And he never once used the f-word. How about that!
I don't care what they say about Bill being a cuckservative. (Could it be beause he's married to a girl of the darker persuasion?) IMHO, he's one of the few -- Dave Chappelle being another -- who has the courage to laugh at what I've long called "the sorry state of the world"... the real world.
Thanks to Agent 34 for fillin in in Walt's hour of need.
If anyone reading this thinks the Great Replacement is a myth or a conspiracy theory, let them look around. Here's a recent picture taken in southwest Philadelphia.
This is the scene as 1000s of followers of the Prophet from west Africa congregate outside after Friday prayers at Masjid Ahlus-Sunnah Wal-Jama'ah mosque in southwest Philadelphia, published recently by WaPo. Note that they waited until after the election to post this!
Their analysis of immigration court data shows that the Great Replacement planned by George Soros et al is in full swing in the dying days of the Biden-Harris administration. Nearly 77,000 migrants from Africa entered the United States in 2023 alone, up from about 11,000 in 2022 and about 3,900 in 2021. During the first 10 months of this year, over 22,000 arrived.
Unrest in Africa, stricter asylum policies in Europe and easier access via smartphone to information about the 10,000-mile journey to the United States all helped fuel the increase. While the Big Apple (rotten to the core) remains the top destination, several thousand have also settled in Philthyelphia, where an effort is underway to rebrand one pocket of the city as "Africatown".
Yes, seriously. Looking to New York’s Little Italy or Chinatown in Los Angeles, community organizers here want to make turn a 50-square-block slum into "a showcase for African food and culture — offering a home away from home for immigrants, and a window into Africa for everyone."
Are ya ready for that? WaPo admits that tensions have erupted as the demographics of southwest Philly change. Some longtime residents, including many of the coloured persuasion, say they adamantly oppose naming their neighborhood for another continent. Terri Powell, 69, who is black and has lived in the area for three decades, told the leftist rag, "This is not Africa. They moved into this area. But Africatown? No, this is Southwest Philadelphia, and we were here first."
But the backers of Africatown (whom WaPo discreetly does not name) say they aren't halting their plans, and are confident that President-Elect Trump won’t be able to remove them, especially those who have applied for asylum and are waiting for their cases to make their way through the court system.
Stay tuned. And let's face it, Philadelphia isn't that great a city anyway, at least not according to Bill Burr. This video was recorded way back in 2006 when Mr Burr was on The Traveling Virus Comedy Tour, hitting large venues around the nation. When the tour came to the Philadelphia area (technically The Tweeter Center across the river in Camden NJ, things got ugly.
The unruly crowd booed the first comedian off the stage and then proceeded to give hell to all other comedians on the bill. When Dom Irrera was booed off the stage, Bill followed him and decided to go on the offensive. He spent his entire set -- 12+ minutes -- picking apart everything about the city from its food, its sports teams, its icons, all while receiving boos from the audience. WARNING: There's a lot, a lot, of racist stuff and "bad" language here, including the seldom-heard "c-word". If you're a Karen [or a Flyers fan. Poor Len], don't listen.
By the time the set (which Bill counted down minute by minute) was over, much of the crowd gave him a standing ovation. He has been known ever since as the tamer of unruly audiences, and earned an incredible amount of respect from comedians and working-class audiences who now adore him.
Let me set this up for you. A few days ago I sent a little joke to a dear Canadian friend who I've known for nearly half a century. This is the joke.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed a major gathering of the Canadian First Nations peoples. He spoke for about an hour about his plans for increasing their present standard of living across many areas in Canada. Though very vague in detail with many ums ahs and ers, went on at great length about how much he wanted to help his indigenous brothers and sisters, and how sorry he was for all the bad things palefaces had done to them in the past.
Afterwards, the Grand Chiefs presented him with a nice handmade plaque inscribed with his newly given Native name -- "Walking Goose" -- which he accepted gratefully. Many pictures of this historic event were taken, and many minutes of video presented on the CBC News.
After M Trudeau left, a reporter asked the Chiefs how they came up with this new Native name for him.
They explained to him that "Walking Goose" is a name given to a bird that is so full of shit that it can no longer fly!
My friend's reply was "Careful...he’s my Walking Goose!"
My dear friend is, as you may have guessed already, a lady. We have never discussed why she is such a big fan of Mr Socks, but I suspect her adulation may have something to do with his constantly referring to himself as a "male feminist".
Today I remembered hearing someone talk about "male feminists". It was Bill Burr, in Paper Tiger, a hilarious rant delivered at London's Royal Albert Hall not quite two years ago. Here's what Mr Burr had to say.
There's a lot more good stuff in Paper Tiger, including a rant about Democratic presidents' wives. Click here to see the trailer.
And to my dear friend, please don't be the last to see that the Emperor has no clothes... except the socks, of course!
