Morning, apologies for no weekend Scrolls. The reason is very simple, I was out most of the weekend actually managing to have a nice time away from work with the Misses so didn’t want to say ‘hang on I just need to stare at X for two hours!’ I may normalise having one day off over each weekend, it was quite a nice break.
Anyway, let’s see what we’ve missed.
This is part of the meltdown over the Madison Square Garden rally Trump did over the weekend. The desperation is out of control now and the rhetoric will continue this way, likely for the next 4 years so you might as well get used to it. The melt down is going to be like nothing we’ve seen before. I think it’s possible still that the ‘on call rioters’ get activated again post result, but the main event is going to be the social media misery. For example, take a look at this video:
A couple of things here, firstly they really believe this. My insight into what kind of messaging the left are getting comes primarily from my wife, who’s not only very left leaning, but seemingly obsessed with US politics. I overhear often the videos she’s watching online, it’s a different planet. They’re still regurgitating as fact things that were disproven years ago and using editing footage that was community noted almost immediately after it was posted to X. It’s actually worse than the mainstream media, because the influencers making these videos - a lot of the time having had a bung from a political campaign (on boths sides obviously) can be even more lopsided with the truth because of their smaller media footprint. Actually this is an example of what happens when you do not select your nodes well or if you select to reinforce what you want to hear, rather than analyse effectively. Remember what I said the other day about the world view of the left being built on untruths that aren’t compatible with reality, each one needing to be defended viciously or the whole thing starts to crumble? That’s why they need to still act as if the Russia hoax was real, because if they acknowledge the fact this was a lie, then they’ll (in theory) have to reassess what information has been built on top of this as truth. Secondly, when you listen to this guy talking about the guidelines for surviving Trump, sounds a bit familiar doesn’t it? You may - if you’ve questioned anything the past 5-6 years - have played this game mentally about your opinions and chosen similar strategies for an easy life. This is of course - though it might be nice for a moment not to have someone shouting their politics in your face for a moment - the last thing we need if we’re actually going to be effective as societies, mutual respect and ability to hear all sides and ignore who you like after you’ve heard them, is vital. But I doubt we’re going to get there.
Right, I saw this so now you have to. Just turned up on the feed, bit of a sloppy account but I challenge you to make it through both of these clips. The clip is actually from 2022 and it’s interesting that the actor that plays the Dad in this was fired later for saying something negative about gender fluidity etc. For the non UK readers, this is from a long running BBC show called Drs, it’s daytime TV and that’s relevant. Daytime TV viewership is dominated by three main types of people, young students, stay at home mums and old people. What airing an issue like this on mainstream TV does effects each of those groups in a specific way. Young students have what they’re hearing online and likely experiencing at University reinforced by the National Broadcaster. The stay at home mums are nudged to react like the mother in the clip when confronted with something like this. The older people, more likely to be shocked by what they’re watching, feel alienated and disconnected from what they’re now told is normal. The only standard issue male character in the storyline is there to be reprimanded and educated, because he’s a dinosaur. Somehow the world moved around him and now what he thought was reality, isn’t. Also notable that his instincts are protective and come from experience, he was once a teenage boy, but he’s told that’s incorrect and even insulting. All of the other characters are either female or feminised, they are those at the cutting edge of acceptance and now have the right to morally police all those underneath them. The viewer is left in no doubt who is at fault for even questioning any of it and what they should do should they encounter a similar situation. None of this stuff finds its way onto your screen by accident, but you are probably paying for it.
As predicted, it’s over for Boeing in the Space game and you have to say rightly so, they’ve proven they’re not up to the task. Competition is obviously a good thing, this being an example of that. If there is a task to be completed and limited funds competing for those contracts, the end result is that you want the company who can do it best being responsible for the task. Funding that was going to Boeing can now go elsewhere and be used more effectively. This is an ongoing process and if one day someone can do it all better that SpaceX that’s better for the mission in hand.
The internet never forgets and will probably get us all eventually. If you’re not sure what this is on about then allow me to show you a clip.
I saw the original version of this clip the other day, which is at street level and only shows the punch and some shouting. I don’t have an issue with people, even MPs, defending themselves and hitting whoever they need to, including their constituents, but as you can see this isn’t that. That’s a sucker punch on a guy who seemingly has his hands in his pockets and them then continuing to hit him on the floor before shouting at him repeatedly and walking off. My understanding is that he’s resigned from the Labour Party and we’ll have to wait and see what his charges and sentence are. So that’s now two Labour representatives in criminal proceedings to keep an eye on in only a few months, it’s going real well.
Ok, don’t worry too much about all the details of this post as I’ve used it just because it gives a flavour of what happened at the weekend with Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite The Kingdom’ march and now I’ll explain what it all means. This is the current (simplified) state of play with the ‘right’ of UK politics:
The biggest issue in the UK for the right is mass immigration and its downstream effects on the Nation. Think of it like a patient bleeding out, if we don’t stop the big problem - bleeding - everything else is dead anyway.
