Barack Obama, Why Are You Calling Africa a Racist Continent? And You, AOC: Why Are You Calling Denmark a White Supremacist Country?

Voting in a Danish school's baseball court: the white paper in the voters' hands is their IDs, 
and thus the proof of their identity (those dirty scoundrels must all of 'em be racists!) 

What to you mean, No Pasarán, with those provocative questions, "Why are you calling Denmark a white supremacist country, Joe Biden? Why are you calling Africa a racist continent, Barack Obama?"?! 

[That quote was the original title of this post, which first appeared in March 2021. An argument that has not been made enough regarding the 2026 SAVE act is that just about all the European countries — who, remember, are invariably being held up by Democrats as outstanding models that America should emulate — request voter ID, without their minorities or the recently-married EU wives (of whichever race) seemingly losing their power to vote. Back to the question in the title:]

When have AOC, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama ever said that?! Are you bonkers?!

That's just the problem, dear reader: they have not said that. 

But they should. According to the Democrats' own logic.

Actually…

Actually, scratch that: it turns out that, according to the Democrats' own logic, they have in fact said that, or, if you prefer, they have implied it… 

After all, if demanding voter IDs is symptomatic of racism and indicative of a Jim Crow culture, then Denmark is one hell of a racist (and rotten) kingdom, because it is a nation in which — horror of horrors! — you cannot go into the booth on voting day and vote unless… (wait for it) you produce… a special voting ID.

For each election (national, regional, and/or local) in the land of Hamlet, the voter gets a card in the mail, valid for that election day alone, and it must be presented when you go to the polls — in person, of course — and after being handed over, the voter's name is ticked off on the voting rolls before he enters the booth.

Further South, in France, the nation's electoral card lasts for 12 elections (national, regional, and/or local), duly stamped, after which it must be renewed. In addition, in any town or city with more than 3,500 citizens, the voter must also present a regular ID.

The details, and the specifics, may change, but in all cases, there is some sort of an ID to be presented in order to vote.

Aren't you outraged, drama queens?! 

 Aren't you outraged by the hatred, locofocos?! — by the bigotry?! — by the racism?!

Indeed, there is scarcely a country in Europe, as well as in Africa (including the Obama family's ancestral Kenya), Asia, Oceania, and South America — nor, for that matter, is there one among either of the USA's immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico — where you do not have to present some sort of ID when you go to the polls. (And here I include even the autocracies and the pretend democracies…) 

And therefore it stands to reason that every single country in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas is forever embroiled in the era of Jim Crow relics. 

Because there does not seem to be a single place on this planet — those rotten spitbowls, all of 'em! — where ideas akin to those found in HR1 are even entertained.

Lack of voter ID: No thanks.

Mail-in ballots: Non merci.

Acceptance of ballots up to eight days after the polls have closed: Nein danke. 

Etc: Nej. Nei. Nyet. Non.…

The only place where there are attempts to make those thing happen turns out to be… the United States of America.

It is the dreamers' attempt to "fundamentally transform the United States." (See The Leftist Worldview in a Nutshell: A World of Deserving Dreamers Vs. Despicable Deplorables.)

There is a caveat — one humongous whale-size piece of a caveat — to all this, a caveat which the reader (whatever his or her nationality) must absolutely become aware of:

Offhand, it might sound like the USA alone is in the process of turning into a banana republic (if it hasn't done so already), while every other country has more or less common sense voting laws (whether they reflect the reality of the situation in the particular country or not).

In a sense, yes, that is true. 

But a deeper truth is that there is one thing we must not forget: most other countries have no such things as the electoral college. And other countries have no such thing as the filibuster. (Or equivalents thereof.)

What this means is that is that the (more populated) city vote always prevails over the countryside vote. And what does "the city" mean? What does it entail? It means dependent (helpless?) citizens, it means a greater need for assistance, it means a vaster bureaucracy, it means anonymity, it means corruption, it means inside deals, and it means lots and lots of bureaucrats who "are here to help" (aka compassion (sic)).

In other words, these countries, whatever their names (la République française, the German Democratic Republic, etc…) are functions of (at best) democracies rather than republics. 

This is why the vast majority of other nations have no organization with the strength of the Republican Party (or of the Libertarians), certainly not at the level inside the U.S.A. (even when naïve RINOS dilute the strength of their own side).

