Month: September 2025

Rapture rescheduled?

I remain perplexed by the whole rapture thing from last week, mostly by why there was so much hysteria about this particular instance compared with its predecessors… I mean, did Harold Camping generate this much fuss? I can’t remember but I don’t think he did… then again he didn’t have idiots on Tiktok to push his particular idiocy. Youtube has been abuzz for days with videos about the non-event, obviously, of which I particularly want to note this one:

Savannah Marie mostly does anti-MLM content, but she also comes to this as a lapsed Christian herself, so she has a certain sympathy that not many of the other creators I’ve seen discussing it have had. I’ll take the liberty of quoting myself from her comments section (the Australian guy I mentioned appears a couple of times, with the bit I was particularly referencing around the 51 minute mark; the “let’s fly 9/25” thing was, according to him, the date Jesus gave him which he interpreted as September 25th—i.e. in American style and notably after the supposed rapture date—rather than the ninth month of 2025 as we would here in Oz):

The ones that bothered me were the mothers saying their children wouldn’t be getting raptured with them. I saw one by someone claiming a neighbour of hers surrendered her own child to child protective services because she thought she would be raptured but somehow the child wouldn’t. That “prepper” woman is, I think, the same one I’ve seen in other videos; she at least seems to have some kind of self-awareness, she says her own kids laugh at her over what she believes and she acknowledges how strange if not mad it seems.
I’m very perplexed by the Australian guy. Not only because we don’t usually get caught up in this sort of bullshit like American Christians do, but “let’s fly 9/25”? MATE. We use dd/mm/yyyy in Australia. 9/25 is not an actual date here. If God is speaking to someone in this country, why would he be using the American dating convention instead of the right one? Plus it’s the 27th here now, so… how much further do you want to shift those goalposts?

Well, Joshua’s answer to that at least is, apparently, October the 7th or 8th, because he didn’t realise that Jesus works on the Julian calendar and not the Gregorian. UM… really? I don’t know enough about my Roman history to know whether or not the Romans insisted on their calendar being imposed throughout the empire, but I feel like a middle eastern Jew like Jesus (because yes, that’s what he was) would be operating more to whatever the Hebrew calendar of the period was. Whatever, though, it looks like we all have some more of this shit to look forward to next week…

Obviously

Normally I would just link to a story like this, but this time I felt the screenshot was needed:

You understand why, of course.

Arizona resident Jacob Chansley, better known to America as the QAnon shaman who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a striking horned warrior outfit, is suing a host of entities — including the federal government and President Donald Trump — for $40 trillion. In the process, the Phoenix resident is claiming that he is the rightful leader of the United States.
In a rambling, 26-page complaint that consists of a single paragraph and reads like a manifesto, Chansley alleges that his First, Fourth and Second Amendment rights have been violated by a host of parties that are loosely related at best. Named as defendants are Trump, the Federal Reserve, the National Security Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements, the state of Israel, Elon Musk’s X Corp., T-Mobile, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Warner Bros. Studios. […]
The claims in Chansley’s suit include:

* That the central banking system and the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional
* That the U.S. government is guilty of treason for prioritizing the interests of foreign financiers at the expense of the American people
* That the NSA surveilled Chansley daily using the Patriot Act as he was writing a “2nd Declaration of Independence”
* That “all radio stations and most of their DJ’s are a part of the intelligence community”
* That a scene in the 2008 Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film “The Dark Knight” and many plot details in 2009’s “Avatar” were cribbed from his writing and are proof that the NSA was spying on him
* That the NSA catfished him on Facebook by contacting him while pretending to be actress Michele Rodriguez, whom Chansley identifies as “my celebrity crush”
* That he was then “offered the opportunity to work with the NASA covertly and help them deal with other-worldly matters” that his “shamanic beliefs” made him “a perfect candidate to handle”
* That he was emailed by Donald Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, from an address of donaldtrump@nsa.gov
* That the government stole more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency from him […]

The shaman demanded $40 trillion in the lawsuit — $38 trillion to pay off the American government’s debt, $1 trillion to rebuild America’s infrastructure and another $1 trillion for Chansley’s “personal, emotional, mental and spiritual torture and years worth of anguish.”

It does kind of beg the question of what this freak would actually be like as president compared to Mushroom Cock. Obviously even more drug-fucked and stupid, but I find his evident determination that the national debt should be paid off weirdly heartening… so, as moronic as the incumbent but maybe less harmful all round? I don’t know. I am also not stupid enough to actually want him to be president, even if it might be more entertaining…

If you say so…

Yvette Cooper suggests international community on brink of Gaza peace deal

The international community is on the brink of securing a peace deal for Gaza that could finally bring an end to two years of conflict and a humanitarian crisis that has claimed thousands of lives, Yvette Cooper has suggested.
The new foreign secretary, who has just returned from a UN summit, said that they had “reached a moment where the world wants to end this war” after the US president, Donald Trump, indicated a peace deal was within reach.
In an interview with the Guardian before the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Cooper urged the Israeli government to “urgently change course” away from its renewed military offensive on Gaza. Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, said at the UN his country “must finish the job”.

