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This is one of the funnier and crazier Democrat ploys: Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) wants to change the Constitution by having the National Archivist type the failed feminist Equal Rights Amendment, whose time limit to be ratified was up 42 years ago, into her Official Copy of the United States Constitution. Or something.
44 other Senators joined Gillibrand’s call.
But yesterday the National Archivist, Colleen Shogan, said that No, she wasn’t going to do that, that that’s not the way the Constitution works.
Senator Gillibrand is really mad at Ms. Shogan for “wrongfully inserting herself into a clear constitutional process:”
Presumably, the Democrats know the Supreme Court would not let them do this. But the idea is that they can then win an even higher percentage of the Angry Feminist vote by arguing that the Supreme Court unconstitutionally ripped the Equal Rights Amendment out of the fabric of the Constitution.
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The awful anti-white liberal white women are not going away. They will be around for years to come. Keep an eye out for them in public life and in your private life. There is nothing they love more than to destroy a white heterosexual man’s life.
At this point, what difference does it make?
I am still looking for gay marriage in my copy of the constitution. I must have an expurgated version.
But then it also says Congress shall declare war.
AF Senator Gillibrand, daughter of 2 attorneys (which inherently borders on child abuse) would have been graduating High School at the time of the expiration of ERA ratification. What a long, angry memory she must have.
Thank you, Phyllis Schlafly and, also, per that post:
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How many Senators – Red & Blue – will sound like Colleen Shogan when it comes time to choose between the First Amendment and the Antisemitism Awareness Act?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (zanu pf-NY) is amazing, but not in a good way.
When she first got elected to the House in 2007, she was a conservative democrat, who supported the 2A.
Then, as soon as she got elected to the Senate in 2009, replacing Mrs. Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer “took her under his wing.” And the rest, as they say, is history.
Steve, I assume nothing of the sort. For generations, zanu pf has been committing illegal, unconstitutional acts (e.g., affirmative action) that they’ve gotten away with, because their opponents were such bloody cowards.
LOL! That tweet IS hilarious, coming from a UCLA edumucated lawyer, no less. Her copy, downloaded off the internet, probably from wikipedia, must have already had that other Amendment about the 23 AGs, LWV, and ABA being able to insert Amendments, without any of that patriarchal SCROTUS-splaining.
I don’t think there’s any fabric of the Constitution anymore. It’s so easy to tear up now due to being printed on cheap low-fiber Office Depot $20/ream paper. (No more hemp, cause, getting high or something…)
Suggestion for Angry Feminista Kristen Gillibrand: You get a lot farther in the Amendment process if you start off with “We the People” fonts at least. Proposed Amendment XXVIII:
Given the menacingly destructive political power wielded these days by imbecilic women, dialing back to ERA-era levels of “equality” would probably be an improvement.
Thus spake our heroine:
“Our argument has the support of legal experts,”
— so, unnamed “experts,” not voters;
“twenty-three attorneys general,”
— so, not even a majority of attorneys general (as if their opinions mattered in this anyway);
“the League of Women Voters,”
— so, not a critical majority of state legislatures, just a soi-disant “league” of crackpot partisans;
“and the American Bar Association.”
— so, Yet Another Caucus of Scheming Jews.
Remind me again why we gave these harridans the vote?
This is a crazy idea but is unlikely to gain any traction in the current political climate. The election of Trump may be a sign of a movement back to sanity.
This country has gone through periods of hysteria going back to the Salem witch trials. In recent decades we have had the war hysteria which led us to invade Iraq, the Covid hysteria which led us to shut the country down for two years and the Floyd hysteria which led to defunding the police.
The biggest hysteria has been the Woke phenomenon which led to large numbers of people being accused of racism, sexism and homophobia. We may now have passed Peak Woke. Charles Mackay said people go mad in herds and then slowly regain their senses as individuals, one at a time.
They made fun of Phyllis Schlafly back in the day, in retrospect she was one of the first to realize that putting in the innocent-sounding ERA was meant to unleash a giant cultural change by fiat and her strategy of counteracting it relied on making people aware of this fact (truth be told cultural change by fiat was already common prior to Schlafly and her anti-ERA fight).
People also forget that Schlafly also argued that ERA would lead to a female draft and was basically meant to provide cannon-fodder for planned endless wars. Looking at Youtube videos of her debating feminists about this looks very ironic in the 21st Century-here is a supposedly war-mongering conservative arguing against making it easy for powers-that-be to plan and carry out future wars and the supposedly anti-war, anti-establishment feminists pooh poohing that notion. Most people in the seventies missed the fact that Schlafly was a very nuanced individual who could foresee that liberalism was actually a pro-war position.
Even so it didn’t matter since the cultural change came about anyways due to the fact our opponents are used to getting their own way and will not be refused. Just witness the sheer brazen arrogance of this latest stunt- some Dem senators, 23 AGs, the Am Bar Association etc. says the constitution has to have a specific amendment so it will, the amendment process be damned.
In the seventies alongside Schlafly there was also Anita Bryant who also saw that minor concessions are a foot-in-the door for huge planned cultural changes. Unlike Schlafly, Bryant was not really strong psychologically so she really suffered when they got going on her destruction. Bryant also suffered economically.
The are not reproducing much, so there’s that, and folks such as Naomi Wolf are coming around a bit. It’s darkest before the dawn.
2,500 years ago Aristophanes thought that women in power would be utterly farcical and wrote a comic play mocking the idea… he was right.
I commend unto thee this enlightened Act from more than a century ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-sex-disqualification-removal-act-1919#:~:text=A%20person%20shall%20not%20be,incorporated%20society%20(whether%20incorporated%20by
“…particularly for African-Americans and Hispanics…”
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A reminder that when it comes to “fascism” the Left takes a back seat to no one.
“Chuck Schumer ‘took her under his wing’.”
A/k/a “to get along, you go along.”
Downstate Democrats have been known to call her Tracy Flick. I doubt she knows the difference between truth and falsehood.
“The election of Trump may be a sign of a movement back to sanity.”
And his election (actually his re-election) was precisely because of crapola like this. One of the probs with the Left in this country is that they are too beholden to over-educated theoreticians in the Ivys whose heads are up their asses!
Their reproduction is with your kids, not theirs. The media and educational cabals take care of that.
Hello, Mark. I’ve been enjoying your always right-on-the-money comments. Mr. Sailer here predicted the waning (at least) of Wokeness for a while now. I disagreed that’s it’s just a fad like pet rocks or these new military aircraft color-scheme new cars.
The election of Trump was the cause of the waning of the Wokeness. If it’d gone the other way, the Cultural Revolution 2.0 (which is what this is) would have only intensified. Wokeness would NOT have faded out. There are evil people behind it all, not just the idiots you see in tweets and on TV.
It’s not just the man, Trump, and his plans to at least clean out the BS within the Feral Gov’t that will be the change. It’s that Americans have shown that they have at least this one way of fighting back, voting successfully for someone not of the UniParty. What’s important is that the people – the brave Amy Wax types, but also millions of others in lower positions – can count on SOMEONE in power, if not “having their backs” if they resist, at least not being certain to railroad them, out of school, out of jobs, or into prison like Derek Chauvin and the Brunswick 3.
The Kier Starmers are not welcome here!
That all said, I agree with “Loyalty” above that they will keep on coming at us.
“If women in all stages of life don’t get involved and fight for what we want, plans will be made that we may not like, and it’ll be our own damned fault. I think about this everyday. It’s true at every level, from the Capitol to your city’s town hall to your neighborhood school. We need to participate, and we need to be heard. Our lives, our communities, and our world will be better for it,” Kristen Gillibrand.
According to researchers at the NIH, preteen suicide rates have increased by 8% since 2008. Female preteen rates were higher than males. Correlation does not imply causation; however, the question of “where’s mommy” might be raised.
Kind of a sad effort, really. Obviously Gillibrand thought this would get some political traction – otherwise why do it – but what it shows is that the Dems are so bereft of concrete ideas to counter the changes coming next month the best they could do was a for-show stunt that has so little foundation in actionable reality that it hasn’t occurred to any ERA supporter over the last 40 years.
Also interesting is that the ERA explicitly addressed equal treatment based on sex. In light of the current cultural moment where the left tries to extend rights on the basis of gender identity, obviously the only way this amendment would further that is if it was subsequently decided through an act of Congress or perhaps some court that declaring that gender identity = sex for purposes of the law. Which ironically would be using the ERA to empower men.
So no, woke hasn’t gone anywhere and won’t for awhile. I do see some evidence that a portion of the left is pretty sick of performative stuff like this, since it’s burned up a ton of political energy and capital over the years at the expense of more concrete economic goals.
Ok Steve, I will subscribe. But if you are talking about crime in 2020 you better finally bring up Peter Turchin. I have a hankering to discuss Peter Turchin. Suum cuique.
Agree. When she first showed up as a candidate for office in her rustic but semi-gentrified district, she campaigned as pro-gun, strategically ambiguous on other social issues. Within a few years of going to DC, she turned into an ultramontanist lefty.
Does anyone ever move to the right in DC? It’s like there is some kind of whirlpool there spinning everyone out to the lunatic leftist fringe.
The only instances I can think of anyone moving against the tide are maybe Justices Thomas and Alito. Which is why the DC left hate them.
Mostly agree, but
principled archivist Colleen Shogan is a woman too.
P.S. Apparently Dems tried this Amendment-by-archive wheeze back in 2022. Shogan opposed it then too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Joy_Shogan#National_Archives_and_Records_Administration
Weird move. Was it just to get her name in the news? No one wants their daughter drafted. And women already have equal rights, in some cases extra-legal rights. How blacks and Hispanics keep voting for dems is crazy. Do they really want LaTiesha and Rosalita, with those ling nails and high hair ending up down on Tank Hill in Fort Jackson? Crazy.
Sometimes in the early 2010s, I was watching CSPAN as they were showing Ruth Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia giving a joint interview. They asked Ginsburg if she wished the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified. She got all misty-eyed and went on about what a beautiful thing it would have been to add that to the Constitution. Scalia asked if she wanted to hear what he had to say about it, and she said no. They moved on to the next question.
That exchange exposed the hollowness of the enterprise. The whole point of adding text to the Constitution is to solicit the opinions of various officials, above all of Supreme Court justices, as to how it should be interpreted. It is those opinions that translate the text into action. If you didn’t want to hear Scalia’s opinion about the ERA, you didn’t want the ERA ratified.
Hard to read, but worth the trouble. I had a hard time figuring out “FUBAR.” The F doesn’t look much like F, and the A looks more like H to me.
Was there anything in the ERA that hasn’t become law or custom by now?
OT: Steve noticed first: Really important, deeply researched new @BrookingsInst paper showing that the huge 2020-2022 homicide surge began in April 2020, before the Floyd murder and unrest weeks later, suggesting that pandemic stress and closures played a major role, even before onset of “Floyd effect.”
Well, let’s just face it- At this stage, our entire “system of government” is a SHAM!
So, there exists this little battle, between the people that still thinks it’s working, or plays a part, or that the original design can be recaptured… or something.
We have entire entities, failing to fill their role properly, like Congress, and other entities totally over-stepping their role, like the Executive branch, and the blob of agencies behind it.
Part of the problem is that as it’s currently operating, this country can never legally pass another constitutional amendment again.
The bills that go before Congress are gigantic, “you must vote yes right now!” behemoths of garbage! Slush funds, corruption, payola, grift, graft, pork, and waste!
And just like the Bill of Rights, which has been completely trashed, the entire mechanisms of government, as prescribed by the constitution, have been bastardized, contorted, twisted, stood on their head..
So, periodically, you get little microcosm examples like this one, of some maniac going totally off the reservation, and others saying “but that’s not how it works”, and while true, NOTHING is working the way it’s supposed to work, so you can’t be surprised when someone vocalizes the obvious- We’ve been doing whatever the fuck we want for so long, that I just assume we can do whatever the fuck we want now.
Also, part of the problem, is this bullshit concept of “Rule of Law”, whereby we end up with States, and the Federal Government, suing each other in federal courts, so that the same corrupt judges that participate in Lawfare, or Legislating from the Bench, can rule on these ridiculous “legal” contrivances.
Literally- Point to any clearly stated part of the Constitution, and I can point to 10-20 ways that it’s being trashed! Constantly, currently, endlessly.
We don’t pass budgets, we don’t declare war, and the federal government has all but destroyed “States’ Rights” (thanks to that traitor Abe Lincoln).
The Constitution is just a stated list of rules, that everyone is constantly violating. This “country” hasn’t been a truly Constitutional Republic in over a century, and depending on how you look at it, maybe it actually NEVER was!
Little microcosm examples like this one, only highlight a tiny fraction of a government that has been cheating at everything for our entire lives.
Hell, the current admin just allowed, authorized, and funded it’s own invasion of this nation! That’s high treason, and every single person involved should be lined up and shot! Every funder, every border guard, every politician, every agency employee, and every NGO.
When we do that, then we can start talking about The Constitution, the Rule of Law, and a Constitutional Republic!
Otherwise, we might as well accept that we are not “that country”!
We are a SHAM!
Women – especially second wave feminists – are the epitome of “I’d rather rule over the ashes than not rule at all” thinking.
Actually, I take that back. All liberals are like that for all minorities with regards to political power.
In the sphere of “performative stuff” the platinum $1 ____illion coin will never be beat.
This is a big nothing burger, by the way. State and US congressmen on both sides of the aisle propose, and receive varying degrees of support for, all kinds of wacky things and have for a very long time, probably since the founding. 99.9% of it never gets any real traction.
Here is a list on some of the more recent more bizarre proposals:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bennyjohnson/22-bills-being-considered-by-congress-that-will-bl
So the real question is, what is old Steve-o trying to distract us from?
This keeps happening, all of these people are law school graduates and none of them know anything about the Constitution.
They go where the money takes them…
They’re all bought and paid for, in one way or another (with a handful of very rare exceptions, and you see how they are treated, until AIPAC, or the DNC/RNC, or some other powerful lobbying group can remove them)
“Within a few years of going to DC, she turned into an ultramontanist lefty.
Does anyone ever move to the right in DC? It’s like there is some kind of whirlpool there spinning everyone out to the lunatic leftist fringe.”
I recall years ago reading an essay by a veteran DC political lobbyist –forget what for, but in general at bottom it’s always for the Same Thing– and he said, basically: The way that lobbyists actually operate is, they don’t just come to your office with a pile of charts and graphs, aiming to make a persuasive argument. What they really do is, subtly and incrementally, invade your personal world by surrounding you unnoticeably with people and things and places and situations and golfing partners and so on which always emphasize and agree with their point of view, to the exclusion of all others, to the extent that eventually that’s the only thing you hear.
It’s the old “fish don’t know that water exists” strategy: it’s the reason we still wring our hands over fictional non-existent boogeymen like “anti-semitism” and ignore the deadly poisons of actual semitism in our midst; it’s why the Jews were not content to operate just one vocally “pro-Jewish” newspaper or TV channel, but plotted to own the *entire* media system.
OT: What do you make of the Brookings report that contradicts your Summer of Floyd hypothesis, Steve?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-u-s-homicides-spike-in-2020-and-then-decline-rapidly-in-2023-and-2024/
When Gillibrand was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton as NY senator I remember thinking “Well OK, as Democrats go Gillibrand looks like the best we could have hoped for”. And then she immediately starts dumping the moderate-conservative positions that got her elected in her home district in favor of left-liberal positions more agreeable to the state and national parties. I doubt she was ever sincere in her centrism, and I wonder if she is sincere in her leftism either, or if it’s all just careerism. If she had lived in a red state would she have ended up as another Kristi Noem? (Not knocking Noem — it’s just that who can tell who’s sincere and who’s just in it for themselves).
The language of the amendment was vague so as to allow appellate judges maximum latitude to disallow practices not favored by lawfare artists.
So what I hear is Senator Gillibrand saying it’s not out of the question that Mein Kampf could be read into the constitution. The 88th Amendment.
Look, a (nutty, ERA-supporting, female) squirrel!
