If You Build It, They Will Come

…and if you try to steal it, they will leave:

Millionaires are looking to flee the UK in their droves to escape Labour’s tax raids – with a record number of wealthy Britons tipped to leave the country this year.

Advisers to the UK’s richest households told yesterday how phones are ringing off the hook as their clients rush for the exit, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to hike levies in its autumn Budget on October 30.

It follows PM Keir Starmer’s speech this week in which he painted a woeful picture of the state of the country’s economy, referring to financial ‘black holes’, as he braced the UK for a difficult Autumn budget. 

The smart ones left long ago — some as much as a year before this new lot of Socialists came to power, I’m told — and most of the really smart ones made plans for this eventuality even earlier than that.

You see, not only are The Rich quite intelligent (trust fund babies and nobility aside), they also have access to all sorts of intelligence that others don’t.  At Rich Fart #1’s afternoon cocktail party, for instance, one of the topics might be a sharing of information as to the best bolt-holes to flee to when the financial SHTF, along with the best methods to implement such flight.  And Rich Farts #2-7 hand over details of which lawyers, tax experts, bankers and so on would be the best to facilitate said flights.

They’re so far ahead of the game, in other words, that they’ll be gone long before H.M. tax sharks send out the list of desirable legislation for the Socialists to pass.  Hell, I bet that most have gone — or at least, their money’s gone — already.

Dealing With Mutti’s Legacy

All the chickens implicit in The Great Cultural Assimilation Project© are coming home to roost, in ever-increasing numbers and with ever-increasing frequency.  Here’s the latest (at time of writing, anyway):

A major manhunt is underway in Germany after an attacker stabbed to death three people at a festival on Friday evening in the western city of Solingen but police say they are yet to identify the suspect.

Those killed in the attack have been revealed as two men aged 67 and 56, and a woman aged 56. Eight others were injured, including four with life-threatening injuries.

A motivation for the attack, which has sent shockwaves through the country, has not yet been determined and terrorism has not been ruled out. While Islamic State claimed responsibility, it offered no evidence to back up its claim.

Uh huh.

Indeedy, yes.  From a later report:

The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of killing three and injuring several others at a “festival of diversity” in Germany on Friday reportedly had a deportation order last year, but authorities failed to remove him from the country.

Anybody surprised by this?  No?  Then we may continue, this time looking at the response:

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talked tough on a visit to the scene of the knife attack.

How tough?

“We must do everything to ensure that such things never happen in our country, if possible,” Scholz said of the attack. He predicted a toughening knife laws in particular “and this should and will happen very quickly.”

You see, this is where the true effects of Angela Merkel’s legacy come into play.  The Germans are affording immigrants the same kind of legal protections they grant German citizens, instead of, say, reintroducing the death penalty for any non-German citizen found guilty of a capital crime in the country.  Noooooo! or rather Neeeiiiiiinnnn! that would be ummm discriminatory, wouldn’t it? 

At least they could deport these assholes super-quickly — not to their “home countries”, but to some other shithole like, say, Somalia or a similar Muslim stronghold.

And here’s a perfect example of the German government’s blinkered attitude:

Green Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck also called for a tightening of knife laws, saying there must be “more weapon ban zones and stricter weapon laws.”

“No one has to carry stabbing or cutting weapons in public spaces in Germany,” said the Green politician. “We no longer live in the Middle Ages.”

You stupid shit.  You may not be living in the Middle Ages, but these fucking Islamic assholes certainly are.

Thanks to previous German immigration policies (Mutti Merkel, danke ), you’ve imported the Middle Ages into the 21st century.

And what a Middle-Ages mindset needs is appropriate (i.e. medieval) punishments, but there’s no way the oh-so-civilized German government is going to open that little door, thanks to their ummmm earlier behavior less than a century ago.

You might as well surrender now, unless you’re prepared to get serious.

Suggestion & Response

This may become a regular feature:

And the response:

There’s an old saying which goes something like “Never start an argument with a man who buys ink by the barrel”.

How much more appropriate a warning against starting an argument with a man who controls the largest electronic media outlet in the world.

Just Sayin’

In response to this kind of nonsense:

My own personal policy is that if someone, anyone, starts shooting at me from the street when I’m sitting peaceably on my porch, I return fire, with interest (a.k.a. “massive retaliation”).

And just in case I haven’t been clear enough:  I don’t own a stupid paintball gun.

I can’t see it happening in Texas, mind you, mostly because I believe that more than a few Texans are of similar inclination.  And our cops aren’t that stupid. (“You want us to do whut?”)

First Issues

I’ve been watching the events unfold over in the UK, and not for the entertainment value of a bunch of working-class people boiling over with rage at how the masses of immigrants have more or less taken over their country — and yes, it is their country.  I would venture to suggest that a huge majority of the protesting working class folks have roots in Britain that go a lot further back than those of the many “immigrants” (legal and illegal) that now live in Britain, and let me tell you, that has to count for something.

You see, their forebears endured all sorts of hardship for King and Country — the trenches in WWI-era France, fighting against an evil empire, and having their cities bombed and their civilians killed by the next-gen evil empire, to mention but two.

I’ll bet that a huge number of those protesting working-class men have ancestors who go even further back:  ancestors who fought for king and country at Balaclava, Isandlwana, Waterloo, Malplaquet, Trafalgar and countless other times when their king (and sometimes their queen) asked that they make the supreme sacrifice for the sovereign and their country.

