Some things are beyond satire.
If you think wearing a dress at the Met Gala – whatever the fuck that is – is ‘left-wing,’ then you deserve to be transported to Cambodia circa 1977. Apparently, tickets to this Establishment shindig cost 24,000 quid. I’d gladly pay £24,000 not to be surrounded by the sort of people who go to this type of wankfest.
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The level of ignorance here is something to behold.
The comments on the original tweet show what people outside Jimmy Savile House and Guardian Towers tend to think of the upper class performative ‘radicals’ from Stinky Conformism.
Is it too tinfoil hat to suggest that these ecofascists are funded by the oil companies to make concerns about climate change look ridiculous?
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #60”Italian: Evolution of the Left.
‘Anni’: Year.
‘Oggi’: Today.
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #59”I rarely comment on the endless Israel/Palestine imbroglio. I find the religious fascists of Hamas and the geriatric kleptocrats of the Palestinian Authority deeply unpleasant. At the same time, I have no time for the settlers who seem to think ‘god’ has given them all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates nor for the loathsome prime minister of Israel, a man who could start an argument in an empty room. My usual comment to an anti-Israel obsessive is to remark that I care as much about this issue as they care about events in Abkhazia.
However, the above tweet came up in my timeline and the sheer doublethink prompted me to write this post (link to original tweet).
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #57”The Labour Party under their gormless, Christopher Biggins tribute act ‘leader’ Sir Keir Starmer remind me of Homer Simpson when he stood for the job of Sanitation Commissioner in the episode Trash of the Titans…
The Times published a poll for the Hartlepool by-election that shows Labour losing one of the seats they held in the disastrous election of December 2019…
As recently as 2010, Labour won 41 out of the 59 seats north of the border but have now been eclipsed by the Scottish Nazi Party. In the 2019 election, Labour’s so-called ‘red wall’ of seats in the north of England crumbled. Hartlepool survived that disaster but now looks like falling to the Conservatives despite them having been in power for nearly eleven years under three prime ministers.
Unfortunately, Labour is now a fundamentally unserious party dominated by people whose ideas have never outgrown the gesture politics of the students’ union.
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #55”No laughing at the back there…
See also Picture of the Day #54 and Update.
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #54 Update #2”
Unlike sex(!), it appears that the Twittermongs believe that the pathetic spat between the Markles and the Royal Family is a binary issue – if you support the Royal Family, you must be against the Markles and vice versa. Personally, I dislike everyone involved in this tawdry spectacle. Especially Piers Morgan.
Abolish the monarchy (see here).
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #54”Here we have, in one Tweet, the narcissism of the hardcore transgender ‘activist’ and of identity politics in general. It’s all about you eh, ‘Eliana’? Or is that ‘Elias’? Who cares?
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #53”If you disagree, you are clearly suffering from equinophobia! Hippophobia? Anyway, BIGOT!
Perhaps prejudice against panto horses should be called Dobbinophobia after that horse in Rentaghost…
Persecute the unbelievers! Kill the heretics! Video of the Day #19
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #51”Black Lives Matter is a racist organisation
In the United Kingdom during the eighteenth century , capital punishment could result from more than 200 crimes; historians refer to these as the Bloody Code. Even stealing a sheep to feed your family could attract the death penalty, hence the saying…
“Rather be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”
In other words, if you are accused of a small offence, you may as well be guilty of a bigger crime.
Think about that next time you hear about someone being accused of ‘white supremacy’ by identity obsessives or BLM racists.
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Robin Di Angelo is the author of the 2018 New York Times #1 bestseller White Fragility. This picture comes from a parody Twitter account called the Woke Temple (@WokeTemple). Like some other parody accounts, it is almost indistinguishable from what some people tweet for real. For your own sanity Don’t Go On Twitter! Or, if you must, don’t make the mistake of confusing it with the real world.
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #49”Do I need to add anything else?
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It really is quite astonishing just how many things are considered racist these days. Although it has to said that the vast majority of accusations come from the sort of public school ponces who work at Jimmy Savile House or Guardian Towers; you know the type, bitterly opposed to racism but have never met a black person who wasn’t cleaning the toilets or serving the coffee. One of the funnier aspects of the Twitter storm over Wiley’s two-day anti-Semitic meltdown was when crybaby Owen Jones’ column on the subject was headed with a photo of the wrong black rapper. They all look the same, eh Owen? When you read that rag, you have to remember Everything Is Racist!
Here’s some examples of things that are racist (many, many more examples are available)…
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #47”‘Trickle down’ economics is a lie
Everyone likes a good analogy…
You want a cup of tea. You need to fill up your kettle. So you go outside, get your garden hose and push it through your window. You turn on the hose and hope that some of the water will eventually get into the kettle. You try not to think about the damage you are doing to the rest of your house.
