You’d be hard pressed to find a Democrat in our own country who’d disagree with him

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PJ Media’s Ben Bartee is watching Britain, and doesn’t like what he sees:

The Great Replacement Chronicles:

How can a nation, which by definition is a set of people with a shared in-group identity that necessitates an out-group for it to mean anything, be comprised of “global citizens”?

It can’t, of course, because it would cease to be a nation under the weight of a contradiction in terms.

And yet:

Tony Blair: ‘Britain’s future has got to be as a nation of global citizens, not just British citizens'

‘We’re winning’

Perhaps the most remarkable gaslighting campaign in recent history — and it’s a serious competition — is the simultaneous claim that “replacement migration” is a “conspiracy theory” and, from the same people out of the other side of their mouths, open celebration of the replacement of white populations in the West with Third World migrants.

Here is Ash Sarkar, an avowed communist and senior editor at Novara Media, explicitly claiming victory (“we’re winning”) in the context of London losing over half a million white British residents and taking on the burden of 1.2 million non-British like her.

Everything they need to know they learned in Columbia Kindergarten ‘69, but they’ve forgotten (Updated)

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And for the protesters’ viewing enjoyment after they’ve been escorted back to Edge of the Hill …

UPDATE:

And here’s one of those grandkids now, dragged along to a protest by Granny Invisible:

Another update: Our No King geriatrics have their leader, if he can only be coaxed out of retirement

lobsters

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CT Mirror:

26 years after lobster die-off, CT lobstermen reflect on a net loss

The Long Island Sound lobster industry was decimated in 1999, but CT’s last few commercial lobstermen keep the tradition alive in Stonington.

Bart Mansi used to haul a thousand pounds of lobster a day. Now he sets out just a couple dozen traps, out of curiosity — or force of habit — and he’s lucky to catch 10 lobsters.

“I’ve been doing it all my life. I gotta see for myself,” he said. “But as far as trying to make a living, you can’t do it, not any more.”

Mansi converted his lobster wholesale facility on the dock in Guilford into a restaurant in the early 2000s. In the upstairs office on a sunny September morning, there are a few reminders of the life he used to lead: a “Captain’s Quarters” sign, framed photos from his lobstering heyday, the mast of his son’s fishing boat swaying gently out the window. 

His eyes lit up as he recalled the good days. “We saw a lot of lobsters, a real lot of lobsters,” Mansi said.

In the 1980s and ’90s, Mansi was making a killing, along with the roughly 1,200 commercial lobstermen on Long Island Sound. The Sound was the third most-productive lobster fishery in the country, with 10 million pounds of lobster landings at its peak in 1998, including 3.8 million pounds in Connecticut.

But in the fall of 1999, lobstermen pulled up traps filled with limp, sickly lobsters, and soon after, hardly any lobsters at all. It was an unprecedented mortality event, and the lobster population never recovered. Connecticut saw only 181,000 pounds of lobster landings in 2024, less than 5% of the 1998 peak. Now most seafood restaurants in the state — including Mansi’s — import lobster from Maine or Canada.

The catastrophic die-off is still an emotional subject for Mansi and so many former lobstermen. In addition to the painful memory of losing their livelihoods practically overnight, resentment lingers about how it happened. The scientific consensus is that warming waters, and an epidemic of a crustacean disease called paramoebiasis, were the primary culprits — and that pesticides used to combat West Nile virus may have had an additional effect.

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But the catastrophe was complex and unprecedented, and not all scientists agree on which factors were the most significant. The lobstermen almost unanimously blame the pesticides, and they feel betrayed by the chemical manufacturers, the marine scientists, and the government — whose tightening regulations they resented and whose financial assistance they found inadequate.

In the early 2000s, as they fought for accountability and answers, the lobstermen had no choice but to adapt to the new reality. Some switched to fishing, clamming or catching conch, but most sold their boats and left the fishing docks behind entirely. 

Now there are no full-time commercial lobstermen left in Connecticut.

