Don and Vic rub their hands in glee

Mar 11th, 2024 9:49 am | By

Trump and Orban agree to murder Ukraine.

Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida.

“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told state media in Hungary on Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.” According to Orbán, Trump has a “detailed plan” to end the Ukraine war, which began two years ago when Russia invaded.

Oh please. Trump has no detailed anything. It doesn’t take a detailed plan, all it takes is a Toddler No, and that’s all Trump has. And the plan is not to “end the war,” the plan is to allow Putin to devour Ukraine the way Trump devours a hamburger.

The US and its allies have supported Ukraine but further US aid is held up in Congress, having passed the Senate with bipartisan support only to be blocked in the House, which is controlled by far-right Trump allies.

They’re not even far right. They’re not even political. They’re just destroyers. Trash everything & give us money: that’s their “politics.”

Calling Trump “a man of peace”, Orbán said: “If the Americans don’t give money and weapons, along with the Europeans, the war is over. And if the Americans don’t give money, the Europeans alone can’t finance this war. And then the war is over.”

Peace shmeace. It’s not about “the war is over”; it’s about Putin wins and Ukraine is obliterated.

Despite facing 91 criminal charges and having suffered multimillion-dollar reverses in civil suits concerning his business affairs and a rape allegation a judge deemed “substantially true”, Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.

And the US is a bitter degrading blight on the global landscape.

Trump said: “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic, he’s a non-controversial figure because he says, ‘This is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it. Right? He’s the boss. No, he’s a great leader.”

The profound understanding of democracy from the next “boss” of the US.



Whose streets?

Mar 11th, 2024 6:48 am | By

Wait, you mean Hamas aren’t the good guys? Are you sure? Did you check with them?

Arresting the victim part 3:

During the protest some activists were heard chanting “Zionist scum, off our streets” and several placards showed support for the Houthi militias in Yemen targeting ships going through the Red Sea.

One pro-Palestine activist on the march could be seen wearing a protective helmet and carrying a riot shield. The man, whose helmet was similar to those used by reporters in combat zones, paraded holding the riot shield with the slogan: “Resistance is justified when your land is occupied.”

One young woman held a placard that read: “One holocaust does not justify another,” in defiance of criticism that such comparisons are anti-Semitic, and another placard showed a bull depicting Gaza goring a person with a Star of David on their body saying: “Slaying of the beast.”

So no wonder the Met is protecting the pro-Palestine marchers and pushing their critics to the ground.

This isn’t new, sadly. It goes back at least as far as the fatwa on Rushdie. It goes back at least to the days when the BBC constantly platformed the Muslim Council of Britain instead of its many critics.

In a video of the incident, Mr Ghorbani is heard shouting, “Shame on you” as officers held him down before saying: “I wrote down Hamas is a terrorist organisation… but they arrested me.”

Mr Ghorbani, an IT professional, said that he had been assaulted by pro-Palestine protesters as he stood holding his sign objecting to Hamas, which is a banned terror group.

Well it may be a banned terror group but it’s also The Authentic Voice of the People, while its critics are nonconforming troublesome rabble.

“They attacked me from behind and hit me in the head,” he said. “They pushed me and told me Hamas is a protector of Palestine. The police destroyed my sign and told me that I had harassed someone in the protest and that is why they arrested me.

“They arrested me because someone who supports Hamas attacked me and I defended myself. After 10 minutes my friends showed them a video of what I was doing and they released me. The person who attacked me was not arrested.”

Because that person is The Authentic Voice of the People.



Communinny relayshuns

Mar 11th, 2024 6:30 am | By

Remember how the police arrested and then “de-arrested” a guy who was protesting Hamas on Saturday? It’s not working out well for them.

A former Cabinet minister has accused the Metropolitan Police of “emboldening” the mob after a counter-protester carrying a sign saying “Hamas is terrorist” at a pro-Palestine rally was arrested.

Niyak Ghorbani, 38,  was pulled to the ground and handcuffed by officers after an incident close to the march through central London on Saturday. He was arrested over an allegation of assault but was later de-arrested after officers reviewed footage of the incident.

