My first thought was: good heuristic for evaluating public figures!
My second thought was: No, wait. Sometimes the legacy media attacks genuinely bad people.
My third thought was: …but this happens surprisingly seldom. Why is that? A few seconds of thought reveal the answer.
When you’re policing an orthodoxy (and the legacy media definitely sees its job as policing an orthodoxy) the most dangerous person isn’t the one whose beliefs are radically different from the orthodoxy, but the deviant whose position is just close enough to attract converts from within the orthodox mass.
Heretics get burned more often than do unbelievers.
So yes, InfantryDort is right. Probabilistically, trusting public figures that the media constantly does hit pieces on is unlikely to tangle you up with the genuinely evil and crazy, and much more likely to point you at truth-seekers.
Walking in the Valley of Political Death, after Trump, Farage, and One Nation took all the risks and paved the way out of the Climate Swamp, the Liberals have finally been dragged into saying a definite “No” to Net Zero. …
A few brave souls in the party have spoken out (like Andrew Hastie and Alex Antic) but the official Liberal policy, as explained last November, is still that lowering emissions is a worthy thing for no good reason other than being pagan weather controlling witchcraft. Do the Liberals still think that they should pander to the Paris agreement blob? That’s what they said last year. …
The problem is that once the people realize Net Zero is an international parasite thriving on grift and graft, it’s about a nanosecond before they want a real leader who will take a blow-torch to the parasites. In that nanosecond they flip to the party of true leaders — the ones who took a position based on principle and led the way.
Until the Liberals take some risks and face down the namecalling vipers, the voters won’t believe they have the mojo to take on the whole cartel of Blob Bankers, Blob Bureaucrats, vested Blob industries and foreign interests who depend upon our climate-patsy compliance with the fantasy.
The Liberals need to start to sell the absurdities of “Net Zero” with conviction. The way to win the Teal seats is not to pander to the fantasy, it’s to mock it mercilessly.
Every day the Liberals wait for the polls to shift they are that much closer to extinction. …
Those brave souls who spoke out when the costs of saying something was high were often pushed sideways or right out of the party (like Craig Kelly and Gerard Rennick, or Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson).
How abut doing some due diligence? You’d find the climate models, on which the whole scare is based, are simplistic nonsense based on a poor guess by a 29 year old in Washington in 1963. The models greatly exaggerate the influence of carbon dioxide, because they get water vapor so very wrong. (Water vapor is the main greenhouse gas, emitting over 50% of the heat that Earth loses to space, much more than carbon dioxide’s piddling 13%.)
But then the models were adopted and driven by western bureaucracies because they furthered their political interests, and a generation of politicians, bankers, and renewable barons have been pushing the climate scare ever since.
425 organizations with a combined $1 billion in annual revenues coordinate 736 anti-Israel ‘Nakba 78’ protests across 39 countries today — a transnational network that includes communist groups, Marxist-funded nonprofits and coalitions linked to Chinese Communist Party sympathizers.
The campaign’s own materials don’t call for a ceasefire or two-state solution. They call for the dismantling of Israel itself, framing the U.S. as a ‘fascist, imperialist, genocidal settler state’ and erasing Israel’s name entirely from their literature.
Catherine Salgado at PJ Media outlines the anit0Western craziness over Gaza:
Unfortunately, the United States is the biggest hotspot of the Marxist revolutionaries protesting in favor of destroying the world’s only Jewish state to transform it into another addition to the world’s 50 Muslim nations. CCP-linked billionaire Neville Roy Singham has been bankrolling anti-Israel, pro-Iran protests in the U.S. for weeks.
It’s not exactly surprising that the CCP has consistently been on the side of Hamas and Hezbollah, and their backer, the Islamic regime of Iran, ever since the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023. What is disturbing is just how many useful idiots there are across the West who are on the side of the jihadis, despite the unspeakable crimes committed by Hamas, despite the years of torture inflicted on the hostages, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support what Hamas did, despite Israel’s generosity in pouring aid into Gaza and trying to avoid killing civilians there, and despite the Palestinian Authority financially rewarding the terrorists.