This, in turn, explains why foreigners always oppose the USA's GOP (see November 2020 election) — often religiously — why foreigners always join Democrats in criticizing, ridiculing, and demonizing the flyover Americans, and why foreigners always support Democrats in their dreams to "fundamentally transform the United States." 

Foreigners support making the USA not into a one-party nation per se, but into a nation like their own, a democracy where the drama queens of basically some kind of (more or less rigid) pro-government party are always at the helm and where élites rule over the respective nations' unruly deplorables — whose youngsters are invariably being indoctrinated by the respective school systems.

I will end this post by saying that, needless to say, there is nothing new about this and by quoting a nine-year-old post where I said much the same as above, but while using slightly different language and arguments. If you have the time…

In July 2012, the Economist ended an article on voter fraud with the sentence: 

it would be awkward, to say the least, if Mr Romney won because new laws kept some of Mr Obama’s supporters from voting.

And I had the following reaction: 

Would it not be far worse if Barack Obama — or if either candidate, really — won because the absence of a voting law allowed fraudulent voters from his party (with or without the candidate's consent) to steal the election?

In the latter case, a candidate might win as a result of a crime — a crime which election and law officers were deliberately prevented from detecting. In the (hypothetical) case you mention, his adversary might win because of the unintended consequences in the fight against crime, which is surely a distinction worth making.

To take another (far worse) crime, how prevalent is murder? Not very, if you take the statistics in percentage (something like 0.0048 %). Well, no matter how rare murder is, you still need to criminalize it as much for justice — to bring perpetrators (however rare they may be) to justice — as for prevention — to prevent people from being tempted to use it.

The last I heard, one needs some sort of poll card to cast a ballot in Britain, as indeed one does in every other democracy on this planet. Due to the Democrats' hysterical race-baiting, we have been subjected to the (absurd) spectacle of being the only country where having this (common-sense) requirement can only be viewed as vile, outrageous prejudice. Well, if it is racist to require voter ID in America, then Britain and every other democracy on the planet (including, of course, in Africa) can only qualify as racist as well.

The height of ridicule occurred when Democrats organized hearings in Washington to hear the sob stories of these oppressed masses. Except that in order to get out-of-state to DC, the wretched martyrs who find it such a hardship getting around their home towns managed to board an… airplane by showing an… ID.

Related: • Of the 47 countries in Europe today — the nations and the continent that the Democrats are always telling us to emulate — 46 of them currently require government-issued photo IDs to vote
• Voter ID: Apparently not allowing minorities to cheat is a form of racial oppression
• In America, we learn from the French newspaper Le Monde (in July 2013), 
Most of the 39 Million African-Americans Do Not Have an ID to Vote  
• If the Democrats learned anything from their 2016 debacle, 
it’s that they didn’t cheat nearly enough (May 2017) 
• Let’s dispense with the myth that liberals are really against voter fraud;
Voter fraud is actually an essential part of their election strategy (from April 2014)  
• Democrats don't support voter fraud;
they just worry about disenfranchising the deceased
• Voter ID: Apparently not allowing minorities to cheat is a form of racial oppression 
• Isn't America Being Governed by a Mafia Family Dynasty, setting things up so that there will always be Democrats in power?
• Inside of a month, Democrats have redefined riots and election challenges from the highest form of patriotism to an attack on democracy — And by “democracy”, they mean the Democrat Party
• Voter Fraud: A Note to Leftists Who Claim that "Not a shred of hard evidence has been produced" 
• Dennis Prager: The Numerous (and Sweeping) Anomalies Regarding the 2020 Election That Cannot Be Ignored

And, evergreen: 

• The January 6 Protest Summarized in One Single Sentence 
• What the January 6th protest actually reveals is the criminal determination of the Democrats to establish a one-party state at whatever the cost 
• Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It's Unprofessional Journalism

The Great Taking: "We’re Living Through The Greatest Transfer Of Wealth From The Middle Class To The Elites In History"

 

The latest Bēhance poster by our good ol' friend Damian Bennett is called The Great Taking and is based on the book of the same name that he has been reading.

To understand what it is about, and the dire danger that the author is warning about, THE GREAT TAKING by David Rogers Webb can be downloaded for free — as can Damian's poster above — through a link at the latter's Bēhance page. Here is what Damian has to say about the matter (and about the book):

Regardless of politics or party, financial circumstance or station in life, The Great Taking comes for us all. You might never know though, because The Great Taking is not under-reported, there is virtually NO reporting at all. 

