- “We have to get away from the blame game” – During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on the offensive when asked about anything he may have got wrong during the pandemic, reports the Daily Wire.
- “15-minute cities are ‘complete impoverishment and enslavement of all the people’” – Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament, believes that Covid passports and QR codes that became widespread during the pandemic were only test runs for implementing 15-minute cities aimed at tightening government control over people, reports the Epoch Times.
- “No, Washington Post, the experts were the whole problem” – In Brownstone, John Tamny argues that “the remarkable knowledge of very few very smart people will never measure up to the collective knowledge of the citizenry”, rebutting a recent piece by the Post’s editorial board which suggested greater government intervention would have saved lives during Covid.
- “The pertinent question isn’t whether masks work but why masking didn’t prove to be highly effective in the most rigorous studies” – Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Centre at Brown University School of Public Health, circles an answer – or at least a question – in the New York Times.
- “Gulf states poised to bail Britain out of energy crisis” – Bahrain and the UAE courted by Energy Secretary Grant Shapps for fresh nuclear investment, according to the Telegraph.
- “Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?” – The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has big ambitions for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Just Stop Oil leaders hold secret training sessions for would-be eco zealots” – Leaders of the eco-fanatic group ran mindfulness training sessions for rookie activists to help them cope with being yelled at by furious members of the public, as they plan a summer of mayhem, reports MailOnline.
- “Sunak is pulling the plug on the North Sea – watch U.K. oil drain away” – Windfall taxes on oil and gas producers will prevent us from bolstering Britain’s energy security, reports the Telegraph.
- “Vegan with axe to grind leaves barrage of malicious ‘fake reviews’” – Calls for change in the law to stop false information being posted online that could have a “devastating effect on victims”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Guardian’s shameful double standards” – It’s the first to cry racism at other publications’ cartoons. So why the blind spot, asks Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Barbie’s maker is just playing at ‘inclusivity’” – The launch of a Down’s syndrome doll looks suspiciously like box-ticking, says Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.
- “The liberal Brexit dream is dying, as a declinist Europhile establishment takes over” – We have forgotten the basic rules of economic growth, while nimble economies such as South Korea gradually overtake us, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Hand-wringing over history won’t change it” – Almost everyone will have people in their family tree who were bigots, writes Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
- “Why ‘woke’ doesn’t have the moral high ground” – In the Spectator Australia, John R. MacArthur explores why the much-overused “woke” has been remarkably resistant to criticism, reason and even ridicule.
- “Teaching union set to demand more freedom to ‘educate’ young children on their gender identity” – School leaders are calling on Government guidance for teaching gender identity and ‘biological sex’ to be changed to make it easier for them to discuss trans issues with young children, according to GB News.
- “DEI’s new battleground: the U.S. military” – For generations, colour-blindness and meritocracy have helped make the U.S. military the strongest in the world. But now our military is being bogged down and distracted by a woke agenda, says Christian Watson in the Washington Examiner.
- “Women’s rights activists led by Posie Parker face off with pro-trans campaigners during rally at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park” – Police were forced to keep gender-critical activists and pro-trans protesters apart from each other at a rally in London today, reports MailOnline.
- “Transgender pupils will be barred from competing against children of opposite biological sex in PE lessons under new Government plans” – The guidance, which is expected to be released within the next few weeks, will apply to all state and independent single-sex schools in England, according to MailOnline.
- “BLM activist ruined white University of Virginia student’s reputation over ‘misheard’ remark: report” – A well-known Black Lives Matter activist allegedly ruined a fellow University of Virginia student’s reputation, accusing her of referring to George Floyd protesters as “speed bumps” and threatening to run them over – only to later admit she may have “misheard” the offending comments, reports the New York Post.
- “‘Transabelism’: latest trans trend sees people identifying as disabled” – Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is now being labelled as transableism to better align it with the transgender community, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Have we just witnessed peak liberalism?” – Watch model Chrissy Teigen channel her inner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she swans her way to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “with her servants trailing behind her to hold her dress”.
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It is but a short step from narcissist to psychopath.
Clinical Narcissism is a serious personality disorder, whether one sees it as sociopathy or psychopathy.
I tangled once with one such, friend from college, senior acupuncturist, who I found was sexually abusing a former student friend who I knew
Exploded when I challenged him about it. Lied to all our mutual friends about me.
However ….
I married the girl. And now I can spot a Narcissist a mile off.
ps. Trump is not such. He may be a braggadocio – but that’s another matter altogether,
Many things are said about Trump, but most people just haven’t spent time with these kind of highly driven entrepreneurs (a disorder in itself..). He’s really an open book, and there is less edge and manipulation about him than TDS sufferers imagine. He’s actually too honest for a politician, but you know where you are with him as Zelenskyy has found out.
I saw the Cambridge Union debated him as a nazi tyrant, or something, which Tom Slater from Spiked rebutted. They just dont understand what that kind of person is like, and I think it fair to muse that Trump knows he is the figurehead of the movement to save western democracy as we know it, from itself. He is using his twilight years to work this, his chance of being assassinated is quite high, so this is actually a really selfless act to fight to become POTUS again. Others wont see it like that of course, but I think they are wrong.
