On March 20, 2024 at 3:54 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Were Irish PM Leo Varadkar and Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff separated at birth? They look like twins!
Also, now that Varadkar has resigned, could Ireland get an even worse leader than Varadkar? Who will replace Varadkar? Is there any hope for Ireland?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:54 pm, William Stroock wrote:
Well, Leo Varadkar is resigning, and Ireland just got a less diverse. Will the referendum defeat and Leo's resignation matter? When have the elites ever let voting and election defeat get in their way?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:55 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Mark, For your consideration on today's time zone recitation:
It is 4PM Deep State Time in Washington DC featuring the recent resignation of Mitch McConnell as the minority leader of the US Senate, and it is also 4PM in Port-Au-Prince where Haiti's PM Ariel Henry also has recently resigned due to massive, uncontrolled gang activity. PM Barbecue (er, Babekyou, in the Creole) coming soon;
It is 8PM in Dublin where Irish PM Leo Varadkar resigned today after failing to strike mothers from the Irish Constitution;
9PM in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo where PM Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde resigned in late Feb. and will remain in the legislative body and whose government continues to run the government;
and 3AM in Hanoi, Vietnam where Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigned today amid accusations of corruption.
Wow! There is a lot of resigning going on. Who is next?
It's a rough draft of an interesting collection of political resignations. Mark, You'll have to gussy up the script.
On March 20, 2024 at 3:56 pm, Steve from Manhattan wrote:
I might have expected NBC News to have ignored anything that Peter Navarro said yesterday before he walked into Federal prison. But they appear to have sent a reporter to provide a little "You Are There" feel. Here is how NBC covered this new step in the degradation of the US:
"Before turning himself in, Navarro held a press conference in a strip-mall parking lot down the street from the facility. Near a Papa John's, Navarro gave an extended speech airing his grievances..."
Folks on the Left certainly have their schadenfreude these days. But will they have the last laugh?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:57 pm, Tim Boggs aka Midwestern Tim wrote:
Just finished listening to your recent interview with Lord Black. It got me wondering whether or not it's even possible to fix the DOJ. If Trump escapes conviction and the corruption of the election in November, AND he appoints you to fix the dirty rotten DOJ is it even possible to fix it, or do you need to blow it up and start over?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:57 pm, Penns Woods wrote:
Mark... say Trump wins the election and the House and Senate remain in the same hands. What are the chances of reversing anything the Biden admin has done?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:58 pm, Amy Boney Carrot wrote:
Can you comment on Trump's inability to read the room re: vaccine efficacy and safety, his awarding Fauci a medal on his way out, his 15 minutes to flatten the curve that was extended and extended wrecking lives and businesses.
I fear his statements will be very off-putting for many and they may decide to 'sit this one out' in disgust.
What say you?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:58 pm, Israel Pickholtz wrote:
Mark, do you believe that the people who actually run the Democrat Party already know who will be cast as President and Vice-President going forward and exactly how they will script it? Or perhaps they are still waiting to see how things will play out?
And if they have decided, do you think the new people already know their roles?
On March 20, 2024 at 3:59 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
Now that the public information board at King's Cross station is displaying hadiths of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), can we expect snippets of scripture from Jesus, or are we stuck with sayings only from the strong horse?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm, Todd Hynes wrote:
Hi Mark,
Have you seen that one of the complainants in your long-ago Canadian Human Rights Commission case, then an activist student and now an immigration lawyer, has been made a member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal? And now that the vanquished Section 13 has been revived as "online harms" Bill C-63, the Tribunal will once again be hearing online hate speech cases. So, if (slash when?) you find yourself before the Tribunal you would discover that your accuser has become your judge and jury. How's that for a fair hearing?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm, The Notorious Mr. J wrote:
So much of the latest news obliges us to reflect on the notion of hate speech. Why is this insane premise so sacrosanct to our present crop of Masters? It is berserk to the extreme to imagine that Clockwork Orange Alex is a morally higher being because he kills and maims in a democratic fashion (equitably choosing victims with no regard as to race, gender, ethnicity etc. ,etc., etc.), as opposed some bigot who is more selective in his rampage. Identity politics has become so appealing that it has clouded our judgement, if not blotted it out entirely.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:02 pm, John Frey wrote:
Very much interested in the strategy and tactics planned for the push-back against OfCom. Steyn partisans will find the case easily understood and decided, though government functionaries are quite adept in finding ways to preserve their positions and power. Even by perverting the laws that exist.
