26 thoughts on “News/Politics 8-27-25

  1. This is how they run their astroturfing “grassroots” outreach

    https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1960471942173221146?t=wJVP6eJPveOrRWhcvZ1kmA&s=19

    “BREAKING: NYTIMES today reports Gates Foundation pulling back hundreds of millions from notorious Arabella Advisers. The story discloses what the Left media has hidden for many years: that Arabella essentially runs nearly 200 non-profits as a fiscal sponsor. This is a scheme to hide from Americans that leftist “grassroots” groups are anything but — they are part of political hydras centrally run by entities such as Arabella.”

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  2. HRW insisted when Musk brought up Europe and the UKs Muslim rape problem that it was old news.

    Well it wasn’t, and still isn’t. It’s very much a current and still happening problem.

    https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1960222886737695063?t=cEcg9FSkj7hxl7c097YAIw&s=19

    “Our Rape Gang Inquiry has today released research detailing eighty-five local authorities in which the gang-based sexual exploitation of children is taking place, or has historically done so.

    This is one of the most comprehensive exposes of the rape gang scandal to date.”

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    https://x.com/pa_coyote94151/status/1960392207216587238?t=nrwDR0aJdhBzlPVWCnd0Xg&s=19

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  3. It’s sad that she has to protect herself, because her police and govt won’t. Then she’s charged merely for defending her sister from known rapists. It’s pathetic and weak. Are their no real men left in Europe?

    https://x.com/amuse/status/1960400864578830835?t=Y6IUUQzrhGBD6xgINRr39g&s=19

    “Sophie of Dundee: A 14-Year-Old Girl Exposes Britain’s Broken Promise to Protect Its Children”

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    “As someone who was stalked by a pedophile from the ages of 8-11, I can tell exactly what point this girl is at. This isn’t the first time pedo Muslims have harassed her and her sister. She’s exhausted every avenue of pleading to the adults to help her. And they’ve failed. They’re afraid of the power structure. They “don’t know what else to do.” They’ve essentially told her, she’s on her own.

    That’s what you see here. A 13-year old girl that knows if she doesn’t protect herself and her sister, they’re going to end up like all the other girls who got abducted by Pakistani rape gangs. And she’s decided she would rather kill than be a sex slave.

    This girl has more courage than the adults who surround her, who won’t risk their “freedom” – actually subservience to the system- to stand up for what’s right.

    I pray that we get to a point where the right people are in charge and every single one of these pedo invaders is hunted down like the dogs that they are.”

    https://x.com/leonardaisfunE/status/1960176322866540852?t=UBbbJrULGcfWKK7SxyeLng&s=19

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  4. The Rape of Britain — A National Betrayal Exposed

    Eighty-five towns and cities. That’s the official count — for now. From Aberdeen to Plymouth, from Canterbury to Belfast, the Rape Gang Inquiry has blown the lid off the biggest scandal modern Britain has ever faced: industrial-scale child rape, exploitation, and trafficking, covered up for decades by the very institutions meant to protect us.

    The numbers are staggering. The names of the towns read like a travel itinerary of shame: Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leicester — and dozens more. Each red patch on that map represents lives destroyed, families shattered, and a community betrayed. This isn’t “localised crime.” This is systemic rot.

    And the pattern is impossible to ignore: gangs of predominantly Pakistani men, enabled by cowardly councils, police forces, and politicians who thought silencing whistleblowers and branding critics “racist” was more important than saving children. The victims? Tens of thousands of young girls, many barely into their teens. The perpetrators? Protected by a culture of willful blindness and fear of bad headlines.

    Rupert Lowe’s inquiry lays it out without spin: the scandal is worse than anyone imagined, stretching back to the 1960s, with hundreds of ongoing cases still being brushed under the carpet. Survivors are begging for justice, but Westminster drags its feet. Labour promised action two months ago, yet nothing has moved. Empty pledges, broken trust, and silence — the soundtrack of Britain’s great betrayal.

    Let’s call this what it is: the rape of Britain. Not only the rape of its daughters, but of its sovereignty, its law, and its moral backbone. Our leaders covered it up, our institutions enabled it, and our political class is still dithering while predators laugh in the shadows.

