Trump administration says it intends to deport Mahmoud Khalil, alleging ‘serious’ foreign policy consequences
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If the White House and Bondi have a strategy to take down the corrupt lefty federal judges, they had better…
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I worked with a woman who’s 20 years old daughter was a sniper in the 1973 conflict
Continuing in his role as the Jerry Sandusky of “climate science”.
First!
Twixt!
Heard today that the Feral Government collects $1.40 in tax from smokers … per cigarette! Rsoles.
It’s for your own good, peasant.
I am glad that I never ever took it up.
BEER on the other hand… 😉
This government refuses to add thiamine to beer even though several other countries do so. People who drink excessively suffer from alcoholic peripheral neuropathy as a result of poor nutrition.
This is the wowser element in full flight – they can ameliorate some of the debilitating effects of alcoholism, but refuse to do so because ‘bad for you’.
Short late bookshop-bonehead anecdote time.
Local bootique bookshop, specializing in eco-catastrophe, coffee table glossy and misery memoir. Hip DINK behind the counter had the cliche red Guevara shirt on. I don’t know why- cos I’m usually unfailingly polite and honest- but I said, “You know, as a gay man, I find that Guevara shirt pretty hard to put up with.”
Slightly baffled metrosexual tw*t starts up with some pinko commie drivel about “Erm well acksherly Che Guevara is seen as a liberating hero for all indigenous peoples and against the greed and cruelty of the Catholic Church-”
I cut him off- with my eyes! I have what my (loving but otherwise too damn cheeky) kids call “Dad Voice Resting Face”- and just said
“You. Don’t know jack. About Ernesto Guevara.”
Held his gaze for a beat and a half, turned and left.
I don’t imagine he was in any way shamed into looking critically into Guevara. Given the shirt routine is junior-high shallow in the first place.
*I’m careful not to ape the “My mate Che” bullsh*t. See also terrorist bombing mastermind Nelson “Mandiba” Mandela and rabid racist Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi, more recently kleptocrat “Doctor” Mandarlwuy Yunupingu and junta shotcaller “Mamasan” Suu Kyi.
*I’m also not gay.
Lefties have some horrible people as heroes.
Arseholes tend to congregate together.
Get yourself one of these..
Went “back to school” as a mature age student, way back when. One of the younger generation thought it impossibly cool to wear a “Chairman Mao” cap in class. He was reminded that there were certain of the mature age students, in the class, who considered the red star ‘a fvcking good aiming mark.”
You went to the Wong Fook Hing bookshop
This piece from The Age would be at home in any centre-right newspaper.
He’s doing a lousy job of it.
I’m not going to subscribe to The Age just to read one article. Particularly one that tells me what Russia wants.
12ft wall still is able to get past their paywall.
That’s if you could be bothered.
It’s actually telling you what US wants.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison. Spot on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrtw3D1H_Vo
“Aux armes, citoyens!”
Great Britain has just broken the sound barrier as it plumets into the depths of Marxist Hell.
Look back a year. Could anyone have predicted this social catastrophe hanging over Britains head?
Thanks Tom.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-up-17000-slaughtered-syria-as-world/
Some fairly graphic pictures in the links.
Meanwhile the West continues to harbour the crocodile hoping it will get eaten last, but eaten it will be.
Thats hard to stomach, sick to watch. Like the slaughter of christians in Africa. Nuke the lot.
Tony Abbott was rubbished by the mostly left media for saying that in the ME it tended to be bad guys versus more bad guys.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/yemeni-houthi-rebels-warns-any-israeli-vessel-is/
What’s the point of having trillions of dollars worth of ships aircraft and armies if we don’t use them against our enemies?
One MOAB.
Just like should have happened at Tora Bora.
But no, we are too civilised.
Now, bend over and make like a goat for Achmed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/germany-debates-conscription-gender-equality-means-women-should-be-drafted-fight-die-their
I certainly don’t want them in the ranks, I’d prefer them in the factories. However there’s a nasty little voice in my head saying “This is the flip side of invading our men’s clubs and public bars.”
🙂
There aren’t enough women in prisons, either.
The insane proposition that males and females are indistinguishable isn’t really believed by anyone, it’s just convenient rhetoric for justifying encroachment by women on male turf. So taking it seriously by sending women off to war is what the feminist loons deserve.
The IDF has no problem with females in the Military.
Israeli women fight for their country and survival. Ours are too selfcentred
Different set up. They are mostly in a defensive role. Last time I heard they were in their own segregated units too.
That said once the enemy is inside the gates I’m certain all bets are off.
The Soviet Red Army method:
“If you don’t know how to fight, we’ll show you.
If you don’t want to fight, we’ll make you.”
Almost none have direct combat roles.
That’s not to say it is risk free for them as they can still get stuck in bad situations but the odds of a female Israeli soldier being killed is a tiny fraction of a male soldier.
