“See, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game,” Johnson said on ABC’s “This Week.” “You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when we’re talking about the future. We’re not gonna talk about what happened in 2020, we’re gonna talk about 2024 and how we’re gonna solve the problems for the American people.”
“I think this thing, this game that’s played all the time, I’m not gonna engage in it,” he continued.
If who won the last election is a gotcha question, then yall live in a politically correct (og meaning) fantasy world.
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I haven’t read past the paywall threshold but the tenor of the piece is clear, I think.
It’s astounding because the Telegraph has always been a respected, albeit very right wing, part of grownup British journalism. Such a blatant endorsement of Trump’s malignancy is a sign that their owners and editors believe the Overton Window has moved so far that Trump 2.0 is absolutely fine.
And unless the Telegraph’s readers abandon it immediately, the owners and editors will be proved correct.
Looks like I haven't visited The Torygraph enough to trigger the paywall.
I respect it, however, and would not copy the entire text into this post.
Quote:
Annabel Denham
Trump is humiliating his woke enemies – and it’s a joy to watch
In the US, The Donald has declared that the progressive dogma has had its day. But it lives on unchallenged in the UK
Annabel Denham
Columnist and Deputy Comment Editor Annabel Denham
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Woke, Culture wars, Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Labour Party
21 January 2025 5:24pm GMT
Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, and his deputy, Angela Rayner, take a knee in solidarity with "anti-black racism"
For years, those of us who dared warn that the dogma of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) was destroying rather than upholding Western values of meritocracy and equality were denounced as uncaring bigots who needed to get with the programme. Woke culture warriors subverted our institutions, embedded the doctrine of social justice in our companies, cancelled academics – yet claimed to occupy the moral high ground because they were creating a “fairer” and more “tolerant” society.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, they insisted we had never been more prejudiced. They foisted on us the imperative of “equity”: equality not of opportunity, but of outcomes. And so many drank the Kool-Aid – two-tier Keir took the knee, privileged Columbia undergraduates cosplayed as Gazans, the Los Angeles fire chief proclaimed her devotion to DEI, as though anyone would give a moment’s panicking thought to a firefighter’s gender when their house is ablaze.
Governments tried to legislate for diversity, businesses talked themselves – or were gaslighted – into believing they should go woke or risk going broke. UK public authorities began spending over £500 million of taxpayer money a year on diversity and inclusion jobs, while US companies were pumping hundreds of billions into “driving racial equity”.
So forgive those of us on the unfashionable, low-status side of this argument if we succumb to momentary schadenfreude on hearing the news that Donald Trump is proscribing this pernicious ideology. As it happens, the trend was already being bucked: for months companies have been in a race to ditch their diversity schemes. Harley-Davidson and Jack Daniel’s torched their DEI targets last year. Walmart is winding down its funding for the Center for Racial Equity. Meta and Google have cut DEI employees and programmes. Even the New York Times headlined a story: “The University of Michigan doubled down on DEI: What went wrong?” (To which the quick-witted on X responded: “It doubled down on DEI”.)
And now The Donald has issued an executive order directing state agencies to recognise only two sexes. His administration will also review and possibly end “discriminatory programs” such as environmental justice grants and diversity initiatives. Already, he’s fired the female leader of the US Coast Guard over concerns about her excessive focus on DEI policies. This re-embracing of meritocracy has elicited opprobrium from the usual suspects: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest LGBTQI+ advocacy group, has vowed not to be “intimidated” – but they look to be battling against the tide.
Good for Trump, and good luck to America. But Britain is surely a lost cause. Labour cannot conceive of amending the 2010 Equality Act which underpins DEI, they want to take it a step further with a Race Equality Act in some time-wasting, tautological attempt to beef-up our anti-discrimination laws.
The Tories might have the appetite to scrap certain clauses, such as Section 149 which introduced a “public sector equality duty”, but recent experience indicates they lack the stomach for the fight. It was the Conservatives, after all, who introduced gender pay gap reporting – utterly pointless Maybot legislation which briefly turned EasyJet into public enemy number 1, until people realised it was probably acceptable for female cabin crew to be paid less than male pilots.
