The latest episode of London Calling – the last one of the year – is a Twixmas special. James and I compare Christmas presents, discuss Boris’s postponement of D-Day, dwell momentarily on my public Twitter shaming last week, and discover that James now thinks Donald Trump is ‘controlled opposition’ after his pro-vaccination comment. Meanwhile, in Culture Corner, I praise The Rescue, Operation Mincemeat and Munich: Edge of War, while James brags about the classics of Russian literature he’s been given for Christmas.
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“James now thinks Donald Trump is ‘controlled opposition’ after his pro-vaccination comment. “
So many people seem to lurch from all in to complete condemnation, from hero worship to utter contempt and hatred.
In reality, nobody’s all good and nobody’s all bad. Bad decisions, like Trump’s to support the “vaccines”, or Hitchens’ to take it, etc, are not evidence of being evil “controlled opposition”, just of being fallible human beings. Just as otherwise generally scumbag types who usually can be relied upon to adopt the wrong side on any issue, like Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair or Owen Jones can occasionally make a good choice that moves them slightly back towards human status.
Corbyn (finally) voted against vaxpasses recently. Jones came out against the worst aspects of the panic recently. I must confess, I’m struggling to think of a redeeming feature for Blair, but that is the extreme case. They’re still deeply dangerous fools who need to be kept away from power or influence at any cost, but they are only human beings.
Trump can’t resist a big, flashy high tech supposed “solution”, if he can take some personal credit for it. That’s just his personality. He was always going to fall for the “Warp Speed” vaccine “solution”. It’s far from his only fault – he’s always been a deeply flawed human being, just like almost every other top level politician. But he was an excellent American President – the most genuinely American US President since Reagan, arguably.
But it probably has shifted my own personal position from desperately hoping for a Trump victory in 2024, in order to rub the noses of the thieves who stole the 2020 election in their own failure, to being satisfied with a Trumpist (non-RINO) Republican like Ron DeSantis instead.
In reality, nobody’s all good and nobody’s all bad. Bad decisions, like Trump’s to support the “vaccines”, or Hitchens’ to take it, etc, are not evidence of being evil “controlled opposition”, just of being fallible human beings.
I could be wrong, but I think Jordan Peterson got some stick for tweeting about recieving his first jab and then later admitted that he had regrets about that decision and had probably made a mistake about the covid vaccine.
Yes, though the fact that he admitted to having made a mistake was very much to his credit, I think.
In fairness, I wrote the above based on the summary and I’m now listening to the actual podcast, and it has reminded me that Delingpole I think has in fact been souring on Trump for a while now, so it wasn’t the instant switch I caricatured it as.
I have found Delingpole to be all over the place in the past. I gave up listening to him.
Trump, as Ann Coulter quipped, “isn’t a reader”. On the other hand, Ron DeSantis does his own reading and research. That’s important for someone who has to judge the quality and relevance of the advice he receives.
By late April 2020, DeSantis had turned firmly against the Pro-Panic position he had cautiously embraced, under pressure, several weeks earlier. policy is harder to change than personal opinion, but he successfully dismantled the Panic in Florida by summer 2020.
The reason why DeSantis changed is exactly as you say. He read all the studies. people in the know report that he was conversant on all topics related to the Corona-Panic, probably as informed as the more voracious readers of Lockdown Sceptics or Swiss Policy Research‘s “A Swiss Doctor on Covid” series and other such material (but stayed off “social media”).
It remains puzzling, the mental block which prevented people-who-should-have-known-better from seeing the same data, which prevented them from appreciating what it meant. On the data, the Panic should have fizzled in April 2020 — Maybe May for real laggards or conservatives (using that ‘c’-word in the sense of willingness to change one’s position) and ultra-cautious. Something beyond rationality was going on, a mega-scale mental-blocking mechanism….
Microchip implants to track vaccine status now a reality
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-26-mark-of-the-beast-microchip-implants-track-vaccination-status.html
Mark of the Beast is here: Microchip implants that track your vaccination status are now being used in Sweden
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Trump is doing what any politician would do, he’s playing the odds. He will have crunched the numbers and recognised that the vast majority of his voter base is vaccinated. Alienating them would be worse than alienating the, probably, small number of unvaccinated.
And whilst Trump is supporting the ‘vaccinations’, (what else could he do, he introduced mission warp speed) he’s not supporting mandatory vaccinations which Biden is desperate to impose.