Democrat polling shows their reputation and standing are in the gutter. Bill Maher laments that there may never be another Democrat President.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/democrats-internal-polling-shows-their-political-brand-gutter/
But right on cue, Stephen Sackur gives a soft interview to former French PM Dominique de Villepin, who says that the American people “will wake up” and realise that they must take back their democracy. Que?
That’s the often misnamed Hard Talk show on BBC. It’s hard on conservatives, soft on liberals.
They just did “take back their democracy”.
There was a good poster in The Week In Pictures not long ago that showed pictures of GWB, Clinton, Obama, and Hillary, all talking to Putin on separate occasions. No problem there. But if Trump does it, it’s bad. Another cartoon by Gary Varvel reflected that Clinton and Obama both at least claimed to be trying to curb wasteful expenditures, but when Trump does the same he gets called a horrible dictator.
John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance went down a treat with the chattering leftist classes, and others, but when Trump says it the usual suspects give it the thumbs down.
Incredible what a drop in energy prices can do for parts of the inflation stack immediately.
From the Spectator Australia –
“Wind droughts would have been the most important discovery in the 20th Century but the discovery came too late to avert the rush to wind and solar power.
Nobody who knew about wind droughts would have tried to replace cheap and reliable conventional power with intermittent inputs to the grid.
This suicidal detour from the main road of power generation has cost trillions of dollars globally and delivered more expensive and less reliable electricity with massive collateral damage to the planet.
This must be one of the worst public policy blunders in recorded history and quite likely the worst in peacetime.”
Unless it was deliberate……..
If you want to take down a country, here are your 4 key strategic bombing targets
The ‘Green’ agenda specifically targets ALL of them.
The destruction of the west is deliberate.
We’ve known about wind droughts from the 13th Century when windmills couldn’t grind the grain to make flour. They would last for weeks and cause localised famines until stock from unaffected areas could be brought in.
Sailors have known of wind droughts from antiquity but called them “being becalmed”.
We knew about them and the ‘experts’ ignored us, refused to acknowledge our existence, and treated us with contempt.
I hope their ‘Heads on Pikes’ moment comes with the first grid crash.
Here’s a trade.
Short DC & Northern Virginia:
1) prestige properties;
2) boutique whole foods stores;
3) artisanal coffee chops.
Long:
Ohio manufacturing;
Texas, North/South Dakota hydrocarbon services;
Law firms relocating corporates from Delaware to Nevada, Tennessee, Texas.
Sort of glib, but I was thinking about the domestic US effects of spending cuts yesterday.
1. Trans operas in Bolivia … zero.
2. Public service labour within the US … will impact DC and large cities in the North East the most. In fact, part of DOGE is decentralisation, which might even be a net gain in some regions. This also keeps a lot of Congress pork-barrel types quiet.
3. Imported goods and services consumed by government … some domestic replacement possible due tariffs.
4. Local goods and services consumed by gummint … no idea.
It depends what they do with the savings.
If at least part of it is returned to taxpayers, that should counter any recessionary impact.
Chinese ships off the coast a worry hurry-up for our lack of defence
By Top Ender (The Spectator)
A Chinese naval flotilla perambulating down the east coast of Australia sends two messages. One is “here we are and we’re here to stay.” The other is for Aussies to ponder – “why are we so slack about defence, and what are we going to do about it?”
Firstly though, we need to understand there is not a lot to be done about Chinese ships. They are doing nothing wrong by the convention they have signed and so has Australia – the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. That says that participant nations will abide by rules, but also allow certain freedoms, one of them being the right of innocent passage. When these Chinese ships chose to exercise their weapons they were still doing nothing wrong, as they were hundreds of kilometres offshore when they did so.
Having said that, we might accuse them of bad manners, particularly if their weapons radars “lit up” nearby ships and aircraft. But then again, sailing through the Taiwan Strait, only 90 kilometres off the China coast, is something Western nations have done, much to the annoyance of the Chinese. So in many ways this is military chestbeating.
Is it anything to worry about? Yes, because it is sending signals from all nations concerned that they want dominance in the Pacific and that they are now capable of projecting power in our region. The frigate Hengyang, the cruiser Zunyi and the replenishment vessel Weishanhu may also be accompanied by a nuclear powered submarine. So what are we going to do as Australians to pull our weight in our righteous cause?
One thing might be to crack on with real acquisition programs rather than pie-in-the-sky stuff. Our nuclear submarine program is too slow, and utterly unrealistic. We have said we want to acquire these boats, capable of immense underwater endurance, and therefore of deterring would-be aggressors. From the moment a submarine leaves port and submerges, the circle of probability as to where it could be gets wider and wider. Anywhere inside that circle the submarine could be lurking, and the enemy knows not where. That means its onboard cruise missiles, torpedoes and mines are all ready to be used.
