Posted on 06/24/2019 6:37:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan
My old boss Boris Johnson has been fortunate, as Donald Trump was in 2016, in his enemies. Labour and the Liberal Democrats and the various Celtic nationalists are all wasting their time going on about the "racist" and "homophobic" things he's said or written. By "racist", they mean he views the burqa as do the vast majority of those who aren't banged up in one. As for "homophobia", my memory is that during his Spectator days he used to get lunch at a gay sandwich bar called The Butty Boys, which I recall he spoke very highly of. If they're still in business, perhaps an endorsement might help.
Be that as it may, watching some BBC show over the weekend, I caught a glimpse of (I think) The Observer's front page: the lead was a midnight altercation between Boris and his "partner" that resulted in a neighbor calling the police; below that was a story about Trump being accused of raping a woman in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the Nineties. In 2016 the Brexit and Trump wins had a certain geopolitical synchronicity; three years on the Johnson pitch is that for real success the psychodrama has also to be transatlantically aligned.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Steyn regularly writes a great turn of phrase. This will be my new sighnature for the time being:
“...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient.”
The modern left is very Stalinistic in its methods. No ginned up accusations or slanders are too great for them in their efforts to take power at any cost.
.... was the phrase that I had to read with pleasure three times. Mark Steyn is a genius at this.
BTW, what *IS* happening in that photo????
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