Instead of noticing a futile PR stunt purporting to add a provision to the Constitution of the United States, perhaps people should be noticing the UniParty’s plan to remove the Constitution’s First Amendment (by gutting it):
S.4127 – 118th Congress (2023-2024): Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2024
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4127
It’s all about feels. As I’ve noted, the greatest coup of the minoritarian coup was 2nd wave feminism cultivating “oppression” grievance in white women.
Western women have always been among the freest on earth. Way more free than Asiatic or Semitic or–LOL–African norms. But back in the day women certainly faced some barriers of social convention in climbing the ladder in professional/managerial occupations, that some women were interested in pursuing–for perfectly understandably reasons, including the expectation that women will go off and get married and prioritize home and family.
But now? LOL. Is there anything ERA would give them that do not already have? American women are not the least bit “oppressed” they are–overly–privileged.
If anything, ERA–if taken seriously in the courts–would call into question affirmative action for women, all the double standards to allow women to do jobs they are not fit for (female firemen? female soldiers?), double standards in divorce and family court, heck even stuff like the endlessly hyped female sports–“separate but equal”?–and even the old saw of separate sex public bathrooms. If anything ERA would enable all the queers and perverts with their deconstructing agenda.
Almost no women actually want any of that. Almost no women–and certainly not the Gillibrand types–actually want legal equality. They want all their female privileges and double standards. But for some of the aggrieved they want all that … and a big flashing sign saying “Equal!” … but women extra special more equal than men.
The West is actually dying from minoritarianism. But trapped there by a dull enervating estrogenic ooze. We simply have to stop pampering women, catering to their feels and speak basic biological–and mathematical–truths about sex and race if the West is to survive. This “women are wonderful!” thing must end.
The US is, even without emotional patriotic fervor, worth preserving. Sure, many things suck.
But you don’t have government bureaucrats flying through windows, along with their family members, nor are there billionaires or politicians suddenly missing as if teleported into some parallel dimension.
Nothing is perfect. Humans are not perfect. Human institutions are not perfect. But, at least, silliness is out in public & people are free to engage in the struggle for what they see as right.
Geez, let’s talk about skiing some more.
Anytime the inanity of our politics comes up, it’s just depressing.
Let’s just separate already. The aggrieved women loons, the queer loons, the immigrationist loons, the BLM loons can all have their Rainbow Paradise. (Or if it turns out that diversity is not actually a strength, their multiple separate paradises.)
But please can we normal Americans just be left alone in our patch to have America back?
But the ERA never was ratified, and so its vagueness doesn’t matter. I think the point is that the Kritarchy just reinterpreted other, existing law as to require de facto the same outcome as if the ERA had been ratified. That doesn’t speak well for “our” legal system.
This is too simplistic. You don’t have too different female behavior in Italy, Germany, Denmark, France, Poland,…
Simply, the West is in crisis, but that’s because the post-national & post-religious mindset dominates.
I think that this is the universal characteristic of a high technological civilization- just look at the abysmal birth rate of Japan & China (no feminism there). Even in Turkey, the developed part is not too different.
Brown & black races generally have a different situation because they lag behind & this will continue in any foreseeable future.
The one thing that is essential for survival & prosperity is national pride & self-reliance. With or without feminism which has so many waves that would drown any surfer.
You have to admit that promptly amending the Constitution whenever a simple majority in the legislature can be found would make for a wild ride — and perhaps have its points.
We’d have gotten out of the Civil War (or at any rate, it would have looked silly). The original Thirteenth Amendment effectively reserved the issue of slavery to the states. It passed both the House and the Senate, but ratification was kind of overtaken by events.
“Western women have always been among the freest on earth. Way more free than Asiatic or Semitic or–LOL–African norms. But back in the day women certainly faced some barriers of social convention in climbing the ladder in professional/managerial occupations, that some women were interested in pursuing”
In earlier more traditional times, women of ambition and talent who were just plain not interested in marriage and family and children had several perfectly good options open to them…
— in the Catholic world, such women could enter the clergy, the convents and abbeys with their many different and varying Orders, where they could rise to many positions of influence and authority. Some of the greatest Doctors of the Church are women.
— in the Victorian world and places like it, women of means and talent ran the cultural salons and were the patronesses and movers and shakers of much of the artistic and literary world. Women of means who were more politically inclined gravitated towards local social projects, and various influential meliorist and reformist organizations — which sometimes did great harm (Abolitionism and Prohibition) but often plenty of good (Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker).
— in every society, women of talent and ambition but without means or position always had much more colorful but risky avenues to success: madames and brothel-keepers, mistresses of taverns, gossip hubs, pirate queens, courtesans, geisha, harem favorites. Hey, it ain’t just money that makes the world go round.
The real problem with that is that the division is not between states, but between town and country.
Rural Oregon is fully as conservative as rural Iowa. It’s just that in Oregon, Portland et al represent a majority of the votes. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines don’t.
So we could create a series of walled ghettoes, but…
Really? Still?
I’m becoming skeptical; isn’t it a bit more like the late Roman Empire? All misery and no genuine grandeur?
Perhaps we’d be better off accepting the collapse and seeing what comes next. Five hundred years or so down the road, there’ll be a new civilization; a High Middle Ages or something. Like ripping the band aid off a wound, it may be time to get on with it.
Perhaps some of the pyrotechnics could be skipped if we just surrendered to China…somebody powerful and sensible, at any rate. Any other nominees come to mind? Clearly, we need a conservator of some kind.
Or we can go with anarchy and rapidly declining population. I’m sixty six; I’ll be gone before we get to the really nasty bits.
Swell. Put the whole Knausgård into constitution.
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I’m still looking for marriage in my copy. ☮
In the latest continuing resolution. Congress gave itself a 40% raise, from $174k to $243K, because they are doing such a great job bankrupting the country.
2) Read this excellent article by Micheal Lind titled Beyond Green.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/beyond-green-energy-policy
I quote some of it below the More tag where he discusses another giveaway to libtard NGOs that I’d not heard of.
But wait, Democrats—it gets better! Not only Democratic donors but also Democratic nonprofits can pan for green gold in the streams of government money. Under Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for the first time allowed tax-exempt nonprofits to benefit from tax credits and rebates for “investments” in renewable energy. So much money was dispensed to nonprofits via the IRA in the guise of combating climate change that PennEnvironment, part of the Public Interest Network, provided a guide to what nonprofits needed to do to cash in:
With Elective Pay, these organizations are able to receive a payment for building or investing in qualifying clean energy projects. There are 12 clean energy tax credits that are available to nonprofits, including for the production of electricity from renewable sources like putting solar on their roofs and for purchasing commercial clean vehicles …
There are a couple steps to follow in the process of receiving these direct payments:
Design and implement your qualifying clean energy project. You will need to know what credit you are applying for.
Determine your tax year, if you don’t already know, either based upon a calendar or fiscal year.
Complete prefiling registration with the IRS:
Create a Clean Energy Business Account for your organization at http://www.irs.gov/eptregister. This website also includes a comprehensive user guide and video tutorial.
Select your Registrant Type (i.e., nonprofit organization or local government). This is where you will provide information about your organization.
Select the credits your organization intends to claim. You will provide supporting documentation for the projects or investments.
Review and submit your requests for registration numbers. Don’t worry you can save your work in progress!
After you submit your registration, you can monitor its status online. If everything checks out, you will receive a registration number.
File your tax return and pick the corresponding direct-pay election. This is when you will provide your registration number.
Receive your direct payment after the tax return is processed!
In addition to subsidizing nonprofits from one direction, by exempting them from taxation in general, thanks to the Biden administration and the Democratic Congress, American taxpayers can now be dunned by the IRS for the money needed to send checks to an NGO that lobbies for transgender surgeries or defunding the police, as long as the NGO buys a Tesla to be driven to drag queen story time or slaps a solar panel atop its headquarters. A small price for American taxpayers to pay to “save the planet!”
There’s also a gender angle, as the female brain is less rules oriented and more equity oriented (ie be agreeable and make everyone happy). You see this in sex differences in moral reasoning and game play from a young age. It’s also why rule of law Constitution-as-written types lean heavily male.
Wasn’t rule of law one of the main reasons we started this country? Progressives could argue that voting in a President, who in turn appoints SCOTUS justices, who in turn “interpret” a ‘living, breathing’ Constitution is somewhat democratic. It does not, however, respect rule of law.
This contradicts Steve’s thesis. This says it was the pandemic, not George Floyd.
Not Schumer. He prefers humans with ding-a-lings.
Never mind, I see you addressed on substack.
Per Ms. Magazine, the legal theory is that there can be no time limit and states can never withdraw their initial ratification. So the ERA has actually passed but no one realized it! (Equally ridiculous: Ms. Magazine is apparently still a thing.)
https://www.cardin.senate.gov/news/the-era-has-been-ratified-declares-new-congressional-resolution/
January 20 cannot come soon enough.
BTW.. …..Peter Hotez had an interview the other day (either CNN or MSNBC) basically promising all kinds of viruses were going to be unleashed after January 21st. He seemed very angry and disheveled.
I bet Schumer gave her the idea.
Peter Turchin’s models predicted events similar to those that occurred subsequent to 2020, nearly twenty years before they happened, and at a time when an interviewer suggested that the models predicted contemporary events. Turchin stuck by his models and twenty years later their predictions proved spot on. (I’ve always had a soft spot for his models since they incorporate a demographic process I explored in my dissertation, many years earlier.)
However, Turchin predicted a period of generalized social disruption. He has always been wise enough to leave it at that. Such periods are usually characterized by spontaneous explosions of violence and criminality. The character of these explosions is not predetermined and they require some spark to set them off . Steve’s analysis pinpointed the spark and explained the character of the resulting explosion.
Both Turchin and Sailer deserve credit. If Steve is not familiar with Turchin’s work, he should make himself so.
A new study by Stanford used AI and brain-mapping technology, and found that the brain determinants of cognitive function are quite different for men versus women. Below is a link from an article (in Psychology Today, but don’t laugh – – the MD/PhD author seems to have superb credentials, and seems to be fair). Among other findings, he notes that the study rejected the continuum theory, because the brain differences had no overlap. He notes in the article that the New York Times and the WSJ dared not mention this study.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sax-on-sex/202405/ai-finds-astonishing-malefemale-differences-in-human-brain
Having attachment to three Scandinavian women, two of which inherited my DNA, I can attest to the idea that anti-white white women is basically a WASP/Five Eyes phenomenon: Oceania, Canada, UK, USA. Anglo Saxon Protestantism appears to breed females with traits of pathological altruism. My girls, both in their twenties, are very independent and follow none of the suicidal social doctrines that have been generated by the race/gender/climate cult created by that creepy cabal of billionaires who appear to outright control some Western governments. My girls are not of the indigenous left in their country which is still not as krazy as the Five Eyes leftoid variants. What they and their peers are most fired up about are the parasites of colour aka Mohammedans and Africans that have arrived and don’t want to leave despite being asked to nicely by the relevant authorities.
Every action in Politics, large and small, over the course of my life, is proof of the fact that the 19th amendment is not just a nation breaker, but a civilization destroyer. I guess the good news is that after we go full Canticle for Leibowitz, no human society will make that mistake again. Still, gonna suck to be us for quite awhile.
Meanwhile, Law School graduates that can’t interpret the black letter law of the USA need to be disbarred. Period.
Typing a fresh-hatch Fundamental Human Right into the constitution – a document written and ratified by racist slaveowning cisgender white sexist men – is more honest than blithely ignoring the constitution: viz lockdowns, facediapers, rectal marriage, mandatory purchase of insurance, universal abortion. My most exultant adulation for her transparency and bluntness 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
I realize you’re trolling us, yet again, Pfi$er $teve
More like your daughters. The male-female political gap is growing, particularly with the young. It’s a modern day witch cult. If I had daughters (instead of sons) I would be monitoring this very closely. (My sons seem fine).
What was the gist of the counter-argument, for us non-paying types?
Excellent point but, it is striking to hear the sound bites of cut-off mockingbird talking heads who apparently don’t know the internet exists, as the Biden senility, the Harris ineptitude, and finally the Trump election take them by complete (and avoidable) surprise.
Obligate parasites fear independence.
I’m not worried about this because it’s plainly un-Constitutional and we probably have more lawyers of Palestinian ancestry than does Gaza.
The Floyd riots were the culmination of an existing “movement” emanating from elite Left circles for some time before Floyd’s death. I’d date the genesis of all of this to Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, when the choice was made to drive up base turnout among blacks in order to compensate for a loss of non-elite white voters who supported Obama in 2008, particularly in the “blue wall” States with large urban centers like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
“Reform prosecutors” had already been elected in major U.S. cities and begun to wage their war against the orderly administration of the criminal law for the protection of the public before 2020.
For example, Larry Krasner first occupied the office of District Attorney of Philadelphia on January 1, 2018. Homicides increased year over year between 2018 until an all time historic peak of 562 in 2021 (2017, the year prior to Krasner taking office, saw 315 homicides). One of the cool new “reform” policies of Larry Krasner was the refusal to prosecute the offense of a felon in possession of a firearm as a standalone crime which his office announced publicly for reasons that escape anyone with a functioning brain.
So the more reasonable view is that Floyd was a shot of nitrous oxide to an already high-octane homicide wave which itself was a response to the building “de-carceral” and “criminal justice reform” left movements which built themselves into such previous successes as winning elected Prosecutors’ races. Those “reform prosecutors” instituted policies which then resulted in more crime and more homicides. Month to month increases are more likely statistical noise or seasonal effects for which Steve already accounts.
A really, truly great woman – and one of the first to endorse Trump, in the last year of her life.
Nope!
Nah, she was always a leftist. Ambitious lawyer, was one of the early supporters of gay marriage, and got Al Franken to resign from the Senate for a joke years earlier. Her whole history shows anti-male feminist.
This seems to be mostly about abortion, if you look at the letter by 46 Democratic senators.
And the Bill of Rights that’s part of the Constitution says that Congress “shall make no law” regarding firearms, and that 2d Amendment also applies to the States as well, but somehow all kinds of laws have shown up, and even been upheld by many courts….
Of course she wasn’t sincere in her centrism. That was doing what she had to do in order to get elected.
Fortunately, similar to Trump’s failed bump stock ban vs. 2A, passing the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” will actually strengthen the First Amendment when the Act (if passed) is inevitably struck down by Clarence Thomas:
*Record scratch*
Women are Wonderful. I love them. Even if they were an entirely different species, I wouldn’t care.
Have to agree with Bannon on this.
Why is Senator Flick bringing this up today? Also, if not for her, Al Franken would be president next month
You should; she sincerely thought that killing her dog would endear her to voters
OT — It’s over, Steve: Keir Starmer has announced the extermination of the wasp women.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14203583/waspi-women-labour-elected-ministers-compensation-refuse-promises.html
Okay, so South Dakota governor Kristi Noem did kill her dog, her bad, but she was a terrific appointment by Trump for Homeland Security. As governor of a State bordering Mexico, she is intimately familiar with border-State issues. Further there is this. As you probably know, the Coast Guard is under control not of the Pentagon, but rather, Homeland Security. As governor of a State having long ocean coastlines, Kristi is experienced in the requirements of search & rescue. Perfect choice.
By the way, those of you too young to have known about this when it made news: Mitt Romney put his dog in a cage, atop the roof of his car, for a long long (12 hours) auto trip. Heaven forbid he should have to share the inside of the car with the family dog.
Excellent points. You might also have mentioned that she is well-experienced in the sorts of crises that occur in major metropolitan areas.
They HATE, HATE, HATE straight white men some would say.
“wants to change the Constitution by having the National Archivist type the failed feminist Equal Rights Amendment, whose time limit to be ratified was up 42 years ago, into her Official Copy of the United States Constitution.”
On the other side, suppose 44 GOP senators request the National Archivist type in the National Defense of Marriage Act, as well as an additional amendment into the Constitution, namely that there are ONLY two genders? (Male and Female).
How would the Senator from NY and her ilk feel about that one?
Bring on the hardball game.
“Or something.”
Oh it would be something indeed especially if childish, petty hardball tactics are returned in kind by the GOP.
I doubt it. At this point, most of “woke” is thoroughly embedded in the system and won’t go away. Freaks will just be a little quieter about it now. The GOP already embraced the gay, so they won’t even be an effective opponent, let alone an opponent who can roll back the pozz.