The diesel-electric sub has to almost surface now and again to run its diesels to charge its batteries through a snort mast – the nuclear submarine does not. That gives it the edge. The nuclear submarine has reach. It can move great distances at speed. One could rapidly intercept the Chinese ships off our coast and shadow them for weeks. Such action would be a great deterrent against future Chinese military chestbeating.
Australia is plodding down the road of nuclear submarine acquisition. But with the first HMAS Something to be delivered in the 2030s that is not good enough. And with a plan to build more nuclear submarines here, this is adding complications we don’t need at this moment. This country doesn’t even build motorcars any more. We can’t engineer tunnel building in the Snowy Mountains properly. For decades we have foolishly been a shrinking violet in the world of nuclear power stations. The last submarine Oz built was the Swedish Kockums-class version which became the Collins – and we kocked it up to the extent the US Navy had to pull our chestnuts out of the fire.
Instead, just get a few Virginia-class submarines secondhand from the Americans. To be sure, they’d go to sea with a US-dominated crew, but over a year or two that balance could be altered. And then a new one or two.
We’re also in the market for new frigates. The best of them is the Japanese Mogami-class, but once again we are saying we want to complete most of the class of 11 here. The first three in the Sea 3000 program would be built in the chosen shipyard overseas – there are other nations competing for the bid – with the first delivered in 2029. The rest would follow from local construction.
Like the submarine program, it is too slow, and too ambitious. The emphasis now must be on weapons platforms quickly, not local job building. Go to the Japanese and say we can work with them to have the first Australian Mogami frigate by the end of 2025!
All of this is a warning from bygone days. In the early days of the 20th century a rampant German empire was causing ructions in Europe that eventually led to World War I in 1914. The general public of the British Empire were quite rightly focused on the dangers. One of the cries they raised was “we want eight, and we won’t wait!” They were referring to the new naval dreadnought, the fast, armoured, powerful battleships that eventually the Royal Navy began building at speed. The first was launched in 1906, 15 months after she had been begun. HMS Dreadnought made every other major warship in the world obsolete overnight. More followed. This was not so much about causing an arms race; it was about having enough weapons to cope if they were needed. And when an aggressive invading force erupted from the Kaiser’s Germany it was indeed.
For too long Australia has neglected its defence. We did not put fixed wing aircraft on our two capable helicopter carriers when we should have. We should have had nuclear submarines 30 years ago. We could have acquired a nuclear stand-off capability decades ago too – not because we want war but because we love peace, and a large armed presence is a guarantee of that.
We messed up defence before World War II and we’re doing it again. We had no Spitfires when enemy forces raided our northern coast for years. Enemy submarines and surface raiders harassed and sunk scores of ships off our coasts. That failure to arm ourselves cost thousands of lives. The largest loss of life for the Royal Australian Navy in WWII was just 290 kilometres south west of Carnarvon, where HMAS Sydney still lies today, the tomb of 645 men, sunk in the battle with the German raider Kormoran.
I was at President Obama’s speech on the Darwin Esplanade back in November 2011. He concluded with the words: “We are a Pacific nation – and we are here to stay.” So are we, and we need to step up and keep what we have.
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Top Ender is a military historian, whose latest book is The Secret Submarine, out in March from Big Sky. In December his publication Cyclone Warriors, the Armed Forces in Cyclone Tracy, was released by Avonmore.
Excellent TE.
As recently as 14 years ago a Democrat president sounded so muscular yet last year a Chinese spy balloon flew over the entire continental US and Biden’s people refused to even acknowledge it let alone shoot it down. Albo is our Biden, knows nothing and only cares about staying in power, the Chinese are welcome to chest beat and sneer.
TE – I’m continually baffled how we can make world-beating ships in Tassie (INCAT), while our yards in SA are such a shit-show.
Not sure if its because of lack of competitive impetus (defense funding), the defence procurement process (keep changing projects/mind/requirements/cost/etc), or something else.
Sabotage by ignorance and career building in DoD and Defence Support.
Rabz the bastards.
A very minor point, HMAS Sydney is the tomb of 644 men, the other one drifted ashore and is buried on land.
FFS, WW1 was a total cockup. All sides were to blame. Jingoistic bullshit.
As for Spitfires, dumb idea. High performance fighter that took far too long to build. P-40s were adequate.
Two things TE:
This view would come naturally to Obama.
I’m not sure JD Vance would share it, however.
The genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria continues as the mainstream media continues to downplay the thousands of dead. Death toll estimates range between 7,000 and 17,000.
What are the chances of me walking into a Sydney bookshop or cafe and being served by a young inner-west specimen, with blue hair, tatts and a nose ring, who’s proudly wearing a badge condemning the genocide against Alawites and Christians?
