Pray God Trump chickens out

BREAKING: Senior U.S. officials told Axios that it's really the Israelis who want a strike on Iran. President Trump is just not there, he really doesn't want to do it'

The Republicans on the United States House Judiciary Committee just posted this on X.

Things I said for years that sounded crazy but are now obvious

Iran is not a threat to the West. America is. The UK, US and Europe have no interests in Asia, east or west. Europe's huge defence threat is illegal immigrants not state actors. Nato causes wars rather than deters them. It should have been disbanded in 1992. The UK should trade with the world and quiet quit Nato, as it would invite US retaliation if we leave altogether. Woke is a religion. Castrating boys is wrong. 

A view that remains unfashionable: freedom is very important and its corollaries are tradition, hierarchy and inequality. 

Everything went very badly wrong in the 1960s and then got worse. Is that obvious?

Pompeo says the CIA were involved in the attempt at Iranian disturbances. They are now spreading absurd figures about dead protesters.

The link is here. It was in fact a CIA Israeli psychop. They are now spreading absurd lies about the number of dead protesters.

Israel got on fine with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran

The Ayatollah Khomeini’s former president and close friend, Bani Sad says in this clip that Khomeini issued a secret fatwa authorizing buying weapons from Israel. As a result, 80% of Khomeini’s weapons came from Israel.

Israel got on fine with Iran until it the early 1990s when it chose to pretend Iran was a threat. It did so to get American support to continue because the end of the Cold War meant the US no longer had a strategic interest in supporting Israel. The Israelis then believed their own propaganda.

The media protect Israel and vilify Russia, China and Iran - the Daily Telegraph is an extreme example of a general trend

The files show that Epstein worked for Israel but the mainstream media avoided discussing this like Victorian maiden aunts avoided talk about indecent topics. They are now being forced to in England. According to Cenk, not in the USA.

Brilliant

 

Nothing will ever be the same after Gaza and Epstein

Epstein and Gaza are the news stories that transform the world. This is why the media work very hard to suppress both but they have, mercifully, partly failed.

By backing Israel's actions in Gaza the West has lost all its moral authority. It did have quite a lot, despite Iraq, Libya, Syria and the rest.

And moral authority matters even if it's partly or largely rests on deceit. 

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue (La Rochefoucauld).

Epstein lifts a little corner of the veil that hides how the world works. Can Israel's support in the USA survive Epstein and Gaza? 

Yes certainly but perhaps not indefinitely.

The BBC and the left-of-centre papers like the Guardian also push the UK's official line. Jonathan Cook explains interestingly here how 'The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump’s'.

This media disinformation is why people don't know that the failed revolution in Iran was CIA Mossad operation and the 2014 revolution in Kiev was largely CIA too.

Are we the baddies in the Iran crisis? Yes the Americans are the dangerous potential aggressor, obviously. England, France and Germany obey their master's voice

Are we the baddies in the Iran crisis? 

Yes of course the Americans are the dangerous potential aggressor here - as so often since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago - and the craven Europeans and Starmer back them, as they always do except over dear Greenland, sacred Danish territory.

I am praying that Taco (Trump always chickens out) will save the world from war. 

I think it will but I was wrong when I thought Russia would not invade Ukraine.

But everyone sees who is threatening an unprovoked, unjust war: the USA and Israel.

Scott Horton, an American libertarian, says most of what I want to say.

Quotations

"A moronocracy." An anonymous Administration official describing the Trump administration to court historian Michael Wolff. The ones who are not morons, like Marco Rubio, are sometimes as bad as the ones who are unfitted to be in the government like Pete Hegseth.

"If you got Maduro and his wife so bloody what?" General GD Bakshi, Indian military analyst. Actually I think Venezuela will obey the USA but Venezuela has not been conquered and is not now ruled by Rubio, as Trump pretended. We shall see. 

