The pig ignorance or mendacity of Sanders

A dear friend called Ubermouth who, sadly, is Woke left through and through sent me some Bernie Sanders posts … this being the Bernie called out by RFK Jnr. for the grubby kickbacks, just as with AOC, Pelosi etc. etc.

Obviously I was not going to do that but I was still able to get to some of his input such as:

This is where his either blinkered reality, shutting out completely what did happen and only posting visuals of a situation … or else his selective reality … which is far more dishonest, mendacious … cuts in. He takes a generality, a feelgood about the brave firemen … and they are … in other words “we the Woke” care so much for trees and little birds and firemen … oh, we’re so soft and gentle left libs … and he uses it to skew the whole situation.

Those bloody Woke, non-comp globopsychos like Newsom and the LA mayor, not only were party to the diverting of water straight to ocean, not to SoCal, that there was no water in the hydrants for those firemen … which is quite simply wicked. It took Trump to blast through and force the sending of water south … and is Sanders thankful?

Now, step by step here. “Media” … meaning the MSM?  Think we’ve written enough on the bloody MSM for years now.

“Curtailing dissent”?  Think Biden admin, FEMA, Starmer over here.

Sued for comments offending him? How about for defamation and lies.

Offended him?  What like being shot at, threatened with incarceration for spilling the beans as DOGE are now doing? For Russiagate?

And of course the cherrypicked verses to support Wokery. I do have thoughts about Trump further down the track, being not as fanboi as some other nonWokeristi but Revelation is by no means cut and dry in its application to events in our time … Obama as antiChrist? Maybe but it’s unclear.

Just coming back to “democracy is non-negotiable” … what, like incarcerating J6ers invited in by Ray Epps and then the Capitol officers opening the sidedoor?  Coz there was no way any of them were getting in any other way … it was Fort Knox.

What, like stealing the 2020 after counting stopped and masses of ballots were suddenly discovered and trucked in, when the dom machines started flipping votes, when those machines were internet connected?  That sort of “democracy”?  Dead people universally voting Demrat?  That sort of “democracy”?

Let alone the US being a Republic, not a Democracy in official terms.

Bernie Sanders is being one of two things … either pig ignorant  … or mendacious … which?

It’s The Users, Not The Supply…

Londoners are calling for the end of Lime Bikes in the capital after they were spotted blocking entire pavements.

A call I heartily support! There's a bike stand outside the office but these things lie on their sides littering the pavement all around it, they are a menace.  

A shocking picture posted to the Reddit group, r/London shows a large area of a street taken over by a parked Lime Bikes. Captioning the post, Reddit user ldn6 said: "Lime Bikes are blocking entire pavements and side streets. This is getting ridiculous." Now, a debate between Londoners has seen many call the hire bikes a 'nuisance' and have described the parking situation as 'ridiculous'.

It is, but the issue is the users of them. 

Commenting on the Reddit post, many suggested that the bikes may create an issue for wheelchair and pram users, as one local said: "Between these and bins on the paths, you don't realise how bad it is until you have a pram.

Others suggested that the problem could be solved by fining Lime: "The bike companies should be fined.

"If you put the burden of fining poor users on the companies that run the bikes, they would soon find ways to be more responsible."

Good point, but why is no-one suggesting fining the users as well? They are traceable. 

A Lime spokesperson said: "We never want Lime’s e-bike to obstruct anyone’s journey and we recognise that one of the most significant challenges facing our industry is the issue of overcrowded parking bays.

"We are working behind the scenes with boroughs to help create more parking bays across London.

What are you doing about the users who ignore them, though? 

"We have a team of 250 people that help to move mis-parked bikes and clear overcrowded bays. We encourage the public to report instances of overcrowding so our team can quickly move and redistribute bikes.

And what penalties do the users of those 'misparked' bikes face? Is it nothing? It is, isn't it? 

"If our vehicles are causing a hazard or obstructing traffic, we aim to respond at pace, with the majority of vehicles moved within one hour of being reported."

Start charging a penalty charge for every obstructively parked vehicle, and you'll soon see a change. 

The AI theft of intellectual property and private finances

First off, it’s not “AI” … it’s ML or machine learning … the intelligent are the ones programming it.

Having said that … some of you know of our patron Torquaymada who brings a salutary warning today. Some of you know of Wings of Pegasus … not so much a band as an ongoing musical project … this is his analytical division, so to speak … and he’s done hundreds of analyses, even thousands … I’ve posted a few before.

This, ladies and gentlemen who have any intellectual property or whatever else of value which you consider yours … “AI” is not your friend.

Inversion and numerology

Across the way, In Yer Ear asked, “Can that heli(copter) be operated remotely?” Also, “39 years almost to the day since the Challenger crash. Was it one of Them’s sacrif1cial days?”