Yeah, Israel hasn’t given any sign of caring about the world’s opinion so far in the whole Gaza debacle, so why would they start now? And the rest of the world are largely not fans of what Israel is doing, as witnessed by the mass walkout of UN delegates during Bibi’s speech there the other day, and the idea that Israel’s going to accept any peace deal any time soon is not one I find myself believing somehow.

Sure, why not

Yeah, that’s an actual Infowars article and the actual photo therein. Apparently Youtube was offering amnesties to channels it removed in the golden age of Covid-19 for spreading Covid and election lies, because the policies under which they did so have since lapsed. So Alex tried… and Youtube promptly banned him again. Same thing happened to Nick Fuentes, though I don’t think the latter has gone to the extent of, you know, this facial hair in “protest”. (I assume that’s because Nick has trouble growing facial hair, though, and that he would if he could…) Alex’s own direct comment was this:

Interesting choice to snipe at the Democrats when the Republicans are the ones actually engaging in censorship at the moment, of course…

He is risen!

No, not Charlie, Jimmy:

And Mushroom Cock is… not best pleased, as you can see.  He’s right about one thing, i.e. something did happen between Kimmel being hauled off air and being reinstated just a few days later… namely that Disney’s stock plummeted and apparently so many people went to cancel their online Disney subscriptions that the website crashed. Lots of right-wing commentators were vehemently insisting the whole Kimmel suspension was purely a business decision by ABC, not at all an act of cowardice in the face of the president whining about his bad coverage and the head of the FCC being enough of a toady to act on that hint, there were no threats by anyone with political power… well, Kimmel’s return was clearly a business decision, and that’s equally clearly a threat in Krasnov’s bile that I don’t think even his cultists can spin any other way. And as Kimmel noted, Trump should be less obsessed with other people’s ratings when his own presidential approval numbers stink so much…

Rapture time again

Someone must’ve known what they were doing with this comic. Surely.

Yeah, it’s end of the fucking world again, apparently, some “prophet” from South Africa reckons Jesus told him the 23rd of September was the big day that Jesus also insisted in that book only God knew the date of, and, well, Christian people around the world have gone nuts for this guy because obviously…

Anyway, as I write, it is now technically the 24th here in Australia and, once again, by the looks of it I haven’t been swept up  to Heaven, unless of course Heaven looks oddly like my house… which, if it does, is unexpected at best, thought there might be more streets of gold… but I’m fairly sure I’m actually still on Earth and destined for Hell after all. That said, it is still the 23rd elsewhere in the world—the day’s barely begun in some places like Alaska, and it’s still morning in America as someone once said—so it could still happen over the next 20-odd hours… cos Joshua never specified a time nor a time zone, maybe he’s expecting it to run to South African Standard Time… in which case he’s got about seven hours left to be proven correct. Personally I can’t wait for the results…

It’s the Horst Wessel Variety Hour!

The apotheosis—I hope—of the grotesque display that has been the death of Charlie Kirk took place yesterday, that being his memorial show…

…hang on, NO! That’s Horst Wessel’s funeral, not Kirk’s HA HA good heavens, I wonder how that got there… No, Kirk’s was a slightly different affair, probaby fewer overt Nazis but still a bunch of arms in the air being waved around like their owners just didn’t care:

That fucking Evangelical hands-up affectation is something I’ve always found weird and culty, and oddly performative (“look at how much of the spirit is flowing through me!”). Trump was there instead (someone must’ve warned him that golfing instead of appearing at this thing would be a bad look) and predictably made a cunt of himself, a bunch of the usual suspects  were there to politicise the whole thing (even Edolf rocked up to make a show of being friendly again with Mushroom Cock), and Kirk’s wife said she forgave the guy who shot Charlie… as she damn well should, cos him doing that has brought her a new bunch of opportunities she probably wouldn’t have without him.

There was one notable critic of the whole hideous spectacle…

Let’s be honest, Nick is not actually wrong here, including the sly dig at Charlie, but Nick is also Nick Fuentes. Let’s not give him too much credit for being right here, cos this criticism is offered in as much bad faith as one of Charlie’s “debates”. I mean, my loathing of MAGA is because they’re bad; Nick’s loathing of them is because they’re not bad enough. Also he’s jealous cos Krasnov would likely never throw a big farewell bash of this sort for him if it had been him instead of Charlie…

Well there’s a change

Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state in a statement on Sunday afternoon.
The prime minister said in July that the UK would shift its position unless Israel met several conditions, including agreeing to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and committing to a long-term peace process leading to a Palestinian state co-existing alongside Israel.
The Israeli leadership has ruled this out since the start of the war following Hamas’s attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.
The PM’s move has drawn fierce criticism from the Israeli government, families of hostages held in Gaza and some Conservatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously said recognition of a Palestinian state “rewards terror”.
The decision to recognise a Palestinian state represents a major change in UK foreign policy, after successive governments said recognition should come as part of a peace process and at a time of maximum impact.

No shit. It was also in July that the UK government outlawed a group called Palestine Action for “terrorism”, and since July they’ve arrested around 1600 people for “supporting” them, mostly by protesting the government over the ban. If Starmer does go with this statehood thing, where would that leave the group? And why do I feel like it wouldn’t actually make much difference…?