I agree with your observations.
“According to this analysis, by going around acting like idiots in public for the benefit of naught but their own towering moral egos, the grown toddlers”
Indeed toddlers. Narcissism is but one characteristic of the mentally ill. Nominalism and subjectivism includes;
-ignorance
-stupidity
-criminality
-mendacity/massive hypocrisy
-predilection for fascism
-hyper individualism
-no reality exists (evthg is ‘relative’)
-violent anti-white, christophobia
-laziness
-hatred of our history…..
Such are the benefits of The Enlightenment and ‘Reason’. None of it enlightening, all of it unreasonable informing cults like warming, Rona, open borders, statism, trannyism, queerism etc.
Well, the whole thing is very interesting.
Yes, these individuals are extremely narcissistic. However, it looks like as an act of extreme narcissism, they actually perform some kind of ritual self-sacrifice through surgery, for example by tying their Fallopian tubes.
This is fascinating and reminds me a religious analysis I heard some years ago by an orientalist who explained that in some extreme cases the Ego becomes so unbearable for the individual that they go into self-destruct mode. (Anything to get rid of that monster that controls me!) In a similar way, the behaviour of the alcoholic, drug addict, etc. can be understood by realizing that yes, actually they are trying to kill themselves.
Steven’s not wrong about the narcissism, as anyone who frequents platforms such as Twitter or Tiktok can attest to. They’re all over the shop, these idiots.
”Transgender Hunger Games star Hunter Schaefer has unhinged meltdown after his passport was changed to list him as male; blames Trump.
“I don’t give a f**k that they put an ‘M’ on my passport…it doesn’t change really anything about me or my trans-ness.”
The actor, whose passport previously listed him as ‘female’ has blamed Trump’s Executive Order- that proclaimed there are only two genders- as the reason his passport has been changed to list him as ‘male.’
Schaefer posted an 8 minute video about the passport change on TikTok.
The actor ended the video saying “f**k this Administration.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1893114728114688306
And as for the feminism thing, stating the obvious here but: All feminists are female but not all females are feminists. If I were one of the so-called feminists who is still sound of mind I’d be wanting to distance myself from such a label and it’s obviously negative connotations. I’m with Maggie;
We live in a hysterical age. Blame mass communication. Also hold somewhat accountable the inexorable rise of estrogen in the public domain.
Testosterone brings its own evocations and exhortations. Brave chap who takes on a compulsive narcissist (and vice versa).
As for politics, if memory serves right the Cleese-Skynner dialogues from over 40 years ago are an interesting read…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It
“…Before we can laugh at something, we need to experience ‘a momentary anaesthesia of the heart’.”
I do get the feeling you don’t like feminists?
Excellent article and source info, thankyou. My two memorable takeaway points, ‘a disproportionate number of nutters are feminists and a disproportionate number of terrorists are Muslim.’ Additionally, who would have thought that Dylan Mulvaney and Eddie Izzard are raging narcissists?
Feminism is a Marxist ideology that has wrapped itself in a cloak of victimhood and relies upon the tried and tested female bent towards self-indulgence, status, and bullying. And that is what our society is now built upon – a narcissistic feminist agenda that unwittingly opened the door to Marxism. The proof of which sits firmly in the slightly confused, starting to curdle, pudding. A better disguised Trojan Horse you could not build.
Back to a basic level, we are on this earth to procreate! just lately, we are doing a very poor job of that
Any animals that fail at this natural action tend not to last for long, it’s called extinction!
Surely there is a simpler and far less invasive method of not getting pregnant, even if it makes for less of a grand gesture? Formerly known as abstinence. If they can’t manage that to avoid a fate “worse than death” then they’re not really committed, are they? And anyway, surely they could just carry on as they are until such unlikely time as Trump does actually ban all abortions and contraception?
Of course, they’re not being rational about it, my mistake.
Woke is profound Narcissism, via the belief in one’s moral superiority,
My response?
Fuck right off
Hijacked? The Left is the Kingdom of Narcissists – akways has been.
These are the beautiful, bien-pensant people whose mega-intellects and cleverness makes them gods with divine right to rule and control the mortals.
And are we to believe without the narcissists the Left would be all cutesy, cuddly, well-meaning folk?
Left = Socialism = vile, wicked, evil. (See: UK Government)
Wasn’t it in Michigan where all those women got together on the foreshore of one of the lakes and started howling at the sky? There’s something definitely a bit medieval about the left; worshipping precocious goblins, a mystical belief in Gaea, the Cargo Cult solutions for the economy, the belief in ‘evil’ Tories, the weird NHS worship.
There is no Left in America. It underwent systematic destruction from the 1930s to the 1970s. There is a book called The Death Of The Liberal Class which provides adequate exposition. There has been no Left in England since 1990. This talk about the left is nonsense. The real left or spirit of the Left has transmogrified into its opposite. For example J D Vance. He is more more advanced than any of his opponents and he is full of the real revolutionary spirit. Forget left or right it is the revolutionary spirit that you want and we certainly aren’t short of that right now. Trump certainly isn’t Karl Marx but he is probably the closest approximation that you will find in the world today.
