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An interesting question is whether you can get voters to notice that seemingly obscure issues, ones more minor than The Economy, suggest that your opponents have gone nuts. For example, for over a decade, I’ve been pointing out that the Democrats’ ardent promotion of transgender grievances validated my inference that the Democrats were following out the logic of being a Coalition of the Fringes by sacralizing their fringiest element, transgenders, and promoting them to the peak of privilege.
But that’s asking a lot of voters cognitively.
Still, this time, it appears that the Trump campaign’s sizable investment in demonstrating that in 2019, Kamala had gone all in on the craziest transgender demand paid off.
From the New York Times news secti on:
How Trump Won, and How Harris Lost
He made one essential bet: that his grievances would become the grievances of the MAGA movement, and then the G.O.P., and then more than half the country. It paid off.
By Shane GoldmacherMaggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Nov. 7, 2024… About a week after the September debate, Mr. Trump started spending heavily on a television ad that hammered Ms. Harris for her position on a seemingly obscure topic: the use of taxpayer funds to fund surgeries for transgender inmates. “Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access,” Ms. Harris said in a 2019 clip used in the ad.
The New York Times does not link to the ad.
It’s hard to find Trump’s transgender ad anywhere using the main search engines. Mostly you get links to Respectable Media complaining about Trump’s transgender ad.
This appears to be it:
It was a big bet: Mr. Trump was leading on the two most salient issues in the race — the economy and immigration — yet here he was, intentionally changing the subject.
But the ad, with its vivid tagline — “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you” — broke through in Mr. Trump’s testing to an extent that stunned some of his aides.
So they poured still more money into the ads, running them during football games, which prompted Charlamagne Tha God, the host of the Breakfast Club, a popular show among Black listeners, to express exasperation — and his on-air complaints gave the Trump team fodder for yet another commercial. The Charlamagne ad ranked as one of the Trump team’s most effective 30-second spots, according to an analysis by Future Forward, Ms. Harris’s leading super PAC. It shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.
The anti-trans ads cut to the core of the Trump argument: that Ms. Harris was “dangerously liberal” — the exact vulnerability her team was most worried about. The ads were effective with Black and Latino men, according to the Trump team, but also with moderate suburban white women who might be concerned about transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
Those were the same suburban women Ms. Harris was trying to mobilize with ads about abortion.
Democrats struggled to respond. At one point, former President Bill Clinton told an associate, “We have to answer it and say we won’t do it.” He even raised the issue in a conversation with the campaign and was told the Trump ads were not necessarily having an impact, according to two people familiar with his conversations.
It’s almost as if Bill Clinton is pretty good at politics, better than Hillary or Kamala.
He never broached the topic publicly.
The Harris team debated internally how to respond. Ads the Harris team produced with a direct response to the “they/them” ads wound up faring poorly in internal tests. The ads never ran.
It would be fun to see these stillborn Kamala ads. I dunno … Kamala Will Castrate Criminals?
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She really is for (((they/them))). But…
Although I didn’t see any campaign commercials, one image is seared into my brain: the father being dragged out of a school board meeting after his daughter had been sexually assaulted in school by a repeat offender tranny. A repeat offender who was completely protected by the entire system all the way up, while the FBI was set upon anyone who dared to dissent. Yep, I didn’t forget that.
An emblematic event for our age.
Reportedly, another thing that never ran was Kamala’s appearance on Muslim influencer’s podcast in which she enthused about the benefits of cooking with bacon.
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
OBAMA => "I need a veep dumber than me" => BIDEN
BIDEN => "I need a veep dumber than me" => HARRIS
It's oppressive to realize that she was a mainstream candidate.
From what I could tell, the Trump campaign entirely avoided the post-Floyd native deaths/crimes of exuberance wave to focus only on immigrant crime, which helped him get historic minority percentages, but did he leave white votes on the table, or will they always be Never Trump and tribal? What’s wrong with the educated suburbs?
After 81 million votes appeared for an impaired mediocrity in 2020, I shouldn’t be flabbergasted that 2024 wasn’t a blowout like 1984.
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-trump-won-a-data-breakdown/vi-AA1tI8u7
The cost of this was college educated and women voters. His genius was realizing and pulling in larger number from the first group while losing smaller number from thee second. That is the essence of politics. One can never hope to get everybody. The trick is to figure where to cut the pie so that you end up with a larger piece. I don't know if this will endure, but if it does, it does convert MAGA into a durable party that can aspire to win instead of the old Republican party who were terrorized by the 'Demography is destiny' mantra of browning America.
-- repudiation of Biden's--i.e. Mayorkas and company's--open border insanity-
-- rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidateAnd there were a couple notable positives:
-- Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump--the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
-- Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.But "huge" or "historic" ... uh.
Seriously here's what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system--against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections '68 to '88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly. Here's FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra's--Wisconsin, Michigan--within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter--from GA--on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.Trump managed to pickup ... Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states--Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag ... what ... one? two? Senators across. I'd say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway--living on borrowed time in Red states. I'd give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn't win the open seat in Michigan, couldn't beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn't win in Nevada and--if they ever finish counting--probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus--representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.In a sane country Harris might expect to get
-- childless cat ladies
-- homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
-- government bureaucrats
-- affirmative action dependent blacks
-- minorities nursing grievance against white people
...
uh ... I can't think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.So don't kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Rich, @bomag, @Currahee
Trump grasps the importance of the left’s Narrative Control Machine …
… and he plans to end it:
Whoever is writing this stuff is much more focused than last time.
Tweets at https://twitter.com/StucknDaMid/status/1854976058883555560 argue that Trump's December 2019 executive order "Combatting Anti-Semitism" https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/16/2019-27217/combating-anti-semitism is at odds with ensuring the U.S. federal government does not censor free speech.Replies: @Almost Missouri
https://twitter.com/middleeastmnt/status/1854317897318810053?s=46&t=_KWVuhP3oxRCTCdNl94gBwReplies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @Alden
The Left likes to accuse the Right of existing in an “echo chamber” or “bubble”, but then you see this kind of thing (bacon for Muslims), or Kamala’s team rejecting the advice of the 20th century’s most successful living politician, or simply the entire Trans insanity in the first place, and you remember that projection, accusing you of what they are doing, is some kind of automatic action for the Left.
Steve says it’s “asking a lot of voters cognitively” to reject Trans insanity, but I don’s see how. Men in dresses invading girls’ lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children’s school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn’t that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left’s Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.
Apparently, this was a reference to Clinton when surely you meant Trump. Clinton had his culture personality, much like Obama, but what other politician could pull off what Trump did? A man with no political experience, a man whom caused his opponents to create and apply the concept of “lawfare” against him, and the man who was solely capable of uniting the mainstream media as one against him. No, Trump’s name will ring throughout history in a way that Clinton’s never will. He will be studied exhaustively for his ability to overcome the elite political machine of both parties.Replies: @Almost Missouri
The "transgender" nonsense at the logical level is no more insane than the idea that America's core white gentile population should bend over and grab its ankles for any other minority--Jews, black, Muslims, homos, immigrants, etc. Logically any organism not "should", but must prioritize its own survival and reproduction.
A nation must prioritize the maintenance and reproduction of the nation's people and culture--i.e. the nation--or else it simply ceases to exist. Minorities properly accommodate themselves to the majority. Either--best case--just throwing in with it and integrating. Or accepting that they are a minority and organizing themselves to maintain/reproduce themselves privately as a separate minority while the nation's majority publicly carries on with its norms/traditions/culture.
What is distinct is the transgender thing is just obviously and unpleasantly nuts. Unlike some normal racial/ethnic group that just happens to be through some accident of history in some other people's nation, trannies are mentally ill people demanding the normies bend over for them. "Transgender" takes the core logic of minoritarians and rubs it in normal peoples' face.
And again: this makes trannies a great punching bag for conservatives. But unless conservatives explain what's actually wrong here--the deep illogic--and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology of minoritarianism ... it is simply a one-off--oh gee you saved women's sports, whoopeee--pointless.
I'll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their "they/them" vs. "you"--i.e. normal people--is excellent. But it should have beenexplicitly thematically joined with ads about the border--"they" (foreigners) vs "you" (Americans)--with ads about crime--"they" (criminals) vs. "you" (productive law abiding citizen). To really move forward that whole "normies first", majoritarian ideology should be front and center and hammered home.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mactoul, @Gandydancer
-in 2016, Bill advised Hillary to include something, anything that might appeal to white males in her final speeches, it might not be much but Bill argued that a sop, at least would make white males feel that they are included. Hillary rejected Bill's advice leading to the fact there was never a Presidentess Hillary Clinton.
Bill indeed was and is the 20th century’s most successful living politician; yet two times already the Dems screwed up by ignoring him.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @The Germ Theory of Disease
Feeling pretty good.
https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1855390925478096917
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @kaganovitch, @Brutusale
In the immortal words of the Blue Cyclone “Some people never learn”.
To some people the reason Kamala lost is the voters are transphobic, racist, mysogynists who want to force women to have babies with Putin.
They are unable to see that folks don’t like to be forced to accept men in women’s bathrooms. They don’t like to be told that all whites are evil. They don’t like a nasty Alzheimers patient in the White House, much less a semi-literate prostitute. They find the notion of killing babies a bit off-putting, and spending billions to defend a corrupt crap-hole half-way around the world while their own country is being swamped by millions of third world grifters and criminals insanely destructive.
If some people didn’t have judges and electoral shenanigans they would never win, ever.
Only to dishonest communists/racial socialists.
Saying the most insane thing possible all seemed like innocent purity test for in-group loyalty, at the time. It’s hard to think back on those years, and years, of hearing about trans stuff daily, and it always seeming faintly deranged, and contextualize them. It was a tabloid topic, crouched in phony new moralism? Maybe it had to blow up, though it’s hard to think of something similar, even. The civil rights script as a tabloid scam, deceiving even its enthusiasts and detractors, always gunning for ratings, and getting them. Perhaps Kamala said the idiotic thing she did about criminal sex changes because it was understood it would do numbers, somehow–move the needle.
(I posted this before, but, as Ron would say, it is relevant again due to current events.)
Psychologists who study courtship behavior have learned that a possible “he/she is the one!” is entitled to commit two “negative impressions” and still be in the game. But, commit the third, and you are toast. Thus, Kamala’s transgender negative impression, standing alone, would not make her toast. However, it would count toward the disqualifying total, which is three.
By the way, if one’s courted possible mate choice does not commit three negative impressions and thus be disqualified, how long does it take for the courting partner to decide, Ah, he/she is “the one!” According to the psychologists, on average, 172 days.
Sometimes it happens a lot faster, the way atoms combine to make molecules.
After two decades of relationships, I decided to propose to my wife after dating her for one summer. It was obvious, and we both were ready at that point in our lives. Since then, she has forgiven me and stuck with me after far, far more than three strikes!
In the past, I've been dumped, and I've dumped others. I would say that your general point is true with regard to dating. What I can't understand is why any man would have found Kamala, ahem, "doable."
(BTW, I scrubbed a baking sheet today, and my wife discovered that it wasn't actually clean. I can cook, but I can't clean. She's still with me, though.)Replies: @Ralph L, @Colin Wright
He needs to stop the pit bull breeding industry. And then just ban pit bulls altogether. Seems like lie hanging fruit.
Tom Nichols at the Atlantic pointed out that the mentioning of they/them was also aimed at swing college educated moderates who not have to check off what their pronouns are when attending conferences, signing up for continuing education, apply for professional credentials. Nichols pointed out that that Harris was noting that her pronouns were she/her.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
Kushner will operate outside the administration as an influence peddler much like Hunter Biden did when Joe Biden was Vice President.
Not a bad idea to castrate male criminals and make them wear dresses. Kamala should have taken the idea and run with it.
The trans issue is a good way to show that the Democrats would not have benefitted from Biden dropping out earlier and having a open primary with multiple candidates. Anyone running for office in the Democratic primary would have been openly pro-whatever the trans wants along with whatever the most militant black activist wants.
An issue for the Democratic Party in 2028 is that their presidential primary could end up making the winner toxic to more than 50.5% of the voters.
With Kamela being married to a Jewish man, you would think she would know a bit about bacon, but maybe he’s not religiously devout.
Her father’s native Jamaica also contains a lot of Seventh-Day Adventists who don’t eat pork and pork products.
Not eating bacon seems to be the only thing that the inhabitants of Israel and Gaza can agree on.
The whole discussion seems inane to the point of insanity. Apparently this podcaster is not political (and Kamala's campaign ruled out discussing Gaza) and normally has a "debate" with his guest over some light hearted question. I believe his preferred topic of debate was "whether it is OK to take your shoes off on a plane". But Kamala wanted to debate the premise "bacon is a spice". Putting aside that the Muslim guy could have just taken the "con" side of the bacon debate instead of shrieking in horror at the word "bacon", Lincoln and Douglas are spinning in their graves. Of course, Trump expounded on the size of Arnold Palmer's schlong, so the whole tenor of our discourse has degraded.Replies: @Mactoul
I think a Ukraine peace plan that could work is the following:
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the “annexed four oblasts”. Neither will Ukraine get “1991 borders”. And the Western neoliberals will have to “let Russia get away with it”. A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a “frozen conflict”. Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial…and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the “muh attrition copers” continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn’t empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump’s unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump…or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it’s actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an “Austrian promise” of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a “20 years outside NATO deal.” Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers…but it’s the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn’t hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people…but EU won’t let them in anyways…they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry…Odessa dreamers…should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds…they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage…not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest…but I’m fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.
Instead they seem to have adopted that phrase sometimes scrawled on Red Army tanks in WW2: до конца. (to the finish). What a tragedy, we need war crime trials for the people who scotched Minsk 2 and the 2022 Istanbul protocols.
The West made a mistake provoking Russia.
The West made a mistake trusting Ukrainian oligraches and Nazis.
The West made a mistake claiming Donbas mineral wealth.
The West made a mistake thinking Russia was just one more mobilization, production order, or bombing from chaos.
The West made a mistake trusting the exact same brain trust who told us that Saddam Hussein had magical powers or that Afghans were one bombing from being Switzerland.
The West made a mistake and our foreign policy manager/expert class needs to be thoroughly cleaned out to avoid such mistakes in the future.
Happily, it looks that will finally happen.
In other words, this shitshow will never end.
OT, but maybe not:
FEMA’s racism scandal: Who is Marn’I/Marn’l Washington? Who is Mary Ann Adams?
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/11/femas-racism-scandal-who-is-marni.html
Don't cushy federal jobs like at FEMA usually come with some kind of "no moonlighting" proviso, i.e., you can't be a Civil Servant while also working another job for private interest?
P.S. How did you find her secret identity/alternate life given that she uses two completely different names and the media are complicit in protecting the one they should be exposing?Replies: @Nicholas Stix
Interestingly, none of this bothered Jewish or Asian voters. Harris got 78% of the Jewish vote according to NBC.
And Asians voted Democrat by 56%.
Memo to illegals looking for a change . . . of scenery, among other things.
There’s always Canada!
Canada on ‘high alert’, braces for migrants fleeing US after Trump election
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3285882/canada-high-alert-braces-migrants-fleeing-us-after-trump-election-win
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that father was Scott Smith from Loudoun County, Virginia. Thankfully, the charges were dismissed and the prosecutor was defeated in her next election!!!
If all prisoners were “gentled”, the world would be a nicer place. Remember to spay and neuter your pets.
Interesting, I saw the commercial constantly just a few days ago. Now it can’t be found?
I can only hope that Trump and Musk will salt the earth with those pushing Trans-mania. It’s amazing how some people have been totally swayed by propaganda and pressure in a space of only twelve years.
What the new administration needs to do is run public service ads similar to the anti-smoking and anti-littering campaigns of the past. They shouldn’t be attack ads just an honest assessment of the medical and mental health risks.
The delusion is still strong with some. Open Borders and trans-mania were a losing message but not by much.
I think - I hope - that people will look back on this era in the same way they look back on The Terror or on the Witchcraft mania of the 15th - 17th centuries.
What they are not free to do is to shout down speech they disagree with, and this fundamental distinction is something the whole lot of them need to learn, over and over, as many times as it takes.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
I still don’t know what this f***ing word “Lindy” means.
Same guy was later revealed to have plagiarized much of his material. Yet somehow he still remains a presence.
To some people the reason Kamala lost is the voters are transphobic, racist, mysogynists who want to force women to have babies with Putin.
They are unable to see that folks don't like to be forced to accept men in women's bathrooms. They don't like to be told that all whites are evil. They don't like a nasty Alzheimers patient in the White House, much less a semi-literate prostitute. They find the notion of killing babies a bit off-putting, and spending billions to defend a corrupt crap-hole half-way around the world while their own country is being swamped by millions of third world grifters and criminals insanely destructive.
If some people didn't have judges and electoral shenanigans they would never win, ever.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Jonathan Mason
Agree. And the Narrative Control Machine.
The daily dosage began in 2015. The Obergefell decision legalized gay marriage. This had been a long-fought and critically important first step in their plans. Contrary to the “plucky underdog” myth, lgbt was always awash in cash and power. After the Obergefell decision, their huge war chest didn’t just sit there, and the money wasn’t returned to the senders. It was repurposed towards transgenderism. In what clearly seemed to be a coordinated effort, both NYT and WAPO ran daily pieces on trans. The 2015-2023ish trans mania was always manufactured, although the jury is still out on whether it will finally die. Satan is unfortunately quite resilient.
Though it is a good point that the campaign that culminated in Obergefell allowed the transgenderism monster to go to work with a large war chest that it did not have to raise in the name of transgenederism.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs--the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states--we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There's at least some sort of crappy "personal autonomy" argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no--nada, zilch, zero--argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege--civil marriage--against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn't about a claimed "right" to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public --"we value this"--blessing to.Replies: @MB, @Prester John, @MM, @Jack D
“The happiest man in the USA this week was Donald Trump. The happiest woman was Jill Biden.”
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
I think when the trans stuff is just an abstraction for normies it didn’t translate into political capital for the right to use, but when when society began being force fed trans stuff like a French goose a strong undercurrent of disgust developed that elites were insulated from. Like Kamala herself, the more the public learns about trans culture and ideology and practice the more they are turned off.
Wes Yang (who is center left) had some comments on X this week talking about how the political left in America’s embrace of this is literally the most insane cultural stance taken in our history. He had some kind of hilarious comment that he would have been fine going through life not knowing what an autogynophile is but the left made him learn and react to it. I totally agree with that and I have noticed over the last couple of years how my left of center friends who are parents have gone from quiet discomfort about this subject to being able to openly say they cannot get on board with it at all.
Still this is not over by a long shot. It’s been pointed out that a lot of parents are complicit in harming their kids with hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries and most are not going to be able to live with themselves if they admitted what they did – so they won’t and will cling to this culture and the idea their kids are some kind of persecuted class. There’s going to be a lot of human wreckage.
“It would be fun to see these stillborn Kamala ads. I dunno … Kamala Will Castrate Criminals?”
Childless Castrated Ladies.
This proves you were wrong to fight transism, Steve.
We told you.
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
I’ll just point out that Hillary Clinton is the only Clinton to have gotten a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election. It’s something I find hilarious.
... assuming she actually did get a majority of the popular vote.
It is a combination of things. The parents I know with children in the target age group are realizing that most kids who adopt this ideology are not sincerely confused about their gender but are using it as a gaslighting wunder waffen to keep their parents on the defensive whenever behavioral norms are debated. Both my adult kids quickly learned that when supporting gay friends in high school, allegedly victimized by prejudice, that the ‘victims’ were more intolerant of ‘diversity’ of identity than any supposed homophobe.
Thanks; Agree.
An emblematic event for our age.
OT (maybe not): Who else is she? Alleged FEMA criminal Marn’I Washington, alias Mary Ann Adams has at least one new alias (WEJB/NSU exclusive!) #fema
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/11/alleged-fema-criminal-marni-washington.html
To some people the reason Kamala lost is the voters are transphobic, racist, mysogynists who want to force women to have babies with Putin.
They are unable to see that folks don't like to be forced to accept men in women's bathrooms. They don't like to be told that all whites are evil. They don't like a nasty Alzheimers patient in the White House, much less a semi-literate prostitute. They find the notion of killing babies a bit off-putting, and spending billions to defend a corrupt crap-hole half-way around the world while their own country is being swamped by millions of third world grifters and criminals insanely destructive.
If some people didn't have judges and electoral shenanigans they would never win, ever.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Jonathan Mason
A bit harsh on Mrs Trump.
What may have driven many voters over to the Trump camp was the sense that these jackasses had taken all the fun out of cross-dressing. There’s no shock value in it anymore. One just feels ridiculous. I could never find a sensible shoe in size 13 anyway.
That is funny. Good post. Back on your A game, Steve.
I learned what anagogical reasoning is from reading Rod Dreher on Dante. He did a better job of explaning it than google does. What he said instead of just saying that it is “mystical reasoning” was that it is a way of teaching that leads you to arrive at the truth on your own.
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and am trying to change myself.”
Fixing yourself is a lot like they say about the journey being the destination. I suppose that is because life is a process with no endpoint till death. Hopefully you figure out beforehand that death is not the end, either.
As for WWT, would a sane adult say this, “O no, no, no. That is not worth rising over. Stand down, stand down. The kids, let them figure it out on their own. And our tax dollars, they pay for crazy stuff all the time.”
Well, would one?
Keep up the good work, Steve.
I used to be active on Twitter and followed Paul Skallas and Nassim Taleb. The term seems to have originated with Skallas and was popularized in our corner of the Internet by Taleb. From what I recall, I’d say Lindy means something that is historically and culturally persistent and salutary. E.g., curias, guilds, esprit de corps, Classical studies.
Not Lindy: labor unions, Alphabet People-studies, liberal democracy.
I’m not a Melania simp like some of the MAGA crowd are, but she’s fluent in multiple languages while Kamala is barely coherent in one. Cattiness fail.
Trump won because the 15 million fraudulent votes did not appear this time, because Trump was in charge of the RNC, Elon was in charge of Twitter, and they had roving bands of lawyers dissuading it, you turd.
This, this, this. The Democratic Party for whatever reason we shall learn in the foolness of tyme chose not fortify Erection 2024 at 3:00 a.m. as they didst 2020. We shalt learnst......Replies: @Patrick McNally, @Precious
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Bill Clinton: Ladies, ladies, settle down — I have watched the loathsome ads of Donald Trump and I am disgusted by his attacks on the fine trans folks and I have come to the conclusion, we need to answer these ads to win back African American voters.
GenZ intern with blue hair: Did you just call me a lady? I’m clearly non-binary. How dare you?
BC: I did not mean to insult you, I would like to point out that—
GZ: Who are you anyway? Stale. Pale. Male. Old AF.
BC: Well, listen here, I served as pres——-
GZ: OMG white supremacy is here too!?!! You are the patriarchy embodied. I need to speak to VP Harris and a campaign HR supervisor and lodge a complaint and lawsuit.
BC: Do whatever the hell you want but just run some ads that say we don’t support trans surgeries by taxpayers. Is that so hard?
GZ: Whaaaaaat? Are you insane??? We’re planning a constitutional amendment ensuring exactly that — are you some sort of 1990s era Nazi?
*room erupts into screeching and wailing*
BC (mutters to personal aide): JFC. Get me a box of Cubans and have Monica meet me at my suite at the 4 Seasons. Bag of McDonald’s cheeseburgers too.
The Times tried to debunk these ads in a pathetic Oct. 16 article, “Under Trump, U.S. Prisoners Offered Gender-Affirming Care.” Take that, Magats! But the article itself was wet fireworks. No surgeries under Trump, and very far down–in classic NY Times fashion–they reveal that Trump abolished the Obama-era rule on prison housing assignments. Trump ordered they should be based on gender at birth, not current “identity.” Biden then restored the Obama rules.
And now Trump has threatened to put doctors who cut up healthy kids in prison. I’d say it’s winning time, despite all the performative hand-wringing on Unz about Trump and his awful, disqualifying Zionism.
She’s so appealing and approachable.
This is the best explanation for the Trump win.
Lots of people going on about tactics: who got the nomination, the way the campaign was run, the messaging, etc.
But their message has been coming across loud and clear. The key fact is that it’s unpopular.
“We believe in open borders (or the trans agenda, or defund the police…)”
“I don’t agree with that.”
“You’re a Nazi and should be banned from the internet and lose your job.”
It worked until it didn’t.
Yes. I always thought World War T was a strategy of the gay establishment to protect and fortify gay marriage. Even with Obergefell they felt vulnerable to a conservative reaction that might somehow reverse things. Moving forward with trans rights was like putting out a defensive picket in front of their lines. If they could get normies to accept guys walking around in dresses and going into the girls locker room, then when your old bachelor Uncle John, a seemingly conservative accountant, comes out and marries his younger friend Manuel, you wouldn’t think twice.
Her father's native Jamaica also contains a lot of Seventh-Day Adventists who don't eat pork and pork products.
Not eating bacon seems to be the only thing that the inhabitants of Israel and Gaza can agree on.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D, @Wilkey
Rastas also avoid pork.
From context it seems like you meant “now” here, right?
An issue for the Democratic Party in 2028 is that their presidential primary could end up making the winner toxic to more than 50.5% of the voters.Replies: @ScarletNumber
If the Democratic Party has half a brain, they will run towards the center, not double down on the lunacy
After 81 million votes appeared for an impaired mediocrity in 2020, I shouldn't be flabbergasted that 2024 wasn't a blowout like 1984.Replies: @Mark G., @Moshe Def, @epebble, @AnotherDad
“What’s wrong with the educated suburbs?”
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.
Menominee is an Indian reservation which constitutes its own county. (It is always the state's most D.) Dane's seat is Madison, state capital and major university town. Its gap (52 pct pts) is decidedly greater than Milwaukee's (38), a county consisting of a major city and some blue-collar inner suburbs.
Evidently, the whites of Dane County are way more radical than the poorer ones of Milwaukee. Milwaukee's surrounding "WOW" counties house the local Republicans, and vote that way. Some of Madison's equivalent neighbors tipped to Kam. Commuters?
Nine of the eleven counties on Lake Michigan went GOP (Door is touristy, and swings), while the Lake Superior counties (a mix of union industry and tourism) stick to their leftist roots. Other (slightly) D counties-- La Crosse, Eau Claire, Portage-- have glorified state teacher's colleges.
Still, one of La Crosse's two university wards went for Trump. They went to "the rally down the street"!
This is from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Does anyone have similar analysis for other states, especially the swingy ones?
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/images/charles-franklin-mulsfb-slide001.png
Wisconsin in ’24: Marquette Law School researchers share ward-level analysis of state’s vote for president, U.S. Senate
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg/640px-Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg.pngReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
This is a freak issue, and it did not have a large effect on election results, but Steve wants you to think it did. It is something he is well-suited to pick apart and write a column about.
It is very far removed from the issues that really matter to the American voters who loudly made their perspective known.
Nice try, Steve.
What Mr. Anon said:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-calling-attention-to-kamalas-world-war-t-paid-off/#comment-6853225
However, here in TX I think Ted Cruz won a race that could have been much closer due to Soros/Hollywood/weirdo $$$ pouring in and us becoming a victim of our own success with in-migration from West (and some East) coast shitlibs. But the boys in girls' sports/locker rooms was too much for enough of the "In this house" suburban moms(never mind the increasingly based Latinos).
Running ads that prominently featured his blonde wife probably picked up votes from White suburban women but at the cost of enthusiasm from Black women.
If the Democrats ever get the good sense to run a social moderate, macho-presenting Latino man(i.e. not Beto the manny) Cruz would be toast. He is great on the issues but not very likable. Between his smarmy, unctuous affect(especially on TV) and his troubled relationship with Trump, I thought he was very vulnerable this cycle.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
But the people who vote in the Democratic Primary are not near the middle. Trump had the advantage of running against the establishment in 2016 and then not having a real primary in 2020 or 2024. When DeSantis refused to say anything bad about Trump in the primary, then it was obvious that Trump was going to win the primary without trying.
Yes, I have seen online registration forms where one has to check off on what pronouns will be on one’s name tag. In addition, every professional society now has a code of conduct on how to treat others at a public event because of disputes in the past about how women, homosexuals, and trans were treated by some people.
After 81 million votes appeared for an impaired mediocrity in 2020, I shouldn't be flabbergasted that 2024 wasn't a blowout like 1984.Replies: @Mark G., @Moshe Def, @epebble, @AnotherDad
Because of the 2020 steal, and Trump’s extended reign, more chicks will be negatively affected by the wall than mexicans!!
And Asians voted Democrat by 56%.Replies: @guest007, @Nachum, @SF
Since Asians are the most educated group in the U.S., it would make sense that Asian voters are majority Democratic. However, Asians voted 70% for Obama.
Jonathan Mason; the Arthur C. Clarke of Ecuador.
It is strange that Harris never made any effort to distance herself from the radical Left. Surely her advisors urged her to do that.
Castrate criminals? I had the same thought. Give some of these Venezuelan murderers sex changes they don’t want. Sounds like a winner to me.
After 81 million votes appeared for an impaired mediocrity in 2020, I shouldn't be flabbergasted that 2024 wasn't a blowout like 1984.Replies: @Mark G., @Moshe Def, @epebble, @AnotherDad
Trump’s genius was in pulling non-college educated, especially men, of all ethnicities.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-trump-won-a-data-breakdown/vi-AA1tI8u7
The cost of this was college educated and women voters. His genius was realizing and pulling in larger number from the first group while losing smaller number from thee second. That is the essence of politics. One can never hope to get everybody. The trick is to figure where to cut the pie so that you end up with a larger piece. I don’t know if this will endure, but if it does, it does convert MAGA into a durable party that can aspire to win instead of the old Republican party who were terrorized by the ‘Demography is destiny’ mantra of browning America.
The Tranny-s**t is not a minor issue. It is a loyalty test that the left wants to foist off on everyone. It is the act of forcing you to publicly lie. It is that scene in 1984 where O’Brien holds up four fingers and demands that Winston say that he sees five.
They put up some deviant in a skirt and say: This is a woman!
No, no it isn’t. It’s a man.
And beyond that, they are simply trying to normalize perversion and degeneracy, corrupt children, and undermine society.
The "Tranny-s**t" is also a clear and present danger to anyone who has children in school, especially in a government school.
There is now a near-universal program to groom children into accepting and then participating in Tranny-s**t. And nearly as universal a program to prevent the children's parents form discovering what is happening.
If you care about your children—or their children, your grandchildren—you have to care about Tranny-s**t.
Regrettable perhaps, but this is where we are.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-transgender-madness-in-the-education-system
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14044175/Council-worker-pro-nouns-email-12-000.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/christian-doctor-trans-woman-sacked-gender-pronouns-universal-credit-a8999176.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri
I highly recommend no one read John Carter's piece from his Postcards from Barsoom Substack, on the topic of the Pitești Prison Experiment of the late 1940s. ("To Shatter Men's Souls.")Member when Lenin went to visit Dr. Pavlov, with the idea that robust programs of classical conditioning could help the Reds produce the New Man? Member how that all went over the years?
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
“rejecting the advice of the 20th century’s most successful living politician . . .”
Apparently, this was a reference to Clinton when surely you meant Trump. Clinton had his culture personality, much like Obama, but what other politician could pull off what Trump did? A man with no political experience, a man whom caused his opponents to create and apply the concept of “lawfare” against him, and the man who was solely capable of uniting the mainstream media as one against him. No, Trump’s name will ring throughout history in a way that Clinton’s never will. He will be studied exhaustively for his ability to overcome the elite political machine of both parties.
The term “Lindys” was used as a slur to describe the homosexual fans of ace aviator and nationalist politician Charles Lindbergh. It is not known if Lindbergh himself was a homosexual but those that tossed the slur around were mainly comprised of closeted homosexuals.
Really?Replies: @anonymous
I can only hope that Trump and Musk will salt the earth with those pushing Trans-mania. It's amazing how some people have been totally swayed by propaganda and pressure in a space of only twelve years.
What the new administration needs to do is run public service ads similar to the anti-smoking and anti-littering campaigns of the past. They shouldn't be attack ads just an honest assessment of the medical and mental health risks.
The delusion is still strong with some. Open Borders and trans-mania were a losing message but not by much.
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1855095025190797453Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude, @Renard, @Sharonbaron
That so many people have gone along with this insanity, and just within the span of a few years, is jaw-dropping. That, together with how so many people went along with the COVID-tyranny largely destroyed my faith in my fellow man. So many people are just stupid, unthinking……….yes, sheep, to use that term common in the Alex-Jones-sphere.
I think – I hope – that people will look back on this era in the same way they look back on The Terror or on the Witchcraft mania of the 15th – 17th centuries.
DOD can use the vast swaths of Federal land in Arizona and Texas to generate airstrips and necessary infrastructure to repatriate the illegal alien thieves, rapists, murderers. Round the clock operations. If the Central and South American countries that disgorged these parasites refuse landing rights put parachutes on the invaders and drop them. For the Haitians and others that arrive by boat it becomes an issue for the USCG. Turn those boats back. Warning fire if need be. This can’t be handled by civilian agencies that are grouped together under DHS. The Pentagon has the legal responsibility for this mission as it involves a foreign invasion. The problem is the Pentagon has been devastated by the same corruption that turned the Federal government GAE.
Why are you a liar? Bill won the majority of the popular vote in 1996. Not just a plurality, a majority. Liar.
While I didn’t really watch much of the Dem conversation this summer, or their campaign events, I noticed that the Dem fetish in, what, 2020 was to start off by every speaker saying,
“I’m Joe/Jane Somebody, my pronouns are he/she, etc.”
Somehow the big Dem Pronoun Announcements vanished from public display.
Does anyone know what the official story is on this?
Did the “mainstream” news media even report this mysterious disappearance?
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
That’s a nice plan but, but it’s another example of “The West negotiates by negotiating with itself”. Similar plans with those terms have already been presented to both countries and both countries have summarily rejected them.
Instead they seem to have adopted that phrase sometimes scrawled on Red Army tanks in WW2: до конца. (to the finish). What a tragedy, we need war crime trials for the people who scotched Minsk 2 and the 2022 Istanbul protocols.
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
“Higher Education” in this case is a euphemism for mushy liberal arts programs (political science, philosophy, English lit, “gender/queer studies” and the like), not STEM programs. We need more of the latter and far, far less of the former.
I wonder if this obsession with “sexual identity”, along with all the other “identity” issues (race, ethnicity), will turn out to have been nothing more than a fad which started in places like the Ivies by liberal arts professors desperate to remain “relevant” in order to keep their jobs.
It seems that the Harris campaign was seriously mismanaged. It outspent the Trump campaign 2 1/2 to 1. She started with a $ 1 billion dollar war chest and is now $ 20 million in the hole. Her campaign was running a lot of TV ads on FOX News in deep red states. Just what did she hope to accomplish with that?
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
Bears repeating:
The “transgender” nonsense at the logical level is no more insane than the idea that America’s core white gentile population should bend over and grab its ankles for any other minority–Jews, black, Muslims, homos, immigrants, etc. Logically any organism not “should”, but must prioritize its own survival and reproduction.
A nation must prioritize the maintenance and reproduction of the nation’s people and culture–i.e. the nation–or else it simply ceases to exist. Minorities properly accommodate themselves to the majority. Either–best case–just throwing in with it and integrating. Or accepting that they are a minority and organizing themselves to maintain/reproduce themselves privately as a separate minority while the nation’s majority publicly carries on with its norms/traditions/culture.
What is distinct is the transgender thing is just obviously and unpleasantly nuts. Unlike some normal racial/ethnic group that just happens to be through some accident of history in some other people’s nation, trannies are mentally ill people demanding the normies bend over for them. “Transgender” takes the core logic of minoritarians and rubs it in normal peoples’ face.
And again: this makes trannies a great punching bag for conservatives. But unless conservatives explain what’s actually wrong here–the deep illogic–and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology of minoritarianism … it is simply a one-off–oh gee you saved women’s sports, whoopeee–pointless.
I’ll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their “they/them” vs. “you”–i.e. normal people–is excellent. But it should have beenexplicitly thematically joined with ads about the border–“they” (foreigners) vs “you” (Americans)–with ads about crime–“they” (criminals) vs. “you” (productive law abiding citizen). To really move forward that whole “normies first”, majoritarian ideology should be front and center and hammered home.
"I'm Joe/Jane Somebody, my pronouns are he/she, etc."
Somehow the big Dem Pronoun Announcements vanished from public display.
Does anyone know what the official story is on this?
Did the "mainstream" news media even report this mysterious disappearance?Replies: @guest007
The focus group research showed that most Americans detest the pronouns nonsense as much as land acknowledgements, or confessing white privilege, or those who use terms like people of color or Latinx. As Steve has noted before, the use of use rhetorical devices are just a way to signal where one stands politically.
FEMA’s racism scandal: Who is Marn’I/Marn’l Washington? Who is Mary Ann Adams?
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/11/femas-racism-scandal-who-is-marni.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri, @Alden
But is Marn’l Washington/Mary Ann Adams a FEMA Official or a Community Manager at Avanath Capital Management?
Don’t cushy federal jobs like at FEMA usually come with some kind of “no moonlighting” proviso, i.e., you can’t be a Civil Servant while also working another job for private interest?
P.S. How did you find her secret identity/alternate life given that she uses two completely different names and the media are complicit in protecting the one they should be exposing?
(I read somewhere that she has a Twit presence as "Mariana Gatlinburg.")
How that worked, I couldn't tell you, but as a result, I wouldn't be surprised if she had still more aliases.
What I find more shocking is that someone who had every incentive to keep a low profile would feel so safe in being so aggressively racist. Then again, when do blacks ever get in trouble for their racism, no matter how blatant? As a neighbor of mine said on what used to be Independence Day several years ago, "It's their country now." That's why I no longer refer to the Fourth of July as "Independence Day," but alternately as "Slave Day" or "Eva Marie Saint Day."Replies: @Gandydancer
Agree, but Obergefell itself wasn’t quite the starting point either.
Though it is a good point that the campaign that culminated in Obergefell allowed the transgenderism monster to go to work with a large war chest that it did not have to raise in the name of transgenederism.
That’s an interesting point …
… assuming she actually did get a majority of the popular vote.
I can only hope that Trump and Musk will salt the earth with those pushing Trans-mania. It's amazing how some people have been totally swayed by propaganda and pressure in a space of only twelve years.
What the new administration needs to do is run public service ads similar to the anti-smoking and anti-littering campaigns of the past. They shouldn't be attack ads just an honest assessment of the medical and mental health risks.
The delusion is still strong with some. Open Borders and trans-mania were a losing message but not by much.
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1855095025190797453Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude, @Renard, @Sharonbaron
Boys aren’t boys. – they are trans gendered girls. Good God, save us.
And Asians voted Democrat by 56%.Replies: @guest007, @Nachum, @SF
Left-wing Jews have really touted that number, bug it’s almost certainly way too high. The poll in question was only of swing states, and most Jews (and certainly most right-wing Jews) don’t live in those. The number may well be more like 60%- high, but very low for a Democrat.
https://twitter.com/DovWaxman/status/1855490214011224499Replies: @Nachum, @Reg Cæsar
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
That’s a good start, but at some point, the Griggs v. Duke Power precedent has to be confronted. That is the space-time anomaly that is funneling so many people into so much mandatory wokery (and debt).
Just as Roe v. Wade was deleteriously crimping the legal-political landscape, Griggs is catastrophically distorting an even more pervasive landscape. And the left have set up a cartel tollbooth in the pass through that distortion. It has got to be blown up and the land made flat.
The current Supreme Court may be up to the task. Maybe an anti-Griggs law or executive order could provoke the lawsuit that allows them to plunge the detonator.
https://youtu.be/9m7evoFF83c?feature=shared
As I pointed out a couple months back, Griggs was not judges making shit up about the constitution, but judges making shit up about civil rights law.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/is-this-true-2/#comment-6771209To reverse Griggs, all Congress has to do is pass a law saying companies are free to use any set of credentials, and do any testing that they consider appropriate in hiring for any given position.
BTW this is how
"Our Democracy"actual democracy is supposed to work in a free republic. Citizens send in some intelligent, responsible men to represent them and those representatives bang heads and come up with--hopefully--effective policies; including changing policies based on new data. Not having policy decisions made by these un-elected weirdo lawyers who fancy themselves philospher kings fit to decide how society should be run.I've argued that part of nationalist "pro-family" program would go beyond just repealing Griggs and returning to freedom to hire would include a couple more elements in this area:
-- develop or encourage development of basic competency exams (from general literacy/numeracy and basic HS grad knowledge, through specific college major knowledge
-- hire for the federal government through such exams, rather than college degrees
Get all that going and we would have young people in charge of their own destiny, able to educate themselves in any manner they wish--a bunch bypassing college--and a much healthier, and less indebted and more sensible and mature society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @OldJewishGuy
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/the-other-half-of-griggs-v-duke-power-co-401-u-s-424-1971/comment-page-1/#commentsReplies: @Almost Missouri
This could get … amusing.
Happy? No, I think “Doctor [sic] Jill” was a power hungry bitch who wanted to hold power like Lady MacBeth. I think she is sad. So sad, maybe she will go the full Lady M. route.
https://twitter.com/middleeastmnt/status/1854317897318810053?s=46&t=_KWVuhP3oxRCTCdNl94gBwReplies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @Alden
I never heard of that one, please be real. She voluntarily brought up bacon and refused to discuss Gaza, on a Muslim podcast. She really was Veep.
OBAMA => “I need a veep dumber than me” => BIDEN
BIDEN => “I need a veep dumber than me” => HARRIS
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
Russia is winning and has no reason to negotiate; they have said they do not recognize the unelected dictator Zelensky and will not talk with him. The uselessness of the Western elite has been lately demonstrated by nonsense proposals, like going back to already-crossed red lines, promising more already kalibrated wunderwaffen, or offerimg Russia things Russia would obviously never accept, like NATO membership for rump-Ukraine/Galicia.
The West made a mistake provoking Russia.
The West made a mistake trusting Ukrainian oligraches and Nazis.
The West made a mistake claiming Donbas mineral wealth.
The West made a mistake thinking Russia was just one more mobilization, production order, or bombing from chaos.
The West made a mistake trusting the exact same brain trust who told us that Saddam Hussein had magical powers or that Afghans were one bombing from being Switzerland.
The West made a mistake and our foreign policy manager/expert class needs to be thoroughly cleaned out to avoid such mistakes in the future.
