Reader’s Links for June 2, 2024

Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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About Eeyore

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21 Replies to “Reader’s Links for June 2, 2024”

  1. Who has time for revolutions? Or counter-revolutions for that matter? I have a dentist appointment Tuesday and need an oil change (on my car, that is. My own oil is good.)

    The whirring world goes on despite our own personal commitments. Stopping the many Marxist lines of effort is a full-time job and the pay sucks. Meanwhile we manage to pay our full-time destructors through our taxes. Doesn’t seem quite fair, but that’s life.

    The other day I stopped at a red light. Sitting there I heard a noise. I glanced to my right and in the bus shelter there was a black man sitting with his hands over his ears screaming. Maybe he covered his ears to muffle the sound of his own stupid voice. Crazy has its own logic. This revolution sounds exactly the same but it isn’t crazy or stupid at all. It’s logic is brilliant. It just requires brilliant men like Stephen Coughlin and his translator, Vlad, to parse it all for us. Those guys go pretty much full time. I’m sure the Sub-Saharan at the bus stop presented coherently the day he was interviewed by his immigration officer. And I’m sure he presents just fine for his welfare officer, too. Diverting our health care system resources to make sure he takes his meds is critical grease for our societal wheels.

    When I looked at him directly he looked back at me, then drew his hand across his throat as if to say he wanted to slash my neck or cut my head off. I thought this was rather impolite of him as I pulled away. Note that I waited for the artificial authority of the traffic light to turn green before doing so. Rule of law still matters, dammit, even if it only applies to me and not the guy who wants to behead me.

    Behead, behead, behead. Hmm. Repeating this word confuses me. Why not un-head? Be-head makes it sound like I get another head instead of having one taken away. English is nuts this way. If someone says, “I SHALL NOW BEHEAD YOU,” the correct response should be, “gee, thanks, I’ll take it.”

    Flushing human detritus into western civilization is seen but ignored by our polite society. (Back to that part-time counter-revolution idea and dentist appointments.) Like my buddy said to his companion when he landed in India to visit his sister, “I thought we were going to New Delhi.”
    “We are. We just landed.”
    “Oh. –Looks like Toronto.”

    I notice the comments are down on this site, lately. Maybe people are becoming bored by being tossed around in the Maoist washing machine. Or maybe they’re just plain tired of it all. I get it. I get tired, too, and I’m superhuman (sniff).

    Another possibility that Vlad mentioned is that his reach is being squelched by hostile algorithms. Who knows. I know if I were a Maoist I would want to shut up guys like him. Yappity-yap. Imagine someone figuring out everything they’ve done from Plato to Hegel to Marx to Stalin to Frankfurt to Club of Rome to Schwab? Imagine that while we are getting our teeth cleaned and are worrying about next weekend’s weather there are men who have taken on the task of trying to untangle this epic collectivist existential threat to everything? A threat so sophisticated that it manages to give itself a fathomless depth and breadth despite having the real depth of piss in a pan?

    The readership of this site should be in the millions, but it isn’t. If it were our problems would be solved. The commies would be cooked, the Nazis neutered, the Jews safe and the Keynesian kooks cleaned cleared right out.

    Apologies in advance for saying this, but donate to this blog if you can. Help Vlad and Eeyore continue to help us to understand and fight on. Tired just isn’t an option.

  2. In Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World -1930, people whisper about the olden days when children were brought up by people called parents, not the state. People married, loved one another before “Everyone belongs to everyone else”.

    The infants were raised in a test tube style, they learned through repetition. hypnopaedia – they learned by hearing messages while they were asleep. Children were taught rudimentary sexual games. They learned what they had to know at “Government Conditioning Centers”. When they were older everyone “slept” with everyone. Women were not allowed to get pregnant, everyone had an allotment of daily drugs to keep them “happy. There were 3 classes of people, the morons, the little higher and the learned ones.

    The Controllers were the only people who had access to the “forbidden books” / history books, the classics.

    So here we are in 2024, I believe the new word would be hypnomedia, the constant propaganda spewed by the state run corporations. Children are being taught sexual games are acceptable. Pride month has adults parading around displaying what in the olden days was considered “indecent exposure”.

    Valued history books have been removed from multiple sources, children’s elementary books have been shredded, replaced by ……….Parents more and more are being told how to raise their children. Boys are now girls and girls are boys.