Just this week, a new Israeli Civil Commission report, “Silenced No More,” graphically described gang rape, sexual violence, sexual abuse of dead bodies, genital mutilation and burning, sexual assault of all ages and both sexes, rape of individuals in front of family members, and families forced to commit sex acts on each other during the Oct. 7 attack. For the hostages, the rapes and sexual abuse sometimes continued for months. And yet, this is the week that over 400 anti-Israel groups organized protests promoting the blood libel of “Nakba” against Israel.
How much of the anti-US, anti-capitalist, or environmental agitation has been bought and paid for by the Soviet and now Chinese governments? It turned out recently that many of what appeared to be US citizens commenting on X about politics were in fact from India, Nigeria, or elsewhere. Certainly many protests in the US are nakedly paid for, with many protestors knocking off en masse at for instance 12 noon. “Fake protests,” as Trump might say.
These protestors are often so suicidal and nonsensical that it is hard to see them as other than funded by our rivals.
On the contrary, Albo, many of us want to be divided. We don’t want to “come through this together” any more. We are tired of all your enforced togetherness. Instead, we want to “come through this” in a country where we feel at home, surrounded by people we can love, respect or at least have a laugh and a beer with. Everyone else can — pardon me while I resist the urge to use expletives here — kindly find somewhere else to live. …
We were told that the migration of people from undeveloped countries into prosperous liberal democracies was essential and good; so good, in fact, that the Labor government had to pass section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in 1995 to enforce compliance with it.
This has since spawned “hate speech” laws, which have had the intended psychological effect. Over the years, mass immigration has become unquestionably virtuous, to the point where your government can import millions of unskilled parasites, and anybody who objects to it is automatically labelled a racist. By promising, through state-funded translators, to give these new arrivals loads of free things, you secured huge blocks of votes at every election.
You couldn’t care less whether these new Australians want to live among the rest of us. Turns out many of them don’t. Worse, some of them want us dead, and our culture erased. Immigrants who don’t assimilate are not immigrants, they are invaders. And eventually they act like them. …
Essentially, you are asking young and future Australians to reject the homogenous culture and high-trust society that allowed your generation the freedom and opportunity to become comfortably rich, and in its place put up with fragmentation, tediously shit jobs and a reduced feeling of belonging in their own country.
And that’s not the only fundamentally flawed liberal delusion you and the ruling elite are pushing through. You’ve told young women that motherhood is not as important as having a career, young men that their masculinity is toxic, and infant children that government childcare centres are even better than being at home, the odd serial pedophile notwithstanding. …
There are people amongst us who wish us harm. Instead of organising a wreath-laying photo opportunity at the scene of the latest crime, a stronger, more resolute and patriotic national leader would be mobilising police and military to root out the remaining potential provocateurs and put them on the first flights out of here.
We’ve reached a fork in the road. Either we continue to embrace liberalism (in which case the next Bondi attack is just around the corner) or we reclaim the civilisation we were so lucky to inherit.
If the National Rally [RN, led by Marine Le Pen] candidate wins in the French presidential election next spring, far-left mayor Bally Bagayoko of multi-cultural Saint-Denis has said it will be invalid, calling for a “popular insurrection” if this were to occur.
One social commentator on X, Alain Weber, posted frankly about the reality France is facing: “Contrary to what the Democrats of this country thought, the danger will not come from Jean-Luc Mélenchon but from Bally Bagayoko, who is the calm face of the civil war being prepared in the suburbs.”
The mayor also said that those who attempt to “normalize the far right” are “dangerous,” adding that “if the far right comes to power, which we do not want, we will do everything so that it cannot happen.” …
Blaming Macron for the rise of the far right, Bagayoko stated: “Under Macron, the far right has never been so strong. We’re now at almost 140 racist members of parliament” …
Returning to the theme of inevitable insurrection, Bagayoko told the host: “It’s either us or them… that is to say, the far right,” adding later that he was “firmly convinced that the people will rise up” if RN wins next spring, while ignoring the fact that an RN victory would indicate voters exercised their democratic will. …
The danger of Bagayoko is real. “He is manufacturing the psychological conditions for a refusal of alternation, that is to say, quite simply, the conditions for a cold civil war, then hot.” …
Bagayoko drew ire from the local state prefect when it was revealed he had removed a photo of Macron, traditionally on display as a sign of respect, relegating it to a corner of his office and, by some accounts, turning it upside down.
