From the Babylon Bee: the clash of the holiest

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Black trio barred from Coachella because of racist name

We don't normally do "entertainment news" because that's an oxymoron, isn't it. However, the lickspittle media have buried reports of a controversy at the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival, so it's up to us to bring it to the attention of those concerned that not enough has been done to ensure that the popular festival is fully DEI.

We have it on good authority that the three girl singers of the Black persuasion were kept off the stage because of the name they chose for themselves. We're told that when they were discussing what to call themselves, the conversation went something like this:

Velveeta: How about "the Pointer Sisters"?

Vizine: That name's already taken!

Vakeesha: What about "Andrews Sisters"?

Vizine: There's already "Andrews Sisters", and dey's white!

Velveeta: You so smart, you come up wid something!

Vizine: I got it! "The Three Niggers!"

Vakeesha: What's the matter wid you? That's racist! Why you want us to use a name like dat?

Vizine: Hey, dat's what they's gonna call us anyway!

VIDEO: "TACO? Seriously?!" Victor David Hanson explains why the media are wrong to diss POTUS over Iran war

Walt is still trying to figure out how the American-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon is going to end. But will end... somehow... and likely on terms more favourable to our interests than those of our Islamist enemies. Objectively you'd have to call that a "win" than anything else.

You wouldn't know it, though, to listen to the liberal lickspittle media, who are doing their damnedest to paint the current impasse as a loss for President Trump. They can't explain what's actually unfolding in Iran, let alone the behind-closed-doors talks in Pakistsan, so they swing wildly between calling POTUS a "warmonger" and "weak", trotting out the ridiculous "TACO" jape.

The reality points to an Iranian regime that's been militarily and strategically crippled. Adversaries like Russia and China are feeling the ripple effects, and NATO’s cracks are on full display. Victor Davis Hanson takes the long... and more positive view.

"You don't understand! It's part of our culture!"

Under the headline "Afghan Facing Trial for Raping Goats and Sheep", the European Conservative reports that a 19-year-old follower of the Prophet, a "refugee" from Afghanistan, is set to stand trial in France after being accused of repeatedly abusing goats and sheep near Marseille. 

The suspect was arrested on the night of 10 April 10th by the anti-crime brigade in the municipality of Les Pennes-Mirabeau, following a series of incidents reported by livestock owners. 

Since early 2026, farmers had reported finding various injured animals, all showing signs of sexual abuse. Some animals were found with their legs bound. In an effort to identify the perpetrator, owners installed motion-activated cameras on their land. 

The footage, which showed a young man approaching the herds, was later used by police to identify and apprehend the suspect. The accused has been placed in custody and faces charges related to acts of cruelty against domestic animals, which carry a potential sentence of up to three years in prison and a €45,000 fine.

Thanks to the good folks at Blazing Cat Fur for alerting us to this one!

The population bomb -- a 75-year-old prediction comes true

Earlier this week, Sp!ked posted an interview with data scientist and demographer Stephen J. Shaw, the director of the documkentary Birth Gap, under the headline "Falling birth rates are the greatest crisis facing humanity – bar none".

Pretty strong language, and we were immediately reminded of The Population Bomb (1968), in which the late Paul Ehrlich warned that "overpopulation" would lead to mass starvation by the 1970s, to American life expectancy plummeting to just 42 by the 1980s. By the year 2000, the book predicted, England would cease to exist. And so on.

Prof. Ehrlich was wrong. Mr Shaw contends that the biggest problem we face a quarter of the way through the 21st century is precisely the opposit. The challenge is dealing with unprecedented demographic collapse in the face of falling birth rates. 

"Wut?!", Walt hears you say. "There are 7 billion people crowding and destroying the earth, especially in my neighbourhood." Maybe Prof. Ehrlich was right after all, just out on his timing!

The answer to conundrum is to be found in a short story written by sci-fi master C.M. Kornbluth in 1951. It's called The Marching Morons. 