Back in the 90s a friend of mine and I had lobster “hobby licenses” that permitted us to run ten traps apiece, and for many fished the waters off the RYC from March through late September, with enough success that I grew so tired of eating the crustaceans that to this day I won’t touch a lobster roll or, god forbid, a boiled one.

The summer of ‘99 saw an outbreak of mosquito-borne Nile Fever, and a great panic descended on the land. Health authorities in New York and Connecticut announced their intention to dump the pesticide methoprene into every storm drain to kill the mosquitos and more importantly, show that they were “doing something”. There was debate at the time whether this was wise, and I followed it because the debate centered around the effect on lobsters that methoprene might have. I distinctly remember a biologist from either Yale or UConn warning that lobsters and mosquitoes had the same basic exoskeleton, and what harmed one would also be fatal to the other.

The scientist’s warning was ignored, the methoprene was dumped into storm drains, the rains came and fushed the drains into Long Island Sound and, a week later? Two?, lobstermen, including hobbyists like my friend and I, went out one day and found nothing but dead lobsters in our traps and after a few days, nothing, dead or alive.

We pulled our traps, stacked them ashore and waited for better days; twenty-six years later, we’re still waiting. The effect on amateurs like myself was negligible: ten now-useless traps at $40 per; but as the CT Mirror article reports, it wiped out the commercial fishermen. I was representing Greenwich’s local lobstermen, ten in all, at the time, and they experienced the same disaster: lobsters one day, complete wipeout the next. I believe Gus Bertolf and his son continued to try to make a living fishing out of Cos Cob Harbor, but the rest quit within a month, and went on to find other occupations. My friend Bill Fossum became a real estate salesman, and, having gone out with him on his own boat many times and later joining him in the selling houses to strangers racket, I can say with certainty that the career change could not have been an improvement.

The “experts” still deny that there was a connection between flooding the Sound with methoprene and the subsequent overnight die off of every lobster in the water, but experts will do anything, say anything to protect their reputation. Suppose, for instance, every citizen in one state were ordered to be injected with a vaccine against a new disease. If, five days after receiving the injection, every single living person in that state were to die, would you accept the health authorities’ assurance that there was absolutely no connection, that the deaths were due to, say, global warming?

Or let’s suppose there was one laboratory in the world experimenting with creating a new, deadly form of virus, and one day people all around that laboratory became infected with and died from that virus. Would you believe and accept the official governmental assurances promulgated by UN health authorities, the dictatorship hosting that laboratory, and the top health bureaucrats of the United States that the two were unrelated and the appearance of the disease just outside the walls of the laboratory was mere coincidence?

Neither would I.

Here’s a Google treatment of the lobster die-off; it did not specifically address the question I asked concerning the identity of the biologist who’d predicted disaster in 1999, before the poison was employed, but does discuss the fatal effect methoprene. Of course, with Google, omission of a fact is by no means proof that something didn’t happen.

AI Overview

Yes, University of Connecticut (UConn) researchers confirmed in 2003 that the mosquito-control pesticide methoprene is deadly to lobsters at very low concentrations, leading to warnings against its use in storm drains that lead to Long Island Sound. UConn's research showed the pesticide could kill lobsters at 33 parts per billion, and a later 2010 study identified other chemicals from plastics and detergents that may have also contributed to lobster deaths, note UConn Today and CTPost. In response, state representatives, including those from UConn, supported a 2013 law prohibiting the use of methoprene in storm drains in Connecticut's coastal areas to protect lobsters, say Beyond Pesticides and CTPost. 

  • Pesticide research:

    UConn research in 2003 found that the pesticide methoprene could kill lobsters at a concentration of only 33 parts per billion. 

  • Connection to lobster deaths:

    The lobster industry seized on these findings to argue that methoprene was responsible for widespread lobster deaths in Long Island Sound, note Beyond Pesticides and CTPost. 

  • Other contributing factors:

    A 2010 UConn study led by Hans Laufer identified that chemicals from plastics and detergents may also contribute to lobster shell disease, a major cause of death, note UConn Today and CTPost. 