    Plant the seed is the new way. The government will take care of you. “Stay home, stay safe, don’t talk to anyone, get vaxed and of course you are now legally allowed to get high with the help of your sharing, caring government.

    Recently many people have told me their older parents, still will not leave their homes, they are too afraid of getting sick and dying. In the olden days, there was such a thing as quality of life. Respect, honour, compassion, knowledge, medical care for everyone, debate, FREEDOM, rule of law, multicultural differences were recognized, before the “New World Order / One World Government” unelected tyrants were allowed to dictate to the worthless eaters, the “little people”.

    SHHHHHHH

    As far as blame, I have never wasted my time listening to feminist, even Justine. I did go to a farm auction sale years ago and purchased an interesting gadget, that I had no idea what it was. The auctioneer asked me what my intentions were, the crowd laughed for quite some time. I had bought a tool for castrating bulls. I sold it to a farmer. Listening to a lot of “men” were I live, watching some still walking around with masks on, keeping up with their 8 shots, attacking the unvaccinated, methinks the farmer might have used it on more than just bulls.

    • The left has taken the old dystopian books as instruction manuals, we can still win the fight and restore reality to what it was when i was a child but it will be a long hard fight.

  3. The Brewing Storm of Revolution is Upon Us… Patriots are Angry! (VIDEO)
    by Grant Stinchfield Jun. 2, 2024 1:00 pm0 Comments

    There was a time when I would never even consider bringing up the idea of a Civil War in this great nation of ours. But now I fear we are closer to a revolution than we have been in over 100 years.

    By no means am I calling for violence.

    The fact is, those on the right are more peaceful and tolerant than anyone on the left. But the radicals continue to push us to a point where I feel the great patriots of this nation may break and push back.

    That is NOT a point I want to get to.

    Sadly the potential of corrupted Judge Juan Merchan in New York imprisoning President Trump may just lead to our nations breaking point.

    This podcast explains how I want everyone to handle themselves if President Trump is imprisoned.

    video at site

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/brewing-storm-revolution-is-upon-us-patriots-are/

    (Richard: The left started the last civil war and they are starting this one, we have to let them start the war, we need the moral high ground.)

  4. President Trump Reveals that He is Prepared to Go to Jail (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Jun. 2, 2024 11:40 am289 Comments

    President Trump revealed during an interview Sunday morning that he prepared to go to jail, a possibility he is okay with.

    Trump was a guest on Fox and Friends Weekend to speak out about his disgraceful conviction when co-host Pete Hegseth inquired about the possibility of crooked Judge Juan Merchan throwing behind bars.

    As The Gateway Pundit readers know, Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, three days before the GOP convention.

    Trump told Hegseth he was okay with it and went on to say, “You don’t beg for anything.”

    This means that despite facing months, if not years, behind bars, Trump is fully ready and will not demand special treatment. How many other politicians can say that?

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/president-trump-reveals-that-he-is-prepared-go/

  5. ‘They Want Trump Dead’ — Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson Pushes ‘DISGRACED Act’ to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection if He Goes to Prison
    by Jim H?ft Jun. 2, 2024 8:45 am550 Comments

    On Thursday, President Trump was convicted on felony charges for a made-up crime in a kangaroo court led by a corrupt judge. This comes at a time when a leading Democrat is aggressively pushing to strip him of Security Service protection, Fox News reported.

    The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) proposed the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act, aiming to strip President Trump of his Secret Service protection should he face imprisonment.

    The bill was introduced along with far-left Democrats Troy Carter (D-LA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), and Steve Cohen (D-TN). It was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

    According to the press release, “This legislation would reform the U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission by automatically terminating Secret Service protection for those who have been sentenced to prison following conviction for a Federal or State felony—clarifying that prison authorities would be responsible for the protection of all inmates regardless of previous Secret Service protection.”

  6. Biden admin offers ‘mass amnesty’ to migrants as it quietly terminates 350,000 asylum cases: sources
    By Social Links for Jennie Taer
    Published June 2, 2024, 1:29 p.m. ET

    While the Biden administration is attempting to look like it’s getting tough on the border, behind the scenes it’s operating a program of a “mass amnesty” for migrants, The Post can reveal.