It is a long and storied heritage, and one quite worthy of veneration.  In fact, I envy them that heritage.

So when you see that this heritage is being subverted and dismantled by wave upon wave of people who do not share that heritage, who would seek to replace their system of ancient British law with some loathsome gobbledygook like shari’a, wokism, Communism or a ghastly combination of all of these, where individuals have no rights and their basic freedoms of thought, religion and speech can be suppressed by some new regime of oppressors, a regime actually supported by their elected government over their own — and it must be said, shared — heritage… well, small wonder that ordinary people are rising up against it.

And needless to say, the powers that be — in this case, the horrible governing Labour Party, but it’s difficult to see how the Conservative Party would have behaved any differently — have described these disaffected people with all kind of sobriquets  (“Right-wing thugs” being the most common) and even gone after those who support the protestors by their own speech, with elderly people being arrested for Facebook posts and other online methods that, so far, fall outside government control.

Small wonder too that this new breed of totalitarians, this ghastly soup of bureaucrats and politicians, want to clamp down on the freedom of speech;  only this time, they want to extend their reach past the shores of Great Britain and prosecute citizens of other sovereign nations for daring to speak against them and their terrible actions.

We (citizens of said other nations) are being cautioned to avoid going anywhere near the UK, lest the British government use that opportunity to arrest us in situ  (where we are beyond the help of our own governments) had we ever dared to voice opposition to them and to their actions.

I love Britain.  Well, let me expand on that a little.  I love the British heritage, its history, its castles, its monuments, its countryside — hell, I even love their silly Royal Family — and I’ve visited there often, enjoying every single minute I was there.

No more.

Simply by writing this post, I could be added to some BritGov list of undesirable people and face arrest at the airport should I ever be in a position to go back there.  So why take the chance?

A number of my British friends — and I have many — have told me in no uncertain terms that they are making concrete plans to leave their country of ancestry and birth for other climes.  “I don’t care for where the country is headed” is a common theme, but here’s one — a classic libertarian — who responded in a completely different manner when I asked his opinion of current events:

That should tell you all you need to know.

The bobby’s helmet used to be a symbol of all that was good about British policing:  unarmed, civilized, part of the community.  Now it’s synonymous with government thuggery (although it’s instructive to note that they don’t wear those helmets anymore and they sure as hell are not unarmed).

Let’s hear it from Rule, Britannia!

♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ “Britons never never never shall be slaves.” ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Uh huh.  No wonder they’re rioting.

It’s a good thing they aren’t allowed to own firearms, isn’t it?  (That’s not a snarky comment;  that’s a sentiment most likely being expressed all over the British government and its police force.)


Update:  I see that in my Comments section there have been one or two instances of what might be termed “hate speech” by the Wokists.  I can only hope that more of you follow that fine example.  If I may say so:  the Wokists haven’t seen real hate yet.

Quelle Surprise

Here’s one little story that shouldn’t really surprise anybody, but apparently it has.

This man went to a Kamala event wearing a Trump shirt, and a Trump event wearing a Kamala shirt. The difference in how he was treated was stunning.

Look, the Left (especially in the Western hemisphere) has always been characterized by its boorish (and often dangerous) behavior when it comes to dealing with people who don’t share their loony little vision of a perfect world.

Of course, that boorishness extends to “Establishment” institutions as well.  I remember Brando’s immortal line from On The Waterfront The Wild One  where he is asked just what, exactly, he has got against the Establishment (or, in the modern idiom, the belittling term “normies”).  His snarled answer of “What have you got?” typifies the attitude.

“Whatever we want is great and wonderful;  opposition to that — no matter how well-founded or realistic — is not only wrong, but evil.”

Hence the vituperative reaction of Lefties to a Trump t-shirt at one of their rallies.

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to be a lot more tolerant, even accommodating in the opposite scenario, which is probably one reason why the Left has been able to extend and indeed entrench its various little substitutions:  free love for morality, intolerance for opposition, and so on.

Taking just one comparison:  when the Left — in the shape of the loathsome Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman and their cohorts — took over college campuses in the late 1960s and the decades which followed, conservatives allowed them to occupy campus administration buildings in the name of “Free Speech!”, only evicting them when their behavior became too extreme to bear.  Of course, that takeover had dolorous consequences, because those Leftists and their philosophical progeny took over campuses really took over universities and entrenched their foul little political philosophy by becoming lecturers and administrators.  (One has only to look at what the Ivy League colleges have become to see exactly how rotten this takeover has made them.)

Now, of course, as the Left occupies most of academia and the media, not to mention popular culture, any opposition to them is not treated with the same respect as they were accorded, but with feral hostility.  (One has only to see the reaction of the Left when Elon Musk turned Twitter from a Leftist organ into something more open-platformed to find evidence of such.)

One would expect such hostility from younger people, because young people are often passionate about their beliefs (even when, as is often the case, when they are demonstrably wrong).  But if there’s one unifying characteristic of the modern Left, it’s that even their older adherents are similarly intolerant, and often as violent.

The comments to the above post are quite telling, and mostly reveal the stark differences between conservatives and the Left, e.g.:

 

You see, we make jokes about tossing Lefties from helicopters (thank you, General Pinochet);  but the Left is the side which actually has the death squads, mass executions, gulags and “re-education camps”.

And if you think that such an outcome is impossible in the United States, you’re as delusional as they are.