In addition to being labelled as terrorists, the Proud Boys and Mr McInnes are being demonized for being white supremacists, neo-Nazis,alt-right monsters, yada yada yada. In this video, which is nearly three years old, Gavin discusses his 15 most controversial moments (to that point).
In almost every case, he says, his destractors are taking a phrase or sentence completely out of context, and/or failing to recognize that he is indulging in the millennia old technique of hyperbole -- exaggerate for effect. In other words, what he says is not be be taken all that seriously.
Putting his self-defence another way -- and he would probably say that he wasn't defending himself, just explaining -- Mr McInnes likens himself to Walt's favourite stand-up comedian Bill Burr. What he and Bill do is to say out loud stuff that a large percentage of us "regular people" say in bars.
A few of the Proud Boys may be genuine right-wing fanatics, but Walt reminds those who are crying for the censorship of every expression of politically incorrect thought that there are plenty of loony left nutbars out there too.
Those who are already "beyond the fringe" don't need Gavin McInnes or (for that matter) President Trump to incite them to the acts of violence that may be characterized as "terrorism" (in the case of the right) or "mostly peaceful protests" in the case of Antifa and BLM.
Funny how some stand-up routines stand the test of time. Two of my favourite comedians, George Carlin and Bill Burr, have had some good things to say, long ago, which are even more relevant today. In this short clip, from a performance in 2010, Bill tells us why he's in favour of the flu!
Walt doesn't watch Saturday Night Live for obvious reasons -- there's enough anti-Trump propaganda on the news -- so was mildly surprised that they had Bill Burr on this weekend. I wondered if BB would dilute the vitriol in his usual routine to suit the tastes (read: prejudices) of SNL's New York liberal producers... and audience. Here's what happened.
Seemed to me that Mr Burr stayed more or less true to form. But so did the audience. He was dying out there! The American people -- those on the coasts, anyway -- are so woke that nothing is funny any more. Everything must be taken seriously, so you can't rag on gay pride, white women, "wokeness" or any of the liberal shibboleths and expect to not be the next victim of the cancel culture.
One of our assiduous readers commented, "I find the whole drift into swearing, open sex, and incorrectness sad." Maybe our reader never listened to one of Bill Burr's monologues before, but I have to tell you, this wasn't your normal Big Balls Billy speaking. Compared with something like "The Philadelphia Incident", he toned his act down for lamestream TV.
Even so, the usual suspects dropped the shithammer on him for being insensitive, politically incorrect, yada yada yada.
But "Being furious about Bill Burr's caustic comedy is a waste of time", as the Globe and Mail's John Doyle wrote yesterday. For those who can't or won't punch through the paywall, here's part of his review.
Bill Burr...opts for that old-fashioned stance of reason over passion. Some comics are enraged by what they call "cancel culture" and deliberately provoke in order to push boundaries and buttons. Burr simply takes the view that, as he sees it, sensitivity issues have gone too far. He's a 52-year-old white guy, married to a Black woman, he tells jokes and acts for a living, and he's skeptical about a lot of things.
It's easy to take Burr's jokes out of context, string them together and paint a picture of him as a misogynist jerk. In a recent interview, he said, "Comedy is a pastime. The pastime is making fun of something you're not supposed to make fun of because that gives you a mental break from all the taxing crap you have to do. Not everything has to be important."
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger, taped at the Royal Albert Hall in London, is the most recent and a fascinating example of Burr's tactics, and it's especially trenchant because he's not talking to an American audience in the venue. He gets busy mocking feminism, the #MeToo movement and Michelle Obama.
Paper Tiger is where he is now. He's like someone who shed the straitjacket of insecurity about his role and his humour. He's not aiming to demolish the current culture of outrage and sensitivity. He sees it for what it is, a movement that sometimes puts passion over reason and his lived experience tells him to be skeptical. He's nobody's enemy and he's no destroyer. He's just saying that everything is flawed, including him.
Couldn't have said it better myself. [You can say that again. Ed.] I hope Bill Burr keeps talking. It's so good to hear someone say what so many of us are thinking, and if the "woke" types don't like it, that't too [expletive deleted. Ed.] bad!
So, farewell then New England Patriots. And congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles on a convincing victory in yesterday's Super Bowl LII. (You'll hear the Super Bowl and the Eagles mentioned at about the 8-minute mark of this video.) I should have bet. Poor Len tells me that everyone, everyone on RDS was calling Patriots by 3 or more. But I would have had to bet on (and cheer for) Philthydelphia, and, to be honest, I've never liked that city or any of its sports teams. Never.
I am not alone. Bill Burr doesn't think much of Philadelphia either, as he makes clear in this rant, recorded in 2006 when he and many of the regular comedians of The Opie & Anthony Show were on The Traveling Virus Comedy Tour, hitting large venues around the USA. Things went south when the tour came to the Philadelphia area -- actually The Tweeter Center across the river in Camden, NJ. Right from the get-go, the crowd set the tone by booing the first comedian off the stage and then proceeded to give hell to all other comedians on the bill.
