Peter FitzSimons, Nicola Sturgeon exploit Brexit upheaval

Amazing to read about all the shenanigans going on in London after this clear, inspiring statement of British independence. Also amazing to watch Brexit's knock on effects.

Take here for example. Ever the optimist, "Pirate Pete" FitzSimons is trying to exploit the current upheaval to push his tired ol' dream of making Australia a republic ... But his position is incoherent. He says he was against the UK becoming independent from the EU. But because they did, we should now get rid of the Queen as our Head of State. Eh?

I mean, he would've made much more sense if he'd been for Leave all along, and made that known to Aussies. Then he'd be coming across as principled and consistent. But nup. The way he's behaving now just looks very cynical and opportunistic.

Anyhoo, in many ways it's an apples and oranges type situation ... And aside from Pirate Pete himself and a few of his sneering, elitist mates, hardly any Aussies are hot for a republic. I think people will just end up going "meh" at this latest republican push like they have done with all the others.

Over in the UK itself, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also taking full advantage of Brexit and being highly obstructive, thereby annoying the crap out of millions of her countrymen. She's been saying that she's either gonna try to block the move out of the EU, or push for Scotland to separate from the UK! Such provocative actions hardly seem wise -- especially given that Scotland made a very clear decision to stay part of the UK not so long ago.

Sturgeon seems to be a very difficult character. And I've gotta say that given their choices in these last two votes, the Scottish people generally seem to be very confused. Talk about wanting to have it both ways!

Finally starting to understand that whole kilt thing, now ...

Socialist reaction to Brexit bombshell reconfirms how right leaving was

Brexit continues to send shock waves throughout the world, with socialists all over the joint losing their shit big time. This massive global tanty just makes it even more obvious that the decision to leave the EU was the right one.

I mean, those voting Leave did so in major part because they were being dominated by a buncha unelected control freaks in another country. So what do these same control freaks and their fellow travellers across the globe do when they get told to sod off in no uncertain terms? They double down, don't take no for an answer ... Can you think of a clearer validation of those voting Leave's main motivation? I can't.

It's like when Milo Yiannopoulos  lobs at some ultra-PC Yank uni and says, "Students today are censorious". Rather than trying to wrongfoot him by letting him speak, they try to shout him down in the most hysterical way imaginable! In a way these idiots are more useful to him than to the creepy totalitarians that have brainwashed 'em.

Gawd. Imagine being that stupid ...

Anyhoo, I'm glad they keep reacting so predictably. As long as the fascist arsehats don't manage to get their way again, they'll just be speeding up the whole process of emancipation that the West has finally started to embark on.

Andrew Bolt's book triggers staff. Bookshops now safe spaces, it seems

Disappointing, but not at all surprising, that some Australian bookshops are making Andrew Bolt's new book hard to find for customers. The purported reason is that it offends some of the poor snowflakes working there. I'm sure that's true in a lot of cases. There are many students and young 'uns employed in these shops, after all. They have grown up being fed PC BS, and accept it as gospel. They see Bolta as the quintessence of eeevil.

But I think it might also be partially a top down directive. Booksellers often have cozy relationships with the big international publishers after all. And Worth Fighting For is published by Wilkinson Publishing. They've been around a while but they seem to be a local outfit. Maybe there's a desire to not be seen as rocking the boat by pushing an independent's product?

The reason I say this is that the traditional offline book business is being eaten alive by Amazon and other online booksellers. So the big publishing houses are feeling very anxious and threatened. Also, Bolt himself cites the case of global warming skeptic Ian Plimer, who had all kinds of retail related trouble with his books. As well as being politically incorrect, they were published by Connor Court, another small, independent outfit.

But in the end I think it's probably the ideological aspect that has most to do with this stealth campaign to sabotage Bolta's sales. And it's certainly not a new phenomenon. Way back in the nineties I remember hearing about a Paul Sheehan book called Among the Barbarians. It caused controversy at the time, and for many of the same reasons Bolt does now. I didn't have any trouble finding it in the St Kilda bookstore I bought it from. But I will always remember the disgusted reaction from the guy behind the counter!

So typical of sneering hipsters. But so silly! I mean, it's a business. They're shooting themselves in the foot by acting like this.

Remainiacs' baying about Brexit typical of denialist Left

There's obviously sooo much that can be said about the truly earth shattering win for the Brexit campaign. But I think the main takeaway from the solid spanking given to Remainiacs is that the politically correct elites can nudge, threaten, and slime all they want -- but in the end the people will make their own decisions, if given the chance. Democracy works. And it rocks!

And it truly was democracy in action. After all, it wasn't just fusty Tories who voted Leave. People from across the political spectrum said "EU-se can all go get stuffed!". That's what made the outcome extra-delicious.

But this bold expression of national pride left PC lefties in particular with a very sour taste in their mouths ... Hmm. Isn't it interesting how the Left often proclaim that they're all for "people power". But when the people go against 'em, they say: "The people are stupid." WTF? They can't have both ways.

It's not unlike their bob-each-way line on racism in America. For years they whined that Seppos were all a pack o' racist rednecks. Then they elected Obama -- twice. What, so the whole nation suddenly became attitudinally reconstructed? What a joke. If Trump wins later this year they'll revert to their old pre-Obama fave, no doubt ...

It's like that epic line from A Few Good Men. They can't handle the truth! So they engage in all kinds of projection -- calling critics "denialists", for example.