There are a few Cassandras in the financial press that have been warning of corruption and systemic collapse for years.

• We’re Living Through The Greatest Transfer Of Wealth From The Middle Class To The Elites In History (Carol Roth, Newsweek) October 24, 2021
  When historians look back on the decisions made beginning in March 2020 and still going strong, this period will be remembered as the "Great Consolidation"—the acceleration of a historic wealth transfer and power concentration out of the hands of the middle class and into those with political power and connections.
• $2.5 Quadrillion* Disaster Waiting To Happen (Egon von Greyerz) November 2, 2022
  Credit has increased dramatically through derivatives. All instruments being issued now by banks, pension funds, stock funds, it’s all synthetic. There is no real underlying payments in anything almost. Therefore, my estimate for derivatives would be at least $2 quadrillion, and I think that is probably conservative. Then, we have debt on top of that of $300 trillion, and we also have a couple hundred trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities. So, we are talking about $2.5 quadrillion, and that’s with a global GDP of $80 trillion. So, there is a disaster waiting to happen, and especially because all this created money has created no value whatsoever.
  * 1 Quadrillion = 1,000 Trillions
• Household Debt Tops $17.5 Trillion And Americans Are Feeling The Strain (Mike Maharrey) February 8, 2024
  On top of borrowing on credit cards, Americans are pulling equity from their homes to make ends meet. Balances on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) increased by $11 billion in Q4. ... Americans haven’t just been borrowing using credit cards. Every debt category increased in the fourth quarter.
• How America’s Paper-money System And The Federal Reserve Plunder American Taxpayers(Jacob G. Hornberger, FFF) October 14, 2025
  By inflating the amount of money in circulation, the Fed reduces the value of money sitting in people’s savings accounts or that they receive in income. Their savings and income buy less than before simply because the federal government, through its inflationary policy, has debased the value of money.
• Will The Next Big Crash Lead To The Great Taking? (Christopher Talgo, Heartland Institute)February 2, 2026
  In 2002, Warren Buffet stated that “derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal. … We view them as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.”

Let's organize these interrelated problems (some of these I address here) as a cascade:

1. There is too much debt.
2. There is too much money.
3. Money is uncorrelated to wealth.
4. Money uncorrelated to wealth debases the currency.
5. Debasing the currency produces inflation.
6. Inflation produces stealth wealth from the middle class to the powerful. 

The eventual consequence of such bad fiscal stewardship will be catastrophic collapse. This 'collapse' will happen out of sight, as financial giants re-valorize worthless dollar valuations and divvy up the assets as what's owed them. You will wake up to the sun shining, the air sweet, everything pretty much as you left it at bedtime -- BUT YOU WILL LIKELY BE BROKE. Your investments, your house, your car, anything financed by debt, will be seized. THAT is the great taking. 

The intent of the taking is not wealth itself; the intent is wealth as power and with power, control. Decisions will be made for you by distant entities through powerless governments -- so, without one atom of your being having changed, you will be changed into a compliance slave. 

There is a general overview The Great Taking at Bēhance, but I strongly recommend watching the David Rogers Webb documentary linked there for a greater understanding of the history and theory -- and built-in theft expropriation -- of 'Security Entitlement' (Uniform Commercial Code §8-511.(a).(b).(c); click here for Wikipedia's no-worries gobbledygook or read the legalese itself here). 

 As always, if you like what you see, please click the blue appreciate button for a free chicken dinner.

End of transmission.

Update: Damian Bennett adds as follows:

For a comprehensive easy-to-follow overview watch the documentary THE GREAT TAKING, here on YouTube or here on Rumble. Download the book THE GREAT TAKING, for free here.

There is also a link for the PDF of a French-language version of Webb's book. 

Moving to Florida to Found Eudokia Wealth

 

The magazine Opinion Internationale has sat down for an interview with Sébastien Laye, a dual (French-American) citizen who, after living in France for the past 12 years, is now moving to Florida.

In Un libéral à la conquête de l’Amérique de Trump (entretien avec Sébastien Laye, fondateur d’Eudokia Wealth) — in French, the word "liberal" has never lost its original meaning — the former New Yorker discusses his recent book and explains that he has no plans for returning to the Big Apple in these dark times, but will be settling in Florida where he will be launching Eudokia Wealth.