Happily, it looks that will finally happen.
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
If Ukraine doesn’t join NATO then the Russians are just going to keep coming back every 5 or 10 years to snip off a new piece of territory.
In other words, this shitshow will never end.
Speaking of nuts, maybe P’nut the squirrel swung a few votes Trump’s way. Certainly Bernie Goetz.
P'nut and Fred lived in Mark Twain's county. That has gone GOP in 13 of the last 14 and 24 of the last 26 presidential elections. Since Twain's death, the Democrats have carried it only in 1912, 1916, 1964, and 1996. Note that three of those saw major splits among Republicans.
No, she did not. 48.2% is not a majority.
The only Democrats to achieve this feat have been Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter (by less than Trump’s 2024 figure), Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, and… Samuel Tilden.
I’d take Tilden’s 51% figure with a bargeload of salt, considering the scandalous counts on both sides in the disputed states. Plus, Coloradans didn’t even vote that year– their legislators did it for them.
South Carolina did it that way until 1860, so a “national popular vote” total before that is inherently questionable. Especially in 1824. Plus, state electorates differed on women (1890-1920), non-citizens (1848-1926), poll tax (until 1964; these really suppressed turnout), and other qualifications.
1976 was the last election without a Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Trump on the ballot.
The "transgender" nonsense at the logical level is no more insane than the idea that America's core white gentile population should bend over and grab its ankles for any other minority--Jews, black, Muslims, homos, immigrants, etc. Logically any organism not "should", but must prioritize its own survival and reproduction.
A nation must prioritize the maintenance and reproduction of the nation's people and culture--i.e. the nation--or else it simply ceases to exist. Minorities properly accommodate themselves to the majority. Either--best case--just throwing in with it and integrating. Or accepting that they are a minority and organizing themselves to maintain/reproduce themselves privately as a separate minority while the nation's majority publicly carries on with its norms/traditions/culture.
What is distinct is the transgender thing is just obviously and unpleasantly nuts. Unlike some normal racial/ethnic group that just happens to be through some accident of history in some other people's nation, trannies are mentally ill people demanding the normies bend over for them. "Transgender" takes the core logic of minoritarians and rubs it in normal peoples' face.
And again: this makes trannies a great punching bag for conservatives. But unless conservatives explain what's actually wrong here--the deep illogic--and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology of minoritarianism ... it is simply a one-off--oh gee you saved women's sports, whoopeee--pointless.
I'll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their "they/them" vs. "you"--i.e. normal people--is excellent. But it should have beenexplicitly thematically joined with ads about the border--"they" (foreigners) vs "you" (Americans)--with ads about crime--"they" (criminals) vs. "you" (productive law abiding citizen). To really move forward that whole "normies first", majoritarian ideology should be front and center and hammered home.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mactoul, @Gandydancer
“I’ll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their “they/them” vs. “you”–i.e. normal people–is excellent. But it should have been explicitly thematically joined”
This comment is further to your notion that the entire Trump package of policies is based on careful observation and bitter experience, and should be thematically *explained* to the voters to make them understand that it is philosophically consistent and coherent, not simply an iteration of “white rage” or monkey-like Trumpian “hate”.
“But unless conservatives explain what’s actually wrong here–the deep illogic–and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology”
I’m not a behavioral neuroscientist, I just play one on TV. So the following is based more on chess logic than it is in actual neuroscience, but for the latter, here is an introductory taste…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10170020/
The foundation of my thinking in all of this is basic biology, as in: two different subspecies with identical needs for territory and resources cannot survive in competition in the same space. Another way of saying Diversity + Proximity = War. It can never be any other way, no matter how much Kumbaya you are forced to chant at gunpoint.
The other basic observation is: Human beings at bottom, in their naturally-made essence, are predators. Look at your teeth and your face if you don’t believe me: your eyes are set together at the front of your face, enabling you to focus on and observe objects in the middle and long distance — that is, to identify and focus on prey.
One of the main ways that predators identify prey is that neurologically, their brains are embedded with a catalogue of profiles, in order to distinguish which things are prey which should be hunted and consumed, and which should be ignored. Lions do not attack trees, and they don’t hunt for grasshoppers: these things are outside of the “prey” profile.
Human beings, being natural hunter-predators, also have a carousel of profiles in their brains. When one considers that normal sexual courtship is an advanced form of hunting, in which females, the “prey”, more or less consent to be pursued under the correct circumstances, and even overtly prep themselves for the pursuit, things become a lot clearer. Stuff like rape and sexual assault is partly a result of a male’s faulty wiring and incorrectly reading the signs of a situation: the female in question does not consent to being pursued, the situation is wrong, the male misreads the cues and responds incorrectly, catastrophe ensues.
Which implies that deep within the brain, the male has a profile of what a female looks like, and which ones it is correct to pursue (viz not children or old ladies, who have no reproductive value, or females already spoken for, the pursuit of whom could get you killed). The females themselves provide dress and behavioral cues for whether the hunt is on or not. This is all rather mechanical rather than poetical, neurologic rather than romantic.
So if an obvious biological male presents as a female, exhibiting all the natural behavior and appearance cues which invite male –> female pursuit, but is not actually a female, our old friend Cognitive Dissonance comes over to stay on the couch. Frustrated or stymied pursuit instincts can lead to confusion, anger, and inappropriate responses.
None of this is “hate” or “transphobia” as the left styles it; it is basic neuroscience. If trans people have a “right” to present in society in the utterly wrong context, then they also have a duty or “responsibility” to engage in mitigating strategies. Which is why God invented drag shows. In other words, a reciprocal, two-way street, which is what a healthy society strives for. The left as usual demands only rights for its pets and omits reciprocal duties, putting the entire psychological load off onto the normie.
As Wallace Stevens once put it, “These / Two things are one. [Pages of illustrations.]”
OT – Looking for Xmas gifts?
How about Urban Intellectuals Black History Playing Cards? (Kamala included)
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or maybe Monopoly: Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Edition Board Game
http://www.amazon.com/MONOPOLY-F5405-Black-Panther-2/dp/B09H1X4KCB
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
Dream on.
Her father's native Jamaica also contains a lot of Seventh-Day Adventists who don't eat pork and pork products.
Not eating bacon seems to be the only thing that the inhabitants of Israel and Gaza can agree on.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D, @Wilkey
Hindus (mostly) don’t eat meat (including pork) either. Especially not high caste Indians like Kamala’s family. The one group that eats pork in India are the Catholic converts in Goa, the former Portuguese colony.
The whole discussion seems inane to the point of insanity. Apparently this podcaster is not political (and Kamala’s campaign ruled out discussing Gaza) and normally has a “debate” with his guest over some light hearted question. I believe his preferred topic of debate was “whether it is OK to take your shoes off on a plane”. But Kamala wanted to debate the premise “bacon is a spice”. Putting aside that the Muslim guy could have just taken the “con” side of the bacon debate instead of shrieking in horror at the word “bacon”, Lincoln and Douglas are spinning in their graves. Of course, Trump expounded on the size of Arnold Palmer’s schlong, so the whole tenor of our discourse has degraded.
Pork is quite common in Assam
South Indians eat (and sacrifice in their temples) goat and sheep.
Buffalo meat is available ( in limited quantities) and Buffalo is sacrificed in some famous temples.Replies: @Jack D
P’nut and Fred lived in Mark Twain’s county. That has gone GOP in 13 of the last 14 and 24 of the last 26 presidential elections. Since Twain’s death, the Democrats have carried it only in 1912, 1916, 1964, and 1996. Note that three of those saw major splits among Republicans.
more like the gay race communists got one of Elon’s kids, and that was the final straw for him. he went WAY far into the weeds on winning an electoral vote, getting all the low hanging fruit that NONE of the politicians or consultants had ever tapped. like turning out 200 thousand Amish voters in PA for R votes, negating a lot of the cheating Philadelphia vote advantage.
Elon shows how utter dogshit America’s post 1980 billionaires have been. useless at best, hugely destructive at worst.
Bezos, despite being one the biggest targets for derision, is actually one of the least bad, and has been highly productive while being politically centrist.
Gates has been awful.
Buffett, with a carefully cultivated aw shucks persona thru Democrat controlled media, is one of the worst Americans who has ever lived. utterly extractive with NEGATIVE value added, not just zero value. a total nation wrecker who somehow is looked upon favorably even by conservatives. huh? this guy is one of all time worst of the worst. just flat out terrible.
2016 was decided by 55,430 votes,
2020 was similarly decided by 42,918 votes,
2024 (still being counted a week later, unlike any other First World polity, lol) looks like it was decided by ~250k votes, or ~0.1% of the electorate. Still, that's more decisive than the previous two elections being decided by ~0.03% of the electorate. The point is merely that when margins are that tight, anything that moved a few thousand votes can plausibly claim to have decided the election. And those claims are not false, or at least not falsifiable. With that caveat out of the way, though, I want pick up your Amish point. Pennsylvania, which was the biggest swing state (winning that state by itself guaranteed Trump victory), and therefore the state in which every vote really did matter, was decided by ~145,000 votes. The Amish population of Pennsylvania is about 90,000. Add in the similar number of non-Amish whose livelihoods depend on Amish industries, and you have an "Amish bloc" of about 180,000. But this vote bloc didn't meaningfully exist prior to this election. So what changed? The Democrat governments in Pennsylvania decided to abrogate (as the Amish saw it) their ancient agreement with the Amish not to interfere in the Amish way of life. The specifics (raw milk, labor, education, social security, whatever) don't matter so much as the simple fact that inevitable government overreach finally crept its way, Sauron-like, into the Shire-like hills of Amish Pennsylvania, rousing the Hobbit-like Amish into doing what no one ever expected the Hobbit-Amish to do: pony-ride out of the Shire hills and cast the Ring of Transpower into the molten Red forge of the ballot boxes, thereby tipping the Ring, Sauron, and Mordor into a collapse cascade, with world-spanning reverberations. It was an epic Tolkien-esque event in real life. And hardly anyone else noticed.And it happened all because the Totalitarian Trannystate just couldn't let the Amish have their raw milk.
https://twitter.com/MeinGottNiles/status/1855013090699428350Replies: @J.Ross, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @James B. Shearer
This is a prime example of misinformation and disinformation on your part. Are you NOTICING, Mr. Sailer?
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36LH83Jhttps://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/it-s-too-early-to-know-whether-amish-voters-delivered-pennsylvania-for-trump-researchers-say/article_f1e36724-9dec-11ef-9b6a-9fb77bfba570.html
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
The oblasts of Lugansk, Donets, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts have been incorporated into the Russian Federation by the Duma and Russia will not agree to a cession of any portion of them to Ukraine. You may think that the present pace of Russian advances is “glacial” but it is increasing. A look at the advances of the Western Allies against German positions in 1918 could probably also be characterized as glacial but in November 1918 Germany asked for an armistice. Enthusiasm to continue funding the Ukrainian war effort is waning in the US and Europe has little capability to do so. The Russians are able to replenish their losses, the sanctions are hurting Europe more than Russia, and Russia is developing economic and financial arrangements with the members of BRICS that operate outside the western system. Russia can simply decline any negotiations on terms it finds unacceptable and continue doing what it’s been doing–it’s costly, but it’ll be successful in the end.
little discussed is how some near genius/actual genius level rich guy in europe completely changed the polling industry forever this election. he figured out how to accurately poll the population with minimal bias, and won his 10 million dollar bets in the process.
degenerate gamblers no longer satisfied with betting on sports, have added betting on elections to their repertoire. well, some rich guy in Yurp put big bets on the US Presidential election. why so confident?
his insight was to call people in a national polling effort, and ask them, who do you think YOUR NEIGHBOR is going to vote for. not you. your neighbor. then he hangs up the phone and calls your neighbor and asks them who they think YOU are going to vote for.
in this manner, nobody is lying or concealing their intentions. just making a fairly informed guess about the next person’s intentions. so the previously ‘intractable’ problem of polling bias is nearly eliminated, and you get a much more accurate national map.
over 100 years of polling procedures and practices were rendered completely incorrect by one actual smart guy entering the industry. all the other polling companies are superfluous at this point, and should be regarded as a grift or a scam, which is what they’ve actually been for a while anyway.
More likely he just got lucky. Easier to get lucky than actually come up with a vastly improved method of polling people.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Actually on topic, be aware that you cannot un-read this, money off-quote ~”California is actually the most stable tranny population on the west coast.”~ These people are so disgusting, and normal people are so perfectly unaware of them, that all it takes is a little exposure for even the most conformist normie NPC to realize that this is something very bad.
Trouble is people who love pit bulls REALLY love pit bulls (many of them are Trump supporters as well.) To be fair, pit bulls really are “mostly peaceful.” Most never attack anybody even if they are disproportionately aggressive/vicious overall. Perhaps some sort of mandatory pit bull eugenics could work: you can have your shark-faced dog, but it has be of certified stock bred for decreased aggression and impulsivity.
I think they ignored the fact that Harris was her own worst enemy. Her public speaking was atrocious. The extremely nasal voice, and the dark malicious undertone it carried when she chose to raise her voice was repulsive. Even Hillary, when she would raise her voice during speeches, didn’t repulse me. Kamala was deadly.
Kamala as a public speaker was like a singer who is slightly tone deaf. People who don’t know anything about singing might not notice it, but their brain does. It naturally repulses the listener.
The marriage of her voice with her rhetoric sounded like anyone’s bitter, middle-aged aunt on her third beer at a Thanksgiving dinner.
Her SNL appearance didn’t amount to anything partly because her comedic timing is what you’d expect from a typical college sorority den mother participating in a sorority skit.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is an extremely talented public speaker. Professional comedians, and even
comedians, collectively nod their heads to his comedy chops.
What do we remember Kamala doing that was funny, and she was the winner?
Everyone, liberal or conservative can remember funny things Trump has said, beginning with his response at his very first primary to the moderators challenge that he called women “disgusting pigs.”
So, the man outclassed her by every measure as a public speaker. Improvising for hours at rallies, or at the very least riffing off the teleprompter.
The fact that he could speak to Joe Rogan for 3 hours (!) straight with no notes, no editing approval, while Kamala refused without a time limit and editing approval gives any voter with common sense a great indication of the authenticity of both candidates. Evidence of her almost retarded lack of improvisational ability is solid. When she tries to talk off the top of her head, things turn real shitty, real fast.
All this adds up, for me, to Trump reminding me of my ultra-successful uncle joyfully shit-talking at the Thanksgiving dinner table–many of us have some version of that in our families–while Kamala reminds me of my twice-divorced aunt with a buzz on, reminding everyone at the same table why all men are shit.
The Dems drafted a negative familial archetype. It’s not Kamala’s fault. In all candor, she’s just a spent-out ho. There’s no servicing/changing/shaming a spent-out ho. A ho does what a ho’s got to do. Always has. Always will. They tried to put lipstick on a ho. It only makes a ho worse. This is all the direct fault of everyone directly instrumental in getting her fast-tracked to face Donald Trump.
If the Democratic Party is looking to cancel anybody, cancel those people. They really deserve it in this instance.
George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer. They’re all too old for their jobs anyway. Even many dems are sick of seeing their haggard mean faces. Dems should make an example of them, insofar as they should not walk away from the car crash they authored, unscathed.
Blame your primary choice for your candidate, Dems, and if you want an effective party, start with throwing out the old guard.
As it is, the majority of Americans hate you.
https://youtu.be/VQZAl7T0l2w?si=wcANkIYxNM6nZnoI
After 81 million votes appeared for an impaired mediocrity in 2020, I shouldn't be flabbergasted that 2024 wasn't a blowout like 1984.Replies: @Mark G., @Moshe Def, @epebble, @AnotherDad
A lot of commenters seem deluded about Trump’s massive, historic … 2.7% win, the greatest presidential win since well … 2020! And, ok, if you toss that for Covid, mail-in ballot harvesting, etc. then … since Obama’s 2012 win. Positively “historic”.
Yes, Trump’s win was necessary for there to be any hope for America’s future:
— repudiation of Biden’s–i.e. Mayorkas and company’s–open border insanity-
— rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidate
And there were a couple notable positives:
— Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump–the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
— Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.
But “huge” or “historic” … uh.
Seriously here’s what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system–against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections ’68 to ’88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly.
Here’s FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra’s–Wisconsin, Michigan–within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter–from GA–on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.
Trump managed to pickup … Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states–Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).
And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag … what … one? two? Senators across. I’d say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway–living on borrowed time in Red states. I’d give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn’t win the open seat in Michigan, couldn’t beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn’t win in Nevada and–if they ever finish counting–probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus–representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.
In a sane country Harris might expect to get
— childless cat ladies
— homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
— government bureaucrats
— affirmative action dependent blacks
— minorities nursing grievance against white people
…
uh … I can’t think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.
So don’t kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.
The standard of the PV is of course lower, as the EC exaggerates most wins. Ten of the 20th century's winners got 55% or more. That might be the floor of a landslide, in a two-man race.
You can rank them here, by clicking on the triangles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_marginReplies: @Colin Wright
So Trump's 2.7% is rather large compared to what's available.
-executive
-judiciary
-legislatilve,
in your pocket, who needs a landslide?
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
More winning.
is this the new dem strategy? retard is the new trans?
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wish-could-normal-people-low-123102240.html
(note to autists: all of these “testimonies” are fake.)
slogan: vote for us retards! we care about retards!
Meanwhile, Fake Nooser’s have discovered texting, and the major media, and FBI is jumping onboard!
I strongly believe, if only the utilization of this technology had occurred to Jussie Smollett, he’d still be a successful actor today.
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/154093/racist-texts-cotton-picking-us-electon
Don’t agree it began there. But the queers definitely have had huge cash, power–elite pressure–on their side.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs–the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states–we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There’s at least some sort of crappy “personal autonomy” argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no–nada, zilch, zero–argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege–civil marriage–against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn’t about a claimed “right” to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public –“we value this”–blessing to.
The pretenders categorically cannot produce children and are a dead end as far as the state is concerned, however much the caterwauling from the former about rights/love/equity etc. .
So if this is true it was supercharged by the fight over a government-granted privilege.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails ("Congress shall make no law...") but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level - the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it's hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.Replies: @Curle, @Colin Wright, @EdwardM, @Linus
BTW, one of the striking things is just how *ugly* the whole Parasite Party universe is. The positively love and push ugliness.
And note, I’m aware–AnotherMom and I walk the beach everyday–of the sad state of a lot of red America–fats and tats–as well.
But it is striking just how much ugliness these people push at us. The want you to look at and listen to the likes of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg. They black up seemingly all popular entertainment–everything served up by the streamers, blacks jammed in incongruously everywhere. Likewise they shove homosexuals in our face. And then insist we look at these trannies freaks. And run the likes of pants-shitter Joe and cackling doofus Kamala for President.
The pretty much try to drag you into their outhouse and jam your head into the pit.
They used two stock photos of the young 25 year old. I counted 14 unique tattoos, just on her arms and legs...she was wearing normal clothes.
Mrs. Farenheit made similar comments as to their project as you just stated.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I mean, 'Chuckles' Himmler? Come on -- at least adopt some reasonably appropriate name.
... and he plans to end it:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1855119856649355729
Whoever is writing this stuff is much more focused than last time.Replies: @Robin Whittle, @Gandydancer
Elon Musk may not be aware that this spirited speech is from 15th December 2022: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-donald-j-trump-free-speech-policy-initiative .
Tweets at https://twitter.com/StucknDaMid/status/1854976058883555560 argue that Trump’s December 2019 executive order “Combatting Anti-Semitism” https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/16/2019-27217/combating-anti-semitism is at odds with ensuring the U.S. federal government does not censor free speech.
As I mentioned at another site:
Why The Left lost 😞, in a nutshell.
When:
– Inflation runs rampant 💸
– People are losing their jobs
– We’re flirting with WW3
People who are struggling or worried 😟 don’t Give A Damn about guys putting on dresses 👗 and calling themselves gals or “They’re gonna take Muh Abortions!”
That’s an average, and you know how averages (assume “mean” here) can be misleading.
Sometimes it happens a lot faster, the way atoms combine to make molecules.
After two decades of relationships, I decided to propose to my wife after dating her for one summer. It was obvious, and we both were ready at that point in our lives. Since then, she has forgiven me and stuck with me after far, far more than three strikes!
In the past, I’ve been dumped, and I’ve dumped others. I would say that your general point is true with regard to dating. What I can’t understand is why any man would have found Kamala, ahem, “doable.”
(BTW, I scrubbed a baking sheet today, and my wife discovered that it wasn’t actually clean. I can cook, but I can’t clean. She’s still with me, though.)
Call it patina.
She should see my tube pan for pound cake. It's older than I am and looks it.
I concur with the learned Justice A.M., but respectfully request that when the time comes, the Court first ascertain that said detonator is not a product of the Acme Detonator Company.
(Off topic, Ukraine)
Daily DS Map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4324126/32.0581055
Overall: 37.8 kmsq. Relatively good day for the RFA. (OCT average pace was 17 kmsq/day.)
Still sort of glacial versus “normal wars”. Consider that 60 kmsq is .01% of the country of Ukraine.
Considering 1 and 2, versus 3, it’s clear that UFA is doing a much better job defending Pokrovsk than in the South Donetsk.
S to N:
1. 3.1 kmsq N of Bohoiavlenka (S of Trudove). (On the “Vuhledar front”)
2. Three polygons in the Kurakhove vicinity comprising 33.1 kmsq. In addition to the high area taken in the fields, some strategic improvement made also.
a. 28.3 kmsq S of Maksymilianivka/Heorhivka and W of Pobieda. Widens the flanks of main effort coming from the SE towards the town. Helps insure control of largest road coming from SE towards K town.
b. 4.7 kmsq E of Maksymilianivka. Helps insure control of largest road coming from SE towards K town and also starting to present a face/front against town itself.
c. 0.1 kmsq extending from Ostrivske along causeway over river towards Kurakhove. Possibly strategically important.
3. Three polygons in the Selydove (greater Pokrovsk) vicinity, comprising 1.6 kmsq. Very slow pace versus the massive amount of territory that needs to be taken to do a semi-encirclement of Pokrovsk. (Looking like a late 2025 battle now.)
a. 0.6 kmsq in a salient heading W, between Novodmytrivka and Novooleksivka.
b. 0.1 kmsq extending along a railroad line S of Petrivka.
c. 0.9 kmsq N of same railroad line (S of Hryhorivka). Helps protect flank of this salient.
Don't cushy federal jobs like at FEMA usually come with some kind of "no moonlighting" proviso, i.e., you can't be a Civil Servant while also working another job for private interest?
P.S. How did you find her secret identity/alternate life given that she uses two completely different names and the media are complicit in protecting the one they should be exposing?Replies: @Nicholas Stix
She wasn’t good at compartmentalizing. At one job (Avanath), where she called herself “Marn’l Washington, they referred to her as that and “Mary Ann Adams.” And then, when I looked her up under one of those names at LinkedIn, she popped up as “Mariana Gatlinburg.”
(I read somewhere that she has a Twit presence as “Mariana Gatlinburg.”)
How that worked, I couldn’t tell you, but as a result, I wouldn’t be surprised if she had still more aliases.
What I find more shocking is that someone who had every incentive to keep a low profile would feel so safe in being so aggressively racist. Then again, when do blacks ever get in trouble for their racism, no matter how blatant? As a neighbor of mine said on what used to be Independence Day several years ago, “It’s their country now.” That’s why I no longer refer to the Fourth of July as “Independence Day,” but alternately as “Slave Day” or “Eva Marie Saint Day.”
That would entail taking them seriously as human beings. This is difficult to do.
Addendum to my other reply (which will probably take a long time to appear):
Thursday I installed a new gas range in our kitchen. Old one was a piece of crap, so I finally replaced it. Natural gas line, fittings, adjustments, proper everything. Beautiful and works like a charm. First test was a three-egg omelet, perfect. Yesterday, baked meatballs of ground pork tenderloin and chicken breast (on that baking sheet) perfect. This thing actually cooks at the temperature you set (many don’t.)
But if you read news about a house blowing up in Connecticut, you’ll know it was mine.
WDCB.org’s Juke Box Saturday Night for today features Glenn Miller’s 1939 band, Vol. 8 if anyone is interested.
Those Were the Days is also playing the 1937 Cinnamon Bear series.
Availible on their two-week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive
-- repudiation of Biden's--i.e. Mayorkas and company's--open border insanity-
-- rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidateAnd there were a couple notable positives:
-- Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump--the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
-- Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.But "huge" or "historic" ... uh.
Seriously here's what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system--against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections '68 to '88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly. Here's FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra's--Wisconsin, Michigan--within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter--from GA--on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.Trump managed to pickup ... Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states--Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag ... what ... one? two? Senators across. I'd say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway--living on borrowed time in Red states. I'd give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn't win the open seat in Michigan, couldn't beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn't win in Nevada and--if they ever finish counting--probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus--representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.In a sane country Harris might expect to get
-- childless cat ladies
-- homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
-- government bureaucrats
-- affirmative action dependent blacks
-- minorities nursing grievance against white people
...
uh ... I can't think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.So don't kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Rich, @bomag, @Currahee
Some are calling it a “landslide”, which is ridiculous. It’s in the bottom third of both electoral and “popular” wins. Twenty elections saw the winner earn more than 80% of the electors. An electoral landslide would assume more than 400 electors.
The standard of the PV is of course lower, as the EC exaggerates most wins. Ten of the 20th century’s winners got 55% or more. That might be the floor of a landslide, in a two-man race.
You can rank them here, by clicking on the triangles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
1. Both Kursk and Kharkiv incursions to be abandoned (exchanged, in effect). As neither side really wants their incursion this should be easily agreed to.
2. The new border to be established at the current line of contact in eastern Ukraine. Note this means all of Crimea along with nearly all of Luhansk oblast and about 70% of Kherson oblast, about 70% of Zaporizhia oblast, and about 60% of Donetsk oblast. This will make BOTH sides unhappy. But is the reasonable solution. There is about ZERO CHANCE that Ukraine is just going to just walk away from territory they hold and have been dying to hold. (Sorry, Odessa dreamers.) And zero chance the Russia walks away from land they control. (Sorry, Crimea beach partiers.)
So Russia will NOT get all of the "annexed four oblasts". Neither will Ukraine get "1991 borders". And the Western neoliberals will have to "let Russia get away with it". A bitter pill for all sides. But a reasonable compromise. And one that stops the fighting, which is expensive and wasteful.
Both sides to recognize the new border, legally. Arrangements for labeling it, etc. NO PLEBCITES on either side of the new border. This is the settlement. Not a "frozen conflict". Obviously this does not 100% prevent future conflict. But at least the legal fiction is that this is settled. (This is actually useful as both sides are tired and it gives them an excuse to leave things as is.)
Again neither side gets what they want. But neither side can drive to anything better either. (Even the accelerated pace of Russian advance is glacial...and there is zero chance of them crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson City.) And the "muh attrition copers" continue to be wrong about how long it will take for Ukraine to collapse.
For that matter the US has the ability to make it extremely hard for either side by either stopping or doubling assistance. (We have a HUGE amount of stockpiled artillery shells, tubes, vehicles, etc. We didn't empty our larder like the Youropeens.)
Finally, Trump's unpredictability is threatening to each side.
And the new president also gives each side an excuse for making peace, being magnanimous, or claiming victory or blaming it on Trump...or whatever they want to call it.
In the end, it's actually a harder pill for the Ukrops and the Neolibs to swallow. But they are the weaker side. And it does stop the incredibly wasteful WW1 style war.
3. Ukraine to make an "Austrian promise" of perpetual neutrality. [NOT a "20 years outside NATO deal." Much stronger.] US, NATO (or main countries within), Russia, and Ukraine to sign the agreement on this.
4. US (or US and NATO or US and main NATO powers...but it's the US that matters) to guarantee Ukrop security from future Russian attacks.
5. Russia to guarantee Ukrops from Western attacks. (This is kind of a nicety, with low value, but doesn't hurt.)
6. No restrictions on Ukrainian trade relations or joining the EU, Schengen Zone, etc. [This is kind of a nicety for Z to sell to his people...but EU won't let them in anyways...they are as corrupt or worse than the Russians! Oligarchs all over the place.]
7. Resumption of normal commercial relations and border crossings by civilians between Russia and Ukraine.
8. Russia to administer territory it annexes as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Ukrainian language in this territory. No future plebiscites required.
9. Ukraine to administer territory it retains as it chooses (no special protections, arrangements). No protection of the Russian language required. No future plebiscites required. [Sorry...Odessa dreamers...should have done a better job on the battlefield.]
10. Civilians to be allowed for 6 months to cross and live on either side of the new border. (But understanding 8 and 9 apply.)
11. Full repatriation of POWs and remains. From both sides.
12. Ukraine to waive all war claims of damage against Russia.
13. Russia to waive all war claims of damage against Ukraine. (To include Nordstream bombing against whoever did it. Although they are free to try to get insurance payouts and that is up to the litigation with Lloyds...they will probably lose by the way.)
14. ZERO specific guarantees of rebuilding assistance. That is up to the charity of future states, but is not required. The main thing is to stop future damage...not guarantee how the current broken windows get fixed.
15. All Russian frozen assets (state, corporate or individuals) to be unfrozen and returned. (Probably with interest...but I'm fine if this aspect is negotiated, not sure how much the Russians care, versus the importance of the overall agreement.)
16. Commercial sanctions against Russia/companies/oligarchs to be lifted.Replies: @Alfa158, @J.Ross, @Anonymous, @vinteuil, @Diversity Heretic, @J.Ross
So far so good.Replies: @epebble
https://twitter.com/middleeastmnt/status/1854317897318810053?s=46&t=_KWVuhP3oxRCTCdNl94gBwReplies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @Alden
That woman was positively gifted.
It’s oppressive to realize that she was a mainstream candidate.
The standard of the PV is of course lower, as the EC exaggerates most wins. Ten of the 20th century's winners got 55% or more. That might be the floor of a landslide, in a two-man race.
You can rank them here, by clicking on the triangles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_marginReplies: @Colin Wright
Yeah — but Trump won against the Democrats…and the media, and the entire machinery of the federal government.
And he won by a substantial margin. Surely that is remarkable.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs--the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states--we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There's at least some sort of crappy "personal autonomy" argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no--nada, zilch, zero--argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege--civil marriage--against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn't about a claimed "right" to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public --"we value this"--blessing to.Replies: @MB, @Prester John, @MM, @Jack D
If nothing else, the reason the civil magistrate privileges marriage over all other civil/social/business/personal relationships is that a family, normally and historically defined, is where the next generation of citizens come from, legal or illegal immigration notwithstanding.
The pretenders categorically cannot produce children and are a dead end as far as the state is concerned, however much the caterwauling from the former about rights/love/equity etc. .
And note, I'm aware--AnotherMom and I walk the beach everyday--of the sad state of a lot of red America--fats and tats--as well.
But it is striking just how much ugliness these people push at us. The want you to look at and listen to the likes of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg. They black up seemingly all popular entertainment--everything served up by the streamers, blacks jammed in incongruously everywhere. Likewise they shove homosexuals in our face. And then insist we look at these trannies freaks. And run the likes of pants-shitter Joe and cackling doofus Kamala for President.
The pretty much try to drag you into their outhouse and jam your head into the pit.Replies: @Farenheit, @SafeNow, @Colin Wright
Interesting you should mention this. I read an article earlier today in the Dailey Mail about how Kamala’s step daughter, Imhoff’s non-nannie spawn, is “coping with the lose”.
They used two stock photos of the young 25 year old. I counted 14 unique tattoos, just on her arms and legs…she was wearing normal clothes.
Mrs. Farenheit made similar comments as to their project as you just stated.
She graduated from actress to director a few years ago, and is using her experience and knowledge to critique many of the young female election-meltdown videos now flooding Tik Tok. Things like camera angles and plot dénoument. Justine Bateman Is Your Post-Election Tik Tok Critic
The whole discussion seems inane to the point of insanity. Apparently this podcaster is not political (and Kamala's campaign ruled out discussing Gaza) and normally has a "debate" with his guest over some light hearted question. I believe his preferred topic of debate was "whether it is OK to take your shoes off on a plane". But Kamala wanted to debate the premise "bacon is a spice". Putting aside that the Muslim guy could have just taken the "con" side of the bacon debate instead of shrieking in horror at the word "bacon", Lincoln and Douglas are spinning in their graves. Of course, Trump expounded on the size of Arnold Palmer's schlong, so the whole tenor of our discourse has degraded.Replies: @Mactoul
You are incorrect regarding Hindus– most of them eat meat if they can get it.
Pork is quite common in Assam
South Indians eat (and sacrifice in their temples) goat and sheep.
Buffalo meat is available ( in limited quantities) and Buffalo is sacrificed in some famous temples.
It is very far removed from the issues that really matter to the American voters who loudly made their perspective known.
Nice try, Steve.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian, @NoMoreLurking
Literally
Wrong. The trans issue is huge because of the in-your-face insanity of it. The left was/is begging us to call them out on it.
What Mr. Anon said:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-calling-attention-to-kamalas-world-war-t-paid-off/#comment-6853225
” It is not known if Lindbergh himself was a homosexual…”
Really?
Oh, and I have read everything that Lindbergh and Anne Morrow wrote as well as has been written about them by everyone from Scott Berg to Donald Keyhoe (yes, that Keyhoe, the flying saucer guy). My great-grandfather knew Lindbergh and my grandfather knew Keyhoe, who was a good friend of Lindbergh. Lindbergh was a great man and I don't care that a certain ethnic group constantly tries to destroy his reputation (including that horrid novel, the name of which I will not let pass my lips or sully my keyboard), down to this day, even though the man has been dead for half a century. Says more about them than it does Lindbergh.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Your “substantial margin” is 2.5%. 50.4% vs. 48.9%; 74.5m vs 70.8m.
It is … so-so. It is closest to W. Bush’s 2004 win. But better in the electoral college. It is behind Obama’s 2012 or Biden’s 2024 numbers. Though Trump swept all the swingers and did a tiny bit better in the EC than Biden who didn’t flip NC. Historically this is quite mediocre. For this century where the elections have been close and we’ve had two winners without the popular vote win it is … average.
On this we agree. Any Republican has the press against him, but with Trump it is full on establishment lunacy. (Which may in the end have just been too over the top.)
However, his opponent was Kamala Harris–perhaps the worst major party candidate … ever!
Steve likes to talk about WAR. It is not even clear that Trump wins against a “replacement level player” Democrat. Ordinary white male senator/governor who seems very normal. (I.e. not Walz.) Of course, the Democrats are slowly losing those folks and now have to have “diversity” on the ticket. But there are still some of them around.
It’s nice to have the win and hopefully–fingers crossed–Trump will make a serious effort to actual do something this time. But we are in deep shit, and this election was not an indication that we are heading to dry land.
...and somebody on Joe Rogan actually dared to utter the word 'Jew.' It's possible things will improve. It could happen.
...though actually, I think at best it's a matter of picking a more congenial flavor of 'grim.'
But I'm willing to be proved wrong.
49.2% is not a majority.
They used two stock photos of the young 25 year old. I counted 14 unique tattoos, just on her arms and legs...she was wearing normal clothes.
Mrs. Farenheit made similar comments as to their project as you just stated.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
For some of the year’s best and most pointed satire, check out Justine Bateman’s X account. (Yes, ditzy Mallory from Family Ties. Trust me on this…)
She graduated from actress to director a few years ago, and is using her experience and knowledge to critique many of the young female election-meltdown videos now flooding Tik Tok. Things like camera angles and plot dénoument.
Justine Bateman Is Your Post-Election Tik Tok Critic
Thank you, I stand corrected. Happily.
“Trump won because the 15 million fraudulent votes did not appear this time”
This, this, this. The Democratic Party for whatever reason we shall learn in the foolness of tyme chose not fortify Erection 2024 at 3:00 a.m. as they didst 2020. We shalt learnst……
There has been a trend in the last few days of referring to graphs which compare the vote counts of 2020 and 2024. The count in 2020 was about 155m. The count for 2024 is already past 146m but may go as high as 169m.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
As for Michigan and Pennsylvania... the Democrat governors there are now in a great position to run for President in 2028.
I suspect the corrupt election system blinked, stealing it from Trump this time wouldn't work narratively, so they are rolling the dice that he won't be able to change the system before they can put the thumb back on the scales in 2026.Replies: @Greta Handel
Bill Ackman might be a Jew, he might be a billionaire, he might be an active trader, but he is also — may Allah forgive me for using the term — a manager. So burning down the building because it doesn’t show any damage until next quarter sounds sane to him. This goes further than you realize in explaining everything now happening as well as Ackman’s own behavior (eg, his voluntarily sponsorship of anti-Semitism).
Bio-Leninism ,on the other hand, seems to be real.
“little discussed is how some near genius/actual genius level rich guy in europe completely changed the polling industry forever this election. he figured out how to accurately poll the population with minimal bias, and won his 10 million dollar bets in the process.”
More likely he just got lucky. Easier to get lucky than actually come up with a vastly improved method of polling people.
We’ve come a long way since Rags:
Gender-bending, 1960-style! The future White House Chief of Staff, with her famous dad:
Which reminds me… Tim Walz’s county may have rejected him, but his state did not. The electors went DFL for a 13th straight time, even though a few of those have been close calls. In Schulz’s home state, Republican electors are Charlie Brown, the voters are Lucy.
What’s funny is I have a friend, perhaps not too bright, who mistakingly thought those ads were from Harris. He didn’t understand why she would run an ad campaign that would appeal to such a miniscule % of the population. I let him keep thinking it was Harris’s ads. He normally doesn’t vote but this time he passionately voted for Trump.
I can only hope that Trump and Musk will salt the earth with those pushing Trans-mania. It's amazing how some people have been totally swayed by propaganda and pressure in a space of only twelve years.
What the new administration needs to do is run public service ads similar to the anti-smoking and anti-littering campaigns of the past. They shouldn't be attack ads just an honest assessment of the medical and mental health risks.
The delusion is still strong with some. Open Borders and trans-mania were a losing message but not by much.
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1855095025190797453Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude, @Renard, @Sharonbaron
Any one of them who says “I am not going to listen to…” should be politely reminded that they are perfectly free to close their ears as well as their mouths, and moreover that they are free to leave at any time.
What they are not free to do is to shout down speech they disagree with, and this fundamental distinction is something the whole lot of them need to learn, over and over, as many times as it takes.
Thank you for both posts. I had never realized the importance of cooking at a proper range temp. Regarding your still-dirty baking sheet, a pro tip: Do not underestimate the value of soaking. When I was the potwasher, the first thing, I walked back to the dishcrew room to quickly be sure my giant pot sink was filled with soapy water, and all of the pots pans and baking sheets placed in there by the cooks were soaking away. then I would eat my own meal in the dining room, and after eating, I would return to my pot sink to do the job. In your home right now, you would have the luxury of soaking overnight!
Regarding the errors you confess you sometimes manifest to your wife right now, I totally doubt these rise to the level of “negative impressions.” Example….When I was dating, on a first date, my date hit me with “not a real job” after I told her that my summer job during my college years was as an ocean lifeguard. A Negative impression! I guess the fact that I still remember that is very telling. And, no, it wasn’t nearby Hillary Rodham …but obviously it was someone with similar values.
Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard, and he turned out all right.
https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2022/02/ronald-reagan-lifeguard-gettyimages-514897586.jpg
Translation, university elites needed an excuse to normalize trannies through indoctrination and they came up with the above cover story when in reality they just wanted to mainstream trannies who weren’t going to get there on their own steam. This raises the question, what’s the pay off for the elites aside from more divide and conquer?
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And those employees aren’t janitors food service maintenance and other people doing useful essential things. Universities are like the VA just a life long welfare system for grievance groups. Better just deposit a check every month and let them stay home. Not working from home just staying home.Replies: @guest007
You should have told her that you’d remember that and let her make it back on her own if she gets caught in a rip current.
Supporting sex change surgeries is so obviously insane that, while it has almost no afffect on anyone’s life, and no probably doesn’t even cost that much, it becomes a sanity check. So of course the commercials were going to be successful. You can argue the livelong day over the impact of various policies, but it’s still obvious to all but the craziest people that you shouldn’t use taxpayer dollars to fund sexual mutilation surgery for anyone.
Her father's native Jamaica also contains a lot of Seventh-Day Adventists who don't eat pork and pork products.
Not eating bacon seems to be the only thing that the inhabitants of Israel and Gaza can agree on.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Jack D, @Wilkey
Well neither of Doug Emhoff’s wives have been Jewish, so religiously devout? Probably not. I don’t think the nanny was Jewish, either.
The "transgender" nonsense at the logical level is no more insane than the idea that America's core white gentile population should bend over and grab its ankles for any other minority--Jews, black, Muslims, homos, immigrants, etc. Logically any organism not "should", but must prioritize its own survival and reproduction.
A nation must prioritize the maintenance and reproduction of the nation's people and culture--i.e. the nation--or else it simply ceases to exist. Minorities properly accommodate themselves to the majority. Either--best case--just throwing in with it and integrating. Or accepting that they are a minority and organizing themselves to maintain/reproduce themselves privately as a separate minority while the nation's majority publicly carries on with its norms/traditions/culture.
What is distinct is the transgender thing is just obviously and unpleasantly nuts. Unlike some normal racial/ethnic group that just happens to be through some accident of history in some other people's nation, trannies are mentally ill people demanding the normies bend over for them. "Transgender" takes the core logic of minoritarians and rubs it in normal peoples' face.
And again: this makes trannies a great punching bag for conservatives. But unless conservatives explain what's actually wrong here--the deep illogic--and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology of minoritarianism ... it is simply a one-off--oh gee you saved women's sports, whoopeee--pointless.
I'll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their "they/them" vs. "you"--i.e. normal people--is excellent. But it should have beenexplicitly thematically joined with ads about the border--"they" (foreigners) vs "you" (Americans)--with ads about crime--"they" (criminals) vs. "you" (productive law abiding citizen). To really move forward that whole "normies first", majoritarian ideology should be front and center and hammered home.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mactoul, @Gandydancer
It is not your own Shire, others were before you and there will be others when hobbits are no more– said an elf to Frodo when Frodo complained that a hobbit could not walk in Shire unmolested.
More likely he just got lucky. Easier to get lucky than actually come up with a vastly improved method of polling people.Replies: @Steve Sailer
It seems as though I’ve heard before of professional pollsters asking the question of how would your neighbors vote. Anybody else remember that?
