Beret Nap Time, post on X:

Here’s what I think is going to happen. 

The right is going to lose in 2026, not because Democrats have better or more popular policies, but because of voter fatigue on the right from constant propaganda meant to divide us… which is clearly working.

They threw out all of the stops, never missing an opportunity to push so many lies from so many angles that most people simply can’t process what is real and what is fiction.

So, we lose.

It won’t seem too drastic at first, but it will hamstring the Trump admin enough and tie him and those that remain loyal up in impeachments and other nonsense that will make his admin ineffective.

This will create more doubt on the right as Democrats and our adversaries pump more propaganda into the space, highlighting the ineffectiveness. 

Morale will drop even further.

Then we are really going to lose in 2028. We are going give Democrats and the Halal Right a supermajority, which they will use to pack the court, open the borders again, send more money to Islamist and left leaning causes, reestablish DEI policies, proliferate troon ideology, and ultimately start chipping away at the Constitution.

It will only take a year or two with that kind of juice behind the effort and a supermajority pushing through legislation.

The SCOTUS will be unable to stop unconstitutional laws because of the new leftist majority make up.

A hot Civil War will start in the south, but it won’t feel like a civil war (no real clear sides, more like insurgent warfare of rural vs urban). Media and influencers will push it as anti-American insurgents trying to attack other Americans.

Rights will be suspended. The Patriot Act will be used to identify and lock up tens of thousands.

Martial law will be implemented.

American foreign policy will crumble with the domestic issues. 

China and Russia will move forward in the world stage and systematically rewrite alliances.

World wars will likely break out as a result.

By 2030… the word will be a bleak and terrible place…

But hey, at least a bunch of influencers made money off of centuries old propaganda made for illiterate peasants.

Fun times.

Vale Scott Adams

Scott Adams died on January 13, at the age of 68. 

I first came across Scott Adams when he had an interview with Sam Harris. The theme was Trump, and the fact that Scott had been one of the very few to predict a Trump win in 2016, mainly on the basis of his view that Trump was using classic persuasion techniques. 

Over the years I've watched his morning shows, Coffee with Scott Adams, with some regularity. I found him a unique mind. Often I didn't agree with his views, but if I didn't, I had to think hard to work out why. For much else, I was either persuaded or agreed with him. The one thing about him that really got on my goat was that he was a very defensive character and if people criticised him, he got very tetchy. 

These are what I think will be my lasting memories of his "teachings" (as he called them):

One movie two, screens. How we can see the same thing, but have very different readings of it. See, eg, the recent ICE shooting of a young woman protester, which has plenty of video. The Dems say it was "murder". The Reps say it was "self defence". 

Framing: how you frame something can have a big effect. He framed drinking alcohol as being drinking poison. That's pretty strong stuff!

Talent Stacks: work at adding each talent you have to the stack of existing talents, until you become a unique talent stack, useful to many employers. 

Systems over goals. This is one of the best one of his teachings. It's important. It seems to me that the Dems in America are all about Goals, which they see as being important and makes them feel good; and Reps, who are all about Systems, that making something better is the better way to go, rather than reaching for the impossible goal. 

I'll quote from the Grokipedia article on Systems over Goals: 

In his 2013 book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams introduced the systems versus goals framework as a core element of his personal success philosophy, arguing that pursuing repeatable processes yields better long-term outcomes than fixating on discrete targets.[59][60] Adams summarizes that goals put individuals in a state of "nearly continuous failure" until achieved, while systems let one "succeed every time [they apply them]."[61] He defines a goal as a specific, future-oriented objective—such as losing 20 pounds or running a marathon—that often fosters discouragement and dependency on willpower.[61] In contrast, a system comprises habitual actions performed regularly, like maintaining a healthy diet or exercising daily, which generate incremental progress and daily satisfaction regardless of ultimate attainment.[62][59]