I would.
The Democrat Party, having already lost the white working class and losing ground among blacks and Hispanics, will not rest until they have 200% of the urban and suburban college educated childless cat lady/wine aunt vote. 100% is not enough. Surely if they can increase voting in this bloc to 200% they will clinch the next election. Gillibrand is paving the way for an unprecedent Democrat victory in 2028 by stirring up her base.
Of course as Steve says, step 2 in this little piece of political theater is to have the S. Ct. reject the ratification. This will provide fodder for 1,000 fund raising emails.
Sotomayor is 70 and diabetic. Just wait until the Trump majority on the court becomes 7 to 2. Trump is already the luckiest bastard on earth and chances are it will only get better from here.
70 is not old.
In her recorded conversations from 1964 with Arthur Schlesinger, Jackie Kennedy can be heard giggling at the feminists who reminded her of the “weird girls” in high school that wanted to compete with the boys. I know Steve is one of those conservatives who is deeply averse to saying anything good about JFK, but it might be true that the nation would be better off by a mile if only his wife had been First Lady for five more years.
When those tapes came out in 2011, I mentioned that tidbit from them to a girl in my sociology class, just to see how she would react: “Oh, well that was Jackie O!” I guess being rich and beautiful makes a woman more like an icon than a role model, whereas Bill Clinton was inspired to become a politician by JFK.
My impression is that girls marry men who remind them of their fathers more than men marry women like their mothers, and girls wind up looking more like their mothers than boys do their fathers. But it seems that boys become more like their fathers in the sense of settling into the same temperament. What a woman is like by the time they look like their mother though, that might be the most important nature/nurture mystery no one talks about. What is a woman like when her daughter really needs wise advice? She is probably more like the world around her than anything else, and probably less aware of this than the rest of us are about what we follow. That is what I would deduce from the fact that the typical American woman is totally oblivious that Feminism is the sea we now swim in. Example: Gillibrand thinks we need the ERA.
What is to be done? For one, tell your daughters, “Don’t be a dude,” and say it just like that. And two, inquire of the others, “Why don’t you want to be like Jackie O?” Of course, every girl wants to be Jackie O—which is why no one ever thinks to say that. If someone ever did, a light might go off in some girl who never realized what she takes for granted is well within reach of the way she was made.
You might even say she was made to giggle at the girls who think they are boys.
The veteran commenter Buzz Mohawk said something around here not too long ago that struck me at the time as so fundamentally wrong that I feel compelled to come back to it now. What he basically said was that “modern-minded men” like himself understand what traditionalists (like me) do not, which is that women obey the implacable laws of their nature; culture being an extended phenotype, folks (like me) who do not want a culture permissive of fornication and abortion are thus being not only impractical but unreal. I think he would agree that is a fair characterization of what he meant.
Well now. The first thing I would say is that I do not doubt that Buzz Mohawk believes this perspective of his is true. I assume he is reasoning in good faith; I do not think he is deriving an ‘is’ from an ‘ought,’ if you will. That is to say, I would not say that Buzz believes, like a cad does, that women are promiscuous because he prefers them to be promiscuous. Rather, what he is saying is a form of what people got into the habit of saying only about a decade ago but which seems to sum up so much of the world, which is that it is what it is. In other words, women will fornicate because that is the way they are; and that has nothing to do with the way things were, or the way they ought to be.
I begin by acknowledging that Buzz Mohawk is reasoning in good faith because my whole point against his position is that I believe it is only his position because it is the only one he can imagine—because it is based on the only empirical evidence he has ever seen. It is not surprising that he believes what he thinks about female nature is true, because I know how rare it is to encounter traditional women in America. Buzz might be old enough to remember the time before the sea change of the 60s, but I doubt he is as old as my grandfather was, I doubt he knows what it was like to be an adult before the 60s. Another way of saying what I mean is that Buzz Mohawk has never stayed in St Mary’s, Kansas. But I have, and I am here to report this: that those women not only never fornicate but are more normal than the average American girl who thinks there is nothing wrong with being what they would call in St Mary’s a common whore. Hold on right there and think about what I just said: I said the women in St Mary’s are more normal than the average American woman. Just because a woman may be choosy about who she sleeps with does not mean she is much different than a common whore, for a common whore has a standard price as well. A woman who only sleeps with the men she respects has far, far more in common with a street prostitute than with any of the traditional Catholic women who live in St Mary’s, Kansas, or who go to Christendom College, or St Jude’s Shrine outside Houston, Texas, or any of the other outposts of traditional Catholic morals.
From what I know and what I have seen, if there is an implacable law of female nature it is something more like this: virgins are as innocent as children, and being feminine is more like being child-like than being like a man. I would say that the fundamental female instinct is to follow the leader, not to sleep with him. If Buzz actually knew any traditional Catholic women, then he would never make the mistake of rating modern-minded men as bearers of anything like true wisdom. I don’t mean to be insulting, (I’ve been reading Buzz for a long time) but the most wisdom he has at his disposal in this regard is probably what truth there is to be derived from Billy Joel’s lyric about Catholic girls starting much too late.
The truth about middle aged women is that the ones who were more like common whores when they did not look like their mothers, those are the ones who tend to have personalities more like men than a lot of men. Nothing is more gross than a woman who looks like her mother and has a ribald sense of humor as a matter of course. It is gross, they are just gross—even if they are as witty as Dorothy Parker.
O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts. -Wisdom 4:1-2
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OtisClarence, mah man!If it weren’t for him and Thomas Sowell, none of us here would know a penumbra from a
hole in the groundpartial lunar eclipse.Now, which one’s Clarence? They’re both chubby Black! Libertarians. [/Jerry Seinfeld]
But please answer this question: Wasn’t South Africa ruled by a literal minority? And wasn’t it better off? Please provide an explanation.
Yeah, I downloaded that “We, the People” font, and it was pretty good, Desanex. However, I realized that nobody else would see that font, it not being in their font files, so I made this screenshot, which is not so hot.
Section 3, Para, 2 reads:
Daylight Savings Time?
Welcome bach, Ach! (Got bored with your leave?) Are we past Peak Stupidity, or just getting started?
Mike Lindel is now selling his My Pillows for $14.88. Has he gone full fash?
Mein Pillow!
“Angry feminist” = “Large Giant”. Sort of redundant.
She also caved in to Big Tranny. She’s useless.
“Feminism” is brought to you by the same people who push abortion, sodomy, pornography, and the flood tide of Non-White immigration. The agenda has always been the same, to destroy the nuclear family, and eliminate Whites from the gene pool.
Guess who?
We didn’t give the vote just to the harridans, but to all adult women. Suffragists assumed women in Utah, the first territory to hold such an election (look it up), would quickly turn against polygamy. The opposite happened. Men voted in Wilson; women, the vastly less damaging Harding and Coolidge. The first woman in Congress voted against entering the mess in Europe in 1917.
Male legislators in 35 states stupidly got the ERA dangerously close to ratification. It was stopped in its tracks, miraculously, by an organized wave of angry women. (Thanks, Phyllis, and happy hundredth.) Men had proven useless.
The long slog to overturn the male Roe was an overwhelmingly female movement, particularly on the ground, as was the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent marital law being stretched to include “marriages” minus women. A leader of the latter effort said it was a “girls club”.
I’ve read quite a lot of the antisuffragist literature and have far more respect for them* than for their opponents. But only a cluelessess resulting from bad, even dishonest, education could lead one to believe that women are particularly at fault for the political side of our cultural degradation.
*Take note that the major antisuffragists themselves were women. They were even demanding that women be allowed to vote on suffrage itself, knowing full well it would fare worse. (Suffragists were smart enough not to take the bait.) Like the pro-marriage, pro-life, and StopERA campaigns, it is another example of a neglected women’s movement. Those don’t count, for some reason.
When you need a “long S”, just copy this one:
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Now about that “joint session”, will Hunter be catering?
OT Question: Why are so many African American officials across America getting themselves caught up in crazy-assed scandals to beat the band?
Answer: When placed in positions of power requiring responsibility and accountability, African Americans, too often, tend let you down…
https://abc7.com/post/fbi-searches-home-la-deputy-mayor-brian-williams-allegedly-made-bomb-threat-city-hall/15673119/
Look at the types of incentive structures women can profit from :
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/tennessee-sex-scandal-cop-maegan-hall-settles-federal-lawsuit-for-500k/
She got $500K (although net of fees, probably half that).
Okay, but then why is The Money all out on the leftist lunatic fringe?
It doesn’t seem very capitalistic…
Draft or no draft, LaTiesha and Rosalita are already on Tank Hill. This is a photo from West Point from several years ago:
Lol, no.
Rip the 19th amendment out instead.
BTW didn’t the 16th sneak in without ratification by the necessary number of States?
I’ve read a couple of Turchin’s books. He liked my summing up: “I think Turchin doesn’t get much attention because his books are too reasonable to be easily debunked and too enormously detailed to be easily digested and too ambitious to be easily trusted.”
This type of thing, putting the family dog in a cage tied to top of car during vacation was done by Clark Griswold during the family trip to Wally World.
What’s capitalism got to do with it?
Both Hitler and Mussolini were admirers of FDR. Mussolini was impressed by how he ‘d implement Fascism ( The union of State and Corporate power, in Sig Mussolini’s words) in the US.
“This contradicts Steve’s thesis. This says it was the pandemic, not George Floyd.”
Well, to be fair, strictly speaking it was not George Floyd personally or per se, it was what we might call the George Floyd Industry. It was all set and going to go down no matter what, just waiting for the right cast and crew.
Long before that particular idiot overdosed with the cops watching, the Jews had the whole George Floyd gambit totally set up, primed and ready to roll — organized, financed, shock troops in place, ideology, bricks, dry tinder and pre-printed slogans all at the ready — and just waiting for the right spark, the right dumb-ass negro, to get into the right scuffle with the cops and it was showtime. By their calculations, some idiot negro walks into the right scenario roughly once every 72 hours, so they had their pick of raisons.
It so happened that just about the negro-est-looking negro you ever saw — dullest eyes, lips and nose wider than the friggin Grand Canyon and dumber than a box of bricks — walked straight into the dumbest spontaneous photo op in living memory, and, et voila! Showtime, folks.
“some of the pyrotechnics could be skipped if we just surrendered to China”
Alas my impression is that we’re just a bunch of red-faced, long-nosed Western dogs not fit to lace the boots of the Great Han People … Chinese governance is very good for Chinese.
Hitler, Mussolini, and FDR were all basic national socialists (albeit with variations in branding), but none of them were in favor of gay ‘marriage’, transgender children, negrolotry, or any of the other leftist shibboleths that are all mysteriously the instantly synchronized consensus of the District of Columbia and ‘The Money’. Nor do those things seem to be in the interest of any significant party, yet somehow everyone is adamantly for them.
Having a large family, it is possible that there was no room to share inside the car. And dogs are well known to enjoy the wind in their fur.
The interesting thing is that just before Mitt Romney was condemned for normal American dog handling, everyone who had supposedly read Obama’s auto[sic]biography studiously ignored Obama’s self-described dog-eating, which is much much further outside American pet norms, but somehow this never counted against The Lightworker.
Or maybe all the great and the good ostentatiously carrying around Obama’s book never actually cracked it open.
The 13th was ratified through fraud and bribery, and the 14th and 15th were ratified at gunpoint. All three violate the original intent and design of the Constitution, which left things like slavery, citizenship, and voting to the individual member states of the federation. The so-called Civil War amendments effectively gutted the Constitution, and we’ve only been pretending to have the rule of law ever since.
Yeah, young men are increasingly throwing off the brainwashing, but females, being more naturally inclined to followerhood, are increasingly succumbing.
I do, and I do.
Daughters are doing okay, perhaps thanks to their parents limiting their formative exposure to modern ‘culture'[sic].
I also have nieces whose parents embraced modern (woke) culture with both hands. Yes, they are all trainwrecks. But as a modern-day Tolstoy might observe, each one is trainwrecked in her own way.
Yes. Compare the federal treatment of de facto marijuana legalization by the states to federal treatment of state firearm laws. Imagine a scenario in which some states chose to legalize silencers or short-barreled rifles or, gasp, full-auto firearms. Does anyone imagine the BATF would react in the same way as the DEA?
“Or maybe all the great and the good ostentatiously carrying around Obama’s book never actually cracked it open.”
Pretty sure that most of the ostentatious great and good (or the ones who actually matter, anyway, not the baristas) secretly knew that “Obama’s” “book” was not actually “his” “book,” and they just carried it around anyway as a token of their Salvation. Didn’t have to care what was in it, probably better to not find out in the first place. In any event not even his, as of course nothing really is. Not even the European civilization he mysteriously sought to rule over, despite rather blankly admitting that it wasn’t his, and he had nothing to do with it, nor it with him.
But of course that was never anything to do with what was really happening anyway.
However, my understanding is that such anti-white white women are all over Ireland and Scotland as well.
Given that Merkel let in 1.2 million immigrants I am worried it goes beyond Anglo Protestantism. I don’t know how many France let in but they’ve had big numbers of Muslims for decades.
I don’t think it’s the majority of white women anywhere who are anti-white by the way. But white women who aren’t crazy need to start speaking out.
To the Honorable Mr. Errican:
I refer you to the graph at PeakStupidity.com. The graph is said to have been produced scientifically by some of the top Stupidity researchers active today. Take note:
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Brookings is wrong. Every year there is seasonality to murders in the US. In general, there are more murders in warm weather. There are also an annual bumps on Independence Day and New Year’s.
In 2020, as in every year, around March, murder frequency started to increase. But unlike every other year, in 2020 there is a very clear 40% surge immediately after May 25.
Steve’s got a graph of this somewhere.
Agree.
Something here about the problems of urbanization. We’re wired more successfully for the farm; the ranch; the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Wokeism looks to be the latest iteration of the urban penchant for demographic shredding.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-jewish-things-to-know-about-kirsten-gillibrand-whos-running-for-president/
I wrote this the other week, what do you think?
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the Equal Rights Amendment?
I agree young females are impacted to a greater extent, but young boys are as well. Homosexuality and trannyism are the highest they’ve ever been among young males.
Although 70 generally is not old, adding diabetes to the mix makes it a lot different. Diabetes is a debilitating condition and can lead to premature death, with a lot of suffering along the way
FDR more closely resembled a communist. WWII didn’t seem to be in the interest of the US, yet somehow we got involved anyway.
“none of them were in favor of gay ‘marriage’, transgender children, negrolotry, or any of the other leftist shibboleths ”
Some conservatives like to point to MLK as though he’d a have been a reasonable voice in 2014 or 2020. The more likely notion is that he would have sailed where the wind took him. If FDR thought lining kids up to get sex changes would getting him reelected, he’s have done it in a heartbeat. The man was no nationalist.
Dunno about that. Gradually then suddenly is often the case with civilizational bankruptcy as well.
Because we are dealing with a bunch of Marxists, Satanist, Immoral Slime, that literally takes joy in destroying decent society and reasonable, moral people.
How else do you explain George Soros? Backing prosecutors that literally let criminals back onto the streets to commit more crimes? That pay to import tens of millions of mud people into White Nations, so they can rape women and children, spread their third world crime like cancer, throw garbage everywhere, and shit on our streets. That essentially fund homelessness and drug addiction. That pay for Satanic churches, and their various statues, and disgusting displays that turn our public spaces into Satanic Temples. That pay for, supply, and train the anitifa groups all over the White Western World. Have you ever heard of antifa in some shithole African country? The Middle East? Some third world Hispanic nation? Nope.
And the pro-homo, trannies, drag queens for kids, gay pride parades… the teaching little children to be faggots, trannies, and/or mutilated pseudo-sexual eunuchs and freaks!?!?
We are dealing with pure evil- Politics is just their veneer.
The CR went down in flames this morning, though. I will note in passing that Venice had its best years under the rule of the Doge.
Against your weighty sample size of 3, we have the country of Sweden which has managed to transform itself into the rape capital of Europe in a period of a few years through sheer demented ‘altruism’.
Speaking of BHO, here is a long but good article by his biographer David Samuels.