Pace that Putnam guy and his "Bowling Alone" book...
Thanks to diversity, most Americans probably do not know their neighbor, or anything about him, much less how he would vote, and so cannot answer the question. In all probability, their neighbor is a crooked foreigner who scammed his way into this country all of twenty minutes ago, bought the house next door with a suitcase full of cash for a 20% markup, thus helping make the entire housing stock more unaffordable for American families, and is right now on the horn sending for the rest of the village.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
The Trafalgar Group, specifically Robert Cahaly, reportedly may have developed techniques like this in 2016 to counter the "social desirability bias" or "shy Trump voter" effect, but they don't really talk much about their specific methods.
Gelman has a blog post about this. It doesn't appear to be a totally new idea. Another question pollsters sometimes as is "Who do think is going to win?".
The main problem pollsters have today is that it is very difficult to get a random sample of people willing to participate in polls. Asking people about how their neighbors will vote doesn't help with that while introducing possible new sources of error. As another commenter mentioned lots of people of people (like me) don't have much to do with their neighbors and likely have little idea how they are going to vote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-welcomed-transgender-women-miss-universe-pageant-campaigning-womens-sports-2023-6
Can you say hypocrite?
Now, regarding “Reasons for being cheerful" on your Substack account, the reader you linked to made some "interesting" observations.
For starters, ”Make America Healthy Again" has always been part of the national conversation since COVID. For example, there have been determined efforts to combat the Opioid Epidemic and mental illness among youth.
But I suppose trying to make America healthy in discourse is something that ought to be addressed. If you are honest, Mr. Sailer, this is what has been ailing us.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-foxThe result? These voters associated Trump’s first term with the economy before Covid, which they understandably remembered as a time of lower prices, and nothing else. The same thing happened with undecided voters’ views of Trump’s efforts as president to cut Social Security programs: voters did not believe he had done that, making it harder to make the case that he would do so again.
Then there is the comment about “Probably passed the high water mark for woke and DEI. Democrats got hurt in the suburbs, a telltale sign they took it too far with that stuff.”. Let us offer context. On one hand, yes, the woke and DEI brand hurt Democrats. However, Trump just made up votes he lost there in 2020. For instance, Trump had with a slim 3% lead in suburban Passaic County, New Jersey, where he got just 41% of the vote in 2020.
And Trump got major support from Latino men, who love the machismo and do not want further competition coming in from their homelands. That is other than surprising—it happened over 100 years ago, when the Polish, Italians, and Serbs supported the 1921 and 1924 Quota Acts. But, remember, Trump beat two women, not a man, for the presidency.
Then there is this hilarious comment: “Trump has remade the GOP and kicked the controlled opposition grifters out.” You mean the Musks and the Theils of the world chomping at the bit to further the divide between the haves and the have nots?”
Finally, there is this gem—“Remember that Trump will manage to the S&P 500 index”. About that…
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1855434532935135333/photo/1
About that.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/09/polling-by-asking-people-about-their-neighbors-when-does-this-work/
“I’ve heard before of professional pollsters asking the question of how would your neighbors vote.”
Pace that Putnam guy and his “Bowling Alone” book…
Thanks to diversity, most Americans probably do not know their neighbor, or anything about him, much less how he would vote, and so cannot answer the question. In all probability, their neighbor is a crooked foreigner who scammed his way into this country all of twenty minutes ago, bought the house next door with a suitcase full of cash for a 20% markup, thus helping make the entire housing stock more unaffordable for American families, and is right now on the horn sending for the rest of the village.
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How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/science/earth-continents-geology-research.html
It turns out that continents are not socially constructed. And they are not discrete. There can be mixed continents. And they can vary in size: Iceland and New Zealand are both continents, although New Zealand tries to pretend to be part of Australia when it suits its purposes.
It might be related to Stanley Warner’s research tricks in the 1960s about prostitution use and the like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
The Trafalgar Group, specifically Robert Cahaly, reportedly may have developed techniques like this in 2016 to counter the “social desirability bias” or “shy Trump voter” effect, but they don’t really talk much about their specific methods.
Really?Replies: @anonymous
Oh, that’s been known for a long time. It’s nothing new. The idea that Lindbergh was a homosexual is absurd. And I never heard that he had homosexual fans or that “Lindy” described them. The only way Lindy has been used that I know of is as a nickname for Lindbergh himself (Lucky Lindy) and for the Lindy Hop, a dance. Wait, I think there is a Lindy drink. Yeah, there is. I just looked it up.
Oh, and I have read everything that Lindbergh and Anne Morrow wrote as well as has been written about them by everyone from Scott Berg to Donald Keyhoe (yes, that Keyhoe, the flying saucer guy). My great-grandfather knew Lindbergh and my grandfather knew Keyhoe, who was a good friend of Lindbergh. Lindbergh was a great man and I don’t care that a certain ethnic group constantly tries to destroy his reputation (including that horrid novel, the name of which I will not let pass my lips or sully my keyboard), down to this day, even though the man has been dead for half a century. Says more about them than it does Lindbergh.
Rich Baris, the pollster, says it is asked to suppress the shy voter effect (or something like that), which is respondents too socially anxious to name a preferred candidate if they think that candidate is disfavored by polite society.
Find below mobs of entitled wetbacks already acting up in N.Y.C., while taking time out from protesting for some tequila and Mariachi.
P.S. I despise Mariachi. What other music genre is there which you could play a recording of from 1940, then a recording from 2024, and they would be EXACTLY the same?!
American blues, rock ‘n roll, country, folk, even American rap consistently improved in artistic content and execution over the years, sometimes at astonishing rates.
Not Mexican mariachi. Same old shit from 85 YEARS ago!
Why don’t Mexicans improve creatively?
The fuck’s wrong with ’em?
And who are these cursers who have improved cursing over the years, "sometimes at astonishing rates"?Replies: @Mike Tre, @Colin Wright, @Moshe Def
Here is an example:
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Trafalgar claims that is how they knew that Trump was going to win in 2016. Of course, since Trump won with 3 million fewer votes than Clinton, I do not see how they could teased out the winner in such a close race.
Er, was that an actual elf— or a self-described “fellow elf” ?
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
The colleges should be loaning their students the money in the first place. That will clean many problems up pretty quick. DIE, useless majors, grade inflation, huge administrations, excess capacity, marginal students.
Nice one. Looks like you’ve accidentally snagged at least a couple of dopes so far. 🙂
Oh, I see you have posted thousands of comments to this blog alone, and who knows how many thousands to other sites, so you are just another proudly self-identified member of the surplus population living a life without significance or consequence.
Congratulations.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Apparently, this was a reference to Clinton when surely you meant Trump. Clinton had his culture personality, much like Obama, but what other politician could pull off what Trump did? A man with no political experience, a man whom caused his opponents to create and apply the concept of “lawfare” against him, and the man who was solely capable of uniting the mainstream media as one against him. No, Trump’s name will ring throughout history in a way that Clinton’s never will. He will be studied exhaustively for his ability to overcome the elite political machine of both parties.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Agree, but Trump political achievements were all in the 21st century.
Sometimes it happens a lot faster, the way atoms combine to make molecules.
After two decades of relationships, I decided to propose to my wife after dating her for one summer. It was obvious, and we both were ready at that point in our lives. Since then, she has forgiven me and stuck with me after far, far more than three strikes!
In the past, I've been dumped, and I've dumped others. I would say that your general point is true with regard to dating. What I can't understand is why any man would have found Kamala, ahem, "doable."
(BTW, I scrubbed a baking sheet today, and my wife discovered that it wasn't actually clean. I can cook, but I can't clean. She's still with me, though.)Replies: @Ralph L, @Colin Wright
but I can’t clean
Call it patina.
She should see my tube pan for pound cake. It’s older than I am and looks it.
P.S. I despise Mariachi. What other music genre is there which you could play a recording of from 1940, then a recording from 2024, and they would be EXACTLY the same?!
American blues, rock 'n roll, country, folk, even American rap consistently improved in artistic content and execution over the years, sometimes at astonishing rates.
Not Mexican mariachi. Same old shit from 85 YEARS ago!
Why don’t Mexicans improve creatively?
The fuck's wrong with 'em?
https://youtu.be/3BiR227cf2wReplies: @Nicholas Stix, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
They did? I missed that. So, please tell me the names of the rock groups today that are so much better than the Beatles.
And who are these cursers who have improved cursing over the years, “sometimes at astonishing rates”?
Seems related to your point.Replies: @Curle
In the Seventies, I wasn't listening to a whole lot from the hit parade of 1912.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Harris’ voters have gone far than women in Aristophanes’ play….
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/4b-movement-trump-south-korea-wellness-cec/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement
In the hours and days since it became clear that Donald Trump would be re-elected president of the United States, there’s been a surge of interest in the US for 4B.
Young liberal women across TikTok and Instagram are discussing and sharing information about the South Korean feminist movement, in which straight women refuse to marry, have children, date or have sex with men.
These women say they are enraged and fed up after a majority of their male counterparts voted for a candidate who was found liable for sexual abuse and whose appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices led to the overturning of national abortion rights protections.
In response, they say they’re swearing off men — and they’re encouraging others around the country to join them.
As I said at another site: "Wait? Women are saying they won't interact or talk to men? You mean we'll finally get some quiet? 😌 Not really seeing the downside here." 😉
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-gender-gap-votecast-05672b6426cb5965c446ae2871d97eafReplies: @Nicholas Stix
They put up some deviant in a skirt and say: This is a woman!
No, no it isn't. It's a man.
And beyond that, they are simply trying to normalize perversion and degeneracy, corrupt children, and undermine society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @YetAnotherAnon, @Olorin
Agree.
The “Tranny-s**t” is also a clear and present danger to anyone who has children in school, especially in a government school.
There is now a near-universal program to groom children into accepting and then participating in Tranny-s**t. And nearly as universal a program to prevent the children’s parents form discovering what is happening.
If you care about your children—or their children, your grandchildren—you have to care about Tranny-s**t.
Regrettable perhaps, but this is where we are.
The red state ads were, I think, prompted by her amazingly mistaken belief that she could peel off significant numbers of disaffected Republicans; the Lincoln Project types apparently really convinced her that the anti-Trump Republicans were a key demographic to be wooed, while in reality they don’t exist outside corporate newsrooms and Beltway think tanks.
Politics is made…………………….in bed:
Liberal women vow to not procreate. Conservative women vow to have more children.
Who will win this contest?
https://twitter.com/AliquisNovus05/status/1854311213121118626
So, no sex for liberal men
+ more sex for conservatives
+ liberal women who like submitting to dominant rightwingers
= future looking bright.
https://twitter.com/ColumbuMishima/status/1854322120362279218
Dude, it’s like you know what’s up.
2/3.
(Actuallly 3/3 but you’re not going there, ok.)
Lara Trump was in charge of DJT’s election integrity project and they are still on the ground as the Ds try to steal the NV, AZ, and PA Senate races as well as some House races that have not been counted yet. I think they also got better at ballot harvesting.
And, in more good news, Ivanka and Jared, Nikky Haley and Mike Pompeo will not be returning to DJT’s new admin.
Steve says it's "asking a lot of voters cognitively" to reject Trans insanity, but I don's see how. Men in dresses invading girls' lockers, cutting the sexual organs out of children, forcing top-surgery-scarred characters into children's school literature is all obviously, screamingly, viscerally wrong. The wonder isn't that voters hate it. The wonder is that it has gotten so far. And that wonder is a testament to the power of the left's Narrative Control Machine. Trump is right to smash it, forever.Replies: @Arclight, @JMcG, @PaceLaw, @AnotherDad, @notbe mk 2
“Kamala’s team rejecting the advice of the 20th century’s most successful living politician”…the Hillary Clinton team did the same thing in 2016-
-in 2016, Bill advised Hillary to include something, anything that might appeal to white males in her final speeches, it might not be much but Bill argued that a sop, at least would make white males feel that they are included. Hillary rejected Bill’s advice leading to the fact there was never a Presidentess Hillary Clinton.
Bill indeed was and is the 20th century’s most successful living politician; yet two times already the Dems screwed up by ignoring him.
Presidentress just sounds wrong. (Hopefully the term will never have to be used IRL.)
I think it has got to be Presidentrix (a propos), or maybe for the more playful, Prextrix.
I'm sure Reg will advise us.Replies: @notbe mk 2
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You posted material that responds in no serious way to my comment. It presupposes that the accommodations made for social comfort purposes are applied to inherent treats or conditions which in the case of trannies would be an exercise in speculation or imagination.
And who are these cursers who have improved cursing over the years, "sometimes at astonishing rates"?Replies: @Mike Tre, @Colin Wright, @Moshe Def
Went and saw a local but very popular 80’s cover band last night. The front man took a moment to celebrate Ozzy Osborne’s induction into the R&R HoF (even though he is technically already in as a part of Black Sabbath) and then immediately condemn the institution for inducting Eminem but not Motley Crue.
Seems related to your point.
“It seems as though I’ve heard before of professional pollsters asking the question of how would your neighbors vote. Anybody else remember that?”
Gelman has a blog post about this. It doesn’t appear to be a totally new idea. Another question pollsters sometimes as is “Who do think is going to win?”.
The main problem pollsters have today is that it is very difficult to get a random sample of people willing to participate in polls. Asking people about how their neighbors will vote doesn’t help with that while introducing possible new sources of error. As another commenter mentioned lots of people of people (like me) don’t have much to do with their neighbors and likely have little idea how they are going to vote.
Can someone please explain the seemingly redundant “diversity + proximity = war” formula? Doesn’t “diversity” imply proximity? Or is “diversity” a euphemism for nonwhite people and various “degenerate” types; ergo, those people + proximity to white conservative Americans = war? Regardless, it’s clunky as f*ck.
No. The global human population is diverse racially, ethnically, and culturally, but when those diverse groups remain separated by boarders, land masses, and or oceans, relative peace resides.
Put all those people within the limits of a large city, and a struggle over who the dominant group is ensues.
The phrase flows just fine and isn't clunky IMO.Replies: @Tomi Ungerer
Elon shows how utter dogshit America's post 1980 billionaires have been. useless at best, hugely destructive at worst.
Bezos, despite being one the biggest targets for derision, is actually one of the least bad, and has been highly productive while being politically centrist.
Gates has been awful.
Buffett, with a carefully cultivated aw shucks persona thru Democrat controlled media, is one of the worst Americans who has ever lived. utterly extractive with NEGATIVE value added, not just zero value. a total nation wrecker who somehow is looked upon favorably even by conservatives. huh? this guy is one of all time worst of the worst. just flat out terrible.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar
The last three presidential elections were all decided by miniscule margins in swing states:
2016 was decided by 55,430 votes,
2020 was similarly decided by 42,918 votes,
2024 (still being counted a week later, unlike any other First World polity, lol) looks like it was decided by ~250k votes, or ~0.1% of the electorate. Still, that’s more decisive than the previous two elections being decided by ~0.03% of the electorate.
The point is merely that when margins are that tight, anything that moved a few thousand votes can plausibly claim to have decided the election. And those claims are not false, or at least not falsifiable.
With that caveat out of the way, though, I want pick up your Amish point.
Pennsylvania, which was the biggest swing state (winning that state by itself guaranteed Trump victory), and therefore the state in which every vote really did matter, was decided by ~145,000 votes. The Amish population of Pennsylvania is about 90,000. Add in the similar number of non-Amish whose livelihoods depend on Amish industries, and you have an “Amish bloc” of about 180,000.
But this vote bloc didn’t meaningfully exist prior to this election. So what changed? The Democrat governments in Pennsylvania decided to abrogate (as the Amish saw it) their ancient agreement with the Amish not to interfere in the Amish way of life. The specifics (raw milk, labor, education, social security, whatever) don’t matter so much as the simple fact that inevitable government overreach finally crept its way, Sauron-like, into the Shire-like hills of Amish Pennsylvania, rousing the Hobbit-like Amish into doing what no one ever expected the Hobbit-Amish to do: pony-ride out of the Shire hills and cast the Ring of Transpower into the molten Red forge of the ballot boxes, thereby tipping the Ring, Sauron, and Mordor into a collapse cascade, with world-spanning reverberations.
It was an epic Tolkien-esque event in real life.
And hardly anyone else noticed.
And it happened all because the Totalitarian Trannystate just couldn’t let the Amish have their raw milk.
And Asians voted Democrat by 56%.Replies: @guest007, @Nachum, @SF
I think that the 78% was based on a very small exit poll, and another survey said Harris got 66% of the Jewish vote. Nobody seems to be asking whether Biden’s alienation of Netanyahu cost the party a significant part of the Jewish vote.
https://twitter.com/ShelleyGldschmt/status/1855643424176644126
About equal percentages of Muslims and Jews voted for Harris. Harris did not lose large numbers of either group to the Republicans. Republicans are still generally the Christian party, with the added new Hispanic and Black Christian voters not changing anything. As an Atheist, I do not belong to any of those religious groups but the anti-male and anti-white tendencies of the Democrats had me voting for Trump.Replies: @Curle
Speaking about Trump and World War T…
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-welcomed-transgender-women-miss-universe-pageant-campaigning-womens-sports-2023-6
Can you say hypocrite?
Now, regarding “Reasons for being cheerful” on your Substack account, the reader you linked to made some “interesting” observations.
For starters, ”Make America Healthy Again” has always been part of the national conversation since COVID. For example, there have been determined efforts to combat the Opioid Epidemic and mental illness among youth.
But I suppose trying to make America healthy in discourse is something that ought to be addressed. If you are honest, Mr. Sailer, this is what has been ailing us.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox
The result? These voters associated Trump’s first term with the economy before Covid, which they understandably remembered as a time of lower prices, and nothing else. The same thing happened with undecided voters’ views of Trump’s efforts as president to cut Social Security programs: voters did not believe he had done that, making it harder to make the case that he would do so again.
Then there is the comment about “Probably passed the high water mark for woke and DEI. Democrats got hurt in the suburbs, a telltale sign they took it too far with that stuff.”. Let us offer context. On one hand, yes, the woke and DEI brand hurt Democrats. However, Trump just made up votes he lost there in 2020. For instance, Trump had with a slim 3% lead in suburban Passaic County, New Jersey, where he got just 41% of the vote in 2020.
And Trump got major support from Latino men, who love the machismo and do not want further competition coming in from their homelands. That is other than surprising—it happened over 100 years ago, when the Polish, Italians, and Serbs supported the 1921 and 1924 Quota Acts. But, remember, Trump beat two women, not a man, for the presidency.
Then there is this hilarious comment: “Trump has remade the GOP and kicked the controlled opposition grifters out.” You mean the Musks and the Theils of the world chomping at the bit to further the divide between the haves and the have nots?”
Finally, there is this gem—“Remember that Trump will manage to the S&P 500 index”. About that…
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1855434532935135333/photo/1
Joe had a little spring in his step this week. Not exactly broken up by Kamala’s defeat.
Turns out he has Irish Alzheimer’s: He’s forgotten everything but his grudges.
DJT ran his tranny ads during football games. I think that, while many people had perhaps heard of Lia Thomas or had some sympathy for a confused local girl who now dresses like a boy and demands to be called Kevin, most did not realize that their tax dollars were now being used to transition prisoners and illegal aliens, and that was a bridge too far.
OT — No mercy can be shown to the war-starting unelected bureaucrat scum who literally are everything currently wrong with the world, but every sympathy should be afforded those powerless dupes who actually believed NPR.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14059567/Five-dead-Minnesota-murder-suicide-Duluth.html
Elon shows how utter dogshit America's post 1980 billionaires have been. useless at best, hugely destructive at worst.
Bezos, despite being one the biggest targets for derision, is actually one of the least bad, and has been highly productive while being politically centrist.
Gates has been awful.
Buffett, with a carefully cultivated aw shucks persona thru Democrat controlled media, is one of the worst Americans who has ever lived. utterly extractive with NEGATIVE value added, not just zero value. a total nation wrecker who somehow is looked upon favorably even by conservatives. huh? this guy is one of all time worst of the worst. just flat out terrible.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar
I admit I don’t quite get the anti-Buffet hostility that I see around the Right. Okay yeah, the guy is a registered Democrat and he donates to fashionably leftish causes. But that’s basically the same as most other billionaires, and his donations have mainly been via handing his money over to the Gates Foundation on the probably correct assumption that the Gateses are already doing whatever it is that Buffet would do if he took the time away from his incessant corporate report reading to see what’s going on. So by definition he can’t be worse than the Gateses. Not that I am any fan of Bill Gates, but he may have his uses, intentionally or not…
Well it sort of doesn't matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James B. Shearer, @kaganovitch, @Curle
I expect some of it is that he made his fortune by buying low and selling high which is suspect in some circles. However I expect there are lots of people who you would be less happy to hear had bought your employer. Anyone nicknamed "Chainsaw" for example. Or even Elon Musk.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @epebble, @Ralph L
That’s what Tony Blair did.
https://twitter.com/MeinGottNiles/status/1855013090699428350Replies: @J.Ross, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @James B. Shearer
Buffett opposes cleaner, safer pipelines so he can have gas shipped on his dangerous, out of code, and at times explosive train cars.
https://twitter.com/MeinGottNiles/status/1855013090699428350Replies: @J.Ross, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @James B. Shearer
“I admit I don’t quite get the anti-Buffet hostility that I see around the Right. Okay yeah, the guy is a registered Democrat and he donates to fashionably leftish causes. But that’s basically the same as most other billionaires”
Well it sort of doesn’t matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.
You know, athwart (the "right side" of) history.Replies: @Colin Wright
You also a believer in the labor theory of theory?Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Indeed. But at least we managed to pull that maniac who had opened the sea cocks away from the handles for a bit.
…and somebody on Joe Rogan actually dared to utter the word ‘Jew.’ It’s possible things will improve. It could happen.
…though actually, I think at best it’s a matter of picking a more congenial flavor of ‘grim.’
But I’m willing to be proved wrong.
And who are these cursers who have improved cursing over the years, "sometimes at astonishing rates"?Replies: @Mike Tre, @Colin Wright, @Moshe Def
I find it telling that my daughter’s listening includes a lot of Sixties rock.
In the Seventies, I wasn’t listening to a whole lot from the hit parade of 1912.
I'd say audio tech began reaching the plateau part of the sigmoid curve in the 1960s, so comparisons of music since then are more about the actual music without too much distortion (heh) from the recording technology, so the competition from there on out is on a more even playing field.
But if there were an objective way to survey the deathlessness of music irrespective of recording format over the course of the last millennium, the hands-down winners would be the compositions from Bach to Beethoven, with maybe a few persistent folksongs thrown in.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
It might have something to do with whether “Jews” are defined religiously or ethnically.
Hispanics now equal blacks in number. That would suppress the Catholic GOP vote. But they're not all Catholic anymore, and they're not all citizens. Did this survey take these matters into account?
Who was that one-Mormon-in-thirty voting for?Replies: @Curle
There actually is no need to setup some case to reverse the Griggs precedent.
As I pointed out a couple months back, Griggs was not judges making shit up about the constitution, but judges making shit up about civil rights law.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/is-this-true-2/#comment-6771209
To reverse Griggs, all Congress has to do is pass a law saying companies are free to use any set of credentials, and do any testing that they consider appropriate in hiring for any given position.
BTW this is how
“Our Democracy”actual democracy is supposed to work in a free republic. Citizens send in some intelligent, responsible men to represent them and those representatives bang heads and come up with–hopefully–effective policies; including changing policies based on new data. Not having policy decisions made by these un-elected weirdo lawyers who fancy themselves philospher kings fit to decide how society should be run.I’ve argued that part of nationalist “pro-family” program would go beyond just repealing Griggs and returning to freedom to hire would include a couple more elements in this area:
— develop or encourage development of basic competency exams (from general literacy/numeracy and basic HS grad knowledge, through specific college major knowledge
— hire for the federal government through such exams, rather than college degrees
Get all that going and we would have young people in charge of their own destiny, able to educate themselves in any manner they wish–a bunch bypassing college–and a much healthier, and less indebted and more sensible and mature society.
For reference, since Griggs was originally decided, the only legislation that addressed it made it even worse, while the judicial decisions that have addressed it have mostly mitigated it. (The 1991 legislation was to roll that mitigation back.)
A third avenue of attack is the private sector. Civil Rights [sic] law works mostly by being vague. No one really knowns for sure when they're in violation and when they are not, and so, being risk-averse, they mostly get into a defensive crouch. So they could just be braver about hiring for merit rather than credentials and tell the whiners "so sue me!". But then the Eye of Sauron notices and DOJ Nazgûl fly in ...
This is where the Executive branch can matter. A POTUS can tell the DOJ CRD not to bother with this stuff, and then the private sector can flourish a little ...
... until the Executive branch changes hands again, and then the DOJ Nazgûl fly again.
“Democrats struggled to respond. At one point, former President Bill Clinton told an associate, “We have to answer it and say we won’t do it.” He even raised the issue in a conversation with the campaign and was told the Trump ads were not necessarily having an impact, according to two people familiar with his conversations.”
Yes, Trump seized on a fringe issue–one that you insist most Democrats/liberals support, but do not–and he focused on a few commercials. But here is the reality, one that Maggie and yourself ought to NOTICE.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548
So, yes, it is likely that the Trump ads on this niche topic swayed a few people. But the bigger picture is the right wing media through social media and the likes of Joe Rogan and Elon Mush are now the narrative drivers in the Age of Misinformation/Disinformation. My vague impression is that you are in on it as well.
They put up some deviant in a skirt and say: This is a woman!
No, no it isn't. It's a man.
And beyond that, they are simply trying to normalize perversion and degeneracy, corrupt children, and undermine society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @YetAnotherAnon, @Olorin
In the UK people are being sacked for not using the preferred pronouns, or in one case choosing the pronoun AdultHumanMale.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-transgender-madness-in-the-education-system
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14044175/Council-worker-pro-nouns-email-12-000.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/christian-doctor-trans-woman-sacked-gender-pronouns-universal-credit-a8999176.html
"You must respect the preferred pronouns of others!!!"
Okay, my pronoun is AdultHumanMale.
"You may NOT prefer that pronoun!!!!!!!!!"
OT
Interesting genetic/HBD item in DailyMail:
Black-mother/white-father couple has blonde-white baby via IVF. Paternity/maternity confirmed via DNA.
While it's not out of the question statistically, and the DailyMail doesn't explore the IVF angle too deeply, I suspect what happened is that the IVF lab made a bunch of fertilized embryos, then genotyped them for the "best" profile (i.e., fewest abnormalities or known correlations with diseases or other adverse outcomes) one to implant. By a weird 'coincidence' that one happened to be the whitest embryo. (Hint: it's not really coincidence.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14030817/black-mother-alex-pudge-pudge-biracial-white-black.html
If all else fails, mass IVF and genotyping will restore the white race by 'accident'.
Though that is not my preferred salvation.
Elon shows how utter dogshit America's post 1980 billionaires have been. useless at best, hugely destructive at worst.
Bezos, despite being one the biggest targets for derision, is actually one of the least bad, and has been highly productive while being politically centrist.
Gates has been awful.
Buffett, with a carefully cultivated aw shucks persona thru Democrat controlled media, is one of the worst Americans who has ever lived. utterly extractive with NEGATIVE value added, not just zero value. a total nation wrecker who somehow is looked upon favorably even by conservatives. huh? this guy is one of all time worst of the worst. just flat out terrible.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar
“like turning out 200 thousand Amish voters in PA for R votes, negating a lot of the cheating Philadelphia vote advantage.”
This is a prime example of misinformation and disinformation on your part. Are you NOTICING, Mr. Sailer?
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36LH83J
https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/it-s-too-early-to-know-whether-amish-voters-delivered-pennsylvania-for-trump-researchers-say/article_f1e36724-9dec-11ef-9b6a-9fb77bfba570.html
https://twitter.com/MeinGottNiles/status/1855013090699428350Replies: @J.Ross, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @James B. Shearer
“I admit I don’t quite get the anti-Buffet hostility that I see around the Right. …”
I expect some of it is that he made his fortune by buying low and selling high which is suspect in some circles. However I expect there are lots of people who you would be less happy to hear had bought your employer. Anyone nicknamed “Chainsaw” for example. Or even Elon Musk.
We are talking about a former Dow Jones Industrial, and my father ran engineering for one entire division.
After Mr. "Aw shucks," Mid-Western Buffet took control, one of the first things he did was to destroy the retirement benefits my father had worked for over more than a quarter-century.
Fuck him. He is a vulture.Replies: @James B. Shearer
Oh, and I have read everything that Lindbergh and Anne Morrow wrote as well as has been written about them by everyone from Scott Berg to Donald Keyhoe (yes, that Keyhoe, the flying saucer guy). My great-grandfather knew Lindbergh and my grandfather knew Keyhoe, who was a good friend of Lindbergh. Lindbergh was a great man and I don't care that a certain ethnic group constantly tries to destroy his reputation (including that horrid novel, the name of which I will not let pass my lips or sully my keyboard), down to this day, even though the man has been dead for half a century. Says more about them than it does Lindbergh.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
AGREE! and THANKS!
I expect some of it is that he made his fortune by buying low and selling high which is suspect in some circles. However I expect there are lots of people who you would be less happy to hear had bought your employer. Anyone nicknamed "Chainsaw" for example. Or even Elon Musk.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @epebble, @Ralph L
FWIW… Mr. Buffet bought my father’s company when it was down-and-out from lawsuits.
We are talking about a former Dow Jones Industrial, and my father ran engineering for one entire division.
After Mr. “Aw shucks,” Mid-Western Buffet took control, one of the first things he did was to destroy the retirement benefits my father had worked for over more than a quarter-century.
Fuck him. He is a vulture.
Sorry to hear about your dad. I don't actually know that much about Buffett particularly his early career. I had the impression he was less ruthless than some of his peers but that may just be relative. I doubt any of those guys commonly went much beyond their legal obligations.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
Elon shows how utter dogshit America's post 1980 billionaires have been. useless at best, hugely destructive at worst.
Bezos, despite being one the biggest targets for derision, is actually one of the least bad, and has been highly productive while being politically centrist.
Gates has been awful.
Buffett, with a carefully cultivated aw shucks persona thru Democrat controlled media, is one of the worst Americans who has ever lived. utterly extractive with NEGATIVE value added, not just zero value. a total nation wrecker who somehow is looked upon favorably even by conservatives. huh? this guy is one of all time worst of the worst. just flat out terrible.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar
And for New Hampshire’s Libertarians. That’s the term they used for Chase Oliver. (Corvinus’s man!)
Well it sort of doesn't matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James B. Shearer, @kaganovitch, @Curle
There is no “organized right”, let alone “formalized”, or “Right”, for that matter. Thomas Sowell may have been joking, but he nailed it when he said the only definition of the “right” is anyone who stands in the way of the Left.
You know, athwart (the “right side” of) history.
We all agree on a laundry list of what we're against: Blackity blackity black, the celebration of the most grotesque imaginable forms of sexual deviancy, the promotion of vagrancy, come one come all immigration.
What I suspect will happen if 'we' fact win is that we don't agree on much of anything else. Israel, Jews, Islam, abortion, medical care, the restoration of a Christian order, legal immigration, the significance and reality of global warming, white supremacy...we can all too easily discover there's no consensus at all.
Ideologically, it's going to be a Tower of Babel out there -- and maybe the most heavily armed side will win. One foresees something like the Russian Revolution: ideological chaos, followed by a new and far more tyrannical order.
“Doesn’t “diversity” imply proximity?”
No. The global human population is diverse racially, ethnically, and culturally, but when those diverse groups remain separated by boarders, land masses, and or oceans, relative peace resides.
Put all those people within the limits of a large city, and a struggle over who the dominant group is ensues.
The phrase flows just fine and isn’t clunky IMO.
It’s the quality of those groups that the formula sheepishly hints at; few here would object to an influx of conservative Norman farmers, for instance.
You’re right, though, “clunky” was not the right word; “dishonest” and “imprecise” was what I was driving at.
I expect some of it is that he made his fortune by buying low and selling high which is suspect in some circles. However I expect there are lots of people who you would be less happy to hear had bought your employer. Anyone nicknamed "Chainsaw" for example. Or even Elon Musk.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @epebble, @Ralph L
But has anyone heard of anyone who made his fortune by buying high and selling low?
Some people make fortunes by inventing stuff which may more obviously add value.
Fewer and fewer people are studying philosophy or English literature, because they have lost all rigor (at most universities you can get an English lit degree without taking a single course in Shakespeare, Chaucer, or poetry of any kind; you can get a degree in philosophy without studying Plato or Kant). It would be better if the “studies” departments were all shut down, and the handful of humanities disciplines were reborn into the rigorous and demanding courses of study they were in the early 20th century. There is definitely a place for a true Liberal Arts education (which traditionally is heavy on philosophy, science and math). We need more than a nation of technologists and bean counters.
I don’t know how much Buffett thinks along those lines, but I think he is a pure capitalist. For example, he was an early investor in BYD because he liked their cause (electric cars to cut down pollution) and found its founder Wang Chuanfu to be a charismatic leader and visionary like Henry Ford. Now, BYD is a giant conglomerate that controls everything from minerals, battery and vehicles and will likely eventually make gas burning cars obsolete.
Oh, I agree Trump’s achievement this year was amazing. He improved in almost every demographic, and in every state but Washington. (What’s that about?) And, counter to some of the whiners hereabouts, he pretty much did it with “civic nationalism”, while the “identity politics” of the other side (which wasn’t even anti-white, just “let’s stick together”) fell flat, even backfired. (Thanks, Barry!)
However, as a long-time psephologist, I am stingy with the word “landslide”. I wouldn’t use it for Reagan in 1980 or Wilson in 1912. But, yes, those were certainly landslide losses for the incumbents Carter and Taft.
Note this: the electoral count is read to Congress by the “President of the Senate”. That is usually, and after the 25th Amendment, almost always, going to be the Vice President. VP Sherman might have suspected the upcoming repudiation– still the worst ever for an incumbent ticket (unless you count LBJ’s rejection by his own party). He very conveniently died a few days before the election.
I don’t suggest that Tamil Kam should die, but there are a couple of ways for the “Coward of Howard” to avoid this embarrasing task. One is for Joe to resign, elevating her to his office. The other is for her to resign.
Since Congress won’t have time to ratify a new VP, in either case the job will fall to Chuck the Schmuck. Make sure your C-SPAN access is current!
https://www.270towin.com/2024-election-results-live/state/washingtonAnd here's 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/washington/presidentYou can see what happens, all us white racist white redneck white males in eastern Washington vote for racists. The blue on the other side are where the good guys live.That lone box of blue retardation is, unfortunately, my alma mater Washington State University. No big cities there so the liberals of the university area overwhelm the whole.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
One theory: Washington is and has been a preferred destination for liberals bugging out of California as California has gotten crummy because it is governed by liberals. Washington has gotten crummy too, but not as crummy as California. Conservatives bugging out of California have been heading for Nevada, Arizona, and Texas.
Liberals can't admit that the don't like the results of the policies they espouse. They bring the disease with them wherever they go.
Sometimes it happens a lot faster, the way atoms combine to make molecules.
After two decades of relationships, I decided to propose to my wife after dating her for one summer. It was obvious, and we both were ready at that point in our lives. Since then, she has forgiven me and stuck with me after far, far more than three strikes!
In the past, I've been dumped, and I've dumped others. I would say that your general point is true with regard to dating. What I can't understand is why any man would have found Kamala, ahem, "doable."
(BTW, I scrubbed a baking sheet today, and my wife discovered that it wasn't actually clean. I can cook, but I can't clean. She's still with me, though.)Replies: @Ralph L, @Colin Wright
It took her that long to realize it?
In Chez Wright, it’s long been taken for granted that all must be cleaned by my wife to meet her high standards. Sometimes I look at the havoc I’ve wreaked in the kitchen and hit a few of the more outrageous spots so it won’t be quite so depressing when she walks back in, but…
-in 2016, Bill advised Hillary to include something, anything that might appeal to white males in her final speeches, it might not be much but Bill argued that a sop, at least would make white males feel that they are included. Hillary rejected Bill's advice leading to the fact there was never a Presidentess Hillary Clinton.
Bill indeed was and is the 20th century’s most successful living politician; yet two times already the Dems screwed up by ignoring him.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @The Germ Theory of Disease
As I recall, Bill also advised Hillary to campaign more around the Upper Midwest Great Lakes states, which advice she ignored because she saw her purpose in life as occupying the Westchester County – Washington Corridor, not the Wayne County – Wisconsin one.
Did she know she was running from the same hamlet as Horace Greeley did? A nearby school was named for him, after all. A bad omen: Mrs Greeley died shortly before the election, and Horace shortly thereafter. Three electors from Georgia voted for him anyway.
You can easily guess the source countries of the few non-whites at Greeley High:
https://greeley.chappaquaschools.org/
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/districts/chappaqua-central-school-district-102759
You are a total genius who is and knows much better than all your inferiors (your inferiors being anyone who isn't you) but the entire world is against you because you were born special- born both a woman and a latent les thus the world mindlessly persecutes you every single minute of the day denying your inborn awesomeness.
So you enter a sham marriage with a total fuckin' sex-crazed idiot who being born with a penis was given the world on a platter and who, for some God-damned reason, eventually becomes totally physically and psychologically repulsed by you.
Anyways, you and that idiot, slowly but surely, work your way up the ladder. Sure you have to make certain sacrifices along the way, like poppin' out a kid because the stinking ignorant peasant rabble actually has the vote and they like electing actual families so you play the game because eventually it will be your turn. Well you popout a kid but no more-ain't going to be a trained seal.
Yet the world still persecutes you-including the actual father of that kid you crapped out. Well that man ain't going stop your rendezvous with destiny so that man conveniently suicides himself.
Even so, you still are have to deal with male idiots like, for instance, that God-damned Ambassador to Libya (remember him?). You work hard on a simple plan to finance and arm Muslim terrorists. I mean what could go wrong?...but that son of a bitch you posted to Libya actually f...s up and gets himself killed. F...ing loser! But seriously, what difference does that make in the overall cosmic plan for your destiny.
You resign four years before 2016 to concentrate everything on that magic year. The magic year finally comes around. Plastic surgeries , an exciting lesbian lover in your bed. You are awesome! Everything is perfect. The MSM reports your opponent is a throwback to yesterday who has no chance with the new electorate , the cosmic plan is unbounding.
Everything is in the bag, November 2016 is almost here...
...AND THAT ASS... BILL COMES BACK FROM SCREWING SOME BIMBO AND STARTS GIVING YOU ADVICE!!! HOLY SH... YOUR WORST EXPERIENCES IN YOUR HARD LIFE, THE LIFE YOU ALMOST LEFT BEHIND, JUST CAME BACK!!!
Well SOOOORRRY, it's 2016 and no male ain't gonna start mansplaining to you 'bout nothin'!
You see you have to view Hillary through her perspective and the hard life she led. She indeed is a tragic figure. I, for one, have sympathy for her.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Gary in Gramercy
I expect some of it is that he made his fortune by buying low and selling high which is suspect in some circles. However I expect there are lots of people who you would be less happy to hear had bought your employer. Anyone nicknamed "Chainsaw" for example. Or even Elon Musk.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @epebble, @Ralph L
Buffet bought some of his early companies in fire sales for inheritance taxes, one reason he likes them. I suspect the annual capital gains taxes on most normal mutual funds have helped him, too. Lawmakers like high tax rates because it makes the shelters and wiggles they sell more valuable to the buyer.
This is in reference only to the “popular vote”; 41.8% and 50.7% are far from landslide mandates. Both elections were clearly landslides in the Electoral College, even when it’s held to a much higher threshold, with 435 and 489, respectively.
This inflationary aspect of the EC (seen in most elections) is often submitted in its defense, reinforcing a mandate.
Yes, that might explain it. I always found it hard to believe that Nikki Haley really had much of any support among actual Republicans. I assumed that a lot of the people who voted for her in the last primary season were independents or even Democrats who didn’t like Biden and Harris.
In the Seventies, I wasn't listening to a whole lot from the hit parade of 1912.Replies: @Almost Missouri
That may not be a like-kind comparison because the recording technology in 1912 was pretty bad, so even good music from 1912 sounds tinny and terrible, while relatively mediocre modern music benefits from high fidelity stereo sound and digital enhancement.
I’d say audio tech began reaching the plateau part of the sigmoid curve in the 1960s, so comparisons of music since then are more about the actual music without too much distortion (heh) from the recording technology, so the competition from there on out is on a more even playing field.
But if there were an objective way to survey the deathlessness of music irrespective of recording format over the course of the last millennium, the hands-down winners would be the compositions from Bach to Beethoven, with maybe a few persistent folksongs thrown in.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/21/2c/24212cacfcf681415449d74f12172e3b.jpg
Music sales were measured in sheets sold, not pieces of wax.
Pre-WWI wasn't a great period for American songwriting. The "Golden Age" started in the 1920s, and ran until the rock era. Some of the songs were revived in the Sixties, e.g., "Anything Goes", "My Mammy", "I Got Rhythm", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". There were also new songs that attempted to recreate the old sound: "Winchester Cathedral", "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Hello, Hello", "Magnolia Simms" (complete with needle skips).This was going on in the Fifties, as well. "Love and Marriage" was a mock-Victorian theme for short-lived TV series. My mom and her neighbors would sing "The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart'". That was a big hit in 1954, but was written and first recorded in 1926, and pays homage to another song from 1899.Replies: @Ministry Of Tongues, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
https://twitter.com/DovWaxman/status/1855490214011224499Replies: @Nachum, @Reg Cæsar
I don’t think that’s true. “Jews of no religion” know to respond “Jewish” to questions like this.
That is, the one in which she grew up!
Did she know she was running from the same hamlet as Horace Greeley did? A nearby school was named for him, after all. A bad omen: Mrs Greeley died shortly before the election, and Horace shortly thereafter. Three electors from Georgia voted for him anyway.
You can easily guess the source countries of the few non-whites at Greeley High:
https://greeley.chappaquaschools.org/
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/districts/chappaqua-central-school-district-102759
He ran to the center on things that financial interests cared about. But his government opened the floodgates on immigration. Blair was (is) an enthusiastic stooge of the New World Order.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-transgender-madness-in-the-education-system
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14044175/Council-worker-pro-nouns-email-12-000.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/christian-doctor-trans-woman-sacked-gender-pronouns-universal-credit-a8999176.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri
lol
“You must respect the preferred pronouns of others!!!”