    Data shows that since 2022, more than 350,000 asylum cases filed by migrants have been closed by the US government if the applicants don’t have a criminal record or are otherwise not deemed a threat to the country.

    This means that while the migrants are not granted or denied asylum — their cases are “terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim” — they are removed from the legal system and no longer required to check in with authorities.

    The move allows them to legally, indefinitely roam about the US without fear of deportation, effectively letting them slip through the cracks.

    https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/biden-admin-offers-mass-amnesty-to-migrants-as-it-quietly-terminates-350000-asylum-cases-sources/

  7. Dramatic Increase in Turkish Illegal Aliens in San Diego Sector with Help of Smugglers on Social Media
    by David Greyson Jun. 2, 2024 5:00 pm11 Comments

    This is Joe Biden’s America.

    In fiscal year 2021, there were about 1,400 Turkish illegal aliens that were apprehended at the southern border. The next two fiscal years, 2022 and 2023, showed a dramatic increase to about 15,000 for each of those years.

    Last year, the majority of them entered through the San Diego Sector, which is now the busiest entry for illegals. We can thank California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom for that.

    The New York Post had obtained social media posts from the site Telegram that explain that the California border is wide open compared to Texas which has taken action to secure its own section of the southern border.

    Another message showed concern that, come November, the border could be shut down following the Presidential election. The reality is that smugglers and illegals know that if Trump wins, their operations will be severely limited.

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    NEW: As Turkish nationals flood across the San Diego sector border illegally, @nypost
    has obtained Telegram messages w/ their smugglers, who say unlike TX, there is no resistance at the CA border, and they express concern about the November election.

    “There is no problem at the Tijuana border. Our wish is that there won’t be any. The situation does not spread [sic] from the Texas Juarez border to other border gates. Because Texas wants to leave the USA,” a message says.

    “Since Trump has fallen, the democrats will leave the gates alone for another year,” reads another message. “I hope it won’t close after November. Good luck for those who will come later.”

    Great reporting by @JennieSTaer

    https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/turkish-migrants-flocking-to-san-diego-via-social-media-smugglers/
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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/dramatic-increase-turkish-illegal-aliens-san-diego-sector/

  8. (Richard: If you live in a nation or state that allows self defense get a weapon get trained and carry.)

    HORROR: Thugs Open Fire on Terrified Family in Broad Daylight During Armed Carjacking in Mississippi – Teen Identified and Arrested (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Jun. 2, 2024 4:40 pm161 Comments

    A horrifying video has surfaced showing the moment two thugs opened fire in broad daylight on a scared family during a carjacking in Jackson, Mississippi.

    As WAPT reported, the individuals sauntered into the driveway of Heather Allen’s home on Jayne Avenue, waving their firearms. Allen and her adult son were visually present at the scene while Allen’s young grandchildren and her two other kids were hidden in her black car.

    A video of the May 24 incident was recorded on a Ring doorbell camera and released by the Jackson police Wednesday, according to the outlet.

    The footage shows the two armed thugs racing up to Allen and her adult son while they are standing next to their car in the driveway.

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    One of the men then fires his weapon, sending the two hiding behind the car for safety. Allen throws her hands up.

    One gunman then jerks her daughter out of the car and climbs into the driver’s seat. He proceeds to threaten her oldest son by pointing a gun at his face.

    He somehow manages to escape from the vehicle and runs for the house upon hearing directions from his mom. During an interview with WAPT, she explained that she had to return to the car to save her “grandbabies in the back seat.”

    The two suspects then drove off with Allen’s car. Thankfully, Allen and her family were already out of the vehicle.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/horror-thugs-open-fire-terrified-family-broad-daylight/

  9. Jesse Watters: “There is Something Very Fishy About How Judge Merchan Came to Preside Over This Case”
    by Margaret Flavin Jun. 2, 2024 4:20 pm151 Comments

    Just before the jury returned a guilty verdict in corrupt Judge Juan Merchan’s kangaroo court, without even specifying what crime President Trump committed, Fox News host Jesse Watters highlighted serious concerns about communist New York Judge Juan Merchan.

    Watters: There’s something very fishy about how Judge Mershon came to preside over this case. There are 24 sitting judges who were supposed to be randomly selected from to take this case.

    Judge Merchan wasn’t even on the list of judges.

