~Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back for another hour of questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. We start at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in the British Isles and 9pm in western and central Europe.
Lots going on around the world including the would-be global government's deployment of its massive arsenal of non-functioning escalators and prompters against a member of its own "Security" Council. As with the murder of Charlie Kirk, multiple persons seem to have had foreknowledge of what was about to go down:
The good news is that the UN is as brain-dead as Joe Biden, so it was unaware that, while a prompter malfunction would have done for Starmer, Carney, Fred Merz or any other "world leader", it would merely liberate Trump to open up a supersized can of transatlantic whup-ass. Beautiful to behold.
The escalator malfunction was not so satisfactorily resolved. "The Times" to which Miss Leavitt refers is not that of New York but the London original. It was, within just about living memory, the most influential newspaper in the world, but to America's money-no-object 24/7 security state it's just some other no-name foreign snooze sheet. So, even though Mr Murdoch's UK readers were all aware of what might be in the works, the wankers of the malign US Secret Service were not, and thus, in apparent keeping with their mission, underperformed as usual.
On a busy day for the President, he also found time to revise his position on the Ukraine meat-grinder:
So everyone's on board with World War Three:
Can Ukraine - even "with the EU's help" - take back all its lost territory? Doubtful - but it would be at the cost of its demographic doom.
But enough of such fripperies. What of the Number One news story of the day? At least according to the Brit Wanker Coppers:
Katie referred to herself as a "spaz" while on The Roseanne Barr Show. Which is an American show, hosted and produced in America, where Miss Hopkins happened to be and where it is perfectly legal to describe oneself as a "spaz". The extra-territorial ambitions of an incompetent county constabulary incapable of solving a household burglary next door to the cop shop are pathetic. But they are an ever more brazen assault on US free speech. Marco Rubio should respond to these provocations by imposing lifelong visa bans on Devon and Cornwall Constabulary and any other depraved pseudo-police minded to follow in their footsteps.
In the alternative: Westminster is about to pass its "assisted suicide" law. So they should just cut to the chase, and, as Patient Zero, euthanise the entire United Kingdom.
Happy to take your questions on any of the above or whatever else is on your mind. For the moment you can listen to our show live from almost anywhere you chance to be on this turbulent earth. Starting next week, in compliance with United Kingdom non-crime hate incident monitoring, this show will be regulated by Devon and Cornwall Wankabulary, so don't say "spaz" except when speaking about English policemen. A fortnight hence, in further compliance with Cruella von der Leyen and the European Commission, Clubland Q&A will be distributed exclusively by fax machine. So install yours today!
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