The Met is now facing calls to take action against a protester who Mr Ghorbani, an Iranian who lives in Balham, says assaulted him.

The Met is also being told off for “two-tier policing” aka different rules for different protests. It’s much like the trans thing: pro-trans ideologists can do no wrong while critics of trans ideology can do no right. If there’s a brawl, it is necessarily the fault of the ideology-dissenter.

Robert Jenrick, the former immigration minister, launched an attack on the Met for their handling of the incident and said that officers were failing to tackle “the mob” and putting free speech at risk.

“This shameful incident is the logical endpoint of consistently prioritising ‘community relations’ over even-handedly enforcing the law: the mob is emboldened and free-speech is threatened,” he said. “It’s a chilling inversion of what law-enforcement is about. Two-tier policing must end.”

Police said officers intervened to prevent a “breach of the peace” and the arrest was not over the placard but the Campaign Against Antisemitism said that the response was “outrageous” and disproportionate.

Sssshhhhhh. The Islamist communinny, like the trans communinny, can do no wrong. Critics of the communinny can do no right. This is the rule.



Arrest that woman!

Mar 10th, 2024 7:12 pm | By

“Scotland will do it! Tell Scotland! Scotland will hit her for us!”

Trans rights activists are attempting to have JK Rowling arrested by Scottish police over “misgendering” after a complaint was dismissed in England.

Northumbria Police last week confirmed that it did not believe the Harry Potter author had committed a criminal offence by publicly calling India Willoughby, a transgender TV personality, a male.

Willoughby had gone to police claiming Rowling had “definitely committed a crime” by referring to the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant as male.

Willoughby is definitely a man, and a nasty aggressive bullying man at that.

The 58-year-old former newsreader has vowed to appeal against “their decision not to prosecute” and is to request a review of the decision.

His spite is a thing of wonder.

Scotland has a different legal system than [from] England, with a controversial hate crime law, which was passed by MSPs exactly three years ago on Monday, due to come into force on April 1.

Brilliant choice of date.

In a letter to Holyrood’s criminal justice committee, the Edinburgh-based policy analysis group Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (MBM) raised concerns about implementation of the new law, which creates a new offence of “stirring up hatred” against protected groups, including trans people.

“Despite a clear promise made in the Parliament, over the three years since the Act was passed, the government has done nothing to engage with those concerned about the impact of the Bill on freedom of expression on questions of sex and gender identity,” MBM said. “MSPs emphasised the importance of police training, but what’s happening there is still unknown. The whole process has been a black box of top-down, closed policy-making, that does not inspire confidence.”

That’s for damn sure.



Three-quarters of Dutch Jews

Mar 10th, 2024 5:02 pm | By

Deutsche Welle on the opening of the Amsterdam Holocaust Museum:

Israeli President Isaac Herzog attended the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam on Sunday. The museum tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps during the Holocaust in World War II. Three-quarters of Dutch Jews were among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Who were the Nazis? Members of a genocidal political movement in Germany. DW is to the Nazis as the Washington Post is to slavery. That’s a crude comparison, but my point is that nationality is not the same as political or moral orientation. Netanyahu isn’t Israel, Germany isn’t Nazism, the Washington Post isn’t Trump. The opening of a Holocaust museum is not endorsement of war on Palestinian civilians.

Among the exhibits are a prominent photo of a boy walking past bodies at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated, dress buttons excavated from the grounds of the Sobibor extermination camp, and walls covered with the texts of hundreds of laws discriminating against Jews enacted by the German occupiers of the Netherlands.

Enacted by the German occupiers but ordered by a much smaller set of people who had totalitarian control of the German state.

Dutch pro-Palestinian organization The Rights Forum called Herzog’s attendance “a slap in the face of the Palestinians who can only helplessly watch how Israel murders their loved ones and destroys their land.” More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the war, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

Amnesty International put up detour signs around the museum to direct Herzog to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the nearby city of The Hague, where South Africa filed a case against Israel accusing it of genocide. Israel denies the allegations. A smaller pro-Israel group also gathered nearby with flags and photos of the hostages that were kidnapped by Hamas militants.

