Ink Blots

The Prostate Cancer Presidency

Joe Biden has cancer. Politico tells the official story. “Doctors diagnosed Biden last week with a prostate nodule after he experienced increasing urinary symptoms. By Friday, they diagnosed him with cancer” that has spread to his bones…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

Ukraine Reveals The S-200 Missiles That Make Russian Pilots Keep Their Distance

Look at that rocket zoom. By the time it reaches the edge of the frame, it is already breaking the speed of sound. By the time the four booster rockets are released at altitude, the missile is flying at Mach 4. It has a range over 300 km (180 mi). Anything flying less than Mach 3.5 will not escape a volley of these venerable Cold War missiles, known to …

Listen now

a month ago · Matt Osborne

How Joe Biden Identified As Fit For Office

Joe Biden’s cognitive decline has been gradual, punctuated with episodes of high stress, starting with the death of his son. Beau Biden had collapsed during a family vacation in 2013 and then had a glioblastoma tumor removed, but he continued to deteriorate even as he…

25 days ago · Matt Osborne

How Pamela Garfield-Jaeger Responds To Gender Distress In Children

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger had been a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) for two decades when a health crisis sidelined her from clinical work for five years. Returning part-time in 2021, she found that her profession had been taken over by a “powerful political and cultural machine that is working overtime to divide families and harm children.” She was “shocked at the changes I observed since my four-year hiatus from work” after “seeing a very different world than the one I knew prior to my disability…

25 days ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

This essay is available only for premium subscribers to Polemology.net until 17 July.

The Reason Why Trump Is Succeeding In The Middle East And Not Russia

Donald Trump is not ideological. He is not natively opposed to Islam, or Arabs, or the Middle East anymore than he was ever really a Mussolini fascist or an admirer of Hitler’s program or a Manchurian candidate, per his most deranged critics. Trump is in fact…

23 days ago · Matt Osborne

This content is only available to premium subscribers of The Distance until 31 July.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Still Pretending She Doesn't Know What A Woman Is

State Rep. Laurel Libby of Maine was offended by boys being allowed to cheat in girls’ sporting events. When she spoke out on Facebook, Libby included the name and photo of a male student receiving this blinkered privilege in a pole vault event. Because she had blasphemed their most sacred caste by calling out the cheater, the Democrats who control the Maine House censured Libby, refusing to count her votes on legislation until she apologized for her sin against the holy trans child…

23 days ago · Matt Osborne

The Decline And Fall Of Pedro Pascal

Twelve days ago, I predicted the imminent decline of Pedro Pascal’s career. His new Fantastic Four: First Steps movie is in last-minute reshoots just weeks before release as producers humanize the Silver Surfer and replace the entire third act because test audiences did not like Pascal in it. Postmodern Hollywood is incapable of telling a heroic story and makes casting choices based on identity characteristics. Pedro Pascal’s star has risen in these business conditions, which are rapidly changing. After years of overexposure, Pascal will be the wrong man for the new roles in Tinseltown, anymore…

21 days ago · Matt Osborne

This post is locked for premium subscribers only until 21 July.

Putin Goes All In, Trump Folds

In the fourth year of Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war against Ukrainians, Donald Trump expressed surprise that the Russian leader had once again escalated his attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine. Over the weekend, Russia launched its largest bombardment of Ukrainian cities in the war to date. Responding to a reporter’s question, Trump…

20 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

How Bad Immigration Policy Made One Colorado Democrat Into A Trump Voter

“Dems' favorability among Colorado voters fell to 39% in March from 52% last November, while unfavorability jumped to 56% from 45%,” Axios reported in April. “That's a pretty incredible reversal, and it's driven almost entirely by [Kamala] Harris voters, including both Democrats and unaffiliated who supported Harris,” Democratic consultant Kevin Ingham said…

19 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Village Of The Transed: What It's Like To Be A Non-Affirming Parent

“Josie” is one of the editors of Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans Volume II: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids. Eighty-two different parents of transgender-identifying children write of love, loss, and the war waged against them for control of the minds of their children. My review of the book is now unlocked for free readers…

Listen now

19 days ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne and PITT

A Brief History Of HMS Belfast

Naval History Magazine, a publication of the Naval Institute Press, has just released a 92-page special edition authored by Alexander Pocklington, better known by his nom-de-podcast Drachinifel. Anyone familiar with his voice through his naval and maritime history and engineering v…

18 days ago · Matt Osborne

Sunset Of The Solar Temple: The Esoteric Christianity Of An Interstellar Cult

Just before midnight on the evening of 4 October 1994, a barn in Ferme des Rochettes near Cheiry, Switzerland began to burn with eighteen people inside it (see photo). They were all dead, arranged like spokes on a wheel, wearing capes. Three more bodies were found inside an octagonal room with mirrors on seven walls, and one more body in a farmhouse nearby. Altogether, 21 people had been shot, execution-style. Fourteen of them had plastic bags placed over their heads. “Canisters of propane and garbage bags full of gasoline sat hooked up to detonation devices” which failed to explode…

17 days ago · Matt Osborne

Glenn Greenwald Is Getting Off On The Humiliation Of His Sexual Exposure

I do not believe for one flat second that Glenn Greenwald is a victim of the derp state, or Mossad’s Epstein network, or any other shadowy power. Newly “leaked” phone video of Greenwald doing disgusting sexual things, and clearly enjoying his humiliation…

15 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Greenwald Did It To Himself

Reacting to the recent “leak” of a Glenn Greenwald sex video yesterday, I summarized my opinion in the closing that “his long career of hating America fittingly resolves as self-hatred, enacted on the internet.” Some Greenwald fans reacted poorly. The flak was a strong indicat…

14 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Putin's Nuclear Bluff Has Been Exposed

In what is arguably a more successful surprise attack than Pearl Harbor, to which it has been inaptly compared, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) hit four Russian airbases at Olenya, Belaya, Ivanovo and Dyagilevo in a massive operation on Sunday. SBU claims that 41 aircraft, including multiple Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bom…

13 days ago · Matt Osborne

This post will unlock for free subscribers for one week on 24 June.

Skyline

Matt Osborne

Jun 3

I am visiting a friend in a different part of the area where I have resettled in California. As I exit the elevator on his floor, I discover an interesting view. I pause to snap a photo. As I turn to walk the last few steps and ring his doorbell, a nonagenarian black woman shuffles past me, hunched over her walker, with a tiny leashed Dachsund trotting beside. “Good morning,” she says with a grin. I return the greeting, politely passing her in the opposite direction.

Read full story

This essay is exclusively available for premium subscribers to The Distance.

The Democratic Party Civil War Makes It Even Harder To Give Up Genderwoo

Democrats are at war over the future of the party, making them even more resistant to hearing concerns about their sacred progressive cows, such as ‘gender identity’ ideology. From Washington, DC to Maine to Colorado to California, Democrats have doubled-down on imposing the genderwoo program from the top, wherever they have power. This virtue-signalling is oppositional to Donald Trump, for Democrats lack a consensus leader and the one thing they can agree on is opposing him…

11 days ago · Matt Osborne

Battle Damage Assessment: How Many AWACS Planes Are Left In Russia?

Ukraine claimed that more that 40 aircraft were damaged or destroyed in their historic drone attack on Russian aviation this Sunday, including one-third of Russian cruise missile carriers. As public source imagery became available, only 13 cruise missile bombers were confirmed as destroyed in Operation Spiderweb. Today, Ukrainian Military Intelligence (SBU) released a video compliation of FPV drone video feeds that includes at least 19 successful hits on Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers used to attack Ukrainian cities…

10 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne