(0137) Dark, wee hours. Light now, not bleah, birds chirping. (0746)

 

4. DAD at 859

a) Macron choses some strange friends. He goes on an official visit to Marocco. Included in the party, but not on the official list, is Yassine Belattar. Wiki here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassine_Belattar [Sorry, that it is French]

b) Gambling on Life and Death: Euthanasia Back on French Agenda.

c) French Prime Minister Michel Barnier wants to show a five-year reform plan that will draw on the grievances and ideas President Emmanuel Macron asked around two million French people to share after the Yellow Vest movement in 2019 [but never published].

3. Now this poor joker at the MSG rally

The event was a triumph, the “comedian” came on near the end, apparently, and made a joke about Puerto Rican trash in the street … whatever … it was as crass as Tice over here, not needed … one Xer’s comment:

You have a good point. I don’t mind having a comedian but why choose one who is so incredibly tone deaf that he makes jokes about minority groups, all the while knowing that the entire Democratic narrative is that the rally is filled with Nazis and racists? He gave them ammunition for their false narrative. Why couldn’t he have told jokes about Democrats and their stupidity regarding everything. Why even go to the racial humor. It was really bizarre. Almost as if he did it to help the Democrats.

2. Steve’s late evening drops at 858

Evets 4: Woman Identified in Luzerne County Dumped Pile of Applications on the Last Day of Registration – Was Same Woman Who Ran Out of Paper Ballots in 2022 Election

Evets 3: Dr Phil Risks It All with Explosive Speech Supporting Trump — Calls Out Democrats as Bullies Trying to Silence Free Speech and Punish Independent Thinkers

Evets 2: Russia Scents Victory, Full Donbass Control Months, Prepares Ultimatum; Kiev Panics; Khamenei Warning – Alexander Mercouris

Evets 1: Richard Tice of Reform UK Party Commits Political Suicide, Taking Farage with him?

1. Some sort of op ed

… including Steve drops and Andy comments … first Andy. One on a Japanese village … sad … and one I’m about to look at, but not the issue itself. Call me cantankerous, blodymind, petty and childish but when I see this:

… my first reaction is: “Get knotted!” You want to prevent me seeing the info, however good or not? Go away … and I click out, noting what it said as I go, plus going back and seeing what Andy wrote. And it only cost me 40kb for that screenshot anyway.

Steve’s drops follow in Tue 2.

(1812) Crashed earlier, surfacing now. Memo to self … if you set quizzes, Jimbo, at least be around for them.

 

19. It’s not just us then?

18. Steve has, at 858

… two pieces on the rally at MSG and the DNC tried dirty tricks around the Hitler jibe, inc. projecting propaganda on the wall.

17. Andy has a piece at 858 on an RN sub

… which ran out of food due to its supply vessel not turning up:

However, the Royal Navy has denied any allegations of food shortages or safety risks, maintaining that the submarine’s crew consistently received a “nutritionally balanced diet” throughout the mission. An official spokesperson affirmed, “Robust procedures ensure crew safety at all times on missions.” 

16. Moving home with Charlie is his moniker

… it’s via Legiron:

I just tried listening to Starmer’s speech. I had to stop. It was making me too angry.

I (once) tried employment. I worked for large companies. Insurance, Banking, Derivatives Broking. It wasn’t for me.

When I left (ok, got fired) to become self-employed (hence not a “working person” in Starmer’s view), my quality of life immediately improved (as a car valeter), many people turned against me out of pure envy. They didn’t want to wash cars. No, they weren’t willing to work that hard. They just wanted my freedoms, but weren’t willing to put in the work required to get it.

Some of them, between jobs, came and asked me for work. I gave it to them. It made them hate me even more. Some of them, friends whom I trusted, even stole from me. This was when I was 23 years old. I employed 16 people in a hand car wash, in Crawley station car park.

For some reason, that enraged those people more, as if I was doing something wrong. They were angry with me, like I had done something wrong. It’s important to note that there were plenty of people, old friends, who congratulated me and wished me well, and even said “I wish I’d had the courage to do the same”.