Talking about narcissistic lefty whackos, I’ve not seen Eddie Izzard popping up in the news lately.
I just look at these examples and cannot help feel that these women must be lacking self esteem. They need to be ‘liked’ by the outside world. They need to feel ‘morally superior’.
Social media now gives these people a platform.
Wonder what they are like if you were to meet them face to face.
That lipstick wearing male Scottish hospital doctor fits the description of someone with NPD perfectly.
To add to the understanding, the other strong factor in extremist behaviour is PARANOIA.
The common usage of the word paranoia is “delusions of persecution” or “unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people”, but that is not the whole story. Paranoia stems from a deep sense of “badness” inside the individual which can only be assuaged by finding someone or something outside oneself to hate and fight against.
It starts like this:- the tiny child is helpless and totally dependent on the parents. The child knows nothing, and the parents know everything. If a parent punishes the child or is cruel, the child concludes that he/she is bad and deserves this cruelty. Over time, the child comes to believe he/she is an innately bad person. The feelings are so painful that they are unconscious, deeply buried in the psyche and unacknowledged. But the painful feelings are acted out in later life by finding outside objects or persons to hate even more than oneself. This is paranoia. This is neurosis.
So the paranoid has to find someone or something to hate. And of course the internet makes it so easy to do. The extreme Labour left is populated with paranoids. They’ve chosen socialism, so Britain and the USA as the bastions of capitalism are the perfect target for their hatred. The same reasoning explains extreme Woke activists and IRA terrorism, extreme right-wing and left-wing parties; extreme climate activists; anti-vivisectionists; Hamas’s policy to wipe Israel off the map; etc, etc. They are all based on paranoid irrational hatred.
As a corollary to the hatred comes an abnormal identification with the oppressed. So paranoids will, for example, identify with the Palestinians as the oppressed, with Israel as the oppressor. Never mind that the Palestinians are arguably oppressed mainly by their Hamas leadership who do not want a solution, because this is irrational stuff, and logic is not involved.
Paranoids will infiltrate existing organisations and distort their purpose to achieve their fix. So Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter may have started with worthwhile aims and methods, but become distorted by extremist infiltrators. And because the infiltrators are driven by strong neurotic forces they are convincing and influential.
Paranoids can also distort good causes. For example, climate warming is undeniable, but governments climate policies seem to be driven more by paranoid ideology and guilt than rational debate about options and the costs of these options.
Let’s be clear – this is not to criticise these people, it is to try to understand them. They are damaged neurotic people. They can’t be reasoned with or negotiated with, because neurotic behaviour is irrational and not receptive to negotiation.
Nobody has a perfect childhood, and we all get mildly abused by our parents from time to time as well as being loved, praised, encouraged, etc. So we are all perhaps mildly paranoid, but for most people it is assuaged by, for example, going to a football match and shouting at the other side, or the referee, or….
Fortunately, paranoids are not very successful overall. Their extreme views are not very persuasive to most people. And because they cannot trust anybody, they find cooperation difficult, and extreme groups often break up into factions. That is why there are dozens of extreme political parties, both left and right.
Paranoids are unhappy people, fighting to save their sense of self all the time. They can be helped, but maybe only by analytic psychotherapy, which can be long-term. And before finding help, they first have to recognise that they have a problem, and that may only happen when they have a mental breakdown.
The psychoanalyst Alice Miller, in her great book “The drama of being a child”, states that “all criminal behaviour is retribution for cruelty received in childhood”. Frightening stuff, and closely related to paranoia behaviour.
Interesting read…but do you really believe, as Alice Miller wrote, that “ALL criminal behaviour is retribution for cruelty received in childhood”?
I suggest there is a tendency in most of us which goes directly from “I like” to “I want” wihout needing to detour into a psychoanalytical subroutine on the way.
I always go to Mr Tucker’s articles first…incisive and funny.
And he’s written “over 10 books”!
Today a friend told me about a form she found recently. It was from 2020. She received it prior to travelling. The form instucted her on how to avoid becoming infected by the “virus”. She then mentioned how lucky she and hubby were to not die from covid, then she repeated the story of the old people in Italy who died from covid and the 20,000 people who died in New York from covid.
I was astounded and asked her if she knew anyone personally who died from covid, because I knew of no one. She did not. I also explained the elderly in Italy had rec’d the wonderful quad flu vaxx prior to getting “the virus”, setting them up to die when got covid and the 20,000 who died in NY, died from medical negligence, unnecessary medical ventilation, remdesivir, administration of respiratory depressants such as morphine and midazolam and withholding antibiotics when some developed bacterial pneumonia.
yes folks the far left will cling onto these lies they were told in the msm and by their gov’ts medical experts. They will also buy into the next plandemic with enthusiasm. You simply cannot convince someone who refuses to learn the truth, to believe the truth. It is disturbing to witness.