Okay, my pronoun is AdultHumanMale.
“You may NOT prefer that pronoun!!!!!!!!!”
OT
Interesting genetic/HBD item in DailyMail:
Black-mother/white-father couple has blonde-white baby via IVF. Paternity/maternity confirmed via DNA.
While it’s not out of the question statistically, and the DailyMail doesn’t explore the IVF angle too deeply, I suspect what happened is that the IVF lab made a bunch of fertilized embryos, then genotyped them for the “best” profile (i.e., fewest abnormalities or known correlations with diseases or other adverse outcomes) one to implant. By a weird ‘coincidence’ that one happened to be the whitest embryo. (Hint: it’s not really coincidence.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14030817/black-mother-alex-pudge-pudge-biracial-white-black.html
If all else fails, mass IVF and genotyping will restore the white race by ‘accident’.
Though that is not my preferred salvation.
I'd say audio tech began reaching the plateau part of the sigmoid curve in the 1960s, so comparisons of music since then are more about the actual music without too much distortion (heh) from the recording technology, so the competition from there on out is on a more even playing field.
But if there were an objective way to survey the deathlessness of music irrespective of recording format over the course of the last millennium, the hands-down winners would be the compositions from Bach to Beethoven, with maybe a few persistent folksongs thrown in.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
It didn’t then. Someone in the family could play it on the parlor piano. Or, out in the sticks, on a guitar or something similar.
Music sales were measured in sheets sold, not pieces of wax.
Pre-WWI wasn’t a great period for American songwriting. The “Golden Age” started in the 1920s, and ran until the rock era. Some of the songs were revived in the Sixties, e.g., “Anything Goes”, “My Mammy”, “I Got Rhythm”, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, “I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am”.
There were also new songs that attempted to recreate the old sound: “Winchester Cathedral”, “Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”, “Hello, Hello”, “Magnolia Simms” (complete with needle skips).
This was going on in the Fifties, as well. “Love and Marriage” was a mock-Victorian theme for short-lived TV series. My mom and her neighbors would sing “The Gang That Sang ‘Heart of My Heart’”. That was a big hit in 1954, but was written and first recorded in 1926, and pays homage to another song from 1899.
So while the recorded music of the 1960s is probably better than the recorded music of today, the recordings of music in the 1910s are objectively worse than the recordings of music in the 1970s, so the comparison of the musical content of 1910 vs. 1970 gets obscured by the vast technical change.
If, OTOH, we are comparing live musical performances, I maintain the music composed ~1700-1900 handily defeats everything else in quality and longevity, with an asterisk for a small corpus of especially long-lived folk tunes.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
You know, athwart (the "right side" of) history.Replies: @Colin Wright
This, or rather what it implies, qualifies my optimism about the future.
We all agree on a laundry list of what we’re against: Blackity blackity black, the celebration of the most grotesque imaginable forms of sexual deviancy, the promotion of vagrancy, come one come all immigration.
What I suspect will happen if ‘we’ fact win is that we don’t agree on much of anything else. Israel, Jews, Islam, abortion, medical care, the restoration of a Christian order, legal immigration, the significance and reality of global warming, white supremacy…we can all too easily discover there’s no consensus at all.
Ideologically, it’s going to be a Tower of Babel out there — and maybe the most heavily armed side will win. One foresees something like the Russian Revolution: ideological chaos, followed by a new and far more tyrannical order.
And note, I'm aware--AnotherMom and I walk the beach everyday--of the sad state of a lot of red America--fats and tats--as well.
But it is striking just how much ugliness these people push at us. The want you to look at and listen to the likes of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg. They black up seemingly all popular entertainment--everything served up by the streamers, blacks jammed in incongruously everywhere. Likewise they shove homosexuals in our face. And then insist we look at these trannies freaks. And run the likes of pants-shitter Joe and cackling doofus Kamala for President.
The pretty much try to drag you into their outhouse and jam your head into the pit.Replies: @Farenheit, @SafeNow, @Colin Wright
True, and maybe even telling. But, they have Hollywood (= attractive people) solidly on their team. So, do they get to average-in the Hollywood people? While I’m at it, they have blacks. So, do they get to average-in muscularity.
I'd say audio tech began reaching the plateau part of the sigmoid curve in the 1960s, so comparisons of music since then are more about the actual music without too much distortion (heh) from the recording technology, so the competition from there on out is on a more even playing field.
But if there were an objective way to survey the deathlessness of music irrespective of recording format over the course of the last millennium, the hands-down winners would be the compositions from Bach to Beethoven, with maybe a few persistent folksongs thrown in.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
Yeah — but I still think you can say music from 1955 to maybe 1990 beats the hell out of the aural sewage we’ve been subjected to since.
Of course a lot of it was crap — my local grocery store seems to specialize in all these Seventies tunes I thought were safely dead — but subsequently?
It’s been wretched and more wretched. Rap? Seriously?
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?Replies: @Jack D, @J.Ross, @Mr. Anon, @George Taylor
One way to interpret that your daughter in the 2020s listens to music from the 1960s (beginning of the Stereo Age) is that she's listening to the oldest music available that's recorded in modern quality. Given that objective surveys of music (range, melodic complexity, etc. [Wasn't there an iSteve or SteveStack about this a few months ago?]) tend to show a gradually declining curve from left (old) to right (new), one can conclude that music has been on a secular decline for at least a hundred years, but this was offset by the rise in the quality of recording technology, until that rise began plateauing in the 1960s, so the net aural enjoyment ("NAE") peaked in the 1960s-1970s.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Curle
I can only hope that Trump and Musk will salt the earth with those pushing Trans-mania. It's amazing how some people have been totally swayed by propaganda and pressure in a space of only twelve years.
What the new administration needs to do is run public service ads similar to the anti-smoking and anti-littering campaigns of the past. They shouldn't be attack ads just an honest assessment of the medical and mental health risks.
The delusion is still strong with some. Open Borders and trans-mania were a losing message but not by much.
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1855095025190797453Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude, @Renard, @Sharonbaron
“Their” mind. Watch out for this! They are doing it everywhere and you can tell who is controlled opposition with it!!!
Standing up against lies told about someone you admire is being a dope in your world?
Oh, I see you have posted thousands of comments to this blog alone, and who knows how many thousands to other sites, so you are just another proudly self-identified member of the surplus population living a life without significance or consequence.
Congratulations.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-shot-in-the-head/#comment-6659927 (#294)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-picks-jd-vance-for-veep/#comment-6665057 (#392)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/experts-say-follow-the-science/#comment-6682085 (#1)
An early one in the genre:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-belongs/#comment-1483894 (#9)
P.S. I despise Mariachi. What other music genre is there which you could play a recording of from 1940, then a recording from 2024, and they would be EXACTLY the same?!
American blues, rock 'n roll, country, folk, even American rap consistently improved in artistic content and execution over the years, sometimes at astonishing rates.
Not Mexican mariachi. Same old shit from 85 YEARS ago!
Why don’t Mexicans improve creatively?
The fuck's wrong with 'em?
https://youtu.be/3BiR227cf2wReplies: @Nicholas Stix, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
I’ve been saying there’s no way we’re getting rid of these people. Have you seen video of the cops dragging one guy out of a migrant shelter? It takes ten cops and they barely get out with their lives. We have a 10-million strong hostile army in our midst. They ain’t going no where.
> I could never find a sensible shoe in size 13 anyway.
On a side note, my wife is 5’10” and wears a size 11(in mens size)shoe, lol. But for the last 25 years if she had any well known sensual or sexual type shoe she could sell them online (eBay at first but now Poshmark) usually at a significant profit. We’ve made a lot of money off of men who like to wear womens shoes.
> Washington State (what’s that about).
Here’s the 2024 breakdown by state/county, guess where I live.
https://www.270towin.com/2024-election-results-live/state/washington
And here’s 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/washington/president
You can see what happens, all us white racist white redneck white males in eastern Washington vote for racists. The blue on the other side are where the good guys live.
That lone box of blue retardation is, unfortunately, my alma mater Washington State University. No big cities there so the liberals of the university area overwhelm the whole.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif/600px-PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif
But other states fit the same pattern of division-- New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, California, Oregon, and now Virginia-- and all of them shifted right this year. Washington is the only state (so we're told) which moved left.
Was there a large influx of Antifa? Did Rachel Dolezal scare people away?
The one thing that could unite Washingtonians is appreciation of Bing Crosby. Both Tacoma and Spokane have a rightful claim to him. Here he is at Gonzaga; his coach is Gus Dorais, who invented the running catch (of a forward pass) with Knute Rockne a few years earlier:
https://twitter.com/tshieber/status/765566333136306176Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Curle, @Olorin
“It seems as though I’ve heard before of professional pollsters asking the question of how would your neighbors vote. Anybody else remember that?”
About that.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/09/polling-by-asking-people-about-their-neighbors-when-does-this-work/
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/21/2c/24212cacfcf681415449d74f12172e3b.jpg
Music sales were measured in sheets sold, not pieces of wax.
Pre-WWI wasn't a great period for American songwriting. The "Golden Age" started in the 1920s, and ran until the rock era. Some of the songs were revived in the Sixties, e.g., "Anything Goes", "My Mammy", "I Got Rhythm", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". There were also new songs that attempted to recreate the old sound: "Winchester Cathedral", "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Hello, Hello", "Magnolia Simms" (complete with needle skips).This was going on in the Fifties, as well. "Love and Marriage" was a mock-Victorian theme for short-lived TV series. My mom and her neighbors would sing "The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart'". That was a big hit in 1954, but was written and first recorded in 1926, and pays homage to another song from 1899.Replies: @Ministry Of Tongues, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
Oh, I agree Trump’s achievement this year was amazing. He improved in almost every demographic, and in every state but Washington. (What’s that about?)
One theory: Washington is and has been a preferred destination for liberals bugging out of California as California has gotten crummy because it is governed by liberals. Washington has gotten crummy too, but not as crummy as California. Conservatives bugging out of California have been heading for Nevada, Arizona, and Texas.
Liberals can’t admit that the don’t like the results of the policies they espouse. They bring the disease with them wherever they go.
Suddenly, I liked Jim Jordan.
There is that pattern of single Englishmen living in impoverished countries in the torrid zone with surpluses of street kids.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/21/2c/24212cacfcf681415449d74f12172e3b.jpg
Music sales were measured in sheets sold, not pieces of wax.
Pre-WWI wasn't a great period for American songwriting. The "Golden Age" started in the 1920s, and ran until the rock era. Some of the songs were revived in the Sixties, e.g., "Anything Goes", "My Mammy", "I Got Rhythm", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". There were also new songs that attempted to recreate the old sound: "Winchester Cathedral", "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Hello, Hello", "Magnolia Simms" (complete with needle skips).This was going on in the Fifties, as well. "Love and Marriage" was a mock-Victorian theme for short-lived TV series. My mom and her neighbors would sing "The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart'". That was a big hit in 1954, but was written and first recorded in 1926, and pays homage to another song from 1899.Replies: @Ministry Of Tongues, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
Sure, but the point is that both Colin Wright in the 1970s and his daughter today are listening mostly to recorded music.
So while the recorded music of the 1960s is probably better than the recorded music of today, the recordings of music in the 1910s are objectively worse than the recordings of music in the 1970s, so the comparison of the musical content of 1910 vs. 1970 gets obscured by the vast technical change.
If, OTOH, we are comparing live musical performances, I maintain the music composed ~1700-1900 handily defeats everything else in quality and longevity, with an asterisk for a small corpus of especially long-lived folk tunes.
Wow. He’s burning bridges that badly needed to be burned, but which he could easily have kept open.
So far so good.
https://twitter.com/middleeastmnt/status/1854317897318810053?s=46&t=_KWVuhP3oxRCTCdNl94gBwReplies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @Alden
Maybe the great home cook Kamala Le mala confused bacon with baco bits those weird tiny things that come in a jar and are kept in a cabinet
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
Not so for counties, at least in one swing state which got way more of its share in campaign attention, visits, and spending. This chart shows margin, so that “62” for Menominee isn’t the Harris vote, but the distance between the Harris vote and the Trump vote. In other words, 81-29% in a two-way race.
Menominee is an Indian reservation which constitutes its own county. (It is always the state’s most D.) Dane’s seat is Madison, state capital and major university town. Its gap (52 pct pts) is decidedly greater than Milwaukee’s (38), a county consisting of a major city and some blue-collar inner suburbs.
Evidently, the whites of Dane County are way more radical than the poorer ones of Milwaukee. Milwaukee’s surrounding “WOW” counties house the local Republicans, and vote that way. Some of Madison’s equivalent neighbors tipped to Kam. Commuters?
Nine of the eleven counties on Lake Michigan went GOP (Door is touristy, and swings), while the Lake Superior counties (a mix of union industry and tourism) stick to their leftist roots. Other (slightly) D counties– La Crosse, Eau Claire, Portage– have glorified state teacher’s colleges.
Still, one of La Crosse’s two university wards went for Trump. They went to “the rally down the street”!
This is from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Does anyone have similar analysis for other states, especially the swingy ones?
Wisconsin in ’24: Marquette Law School researchers share ward-level analysis of state’s vote for president, U.S. Senate
Or maybe they're just registered D's who vote Trump?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
FEMA’s racism scandal: Who is Marn’I/Marn’l Washington? Who is Mary Ann Adams?
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/11/femas-racism-scandal-who-is-marni.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri, @Alden
She’s black. The surname and the apostrophe in the first name was a tell. There pictures of her. Affirmative action black witch who da guessed.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/4b-movement-trump-south-korea-wellness-cec/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement
In the hours and days since it became clear that Donald Trump would be re-elected president of the United States, there’s been a surge of interest in the US for 4B.
Young liberal women across TikTok and Instagram are discussing and sharing information about the South Korean feminist movement, in which straight women refuse to marry, have children, date or have sex with men.
These women say they are enraged and fed up after a majority of their male counterparts voted for a candidate who was found liable for sexual abuse and whose appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices led to the overturning of national abortion rights protections.
In response, they say they’re swearing off men — and they’re encouraging others around the country to join them.Replies: @mmack, @Curle
In response, they say they’re swearing off men — and they’re encouraging others around the country to join them.
As I said at another site: “Wait? Women are saying they won’t interact or talk to men? You mean we’ll finally get some quiet? 😌 Not really seeing the downside here.” 😉
Don’t forget university elites needed an excuse to hire more gays blacks Hispanics Asians trannies and weirdos. Some universities have as many as 3 employees to 1 student
And those employees aren’t janitors food service maintenance and other people doing useful essential things. Universities are like the VA just a life long welfare system for grievance groups. Better just deposit a check every month and let them stay home. Not working from home just staying home.
So far so good.Replies: @epebble
Symbolic events that ‘turn the page’, in the words of Harris. The old GOP is dead and buried (cremated?) and on its ashes the new Trump-Mahal be built.
OT: Sailer’s Law Bigly:
https://www.wsfa.com/2024/11/10/1-dead-16-injured-mass-shooting-tuskegee-university/
Menominee is an Indian reservation which constitutes its own county. (It is always the state's most D.) Dane's seat is Madison, state capital and major university town. Its gap (52 pct pts) is decidedly greater than Milwaukee's (38), a county consisting of a major city and some blue-collar inner suburbs.
Evidently, the whites of Dane County are way more radical than the poorer ones of Milwaukee. Milwaukee's surrounding "WOW" counties house the local Republicans, and vote that way. Some of Madison's equivalent neighbors tipped to Kam. Commuters?
Nine of the eleven counties on Lake Michigan went GOP (Door is touristy, and swings), while the Lake Superior counties (a mix of union industry and tourism) stick to their leftist roots. Other (slightly) D counties-- La Crosse, Eau Claire, Portage-- have glorified state teacher's colleges.
Still, one of La Crosse's two university wards went for Trump. They went to "the rally down the street"!
This is from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Does anyone have similar analysis for other states, especially the swingy ones?
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/images/charles-franklin-mulsfb-slide001.png
Wisconsin in ’24: Marquette Law School researchers share ward-level analysis of state’s vote for president, U.S. Senate
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg/640px-Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg.pngReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
Oops. 81-19. In the case of 110% turnout, 91-19. Matshehawaitok!
Interestingly or oddly it seems Trump won a number Jewish neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Persian Jews for the win?
So while the recorded music of the 1960s is probably better than the recorded music of today, the recordings of music in the 1910s are objectively worse than the recordings of music in the 1970s, so the comparison of the musical content of 1910 vs. 1970 gets obscured by the vast technical change.
If, OTOH, we are comparing live musical performances, I maintain the music composed ~1700-1900 handily defeats everything else in quality and longevity, with an asterisk for a small corpus of especially long-lived folk tunes.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
Do these even exist? The first-rate songs of the 1910s would have been on Sing Along With Mitch. We were familiar with them.
Acoustical recordings of operatic stars like Adelina Patti & Francesco Tamagno go back as far as 1903 - the same year that the young Enrico Caruso began making records.
Some of their recordings remain quite listenable, even today. And with AI? The sky's the limit.
So while the recorded music of the 1960s is probably better than the recorded music of today, the recordings of music in the 1910s are objectively worse than the recordings of music in the 1970s, so the comparison of the musical content of 1910 vs. 1970 gets obscured by the vast technical change.
If, OTOH, we are comparing live musical performances, I maintain the music composed ~1700-1900 handily defeats everything else in quality and longevity, with an asterisk for a small corpus of especially long-lived folk tunes.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Colin Wright
Of course here you get into ‘survival of the fittest.’ All the dross and derivative crap is forgotten; only the best is kept. How many dreadful, eminently forgettable films were made between 1930 and 1950? But we only think of the one hundred best. Woody Allen references this in The Purple Rose of Cairo. There were a lot of bad films.
For every Mozart, there were fifty mediocre and deservedly forgotten court composers, for every Dickens twenty relentlessly unreadable Victorian novelists.
Etc. As time passes, the garbage gets filtered out. The past starts to look pretty good.
…but I really can’t think of much worth listening to recorded in the last thirty five years. Presumably there was something, but…
I would say that there was some quality alternative rock that came out in the 90s; I could listen to Lithium (SXM 34) all day without complaint. If you narrowed your window to the last 25 years, I would generally agree, although one of my favorite songs is We Are Young (2011, Fun w/Janelle Monáe). The fact I am citing a recent example that is 13 years old is telling about the state of modern music. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to Taylor Swift, but through osmosis (and the fact I teach middle school) I am familiar with her oeuvre and most of it is catchy.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Curle
Well it sort of doesn't matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James B. Shearer, @kaganovitch, @Curle
“…Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. …”
You also a believer in the labor theory of theory?
Well it's certainly laborious for all those theorists to come up with all that Theory....Replies: @James B. Shearer
https://i.postimg.cc/2jKX4gxP/1731188106459725.jpgReplies: @Roderick Spode
Abditer skelters?
Save the pitbulls is one of the most lucrative scam NGOs the grifter hustlers have created. There’s tens of millions to be made.
Yeah, they do.
Acoustical recordings of operatic stars like Adelina Patti & Francesco Tamagno go back as far as 1903 – the same year that the young Enrico Caruso began making records.
Some of their recordings remain quite listenable, even today. And with AI? The sky’s the limit.
Turns out he has Irish Alzheimer’s: He’s forgotten everything but his grudges.Replies: @Alden
Did you see what Jill wore on Election Day and the day after adding a huge smile? A bright red pantsuit. Covered from ankle to neck and wrist in bright red the color of the evil 😈 Republicans.
Daily DS map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#11/51.2470886/34.9790955
Overall fair day. Took 17 kmsq, which was the pace in OCT. Continues to be S Donetsk where the most territory falls.
1. 5.0 kmsq W of Bohoiavlenka. In the fields, filling a pocket between salients. Vuhledar front.
2. 7.9 kmsq between Kostiantynivka and Antonivka. Looks like Kosty finally fell, although DS didn’t not the capture. But it is all red now.
3. 3.9 kmsq N of Selydove, including a salient down a road (towards general direction of Pokrovsk).
4. 0.2 kmsq in center of Toretsk. Very slow progress and an exposed RFA salient.
The ad that I thought they were gonna run that they never ran was slow motion, soft-focus of a Minneapolis police station burning to the ground, and other parts of Minneapolis burning, with nobody ever being brought to court for it, while Tim Walz dithered and Kamala supported bonding everybody out (and saying “their ought to be protests”.). I wonder why? I’m guessing that the Trump team was confident that if they didn’t hit any trip wires with Blacks that they were going to increase the black male vote..
Menominee is an Indian reservation which constitutes its own county. (It is always the state's most D.) Dane's seat is Madison, state capital and major university town. Its gap (52 pct pts) is decidedly greater than Milwaukee's (38), a county consisting of a major city and some blue-collar inner suburbs.
Evidently, the whites of Dane County are way more radical than the poorer ones of Milwaukee. Milwaukee's surrounding "WOW" counties house the local Republicans, and vote that way. Some of Madison's equivalent neighbors tipped to Kam. Commuters?
Nine of the eleven counties on Lake Michigan went GOP (Door is touristy, and swings), while the Lake Superior counties (a mix of union industry and tourism) stick to their leftist roots. Other (slightly) D counties-- La Crosse, Eau Claire, Portage-- have glorified state teacher's colleges.
Still, one of La Crosse's two university wards went for Trump. They went to "the rally down the street"!
This is from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Does anyone have similar analysis for other states, especially the swingy ones?
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/images/charles-franklin-mulsfb-slide001.png
Wisconsin in ’24: Marquette Law School researchers share ward-level analysis of state’s vote for president, U.S. Senate
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg/640px-Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg.pngReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
Nationally, Amer-Indians are the most Trump-voting ethnicity. Why are the Minnesota Indians so leftist? Too much Nordic blood?
Or maybe they’re just registered D’s who vote Trump?
As I pointed out a couple months back, Griggs was not judges making shit up about the constitution, but judges making shit up about civil rights law.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/is-this-true-2/#comment-6771209To reverse Griggs, all Congress has to do is pass a law saying companies are free to use any set of credentials, and do any testing that they consider appropriate in hiring for any given position.
BTW this is how
"Our Democracy"actual democracy is supposed to work in a free republic. Citizens send in some intelligent, responsible men to represent them and those representatives bang heads and come up with--hopefully--effective policies; including changing policies based on new data. Not having policy decisions made by these un-elected weirdo lawyers who fancy themselves philospher kings fit to decide how society should be run.I've argued that part of nationalist "pro-family" program would go beyond just repealing Griggs and returning to freedom to hire would include a couple more elements in this area:
-- develop or encourage development of basic competency exams (from general literacy/numeracy and basic HS grad knowledge, through specific college major knowledge
-- hire for the federal government through such exams, rather than college degrees
Get all that going and we would have young people in charge of their own destiny, able to educate themselves in any manner they wish--a bunch bypassing college--and a much healthier, and less indebted and more sensible and mature society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @OldJewishGuy
Yeah, “confronted” can be legislatively or judicially. But legislation would have to be enacted by jelly-spined R majorities under the assault of intense media shrieking and wailing with virtually no defections from their thin majorities’ ranks. A judicial solution just requires one case and one judicial decision, the details of which always tax dumb journalists beyond their mental limits and make normies go to sleep no matter how much the left wished they wouldn’t. So nothing against making both approaches, but which do you think will be more fruitful?
For reference, since Griggs was originally decided, the only legislation that addressed it made it even worse, while the judicial decisions that have addressed it have mostly mitigated it. (The 1991 legislation was to roll that mitigation back.)
A third avenue of attack is the private sector. Civil Rights [sic] law works mostly by being vague. No one really knowns for sure when they’re in violation and when they are not, and so, being risk-averse, they mostly get into a defensive crouch. So they could just be braver about hiring for merit rather than credentials and tell the whiners “so sue me!”. But then the Eye of Sauron notices and DOJ Nazgûl fly in …
This is where the Executive branch can matter. A POTUS can tell the DOJ CRD not to bother with this stuff, and then the private sector can flourish a little …
… until the Executive branch changes hands again, and then the DOJ Nazgûl fly again.
Sexually confused men who are in prison tend to be in prison for vile, violent crimes against women. These are not burglars or hite-collar scammers.
Giving them free sex change surgery put them in women’s prisons – where they commit rapes – and in the women’s change room when they are released.
Silly girl. Lifeguard is a cool summer job, and she should have recognized that.
Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard, and he turned out all right.
Any word yet on all those celebrities who vowed to leave the country if Trump is elected?
In New Jersey the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods all went heavy for Trump
If the primary voters of the Democratic Party reward a candidate with a far-left platform in 2028, then the party deserves to lose again.
-in 2016, Bill advised Hillary to include something, anything that might appeal to white males in her final speeches, it might not be much but Bill argued that a sop, at least would make white males feel that they are included. Hillary rejected Bill's advice leading to the fact there was never a Presidentess Hillary Clinton.
Bill indeed was and is the 20th century’s most successful living politician; yet two times already the Dems screwed up by ignoring him.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @The Germ Theory of Disease
“leading to the fact there was never a Presidentess Hillary Clinton.”
Presidentress just sounds wrong. (Hopefully the term will never have to be used IRL.)
I think it has got to be Presidentrix (a propos), or maybe for the more playful, Prextrix.
I’m sure Reg will advise us.
Well it sort of doesn't matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James B. Shearer, @kaganovitch, @Curle
How is arbitrage a form of slavery? I don’t get it.
“You are extradited to Newark on a New Jersey warrant for smuggling cigarettes up from North Carolina three years ago, or you go to work for us…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJTeKa6V8A
According to Fox polling, Trump got one third of the Jewish vote this year versus thirty percent in 2020. There was only a slight shift of the Jewish vote away from the Democrats this year.
About equal percentages of Muslims and Jews voted for Harris. Harris did not lose large numbers of either group to the Republicans. Republicans are still generally the Christian party, with the added new Hispanic and Black Christian voters not changing anything. As an Atheist, I do not belong to any of those religious groups but the anti-male and anti-white tendencies of the Democrats had me voting for Trump.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/09/01/muslims-are-a-growing-presence-in-u-s-but-still-face-negative-views-from-the-public/
Thanks, but he was convicted and it took Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to issue a pardon. From what I read it really appears that Loudoun County is pretty woke:
Her remarks veer from rank insinuation to outright lies. Oh, and here’s her photo.
I knew Loudoun County when it was a civilized place, full of decent, God-fearing Americans. Now it’s full of angry, entitled south asian techies who are consumed with anti-white hatred.
Why Veteran’s Day should be on the eleventh day of the eleventh month strikes me as one of those mysteries that the military just could not resist. (Why one particular liberation operation was held at a certain hour and day and month was presumably another such mystery.)
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter “l” in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran’s Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
“By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army.”
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two– but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means—though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David’s name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David’s shield was God’s promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God’s action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God’s favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!
When I was in grade school, if you saw a kid with his fly open you'd say "Trying to count to eleven?"
I knew someone who had a baby boy that weighed 7 pounds. On July the 7th month the 7th day of July in 1977. DOB 7/7/77.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Menominee is an Indian reservation which constitutes its own county. (It is always the state's most D.) Dane's seat is Madison, state capital and major university town. Its gap (52 pct pts) is decidedly greater than Milwaukee's (38), a county consisting of a major city and some blue-collar inner suburbs.
Evidently, the whites of Dane County are way more radical than the poorer ones of Milwaukee. Milwaukee's surrounding "WOW" counties house the local Republicans, and vote that way. Some of Madison's equivalent neighbors tipped to Kam. Commuters?
Nine of the eleven counties on Lake Michigan went GOP (Door is touristy, and swings), while the Lake Superior counties (a mix of union industry and tourism) stick to their leftist roots. Other (slightly) D counties-- La Crosse, Eau Claire, Portage-- have glorified state teacher's colleges.
Still, one of La Crosse's two university wards went for Trump. They went to "the rally down the street"!
This is from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Does anyone have similar analysis for other states, especially the swingy ones?
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/images/charles-franklin-mulsfb-slide001.png
Wisconsin in ’24: Marquette Law School researchers share ward-level analysis of state’s vote for president, U.S. Senate
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg/640px-Wisconsin_Presidential_Election_Results_2024.svg.pngReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
And guess which direction is negative and which positive?
But, more seriously, I enjoy all this data on county level and would enjoy seeing it for other states. Several major news sites obviously break the data down to county level as well (some with illuminating exit polls) but I haven’t seen this exact sort of ‘differential’ chart elsewhere.
OT — ZOOM ZOOM
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER LEARN TO READ
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER DECOUPLE THEMSELVES FROM PORN
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER OBTAIN POLITICAL LITERACY
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER SEE THROUGH THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER STOP A MUZZIE FROM HONOR-MURDERING HIS DAUGHTER
*YOU ARE HERE*
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER DEFEAT THE YELLOW HORDE
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER MINE THE ASTEROIDS
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER ACHIEVE NESARA/GESARA
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER CONVERT EXTRATERRESTRIALS TO ROMAN CATHOLICISM
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/lacey-possible-attempted-honor-killing
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/21/2c/24212cacfcf681415449d74f12172e3b.jpg
Music sales were measured in sheets sold, not pieces of wax.
Pre-WWI wasn't a great period for American songwriting. The "Golden Age" started in the 1920s, and ran until the rock era. Some of the songs were revived in the Sixties, e.g., "Anything Goes", "My Mammy", "I Got Rhythm", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". There were also new songs that attempted to recreate the old sound: "Winchester Cathedral", "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Hello, Hello", "Magnolia Simms" (complete with needle skips).This was going on in the Fifties, as well. "Love and Marriage" was a mock-Victorian theme for short-lived TV series. My mom and her neighbors would sing "The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart'". That was a big hit in 1954, but was written and first recorded in 1926, and pays homage to another song from 1899.Replies: @Ministry Of Tongues, @Almost Missouri, @Renard
That’s such a cool photo. Before the gramophone, if you didn’t have an instrument like a piano in your home, you didn’t have music.
No less a revolution followed in a couple decades when radio was introduced. That was the first time in history that you could get public “information” into your house in real time. Then, après moi, le déluge.
MAY THEIR TRIBE INCREASE
ON THIS DAY, MANY YEARS AGO, THE VERY LAND WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY GIVE GROUND TO PRESTON TUCKER AND THE MC5 AND BOB SEEGER, SAW A SUMMIT OF NATIVE AMERICANS ANGRY ABOUT ONEROUS REGULATIONS IMPOSED BY REDCOATS, AND ONE BRAVE PROPOSED DESTROYING A KEY FORT WITH A FIRE SHIP. THAT MAN’S NAME WOULD BECOME AUTOMOTIVE LEGEND.
Or maybe they're just registered D's who vote Trump?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Menominee County is in Wisconsin. I think it’s the only state other than South Dakota and Arizona in which an entire county is within a rez. Maybe that leper colony in Hawaii, too.
-- repudiation of Biden's--i.e. Mayorkas and company's--open border insanity-
-- rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidateAnd there were a couple notable positives:
-- Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump--the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
-- Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.But "huge" or "historic" ... uh.
Seriously here's what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system--against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections '68 to '88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly. Here's FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra's--Wisconsin, Michigan--within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter--from GA--on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.Trump managed to pickup ... Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states--Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag ... what ... one? two? Senators across. I'd say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway--living on borrowed time in Red states. I'd give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn't win the open seat in Michigan, couldn't beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn't win in Nevada and--if they ever finish counting--probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus--representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.In a sane country Harris might expect to get
-- childless cat ladies
-- homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
-- government bureaucrats
-- affirmative action dependent blacks
-- minorities nursing grievance against white people
...
uh ... I can't think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.So don't kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Rich, @bomag, @Currahee
During the 72 campaign McGovern said he would get down on his knees and beg the N Vietnamese for peace. Bad look for a country full of WW2, Korean and Vietnam War vets and their families. He also came up with some hare-brained socialist ideas like much higher taxes and $1000 giveaways to buy votes. If only George Wallace hadn’t been shot…
https://twitter.com/DovWaxman/status/1855490214011224499Replies: @Nachum, @Reg Cæsar
61%? That doesn’t look right. A large portion of US Protestants are black. Many of the white ones are still “mainline”.
Hispanics now equal blacks in number. That would suppress the Catholic GOP vote. But they’re not all Catholic anymore, and they’re not all citizens. Did this survey take these matters into account?
Who was that one-Mormon-in-thirty voting for?
“Sex change” operations on prisoners sounds fine to me. If an aggressive guy wants to lose the pair of glands that produce the hormone that made him aggressive, why would we object?
It is expensive for one thing. It isn't just castration but some attempt to construct something like female sex organs. Which as I understand it doesn't work very well and often leads to problems requiring costly additional medical treatment.Replies: @Renard, @Mr. Anon, @John Johnson
Further, your advocacy for tax payer dollars to be used in enabling these mentally ill scum is unfortunate, if not necessarily surprising.
Looks like you can a 3-pack (3 x 100 bands per pack)--enough to fix 300 prisoners--for just $14 on Amazon. Just saying.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
No, not globally.
It’s not necessarily that specific, and applies wherever there is conflict or pending conflict between identifiably different groups in proximity (i.e., within a country or sharing a border). Roissy, who coined the term, was using it mostly in the domestic contexts of modern America and Europe. But the axiom is timeless and has no geographical specificity.
No, it’s easy to understand and largely true in an “Occam’s razor” sort of why to describe human nature at the communal level. Interestingly, Trump’s election victory is a (temporary?) positive indicator for Sailer’s “civic nationalism” in that an unexpected amount (though not majority) of “diversity” joined “white conservative Americans” in voting for a supposed White supremacist second coming of Hitler.
It can be risky:
“You are extradited to Newark on a New Jersey warrant for smuggling cigarettes up from North Carolina three years ago, or you go to work for us…”
In all fairness to Hillary, she had it tough as a person-just look at it from her viewpoint:
You are a total genius who is and knows much better than all your inferiors (your inferiors being anyone who isn’t you) but the entire world is against you because you were born special- born both a woman and a latent les thus the world mindlessly persecutes you every single minute of the day denying your inborn awesomeness.
So you enter a sham marriage with a total fuckin’ sex-crazed idiot who being born with a penis was given the world on a platter and who, for some God-damned reason, eventually becomes totally physically and psychologically repulsed by you.
Anyways, you and that idiot, slowly but surely, work your way up the ladder. Sure you have to make certain sacrifices along the way, like poppin’ out a kid because the stinking ignorant peasant rabble actually has the vote and they like electing actual families so you play the game because eventually it will be your turn. Well you popout a kid but no more-ain’t going to be a trained seal.
Yet the world still persecutes you-including the actual father of that kid you crapped out. Well that man ain’t going stop your rendezvous with destiny so that man conveniently suicides himself.
Even so, you still are have to deal with male idiots like, for instance, that God-damned Ambassador to Libya (remember him?). You work hard on a simple plan to finance and arm Muslim terrorists. I mean what could go wrong?…but that son of a bitch you posted to Libya actually f…s up and gets himself killed. F…ing loser! But seriously, what difference does that make in the overall cosmic plan for your destiny.
You resign four years before 2016 to concentrate everything on that magic year. The magic year finally comes around. Plastic surgeries , an exciting lesbian lover in your bed. You are awesome! Everything is perfect. The MSM reports your opponent is a throwback to yesterday who has no chance with the new electorate , the cosmic plan is unbounding.
Everything is in the bag, November 2016 is almost here…
…AND THAT ASS… BILL COMES BACK FROM SCREWING SOME BIMBO AND STARTS GIVING YOU ADVICE!!! HOLY SH… YOUR WORST EXPERIENCES IN YOUR HARD LIFE, THE LIFE YOU ALMOST LEFT BEHIND, JUST CAME BACK!!!
Well SOOOORRRY, it’s 2016 and no male ain’t gonna start mansplaining to you ’bout nothin’!
You see you have to view Hillary through her perspective and the hard life she led. She indeed is a tragic figure. I, for one, have sympathy for her.
https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/dd1746f596bf418d8a7dc2f2c6e57acdf5e692a31c869acc5365a9274cb9ff49_1.jpgReplies: @Renard
but we end up paying for it-why don’t we just cut his balls off…much cheaper and faster and the end result is the same.
“It’s almost as if Bill Clinton is pretty good at politics, better than Hillary or Kamala.”
Bill Clinton never publicly insulted the South, nor half the voters of the US. As a Southerner, he always seemed to be given extra cache, extra street cred among conservative white voters. Even to this day, Bill Clinton is more perceived to be a moderate in how he governed as President.
For Hillary, and of course Kamala by extension, the South and conservatives in general are the enemy, period. So what reason would the good righteous people have to work with the evil deploreables and the garbage?
In talking to a former director of ceremonies for the Military District of Washington, the guy was telling stories about how Clinton could be working on a speech up until the last second and then go out and deliver it with no flaws. There was also stories about Reagan doing cold reads (no pracetice) while delivering speeches.
It would seem that the Democrats really need a once in a generation political talent such as Clinton or Obama to win a normal election for president.
Sex change” operations on prisoners sounds fine to me. If an aggressive guy wants to lose the pair of glands that produce the hormone that made him aggressive, why would we object?”
It is expensive for one thing. It isn’t just castration but some attempt to construct something like female sex organs. Which as I understand it doesn’t work very well and often leads to problems requiring costly additional medical treatment.
Mental health care which—were it effectively employed in the first place—might well have forestalled the entire nightmare.
What is being offered as "care" is actually harm. Doctors who perform such procedures should: 1.) be publicly shamed, 2.) have their medical licenses revoked, and 3.) be prosecuted.
Now that Dobbs has placed the matter back in the States where it belongs, a national politician who doesn't want to make his campaign about abortion doesn't have to. The Dems hate that.
“little discussed is how some near genius/actual genius level rich guy in europe completely changed the polling industry forever this election. he figured out how to accurately poll the population with minimal bias, and won his 10 million dollar bets in the process.”
Pollsters have been doing this for years to control for shy respondents effect. Rich Baris, the pollster, talks about it as a technique good pollsters use. People who gamble on elections have also relied on pollsters who use this system. Robert Barnes here in the US is one of them.
Hispanics now equal blacks in number. That would suppress the Catholic GOP vote. But they're not all Catholic anymore, and they're not all citizens. Did this survey take these matters into account?
Who was that one-Mormon-in-thirty voting for?Replies: @Curle
The ‘mainline’ churches you reference as likely anti-Trump have been shrinking for decades. The 39% of the vote are your Blacks and social mission Protestants.
About equal percentages of Muslims and Jews voted for Harris. Harris did not lose large numbers of either group to the Republicans. Republicans are still generally the Christian party, with the added new Hispanic and Black Christian voters not changing anything. As an Atheist, I do not belong to any of those religious groups but the anti-male and anti-white tendencies of the Democrats had me voting for Trump.Replies: @Curle
And yet the Bush Administration kept bringing them in. What a bunch of creeps those Bushies turned out to be.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/09/01/muslims-are-a-growing-presence-in-u-s-but-still-face-negative-views-from-the-public/
This, this, this. The Democratic Party for whatever reason we shall learn in the foolness of tyme chose not fortify Erection 2024 at 3:00 a.m. as they didst 2020. We shalt learnst......Replies: @Patrick McNally, @Precious
There probably were a few tens of thousands of votes stuffed into places which swung the election of 2020. But this claim of “15 million fraudulent votes” is absurd. Possibly 250,000 votes might have been tampered with nationwide in 2020 in ways that mattered.
There has been a trend in the last few days of referring to graphs which compare the vote counts of 2020 and 2024. The count in 2020 was about 155m. The count for 2024 is already past 146m but may go as high as 169m.
Tweets at https://twitter.com/StucknDaMid/status/1854976058883555560 argue that Trump's December 2019 executive order "Combatting Anti-Semitism" https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/16/2019-27217/combating-anti-semitism is at odds with ensuring the U.S. federal government does not censor free speech.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Maybe Elon wants to remind Trump of the commitment he made here now that he won, since these laws will materially affect how Twitter and other social media operate.
You also a believer in the labor theory of theory?Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“You also a believer in the labor theory of theory?”
Well it’s certainly laborious for all those theorists to come up with all that Theory….
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
Great esoteric exegesis, but wasn’t it the day they ended WW1 and they changed it here for sounding too pacifistic?
Yes, I agree. I wrote that perhaps Elon Musk did not realise that this was a ~2 year old speech, but he probably does know and wants to hold Trump to these commitments.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1856114715694444856
And those employees aren’t janitors food service maintenance and other people doing useful essential things. Universities are like the VA just a life long welfare system for grievance groups. Better just deposit a check every month and let them stay home. Not working from home just staying home.Replies: @guest007
The comparison is usually employees to undergraduate students. Most people do not realize that at a research university, a large number of employees have nothing to do with undergraduates or even students at all. But managing grants, all of the safety and environment issues in dealing with STEM research, and managing the infrastructure required to conduct STEM research takes up a large number of people.
But Youngkin did better with those South Asians when the Loudoun County school board was proposing to end AP/IB/tracked classes for all grades below grade 11. The South Asians knew that selective universities hold them to a higher standard and want every advantage they can get.
Presidentress just sounds wrong. (Hopefully the term will never have to be used IRL.)
I think it has got to be Presidentrix (a propos), or maybe for the more playful, Prextrix.
I'm sure Reg will advise us.Replies: @notbe mk 2
She-President?-that has a certain vibe and has the benefit of opening up a whole new demographic electoral group due to its certain associations with seventies grindhouse cinema for those that are into movies (and it would help reboot a defunct franchise “Debbie, She-President of the US”).
HBIC?-although that doesn’t sound that special enough, being used too often these days.
Presidentbanu?-it would be the equivalent of Shahbanu (the wife of the Shah) which would link the US to ancient Aryan tradition but unfortunately many Americans don’t want to associate with obsolete ancient traditions (like working or staying out of debt).
Presidentgina?-why not? it would make school so much more efficient, a teacher could combine sex ed and social studies into one overall lesson plan-think of all the money we would save.
The Executive Sow?- one overall benefit of Youtube et al. is that nature documentaries are more accessible then ever and let’s face it female bears and badgers (sows) are awesome so why not a woman USA President?
The PresidentialTandA?-being a woman, a woman President would now have the T alongside the already existing A- unfortunately the drawback is that our woman President, instead of taking on Putin and other no-goodniks, would keep wondering if her A is too big.