Yeah, I know, wouldn’t happen.. No Jews, no news.
By the way, why hasn’t our rabid Nazi come on here to condemn the atrocities in Syria, I mean he has a lot to say about those ‘rabid Zionists’.
Just further to yesterday, I think it is high time we all stood up and said ENOUGH. Next time you walk into a bookstore or cafe or shop and some fckwit wearing a political badge approaches you to assist you, you clear your throat and you say loudly, NO, I WILL NOT BE SERVED BY YOU.
As I wrote yesterday, the West needs to be de-politicised, because over the last decade and a bit the left have deliberately politicised everything. We need to start fighting back, and that fightback starts with the basics.
Hilarious! Spavined wombat Albo can’t get in to see Trump. But yesterday the PM of Ireland, yes bloody Ireland was given the full treatment by Trump and Vance. We must be bad when a euro toady Arab terrorist loving lowlife gets an audience but we don’t. Don’t get me wrong. Trumps assessment of Rudd and albo is very accurate. They are dead sh#ts. Boy does the relationship need a reset.
Where is that Reset button Hillary offered the Russian ambassador? Might order one from China.
Irish leadership will alwayz get a”priority” listing regardless of woke-ism .. Good politics in the USA to glad-hand their large & influencial Irish related populace …….!
Different set up. They are mostly in a defensive role. Last time I heard they were in their own segregated units too.
Nope, I have a friend whose daughter is serving in a tank in the IDF and that unit has seen battle on the frontline.
However, am I comfortable with this? No, I am not.
I worked with a woman who’s 20 years old daughter was a sniper in the 1973 conflict
Today’s Paywallion:
Immigrants welcome to join us, but not change us
Peta Credlin
2 hours ago
How do societies dedicated to tolerance deal with the intolerant? Until quite recently, this was not an issue in countries such as ours, with almost no history of political violence.
It’s only become a problem since immigration has imported into Australia the instinct, centuries ago shunned by all faiths other than Islam, of “death to the infidels”.
In recent times, religious intolerance in Australia has spawned numerous marches demanding the expulsion of Jews and intimidatory encampments at universities; escalating more recently to anti-Jewish vandalism, and the firebombing of synagogues. But across parts of the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing of Christians and other minorities is widespread.
There’s any amount of media coverage of the killing of Muslims in Gaza, and fair enough too, even though – it should be said – that’s part of a war against a terrorist group that’s pledged to the destruction of Israel and that uses civilians as human shields.
But what about the slaughter of innocent people simply on the basis of religion that’s now happening in Syria – where the Christian population has dropped from 1.5 million to under 300,000 in scarcely a decade, and is facing renewed persecution, even genocide, under the post-Assad regime?
So, let’s be clear here: Jews aren’t killing anyone simply on the basis of their religion; Christians aren’t killing anyone simply on the basis of their religion; but extreme, radical Muslims – some of them at least – are killing people simply on the basis of their religion, even including other Muslims who happen to be the “wrong brand” of Islam.
This is what happens when a religion, or at least too many of its adherents, believes quite literally that unbelievers deserve death. Yet despite all our efforts to be inclusive – such as Iftar dinners hosted by prime ministers and even monarchs – has anyone ever heard a local Muslim leader unequivocally condemning anti-Semitism, for instance, rather than just complaining about near non-existent Islamophobia? Or standing up against the hate preachers and demanding they be jailed or deported? Or Muslim organisations here, who loudly proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace, speaking out against these renewed massacres of Christians in Syria?
One of the reasons so many voters are disillusioned with politics, and even becoming sceptical about democracy itself, is that some things never change, regardless of who gets voted in. Immigration and multiculturalism is the most taboo of all the issues that deeply concern ordinary voters but which mainstream politicians almost never discuss.
Both sides know there’s a problem but neither really wants a debate; partly because no one wants to license a tiny xenophobic minority, partly because no one wants to upset migrant voters who might feel unfairly targeted, but mostly because too many politicians are frightened of the “racist” tag that’s almost immediately deployed to silence any discussion questioning the right of admission into our country at all times of everyone from anywhere.
The Albanese government has said it wants to get immigration well down from the half million a year since the pandemic. The opposition has committed to cutting the permanent intake by some 25 per cent for at least two years, but the permanent intake is actually only about a third of the total arrivals coming for 12 months or more (that comprise net overseas migration), most of whom are students or “short-term” workers here for up to four years, all of whom – nevertheless – still need a roof over their heads, some means of support, and ways to get around.
The issue with immigration is not just quantity, although at present record levels it’s driving wages down, housing costs up, and clogging infrastructure; critically, it’s also quality, the values and attitudes that at least some of our recent migrants are bringing with them, including overseas hatreds we used to think had no place in our country.
