Posted on 12/19/2025 8:32:45 AM PST by Salman
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As I have had cause to remark a thousand times, nothing works anymore. When I observe that of the UK, English readers get mildly peeved. When I observe it of the Fifth Republic, French readers start gabbling and waving their Gauloise-stained hands around so animatedly their strings of onions fall from their shoulders. And, when I observe it of the United States, American readers get particularly chippy. But I'm an equal-opportunity civilisational doom-monger: we're all going over the falls, and arguing that the canoe of the Euro-pussies or the tight-assed Brits is a foot-and-a-half ahead isn't really much consolation. Police-wise, the Aussie constabulary bollocksed Bondi Beach and the forty-seven Yank agencies bollocksed Brown and MIT.
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(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The U.S. is the best placed for survival.
Europe is finished. Too far down the hole for recovery, and the people who want it destroyed have too much power to keep it moving forward.
Europhiles whine; Americophiles rejoice.
The author does not share your conviction entirely. I think we have to be savvy to the reality that there are forces determined to undermine America's relationship with Europe. That means scuttling NATO, shattering the European Union, and betraying Ukraine.
When it comes to criticizing Europe, Steyn is right, we perhaps should take the log out of our own I first.
It's all bollocks. But bollocks that will get you and your entire civilisation killed. I mourn the death of tragic, doomed Ella Cook, even as I know she will be erased by the next Ella Cook, in however many weeks or days.
I miss Steyn from his healthier days
Man think if he had a prolific podcast
I wish him the best
He is so much better then the buck and clay doonboggle though buck has some brain compared to sports fan clay
Neither do I. For example, many conservatives constantly point of the lack of safety due to Muslim criminals in the UK or Europe, and I've seen some of the same in Berlin.
But US cities are even worse due to the black crime problem. But you might think that's not tied to any political movement like Islamism in Europe.
You would be wrong: the most loyal and corrupt supporters of a neo-Communist, Democrat one-party state are urban blacks.
The European case is simply more visible because many cities in Europe have moved from safe, high-trust societies to having violent ghettoes only in the last generation or so.
What surprises so many both here and in Europe is how many European cities have become like American ones.
Steyn is a national treasure and we should heed what he has to say. As an aside, I would point out that our country just had to pass a law making it illegal for doctors and hospitals to mutilate the genitals of boys and girls.
Had to pass a law!
Marking.
“What surprises so many both here and in Europe is how many European cities have become like American ones.”
Those who predicted it were banned and canceled long ago...by liberals, moderates and conservatives.
“Europe is finished.”
Yes. With the cancellation of New Year’s public celebrations in Germany, France and elsewhere, one could surmise the moslems have won.
Muslims. Freedom. Pick one.
“I miss Steyn from his healthier days”
I ran across a piece by Mark Steyn recently and was thinking the same thing.
A lot of people were hoping that he would take Limbaugh’s vacant chair, and I’m sure that he was offered it, but he repeatedly said he didn’t want to do that.
Unlike us unlettered colonial rubes he can be eloquent and polished, but he doesn’t hold that against us. He might though, if he spent more time here and discovered what passes for thought among his potential audience.
Yes, the US is furthest from the rampaging bear. Hope the two other guys don’t get a burst of energy in this race.
The difference being that there are many who want America to change course and avoid the looming disaster, fewer want the same in most other globalist countries (some do) ... but the big question is, even if many want change and they elect a leader like Trump, can that leader turn things around or just preside over some inevitable collapse that the previous incompetence fore-ordained as inevitable. I don’t claim to know the answer because it won’t happen overnight, or even during this presidential term, it will happen by about 2035 to 2040, in my estimation, and if America happens to turn back to the Democrats (or future elections are fraudulent) then the inevitable will come quickly. Perhaps witnessing it sooner in Europe will be instructive to American voters in sufficient numbers to avoid the collapse. But I sense that Trump’s efforts are only the bare minimum required, even more needs to be done, and perhaps nobody has the stomach for doing it, because it requires a sorting out of deeply entrenched social disasters on such large scales that it will cut through families, marriages, communities, and even individual consciences. Perhaps as good as their intentions may be, Trump and his successors cannot do this task, and it falls on God to send the one who can.
Is that really your takeaway from that piece?
(Did you read it?)
My takeaway is that the incompetence of paid public employees in the Greatest Country in the World cost an MIT professor his life.
Lol
True dat
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