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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back in the saddle for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet, as the third day of a new era gets underway.
Parts of the "executive branch" appear to be in open revolt against its head: for example, reports of DC prisons deciding to slow-walk the release of the pardoned J6ers<p
. These people should be identified and fired, immediately. You don't get to pick and choose which of the boss's orders you're minded to comply with. </p
Happy to take your thoughts on how this first week is going. Almost every western nation now has its equivalent of the January 6th political prisoners - but, unlike America, they remain behind bars. In the UK, they are those whom the evil Keir Stürmer tossed in gaol after the slaughter of the Southport girls last summer. The public's instincts in the hours after the attack were more accurate than the British state's official version for months on end and to this day. And yet Peter Lynch died in prison - because it was more important to Stürmer that the official lies be maintained and any dissenters be silenced.
It is the same with the phony-baloney Covid inquiry:
Look at that list of pro-narrative groupies: knighthoods all round for the jab fanatics! Back when he was a plain old mister, Sajid Jabbit declined every request from The Mark Steyn Show to come on and respond to those he and his colleagues crippled. Baroness Stitchup and sneering prat Hugo Keith KC are unlikely to ruffle him.
I do not use the word "evil" lightly. But the British media during my brief return to their precincts got Keir Stürmer all wrong: he was presented, by contrast with Boris Johnson, as mostly bland and dull. Not at all. He's a psycho whose instincts on almost anything are profoundly totalitarian. So even now he presents the slaughterer of schoolgirls, known to the authorities and its stupid "Prevent" programme, not as a foreseeable consequence of public policy but as the result of online "disinformation".
So the schoolgirls will be safe if only we give Ofcom more powers.
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation, said Adam Smith. Not this much. Britain is approaching the end-point. Trump should steer well clear of these guys.
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