I am launching Eudokia Wealth, a new company at the intersection of AI and finance. It's an operational platform for acquiring financial advisors … — in the rapidly growing Southeastern region of the United States, from Florida to Texas, including Georgia and Tennessee — and modernizing them with AI technologies: developed in-house, through third-party integration, and sometimes simply by training my teams of advisors. AI is entering its practical application phase, enabling the complete reconfiguration of existing and traditional professions. Wealth management in Palm Beach or Dallas is still somewhat old-school, unless you're working for a major New York bank. We're going to build an "AI-first" financial group.

When Michel Taube asks him if he is what most French people would consider an insult — a liberal (in the French sense) and a rightist — the (presumably soon-to-be-ex-)member of Republicans Overseas France answers that ever since he was 13 or 14, he has felt the same way:

Marxism, socialism, communism, statism — these are simply incompatible with my fundamental vision of life. I am an incorrigible liberal and independent, with all the arrogance that sometimes entails. But I have no intention of apologizing for it.

Aimed at "Demonizing Israel and the Jews", it was "the biggest anti-Semitic hoax of our generation": 25 Years Later, a French Magazine Re-Opens the Wounds of the Al-Durah Scandal

In a special issue on the Al-Durah hoax a quarter of a century years ago, the monthly Causeur reexamines the affair that caused widespread hatred of the Jewish state and Jews themselves.

Last Fall, No Pasarán published an in-depth post on the al Durrah affair which had its start on September 30, 2000 and which the blog has covered over the years: 25 Years Ago — Fate of 12-Year-Old Palestinian Led to 911 Attack and the Invention of the Word Pallywood, 

along with a quote by Philippe Karsenty, who was instrumental in helping to debunk the hoax ("If we ignore how images propagate and mutate, we hand the moral high ground to those who traffic in outrage"). (The post proved to be exactly the 14,000th since the beginning of the blog No Pasarán 21 years earlier.) 

In the current issue of Causeur (Conversationalist), Elisabeth Lévy presents the dossier under the title L’heure des pro-pal (although Karsenty himself would rather elect to call the legions of "Pro-Palestine" protesters the legions of "pro-Hamas" protesters) and Gilles-William Goldnadel & Aude Weill-Raynal revisit the history of the many lawsuits that France 2 brought against Karsenty, while Editor Jeremy Stubbs charges that the France 2 television station broadcast antisemitic disinformation, asking Who Killed the Truth? (Affaire Al-Durah, 25 ans après: qui a tué la vérité?).

Notably, Elisabeth Lévy makes some historical comparisons, saying that on

That September 30th [2000], the cameraman also offered his footage to CNN, which declined—out of caution? As for [France 2's Charles] Enderlin, he had no doubt whatsoever. Why would they, given that the child's death lent credence to the mainstream narrative of progressive media: heavily armed soldiers massacring defenseless civilians? If it wasn't true, it was a clever fabrication.

 … It is a scoop of a global nature. "Little Mohamed" is the face of innocence destroyed by Israeli-Jewish barbarity. On October 12, two Israeli soldiers who had strayed into Ramallah were lynched to cries of "Revenge for Al-Durah!" In the Arab world [as in places like university campuses and Hollywood], the bloodied hands that their killer presented to the cheering crowd becomes a symbol of glory.

 … Catherine Nay [states] that the image of Mohamed "erases, cancels out" that of the Jewish child in the Warsaw ghetto held at gunpoint by SS officers. At least that's clarity for you.

 … The Al-Durah affair, which has by now become known as the Enderlin affair, is also a textbook example of how the media party operates, rising up as one against anyone who threatens its best interests. The anti-Dreyfusards and the communists thought no differently.

Naturally, Karsenty is interviewed in the magazine — by Gil Mihaely — as he is on Radio Shalom (94.8FM), where it transpires that he is demanding to testify before France's Assemblée Nationale (video below).

Aimed at "Demonizing Israel and the Jews", he says, the Al-Durra affair was "the biggest anti-Semitic hoax of our generation." (More Karsenty quotes at the No Pasarán post from September 30.)