Bagayoko, 52, the son of a family of Malian origin, won the municipal elections in March in the first round with 50.77% of the vote. It was historic. The first Black and Muslim mayor of a city with over 100,000 inhabitants. …
Bagayoko’s victory stems from a dual phenomenon: demographic and social. The young people who were demonstrating in the streets 15 years ago are now 30, 35, or 40 years old. And instead of radicalization, most have experienced a degree of bourgeoisification. They now have children, professional lives, and want recognition. Furthermore, there is social diversification. “Before, Muslims had access to immigrant jobs, but now they are doctors, lawyers, journalists… social workers. It’s a kind of gentrification of the Muslim middle class.” …
“The new France is a concept that has nothing to do with ethnicity or the division of the Republic. It’s about recognizing that a new generation constitutes France, and that it’s different from what it was 30 years ago. It’s the story of a country and a society in motion. The development of its networks, its challenges, its diversity. And that means we have to live with this new reality, including people who come from working-class neighborhoods, are Black, and become mayors,” Bagayoko points out.
Democracy is dead in France, if political actors of this stature are threatening civil war if their side does not win. This is not mere left vs right, but more about race and religion. The West is going tribal, as the third world immigrants find a voice and exert their numbers.
The left are pretending that the newcomers are just like the white population, only trivially different (skin color, style of worship). They will have our best interests at heart. History says otherwise.
What is rising across Europe …is …a recognition by an every growing number of citizens: That elections, in the form they have taken since the 1990s, have stopped producing the changes voters keep asking for….
Although the formal rituals continue — people going to the polls, watching the debates, not studying the party manifestos — all the substantive decisions most people see as existential priorities like migration and energy, are made elsewhere: At the European level, in supranational bodies, in NGO networks supported by public money, and in administrative organs accountable to nobody the voter can remove. The state, whose representatives often speak about “saving democracy” these days, actually likes this pattern. …
What is a nation?
A constitution does not produce loyalty. A welfare system does not produce solidarity. A passport does not produce belonging. These things are inherited from a cultural and historical substrate that liberal proceduralism takes for granted and that progressive politics actively dissolves.
When Robert Putnam published his study E Pluribus Unum in 2007, the finding that surprised even his sympathisers was that diversity reduces trust not only between groups but within them. People in heterogeneous communities trust their own neighbours less. Multiculturalism has failed on almost all accounts …
The European political class has chosen to interpret these findings as embarrassments to be managed rather than realities to be addressed. Habermas’s project of constitutional patriotism, the idea that a polity can be held together by rational adherence to legal procedure alone, was a brave attempt to construct a post-national basis for European politics. It has not worked, and the reason it has not worked is the reason no large polity in history has worked that way. Loyalty is not a contract.
Nationalism is stronger than mere economic self-interest:
It is closer to what Plato called thymos, the part of the soul that wants to be recognised and to belong to something larger than the calculation of personal advantage.
A politics that denies this desire does not abolish it. It only ensures that the desire will be channelled into parties that the political class would prefer did not exist.
Example, modern Germany:
People flock to the AfD not because they had it with democracy, but they actually want to save it.
Officially the firewall protects the constitutional order against extremism. In practice it functions as a guarantee that elections will not change the policies the established parties have already settled on. A coalition rightward of the centre is mathematically possible in several recent elections, in Germany and elsewhere (think Austria and France) but politically it has been ruled out in advance. Voters who supported the parties that, taken together, won a parliamentary majority discover that the policies enacted are the policies of the parliamentary minority.
This is an open conspiracy where the political class that has come to believe its current settlement is the end of history and that any serious challenge must be a pathology rather than a disagreement. You see, voting for the “far right” is not an expression of your political preferences, but shows that you are a despicable human being that should be barred from voting altogether.
Nazism — national socialism — was a fusion of communism and nationalism. It was dreamed up by communists returning from WW1, dismayed that the workers did not rise up against their capitalist masters — which confounded their expectations. The nationalism of the workers in the trenches was much stronger than their economic class consciousness. Lesson learned by Mussolini, and copied by Hitler.