Yeah, well, in this case I think that particular label is no longer libel. It describes them perfectly. Lefty Remainiacs have been crying that the Leavers are all old, dumb, or emotional ... Oh, FFS! Clearly, they won't face reality.

If they stopped clinging so desperately to their precious PC Narrative and saw things afresh they might actually learn something. Then they could compete with actual arguments, instead of relying on their traditional tactics of deceit and intimidation.

But in this case they've been true to form: petulant, hypocritical and incoherent -- most shrilly with their claims that bitter oldsters were mainly to blame for their loss.

Well, if right-on millennials wanna fixate on age as a factor then why not blame their own lazy demographic for not getting off their arses to vote!

In any case, their railing at codgers is so hypocritical. One of the major forms of discrimination SJWs say they wanna ban is ageism, remember. Yet when they don't get their way they are worst offenders. Kids today, eh!

Sam Newman is right. Squawking slebs are excrement-al as anything!

This squawkfest over Eddit McGuire's Caro joke just gets sillier and sillier. Firstly, he didn't trivialize domestic violence by making an offhand joke. But even if he had it would not have made it any more (or less) likely that men bash their wives.

Some pundits have observed that it was odd that it took so long for the story to gain prominence. That's because no one even noticed it as a "transgression" when it aired. It only ended up on the meeja radar in the first place because a bunch of tiny-minded SJWs who spend their every waking hour looking for stuff to arc up about did so on some stupid podcast. Even many of those now railing most zealously at McGuire would not have been offended at the time. They are trying way too hard to be outraged. And it shows.

This idea that mainstream media personalities have great responsibility as role models is just bollocks. Slebs take themselves way too seriously. Actually, most of the public think they're right tossers. And their pomposity in believing their words can shape society just confirms this view of them.

All that's going on here is that a bunch of vicious hypocrites who think their shit doesn't stink are cynically exploiting the serious issue of domestic violence to lift their own profiles. They should hang their heads in shame. (But given their utter shamelessness, I think that's too big an ask.)

Speaking of shit and shamelessness, Sam Newman is now causing conniptions with his use of the term "excrement" to describe those who have been fulminating so selectively over the issue.

Needless to say, the usual suspects are using this as more evidence of "misogyny". But Aussie fauxminists, so desperate to play the victim, are not aware they have no case. That's because even by their own, er, "logic", made official by AOTY David Morrison, he was only referring to the blokes. "ExcreMENt" is gender specific, innit.

In any case Newman made some good points in his Footy Show spray, such as his observation that Caro made no such ruckus when pretty much the same "drowning" joke was made by her own radio station. So, it's not just ideology that drives the lies of the SJWs. It's also commercial competition.

Forever lusting for power, fame and money these bolshie bimbos and himbos have become batshit crazy as. Blech! What a smelly spectacle.

Leftist rage at Eddie McGuire fuelled by denial over Sheik Shady?

This whole furore about Eddie McGuire's joke has left me with my jaw on the floor. It has to be one of the most OTT reactions from the usual suspects so far. Given how little it takes to trigger these gruesome crybullies that's saying something.

The most absurd aspect of this explosion of outrage is that it started around the same time Turnbull broke bread with Islamic luminaries including Sheik Shady Alsuleiman. This arsehat's recorded statements about gays and women are waaay more offensive than McGuire's offhand remark by any measure. (And given that they are pretty much par for the course for his religion they're even more disturbing.)

The imbalance in the reaction to these two issues from people who profess to care about social justice has been almost beyond belief ... And maybe the two phenomena are not just coincidental, but causally related?

It's quite likely that our beloved frightbats know damn well that Shady is far more problematic than McGuire. But political correctness demands that they are simply not allowed to criticize him. On the contrary, they must always cast Muslims as victims.

So this acts as a lid on their rage, which must go somewhere. White males -- rich and influential ones in particular -- are fair game. So they rail at them even more hysterically than usual.

With this collective delusion in play I suspect we'll see a spectacularly insane reaction next time a local Muslim says or does something misogynistic, homophobic, or -- God forbid -- genuinely terroristic.

At the same time as normal sane, adult folk are reeling in shock at it, fauxminists, frightbats and assorted pinko finger-waggers will be scouring the meeja for the tiniest transgression by a pale patriarch. Maybe they'll find a videotape of a Government MP saying "guys" or something ... Whatever it is, when they do, the commie crybullies will erupt in such an almighty cacophony of infantile squawking that this last collective shriek'll seem like the cooing of doves, no kidding.

Lefties exploit Jo Cox murder as they did the Gabrielle Giffords shooting

It's still so soon after this horrific murder of Jo Cox. So I suppose pretty much any commentary on it can be seen as political exploitation. That said, clearly some of it has been way OTT. These articles by Louise Mensch and Brendan O'Neill nail what is so repellant about those who immediately started inferring that the Brexit campaign was to blame.

Brings to mind a similarly horrific event in Tucson, Arizona a few years ago. A nutter called Jared Lee Laughner opened fire on a political meeting. His main target was Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, whom he shot at close range. Miraculously she survived. Tragically, six others did not. 

In the immediate aftermath of this ghastly massacre it was suggested that Loughner was motivated by a Sarah Palin ad that displayed crosshairs on a map to denote areas targeted by a Tea Party campaign. Not surprisingly no causal link was established. But that didn't stop numerous pundits and politicians across the western world from piling onto Palin. Truly disgraceful stuff.