    He’s an acting judge.

    And he’s not just a Biden donor. Judge Merchan donated to the Progressive Turnout Project and to an organization called Stop Trump, and he never recused himself.

    Judge Merchan was allegedly randomly selected for the Trump Hush Money case, the Trump Organization Fraud case, and for the Steve Bannon case.

    This is almost statistically impossible that an acting judge, not within the pool of sitting judges, who happens to be a stopped Trump donor, is randomly selected to all three of these Trump cases within the same year. It’s probably another conspiracy theory.

    Just like the resistance left, fell in love with Fauci, Mueller, and Avenadi, they now have a man crush on Merchan.

    MSNBC Clip: With respect to Judge Merchan,I felt like a man crush on him. He is, he’s such a great judge that it’s hard to see that the jurors wouldn’t have the same impression. You just keep on thinking, if you looked in a dictionary for judicial temperament, that’s what you get.

    Watters: Judicial temperament? He kicked everybody out of a courtroom so he could yell at a defense witness who rolled his eyes and then threatened to throw the former President of the United States in jail for talking.

    The judge is throwing a tantrum inside the courthouse, and the sitting President sends actors to throw tantrums outside the courthouse. He let a porn star suggest she was sexually assaulted and then told the jury, Oops, pretend you didn’t hear that. And then let Michael Cohen sell the jury anti-Trump T-shirts from the witness stand. No one knows what the heck is going on.

    President Trump: The confusion is, nobody knows what the crime is because there’s no crime. Nobody knows what the crime is. The DA didn’t name the crime. They don’t know what the crime is. That’s what the problem is. It’s a disgrace, this thing, were to be ended immediately. The judge ought to end it and save his reputation.

    Watters: The defendant has a constitutional right to know the crime he’s being charged with. You can’t tell him on the last day, and you can’t tell the jury the crime on the last day either.

    And if the judge, witnesses, and the crowd can’t control their emotions, how can we expect the jury to put their emotions aside and use reason to decide this case?

    Watch:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/jesse-watters-there-is-something-very-fishy-about/

  10. The Revolution Eats Its Own: Pro-Hamas Agitators Crash and Block Philly Pride Parade While Confronting Angry LGBTQ Marchers (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Jun. 2, 2024 3:40 pm388 Comments

    An interesting and arguably amusing scene unfolded Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia during their annual Gay Pride Parade.

    As CBS Philadelphia notes, the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival is one of the largest and most storied pride festivals in America. Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the city’s first Gay Pride Parade.

    The march began near Washington Square Park in Center City and is scheduled to end in Philly’s Midtown Village neighborhood, aka the Gayborhood.

    But pro-Hamas agitators decided to temporarily depart from bullying Jewish people and harass liberal gay marchers instead. Thus, an unusual scene of left-on-left fighting was witnessed in the public square.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/revolution-eats-its-own-pro-hamas-agitators-crash/

  11. Marxist Tyrant NY AG Letitia James Loses Bid to Move Pregnancy Help Centers Lawsuit to Manhattan
    by Margaret Flavin Jun. 2, 2024 3:20 pm93 Comments

    The Gateway Pundit reported that Marxist tyrant New York AG Letitia James recently notified pro-life pregnancy centers in the state of possible lawsuits over allegedly misleading statements about ‘abortion pill reversal’ (APR) protocols.

    On April 22, James’ office sent “Notice of Intention to Sue” threat letters to at least a dozen pregnancy help organizations that offer or share information about the APR protocol. The centers were given just five days to respond.

    A collective of pregnancy help organizations are now suing the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.

    Several pro-life pregnancy help organizations, represented by Thomas More Society, filed suit against the AG to block the threatened prosecutions.

    Thomas More Society attorneys are requesting court intervention against the Attorney General’s threatened legal action, to safeguard the constitutional rights of Heartbeat International and the collective of pregnancy help organizations—many of which are part of Heartbeat International’s Abortion Pill Rescue® Network, or otherwise provide information about APR. At its core, James’ threatened litigation seeks to illegally silence Heartbeat International and its network member organizations from sharing their science-based, life-affirming message about the benefits, success, effectiveness, and safety of APR.

    On May 24, 2024, James’s effort to relocate the lawsuit against her from its Rochester venue to New York County Court in Manhattan, where the atmosphere is more likely tto be friendly to her Marxist ways, was rejected by New York Supreme Court Justice Sam Valleriani.