Presenting the dossier, Jeremy Stubbs writes: 

On September 30, 2000, France 2 broadcast a report showing the death of young Mohamed Al-Durah at the hands of the IDF in Gaza. This global scoop was a boon for Israel's enemies, who have exploited it ad nauseam for 25 years for their antisemitic propaganda. But incoherent and incomplete, it also raised doubts among many observers. While one of them, Philippe Karsenty, was convicted of defamation, the public broadcaster has still not proven the veracity of its footage. As Élisabeth Lévy stated when introducing our special report: "The Al-Durah affair is also a textbook example of how the media establishment operates, rising up as one against anyone who threatens its interests. The anti-Dreyfusards and the communists thought no differently." Karsenty's well-documented investigation showed that the image of Mohamed Al-Durah killed in his father's arms, which became an icon of the Palestinian cause and a justification for "anti-Zionism," was a staged event. 

Interviewed by Gil Mihaely, Philippe Karsenty called this report "the biggest anti-Semitic hoax of our generation." Michaël Prazan, speaking with Élisabeth Lévy and Jean-Baptiste Roques, pointed out that the accusation of ritual murder against Jews appeared in antiquity before becoming, in every era and across the globe, the pretext for horrific pogroms. Lawyers Gilles-William Goldnadel and Aude Weill-Raynal recounted the nine-year trial that ended with Philippe Karsenty's conviction. The court did not question its methodical analysis of the France 2 footage but applied defamation law to the letter, a "technical" judgment that does not serve historical truth. A left-wing Jew and wounded Zionist, Claude Askolovitch continues to believe that little Mohamed died under the bullets of the IDF. But rather than making him a symbol or the banner of a cause, he wants to restore his individuality. For Pierre-André Taguieff, the misleading images of "little Mohamed," with their antisemitic undertones, are akin to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and the Dreyfus Affair. As for the numerous journalists who chose to broadcast them without critical distance, they reveal the devastating corporatism of their profession. 

The editor of Causeur goes on to present the rest of issue # 142:

In her monthly editorial, Elisabeth Lévy comments on the operations of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the United States, which, on this side of the Atlantic, are provoking opposing reactions: praise from the right, condemnation from the left. Moreover, the left is seizing the opportunity to use the N-word (N for Nazi) and demonize President Trump. Certainly, no one wants to see innocent people die at the hands of a trigger-happy police force, but France has proven incapable of reducing migration flows, so that "our borders are like sieves." Her conclusion: "If force without law is a tyrant's fantasy, law without force is a child's dream."

Jeremy Stubbs : 

Le 30 septembre 2000, France 2 diffuse un reportage présentant la mort du petit Mohamed Al-Durah sous les balles de Tsahal à Gaza. Ce scoop mondial est une aubaine pour les ennemis d’Israël, qui l’exploitent ad nauseam depuis 25 ans pour leur propagande antisémite. Mais incohérent et tronqué, il a aussi suscité les doutes de nombreux observateurs. Si l’un d’eux, Philippe Karsenty, a été condamné pour diffamation, la chaîne publique n’a toujours pas prouvé la véracité de ses images. Comme le dit Élisabeth Lévy en présentant notre dossier spécial : « L’affaire Al-Durah est aussi un cas d’école du fonctionnement du parti des Médias qui se dresse comme un seul homme contre quiconque menace l’intérêt supérieur du Parti. Les antidreyfusards et les communistes ne pensaient pas différemment ». L’enquête étayée de Karsenty montrait que l’image de Mohamed Al-Durah tué dans les bras de son père, qui est devenue une icône de la cause palestinienne et une justification de l’« antisionisme », était une mise en scène.

Interviewé par Gil Mihaely, Philippe Karsenty qualifie ce reportage de « plus grand faux antisémite de notre génération ». Michaël Prazan, se confiant à Élisabeth Lévy et Jean-Baptiste Roques, rappelle que l’accusation contre les Juifs de crime rituel apparaît dans l’Antiquité avant d’être à toutes les époques et sous tous les cieux lle prétexte d’effroyables pogromes. Les avocats Gilles-William Goldnadel et Aude Weill-Raynal reviennent sur les neuf ans de procès qui se sont terminés par la condamnation de Philippe Karsenty. La Justice n’a pas remis en cause son analyse méthodique des images de France 2 mais a appliqué à la lettre le droit de la diffamation, un jugement « technique » qui ne sert pas la vérité historique. Juif de gauche et sioniste blessé, Claude Askolovitch continue de penser que le petit Mohamed est mort sous les balles de Tsahal. Mais plutôt qu’en faire un symbole ou l’étendard d’une cause, il veut lui rendre sa singularité. Pour Pierre-André Taguieff, les images trompeuses du « petit Mohamed » s’apparentent, par leur charge antisémite, aux « Protocoles des sages de Sion » et à l’affaire Dreyfus. Quant aux nombreux journalistes qui ont préféré les relayer sans distance critique, ils nous informent sur le corporatisme dévastateur de leur profession.

