From some Brit:
“I saw Starmer in the White House telling Trump we’ve had [freedom of expression] in the UK for a very long time, and I thought, ‘Yeah, right.’ We can see what’s really going on.”
Read this for an explanation of the above. Then be grateful you don’t live there. (To my several Brit Readers: I’m sorry, folks.)
Alert Reader Pete D. sends me this report*:
First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.
The U.S. government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the U.S. on Monday May 12, three sources with knowledge of the matter have told NPR.
(Note the little “colonizers” snark — it’s NPR, after all.)
And further down:
States that have agreed to take in the South Africans include: Alabama, California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Iowa.
Not Texas, probably because we have enough / too many Seffricans here already. And California and New York? Wait till our newly-minted immigrants who choose those locations try to buy themselves a gun. (Hint: it’s more difficult than in Seffrica.)
And lastly:
The UN’s International Organization for Migration had refused to be involved in the process.
Of course they would. These refugees are whities; only darkies qualify to be refugees because slavery (or something).
Anyway: Welkom by die States, julle. Veels geluk.
*Pete, buddy: WTF are you doing reading NPR?
From the Reform UK party’s first elected mayor, Andrea Jenkyns:
“I say no to putting [illegal immigrants] in hotels. Tents are good enough for [them in] France, they should be good enough for here in Britain.”
Her logic is irrefutable.
Of course, my suggestion (that the tent encampments should be located on uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides, far away from the British mainland) would no doubt be considered too Krool & Hartless, even by Dame Andrea.
Well, the Strylians have re-elected their left-wing Labor Party by an even larger majority than last time, so clearly they’re happy with Comrade Albanese, his fellow-travelers and their Red & Green policies.
No doubt they’ll combine massive anti-Trumpism with pleas for the US to help them fend off Chinese imperialism in southeast Asia.
Plus ça change, etc. Hell, even the Brits are showing signs of coming to their senses — but the Strylians? Forget abaht it, it’s just head-in-the-sand time, pour another beer on the barby and whine about the Poms beating them at cricket.
Useless fucking wankers.
My Loyal Readers from Oz — and there are quite a few — probably feel even worse about the situation than I do.
According to some official-sounding stats:
Americans are no longer moving to Southern boomtowns
Reasons?
The cost of living has jumped, thanks to rising mortgage rates, skyrocketing home prices, and higher fees for insurance and HOAs – particularly after a string of natural disasters.
Now that the influx of newcomers has slowed, the housing markets in these cities are feeling the squeeze. Annual double-digit price jumps are no longer a sure thing.
Home prices that once seemed unstoppable are leveling off – and in many cases falling. Homebuying demand is plunging, and in some places, inventory is surging.
Places like Tampa, Dallas and Austin were once seen as affordable alternatives to high-cost cities like San Francisco and New York, but now the gap in housing costs between big-city job centers and Sun Belt metros has shrunk.
Well yes, in terms of the “unstoppable” housing prices, that was caused most of all by this influx of Californians, New Yorkers and other migrants who arrived here in the South flush with the proceeds of their overpriced real estate and were willing to pay the prices asked by sellers. (I should point out that my old Plano house sold for the asking price and was listed for eighteen hours before being snapped up by a Californian family, who paid the ask after having been involved in bidding wars in previous homebuying attempts. I should also point out that my 4BR 3BR house would have cost $1.4 million for a comp in northern California, instead of the $395k I was asking for mine. No wonder they jumped on it.)
Anyway, the good news for us in northern Texas:
Dallas – one of several Texas cities that boomed during the Covid-19 pandemic – saw a net inflow of around 13,000 residents in 2024, also down from 35,000 the year prior.
Thank fuck. The fewer liberal assholes moving here, the better for all of us.
Something else is interesting:
Now that many companies are requiring workers to come into the office, fewer people have the freedom to move – and some people who moved to the Sun Belt during the pandemic are returning to big cities.
I guess all those empty office blocks in L.A. and San Francisco need to be refilled.
And the people who paid those sky-high prices for our Texas houses who are now being forced into selling them? The houses that once sold within days can now stand unsold for months, or longer.
Forgive me for not shedding any tears. And my compadres over in Florida may share my delight.
From Rick Moran:
“It’s not immoral to refuse to take people in. Those who claim we have an ‘obligation’ to feed, house, clothe, educate, and cure tens of millions of suffering people do not live in the real world.”
Yeah, the “Give me your poor” etc. words on the Statue of Liberty are just words on a statue, not official U.S. policy.