I would have thought that parts pof the pharmaceutical industry form quite a big part of that swamp he was going to drain.
(N.B. no sub-humans – all people have the capacity to good and evil. (As some feminists put it – “all men are potential rapists”)).
(1) Ex-US President Blompf fits the classic definition of “demagogue.” (2) He is a details-don’t-matter-much type. (3) He is a narcissist.
Donald J Blumpf’s shameful behavior in shoving corona-needles at people of all ages, and silence over vaccine-mandates are apparently solely because he wants to demagogue on vaccine success and take credit for it (narcissism). He now says “hundreds of millions would have died if not for my heroic work on the vaccines” (demagoguery, delusions).
Bragging about the speedy vaccines was always suspect but as a “talking-point” it’s really long left the metaphorical station now, hasn’t it? Sometime in spring 2021, maybe. He is pushing prolefeed-level Corona-Panic in late 2021. What it shows me is, DJ Tremp has lost his former political instinct. As such he should retire from politics. (Of course, he won’t.)
Dernald J Tromp’s mistaken calculation is now this: (1) his personality-cult is strong enough that if he ‘flips’ and joins the Pro-Panic side, his supporters will stay with him even if many grumble (like those who “booed” him recently at his own event when he started showing vaccine-needles at people); (2) embracing the Corona-Panic which is now so core to the regimes of the West (and some other world regions) means he’ll get great sympathy and attacks from the agenda-setting broad elite will diminish. That’s the same broad elite that shoveled hatred on him for about five years straight…It’s not a good calculation, but see above on losing his political instinct.
Embracing the Panic-pushers and the powerful permanent-Covid-emergency coalition is something he knows WILL DEFINITELY net him sympathetic media coverage (correct), which feeds his narcissism, a nd since he’s a details-don’t-matter kind of man, he may not be aware of / understand / care about the vaccine risks and the awful risk-benefit ratio here.
Prediction: Blumpf turning into “corona-needle-pusher” may be enough to break his own base. Enter President DeSantis.
How obliging can a “sceptic” be?
James is right, And he is wrong.
Donald Trump was closely involved with, and had close business dealing with, Jeffrey Epstein as far back to the 1990s, if not long before – Trump is on record as saying about Epstein: “He likes them young”.
Epstein, Cohen, at el, were bigwigs in New York’s financial hierarchy. Of which Trump’s business was an inherent part.
Trump was only allowed run for president in 2016 because the Cabal viewed him as an unelectable vulgarity that would be useful in only so far as keeping respectable and electable Republicans, who might have a possibility of beating the witch Hillary Clinton, from running.
Trump’s “Grab ‘em by the puss*y” was on the Cabal’s database from long ago – the Cabal’s minions record the illegal and unethical activities of all people that may be useful to them in the future.
They intended to allow Trump to progress to such a stage in the presidential election until it became unfeasible for other Republicans to replace him. Then they’d release to the MSM this dreadful misogynistic “Grab ‘em by the puss*y”, and this they (wrongly assumed) would knock him out of the race, leaving the field open for Hillary to win the White House.
The American voters hated the sociopathic witch Hillary so much that “Grab ‘em by the puss*y” didn’t knock Trump out of the race. So, the Cabal followed on with accusations such as the Russian pee-tapes.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book with all the (possibly) paedophilic names that visited Paedo Island in not going to be made public anytime soon. Like the Kennedy brother’s assassinations, this book will be buried forever, unless for a revolution.
James is right and he is wrong?
Well, Trump is basically Scotch-Irish. He’s a bit vulgar, egotistical and easily led by his phallus into the most low-end lady’s boudoir. But yet ask the British about the Irish, and you’ll be told, “The fu*kers never give up, they’ll just keep coming back at you, a real pain in the ass”.
So, James is somewhat right is saying Trump is controlled opposition. But where he’s wrong is that the Cabal just can’t trust him to not break free of their reins. So, Trump is not totally controlled opposition. Not like Regan, Carter, the Bushes, Clintons and Obama were.
Trump retains that Celtic mentality, and, I suspect, the Cabal are aware he’s very susceptible to being genuinely influenced by the patriotic American movement.
I’ve always thought there’s a link to covid & the timing of the Epstein scandal.
What did he have on the Clinton mafia, a.k.a. the democrats organized crime syndicate?
Given the high level at which Epstein was operating in the world of strategic scientific research, I would be surprised if he didn’t connect with preparations for a pandemic and technofascist revolution.