It’s not for everyone. All I had done was choose to take a chance on myself. They were angry, because they didn’t have the courage to do it. They should have been angry with themselves. They let themselves down, I didn’t.

Some of them tried self-employment, but half-heartedly, failed, and gave up almost immediately. That made it even worse. I failed, repeatedly, but just kept going, a little stronger and wiser each time.

Eventually, at the ripe old age of 26 I got into the tech world, in property. Suddenly I was working in an office, with a team. I was the boss. I had clients, investors, money was coming in. We were changing things. We opened an office in Australia, because a big client asked us to. I found myself flying back and forth between London and Sydney, signing clients, working up to 20 hours a day, having the best time, seeing the world.

At this point, employing some 40 people, some of my old friends just stopped talking to me altogether. “Who the hell does he think he is?” as though me starting a business and creating jobs was an affront to them. I could go on, you get the idea.

What’s my point? Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and many of the Cabinet are the kinds of people who never had the courage to start anything themselves, and deeply resent those of us who have, because we are a living reminder of their weakness of character.

Now they have power, it is their time for revenge. They truly, deeply, viscerally hate free-thinking, harder-working (than employees), change-making people. It’s an affront to their misguided sense of self-importance. They hate the self employed. You’re not “working people”. You’re not a pay-rolled wage slave they can control.

Plumbers? No, you’re not hard working apparently. Feckless, self employed layabouts. We’ll soon tax you into submission. Farmers? Hard working, obviously not. So you’re completely f***ed. Successful small business people who have worked hard, saved up and invested? F*** you. Prepare to reap the rewards of bitterness and jealousy from people who believe in “equality of outcome” over “equality of opportunity.”

There are people I know who are fighting and grinding themselves into the ground in the face of ever weakening economic demand, paying wages, having no time for their families. To suggest these people aren’t hard working is an egregious affront, and in today’s speech, Starmer has doubled down on his use of this language.

This budget is going to be a disaster. The politics of envy, enacted through a budget.

[Important point: this is in no way a criticism of people who don’t choose self employment. Many people choose employed careers, are fulfilled, happy and do very well, and I have many great friends who have done just that. It is only a commentary on those who are unhappy with their life choices, but not willing to do anything about it. Instead they attack anyone who makes them feel inadequate, when their inadequacies are purely of their own making.]

1. 36lb of straw = 1 tr***
2. 2 and a quarter inches of cloth = 1 n***
3. 1 halfcrown = how many shillings and pence?
4. How many grains = 1 pennyweight?
5. How many quarts = a peck?

Hint with 2: don’t get the cloth caught on it … with 4: add a score.

 

”This film, based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, is one of those traditional British murder mysteries set in an enormous aristocratic mansion with all kinds of supercilious people, suspicious servants, stupid detectives, and maidens in distress. But it is by no means as corny as it sounds. The film is dominated by the powerful presence of Helen Haye, an actress with the cutting edge of a diamond blade, who lashes everyone in sight with her reproving tongue.”

(1330) Afternoon all … cunning plan is shortened quiz later … this is work day here, not sure about a film. There’s a post up at UHC, the Jstack was earlier. (1441)

 

15. Public and private sectors

14. The right sort of pride

13. Oh dear

12. Steve gives the details at 858

Officer, he said “You took away my mum’s winter fuel payment!”, so I hit him..

 

Three are on X, one was in an earlier post, one I stole from Dailytimewaster.

 

… and the first song below is over there too:

(0556) Morning all … getting light yet bleah out there … billowing Gates cloud. (0849)

 

11. Flooding is not just in North Carolina you know

Obviously, the leftwing Echo editor will milk this for all its worth but all the same … it happened:

Investigations for six months as to infrastructure not maintained, canals and drains not cleared … the money going to the pockets of the brass, to jollies, invested overseas, to “guest” accommodation?