Dans son édito du mois, Elisabeth Lévy commente les opérations de l’ICE (la police de l’Immigration et des Douanes) aux États-Unis qui, de ce côté de l’Atlantique, suscitent des réactions opposées : louanges à droite, condamnation à gauche. De surcroît, la gauche en profite pour sortir le N-word (N comme nazi) et diaboliser le président Trump. Certes, personne ne souhaite voir des innocents mourir sous les balles d’une police à la gâchette facile, mais la France s’est montrée incapable de réduire les flux migratoires, de sorte que « nos frontières sont des passoires ». Conclusion : « si la force sans le droit est un fantasme de tyran, le droit sans la force est un rêve d’enfant ».

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 … Certes, les mauvaises manières de Donald Trump scandalisent les Européens mais, selon mon analyse, il ne fait que perpétuer la vieille tradition américaine d’ingérences qui s’inscrit désormais dans une mondialisation des conflits. Les grandes puissances sont en concurrence sur tout et partout sur terre.

  Gaza : affaire AI Dura, Philippe Karsenty veut être auditionné par l'assemblée nationale  

 

Radio Shalom 94.8

Feb 6, 2026

Porte-parole du comité Trump France, Philippe Karsenty est l'homme qui a porté l'affaire Al Dura pendant des années. Aujourd'hui, il demande à être auditionné par la commission d'enquête sur l'audiovisuel public de l'Assemblée nationale pour dénoncer France Télévision.

 

Ice crime par Elisabeth Lévy 

Après les drames survenus à Minneapolis, la police de l’Immigration et des Douanes est comparée à la Gestapo. Qu’il est bon de résister sans danger.

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Quel est le point commun entre une nonagénaire niçoise effroyablement violée par un Tunisien sous OQTF et un infirmier américain tué par la police de l’Immigration et des Douanes [ICE]

Gaban to Join Art Capital 2026 Exhibit in the Grand Palais

 

It turns out that one of the neighbors in my Paris building, who I thought was "nothing but" a businesswoman (she is that too), doubles — to my great surprise — as an artist. 

Gaban (who is a woman despite her misleading biography) has two periods: Émergence and Convergence. Check out her paintings, and if you are in Paris for Valentine's Day, Art Capital is organizing an exhibit of her works and those of numerous other artists inside le Grand Palais between February 13 and 15 (vernissage le 12 février).

  

French TV: Always Be Grateful When You Are Accused of Being (a) Racist

This morning, I told the viewers of a French television station that you should always be grateful when being accused of being (a) racist, not because it's true, of course, but because it invariably shows that the Left has run out of arguments and must now make do with (scientific-sounding) insults and ad hominems. (See Examining the Left's Concept of "Talking Points" as well as The "Racism" Invective (How the Left's Mindset Works).) 

This morning, I was again interviewed by France Info for their 10/12 program, this time about the "racist video" (presented by Florence O'Kelly as an established and incontrovertible fact) that the White House issued yesterday showing in the final two seconds the Obamas as monkeys or gorillas.

The subject is between 33:52 and 58:12 (at 49:18, my cat makes an appearance in the background, sneaking up on me stealthily like a lion king, ready to jump on its prey — moi — and tear it to shreds) and it is hard for me to talk (starting at 40:55) without being constantly interrupted by people — such as Anthony Bellanger and Pierre Gervais — calling Trump "a white supremacist" and referring to this "racist incident" as well as to the alleged "violence in the words" of this Republican (moi). At 57:33, I try to get a word in, to no avail. 

FYI, I did not mention what follows, but I wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump released the two seconds from the Lion King satire on purpose, because — like the cats "kitty-napped" and eaten by the Haitians — it caused the MSM, in America as abroad, to necessarily mention the main subject of the video which was about the many failures and anomalies of the 2020 election in Georgia. (See yesterday's No Matter How Clever You Think Trump Is, You Do Not Appreciate His Brilliance Enough.)