”Mass immigration will lead to the destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration." Elon Musk

“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard "having children" as a question of pros and cons, the great turning-point has come. For Nature knows nothing of pro and con.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

"A discussion with a convinced ideologue on matters covered by his ideology is sure to be a waste of time, unless you share the ideology. What is there to discuss? His ideology is proof against the shock of any seemingly conflicting facts which you might bring forward. He will either reinterpret these facts so that they become consistent with his ideology, or deny them." James Burnham

“Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is the voice of the establishment.” George Grant, Lament for a Nation [1965]

The Hannibal Directive. Israelis have said that some Israelis were killed by the IDF on 7 October 2023 but not how many.

The Hannibal Doctrine, which Israel admits was at one time its policy, requires the IDF to kill Israelis rather than let them be taken prisoner. I learnt about it from Gilad Atzmon on Facebook on October 7, 2023 but it was not mentioned at all in the Western media for more than a year afterwards and then it was mentioned in passing.

Are we the baddies? Yes the Americans are the dangerous aggressor here - as so often since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago - and the craven Europeans and Starmer back them.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant In his first interview since being fired November 2024,said the Hannibal Directive was implemented in some places but not consistently.

Israeli Captain Bar Zonshein, admitted here to “firing tank shells on vehicles carrying Israeli civilians.”

Haaretz reported that a military helicopter arrived at the site of the festival and opened fire on gunmen but also wounded festival participants.

This is a screenshot of the devastation at the car park beside the pop concert from a broadcast on November 5, 2023 on i24NEWS, an Israeli 24-hour news television channel. The Hamas attackers were armed with small arms, so the official story that Hamas are responsible for these burnt cars was questioned in Israel, but scarcely discussed at all outside Israel.

The Decline of the West

Dr Robert Tombs taught me history at Cambridge. His book The English and Their History is the work of a genius. His politics are moderate Tory, which means he is far to the right of most Cambridge dons these days.

Pat Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (2008): “In a single century, all the great houses of continental Europe fell. All the empires that ruled the world have vanished. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate that will enable it to survive through the century. As a share of world population, peoples of European ancestry have been shrinking for three generations. The character of every Western nation is being irremediably altered as each undergoes an unresisted invasion from the Third World. We are slowly disappearing from the Earth. Having lost the will to rule, Western man seems to be losing the will to live as a unique civilization as he feverishly indulges in La Dolce Vita, with a yawning indifference as to who might inherit the Earth he once ruled.”

The Middle East

"The BBC has a political agenda that says it is fine to headline a made-up, inflated figure of the dead in Iran because our leaders have defined Iran as an Official Enemy. While the BBC has a converse political agenda that says it’s fine to employ endless caveats to minimise a death toll in Gaza that is already certain to be a huge undercount because Israel is an Official Ally.

Romanian real incomes rose much more than in any other country in Europe since 2004 but how very little growth there has been in Western Europe! The euro has been a disastrous failure for especially for Italy and Greece

The EU has been a great failure in general, economically and in foreign policy. 

He nothing common did or mean

On this day 30 January in 1788 died in Rome Charles Edward Stuart, King Charles III of England, Scotland and Ireland to Jacobites, known to history as the Young Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie. 

He died due to a stroke at the age of 67. 

His brother Prince Henry, Cardinal York who was at his deathbed arranged for the official record to state that he died on the morning of 31 January, because he considered it inauspicious to declare his brother dead on the same date as the execution of their great-grandfather, King Charles I.

The Chesterbelloc

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus, some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus, some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful." GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy.

“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.” Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith

There is no doubt that the Iranian disturbances were organised by Mossad probably with CIA and MI6 help

To my great surprise, as I do not get my news from the BBC or the papers, I discovered that many people do not know that the disturbances in Iran were a CIA Mossad operation in which many unidentified men murdered innocent people and set fire to mosques and public buildings in order to provoke a violent reaction by the authorities. This failed due to the Russians and Chinese showing Iran how to read the communications organising the violence on Starlink. Then the secret services then turned to a campaign in the media throwing around very high death tolls without any evidence, blaming the deaths 'of protestors' on Iran without mentioning the violent men who started it all, many of whom are now dead. Asked for evidence from unbiassed sources I came up with these things.

This I posted before is from the Financial Times on 15 January.