He was a raving eugenics supporter too, as is Steven Pinker, who was his pal. What was going on at Epstein’s ranch in the desert may well have been more disgusting than many people have ever thought about… The use of the Christian imagery there suggests systematic mind control, for anyone who has read Walter Bowart for example. I’m surprised this hasn’t been speculated about more… I mean why would a Jewish guy who hadn’t converted to Christianity want a huge Christian cross in his house?
Have you seen some of the creepy (to put it extremely mildly) photos that Donald Trump himself put out of him with his daughter? The first photo at the first link below made me think of the disgusting paedo song made by Serge Gainsbourg with his daughter when she was about the same age. Add this to Trump saying a few years later that if Ivanka weren’t his daughter he’d be dating her… This is a guy who has absolutely no idea of right and wrong.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/donald-and-ivanka-trump-moments-that-totally-weird-us-out.html/
https://www.metro.us/these-photos-of-trump-and-ivanka-will-make-you-deeply-uncomfortable/
@Fireweasel – Trump has strands of influence coming from Scottish Presbyterianism, Normal Vincent Peale (“positive thinking”), and Carl Jung. I don’t think there’s an Irish influence, even if Scottish-origin Presbyterianism still thrives in Northern Ireland.
OK so Ghislaine Maxwell kept a black book different from Jeffrey Epstein’s. I wonder whether referring to its existence will be enough to get her a not guilty verdict.
News from France
The legislative process for changing the “health pass” into a “vaccine pass” is well underway – the proposal went to the Council of Ministers yesterday (Monday). A petition against it has gathered more than 600,000 signatures. You don’t have to be a French citizen to sign it.
Resisters are encouraging the use of a hand gesture to signify “NON!” to the vaccine pass. They’re calling it the “BARRICADE”. Great gesture, great name for it too. This needs to be adopted around the world.
No quibbling please 🙂 Here is a unifying gesture for our movement.
News from Tunisia
Schoolteachers in state schools are being told that when term starts in January
In other words, if they decline vaccination they must work for NOTHING or else they will be sacked.
Given that 40% of the population are unvaccinated, it is quite possible that the government has bitten off far more than it can chew.
Toby and the team – could you help publicise the petition, either on the page for London Calling, or here, or both, e.g. with a photo of the “Barricade” gesture?
They’re doing well at 600000, but it would be nice to help them exceed 1 million – and then some.
Petitions are just engaging in the abuser’s system of control. I think protests & marches have value, but on their own change nothing.
Be prepared for another shocking election result in France!
Sure but we can’t pick and choose a perfect resistance movement…
What are you saying about the coming presidential election in France? And what was the previous shocking result – Macron’s victory?
Contrary to what silly commentators have written in English, Eric Zemmour is not an outsider. It’s Le Pen who is the outsider (and who won’t win, for that reason).
There seem to be knives out for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (another insider) at the moment. He is getting blamed for not isolating as soon as he found out his wife had tested positive for SARSCoV2. I saw one analysis that essentially said his campaign is screwed because he opposes the pass and is critical of vaccination, but only 10% are unvaccinated and they’re not all critical, blah blah. A problem with that analysis is that the 90% aren’t all strong believers in vaccination or supporters of the pass either.
Macron’s victory? Put money on it, it’s a sure thing, I mean who would vote for Trudeau Once, let alone thrice.
The only mystery is why do they rig these things to look so close.
Signing petitions is pretending you’re doing something to help when you know you’re not.
If the podcast gets big enough they may be able to afford the rights to Lilliburlero!
It’s not quite there yet, but it’s predicted by yet another globalist “exercise” that just happens to come up with all the globalist memes as a solution…
Food Chain Reaction crisis simulation, funded by Rockefellers, ends with global carbon tax (November 2015):
https://cargill.com/story/food-chain-reaction-simulation-ends-with-global-carbon-tax
“In the face of a steep price spike with looming global food shortages in 2022.”
File – https://cna.org/cna_files/pdf/IQR-2015-U-012427.pdf
Trump, a former vaccine sceptic, is wrong about these jabs and right about vaccine mandates. The big difference between Trump and everyone else is that Trump has been a superb American president.
As for ‘controlled opposition’, that would be James. Toby via Lockdown Sceptics and the Free Speech Union is performing a huge service to the sanity of our species. That said the ‘mummy and daddy fighting’ routines on London Calling are comedy gold.