When Dom Irrera was booed off the stage, Mr Burr followed him and decided to go on the offensive. He spent his entire set picking apart everything about the city -- its food, its sports teams, its icons -- all while receiving boos from the audience. But he didn't let the crowd get him, and kept hammering the audience until some started to turn in his favour. By the time the 12-minute set (counting down every passing minute) was over, much of the crowd gave the comedian a standing ovation. He replied by telling them, "Go fuck yourselves in your own assholes."
WARNING: This video is not for snowflakes! It contains offensive language, including the seven words you can't say on TV (RIP George Carlin) and many many more. If you're the type who starts clutching your pearls when someone says (see above), don't even think about clicking the start button.
This weekend's unexplained... and unexplainable... massacre in Las Vegas has been politicized to the Nth degree by the Democrats, lamestream media and others whose agenda is to overturn the Second Amendment and take our guns away, leaving weapons only in the hands of criminals, terrorists and "the Authorities". I've been thinking about that. Being a libertarian, I'm inclined to resist the calls for disarmament of ordinary people, but tragedies like Mandalay Bay and Sandy Hook give me pause.
I have some experience with guns. In my misspent youth [a century ago. Ed.] I was into Dr Hunter S. Thompson's fun trio of drugs, firearms and loud music. Get ripped on reds 'n' white and go out on a dark night and blast the shit out of some inanimate object -- good times, good times. The key word there is "inanimate". I was never a hunter. I did shoot skeet, but Mrs Walt found it hard to clean and cook. But there was something mighty satisfying about firing a good shotgun, like this Ithaca 51.
I used to keep mine, safely stored, in my cabin in the pines, a good half-hour by car from the nearest town of any size. I have always subscribed to the theory that a man's home is his castle, and was secretly hoping for an opportunity to defend my little castle with the Ithaca or either of a couple of pistols I kept for just such an occasion. The shotgun would have been best. Cut the intruder in half with a deer slug. Yeah. Just as Bill Burr says at the 2-minute mark of this video.
Eventually I discovered that the Authorities and Forces For Good in the community don't want us to defend ourselves and our property. If someone breaks into your home or place of business, they say, don't challenge them, especially with a weapon. They could use it against you! Just call 9-1-1 and the police will take care of you. I call BS on that! I tried it when a young punk walked into my office after hours, looking for trouble. I gave him what he was looking for -- a warning shot across the bow, so to speak -- and then called the police. Guess who wound up in the dock (not the kind where you park your boat)? That's right. It was me! [Should be "It was I!" Ed.]
Right, Ed. We must watch our grammar. But we have no time for that now. To get my train of thought back on the rails, imagine what would have happened if I had actually shot that kid! I would likely be writing this blog with a pencil on prison stationery. [But that's what you... oh... never mind. Ed.] Law-abiding citizens who exercise whatever right to self defence is left to them by the nanny state get the shitty end of the stick every time, while criminals and terrorists get the other end. It ain't right!
I will grant you... I have to grant you, given the terrible reality of events like this weekend's massacre, that every now and then some deranged individual will go right off the deep end and take out some innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mandalay Bay was the worst, but it wasn't the first. On the other hand, perfectly sane but perfectly evil people do the same thing. Look at Orlando. Look at San Bernadino.
Several people said that if some of the people shot in those terrorist attacks had had guns of their own, the death toll would have been considerably lower. IMHO that's right. We can't depend on our police to protect us, either because they are afraid of being called "racists"and "Nazis" or because they themselves are the thugs and bullies who like to shoot people just for the fun of it. Our best defence against terrorists or other marauders is a peaceful but vigilant and well-armed citizenry.
Please don't tell me that's a ridiculous notion, a classic example of American exceptionalism. Swiss laws on the possession and use of firearms are based on a longstanding tradition of shooting as a part of the national identity. The practice of the Swiss militia is to have the citizen soldiers keep their rifles in their homes. And we're talking about military-style guns, not just hunting rifles or shotguns.
What is needed, to avoid repeats of Mandalay Bay or Pulse or Sandy Hook, is not a ban on firearms, but more careful screening and enforcement to make sure that guns are kept out of the hands of terrorists and idiots. In Switzerland, in order to buy most weapons, the purchaser must obtain a weapon acquisition permit. Any adult citizen who is not psychiatrically disqualified nor identified as posing security problems, and who has a clean criminal record can request such a permit. The same rules apply to the purchase of ammunition.
In the result, although the percentage of Swiss who own firearms is probably higher than that of the USA, the murder rate in Switzerland is much, much lower. And so far there has not been a single terrorist attack. Think about it. Banning guns is not the answer to ails the Paranoid States of America today. It's not the guns. It's the people who have them.
Further reading: "The Culture of Death—and of Disdain", by Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal, 5/10/17. "Why do Americans own so many guns? Because they don’t trust the protected elites to protect them."
