(It’s also passingly ironic that if Biden does win – as he still may well do arithmetically, although we wouldn’t necessarily want to put a lot of money on him living long enough to ever actually reach the Oval Office after all the legal wrangling/civil war is over – it’ll be on the votes of white men overturning those of women and people of colour, who all counter-intuitively and inexplicably swung to Trump.)
In a world where almost every vote seems to be on a knife-edge, it seems the woke left still hasn’t learned how criminally, recklessly, suicidally stupid it is to alienate 70% of the population to feed the endless, insatiable narcissism of 0.7% of the population.
Quite aside from anything else, that’s because the only votes you secure by doing so are the votes of people who’d never have voted for Donald Trump in a million years anyway. The only votes you’re gambling with are those of the natural left. And even if only a tiny fraction of the alienated actually turn, it can be enough to change the world.
When we first saw this video on Twitter through bleary half-asleep eyes this morning, we thought it was a well-done satire. But no. He actually put it out himself.
There can surely in history have never been anything that demeaned both the office of President and the USA as a nation more than the image halfway through that video of him prancing around in front of Air Force One.
Today America decides its future. And dear lord, what a choice it has.
Senator Claire Chandler is a Liberal Party member of the Australian Parliament. Some recent experiences she’s had send a very serious warning about the likely outcomes of the Scottish Government’s wildly unpopular new Hate Crime Bill. She’s graciously allowed us to publish this column she wrote on the subject.
Early this month I received a letter from Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner directing me to attend a compulsory “conciliation” conference with somebody offended by my comments about the need to protect women’s sport and women’s toilets and changerooms. You can watch them here:
Ironically, the complaint against me was about an opinion article I wrote about free speech. You can read it here and make up your own mind whether bureaucrats at the Anti-Discrimination Commission should be able to censor any Australian citizens for this kind of public policy discussion.
The BBC ran a completely insane story this week about a transman (ie a mentally ill woman) who almost died of kidney failure because she didn’t tell her doctors what sex she really was. The standout paragraph was probably the one pictured below, in which the atom-brained narcissist imbecile explained to a startled nation that apparently having a mental disorder also changes your physical biology:
(Also, y’know, “cute and awesome!” is definitely how men talk.)
But anyway. When we commission opinion polls, we’ve often noted that in any given poll you can expect around 5-10% of respondents to vote for even the most seemingly ridiculous options – either as a “joke”, or because they’re too dim to have understood the question, or whatever.
And last week we thought we’d put that to the test.
This week saw publication of the long-awaited Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report on alleged Russian interference in British affairs. Despite media hysteria, the report contained no new revelations, just all-too-familiar catastrophising about Moscow’s ill-defined “disinformation” efforts and warnings of the undue influence rich Russians (most of whom are actually Kremlin opponents) have bought themselves.
The most salient point for supporters of Scottish independence to consider was the allegation that Moscow’s interference efforts extended to the 2014 indyref. As Wings pointed out earlier this week, however, the “evidence” to support this sensational claim amounted to nothing more than a heavily-redacted single paragraph, citing “credible open source commentary” as its sole source.
A look at the paragraph’s accompanying footnote reveals the “credible open source” commentator was Ben Nimmo of the Atlantic Council. For those in the fortunate position of being unfamiliar with his work, Nimmo is known for, among other things, falsely identifying a Syrian-Australian blogger and a British pensioner as Russian bots – so clearly someone whose expertise should be relied upon to determine the extent of Russian infiltration into Scottish politics.
I mention this not simply to reveal the transparently amateurish nature of the ISC’s report but rather to offer a commentary on the SNP’s (predictably) disappointing response to its allegations.
The rapid regression of civilisation continues apace, readers.
Because it ought to be noted that it’s not the concept of homosexuality that’s being deemed offensive there, nor the word itself, but specifically the definition of it.
In other words, a dictionary just said “some people are offended by facts”.
Alert readers may have noticed that this site is once more under attack from Twitter. Following the suspension of the main Wings account last December, and one we set up for the prospective political party – suspensions which Twitter has never justified, because the Wings account did not break any of its rules – it has now suspended my personal account (@RevStu) and the account of old spinoff site The Sealand Gazette, both supposedly for evading the ban on the @WingsScotland account.
This allegation is clearly a nonsense, because the RevStu account predated the Wings one by years and was in constant use from its creation up until this morning, and the Gazette account was only used briefly as an emergency backup for the RevStu one when it was temporarily locked at the weekend for unspecified “suspicious activity”, which is a technical security issue rather than a suspension for supposed wrongdoing.
The actual reason for the suspension of all four accounts is this site’s opposition to controversial and massively unpopular transgender ideology, which Twitter supports and which is currently the subject of some hotly-contested and important lawmaking.