Scott Besant said in an interview at Davos that the US engineered the vertiginous fall in the Iranian currency to provoke disturbances.

From Chas Freeman's speech last month called Ceding the Future to China

The whole speech is here.

China has many problems, but most of them do not conform to those that career anti-China polemicists have predicted. China shows no sign of collapse. It is not growing old before it grows rich. It is instead growing rich through automation and offshoring those labor-intensive industries that cannot be manned by robots. Negative population growth plus steady economic growth and gains in productivity foretell higher per capita incomes for the Chinese people. Most Chinese do not share our distaste for their political system. Unlike us, China is not at war with other countries. It may yet be able to conclude its civil war through shows of force – assimilating Taiwan by making the island an offer it cannot refuse rather than through outright warfare. We better hope so. Our current mindless drive toward war with China over Taiwan can end only in tragedy for all concerned.

It is, of course, not inevitable that China’s progress toward greater affluence and global leadership will continue without interruption. Many things have gone wrong for China in the past. Much could again go wrong for it. But hoping that China will suffer unanticipated setbacks is not a strategy.

The fact is that the United States does not have a plan for dealing with the most probable scenario before us – a world in which China has returned to the preeminence of past millennia. We need to conceptualize one. This means we must nurture a realistic understanding of China and the Chinese, not indulge in spurious reasoning by analogies.

China does not seek to conquer or abridge the sovereignty of its neighbors. It is not engaged in a search for Lebensraum or foreign colonies. It has no theory of “manifest destiny.” Its “warring states” period – in which it resembled Europe or India in the viciousness of its internal rivalries – is long past. It is unlikely to follow either our path or that of other civilizations.

Oliver North married Fawn Hall in September, after she was widowed. Readers who remember them are no longer very young.

Seen on social media today.

The Iran Contra scandal which led to North going to prison involved the Reagan administration secretly persuading Israel to pass military equipment to Iran. 

Only when the Cold War ended did Israel demonise Iran and use the Iranian threat as a means to keep the Americans supporting Israel. Israel then started to believe its own propaganda and the consequences have been fateful for the world.

Jeffrey Sachs speaking to George Galloway about Europe, Israel, the assassination of Kennedy (Sachs blames the CIA), etc

'Europe is of course falling to pieces in the process. It can't tell whether it's going to be invaded by the east or the west. It's guessed wrong. Russia is not its threat. The threat is the United States, which is the more imminent invasion that's likely. They lost all sense of diplomacy. They lost all sense of economics. If it wasn't enough that they had put sanctions on Russia, which didn't matter so much for Russia but crushed the industry of Germany and Europe, well they had to put the cherry on top of that a couple of days ago by declaring that permanently they would stop any imports of energy from Russia and only buy LNG at six times the cost from the United States. So these people don't even think for a moment about their own citizens or their own voters. And it's not surprising that Starmer has 11% approval ratings. I don't know who's lower. Macron is maybe in single digits by now. He's absolutely detested by the population. Mertz is in a free fall. They all are not only pathetic from the point of view of Europe's interests, but they're not even decent politicians from the point of view of keeping any public support at all.'

'But the background to this war that is about to take place is itself a 30-year effort by Israel to create this war. Israel's created just about every other war in the region. It's created the wars in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, Sudan because Mossad was very active in breaking apart Sudan, in Somalia, in Libya.'

The conversation is here.

I was very surprised to hear him say John F. Kennedy was almost certainly killed by the CIA.

I had always completely dismissed this conspiracy theory - at least I did until I learnt recently that Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother and the US Attorney- General at the time of the murder, was sure that the CIA did it.

Quotations

 

"When we deserted the God of our fathers we were bound to go whoring after strange gods, of which socialism in its various forms was a prominent choice." Sir Alfred Sherman. He also said "To be a Jew in 1930s Britain was to be alienated. The world proletariat offered us a home." He was a poor boy and a Communist who later became very right-wing.