Bill Clinton after the 1994 loses triangulated and thew the left side of the Democratic Party under the bus to preserve his own political career. Bill Clinton also spent years before running studying the issues and learned how to speak and do interviews.
In talking to a former director of ceremonies for the Military District of Washington, the guy was telling stories about how Clinton could be working on a speech up until the last second and then go out and deliver it with no flaws. There was also stories about Reagan doing cold reads (no pracetice) while delivering speeches.
It would seem that the Democrats really need a once in a generation political talent such as Clinton or Obama to win a normal election for president.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., WWII veteran and POW
Not a fan of Trump. But whatever it takes to get the freak show out of government appointees.
“Armistice Day is sacred. Veterans Day is not.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., WWII veteran and POW
Pit bulls are the face tattoos of dogs. Only idiots have them. Total ban.
The problem is it isn’t testosterone that makes them aggressive, at least not in the sense you suggest. If you are unsure about this, there are ample videos of negro women acting violently out there for you to view.
Further, your advocacy for tax payer dollars to be used in enabling these mentally ill scum is unfortunate, if not necessarily surprising.
No. The global human population is diverse racially, ethnically, and culturally, but when those diverse groups remain separated by boarders, land masses, and or oceans, relative peace resides.
Put all those people within the limits of a large city, and a struggle over who the dominant group is ensues.
The phrase flows just fine and isn't clunky IMO.Replies: @Tomi Ungerer
On a global scale, certainly. However, the formula is invariably applied to the continental U.S. or Western Europe, where barring some radical form of segregation,“diversity” means heterogenous groups living to various degrees among each other; ergo, proximity is kind of implied.
It’s the quality of those groups that the formula sheepishly hints at; few here would object to an influx of conservative Norman farmers, for instance.
You’re right, though, “clunky” was not the right word; “dishonest” and “imprecise” was what I was driving at.
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
Eleven is an interesting number.
When I was in grade school, if you saw a kid with his fly open you’d say “Trying to count to eleven?”
With Trump’s ads on the transgender issue, here is what I think happened.
I think most people are viscerally disgusted by FtoM transgender people. Viscerally, as opposed to morally. A disgust similar to encountering a bad smell. This type of disgust is not something you can reason away, because you weren’t reasoned into it to begin with. So, deep down, most people have at least a slight dislike of FtoM transgender people.
BUT most people don’t want to *feel* like bigots. They know how much our modern society values tolerance and progressiveness. So all but a few hardcore conservatives, bottle up their disgust reaction. Still, it’s a bit frustrating to constantly hold back disgust, it’s similar to holding back anger…
What Trump’s transgender ads did was raise one of Harris’ 2019 policy proposals. A policy that effectively ties the transgender issue to open borders and (most importantly) the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for gender reassignment surgeries. And so, BAM, people who feel disgust over FtoM transgender people now have a *socially safe* way to vent it, since it’s entirely consistent with libertarian values, no actual bigotry needed. “I don’t want my tax dollars being spent on that!” Giving vent to this *felt good*. It felt good to finally release this built-up disgust. It felt so good that people were thankful to Trump for giving them an ad which enabled this. And this thanks flipped some votes.
Moral of the story if you’re a conservative – whenever possible, tie “bigot-seeming” disgust response to practical economic issues. Give people a socially safe way to express their disgust.
-- repudiation of Biden's--i.e. Mayorkas and company's--open border insanity-
-- rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidateAnd there were a couple notable positives:
-- Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump--the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
-- Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.But "huge" or "historic" ... uh.
Seriously here's what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system--against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections '68 to '88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly. Here's FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra's--Wisconsin, Michigan--within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter--from GA--on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.Trump managed to pickup ... Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states--Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag ... what ... one? two? Senators across. I'd say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway--living on borrowed time in Red states. I'd give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn't win the open seat in Michigan, couldn't beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn't win in Nevada and--if they ever finish counting--probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus--representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.In a sane country Harris might expect to get
-- childless cat ladies
-- homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
-- government bureaucrats
-- affirmative action dependent blacks
-- minorities nursing grievance against white people
...
uh ... I can't think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.So don't kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Rich, @bomag, @Currahee
I suppose there is an argument for there being more “institutional lock-in” of votes today; in the past, the sway-able portion of the electorate was larger.
So Trump’s 2.7% is rather large compared to what’s available.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs--the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states--we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There's at least some sort of crappy "personal autonomy" argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no--nada, zilch, zero--argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege--civil marriage--against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn't about a claimed "right" to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public --"we value this"--blessing to.Replies: @MB, @Prester John, @MM, @Jack D
Am waiting patiently for the day when some gay couple files a lawsuit against (for example) the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to recognize such a union. This would be a constitutional crisis (14th Amendment v. 1st Amendment) of the first water.
Coming soon to a parish near you.
Please provide a link to your “poshmark” account, thanks.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/4b-movement-trump-south-korea-wellness-cec/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement
In the hours and days since it became clear that Donald Trump would be re-elected president of the United States, there’s been a surge of interest in the US for 4B.
Young liberal women across TikTok and Instagram are discussing and sharing information about the South Korean feminist movement, in which straight women refuse to marry, have children, date or have sex with men.
These women say they are enraged and fed up after a majority of their male counterparts voted for a candidate who was found liable for sexual abuse and whose appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices led to the overturning of national abortion rights protections.
In response, they say they’re swearing off men — and they’re encouraging others around the country to join them.Replies: @mmack, @Curle
Are they swearing off other girl’s too? BTW – this sounds like a lesbian recruitment campaign.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-gender-gap-votecast-05672b6426cb5965c446ae2871d97eaf
What if the Dems despaired of winning the presidential election even by cheating, due to the overwhelming support for Donald Trump, and decided to concentrate their cheating on winning just enough seats in the House of Representatives to be the majority? They’ll slow the counting down, slow roll the close races, find a ballot here and another one over there…
That way, they could hold Trump off from anything that requires real funding, not to mention that they could impeach him again for whatever. These are patient people, their money from arms makers and oligarchs keeps coming in, they’ll wait for 2026 to try again.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs--the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states--we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There's at least some sort of crappy "personal autonomy" argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no--nada, zilch, zero--argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege--civil marriage--against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn't about a claimed "right" to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public --"we value this"--blessing to.Replies: @MB, @Prester John, @MM, @Jack D
I’d heard somewhere that the push for this got a lot more money when someone’s gay partner couldn’t inherit his rent-controlled apartment in New York City.
So if this is true it was supercharged by the fight over a government-granted privilege.
“But has anyone heard of anyone who made his fortune by buying high and selling low?”
Some people make fortunes by inventing stuff which may more obviously add value.
We are talking about a former Dow Jones Industrial, and my father ran engineering for one entire division.
After Mr. "Aw shucks," Mid-Western Buffet took control, one of the first things he did was to destroy the retirement benefits my father had worked for over more than a quarter-century.
Fuck him. He is a vulture.Replies: @James B. Shearer
“Fuck him. He is a vulture.”
Sorry to hear about your dad. I don’t actually know that much about Buffett particularly his early career. I had the impression he was less ruthless than some of his peers but that may just be relative. I doubt any of those guys commonly went much beyond their legal obligations.
First, the media does seize upon these guys and 'make a story.' They may be neither better nor worse than the guy across the street, but the media decides to cast them as villains or secular saints of some sort -- and there you are. Life is a children's fairy tale. Buffett is the good billionaire.
Second, what one chooses to do to make one's money says a lot. None of the multi-megabillionaires are saints -- not even the blessed Elon Musk -- but some are worse than others. While Elon Musk makes his bucks restoring free speech and mounting flights to Mars and making satellite internet and electric cars reality there's Paul Singer...finding countries that welched on their debts at some point and making them pay anew. How to get rich by worsening the misery of tens of millions of people.
Then Singer takes the money and uses it to fund sexual deviancy and Christians for Israel.
It's a choice. So Musk et al may not be saints -- don't expect them to safeguard your pensions if they don't have to -- but they are better than a Paul Singer.Replies: @James B. Shearer
Griggs isn’t causing what you think it is causing.
These devices are used because it is a business tradition. Lion of the Blogosphere is correct.
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/the-other-half-of-griggs-v-duke-power-co-401-u-s-424-1971/comment-page-1/#comments
You are a total genius who is and knows much better than all your inferiors (your inferiors being anyone who isn't you) but the entire world is against you because you were born special- born both a woman and a latent les thus the world mindlessly persecutes you every single minute of the day denying your inborn awesomeness.
So you enter a sham marriage with a total fuckin' sex-crazed idiot who being born with a penis was given the world on a platter and who, for some God-damned reason, eventually becomes totally physically and psychologically repulsed by you.
Anyways, you and that idiot, slowly but surely, work your way up the ladder. Sure you have to make certain sacrifices along the way, like poppin' out a kid because the stinking ignorant peasant rabble actually has the vote and they like electing actual families so you play the game because eventually it will be your turn. Well you popout a kid but no more-ain't going to be a trained seal.
Yet the world still persecutes you-including the actual father of that kid you crapped out. Well that man ain't going stop your rendezvous with destiny so that man conveniently suicides himself.
Even so, you still are have to deal with male idiots like, for instance, that God-damned Ambassador to Libya (remember him?). You work hard on a simple plan to finance and arm Muslim terrorists. I mean what could go wrong?...but that son of a bitch you posted to Libya actually f...s up and gets himself killed. F...ing loser! But seriously, what difference does that make in the overall cosmic plan for your destiny.
You resign four years before 2016 to concentrate everything on that magic year. The magic year finally comes around. Plastic surgeries , an exciting lesbian lover in your bed. You are awesome! Everything is perfect. The MSM reports your opponent is a throwback to yesterday who has no chance with the new electorate , the cosmic plan is unbounding.
Everything is in the bag, November 2016 is almost here...
...AND THAT ASS... BILL COMES BACK FROM SCREWING SOME BIMBO AND STARTS GIVING YOU ADVICE!!! HOLY SH... YOUR WORST EXPERIENCES IN YOUR HARD LIFE, THE LIFE YOU ALMOST LEFT BEHIND, JUST CAME BACK!!!
Well SOOOORRRY, it's 2016 and no male ain't gonna start mansplaining to you 'bout nothin'!
You see you have to view Hillary through her perspective and the hard life she led. She indeed is a tragic figure. I, for one, have sympathy for her.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Gary in Gramercy
I stayed in a hotel in Glasgow in September. I came down to the lobby one morning to get some coffee and the Muzak was playing Me and Mrs. Jones, a truly dreadful song from 1973 that has not gotten better in the subsequent 50+ years. I got my coffee and went back to my room.
FEMA first said she’d been assigned to another county. Now they say she was fired.
Who will win this contest?Replies: @Almost Missouri
Not all liberal women reject sex with men:
So, no sex for liberal men
+ more sex for conservatives
+ liberal women who like submitting to dominant rightwingers
= future looking bright.
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/the-other-half-of-griggs-v-duke-power-co-401-u-s-424-1971/comment-page-1/#commentsReplies: @Almost Missouri
Right, use of diplomas is a sort of legal “safe harbor” that allows firms to reduce the risk from the vagueness of Civil Rights [sic] law. Without Griggs, they wouldn’t need that.
https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/dd1746f596bf418d8a7dc2f2c6e57acdf5e692a31c869acc5365a9274cb9ff49_1.jpgReplies: @Renard
It’s what the Democratic Party software is designed to do at this point, which is why it is not always a great idea to have your software designed in Liberal Arts faculty lounges and by the staff of the New York Times.
What is different now as opposed to the Clinton era is that the Democratic Party intelligentsia is significantly to the left of large swaths of its electoral coalition and even further to the left of the voters they need to win national elections on numerous issues. Their only saving grace is that the legacy Press is part of the Democratic Party, and has the ability to redirect the “national conversation” to areas which favor the Democrats (see, for example, Trump getting shot). I think we saw the limits of that superpower this cycle on the issues of the economy and illegal immigration – the price of eggs and the lawless influx of self-selecting poor foreigners, two things of which most people had some personal experience so the Press demanding that they disbelieve their lying eyes didn’t work.
Clinton could jettison radical black activists in the form of Sista Souljah in 1992, but today’s Democrats are true believers. They view the party as a vehicle to impose an alien culture on the United States. To paraphrase a twitter bon mot, as a leftist and to a large extent as a Democrat you can have any of a number of views on economic matters, but you cannot diverge on trannyism, race communism, and abortion: therefore being a Democrat is trannyism, race communism, and abortion. I don’t think Harris herself had strong views on many things other than abortion, race communism, and trannyism. I think the rare occasions when Harris was being sincere were obvious – and those occasions were when the issues of abortion and race communism (given her own personal reliance on it). As the piece states, she couldn’t talk about trannysim because she would have been sincere about that issue so Trump’s trannyism spots went unanswered. She hid and allowed the Party’s Press arm to run her campaign for as long as possible. It just didn’t work this time.
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
In what world is 11 the fourth prime number?
Seems related to your point.Replies: @Curle
One can appreciate a practitioner of a style without liking that style and in that sense selecting Eminem over Motley Crue makes sense to me. But, admittedly I never saw Crue’s appeal as musicians as opposed to spectacle. And their admission may lower the sense of achievement for other acts who don’t view them as being in their league.
How old are you?
I would say that there was some quality alternative rock that came out in the 90s; I could listen to Lithium (SXM 34) all day without complaint. If you narrowed your window to the last 25 years, I would generally agree, although one of my favorite songs is We Are Young (2011, Fun w/Janelle Monáe). The fact I am citing a recent example that is 13 years old is telling about the state of modern music. I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to Taylor Swift, but through osmosis (and the fact I teach middle school) I am familiar with her oeuvre and most of it is catchy.
But even in your qualification of my remarks, you admit there hasn't been much of late. If you were writing in 1970, this wouldn't be your position.
Trump/the GOP has played the abortion card pretty well. Letting states decide is politically the smart move – the red states have what they want, the blue states have what they want. Only fringe voters on either side of the isue are really going to get all worked up about either a “national ban” or a “national right to access”.
That’s why the wave of angry women voters Harris was counting on didn’t really show up. Going forward abortion is likely to be far less salient an issue, as long as Trump keeps radicals in Congress under his thumb.
Which is the reason that the Dems loved Roe v. Wade so much (besides that they like killing babies for some reason): it locked the GOP into a perpetual cycle of despair with a corps of fanatical voters who were unpopular with and unrepresentative of the rest of the electorate.
Now that Dobbs has placed the matter back in the States where it belongs, a national politician who doesn’t want to make his campaign about abortion doesn’t have to. The Dems hate that.
They never had the chance–it was rigged in 2016, 2020, and 2024 for the “moderate” Hillary and Biden. Bernie as nominee would have earned them a thorough trouncing in the general, enough that the base would wise up and the hardest core lefties leave.
He shows up and makes the other guy look safe 'n sensible. It was Biden/Clinton on the Left and Trump on the Right; now it's Sanders as one extreme, Trump as the other -- and Biden/Clinton as the safe 'n sane candidate.
Then Sanders drops out and endorses the Democrat. Works pretty good huh? Well, it was supposed to -- certainly helped in 2020. I think in 2016 he was a little more successful than was desired. Woah, Bessie...
As an aside, based on her recent videos there are rumors going around that AOC is with child. If so, good for her; she is young and attractive enough to where she should have lots of childrenReplies: @Mike Tre
I would say that there was some quality alternative rock that came out in the 90s; I could listen to Lithium (SXM 34) all day without complaint. If you narrowed your window to the last 25 years, I would generally agree, although one of my favorite songs is We Are Young (2011, Fun w/Janelle Monáe). The fact I am citing a recent example that is 13 years old is telling about the state of modern music. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to Taylor Swift, but through osmosis (and the fact I teach middle school) I am familiar with her oeuvre and most of it is catchy.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Curle
There is that: 66.
But even in your qualification of my remarks, you admit there hasn’t been much of late. If you were writing in 1970, this wouldn’t be your position.
No. Use of diplomas, where it is used, is a way to make the filtering of candidates by desirable traits more efficient. Businesses would use them regardless of Griggs. This is the point Lion is making and I think he’s right. Get rid of Griggs and nothing changes.
Court rulings often work in practice differently from what judges thought they were accomplishing. See the notorious Section 230, for example.Replies: @Curle
Sorry to hear about your dad. I don't actually know that much about Buffett particularly his early career. I had the impression he was less ruthless than some of his peers but that may just be relative. I doubt any of those guys commonly went much beyond their legal obligations.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
Don’t feel bad for me. Dad invested wisely, and I benefitted from that. He just deserved more. It wasn’t only Buffet and his kind; it was lawyers and the financialization of industries that had been built and run by engineers and like-minded guys.
Dad lived very well, and I cannot complain as his son.
I remember when I was a teenager, my father telling me how the top leaders he reported directly to were changing from engineers to lawyers and accountants. That was an early taste of something larger that we still see today. Can it be reversed? Can we, in our country, go back to making things and employing leaders who know how to physically do things?
I realize that Warren Buffet is a kind of folk hero. I used to admire him myself. (I ended up working in the financial world myself, you see.) But we don’t need more Warren Buffets; we need more men like my father.
BTW, just to be clear, men like Buffet are simply fulfilling their roles in the system. We can’t really fault them for that. Warren is just particularly good at it. What we need to do is somehow keep their roles in their proper place. My father sometimes complained that engineers didn’t enjoy the same kind of accolades and general, public admiration as “doctors and lawyers,” for example. They should.
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
Part of the issue here is using bankruptcy law to get out of pension obligations, which gets us into society and the law; greater good considerations; and hacking of the system by Buffet et al.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about "over funded" plans which the IRS doesn't like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can't touch past pension contributions.Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Buzz Mohawk, @James B. Shearer
There has been a trend in the last few days of referring to graphs which compare the vote counts of 2020 and 2024. The count in 2020 was about 155m. The count for 2024 is already past 146m but may go as high as 169m.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
The 80 yr olds with cataracts in windowless rooms are still counting punchcards by hand in States like AZ NY NJ et al., but with about 92 – 95% of the vote is in so we can start asking some questions.
Biden got 81.28M votes to Trump’s 74.22M votes in 2020, for approximately 155.5M votes cast for these two candidates.
In 2024, Harris has 71.24M votes to Trump’s 74.84M. Trump netted +620,000 votes, while an astounding 10 million votes that showed up for Biden didn’t show up for Harris.
Were 10M Democrats that hostile to Harris or indifferent to Trump? Again, the numbers aren’t showing up in the other candidates’ columns. So the hypothesis would be that 10M left of center of voters decided Trump just wasn’t the same existential threat as he was in 2020 and just stayed home. But that seems at odds with the media rhetoric (social and MSM) around 2024 which if anything seemed dialed up.
So the “tinfoil” hypothesis remains unexcluded, and we’ve got an astounding 10 million vote margin it can fit in: some portion of Biden ‘s vote total was manufactured in 2020 due to unprecedentedly relaxed voting requirements. We also remained free of bursting water pipes, cardboard taped over windows, 2,000 mules, and an overnight counting shutdown. Thanks to a long overdue purge at the RNC, we had a ground game for this election.
While we’re here, there is zero reason or excuse for any state or municipality to still be counting ballots.
1960 -- 49.5% very, narrow loss
1968 -- 43.4% very narrow win
1972 -- 61% landslide winNext to Nixon, Trump's vote looks like flat water
2016 -- 46.1% very narrow win (losing popular vote by 2 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2020 -- 46.7% narrow loss (losing popular vote by 4 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2024 -- 50.3% narrow win (winning popular vote by 2 points; <250,000 votes swings EC )
(note there are still a few million votes to count in CA alone, Trump's percentage will likely tick down a tenth or two)In 2016 Trump ran against Hillary Clinton--after a full 8 year Obama stint.
In 2020 Trump ran against Biden (seen as harmless old white guy, Obama VP)--as incumbent amid Covid lockdowns (not Trump's fault), Covid unemployment/recession (not his fault) and summer of Floyd riots(not his fault)--i.e. amid Covid crazy with relaxed mail-in voting rules.
In 2024 Trump ran against Kamala--pseudo-incumbent for Biden term with inflation burst (not Biden's fault, mostly fed's QE to handle covid) and open border insanity (definitely Biden's fault)Candidates and conditions really do matter. Trump quite likely loses if Biden hadn't allowed Mayorkas and company's treasonous white-gentile-hating "drown the goyim!" open border. Trump quite likely loses to a "replacement player" white male Democrat. Quite probably loses to Obama and almost certainly Bill Clinton.And again--people need perspective--this is a nation where Kamala Harris just won 48% of the vote.Think about that. Whatever level of Democrat chicanery, we simply do not have a consensus for sanity. Half the country are either parasites, whiny aggrieved minorities or deluded nuts (or all three). What we actually need is separation. A nation--America--where normal Americans can again live normal lives as a free people.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jack D, @Colin Wright
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1855608085571580169Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
The current report is that 86% of the vote has been counted. Furthermore, in California, supposedly 72.9% of the vote has been counted. I would expect that most of that 27.1% will go to Harris. The final vote count may look quite different within a week, although this won't change the outcome of the electoral vote.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER LEARN TO READ
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER DECOUPLE THEMSELVES FROM PORN
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER OBTAIN POLITICAL LITERACY
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER SEE THROUGH THE MOCKINGBIRD'S SONG
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER STOP A MUZZIE FROM HONOR-MURDERING HIS DAUGHTER
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ZOOMERS WILL NEVER DEFEAT THE YELLOW HORDE
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER MINE THE ASTEROIDS
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER ACHIEVE NESARA/GESARA
ZOOMERS WILL NEVER CONVERT EXTRATERRESTRIALS TO ROMAN CATHOLICISMhttps://www.fox13seattle.com/news/lacey-possible-attempted-honor-killingReplies: @AnotherDad
The key issue is the obvious one: Why are they here?
Oh, I see you have posted thousands of comments to this blog alone, and who knows how many thousands to other sites, so you are just another proudly self-identified member of the surplus population living a life without significance or consequence.
Congratulations.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Maybe this blog attracts more autists and olds than other places, so the gullibility factor is high, but nonetheless you should have realized Corpse Tooth was joking. Enjoy:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-shot-in-the-head/#comment-6659927 (#294)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-picks-jd-vance-for-veep/#comment-6665057 (#392)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/experts-say-follow-the-science/#comment-6682085 (#1)
An early one in the genre:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-belongs/#comment-1483894 (#9)
I would say that there was some quality alternative rock that came out in the 90s; I could listen to Lithium (SXM 34) all day without complaint. If you narrowed your window to the last 25 years, I would generally agree, although one of my favorite songs is We Are Young (2011, Fun w/Janelle Monáe). The fact I am citing a recent example that is 13 years old is telling about the state of modern music. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to Taylor Swift, but through osmosis (and the fact I teach middle school) I am familiar with her oeuvre and most of it is catchy.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Curle
Yes. Some very good stuff and most of it British. Americans more inconsistent it seems.
The point is, who cares, Boomer deliberate destruction and Gen X being unable to deal with it/embracing drugs/ knowing it’s wrong but tolerating it/checking out IS OVER. WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO MAKE IT RIGHT.
I’ve noticed, and previously noted, an astounding reduction in the scope of artists offered on AM and FM channels. In my urban area I can turn on one of the putative rock stations and the frequency with which I get one of the same songs or same artists I heard the morning before is astounding. I’ve thought of keeping a diary but here are the ones on really, really heavy rotation: 1) Michael Jackson; 2) Queen; 3) one of the 3-4 most popular grunge acts; 4) Jefferson Starship singing about building a City on Rock and Roll; 5) Jim Croce. It’s maddening. If I change the dial there might be a slight change of acts but Michael Jackson is always there. I could escape him easier in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?
Radio is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays - Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once "free" are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.Replies: @J.Ross, @Curle, @Brutusale, @ScarletNumber
By the way, George Soros has been trying to buy control of a couple hundred radio stations:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/soros-backed-group-wins-biden-administration-approval-for-takeover-of-200-radio-stations/
Perhaps in an effort to reach this audience for the purposes of politically mobilizing them.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buzz Mohawk, @JMcG
And who are these cursers who have improved cursing over the years, "sometimes at astonishing rates"?Replies: @Mike Tre, @Colin Wright, @Moshe Def
Seth Putnam/A.C. is an obvious one.
Next topic for iSteve’s blog here:
What federal government post should Trump appoint Steve Sailer to?
But seriously, the National Immigration Safety Board.
Interesting that just a few years before Dobbs--the Constitutionally correct decision knocking abortion back to the states--we got Obergefell, perhaps the worst decision ever by the Supremes. There's at least some sort of crappy "personal autonomy" argument for Roe. But there is absolutely no--nada, zilch, zero--argument to be made for some sort right to demand a publicly bestowed privilege--civil marriage--against the will of the public bestowing it. This isn't about a claimed "right" to sleep with whomever you want, but about what the public wants to give a public --"we value this"--blessing to.Replies: @MB, @Prester John, @MM, @Jack D
I agree that the whole line of S. Ct. decisions (starting with Roe) that conjured up imaginary Federal rights from the Constitution is ridiculous. You could read the Constitution from beginning to end 1,000 time and not find gay marriage or the “right” to abortion in there. They were just making shit up according to their preferences (in effect writing laws) and gaslighting us into believing that they were just “interpreting” the Constitution. This decreased respect for the Supreme Court as an institution. It became just one more arm of the unelected and anti-democratic Permanent Government.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails (“Congress shall make no law…”) but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level – the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it’s hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.
I don't believe they did. Aside from the obvious (no votes for minors, women, or slaves) I'm fairly sure property and income qualifications were common.
Does the Constitution refer to 'the will of the people' at all? Certainly what I've read of the electoral process in colonial Virginia makes it improbable that such sentiments would have been incorporated in the document. A grandee like Washington would solicit the good opinion of the lesser gentry by holding lavish parties and things (hence the need to be a grandee). The opinion of the local blacksmith's apprentice didn't come into it at all.
My impression (and here I am happy to be corrected) is that this country didn't become a democracy in even the most limited sense until the Jackson presidency. I'd say it wasn't so much that this country was intended to become a democracy as that there were no firm obstacles to such a development; no clearly demarcated aristocracy or ideology supporting such an institution, no shortage of land forcing the lower classes into economic dependence on their betters, no powerful state able to consistently suppress expressions of popular unrest, etc.
We became a democracy not because we meant to, but because there was nothing to prevent it.Replies: @Wielgus, @Jim Don Bob
Yes, these things were falling before Obergefell, and thus yes, the decision can be an expression of the decline as much as a causal factor. But it sure as hell hasn't helped. Talk to young people - they are broken, romance is broken, they don't care about marriage or having kids. They are empty. Just ask them! I start the semester asking this question, and they (especially the females) love talking about the horror of their worldview. But they don't know how to fix it, since religion is verboten, and theirs is a spiritual crisis. Marriage is just a weird 'agreement' to proclaim 'their love', and most of them think such a proclamation is arbitrary and silly - which it is, thanks to Obergefell.
Obergefell is part and parcel of this broad spiritual collapse in the West. Transforming marriage into something "about love", and then a slight twist into "you can love anyone", and you have completely gutted marriage of its value. No wonder they are so despondent. The age-old mechanisms towards becoming an adult and finding meaning in life - God, marriage, family - have been reduced to nothing.Replies: @Mike Tre
“I’ve been saying there’s no way we’re getting rid of these people… It takes ten cops and they barely get out with their lives. We have a 10-million strong hostile army in our midst. They ain’t going no where.”
They ain’t gonna stay if no one gives them a job. The benefits they get only go so far.
I know the MAGA types love their dress-up theatre as much as any drag queen, and they love their big walls (that Mexico is gonna send us a check for, any minute now) and their Youtube videos where the cops are rousting the illegals, but if anyone actually wants to do anything about immigration that isn’t theatre, they will institute MANDATORY e-verify, and then follow that up step-by-step with whatever series of counterfeit-busting measures the illegals respond with as a workaround. That game never ends, but at some point, only rich asylum seekers can afford the high-tech fakes, and those people are less of a drain on the system, and they’re less newsworthy and downtrodden, and therefore less likely to appeal to liberals hungering for another cause célèbre.
Anything short of that goes to your point, in that it won’t make a bit of difference. The companies where those illegals are hired and where their bogus papers are wink-wink checked off as legit, will shrug off any ICE raids as the cost of doing business, and once the heat is off, their employees will return or be replaced by other visa overstays.
It’s similar with prostitution. You can keep rounding up the streetwalkers every time a DA or sheriff is looking to get re-elected, or the news channel needs more clickbait, but if you actually want to put a dent in Albanians hustling in teenage Moldovans and stuff like that, you gotta start cracking down on the johns. That’s what the chicken processing plants and the hotel maid services are — johns. Going after them is not as theatrical, but unlike all that kabuki, it actually has a chance of working (though I wouldn’t complain about a few more RICO busts of Albanian white slavers, Roma pickpockets and driveway-resurfacing scammers, or Rotherham-like startups that some Bangladeshi or Pakistani group might want to try on this side of the Atlantic).
It's the same with people smuggling. It's an organized crime and you have to go after the organizers, not the "johns" and not even the low level soldiers. It's like the Israeli approach to Hezbollah. You go after the top of the organization chart. Once you cut off the head of the snake the rest of the snake just thrashes around.Replies: @HA
Well it's certainly laborious for all those theorists to come up with all that Theory....Replies: @James B. Shearer
I meant the labor theory of value of course. Another senior moment.
Sorry to hear about your dad. I don't actually know that much about Buffett particularly his early career. I had the impression he was less ruthless than some of his peers but that may just be relative. I doubt any of those guys commonly went much beyond their legal obligations.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
Well…two things.
First, the media does seize upon these guys and ‘make a story.’ They may be neither better nor worse than the guy across the street, but the media decides to cast them as villains or secular saints of some sort — and there you are. Life is a children’s fairy tale. Buffett is the good billionaire.
Second, what one chooses to do to make one’s money says a lot. None of the multi-megabillionaires are saints — not even the blessed Elon Musk — but some are worse than others. While Elon Musk makes his bucks restoring free speech and mounting flights to Mars and making satellite internet and electric cars reality there’s Paul Singer…finding countries that welched on their debts at some point and making them pay anew. How to get rich by worsening the misery of tens of millions of people.
Then Singer takes the money and uses it to fund sexual deviancy and Christians for Israel.
It’s a choice. So Musk et al may not be saints — don’t expect them to safeguard your pensions if they don’t have to — but they are better than a Paul Singer.
Buffett gets good press in part because he says quotable stuff. And in fact much of what he says is in fact sensible advice. Such as "don't ask a barber if you need a haircut". Or that the average person who wants to invest in the market should just buy index funds. But of course this doesn't mean he is a good guy in other respects.
Consciously or not, Sanders was a tool.
He shows up and makes the other guy look safe ‘n sensible. It was Biden/Clinton on the Left and Trump on the Right; now it’s Sanders as one extreme, Trump as the other — and Biden/Clinton as the safe ‘n sane candidate.
Then Sanders drops out and endorses the Democrat. Works pretty good huh? Well, it was supposed to — certainly helped in 2020. I think in 2016 he was a little more successful than was desired. Woah, Bessie…
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?Replies: @Jack D, @J.Ross, @Mr. Anon, @George Taylor
You still listen to the radio? Some new cars don’t even come with AM radios anymore.
Radio is a free service and beggars can’t be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays – Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once “free” are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248137/am-radio-bill-house-energy-commerce-ev-interferenceReplies: @Jack D
As for myself, I subscribe to SiriusXM (and was an early XM subscriber) although the current price is not worth it. What they don't advertise is that if you call to cancel and are persistent about it, they will give you a much-more-reasonable price. I degrade myself once per year for the savings.Replies: @Jack D
It might be something like the South and writers. Lack of economic opportunity leads people down other paths. So fewer great all-absorbing careers in Britain? More talented musicians.
Would you say the same about drug dealers – that the way to stop drug abuse is to sentence anyone caught with a joint to 20 years in the state pen? Or should you go after the gang leaders and the cartels?
It’s the same with people smuggling. It’s an organized crime and you have to go after the organizers, not the “johns” and not even the low level soldiers. It’s like the Israeli approach to Hezbollah. You go after the top of the organization chart. Once you cut off the head of the snake the rest of the snake just thrashes around.
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?Replies: @Jack D, @J.Ross, @Mr. Anon, @George Taylor
I have a set of links to certain must read essays which explain everything nowadays, I really need to look everything up and put it in one place, but the Wasteland Essay (corporate consolidation), The Optimization Essay (“I can make you eat #$@!”), and the Over-managed Essay really speaks directly to your complaint. Happily, there is a late add to the set of essays, and it’s about fixing things: Marc Andressen has starting talking as though he’d read these essays, and has announced that he will support small and mid-sized businesses, because (per above) the Complacent Behemoth does not innovate, it just re-releases noncontroversial established lines.
Radio is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays - Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once "free" are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.Replies: @J.Ross, @Curle, @Brutusale, @ScarletNumber
Ditching AM was never about people not listening to it or the government trying to censor it, it was about — I’ll put it this way: every AM listener knows what happens when lightning strikes nearby. Electric cars are going to have AM talk but they’ll stream it.
No. But it does not take that.
There is no doubt the Democrats relaxed the voting requirements “for covid” allowing them to turn out more marginal voters including through direct “go out and collect” ballot harvesting. And perhaps they had outright fraudulent votes sufficient to grab up the three swingers Trump needed–AZ, WI, GA.
You definitely would not have had the outsized 2020 turnout numbers without the relaxed covid rules.
But a bunch of commenters here talk like there is some fixed “Trump vote” and “Democrat vote” and any deviation–toward the Democrats–means something’s fishy. In fact, only part of the vote is really locked down and particular conditions and candidates really matter.
There’s one other guy during my life who got three bites as a major party candidate, Richard Nixon. In those three his vote %:
1960 — 49.5% very, narrow loss
1968 — 43.4% very narrow win
1972 — 61% landslide win
Next to Nixon, Trump’s vote looks like flat water
2016 — 46.1% very narrow win (losing popular vote by 2 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2020 — 46.7% narrow loss (losing popular vote by 4 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2024 — 50.3% narrow win (winning popular vote by 2 points; <250,000 votes swings EC )
(note there are still a few million votes to count in CA alone, Trump's percentage will likely tick down a tenth or two)
In 2016 Trump ran against Hillary Clinton–after a full 8 year Obama stint.
In 2020 Trump ran against Biden (seen as harmless old white guy, Obama VP)–as incumbent amid Covid lockdowns (not Trump's fault), Covid unemployment/recession (not his fault) and summer of Floyd riots(not his fault)–i.e. amid Covid crazy with relaxed mail-in voting rules.
In 2024 Trump ran against Kamala–pseudo-incumbent for Biden term with inflation burst (not Biden's fault, mostly fed's QE to handle covid) and open border insanity (definitely Biden's fault)
Candidates and conditions really do matter. Trump quite likely loses if Biden hadn't allowed Mayorkas and company's treasonous white-gentile-hating "drown the goyim!" open border. Trump quite likely loses to a "replacement player" white male Democrat. Quite probably loses to Obama and almost certainly Bill Clinton.
And again–people need perspective–this is a nation where Kamala Harris just won 48% of the vote.
Think about that. Whatever level of Democrat chicanery, we simply do not have a consensus for sanity. Half the country are either parasites, whiny aggrieved minorities or deluded nuts (or all three). What we actually need is separation. A nation–America–where normal Americans can again live normal lives as a free people.
And yet it didn't count for much given that the permanent bureaucracy was against him.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg
It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @newrouter, @AnotherDad
LotB—or rather this commenter Greg Pandatshang, whom LotB then agrees with—is saying that diplomas technically should also be a forbidden hiring filter, but a combination of history, inertia, widespread use, (and probably lower courts just not wanting to bother about it) led to diplomas being being defacto permitted as a legitimate hiring filter. Corporate lawyers can tell their clients to list openings with a degree requirement instead of an exam requirement and their litigation risk is dramatically reduced, and in practice they are correct, irrespective of what the Supreme Court said in 1973.
Court rulings often work in practice differently from what judges thought they were accomplishing. See the notorious Section 230, for example.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails ("Congress shall make no law...") but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level - the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it's hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.Replies: @Curle, @Colin Wright, @EdwardM, @Linus
The biggest guardrail is that the state conventions, which formed the Union, in fact formed a “union” with every implication of 100% derivative authority the title was understood to convey at the time. Given that the constitution was treated as nothing more than a training exercise by the Radical Republicans it’s hardly surprising that successors would take a similar approach.
Lara: the Antijared.
It's the same with people smuggling. It's an organized crime and you have to go after the organizers, not the "johns" and not even the low level soldiers. It's like the Israeli approach to Hezbollah. You go after the top of the organization chart. Once you cut off the head of the snake the rest of the snake just thrashes around.Replies: @HA
“It’s an organized crime and you have to go after the organizers…”
That’s already being done elsewhere, but it’s a work in progress, one made more difficult by the fact that those targets are typically across the border. Whereas if the jobs that the illegals come HERE to find disappear, there will be nothing left for the organizers and the coyotes and the snakeheads to profit from. And it’s just easier to get stuff done here than somewhere over there, wherever “there” is.
And all that is different from Hezbollah, or Hamas, because no matter how many of their leaers the Israel kill, the underlying hatred of Israel will remain (if not intensify), so however satisfying those kills may be, they can only be a short-term solution.
As for drug dealers, it’s common knowledge (as I’ve heard more than once) that every time the DEA takes down a cartel, they’re just handing over their business to one of their competitors who were trying with all their might to rid themselves of competition even before the DEA showed up and did that job for them.
Again, the Achille’s heel of the immigration racket is that all the jobs that the illegals are looking for are here, and stuff that goes on here is easier for us to control.
“…Whereas if the jobs that the illegals come HERE to find disappear, there will be nothing left for the organizers and the coyotes and the snakeheads to profit from. …”
I agree with this but it is also the case that people aren’t going to keep spending large amounts to be smuggled across the border if they are likely to be quickly found and deported.
Thank God! Oh my God, I hope you are right. Is this really true? I really, really hope so…
Trump will finish with 50% of the vote and a margin of about of 3 million.
Five million Democrats who stayed home rather than save the nation from the pussy-grabbing, Russia-spying, CONVICTED FELON Dondolf Trumpler. Definitely nothing to see here.Replies: @guest007, @AnotherDad, @Precious
Radio is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays - Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once "free" are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.Replies: @J.Ross, @Curle, @Brutusale, @ScarletNumber
I prefer old cars. I drive old stick shift cars and keep them running. I like the feeling of control from manual transmission and I like bench seats. Youngsters don’t know how to steal them. I haven’t bothered to trade out the radios.
https://www.270towin.com/2024-election-results-live/state/washingtonAnd here's 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/washington/presidentYou can see what happens, all us white racist white redneck white males in eastern Washington vote for racists. The blue on the other side are where the good guys live.That lone box of blue retardation is, unfortunately, my alma mater Washington State University. No big cities there so the liberals of the university area overwhelm the whole.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
We all know about the left-wing atheists in western Washington and the right-wing atheists in the east. It’s been that way since JFK, at least:
But other states fit the same pattern of division– New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, California, Oregon, and now Virginia– and all of them shifted right this year. Washington is the only state (so we’re told) which moved left.
Was there a large influx of Antifa? Did Rachel Dolezal scare people away?
The one thing that could unite Washingtonians is appreciation of Bing Crosby. Both Tacoma and Spokane have a rightful claim to him. Here he is at Gonzaga; his coach is Gus Dorais, who invented the running catch (of a forward pass) with Knute Rockne a few years earlier:
https://twitter.com/BevHarrisWrites/status/1854408541957972081
What federal government post should Trump appoint Steve Sailer to? Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Buzz Mohawk
Department of Noticing, cabinet-level position.
But seriously, the National Immigration Safety Board.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif/600px-PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif
But other states fit the same pattern of division-- New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, California, Oregon, and now Virginia-- and all of them shifted right this year. Washington is the only state (so we're told) which moved left.
Was there a large influx of Antifa? Did Rachel Dolezal scare people away?
The one thing that could unite Washingtonians is appreciation of Bing Crosby. Both Tacoma and Spokane have a rightful claim to him. Here he is at Gonzaga; his coach is Gus Dorais, who invented the running catch (of a forward pass) with Knute Rockne a few years earlier:
https://twitter.com/tshieber/status/765566333136306176Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Curle, @Olorin
Now that picture is cool. I have some from my Little League days, and I’m always in the back row, because I was tall. But why is Bing behind everybody, and not tall? One always wonders about anomalies, though they are probably due to nothing. Thank you, King.
It’s probably not a good idea to look any of these terms up.
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?Replies: @Jack D, @J.Ross, @Mr. Anon, @George Taylor
Radio is a dying medium. People with any money have Sirius XM, or use streaming services as commenter Jack D pointed out. That means that broadcast radio, aside from “public” stations, now caters to people with little money. The station owners (and most radio stations are owned by corporations that own many stations) have adjusted accordingly. They have much bigger ad blocks – you’re lucky to hear 20 or 25 minutes of music in an hour anymore. And the ads are also noticeably more down-market: title pawn outfits, check-cashing outfits, etc. They don’t have local DJs anymore. And they have limited their playlists. Presumably they have found a formula that minimizes their outlays for royalties by only playing a small number of songs over and over.
By the way, George Soros has been trying to buy control of a couple hundred radio stations:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/soros-backed-group-wins-biden-administration-approval-for-takeover-of-200-radio-stations/
Perhaps in an effort to reach this audience for the purposes of politically mobilizing them.
You rotate the globe with your cursor over whichever station you’d like to hear.
There are many very small radio stations in Ireland and the UK that seem to be labors of love, rather than profit-driven.
I’d far rather listen to a small radio station in the west of Ireland playing ads for agricultural lime than my local NPR affiliate begging for cash anyway.
I stream it from my phone to my car radio; I even got rid of Sirius because I simply didn’t listen to it any longer.Replies: @Ganderson
What federal government post should Trump appoint Steve Sailer to? Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Buzz Mohawk
Ambassador to Israel.
1960 -- 49.5% very, narrow loss
1968 -- 43.4% very narrow win
1972 -- 61% landslide winNext to Nixon, Trump's vote looks like flat water
2016 -- 46.1% very narrow win (losing popular vote by 2 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2020 -- 46.7% narrow loss (losing popular vote by 4 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2024 -- 50.3% narrow win (winning popular vote by 2 points; <250,000 votes swings EC )
(note there are still a few million votes to count in CA alone, Trump's percentage will likely tick down a tenth or two)In 2016 Trump ran against Hillary Clinton--after a full 8 year Obama stint.