The central character is real estate agent and con artist John Barlow, who is placed in suspended animation after a freak accident. He is revived in the distant future, in a confusing world filled with hypersexualized advertisements, vapid entertainment, and people who exhibit erratic, nonsensical behavior. Sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it?

Shortly after being revived, Barlow is introduced to two men, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana, who inform him that the lamentable state of society is the fault of the "morons", the world's vast population of unintelligent people, who greatly outnumber the much smaller population of intelligent people. 

Ryan-Ngana says, "While you [Barlow] and your kindwere being prudent and foresighted and not having children, the migrant workers, slum dwellers, and tenant farmers were shiftlesslyt and sahort-sightedly having children -- breeding, breeding. My God, how they bred!"

So it is in the "first world" -- North America, Europe and, yes, Japan and China -- today. People of higher intelligence often choose to have few children (or no children at all) for pragmatic reasons, while people of lower intelligence, compelled by their sex drives, have larger families and reproduce in greater numbers. 

So, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana explain to Barlow, the most urgent crisis of their time is the population problem ("Poprob"). The unbalanced trend has been carried to its logical extreme, with a total world population of five billion morons (with an average IQ of 45) living under the supervision of three million members of an elite, intellectual upper-class who secretly govern world affairs. 

If the simple-minded morons are left to govern themselves, the world will descend into chaos and devastating war. As a result, the elite minority (of which Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana are members) are effectively "enslaved" by the moron majority, working themselves to exhaustion while attempting to maintain global order and stability. 

Controlling the morons' population growth is impractical for several reasons, but unless some corrective action is taken, the inevitable outcome will be the depletion of Earth's dwindling natural resources, followed by the total collapse of human civilization. 

All attempts to solve Poprob have failed, and the elite hope that Barlow, as a man from a different time and with a different perspective on the problem, might be able to offer a novel solution. Barlow has an idea, but he refuses to elaborate until Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana agree to formally name him dictator of the entire world, promising him wealth, power, and fame. 

Taking inspiration from his knowledge of fraudulent real estate deals, propaganda techniques employed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, and the myth of lemmings drowning themselves in the sea, Barlow devises a plan for the extermination of the moron population. Barlow orchestrates a massive propaganda campaign encouraging the morons to migrate to the planet Venus, which is billed as a tropical paradise.

The overcrowded and inefficient cities in which the morons reside are to be dismantled, their steel used to construct fleets of "spaceships" ostensibly intended to ferry people to Venus; in reality, the spaceships are not capable of making the trip - the best spaceship ever made had crashed on the moon - but they are capable of getting their passengers out of sight of the other morons, to some unspecified location where billions can be killed without damaging Earth's biosphere.

To allay any suspicion, forged postcards are sent from Venusian "colonists" to their families, describing Venus as a lush tropical paradise and encouraging them to follow. The United States Congress, under the control of the elite, promotes the colonization of Venus as an extension of manifest destiny -- this too, sounds familiar in 2026! -- and guarantees Venusian settlers permanent land rights on the planet. 

This sparks widespread nationalistic fervor as the various nations of Earth all adopt similar approaches and race to reach Venus in order to stake their own claims. As more and more morons leave, the ensuing loneliness compels the rest to follow. Barlow's plan is a complete success; Earth is gradually emptied of morons and Poprob is solved!

Sounds like a good plan to me! Of course there's a coda to the story. Once the final solution has been implemented, Barlow becomes surplus to requirement and is included in the "final cleanup". That doesn't matter. The real story here is not the solution but the analysis of the problem. Is it not a challenge for us -- call us "elites" if you like -- not in the future but in the present? Look around you.

Worth viewing: "Canada’s Birth Rate Collapsed (This Is A Disaster)" with Max Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada.

Pope Leo reacts to being told he can't excommunicate Trump

"Neither am I!"

Another comment that you don't have to be a "rad-trad" Catholic to agree with...

Negotiations to end Iran war under way (?) in Pakistan

Scraped from Patriot Post.