"I heard about the formation of the peace summit, and I was like, is that p-i-e-c-e? You know, a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela. All we want is peace." Elon Musk at Davos

"The Greenland paradox is interesting. If the U.S. sent 100,000 American immigrants there, elected an American prime minister, and then voted to join the U.S., liberals would cry foul. Yet this is exactly what is happening to Europe through mass immigration" Elon Musk

"BBC News presenters never speak of the capitals of Italy, Austria, or Russia as Roma, Wien, or Moskva. Why should the rules be any different for India?" Nigel Biggar

"Satan has three steps to steal our peace:- 

Regrets about the past; 

Fear for the future; 

Ingratitude for the present." 

St Anthony the Great

War fever

If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you it will have an enormously positive impact in the region." Benyamin Netanyahu

"Unbelievable that hundreds of trucks of food are flowing this morning to the 'uninvolved' in the Gaza Strip. Haven't you understood yet that there are no innocent people there?" Emily Damari, a British-Israeli ex-IDF soldier and former hostage held by Hamas, posted this yesterday. I suppose her hatred and murderousness is understandable.

Holocaust Memorial

 

Without evidence

 

Do not trust the BBC

BBC news item about Iran today:

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) says it has so far confirmed the killing of at least 6,159 people since the unrest began, including 5,804 protesters, 92 children and 214 people affiliated with the government. It is also investigating 17,000 more reported deaths.

Skylar Thompson, from Hrana, told the BBC the confirmed number of dead was very likely to rise.

"We are really committed to ensuring that every single piece of verified information that we report on sits next to a name and a location," she added.

The Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA front organisation. The CIA is trying to achieve regime change in Iran. Hrana is presumably lying. That's what it's for.

The BBC should not repeat Hrana's 'information' but it does so without mentioning the CIA connection, something the Beeb knows about or should know about.

Someone in the BBC should be fired for this but won't be.

Quotations

"Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?" Voltaire's Candide

“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life… This is the real crisis.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"When you return to your homes, when you return to your counties and your cities, you must tell to all those whom you can influence that the time is at hand, that, at least, it cannot be far distant, when England will have to decide between national and cosmopolitan principles. The issue is not a mean one. It is whether you will be content to be a comfortable England, modelled and moulded upon continental principles and meeting in due course an inevitable fate, or whether you will be a great country...." Disraeli, in his famous speech in 1872 at the Crystal Palace.

Politics

“The number one threat to free speech in the West and in the United States are Israel loyalists trying to monitor and police the discourse of Americans to forcibly expel from the discourse criticism of this foreign country...” Glenn Greenwald

'In this light, it is particularly revealing that Carney used his speech to reaffirm Canada’s commitment both to NATO and to the proxy war in Ukraine. ... How can one credibly claim to seek “independence” from the United States while remaining firmly embedded in NATO — the primary instrument through which Washington has long militarily subordinated its Western “allies” — and while actively supporting a proxy war that has been the central driver of Europe’s economic degradation and geopolitical hyper-vassalisation? How can decades of provocations along Russia’s borders, the transformation of Ukraine into a Western proxy, the destruction of the country itself and the massive bloodshed of the past nearly four years be presented as a shining example of “value-based foreign policy”?' Thomas Fazi

What they said

The Iranian Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands, quoted with approval by Max Blumenthal: 'When U.S. police say, “If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at our deputies, we will kill you,” it’s called law enforcement. But when hundreds of Iranian police & thousands of innocent civilians are killed, Western media calls the perpetrators “peaceful protesters".'

Ralph Schoellhammer: "Why everyone cares about Greenland remaining Danish but barely anyone talks about Belgian cities no longer being Belgian is beyond me. The relevant territory for Europe's future is in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, etc., but not in Nuuk. That's worth fighting for." 

Professor Jeffrey Sachs: ‘I cannot recall worse political leadership in Europe than now. There’s not one single figure in the major countries of the European Union or Britain that has any intellectual stature or honesty… You had people like Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Mitterand. These were substantial people. Now there’s Kaja Kallas. Are you kidding?! Von Der Leyen, are you kidding?! Merz, oh my God.’

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

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So basically Reform UK is now Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, just led by Nigel Farage.

The best information about the Iranian crisis I can find is from an Indian general

This is a programme on the leading Indian English language channel. General Bakshi is a well known military commentator. Please watch to get a lot more information than I found elsewhere about the attempted revolution in Iran.