In 2020 Trump ran against Biden (seen as harmless old white guy, Obama VP)--as incumbent amid Covid lockdowns (not Trump's fault), Covid unemployment/recession (not his fault) and summer of Floyd riots(not his fault)--i.e. amid Covid crazy with relaxed mail-in voting rules.
In 2024 Trump ran against Kamala--pseudo-incumbent for Biden term with inflation burst (not Biden's fault, mostly fed's QE to handle covid) and open border insanity (definitely Biden's fault)Candidates and conditions really do matter. Trump quite likely loses if Biden hadn't allowed Mayorkas and company's treasonous white-gentile-hating "drown the goyim!" open border. Trump quite likely loses to a "replacement player" white male Democrat. Quite probably loses to Obama and almost certainly Bill Clinton.And again--people need perspective--this is a nation where Kamala Harris just won 48% of the vote.Think about that. Whatever level of Democrat chicanery, we simply do not have a consensus for sanity. Half the country are either parasites, whiny aggrieved minorities or deluded nuts (or all three). What we actually need is separation. A nation--America--where normal Americans can again live normal lives as a free people.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jack D, @Colin Wright
I hadn’t realized that Nixon had done that well on the popular vote in 1972. That really is a landslide.
And yet it didn’t count for much given that the permanent bureaucracy was against him.
1960 -- 49.5% very, narrow loss
1968 -- 43.4% very narrow win
1972 -- 61% landslide winNext to Nixon, Trump's vote looks like flat water
2016 -- 46.1% very narrow win (losing popular vote by 2 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2020 -- 46.7% narrow loss (losing popular vote by 4 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2024 -- 50.3% narrow win (winning popular vote by 2 points; <250,000 votes swings EC )
(note there are still a few million votes to count in CA alone, Trump's percentage will likely tick down a tenth or two)In 2016 Trump ran against Hillary Clinton--after a full 8 year Obama stint.
In 2020 Trump ran against Biden (seen as harmless old white guy, Obama VP)--as incumbent amid Covid lockdowns (not Trump's fault), Covid unemployment/recession (not his fault) and summer of Floyd riots(not his fault)--i.e. amid Covid crazy with relaxed mail-in voting rules.
In 2024 Trump ran against Kamala--pseudo-incumbent for Biden term with inflation burst (not Biden's fault, mostly fed's QE to handle covid) and open border insanity (definitely Biden's fault)Candidates and conditions really do matter. Trump quite likely loses if Biden hadn't allowed Mayorkas and company's treasonous white-gentile-hating "drown the goyim!" open border. Trump quite likely loses to a "replacement player" white male Democrat. Quite probably loses to Obama and almost certainly Bill Clinton.And again--people need perspective--this is a nation where Kamala Harris just won 48% of the vote.Think about that. Whatever level of Democrat chicanery, we simply do not have a consensus for sanity. Half the country are either parasites, whiny aggrieved minorities or deluded nuts (or all three). What we actually need is separation. A nation--America--where normal Americans can again live normal lives as a free people.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jack D, @Colin Wright
This map has been kicking around for decades:
It’s not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It’s the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It’s like the dog chasing the car – it’s fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds – you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it’s not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don’t know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don’t deserve one and didn’t get one from the majority of the voting public.
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump's term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
The Trump economy was not all that great. Economic growth was 1.5% yearly, half the 3% average from 1954 to 2016. Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.
All the mostly White Boomers retiring and being replaced by more non-White and less
productive younger workers is slowing economic growth, as is increasing levels of government spending as Social Security, Medicare and interest costs rise. The country may not fall apart but there will be more resistance from red state governors whenever the Dems control the federal government and try to institute bad policies.Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @James B. Shearer, @John Johnson
No that affair shows that your "vote" is not a concern of the "ruining class".
As some dude once quipped:I don't think old Milton is correct--or even all that insightful--in all of his analysis or prescriptions. But at the straightforward level this is true. And in the case of the post-covid inflation surge it is mind-numbingly obvious what happened: The Fed printed bales--"quantitative easing"--of money to stave off having a complete great depression style meltdown from the covid lockdowns/unemployment.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look at this chart. I could not be clearer:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
This was reasonable and the Fed was fairly successful in avoiding a meltdown. However, after the vaccine rollout as things flipped back toward normal and people rushed out to enjoy life ... all this money and the Fed's low rates had demand surging against all these supply chain bottlenecks and breakdowns from covid.
For instance, we--ridiculously--could not even build fricking pickups without a bunch of chips from Asia. Our elites have stupidly--pushing globalist fantasies--made the US ridiculously dependent on all sorts of crap from Asia, and particularly China. And the Chicom leadership--while they've performed better than our parasitic goon "elite"--aren't exactly geniuses and made an even worse hash out of covid that in the US.
Anyway, this is dogmeat simple: a huge surge of extra money, chasing a constrained supply of goods.
Biden's contribution to this was relatively modest. Tossing further spending stimulus--but pretty much the same negative trendline pre-covid from Trump--into the mix
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
as % of GDP (the more useful picture):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
... and, of course, waving in millions of foreigners further juicing demand--especially housing--while producing little to nothing and forcing up government spending.
To its credit the Fed has been modestly "quantitative tightening" the past couple years and--too slowly--got around to raising rates and has modestly contained the "goods" inflation.
The disaster for most people--and especially for young people and "affordable family formation" is housing. There the immigration loons have seemingly nuked Ben Franklin's astute observations about why (cheap land, dear labor) America was so damn nice and stuck us with Asiatic style housing prices.Replies: @Colin Wright, @James B. Shearer
Court rulings often work in practice differently from what judges thought they were accomplishing. See the notorious Section 230, for example.Replies: @Curle
And how many clients want to administer exams in the first place?
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg
It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @newrouter, @AnotherDad
Brexit is not a good example of anything but hostile elites disobeying popular mandate and sabotaging themselves.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails ("Congress shall make no law...") but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level - the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it's hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.Replies: @Curle, @Colin Wright, @EdwardM, @Linus
You seem to be implying that the original thirteen states had anything resembling universal suffrage.
I don’t believe they did. Aside from the obvious (no votes for minors, women, or slaves) I’m fairly sure property and income qualifications were common.
Does the Constitution refer to ‘the will of the people’ at all? Certainly what I’ve read of the electoral process in colonial Virginia makes it improbable that such sentiments would have been incorporated in the document. A grandee like Washington would solicit the good opinion of the lesser gentry by holding lavish parties and things (hence the need to be a grandee). The opinion of the local blacksmith’s apprentice didn’t come into it at all.
My impression (and here I am happy to be corrected) is that this country didn’t become a democracy in even the most limited sense until the Jackson presidency. I’d say it wasn’t so much that this country was intended to become a democracy as that there were no firm obstacles to such a development; no clearly demarcated aristocracy or ideology supporting such an institution, no shortage of land forcing the lower classes into economic dependence on their betters, no powerful state able to consistently suppress expressions of popular unrest, etc.
We became a democracy not because we meant to, but because there was nothing to prevent it.
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
Give student loans for STEM degrees and nothing else.
1960 -- 49.5% very, narrow loss
1968 -- 43.4% very narrow win
1972 -- 61% landslide winNext to Nixon, Trump's vote looks like flat water
2016 -- 46.1% very narrow win (losing popular vote by 2 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2020 -- 46.7% narrow loss (losing popular vote by 4 points; <100,000 votes swings EC)
2024 -- 50.3% narrow win (winning popular vote by 2 points; <250,000 votes swings EC )
(note there are still a few million votes to count in CA alone, Trump's percentage will likely tick down a tenth or two)In 2016 Trump ran against Hillary Clinton--after a full 8 year Obama stint.
In 2020 Trump ran against Biden (seen as harmless old white guy, Obama VP)--as incumbent amid Covid lockdowns (not Trump's fault), Covid unemployment/recession (not his fault) and summer of Floyd riots(not his fault)--i.e. amid Covid crazy with relaxed mail-in voting rules.
In 2024 Trump ran against Kamala--pseudo-incumbent for Biden term with inflation burst (not Biden's fault, mostly fed's QE to handle covid) and open border insanity (definitely Biden's fault)Candidates and conditions really do matter. Trump quite likely loses if Biden hadn't allowed Mayorkas and company's treasonous white-gentile-hating "drown the goyim!" open border. Trump quite likely loses to a "replacement player" white male Democrat. Quite probably loses to Obama and almost certainly Bill Clinton.And again--people need perspective--this is a nation where Kamala Harris just won 48% of the vote.Think about that. Whatever level of Democrat chicanery, we simply do not have a consensus for sanity. Half the country are either parasites, whiny aggrieved minorities or deluded nuts (or all three). What we actually need is separation. A nation--America--where normal Americans can again live normal lives as a free people.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jack D, @Colin Wright
Aside from other considerations, it’s also possible to ascribe the little variation to the quality of the opposition.
Clinton: obviously competent but definitely unappealing candidate. One would accept her as your doctor; not as your dinner guest.
Biden: ‘good old Joe’ — rightly or not. Of course we’re for good old Joe.
Harris: you have GOT to be kidding.
Looked at in this way, Trump is the constant. It’s the variation in his opponents that determined the outcomes.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg
It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @newrouter, @AnotherDad
“Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending.”
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump’s term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
The Trump economy was not all that great. Economic growth was 1.5% yearly, half the 3% average from 1954 to 2016. Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.
All the mostly White Boomers retiring and being replaced by more non-White and less
productive younger workers is slowing economic growth, as is increasing levels of government spending as Social Security, Medicare and interest costs rise. The country may not fall apart but there will be more resistance from red state governors whenever the Dems control the federal government and try to institute bad policies.
But (at least arguably) it was the last bit under Biden that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Things aren't linear. Deficit spending that keeps demand up to match supply is one thing. Deficit spending that pushes demand way above supply is another.
And note, I'm aware--AnotherMom and I walk the beach everyday--of the sad state of a lot of red America--fats and tats--as well.
But it is striking just how much ugliness these people push at us. The want you to look at and listen to the likes of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg. They black up seemingly all popular entertainment--everything served up by the streamers, blacks jammed in incongruously everywhere. Likewise they shove homosexuals in our face. And then insist we look at these trannies freaks. And run the likes of pants-shitter Joe and cackling doofus Kamala for President.
The pretty much try to drag you into their outhouse and jam your head into the pit.Replies: @Farenheit, @SafeNow, @Colin Wright
Did she have to be named ‘Joy’? That in particular always grates.
I mean, ‘Chuckles’ Himmler? Come on — at least adopt some reasonably appropriate name.
As I pointed out a couple months back, Griggs was not judges making shit up about the constitution, but judges making shit up about civil rights law.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/is-this-true-2/#comment-6771209To reverse Griggs, all Congress has to do is pass a law saying companies are free to use any set of credentials, and do any testing that they consider appropriate in hiring for any given position.
BTW this is how
"Our Democracy"actual democracy is supposed to work in a free republic. Citizens send in some intelligent, responsible men to represent them and those representatives bang heads and come up with--hopefully--effective policies; including changing policies based on new data. Not having policy decisions made by these un-elected weirdo lawyers who fancy themselves philospher kings fit to decide how society should be run.I've argued that part of nationalist "pro-family" program would go beyond just repealing Griggs and returning to freedom to hire would include a couple more elements in this area:
-- develop or encourage development of basic competency exams (from general literacy/numeracy and basic HS grad knowledge, through specific college major knowledge
-- hire for the federal government through such exams, rather than college degrees
Get all that going and we would have young people in charge of their own destiny, able to educate themselves in any manner they wish--a bunch bypassing college--and a much healthier, and less indebted and more sensible and mature society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @OldJewishGuy
Eliminate the degree requirement for lots of good jobs and young people will be able to avoid indoctrination, tuition, and the opportunity cost of not working for four years and start families earlier. It’s win, win, win all around.
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month the Armistice, ending WW1, went into effect. Nothing mystical.
You are a total genius who is and knows much better than all your inferiors (your inferiors being anyone who isn't you) but the entire world is against you because you were born special- born both a woman and a latent les thus the world mindlessly persecutes you every single minute of the day denying your inborn awesomeness.
So you enter a sham marriage with a total fuckin' sex-crazed idiot who being born with a penis was given the world on a platter and who, for some God-damned reason, eventually becomes totally physically and psychologically repulsed by you.
Anyways, you and that idiot, slowly but surely, work your way up the ladder. Sure you have to make certain sacrifices along the way, like poppin' out a kid because the stinking ignorant peasant rabble actually has the vote and they like electing actual families so you play the game because eventually it will be your turn. Well you popout a kid but no more-ain't going to be a trained seal.
Yet the world still persecutes you-including the actual father of that kid you crapped out. Well that man ain't going stop your rendezvous with destiny so that man conveniently suicides himself.
Even so, you still are have to deal with male idiots like, for instance, that God-damned Ambassador to Libya (remember him?). You work hard on a simple plan to finance and arm Muslim terrorists. I mean what could go wrong?...but that son of a bitch you posted to Libya actually f...s up and gets himself killed. F...ing loser! But seriously, what difference does that make in the overall cosmic plan for your destiny.
You resign four years before 2016 to concentrate everything on that magic year. The magic year finally comes around. Plastic surgeries , an exciting lesbian lover in your bed. You are awesome! Everything is perfect. The MSM reports your opponent is a throwback to yesterday who has no chance with the new electorate , the cosmic plan is unbounding.
Everything is in the bag, November 2016 is almost here...
...AND THAT ASS... BILL COMES BACK FROM SCREWING SOME BIMBO AND STARTS GIVING YOU ADVICE!!! HOLY SH... YOUR WORST EXPERIENCES IN YOUR HARD LIFE, THE LIFE YOU ALMOST LEFT BEHIND, JUST CAME BACK!!!
Well SOOOORRRY, it's 2016 and no male ain't gonna start mansplaining to you 'bout nothin'!
You see you have to view Hillary through her perspective and the hard life she led. She indeed is a tragic figure. I, for one, have sympathy for her.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Gary in Gramercy
If I’m ever on trial for murder, I want you as my lawyer.
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump's term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
The Trump economy was not all that great. Economic growth was 1.5% yearly, half the 3% average from 1954 to 2016. Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.
All the mostly White Boomers retiring and being replaced by more non-White and less
productive younger workers is slowing economic growth, as is increasing levels of government spending as Social Security, Medicare and interest costs rise. The country may not fall apart but there will be more resistance from red state governors whenever the Dems control the federal government and try to institute bad policies.Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @James B. Shearer, @John Johnson
“Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.”
If Biden’s economy was all that and great, or…stronger productivity wise than Trump’s, Kamala would be taking the Oath of Office in January 25. People vote with their pocket books.
IF you say, “Well, people were fooled, or people believed the wrong data points about the economy, or this or that, etc re: the true nature of the economy over last 4 yrs,” The response is: “Well, it’s up to Biden Harris to make their case that the economy right now is simply amazing, fantastic, and most people are better off than ever before.” Harris failed to make her case that the economy was better and rolling along for the last four years. In fact, that’s the one issue that Harris explicitly avoided: she didn’t run on the economy being great; instead she ran on Trump = Hitler.
Also, you mention that the US economy 1954-2016 averaged about 3% economic growth. What needs to finish the context is that US wages for the middle AND the working classes have been stagnant and not kept up with inflation since ca.1974. So that would offset the amazingly great robust economic growth that allegedly the US is experiencing in 24
Zowie
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
“One can appreciate a practitioner of a style without liking that style and in that sense selecting Eminem over Motley Crue makes sense to me. ”
One small problem, Eminem isn’t rock n’ roll. His (and other rappers’) induction is just one more concession in the great “Hand it all over to the negroes” effort.
“But, admittedly I never saw Crue’s appeal as musicians as opposed to spectacle. ”
But Eminem appeals to you as a musician? Or is it just the crudeness and pornographic diarrhea he spews? Come on man. BTW, Mick Mars might be the most underrated rock guitarist of the 80’s, if not all time. Tommy Lee is/was as skilled as any great rock drummer and he also plays the piano, accordion, guitar, etc.
“And their admission may lower the sense of achievement for other acts who don’t view them as being in their league.”
But again, Eminem’s doesn’t? Have you ever looked at the inductees? I’m sure you’ll utter a few “Who??’s” Motley Crue achieved a great deal more in album sales, concert sales, and legacy than at least a third of the current listees. Their songs are still played on the radio and as I noted, by cover bands. Can the same be said about NWA? Hell I don’t see too many Nirvana cover bands out there and they were inducted after existing for barely 5 years.
I’m wondering if the radio stations are now owned by the people holding the Michael Jackson catalog?Replies: @Jack D, @J.Ross, @Mr. Anon, @George Taylor
I keep an XM radio subscription for one station “Outlaw Country” channel 62. Sure they play a lot of Waylon & Willie but as DJ currated station their constantly introducing new music. Additionally the YouTube algorithm does give me some pleasant surprises, I didn’t know this band from Bonn, Germany of all places, even existed a month ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif/600px-PresidentialCounty1960Colorbrewer.gif
But other states fit the same pattern of division-- New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, California, Oregon, and now Virginia-- and all of them shifted right this year. Washington is the only state (so we're told) which moved left.
Was there a large influx of Antifa? Did Rachel Dolezal scare people away?
The one thing that could unite Washingtonians is appreciation of Bing Crosby. Both Tacoma and Spokane have a rightful claim to him. Here he is at Gonzaga; his coach is Gus Dorais, who invented the running catch (of a forward pass) with Knute Rockne a few years earlier:
https://twitter.com/tshieber/status/765566333136306176Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Curle, @Olorin
Nobody doubted the presidential outcome in WA and there were substantial initiative campaigns on the ballot plus a non-incumbent Governor’s race for the first time in twelve (?) years. I’m guessing all of these got the D majority to the polls. Plus, the R party in Washington thinks their base WANTS more race communism.
Some grifter started a blog (or something) about it—“lindy”—the evidently captured a lot of people’s attention on rightwing Twitter. His shtick is the commonplace observation that traditional approaches tend to be more reliable than experimental ones.
Same guy was later revealed to have plagiarized much of his material. Yet somehow he still remains a presence.
> but with about 92 – 95% of the vote
The current report is that 86% of the vote has been counted. Furthermore, in California, supposedly 72.9% of the vote has been counted. I would expect that most of that 27.1% will go to Harris. The final vote count may look quite different within a week, although this won’t change the outcome of the electoral vote.
Daily DS map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4324126/32.0581055
Overall 24.1 kmsq taken within Ukraine. Good pace as this compares to a 17 kmsq pace in OCT. Movement in several areas. No contribution today (for first day in a while) from the Vuhledar front. Some movement in Kursk, Russia also (not counted to total).
S to N:
1. 15.6 kmsq total in a two-salient advance in the region S of Velyka Novasilka (next large town, E of Vuhledar, relatively well fortified and held well by the Ukrainians previously). Not yet at V N town, but interesting development.
a. 2.6 kmsq SE of Novadarivka, which is threatened now with gray zone entering it.
b. 13 kmsq N and NE of Staromaiorske. Rivnoopil was entered (partially red). And Makarivka is threatened (gray zone moved to just S of it).
2. 3.4 kmsq SW of Maksymilianivka. Gray zone has entered E end of Dalnie, which is an important town between Kurakhove and the line of villages far S of it. There is also a road just beyone Dalnie that helps connect these two areas for the Ukrops. Taking Dalnie and cutting the tie-road would not hinder logistics for the Ukrops as they have good roads from the E. But it would help the RFA to mount flanking attacks on either Kurakhove to the N or the village line to the S.
3. 3.6 kmsq total in a three-salient advance to the W of the Ocheretnye bloom. Continuing to try to develop the space and distance to allow a future Pokrovsk advance. Relatively small area taken compared to what is needed, but still progress. Looking like a late 2025 battle for the town. Unless Trump ends the war on “day 1”.
a. 1.8 kmsq to the S of Novoolksiivka.
b. 1.4 kmsq to the N of Novooleksiivka, including entrance into the hamlet of Yurivka.
c. 0.4 kmsq to the S of Petrivka. Continued, slow advance along the rail line heading NW.
4. 0.5 kmsq in S Nelipivka (New York area). I think DS forgot to tell us when NY fell, as it appears to all be in the rear view mirror, now.
5. 1.5 kmsq to the SE of Andriivka (N Bakhmut front), including most of the hamlet of Pershotravneve.
6. Within Kursk, movement in the NW part of the incursion area. RFA gray zone moving to the S Snagost river and nearing towns of Nizhhniy Klin, Darino, and Nikolayevo-Darino. (RFA control following a few km behind.) No kmsq allocated as I treat this as separate from progress in Ukraine and didn’t credit the Ukrops with the advance area either in August. (I.e. Russia has to get back to par.) BTW, there are also rumblings about other RFA movement in Kursk (far N, Pogrebki area), but DS not showing that on this update.
Thanks for the gaslighting.
No, the Election of 2020 was not stolen.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d
—An exhaustive Associated Press investigation in 2021 found fewer than 475 instances of confirmed voter fraud across six battleground states — nowhere near the magnitude required to sway the outcome of the presidential election.
Trump was repeatedly advised by members of his own administration that there was no evidence of widespread fraud. Numerous legal challenges alleging voter fraud pursued by the Trump campaign and its backers were heard and roundly rejected by dozens of courts at the state and federal level, including by judges whom Trump appointed.—
There are still votes being counted so we will find out soon the final number nationally.
Occam’s Razor says “that turnout of voters can vary greatly from election to election, from race to race, and from state to state, In a typical national election, turnout in different states can also vary greatly. It depends entirely on the candidates, the issues, and the interest voters have in the candidates or the extent of their concern over issues like the economy. When they don’t like their choices, they don’t turn out. When you have a record-breaking election like in 2020, the turnout in following years won’t always follow that record. A lot of voters who voted for Biden in 2020 changed their vote to Trump in 2024. Or some didn’t vote. This doesn’t mean there was any voter suppression or voter fraud or anything nefarious. One candidate wins. That’s how it works, you fag.”
Other than that their "exhaustive investigation" consisted of regurgitating the official line of state election officials. Yes, it is not surprising that election officials claim that the elections they are responsible for administering are all conducted flawlessly.
Did they consider the fact that the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania quite openly violated the state's election law by extending the deadline for mail-in ballots - an act she had no legal authority to do?
But I guess their "exahustive investigation" is enough to fool someone like you, who's stupidity is virtually inexhaustible.
But keep at it, nitwit. It will give you something to do for the next four years.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
You forgot that Trump loves Jews. My vague impression is that he will be a major supporter of Israel. The country is not safe with the gay Jew Peter Theil demanding his slice of the pie. Just like Musk, they paid Trump for favors and access.
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
"The company has three main projects: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, and Palantir Apollo. Palantir Gotham is an intelligence and defense tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts. Its customers included the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense.[7] Their software as a service (SaaS) is one of five offerings authorized for Mission Critical National Security Systems (IL5) by the U.S. Department of Defense.[8][9] Palantir Foundry is used for data integration and analysis by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merck KGaA, Airbus, Wejo, Lilium, PG&E and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.[10] Palantir Apollo is a platform to facilitate continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) across all environments.[11][12]
Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve both international as well as state and local governments, and also to private companies."[13]Replies: @Mr. Anon
This, this, this. The Democratic Party for whatever reason we shall learn in the foolness of tyme chose not fortify Erection 2024 at 3:00 a.m. as they didst 2020. We shalt learnst......Replies: @Patrick McNally, @Precious
Milwaukee is a crime scene, 2020 was peak turnout in the USA compared to 2024 because of how long they opened up mail-in voting due to COVID. But not in Milwaukee, turnout in 2024 has increased from 82.5% to 88-89%. It still wasn’t enough to stop Trump’s 2BIG2RIG strategy, but it was enough to stop Hovde from being elected Senator.
As for Michigan and Pennsylvania… the Democrat governors there are now in a great position to run for President in 2028.
I suspect the corrupt election system blinked, stealing it from Trump this time wouldn’t work narratively, so they are rolling the dice that he won’t be able to change the system before they can put the thumb back on the scales in 2026.
Who knows what the AP considers a potential case of voter fraud. What criteria did they use for that? Do they say? (Answer: No). Did they look at the dead people who cast ballots? There were a lot of them.
Other than that their “exhaustive investigation” consisted of regurgitating the official line of state election officials. Yes, it is not surprising that election officials claim that the elections they are responsible for administering are all conducted flawlessly.
Did they consider the fact that the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania quite openly violated the state’s election law by extending the deadline for mail-in ballots – an act she had no legal authority to do?
But I guess their “exahustive investigation” is enough to fool someone like you, who’s stupidity is virtually inexhaustible.
But keep at it, nitwit. It will give you something to do for the next four years.
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @kaganovitch, @Brutusale
Peter Thiel isn’t Jewish. Oh, and you spelled is name wrong. But you are an idiot, so that is not surprising.
Are you upset that he is Jewish (even though he isn’t) or that he is a homosexual? Why don’t you just tell us what you think, instead of veiling everything in your faux-socratic squid-ink.
Just actually state what you actually believe, you stupid, deceitful a**hole.
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @kaganovitch, @Brutusale
Corvinus, who did you vote for president?
Great issues may hang upon a boot lace. That reminds me that the ankle support of the official footwear of the US military is not great, as anyone can find out at WalMart, where they sell what our boys wear to war, were they to go to war. It is almost a wonder what a man can get used to.
Time was, soldiers came home to women who were waiting to get married. Now it’s different, as everyone knows, but no one knows what to do about it, this wicked generation. The Apostles were plain on the point: when women are like men it is better not to marry.
One of the wisdom books of the Bible says that the good life is to love what you do. Not everyone can have their dream job. But one thing about those wisdom books, they were written by men who loved being fathers. And what is more that wisdom is good for? A goal goes a long way, even in ways besides.
One time I heard the sweetest voice reading from the book of Tobias, and I wondered, “Does she know how nice she sounds?” Later I found the wisdom that counsels finding such a voice in a mate. There seem to be certain things you will ineluctably find if you look for them. Yes, maybe like a castle in a cloud.
“All I ever learned from love/Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya.” How do you make someone fall in love with you that is out of your league? Maybe let wisdom decide what league you are looking at.
But about the boots, I think it would be better if everyone really respected the boots our soldiers wear.
OT — Anonymous claimed:
They don’t have to. GRE Subject Test scores will be an excellent screening device for any job that requires college level education. General GRE and GMAT test scores may also be used. These tests don’t cost much more than routine drug and criminal background checks that are needed for most better paying jobs.
LoL If you are not near an electrical grid and a charging station, the EV is useless.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg
It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @newrouter, @AnotherDad
“Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it’s not good.”
No that affair shows that your “vote” is not a concern of the “ruining class”.
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump's term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
The Trump economy was not all that great. Economic growth was 1.5% yearly, half the 3% average from 1954 to 2016. Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.
All the mostly White Boomers retiring and being replaced by more non-White and less
productive younger workers is slowing economic growth, as is increasing levels of government spending as Social Security, Medicare and interest costs rise. The country may not fall apart but there will be more resistance from red state governors whenever the Dems control the federal government and try to institute bad policies.Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @James B. Shearer, @John Johnson
“A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump’s term …”
But (at least arguably) it was the last bit under Biden that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Things aren’t linear. Deficit spending that keeps demand up to match supply is one thing. Deficit spending that pushes demand way above supply is another.
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @kaganovitch, @Brutusale
Thiel is not Jewish in any shape manner or form. As it happens, he’s also a professed Christian.
I don't know that any Man of Unz has ever accused Thiel of being Jewish but if I had a nickel for every non-Jewish figure that the Men of Unz falsely accused of being Jewish (always in a negative light), I'd have a lot of nickels.Replies: @Renard
They put up some deviant in a skirt and say: This is a woman!
No, no it isn't. It's a man.
And beyond that, they are simply trying to normalize perversion and degeneracy, corrupt children, and undermine society.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @YetAnotherAnon, @Olorin
How anyone could doubt this post-“covid” is utterly beyond my comprehension.
I highly recommend no one read John Carter’s piece from his Postcards from Barsoom Substack, on the topic of the Pitești Prison Experiment of the late 1940s. (“To Shatter Men’s Souls.”)
Member when Lenin went to visit Dr. Pavlov, with the idea that robust programs of classical conditioning could help the Reds produce the New Man? Member how that all went over the years?
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But other states fit the same pattern of division-- New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, California, Oregon, and now Virginia-- and all of them shifted right this year. Washington is the only state (so we're told) which moved left.
Was there a large influx of Antifa? Did Rachel Dolezal scare people away?
The one thing that could unite Washingtonians is appreciation of Bing Crosby. Both Tacoma and Spokane have a rightful claim to him. Here he is at Gonzaga; his coach is Gus Dorais, who invented the running catch (of a forward pass) with Knute Rockne a few years earlier:
https://twitter.com/tshieber/status/765566333136306176Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Curle, @Olorin
Yeah. So we’re told.
https://WWW.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtN9XGOJBHkReplies: @Je Suis Omar Mateen
Um pretty sure ‘Pontiac’ refers to a former lover and not the American car manufacturer. We’ve all missed her more now that she’s gone, etc. I enjoyed the punk spazfest anyway tho 😊
Pork is quite common in Assam
South Indians eat (and sacrifice in their temples) goat and sheep.
Buffalo meat is available ( in limited quantities) and Buffalo is sacrificed in some famous temples.Replies: @Jack D
Among Brahmins it’s about 50/50 but Kamala is only 1/2 Brahim so call it 75/25. I don’t think Jamaicans have any special affinity for pork – their signature dishes are curry goat and ox (actually beef) tail and jerk chicken. Rastas do not eat it at all. I doubt it was featured in Mama Gopalan’s kitchen in Montreal.
But I think that Kamala (like Obama) larps at being African-American and American Blacks have the Southern American love of smoked pork including bacon and so she wanted to play up how much she, as a “Black American”, just lurved bacon.
Kamala’s concession speech, originally intended to be a victory rally, was at Howard University and it was shocking to me to see that the crowd that turned out to support her was maybe 80% black. Now this is DC and in particular many in the crowd must have been Howard students but still it brought home to me how much of her campaign was a black project and how much she had kept this carefully hidden from the public. Had she won, we could have expected her administration and the Federal bench to be populated with incompetent but Leftist AA blacks from top to bottom. An unelected coup – the DMV ladies taking over the country.
Corvy is just role playing what he thinks a Man of Unz would say in this situation, kind of like the old “Stephen Colbert” character used to do before he came out and played a flaming leftist. Speaking of flaming, has Rob Reiner set himself on fire as he promised to do if Trump was elected?
I don’t know that any Man of Unz has ever accused Thiel of being Jewish but if I had a nickel for every non-Jewish figure that the Men of Unz falsely accused of being Jewish (always in a negative light), I’d have a lot of nickels.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails ("Congress shall make no law...") but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level - the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it's hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.Replies: @Curle, @Colin Wright, @EdwardM, @Linus
I would be curious to see the evidence for this. I don’t think that many gay couples want to live in a suburban house with a white picket fence just like any other bourgeois normal couple (except in TV commercials).
The google tells me that as of 2022, there were about 741,000 married same-sex couple households in the United States, which is about 58% of all same-sex couple households. Whether these couples live in a suburban house with a white picket fence IDK but they did take the trouble to get married.
But whatever these folks are doing, whether they choose to get married or not doesn't really affect me either way.Replies: @John Johnson
It is expensive for one thing. It isn't just castration but some attempt to construct something like female sex organs. Which as I understand it doesn't work very well and often leads to problems requiring costly additional medical treatment.Replies: @Renard, @Mr. Anon, @John Johnson
Medical treatment especially including “mental health” care which becomes required when the results of the mangling (even when otherwise “successful”) fail to transform the tranny’s life the way it hoped it would.
Mental health care which—were it effectively employed in the first place—might well have forestalled the entire nightmare.
P&G does. The military does. Silicon Valley firms are getting into it. I suggested it at my former employer.
Agree. Possibly music prior to 1955 was better still, but we just don’t have quality recordings of it, so we mentally consign it to the Tinny Scratch-and-Pop Era.
One way to interpret that your daughter in the 2020s listens to music from the 1960s (beginning of the Stereo Age) is that she’s listening to the oldest music available that’s recorded in modern quality. Given that objective surveys of music (range, melodic complexity, etc. [Wasn’t there an iSteve or SteveStack about this a few months ago?]) tend to show a gradually declining curve from left (old) to right (new), one can conclude that music has been on a secular decline for at least a hundred years, but this was offset by the rise in the quality of recording technology, until that rise began plateauing in the 1960s, so the net aural enjoyment (“NAE”) peaked in the 1960s-1970s.
You probably have to go back to the late 1920s to find artists like Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives, or Robert Johnson or Al Bowlly who made recordings that were never updated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbgJt0b6Hco
https://theconversation.com/a-woman-is-not-a-baby-making-machine-a-brief-history-of-south-koreas-4b-movement-and-why-its-making-waves-in-america-243355
S Korean 4b gettin US mainstream press.
Women are stuck with men if they want family/children … which is still a thing. Says Mr obvious.
That’s a good question I wondered about too. Besides that they didn’t want to offend sacred B!lacks, another reason they never showed such an advertisement might be that Trump was actually President at the time. Of course because of Posse Comitatus and other reasons it wasn’t his fault, but advertising is rarely concerned with the rational part of the mind.
Now that iSteve has vacated Unz forum for only one post per week I’d be prepared to step in, at the right price to replace him.
I can:
Pretend to be White whilst promoting an anti-White ethnic agenda which I’m fully committed like a Hamas member on 07/10/2023
At least quarterly write a post weeping about how White people let down “jews” in some sort of “holocaust” where anyone who opposes my history must be shadow baned on account of the very thing I’m promoting.
Extol the virtues of fellows in my secret clandestine email circle while all the while feigning innocence that we have anything whatsoever to do with each other! haha what’s that? We just happen to share the same barber, that’s all!
If I could get a book deal, after having being sugar daddied by a wealthy billionaire jew, a wealthy billionaire jew who I’d always thought was cuckoo and this blind investor jew would rescue me from bona fide reporting, one who’d bankroll my tedious interminable screeds I’m in!
In the meantime, my contract says one post per week minimum.
Till then, you can find me on Substack promoting the fires of your destruction.
Seems like Elon also wants to hold Trump to these commitments, which would be great:
By the way, George Soros has been trying to buy control of a couple hundred radio stations:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/soros-backed-group-wins-biden-administration-approval-for-takeover-of-200-radio-stations/
Perhaps in an effort to reach this audience for the purposes of politically mobilizing them.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buzz Mohawk, @JMcG
And radio stations seem to only buy one song per band: e.g., they play The Eagles’ “Hotel California” but not “Take It Easy.”
I don't believe they did. Aside from the obvious (no votes for minors, women, or slaves) I'm fairly sure property and income qualifications were common.
Does the Constitution refer to 'the will of the people' at all? Certainly what I've read of the electoral process in colonial Virginia makes it improbable that such sentiments would have been incorporated in the document. A grandee like Washington would solicit the good opinion of the lesser gentry by holding lavish parties and things (hence the need to be a grandee). The opinion of the local blacksmith's apprentice didn't come into it at all.
My impression (and here I am happy to be corrected) is that this country didn't become a democracy in even the most limited sense until the Jackson presidency. I'd say it wasn't so much that this country was intended to become a democracy as that there were no firm obstacles to such a development; no clearly demarcated aristocracy or ideology supporting such an institution, no shortage of land forcing the lower classes into economic dependence on their betters, no powerful state able to consistently suppress expressions of popular unrest, etc.
We became a democracy not because we meant to, but because there was nothing to prevent it.Replies: @Wielgus, @Jim Don Bob
I once did a presentation on democracy, showed slides of Hogarth’s Election series about an Oxfordshire election in 1754 or thereabouts, and then asked the audience what proportion of people could vote in Britain at that time. I got various answers, then wrote the approximately correct answer on the whiteboard – 3%. Property qualifications excluded most male adults as well as women, slaves etc. I suspect it was no different in early USA elections.
Steve, you should listen to Andy Edwards’ podcast, I think you’d get a taste of verisimilitude, something which you’ve always lacked.
When you listen to Andy you can hear the verisimilitude fairly pour out through the 5.1 speakers.
When I listen to you on one of your dismal interviews all I hear is a droning sort of buzzing benighted monotone of interminable boring insistent pressing on my frontal lobes of nothing whatsoever of any meaningful importance other than the importance of your constant droning tedium consumed with the self important knowledge of the conceit of whatever monotonously tiring point you have to lecture your audience and bend them to the full weight of the ethnic fulcrum you’ve wielded to oust us out of our familial strongholds with the ever present backing of the foreign ethnic mafia which is forever present about anything you write.
It’s laudable you defend your own kind. Just like JsckD. Bury Gaza, right?
I agree with this but it is also the case that people aren't going to keep spending large amounts to be smuggled across the border if they are likely to be quickly found and deported.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“people aren’t going to keep spending large amounts to be smuggled across the border if they are likely to be quickly found and deported.”
Or maybe, you know, not deported, but instead convicted on the spot, prima facie, without trial, of criminal trespassing and grand larceny (the value of American residence or citizenship, even for an indigent shitstain, is valued at roughly $750k minimum, all of which they are *stealing*) and sentenced to 50 years hard labor in North Dakota Federal Shitstain Academy.
By the way, George Soros has been trying to buy control of a couple hundred radio stations:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/soros-backed-group-wins-biden-administration-approval-for-takeover-of-200-radio-stations/
Perhaps in an effort to reach this audience for the purposes of politically mobilizing them.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buzz Mohawk, @JMcG
It’s like the iSteve blog vs. Substack.
“…My father sometimes complained that engineers didn’t enjoy the same kind of accolades and general, public admiration as “doctors and lawyers,” for example. …”
I haven’t actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.
"There's more people in your profession in jail than mine."
...but reality sinks in. A father of a friend of mine wound up being the go-to criminal lawyer in Oakland, Ca. He found it depressing to realize what he'd done with his life. So many who hired him did so because the accused was such an asshole that he wasn't going to be able to get by with the public defender and plea-bargaining his way out of what he'd done. The family had to pass around the hat and hire father to get Travontis off of this one.
...but it could be funny. This was back in the day; no automatic traffic school. So my friend got a ticket, and he wanted daddums to represent him. Father: 'what do you want me to do?' Son: 'Get me traffic school.'
So the big day comes. The judge looks at the ticket and says 'Do you want me to throw this out, [first name]?'
'No, your honor. My client requests traffic school.'
First, the media does seize upon these guys and 'make a story.' They may be neither better nor worse than the guy across the street, but the media decides to cast them as villains or secular saints of some sort -- and there you are. Life is a children's fairy tale. Buffett is the good billionaire.
Second, what one chooses to do to make one's money says a lot. None of the multi-megabillionaires are saints -- not even the blessed Elon Musk -- but some are worse than others. While Elon Musk makes his bucks restoring free speech and mounting flights to Mars and making satellite internet and electric cars reality there's Paul Singer...finding countries that welched on their debts at some point and making them pay anew. How to get rich by worsening the misery of tens of millions of people.
Then Singer takes the money and uses it to fund sexual deviancy and Christians for Israel.
It's a choice. So Musk et al may not be saints -- don't expect them to safeguard your pensions if they don't have to -- but they are better than a Paul Singer.Replies: @James B. Shearer
“First, the media does seize upon these guys and ‘make a story.’ They may be neither better nor worse than the guy across the street, but the media decides to cast them as villains or secular saints of some sort — and there you are. Life is a children’s fairy tale. Buffett is the good billionaire.”
Buffett gets good press in part because he says quotable stuff. And in fact much of what he says is in fact sensible advice. Such as “don’t ask a barber if you need a haircut”. Or that the average person who wants to invest in the market should just buy index funds. But of course this doesn’t mean he is a good guy in other respects.
From the day it first appeared, the vague anti-constitutional dubiously ratified 14th Amendment has been a continual source of mischief and a real ball and chain on the American citizenry. Repeal it. Burn it. Flush it. I don’t care, just get rid of it
For good or bad Eminem is widely praised by the critics and Motley Crue is not. They praise him because his music conveys ideas and emotions in a novel if crude way. That he isn’t Rock and Roll is a fair point and Eminem perhaps shouldn’t be in the HOF. But, Motley Crue’s absence shouldn’t be a surprise, their music isn’t appreciated by the critics and I share that opinion.
Irrelevant. Critic acclaim was never a factor as bands like Led Zeppelin and The Clash were never regarded highly by critics at the height of their popularity.
" They praise him because his music conveys ideas and emotions in a novel if crude way. "
You're really reaching here.
" But, Motley Crue’s absence shouldn’t be a surprise, their music isn’t appreciated by the critics and I share that opinion. "
Ohhhh, I get it. Since you share the critics' opinion theirs are valid.
To get back to the original point, I'm not even saying the MC should be in the HoF necessarily, but they deserve it a lot more than some shitbag wigger like Eminem.
And the plain truth is Motley Crue's music has endured the test of time compared to Eminem and the most of the rap.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Curle
I don't know that any Man of Unz has ever accused Thiel of being Jewish but if I had a nickel for every non-Jewish figure that the Men of Unz falsely accused of being Jewish (always in a negative light), I'd have a lot of nickels.Replies: @Renard
It is very far removed from the issues that really matter to the American voters who loudly made their perspective known.
Nice try, Steve.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian, @NoMoreLurking
I’m guessing you are retired and didn’t have to make the decision to publicize your pronoun choice via the he/her signature block decision or the decision to keep it off entirely. It’s not a tough call but it simply introduces more unnecessary social messaging into the workplace for the purpose of valorizing behavior many don’t want to support. I’m surprised it hasn’t been imposed on identification cards yet.
Thanks. Agree.
Part of the issue here is using bankruptcy law to get out of pension obligations, which gets us into society and the law; greater good considerations; and hacking of the system by Buffet et al.
By the way, George Soros has been trying to buy control of a couple hundred radio stations:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/soros-backed-group-wins-biden-administration-approval-for-takeover-of-200-radio-stations/
Perhaps in an effort to reach this audience for the purposes of politically mobilizing them.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buzz Mohawk, @JMcG
There is a free app called Radio Garden. There is also a website if you prefer not to install anything on your phone. When opened, an image of the globe is displayed with thousands of green points of light, each one representing a radio station.
