(1245) Afternoon all … no cunning plan as yet, RL things being sorted, no film yet but might be later. (1308)

 

15. The blighting of Blighty

14. Redacted’s linked article in comments had this

“Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is the Democrats’ Robespierre. He is promising his own reign of terror when his party recaptures Congress in the 2026 “midterm” election. Norm Eisen is his chief lawyer and legal strategist. His sole aim is to recapture power in order to restore the Democrats’ the Democrats’ sadistic regime of thought-control and the money- flows that feed it. That’s where things stand for the moment. You can sense how this tension is tending toward something that looks like civil war.”

13. IYE corner

a. “Where’s the Lists?” Mwerx not optimistic today.

JH: Link in comments. Fair warning … the front picture is vile so I can’t run the YT embedded here.

b. Enfant @buse scandal surrounding French PM

JH: Another where I’d best not open or run the link here.

c. As mentioned by mwerx – India and Pakistan gearing up to “start flinging curry at each other”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-pakistan-trade-gunfire-build-militaries-after-kashmir-terror-attack

d. “Criminal complaint unsealed in case of Wisconsin judge helping illegal. It is just jaw-dropping that a judge would do this to help this character!”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1915899682875969568.html

12. That which cannot be unseen

IYE requested and naturally we’d concur … this would be the criterion … “that which cannot be unseen” … for me it would be when X pundits insist on something or someone vile, such as that bald Sam character in lipstick … and our rule here at Unherdables is … “preferable not to run it but if it must be … for essential contextual, rather than for horror/sensational reasons … then plenty of adequate warning, in order to allow people escape routes, must be given to readers.

This was IYE’s text:

Dear Mr H

I would like to request, if I may, that any tweets, videos, photos, sound recordings etc with any violent scenes/ sounds come with a warning upfront signalling the content so that the reader is forewarned what is contained therein and can then decide whether they want to risk exploring further. As has been stated often by your good self and others, some things once seen cannot be unseen. 

There are certain news outlets online that like to use shock and clickbait tactics. NO in all its forms has never to the best of my knowledge done that intentionally. If the Tavern is to remain a safe haven it needs its safeguards. In-yer-face violence is not something I wish to see at any time of day or night. That doesn’t mean denying it exists it means protecting oneself from psychological trauma.

Thank you for reading,

Sincerely, IYE

……

Ok, what I think is going down these days is that we’re all, to a point, in shellshock and people react differently to a steady diet of vileness and horror … most recoil, avoid, but some become first inured to it and then get into it bigtime, become sickos themselves. Some are traumatised, esp. children.

Many I know develop gentility, enjoy gardens, vistas, flowers and I try to run suchlike here between the mention of horrors. On X, my input/retweets are half the genteel topics, half the horrors … it’s easy to differentiate.