We are with you, Mark. Waving the "Magna Carta" end of No. 462 in your direction in support.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:02 pm, Martin Kinasz wrote:
Mark, I notice Andrew Bridgen appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice today trying to prove Matt Hancock has defamed him.. Upon inspection I note the judge trying the case to be a Mrs.Justice Steyn. Any relationship ? Could we ask nicely if Mrs Steyn happens to be around on 11th June.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:03 pm, Alison Castellina wrote:
The trouble is that Ofcom's Rules are clearly defunct because things have changed so much. We have all now experienced "Nineteen Eighty Four" and "the Ministry of Truth". Govt propaganda has been announced by 'neutral' newsreaders. Does the fact that the 'neutral' newsreader is reading political 'economies with the truth' not count as bias just because the news is not being read out by an MP? Who now cares whether newsreaders are politicians when we all know the barely disguised politics of BBC newsreaders? No one thinks the BBC is impartial, ever. In fact, the BBC is so lacking in neutrality and impartiality that it is unwatchable. Nor does Ofcom define news v current affairs. The latter is more widely defined as "political events happening at the current time" i.e. just like news. Question: Should Ofcom's Rules be completely rewritten?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:04 pm, Keith Farrell wrote:
I rarely watch GBNews since they 'did the dirty in you', the sole exception being Neil Oliver.They have now moved half his show online AND make it difficult to find. How long do you think it will be before they disappear into the ether?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:06 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
I think you are wrong when you say there is no turbulence. There is turbulence, but it lacks direction, and because it lacks direction, it takes the form of self-destructive behavior, like addiction and despair leading to suicide, or intense anger and hatred resulting in mass shootings.
I think you're correct that INC style civil disobedience will get us nowhere. Instead, I now think that President Trump, the people at Vdare, and the states should ignore federal law and Supreme Court decisions until the Federal government actually does something to fix the damned problems afflicting this country. If Republican politicians in power at the state and local level would start actively pushing back, millions would get behind them, and the turbulence would be directed in a productive manner.
Personally, I no longer think this country is worth saving. I feel the same way about the US as my in-laws did about the Soviet Union. I hate the Constitution, I hate its starry banner striped with so much blood, and I hate this land of "freedom" too. American freedom be damned. Freedom to do what? Watch porn? Get high on opiates? Freedom to be a degenerate is not freedom.
If there is a war between China, Russia, and the USA and EU, I hope China and Russia win, and I hope there are Nuremberg style trials for Lindsay Graham, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, and all those wretched upstart swine who rose above their station. These people do not know the pain and suffering they have inflicted on me and my family and countless other families and persons, not only in Ukraine and Russia, but Libya, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, and God knows where else.
Yours Faithfully,
William, Texas
On March 20, 2024 at 4:07 pm, Bideford Jake wrote:
"The rain is on the mountainside/The beast is in the silent meadow/The northcountryside is patiently waiting again./Blackbird is dumb in the juniper/Lapwing shivers in the dripping thicket/Down in the stone-faced town one door opens."
Dear Mark, I had to sign up to the club after your scintillating show last week. Thank you for introducing me to Steve Lawrence and by extension the fabulous Ad-Men sketch on the Carol Burnett show. Such pure, unalloyed pleasure seemed a distant memory. I agree with you that many can sing but not all can swing and Lawrence certainly did those standards proud. That Cole Porter line always affects - 'Are you my life to be?'
The lines I quoted are by Jake Thackray, for me, the finest English songwriter of recent years. If anyone remembers him now it's usually as 'that weird-looking guy who sang the funny songs on Braden's Week.' But he was so much more than that. His later recording of The Blacksmith & the Toffee Maker is I think one of the highest forms of the songwriting craft. Jake was always self-deprecating but was forever praising the songs of his friend and idol, George Brassens, who he claimed was "Head, shoulders, knees and ankles above all other singers." As a Francophile, Mark, do you rate George Brassens and did you ever meet Jake Thackray?
Thank you as ever, for speaking out against the madness. Someone said on Free Speech Nation last week that when she looks out on her society and culture it feels as though she's living in a psychiatric ward. I second that. And Mark Steyn is R P McMurphy!