You rotate the globe with your cursor over whichever station you’d like to hear.
There are many very small radio stations in Ireland and the UK that seem to be labors of love, rather than profit-driven.
I’d far rather listen to a small radio station in the west of Ireland playing ads for agricultural lime than my local NPR affiliate begging for cash anyway.
I stream it from my phone to my car radio; I even got rid of Sirius because I simply didn’t listen to it any longer.
Don’t wanna give those up!
Try Radio Garden, you can get stations from all over the world. Outlaw Country was great, but I thought it declined a lot over the last few years. Mojo’s death didn’t help; and Paula Nelson is awful. I got rid of my subscription a few months ago after many years.
What is different now as opposed to the Clinton era is that the Democratic Party intelligentsia is significantly to the left of large swaths of its electoral coalition and even further to the left of the voters they need to win national elections on numerous issues. Their only saving grace is that the legacy Press is part of the Democratic Party, and has the ability to redirect the "national conversation" to areas which favor the Democrats (see, for example, Trump getting shot). I think we saw the limits of that superpower this cycle on the issues of the economy and illegal immigration - the price of eggs and the lawless influx of self-selecting poor foreigners, two things of which most people had some personal experience so the Press demanding that they disbelieve their lying eyes didn't work.
Clinton could jettison radical black activists in the form of Sista Souljah in 1992, but today's Democrats are true believers. They view the party as a vehicle to impose an alien culture on the United States. To paraphrase a twitter bon mot, as a leftist and to a large extent as a Democrat you can have any of a number of views on economic matters, but you cannot diverge on trannyism, race communism, and abortion: therefore being a Democrat is trannyism, race communism, and abortion. I don't think Harris herself had strong views on many things other than abortion, race communism, and trannyism. I think the rare occasions when Harris was being sincere were obvious - and those occasions were when the issues of abortion and race communism (given her own personal reliance on it). As the piece states, she couldn't talk about trannysim because she would have been sincere about that issue so Trump's trannyism spots went unanswered. She hid and allowed the Party's Press arm to run her campaign for as long as possible. It just didn't work this time.Replies: @Prester John, @Anonymous
Since FDR the secret to the Democrat party’s success was the ability to cobble together altogether different groups into a coalition (including blacks and Johnny Rebs, farmers, working class city dwellers etc) using an overarching appeal to traditional patriotism as the glue which kept them together. That coalition fell apart starting in the Sixties once the halls of elite academia (where the Ruling Class is sired) became flooded with European refugees imbued with what one critic described as “an excess of German (and French) philosophy.” What we have now is a “coalition” of fringe groups who are otherwise separate and distinct from one another but who are united in their hatred for one man–or, more accurately, the people in whose shoes he claims to stand. Ironically, his MAGA movement shares the same love of country as the New Deal whereas the former groups embraced by the Democrats are, if anything, anti-patriotic.
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
Speaking of engineers, I can think of at least two engineers who became president: Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter. Both were of superior intelligence but neither was successful in the Oval Office. This may have something to do with the vicissitudes of politics–but that’s another story.
Très woke HBO just announced a super-high budget 10-year small screen streaming adaptation of all seven Harry Potter books with J. K. Rowling as a producer. Don’t they know that the TERF bitch is permanently cancelled? Is this another sign that the Zeitgeist is changing re things tranny? (Maybe the punchline is that Harry is black In the series,)
Labor unions go back to medieval guilds, so more Lindy than you might think.
Radio is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays - Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once "free" are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.Replies: @J.Ross, @Curle, @Brutusale, @ScarletNumber
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1669
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248137/am-radio-bill-house-energy-commerce-ev-interference
This is a textbook example of lobbyists getting government to put their thumb on the scale in favor of some special interest. If consumers really wanted AM radios then the gubmint wouldn't have to pass a law requiring mfrs to put them in. The idea that AM is necessary for emergencies is BS - everyone has a cell phone and the same info could also go out over FM. My most recent car doesn't have AM and I didn't even notice for some months after I got it. Had I known in advance, I would have bought the car anyway. The one AM station I ever listened to (the local all news station - good for weather forecasts) now duplicates its broadcast over an FM frequency.
If it was just a matter of putting in an AM radio in the car it would be no big deal - at the time of design, maybe adding the AM band adds $10 to the cost of the car. The problem is that in an EV there is all sorts of electrical interference and so you would have to redesign the car with all sorts of shielding and this could be a significant cost.
AM was great technology in 1920 but its time is over. It's time to sunset AM the same way that they sunset analog TV broadcasts. Instead of artificially entrenching it they should be working toward an off-ramp.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Do you truly think these elites are looking out for the working class?Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @kaganovitch, @Brutusale
“Gay Jew” Thiel already HAS his slices of pie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
“The company has three main projects: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, and Palantir Apollo. Palantir Gotham is an intelligence and defense tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts. Its customers included the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense.[7] Their software as a service (SaaS) is one of five offerings authorized for Mission Critical National Security Systems (IL5) by the U.S. Department of Defense.[8][9] Palantir Foundry is used for data integration and analysis by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merck KGaA, Airbus, Wejo, Lilium, PG&E and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.[10] Palantir Apollo is a platform to facilitate continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) across all environments.[11][12]
Palantir’s original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve both international as well as state and local governments, and also to private companies.”[13]
Emphasis on “more” conventional. For example, I know a gay “married” couple who have a house, adopted daughter, and are monogamous…but the house is in San Francisco. Hilariously, they seem to be considered pretty conservative by their peers there (for daring to express some limited sense about SF’s education/crime issues.) And no, they did not vote for Trump.
Have them manually dig out the Rio Grande from the Gulf to the Pacific. Feed them with Liquid Boomers. Go from $40 trillion debt to $40 trillion to the good side in a decade. You’re welcome, kids.
It is expensive for one thing. It isn't just castration but some attempt to construct something like female sex organs. Which as I understand it doesn't work very well and often leads to problems requiring costly additional medical treatment.Replies: @Renard, @Mr. Anon, @John Johnson
All of the medical procedures that constitute “gender affirming care” – giving hormones to people to suppress sexual characteristics, cutting off healthy organs, fashioning fake organs, etc. – if they had been performed by Joseph Mengele, they would have been described as war crimes.
What is being offered as “care” is actually harm. Doctors who perform such procedures should: 1.) be publicly shamed, 2.) have their medical licenses revoked, and 3.) be prosecuted.
John Stewart isn’t that smart:
Yeah, Democratic candidates spent four campaigning on funding the police and securing the border. After four years of being against it.
They spent four months not being overtly woke. After spending four years (and more) demanding that you respect people’s pronouns and blaming whitey for everything.
In addition to the wokeness, I think perhaps a lot of people noted the hypocrisy: Our positions aren’t popular with a lot of people, so we’ll espouse different positions when we’re trying to get your vote. Kamala Harris’s backflips on just about every single issue are exhibit A.
Different animals with different lineages. The successor to the guild is actually the university and the professions.
Without the NLRA unions would go extinct in the US; their last bastion is public sector employment and contracting, where unions shouldn’t exist at all.
There’s a National Treasury Employees Union whose members work for the IRS, which could be one of the worst things I’ve ever read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
"The company has three main projects: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, and Palantir Apollo. Palantir Gotham is an intelligence and defense tool used by militaries and counter-terrorism analysts. Its customers included the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense.[7] Their software as a service (SaaS) is one of five offerings authorized for Mission Critical National Security Systems (IL5) by the U.S. Department of Defense.[8][9] Palantir Foundry is used for data integration and analysis by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merck KGaA, Airbus, Wejo, Lilium, PG&E and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.[10] Palantir Apollo is a platform to facilitate continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) across all environments.[11][12]
Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve both international as well as state and local governments, and also to private companies."[13]Replies: @Mr. Anon
Palantir was created with money from the CIA, through it’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel*.
Imagine that – some people suspect you for being an evil mastermind because you run a data-mining / surveillance company used by governments and powerful interests. Whatever would give them such an idea?
Karp sounds like a creep to me. He’s openly bragged about undermining populist movements in Europe. Karp and Thiel are tight. And, of course, Thiel is the guy who bought himself a Senator, and now a Vice President, in J.D. Vance.
Karp, Thiel, Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Bezos,………….Musk……………..None of these people should be trusted. They have an agenda and it isn’t yours / mine / ours.
*Why the CIA can have it’s own venture capital firm is something I still don’t get. Where is the authorization for that in the Constitution? Could the Treasury Department open up a chain of fried chicken joints? Could the Pentagon start running strip clubs?
It is still early technology. But EVs were 14% of vehicles sold in 2022 and 18% in 2023. Once, the cross over occurs, say in 10 or 15 years, there will be many more charging stations and correspondingly, many gas pumps will be pulled out from uneconomical locales. In 1990, there were pay phones, calling cards aplenty. Now, you hardly see any.
Commentary: US car industry is passing the baton to China with barely a fight
Detroit got the world on the road but BYD will inherit the earth, says Bloomberg Opinion's David Fickling.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/us-american-car-industry-automakers-china-electric-vehicles-4754226
The Hall of Fame is the most un-Rock n Roll thing ever, plus, it’s a lame ripoff of, of all things, German nationalism.
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
I used to think that lawyers were scumbag con artists, but then the lockdown happened, and now I think that lawyers amd doctors are scumbag con artists.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
Why in the hell would he need to join the administration. As I understand, he IS the administration
The 81 million ballots cast for Joe Biden in 2020 were “enhanced voter turnout”, much like the events of January 6, 2021 were “enhanced D.C. tourism.”
OT — but ageless and classic
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248137/am-radio-bill-house-energy-commerce-ev-interferenceReplies: @Jack D
Now that Elon Musk is best buddies with Trump, that Teslas don’t have AM radios and that Musk, with Trump’s endorsement, has vowed to get rid of unnecessary regulatory requirements that raise costs to consumers, what are the chances of Trump signing that bill?
This is a textbook example of lobbyists getting government to put their thumb on the scale in favor of some special interest. If consumers really wanted AM radios then the gubmint wouldn’t have to pass a law requiring mfrs to put them in. The idea that AM is necessary for emergencies is BS – everyone has a cell phone and the same info could also go out over FM. My most recent car doesn’t have AM and I didn’t even notice for some months after I got it. Had I known in advance, I would have bought the car anyway. The one AM station I ever listened to (the local all news station – good for weather forecasts) now duplicates its broadcast over an FM frequency.
If it was just a matter of putting in an AM radio in the car it would be no big deal – at the time of design, maybe adding the AM band adds $10 to the cost of the car. The problem is that in an EV there is all sorts of electrical interference and so you would have to redesign the car with all sorts of shielding and this could be a significant cost.
AM was great technology in 1920 but its time is over. It’s time to sunset AM the same way that they sunset analog TV broadcasts. Instead of artificially entrenching it they should be working toward an off-ramp.
Pandora is free, get it on your phone, put your phone on speaker and off you go. You can tailor “channels”. E.g. Jimmy Buffet, Yacht Rock, 80’s hair bands, whatever you’re into. If it plays a Michael Jackson song, you can “dislike” it and eventually it will learn and you’ll get no more of them.
I can’t help you with the bench seats. They are objectively worse than bucket seats.
They also make versions of this that broadcast over the air and if you still have a cassette deck, that broadcast into you tape head (no hardware mods needed for either one), but the ones that patch into the antenna line work better.
In addition, I was able to get a different gizmo that received bluetooth and sent it to a headphone plug. The net result was that I could send music from my phone (or any other device that has a headphone jack- e.g. an iPod) wirelessly to the speakers of my old car. I think that my total investment in this setup was maybe $50 and the original factory radio remained intact.Replies: @muggles
The only evidence I have is anecdotal. I know such real life couples. They actually exist. I don’t know in what numbers or what % of the gay population but they are not a complete Hollywood fiction.
The google tells me that as of 2022, there were about 741,000 married same-sex couple households in the United States, which is about 58% of all same-sex couple households. Whether these couples live in a suburban house with a white picket fence IDK but they did take the trouble to get married.
But whatever these folks are doing, whether they choose to get married or not doesn’t really affect me either way.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/us-hasnt-seen-syphilis-numbers-high-1950-std-rates-are-flat-rcna136432Neither party has the guts to call out their wanton promiscuity. Monkey pox was nearly a global pandemic because a bunch of gays flew to Europe for an orgy. The government/media at first tried lying and then had to admit that it was being spread by gays. Well it could have easily mutated and spread in childcare centers. Gay men also have much higher rates of drug use. Something like 15% have used meth.This has nothing to do with gay marriage. Being single does not require that they buttf-ck random strangers without condoms.Replies: @Jack D
I had an older car that didn’t even have an input jack and I didn’t want to spring for a whole new radio. But at a minimal cost I was able to get a gizmo that inserted into the antenna line that would “broadcast” whatever you fed its input jack onto an unused FM frequency.
They also make versions of this that broadcast over the air and if you still have a cassette deck, that broadcast into you tape head (no hardware mods needed for either one), but the ones that patch into the antenna line work better.
In addition, I was able to get a different gizmo that received bluetooth and sent it to a headphone plug. The net result was that I could send music from my phone (or any other device that has a headphone jack- e.g. an iPod) wirelessly to the speakers of my old car. I think that my total investment in this setup was maybe $50 and the original factory radio remained intact.
It had no FM radio. Also, most of my distance trips were several thousands of miles in Texas and out west, where even AM radio disappeared other than the Jesus stations. Even they would disappear other than at night.
Since I drove thousands of miles myself, alone, I ended up taking a portable cassette player and my dozens of tape cassettes.
I leaned to change out the tapes one handed, so I could also drive and pop in new music.
This kept me awake and musical.
Seems primitive in the age of satellite audio but it worked and was fairly cheap, if you already had the tapes.Replies: @Jack D
You previously mentioned that Buffet’s takeover somehow ended the pensions at the company where your father worked. .
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about “over funded” plans which the IRS doesn’t like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can’t touch past pension contributions.
And a furniture company called Courts took cash for the executive scheme while the workers scheme was underfunded. One guy killed himself when he found he had no pension.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/courts-chief-s-pension-transfer-to-be-probed-7185992.htmlMaxwell, Cohen - there's some link, I'm sure.Replies: @muggles
This isn't true. Most companies have switched from traditional defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans (like 401ks). I was working for IBM when they switched. They told us at the time that one reason was that when they were competing with other companies to hire someone the candidate typically just compared salaries and assigned no value to IBM's pension plan. I found this believable, I had no idea what IBM's defined benefit plan was worth to me each year in terms of dollars. But when they switched to a 401k it was easy to see what the company match was each year.
Defined benefit plans are costly for the company and not valued as much by employees which make them an inefficient form of compensation.Replies: @muggles
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
Decades ago I remember seeing a television program which featured Ralph Nader, notorious lawyer who attacks industry, talking to an audience about ‘criminal engineers,’ and one of the people in the audience said:
“There’s more people in your profession in jail than mine.”
This is a textbook example of lobbyists getting government to put their thumb on the scale in favor of some special interest. If consumers really wanted AM radios then the gubmint wouldn't have to pass a law requiring mfrs to put them in. The idea that AM is necessary for emergencies is BS - everyone has a cell phone and the same info could also go out over FM. My most recent car doesn't have AM and I didn't even notice for some months after I got it. Had I known in advance, I would have bought the car anyway. The one AM station I ever listened to (the local all news station - good for weather forecasts) now duplicates its broadcast over an FM frequency.
If it was just a matter of putting in an AM radio in the car it would be no big deal - at the time of design, maybe adding the AM band adds $10 to the cost of the car. The problem is that in an EV there is all sorts of electrical interference and so you would have to redesign the car with all sorts of shielding and this could be a significant cost.
AM was great technology in 1920 but its time is over. It's time to sunset AM the same way that they sunset analog TV broadcasts. Instead of artificially entrenching it they should be working toward an off-ramp.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“This is a textbook example of lobbyists getting government to put their thumb on the scale in favor of some special interest.”
Ha ha. You saw it here first, damas y caballeros.
The jooiest Joo of Unz whining and complaining about “lobbyists put[ting] their thumb on the scale in favor of some special interest.”
Of course it’s not relevant really, because the joooos don’t put a thumb on the scale; they put a fist, an elbow, and the carcass of a sea lion on the scale. And besides, jooish interests aren’t “special” interests; they are fully congruent with American interests, being Our Greatest Ally and what-not.
But don’t you worry, Jack, this remark isn’t anti-semitic: you see, it is only those pesky joos who are to blame — not the loveable, long-suffering, noble-victim Jews.
I don't believe they did. Aside from the obvious (no votes for minors, women, or slaves) I'm fairly sure property and income qualifications were common.
Does the Constitution refer to 'the will of the people' at all? Certainly what I've read of the electoral process in colonial Virginia makes it improbable that such sentiments would have been incorporated in the document. A grandee like Washington would solicit the good opinion of the lesser gentry by holding lavish parties and things (hence the need to be a grandee). The opinion of the local blacksmith's apprentice didn't come into it at all.
My impression (and here I am happy to be corrected) is that this country didn't become a democracy in even the most limited sense until the Jackson presidency. I'd say it wasn't so much that this country was intended to become a democracy as that there were no firm obstacles to such a development; no clearly demarcated aristocracy or ideology supporting such an institution, no shortage of land forcing the lower classes into economic dependence on their betters, no powerful state able to consistently suppress expressions of popular unrest, etc.
We became a democracy not because we meant to, but because there was nothing to prevent it.Replies: @Wielgus, @Jim Don Bob
The USA is a republic, not a democracy. There is a difference.
The current report is that 86% of the vote has been counted. Furthermore, in California, supposedly 72.9% of the vote has been counted. I would expect that most of that 27.1% will go to Harris. The final vote count may look quite different within a week, although this won't change the outcome of the electoral vote.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
It would appear that California and Arizona just keep counting for as long as they can.
Thanks. Agree.
When I can, I’ve been catching some leftist Black women on XM, plus Sharpton. They’ve been giddy over a new age of Black political power: leftist Whites and immigrants voting exclusively for Kamala type DEI candidates; old White guys dying off and fading away; Blacks as swing voters that determine elections.
They also make versions of this that broadcast over the air and if you still have a cassette deck, that broadcast into you tape head (no hardware mods needed for either one), but the ones that patch into the antenna line work better.
In addition, I was able to get a different gizmo that received bluetooth and sent it to a headphone plug. The net result was that I could send music from my phone (or any other device that has a headphone jack- e.g. an iPod) wirelessly to the speakers of my old car. I think that my total investment in this setup was maybe $50 and the original factory radio remained intact.Replies: @muggles
During the early 70s my first car was an AMC Gremlin.
It had no FM radio. Also, most of my distance trips were several thousands of miles in Texas and out west, where even AM radio disappeared other than the Jesus stations. Even they would disappear other than at night.
Since I drove thousands of miles myself, alone, I ended up taking a portable cassette player and my dozens of tape cassettes.
I leaned to change out the tapes one handed, so I could also drive and pop in new music.
This kept me awake and musical.
Seems primitive in the age of satellite audio but it worked and was fairly cheap, if you already had the tapes.
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about "over funded" plans which the IRS doesn't like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can't touch past pension contributions.Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Buzz Mohawk, @James B. Shearer
Thanks.
I suspect this is what happened here.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg
It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.
I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.
Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @newrouter, @AnotherDad
Ok, Jack you’re not an economics guy.
As some dude once quipped:
I don’t think old Milton is correct–or even all that insightful–in all of his analysis or prescriptions. But at the straightforward level this is true. And in the case of the post-covid inflation surge it is mind-numbingly obvious what happened: The Fed printed bales–“quantitative easing”–of money to stave off having a complete great depression style meltdown from the covid lockdowns/unemployment.
Anyone who doesn’t understand this should look at this chart. I could not be clearer:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
This was reasonable and the Fed was fairly successful in avoiding a meltdown. However, after the vaccine rollout as things flipped back toward normal and people rushed out to enjoy life … all this money and the Fed’s low rates had demand surging against all these supply chain bottlenecks and breakdowns from covid.
For instance, we–ridiculously–could not even build fricking pickups without a bunch of chips from Asia. Our elites have stupidly–pushing globalist fantasies–made the US ridiculously dependent on all sorts of crap from Asia, and particularly China. And the Chicom leadership–while they’ve performed better than our parasitic goon “elite”–aren’t exactly geniuses and made an even worse hash out of covid that in the US.
Anyway, this is dogmeat simple: a huge surge of extra money, chasing a constrained supply of goods.
Biden’s contribution to this was relatively modest. Tossing further spending stimulus–but pretty much the same negative trendline pre-covid from Trump–into the mix
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
as % of GDP (the more useful picture):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
… and, of course, waving in millions of foreigners further juicing demand–especially housing–while producing little to nothing and forcing up government spending.
To its credit the Fed has been modestly “quantitative tightening” the past couple years and–too slowly–got around to raising rates and has modestly contained the “goods” inflation.
The disaster for most people–and especially for young people and “affordable family formation” is housing. There the immigration loons have seemingly nuked Ben Franklin’s astute observations about why (cheap land, dear labor) America was so damn nice and stuck us with Asiatic style housing prices.
Anyone who could look at a receipt could see that it was running a good twenty percent a year. If you buy goods from Amazon, you can easily check this: go back and look what you paid for x four years ago and what it costs now. It's all right there: it's not your imagination.
And yet we kept getting these solemn discussions about whether three percent or five percent or whatever percent inflation was too much...as if that was the actual rate.
At least back in the day -- the late Seventies -- when we had galloping inflation, the politicians and the media had the decency to run around and wave their arms in the air. This time around, the swine just insisted it wasn't happening. It was infuriating.
-- repudiation of Biden's--i.e. Mayorkas and company's--open border insanity-
-- rejection of a vapid, silly, racialist candidateAnd there were a couple notable positives:
-- Trump did better in the Hispanic vote than any Republican in decades (maybe ever). AnotherMom pointed out to me that the Rio Grand valley had gone slightly for Trump--the Mayoras and company open border insanity was that unpleasant for the Mexican Americans on the front line.
-- Trump was very close with the Gen Y youth vote. Maybe even a thin majority of Gen Y men. Woke produces lots of crazy young women, but it turns off a lot of normal young people.But "huge" or "historic" ... uh.
Seriously here's what a historic realignment actually looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Nixon cementing in the 6th party system--against a much, much more credible, honest and decent human being and candidate than Kamala. Republicans won 5 of 6 elections '68 to '88 and lost the 6th to Carter very narrowly. Here's FDR starting the 5th party system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
In contrast, Trump won his extra's--Wisconsin, Michigan--within a 1% flip. He won the election with 2% wins in Pennsylvania and Georgia and 3% in North Carolina. The later two having generally been Republican during the last 50 years with reasonably credible Republican candidates (and not having Carter--from GA--on the ballot). And demographic change is moving those states ever more toward the Democrats.Trump managed to pickup ... Nevada. But made no pickups in any of the plausible white states--Minnesota (Harris 4), NH (3), Maine (7). Nor the supposedly reachable light blues VA (5), NM (6).And Trump had essentially no discernable coattails. Managed to drag ... what ... one? two? Senators across. I'd say Teeter in Montana and maybe Sherrod Brown in Ohio were probably gone anyway--living on borrowed time in Red states. I'd give Trump the guy who beat Bob Casey in PA. But couldn't win the open seat in Michigan, couldn't beat the girl in Wisconsin, couldn't win in Nevada and--if they ever finish counting--probably not in Arizona either.
And this whopping 2.7% win against this a vapid, cackling, anti-white doofus--representing an administration that threw open the border and flooded America with 10 million random foreigners.In a sane country Harris might expect to get
-- childless cat ladies
-- homosexuals, trannies and assorted queers
-- government bureaucrats
-- affirmative action dependent blacks
-- minorities nursing grievance against white people
...
uh ... I can't think of anyone else. In a sane nation, this should have a truly historic 80-20 50 state blowout win for Trump.So don't kid yourself about what happened. Trump squeaked by. But you live in a nation where 70 million plus, 48% of the voters chose Kamala Harris. And the demographics are sliding against normal heritage Americans every day.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Rich, @bomag, @Currahee
When you have:
-executive
-judiciary
-legislatilve,
in your pocket, who needs a landslide?
It is very far removed from the issues that really matter to the American voters who loudly made their perspective known.
Nice try, Steve.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian, @NoMoreLurking
Freaks have percolated all levels of the society. Don’t be naive. Just remember Ketanji Brown & her inability to define the concept of “woman”.
He may not be devout, but he certainly is……, well you know: we have all met this guy once or many times.
Okay, okay. It is giving encouragement to the forces of Darkness — but that is good.
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
The profession used to be more prestigious. About 1980, the phrase was ‘I want to be a lawyer and help people.’
…but reality sinks in. A father of a friend of mine wound up being the go-to criminal lawyer in Oakland, Ca. He found it depressing to realize what he’d done with his life. So many who hired him did so because the accused was such an asshole that he wasn’t going to be able to get by with the public defender and plea-bargaining his way out of what he’d done. The family had to pass around the hat and hire father to get Travontis off of this one.
…but it could be funny. This was back in the day; no automatic traffic school. So my friend got a ticket, and he wanted daddums to represent him. Father: ‘what do you want me to do?’ Son: ‘Get me traffic school.’
So the big day comes. The judge looks at the ticket and says ‘Do you want me to throw this out, [first name]?’
‘No, your honor. My client requests traffic school.’
As some dude once quipped:I don't think old Milton is correct--or even all that insightful--in all of his analysis or prescriptions. But at the straightforward level this is true. And in the case of the post-covid inflation surge it is mind-numbingly obvious what happened: The Fed printed bales--"quantitative easing"--of money to stave off having a complete great depression style meltdown from the covid lockdowns/unemployment.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look at this chart. I could not be clearer:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
This was reasonable and the Fed was fairly successful in avoiding a meltdown. However, after the vaccine rollout as things flipped back toward normal and people rushed out to enjoy life ... all this money and the Fed's low rates had demand surging against all these supply chain bottlenecks and breakdowns from covid.
For instance, we--ridiculously--could not even build fricking pickups without a bunch of chips from Asia. Our elites have stupidly--pushing globalist fantasies--made the US ridiculously dependent on all sorts of crap from Asia, and particularly China. And the Chicom leadership--while they've performed better than our parasitic goon "elite"--aren't exactly geniuses and made an even worse hash out of covid that in the US.
Anyway, this is dogmeat simple: a huge surge of extra money, chasing a constrained supply of goods.
Biden's contribution to this was relatively modest. Tossing further spending stimulus--but pretty much the same negative trendline pre-covid from Trump--into the mix
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
as % of GDP (the more useful picture):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
... and, of course, waving in millions of foreigners further juicing demand--especially housing--while producing little to nothing and forcing up government spending.
To its credit the Fed has been modestly "quantitative tightening" the past couple years and--too slowly--got around to raising rates and has modestly contained the "goods" inflation.
The disaster for most people--and especially for young people and "affordable family formation" is housing. There the immigration loons have seemingly nuked Ben Franklin's astute observations about why (cheap land, dear labor) America was so damn nice and stuck us with Asiatic style housing prices.Replies: @Colin Wright, @James B. Shearer
What got to me wasn’t the inflation itself so much as the way they goddamned lied about it.
Anyone who could look at a receipt could see that it was running a good twenty percent a year. If you buy goods from Amazon, you can easily check this: go back and look what you paid for x four years ago and what it costs now. It’s all right there: it’s not your imagination.
And yet we kept getting these solemn discussions about whether three percent or five percent or whatever percent inflation was too much…as if that was the actual rate.
At least back in the day — the late Seventies — when we had galloping inflation, the politicians and the media had the decency to run around and wave their arms in the air. This time around, the swine just insisted it wasn’t happening. It was infuriating.
OT — We are now running put of conspiracy theories. Vindication again! Time to read up on Jewish space lasers.
OT — Indeed.
https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/d118557351d794dbd2c09ea7c541c0a6.jpg
OT, but has anyone been negatively impacted by this, as reported in the Guardian?
“After Trump’s election, women are swearing off sex with men. This has been a long time coming”
‘No man will touch me until I have my rights back’
I tend to assume this movement will collapse due to the age-old problem of fraternising with the enemy.
As illustrated in this fantasy piece, also from the Graun:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/08/trad-wife-happy-marriage-friends-advice-column
As someone said elsewhere – “the catch is that it was this guy who drugged her”.
I suspect these vows (to the extent that these women were having sex in the 1st place, which is not very much) will have around the same shelf life as New Year's Resolutions - say 2 or 3 weeks and they will be forgotten.
However, some Leftist women are shaving their heads (another example of "cutting off your nose to spite your face") and it's gonna take them more than a couple of weeks for their hair to grow back.
I suspect that on a statistical basis the # of women who are actually doing this is nothing. There are just a handful of loudmouths that get flagged by the media. It's like how 5 "famous" Puerto Rican musicians who were Kamala supporters to begin with came out and denounced Trump because a comedian at his rally told a joke about Puerto Rico and this was supposed to swing the election but in reality Trump won in heavily Puerto Rican districts in Florida. What you see in the media has about as much resemblance to reality as pro wrestling does. You have to understand it all as a type of entertainment.Replies: @AnotherDad
Where (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips got her name, I don't know. But it wasn't from family friend and colleague Scott McKenzie, who was all of 20 at her birth. He recounted how he got his (stage) name from her.
White folks have no idea how to christen children anymore, and are in no place to mock blacks. The program at our elementary school's Veterans Day event showed five pupils for whom a Y was used to replace an unaccented A, E, I, or O. ("Madisyn" wasn't one of them-- don't want to dox-- but it gives you an idea.)
All that was missing was the U. No Edmynd, Tatym, or Ursyla.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1855608085571580169Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
OK. Five million who showed up for Biden didn’t show up for Harris.
Five million Democrats who stayed home rather than save the nation from the pussy-grabbing, Russia-spying, CONVICTED FELON Dondolf Trumpler. Definitely nothing to see here.
Let's look at 2024 vs. 2016. (And assume Nate Silver's final numbers are a decent estimate.)
Trump -- +15.5 million votes! (63m to 78.5m)
Harris -- +10 million votes (66m to 76m) ... and loses!
Now jump back to your obviously fraudulent 2020 election, vs. 2016:
Biden -- +15.4 million votes! (66m to 81.3m)
Trump -- +11 million votes (63m to 74m) ... and loses!
Both 2020 and 2024 show very similar juiced turnout relative to 2016. One is illegitimate and the other just fine?
I'm somebody who thinks the Democrats won in 2020 in large part by censorship and loosening the election rules. And maybe they even flat out stole it in GA, WI and AZ. Could be? But it was the year of covid-crazy--lockdowns, riots, collapsing economy. "Wrong track". The incumbent gets blamed. People showed up to vote. That's not weird and we just saw another very high turnout compared to the "old order" of 2016.
Seems obvious: Trump brings out the voters--for and against. Trump is a "democracy booster".
But how Trump does depends quite a bit on who he's running against and who gets blamed for what.
Trump vs. Hillary (smart, but unpleasant white woman) -- Trump squeaks by
Trump vs. Biden (known quantity generic white guy ... in year of covid-crazy) -- Trump narrowly loses
Trump vs. Harris (vapid, cackling, pseudo-black, Indian woman ... after inflation and open borders lunacy) -- Trump narrowly wins.
Take home:
Encourage the Democrats to keep nominating crappy female candidates and our Republic's future looks bright.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colin Wright
And soon to be President-grabbing, Russia-collusion exonerated, UNCONVICTED PRESIDENT-ELECT NO LONGER A FELON DONALD J TRUMP once those convictions are EXPUNGED.
So get it right, and get used to it.
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about "over funded" plans which the IRS doesn't like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can't touch past pension contributions.Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Buzz Mohawk, @James B. Shearer
There have been some evil deeds in times not so long ago, though, Robert Maxwell used the Daily Mirror pension fund to keep his business afloat for a while,
And a furniture company called Courts took cash for the executive scheme while the workers scheme was underfunded. One guy killed himself when he found he had no pension.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/courts-chief-s-pension-transfer-to-be-probed-7185992.html
Maxwell, Cohen – there’s some link, I’m sure.
Pension laws may be different there.
It appears that even there litigation is likely if you start monkeying with assets.
Any unguarded pot of money that can be "gamed" for someone's benefit will be, eventually.
The BLM "nonprofit" grift money is still unaccounted for. "Nonprofits" are vulnerable since they are often poorly managed or audited. Even then, the IRS has pretty tough tax reporting laws regarding insiders. These have been strengthened in recent decades.
In the past in the US, pension assets were far more vulnerable to being misused. These days large and even small companies hire professional pension and asset management firms to administer them. They don't want any liability for pensions other than contributing annual amounts due.
When I was a kid and my uncle still kept some sheep on my grandfather’s pasture, he would just stretch these tight little elastic bands around the rams’ testes. They would cut off the blood supply and eventually the things would wither, atrophy and fall off.
Looks like you can a 3-pack (3 x 100 bands per pack)–enough to fix 300 prisoners–for just $14 on Amazon. Just saying.
I saw some, complete with a kind of pliers applicator device, in a farmers shop in what was then rural Herefordshire 40 years ago. I never forgot the device name:
"Bal-Zac"
I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.
-Psalm 76
Contrary to what you may have heard, there actually is magic dirt in the country— yes there is; and I can attest to its wonder.
About fifteen miles north of Santa Fe is a locality called Chimayo, where a wooden crucifix was discovered a long time ago a stone’s throw from the Santa Cruz river by Spanish settlers who found it buried in the dirt. No one knew how it got there, and word went out that a miracle had been uncovered. They marked the site and today the place is a shrine called El Santuario de Chimayo that draws some 300,000 pilgrims annually. Tradition has grown up around the dirt and the pilgrims take it home with them.
One time I had about ten miles left to walk and I just could not imagine going through with it because my feet hurt so bad. Then an angel must have touched me because the thought came to me to use the dirt. So I sat down and took my boots off and dusted my feet with the blessed dirt. Then, yes, a miracle— yes, a real miracle did in fact occur. When I got up my feet felt perfectly fine, good as new, as if the blisters weren’t even there. I walked the rest of the way knowing I would never forget the memory God was giving me. A couple weeks later I did the same thing and it worked again. Then I tried it again and it didn’t. Sometimes you are supposed to take the pain—but we knew that.
The blessed dirt of Chimayo makes me think of the good soil Christ spoke of, and reminds me of what was special about Juan Diego, the native who was a new convert when the Blessed Virgin appeared to him in 1531. What was special about Juan Diego is that he was walking fifteen miles to Church every day. Then he would walk back. He pretty much did nothing but walk all day so that he would never miss Mass.
What Apocalypto proved is that you can make a movie about anything and it will be worthy of the One True Faith as long as the one scene where God shows up, so to speak, puts everything in its proper perspective. It doesn’t even have to happen at the end like in Apocalypto. It could just as well be somewhere in the middle or even at the beginning. The rule is that it needs to be as brave as a Franciscan missionary and as bold as a Spanish conquistador. And people would wonder when they saw the preview, “Hmmm, what’s the Apocalypto scene going to be like in this one?” Then eventually I suppose they would drop “scene” and just say Apocalypto: “What’s the apocalypto going to be in this one?” It is as if it is meant to be; it would be an Apocalypto Renaissance.
At the Santuario there is a statue that reminds us of how young Guadalupe’s children are. When you consider what Christendom looked like in the sixth century, well, the future of the faith on this side of the ocean looks pretty glorious if the past is any indication. Yes, pretty glorious indeed.
The statue, in case you were wondering, is called The Three Races.
I have been there several times. Always visitors there, though it is off the beaten path.
It does remind you of how the Catholic Church was seen centuries ago, and still is in a few places.
It is very sad that the area this is in is now notorious, or was, for its many rural heroin addicts. It is quite picturesque and the acquacitas (sp?), small irrigation ditches with water from the mountains, are still used to water the many nearby small farm fields.
It is in a very old, historic area of northern New Mexico where the Hispanic residents regard anyone from Mexico whose families arrived after, say 1760, as "newcomers" and interlopers.
While NM has many Hispanic residents, the northern NM ones are a different breed. Culturally, it is a very interesting place.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon
But great if you feel the need to take a nap during a long drive. Dogs like them too. Saves them from watching the road ahead over your shoulder in a car and keeps them out of the bed, even if covered, in a truck. And in a truck with no back seat you can transport three people if needed. You have to coordinate legs during gear shifts but that’s easy to do.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1856371110842896819Replies: @Jim Don Bob
More winning: MSNBC has lost half its viewers in the last week and is now for sale by Comcast.
Five million Democrats who stayed home rather than save the nation from the pussy-grabbing, Russia-spying, CONVICTED FELON Dondolf Trumpler. Definitely nothing to see here.Replies: @guest007, @AnotherDad, @Precious
First, the 2020 turnout was the highest it had been in decades. Second, several million of the voters switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024.
I’m reminded of the scene from No Country for Old Men where the drug boss asks Chigurh, “Mind ridin’ bitch?”
The google tells me that as of 2022, there were about 741,000 married same-sex couple households in the United States, which is about 58% of all same-sex couple households. Whether these couples live in a suburban house with a white picket fence IDK but they did take the trouble to get married.
But whatever these folks are doing, whether they choose to get married or not doesn't really affect me either way.Replies: @John Johnson
The google tells me that as of 2022, there were about 741,000 married same-sex couple households in the United States, which is about 58% of all same-sex couple households. Whether these couples live in a suburban house with a white picket fence IDK but they did take the trouble to get married.
But whatever these folks are doing, whether they choose to get married or not doesn’t really affect me either way.
Yes it does affect you.
The US government pays billions in STD related medical bills for gay men. Just read this amusing newspeak article where they try to dance around the basic fact that gay men are the primary spreaders of syphilis.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/us-hasnt-seen-syphilis-numbers-high-1950-std-rates-are-flat-rcna136432
Neither party has the guts to call out their wanton promiscuity.
Monkey pox was nearly a global pandemic because a bunch of gays flew to Europe for an orgy. The government/media at first tried lying and then had to admit that it was being spread by gays. Well it could have easily mutated and spread in childcare centers.
Gay men also have much higher rates of drug use. Something like 15% have used meth.
This has nothing to do with gay marriage. Being single does not require that they buttf-ck random strangers without condoms.
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.Replies: @Alden, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson, @newrouter
Steve gets a shout out from Michael Barone as an “iconoclastic blogger” here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3224686/this-weeks-elections-upon-further-review/
Can the NYT be far behind?
It is expensive for one thing. It isn't just castration but some attempt to construct something like female sex organs. Which as I understand it doesn't work very well and often leads to problems requiring costly additional medical treatment.Replies: @Renard, @Mr. Anon, @John Johnson
Sex change” operations on prisoners sounds fine to me. If an aggressive guy wants to lose the pair of glands that produce the hormone that made him aggressive, why would we object?”
Because predators will inevitably use it to gain access to a women’s prison and to escape a hostile situation. They’re not women and cutting their balls off will not make them so. It isn’t fair to the women to subject them to some creep that is really just a psychopathic eunuch.
California already had a case where someone wanted to switch back. Do we pay for that as well?
The better solution is to have these prisoners break rocks and tell them to be glad this isn’t 1880 where they would have been hanged. 10 hours of hard labor and they will not be thinking about wanting to swap out for a hoochie.
I’m reminded of that scene in No Country for old Men where Chigurh and two drug bosses all have to pile in a 1978 pickup. One of the bosses asks Chigurh, “Mind ridin’ bitch?”
Five million Democrats who stayed home rather than save the nation from the pussy-grabbing, Russia-spying, CONVICTED FELON Dondolf Trumpler. Definitely nothing to see here.Replies: @guest007, @AnotherDad, @Precious
Ok, let’s pretend for a second 2020 election never happened:
Let’s look at 2024 vs. 2016. (And assume Nate Silver’s final numbers are a decent estimate.)
Trump — +15.5 million votes! (63m to 78.5m)
Harris — +10 million votes (66m to 76m) … and loses!
Now jump back to your obviously fraudulent 2020 election, vs. 2016:
Biden — +15.4 million votes! (66m to 81.3m)
Trump — +11 million votes (63m to 74m) … and loses!
Both 2020 and 2024 show very similar juiced turnout relative to 2016. One is illegitimate and the other just fine?
I’m somebody who thinks the Democrats won in 2020 in large part by censorship and loosening the election rules. And maybe they even flat out stole it in GA, WI and AZ. Could be? But it was the year of covid-crazy–lockdowns, riots, collapsing economy. “Wrong track”. The incumbent gets blamed. People showed up to vote. That’s not weird and we just saw another very high turnout compared to the “old order” of 2016.
Seems obvious: Trump brings out the voters–for and against. Trump is a “democracy booster”.
But how Trump does depends quite a bit on who he’s running against and who gets blamed for what.
Trump vs. Hillary (smart, but unpleasant white woman) — Trump squeaks by
Trump vs. Biden (known quantity generic white guy … in year of covid-crazy) — Trump narrowly loses
Trump vs. Harris (vapid, cackling, pseudo-black, Indian woman … after inflation and open borders lunacy) — Trump narrowly wins.
Take home:
Encourage the Democrats to keep nominating crappy female candidates and our Republic’s future looks bright.
So why not us? Itsa mystery.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Five million Democrats who stayed home rather than save the nation from the pussy-grabbing, Russia-spying, CONVICTED FELON Dondolf Trumpler. Definitely nothing to see here.Replies: @guest007, @AnotherDad, @Precious
That’s President-grabbing, Russia-collusion exonerated, CONVICTED PRESIDENT-ELECT FELON DONALD J TRUMP to you sir.
And soon to be President-grabbing, Russia-collusion exonerated, UNCONVICTED PRESIDENT-ELECT NO LONGER A FELON DONALD J TRUMP once those convictions are EXPUNGED.
So get it right, and get used to it.
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump's term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
The Trump economy was not all that great. Economic growth was 1.5% yearly, half the 3% average from 1954 to 2016. Even if you take out the lockdown year of 2020, economic growth was only 2.2%. This 2.2% is about the same as under Biden.
All the mostly White Boomers retiring and being replaced by more non-White and less
productive younger workers is slowing economic growth, as is increasing levels of government spending as Social Security, Medicare and interest costs rise. The country may not fall apart but there will be more resistance from red state governors whenever the Dems control the federal government and try to institute bad policies.Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @James B. Shearer, @John Johnson
A lot of that deficit spending took place in the last year, 2020, of Trump’s term in order to offset the negative effects of the Covid lockdowns. Trump got lucky that the inflation did not hit until after he left office and Biden got the full blame.
