Democrats are having another completely normal one by claiming that Americans who dare step outside deserve to be murdered by terrorists:

“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” @juliettekayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”: https://t.co/jXJFeDTXcv

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 27, 2025

The idea that the terrorist would have decided to behave in law-abiding, peaceful ways if these specific victims weren’t outdoors is nothing short of bizarre. Doesn’t it make more sense to assume that he would have shot somebody else? Of course, sense and The Atlantic parted ways a very long time ago.

The sheer intellectual poverty of these predictable, cookie-cutter arguments is painful to observe. Liberalism has turned into a prison of the mind where no actual thinking, reading, and creativity is allowed to happen.

Gordon Burn is a talented author. He makes his investigation of the crimes of the British serial killers Fred and Rose West read like real literature. His writing is so good it’s addictive.

The beauty of the writing somewhat delays the realization of what Burn is actually saying. He describes the British people as the most disgusting, nasty perverts in existence. It’s not only Fred and Rose West who are the baddies in this story. It’s the entire British society and culture of the last 200 years, at the very least. Every English family Burn describes is filled with incestuous freaks of the worst caliber. People rape children, including infants, as a matter of course. Every British family, be it urban or rural, is inbred to a shocking degree. The girls all whore themselves out starting before they even hit puberty. Mothers rape sons. Fathers rape daughters. And sons. And grandchildren.

In Burn’s description, Fred and Rose West don’t stand out all that much. They took their debauchery a bit further and ended up actually killing people but, after all the detailed descriptions of endlessly debauched Brits, it’s not very surprising that the Wests were who they were. It gets to the point where Burns tries to blame the Victorian culture for Fred West’s crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. Granted, West couldn’t read and had no way of knowing about Victorians but Burn still insists that there had to be a way for West to find inspiration for his murders in the Victorian era.

The horrible, shocking scenes of child rape are so nauseating that by the end of chapter 5 I started wondering if inflicting a Great Replacement on these evil English people might actually be a good idea. Burns hints at this possibility as he sets the inbred, rapey horrors of Englishmen against the background of kind, righteous and religious migrants.

I thought I was reading a book about serial killers. But it turned out to be something even darker.

And by the way, when I say that somebody is intelligent and / or talented, this has nothing whatsoever to do with whether I agree or disagree with them. It’s actually a mark of low IQ to equate intelligence with “something I’m capable of understanding”. Intelligence is in the sophistication of the discursive architecture. It’s in the speed of reacting to the holes in another person’s argument. It’s in the capacity to articulate one’s own original worldview. It’s simply having a faster processor than most. What software you download onto that fast processor is an entirely different matter.

Talent is a capacity to do something uniquely well. What you apply it to is a choice. But the existence of talent itself isn’t.

You can have both or either of these attributes and be very wrong on many issues. High-IQ people can choose to accumulate knowledge. They can also choose not to. They’ll still be high-IQ, irrespective of how they decide to apply their God-given gift.

When I say that Candace Owens is a moron (or plays one for clicks, who knows), it’s not because I agree or disagree with any of her points. It’s because the arguments she puts forward are those of a person with under-80 IQ. “Two people who confessed to listening to Chopin at different points in history must be related” is a clinical moron argument.

I watched Tucker Carlson’s interview with Piers Morgan, and, oh boy, Tucker did make a whole pile of hash out of Piers.

People truly have no self-awareness. Morgan should understand that he’s not in the same intellectual category as Carlson and shouldn’t attempt to debate him. In addition to his natural limitations in terms of intelligence, Morgan is hobbled by his persistent desire to be part of mainstream media. This means that 80% of what he says must consist of reciting stale ideological points. He’s fighting with his arms tied behind his back and one of his legs sawed off.

I like Morgan, and it was unpleasant to watch him get beat up like this. But it’s a very instructive spectacle.