Police officers were present to deescalate tensions between the two demonstrations.

Good luck with that.



Maintaining the integrity

Mar 10th, 2024 3:14 pm | By

Well whaddya know:

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson’s playing options just got significantly smaller.

Transgender i.e. male.

NXXT Golf announced on Friday that, effective immediately, competitors must be a biological female at birth to participate. A statement from the tour notes that it underscores the organization’s commitment to “maintaining the integrity of women’s professional golf and ensuring fair competition.” The news comes on International Women’s Day.

“As we navigate through the evolving landscape of sports, it is crucial to uphold the competitive integrity that is the cornerstone of women’s sports,” said NXXT Golf CEO Stuart McKinnon in a statement.

Yes, it is. Thank you for noticing.

“Our revised policy is a reflection of our unwavering commitment to celebrating and protecting the achievements and opportunities of female athletes. Protected categories are a fundamental aspect of sports at all levels, and it is essential for our Tour to uphold these categories for biological females, ensuring a level playing field.”

Davidson, a three-time winner on the tour, currently ranks second on the mini tour’s season standings. She has played nine times this season on the NXXT.

That is, he has played nine times this season, thus taking nine opportunities to play away from a woman.



Which twin has the moral panic?

Mar 10th, 2024 12:55 pm | By

Gender gender gender gender.

Did I mention gender?

Hannah Gadsby has a new gendersomething. Yay.

Nanette was already an awards-scooping live show before Netflix’s cameras started rolling, but its meteoric success made a proper international celebrity of the festival circuit staple. It also made Gadsby, who grew up in a small town in north-west Tasmania, an unexpected figurehead for LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood.

Yet again – how does that work? How can anyone be a figurehead for all of those categories?

Gadsby spends much of their time based in Australia but has seen trans rights become a divisive political issue in the US and UK, one often divorced from the voices and experiences of trans and genderqueer people.

I think you’ll find that a hell of a lot of LGBTQ+ “activism” is very divorced from the voices and experiences of L and G and B people who don’t subscribe to trans doctrine. Sometimes people simply disagree on things and therefore are “divorced” from each other.

“It’s just part of the broader culture wars – trans people are being held up as this wedge issue. It’s happened before, we know it’s wrong. We always feel regret, culturally, after these moments – ‘Oh we were a bit harsh there weren’t we?’ But these moral panics exist in a time of great uncertainty, which it is, and certain groups of individuals cop it. And that’s what’s happening, and that makes it very dangerous. And Australia isn’t immune.”

Apparently Gadsby hasn’t noticed that the QT communinny is more than a bit harsh to people who reject trans ideology. What about that eh? Maybe the harshness isn’t all on one side?



Inspire inclusion by including men on a day for women

Mar 10th, 2024 10:26 am | By

University of Victoria celebrates Women’s Day by celebrating men, because of course it does.

Psst – Jamey – trans is colonialism. You’re the colonizer, chum.



Bump

Mar 10th, 2024 9:55 am | By

The Washington state department of health promoted this article on Facebook and did so without any “pregnant people” genuflection so I got my hopes up, but of course that was a mistake.

Abortion

Abortion is legal and protected in Washington state. Abortions have been legal in Washington since 1970, and that has not changed even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

A lawsuit in Texas seeks to remove U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone, a safe and effective drug that’s been used in medication abortions by millions of Americans for over 20 years. As of April 21, 2023, the Supreme Court maintained full access to the drug nationally.

Third sentence in and it’s all over. It’s not women who need abortion rights, it’s “Americans.”

How WA Protects Abortion Rights

In Washington:

  • Abortions are legal up to the point of fetal viability (as determined by a provider) or to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual.

Were you thinking “or to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman”? Shame on you.

People of any age have the right to independently consent for their own abortion care – parental involvement is not required.

A boy age 12 can absolutely consent for his own abortion care.

Be less inclooosive, Washington state.