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Diary Blog, 8 November 2024

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Tweets seen

Trump, as President, now needs to stop supporting both the Jewish state (Israel) and the Jewish “state within a state” (the American Jewish lobby).

Until fairly recently, I thought (obviously naively) that fentanyl was merely a horse sedative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

The Palestinians are a kind of orphaned people, thanks to the Jews who stole or robbed them of their land.

“...significant destruction”? I thought that the English were the masters of under-statement…

Interesting to see that the two ethnic/racial groups most pro-Trump are white people (i.e. of European racial heritage) and American Indians (aka Native Americans), the two groups which can now be fairly termed “indigenous”.

Not a new problem, though. I remember well when I returned from Rhodesia in 1977 and took a night job for a month, cleaning the floors at Gatwick Airport. All of the other temporary staff (about a dozen or so of them) were students from Sussex University near Brighton, all of them reading bs subjects such as Sociology. When they discovered that I had been in Rhodesia, the idiots all “sent me to Coventry”— would not speak to me at all, either doing the actual work (pushing large broom-type implements up and down the endless flooring) or in the refreshment area (I sat alone at a table with my machine-dispensed coffee).

Fortunately for those idiots, I have no idea of either their names or their whereabouts. If I did, I might feel that some belated justice might be due.

Sussex University, at least back then, had a problem with pseudo-radical students. I recall meeting some in 1975, while waiting in the very basic ferry passenger departure area at Vlissingen (southern Netherlands). At the time, there was a limited ferry service Vlissingen-Sheerness (Kent).

Later, though, around 1980, I was actually a guest of a student society at Sussex. They were very hospitable.

As for Gatwick Airport, I cannot use the South Terminal (the North Terminal did not exist in 1977) without thinking back to the days, or rather nights, when I cleaned those gleaming floors in the depths of darkness.

I am expecting the Stavka (Russian high command) to order a general advance westward and northward in 2025. If it happens and is successful, Zelensky and his regime will be rolled over.

I happened to see a news item on TV today about tiny children having to be fitted with prosthetic legs because the Israeli Jews have been bombing Gaza for over a year, killing or terribly injuring about 150,000 Gazans, mostly women and children.

As for those Israeli Jew football hooligans in Amsterdam, they thought themselves brave thugs when in a mass, shouting slogans, singing unpleasant songs, and attacking others; when they got it back, they started whining about how they are “victims”; Netanyahu even sent a plane to “rescue” them and take them back to their fake “homeland”. It is all too typical.

Amusing YouTube video

A regular reader of the blog sent me this:

Very amusing.

Ha ha! Hilarious, as are all such people and their (either) soon-to-be-“trumped” triumphalism and/or desperate and crazed outbursts once they realize that not only has their candidate lost, but also that they themselves have become worldwide laughing stocks.

It reminds me of the days, weeks, months after the Brexit Referendum in the UK, when you had hysterical women (almost all the funniest crazed tweets were from women) wailing about how the Brexit vote had “ruined their lives”, prevented them (somehow) from getting a 1970s Martini ad-style beautiful Euro-life, and how, in some cases, their offspring, teenage Josh and Jemima, would now (somehow) never be international lawyers and/or “top models”…

As I say, just hilarious.

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Diary Blog, 10 October 2021

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Happened to see that a playwright, David Hare [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hare_(playwright)], has said that a man kissing a woman 20 years his junior (as occurs in Hare’s own films known as The Worricker Trilogy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Eight]), is “disgusting” and “so wrong“. Really?

This is not something about which I have strong feelings either way, but one does not have to turn to the Old Testament to see that liaisons between older men and younger women, even with age gaps of 20 or 30 years, are not uncommon in many parts of the world. In fact, they are not terribly unusual even in the UK and other parts of Europe today. Some such liaisons are sanctified by marriage rituals, others take place covertly.

What occurs to me is that the attitudes of society, at least in the UK, and perhaps mainly among the kind of people who scribble for newspapers, have changed. Today, in the UK, as compared to, say, the UK of the 1970s, 1950s, or 1850s, an approved msm figure (David Hare is Sir David Hare) can describe an age-gap relationship as “disgusting” and “wrong“, but woe betide anyone who used such a description to describe (or condemn) a sexual relationship between two men, or two women, or between persons of radically different races or nationalities…

As for Sir David himself, he is not directly affected by the age aspect, married as he is to a Jewish woman who is one year older than him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Farhi.

In the end, this is a question to which (in my opinion) there is no “answer”, except that given by individuals, and also by the society in which those individuals live. I do not think that there is one right answer for all places and all times.

Tweets on that topic

Other David Hare views

I agree —in part— with Hare about the way in which the BBC gradually lost its Reithian “inform, educate, and entertain” basis.

Hare says that “news” (much of it the BBC acting as a government mouthpiece) has displaced everything else. I hear what Hare says about that, but for me, while I can agree with what he says about BBC News, the BBC long ago put “entertainment” (and pathetically poor much of it is) before the informing and educating of the public.

Whatever. The BBC is now pretty poor and possibly unsalvageable without the sacking of most of its staff.

More news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10075605/Equality-Human-Rights-Commission-slams-bullying-campaign-Prof-Kathleen-Stock-fired.html

I blogged a few years ago about this aspect of the general craziness that now contaminates society: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

In fact, the kefuffle at Sussex University, and the general madness around “trans” this or that, is what happens when the anti-free-speech genie is let out of the bottle…

Wales

It seems that the Welsh Government is going to continue to force people in Wales to wear facemasks (and to work from home) until 2022. I think that central (UK) government should cut what amounts to its subsidy to Wales. They (the Welsh Government, not the people) want to make choices that make Wales less efficient? Fine, but the UK will not subsidize the economic consequences of those choices.

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More tweets

Translation: “I hate free speech and freedom of expression by those who stand up for European race and culture.”

Bethell is a member of the House of Lords because…because his father and grandfather (etc) were. He has been implicated in “cronyism” scandal, and is married to a Chinese woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bethell,_5th_Baron_Bethell.

Bethell was unable to comply with ministerial standards when he was a junior minister: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58602879. A typical UK System drone.

Bethell’s father was a more substantial figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Bethell,_4th_Baron_Bethell.

What was that definition of “insanity” again?…

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan…

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