L’équipe du JT

L'équipe du week-end

• Présenté par

  Florence O'Kelly 

• Rédacteurs en chef

  Claire Giroud

• Rédacteurs en chef adjoints

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• Responsable d’édition

  Loubna Daoudi

• Journaliste

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• Joker

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Epstein Scandal: No Matter How Clever You Think Trump Is, You Do Not Appreciate His Brilliance Enough

No matter how shrewd you (rightfully) think Donald Trump is, you do not appreciate his brains enough.

Admit it, like myself you have been wondering why Trump and Pam Bondi did not immediately release the documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, as the GOP candidate promised during his 2024 campaign. Lots of conservatives have been extremely vocal in their criticism of the (non-)move. It turns out that the White House was completely right to do so (or, rather, to refrain from doing so) and that there was/is method to 47's madness. (Tusen takk for the Instalink, Sarah.)

They knew how intertwined Europe's élites (not just the Scandinavians) have been with Epstein and his island (photos above and below of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit — who may now be denied the option to ever become queen when her husband ascends the throne — and the country's former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland who has additionally held several international posts).

In the past year, The Democrat Party's Locofocos have gone increasingly bonkers over releasing the Epstein files, which they assumed must contain the most sordid revelations on Donald Trump. As millions of documents are released, it turns out that to a large extent (to nobody's surprise), it is mainly leftists, American as well as foreign, who are embroiled. Or, as Wretchard the Cat puts it, eloquently:

The irony is the Epstein files were supposed to sink MAGA but the torpedoes are running circular.

Thanks to the Republican president holding back on his promise, foreign élites will not now be able to accuse their "tactless," "brainless," and "inconsiderate" nemesis of gratuitously and irresponsibly releasing the confidential documents, as it is the Democrats' drama queens — their fellow leftist allies (whom they support in just about every endeavor) — who have been fighting to make the documents public. They are the only ones, or certainly the main ones, to blame. 

I wouldn't be surprised if, during his talks with foreign officials (unless the premier talked to is part of the visitor roster to Little Saint James) over the past 12 months, the president has in private been repeatedly saying: "By the way, Look, I am trying to hold the fort here; a lot of people in your country are mentioned in the files and that's why I have been trying to limit their release, but the Democrats' fire eaters may leave us no choice."

Genius.

(Many links above are from Scandinavia i.e., in Danish and Norwegian; below are several in English.)

In related news: Calling Epstein "A math nerd with charisma", Daniel J. Flynn reports that The Epstein Enigma Unravels Ever-So Slightly in Bannon Interview:

Jeffrey Epstein called himself a “hermit” in two hours of 2019 interview footage just released. This seemed strange but probably on one level accurate. Despite his name invading the news with increasing ferocity over the last two decades, Epstein’s Woody Allen-ish voice remained completely unknown to me, and perhaps to many who follow current events, until his conversation with Steve Bannon was uploaded to YouTube. Stranger still, watching Epstein discourse on myriad topics for two hours resulted in no compulsion to immediately take a shower. Unlike with, say, Harvey Weinstein or Jimmy Savile, the mere look of Epstein did not provoke a visceral reaction of disgust. The disgust comes on an intellectual level after actively thinking about his deviance rather than on a physiognomic level while passively watching him speak. In fact, the more Epstein talked to Bannon, the more I wanted him to talk — and for Bannon to let him. He mesmerized. A reason beyond the money and the dark pleasures of Epstein Island existed for so many people to voluntarily pursue his company. Epstein was, to use an albeit overused word, brilliant. This superlative risks upsetting a coalition of simpletons and highbrains, who regard "smart," "intelligent," and "genius" as shorthand for every other positive attribute to include "righteous," "wise," "prudent," "dependable," and "good." Tellingly, the Marine Corps includes "intelligence" nowhere in its 14 leadership traits.  …

Click here for The Guardian's report of Steve Bannon's interview of Epstein.

Speaking of Epstein being "brilliant" — a word that would never be used for Donald Trump — Dennis Prager has stated numerous times that 

People tend to be preoccupied with intelligence. But intelligence leads nowhere if you don't have common sense and clarity. In short, “brains” aren’t that important. Almost everyone is intelligent enough to handle life well. 

The founder of PragerU says that what matters is that young people become good, adding that

“Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children’s IQs than their children’s characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.”

— Dennis Prager