Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

Well, Well, Well

Foreign Affairs, Good Stuff, Immigration

Here (via the Daily Mail ) is a little graphic of how Europe’s political landscape is changing on the topic of dealing with mass “immigration” (invasion):

Notably absent from the above is Britishland.  How are they dealing with the issue?  Well, officially they aren’t:  thousands of “refugees” arrive by boat every week, to be greeted with a cup of tea, free accommodation and, it seems, a license to prey on White British girls.

Needless to say, this little development, then, has caused no end of pearl-clutching:

Britain’s busiest ferry port was blockaded by hundreds of men dressed in black, causing an hours-long gridlock and miles of tailbacks on surrounding roads. 

Footage showed demonstrators piling out of the back of a van before they marched through the town, chanting ‘Whose streets? Our streets’ and ‘stop the boats’ as dozens of police officers were called in to follow them. 

Politicians have condemned the balaclava-clad mob who stormed the port of Dover yesterday – as migrant protesters warned ‘it’s only the beginning’. 

When I first saw pics of this (completely peaceful) protest, I thought it was one of the Antifa-style shows:

But no… these stout bulldogs were just taking a leaf from the Antifa playbook — and considering the attitude of the BritGov lackeys, who are conspicuous by their heavy-handed treatment of these so-called “rightwing” groups (they aren’t), one can’t really blame them.

Also note that there’s no display of “triggering” regalia (that would be the St. George Cross of England) that might give any advance notice to the fuzz as to the group’s identity and motivation.

Interesting times.  All these groups — British and European alike — need is an electoral victory à la Trump to start the immigration rollback.  And the current crop of Leftist politicians are terrified of such an event, because I suspect that the “rightwing” parties’ repatriation drive will make our ICE look like a bunch of choirboys.  (Well, one can only hope.)

Which is why the other political parties form coalitions to stop groups like the German AfD and Austrian FP (see chart above) from coming to power.  But they won’t be able to keep the cork in this particularly-well-shaken bottle of fizz to pop for much longer.

Popcorn futures are soaring Over Here…

Eerie Silence

Anarchist thugs, Marxists, Riotous Assemblies

Has anyone noticed that this summer — traditionally the season of Antifa etc. riots — has been rather quiet in the streets?  I mean, we had the token anti-ICE silliness in Minnesota and a couple other places earlier in the year, but after the necessary roughness, the desire for such activity seems to have dissipated somewhat.  Also, it was kinda cold for outdoor bedwetting.

Since then, though, not much activity among the common gripes of the Perpetually Aggrieved Set — climate, racism, capitalism and all the rest — and I have two theories for reasons why this is the case.

Firstly, there are elections coming up, and maybe — just maybe — the stringpullers and astroturf layers have got the word out for their crowd of Useful Idiots to hold off for a while.  (I know, that’s maybe a little far-fetched, because the Aggrieved are always on a hair-trigger, and I’m not sure how any kind of chiding would work on them.)

Which means that my second theory is probably the correct one:  there’s no money for rent-a-crowd transportation, no money for those pre-printed signs with their dreary slogans, no money for vans to deliver bricks, Molotov cocktails and other necessities for a decent Lefty riot, and no money to incentivize the lamestream media to fan the flames.

Of course, there’s the fact that the Soros crowd and fellow criminal organizations (e.g. ActBlue, CAIR and the SPLC) are being investigated by the Treasury Department for their funding of illegal activities, so they’re hiding out (for a while, one suspects).  As Scott Bessent has stated:

“When you see these protesters, someone is financing them,” Bessent explained. “There are safe houses. When you see the 300 people with the same laser that they’re using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers.  So these groups that are engaging in this — we have the authority, and we are examining them.”

Then:

“What we do is follow the money — just like we followed it with the mafia. We’ll find out who’s done this.”

Yeah… perhaps using non-profit orgs to channel the money into these activities was only going to work with the Three Blind Mice of the Biden era.  So this would be the time to shut them down, permanently, with perp walks and orange jumpsuits much in evidence.

The treason- and criminal trials and public hangings can follow soon after.

Colorado: California 2.0

Elections, Immigration

When all those Californians fled to Colorado a decade or two ago, several things happened soon thereafter:

  • more anti-gun laws
  • higher taxes
  • woke prosecutions (actually, non-prosecutions)
  • more industry-choking regulations
  • …to name but some (I’m sure Stephen Green could come up with a lot more).

And now, still more California:

Colorado regulatory burden, affordability drives business exodus

98 large businesses have left Colorado since 2019, taking nearly 14,000 jobs with them. These aren’t failed companies or departures caused by mergers and acquisitions, but companies relocating operations to other states, with Texas, Florida, Utah and Tennessee among the biggest beneficiaries of the Colorado exodus.

I just hope that there aren’t too many California-thinking people among those 14,000 jobs.

Amidst my glee about reports like the above, here’s my problem with this trend.

The earlier ex-California movement to states like Texas and Florida contained, I believe, many people who saw what California had become and decided they didn’t want any more of that — but more importantly, saw that there was no profit in re-creating California-style business and social environments in their adopted states.

I’m not so sure that this is true, anymore.

And I still think that newcomers to a state should be barred from voting in state- and local elections for five years (federal elections, of course, are exempt) until they’ve properly assimilated into their new home state’s culture.

