Propaganda Effect

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

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 :


...a.k.a. stopping the Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© insanity from screwing up an entire state.

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.



From the Education Dept.:


...and apparently the bonkee is “depressed and lacking self-worth” as a result of her counseling.  JHC, what a precious little snowflake.

And now we look once again at linkless   

    

Once more down :

...because one week, you’re in — and the next week, you’re out:


...in-out-in-out:  I have no idea what that means, except that she’s not bad for a semi-centenarian.

Which makes it a good time to end this silliness.

News Roundup

More on that topic later.  In the meantime:


...note appearance of weasel word “could”.  Actually, the risk is infinitesimal, even if you’re taking SSRIs or the others mentioned. So have that second cup, with my blessing.


...hence the expression:  “To lie like a Clinton.”

Some good news for a change:


...oh yeah, baby.


...please Sir, may I have some more?


...oh thank you, Sir.


...wheeeeee!



...so arrest all these protesters, and if there are any illegal aliens among them (or Canadians for that matter), deport them too.


...not that anyone other than CNN cares what you think, McCabe, but if it makes you feel any better, we can charge his terrorist ass with mass murder together with hatecrime (which carries the death penalty #TimMcVeigh).

In Constitutional News:


...well done, Yeronner.  Now, if you can just persuade the other assholes among the Supremes (e.g. that little fart Roberts) to vote the way you do...

Some Economics News:


...yeah, well I’m waiting to see similar-sized price drops in meat, butter, bread, gasoline and electricity before I start handing out medals and bouquets.

In Entertainment News:


...I just hope that the involuntary retirees include some of the LGBTQSTFU persuasion because #Equity, but I’m not holding my breath.

Also:


...say it ain’t so, Mary Lou.

And in the Africa Wins Again category:


...it was only a question of time.

And in the usual unlinked dross known as 

  

And going back to our kind sponsor’s message:


...I have inexcusably not reported on the lovely Kelly or her “melons” (anagram alert) for some time, so I’ll make up for it now:

Only a week of love?  That guinea husband of hers needs a good smack.

And when she decides to dress it up a little:

And on that bountiful note, we can end this Roundup.

News Roundup

Well, not all gals:


...as long as the starvation and death of the “millions” are confined to illegal immigrants illegally getting welfare or Medicaid, I don’t see the problem.

And speaking of said group:


...keep it going, folks.  Lots more still to toss out.  Still on the topic of hostile aliens:


...other than the universities getting the income from fees, I’m pretty sure that anyone not called Bernie Sanders will have no problem with this.

And:


...like anyone cares what some washed-up mediocre Irish pop star says.


...to the surprise of absolutely nobody.  Why is this old Nazi-loving cunt still a U.S. citizen?


...given the source, I don’t think that’s going to happen.
#ChrisMurphy #HystericalSocialist #Connecticut

In Medical News:


In Tribe News:


...a mitzvah if ever I saw one.

And in Crime News:


...old Charlie needs to watch out;  people down here are kinda twitchy about that “shots at Trump” thing.


...wait;  he’s going to pardon FBI agents now?

In Sports News:


...apparently, there is crying in baseball after all.


...say it ain’t so, Marylou.  Wait… she’s 57? [exit, feeling really old]

and in our weekly look at (non-linked) 

    ...these last two items have one thing in common.
#ThailandDontGoThere

And in a drive down :


...fuck me, and I thought she’d reached the bottom by bonking Shane Warne.  Talk about Beauty and the Beast:

Ugh.

Which is the best way to end this news roundup.

News Roundup

And speaking of (drama) queens:


...it’s just too bad we can’t stop them from ever returning.

And in Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© news:


...wait;  you mean solaaar and winnnnd don’t work?

And in The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


...give ’em a fair trial, then hang ’em.


...so much for that “sanctuary” thing, then.


...make that 239 per hour and we can start flinging compliments.


...take as many as you need, guys.  We’ve still got about ten million to go.


...that’s all right;  if all goes according to DOGE’s plan, there’ll be a whole lot fewer bureaucrats to patronize them anyway.



...STFU you terrorsymp Commie asshole.

And in Trumpland:


...good.  Now go after the asshole cop who shot her.
#PourEncouragerLesAutres

Now to clear our palate with some paltry

And while jogging down :

Countdown beauty Rachel Riley wows in low-cut sequin dress
...ooooh my favorite Tribe Babe.

Then a couple shots taken while she was doing the baby-raising thing:

And in her normal hottieness:

Say goodbye to Rachel, then:

And that’s it for the news.

Soulless

In my last lengthy solo car trip, back in 2018 (Plano – Las Vegas, described in full here), I spoke of seeing small towns on the map, expecting to find a gas station so I could fill up the Tiguan’s tank and not be stranded in the middle of Nowhere New Mexico in sub-freezing temperatures, and getting to the “town” to see… nothing but a few houses.

So this little comment by Jeremy Clarkson rang several bells for me:

“Loneliness is a big issue in rural areas and part of the problem is villages losing their soul. You don’t have a village doctor anymore. He’s in a health center 30 miles away and you can’t get an appointment. There’s no village bobby on the beat. There’s no village vicar, there’s no village shop, there’s no village school. If we end up at a point where there’s no village pub then what is a village? It’s just some houses. Pubs are the hub and it should always be that way.”

I bet it’s the same Over Here, too.  We’ve read all sorts of stories about how small towns can’t find doctors who want to work in tiny communities, how young people are quitting the towns of their birth and childhood for cities because there’s nowhere for them to earn a living as singles, let alone as a family, and how the arrival of a Walmart ends up with the “downtown” becoming a ghost town.

It’s all very well for one to take the “survival of the fittest” attitude towards this phenomenon — that such places shouldn’t be supported because they’re economically unviable — but that seems to me to be very harsh.

Then again, if a municipality is incapable of supporting even the most basic of services necessary for survival — auto repair shop / gas station, restaurant, doctor’s consulting room, post office, or even a school, for example — then there really is no reason for its existence.  (We’ve never really had a “pub culture” to the extent they have it in Britishland, but that doesn’t mean a local bar should be excluded from consideration, either.)

Moreover, when those establishments don’t exist there are no employment opportunities either, even at the most basic level:  waitresses, auto mechanics, receptionists, mail carriers or schoolteachers.  No wonder the kids clear out.

And yes, things are a lot easier in the U.S. for people who choose to remain in small, secluded villages because our infrastructure is so much better here.  A ten-mile trip in, say, rural Tennessee is no big deal, a ten-minute drive or so;  but it’s a whole ‘nother situation in rural Britishland, with their narrow roads that meander all over the place before (eventually) reaching the chosen destination.  Back when I was living Over There, getting from Free Market Towers to the local village of Melksham, for example, was a journey of only a few miles, but it was a full half-hour’s drive involving no fewer than six different roads and directions.  (Rural Wisconsin, incidentally, has the same problem with minor roads marked as “KK” or “UU”, but at least you can cane it along them because they’re relatively wide and straight.  You are likely hit a deer, though, something highly unlikely in rural Britain, but that’s not the point.)

And from a pub’s perspective, you’ve got that added issue of the dreaded Driving Under The Influence, but when if you’re just going to the local for a pint or six, you have only to stagger home, no car necessary.  (Ask me how I know this. #KingsArms #EnglishmansFarm)

What, then, creates a community, if there are no establishments where one can see neighbors and which can foster some kind of community spirit?  As Clarkson says, if it’s just a bunch of houses — which are insular by definition — then there is no community, and no soul.

Unfortunately, I don’t see any solution to the problem.