Tell me this isn’t the essence of ‘trickle down’ economics.
Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #46”In my 1970s childhood I was told, “If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out!”
I wrote a post called Don’t Go On Twitter in February and I stand by that advice. The current lockdown has confirmed my opinion that this platform consists entirely of time-rich pseudo-leftists desperate for approval and insane alt-rightists trolling them.
Here is well-known philosopher ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan on opinions…
As ever The Simpsons had it right. This is a still from the 2000 episode Treehouse of Horror XI – the segment is called ‘Night of the Dolphin.’
Continue reading “Picture Of the Day #44”“Hong Kong Flu-y, number one super virus,
Hong Kong Flu-y, quicker than the human brain,
Oh, it’s got style, a groovy smile and spread that just won’t stop,
When the going gets rough, it’s super tough,
With the Hong Kong Flu-y chop.” See here. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #43”
Interesting picture of the ‘racist’ Tory leader Boris Johnson sitting with (from left to right) the Home Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Attorney-General.
Have British people of Indian-descent joined Jewish folks outside the protection of identity politics? Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #42”
Jesus wept. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #41”
I do like a good map.
I wonder what the link between these countries might be? Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #40”
It is impossible to parody some people. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #39”
This never gets old…
From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2:
Jack the Butcher, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #38”
I have not made a prediction for this election as I made such a poor job in 2017. However the map I have shared attracted my attention. Continue reading “Picture O The Day #37”
The House of Lords – a care home for superannuated members of the Establishment.
This picture would be funny if I didn’t know that these people are being paid £305 a day of taxpayers’ money to kip on the red benches. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #36”
“I’ve never seen so many white people in one place.”
Copyright – Jon Snow, Channel 4 News (see here) Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #36”
Interesting what you can find on the internet. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #35”
Neoliberalism is my least favourite thing. I dislike it even more than I dislike identity politics. And anyone familiar with this blog knows how much I dislike identity politics. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #34”
One of the most common tropes of our times is ‘fake news.’ The current President of the United States is a great one for accusing the media of printing and/or broadcasting ‘fake news.’ In his, and many other cases, ‘fake news’ can simply be something people just don’t want to hear.
The BBC claims to be “impartial” in its news coverage (if anyone is interested their self-serving editorial guidelines are available online). However, they are anything but impartial. Just like any other news or current affairs organisation. Just like the blog you are reading. In fact, despite claiming that their “independence from government guarantees [their] editorial and artistic freedom,” the BBC is the main voice of the British ruling class. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #33”
I got this picture from the Twitter feed of Titiana McGrath, a spoof account created by the comedian Andrew Doyle. Doyle uses the account to relentlessly mock the hypocrisies and delusions of the ‘woke’ pseudo-left who infest that forum. I particularly liked the tweet where Titiana McGrath described herself as “a white woman of colour.”
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Who’s the thick one? Continue reading “Picture Of the Day #31”
Neoliberalism is essentially the view that the worth of everything and everyone can be measured in monetary terms. It is the current name for an old idea – that the rich should be left alone to ‘create wealth’ that will somehow ‘trickle-down’ to the rest of society. Putting this crudely, neoliberalism is the idea that the best way to help the starving is for the already overfed to be given more to eat in the hope that more scraps will fall from their table. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #30”
Horrifying stuff – world population is increasing by the equivalent of the town of Brentwood* every day. This picture is a screenshot – see here for the running total.
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This graph gives the lie to a claim that Emmanuel Macron is any kind of centrist. He is, and always has been, the President of the rich. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #28”
For those of you from the UK, Atlantic Avenue is the first property in the yellow set – equivalent to Leicester Square.
I have said over and over again on this blog that I am not opposed to capitalism as such. I am no supporter of Jeremy Corbyn – a man who does not appear to have had a new thought since 1974. Still less am I one of the idiot trustafarians who chanted his name at that music festival. Nor am I one of that strange type of political creature who believes that one can pursue Corbyn’s socialist utopia whilst remaining part of the neoliberal European Union. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #27”
Last time the Jehovah’s Witnesses came to my door, they were brandishing a leaflet about how the Bible was the key to happiness. I asked if stoning people and raping women was the key to happiness. For some reason they didn’t like that.
One day I will remember to say what Rik Mayall said in The Young Ones when a JW knocked on their door – “Sorry, we don’t believe in God in this house.”
Trickle down economics is a lie.