    The choice is simple: either this nation finally delivers hard justice to the monsters who did this — and the traitors who hid it — or Britain admits it no longer has the will to protect its own children.”

    https://x.com/VickyRichterUSA/status/1960304334031478966?t=WecHTFMaaVJ3YpJzIEETRg&s=19

    https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1934641387711914034?t=xGZiJCEzp6rZLv9QuO2brw&s=19

    “Baroness Casey Review🚨

    There were over 800 rape gang cases were uncovered in her “damning” review.

    Yvette Cooper said the number go above 1,000, adding:

    “Children as young as 10 plied with drugs and alcohol, brutally raped by gangs of men [had been] disgracefully let down again and again by the authorities who were meant to protect them and keep them safe.””

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    • I have read just a very little about this. To be honest, it is so horrific I was hoping it was not true. But it seems it is. It breaks my heart. What are the people thinking to allow this to continue?

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  5. I think I’m going to agree with NJ on this one: limited socialism is not anathema. There are industries worth protecting in the US. But hard core conservatives will oppose it of course.

    “Trump’s post was pushing back against criticism that has continued for days. He took aim at what he said were “stupid people” – a group that includes some on the political right.

    “You can’t just be against socialism when the left does it,” said conservative radio host Erick Erickson. “So if you support socialism, apparently Donald Trump is your guy.”

    Trump’s move is generating criticism such as this because it breaks with American tradition and small-government conservative orthodoxy. And some economists warn that his promise to help companies that make deals with the US government raises the potential for corruption and market inefficiencies.

    “You’re looking at investment decisions now having to be made on the basis of politics, not economics,” said Tad DeHaven, an economic policy analyst with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. “This is injecting the government directly into the lifeblood of a major corporation’s decision making.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn85n2vg04go

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  6. An update on the hospital strike in Gaza. There is no evidence that any of the 20 people killed were Hamas. And one was broadcasting live for Reuters when the bomb hit him and the screen went blank. This is what happens when the US turns off its brain and gives unconditional support to someone—whether Trump or Netanyahu.

    “DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military said Tuesday that its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But the first strike killed a cameraman from the Reuters news agency doing a live television shot, according to witnesses and health officials.

    The military released its initial findings into the strike, offering no immediate explanation for striking twice and no evidence for an assertion that six of the dead were militants, including two who were identified by their employers as a health care worker at the hospital and an emergency services driver. The dead also included five journalists….”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/israeli-military-says-strikes-on-gaza-hospital-targeted-a-hamas-camera-without-providing-evidence-00527966

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  7. If I recall correctly, I said Musk was recycling the old Rotherham rape scandal which was already addressed by an official inquiry and a huge list of recommendations slowly being implemented. I did not say rape scandals were no longer happening. The link you provide ironically does the same — recycle old scandals. The “inquiry” it purports to be is not an official parliamentary inquiry and merely re-looks at crimes already covered by official inquiries over a decade ago.

    My other point was rape occurs regardless of religion or ethnicity. The current Epstein mess indicates that Jews, Christians and non-religious people are also capable of organised statutory rape.

    hrw

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  8. There was a Catholic school shooting this morning while the children etc. were at Mass. The shooter stood outside and shot at the children through the windows. 2 children dead, 17 wounded-2 critical. Pray for them. Lots of shootings in Minneapolis the last few days. This is not related, apparently. Heartbroken for these children etc.

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  9. It’s happened again.

    https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1960754578250445056?t=CAOBCqU4PEbCC1Ou6-9lfQ&s=19

    “One thing is VERY clear: the trans movement is radicalizing the mentally ill into becoming violent terrorists who target children for murder.

    The pattern is undeniable:

    Today’s Annunciation Catholic Church shooter identified as trans.

    The Nashville Christian shooter identified as trans.

    The Lakewood Church shooter identified as trans.

    The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.

    The Denver shooter identified as trans.

    The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.

    The Iowa high school shooter was a trans activist.

    Radical gender ideology is driving violence and targeting innocent people. Enough excuses. Enough denial. The threat is real, and it’s escalating.

    Time for a national intervention.”

