(0706) Not altogether sure the best way to proceed this morning. Seems there’s nothing at OoL, we have Steve and DAD, Microdave, there is also some westwide news I’d best get posted earlier rather than later, certain other sources seem to have gone quiet … shall go with what we have. (0842)

 

3. Summary of main online points this morning

2. Steve from last evening, later, at 1348

• Stats Show Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Doing Very Real and Long Term Damage to the Political Power of Blue Cities and States
• RINO Rep. María Salazar’s Mass Amnesty Bill Will Allow Illegal Aliens Deported Under President Trump Since 2017 Flood Back Into US — Here Are the 19 Republicans Backing It (JH: I have more on that later in sshot form)
• Russia’s Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Truce In [The] Ukraine During the Weekend (JH: That’s coming up too later)
• Billionaire Expat Returns to Britain To Be Able To Donate Millions to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK (JH: That also later, esp. on the uniparty candidates just appointed)
• Bahrain Reports Fresh Drone Attack Day After Suspected Emirate Strike On Iran
• Vitamin D in midlife linked to lower Alzheimer’s risk decades later, study finds
• Farm Subsidy Scandal Opens (Greek)Mitsotakis’ Biggest Crisis Since Taking Office
• The Australian deep state is now run by US intelligence services (JH: Always was, ASIO … post later)
• Chaperones to Walk Children Home From School in Knife Crime Hotspots (JH: This is looking very much like State mentoring again by the back door … possible OoL post tomorrow)
• Much more.

1. Some sort of op ed

Opening with this because it came first, chronologically. Last early evening, I wrote to a friend that I’d fairly much lost interest in major league sports, whereas once I’d been right into them. My stepfather (good man) decades ago had done similar and I’d never understood why at the time … I do now.

It’s not just the utter corruption at the top, the money-grubbing by all or even the intrusion of leftwing tropes in sport … though all those certainly count … it was more that … well there were other things going on. Anyway, no sooner had a reply come about interest in major sport than this appeared in my YT recommended list:

All right, that was amusing but then, straight after came this:

Flicked through, usual points, types, then started thinking about the other side … men whom women should avoid at all costs.

Ahh, not so prolific on YT, that one, very few videos … there was one done by a young man … usual types again … shapeshifters who are one thing today, another tomorrow, the mummy’s boy, the violent, the insincere sweet talker … yes, fine, then this appeared in comments:

Not sure what a flamer’s meant to be … someone stirring things up? A troll? Maybe gay?

What was starting to come through with all these sorts of videos was that no nuances are covered … it’s 5 types of this, 10 types of that … and viewers pick up on a negative which they immediately apply to the person their dealing with in RL, on the say-so of someone making money on YT.

I’d suggest that if your personal life is ruled by what you find in a YT video, with its own agenda … that’s a bit sad and even incomplete. For sure there are the usual red flags to watch out for … look at our own watch lists here … just now, everyone’s looking at Donny’s behaviour, the pressures on him and so on.

Anyway … food for thought.