Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

Blarney

Marxists, Politics, Third World

This little rant may well piss off a few people, but I don’t care because it’s long overdue.

I hate the Irish.

Now let me get a couple things out of the way before I go any further.  I don’t hate Irish people in the same way as some people hate Jews, for example.  In fact, the few actual Irish people I have met, I love and find wonderful.

And by “Irish”, I’m not including people named Shaughnessy whose ancestors came over to the United States to escape the Potato Famine of the 19th century.  In other words, I don’t dislike Irish-Americans to any greater or lesser degree than anyone else:  each individual is judged on their merits.  (That I find most people irritating anyway is a topic for another time.)

Nope:  I’m talking about Ireland — or “Eire”, as they call it, with that irritating spelling affectation of throwing too many vowels into a simple word.  Here’s why.

They’re a bunch of fucking Communists.

I don’t know how many people reading this are acquainted with the political stance of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) or its political face Sinn Fein (“shin fen”)*, but I took the time to study it many years ago, and it’s essentially Das Kapital  with a Gaelic accent.  Don’t get fooled by all that “One Ireland” blather they put out about reunification of the island under one flag;  that’s just the maskirovka  to disguise the IRA’s real intentions for the Irish state:  pure cold-blooded totalitarianism of the Stalinist ilk.

Here’s a recent post about that, describing the political stance of the current asshole running Ireland:

  • Tried to impose hate speech laws. 
  • Made Irish people second class citizens under law by introducing hate crime laws. 
  • Flooded Ireland with immigrants. 
  • Admitted breaking the economy in 2008. 
  • Doesn’t believe in Irish sovereignty. 
  • Imposed the longest lockdown in the EU. 
  • Activated nationwide digital surveillance of the entire population, which remains ongoing.

Remember, this asshole and his political party were elected to power by the Irish electorate, and there’s no evidence to suggest that they’ll be tossed out of power anytime soon either.

In addition to all the above, let’s not forget that the Irish have a long record of anti-Semitism — it’s as ingrained as Catholicism — and it’s reached its apogee with their current support of Hamas.  As Simon Sebag-Montefiore puts it:

The Irish government has become the most active and noisy critic of the Jewish state in the entire Western world. It is much more hostile than much of the Arab world itself.

And on case you think that the Irish government is not representative of the people of Ireland, allow me to disagree:

A survey in June by the news site The Journal found that 76 percent of Irish people believed the EU should impose economic trade sanctions on Israel over the conflict.  Protesters at rallies in Dublin told AFP they feel empathy with Palestinians due to Ireland’s centuries-long history resisting British rule.

Oh sure:  “We’re all victims of colonialism!” is the standard trope of neo-socialist Third World nations everywhere.  It is precisely the same reason why South Africa (also run by a bunch of “former” terrorists) supports Hamas.

As far as I’m concerned, however, this anti-Semitism is just another reason for me to dislike the Irish.

In that wonderful movie The Commitments, one of the characters excuses the Irish band’s playing of R&B music with the statement:  “Why shouldn’t we play Black music?  The Irish are the niggers of Europe!”

I hate to break it to you, Paddy, but if you are the niggers of Europe, it’s because you created that situation for yourselves (unlike, say, South African Blacks who were oppressed simply for the color of their skin).  Why else the “no dogs or Irish”  signs in places like Boston and New York during the mass immigration waves of the Victorian era?

And can anyone find justification for Catholic/Protestant sectarian strife in Ireland?  That’s even more inexplicable than the Muslim/Jewish violence — or maybe it’s the same;  I find it difficult to understand people who might actually get violent over what is to me the same as the Coke/Pepsi animosity (essentially the same stuff, just different packaging).

The fact of the matter is that the Irish are basically a thoroughly unpleasant lot, and all the “Kiss me I’m Irish” / St. Patrick’s Day / “luck of the Irish”-type propaganda is pure blarney — or to give it its real name, bullshit.

By the way, speaking of St. Patrick’s Day, the aforementioned saint didn’t drive snakes out of Ireland for the simple reason that there never were any snakes in Ireland to begin with.  Just another piece of Irish bullshit, like four-leaf clovers being a lucky charm.

Finally, let me go on record as saying that Guinness is horrible-tasting sludge, Bushmills / Jameson whiskies are just cheap derivations of Scotch, soda bread tastes like cardboard and Irish stew is an oily abomination which should be avoided at all costs.  Don’t even get me started on boiled corned beef and cabbage.

And I’m sure the country itself is beautiful, as long as you don’t mind the constant chill, wind and rain.

*The IRA/Sinn Fein combination is best illustrated by a comparison to the Hamas/CAIR relationship:  the first is a bunch of murderous assholes, and the second is the “public face” of the same murderous assholes.

Sauces, Goose, Gander For The Use Of

Anarchist thugs, Resistance, Terrorism

We’ve all seen recently that acolytes of the Left have been vandalizing Tesla cars, destroying Tesla charging points and attempting to damage Tesla dealerships — all because they disapprove of what Tesla founder Elon Musk has been doing to bloated government, or soemthing.

POTUS Trump calls these activities “domestic terrorism” while several people at CNN label them “a protest“.

I just want to see if I’ve got this clear.