Torquaymada replied: “In answer to the question…

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/command-an-autonomous-black-hawk-helicopter-from-300-miles-away.html ”

I also posted on the Philadelphia crash:

“Snippets from Laura Loomer and other pundits:

The plane was headed to Springfield, Missouri. The air ambulance that just crashed in Philadelphia is registered in MEXICO. In America, all aircraft registrations start with the letter N. In Mexico, they start with X. The XA prefix designates the jet as a MEXICAN CIVIL AIRCRAFT … shortly after takeoff from Philadelphia’s Executive Airport (PNE). Authorities are investigating the cause, but witnesses report the jet came down rapidly, almost like a missile … One of the reasons the explosion was so massive is because the plane was carrying larger oxygen cylinders for the patients.”

IYE coninued, “That’s the 3rd then. One in Alaska, one in the Potomac and now this one. Things usually come in 3s, so they say.”

I asked, “Alaska?”

Reply: 

“https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/air-force-fighter-jet-crashes-achorage-alaska/104873966 ”

I went through and saw:

“The impact did occur near the air field, it was during the landing phase, and it had been airborne for a period of time,” he said.

Uh huh. A fave sport of armchair observers who have not explored is to auto-conclude that all mishaps are sheer coincidence, that there is no sense of symbolism nor numerology … just doesn’t exist, like the Woke left existeth not, except in “far right” brains.

Thus, the number of the DC runway being 33 has nothing whatever to do with 33rd degree Masons … the whole thing’s too fabulous for words. 

Ggl AI has: “The number 33 is generally associated with positivity and maintaining an open heart, so it doesn't typically have a negative meaning. However, some believe that the number 33 can be associated with the end of the world.”

Especially with those involved in inversion, e.g. Taylor Swift and Gaga, in calling white black and black white, turning things on their heads … in other words, as globo-psycho does, for example, with its rainbow politics. Another example is that when there’s a crime, one always excuses the crim and throws the book at the victim. Classic inversion.  DEI is another.

If They Lose, Can We Double It?

Sixteen environmental activists jailed in the past year will appear at the high court on Wednesday to ask England’s most senior judge to quash their “unduly harsh” sentences.

The verdict is expected Thursday, so I'm scheduling this for Friday, when I hope the Court of Appeal has told them where to go.... 

A host of celebrities are expected to join hundreds of protesters outside, while Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are lending their legal expertise in court to support what they describe as a “crucial legal test over the right to protest”.

No-one's taking away 'the right to protest' by charging these morons, just ensuring that the public's right to go about their lawful business is protected. 

Supporters say the appellants’ sentences, ranging from 20 months to five years for a range of nonviolent civil disobedience protests, are excessive and disproportionate, and the result of a politicised crackdown that is stifling to democratic rights.

Supporters have nicknamed the group the “Lord Walney 16”, pointing out that their long sentences all came after the crossbench peer Lord Walney, who was appointed the previous government’s adviser on political violence, published a report calling for groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion to be relabelled “extreme protest groups” and subjected to stringent restrictions like those applied to terrorist organisations.

Which the idiot we have as a Home Sec promptly ignored.  

As well as arguing that the sentences are excessive, the groups say they breach human rights legislation, which requires that sentencing must be proportionate where fundamental rights, such as the right to protest, are involved. “Locking up peaceful protesters has no place in a tolerant society,” said Katie de Kauwe, a senior lawyer at Friends of the Earth.

They weren't 'peaceful' though. They were affecting people's ability to travel, visit museums, take their children to school, and go about their lives without hinderance. Isn't that also a human right? 

The vaxx conundrum

Take a quick look at this:

Did the smallpox vaccine help me as a child, the tetanus, typhoid? Yet today, more and more is coming through from doctors about contra-indications and lack of efficacy of certain drugs … we can only record it … dozens of pages over the past half decade … and leave it at that.  

Are Malone and McCullough quacks?  Is RFK Jr. wrong?  Is Dr. Mary Talley-Bowden wrong?

Oh, Polly, Labour Never Saw A Policy Disaster They Didn’t Love…

WFH is now coming under accelerating attack. JP Morgan will now require employees to spend five days a week in the office and other big companies may soon follow suit. A perverse strain of rightwing thought opposes almost any social progress that improves other people’s lives. This Scrooge-like instinct yearns to make work as grindingly hard and low-paid as possible. Recall Jacob Rees-Mogg pacing civil service offices like the Child Catcher, leaving “sorry you were out when I visited” notes on employees’ desks in 2022. The same age-old sentiment prompted the CBI chair, Rupert Soames, to savage Labour’s flagship anti-gig economy employment rights bill on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, warning that the new bill would force businesses to let people go.

Now, I'm in favour of WFH, but I'm aware it's within the gift of my employer. At the moment, it's considered a benefit to the workforce - one the greedy bastards in the Treasury haven't figured out how to tax yet - so it's likely to stay. And if it didn't, well, there are other firms... 