A migrant remittance is simply money that a migrant worker earns in one country and sends to people in their home country.
Significant net migrant remittance outflows are an economic cost to the host country. They are a net leakage from national income, domestic demand, and the tax base. As a result, they weaken the economic and fiscal return from immigration.
Oh look, it’s getting much worse under Albanese. Two million people remitting A$10,000 a year each.
I read the most profound thing I think I’ve ever read about European support for “Palestine,” and I don’t think I’ll be able to unsee it now.
It’s that by imagining Palestine to be real and the victim of Jewish colonialism and genocide, they can imagine Jews as the actual Nazis and thereby assuage themselves of their overwhelming guilt for the 20th century, not to mention a long and ugly history before.
By finding a way to stain the Jews and Israel with those same moral evils they themselves feel the weight of, but for imaginary instead of genuine reasons, Europeans can not only remove but reverse the mark of the evil they inflicted on Jews over their entire history, not remotely least during the Holocaust.
Thus, and only thus, can they forgive themselves for their unforgivable sins, but like everything Leftist, it’s empty and inverted.
The Nazis were socialists, and therefore of the left. Individual freedom lovers and individualists they were not. They were collectivists — not as extreme as the communists, more like the EU.
If British jews are to be held responsible for what happens in Gaza…then by the same reasoning British Muslims should be held responsible for the massacres of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria.
On the first day of the US/Iran war, Iran nullified the American capacity to observe and control the battleground by expending drone swarms and hypersonic missiles to take out the American ground-based strategic early warning radar at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
In mid-March an Iranian Shahed-136 attack drone directly hit the radome and phased array antenna of a long-range early warning radar in the Al-Qaysumah Airfield in Saudi Arabia.
A few days later Iran used drone swarms and low-flying cruise missiles to exhaust the interceptors of the THAAD battery in Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, then followed up with an Iranian Fattah-2 hypersonic missile strike to destroy the THAAD.
Still later in March a Shahed-136 and Fattah-2 joint strike took out another radar in the Rafha Region of Saudi Arabia. The destruction of the long-range early warning radars and THAAD batteries resulted in a gap in US mid/long-range air defense. This exposed terminal-phase defense platforms such as Patriot to Iranian attacks.
A Patriot system can track over 100 targets at the same time but can only guide 18 interceptors simultaneously, opening a window for attack by swarming drones and missiles too numerous to be shot down in one engagement. Other drones/missiles were able to penetrate a Patriot-only defense during reloading, destroying Patriot platforms which cost over $1 billion. At least 3 Patriot batteries were destroyed in the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
Losses of Patriots led to gaps in terminal defense for key assets and air bases, resulting in Iranian destruction of one E-3 Sentry AWACS and at least 5 KC-135 Stratotanker refueling planes on the airfield runways in Saudi Arabia. This, in turn, led to a lower sortie rate of combat jets.
On March 19, Iran used its indigenous 358 missile, also known as the SA-67 to down a F-35A stealth fighter over central Iran.
David Archibald:
While the US and Israel played a flawless air attack, they made assumptions about their radars that cost them dearly.
Shaheed drone are easy to shoot down. A one square metre cross section and travelling at 200 kmph.
There had been no preparations to defend the big expensive radars.
No wonder Hegseth recently changed his mind about the E-7 Wedgetail.
I don’t recall the media mentioning any of those American losses. I recall lots of blather about Trump’s character deficiencies, but no explicit recognition that the US action was forced by the rapid growth in the stockpile of Iranian missiles due to Chinese help. Nor the Chinese resupply of anti-ship missiles to Iran during the ceasefire.
The reason this new poll is highly significant is that it was conducted by SMS, so people could respond anonymously (just as they vote in elections).
Because of the ABC’s demonisation of One Nation — repeatedly calling them “racists” — some people won’t openly admit they are going to vote for One Nation.
That’s exactly how things played out in Farrer, where One Nation’s vote on election day at the polling booth (~40%) was substantially higher than what the polls had been showing (~30%).
Angus Taylor will propose that welfare payments should be restricted only to citizens in a move that he says will save “many billions” of dollars.
The Liberal Opposition Leader says it is “not fair on hard-working Australian citizens” that permanent residents were eligible for welfare payments such as the NDIS or Jobseeker.