10. It’s a remarkable thing

9. The need to procreate with one’s own

Massive effort is made by the PTB plus media plus karens to vilify, stomp on, any suggestion of what that lady said. Her picture is one of four in ladies at lunchtime today, a bumper set. Why would she not think that? That’s the question which needs addressing.

There was such a thing as the Hapsburg genetic pea soup, there are various demographics which favour inbreeding, there’s good reason why not to marry cousins or closer … that much is so … in Vivian Stanshall’s Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, there’s a line by the patriarch: “So much inbreeding in that family … even the bulldog’s got a club foot.”

Yes, inbreeding is a no-no … but there is also destroying the gene pool by muddying it. I’m in no personal position today to lecture on this with my behaviour in the past, including Asian and Bolgar, so it’s down to ladies like this above to carry the torch.

The question is … how far outside the immediate country can you go? Brit with Scot? American? French or German? Slav? Where needs the line be drawn? And by whom? I’m Yorkshire and Irish … bizarre.

8. TDS today (blogrolls)

7. When is a nazi not a nazi?

JH: What I want to know is … neck and neck in the popular vote? How? By whose polling? And who thought the Beyonce stunt would work?

6. Steve drops at 857 last evening

MftWC 4: Trump Tells Joe Rogan Who ‘The Enemy from Within’ Really Is and What They Are Doing to Our Country

MftWC 3: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Slams Corrupt Judge’s Shocking Ruling Allowing Noncitizen to Remain on State’s Voter Rolls

MftWC 2: Collapse of Ukrainian defensive lines is intensifying. Israeli attack on Iran. Elections in Georgia – Levan Gudadze

MftWC 1: They Lied about Flu: 50 years of data show cases are rare, 97.5% of symptoms are not caused by influenza and there have been no deaths

(0514) Welcome to the new week. (0555)

 

5. Meanwhile, in Canada

Can’t quite get a line on what’s happening over there … have they had the election or are they threatening to? Word there is whether Castro will “hold on or not”.

4. The criminals running the country (down)

3. Who’s funding which candidate?

2. DAD drops at 858

a) It’s a strange file that has landed on Rachida Dati’s desk in recent days. The Minister of Culture will have to decide on the rather bizarre issue of the Florus Solatium hams that have been hanging in a tower of the Saint-Flour Cathedral (Cantal) for two years.

b) (Harris) brings 10 abortion “doctors ” on stage to praise abortion. (But) what happens when someone has a ‘medical issue’?

c) UK Snubs Council Of Europe Over Assange Inquiry. Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned.

1. The big news is obviously that MSG rally

For a start, we have things on Elon Musk’s upbringing, brought by one of our droppers and far from “three wise monkeying” it, we need to note, then file it. Ditto with DJT, esp. relating to his mom. Again … note, file, recall to mind later.

On the other hand, be aware that what’s happening in America right now in the next ten days or so very much affects us in Britain and in other countries, despite the BRICs, esp. in relation to Trump-Starmer. MAGA played the room to a tee yesterday … that’s how trad Americans like it … real heavyweights rolled up to speak … I thought Lara Trump and Eric were good indeed and JDV looks a first rate Veep.

So many New Yorkers wanted to be part of that positive vibe. Now I ask the British … Starmer’s vision or some sort of flow on from the US just now?

However, Tice put his foot in it again … he simply cannot read the room outside the M25 … in an attempt to be “the” conservative party, responsible, respectable, which is not the vibe for now … Saturday’s rally was … he called the people at that rally “that lot”. Farage and he are at odds with the mood of Britain right now, while Rupert Lowe and Lee Anderson are in tune. Unless this is sorted, how can Reform be the new opposition?

Meanwhile:

(1700) Evening all.

 

19. The steal

18. Racism, innit?

17. North Carolina

16. Easy come, easy go

15. French was he? German?

14. Reparations TO us … goody!

13. He forgot to mention Gove

12. Steve and DAD have doubles at 857

Commented upon there, inc. footage.