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment
We hear on good authority that The Dernald has now proposed an annexation of Canada.
Steve Sailer has, so far, declined to make public his views on the matter. On whether he favors or opposes the extinguishment of the orange flame of Canadian independence.
You can be an old 70 or a young 70. Some people at 70 have another 20 or 30 years to go and others are already on their final approach. Diabetes is rough on your organ systems.
I just checked the Wikipedia article on the proposed equal rights amendment, mainly because I was curious about what the text of the amendment was. Its Wikipedia, so the usual caveats apply.
I was surprised to find out that the actual arguments made by Schlafly and others in the 1970s were that the existing laws tended to discriminate against men, and in favor of women, and this was a good thing and women should oppose efforts to end discrimination “by sex”. The draft, divorce practices, and social security were explicitly cited as legal discrimination against men that opponents of the amendment were fighting to preserve.
Some commentators here understand this. Almost no one outside this space does.
I also suspect that this was set up to be professional wrestling from the start, since the proposed amendment would have done nothing that the 14th Amendment wasn’t already doing, and would have been interpreted no differently than the 14th Amendment. It seems the intention was always to generate a lot of controversy, then have it quietly fail.
OT – a couple of UK murders.
First, the feminist artist.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/friends-pay-tribute-to-outstanding-and-exceptional-artist-292436/
Until she met a tragic mulatto with a facial tattoo and a pending trial for taking pictures up women’s skirts.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32357254/thug-mum-death-dog-beach-drowned-admits-murder/
Then there’s the married (to a woman) fitness instructor, who met a criminology student who took his studies altogether too seriously.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/amie-gray-bournemouth-beach-murder-knife-crime-greenwich-b1200760.html
The recent distaff school shooting just north of you in Wisconsin has of course been seized on by anti-2A. Along with the other groups that produce various homicide and shooting statistics that I’ve cited here in the past, a new lady-and-gentleman team in Minnesota has made itself prominent with curated specialty homicide datasets and a home page sales pitch that “they found what creates a mass shooter”. Presumably they will share the answer with you in exchange for a small honorarium.
Poking around their site, their answer appears to be that mass shooters are really just extraverted suicides. This is uncredited version of some of Steve’s work. (It is also a fifty-year-old Monty Python bit now become The Science.) Or sort of the The Science. As Steve notes, you have distinguish between the “Suicide Mass Shootings” (typically white or Asian) versus the “Murder Mass Shootings” (typically black). The trendline for the latter mass shootings and the trendline for homicides in general look almost identical, so we can deduce they have the same causes.
One thing that did occur to me while looking around is that if you strip out all the black mass shootings (i.e., most of them) in order to get down to the cases where someone without a criminal history shoots up a school without any apparent pragmatic motive, which is what most people mean when they discuss “school shootings”, there has been an evolution over time.
Depending how you count, the “classic school shooting” era was from the 1980s-1990s and characterized by ethnically Heritage American shooters, who were often conscious of previous school shootings and trying to outdo them in some way. It reached a crescendo in the late 1990s. Then came the post-9/11 Hiatus after a mass murder so epic that no prospective school shooter could hope to top it. After the Hiatus, school shootings gradually reappeared but now more often with an immigrant, tranny, lunatic, 56%er or other Coalition-of-the-Fringes shooter. As with picking crops and factory work, so with school shootings: it seems it’s just another job Core Americans won’t do anymore.
The only two choices available to women are not Madonna or whore as you seem to posit in your black and white view of the world.
Most modern women will not remain virgins until their honeymoon. Nor will they sleep with every man that they meet. The reality is (and TBH always has been – back in the more than a few 1st babies were born “a little early” in relation to the wedding date) somewhere in between. Yes there are women who are whores but not as many as you seem to think (unless we go by your extreme definition of what makes a woman a “whore”).
Birth control, among other things, has put women on a more equal footing with men. In the olden days, men could have an encounter and go on their merry way, while women might have to literally live with the consequences for the next 18 years. But not anymore. Aside from pregnancy, modern culture also does not subject women to shame and dishonor if they are known to have had sex any more than men were shamed for doing so in the past (not at all). Naturally (and putting aside religious mumbo-jumbo that most people don’t believe in anymore) when you reduce the “price” of some thing, you get more “buyers”.
Men were never expected to be virgins on their wedding night. Why should women be held to a different standard of purity? If women are supposed to emulate the Virgin Mary (BTW, I doubt that even she was REALLY a virgin) then why shouldn’t men emulate Jesus who (as far as we know) NEVER had sex in his entire life. That way lies human extinction.
You go on and on about women but not a word about men. Doesn’t it take two to tango?
America is like the elephant in the story of the blind men and the elephant. Your America, the America of St. Mary’s, exists and so does Buzz’s America and many other Americas. The tusk that you are feeling is real enough but is not the entire elephant any more than the trunk or the tail. Or as some guy once said, in my father’s house there are many mansions. Don’t assume that only you know the true path.
There is always the problem of what does the dog do if he actually catches the car?
Overturing Roe v. Wade was a similar issue on the Republican side. It worked much better as a vote getter for so long as Roe was NOT overturned. The best thing that could have happened to the Republicans politically would have been to struggle against Roe forever just like Dems have been struggling to pass the ERA for a century.
Basically, it’s an old fashioned, line by line, Fisking. The main points were cherry picking the pre Floyd interval of 6 weeks to capture an anomalous spike in order to make post Floyd rise proportionately less steep. Also ignoring annual springtime homicide spike for same reason, etc. Also amusingly notes Voldemortian unwillingness to name Steve as the theorist of the theories they are ostensibly debunking. On a side note, I’m happy to see that you, at least, maintain our tradition of never paying retail.
The best thing that could have happened to the Republicans politically would have been to struggle against Roe forever just like Dems have been struggling to pass the ERA for a century.
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Sometimes, you are unintentionally revealing.
I’ve been hearing this – that the craziness is over and the adults are back in the room – since 1994.
Well, the time spans appear short in historical perspective but they’re actually reasonably long from the individual’s point of view.
Russia was abrupt: 1905-1918? Still, thirteen years; and the rot really can be detected all the way back to ‘People’s Will.’ Dostoevsky’s The Devils portrays it as having taken hold by 1871.
Ch’ing China and the Ottomans were much more prolonged. Ditto for Spain. Great Britain’s rate of decline was positively glacial. Argentina sort of gradually slid as well.
We ourselves have been farting around since 1965. I remember finding the 1977 Bicentennial distinctly depressing. That was nearly fifty years ago now.
So I’m optimistic. I may get to live out my allotted four score and thirteen in relative peace — just need another twenty seven years of functional healthcare, internet, and a usable currency. Others will get to see the Zombie Apocalypse.
Putting it in a book was a misjudgment, but the fact that Noem personally put down what she felt to be an incorrigible animal doesn’t particularly bother me. I had a friend whose beloved pet dog (male) was given to dominance contests, and eventually went too far and bit him rather badly. Rather than trying to give him away or taking him to the vet to be put down, he took the dog to the family farm and shot him. Sad, but it was his call, and I had no problem with it.
Some movie critic once said that certain films, seemingly straightforward, are actually complex, nuanced, even enigmatic, and “act a snare for professional decoders” of such films. I am beginning to think that Steve’s topics have entered this territory, having already plumbed the depths of post-Floyd auto-accident graphing. And so, Steve’s commenters, duly snared, and formidably smart, emerge with thoughtful, clever, oblique, and engaging decoding of the topic presented.
Historically White countries are destroyed by minoritarianism. Majority black countries such as S. Africa are much better off when ruled by the minority White population, however, eventually the blacks realize they can gain control through force and falsely believe they can do things as well as the White man, and then the country reverts back to the black-mean.
White countries are like clean water, anything other than clean water added to it can only detract and pollute it. Where as black countries are like feces water, anything added to it can only dilute or help purify it.
-Rooster
Hello, Generic American! I don’t know for how long I’ll remain sucked into this maelstrom of sanity here. Nice to “see” you all here though.
That graph – thanks, Mr. Hail – has already been updated once since the peak of stupidity has been longer in coming and will be higher than what our original computer simulations came up with.
From our “About” page (does anyone have “about” pages anymore?):
Since the PanicFest, we’ve been taking a cue from Dr. Fauci and modeling the stupidity as a worldwide Tardemic.
I want Alberta and Saskatchewan. Without them, it’s a non-starter for me. Lots of BC, excepting Hongcouver, would be good, along with Manitoba. Quebec? Non! The Maritimes, well, who cares, other than perhaps Ann of Green Gables?
” I’m sixty six; I’ll be gone before we get to the really nasty bits. ”
And this sums up perfectly the boomer creed: I got mine, bitches!
Or all you old brave know-it-alls with nothing left to lose and one foot in the grave could, you know, go out with a bang.
Since I am apparently not worthy of your direct reply, it was already stated by another commenter that the much more pressing concern about Congresses efforts right now is the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
Not to mention the recent revival of the real motives behind the attack and subsequent cover up of the USS Liberty attack.
Both topics Sailer seems to be going out of his way not to address, but by all means, continue with the stupid jokes.
And BTW what happened to you anyway? You’re definitely going through abused wife syndrome with Sailer the last few months.
WSJ spill the beans on Dementia Joe:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839
Hmm.
We knew all this, but it’s nice to have it in writing.
They know about the internet. But visit a lefty website now and then. Whole different world. I don’t remember a single mention of Biden’s mental fitness on even something relatively sane like metafilter. But on zerohedge he was mocked relentlessly from the Dem primaries onward.
The ERA dates to 1923 or so. It went nowhere for decades. Florence King made the fascinating argument that the Nineteenth Amendment took the wind out of the sails of the whatever-wave women’s movement. Women didn’t vote much differently than their husbands did. (Slightly more GOP than them until the ’70s or even ’80s.)
Whereas when the ERA failed, according to Miss King, it caused radical women to redouble their efforts along other avenues, primarily the courts and friendly state legislatures, and the occasional friendly Congress, but also, Gramscian-style, in schools, publishing, Hollywood, etc. (Leading, in her classic phrase, to “Eve fatigue”.)
And sometimes an ostensibly feminist result was sought for other reasons– Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have personally argued Duren v Missouri* for ideological reasons, but her clients, the state’s defense attorneys, just wanted more soft female hearts on juries, to improve their batting average.
Unlike in the other states, this was not statute law but in the 1945 state constitution. Thus legislators couldn’t touch it. It was popular with both sexes, so amendment by referendum wasn’t going to happen, either. Thus, SCOTUS.
Perhaps the Agreeable Almost Missouri might give us an almost relevant take on this…
Well said.
This spiritual works character is both naive and harshly judgmental — of women, but not men. I wonder why he doesn’t address the extreme sexism and misogyny of Catholic countries, and, for that matter, why he doesn’t head south of the border down Mexico way and points south and leave us Protestants alone? After all, this country was founded by Protestants. (At the time of the American Revolution, there were fewer than 25,000 Catholics in a colonial population of 4,500,000.)
A lot of Americans fled Europe to escape Catholic persecution. Among my own ancestors were Huguenots and Anabaptists who fled to America to escape slaughter by Catholics. They knew very well what Catholic “morality” was like.
Catholics are always trying to impose their rules on others in every sphere of life, especially anything to do with sex. When the Hays movie censorship code came in, it was said it was Catholics telling Jews what kind of movies to make for Protestants.
Here’s an image from Martyrs Mirror, a documentation of and dedication to all those of our faith tortured, burned alive, drowned and otherwise put to death by the Catholic church:
The Maritimes are quite pretty but an economic sink hole propped up by the rest of Canada.
Sotomayor does not look good. Looks like she’s been doing dog years lately.
Oh, yeah? Both have plenty, but different from ours.
In Japan, it’s a vapid, self(ie)-centered, hyper-girly kawaii culture. The one girly thing absent is love for children– they’re too busy being children.
In China, it’s been a state-sponsored “women must work” régime for a decade or two longer than our own.
OT — Yale finds vax spike.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yale-researchers-have-found
You do not know what you are talking about. I recently wrote about the Irish hero Michael Collins, and the implication I meant to leave is that he died a virgin, at the age of 31. Indeed he did. So too did Patrick Pearse, age 36. Exceptional as they were, a hundred years ago that was the norm in Ireland, the very robust norm— even for famous men.
I believe men and women should be held to the same standard of purity. But we do recognize that men and women are different. (If you do not recognize that then I am not sure what you are doing on this right wing website.) Matthew 19:10 basically says that when women are like men it is better not to marry. That is to say, the apostles were horrified at such a prospect as has become not only a reality but the norm in our society.
Fornication is the same sin for a man as for a woman. But if we tend to hold women to a higher standard of purity it is because they are not programed to sleep with as many men as they can the way (modern evo psych says) men are so programed.
I mean come on, if you do not understand why it is a bigger deal for a man if his woman has slept around than it is for a woman if her man has slept around, if you do not understand the difference then I do not think you have enough social intelligence to be commenting as much as you do.
It’s called Holy Orders.
As for the line you just crossed with the Blessed Virgin Mary, you better hope my donkey does not go your way at the crossroads. Steve lucked out too–I just subscribed to his substack but I likely would not have and anyways will probably never post anything to him again for being an irresponsible moderator and balefully allowing free speech to trump the honor of the Mother of God.
This is no feminism, which is a Western ideological current. In China, as in other socialist (or ex-socialist) countries like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria,…. women working was a completely accepted notion that females are equal so that equality must manifest in educational &other social situations.
This is/was about women’s rights, not about feminism. Heck, I was raised by a single, working mother who had nothing to do with feminism.
I think different standards will have applied in different eras.
Men will often have been expected to have served in wars and visited brothels so that they could be sure that they had sex with a woman before they got killed.
Women have usually been expected not to have sex before marriage for a variety of reasons, one of which is that, in the past anyway, married men could be more relied upon to provide financial support to their own children.
Men have always tended towards having extra marital sex due to the stimulating effect of having a new partner.
King Henry VIII introduced a retroactive law that a woman must reveal her prior sexual history to her husband within 40 days of marriage, and then once the law was enacted, he had his 5th wife Catherine Howard, who was something of a teenage minx, beheaded for treason.
Adultery by a queen or pre-queen was considered treason because it might undermine the hereditary nature of the monarchy.
One might question his feminist credentials, but there is no doubt that he felt very strongly about the matter, seeing that this was the second wife he had beheaded.
Ann Boleyn had allegedly committed adultery with several men including her own brother, in what you might call a family affair. He was executed the day before her.
However the usual interpretation is that the real reason Henry had Boleyn executed was that she was unable to bear him a son and heir.
The whole idea that sex is a kind of sport or skill that both sexes need to master with a variety of partners before they get married is relatively recent and probably postdates the invention of the birth control pill. For most of human history it has been more about producing legitimate heirs.
I was going to make a similar point.
Title IX, which has preemptively aborted the sporting careers of countless talented boys, comes to mind.
Mitt Romney not only strapped his dog in a cage to the roof of his car; after a few hours at highway speeds he stopped for refueling and the traumatized creature had voided itself, so naturally Mitt sprayed him down with a hose and the family went on their merry way.
That you consider any of this “normal American dog handling” is frankly horrifying. Please do the world a favor and stay far away from animals.
Well, I, for one, missed you. The place just hasn’t been the same without you.
Why should women be held to a different standard of purity?
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Courage was expected of men, chastity of women. Well-ordered societies benefit from both.
That’s not what it says. You are mixing up Amendments.
“We often can’t say who did what to whom.”
-Hugh Kenner, Joyce’s Voices
“…and what things so ever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted. “
– St. Jude 1:10
I remember watching cable news coverage of one of the protests of one of the killings of a black man by police. I think it was Michael Brown. They were showing a massive crowd of black people, and what you noticed were all the fights that kept breaking out in the midst of the crowd. So much for solidarity. I guess you could say those protests brought a lot of enemies together.
Steve has done well to use his platform to highlight the 2020 crime stats that other media ignore. But it is not clear to me that he has given much of an explanation of them. And I take issue with the most commonly assigned causal relationship purported to explain those statistics. I think the spike in homicides in 2020 is the ultimate case study of the inscrutability of cause and effect in the science of social phenomena. Thought is a labyrinth, and the human spirit a manifold.