This is where Peter Dutton’s recent statement that he would stand in front of one flag only, not three, is an encouraging sign of his understanding that voters – migrant voters too – want to hear less from our leaders about our diversity and more about our unity.
Multiculturalism – the notion all cultures are equal and that a culturally diverse immigration intake would liven up a supposedly dull Anglo-Celtic monoculture – seemed harmless enough when all it meant was more foreign food and a wider selection of TV viewing via SBS.
The migrants from eastern and southern Europe who poured in after World War II were far too grateful for the better life Australia offered to stay too long in any ethnic ghetto. Likewise, the Vietnamese, Chinese and Indians who’ve come in vast numbers since the 1970s have come to join us, not change us, and have largely integrated into the wider Australian community.
The problem that official Australia has been tiptoeing around for years – which has become totally obvious since October 7, and the subsequent routine anti-Semitic protests and worse – has been the growth of substantial Muslim communities, mostly concentrated in parts of Sydney and Melbourne, which seem to identify more with their fellow Muslims in Gaza than with their fellow Australians.
These are the Muslims – by no means all of the Muslims in Australia, it should be stressed, or even necessarily a majority – who bellowed their approval when one of their sheiks declared just after October 7, this is a “day of pride … a day of victory”.
These are the Muslims now being appealed to by organisations such as The Muslim Vote, and Muslim Votes Matter, almost exclusively focused on the rights and wrongs of Gaza, that are now running candidates with the specific aim of forcing the Albanese government to adopt an even harsher stand against Israel at the UN and elsewhere.
Unlike the politicians inclined to blather about the wonders of “diversity”, voters grasp that the pledge all migrants make when becoming citizens “to Australia and its people whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey” should be taken seriously.
A recent survey, conducted for the Australian Population Research Institute, showed 80 per cent of voters wanted lower immigrant numbers; 80 per cent of voters agreed that Australia is “my special home too … just as it is for Indigenous people”; 67 per cent thought “we should deal with worker shortages by raising wages and improving skills training for locals” rather than “bringing in migrant workers”; 66 per cent agreed “we have enough diversity” and “need to encourage national unity and a shared Australian identity”, and; 59 per cent believed migrant “selection policy should include taking into account a migrant’s ability to fit into the Australian community”.
Plainly, there is a gap in the political market for a policy position that ditches multiculturalism in favour of an immigration policy that discriminates not on the basis of race or religion, but on the basis of values. Sooner or later, the electorate will turn to someone brave enough to say so.
As the world becomes more perilous, it’s more important than ever to discard everything that makes us weaker. That includes a multiculturalism that excuses people who reject the values of the country they live in.
Peta Credlin
Columnist
Peta Credlin AO is a weekly columnist with The Australian, and also with News Corp Australia’s Sunday mastheads, including The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. Since 2017, she has hosted her successful prime-time program Credlin on Sky News Australia, Monday to Thursday at 6.00pm. She’s won a Kennedy Award for her investigative journalism (2021), two News Awards (2021, 2024) and is a joint Walkley Award winner (2016) for her coverage of federal politics. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to Howard government ministers in the portfolios of defence, communications, immigration, and foreign affairs. Between 2009 and 2015, she was chief of staff to Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition and later as Prime Minister. Peta is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, with legal qualifications from the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.
Too many good points to highlight.
As reported recently by Keith Van onselen, “international student” numbers are now over 1 million. So much for pulling it back. This is what pisses people off. Lies. We have too many universities and too many international students. The ponzi scheme needs to stop.
Leith
With the ponzi scheme needing to stop, the cancelling of courses and the expelling of any Pro Palestinian protestors (or any other pet leftard protest) from university intimidating other students on campus needs to happen as well.
Multiculturalism – the notion all cultures are equal and that a culturally diverse immigration intake would liven up a supposedly dull Anglo-Celtic monoculture – seemed harmless enough when all it meant was more foreign food and a wider selection of TV viewing via SBS.
Culture is your country’s ‘operating system’, its all the shared laws, rules, customs and beliefs that govern how people interact with each other.
Trying to run more than one OS in a society results in the same outcomes as trying to run more than one OS on your computer or more than one set of traffic laws – you get collisions and accidents, chaos and damage.
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Multiculturalism is failed idea and should never have been tried.
About the SBS viewing, I happened to check it out recently and it was crammed with as many “trans” scarecrows as the ABC. Migrants simply access programs and news from their former homeland via the internet just as we do the American culture. There is no longer any need for SBS, soccer can go to the highest bidder like every other sport.
Dismantling the administrative state and training them to pick and prune fruit would be a lot cheaper.
@jsmith4966
Funny how that works
Corrupt Utah Judge Freed Fire Chief Charged with Child Exploitation — Now Both Arrested in Shocking Child Exploitation and Illicit Relationship Scandal
I’ll warrant they are kept well apart from the general population.
