Un Tour d'Horizon

Steyn Online ^ | 26 Sep 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Because they made the mistake of sabotaging his escalator and then his prompter, the President of the United States opened up a supersized can of geopolitical whup-ass on the UN General Assembly this week, pithily summarised by many headline-writers thus:

Trump's middle finger to the UN: 'Your countries are going to hell'

In fairness, this insight was mainly directed at America's "allies" in Europe. The particular hell they are going to will not be news to those who've swung by this shingle over the last twenty-three years, but I thought it might be worth doing a brisk tour d'horizon of where we're at:

*WESTERN EUROPE

The other half of the Nato "alliance" is not "going" to hell; they're at the express check-in seeing if they can get upgraded to a better circle. As I have been saying for a while, the latter half of the 2020s will be Western Europe's last meaningful electoral cycle. If "populist" parties are treated by the "mainstream" cabal as they were in the recent Dutch and German elections, there will be no point pinning your hopes on the 2035 vote, because by then we will be past the demographic point of no return and the only means of salvaging France or England, Sweden or Austria will be non-democratic and violent.

Newspapers and think-tanks, guardedly decoding the somewhat obscured official statistics, nevertheless openly speculate on whether the native populations of some of the oldest nation states on earth will become minorities in their own lands by the 2050s or 2060s. The correct answer is, absent mass deportations, somewhat before. In response, so-called "free" societies are ever more brazenly policing their citizens' speech, introducing de facto blasphemy regimes protecting Islam, and planning to mandate "digital ID".

This is a tragedy, and will end very bloodily.

[ComputerGuy]

It’s time for them to pack up and move out.

[Rummyfan]

...Donald Trump has spent the last nine months demonstrating an energy in the executive unimaginable in France or Germany, Canada or Australia. However, he is stymied at every turn by the industrial-scale hollowing out of every institution from your local kindergarten to the Pentagon. A third-rate politicised judiciary - with an extraordinary number of foreign-born judges whose English comprehension does not apparently extend to the separation of powers - is confident it can stall the President's drive and determination until the next election.

Every time I see some other judge ruling against President Trump, the name is just about unpronounceable.

[Rummyfan]

Nick Minock
@NickMinock
🚨Right now, registered sex offender Richard Cox is in an Arlington court hearing where women are testifying that they saw Cox naked in Arlington high school girls locker rooms.

Cox says he’s a woman and asked the judge to tell the prosecutor to stop misgendering him. The judge said no.

One woman testified when she walked in an Arlington girls high school locker room after swim class for her young daughter she saw Cox masturbating in a shower stall with the curtain open. She said her young daughter was with her when she saw Cox touching his erect penis.

Arlington Public Schools allows people to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on their gender identity.

[ComputerGuy]

Over the years, for various reasons, the courts have assumed much more power than they are granted under Article III.
Presidents and cabinet officials weakly submit to one outrageous ruling after another.
By weakly, I mean, there’s no verbal pushback from the most loquacious President in US history.

[joshua c]

how is this guy even on school grounds?

[Resolute Conservative]

How is he not at room temperature?

[DeplorablePaul]

I hope Trump cuts UN funding to force layoffs to avenge the insult. That would be fun.

[TheDon]

Congress and presidents have to be elected by the voters, judges not so much. Not sure how that gets fixed.