The idea that criminals were emboldened by a state of affairs where police were wary of doing their jobs is one that I do not recall hearing any anecdotal evidence for. Did cops quit patrolling their routes? Or stop raiding hot spots? Did they just start letting people off?
I do remember talking to one police in early 2019. I asked him how he liked having to wear a camera and he said, “I love it because I never do anything wrong.” I am skeptical of the idea that so many cops disengaged from their duties that criminals became motivated to murder. The spike in homicides sure did happen quick if that account obtains. Which account, mind you, also assumes that our finest are rather weak-willed in the face of adversity. I myself do not think that is the case, not in general.
What is the case? Why did black homicides go up so high in 2020? I would posit that the criminals that started killing people after George Floyd’s death were especially animated by that incident, in a way that you could say they rather let themselves get swept up in a violent zeitgeist.
Invoking a violent zeitgeist as an explanation is vaguer than the explanation that says criminals commit more crime when they think they can get away with it. Steve seems to think that criminals figured they could get away with murder when the racial reckoning protests put the police in a bind. It is a logical explanation, and rational. But, if my contention about a violent zeitgeist is vaguer, it is also more intuitive, and when it comes to the criminal mind, I have found that understanding by intuition is apt to be the useful route, intuition is better to conjure the way we are moved by the spirit.
How do we get swept up in a zeitgeist? It is at once mysterious and not. Consider, for example, that sometimes people are vivified by bad news— because bad news is often big news, and big news is exciting. (Think of Winston Churchill’s manic exuberant response to the realization that England was going to lose its empire: “It’s all going to come down—and I feel great!”) Such excitement, though caused by something negative, has a positive charge, and may enliven you and through you effect your environment. Now imagine how that might happen to a black criminal when he took in the news of George Floyd’s death.
I saw something like what that might be like happen to a young black man I knew after the Trayvon Martin ruling. He was from the ghetto and after the ruling let George Zimmerman off, this young man reconnected with his ghetto friends, because talking to a white guy from the suburbs about a racially red-hot topic would not have meant as much to him. After reconnecting with his ghetto friends, he went back to live in the ghetto with them, and the last time I saw him, he made a flippant comment about using a gun.
One thing I personally can imagine is Irish pubs filling up if the Troubles started up again in Northern Ireland. If that happened, and the story dominated the news, I would wager it would make Irish Catholics in this country rather proud of who they are, and that is such a mood as makes us thirsty. (Well, it would really be about the spirit— not the spirits.) That kind of pride in blacks makes them double down on their identity too, which, as their songs indicate, is a lot about killing rivals.
It is not rational for a black to murder more blacks because a white cop killed a black guy. But that is exactly what happened. In a way, though to a lesser extent, we saw it happen in real time when we saw all those fights break out on the news at what was supposed to be a demonstration of racial unity. The best we can do is attribute the 2020 spike in homicides to a violent zeitgeist that went about the black community after George Floyd was killed.
That makes the most sense to my mind; invoking the spiritual nature of human behavior has an intuitive appeal to this question of how to account for the 2020 spike in homicides, which Steve seems to agree is both plain to see and baffling to uncover at the root.
Keynes worked with precision. But, at the end of the day, he posited “animal spirits” as an explanation. How much more, when trying to understand crime, ought we to think of “criminal spirits.”
You’re right. It says the God-given right shall not be infringed. By, say, bad law.
Inserting a ratification deadline into the ERA was really, really stupid. What were they thinking?
I had a lot to say about the USS Liberty 20 years ago. You can go look that up.
In 2024, the USS Liberty is 69/57ths more relevant than is Emmett Till.
The Obama-2008 and Obama-2012 campaigns were also culminations of something. The problem with identifying the Obama-2012 campaign, or any other specific thing in the 2010s, is the familiar problem of (chronological-)correlation and causation.
The George Floyd riots were, in the short-term, induced or ‘triggered’ by the lockdowns. The energies and ideology behind the riots and subsequent “anti-White pogrom,” can be identified earlier than 2012. A building-up process; visible, I think, by the 1990s.
Things passed certain thresholds in the 2010s, it’s true, but it’s not clear to me if there was as sharp upward-inflexion point in the early 2010s, as many believe, instead of something more like a steady-ascent process that starts to really get “noticed” more.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act and the continuing blocking of access to material related to the USS Liberty attack in the 1960s are characteristic of how the power-elite functions in the USA. Sadly, we cannot foresee it not being much different under “Trump 2.0,” and possibly even worse than under Biden.
Sailer also has been silent on the “debt limit” controversy now that talk of Washington-town, and The Dernald’s new call to abolish it.
Maybe Sailer is avoiding these topics, but What would he add by weighing in? And would his writing have any influence on incoming Trump admin people? Maybe he’s now thinking about that, as many key incoming insiders (such as Michael Anton) are believed to be Sailer-readers).
If this is a Christmas list of topics commenters want Sailer to give some attention to, I nominate the “White Death” phenomenon (and specifically opioid deaths), a phenomenon he published much on, ten years ago, and which is many times more important than Black traffic-deaths.
Running “Liberty” through your older TUR archive turns up only two, fleeting references, on March 22, 2006, and January 8, 2008. But there’s enough there for anyone to see how you’re holding your fire these days.
Yet you routinely invoke the more remote, just like that.
Meanwhile, the war on Palestine, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and your thoughts on both are pending.
Forget Keynes, and consider John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,”
Furthermore, I suggest you dispense with the antiquated “animal spirits” routine when it comes to blacks. Try growing a pair, and stick to the scientifically qualified advantage and follies of collective I.Q., and how it is indisputably related to race. Then try to think of a nice way to say it. That’ll keep you busy.
Collective I.Q. makes a profound difference in the success of nation building, as well as simply trying to hold on to what a nation has so far created. The rest is moral cowardice and empty rhetoric.
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“70 is not old.”
I’m a year and a half away. I just started feeling old recently when someone in my office at work retired and I realized I am now the oldest person there. A surprisingly large number of my same age relatives and friends have passed away. It is when you are almost always around people younger than you that you start to feel old.
Just about the only time where the Feds care if you use weed is when it comes to filling out the form the BATF requires when you try to purchase a handgun (the form Hunter Biden lied on). If you have a “medical marijuana” card, you have to formally renounce it, wait a year, and then submit the Federal form.
As I recall, Steve’s graphs showed a huge step function effect starting immediately after The George Floyd event. I think he pointed out at the time that it was the starkest correlation he had ever seen in his decades of work. A proverbial smoking gun.
“Some conservatives like to point to MLK as though he’d a have been a reasonable voice in 2014 or 2020. The more likely notion is that he would have sailed where the wind took him.”
That’s a funny way of phrasing, More likely he would have sailed where his Jewish controllers told him to sail. And rewarded him with yet another white whore to slap around.
“If FDR thought lining kids up to get sex changes would getting him reelected, he’s have done it in a heartbeat.”
The interesting thing is that lining up kids to get sex changes doesn’t seem to really get anybody re-elected, yet these crackpots still insist on using the full force of state power to ram it through anyway, again and again, plus all the other wish-list things, mutatis mutandis.
“Speaking of BHO, here is a long but good article by his biographer David Samuels.”
Speaking of The Lightworker, here we are in 2024 and…
— Syria is in chaos and ruins, Libya remains so.
— Gaza and Ukraine are in flames,
— Any hope for a rational realistic “conversation about race” has been set back by roughly 1,000 years, thanks to Black Lives Matter — Yet Can’t Be Taken Seriously;
— 20 million illegal shitstain paupers and criminals just stampeded right through our gates unimpeded, with no real plan as to what to do with them other than use them as a cudgel against whitey;
— the dollar marches ever forward towards full worthlessness;
— 100k whites/year still dying of Jewish-dealt opioid poison;
— housing realistically unaffordable by young Americans, only foreigners and BlackRock need apply;
— the courts are fully politicized and weaponized;
— the nation is –what, again?– something like 36 trillion dollars in debt, unpayable science-fiction money (btw, can anyone tell me what we actually *got* for our borrowed 36 trillion? Space highways? Time travel? Genetically-modified well-behaved negroes?)
— corporations continue to be infiltrated and zombified by hostile alien pajeets;
— a bought-and-paid-for “Government of the Jews, by the Jews, and for the Jews” continues to run amok in all walks of life;
— we stood around for four years with a literal drooling senile dementia-addled crook in the Oval Office, and everyone — his staff, the entire press, knew and lied about it every single day from day one — https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/12/presidential-staff-formed-tight-shell.html
— homosexuality and transgenderism continue to spike among children, who literally don’t know any better;
Someone remind what “Light” exactly, the “Lightworker” managed to “work.”
Hmm, maybe he can manage to take credit for Billie Eilish, the one good thing I can think of lately.
And goddammit, PJ Harvey *still* won’t return my calls!
“In 2024, the USS Liberty is 69/57ths more relevant than is Emmett Till.”
Well, except insofar as both the Liberty thing and urgent crisis Emmett Till coverage both illustrate the old joke…
Q: What is the technical clinical psychiatric term for Anti-Semitism?
A: Pattern recognition.
Imagine Joe Biden doing a live four hour end of year report, taking unscripted questions from media and the public (although who knows how 2.3 million submitted questions get whittled down to the 46 that Putin addressed).
I’ve heard the same about Quebec, Ottawa, the vast Ontario immigrant shelter, and Chinese oligarch-owned Vancouver.
So what’s left to do all of the propping? Alberta oil sands?
Is the reality that Canada is just white OPEC with toques?
If so, we know which province to annex and which ones to leave to their fate…
Roof-mounted dog carriers used to be a common sight. I hadn’t heard the hose detail before.
Still, the total number of dogs eaten by the Romney clan remains stubbornly at zero.
One presumes your pro-animal moral hectoring will be suitably directed at Barack Obama and other swarthy dog-eaters very soon. Any minute now…
“I had a lot to say about the USS Liberty 20 years ago. You can go look that up. ”
Yes, you were a different guy then.
“Maybe Sailer is avoiding these topics, but What would he add by weighing in? ”
And what is “added” by bringing up some loony congressman’s attempt to shoehorn the ERA into The Constitution? One of many efforts congressmen regularly make about an assortment of silly things for some cheap PR points?
“That’s a funny way of phrasing, More likely he would have sailed where his Jewish controllers told him to sail. And rewarded him with yet another white whore to slap around.”
Yes well, I was in a hurry and words were not flowing as a result. 🙂
It’s just more Fourteenth Amendment Gone Wild grist.
As G. Poulin says, it’s the Amendment that ate the Constitution.
Contra Poulin, I don’t think it ate the Constitution right away. That had to wait until the mid-20th century when everyone actually involved in creating the Fourteenth Amendment was safely dead and buried before the Left could repurpose that badly-drafted, dubiously-ratified Amendment for their wicked work.
Yeah, we can have a good faith discussion about to what degree each figure was a nationalist versus a socialist. My purpose was just to prevent Mr. Jones from getting distracted from the original point: almost everyone going to the imperial capital somehow ends up a passionate advocate for a bunch of stuff with no native constituency and no national or financial upside (a point helpfully restated by Germ Theory above).
I’ve been looking forward to the Zombie Apocalypse for 40 years. If we only get to it when I’m aged zombie-fodder, I’ll be sorely disappointed!
Some conservatives like to point to MLK as though he’d a have been a reasonable voice in 2014 or 2020. The more likely notion is that he would have sailed where the wind took him.
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References to snippets of his 1963 March on Washington speech are common. Trouble is, the only person in King’s camarilla who objected to the race-patronage regime which emerged after 1968 was Bayard Rustin. Mr. Rustin landed a job on the research staff of the AFL-CIO in 1964 and disappeared from view a few years thereafter. Oratorical flights are not inter-office memos.
Perhaps I’m more cynical than you. In the modern era if a President gets reelected, he gets reelected with more support than he had in his initial election. Obama was the exception – in 2012 he polled worse and eventually lost States that he had won in 2008. His support from the white working class waned between 2008 and 2012. Axelrod and the rest knew this.
The 2012 Presidential election was the genesis of microtargeting strategy – 2008 Obama was a mass movement, 2012 Obama was a tailored social media ad which one saw due to sifting demographic and economic data.
In 2008 Obama was conspicuously silent about race during the campaign, permitting his toadies to carry to do the ugly business. He had a moment with the Jeremiah Wright exposure which he had to address, giving the Press cover to say that he had answered all such questions.
In 2012, the Campaign knew that it needed to drive voter participation among blacks and single women – particularly in the “Blue Wall” States, in order to account for the loss of white working class votes. That’s why the Trayvon Martin thing was cycled through National news in 2012.
Trayvon Martin was the proto-BLM – I recall the criticism being at the time that Zimmerman was a “wannabe cop” who should have left the hooded black trespassing youth to be dealt with by actual cops. (Obviously, this changed over time so that by Michael Brown in 2014, it didn’t matter that the shooter was a cop).
Why don’t you go read his old stuff and comment. You seem to be fairly new around here.
How did you do on the Sailer quiz, anyway??
“I’ve been found out!”
I wonder if there are any issues or legislation favorite to JackD for which he thinks that the GOP should engage in a sort of mass fraud and intentional sabotage?
Abortion is a tough issue because the left wielded power in the way that one does. They took the issue ultra vires, then used their other levers of power to make opposition costly and painful. The molded the culture around it. You become powerful by using your power, not by keeping it in reserve for a fight you will forever avoid.
Jack, do you ever – I mean ever – question the wisdom of your sophomoric Boomer liberation ideology? That maybe – just maybe – insisting upon treating two unalike things as if they are the same in practice leads to negative outcomes? This appears to be the error of our age and you appear to be entirely unable to recognize it like a man organizing his sandals while Vesuvius grumbles overhead.
Approximately two generations after Women’s liberation and the Sexual Revolution there are more unwanted children and more abortions, fewer marriages, young women report much higher rates of deep unhappiness mitigated with heavy-duty psychiatric medications, many young men are listless and without purpose, a whole cohort of young people is inventing bespoke genders, and the population of Western nations is on a trajectory to extinction within plain view. Was this what was promised?
You might think that a thirtysomething woman having awkward, semi-flaccid condom sex with a stranger without social stigma was worth the bargain but many others do not. Everyone exists within an invisible market – broken people willing to set the market at its rock bottom breaks the whole of it.
Perhaps men and women’s promiscuity is equally morally objectionable, but that women’s promiscuity is practically and socially more objectionable? Are you even able to grasp that there might be a confluence of influences that support prior social mores and the balance between the sexes?
Did you ever think that maybe you should seek to understand the intricate workings of the system in your grasp before pulling parts out and bolting other things on? “It takes two to tango” is the stupidest rationale for civilizational suicide that one can imagine.
That is a truly Gibbonesque formulation. Bravo, sir.
MLK, like JFK, died just in time. Stokely Carmichael and other Black Power types were already eclipsing MLK when he was shot.
The operative word here being must. Did anyone bother to ask the women themselves?
That’s like saying putting women on juries was about their “right” to serve. It was about forcing them to, for the benefit of someone else. Same with grunt work in the socialist utopias.
How many women in the Great Leap Forward or the Five-Year Plan would have turned down the “comfortable concentration camp” of American domestic life, as described by Betty Friedan?
I would be interested in your definition of “feminism”.
The Madonna/whore dichotomy can be seen as simple fairness, a compromise. Men have benefited from both types of women.
We are thus bound to be somewhat easy on the whore. But to be too easy on her would be unfair, even cruel, to the Madonna, as it renders her sacrifices for nought.
Oooooops!
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I have a family member who is an MD. In the run-up to the Great Vaccination, no-MD me said I wasn’t gonna get an injection that hijacks my body’s cell propagation to “manufacture” itself inside me.
“Pish-posh”, said the MD. “That all washes out in a couple of days. How can you, a civilian, argue with me, an MD, on this?”
[three years later]
F-ckin’ Oooooops!
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What’s the score now?
Knuckle-dragging know-nothing rightwingers: 174
Effete credentialist leftwingers: 0?
This is American tradition. We often get the “snippet” from Washington’s Farewell about staying out of other nations’ affairs, and rightfully so. But less heard is his hectoring us in the same oration about being Americans first, rather than Virginians, etc., the more-cited view of his step-great-grandson-in-law Robt. E. Lee.