There are basically three factions according to mainstream thinking.
The establishment - the Conservative party.
The alternative - the Reform party
The ‘far right’ - Tommy Robinson and his hangers on.
The Conservatives are not on the right, they are at best centerists but actually left leaning globalists. They’ve been lying to the populace for decades, pushing their luck and at the last election were removed for an even more left wing globalst party.
Reform have hoovered up a lot of voters who would previously vote Conservative but who feel lied to and used. During and in the initial aftermath of the election they said all the right things and seemed a very long way from the Sunak and the Conservative campaign. Many people now believe they’re the alternative, the people who will say what actually needs to be done. Reform have been under constant scrutiny by their opponents looking for the opportunity to cast them as racists and similar smears, and after the election this has continued. Our friends at Hope Not Hate - we now know who they work for - have been involved the whole time.
Post election Reform have repeatedly missed the opportunity to move with public sentiment and instead have stalled. The public want illegal immigration stopped and those people deported, many also want all non essential immigration stopped for a period. Reform won’t go here and are actively distancing themselves from those who talk about it. This is psychologically demoralising for those supporters who thought they were the new alternative and different.
The Tommy Robinson crowd are normal people who are unashamedly patriotic and will speak honestly about what’s required, to include deportation and would probably vote Reform with no hesitation if Reform voiced support for those policies. There’s obviously some turds in there too. The issue with the Robinson crowd is not the public, they’re just a bit naive, it’s with him and his associates. As it stands today Tommy Robinson is just a containment vehicle for the state who is wheeled out whenever there is the chance something actually right of centre and effective is building in the UK. He’s arrested often in order to bolster his ‘enemy of the state’ persona, but he’s nothing of the sort. None of his gatherings have ever changed anything, only served to placate those who attend who then feel they’ve done something, and it gives the state an opportunity to gather some facial data, watch networking and see if there’s anyone arising who might be an issue down the line. He serves as a baddie to personify the ‘far right’ - despite being nothing of the sort - that can then be publicly beaten on demand so that the ‘good guys’ always win. Worth noting that Robinson etc are what’s called Civic Nationalists or CIVNATS, they believe anyone can be British if they adopt British values and fit in with life here. Where Robinson has a problem is primarily with Islam and its incompatibility with British culture, so not a racist view.
You’ll see that in the post above Tice and the rest of the Reform leadership tie themselves in knots trying not to get associated with Robinson and his ‘lot’ despite obviously having a position on deportations etc that is further left. It completely prevents them being an effective challenge to the establishment parties.
So we have Reform in a shambles having basically renounced their reason for existing in the eyes of their supporters, and the ‘far right’ caricature gang marching on the streets, well meaning public in attendance aware they’ve been renounced by the party they were likely going to vote for.
Whilst all this has been going on the Conservatives have been busy regenerating into their new form, as they always do. The only people saying anything publically are the leadership candidates, all the previous big beast (comical) faces have either left politics or are keeping their mouths shut to see where the chips land. There’s two players left, Badenoch and Jenrick. Badenoch talks tough but actually wants minimal changes from what the previous Tory lot did, but she ticks a nice ‘you can’t call me misogynist or racist card’ so some idiot Tories will want her. Jenrick is where this is more interesting.
Jenrick started his move once he could see - during the election - that Sunak was fucked and has gone hard since to try to establish himself as a ‘real right of centre’ guy, happy to say all sorts of things his voters think, now, but he obviously didn’t before he had a chance at the top job, funny old thing. Note also that he sits on the same side of the big global game fence as Trump’s new backers. He is now stating openly policies that are to the right of Reform. Think of a common sense talking point you’d expect to hear from a bloke in the pub, there’s probably a social media post of Jenrick stating his position on it over the last month or so. He’s not in fear of being attacked by the press the way Reform are (and hasn’t really been, interesting) and allowing himself to be hamstrung, letting his opponents set the conversation. Why is that?
It should be incredibly obvious by now and I’ll start to wrap this up as it got a bit long winded. With Reform self neutered by being afraid to be associated with ground an astroturfed movement in the form of Tommy Robinson etc are holding, Reform’s supporters demoralised and wondering if they’ve been lied to again. Jenrick pops up as the face of the regenerated and ‘different’ Tories -we’ve changed etc - to scoop them up by insisting he’ll carry out what Reform won’t. Down the line they’ll merge with Reform if Reform still have support and the uni-party wins again when Jenrick goes back to the same old globalist shit, we’d love to do this, but ‘X’ international something says we can’t. Rise of the right resolved for another another twenty years, back to normal daily running.
Have a nice week, don’t be sad.
Jens playing the Nick Mac role, posturing with the jab then playing the statesman.