(It’s the same reason why Twitter has banned scores, probably hundreds of feminists for the most absurdly innocuous of tweets perceived as challenging trans ideology.)
In other words, these actions are direct censorship and deliberate interference in the political affairs of a country by an unaccountable and unelected foreign corporation serving the interests of a massive right-wing pharmacological lobby.
And even people who despise Wings Over Scotland should be alarmed by that.
willie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “when Trump came for his trip to Scotland and his motorcade went to Turnberry the Beast limousine bore not the…” Jan 10, 14:55
Chas on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Isn’t it remarkable the breadth of knowledge that the regular nutters on here possess when it comes to world affairs.…” Jan 10, 14:54
Confused on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Anyone who doesn’t think the iran situation has the CIA/Mossad all over it … I have a high yield investment…” Jan 10, 13:39
factchecker on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “NC quotes a definition of ‘Argument ad baculum”; namely that “This fallacy is often used to intimidate or coerce agreement…” Jan 10, 13:36
Confused on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “rumour has it, trump saw 2001 : A Space Odyssey the other day, thought it was an intelligence briefing from…” Jan 10, 13:34
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aye, a few more might help Scotland shake on the dumbing down effect of minds controlled. I For one are…” Jan 10, 13:29
Insider on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Blimey ! Alf Baird, “James” Cheyne, Willie and Northcode have all come out to play together ! The four Nutters…” Jan 10, 13:05
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Just acknowledging that Scotland does not hold and never did make a treaty with the Great Britain parliament in 1707…” Jan 10, 11:47
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “What an odd post, sarah. It’s like CM’s defection to Your Party in October last year has completely passed you…” Jan 10, 11:37
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “How can the Great Britain parliament even challenge a 1707 Scottish parliament that no longer exist and that never made…” Jan 10, 11:27
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “A Setterday sermon, Northy! Fit are ye angling at noo? Ye’ll be claiming the Picts were the Lost Tribe next!” Jan 10, 11:15
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “My Great Brutish Empire and my British Labour? Like many Scots of a certain age, I worry about creeping cognitive…” Jan 10, 11:10
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Alf Baird, I agree with you regards Colonialism, However I do come to that conclusion from a slightly different angle…” Jan 10, 11:08
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Should be a slam dunk. 319 years of documented real world history rendered, what? Imaginary? Overnight! An absolute bummer for…” Jan 10, 11:03
Vivian O’Blivion on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Perhaps this is why Jenny Gilruth falsified her Register of Interests to remove her connections to the US State Department,…” Jan 10, 10:59
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sorry, Willie, you were on a roll until you wrote “all that renewable energy”. Edit that out and re-submit your…” Jan 10, 10:37
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Or in other words, Cesaire was just another of the whiny, pseudo intellectual, pretentious eternally gum bumping tribal Marxists which…” Jan 10, 10:33
Willie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Just heard a rumour that the USA has surrounded Scotland with military assets.That certainly seems to be the case as…” Jan 10, 10:28
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Argumentum ad baculum will, of course, be from the vocabulary of the purest Scots. Ah’m oot the day for some…” Jan 10, 10:22
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““Salvo/Liberation talking Scotlands case to the UN stating that the act of union doesn’t exist” Not so. The Treaty and…” Jan 10, 10:20
Aidan on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “@Northcode – being in the sun here in Cairo has nearly put me in a good enough mood to read…” Jan 10, 09:23
Northcode on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “By the way… the “Argumentum ad baculum” fallacy was pretty much the only rhetorical device used by the unionist (colonialist…” Jan 10, 08:05
Northcode on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sic is ma langsome boredom, which remains unspent bein confrontit as it is wi aw the *bauchness an *dullskitishnes flotterin…” Jan 10, 07:19
GM on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “2nd best post of the day Duncan, and how could the low grade human dross, Swinney and Sturgeon do what…” Jan 10, 01:16
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Whilst it invariably does seem to be mainly those on the left or centre-left who must support independence/decolonization from a…” Jan 9, 21:13
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Love the flag mate. Are you talking about the Alba Party? I do agree with on the idea reform will…” Jan 9, 20:57
Scot Finlayson on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “@Hatey McHateface, USA doing what your Great Brutish Empire used to do, going round the world knocking heads together. Very…” Jan 9, 20:55
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sarah, I hate to bust your bubble, but you need to learn and learn the hard way. Scotland will never…” Jan 9, 20:49
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “THE ORIGINS OF GEORDIE AND NORTHUMBRIAN DIALECTS « An exploration of the origins of the Geordie and Northumbrian dialect. In…” Jan 9, 20:39