This sounds very Great Game and very like John Buchan's Greenmantle but whereas Sandy Arbuthnot was a chevalier sans raproche I worry that the MI6 men and women pulling strings at a distance in Iran may be mixed up with murder, like the Mossad.

Maybe it's less Buchan, more Quentin Tarantino.

America is much more of a 'malignant imperialist' than China.

The Daily Telegraph is much worse than useless on Ukraine and the Middle East but not so bad on the EU.

 
Sherelle Jacobs's article headlined

It has finally dawned on Strasbourg’s blob that the European dream is dead

is interesting. 

The effect of the Greenland crisis and Mr Trump's Davos speech have throw the EU into the air, which must be a good thing. 

At the European Parliament she reports 

"Many view Trump as the new enemy. Several I spoke to compared the implosion of US-EU relations to the bloc’s broken relationship with China – as if these two malignant imperialists are in the same category. With Trump having merely paused tariffs rather than taking them off the table, hawks called for the EU to get on a long war footing."

I am a great admirer of the imperialism of the late 19th century, at least British imperialism, but America is much more of a malign imperialist than China. Which countries has China invaded?

Vietnam in 1979 and that's about all - and that one month conflict was in retaliation for Soviet ally Vietnam invading Cambodia. Britain was on the side of Pol Pot and China in that one.

Meanwhile the USA has carried out about a hundred regime changes, not to mention failed regime changes like the one last week in Iran. America invaded Panama, bombed Serbia, invaded Iraq, Syria and ... I forget the others. 

America helped organise revolutions in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, with what consequences we see. If they succeed in Iran that may make Iran a failed state, which is what Israel wants.

America has bequeathed the Ukrainian war to the EU and UK who would be sensible to bring it to an end fast on Russia's terms.

Actually another malign imperialist is the European Union itself, utterly undemocratic and corrupt, taking power from elected governments and proclaiming its first priority as being to restrict freedom of speech in member states.

As I said, empires need not be malign. They can be good. Helen Szamuely said Austria Hungary was a European Union that worked. 

A democratic, federal Ottoman Empire ruling the Middle East would have been peaceful and very rich.

The crisis in Europe is wonderful theatre. News is part of the entertainment industry always, even when people are being murdered

Globalism is being smashed to pieces
the illusion is crumbling and the truth has come out.
I love watching it unfold and all the parasites being exposed for what they really are.
Ive waited for an entire life time to finally see this. I have to say I never thought I would.
God is back in the house.

Seen on Facebook

"NATO is running Europe. Europe is not a democracy. It's run by the United States via NATO. It's made sure that the only officials in charge of foreign policy are servants of the United States, not Europe. Their job is to make sure that Europe has no voice independently of what the US wants to do. In order for Europe to develop and to be a democracy, it must dissolve NATO because the purpose of NATO is singular: to attack Russia and to become an Asian power in the South China Sea to attack China as well. It's an aggressive attacking power."


Professor Michael Hudson


"Yet it is fruitless now to complain that our leaders are weak, slow-witted, and negligent: had they been otherwise, they would not have been elevated to their role in Washington’s imperial system.

"A clearer assessment of our place in the world was given, if unintentionally, by the European leaders at Davos, when Belgium’s Prime Minister sadly declared that “being a happy vassal is one thing, being a miserable slave is something else”, as if this were a meaningful distinction. Like Orwell’s analysis of Dickens’s politics, observing that the novelist’s lament was not the fact of exploitation in itself but that the factory owner was insufficiently benevolent to his proles, America’s regional branch managers in Europe chafe not at the fact of their servitude, but at its worsening terms. When Nato chief Mark Rutte’s obsequious text message to Trump was leaked by his graceless master, we understood that their current shame is that they are now being made to kneel in public, and not grovel, as before, in private comfort.