Rather than get into fights over this point, better to heed Washington’s advice on another occasion– government is neither reason nor eloquence, but force. The forces of both state and “general” governments should be weak enough that it makes no difference to which any individual American gives his priority. Live and let live.
At the climax of the recent US campaign, when the prestige media were accusing Trump of incipient senility to deflect from their obvious complicity in hiding Biden’s obvious senescence, Trump off-handedly did three hours of unscripted live broadcast with Joe Rogan. Biden’s supposedly spritely and joyful ‘brat’ successor, Kamala, turned down a similar invite unless it could be limited to 30 minutes of scripted talking points … at her own premises.
Besides Putin’s annual live four hour public Q&A, I was impressed earlier this year at his spontaneous opening 40-minute disquisition on Russian history in his interview with Tucker. By contrast, on the same day, my pResident held an emergency press conference to deny that he was a senile retard (which of course left him looking like even more of a senile retard). This was because the Special Prosecutor looking into one of his minor crimes deemed the pResident too much of a senile retard to prosecute even though he was obviously guilty.
Sometimes the contrasts are too striking to ignore, no matter how much they gaslight.
Another Great Moment in Political PR history (to me) was when I was visiting Britain as youngster. I was aware they had a divisive Prime Minister named Margaret Thatcher, but I had no other information or opinion about her (pre-Internet and all that). I was at a shop where they had BBC Radio on. Apparently, the UK PM periodically goes on Radio and anyone in the UK can call in to speak to the PM and the PM responds on air live. Well of course the BBC management all hated Thatcher, so they screened the calls for the most hostile and vicious—but also clever and articulate—callers to pass on to Maggie. I had naively supposed the British were polite, so I was shocked when caller after caller ruthlessly harangued the PM in intemperate and often personal terms live on air. But I had underestimated the Iron Lady. One by one, she calmly and convincingly eviscerated each attack, leaving the substance a heap of ruins and the attacker impotently seething.
I was stunned. The worst attacks the country could muster against a totally unscripted and unassisted PM, and yet she defeated every one of them in single combat. It was like she played verbal King of the Hill against fifty million people and won. Without breaking a sweat.
“The Prime Minister of Britain is truly a Great Woman,” I thought.
Which I’m sure was the opposite outcome the BBC intended.
Feminism is an ideology that claims that any (Western) society is “patriarchal”, which is in their view evil & that women are, both by history & the nature of modern society oppressed, so that remedy lies in dismantling male domination in many societal segments of a functioning modern society. They view male dominance in most areas not as something natural, but as some kind of protracted historical injustice.
Advocates of women’s rights, on the other hand, claim that men & women are complementary and their societal roles should reflect that complementarity, while removing obstacles that females had encountered in the past (education, work force, possibility of socio-political activity, financial independence, ….).
Feminists, for instance, insist that in positions of power & and in all areas that are socially significant, women should have 50% participation, while advocates of women’s rights hold this is impossible & unnatural because of differences between sexes. They don’t think in terms of “patriarchy” etc. & find such notions silly & anti-historical.
In short, for feminists men and women are in competition; for those who advocate female rights, they are complementary, but with obsolete obstacles for women in most areas removed. Equality of opportunity.
Been reading since about 2014, when the BLM stuff really got going. Found Sailer on Taki’s before that webzine went to crap, and eventually started commenting in 2017 under my original handle (which was banned by Ron because I challenged his ludicrous covid stance). I have read almost every article of his going back to the early ought’s.
Why don’t you white knight for him some more??
It was said the riot after the Memphis march was the biggest defeat of King’s career. Then he was shot.
“A lot of Americans fled Europe to escape Catholic persecution. Among my own ancestors were Huguenots and Anabaptists who fled to America to escape slaughter by Catholics.”
Most everybody thought Anabaptists were dangerous freaks and weirdos, including other Protestants:
I get it, you got a thing for the papists, so it’s somehow only or primarily their crimes that matter, but in trying to look at this kind of thing objectively, I’ve seen the same thing when it comes to people trying to make a stink over the Spanish Inquisition, or clergy raping kids, or most anything else they think one group or another is peculiarly responsible for — i.e., they tend to have a ginormous blind spot when it comes to “their side” being involved in the exact same shenanigans, to an extent that is as bad or worse. The Protestant judicial systems back in the days of the Inquisition were generally considerably more brutal and more badly run, and plenty of Protestant denominations went along with (and clung to, for far too long) the societal norms that dictated that non-violent (i.e. “grooming”) rapes were best hushed up for most everybody’s sake, particularly the victims.
Disagree. The black power types largely evaporated evaporated after 1968 because the only one among them with any real skills was Rap Brown, who at least could establish and run a retail business to pay his bills. (He remained inclined toward criminal behavior, which eventually got someone killed and him sent to prison).
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King at the end of his life was delving into economic questions, a subject in which he was uneducated and for had no natural feel. After his death, the center of action shifted in increments to black elected officials. Jesse Jackson was the last extraparliamentary figure to whom the mayors and congressman had to defer. The fate from which his death saved him was being incorporated into the mo-jobs-for-social-workers-and-school-administrators lobby. His widow’s organization was a grant money vent pipe and three of his four children grew up to be clowns.
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What might have benefited the black population after 1968 would have been vigorous efforts to suppress street crime and school disorder, unapologetic sorting of schoolchildren into pacing tracks, a radically increased emphasis on vocational training among the young, and increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in the labor market and the economy in general. There was scarcely any interest in this in the political class at the time.
Mitch McConnell would like you to know that that’s the sort of thing the Nazis would have said.
You would appear to be assuming we’re capable of ruling ourselves instead.
Lately, that’s become a questionable assumption. The Biden administration?
Fuck it. Let’s see if China will accept our surrender. After all, they need us to keep buying their crap. How much worse could it get?
Now, Plan B is far-right racist counter-revolution. No comment.
Why?
Gets us out of that five minutes’ extra bother entering the Maple Leaf State, but otherwise?
Most other states with good fishing charge exorbitant non-resident license fees as well. I don’t see the benefit.
That last section was a cut and paste job, as the same 7 year deadline had been placed in 4 other Amendments: 18, 20, 21, and 22.
Maybe what they were thinking was “Let’s get this over with to get these pissy broads off our backs, but we’ll put this boilerplate 7 years thing in, in the hope people will have forgotten this stupidity by then.” They didn’t know it was, in the words of Michael Scott “… about to get al stupid all up in here!”
(NOTE: Sailer was only “on” Unz.com starting around mid-2014. His ten-year anniversary at Unz passed unremarked entirely, except for a small commemoration at PeakStupidity.com. It’s possible some material from the old iSteve-dot-com and isteve-blogspot did not transfer successfully.)
You are rather out of line there, pal. And impertinent. I am entirely on board with the truth when it comes to IQ realism. Although from what I remember, Herrnstein and Murray do say at one point in The Bell Curve that IQ alone does not entirely account for the disparity in crime rates between whites and blacks. Do we know the average Testosterone level of criminals?
IQ and T is not what we were talking about though. We were talking about the correct way to talk about the rise in crime in relation to the public reaction to George Floyd’s death. One theory is that it demoralized the police. My theory is that it is as simple and complex as describing a zeitgeist. In other words, I am claiming that the mystery of the human spirit is what we are actually talking about when we talk about how one thing moves people to do a certain other thing.
It might be true that having a lower IQ and more T makes you more likely to react violently to bad news, such as the news that a white cop killed a black guy. But the point is that if that is the case you need to explain why such people starting killing each other instead of killing cops. There is a disconnect that I am saying is only bridged by something vague and mysterious like what we call a zeitgeist.
Steve Sailer, January 2008:
Does Jonathan Pollard Square still exist in Jerusalem? A wiki article that mentions that a group of influential Jews pushed for renaming in 2007 and got it, as a symbolic protest against the continued imprisonment of their compatriot. Google Maps shows the site today, afaict, with the old name “Paris Square” and “Tsarfat Square.” It is next to a Jewish synagogue named “Moreshet Yisrael.”
The Hebrew wiki-page states:
So this symbolically important square, within a few good stone’s throws of the prime minister’s residence, was named Jonathan Pollard Square for some thirteen years, between Jan 2008 and the release of Jonathan Pollard back into the arms of his people in Dec 2020.
Jonathan Pollard, now age seventy, has lived several years now with major-celebrity status in Israel. He is lavished with praise and cash. Israel threw a lavish parade in his honor in Jan 2021. And he has been a hardliner supporter of Israel’s endless wars of aggression in all directions.
Pollard in freedom in the 2020s is an openly-hardcore Jewish ethnonationalist, gloats about his crimes against the United States, and has spent the year 2024 demanding Arabs be removed entirely from the remnants of Gaza and Jews take over the territory, because Jews deserve it and Arabs do not. This nuisance population, per Pollard, should all be deported. (Maybe a plan for resettlement to Madagascar could work?)
“We are Jews. And if we are Jews, we will always have a ‘dual loyalty’.” — Jonathan Pollard, during a triumphalist interview with the Israeli media, March 2021.
To take Jonathan Pollard at his word, Steve Sailer got it wrong when he attributed to him low moral character. Spies are famously motivated by M.I.C.E., one or some combination of: Money, Ideology, Coercion/Compromise, Ego. Sailer insinuated, in those days of 2008, that Pollard was motivated by money (and that this weakness from being a drug-addict). But Pollard’s statements and things in the 2020s point to it being more ideology (and probably ego).
Mike Tre and others are right that 2020s-Sailer would not likely publish, even facetiously, a line like:
Likewise with this commentary from Steve Sailer, March 2006:
I think a lot of countries have versions of this — although the USA certainly doesn’t.
Hugo Chavez of Venezuela hosted his own tv-show weekly, while president, and not some just-for-show fluff thing but 5 to 8 hours of programming straight-through, every Sunday for the thirteen years of his presidency (1999-2012). People would call in and he would banter with them and do his usual routine.
See: “Aló Presidente.”
Hugo Chavez was popular among poor, multiracial Venezuelans for some of the same reasons Trump became popular among whatever to call the stable Trump Base. Chavez propped up his popularity using some of the same methods Trump has used.
Has Steve Sailer weighed in on the advisability of Pres. Blumpf antagonizing Canada by threatening either to dismember it or swallow it whole (possibly minus Quebec)?
The rejoinder I already hear: “It’s just a joke. It’s what Blumpf does.”
It’s worrying, to me, that everything is a “joke” to the man, that everything is seemingly treated first-and-foremost as an opportunity for “grandstanding” or attention-seeking in one form or another. Form over substance. (On which, see also the comments of the recent Peak Stupidity entry, “Tom Homan v Commie CNN Broad.”
What? How and why did Barack Obama enter this chat? That sort of deflection is frankly embarrassing and I expect better from you.
Incidentally, all sorts of abuse of all sorts of creatures used to be the norm, and one of the things that distinguishes advanced societies is that we’ve moved beyond such things. Some of us, anyway.
Anyway, in the Christmas spirit and because of my general respect for your contributions here, I will bow out of this extremely distasteful exchange.
It is if you’re diabetic….
Yeah, my second thought after hearing Maggie vanquish all her assailants was, “I like my President Reagan pretty well, but I don’t think he could have done that.”
Still, I think the popularity of Maggie and Reagan was different from the popularity of Trump/Berlusconi/Chavez, each of whom has/had a semi-independent media base that allowed them to bypass the Gatekeeper Media in important ways. Maggie and, to a lesser extent, Reagan had to challenge the Establishment in the Establishment’s own media arena. They did, and won. This was especially dramatic in Maggie’s case, both because of the more incestuous and personal nature of British media, and because she was not an experienced stage performer as Reagan was.
Reagan had natural charisma and charm. Maggie wasn’t repellent, but neither was she naturally magnetic. She won by being more intelligent, capable, and innovative, in short, in the way great statesman are supposed to win but rarely do. As a result of her accomplishments she was popular, but she never sought popularity as such, and she never basked in it the way Trump or Chavez did.
The hated-everywhere Western establishment is particularly jealous of the dreaded populists’ popularity, not just because it is a threat to their power and prerogatives, but also because it is a simple virtue the Establishment simply does not have and cannot get, no matter how many celebrities they pay to pretend to adore them. So they’ve had to redefine “democracy” from “rule by the people” to mean “rule by the people approved of by the ‘experts’ appointed by the Establishment”.
They’re like the fairy tale Evil Queen: they already had all the power and the high position, but they just couldn’t get over that they didn’t also possess all the popularity/beauty and someone else might be more popular/beautiful than they were. And in grasping after that elusive but unattainable anointing, they just might tumble from everything else they do have. And it will be fully deserved.
Those are the same two, fleeting references to the USS Liberty I found (#182, subject to Whim) after Mr. Sailer claimed to have written “a lot” and challenged someone to “look it up.”
Notice, too, that the second part of my comment has been ignored.
Without practical exception, the race hustlers here at TUR are otherwise very deferential to the Establishment. You’ve lately been talking to yourself on this thread, but there is some good discussion about it under the current Gregory Hood article (“What Is the ‘Woke Right’?”).
The monovox problem in American media was not as severe in Britain, where you did have newspapers favorable to the Tories. The only beach head Reagan had was the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.
Equal pay for men and women… on OnlyFans!
Thanks, reading that reminds me exactly why I became a devoted reader to Sailer 10 years ago. Rahm Emanuel (current ambassador to Japan of all places) was mayor of Chicago then, and it was Steve who enlightened us about Rahm’s father being a member of Irgun (Steve hilariously referred to his time with Irgun as “the good old days”!)
I mean jeez, that Steve is razor sharp. Compared to the stuff he puts out now? It’s truly sad.
The Telegraph. Any others?
So the Telegraph there and WSJ here. From this base they launched a revolution.
Anyway I was thinking more that Reagan was a celebrity and former CA Gov., so the press kinda had to print whatever he said. Like Schwarzenegger or Eastwood.
Maggie was originally just a random MP, so if the gatekeeping editors didn’t want to print her, no one would notice. She only got mandatorily quoted when she became the Opposition Leader of the defeated Tories, after many years of working her way up within the party.
Two comments back. The contrast between the reaction to dog-carrying (hysteria) versus the reaction to dog-eating (crickets).
https://www.unz.com/isteve/45-democrats-call-for-changing-constitution-by-administrative-fiat/#comment-6909280
Isn’t pet ownership still animal slavery? But cheers to an enlightened master defending his Peculiar Institution. Merry Christmas!
The WSJ basically confirms what what the NYT more hermeneutically relayed: that Klain-Kaufmann-Donilon ran the ‘Biden’ administration. If you haven’t heard those names before, it’s because the ‘news’ [sic] industry is in the business of dis-informing you. They’re only resorting to informing you now because they noticed their credibility is verging on negative.
The reader comments at the WSJ are about 99% along the lines of “You worthless journalists knew this but wouldn’t report it until after it no longer mattered.”
Steve’s got it at his Substack too along with some more “Who was the the Grey Eminence…?” framing.
I can only repeat my earlier comment:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/debate-2/#comment-6636044
Amen. The Roman Stoics, the medieval Catholics, the wiser Victorians–they all knew what sexual “liberation” would lead to, but the Boomers thought they knew better, and now we’re living in the nightmare prophesized by Kipling:
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
The National Conservative nonprofit has also started a crowd-sourced attempt to track the inter-racial homicides that the MSM makes so elusive (except one small subcategory) since 2023.
https://national-conservative.com/extremist-files/interracial-homicides-database/
“In 2024, the USS Liberty is 69/57ths more relevant than is Emmett Till.”
No, both are equally relevant.
I think this is the wrong analysis because it make men into the who and women into the whom. Men are men but women are either Madonnas or whores. In reality, relationships are a two way street. Women are in control of relationships just as much as (or even more than) men (nor is this merely a byproduct of the sexual revolution and the fact that women now have their own income and assets).
Curiously, Donilon does not appear to be Jewish. I suppose as long as they maintain majority control…
His skepticism about our military aid to Ukraine seems to have been a joke too. His team is indicating it will be business as usual:
Well, we knew what we were getting: a vain, shallow blowhard who will say anything that pops into his head and can be controlled by those around him who stroke his ego.
