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~I see the Deep State have moved to Plan B: MORE - Monkeys escaped the experimental drug and infectious disease lab, Alpha Genesis, late Wednesday night. Residents are told to lock their windows and doors. So far, none have been captured despite the use of traps and thermal cameras deployed by police. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 7, 2024 NBC News cautions: Anyone who finds a monkey should not interact with it. I feel a chorus of the old jabba-jabba-jabba coming on. In fact, the plague monkeys have "escaped" from this secure facility before. The last time they had a big...

The first votes are in! New Hampshire has a law permitting municipalities of one hundred residents or less to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as every eligible elector has cast his vote. In recent cycles, three townships have availed themselves of the opportunitiy: Dixville, Hart's Location and Millsfield. This year, only Dixville chose to maintain the tradition, which is a pity - because Hart's and Millsfield are real-ish towns, whereas Dixville Notch is a closed-down grand hotel masquerading as a town. Still, rural New Hampshire communities of under one hundred citizens are among the few...

The Democrats' closing message as ingeniously distilled by the Nanny-Shagger himself: "Kamala did what Kamala always does. She put her head down and went to work." - Doug Emhoff One of the greatest unintentional admissions of all time 🤣 pic.twitter.com/au7Smr1FaG — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2024 This time on Wednesday we'll know whether we can chisel that on the tombstone of the republic. Meanwhile, in contrast to the Trump/Pence ticket, on which Pence was barely there, Trump '24 is offering a "ministry of all the talents": It's the people that Make America Great 🇺🇸 Unity 2024 pic.twitter.com/26YxgpBbFA —...

~The murder of Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon by the goons of New York State is an important and revealing story, not least because those who enjoy ill-treating animals smoothly advance to ill-treating people*. If you were not hitherto familiar with Peanut, here he is before the Department of Environmental Conservation SWAT team swooped in and offed him: Government overreach in action https://t.co/ymK7HHN9sE — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2024 The dispatch of a poor blameless (and rabies-free) squirrel is also a blunt illustration of the limits of the desperate American reliance on "constitutionalism" and its attendant legal...

~The Freeish World's lousiest election system continues to work its dark magic: 5+ hour waits to vote early in Bucks today. Bucks County elections officials did the bare minimum to comply with court's order to provide voting access through 5PM today. They staffed some offices with just 1 or 2 people-ensuring long lines. Voter suppression! STAY IN LINE. https://t.co/SAkO9QXUWN — James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) November 1, 2024 Oops, now it's six hours: Right now in Bucks County PA voters in the GOP stronghold of Levittown are being forced to wait in line for SIX HOURS to vote. Voter suppression underway. https://t.co/s7HpPbId3m...

~To reprise my regular line, in these final days of the world's most interminable "election", if Trump hasn't won decisively by 11pm Eastern on Election Night, he won't win at all. He has fought a brilliant and good-humoured campaign against forces that have indicted him and convicted him and then, when neither moved the meter, shot him. The Big Mac/garbage truck phase has been like watching a fantastical novel from a faraway land in which a Friars Club comic takes down the dictatorship. The supporting acts are pretty funny too: JD Vance: "We actually recorded an episode of Joe Rogan...

The poster at right has appeared on the streets of Paris. Across the Channel, the New Londoners are tearing it down: What is it with some Muslims? Again some have torn down images of the hostages held in Gaza & now tearing down images of the three little girls murdered in Southport. Perhaps to them, Jewish & European lives do not matter. pic.twitter.com/00inR7wB2j — David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 31, 2024 Diversity is where nations go to die - and their successors would rather you die unmourned, as the Christian community in Iraq did, on America's watch. The three girls slaughtered...

It could be worse. Mark could be banged up in Belmarsh like poor old Tommy. Today, Justice Farbey of the High Court in London ruled: 1) the costs demanded by Ofcom are to be sent for detailed assessment on the standard basis 2) there will be a payment on account of £50,000 by 19 November 2024 3) Costs of today to be paid by the Claimants, save in relation to the written submissions which will be paid at 50% Mark will have twenty-one days to consider an appeal. Ofcom had demanded £144,959.28, refused to provide detailed billing to justify that...

~I have just returned from a rare post-cardiac public appearance - for Hillsdale College in Washington, DC. I was struck, as I always am on my increasingly infrequent ventures into internal travel in the United States, by the number of persons - fellow passengers, check-in agents, hotel staff - still wearing Covid masks. Are they now Monkeypox masks? Virus X masks? Or maybe mosquito masks? Right now, the states of Vermont and Massachusetts have cancelled public events and are "strongly recommending" their citizens remain indoors between 6pm and 6am because of a killer mosquito on the loose. (But don't worry,...

Two months after memory-holing the first near-successful assassination of an American president in four decades, the Secret Service figures it's safe to start letting the gunmen near Trump again: Trump rushed to safety as Secret Service opens fire on man with AK-47 near golf course Ryan Wesley Routh got to within three-to-five hundred yards of Trump. From the corrupt G-men of the FBI: The FBI has responded to West Palm Beach Florida and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump. The alleged perp is said to have been "known" to the FBI, and, even...