  • Legislation:

    As a result of this research and advocacy, Connecticut passed a law in 2013 prohibiting the application of methoprene in storm drains within coastal areas to prevent it from entering Long Island Sound, supported by a UConn professor, say Beyond Pesticides and CTPost. 

Yes, Bad Bunny sings in Spanish, but isn't she worried that her domestics’ niños will understand the lyrics?

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Greenwich Invisible Geriatrics — you know, the crowd that cheered the government locking citizens in their homes, closing schools, churches and small businesses (except liquor stores), and shutting down the country, mandatory “vaccinations”, and government demands that Facebook censor and ban dissenting voices — held a wheelchair rally on Greenwich Avenue yesterday, and Belle Haven sent its finest. I was struck by this picture of two of them, especially the one expressing her support for the upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance by ‘Bad Bunny”, the Puerto Rican transgender rapper known primarily for his misogynist, obscene lyrics.

Greenwich’s own, Edward “Paul Bunion” Lamont also showed up, where he gave an odd speech praising the founding fathers; that’s ironic, because if you were to ask the grandchildren of these protestors what they know about Thomas Jefferson, they’d reply “he was a slave owner”, period. As for Alexander Hamilton, “Who?”

Mind you, the Governor, too, is a product of modern education, as this garbled spouting demonstrates:

“We don’t need to be educated about democracy. We are the Constitution State going back 300 years. The first constitution. The Connecticut constitution. Do you know how it began?” he asked. “We The People of Connecticut – governed by those who gave their consent  – get rid of those militias. Get rid of those standing armies. Stay out of our towns.”

Get rid of the militias? Who does Ned think met the British on Lexington Common? “The people governed by those who gave their consent”? I think he might have meant something about the governed voluntarily — consenting to — giving some of their rights as individuals to a limited central government, rather than, as he put it, rulers consenting to govern the peasants, but with this spawn of Harvard, who can tell? He might have been referring to his class’s sense of noblesse oblige.

But I digress; let’s get back to Granny Warbuck’s favorite singer, Mr. Bunny. He gets a pass from her and her peers because he’s both gender dysphoric and a PR, and of course, we can’t hold either of those disadvantaged classes to the high standards expected of white males; that would be waasist!

Here’s a translation of one of his songs ,“Diles” — “Tell Them”. No one, by the way, is demanding that Bad Bunny be prohibited from singing what he likes; the objection is to the NFL selecting him as the star performer at the Super Bowl, a show that will be broadcast to an audience of millions of viewers, many of whom, unlike the Greenwich Ladies of Invisibility, will be offended and disgusted by what the man spews across the airwaves.

Tell them 

Bad Bunny baby

Light up a joint, baby

Light up a joint, baby

Light up a joint, baby

Because this one is going out

We will f*ck for the fourth time

This is turning into a saga

She says that she likes doing it while listening to my trap songs

And if they ask you why in sex

I am your favorite 

Tell them

That I know your favorite poses

That I talk dirty to you and that turns you on

That I do everything you need

In order to finish

 

And tell them

That I know your favorite poses

That I talk dirty to you and that turns you on

That I do everything you need

In order to finish

 

Let's do it in the car and forget about the hotel

Cause I really want it baby and there's no time to lose

Tinted cristals, no one will see us

We are horny and we want to f*ck

You and I alone, turn off your cellphone

I will do to you the things he doesn't

And woah

The car's cristals steam up

Your angel face fools me

I feel good but you break me down

And woah

She lights up a joint and gets greedy

She gave me a blowjob while I was driving

She climbed on top of me and seduced me

 

Tell to those idiots they can't compare with me

If they are lexus I am a mclauren

I am always wearing Ralph Lauren's shirts

With drops to clear the eyes

The air condition is on but it's hot either way

If they ask you why

It's because I f*ck you better

 

Baby tell them

That I know your favorite poses

That I talk dirty to you and that turns you on

That I do everything you need

In order to finish

 

And tell them

That I know your favorite poses

That I talk dirty to you and that turns you on

That I do everything you need

In order to finish

 

You and I doing it, we look hot

Let's go, baby, take your jeans off

I've moved backwards the car seat

Let's do it in the hotbox

 