God Bless,
Bideford Jake
On March 20, 2024 at 4:09 pm, Joel Dudas wrote:
Greetings young man -
Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard any mention of one of the many great achievements that DID come out of your trial....you managed to get Mikey Mann to greasily confess that his acknowledgements are a purely fake, formulaic thing he does (hmmm...sensing a pattern here) and he doesn't really mean it. What self-respecting adult could possibly take any claimed thanks he has for anything or anyone as actual gratitude, instead of the phony play-acting it truly is? Anyway, sorry I missed you on the last cruise, will try to make the next one, hopefully not to the shores of a country run by dictators such as Biden, Trudeau, the Eurocrats, Down Under, etc....sheesh what's left? The Galapagos? Antarctica? Are finches and penguins now more appealing top-of-the-ladder types than the rest?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:09 pm, Teresa Maupin wrote:
Other than a few sources (as in very few), why do you think new alternative media ignored your defamation case?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:11 pm, Rael Isaac wrote:
On what basis was National Review and other defendants able to get out of the Mann suit? And on what basis does Michael Mann think, subsequent to his victory vs Mark Steyn, that he can now go after them for damages?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:13 pm, Heather wrote:
Mark, You're on fire lately! (Don't these clowns know that suing you only makes you stronger?!) Keep up the fight. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on (as Daily Mail opinion writers describe it) the impending implosion of the Royal Family. The "slimming down," the health crises, the unexplained absences, and the photo fail firestorm, all on top of the disgrace of members the King apparently won't completely cut off... I recall some years ago your jovial disagreement with those who found no use in the modern Royals and the traditions of the monarchy. At the time I would have joked that my indifference was American ("I stopped caring about royal weddings in 1776!"), but I found myself persuaded. Is it collapsing?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:14 pm, Chris Davies wrote:
Mark,
I hope you are well.
Now I know schadenfreude is the most unfortunate of emotions but you wouldn't be human if you didn't at least allow yourself a wry smile at their latest admonishment from the Ofcommunists over "lack of impartiality".
Appeasing the crocodile never works. They threw you under the bus which has now reversed over them, 12 complaints or so later.
So looking forward to you handing Ofcom their ass on 11th June and it is to GB News' eternal shame that they will not be alongside you.
Keep well Mark.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:16 pm, Jamie Street wrote:
Hello Mark. Long-time listener but only a relatively-recent Clubland member. Also the proud owner of Liberty Stick No.198 and a signed copy of "Marked for Death" (fantastic read by the way).
My question is - in your opinion, what is the desired endgame of entities such as the World Economic Forum, Soros, and your run-of-the mill globalist-in-power (Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Sunak, et al) in overwhelming our Western societies either with poor, uneducated Latinos or Africans in the case of the United States? Or with unassimilated hordes of primarily young men from Muslim cultures in the case of Europe? While I sit and observe this massive, government-assisted migration of various populations on a global scale - I cannot for the life of me discern what the end-result is supposedly to look like and why if you're the Globalist Elite.
Goodspeed and great health to you, my friend!
On March 20, 2024 at 4:17 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Hi Mr. Steyn!
It appears there are some nascent efforts by the various states to resist federal tyranny. I hate to be too Pollyanna-ish, as it is terribly late in the game, but it would be awfully comforting if we had a few freedom outposts to retreat to along the likes of the Free State of Florida.
P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong, but "the first openly homosexual" as a representative of a "center-right" party sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Thank you, & hope your health is improving!
On March 20, 2024 at 4:17 pm, Hart wrote:
Prayers for continued improvement of your health, Mark! (I hope it's improving...) Your conversation with Conrad Black reinforced my belief in the utter corruption and incompetency of the U.S. legal system. It also brought to mind the recent Supreme Court decision against Colorado's effort to remove Trump from its ballot. The decision was obviously correct; in multiple articles, the justices were quoted as saying that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment did not apply, and doubted that this Section (quoting Justice Roberts here).."....lets a single state have such a broad impact on a presidential election."
But hold on! In 2021 the Court refused to hear Texas' case against Georgia, for Georgia violating its own constitution in accepting, as legal, all sorts of voting anomalies. The Supremes then said, 9-0, that Texas had "no standing" in a matter concluded by Georgia. So, on one hand, the Supremes decided that Georgia's violation of its own laws had no bearing on anyone else. Yet now, a primary justification for this most-recent decision is that an action of Colorado could indeed affect other states. Perhaps if the Court they had performed their "constitutional duty" in 2021, much injustice could have been avoided. Am I wrong?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:21 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark.
There is going to be an eclipse taking place April 8.
Besides the usual inane safety precautions - Don't stare at the sun! You'll put your eye out! there is also some new madness occurring.
Make eclipse plans; have extra cash on hand, have extra bread and milk available, have an evacuation plan, plan on a meeting place in case of an emergency.