Actually, no, you don’t get it. I don’t have a thing for “Papist” at all. I was merely needling this arrogant spiritual works guy. And along comes another arrogant jackass. You.
As for Anabaptists in America, they produced the first printed Bible in America, invented the Conestoga and Studebaker wagons, the Kentucky rifle, etc. Thomas Jefferson said they made the best ham and butter. They got along well with the Indians, buying their land from them and often converting them to Christianity. Today they are called the Pennsylvania Dutch, although descendants are spread across the country. And although the original Anabaptists were pacifists, today in America they serve in the armed forces at 10 times their share of the population. I personally know one who was originally an FMF 8404 who became an LDO 6307.
As far as the Lutherans, yes, I know about them. While the Catholics burned alive the Anabaptists, the Lutherans drowned them. They called it the Third Baptism. That was because the Anabaptists thought that when a person became an adult he should decide whether he accepted the teachings of Christianity based on rational thought. If he did, then he would be baptized again.
Thatcher was and is bitterly divisive – she was loathed in a fairly substantial part of the UK, especially the north. When she died, spontaneous celebrations broke out.
In my workplace, the announcement that she had resigned came over the tannoy, and people cheered, some of them Tory voters. The Conservatives won the 1992 election without her as leader, and it is likely that they would have lost if she had still been PM – by 1990, after 11 years, people were tired of her. Her attempt to introduce an unpopular tax went down like a lead balloon.
“Isn’t pet ownership still animal slavery? ”
Animal activists, specifically pet owning animal activists, are some of the biggest hypocrites you can easily identify. These are the same people who will refuse to put down a pet that is clearly suffering because it would be too hard for them to. Others declaw their pets, or take other actions of convenience that are not in the best interest of the pet (sterilizing them is an exception, imo).
If anyone of them sees an animal not being treated in a manner they believe to be “humane,” the abuse accusations fly. It’s all a big virtue signaling competition.
And people shouldn’t be imprisoned for so called animal abuse anyway. You take some jerk who beats his dog or leaves him in the hot car and put him into the system, you’ve taken an otherwise law abiding, tax paying individual and made him at best in debt and difficult to employ, all so some activist jerk can have their revenge fantasy play out.
The Constitution was drafted by lawyers and they knew what they were doing. The 1st Amendment lists things for which Congress cannot make any laws at all – establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. They didn’t put guns on that list but phrased it differently in the 2nd Amendment.
If we drop Ukraine immediately, why would Putin quit fighting? Trump wants to end the war, not Ukraine. No doubt he will privately threaten Putin with increased aid to them.
Nothing like gratitude. Where would the UK be if she hadn’t whipped them good?
I suppose it would be too poor to attract the refuse of the earth, but it isn’t her fault they’re let in now.
Before you go all pessimistic, remember that in our system Congress controls the purse strings and the Republicans have single digit majorities in Congress. Just posting a wish on ‘Truth Social” does not constitute a fiat. Exhibit #1: last night’s failure to secure a Credit Card with no limits. Now, Congress can squeeze in increments of 1.5T every year and say no to most of his dreams that cost money.
Women had their own income and assets in 1957, Jack.
I didn’t say the whore was right. Only that the man who takes advantage of that wrongness is in a poor position to complain about it.
“As for Anabaptists in America, they produced the first printed Bible in America,…”
Wow — did they invent super-soakers, too? Now THAT would really impress me. And there’s lots of “first Bible in America” claims. If the Anabaptists want to step into that can of worms, they’ll need some tall boots. And you think I’m the one who’s arrogant?
“They got along well with the Indians, buying their land from them…”
Insert your own punchline here. You’re saying they bought up the Indians’ land? I’m sure the Indians were ever so grateful.
” And although the original Anabaptists were pacifists, today in America they serve in the armed forces at 10 times their share of the population.”
So are you saying that even the Anabaptists eventually realized the error of their ways and have since done a 180? Or else, that they’re ideologically so wishy-washy that even they can’t make sense of what they do and don’t believe? Either way, it’s not the endorsement you seem to think it is.
Ackshully, I noted it and you noted that I noted it 🙂 :
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-caitlin-clark-conundrum/#comment-6624213 (#214)
As mentioned in my linked comment, Klain appears to be the one who laid down the agenda. Kaufmann and Donilon were there because Biden actually liked them, so their role was to get Biden to do the Klain program.
Obviously it’s an awkward way to administer a superpower, but for anything that didn’t actually require a Biden signature, they could probably skip the Chinese Whispers game with Biden. Come to think of it, given the autopen, they could probably skip Biden for anything that didn’t require an appearance or a speech.
Even for stuff that it would have made sense to include Biden in, they left him out of the loop. One of the accounts said a reason it was so hard to get Biden to give up his hopeless 2024 campaign ambition was that they had been keeping their internal (i.e. true) polling data away from Biden, so he had no idea how unpopular he was, and therefore he had no reason to doubt the boob bait for bubbas that was being pumped out to the provinces: “sharp as a tack!”, “most votes ever!”, etc.
“Why would the party dump a great candidate like me?”, Biden doubtless wondered. Maybe Pelosi ultimately had to level with him that his administration was a Potemkin sham. Or maybe she didn’t and just browbeat him into stepping down anyway. Either way, you can imagine it would result in the Bidens feeling aggrieved: betrayed in the former case, humiliated in the latter case. But the West Wing managers had left the Dems in a no-win situation, and they had to do something before Biden’s toxic coattails poisoned every race in the states.
Everything you have said is unimpeachably correct. However. If the reader will find and watch In Search of The Second Amendment, on YouTube, the politically literate will recognize that all standard gun control arguments were brought up during the discussions of the Constitution and strongly rejected (eg, armories versus home storage).
This is the actual 1st bible printed in (N.) America (1663):
It’s really amazing that the Puritans took the trouble to learn Indian languages (and invent a Romanization system for them, and try to teach the Indians to read, and set the Bible in type in this language, etc.) This was no small feat. Religion is a really strong motivator, almost as strong as sex.
That makes no sense. Biden of all people (even in his diminished state – he was not THAT far gone) knew how much Biden had declined. His aids and the press could cover this up from the public just like they did for FDR (this is nothing new) but FDR knew about his own disabilities and Joe knew too.
Of course, he would never admit it publicly and kept blustering and lying as he has done his entire life, like when he lied about being at the top of his law school class (he was near the bottom) but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know. He knows better than anyone that he is not the man he once was.
“This is the actual 1st bible printed in (N.) America (1663)…”
Interesting, but on further reflection, it turns out none of that matters anyway, according to Anonymous, since as he or she told us, any group that numbered less than 25K during the colonial era isn’t really American or something (or else, for some reason that I’m sure he or she will explain, that’s a problem for Catholics but not for anyone else…hmm).
And from what I can tell, the scattered groups of Anabaptists (and Mennonites and Amish and such, heavily concentrated in and around Pennsylvania) don’t come close to making that cut. Moreover,
But let me guess: whatever stink-eye the Anabaptists received from the Founding Fathers is unimportant, whereas any enmity the Catholics experienced is a mark of Cain that time can never erase. And anyone who disagrees is an arrogant jackass.
I didn’t say Biden didn’t know he was personally diminished, only that he didn’t know the degree to which the public was aware of his personal diminishment and general malfeasance, which had made him the most unpopular president in recorded history, and therefore unreelectable, contrary to his and his wife’s desires.
My experience with geriatrics is that even when they are aware that dementia is setting in, they grossly underrate their decline. There are exceptions, but “blustering and lying” Biden was not one.
I despise the man, but I’m not entirely sure that Biden would have lost. I’m staggered that the vile Harris got 48.5.
Well like someone else said (maybe you), the Biden’s got their revenge by immediately endorsing Komoto Harris, given the D’s no choice but to follow suit.
PM 1979-1990. I must admit to being biased as I was born in Scotland, with different political patterns from England. She boosted Scottish nationalism without intending to – the perception that she favoured the City of London businesses and the South-East, and screw everyone else, was a strong one. Much of the UK today is the UK she created and if you have a problem with contemporary Britain, well, in good part it is hers.
Thatcher’s idea of a good Northerner was Jimmy Savile, and he finally got his knighthood in her last Honour’s List.
Yeah, but if anything, Congress has been even more enthusiastic about keeping the Ukrainian meat-grinder going.
Perhaps. It may be a bargaining tactic. Then again, once during a meeting with Congressional Democrats, Trump blurted out that he wanted to provide the “Dreamers” with a path to citizenship. What he says he will do and what he actually does are often different things.
Gotta wonder about that. Harris was so lame: I mean, it was the first time we’ve ever had an unqualified, inarguable nincompoop running for the Presidency. She’d be marginal at the MacDonald’s take out window — never mind managing the store. She was bad. I mean, deciding the thing to do when addressing a French audience was to speak English with a faked French accent? That really would be beneath even the average MacDonald’s store manager.
If the Democrats weren’t utterly bankrupt as a whole, they would have just gritted their teeth and ridden out the disaster with Biden. It couldn’t have been worse than it was with Harris; after all, Biden would have at least got the pity vote. Nobody likes being mean to the senile old man next door. They wouldn’t have won — but at least people would have understood the position they were in. What was their excuse for Harris?
With Biden, they could have taken their lumps, picked themselves up, and hit the comeback trail. Sort of like the Republicans after Goldwater. Now, they may have lost the American voter for good. Time to file them with the Whigs and the Colorados? Political movements of the past…
How many migrants did Thatcher let in vs. how many migrants did your fellow Northerners (Blair-Brown-Cameron) let in?
After the election, some of the Harris campaign insiders admitted that internal polling never showed Harris winning but at least it was closer than the epic landslide loss they were head for with Biden.
I’m surrounded by DINK couples with dogs. This country’s number of dogs left all day in crates is an abomination.
I am probably more of an optimist than most commenters here. I think where you fall on the optimism-pessimism scale is largely a personality trait.
I do not see American support for this war continuing. A new Gallup poll found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans do not want to continue to help the Ukrainians until they regain their lost territories. Only 48% do now, down from 66% in August of 2022:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/654575/americans-favor-quick-end-russia-ukraine-war.aspx
You have seen this slow erosion of support in the past for Eurasian land wars of questionable value to Americans such as our Vietnam and Afghanistan adventures, followed by our eventual leaving the scene. Our proxy war in the Ukraine against Russia will eventually join this category. The peace agreement will probably end up looking something like the Istanbul agreement Boris Johnson previously sabotaged.
I hope that your optimism is repaid. It’s been almost 80 years since the end of the last general World conflict. I worry. Whatever it is that drives nations to fight one another in protracted bloody wars* has not, I think been repealed. History doesn’t end.
*Actually, I do not think the reason is such a mystery. It is because the people who naturally end up in control of governments are psychopaths who think nothing of butchering millions of people.
Yeah, I don’t know if that’s true, but I heard it too. It’s certainly plausible. There’s been a lot of other eleventh-hour passive-aggressive Bidening.
“just gritted their teeth and ridden out the disaster with Biden. It couldn’t have been worse than it was with Harris; after all, Biden would have at least got the pity vote. Nobody likes being mean to the senile old man next door. They wouldn’t have won — but at least people would have understood the position they were in. What was their excuse for Harris?”
Um… I’m pretty sure they were betting on the “nobody likes being mean to the dumb black lady” gambit. After all, isn’t that what our entire current society is founded on right now?
Whatever you think about Mitt Romney, he was correct that the Dems have built themselves a 47% floor (an observation that was inexplicably condemned as scandalous at the time, probably because it was true—the media hate it when truth gets out: it’s worse than disadvantageous, it’s unseemly!)
Add in another percentage point and a half, purchased at a $billion per point, and you have 48.5%.
No wonder the Dems were shocked and demoralized they lost the popular vote: when you have a 47% floor and ten-figure campaign budgets, it’s natural to think you have that problem stitched up permanently.
No idea. Indeed she won votes from the National Front in 1979 by hinting she would do something about immigration. She didn’t. In fact Thatcher was a hyper-free market type and they tend to like free movement of labour as well as of capital. She did a lot to weaken trade unions in Britain, which you probably approve of, but migrant labour that will work for under the money is a particularly good way to undermine indigenous and unionised labour. Her successors Tory and Labour, certainly caught the bit about the joys of migrant labour.
Yeah, but it doesn’t matter. With their 47% floor, ten-figure campaign budget, aggressively pro-regime media, and network of institutionalized vote fraud, Dems probably thought they can get anyone across the finish line. I mean, it worked in 2020 with a senile retard, why shouldn’t it work in 2024 with a vapid nincompoop? At least she could dance, laugh, and wouldn’t fall down stairs. That was an improvement over the previous guy. And she had brownish skin, so that is “good” in their theology.
Well, it turned out that the regime was so epically hated, that even the full bag of tricks couldn’t do it. This was apparently known by the campaign’s deep insiders, but they kept that info very close. I can’t find it now, but there was a post-election interview with a Democrat bundler—or whatever you call the people who collect a lot of money from different donors—from California who felt angry and betrayed because she had collected $millions in donations for what she found out after the election campaign insiders already knew was a lost cause.
It also came out after the election that according to Dem’s internal (i.e. real) polling, Biden was headed for a -400 EV catastrophe, so swapping in Kamala, bad as she was, was still an improvement. I think this was in the Pod Save America podcast, where the Dem’s campaign directors explain why it wasn’t their fault they lost, but I don’t want to go through it now to find the exact quote.
I dunno man, this may be premature. There’s still a lot you can do with a 47% floor, ten-figure campaign budgets, aggressively pro-regime media, and professionally institutionalized vote fraud.
GOP/Trump is riding high right now since the ‘Biden’ admin has screwed up everything they touched, making itself the most hated in history, whereas Trump can promise everything to everyone. In short, the present moment is best case scenario for the GOP, worst case scenario for Dems. But once Trump gets in office and starts making decisions, someone’s gonna be aggrieved by every decision. And as the grievance from each decision piles up, “political capital” will begin to flow back toward the other party, to use the imperfect financial metaphor popular with pundits.
IMHO, it’s really the GOP who are endangered. If they don’t start breaking down that 47% floor and the Blue fraud machine, in a couple of election cycles, they are going to be wondering how they can ever win again. And unlike the DNC, the GOP establishment is kinda stupid. Trump’s team basically had to force them against their will to do everything they did to win. As soon as Trump’s team is gone, they will undoubtedly revert, having learned no lesson. It should really the be fifth item on my list of Dem assets: “aggressively clueless opposition”.
“Thatcher was a hyper-free market type and they tend to like free movement of labour as well as of capital. She did a lot to weaken trade unions in Britain, which you probably approve of, but migrant labour that will work for under the money is a particularly good way to undermine indigenous and unionised labour.”
Cheap migrant labor is forced arbitrage, aka slavery, viz it is stealing plain and simple. Non-white shitstains agree to break in, live and work here for below market-standard and legally established and societally agreed-upon wages (viz an illegally low wage) because in reality they are being paid the difference in stolen white functioning infrastructure, stolen white-sustained peace and order, stolen white-standard housing and sanitation and medical care, and stolen white social capital: in other words it is far easier to be a poor and stupid shitstain living in and surrounded by nice white stuff for below white wages, than it is to be poor and stupid at home in their native toilet bowl.
Then of course their illegal shitstain second-gen children think they are entitled to “the American Dream” because their putas shat them out on US soil, so they won’t do the illegal scut-work their illegal shitstain parents did, and instead demand free college to pursue their “suenos”. HINT: You don’t get to have any suenos, shitstain. Go home and dream in your native toilet bowl.
Companies and individuals paying for illegally low foreign non-white labor (including H1-Bs) should be aggressively prosecuted for grand larceny/theft of services, and illegal invaders should be punitively imprisoned for theft. Not deportation: long, long, long prison sentences in special, shitty Third World-quality prisons. You came to America looking to work? Great, there’s plenty of work on the chain gang. Get cracking.
Well I have an idea: it was the Northerners.
Whatever policy differences you’re irked about can ultimately be resolved with the stroke of a pen, but every one of those migrants is a permanent change in the country for good or for ill, and they have mostly been ill.