    Valleriani issued the consolidation order on May 24, 2024, to combine a lawsuit brought by James against pregnancy help organizations in Manhattan, New York, with the previously filed case brought by the organizations in Rochester’s Monroe County Court.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/marxist-tyrant-ny-ag-letitia-james-loses-bid/

  12. Just Words… Speaker Johnson: “House Republicans Are Investigating Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Special Counsel Jack Smith for Targeting Political Opponents”
    by Margaret Flavin Jun. 2, 2024 2:40 pm

    House Speaker Mike Johnson joined Fox Sunday to discuss House Republicans’ plans to investigate Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Special Counsel Jack Smith for targeting political opponents.

    It sounds like just more words from Speaker Johnson. We want to see action!

    Shannon Bream: Now, I want to ask you about the verdict. Clearly, you think it’s a travesty, as many people do. And I think having watched the trial, there are many grounds, fertile territory for the Trump team to use on appeal, but that’s going to take time. In the meantime, there are a number of Republicans out there saying, You guys need to turn around and do this same thing. John, you’re writing this. Republicans have to bring charges against Democratic officers, even presidents. Only retaliation in kind can produce the deterrence necessary to enforce a political version of mutual assured destruction. The other side, Peggy Newton, writing about how high the temperature is, says this, We have to ease up. We have to stop enjoying our hate so much. We can’t go on indefinitely like this. Are you worried that Republicans will be perceived as doing the very thing you’re accusing Democrats of, of using the legal system for political purposes? If you follow John Hughes’ advice.

    Speaker Johnson: Here’s what I believe, Shannon. Listen, we are the rule of law party. Chaos is not a conservative value, and we have to fight back, and we will, with everything in our arsenal. But we do that within the confines of the rule of law. We believe in our institutions. We are Conservatives, and we are trying to conserve the greatest country in the history of the world, and its institutions are an important part of that. Our system of justice is an important part of that.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/speaker-johnson-house-republicans-are-investigating-manhattan-da/

  13. Radical Barack Obama Comes Out of the Shadows and Announces Joe Biden’s Palestinian-Israel Policy – Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Who Is Really Calling the Shots
    by Jim Hoft Jun. 2, 2024 3:00 pm566 Comments

    Obama once said in a 2020 interview that he would be fine with running an election from his basement with an earpiece in his ear:

    Barack Obama: “I used to say, if, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man, a front woman and they had an earpiece in and I was in the basement in my sweats … I’d be fine with that.”

    Obama made the appearance on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert and told the far left host that he never wished for a third term, but if he could have had a “stand-in” or a “front-man,” he wouldn’t have minded telling that person what to say.

    And, for years there have been rumblings that it is Barack who is behind Joe Biden’s reckless and radical policies.

    In March 2024, The New York Times article by Katie Rogers provided groundbreaking insight into Obama’s behind-the-scenes activities, suggesting a direct link between Biden and current actions by the regime to take out President Trump.

    This past weekend Barack Obama finally made it official.

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    For years, there have been “rumors” that Barack Obama is running the show for Joe Biden from behind the scenes.

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    Obama once said in a 2020 interview that he would be fine with running an election from his basement with an earpiece in his ear:

    Barack Obama: “I used to say, if, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man, a front woman and they had an earpiece in and I was in the basement in my sweats … I’d be fine with that.”

    Obama made the appearance on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert and told the far left host that he never wished for a third term, but if he could have had a “stand-in” or a “front-man,” he wouldn’t have minded telling that person what to say.

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    And, for years there have been rumblings that it is Barack who is behind Joe Biden’s reckless and radical policies.

    In March 2024, The New York Times article by Katie Rogers provided groundbreaking insight into Obama’s behind-the-scenes activities, suggesting a direct link between Biden and current actions by the regime to take out President Trump.

    This past weekend Barack Obama finally made it official.
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    Barack Obama came out of the closet and announced Joe Biden’s Israel-Palestinian policy on Friday.

    Obama announced Old Joe’s policy positions on X/Twitter. The Democrats don’t even trust Joe Biden to tweet anymore!

    Here is the full text:

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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/radical-barack-obama-comes-shadows-announces-joe-bidens/