Keira Knightley succumbs to Woad rage
Posted on 09/08/2025 10:21:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan
regret the downfall of the soi-disant Ginger Growler. As corrupt and talentless as she was, the Deputy Prime Minister was, in a certain sense, real - in a way that Sir Keir never can be, except perhaps to favoured Ukrainian rent-boys. And her boast that she threw Boris Johnson off his stroke at Prime Minister's Questions by "flashing me ginger growler" was, by the standards of the age, a harmless jest that added to the gaiety of the nation.
However, politicians only matter if politics matters. And the consistent message from the courts, the cops, the press and the permanent democracy is that it no longer does. The Uniparty gins up Growlergate, as it did Cakegate, to keep you playing along: more circuses, but less and less bread. Meanwhile, in America the Leader of the Opposition has to put up a half-billion bucks for the right to appeal a political prosecution; his equivalents in France and Romania are removed from the ballot; in the Netherlands the winning party gets backroomed into irrelevance; in Germany parties of "left", "right" and "centre" sign an agreement pledging to talk only positively about mass migration, and the sole hold-outs finds the odds of their candidates in North Rhine-Westphalia making it to Election Day lessen with every twenty-four hours.
Whatever the above is it isn't politics. Indeed, at any other time, these would be pre-revolutionary conditions. Yet we are assured, at least with respect to the UK, that that is not how mature, settled, highly evolved democracies do things.
Oh, yeah? Sez who? The English held their civil war two centuries before the Yanks; they decapitated their king a century-and-a-half before the French. The borders of the United Kingdom have shrunk, significantly, as recently as 1922....
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
In America, and in the wider world, “Our Democracy” means that the rulers get to rule, and the people have no say in the matter.
Really like Mark Styn. Was disappointed that he didn’t get Rush’s spot after Rush passed; I’m not sure he was even considered anyway...
With that said, his columns/articles are always too long imho. For me personally, I just don’t have the time/patience to pore over his writings.
His health wasn’t very good.
Sure, the Brits decapitated King Charles and created a Commonwealth, BUT…the restoration of the monarchy occurred in May 1660, about 11 years after King Charles I was beheaded on January 30, 1649.
Only 11 years for the Liquid Metal Terminator to grow back.
Exactly. Since Trump is President and we hold the Congress we should ignore judges, ignore votes, etc.
Just send Trump laws he helps write and he passes and enforces them.
Dems can’t do anything. Democracy! Majority Rules!
Live it. Love it.
I doubt if he would have wanted the gig full-time. Too demanding of his time and efforts and he has a lot of other things going on.
Serious heart issues.
He’s really struggled with his health hasn’t he...
He just loses me.
To each his own.... Personally I love his stuff.... he puts so much in (too much?!) it sometimes requires repeated readings...
As soon as you read “soi disant” you know it’s Steyn.
Democracy in America means we vote with our money, we vote with our feet. We move from farm to city to burbs. We move from state A to state B.
There was a variety in geography. Some places were dry, some washed in liquor. Some stores were specialized, some generic.
The more we centralized and homogenized the less democratic we became.
All Woads lead to Wome ...
It takes his child to raze a village.
Keira Knightley succumbs to Woad rage
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