And then there is the dress in red and green clothes articles, especially in a group so you can see an lighting effect that has never been spoken of before,
I'm baffled by this. Does anyone have any idea what is driving this foolishness? I mean besides it being Trump's fault.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:24 pm, Sandra wrote:
I enjoyed reading Rick's review of Quadrophenia, that epic movie about Mods, Rockers and youth subculture. I was wondering if Mark was ever a member of such a group, or what the youth groups were like where he was growing up.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:26 pm, Laurence Jarvik wrote:
What do you think of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s independent run for President? Do you think he has a chance? Do you think that even if he doesn't win, he might be able to raise important issues like free speech, the plight of the middle-class, and corruption in the public health establishment? Maybe you could interview him on your show someday? Full disclosure: I'm a supporter, due to his profile in courage in taking on Fauci.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:29 pm, Bart Nielsen, not his real name perhaps wrote:
Mark, could all the mysterious health problems in the House of Windsor be connected to the Royal Family's enthusiastic embrace of the WuFlu jab?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:30 pm, PaulTyrone wrote:
Paul Tyrone from Virginia Beach.
I have heard you brush up against the topic of Christianity a few times since I started listening to you on the Limbaugh show. I am a cradle Catholic that has returned to faith in recent years (Post COVID) and one central concept has become my shield in this world of despair. The eternal human soul is a creation of God. Man and woman become one and multiply by conceiving a child but God conceives the soul. We are given the opportunity to choose God's love through a lifetime in this fallen world. I have come to believe that choosing God and eternity with him makes the temptations of evil in this world are easier to resist. The devil really doesn't offer a better deal than God but he is sneaky and man is weak. What it is your opinion on such things?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:36 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
What do you think of the movie Dune II? Part of it seems like a Islamist wet dream with covered women, desert scenes, mysticism and the rallying cry about the fighters.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:40 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Hello, again, Mr. Steyn,
Music is, obviously, your field of expertise, & you do relegate the film bits to Rick on the website, but I was wondering if there are movies you're fond of, &, more specifically, whether they tend to the musical variety.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:41 pm, Frank Gallenstein wrote:
Hi Mark,
I just heard a news feed from the Daily Wire the Biden administration sent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents an internal newsletter touting the "gender identity expression" of one of their male intelligence officers who "likes to wear women's clothes."
In the newsletter they quote the anonymous cross-dresser agent stating: "I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women's clothes sometimes. I think my experiences as someone who cross-dresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer," The officer specifically names "critical thinking and perspective-taking" skills being enhanced because it, "has been useful in understanding foreign actor motivations and [human intelligence (HUMINT)] asset motivations. I think it also has made me a better colleague."
Here's hoping the Biden administration has enough sense not to send this poor fellow for espionage in Iraq or Iran where he will quickly learn their motivations.
What say ye?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:43 pm, Tim Neilson wrote:
Happily, on the day before St Patrick's Day the 250th anniversary of the birth of Matthew Flinders passed virtually unnoticed, so the statues of him in Melbourne went unvandalised. No doubt that will be rectified in due course. One wonders whether the statue of Flinders' cat Trim, which sits on a window ledge a few yards away from the statue of the explorer himself at the State Library, will survive - or will Trim's status as a member of an introduced species irrevocably condemn him to destruction as a racist colonial settler oppressor?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:44 pm, Keith Farrell wrote:
According to AOC, RICO isn't a crime. Will the judge in Trump's Fulton County trial take any notice?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:46 pm, Brian from Minneapolis wrote:
Dear Mark,
Fran and I are worried about your health. I hope doing these Q and As aren't putting you in too much stress. Things are getting more stressful each day for us all. Be well for all of our sakes and sanity. Stay safe.
On March 20, 2024 at 4:49 pm, Eric Dale wrote:
Mark, and fellow Club members, have you followed the Murphy v Missouri oral arguments? I haven't been able to follow them as I should, but Matt Taibbi and Powerline's Scott Johnson have both written and the feeling is that the Supreme Court could very well rule that the federal government has the right, through its partners in social media companies, to quell "misinformation."
Indeed, a rationale for a government approved narrative is that it's necessary for national security as other governments are weaponizing social media for their own purposes. It appears that historians will say the First Amendment didn't survive long after the invention of social media, nor free expression in the west generally.
If free expression was always dependent on the fortitude of at least five justices on the Supreme Court, was its abolition inevitable?
On March 20, 2024 at 4:53 pm, Eric Dale wrote:
I just watched the video. That woman needs to internalize some hard lessons and exercise some initiative rather than wait on her local temp agency to throw her a bone.
That being said, "Max", quit complaining. You want to live as a man. Great. Lesson number one: a man is loved for what he can do, not for who he is. No one cares for a man who's as emotional as a woman. To paraphrase the occasionally clueless Ben Shapiro, people don't care about your feelings. Suck it up. You look weak when you act that way and weakness invites aggression. By the way, no one comes to your aid in the face of violence when you're a man. That's another perk in the Y chromosome club.