~Half of America gets its news from respectable "mainstream" "journalists" such as ABC's David Muir, a man who "fact-checks" Donald Trump by citing a press release from the city manager of Springfield, Ohio that there's nothing to see here. Being a most solicitous court eunuch, Mr Muir - like his fellow mainstreamers - sees no reason to listen to those who actually live in Springfield. In the last four years, so many Haitians have descended on this Ohio town that they now constitute one-in-four of the population. And, whether it be the right to decapitate and eat waterfowl from municipal...

~That bollocks about America being "a nation of immigrants" is an early example of what we now call "virtue-signalling" - and one the US has, alas, exported to other countries where it has even less application. A lot of it derives from that torch-bearing lady in the harbour. As I said at the Munk Debate in 2016, the French gave the Americans a great Statue of Liberty, and the Americans stapled a truly lousy poem to it and turned it into a Statue of Immigration: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be human traffickers, jihadists,...

~~The Democrat convention featured a full set of the party's presidents, save for Jimmy Carter, who turns one hundred next month. But, otherwise, there were present not only both Obamas but both Clintons, and even both Bidens, even though almost every one in that sextet loathes the other five, and certainly all six despise Kamala. But they're Democrats first, so they suck it up. How's it going over on the Republican side? Well, former president George W Bush has announced he won't be endorsing anyone in this election. On the other hand, over two hundred Bush, McCain and Romney staffers...

~Last week, à propos America's presently presidentless republic, I remarked: Meanwhile, the Ukrainians say Moscow is 'threatening the world with nuclear catastrophe'. Given that an American client state has spent the last month bombing Russia daily, it would be unusual if they were not. But that's no reason to divert the dead husk from another week at his beach house in Delaware. To which Roy Koczela responds: "Given that an American client state has spent the last month bombing Russia daily, it would be unusual if they were not." Steyn goes full-on Putinist, literally more submissive to the Kremlin than...

~Tradition holds that most Americans don't start paying attention to the presidential election until after Labor Day. So on Tuesday morning millions of people are going to be discovering that the one candidate got shot in the head and the other was more effectively dispatched and whoever's actually running the United States no longer feels the need to pretend that the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet is the chief executive of the global superpower. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians say Moscow is "threatening the world with nuclear catastrophe". Given that an American client state has spent the last month bombing...

~THE POST-DEMOCRATIC ERA (1): Since they took the tyre iron to him, whoever's really running the United States government has given up the time-consuming pretence that Joe Biden has anything at all to do with it. After his farewell address to the DNC, the dead husk of a moth-eaten sock puppet flew Air Force One for a week's vacation with some California billionaire. When that was done, he flew it again from the Golden State back to his beach house in Delaware for a second, week-and-a-half-long vacation: Biden's schedule is absolutely blank. Meanwhile, Emily Goodin reports Biden was "visibly shaking"...

~LITERAL DIVERSITY STABBING OF THE DAY: On Friday a "knifeman", as they now say, fatally stabbed three people and badly wounded eight others in the German town of Solingen. The police have arrested a - go on, take a wild guess - yes, a 26-year-old Muslim from Syria who is reported to have yelled - time for another wild guess - bingo, "Allahu Akbar!" Just to add to the black comedy of civilisational implosion, he killed his victims at a "Festival of Diversity" - a Festival der Vielfalt - yeah, that's the actual stupid name they gave it, as if...

~No, I'm not going to analyse the alleged "nominee"'s speech. This précis of what's going on is hard to beat: Kamala got zero votes, has given zero press conferences, has given zero interviews, and had to stage buying a bag of Doritos. This is the most ridiculous, anti-democratic, laughable joke I've ever seen in politics. If you treat this as "politics", you're part of the problem. And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now being indicted, convicted and shot at, I find myself more interested in the disturbing abandonment by key US...

~The third-rate vaudeville being mounted in Chicago this week is irrelevant to anything that matters - except for the bleak fact that half the American people are minded to go along with it, which helps explains why meaningful course-correction is all but impossible. This grim vignette, however, struck me as almost poignant: Protesters in Chicago who are marching against the DNC chant "F*ck the courts, f*ck the state, you can't make us procreate." People dressed as abortion pills take part in the march. pic.twitter.com/xwmRAAjW8w — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 19, 2024 Almost two decades ago, I began my demographic...

~As I wrote almost two decades ago in my international bestseller America Alone: Contemporary multiculturalism absolves one from knowing anything about other cultures as long as one feels warm and fluffy toward them... 'Celebrate diversity' with a uniformity of ignorance. But even so, short of going to the "Free Palestine" demo and reading out your Israeli Independence Day speech, this is kind of impressive: NEWS New York City Mayor Eric Adams referred to India and its diaspora community as "Pakistan" multiple times during an Indian Independence Day celebration in Queens. The crowd repeatedly corrected Adams, but he continued to confuse...