@IanJaeger29
NEWS: Pfizer named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.
What an absolute joke.
@CynicalPublius
Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it’s time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.
I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably claims “Derrrrr… you don’t even know what fascism is!” So let’s explore fascism a little, shall we?
Listed below are attributes and practices that all 20th Century fascists have in common with the Democrat Party of 2025:
1. Laws promoting the seizure of guns from law-abiding citizens and/or the denial of gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens.
2. Censorship of free speech by pretending such censorship protects the citizenry from faulty information (i.e., so-called “disinformation”).
3. Government control of industry.
4. Government control of the mass media.
5. Control of the entertainment industry as a means of propaganda. (See: Leni Riefenstahl; Walt Disney Corporation.)
6. Children belong to the State and not their parents.
7. Political dissidents and opposing political leadership are to be persecuted for fabricated “crimes” under the color of law through the courts.
8. Political dissidents are locked up for months/years without a trial.
9. Leading political opponents who are a threat to the fascist order are to be assassinated.
10. Extreme nationalism (Democrats hate the United States of America, but are extreme nationalistic zealots for the Woke States of America).
11. Purposeful division of the population along racial and ethnic lines as a means to power.
12. Leadership of the ruling fascist party is chosen by party leaders without any input from rank-and-file party members, but an illusion of democracy is perpetuated. (See: Kamala as nominee with zero votes.)
13. Certain party criminals are turned into martyrs upon their demise. (See: Horst Wessel; Saint George Floyd.)
14. Destruction of statues, symbols and art of the pre-fascist order.
15. Accuse dissidents of the very crimes you yourself commit.
16. Justify all of it for the “common good.”
The Democrat Party of 2025 is a fascist party. Spread the word.
Mussolini himself defined fascism as a ‘marriage between the corporation and the state’. I now understand, however, that its the corporation that is the senior partner.
In the modern version more so, but look on it as a happy little triumph-erate between Big Government, Big Business, and Big Union. They work together, play together, and marry each other, and raise their children to be just like themselves too.
and have little to do with the proletariat they rule.
Since he was a politician he was describing what he wanted of corporations for his ‘state’.
He had no intention of letting the private sector – even corporations – to have a ruling hand in any aspect.
Certainly that was how it was to be with Hitler.
Fascism is just another left wing, collective authoritarianism that has minor differences with its cousin communism. The diff being the Fascist State is satisfied with control of the means of production, not own the means of production.
in both systems the collective state has more rights than the individual, and oppresses any potentially competing grouping, be it opposition parties or even religions.
Years ago Jonah Goldberg wrote a book “Liberal Fascism” . It was a best seller. It described how the Wilson and Roosevelt regimes had fascist elements. Until ww2 FDR was a big fan of Il Duce and vice versa. The new deal was copied by hitler. And the blue eagle movement was definitely a national socialist idea.
Government shutdown likely after Schumer says Senate Dems will block GOP funding bill
Don’t they need at least a simple majority to do that? Last I heard Republicans have 53 senators out of 100. Even if one or two vote against it still passes.
He’s not wrong.
Lavrov describes developments in US as ‘return to normalcy’ free of unchristian ideas
Ireland is a dictatorial basket case.
@Mick_O_Keeffe
President Trump is meeting the leader of Ireland today.
A man who :
– 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.
I don’t expect the Americans to attack him in front of cameras but this tyrant needs to be pulled up on what he’s doing to Ireland.
Had the hate speech bill passed, police would have been able to barge into X HQ in Dublin and seize devices from staff and management.
That needs to be addressed.
The fact that Ireland established a Media Commission to police the Internet needs to be addressed.
And they accused the Catholic Church of oppression?
And he got in to see trump but Albo is still out in the cold.
I’m a bit surprised that X hasn’t just installed a satellite relay that enables a “No equipment in hostile countries” policy. Surely latency wouldn’t be that big an issue. Bandwidth would be dealt with by the old Russian method – lot’s of satellites, and send stuff to England – or even a Pirate Radio Ship.
Trump Vows to Reclaim ‘Stolen Wealth’ With Steel Tariffs
CNN Poll Shows Surge in Presidential Approval on Economy Under Trump
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: A federal judge has BLOCKED President Trump from revoking the security clearance of Perkins Coie, the law firm which helped develop the Russia Hoax
WTF?
These activist judges HAVE TO GO. How can a judge FORCE the President to give someone a security clearance?!
Do you have a citation for the decision Indolent?
Excellent news.
Michael Mann Sanctioned for False Testimony, Bad Faith | Power Line (12 Mar)
Costs awarded to Steyn and Simberg. Given the wretched trial has been going on now for 13 years those costs are going to be substantial. I wonder if Mann and his sugar daddy, who has been funding his ridiculous case, will cough up?