Viz: September 2018
From 1947 to 1979, the income of the bottom fifth of Americans rose by 122%. From 1979 to 2009, the income of the top 1% rose by 270% whilst the income of the other 99% remained stagnant. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #20”
This is obviously about American politics but tell me this isn’t true of just about every economy in the West since the 1970s?
You can call it what you like – laissez-faire economics, supply side policies, monetarism, Thatcherism or neoliberalism – but the same absurd notion returns more often than Michael Myers. The basic idea is that if the rich are given tax cuts and government subsidies, they will magically create wealth that will ‘trickle down’ to the rest of society. As John Maynard Keynes said this is “the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.”
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To paraphrase the Gettysburg Address, the UK (and the West in general) is ruled according to the principle of “government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.”
Not only is plutonomy (basing the entire economy on production for the super rich) profoundly immoral (some people pay $22,000 for a fidget spinner whilst others have to visit food banks) it is also economically illiterate. There is a limit to how many luxury goods any one person can consume. The deliberate distortion of the economy since the 1970s, but especially since 2008, has since the exponential growth in the amount of money hidden in tax havens. Whether one is on the left or right it is clear that this money is not being used productively. Henry Ford did not pay his workers $5 a day because he was a nice person (he wasn’t) but because he knew well-paid workers would be able to buy his cars. This is basic stuff – the Keynesian multiplier effect.
We are heading back to a situation akin to that in the late Roman Republic and early Empire. In Ancient Rome, a few people were obscenely wealthy whilst the vast majority of the population were either slaves or lived on the edge of subsistence. The phrase ‘bread and circuses’ comes from the policy of the Roman elite to provide free food and entertainment for the masses. Whilst we haven’t got to the stage of the government handling out a corn dole, what else is reality television but a circus designed as a distraction? Even some of the ‘serious’ newspapers have been reporting the tawdry goings-on from the show ‘Love Island’ as though it were news. I sometimes feel my mind sinking into a bottomless pit of despair and hopelessness.
Karl Marx got his word for the dispossessed working class – the proletariat – from the Roman term proletarii. The proletarii were the poorest citizens who owned little or no property and whose only contribution to society was the ability to produce children for the army. Anyone who has read Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens will be aware of his prediction that a large majority of humans may be rendered economically superfluous by advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. To stay with the Roman theme, the late Republic and Empire saw the super rich live in protected enclaves with their own bodyguards whilst the poor lived in lawless and violent districts. Is this the future of Western society? Or am I guilty of hyperbole? Perhaps I am but the number of violent deaths in Sadiq Khan’s London and the authorities’ refusal to protect young girls from sexual predators in cities across the north of England may suggest otherwise.
Remember this cartoon next time some silver spoon politician opposes an economic policy designed to help the 99% against the interests of the plutocracy.
It is a lie worthy of Dr Goebbels that giving the lion’s share of the proceeds of economic growth will make everyone better off. This lie currently goes by the name of neoliberalism but is as old as capitalism – laissez-faire, monetarism, Reaganomics, Thatcherism – call it is what you will, it is a lie. We are ruled by a corrupt, plutocratic elite who only care about money.
This cartoon is more than 80 years old. It criticises US government policy during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Tell me this doesn’t exactly mirror what has happened since the banks (deliberately?) crashed the world economy in 2008.
Freedom House is a United States-based NGO that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom and human rights. Freedom House as founded in October 1941 and its first honorary chairs were Wendell Willkie (Republican nominee for President in 1940) and Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of President F. D. Roosevelt).
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If I told you there was an invisible pink unicorn called Gerald living in my shoe, you would probably think I was a harmless loony.
Is this the line? Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #10”
It is my belief that all three of the Abrahamic monotheisms are, broadly speaking, the same religion. All three feature an aggressively male deity who will send you to Hell for an eternity of punishment for breaking one of his petty rules. All three of these belief systems – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – are belligerent, violent and anti-human. At the present moment in history it is Islam, especially in its fascist political form, Islamism, that is the main threat to humanity. However, it is not difficult to point to a time when Christianity was the main threat to civilised values, as the Islamophiles at Guardian Towers and Jimmy Savile House love to point out. However, one of the most mystifying trends of our times is the number of women who are prepared to defend and excuse the violent misogyny of so many Muslim clerics and jihadists. Continue reading “Picture Of The Day #9”
A brutal summary of the blackmail at the heart of the Christian death cult.
“God loves you so much that he created Hell just in case you don’t love him back.” Christopher Hitchens.
The earliest known literate society was Ancient Sumeria (modern Iraq). Their form of writing was known as cuneiform and its earliest forms date back further than 3000BC. Most of the earliest surviving documents are tax receipts and prayers.
Remember, God loves you. But he needs money.
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