Pilgrim, Billy (So it goes...)

On a quest for what life gives me the chance and freedom to achieve, balancing my choices with my fate, wondered by such miracle, answered by that mystery.

[Pilgrim, Billy (So it goes...) @Wordsnail]

@BusyDrT @GaryJDougan Maybe Heinrich Böll would conclude he wasn't half-joking at all, upon witnessing another "popular delirium" déjà vu 87 years later...

Peter Fritzsche
"Hitler's First Hundred Days,
When Germans embraced the Third Reich"

Chapter Three - "Assault"
Page 99

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Robin DiAngelo has been MIA ever since I had this heart to heart conversation with her. It’s a shame. I really thought we had a breakthrough moment here.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of Chinese communist security forces killing hundreds of protesting students on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. 🇨🇳

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is one of the more important videos I’ve made.

Never forget this evil.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Become ungovernable

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Corporate Europe loves mass migration because cheap labor is their favorite charity.

The poor get crowded schools. The middle class gets crime. The CEO gets a boat named Diversity.

[AJ Kay @AJKayWriter]

@MarcoFoster_ @TomSteyer Here’s how you know this rationale is pure bullshit:

If the girls threatened to kill themselves due to the vulnerability, stress, and danger of being deprived single-sex opportunities and private spaces, Tom would shame them and tell them to suck it up.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I think it's comical that people keep inviting this vocal fly weirdo onto their shows and podcasts. All he does is try to frighten people into giving his company money. It is his sole profession and occupation.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I was socially murdered once when I was told to stay out of the penguin enclosure at the zoo. I literally died of their refusal to throw me a herring.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

A WWII veteran returns to Utah Beach, the Normandy shore where D-Day unfolded. This Memorial Day, we remember the Americans who never came home, the heroes who gave everything so we could be free.

[blighter @blightersort]

she has a masters in drama from Yale and “had no idea what the odyssey was”. not just “hadn’t read it” had never heard of it at all apparently. what a damning indictment of Yale.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Chicago is basically just a warzone

[Lomez @L0m3z]

George Floyd's death was the pretext for a political revolution––supported up and down the left, from their radical fringes to the "respectable" centrists of the Democrat Party–– and whose BLM-inspired ideology of racial tyranny still dominates mainstream institutions to this day.

That pretext was lie. Their revolution is a blight on all of American Life. It must be extracted from its roots and its idols burned to the ground.

It starts by telling the truth about what happened to George Floyd and exonerating Derek Chauvin.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Three days ago, the Taliban made it legal to sell 9 year old girls off as sex slaves.

Zohran Mamdani? Silent.

The NYT? Silent.

AOC? Silent.

Mehdi Hasan? Silent.

Cenk Uygur? Silent.

[Jesús Enrique Rosas @Knesix]

Two American Ospreys landed in Caracas this weekend, right in the same city where the Marines straight up bagged Maduro back in January. And the regime that spent twenty consecutive years screaming about an imminent gringo invasion did not fire a single goddamn shot.

They just stood there and watched, and they had even signed the permission slip like a kid going on a middle school field trip.

The regime’s own foreign minister announced the drill and officially called it practice for emergencies. So the Marines 𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚋̶𝚊̶𝚐̶𝚐̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ flew low over the capital, casually dropped two multi million dollar Ospreys right into the embassy parking lot, walked around, and left on their own schedule like the entire backyard was theirs the whole time.

And that tells you exactly what all that noise was really about. All that anti imperialist resistance, twenty years of military parades and surplus missiles and sweaty speeches about the big bad empire to the north, it was never actually built to stop the gringos. The guns were always pointed inwards, aimed square at the regular Venezuelans the regime needed to keep terrified.

That is how a stupid ideology dies from the inside. You smash it with a vulgar display of power, to borrow a phrase from Pantera. You let the people watch the ultimate boogeyman land in the parking lot, maybe eat a couple reina pepiadas and then leave whenever it pleases while the strongman stands there looking like a complete idiot.

The fear cracks, and a regime that runs entirely on fear does not survive the exact day it stops being scary.

[Alexandre del Valle @alexdelvalle3]

🇮🇷 L’accord iranien qui se dessine pourrait déboucher soit une désescalade majeure, soit être un piège stratégique pour #Trump. Car si #Washington obtient uniquement la réouverture d’#Ormuz, certes vital pour les flux énergétiques mondiaux (et indispensable pour ne pas sombrer dans les #midterms), sans garanties réelles sur l’uranium enrichi, l’enjeu nucléaire sera simplement repoussé. Ce débat fracture déjà une partie des Républicains qui voient en ce potentiel accord une concession historique offrant à #Téhéran respiration économique, temps stratégique et renforcement du régime. Si Ormuz est sécurisé mais sans que les questions nucléaire et balistique ne soient réglée, Trump pourra revendiquer une victoire tactique… tout en ayant signé l'échec géopolitique le plus lourd de ses deux mandats… !

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

Your annual reminder that George Floyd dressed as water company worker to commit a home invasion with 5 other men.

The three victims were female, one of them was pregnant.

This is their martyr. 👇🏻 😂

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

why, if your ideas are so good and your potential is so great, do you feel such a need to dismantle rather than create?

real builders don't focus on tearing down what others made and squalling about zero sum nonsense as though someone else's success must mean your failure, they just go do things

this is how one can tell that most of the diversity and inclusion crowd do not, deep down at the level where it matters, believe a word of what they are saying. if they did, they'd be out building stuff instead of complaining endlessly about being entitled to positions and respect they did not earn.

they will extol you endlessly with tales of "their potential" but apparently it only works if they get special treatment. they need to pretend they are "being held back" by some "structural ism," but they aren't. they just can't compete on a fair field and so demand to slant it.

if you have so much talent, go use it.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — May 25, 1948

They put a bullet in the back of his head.

The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz.

In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859.

For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews.

While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day.

He saw it all.
He documented it all.
He risked everything so the world would know.

In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland.

For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948.

One of the great heroes of the 20th century.
Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.