Where does that leave Mann and his ‘hockey stick’ now? 🙂
Continuing in his role as the Jerry Sandusky of “climate science”.
In the meantime (i.e. thirteen effing years) Steyn has been physically (and presumably financially) destroyed by all the lawfare he’s been subjected to*.
*See also his “ofcommunist” troubles in Airstrip One.
Rand Simberg’s blog here: http://www.transterrestrial.com
Lots of current or former rocket/aerospace people comment.
@julie_kelly2
NEW: A court doc filed today by Citibank, where Biden EPA sheltered $20 billion for “climate” projects just days before the 2024 election, confirms:
> Trump Adm informed Citibank that the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” program was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.
> The FBI recommended placing a 30-day administrative freeze on eight slush fund recipients in light of “credible information” of possible criminal violations.
> EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for the financial agreement with Citibank be terminated and the grant funds immediately returned.
> The EPA Inspector General has opened an investigation.
Further, as Zeldin reported last night on X, he has terminated all agreements with the grant recipients–so-called climate “nonprofits” including one started by Stacey Abrams last year.
The edukashin system just ain’t what it used to be .. LOL!
I reckon the teenagers would have spotted it before any adult.
The “our student” part looks quite sinister as well, given all the brainwashing that goes on in these institutions of idiocy.
@WallStreetMav
BREAKING NEWS! We just hit $190 billion in DOGE SAVINGS!
@EricLDaugh
LMAOOOO
TRUMP: “[Chuck] Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish – he’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”
James Willis has done a bit of analysis and has interesting findings.
In Miserable Ghost news:
Turnbull isn’t as bright as he thinks he is.
Trumbull is a narcissist with a load of baggage. abandonment by your mother is one of the most damaging psychologically I have counselled many and research shows this. They have to get approval all the time as all mothers love their children goes their thinking therefore I am unloveable because she left me.
Narcissists do not have unconditional self acceptance
I hope I have explained the problem clearly.
Does the same apply for being rejected or abandoned by a father at an early age? Just curious.
I assume you are speaking in general terms, min.
This is a polite way of saying he is an inveterate liar.
“It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Lack of critical self-examination is a trait of narcissists.
He’s the playground coward egging on a fight from the sidelines. If he’s in any way threatened, he will toady to the winner.
Kevni is the same but worse. We pay him to do a job which he refuses to do. Recall the useless article.
Not sure that he refuses to do it (for all his faults he’s not lazy), but that he’s just ineffectual, partly for the same reasons he was a bad PM and also because he’s persona non grata in DC.
If Trump refused to take Albanese’s call on tariffs, as reported, there’s no way Rudd could have made any difference.
That being said, recalling Rudd is a no brainer. He would throw a mighty tanty though, so Elbow won’t consider it until after the election, assuming he retains power.
The correspondents over at the Spencer Street Stürmer are creaming their collective jeans over Trumble. That’s confirmation, as if anyone really needed it, that he’s a complete human zero and mercifully has no say in what passes for Australian government policy these days.
I must also apologise for claiming last night all four Presidents who have been murdered have been Republican. JFK of course.
But my point remains. Democrats must be destroyed.
JFK would have no place in today’s dumbocrats, BB.
And yes, they must be absolutely obliterated – a party of shameless corruptocrat criminals and perverts.
No need to apologise BB. JFK could easily be mistaken for a Republican in today’s climate. Trump and most of his cabinet are ex Democrats.
Webley, library. No more needs to be said. Malt. I lied.
A policy Albanese took to the 2022 election.
Before he brought in one million plus migrants.
The Liberals aren’t much better.
Liberals are beholden to the same education/ethnic group lobby’s. They are not going near it.
My observation having been working since I started a paperboy in my early teens and worked many jobs in the time since, employers have lost the art of training new staff. They want them ready to go with little input. The bigger the enterprise the worse they are from what I have seen.
That doesn’t surprise me.
Big business wants a big Australia for several reasons, all of them self-serving.
Big Australia made sense years ago but not nowadays with AI and automation.
I wonder what ISW is saying about the situation in Kursk?
I checked in this morning.
Pretty close to the Russian mouthpiece Southfronts maps and Put’s visited the Kursk HQ overnight in cams.
I’d say Ruskies have used the IS&R blackout to their advantage here.
I think it was very obvious from the moment Trump was re-elected back in November 2024 that there would be huge problems with the US/OZ relationship and that problem is Kevin Rudd.
Rudd should have been recalled immediately but Slug and Pong, both juvenile far-left student activists, thought they’d rub Trump’s nose in it. Nope, it’s Trump who does the rubbing, not adolescent and very mediocre far-left morons like Pong and Slug.
