On May 1, 2024 at 2:58 pm, Drew Weber wrote:
Hello Mark,
Thanks for hosting another Clubland Q&A. I believe our pundit class often mistakenly characterizes America's adversaries as "crazy".
Maybe those that orchestrated the attack on Israel were not so crazy. Sure, they expected to be pounded mercilessly from Israel's retaliation. However, they may have been confident that the mayhem happening on our campuses would occur; based on their assessment of feckless Biden administration and university leadership, along with our youth indoctrinated for years to be anti-USA while egged on by their agents on our shores, Now, what's next?
As an aside, we need to look no further than the mess that is California and our universities to predict the outcomes when the Left has their way.
Your thoughts?
On May 1, 2024 at 2:58 pm, John in Miami wrote:
At the conclusion of reading "After America" I had some hope that the U.S. had some means of remaining the shining beacon. However, after Monday's column, it kinda knocked the wind out of my sails.
These protesters for Hamas and its slogan of genocide confound me as to what they expect is their goal. And then what happens after that becomes the new question. If they get what they're chanting for, the complete and utter destruction of Israel and all Judaic persons, then what? Back to more stone age barbarianism? Yet they call Trump Hitler.
As to the starving "students " are they asking for halal meals? I'm pretty sure they can get halal in Gitmo.
On May 1, 2024 at 2:59 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
I notice the female 'student' protestors at Colombia for instance aren't wearing what females in Palestine wear but the keffiyeh scarf. Also they don't seem to mind that probably minority member janitors were being held hostage in the academic building.
On May 1, 2024 at 3:01 pm, Amr Marzouk wrote:
Greetings and salutations again from Australian member who is in your live zone.
Walking part of the Camino in Spain and have spotted several signs comparing the Star of David with the Nazi swastika.
Antisemitism is prevalent for sure but Wondering if this current wave is also mass hysteria from mindless people seeking some relevance and who are mindless in what this is all about after several years of incarceration and lockdowns.
Regards, and hope health improves.
Amr Australia
On May 1, 2024 at 3:01 pm, Chris Davies wrote:
Mark,
I hope you are well.
What did you make of friend of the show, Eva Vlaardingerbroek's speech at CPAC Hungary?
I thought it was excellent and 45M views on X cannot be wrong but did it go far enough?
We are past the point of invasion, it is now an Islamic occupation in Europe and we need to shatter the Overton Window to course correct.
What are your thoughts?
Keep well,
Chris
On May 1, 2024 at 3:02 pm, JC of Weston-super-Mare wrote:
Hi Mark,
Sending this to you from Ulverston in the Lake District, the birth place of the late great Stan Laurel. Did you ever meet him? :)
I don't have a question for you today but just writing to say that in a place of such outstanding natural beauty imminent civilisational collapse does at least appear postponed.
All the best,
John Creasey
On May 1, 2024 at 3:03 pm, Carolinan wrote:
My favorite opera is Parsifal. Why am I so alone?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:05 pm, Keith Farrell wrote:
Unlike Ofcom and Mann (and GBNews), we can't get enough of you and are soaking up your latest Agatha Christie.
Do you think GBN will cover your Ofcommie appearance?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:06 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Greetings, Mr. Steyn!
I saw a nifty little news item today about pfizer's
profits crashing forty-four percent.
Can we have a betting pool on when the bailout
will be? My money is on late November.
Hope your health is rallying in the face of
upcoming travels & court days!
Cheers,
OLGA
On May 1, 2024 at 3:10 pm, Scott Schertzer wrote:
Dear Mark,
With what's currently taking place on college campuses throughout America the year 1968 is frequently invoked. It seems divine providence that the Democrats will be hosting their convention in Chicago just as they did in that fateful year with the expectation of similar protests. Back then the windy city coppers didn't put up with the nonsense and were happy to apply batons to noggins to restore order.
Do you think the police have the will to react similarly this time around and will the anticipated chaos have the same effect on voters as in 1968 and usher in a Trump administration?
Take good care of yourself and as i expect to get my money's worth from my eighth year of membership in the Mark Steyn club.
Sincerely,
Scott Schertzer
Miami Beach
On May 1, 2024 at 3:11 pm, Norman Fenton wrote:
Mark: I wonder what you think of the tweet your friend Naomi Wolf posted yesterday about Oct 7 and what's happening on US campuses. How is it possible for a supposed Jewish intellectual to be so incredibly misinformed about Oct 7?. She said:
"What was Oct 7? A situation in which a few terrorists infiltrated a gathering of young people, took hostages, and this brought a nation to its knees. No disrespect to the cause of ceasefire, but: What could happen in one moment, on 100 campuses in N America, on some of which students are locked IN to buildings, as at Columbia, w/ 'organizers'? Same situation. A mass hostage-taking of the elites' kids."
On May 1, 2024 at 3:11 pm, Pete Procopio wrote:
Mark!
If Hamas serves as the Palestinian resistance, and a majority of Palestinians (some 90% of those surveyed, although I'm not sure how reliable such surveys are) support the terrorist attacks on Oct. 7th, then how is it possible to "support" one and not the other?
I read about these protests for Palestinian freedom, and watch the Biden administration clumsily attempt to "split the baby" and play to both sides, I once again feel like I'm in the bizarro-world.
Thoughts?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:13 pm, Fran Lavery wrote:
Mark, what do make of this story going around about seventeen US states secretly redesigning their state flags by thirteen diverse people unbeknownst to the general public to now incorporate an eight pointed star? Minnesota's is supposed to fly as early as mid May.