She is different when she sees smoke

She tells me there's no one like me

She doesn't want this to end

But two hours later she asks me if I have finished

 

We do everything, you have no limits

You put it in yourself, you make it easy for me

I like it when you scratch my back and shout

I like that it lasts long, the desire doesn't go away

She uses her brand new victoria's underwear with me

Kisses, bites, obscene words

 

She's no porn actress

But with me she makes a couple of scenes

She smokes and f*cks while she's high

Always hanging around behind her dad's back

She's got a pair of jeans that doesn't fit her

And I'm burning to do her a cream pie

 

Everyone's hitting on her

But it's always in vain

Everyone's hitting on her

But I always win her over

 

Tell them

That I know your favorite poses

That I talk dirty to you and that turns you on

That I do everything you need

In order to finish

 The Patience

Ah, drugs, sex and (very bad) rock and roll. It must all bring back fond, nostalgic memories to the Invisible crowd; or it would if they could still remember.

and here’s your grandmother and me getting it on at woodstock — nice tits, huh?

They COULD help themselves, but they choose to lie, every time

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“We’ll have you out of here in no time”

Hamas terrorist is renamed “Louisiana Man” by the NYT.

Aw shucks: Maine Oyster Man's senatorial campaign is suddenly just a shell of its former self

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We’re witnessing an awesome display of Machiavellism politics at its full power unfolding up here in Vacationland, and it’s fascinating to watch. The protagonists: the Old Guard Democrat power players vs. the New Progressives. This week, just as it seemed as though the progressives would prevail, the master himself, Chuck Schumer, showed that he’s still capable of the hardball political tactics and strategy that have kept him and his cohort in control of their party for decades.

On August 19th, a Mainer named Gerald Platner, 41, announced that he would be contesting 77-year-old Janet Mills in the upcoming Democrat party’s primary to select a challenger to the incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. Although Platner is the son of an Ellsworth lawyer, and the grandson of architect Warren Platner, designer of, among other projects, the original Windows of the World restaurant, he portrayed himself as a hard-working, man of the people “oystah fahma” from Frenchman’s Harbor:

”MEET GRAHAM

”Graham Platner is a Marine and U.S. Army veteran, oyster farmer, and a Democratic candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine, running to defeat Susan Collins, defeat her billionaire backers, and win back the seat for the working Mainers being priced out of our homes”

Politico had the story, and pointed out the main problem Platner would face: As part of the Democrat’s grand plan to regain the Senate, the term-limited Governor Mills had been personally recruited by Chuck Schumer to run against Collins, and there was no room in that plan for upstarts:

Maine oyster farmer wants to upend Democratic politics with Senate bid

Graham Platner wants to oust Sen. Susan Collins — and disrupt national Dems’ plans to unite around Gov. Janet Mills.

Adding insult to hoped-for injury, Platner also vowed that he would not support Schumer as Senate Majority Leader should the Democrats regain control in 2026 — as Chuckles might have said, “if you challenge me, I have six ways from Sunday to get back at you”.

It was war. Platner was the creation of the “progressive” wing of the new Democrats, and even before they let him announce his candidacy they’d lined up $5 million in out-of-state cash and assigned him two political operatives, Morris Katz, a top admaker for New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, and Joe Calvello, a former senior aide to Sen. John Fetterman who, along with other staffers, had deserted Fetterman’s camp in 2024 after the senator declared his support for Israel.

The battle was joined, and the Establishment Democrats went to work immediately, assigning their opposition research team to find dirt on the enemy. They found plenty, but delayed releasing it until Janet Mills officially announced her candidacy this past Tuesday. On Wednesday, Schumer’s team gave Politico the first shovelfuls of dirt: selected social media posts the Oyster Farmer had made a few years ago advocating armed rebellion, an admission that he was a communist, and denouncing Maine’s rural population as third-generation, imbecilic harelips. Politico ate it up:

Maine Senate candidate promoted violent political action in since-deleted online posts

That was Thursday morning, and that took care of Platner’s blue collar voters, but it was just a left hook. The knockout punch, aimed at his progressive backing, came with the release yesterday of additional posts on women and blacks. Progressives would see nothing wrong at all with a candidate who supported street violence and communism, but attacks on these sacred cows? Quell horror!