If you’re complaining about Thatcher’s industrial policy 40 years ago while literal hostile invaders land on your shores now … I don’t know what to tell ya, man, other than you’ve lost the plot and your country’s future urgently depends on you finding it again.
I have no opinion. Trade unions will have some amount of power. How much should it be? I dunno. And w/r/t the UK, I don’t care. But if you’re a Brit and you don’t care who is in your country much less your trade union, again I don’t know what to tell ya.
Yeah, the post-Thatcher Tories have all been shite, but I was responding to your statement about Northerners having “different political patterns”. Yeah, they’re different: worse.
FWIW, when I lived in the UK in the later Thatcher years, I lived in The North and I had friends—Scots and Liverpudlians, one of whom is now some kind of minor Establishment figure—who were wildly pro-Maggie Tories, though they knew they were in the political minority there. The Tories at least talk as if they’re going to go against migration even if they haven’t been lately. Labour, starting with Blair, simply want to maximise immigration, i.e., minimise you. You may or may not be able to stop them, but I don’t see why you should give them your approval to do it.
Surely the salient fact about modern migrants is that they don’t labour? Indeed the staggering irony of the Labour [sic] party would seem to be that they now represent the dole class.
OT—My vague impression is you are only concerned about the rule of law and the meritocracy when it suits your narrative. Clearly, you NOTiCE the major problems associated with the Trump transition team and his nominees in these two areas, but why stir up a hornet’s nest on your part.
“And yet in 2023, blacks made up 7.8 percent of the first-years at the top 19 law schools rather than the 1 percent or so they’d make up at the top half-dozen law schools without DEI racial preferences.”
As I suspected, you didn’t give the full picture in your latest Taki’s article. From the source you listed.
—The enrollment pattern at other top law schools was mixed, according to the ABA data. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law saw decrease in both incoming Black (from 25 to 20) and Hispanic (from 30 to 28) law students. Yale University saw a decrease (from 33 to 27) in entering Hispanic students, but a small increase (from 23 to 25) in Black first-year J.D. students. At the University of North Carolina, Black first-year students decreased to only nine this year, from 13 last year, while Hispanic students showed a steeper decline, from 21 in 2023 to 13 in 2024. At Stanford University, for example, the number of Black first-year students almost doubled, from 12 last year to 23 in 2024; entering Hispanic law students increased from 26 to 31, year-over-year.
One year of data does not allow many firm conclusions about the impact the Supreme Court’s decision may have on the racial composition of law students. Further complicating the picture is that the ABA changed its reporting categories this year. Last year, non-U.S. residents were placed in their own category, while this year they are included in the different racial and ethnic categories.
At the moment, 1519 black students per year go to the schools listed, but this is in no way evenly distributed across schools. Of that 1519, 42% go to these schools:
1. Georgetown University: 170
2. Columbia University: 149
3. Harvard University: 138
4. New York University: 111
5. Virginia, University of: 79
However, this is slightly skewed by school size, when compared to the ratio of black students to the total number of students, these schools are on top:
1. Columbia University 10.57%
2. Northwestern University 10.51%
3. Georgia, University of 10.19%
4. Vanderbilt University 10.16%
5. Yale University 9.85%—
And as I suspected, you left out important context in that same article.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/09/17/analysis-could-yale-face-post-affirmative-action-lawsuits/
—Direct consideration of race as a criterion for admission would violate the Supreme Court’s ruling, but Deborah Hellman, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that the court was not clear enough about exactly what constitutes consideration of race.
In the Court’s majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that universities could consider an applicant’s discussion of race “so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university.”
The fact that Yale maintained levels of diversity while other universities saw large changes “is traceable to the ambiguity in the court’s opinion in the first instance about what is permitted and what is not permitted,” Hellman said.
Since the ruling does not rule out the consideration of a student’s lived experiences, which may include their race-related experiences, it is “not at all clear” which admissions practices remain legal. Universities therefore may have interpreted the court’s ruling in different ways, Hellman said, so she’s “unsurprised that there’s variation” between universities.
Several lawyers told the News that Yale may face lawsuits not because the University has broken the law but instead because there are litigious groups intent on minimizing the importance of diversity in college admissions.
“Even if a university is fully complying with the law, they may be vulnerable to lawsuits if they have high levels of racial diversity in their student body simply because the groups that challenged affirmative action have said that they will bring these types of suits,” Pauline Kim, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote to the News.—
That says everything about you and nothing about her
Depends on the source of his dementia. The signature of Alzheimer’s is that the subject is unaware of his impairments.
Hello, A.M. Your last paragraph will be true if the MAGA Party doesn’t coalesce against the UniParty. Even without putting any thought into it, cause he’s not good like that, Trump has gotten this ball rolling. In the next 4 years, the MAGA Party must overwhelm the Red Squad of the UP, or it’s all over, four-leaved clover.
We especially need to get masses of MAGA Congressmen in, 2 years from now. Trump can help bigly with that, with rallies for primary elections. He loves him some rallies. He’s really best at that. Don’t listen to or watch Trump in interviews though, as this is always depressing. (I wasted 4 1/2 hours of my life, between the Joe Rogan one and then his interview with Kristen Welker of Press the Meat (is it?), as commented on here on PeakStupidity.)
Any “movement” as the result of “The election of Trump…” will figuratively be a bowel movement, most unsanitary!
Yes, that’s my entire point; she put it in her book because she thought it would be a net positive with voters and it backfired on her; Trump was notably creeped out by it. Now Trump is a city boy who doesn’t know of such matters but since he is the de facto head of your party you need to cater to him and his sensibilities
It’s what their society is founded on. That’s part of their problem; they’re totally out of touch.
To over-generalize, I think part of the problem is that the Democrats (or perhaps ‘the Jews’ would be more accurate) have a clear ideology. It’s not popular, but they have it. The only fundamental difference is between the moderates who would rather win and advance it a little and the radicals who want to demand it all, even if it means they lose. The differences are tactical, not fundamental.
But they do have an ideology. The Right doesn’t; nothing coherent, anyway. It won’t admit that blacks are inferior, that we’re going to have to deport tens of millions of illegals without due process, that half the federal government needs to be shit-canned, that Jews are running wild. And so on.
Somebody once complained that all ‘conservatives’ do is trail along about sixty years behind, finally assenting to whatever innovations the Left was proposing back in 1964. That’s not an ideology so much as acquiescence.
Put your player on 1.5x speed. But after a while, 1.0x becomes horribly tedious with any speaker.
“A new Gallup poll found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans do not want to continue to help the Ukrainians until they regain their lost territories.”
You say a new poll has come out? Tell us, why is that each time that happens, you breathlessly announce “See, I told you so!” whereupon nothing much happens until the next time you come across some new poll that you insist proves you’ve been right all along (having ignored anything to the contrary). It’s as if you have yet to grasp the concept that polls fluctuate depending on how they’re worded and the alternatives they’re stacked against. And yes, when the alternative is an end to the war in 24 hours, as Trump promised, I can see why those dumb enough to believe what Trump says (a sizable fraction of the US populace, it turns out — especially when the alternative is believing whatever it is that Kamala has to say) will go for the 24-hour quick finish. Unfortunately, he has appointed negotiators who have dared to admit that Ukrainians are not being crazy in refusing to surrender their weapons and gut their military (as opposed to being dumb enough to believe in whatever Putin has to say at this point), and that’s going to complicate efforts to get them to agree to any capitulation. That may not matter, given that President Elon appears to be the one who’s calling the shots, but I doubt little Elmo cares a whole lot about what polls say before telling Trump what he’s going to have to do, so why are you so hot and bothered by them?
There’s a guy I see in downtown whose cardboard sign predicts the end of the world tomorrow, or something to that effect. I can’t say he’s wrong, but the very fact that he’s been waving that same sign around ever since he fell of his meds (or so I’d guess) dilutes the impact of whatever it is he’s claiming is gonna happen.
With that in mind, I will refer the readership here to some of Mark G credulity when it comes to polls. It’s much too long a spew to recount in any detail, but I’ll give you the gist:
See what I mean? Sure, I bet it’s all different this time around, because you really, really totally mean it this time. As for me, I’m thinking you need to start waving around a new cardboard sign, or at least get back on your meds.
You’re in luck! Your two favorite films are free on YouTube over the holidays! Both star Eddie Murphy.
These films are :
1) Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps :
2) Norbit :
Watch these films while they are still free.
Films for Fat People (FFFP) is a new interest group you belong to. Fortunately for you, membership is free.
Yep. Put two or three meat packing execs in jail for a few years and everyone will get the message that you can’t hire illegals.
I don’t care if bacon goes to $7/lb if my taxes/debt no longer have to support millions of illegals working for peanuts and sponging off welfare/schooling/medical care/etc.
Deport them all. Now.
And btw, a just society would take that Guatemalean who burned a woman to death on the subway and hang him in Times Square live streamed. I’ll buy the rope.
Do they have movies for filthy, stupid sub-continental wrestling fans, like you?
Caveat: often this is a trade-off with comprehension.
Paying attention, truly paying attention, is an art and a skill.
Achmed, it’s nice to see you back here commenting again. You and a couple other of the better commenters here, PhysicistDave and res, all seemed to have left around the same time.
Unfortunately, in the case of PhysicistDave he may no longer be with us. He had said he suffered a stroke right after getting the Covid vaccine. That may have been followed later by another stroke. It’s sad to think that PD may have been one of the victims of the inadequately tested and unsafe Covid vaccines.
I agree that the Democrat-Media-Industrial-Complex is guided by a kind of malign intelligence in a way that the GOP (which has no Media-Industrial-Complex) is not—malign, benign or otherwise. That doesn’t mean though that the Dem-MIC isn’t also itself leading a coalition of more and less guided allies. And as the recent election showed, it is possible to peel off or neutralize elements of the Dem-MIC coalition.
I think that more than one “somebody” has complained this, including many of us commenting here.
Still, there are now areas where the GOP coalition is on an entirely different tack from the Dem-MIC, not just on the same tack but slower:
Illegal immigration is the obvious one. GOP-c wants mass deportation, Dem-MIC wants mass amnesty. It’s not at all clear that the GOP-c will get what it wants, but I think it is clear that it does not want just a slower version of the Dem-MIC orthodoxy.
Ditto the Surveillance State. GOP-c wants rollback; Dem-MIC wants expansion.
Gun rights, medical freedom, affirmative action (Steve excepted), tariffs, … there are an increasing number of issues where the parties substantively diverge and the GOP-c doesn’t just play rearguard for the Dem-MIC.
This is probably a result of the Discrediting of the Institutions, a process that is grossly overdue, but is finally underway in the mass arena, partly as a result of Institutional hubris and partly as a result of internet samizdata creating a refractory counter-narrative. It is dawning on people that we don’t have to bow to the self-anointed “experts” nor even accept their opinions as inevitable. Their legitimacy, and the concomitant legitimacy of their vision is not just eroding but actually negative in wider and wider swathes of the public. It’s good news in a way, but of course the legitimacy vacuum will be filled in many ways, some more malign than others. Let us continue to Discredit the Institutions, and let us continue to fill the legitimacy void with the light of science, wisdom, HBD, and good cheer!
Merry Christmas!
I’ve never been one to speed videos up, Ralph, but I appreciate your advice. I should have never gotten started on these 2. A few clips would have been good enough.
I don’t remember the part about Physicist Dave’s health, Mark, but I do remember that he was involved in a legal thing with his daughter and her college. He was not in too good a mood near the end of his time posting here. I sure hope he’s OK.
I’m seeing more and more bad news about “the jab”. My original reasons not to take it were that they’d made it mandatory, for one thing, along with that I was not one bit worried about becoming a serious Flu Manchu case (got the bug, but had to travel at that time – wore the stupid mask for 4 hours on a plane per requirements – too bad, so sad).
The more I’ve read and heard later, the more I was glad none in our immediate family took it. My wife got better slowly during the summer of ’20… she got better from her state of panic, that is. Now, she won’t even take a flu shot. Ha! (No admittance about being wrong or anything has been forthcoming – been 4 years now – females are exempt from that sort of thing… apparently…)
I’m pessimistic. I’m all for rounding up everyone who can’t produce evidence they’re here legally and put them in barbed wire pens pending an eventual court hearing or a plane ride home now — but is everyone else?
Wait’ll that Jewish-guided media sob machine and judicial activism gets going. All the poor deserving innocents…that nice Javier that helps Mrs McGurdy with the yard work…due process…blah blah blah.
Never mind that the Jews themselves created this situation. We’re going to get stuck with most of however many tens of millions of illegals got in.
I mean, I’ll be happy to be wrong, but…
Again, I ha’ ma doots.
We won’t get the light of science, etc. We’ll get the lady in the Walmart return line who thinks Angela Merkel was Hitler’s love child.
Everyone’s going to roll their own, and it’ll be a Tower of Babel out there. What we’ll get are loony religious cults, terrorism, general anarchy, and Hitler wannabes. The establishment has been discredited alright — but we’ve nothing to replace it with.
Again, happy to be proved wrong but…
But you have a Merry Christmas as well! Just stock up on ammunition and canned goods.
Ukraine supporters are boring. Russia supporters are as well; but Ukraine supporters are worse.
“Has Steve Sailer weighed in on the advisability of Pres. Blumpf antagonizing Canada by threatening either to dismember it or swallow it whole (possibly minus Quebec)?”
Why would he? It’s not part of his narrative.
And in this latest post, he rightly castigates Democrats. However, Mr. Sailer is very selective when it comes to the rule of law and administrative fiat.
Donald Trump also seeks to bypass constitutional norms. He has called on Senate Republicans to forego confirmation hearings and recorded votes for his cabinet nominees. It won’t be the first nor last time.
I guess Mr. Sailer is too busy to NOTICE.
“I guess Mr. Sailer is too busy to NOTICE.”
Sailer has said he tries to provide material not easily found elsewhere. I have heard plenty about Trump’s cabinet appointees and their qualifications or lack thereof. This is the only place I have heard about the effort to declare the ERA ratified.
Which did you lately find more intrepid, My Review of “Gladiator II:” A Rightful Heir or Skiing in Los Angeles?
Reporting on recycled Congressional ERA grandstanding instead of writing a word about the Antisemitism Awareness Act typifies Mr. Sailer’s effort to mainstream his selective Noticing while presenting as “conservative” to his base.
I’m worried about that Greenland acquisition.
Soon, in the words of Stephen Sondheim, they will find things better in “Am-er-ee-ka!” because on their island, “The population growth is slow-ing, and it is always snow-ing.”
By the way, welcome back to iSteve. I missed you, dude!”
What about hydrocarbon fuel rights?
The Dems are publically dead set against that, but they drive big SUVs at high speed with the best of ’em, and a return to (cheaper) energy solves a lot of our other problems.
Tap the sign. The only thing that gave them pause was realizing that diversity hires who belong to no nation and got an ASVAB waiver make terrible soldiers. They want us to die and it’s no longer clear even if the Trump win bought us a pause in the whole “death” plan. It was still the best option by far even if the Democrats hadn’t destroyed their own chances.
“Which did you lately find more intrepid, My Review of “Gladiator II:” A Rightful Heir or Skiing in Los Angeles?”
Skiing in Los Angeles. I didn’t read the other one.
The catalogue goes back to 1997.
I appreciate the back and forth. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I was reacting to your apparent admiration for Thatcher, and what seemed a tendency to exonerate her from responsibility for what is wrong today. The UK in 2024 is however in large part Thatcher’s Britain. It is noteworthy that she felt Blair in some way continued her project. Even though he was “Labour”. Blair and I think Starmer have said nice things about her, which is one way of saying “We’re not lefties, you know.”
The dole class increased greatly under Thatcher. With available jobs going abroad – one factory near my birthplace closed down, admittedly after she left office, and moved to post-Communist Romania. But market forces, Thatcher’s god, and Romanians will work for less…
I’m opening with something you wrote elsewhere on this thread, because Ron has shortened the number of comments one may make (at least, that’s what I saw a few weeks ago).
That’s a really powerful paragraph, one of the best I’ve ever read here. The rest in that long comment wa’n’t too shabby, either.