Would Reform stand up to the professional managerial class, whose very jobs rely on DEI? They might bluster, but they’ll need an iron will to take on hundreds of thousands of people who now work in HR – among the best remunerated roles in the country and sustained by the growing body of rules to which firms adhere.
Part of the problem is that we now send too many not-very-bright people to university, where campuses are often insufferably woke and standards painfully low. As a consequence, we are creating a generation of young people qualified for professional jobs but unable to find them. But DEI fills the gap, providing well-paid sinecures for these “educated” elites to fill. They won’t let them go lightly.
Around the time Donald Trump was setting out how he intended to Make America Even Greater, the UK press reported on an NHS cleaner who took 400 sick days in four years, was fired, claimed her “complex mental health issues” constituted a disability and successfully sued for nearly £50,000. In the US, DEI is dying. Over here, it’s Britain that’s pegging out.
Having scanned the full text, I note that (a) it's a comment piece, and though they don't say anywhere "Views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of The Torygraph" you can bet they have the line ready to trot out if there's any blowback; (b) I don't see any actual claims of specific people or groups being "humiliated" - just that DEI commitments in a number of companies are being dropped. Obviously this makes the far right's knickers moist.
Ah well, I guess it's akin to the ubiquitous YouTube videos entitled, "SO-AND-SO TOTALLY DESTROYS SO-AND-SO!!!!" or, "SO-AND-SO TOTALLY HUMILIATED!!!"
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Following on from my previous post, here’s another Torygraph piece, raising a different, though adjacent perhaps, issue; namely the debasement of its author, one Paul du Quenoy.
My issue is simply put; the piece is shockingly pro-Trump (like the other one) yet I can find nothing in de Quenoy’s online biographies to suggest he might be onboard the SS Neonazi.
It opens with a headline and first paragraph that are reasonable enough:
I suspect the argument is not actually being lost. It’s more that those who are not outraged by the Doge of America were never going to be, but aside from that, I call it reasonable because you don’t have to side with Trump II to acknowledge when they’re winning, and they may well be winning.
However, Du Quenoy goes on to say
Apart from the fact that the deficit has more to do with inadequate revenue raising inherited from the Republicans’ top-rate tax cuts than excessive spending, this isn’t a hidden secret that Americans will thank the Don and the Doge for sleuthing out. The deficit is fucking public knowledge!
It takes an intellect of breathtaking perfidy, I think, to present the familiar US deficit figures as a secret, the discovery of which justifies the illegal mission of Musk and his Boy Scouts. Who the fuck is Paul de Quenoy?
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Yesterday, Argentina's populist president Javier Milei made a tweet promoting a cryptocoin project called Libra. His promotion led to a trading rush causing the coin to suddenly balloon enormously in value, whereupon the coin's creators promptly cashed out all of their holdings for over $100m in gains, crashing the coin by over 95%. Milei subsequently deleted the tweet and claims not to know anything about the project.
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"PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Some white South Africans showed support for President Donald Trump on Saturday and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.
Hundreds of protesters held placards that read “Thank God for President Trump” and displayed other messages criticizing what they see as racist laws instituted by the South African government that discriminate against the white minority..."
[Aside: on the lead pic, there is a young lady (just left of Center) whose thoughts I would be interested to know. ]
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Yesterday, Argentina's populist president Javier Milei made a tweet promoting a cryptocoin project called Libra. His promotion led to a trading rush causing the coin to suddenly balloon enormously in value, whereupon the coin's creators promptly cashed out all of their holdings for over $100m in gains, crashing the coin by over 95%. Milei subsequently deleted the tweet and claims not to know anything about the project.
hahahahaha
If you’re just tuning in now: (1) President Javier announced a new meme coin $LIBRA, (2) Invited the entire nation of Argentina to invest in it, and (3) Immediately rug-pulled to erase $4.4B in market cap. Rather than apologize, he attacks the “rats of the political caste” 💩 pic.twitter.com/ysSsqoOkbw
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