Seen in The Sun:
Errrr no. The appellation “Stupid Party” applies strictly to our own beloved Republicans, here seen in typical behavior, i.e. being stupid by chasing the Black vote.
Find your own epithet, Limey Bastards. I suggest “Near-Commies”.
Category: Politics
Trying not to start the public floggings
The Other Side MIA
The Divine Sarah has just returned from her native Portugal, and reports as follows:
One of the scariest things about the trip to Portugal was talking to people and realizing they’re living in an alternate reality.
You know, all the things that the Junta has tried to sell, and push? From “We’re in a booming economy” to “Biden is a patriot who stepped down to save the nation” to “Trump is a criminal” to “The refugee crisis is the result of global warming” ALL OF IT is being bought wholesale in Europe.
Now as a caveat to this, actually two of them: My family is now very much what would be considered “laptop class”, i.e. they are all credentialed professionals of some description, who therefore pride themselves on being “well informed” a lot of which consists of following our MSM (NYT, CNN, etc) and the Portuguese translations thereof. And I was mostly associating with them, save for listening in when we were in public, as I pretty much do all the time out of habit and because I like to know what people “really” think.
However, as far as I can tell even if not uniform, Portugal — which probably means most of Europe — at least as far as its educated classes go, is taking the pap our MSM spews as the gospel truth. You literally can’t tell them the truth without their thinking you’re a complete lunatic. I.e. the reality on the ground here in the US seems to them like something out of the left field that we’re just saying for shock value.
Keep that in mind when you hear of all the European love for Kamala-rama-lama-ding-dong.
The thing is that Europeans (including Brits) have been accustomed to people telling them what to do (and to read, and to think, and to say) for so long that now, when it really counts, there is no “counter-culture” such as we have Over Here: no equivalent of PJMedia, RedState or Breitbart News, no conservative radio (e.g. as practiced by the much-missed Rush Limbaugh or even the still-living Sean Hannity), or fearless “alternative” bloggers with an enormous following such as Instapundit, and precious few independnet small blogs such as this one.
So in the absence of all that, all they have is state-controlled electronic media and leftwing-sponsored newspapers like Le Matin, Der Spiegel and so on. (I was amazed at how Lefty even Austrian newspapers were, the last time I was there, and Austria is easily one of the more conservative Euro countries.)
Small wonder that they believe the bullshit thrown at them about Glueball Wormening, Ev Inevitability and untrammeled Third World immigration as a benefit.
So of course, when confronted by the New Counter-Culture (as espoused by leaders such as Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Geert Wilders and Giorgia Meloni), they are utterly bewildered by such strange concepts because they have never been exposed to them before — and strangeness, as we all know, leads to fear, opposition and resistance, if not outright rejection for no other reason other than strangeness.
And as Sarah so correctly points out,the funny thing is that while European society is living in an alternate reality, they are convinced that it is we who are.
The prognosis for Europe is not heartening, just as it will not be happy for us if the upcoming vote is fixed to provide another four years of BidenHarrisObamaClinton policies.
Posers
Oh sure, here’s another attempt to try to persuade voters that Democrats aren’t going to try to take their guns away… why see, they have guns too, just like regular folks.
…yeah, reloading a shotgun is a total bitch, innit?
Let’s look at the efforts of previous Democrat assholes:
…and the immortal:
…which, by the way, is of my own design, but help yourselves, you’re welcome.
The alternate:
They must really think we’re fucking stupid.
Spectrum Girl Strikes Again
Aren’t her 15 minutes of fame over yet?
Greta Thunberg Accuses Germany of Genocide Complicity over Israel Support
Typical Gen Z snowflake: full of passionate intensity over a topic she knows nothing about, and completely wrong.
Correction
Via Kenny:
Hate to break it to you, Scooter, but every state is hurting from Bidenflation, and we know damn well that DEI Harris is going to do sweet fuck all about the energy crisis and inflation except add more of the same Bidenbullshit like Net Zero, “sustainable” energy generation and EVs. Trump, on the other hand, may actually do something useful… like he did the last time he was President.
And anyone who doesn’t know this doesn’t deserve to live, let alone vote.
From the same birdcage liner:
Actually, entrepreneurs of any ethnicity will “have an affinity towards Trump’s economic agenda” because if they believe in Harris’s DEI-sodden, Socialistic and climate change economic agenda, they deserve to get whatever comes to them.
#GeneralMotors #Academia #etc,
Fakery
In a post earlier on in the week, I said this:
I often wonder what car or cars I’d get to replace the Tiguan, and what’s interesting is that I’m having precisely the same feelings that I have with guns and watches: nothing of recent manufacture at all — especially given that all the cars without exception are loaded with electronic gizmos I don’t care for, or else gizmos that spy on you and/or could possibly be used to control your driving. In fact, the more I think about it, I’d probably have to go back to pre-1970s cars — fully resto-modded of course — to find a car that has not a single computer chip in its driving operation.
The problems with finding a fully resto-modded car are that firstly, nobody’s going to bother restoring your beloved ’82 Honda Civic or Toyota MR2 because sheesh it’s not worth the money. Secondly, of course, is that the cars that are worth restoring were spendy to start off with (so just getting your clapped-out 60s model Whatever fixed up is going to cost you nearly as much as, say, a brand new 2025 Honda), and once you factor in the cost of restoring a Dino, the end price is stratospheric.
Think I’m joking? Here’s one such example:
1972 Ferrari Dino 246GTS
And the price (linked): $570,000
Look, I love me my Dinos, as any fule kno, but I draw the line at a car that was Ferrari’s “entry-level” model back in the day now costing as much as a brand new Ferrari. As my buddy Patterson would say, “Fuck that for a bunch of assholes.”
However, there may be a couple ways around this little problem. Let’s use the example of the late 1950s-era Porsche 356.
A properly-restored original 356 looks something like this:
1957 Porsche 356A
And the price (linked): $325,000
LOL no way, Bubba.
But then there’s an alternative:
This one’s price (linked): $69,500
“Wait a minute, Kim,” I hear you say, “At that price, it’s not been restored, so it’s a clunker.”
Actually, it’s a hand-built… replica, with a new 2.3liter VW engine that provides a stonking 145hp (as opposed to the original 356’s 60hp).
“But it’s not a Porsche engine!”
Yeah, but those old 1950s Porsche powerboxes weren’t much to write home about, and to be perfectly frank, they actually sounded like VW engines anyway. And the VW engine is less finicky and gets better fuel consumption.
And best of all, its VIN establishes it as a 1973 VW, not a Porsche, so your insurance payments would be… close to zero.
I know… $70k is still a chunk of change. But it’s brand new, hand-built, modernized in all the right places (brakes, suspension etc.), and it looks exquisite (if you like that old Porsche 356 shape; New Wife thinks it’s “ghastly” but I think it’s at least nicer-looking than the hunchbacked 911 which replaced it).
And there are plenty of cheaper options, with (probably) lower quality, but whatever.
Me? I think I’d be quite happy to pootle around town in one of these. No intrusive spying, no stupid electronics, no “convenience” features, and no airbags.
At my age, it might just be a worthwhile tradeoff.