On May 1, 2024 at 3:13 pm, Josh Passell wrote:
It's a miracle it happened at all, but can the Kent-to-Kigali Express continue?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:23 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark,
Originally, I had stuck with Hercule Poirot (and all of the video incarnations) and Lord Peter Whimsey (some of the books and was so so on the videos)
Tommy and Tuppence! I have got the book. Liked it. I've order both sets of video productions.
The 2015 incarnation arrived first. Even as I watched it, I knew this wasn't what Agatha Christe had in mind. It strove for the dizzying heights of mediocrity and failed.
One scene summed up all the problems. Tuppence, a mere slip of a girl, hauls off and knocks out a sailor smuggler almost twice her size. Out cold. Hold on a moment! She doesn't have the weight behind her, nor does she have the upper body strength Tuppence would have to be built like Popeye. And finally, even if she managed unbelievably somehow to do this feat her fingers and hand would be broken to painful bits, and she would be screaming in agony.
I'm all for the willing suspension of belief. but this just required too much suspension.
Why aren't the obvious problems with scenes like this not obvious to be the people writing and filming them.
On May 1, 2024 at 3:24 pm, Bideford Jake wrote:
Dear Mark,
I still delight in certain delicious linguistic pleasures: Rowan Atkinson aspirating the name 'Bob', Stephen Fry spluttering the word 'arse' and a hefty Canadian prophet pronouncing the term 'bollocks.' It works for me! I've adopted your phrase 'Up the wazoo' in cultural reciprocation.
Speaking of Stephen Fry, I've always found it curious for so talented a writer that his masterpiece should be his autobiography. May I echo a fellow listener who recently asked after your autobiography which I suspect may run to several volumes. Just the tidbits offered in recent weeks about Benny Green, Garrison Keillor and Betty Comden left me wanting to hear so much more. And was I right to infer you enjoyed a rather warm relationship with the lovely Linda Lewis?
Local elections in England tomorrow and a knock on the door last week had the Liberal Democrat candidate present himself. As I was about to unload on him my views on immigration, diversity and gender identity I suddenly stopped and wondered if this guy could report me for hate speech. We talked about the cost of living instead and how supermarkets just seem to use random numbers now when pricing goods and I kept my primary feelings to myself. Being a full-time carer I told myself afterwards that I was just protecting my 100-year-old Mum but the fact is I was cowed. I bowed down rather than say 'the wrong thing'. I have written to newspapers, TV stations and most of our Devon MPs in the past on various matters but on this occasion they got to me. Or rather, I got to me. Not a great feeling.
I salute you again, Mr Steyn, for having the guts to speak out when so many of us look the other way. It must be lonely.
Best wishes,
Bideford Jake
On May 1, 2024 at 3:32 pm, Scot A wrote:
It is always great to have Mark back and I continue to pray for him and his family.
Some quick questions -
Do you think the Muslims who take over the local city or town governments in Europe and eventually the US will do land acknowledgment statements before their meetings? "We are meeting on lands that used to belong the Gauls and etc?"
Do you ever feel well things are lost and you might as well just go back discussing Art and Music full time before it is all gone?
Final question should we just go John Galt and head to the hills?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:39 pm, Jamie Moore wrote:
Hi Mark, long time listener first time subscriber. Last week we got back from our first trip to Ireland. We mostly stayed in the Belfast area helping a friend fix her house after renters ransacked it. We really enjoyed Belfast. A few things that stood out to me was when we stayed in the city three nights in a 'multi-cultural neighborhood' and there were Israeli flags flying on the street-lights --undisturbed. Every morning when I opened the door there, they were--gloriously undisturbed! Also, most people who I talked any kind of politics seemed to favor Trump, and claimed Northern Ireland benefitted when Trump was in office. In return I asked to find some understanding of Brexit. I still dont seem to have a good grasp of it. You are probably sick of talking on Brexit but I am late for Brexit class and still looking to understand. You usually can get to the points I'll need.
On May 1, 2024 at 3:40 pm, Kit Powers wrote:
Dear Mark,
I am enjoying your latest Tales for Our Times and glad you are feeling up to doing it. I have so enjoyed this feature and the break it affords from our civilizational implosion. How do you select a book and then prepare for the recording? Considering all you have been through and are going through, you sound great!
You are in my prayers.
Kit Powers
On May 1, 2024 at 3:41 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
I try to be rational about the prospects for an apocalypse and know there have been a lot of Hale Bopp Heaven's Gate prophesies that didn't pan out. I also try to discount the feelings of mortality that come with growing old and declining health, but I look around and I have to ask, "are things as bad as they appear?" Wars and rumors of wars, the dollar being eroded to nothing, an actual invasion of our borders and the powers that be are not only not doing anything to prevent these problems, are actually aiding and abetting the decline. So, I think today should be thought of as MAYDAY! MAYDAY!, the international distress signal.
PS. Does BFD mean something different in Quebecois than it does in American English?
On May 1, 2024 at 3:42 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
In the recent 'Civil War' movie, one of the President's 'wacky' acts is to abolish the FBI. Surely though, that would be an eminently sensible decision!
On May 1, 2024 at 3:50 pm, Glen Flint wrote:
Hi Mark,
Sonya and I really enjoyed the video of your talk during the Hillsdale College CCA. It was great to see you perambulate across the stage under your own power, just a few days after the cruise. But when you rose from your chair to belt out a Cole Porter tune with Marla Schaffel I nearly fell out of my chair.
You're looking much improved in a short time! What is the secret of your recovery?
We're praying for success in your legal battles and your health!
Glen Flint
