Saturday Sanity Check
Friday April 15
EVERYTHING you need to know about Twitter’s current management can be summarised thus: Trump is not allowed to tweet, but the Taliban are.
Twitter censors America’s 45th President while giving Islamic terrorists a platform, but we are expected to believe Tesla boss Elon Musk is the devil for wanting control of Twitter.
Twitter actively supressed news about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead up to the last US election so as to help Joe Biden get elected. But we are told Elon Musk would be a threat to democracy if he got his hands on Twitter. Seriously?
The world’s richest man has offered to purchase Twitter for $58 billion cash and the hysterical reaction tells you that Elon Musk is not so much attempting to buy a private company as he is attempting to take control of a government propaganda engine.
Personally, I hope he succeeds.
Thursday April 14
THAT European nations are doing more to help Ukraine than to help worn-torn African nations like Ethiopia only goes to prove racism, according to the World Health Organisation chief.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists …
"I don't know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives.”
He continued …
"I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way. Some are more equal than others. And when I say this, it pains me.”
I suppose when you view everything through the prism of race, everything looks like racism.
But if the WHO boss stopped thinking about pigmentation for a moment and started thinking in terms of geopolitics, he would realise the strategic importance of Ukraine remains even if it wasn't inhabited predominantly by white people.
And here’s another thing. Yes, Europeans are responding strongly to a crisis in Europe, but what are African nations doing about the crisis in Ethiopia?
Wednesday April 13
New Zealand opened its borders to Australia on Wednesday, having spent two years hiding from the Covid.
But people travelling to NZ will still need to be vaccinated if they don’t want to be stuck in quarantine.
You have to wonder why.
According to New Zealand government figures, 95 per cent of Kiwis have been vaccinated. If the vaccine works, what threat are unvaccinated people to those with the power of Pfizer coursing through their veins?
The jibby-jab doesn’t prevent a person catching Covid. Nor does it stop a person spreading Covid.
So I ask again, why does Jacinda Ardern insist people must be vaccinated to enter the country? What difference does it make?
Tuesday April 12
THE headline on the homepage of UK news site Metro read: “Ex solider exposed her penis and used wheelie bin as a sex toy in public.”
I’m not sure how you use a wheelie bin as a sex toy. Nor am I sure how the wheelie bin identified. One can only imagine it must have been wheely seductive.
But even more alarmingly, I’m not sure how a woman exposes her penis!
Thanks to the mainstream media, exposing your penis is increasingly common female behaviour these days. I suppose girls will be girls!
I think we ought to find out why women are developing penises. Is it something in the water? But I digress.
Cloe Thompson, aged 42, is clearly a very troubled individual. The former solider was already on the sex offenders list (17 convictions for 22 offences) before deciding he would identify as a penis-wielding woman.
Fifty years ago Thompson would’ve been put on a mental ward. Today, he’ll be celebrated by his “community” for expressing his freedom.
Don’t be mistaken, if this is where our society keeps heading, there will be nothing remaining but the distant memory of human decency. And no wheelie bin will be safe.
But even more troubling is the way in which mainstream media, in a bid to be kind to Thompson, try to bend the readers’ thinking.
“Exposed her penis”
What?!
The public must continually call these untruths out or there will come a time, if indeed we are not there already, when such absurdities pass as facts.
Monday April 11
YOU know what? After that last item, I’ve got nothing else.
Spot on again James. When you hear about the effect on the disruption of the grain harvest in Ukraine because of the war… much of this goes to feed African nations. Such a foolish oversight by the WHO.
And using a wheelie bin as a sex toy? Says it that needs to be said really….😂😂😂
Great stuff James and we in NZ don’t understand either why our PM doesn’t do logic. People are now dying here from effects of vaccine on heart conditions but this is denied and the media don’t do journalism on it only repetition so we too only get sordid news of the ilk of the penis wielding woman