The parts I particularly liked were:

a) when Tucker pointed out that Morgan is incapable of saying the word “retard” aloud because it can hurt feelings yet he supports aborting children with retardation. Piers didn’t even seem to understand the point that was being made and responded with a robotic line about how “the abortion issue is settled in the UK.” Seriously, that’s how he responded. It was embarrassing to watch.

b) Tucker compared the Russian regime which he called “a straightforward authoritarianism” and the current regime in the UK that he says is more authoritarian than what Russia has. Piers Morgan started spluttering about how in the UK you can talk rubbish about the Prime Minister all you want, which must be a sign it’s not an authoritarian regime. “Yeah, but can you say aloud that homosexuality is degenerate?” responded Tucker. Again, Morgan has nothing to answer about this crucial point which is not about gay people at all. (And no, they are not degenerate, but that’s not what’s being discussed.) The authoritarianism of the 21st century is different from the authoritarianism of the 20th. It suppresses different things for different purposes. People who proclaim that there’s no authoritarianism in the UK today because the country doesn’t look anything like Stalin’s USSR are either extremely manipulative or not very intelligent.

c) Morgan walks right into the trap of saying that people are entitled to say certain things because of their bloodlines and then gets rustled up like a scared hen when this is pointed out to him.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I hope you are enjoying the day.

It’s almost cute that people believe these of childish stories:

A high value man would much rather marry a sweet girl that works at a coffee shop than a boss babe CEO type that sees herself as his equal or superior. That's just a fact. She should stay at home under her father's roof and focus on attracting such a man. https://t.co/w4r0AD7Rmq

— Defiant Baptist (@DefiantBaptist) November 25, 2025

The Cinderella fantasy never dies. I feel a lot of compassion for young people who entertain it but very little for the adults (like the quoted person) who encourage it.

Officials have detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

The “mother of the nephew” is a deadbeat who abandoned the nephew in question. A monster, in other words. But media coverage is worded in a way that inattentive readers will miss this crucial fact.

Still, this is invariably funny:

“Maryam”, of course, is a Pakistani dude. This is instantly obvious to anybody who is active online without having to look at “Maryam’s” country of origin.

There’s nothing nefarious here. The Pakistani dude is trying to scratch out a living, getting clicks for entertaining the people whose clicks matter. He’s like a medieval minstrel of sorts.

How come it doesn’t need actual borders between countries, then?

These people are full-on stupid. What’s the point of showing one’s country of origin on social media posts when “country” stops being a meaningful concept?

For days, we’ve been drowning in posts and articles about the dangers of people from other countries posting on social media. These are people who are in their countries. They aren’t committing autism fraud in Minnesota. They aren’t raping teenagers in Rome. They are in their countries. And they are the problem? Because they haven’t left?

Please observe how insistently we are led to believe that words are more important than actions. We are seriously discussing “digital borders” when the real ones, the ones that matter have been weakened into near insignificance.

From a US Official, “The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal.  There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.”

As you have seen on X, Mr. Umerov stated that “Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the… https://t.co/l8eqmcxkUa

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) November 25, 2025

Ukrainians have agreed to every single peace deal proposed since Trump got elected. Every single one. But guess why there’s still no peace?

Hmm, I guess you can’t be peaceful on somebody else’s behalf. After endless negotiations, Russia tanks every single one of the peace deals. After which the Trump administration proceeds to create another peace deal. Which once again is tanked by Russia. The many identical loops of this process, however, are not pushing the Trump administration towards any realizations.

What do I want Trump to do, you’ll ask?

I want the administration to pass at least one piece of legislation that will improve life in our country. I can think of long lists of legislative acts that would be of great help. To Americans.

In less than a year, Republicans will most certainly lose the Congress. This means, there will be no useful legislation coming out for years. We need the coming 12 months to be a legislative extravaganza. A whole year has already been wasted. Let’s not waste even more.

I don’t think my position is unreasonable.

From a US Official, “The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal.  There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.”

As you have seen on X, Mr. Umerov stated that “Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the… https://t.co/l8eqmcxkUa

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) November 25, 2025

Ukrainians have agreed to every single peace deal proposed since Trump got elected. Every single one. But guess why there’s still no peace?

Hmm, I guess you can’t be peaceful on somebody else’s behalf. After endless negotiations, Russia tanks every single one of the peace deals. After which the Trump administration proceeds to create another peace deal. Which once again is tanked by Russia. The many identical loops of this process, however, are not pushing the Trump administration towards any realizations.

What do I want Trump to do, you’ll ask?

I want the administration to pass at least one piece of legislation that will improve life in our country. I can think of long lists of legislative acts that would be of great help. To Americans.

In less than a year, Republicans will most certainly lose the Congress. This means, there will be no useful legislation coming out for years. We need the coming 12 months to be a legislative extravaganza. A whole year has already been wasted. Let’s not waste even more.

I don’t think my position is unreasonable.