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  10. “UPDATE: The suspected Minneapolis school shooter included a “Defend Equ”ality” sticker in his manifesto that included a rifle over a trans flag. He also allegedly pursued a legal name change to Robin, his apparent trans name. He wrote “Kill Donald Trump” on the weapon used in the school shooting.

    First Nashville, now this. How many times makes a trend?”

    https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1960755307896037490?t=IHBO4WuWevp7fL36QlMuHg&s=19

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    • I’m glad to see this woman speak up. Perhaps her testimony can put more pressure on Israel to agree to a cease fire. It’s worth noting that the Nasser hospital she was taken to by Hamas, was the same hospital Israel bombed a few days ago and killed 20 people. Israel’s indiscriminate bombing is one reason so many hostage the families are protesting the continuation of the war. Hopefully this brave woman’s testimony will help.

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  11. There’s something to be said for Israel’s reaction to the violation of their women and children, as opposed to the UKs pathetic lack of action.

    A civilized society protects them from the barbarians, and responds when they’re needlessly harmed. A cowardly one does not.

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    • I agree AJ. But a civilized and more importantly a moral response requires that the people punished are the actual perpetrators. Punishing the neighbors of the guilty or the raceof the guilty or the people who practice the same religion as the guilty is a barbaric response.

      That kind of revenge response may feel good for a moment, but it merely feeds our baser animal instincts and doesn’t promote the cause of justice.

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  12. Ok, regardless of where you stand on the usefulness of DOGE, it’s time for amateur hour to be over.

    “A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency’s cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whistleblower claims, potentially putting an enormous amount of private information at risk to being revealed and possibly used by identity thieves.…”

    https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

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  13. I’ve ceased to be shocked by the US reaction to a mass shooting. The obvious response employed by the rest of the world — increase gun control and continuing to provide free mental health care — never seem to occur in the US.

    Instead we have the macabre response of which side was this shooter on? Sometimes its a right wing nut shooting up a black church or a gay dance bar and sometimes its left wing nut shooting up a religious school etc. And each side gets to take turns yelling “its all your fault” to the other side. In both cases, its a sad reflection on humanity and modern politics where we think its okay to exploit tragedy.

    I’ve stated in the past that trans usually originates from three different sources – genuine gender issues (some it biological or neurological), those on the autistic spectrum, and those with mental health issues. Regardless of its origin, if you think its a mental issues which may led to violence why not advocate free mental health care?

    The US is the only OECD country without free mental health care and is the only country with a constant stream of mass shootings. It’s not a coincidence. You have to ask why aren’t trans shooting up schools elsewhere?

    Please don’t tell me the American abhorrence of a strong central government and socialism prevents gun control and mental health care. I think the last 6 months have established that Americans will accept a strong central government and even some forms of “socialism”. It’s just a matter of priorities and care.

    hrw

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  14. So Cracker Barrel……saw some ridiculous posts online so I checked the before and after. The original logo is typical of 1960 and 1970s of being fairly busy (reminds me of some sport logos of the same time period) whereas the new one is stark and simple; more of a post 1990s look. The former is so old and quaint that its “cool” again whereas the new one is horrible and already out dated. However to somehow make this a culture war item is weird — one commentator suggested the logo had been “decolonized”. Nope its been simplified to resemble the aesthetics of the fifty somethings who run the place.

    This brings me to what is more outrageous; the CEO received 6.68 million dollars in salary and bonuses. And she obviously needed more busy work done so she approved a logo change. The average CB employee makes $17.26 an hour. They serve food and ring up purchases — real work — and don’t create ugly logos.

    hrw

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  15. Anytime a tragedy occurs it is instinctive for observers to find fault with someone or something. Guns and gun control (confiscation) is a knee jerk of the leftist and yes Democrats as a party…not all Dems agree but their party is lock step in their agenda.

    Transgenders in my view are mentally ill and are groomed to believe it is a physical dysphoria not a mental issue. This young man’s parents did him no favors in encouraging his state of mind…how he got there we do not know…

    Having said that, for followers of Christ, spiritual warfare must no be overlooked. Targeting Christian school, churches, organizations is not happenstance….imo

    Nj

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