In the meantime, Colorado can go and suck eggs — unless they can’t, because there’s a regulation against sucking raw eggs (for health reasons).

Defining Marxism

Marxists

…wherein two of my favorite commenters on the planet (Mike Rowe and Bill Whittle) talk about this issue.  What amuses me is that Rowe plays a little devil’s advocate up front, and Bill of course does his usual incisive rapier job.

Get yourself a cuppa, and settle back.

And a couple of the articles below this one will make a great deal of sense.

Finding Space

Foreign Affairs, Marxists

Apparently there’s this foolishness emanating from the BritGov and its new (Marxist) Prone Monster:

Andy Burnham’s review into the prisons early release scheme will be conducted in the “coming days and weeks” and decisions need to be made “very quickly”, a Labour minister has said.

Under the new Sentencing Act set to come into force in September, some 6,000 criminals were due to be released under the early prison release scheme, but the Prime Minister on Thursday paused the plans and ordered an urgent review.

That’s because among the 6,000 would-be releasees are a pair of cop-killers — and needless to say, this eventuality has created a serious stir, even among the normally-passive Brits.

Under changes in the Sentencing Act, some offenders were set to be let out of prison after serving a third of their sentence, rather than half, in a bid to ease prison overcrowding.

Hell, I have a problem with that “half”, let alone a third because the Brits have appallingly-low sentences for serious crimes to start off with.  When attempted murder gets seven years (I watched one such example on a TV documentary, a few nights back), that would mean his effective sentence is barely two years.  For attempting to kill someone — in the one I watched, he stabbed the victim fourteen times, and only a miracle saved the victim’s life.

Frankly, I’m not at all sympathetic towards the moans about “overcrowding”, particularly when I see how the folks in El Salvador handle their violent criminal population:

And if we all feel strongly about this — and I’m pretty sure we do — allow me to offer a solution to their overcrowding problem:

Now I know that many are against the death penalty, and for once I’m going to be a little sympathetic to their concerns.

So start off by hanging only the murderers who killed more than one victim, add those who were caught in the act of murdering — say, in a public place where there were lots of witnesses — and let’s throw in the child-murderers for good measure.

Not only will the overcrowding problem be eased, but I’m willing to bet that would-be murderers may start to think twice before pulling out the kitchen knives and what have you, and the crime rate will start to drop.

It’s worth a try, because nothing else the BritGov has tried or even suggested has worked.

All this, of course, because the same BritGov — of whatever party — spends more money on cossetting illegal immigrants than on building new prisons in, say, the Outer Hebrides where there’s lots of space and a climate guaranteed to chill [sic]  all thoughts of mayhem from prospective criminals.

It’s just a question of priorities, really.

 

Step Up To The Plate, Mr. President

Anti-Gun Nannies, The Gun Thing

A lot of the time, politics is all about action:  doing things that will make a difference, one hopes with a positive or good outcome.

But a positive or good outcome can also come from doing nothing, as Jenny Sensiba points out:

ATF just took a big hit in federal court. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix has ruled in Jensen v. ATF that the government can no longer enforce the National Firearms Act registry for things like suppressors and short-barreled rifles.

The legal logic is pretty straightforward, even in a world where case law often treats the Second Amendment like a second-class right. Last year, Congress zeroed out the $200 transfer tax in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Back in 1937, the Supreme Court only allowed the National Firearms Act to exist because it was a tax framework, barely keeping it within the theoretical powers of Congress.

With the tax now gone, the constitutional justification that anti-gun courts have had for fingerprinting you and making you wait months for a piece of paper is no longer there, leaving the court with no choice but to rule the NFA unconstitutional.

Don’t go out and assemble that SBR yet, though. Judge Hendrix put a seven-day hold on his ruling so the Department of Justice can appeal. And the ruling will only apply to the plaintiffs and their members.

But, here’s the part you might not know: The DOJ doesn’t actually have to defend the NFA. They’re under no obligation at all to appeal the ruling.

And as Sensiba points out:

Sure, career government lawyers usually file appeals automatically to defend federal laws. They see it as their job. But, the DOJ is part of the executive branch, and President Trump is the guy at the top. He’s the one who signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law that zeroed out the tax in the first place. Just as President Obama chose to have his DOJ decline to defend laws banning gay marriage, Trump can just as easily leave the NFA out in the legal cold and let it starve to death.

All it takes is one phone call to the [now confirmed] Attorney General telling the DOJ to stand down and decline to appeal.

With this satisfactory outcome:

In a week, if you’re a member or customer of one of the plaintiffs, you can order a suppressor or build that SBR or SBS. In two months, the ruling will become permanent and future administrations can’t appeal.

I guess now we’ll see whether DJT actually does believe in the Second Amendment — part of that pesky Constitution thing he swore to uphold and defend, twice.  Just one email (a phone call doesn’t cut it) to the DoJ to say:  “Stand back and do nothing.”  (One thought:  if our new USAG is the man Trump has suggested he is, he wouldn’t need any assistance from POTUS — that would be an even better outcome.)

Of course, there’s going to be weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments from the Usual Suspects in the Gun Control Industry.  But hell, every time Trump does anything, there’s weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments from some bunch of Lefties or other — so why should this be any different?

It’s time to get the “F” out of the ATF.