“If you commit to this country we’ll commit to you and that’s how it should be,” he told reporters.
“That’s the Australia I grew up in and it’s the Australia I want to see again.” …
He said permanent migrants would nonetheless get “full access to health”. … New Zealand citizens who have been in Australia long enough would still be eligible, Mr Taylor said. …
Mr Taylor is due to deliver his budget-in-reply speech on Thursday evening.
What, listening to the people? Democracy still alive!
She says they qualify illegals for all benefits without any social security numbers. …
“Here’s the loophole. If somebody without a Social Security number, so somebody who’s undocumented, applies for benefits, … They qualify for
– Full Medicaid
– Housing
– Migrant Head Start. That’s fully paid childcare
– If these people have any kids that are US citizens, meaning that they’re born here, then they apply for benefits for their kids
– $1,200 per kid plus $275 per person cash food stamps [per month]. …
Flaunting:
I used to have women and some men that would come in straight up with their nails did, their hair done blonde, bleach blonde, Gucci bags, Gucci glasses, driving up on Escalades, chewing gum super loud, saying, “Where’s my welfare check?”
“I used to live in a neighborhood where 70% of the people around me were undocumented, and man, did they live the life. New cars, parties every weekend”
“Meanwhile, US citizens, we don’t qualify for sickity shit. We don’t qualify for nada, nothing. It was so common where the women or the moms in my community that were undocumented, they wouldn’t work.
“They would have their own community of stay-at-home moms while US citizen moms would have to go out and work because we can’t afford to live”
Scale:
– California expanded full-scope Medi-Cal to undocumented adults regardless of status, covering doctor visits, hospital care, dental, and more. As of 2025, over l.7 MILLION undocumented illegals were enrolled
– Undocumented parents qualify for benefits on behalf of their US citizen anchor babies. This includes CalFresh (food stamps), cash aid, and up to $1,200+ per child plus extras [per month].
You are literally paying for illegals to retire in America and get checks forever.
Commenters:
This is part of the Democrat voter fraud scheme. They attract illegal aliens with these incentives and help them get in. Then the census count includes the aliens which allows them to get more seats in Congress. …
As a single father after my lady passed I now work 60 to 70 hours a week and take care of the house and my son. Because I work so much I am entitled to zero help in anyway from any government service. I have paid taxes my whole life and I can’t get any help as a citizen. Hmmm. …
Sacramento County in California needs to be investigated next. Foreigners are driving Tesla’s, BMWs, and other expensive vehicles while living in luxury apartments. They never leave and simply hang out all day as if they’re retired residents. Most are in their 30s and 50s, speak no English, yet they’re allowed to drive on American roads. How exactly are they receiving federal funding if they have never worked in the United States? …
The young adults, the up-and-coming new generation; are arrogant, entitled, violent and/or obnoxious as I’ve ever seen. The illegal women of the anchor babies are the worst. Demanding everything. Their entitlement mentality is off the charts.
Our ruling class know it’s fair. They set up the system, and they are infinitely wise — they say so.
A recently arrived Iraqi immigrant who drove into a Melbourne primary school, killing 11 year old Jack Davey and injuring four other children, has escaped with just a $2,371 fine and no conviction.
Shaymaa Oun Ghazi Zuhaira, a 41 year old P plater, slammed into Auburn South Primary School in Hawthorn East, killing Jack Davey, 11, and seriously injuring four other children aged 10 and 11.
They took seven months to charge Zuhaira with “careless driving”, during which time she took an overseas holiday.
Police inexplicably allowed her to plead guilty to a minor charge that carried no jail time.
She tried to get an even lighter sentence by arguing that the crash was caused by trauma from her life in Iraq “triggered” by a meeting with teachers about her son’s reckless behaviour before the crash. …
Police protected and defended driver Shaymaa Oun Ghazi Zuhaira, 41, from the beginning to the end, and were even seen delivering groceries to her house.
Zuhaira has since been “awarded”citizenship. While little Jack Davey lays in the ground.
Diversity is our strength.
