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June 17, 2025 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

From the Monday Funnies, a couple weeks back:

The Senate Finance Committee’s version of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill contains the removal of suppressors and short-barreled rifles from the National Firearms Act (NFA).

On May 22, 2025, Breitbart News reported the GOP-led House passed budget reconciliation, Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, with language to eliminate the tax and registration requirement on suppressors.

Are these guys visiting my website?

Expect to see an explosion in sales of guns with threaded barrels….

A Feature, Not A Bug

June 17, 2025 Kim du Toit Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Wars & Other Fun Games

I hadn’t considered this, in the wake of the little Izzy / Muzzie disturbances. Fortunately, some Big Brains have:

Israeli air and drone strikes during the early hours of June 13th crippled Iran — and severely set back Tehran’s regional ambitions. The Israel Defense Forces hit nuclear weapons development facilities and ballistic missile sites, and killed senior military officers, including Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the armed forces chief of staff, and Major General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian media announced the death of Ali Shamkhani, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser.

Tehran said that Israel’s action was a “declaration of war.” This war is continuing, and Iran has struck back with ballistic missile and drone attacks.

Narratives will change as the fighting continues, but one conclusion is already evident: China, Iran’s long-time backer, is a victim of the fighting. That is a quick reversal of fortunes. Only last year, the Chinese looked ascendant in the region.

“China is closely following Israel’s attacks on Iran and is deeply concerned about the potential grave consequences of the operations,” the Chinese foreign ministry stated on X a few hours after the initial attacks. “China opposes actions that violate Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, and opposes moves that escalate tensions or enlarge conflicts.”

“China stands ready to play a constructive role in helping ease the situation,” it added.

Beijing may stand ready, but, apart from the Iranian regime itself, the region is not looking for Chinese assistance.

Yeah; what the CCP may have forgotten is that nobody in that area — not just the Izzies — likes the idea of a nuked-up Iran, for the same reason one fears a drugged-up ghetto choirboy with a hand grenade.

“There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning…. The Saudis know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.” — Jonathan Bass, Chief Executive Officer, Argent LNG, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.

Put more bluntly: “Oh noes we deplore all this warry bomb-bomb stuff!” while thinking “Thank fuck for the Izzies.”

So much for that, then.

Missed That Show

June 17, 2025 Kim du Toit Funny Stuff, Rights

Proving that Brazil doesn’t have a First Amendment:

A Brazilian comedian has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for telling offensive jokes.

Offensive, or really fucking funny? I report, you decide:

“What show could be more inclusive? I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the deaf-mute.”

And my absolute favorite:

“I’m totally against pedophilia – I’m more in favor of incest. If you’re going to abuse a child, abuse your own. What’s he going to do? Tell his dad?”

Apparently, the audience roared with laughter all through his set. The authorities? Not so much. He’s facing eight years in the clink.

To which I say: “Libertem Léo Lins!“

Propaganda Effect

June 17, 2025 Kim du Toit Bad News, History

This was a letter sent to the Daily Mail:

I feel my whole world has turned into a dystopian nightmare. What prompted me to write was that video made by Dawn French. She put on a babyish, whiny voice to mock the agony Jewish people are going through, and reduced the horrors of October 7, 2023 to ‘a bad thing’.

It was so awful it actually made me cry.

Every day I see celebrities such as Benedict Cumberbatch signing letters of protest saying Israel has no right to defend itself – and, honestly, it’s intolerable. Do they all hate Jews so much?

All sense of security in my life has disappeared. Who I once was has gone. This is being a British Jew today in the UK.

My mother’s family goes back five generations in England and I am a typical Yorkshire lass – and Jewish. Now I feel like a stranger in the only country I’ve ever known. Just because of my DNA.

Old friends start to withdraw, get too busy to see you or just ghost you. Other friends, in all industries, are losing contracts, not been hired, ignored by workmates, abused on social media.

You switch on news reports you know (first-hand) are at best biased and at worse false. Politicians such as David Lammy and many Labour backbenchers clearly hate Israel – which is the Holy land of the Bible and the Torah. Everywhere we Jews are lied about and (even worse) narratives are changed to fit centuries-old lies.

I have a friend who is a secondary school teacher. After October 7 she endured daily racial slurs by her students. Her union and the administration didn’t support her, so she felt she had no choice but to leave her job.

I know of two people whose clients have left them as they ‘can’t work with someone who supports that country’. Israel, the elephant in the room for all Jews. Whether we feel connected or not, wherever we live, we are all judged by that.

Worldwide, Jews like me are now realising just how the Holocaust happened. A constant drip of misinformation and prejudice set the groundwork for Kristallnacht and the camps. I still cannot believe that this is happening to us – to me – as British as Les Dawson and Yorkshire pudding. But it is.

Jewish friends constantly discuss where they will go when they have to leave Britain. Where would we be safe? This in 2025 in the UK. I am so afraid, depressed, let down, stateless and terrified for the future – especially for my teenage child.

“Jews like me are now realising just how the Holocaust happened.”

Says it all, really. What was once pretty much a “German” or even “European” thing is now international.

As for me: anger does not begin to describe how I feel about all this. And I’m not Jewish. All I can say is what I’ve always said:

If you come for the Jews, you have to get past me first.

Added: you motherfuckers.

And by the way: don’t bother telling me that your beef isn’t with Jews, but with Israel. That little bit of maskirovka doesn’t work any more.

News Roundup

June 17, 2025 Kim du Toit Bad News

There’s no time for self-pleasuring or any of that nonsense, darling; it’s
time.

...keyword: “if”. And “if” I win the lottery, there will be a huge increase in the number of “climate scientists” murdered by contract killers.

...I’m so old, I thought that the Nimbus was a broom model used by witches and wizards to avoid traffic jams.

...ahem:

But enough panic. Let’s get busy with the important stuff, like Sex News.

...in the good old mid-20th century days, this was known as “Kraft durch Freude”.

In :

From the Dept. of Tourism:

...as had the Titanic.

In our new Riots & Mayhem Dept.:

...pity the fools. My only problem is that the TexGov has pre-emptively mobilized the Guard, thus depriving me of some potential sporting activity.

...that bad apple hasn’t fallen far from the poisonous tree, huh?

...wait a minute: how can the rioting / burning cars thing be happening in Britishland, too? They’re not deporting anyone.

...that’s because the Irish Gummint isn’t deporting anyone either.

And in Global Jew-Hate News:

...took them long enough. Even Egypt recognizes that the MuBros are a bunch of filthy terrorists.

And in an opposite move:

...too bad all those old Nazi refugees are long dead, because it would have been so much fun to watch their anti-Semitic asses do an Eichmann at the end of a rope.