The Bangor Daily News duly summarized all the known (so far — there are probably more still held in reserve) offensive Platner posts, but led with the killer:

Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ and referenced rape in old Reddit posts

In Reddit posts from 2013, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner asked why Black people “don’t tip” and suggested people concerned about being raped shouldn’t be inebriated around people they don’t feel comfortable with.

Those posts, first reported on by the Bangor Daily News, add to previous coverage from CNN and Politico published Thursday about Platner’s writings on the social media site about his ideology and political violence. The BDN obtained more posts made under Platner’s handle, “P-Hustle,” through an online database. He posted on the social media site more than 1,800 times between 2009 and 2021.

Platner’s past comments came to light the same week that Gov. Janet Mills joined the Democratic primary for the right to face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. The posts threaten to upend an out-of-nowhere campaign that has generated grassroots momentum, raising roughly $5 million and signing up thousands of volunteers.

Platner responded to a 2013 post on Reddit entitled “What is one question you have always wanted to ask someone of another race,” writing, “Why don’t black people tip?” He worked as a bartender at Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, where he was a guest bartender last month. 

“I work as a bartender and it always amazes me how solid this stereotype is,” he wrote. “Every now and again a black patron will leave a 15-20% tip, but usually it [is] between 0-5%. There’s got to be a reason behind it, what is it?”

That same year, he also responded to a post about underwear designed to prevent sexual assault saying people should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?” 

Platner also made references to political violence in several posts. In 2018, he said in response to a thread in which someone invoked leaving the U.S. due to Trump-era immigration policies: “Fight until you get tired of fighting with words and then fight with signs, and fists, and guns if need be.” 

In other 2018 posts first reported by Politico, Platner said those who “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle … ought to do some reading of history.” He also said “an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.”

CNN focused on a series of posts from 2021 in which Platner also called himself a communist, said rural Americans are “racist” and “stupid,” called all cops “bastards” and used the word “retard” several times.

And it worked, or at least it’s working, and the end is near, as this morning’s news reveals.

Former Maine lawmaker resigns from Graham Platner’s campaign over Reddit posts

The political director for Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign resigned Friday after Platner’s past online posts featuring numerous controversial remarks resurfaced this week.

Former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald of Stonington was one of the most prominent Maine Democrats who joined Platner’s campaign after a buzzy August launch saw the Sullivan oysterman and military veteran draw national attention in addition to big crowds at his town hall-style rallies. She sent her resignation letter exclusively to the Bangor Daily News.

The past week has dealt Platner, 41, the biggest test yet in his nascent campaign, and it coincided with Gov. Janet Mills joining the Democratic primary Tuesday for the chance to take on U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in 2026. McDonald’s exit showed discord among the campaign that includes many progressive strategists from out of state.

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McDonald, who was consulting for Preti Strategies before joining Platner’s team, wrote in Friday’s resignation letter the past statements “were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate.”

”While I am empathetic to Graham’s experiences and respect his personal journey and growth, I cannot overlook the volume and nature of his past comments, many of which were made as an adult, not as a young man,” McDonald wrote.

The Platner campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on McDonald’s resignation.

It is the first crack in the structure of Platner’s campaign that has otherwise enjoyed plenty of momentum, seen packed crowds at the town hall-style events, signed up about 11,000 volunteers and raised roughly $5 million in its first two months. 

That included raising $500,000 in donations in the 24 hours after Mills entered the race Tuesday with plenty of backing from national Democrats who believe the 77-year-old governor has the best chance of unseating the 72-year-old Collins.

The cut-off date for entering the Democrat primary was Wednesday the 15th, so there’s no time for the progressives to field a new challenger to replace this now-dead one. Schumer 1, Progressives 0.

It'll be a hot day in town tomorrow for our Greenwich Ladies Invisible (Updated)

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UPDATE: Datarepublican has a huge, lengthy post of Soros and the Indivisible organization