Commenters:
Like her son, she obviously couldn’t control her temper. …
I remember seeing the footage of police turning up to her place of residence with groceries. Since when do police deliver groceries? …
Australia is not a nation anymore. Its a fucking lame economic beast and every hyena from every shithole corner of the earth has come to feed. …
Where did she go for a “holiday”? Suppose it was the country that she fled from eh? A place so dangerous to cause her ptsd, so she goes back there to holiday… Iraq …
What would happen to me if I moved to Iraq and drove into a primary school and killed a child? …
How do we know the Muslim didn’t drive into the school and kill the white kids on purpose? You know, like they seem to do all the time around the world….
It’s so very civilized and virtuous to let the invaders murder our children without even making an attempt to harm a hair on their heads in retaliation. …
If she was a white man she would have been given a life sentence.
So much prejudice, hypocrisy, unfairness, and wokeness in one story. Our judiciary must rally hate us.
Take immigration. It is now beyond doubt that … multiculturalism has burdened us with generations of hostile immigrants who have formed alien ghettos, embezzled the welfare system and, on occasional balmy summer evenings, popped down to Bondi to spend a pleasant nine minutes shooting Jews from a footbridge uninterrupted by the constabulary.
That’s a bit harsh, I hear you say, they don’t all shoot Jews! Fair point. Some of them are more content to steal billions of dollars intended for the disabled, scam the insurance industry by faking car accidents, steal cars, invade homes, target local women for prolonged gang rapes, treat their own women like chattels, threaten to beat up the Prime Minister or just drive B-double semi-trailers like they’re Toyota Corollas in a smash-up derby while verbally abusing those who abide by the road rules.
Politicians avoid commenting on the extortionate cost of mass immigration for fear of upsetting ethnic voter blocks. And they can ignore columns like this one because, frankly, they are so brazen about their plan to destroy Australian culture that they no longer care.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke is now encouraging immigrants to not assimilate, and recently told an Indian podcaster that he wants millions more Indians to be granted citizenship. He does all this with the nauseating obsequiousness of someone who learned at school that he doesn’t fit into his own culture, and has spent his adult life desperately seeking one where he does. He increasingly looks like a lonely nerd who can’t believe how many new friends he’s made since becoming Immigration Minister.
Burke has been given a blank cheque to flood the nation with the least skilled non-English-speakers he can find because his party knows the fewer skills immigrants possess, and the less they understand the local lingo, the more likely they are to vote Labor. It’s a strategy to make Labor more powerful by making Australia less Australian. That is an “abuse of entrusted power” …
Unions:
Anti-corruption campaigner Geoffrey Watson recently found, in a report he wrote for the Queensland government, that the CFMEU had overcharged the Victorian government somewhere in the vicinity of $15 billion over recent years. Such an allegation would once have been enough to bring down a state government. These days, though, it doesn’t even generate a file at Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, and ordinary people are so preoccupied with merely surviving that they don’t have time to wonder why nothing is done about it.
Super:
The way the government and unions treat our $3 trillion in superannuation savings as theirs invokes more suspicion of corruption, although this issue doesn’t receive nearly as much attention as it should, thanks to the widespread perception, perpetuated by the government, that those compulsory savings don’t really belong to us; rather they are a bonus our benevolent government bestows on us upon retirement.
Small “business”:
This cancer is now spreading into the “private” sector. Apart from gangs running the illegal drug trade, which occasionally erupts into homicidal gunfights, and brazenly obvious illegal but lucrative tax-avoiding tobacco stores, protection rackets are now becoming commonplace. Melbourne is now a “war zone” in which bars and clubs are wondering which will be the next to be shot up or firebombed.
In a contemporary twist to an old story, standover men now seem to be targeting even pilates studios, arson being the preferred method of intimidation after twisting the proprietors’ arms presumably failed to yield results. …
Long-term:
Corruption is usually the pursuit of short-term gains at the inadvertent long-term expense of everyone else. But Australia’s new forms of corruption are far worse. The long-term cost is deliberate and co-ordinated. The goal is infinitely more pernicious than … a cop hitting up tourists so he can afford to buy schoolbooks for his kids.
These plans are now almost irreversible. By the time most Australians realise what’s happened, Anthony Albanese and his colleagues will be well into their comfortable retirement in secure communities far from the chaos and anarchy they created.