When Whatton in Nottinghamshire was severely flooded on Tuesday, villagers criticised the Environment Agency for removing its flood warning prematurely, leaving them unprepared. That may be so, but the Telegraph chose to convert an apparent failure into WFH warfare, claiming the agency’s flood resilience team in Nottingham “appears to have shifted to a working from home culture in recent years”. Evidence? “A job advert from last month said members of the team could ‘blend home working’ with time in the Nottingham Trentside office.” The agency bristled with indignation, and confirmed that the floods had nothing to do with anyone working from home.

Public sector workers are hopelessly incompetent whether in the office or at home.  

WFH battle lines seemed, until recently, clearly drawn. Last year, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said it was “bizarre” that Rees-Mogg, one of his predecessors, had been “declaring war on people working from home” and praised the “real economic benefits” of Labour’s flexible working policies.

To whom? 

Much evidence suggests that WFH benefits employees and employers alike.

Glad to hear it, but I notice you don't offer any evidence.  

The government needs to get a grip on its mixed messages. Does it want to be nice to employees, or nasty?

Why does it decide to be either? 

It should ignore the Tories’ accusations that it is kowtowing to union paymasters, and emphasise how new employment rights will help civilise working life. Growth-boosting plans to get “economically inactive” people with disabilities or caring responsibilities into jobs will only succeed with maximum flexibility. And WFH, remember, is free, which makes it look like a very sensible policy in a year when large pay rises seem unlikely. It’s time to count effectiveness, not desk hours.

Spoken like someone who knows her own effectiveness will never be judged... 

They’re real, not crocodile tears … but misplaced

There are a few current issues I’m still not up to speed with … we cover a fair few across the way … one of those is billionairess Selena Gomez’s stunt of the tearful weeping over the killers and rapists:

The obvious defence she could have reiterated was that not all invaders (illegals brought in by organised crims) are killers and rapists … she could have pointed to J6ers entering the Capitol in 2021, ignoring Ray Epps and the three letter agencies and police sting-bombing the crowd during the Trump speech … I mean, it is possible to make out a case … but she did not … she went straight emotive, based on a girl’s misplaced, brainwashed loyalty to monsters … something the baddies controlling her felt they knew would do the heartstring thing.

They thought it would, completely underestimating that the two demographics which, proportionally, had put Trump back in were Gen X and the new Gen Zee.  But later Gen Zee do know the score … in schools, those hanging around schools … and though most are still brainwashed, it’s a smaller “most” than expected.

Back in the day… the 90s which turned out to be my second yoof you might say … do you recall Deep Forest, the Gregorian Chant thing, other similar bands heavily into deep pathos in highly melodious yet melancholy music … and one of the songs was of a sad, sad daemon, forlorn and cursed, to match the mood of designer drug kids after a high.

That’s the whole trick … sympathy for the wholly unworthy … it’s like a cult around Rachel from Accounts … just a gal trying do her best, surrounded by nasty, mocking people … no mention of course of the complete lack of empathy and sympathy for ordinary people in ambitious Rachel and her lucrative cynosure.

Girls like Gomez, of Bieber infamy, are always going to fall for the perceived, misunderstood “bad boy”.

This Is Just Insider Language…

For me, becoming a mother was an experience as disorienting and confusing as moving to a new country. I had to learn new behaviours and customs as well as which brands of nappy and baby food to buy. And little did I know that moving to the Netherlands after the birth of my first child would entail having to learn a whole new tongue besides Dutch.

Which one? 

I’m not talking about motherese, the high-pitched singsong ways parents speak to their children, but about the highly specific language mothers and fathers around the world now use to talk about being parents.

Eh? 

Unsure of myself, I started reading parenting books and spent a lot of time on online forums, where I tried to find answers to my questions – or, when there weren’t any, then at least some support or understanding.

Not the place I'd choose to go to for that, but you do you, eh? 

It was on BabyCenter that I first discovered this new parenting language. I often found myself resorting to Google to understand what people were saying. I had to familiarise myself with acronyms such as DS and DD (dear son and dear daughter), CS (caesarean section), EB (extended breastfeeding) and CIO (cry it out).

All groups evolve their own language, didn't you learn that on the internet?  

It didn’t take me long to notice that even the things I read in Polish were translations of books by English-speaking authors such as Tracy Hogg’s Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, which I suffered through just to try to understand why my daughter would not stop crying. Spoiler alert: it did not help.

Well, since you're supposedly multilingual, what does it matter? 

My copy of American parenting expert Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting was in English – despite being translated into 50 languages, including Polish – and after a while so was everything else I was reading.

And why is that an issue? I cannot wrap my head around what this column is really about...

And, of course, books and articles about the way parents in Europe and other places raise their children are extremely popular in the US and the UK. However, from my experience, US and UK parenting ideas have a bigger sway in Europe than the other way around. What does it mean if the English language has such power to influence the way mothers and fathers raise their children around the world?

I don't know, and you don't advance a theory, so why is it concerning you?  

Australia Day has a real edge to it this year, apparently …