"Everything desperately said of Greenland to stave off annexation — that America is already sovereign de facto, and can expand its bases, and pour in troops unhindered — is just as true of Europe, and Britain as a whole. Trump’s repeated declaration that it is not worth America defending territory it does not fully possess implies, as the least alarming interpretation, that Nato’s Article 5 mutual defence clause is already defunct. Yet, showing their customary foresight, European security wonks are celebrating as a victory for European resolve the precedent apparently now being set that US bases on European soil can overnight become American sovereign territory, while European leaders squirm at their helplessness being exposed to world derision. Yet Trump has burdened them with no new chains they have not previously competed for as honours. Europe’s subordination is the fruit of all the glittering prizes and titles, thinktank fellowships and security conferences that Washington offered them. Men will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon, Napoleon remarked. America’s innovation was realising that a continent can be bought with lanyards."

Aris Roussinos in Unherd


"We can see how Europe today is completely encircled: vassalized in the West by the United States in digital, technological, and defense terms; vassalized in the East by China industrially; and subjected in the South to increasingly strong migratory pressures." Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right party National Rally, quoted by Aris Roussinos on X

"You will never convince me, at gunpoint even, that Keir Starmer is making independent decisions about the future of Britain. He is taking orders." Tucker Carlson replying to Eva Vlaardingerbroek who said Starmer, von der Leyen, Merz, and Macron "literally post the same things and push the same agenda: erosion of borders, nation states, and heritage". Actually it should the British cabinet in charge not the Prime Minister but where does power lie? The top civil servants, the Foreign office mandarins, MI6 and CIA and the American deep state, courts in the UK and abroad, a nexus of powerful Europeans and Americans, the web of interests described by Whitney Webb.... the court of Donald Trump which is very corrupt? Who forms the zeitgeist? Where are the political scientists when we need them?

The Iranian regime change attempt was a CIA Mossad Musk plot that failed - there was no mass unrest.

Scott Besant US Treasury Secretary said at Davos that the Iranian currency crisis was created with the aim of inciting protests and succeeded. For two days the protests were peaceful, then thugs and killers, employed presumably by the Mossad-CIA, created mayhem and killed innocent people. This was filmed and is on the net. There is lots of evidence. 

Perhaps 700 rioters were killed by police? I imagine they were mostly the Mossad-CIA thugs. Plus far more people murdered by said thugs. 3,000 in total maybe, which is far more than in the Islamic Revolution, maybe more.

A huge psychops operation is happening to tell us there are 43,000 dead - which is CIA-Mossad disinformation but not the sort the EU objects to. The lies are amplified by pro-Israel people on social media and the traditional media, people who do not do their own research.

This makes me doubt the stories about Kosovo that led to the Kosovo war. The lies that were told by the CIA before the Iraq war we know about and the propaganda that got me to be ambivalent about toppling Gaddafi.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me (Richard II, V.2)

From Bowyer Nichol's Words and Days (1895): the entry for January 25th.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
I KING HENRY IV. V. 2.


It has been well believed through many ages that the beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life; that the mind which sees itself blameless may be called dead in trespasses— in trespasses on the love of others, in trespasses on their weakness, in trespasses on all those great claims which are the image of our own need. 

GEORGE ELIOT.


Get up, get up, thou leaden man!
Thy track, to endless joy or pain,
Yields but the model of a span:
Yet burns out thy life's lamp in vain!
One minute bounds thy bane or bliss.
Then watch and labour while time is!
CAMPION.

I am more worried about the consequences of mass immigration than about Trump, but pretty worried about Trump too.

Elon Musk reposted this on X with this emoji: 

I am more much worried about the consequences of mass immigration than about Trump, but pretty worried about (and revolted by) Trump too.

Erik Dale 

@EuroDale

If you're European and more worried about Trump than the consequences of mass immigration, you have a serious mental illness. Your mind has been captured. Your ability to think independently: subverted. You exist only as a mindless drone in the unwitting service of forces that seek to destroy us. The only reason you think you're smart and good is because the TV told you so. By definition, this post will make zero impression on you. Which is exactly why YOU are a greater threat to Europe than Trump and mass immigration combined. Yet we will defeat you. Easily. Your shame will pursue you to the end of your days. After which you'll be remembered only as a warning to future generations. That will be your entire legacy. Thus spoke Zarathustra