So according to CNN:  if I were to, say, firebomb Michael Moore’s (empty) house because I strongly disagree with all the things he’s said, that would be just “a protest” ?

What about painting “Lefty Scum” on Chuck Schumer’s car?  Also “a protest” ?

How about circulating a bumper sticker like this one?

Would this too be an example of First-Amendment-protected “protest” ?

I’m just trying to understand the ground rules, here.

By Any Other Name

Good Stuff, Trumpism

So your community was trashed by a storm, and you’re about to get all sorts of relief from the .dotfedgov.

However, because you’re a bunch of woke raacists and sexxists, your announcement concerning said relief contains the following little nugget:

“Within the Small Business Support Program, the City will prioritize assistance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBE) within the scoring criteria outlined within the policies and procedures.”

In the bad old days (say, the Obama/Biden Years), this would have got nods of approval from the issuing power.

But we no longer live in those dark times, so:

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner has decisively rejected Asheville, North Carolina’s outrageous $225 million disaster relief request.

HUD Secretary Turner condemned the city’s initial draft action plan for prioritizing assistance based on race and gender identity rather than need. “This draft action plan that the city of Asheville presented at first has elements of DEI, and that is not acceptable to HUD.
“It’s not acceptable to the President, according to his executive order to get rid of all DEI. We’re working with the city of Asheville.”

Yeah… and?

“They have been very responsive to make sure that their upcoming draft action plan is in compliance with HUD and how we give funds out according to HUD’s principles.”

HUD’s new (and proper) principles, and not the old DEI-spattered ones, that is.

MOAR like this, please.

Weather Vain

Lies and Untruths, Science!, Trumpism

Here’s a consequence of being entrusted to collect critical data, then using that data to peddle a false narrative:

The US government’s weather agency has been dismantled by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) after it was accused of peddling “misinformation”.

Hundreds of weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were fired last week as part of Donald Trump’s plans to slash the federal workforce.

In total, at least 800 civil servants are thought to have lost their jobs, including meteorologists, radar specialists and crews of hurricane hunters, who fly aircraft into storms to help forecasters, according to CBS.

Of course, out come the apocalyptic doomsayers:

The job cuts have triggered protests at the agency’s headquarters in Maryland, with some scientists and lawmakers warning that removing staff involved in predicting natural disasters will “endanger American lives going forward”.

No, they won’t — at least, no more than they ever did before.  There are several other avenues of getting such warnings — from private enterprise — and not from some Gummint malignancy.

But here’s the critical part, from someone who’s been doing the hard work of tracking this nonsense for a decade and a half:

Prof Roger Pielke, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who focuses on the politicization of science, said that the agency is “reaping the whirlwind” for “cutting corners on science”.

“By not upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, we’ve opened the door to politicians meddling,” he said.

According to experts, studies and former NOAA officials, the chart proves little about the effects of climate change, and instead shows that disasters are becoming more expensive because Americans choose to build in hazard-prone areas.

“The problem is you can’t use economic data to say anything about climate change,” said Prof Pielke.

Quite right.  Collecting data to forewarn of disaster, then using that data incorrectly and unethically to further a boutique (and flawed) worldview — that would be Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, of course — deserves censure of the second-highest order.  (“First-order” censure would be imprisonment and so on.)

So of course this little clique of taxpayer-funded climate alarmists deserves to be shut up and disbanded.

MOAR DOGE like this, please.

Counter-Revolution

Anarchist thugs, Marxists, Resistance

So now we are faced with this line of bullshit:

…this, in addition to the attacks on Tesla dealerships all over the place.

I have two thoughts on this.

Firstly, I’d love someone to find out which organization, precisely, paid for these bumper stickers.

Secondly, there is a Tesla dealership in Plano — specifically, in the uber-trendy Legacy West strip — which, coincidentally, is literally less than a hundred yards from a Plano P.D. mini-station.  I think I’ll swing by said cop-shop in the next few days to see if they’ve increased surveillance of the dealership — there are cameras a-plenty already installed in the area — because if they have, they’d be able to nab any “protesters” (vandals) pretty much in the act.

What I’d really like to do is sit across the road in my parked car late at night with some kind of anti-goblin accessory* at hand, e.g.

…but I doubt whether New Wife would let me, and the Plano fuzz would probably also disapprove thereof.  Pity.

In general, it appears that as Trump and DOGE are becoming more and more successful in their attempts to MAGA, the Left are beginning to despair — which means that there’s an ever-increasing prospect of Antifa/anti-Israel/BLM/eco-terrorist-type violence in the offing.

In the above article, the author writes:

In a free country of hundreds of millions of people, bad and destructive ideas are bound to catch on among a few thousand lunatics. But we have a cure for anti-American and anti-Semitic criminal behavior: put the criminals who act unlawfully upon those ideas in prison, confiscate their funds, uproot their criminal networks, deter their would-be imitators, and give public spaces back to the decent Americans who deserve them.

He left out another kind of cure:  a contrary populace who are just as angry as these anti-Western terrorist wannabes and have had it up to here with their bullshit.  Just remember:  they fucking started it, and they should not be surprised if there’s a visceral, bitter reaction to their little reindeer games.

Just sayin’.

*Of course, I don’t actually own anything evil like that — may I remind you of that Tragic Boating Accident On The Brazos all those years ago? — but you get my drift.