I recoiled yesterday at Pong’s chutzpah when she said that the Trump administration’s tariff decision is ‘not the way to treat a a friend and partner‘, such pious and sanctimonious drivel from someone who’s avidly dumped on Israel over the last few years and particularly since October 7.
And believe me, Trump and co would be very aware of Pong and Slug’s attitude towards Israel.
Sadly, the WHOLE World is aware Of Pong and Slug’s attitude toward Israel.
The decline and fall of Reform.
Dumping Rupert Lowe confirmed Nigel’s Junior Uniparty aspirations.
The problem with Farage is his ego.
And now he is circulating in more rarified circles, the influence is pulling him Leftward.
And there goes reform.
Nobody with above average capacities is going to offer themselves to be a Reform candidate if disagreeing with Nigel is going to get you booted or worse.
Did Trump Jnr ever get the Australian visa he had applied for, either last year or the year before?
Could be awkward if he succeeds his father in 2028.
Doubt that he will be a candidate.
Three years is a long time in politics…:D
Speaking of such things, Daily Telegraph:
She actually said these things.
Everything these dickheads have done has been to the detriment of Australia and Joe Public.
It includes their cronies at state level as well.
Wong Chap sez ‘political opportunity’, which is exactly what Mzzz Allan did with the toughest bail laws evah!
FMD just clueless to anything outside their bubble.
Did Trump Jnr ever get the Australian visa he had applied for, either last year or the year before?
No, and remember that visa was deliberately stalled back in 2023 and when it became public the bimbo minister at the time, whose name is Clare O’Neill, mocked Trump Jnr online.
Our pollies and bureaucrats should not let their political biases be a reason for these decisions. Only security concers should be paramount.
If we applied that rubric to all areas of policy we’d basically have to start again from scratch…starting with energy (inc. oil refining & reserves), migration (numbers and countries of origin), food security and transport links and so on.
We are governed by idiots.
Realpolitik would be welcome for a change.
I’d settle for competency, vr.
But yes, properly defining and serving the national interest would be a most welcome change.
A couple of reps in the parliamentary Liberal party get it but the “moderates” rule the roost.
Re. competency, I agree a 100%.
Clueless Clare O’Neill…now failing spectacularly as housing minister.
Seems to think that nice speeches in which she says all the right things build dwellings.
Oooops!
That one has come back to bite us.
What a bunch of arrogant incompetent amateur hour forkwits. They insult and abuse Prez Fatty Trump incessantly over a period of many years and then act all surprised and indignant when he rightly tells them to fork off.
Dr Mutton and his replacement for the toilet brush peering rat (and it had better not be an equally big a dickhead such as goose morristeen) will have to engage in much serious grovelling to Prez Fatty Trump.
Enjoy the humiliation, you unfunny clowns.
Ramon Subercaseaux in a gondola
Lazy buggar; why didn’t he swim?
What a surprise:
Migrants Over 70% More Likely to Commit Sex Crimes Than Native Britons.
Speaking of the Brits:
Trump’s ‘Radical Pro-Hamas’ Student Deportee Has UK Govt Security Clearance: REPORT.
Life 101 …..
Great news:
Left Punished in Greenland Election, New Trump-Friendly Govt Looms
I’ll be moving there when it becomes the 51st state.
Grate – just received an email stating my health extortion premium is about to increase by 9.2%.
But yeah, “inflationary expectations” according to albanasleazey, dim chambers and guv karen bollocks, are down – down, baby, down!
Reality in a nut shell ..! Well said “Cassie”
Yeah, I know, wouldn’t happen.. No Jews, no news.
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History: Zeldin Rolls Out 31 Groundbreaking Actions to Save Americans TRILLIONS, Slash Costs and Supercharge Job Growth
@WorldHallOfFun
There will be protests in Washington for 3 days in a row starting today, and protesters are being paid $40 per hour.
Ask yourself, who is willing to spend over $32,000 in a few days and who is benefiting from these left-wing protests?
EXCLUSIVE Listen to leaked audio of DEI activist SHARING air traffic controller exam answers with minority candidates
GOOD!
@RossMcKitrick
BREAKING: A Washington DC court has just ruled on Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg’s motion for sanctions against Michael Mann and his attorneys for misleading the jury at trial. Decision: Mann and his attorneys are SANCTIONED for bad faith misconduct and will be assessed costs
If the White House and Bondi have a strategy to take down the corrupt lefty federal judges, they had better get on with it.
The judges are emboldened both in subject and scope. They are now creating policy. They are making Trump look like a deer in the headlights.
Bondi increasingly presents as a Trump first term ineffective or disloyal appointee.
Congressional Republicans need to agressively join the fight. They have nothing to lose by creating a war over this issue. Nobody is listening to the Dems except the equally ignored MSM.
Trump administration says it intends to deport Mahmoud Khalil, alleging ‘serious’ foreign policy consequences