Adams attributes his own career achievements, including the syndication of Dilbert in 1989, to systems-oriented habits such as consistent content creation and skill-building rather than rigid milestones.[60] He posits that systems enhance probability of success by compounding small wins and adapting to setbacks, whereas goals risk demotivation upon non-achievement or complacency post-success, citing observational evidence from high achievers who prioritize routines over endpoints.[59][62] For instance, in career advancement, a goal might be "get promoted to manager," inducing anxiety during the interim, while a system of networking daily and upskilling continuously builds momentum and opportunities organically.[60]

The framework extends to broader life domains, including fitness and business, where Adams claims systems reduce reliance on fleeting motivation and align with human psychology's preference for immediate reinforcement.[59] He illustrates this with dieting: a weight-loss goal creates binary failure until met, but an "eat right" system succeeds with each compliant meal, sustaining adherence over time.[61] Adams has reiterated this concept in subsequent writings and podcasts, positioning it as a tool for probabilistic success in uncertain environments, though he acknowledges it complements rather than replaces all forms of planning.

Grok: Scott Adams

Greg Gutfeld: "Scott Adams was a MONUMENTAL person". Scott Adams, a non-traditional thinker. 

Adam Carolla: “Scott Adams was an interesting, intelligent, successful man” who made people think outside the bounds.

Carl Benjamin: “The media is terrible about the death of Scott Adams”. 

The allegedly “racist” thing that Scott said was in 2023 when he commented on a Rasmussen poll showing 52% of Blacks in America thought “it’s not OK to be White”. A commenter on Akkad notes: “[Scott’s] ‘controversial’ take was that we have no obligation to associate with people who hold open and explicit disdain for us based on skin colour”.  

Scott was interviewed a lot after this issue. But always by Black podcasters and bloggers, all of whom in one way or another agreed with him. Not a single one of the legacy media interviewed him.

Venezuela: Maduran Hypocrisy — Dems on full display.

Brandon Lehman is a smart young YouTuber who I’ve followed for years. He usually has knowledgeable take on world affairs, from a conservative perspective. 

You want the Left perspective, go to any of the legacy media, CNN, MSNBC, BBC… 

In the vid above Brandon reckons the Dems are going to lose Hispanic support for refusing to recognise that Venezuelans themselves, in Venezuela, in the United States, around the world are ecstatic that Maduro the dictator has been arrested. They “praise the Lord” and thank the United States… and even Donald Trump. 

While they are lectured and hectored by white inner-city wokesters on how wrong they are. Let’s see how that plays out in the elections. 

Notes:

Most countries did NOT recognise Nicolas Maduro’s 2024 election.* At the time every Democrat denounced him and his grab of power. 

Most countries recognised the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzales. The Biden administration even set a bounty of $25 million (later $50 million) on his head. A bounty means a guy is presumed criminal, not a legitimate president. A legitimate target for bounty hunters; in this case the US Armed forces. 

Brandon features Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen in full-blown hypocrisy mode. Condemning Maduro when Biden was in power, slamming Trump when he does something about Maduro. 

The rest of the Dems I’ve seen quoted since the capture and arrest of Maduro, are venting their hypocrisy in exactly the same way. Amazing. I mean the shamelessness of it!

Meantime: What’s happening to the “Rules Based Order?” by Carl Benjamin. Carl mentions that the Venezuela economy has fallen 80% since Maduro came to power in 2015. That’s EIGHTY! Percent! I Fact checked that and it’s correct, according to the IMF, the World Bank and Council on Foreign Relations. 

Since Maduro, 8 million Venezuelans have fled the country, for safety and money reasons.That’s the largest single emigration from any single country, ever. 

And this is the man we now see Democrats in the United States marching on the streets in support!? A man they reviled less than two years ago!? 

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* Countries that did recognise Maduro. The Usual Suspects, the “dodgy disreputables”:

- Russia

- China

- Iran

- Cuba

- Nicaragua

- Bolivia

- Honduras

- North Korea

And these are the ones that Dems want to hitch their wagon to?! 

ADDED: “Marco Rubio has balls of steel”, by Greg Foreman, financier.