This is a long term problem with deficit spending.
The president that writes the checks gets the growth and especially if they go directly into the economy like the relief checks.
Now for the record I supported the relief checks but not locking down the economy which is what really ran up the debt. It was all just so stupid and you are correct that Biden got dumped with the inflation.
Not that Biden is some type of victim. He is just clueless.
Putin is making the same mistake. He is writing checks to fund military production and not fixing the underlying inflation. So he can show growth in the form of production but isn’t accounting for supply and demand problems that cause the inflation.
What is different now as opposed to the Clinton era is that the Democratic Party intelligentsia is significantly to the left of large swaths of its electoral coalition and even further to the left of the voters they need to win national elections on numerous issues. Their only saving grace is that the legacy Press is part of the Democratic Party, and has the ability to redirect the "national conversation" to areas which favor the Democrats (see, for example, Trump getting shot). I think we saw the limits of that superpower this cycle on the issues of the economy and illegal immigration - the price of eggs and the lawless influx of self-selecting poor foreigners, two things of which most people had some personal experience so the Press demanding that they disbelieve their lying eyes didn't work.
Clinton could jettison radical black activists in the form of Sista Souljah in 1992, but today's Democrats are true believers. They view the party as a vehicle to impose an alien culture on the United States. To paraphrase a twitter bon mot, as a leftist and to a large extent as a Democrat you can have any of a number of views on economic matters, but you cannot diverge on trannyism, race communism, and abortion: therefore being a Democrat is trannyism, race communism, and abortion. I don't think Harris herself had strong views on many things other than abortion, race communism, and trannyism. I think the rare occasions when Harris was being sincere were obvious - and those occasions were when the issues of abortion and race communism (given her own personal reliance on it). As the piece states, she couldn't talk about trannysim because she would have been sincere about that issue so Trump's trannyism spots went unanswered. She hid and allowed the Party's Press arm to run her campaign for as long as possible. It just didn't work this time.Replies: @Prester John, @Anonymous
This is a feature of all political parties, of the right as well as the left.
The activists are always more radical than the voters.
This is good, because it means highly-motivated people willing to do all the boring gruntwork necessary to win elections.
But it’s bad when they take over the party and start to set political agendas. This repels the voters and causes lost elections.
It had no FM radio. Also, most of my distance trips were several thousands of miles in Texas and out west, where even AM radio disappeared other than the Jesus stations. Even they would disappear other than at night.
Since I drove thousands of miles myself, alone, I ended up taking a portable cassette player and my dozens of tape cassettes.
I leaned to change out the tapes one handed, so I could also drive and pop in new music.
This kept me awake and musical.
Seems primitive in the age of satellite audio but it worked and was fairly cheap, if you already had the tapes.Replies: @Jack D
I had a Ford Maverick at that time which was also a “stripper”. Based on the even then obsolete 1960 Ford Falcon chassis but with a restyled body. It had no carpet, 3 on the tree manual transmission and an AM only radio. However, I bought an aftermarket radio for it that had AM/FM and cassette. I bought the car used for only $500 (even though it was only a couple of years old and in good shape, cars in those days depreciated rapidly because their bodies would rust out in only a few years) so I figured that I could afford the radio. Probably the factory speaker was no better than what was in a cassette player but at least it was wired into the car and didn’t require changing the batteries.
How long before she realizes that her sexual competitors aren’t taking this vow and that, try as she might to bring about a p*ssy shortage, her endeavor is getting her nowhere?
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/us-hasnt-seen-syphilis-numbers-high-1950-std-rates-are-flat-rcna136432Neither party has the guts to call out their wanton promiscuity. Monkey pox was nearly a global pandemic because a bunch of gays flew to Europe for an orgy. The government/media at first tried lying and then had to admit that it was being spread by gays. Well it could have easily mutated and spread in childcare centers. Gay men also have much higher rates of drug use. Something like 15% have used meth.This has nothing to do with gay marriage. Being single does not require that they buttf-ck random strangers without condoms.Replies: @Jack D
That some gays are wantonly promiscuous has nothing to do with whether gay marriage is or is not a good thing. Like I said before, if I had to guess, gay marriage probably acts as a brake on promiscuity. I don’t see a mechanism by which it makes it worse.
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn’t seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed – it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn’t add or take away from the institution of marriage.
If we not merely tolerate homosexuality but celebrate it, and indicate our hearty approval with such phenomena as Gay Pride parades and endorsing homosexual unions via permitting homosexual 'marriages,' we'll get a lot more homosexuals.
Really. This isn't either to condemn it or to condone it. It's just to point out what will happen.
Now, speaking for myself, I see no reason to hunt homosexuals through the streets. But I also see no good reason to celebrate it. It should be tolerated. Tacitly and reluctantly. Like your teenaged son gets drunk after the friday night football game. You don't need to throw a fit -- but you also don't need to signal your approval.Replies: @Jack D
"Gay marriage" is a judeo-christian belief that I find silly.
Eleven is an interesting number. It is either the fourth or fifth prime number, and if you want to give the vets a hand you need two to be a number most unique. The word eleven, that looks like the letter "l" in an even way. Which is odd. The most intuitive way to understand eleven is just ten plus one. But if you are thinking about symbolic meaning, the question becomes more like, is ten really self-similar to one? Or, what does five times two have to do with one? That starts things getting mystical.
The number twelve symbolizes mystical completeion, probably because man has ten digits on two hands. In a sense, ten is only useful if it is twelve. Ten is the total number of fingers; twelves is the symbol of mystical completion. Eleven, however, being in the middle of ten and twelve, is rather more misty than mystical you might say. But let us never forget that it is much fun to imagine, and consider how five twice and one might be mystically understood. If twelve is the number of mystical completion because man has ten fingers on two hands, the simple or primitive symbol of Man as a number would be not ten but five, for at least three reasons.
One, because if it was ten, it might as well be twenty, which seems too big to be a number we are trying to think of as basic. Two, because Man looks more like five extremities than a stick figure, he looks more like the shape of the seeds in an apple core than five arms and a head. He just does. And three, because he has five senses. (Now they say we have six senses but as I understand that idea you would have to add up every aspect of the unconscious to get a true count of the ways man is effectively aware of his environment.)
So if five is a symbol of Man simply considered, eleven, which is five twice and one, sort of looks like a mystical symbol of the nature of a human union. Two strangers might be ten, but eleven would be two humans working together, a figure greater than the sum of its parts (if we could only keep track of ourselves).
But what does that have to do with Veterans Day, which is two elevens? One thing two elevens makes me think of is the new Adam and the new Eve. That fits nicely the double symmetry of two elevens next to each other. But what fits better than that for what is significant about Veterans is a moral regarding the second tandem in the Bible, Cain and Abel. That brotherhood ended badly; but one reason to remember it on Veteran's Day is to remind soldiers that good brothers should make the same excellent sacrifice. What we are really thinking of then is the new Cain and Abel. Which is a neat idea. The most traditional Catholic I could find once said to me that what makes an army a Christian Army is a single simple motion from the leader at the right time: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
"By that one motion he was commanding a Christian Army."
The point of a code is that it is not connected to the thing it stands for the way a symbol is connected to the thing it stands for. (The funny thing is that the best code for eleven is probably twelve; one is one twice and one is one two-- but who would guess to check there?) After a while though symbols become codes because we forget what they mean. The star of David, for example, is officially blue, but who ever heard of a blue star? Nor do they know what the symbol aside from the color means---though it is probably one of those things that always meant more than anyone knew. The best guess I have heard is that it came from the first and last initial of David's name, which he fit together by a simple rotation. Then he put the symbol on the shields, and that may have been a more fitting thing for the king to do than he knew. Why? Because Plato called time a moving picture of eternity, which is probably true, and means that time is a fourth dimension and eternity the fifth. Six, then, would be a symbol of God acting from all time, as we imagine He specially does with those he has destined to be chosen. David's shield was God's promise to him.
And finally, just because we are having so much fun I will add one more speculation, that if six is a symbol of God's action from all time, seven, which I have heard is God's favorite number, would be a symbol of what God probably does do at rest: contemplate the whole scope of what He has done.
That seems to fit. It just does.
God bless the vets!Replies: @SFG, @prosa123, @ScarletNumber, @Rich, @Joe Stalin, @Alden
I think 11/11/ is either the day of the armistice or the day the war formally ended.
I knew someone who had a baby boy that weighed 7 pounds. On July the 7th month the 7th day of July in 1977. DOB 7/7/77.
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.Replies: @Alden, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson, @newrouter
You’re showing your age Jack. Gays have kids nowadays . The women naturally and the men by adoption. Most of them are BI anyway. In the old days they mostly both men and women married stayed married and had kids.
Doesn’t this fall in the category of “cutting off your nose to spite your face?”
I suspect these vows (to the extent that these women were having sex in the 1st place, which is not very much) will have around the same shelf life as New Year’s Resolutions – say 2 or 3 weeks and they will be forgotten.
However, some Leftist women are shaving their heads (another example of “cutting off your nose to spite your face”) and it’s gonna take them more than a couple of weeks for their hair to grow back.
I suspect that on a statistical basis the # of women who are actually doing this is nothing. There are just a handful of loudmouths that get flagged by the media. It’s like how 5 “famous” Puerto Rican musicians who were Kamala supporters to begin with came out and denounced Trump because a comedian at his rally told a joke about Puerto Rico and this was supposed to swing the election but in reality Trump won in heavily Puerto Rican districts in Florida. What you see in the media has about as much resemblance to reality as pro wrestling does. You have to understand it all as a type of entertainment.
Men being men and women being women makes everyone happier and hornier. Sexual dimorphism energizes sexual activity. As the French say "vive la difference."
In contrast, the tedious drab androgyny is a sex killer. The "boss girl" thing is unnatural and desexualizing. How many women like seeing their man bossed around by some other woman? Having a vapid cackling "supreme leader" lecturing us on our "racism" or "sexism" or disrespecting pronouns would be an open insult to American men, essentially marking us as a defeated, enslaved people--unsexy. Kamala would have caused a sex-recession.
I've got my issues with Trump--egomania, clear thinking, clear speaking, "apply butt to chair discipline", picking good personnel--but he is at least a man who acts like a man. And he has saved us from Kamala and the accompanying sex-recession. No exact figure is possible, but there will be billions of additional erections and copulations because Trump won. And probably a hundred thousand or more additional children. (Millions down the road if he does well on the policy side.) And men and women will be happier as a result.
American men will stand tall and American women will be smiling.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about "over funded" plans which the IRS doesn't like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can't touch past pension contributions.Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Buzz Mohawk, @James B. Shearer
Duh.
I bought a plane ticket Sunday. She asked me if I was born female. I replied same as you. She said I have to ask.
And a furniture company called Courts took cash for the executive scheme while the workers scheme was underfunded. One guy killed himself when he found he had no pension.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/courts-chief-s-pension-transfer-to-be-probed-7185992.htmlMaxwell, Cohen - there's some link, I'm sure.Replies: @muggles
These reports, based on using the Pound Sterling figures, appear to be from the UK.
Pension laws may be different there.
It appears that even there litigation is likely if you start monkeying with assets.
Any unguarded pot of money that can be “gamed” for someone’s benefit will be, eventually.
The BLM “nonprofit” grift money is still unaccounted for. “Nonprofits” are vulnerable since they are often poorly managed or audited. Even then, the IRS has pretty tough tax reporting laws regarding insiders. These have been strengthened in recent decades.
In the past in the US, pension assets were far more vulnerable to being misused. These days large and even small companies hire professional pension and asset management firms to administer them. They don’t want any liability for pensions other than contributing annual amounts due.
-Psalm 76
Contrary to what you may have heard, there actually is magic dirt in the country--- yes there is; and I can attest to its wonder.
About fifteen miles north of Santa Fe is a locality called Chimayo, where a wooden crucifix was discovered a long time ago a stone's throw from the Santa Cruz river by Spanish settlers who found it buried in the dirt. No one knew how it got there, and word went out that a miracle had been uncovered. They marked the site and today the place is a shrine called El Santuario de Chimayo that draws some 300,000 pilgrims annually. Tradition has grown up around the dirt and the pilgrims take it home with them.
One time I had about ten miles left to walk and I just could not imagine going through with it because my feet hurt so bad. Then an angel must have touched me because the thought came to me to use the dirt. So I sat down and took my boots off and dusted my feet with the blessed dirt. Then, yes, a miracle--- yes, a real miracle did in fact occur. When I got up my feet felt perfectly fine, good as new, as if the blisters weren't even there. I walked the rest of the way knowing I would never forget the memory God was giving me. A couple weeks later I did the same thing and it worked again. Then I tried it again and it didn't. Sometimes you are supposed to take the pain---but we knew that.
The blessed dirt of Chimayo makes me think of the good soil Christ spoke of, and reminds me of what was special about Juan Diego, the native who was a new convert when the Blessed Virgin appeared to him in 1531. What was special about Juan Diego is that he was walking fifteen miles to Church every day. Then he would walk back. He pretty much did nothing but walk all day so that he would never miss Mass.
What Apocalypto proved is that you can make a movie about anything and it will be worthy of the One True Faith as long as the one scene where God shows up, so to speak, puts everything in its proper perspective. It doesn't even have to happen at the end like in Apocalypto. It could just as well be somewhere in the middle or even at the beginning. The rule is that it needs to be as brave as a Franciscan missionary and as bold as a Spanish conquistador. And people would wonder when they saw the preview, "Hmmm, what's the Apocalypto scene going to be like in this one?" Then eventually I suppose they would drop "scene" and just say Apocalypto: "What's the apocalypto going to be in this one?" It is as if it is meant to be; it would be an Apocalypto Renaissance.
At the Santuario there is a statue that reminds us of how young Guadalupe's children are. When you consider what Christendom looked like in the sixth century, well, the future of the faith on this side of the ocean looks pretty glorious if the past is any indication. Yes, pretty glorious indeed.
The statue, in case you were wondering, is called The Three Races.Replies: @muggles
This place is still a popular shrine and chapel.
I have been there several times. Always visitors there, though it is off the beaten path.
It does remind you of how the Catholic Church was seen centuries ago, and still is in a few places.
It is very sad that the area this is in is now notorious, or was, for its many rural heroin addicts. It is quite picturesque and the acquacitas (sp?), small irrigation ditches with water from the mountains, are still used to water the many nearby small farm fields.
It is in a very old, historic area of northern New Mexico where the Hispanic residents regard anyone from Mexico whose families arrived after, say 1760, as “newcomers” and interlopers.
While NM has many Hispanic residents, the northern NM ones are a different breed. Culturally, it is a very interesting place.
https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/47/c3/6b59769e46558c587b60253c49b9/l20780-bdd57-01.jpgReplies: @Steve Sailer
This was a big Old World thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acequia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_(Madeira)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
I knew someone who had a baby boy that weighed 7 pounds. On July the 7th month the 7th day of July in 1977. DOB 7/7/77.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
It was the end of the last fighting of the first world war. By mutual agreement and truce, eleven o’clock on eleven November 1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
That war had been so horrible — and so unnecessary — that all good people then felt like it was the end of war, “to end all wars.”
Sadly, that was not true. In fact, it resulted in stupid conditions and terrible borders — some things we live with and endure to this day. My wife’s own people ended up with their country and homeland decimated, and they have lived as a minority in a foreign land to this day. The “powers that be” (and still are) did this to weaken great powers and great people just to cement their horrible control over Europe.
I have a photograph of my grandfather in his US Army uniform. He went “other there” to France during that war. He is in a fighting pose with his bayonetted rifle. On the back, he wrote, “Here is your little soldier.” He mailed that picture to my grandmother, six years before my father was born.
Elderly Lindys.
One way to interpret that your daughter in the 2020s listens to music from the 1960s (beginning of the Stereo Age) is that she's listening to the oldest music available that's recorded in modern quality. Given that objective surveys of music (range, melodic complexity, etc. [Wasn't there an iSteve or SteveStack about this a few months ago?]) tend to show a gradually declining curve from left (old) to right (new), one can conclude that music has been on a secular decline for at least a hundred years, but this was offset by the rise in the quality of recording technology, until that rise began plateauing in the 1960s, so the net aural enjoyment ("NAE") peaked in the 1960s-1970s.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Curle
Actually a lot of the most popular bands of the 30s and 40s re-recorded their most popular music in the early 1950s when Hi-Fi became available.
You probably have to go back to the late 1920s to find artists like Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives, or Robert Johnson or Al Bowlly who made recordings that were never updated.
Wikipedia gives 6% as the figure for the US in 1789. Georgia did away with property restrictions in 1790. Apparently, by 1828 property qualifications had generally been abolished. The tone of American politics thereafter…changed. Tippecanoe and Tyler too! The ‘log cabin’ era.
And the rest is history — as they say.
I like a bit of oxtail myself, but it has become very expensive in the USA. Apparently the reason for this is that beef cattle only have one tail but four legs.
The average consumption of pork in Jamaica is 4 kg per person per year, which is much lower than average.
George Orwell thought that every family should have a pig in the backyard to eat garbage, but his wife told him this was a stupid idea because pigs smell and produce a lot of poop.
Bessie Smith called for a pigfoot and a bottle of beer. Pork chops seem to be a popular item in the American South, but Florida voters passed a referendum banning intensive pig farming in the state, because it is cruel to pigs.
However this doesn’t stop Floridians from eating pigs raised in other states.
The Jamaican Pig Farmers Association has set a target of doubling consumption. Pork is a relatively inexpensive way of producing protein and fat, and pigs will eat anything–including human corpses.
A news story in Barbados recently reported that there is no shortage of pig semen in Barbados–which I am sure comes as a great relief to a lot of people.
I have been there several times. Always visitors there, though it is off the beaten path.
It does remind you of how the Catholic Church was seen centuries ago, and still is in a few places.
It is very sad that the area this is in is now notorious, or was, for its many rural heroin addicts. It is quite picturesque and the acquacitas (sp?), small irrigation ditches with water from the mountains, are still used to water the many nearby small farm fields.
It is in a very old, historic area of northern New Mexico where the Hispanic residents regard anyone from Mexico whose families arrived after, say 1760, as "newcomers" and interlopers.
While NM has many Hispanic residents, the northern NM ones are a different breed. Culturally, it is a very interesting place.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon
I have dined at Rancho de Chimayo, and I have made a few road trips all over Northern New Mexico. I love the area. One of my most prized possessions is a signed print by Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.Replies: @Alden, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson, @newrouter
The incidence of homosexuality certainly seems to be heavily influenced by culture, and in general, I think we underestimate the extent to which we really are products of our culture. JackD is not like the average American Indian tire shop dude around here. No, he’s not. No foolin.’ The differences are not just skin-deep.
If we not merely tolerate homosexuality but celebrate it, and indicate our hearty approval with such phenomena as Gay Pride parades and endorsing homosexual unions via permitting homosexual ‘marriages,’ we’ll get a lot more homosexuals.
Really. This isn’t either to condemn it or to condone it. It’s just to point out what will happen.
Now, speaking for myself, I see no reason to hunt homosexuals through the streets. But I also see no good reason to celebrate it. It should be tolerated. Tacitly and reluctantly. Like your teenaged son gets drunk after the friday night football game. You don’t need to throw a fit — but you also don’t need to signal your approval.
Just because no one was openly gay does not mean that gayness did not exist. It was just more hidden. Alan Turing's case is rather typical except that he was really stupid (for a genius) and got caught.Replies: @Colin Wright
I have been there several times. Always visitors there, though it is off the beaten path.
It does remind you of how the Catholic Church was seen centuries ago, and still is in a few places.
It is very sad that the area this is in is now notorious, or was, for its many rural heroin addicts. It is quite picturesque and the acquacitas (sp?), small irrigation ditches with water from the mountains, are still used to water the many nearby small farm fields.
It is in a very old, historic area of northern New Mexico where the Hispanic residents regard anyone from Mexico whose families arrived after, say 1760, as "newcomers" and interlopers.
While NM has many Hispanic residents, the northern NM ones are a different breed. Culturally, it is a very interesting place.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @YetAnotherAnon
“small irrigation ditches with water from the mountains”
This was a big Old World thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acequia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_(Madeira)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
Let's look at 2024 vs. 2016. (And assume Nate Silver's final numbers are a decent estimate.)
Trump -- +15.5 million votes! (63m to 78.5m)
Harris -- +10 million votes (66m to 76m) ... and loses!
Now jump back to your obviously fraudulent 2020 election, vs. 2016:
Biden -- +15.4 million votes! (66m to 81.3m)
Trump -- +11 million votes (63m to 74m) ... and loses!
Both 2020 and 2024 show very similar juiced turnout relative to 2016. One is illegitimate and the other just fine?
I'm somebody who thinks the Democrats won in 2020 in large part by censorship and loosening the election rules. And maybe they even flat out stole it in GA, WI and AZ. Could be? But it was the year of covid-crazy--lockdowns, riots, collapsing economy. "Wrong track". The incumbent gets blamed. People showed up to vote. That's not weird and we just saw another very high turnout compared to the "old order" of 2016.
Seems obvious: Trump brings out the voters--for and against. Trump is a "democracy booster".
But how Trump does depends quite a bit on who he's running against and who gets blamed for what.
Trump vs. Hillary (smart, but unpleasant white woman) -- Trump squeaks by
Trump vs. Biden (known quantity generic white guy ... in year of covid-crazy) -- Trump narrowly loses
Trump vs. Harris (vapid, cackling, pseudo-black, Indian woman ... after inflation and open borders lunacy) -- Trump narrowly wins.
Take home:
Encourage the Democrats to keep nominating crappy female candidates and our Republic's future looks bright.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colin Wright
Right, Trump beats women.
Daily DS map update:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#10/51.1186099/35.0010681
Overall: Subpar day in acreage taken. 11.6 kmsq, versus average pace of 17/day in OCT. Interesting how many small advances made, though. And some in areas that have not been hot.
S to N:
1. 0.8 kmsq in vicinty of Novodarivka. Extending a salient. (Velyka Novasilka sector.)
NN: Nothing on the Vuhledar front. Second day in a row for that.
2. 0.4 kmsq extending a salient towards Dalnie. (S of Kurakhove.)
3. 0.7 kmsq near Illinka (N of Kurakhove.)
4. 0.3 kmsq near/in Novoselydivka (N of Kurakhove.)
5. 0.5 kmsq near Yurivka (Selydove sector).
6. 0.7 kmsq along rail line heading towards Pokrovsk’s S. (Selydove sector.)
7. 3.5 kmsq near the Pischane bloom (extending a new salient, heading N along the Oskil River, entering Kolsnykivka). Interesting development.
8. 1.6 kmsq SE of Synkivka (Kupiansk sector).
9. 3.1 kmsq W of Lyman Pershyi (Kupiansk sector).
NN: no changes in Kursk region.
I imported the RCP presidential results (as of today, not all vote is in…but mostly it’s the huge Democrat states lagging). Did a little bit of data analysis (apologies for formatting).
State Harris Trump margin
New Mexico 51.8 45.9 5.9
Virginia 51.7 46.2 5.5
New Jersey 51.6 46.2 5.4
Minnesota 51.1 46.9 4.2
New Hampshire 50.7 47.9 2.8
Wisconsin 48.8 49.6 -0.8
Michigan 48.3 49.7 -1.4
Pennsylvania 48.5 50.5 -2
Georgia 48.5 50.7 -2.2
Nevada 47.5 50.6 -3.1
North Carolina 47.7 51 -3.3
Arizona 46.7 52.3 -5.6
Trump took all of the touted “battleground states”. Wisconsin down to Arizona.
If you expand the definitions of battleground to be plus or minus 6 (in keeping with AZ hitting -5.6), then NM, VA, NJ, and NH were all “battlegrounds” that the Donks held.
If instead, you take the view that only anything under 3 is a real “swing state”, then NV, GA, and AZ all fall off the “battleground list”. And NH is added (but as a lean Democrat state).
PA remains the “tipping point” electoral college win state and Trump took it at 2% margin (i.e. Harris was -2.) Implies that ceter paribus, it will remain very important in 2028. However MI at -1.4 and GA at -2.2 are both within a percent of PA and will remain very important for contestants in 2028.
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.Replies: @Alden, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson, @newrouter
That some gays are wantonly promiscuous has nothing to do with whether gay marriage is or is not a good thing. Like I said before, if I had to guess, gay marriage probably acts as a brake on promiscuity.
Promise rings have always been available to gays. Do you think they cut down on the number of random sexual encounters?
Would a cultural change be possible for gay men whereby they don’t have as much sex with strangers? Or are they not in control of themselves and need marriage?
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes.
Society requires children.
America’s lack of children has been the justification for third world immigration.
Being childless is not a benefit to society. In fact there is a huge problem with gays and childless liberals not having anyone to take care of them in old age. The state ends up paying for a full time immigrant helper.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn’t add or take away from the institution of marriage.
Well I think the majority should be allowed to vote on a cultural institution that has been traditionally defined as a union between male and female. Both Democrats and Republicans believe that the majority should not be allowed such a vote.
If the majority had voted on gay marriage then that would be different. The Republicans however eventually gave into the Democrats and said that it’s a lost cause.
You’re showing your age Jack. Gays have kids nowadays . The women naturally and the men by adoption.
That’s ridiculous and stop acting like you know everyone here.
Lesbians have kids more than people realize but not most. The average lesbian is the “auntie Tina” that just happens to have a female roommate.
Adoption by gay men is still rare. It’s legally complicated even for straight couples to adopt and there is a surplus of a type of kid that liberals and gays are uninterested in adopting. There just ain’t enough White kids for all the gay and diversity loving liberal couples that want to adopt.
The Permanent Government regards actual democracy (e.g. laws passed by state legislatures) as dangerous. The people are a bunch of yahoos and we need the Government to protect us from the People and their bad thinking. This is the very opposite of the framework contemplated by the Founding Fathers. The Founders put in certain guardrails ("Congress shall make no law...") but outside of those guardrails the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives (especially at the state level - the domain of the Federal government was quite limited) was to be the last word in most cases.
However, some of these decisions were less socially harmful than others. Gay marriage has not turned out to be a big deal. It is hard to point to any particular social harm that has resulted from it. If anything, it has directed some gays toward having more normal relationships and a more conventional lifestyle to the point that a considerable number voted for Trump. In principle, it was one more bad decision in a whole line of cases that should have never existed but in practical effect it's hard to say that it had any great harm.
You can compare this to the abortion and even birth control cases which in effect remade the entire society without the American people or a single elected representative voting on these broad social changes. You can argue that the effects were good or bad, but the way that things are supposed to work in our society is that changes in the legal framework are supposed to be debated and enacted by the 50 state legislatures and not by a stroke of the pen by 5 out of 9 unelected guys in Washington.Replies: @Curle, @Colin Wright, @EdwardM, @Linus
Hard disagree. Not sure what sort of ‘proof’ would be required here. I guess correlational is the best we have to choose from. The legalization of gay marriage rewrote our timeless definition of the union of man and woman towards building a family. Altering that basic definition attacks many things – the validity of Church teachings, legitimacy of marriage as sacred bond, fertility rates, etc. Multiple trends have gone through swift decline in the recent several decades – marriage rates, fertility, Church attendance, etc.
Yes, these things were falling before Obergefell, and thus yes, the decision can be an expression of the decline as much as a causal factor. But it sure as hell hasn’t helped. Talk to young people – they are broken, romance is broken, they don’t care about marriage or having kids. They are empty. Just ask them! I start the semester asking this question, and they (especially the females) love talking about the horror of their worldview. But they don’t know how to fix it, since religion is verboten, and theirs is a spiritual crisis. Marriage is just a weird ‘agreement’ to proclaim ‘their love’, and most of them think such a proclamation is arbitrary and silly – which it is, thanks to Obergefell.
Obergefell is part and parcel of this broad spiritual collapse in the West. Transforming marriage into something “about love”, and then a slight twist into “you can love anyone”, and you have completely gutted marriage of its value. No wonder they are so despondent. The age-old mechanisms towards becoming an adult and finding meaning in life – God, marriage, family – have been reduced to nothing.
One of the other dirty secrets about homosexuals (other than the aggressive pursuit and grooming of teenage males) is how unhealthy they really are on average. The very rich ones might be intelligent enough to manage their urges and afford better health care, but from the middle class down, these people are a disaster. Promiscuous, drug addicted, mentally unstable, can't hold jobs. They call in sick constantly. They acquire weird cancers and diseases. They are not team players and do not work well with others.
Why anyone would want these people teaching their children or caring for their elderly loved ones is truly a mystery to me.Replies: @John Johnson
I suspect these vows (to the extent that these women were having sex in the 1st place, which is not very much) will have around the same shelf life as New Year's Resolutions - say 2 or 3 weeks and they will be forgotten.
However, some Leftist women are shaving their heads (another example of "cutting off your nose to spite your face") and it's gonna take them more than a couple of weeks for their hair to grow back.
I suspect that on a statistical basis the # of women who are actually doing this is nothing. There are just a handful of loudmouths that get flagged by the media. It's like how 5 "famous" Puerto Rican musicians who were Kamala supporters to begin with came out and denounced Trump because a comedian at his rally told a joke about Puerto Rico and this was supposed to swing the election but in reality Trump won in heavily Puerto Rican districts in Florida. What you see in the media has about as much resemblance to reality as pro wrestling does. You have to understand it all as a type of entertainment.Replies: @AnotherDad
All this 4B–“You didn’t vote for Kamala no sex for you”–is borderline hilarious. These women understand female psychology even worse than I do.
Men being men and women being women makes everyone happier and hornier. Sexual dimorphism energizes sexual activity. As the French say “vive la difference.”
In contrast, the tedious drab androgyny is a sex killer. The “boss girl” thing is unnatural and desexualizing. How many women like seeing their man bossed around by some other woman? Having a vapid cackling “supreme leader” lecturing us on our “racism” or “sexism” or disrespecting pronouns would be an open insult to American men, essentially marking us as a defeated, enslaved people–unsexy. Kamala would have caused a sex-recession.
I’ve got my issues with Trump–egomania, clear thinking, clear speaking, “apply butt to chair discipline”, picking good personnel–but he is at least a man who acts like a man. And he has saved us from Kamala and the accompanying sex-recession. No exact figure is possible, but there will be billions of additional erections and copulations because Trump won. And probably a hundred thousand or more additional children. (Millions down the road if he does well on the policy side.) And men and women will be happier as a result.
American men will stand tall and American women will be smiling.
The Democrats are friggin idiots.
They just can’t think straight.
The MSM clouds their thinking by giving them these ridiculous pet issues. They should be concerned with workers and not some confused weirdo who is hopped up on estrogen and tucks his balls.
Kamala was never a moderate and you can’t re-brand someone in a couple months.
The DNC made a huge series of blunders:
1. Not pressuring Biden to leave in 2023
2. Not holding an open primary
3. Deciding to run Kamala even though she polled poorly with independents and has a very liberal record in the Senate.
4. Ignoring data on Trump’s 2020 gains with Hispanics and going back to the mentality that they are purely in a face-off against backwards White men of middle America.
5. Not making an economic plan or offering for workers
6. Not taking inflation and complaints about the economy seriously
This should have been an easy win for the DNC but they yet again proved that they have the bigger idiots in charge. These people cannot think clearly and have waaaaaaay too many Joy Behar type women making decisions based on emotion and not strategy. I am fine with female leaders if they are competent but the DNC has become a smug liberal ladies’ club where virtue signaling takes precedence over everything including doing what is needed to win.
For the record I don’t support either party and criticize both.
Men being men and women being women makes everyone happier and hornier. Sexual dimorphism energizes sexual activity. As the French say "vive la difference."
In contrast, the tedious drab androgyny is a sex killer. The "boss girl" thing is unnatural and desexualizing. How many women like seeing their man bossed around by some other woman? Having a vapid cackling "supreme leader" lecturing us on our "racism" or "sexism" or disrespecting pronouns would be an open insult to American men, essentially marking us as a defeated, enslaved people--unsexy. Kamala would have caused a sex-recession.
I've got my issues with Trump--egomania, clear thinking, clear speaking, "apply butt to chair discipline", picking good personnel--but he is at least a man who acts like a man. And he has saved us from Kamala and the accompanying sex-recession. No exact figure is possible, but there will be billions of additional erections and copulations because Trump won. And probably a hundred thousand or more additional children. (Millions down the road if he does well on the policy side.) And men and women will be happier as a result.
American men will stand tall and American women will be smiling.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
🙂
Since around the late 60s or so, company pension plans are pretty well protected by federal law from looting or takeaway.
The tax-deductible ones. There still are a few top executive plans that have different rules.
Now pension plans can be ended but existing accounts/funds which have been made in the past are sacrosanct. Any effort to take these away is a federal crime, usually.
There are also rules about "over funded" plans which the IRS doesn't like either, but unless for privately held firms, are now quite rare.
The opportunities in the past for stripping out pension funds or just taking them by executives for other purposes has pretty well ended, due to past abuses. Due to liability concerns (e.g. Enron recommending their own shares as investments) most large firms use outside administrators and fiduciaries and other than funding the employee accounts, stay hands off.
Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.
Even bankrupt firms can't touch past pension contributions.Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Buzz Mohawk, @James B. Shearer
“Such plans can be ended for future contributions, but his is highly unpopular and makes firms uncompetitive for hiring and labor retention.”
This isn’t true. Most companies have switched from traditional defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans (like 401ks). I was working for IBM when they switched. They told us at the time that one reason was that when they were competing with other companies to hire someone the candidate typically just compared salaries and assigned no value to IBM’s pension plan. I found this believable, I had no idea what IBM’s defined benefit plan was worth to me each year in terms of dollars. But when they switched to a 401k it was easy to see what the company match was each year.
Defined benefit plans are costly for the company and not valued as much by employees which make them an inefficient form of compensation.
It is true that when firms ended their legacy defined benefit plans, employees didn't like it. Some employed at such places at the time were given the option to stay with the "old" plan.
While the defined compensation plans aren't as lucrative for employees, they are not necessarily "inefficient" from a firm's point of view.
Defined compensation plans are nearly impossible to accurately forecast and highly risky over long time frames since business performance over decades is often highly variable. Plus, it incentivizes firms to ditch older employees who have larger legacy salaries which under the DC plans, must be matched in the pension plans.
Very few firms retain such plans. Only governments, (and some not now) retain or have such costly pensions. It is a huge fraction of most local and state budgets.
Since nearly all firms now have benefit plans, it is not a factor in attracting new hires (many younger ones fail to care about pensions anyway...). It is a factor for tax funded governments to attract talent which otherwise might avoid working for those.
Some local and state governments have ended those for new hires.
When inflation was very low in the past, and the economy was largely stagnant and technology not much of a factor, you might promise employees a permanent final salary pension payment. But also, average retirement ages were low, you often had to work 20 years to get in, and most males died by age 70 or even earlier.
Such schemes don't make sense now. The 401(k) Retirement IRA is more feasible and if you add your own voluntary contributions, can do well when properly invested in diversified assets.Replies: @James B. Shearer, @Ralph L
New Jersey doesn’t use punch cards; we use computer-printed, optically-scanned ballots
“For good or bad Eminem is widely praised by the critics and Motley Crue is not.”
Irrelevant. Critic acclaim was never a factor as bands like Led Zeppelin and The Clash were never regarded highly by critics at the height of their popularity.
” They praise him because his music conveys ideas and emotions in a novel if crude way. ”
You’re really reaching here.
” But, Motley Crue’s absence shouldn’t be a surprise, their music isn’t appreciated by the critics and I share that opinion. ”
Ohhhh, I get it. Since you share the critics’ opinion theirs are valid.
To get back to the original point, I’m not even saying the MC should be in the HoF necessarily, but they deserve it a lot more than some shitbag wigger like Eminem.
And the plain truth is Motley Crue’s music has endured the test of time compared to Eminem and the most of the rap.
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. "Bitter Pill"
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. "Enslaved"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:44
5. "Wild Side"
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. "Glitter" (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. "Dr. Feelgood"
SixxMars
4:43
8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. "Home Sweet Home"
SixxLee
3:57
10. "Afraid" Sixx 4:08
11. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
SixxMars
4:40
12. "Without You"
SixxMars
4:29
13. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. "Primal Scream"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. "Too Fast for Love" Sixx 3:21
16. "Looks That Kill" Sixx 4:01
17. "Shout at the Devil '97" SixReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @ScarletNumber, @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1856172877688570095Replies: @Mike Tre
Steve:
Men being men and women being women makes everyone happier and hornier. Sexual dimorphism energizes sexual activity. As the French say "vive la difference."
In contrast, the tedious drab androgyny is a sex killer. The "boss girl" thing is unnatural and desexualizing. How many women like seeing their man bossed around by some other woman? Having a vapid cackling "supreme leader" lecturing us on our "racism" or "sexism" or disrespecting pronouns would be an open insult to American men, essentially marking us as a defeated, enslaved people--unsexy. Kamala would have caused a sex-recession.
I've got my issues with Trump--egomania, clear thinking, clear speaking, "apply butt to chair discipline", picking good personnel--but he is at least a man who acts like a man. And he has saved us from Kamala and the accompanying sex-recession. No exact figure is possible, but there will be billions of additional erections and copulations because Trump won. And probably a hundred thousand or more additional children. (Millions down the road if he does well on the policy side.) And men and women will be happier as a result.
American men will stand tall and American women will be smiling.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Colin Wright
I hope you’re right.
Let's look at 2024 vs. 2016. (And assume Nate Silver's final numbers are a decent estimate.)
Trump -- +15.5 million votes! (63m to 78.5m)
Harris -- +10 million votes (66m to 76m) ... and loses!
Now jump back to your obviously fraudulent 2020 election, vs. 2016:
Biden -- +15.4 million votes! (66m to 81.3m)
Trump -- +11 million votes (63m to 74m) ... and loses!
Both 2020 and 2024 show very similar juiced turnout relative to 2016. One is illegitimate and the other just fine?
I'm somebody who thinks the Democrats won in 2020 in large part by censorship and loosening the election rules. And maybe they even flat out stole it in GA, WI and AZ. Could be? But it was the year of covid-crazy--lockdowns, riots, collapsing economy. "Wrong track". The incumbent gets blamed. People showed up to vote. That's not weird and we just saw another very high turnout compared to the "old order" of 2016.
Seems obvious: Trump brings out the voters--for and against. Trump is a "democracy booster".
But how Trump does depends quite a bit on who he's running against and who gets blamed for what.
Trump vs. Hillary (smart, but unpleasant white woman) -- Trump squeaks by
Trump vs. Biden (known quantity generic white guy ... in year of covid-crazy) -- Trump narrowly loses
Trump vs. Harris (vapid, cackling, pseudo-black, Indian woman ... after inflation and open borders lunacy) -- Trump narrowly wins.
Take home:
Encourage the Democrats to keep nominating crappy female candidates and our Republic's future looks bright.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colin Wright
I suspect ‘crappy female candidate’ may be virtually redundant in our culture. It’s interesting, because other societies (Britain, Israel, India (!), even Bangladesh (!!) elect female leaders who seem to do at least passably well.
So why not us? Itsa mystery.
The theme in good vs. crappy female candidates might not be foreign vs. US, but that the good ones are generally rightwing while the crappy ones are leftwing.
There could be a US vs. foreign difference that rightwing US female candidates tend to be kind of hickish, while foreign rightwing female candidates tend to be more polished operators.Replies: @James B. Shearer
1. Not pressuring Biden to leave in 2023
2. Not holding an open primary
3. Deciding to run Kamala even though she polled poorly with independents and has a very liberal record in the Senate.
4. Ignoring data on Trump's 2020 gains with Hispanics and going back to the mentality that they are purely in a face-off against backwards White men of middle America.
5. Not making an economic plan or offering for workers
6. Not taking inflation and complaints about the economy seriously This should have been an easy win for the DNC but they yet again proved that they have the bigger idiots in charge. These people cannot think clearly and have waaaaaaay too many Joy Behar type women making decisions based on emotion and not strategy. I am fine with female leaders if they are competent but the DNC has become a smug liberal ladies' club where virtue signaling takes precedence over everything including doing what is needed to win. For the record I don't support either party and criticize both.Replies: @epebble
Easy to criticize now, but with inflation as the main driver of election, the ruling party had no chance. See 1976, 1980. BTW, if Trump succeeds with mass deportation of all illegals and institutes a hefty tariff, we will likely see a stiff stagflation and Democrats will be in catbird seat in 2028. They don’t have to despair. Rinse and repeat 1970’s .
OT: some people take politics way too seriously.
A unnamed woman teacher in Cheshire, Connecticut (an affluent white community, though rather oddly enough home to the state reform school) has been suspended from duty on account of making video threats of violence against Trump supporters. Authorities are taking it seriously enough to put police officers on duty in the schools for the time being. She apparently meant to share these threats with a private Snapchat forum but they somehow went public.
https://www.wfsb.com/2024/11/12/cheshire-teacher-leave-after-politically-charged-snapchat-video-posted-social-media/
Meanwhile, some more half-brained illegal alien Latino’s tried pulling off what could be called
“Retarded Ocean’s 11,” with predictable results.
Fortunately for them, Biden/Harris is still in power, providing for an easy escape, even for retards:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/12/us-news/illegal-migrants-use-saws-to-break-into-li-biz-then-again-to-cut-off-monitoring-bracelets-after-freed-without-bail-damn-disgrace/
Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.
Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.
There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.Replies: @Alden, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson, @newrouter
“whether gay marriage is or is not a good thing.”
“Gay marriage” is a judeo-christian belief that I find silly.
As some dude once quipped:I don't think old Milton is correct--or even all that insightful--in all of his analysis or prescriptions. But at the straightforward level this is true. And in the case of the post-covid inflation surge it is mind-numbingly obvious what happened: The Fed printed bales--"quantitative easing"--of money to stave off having a complete great depression style meltdown from the covid lockdowns/unemployment.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look at this chart. I could not be clearer:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
This was reasonable and the Fed was fairly successful in avoiding a meltdown. However, after the vaccine rollout as things flipped back toward normal and people rushed out to enjoy life ... all this money and the Fed's low rates had demand surging against all these supply chain bottlenecks and breakdowns from covid.
For instance, we--ridiculously--could not even build fricking pickups without a bunch of chips from Asia. Our elites have stupidly--pushing globalist fantasies--made the US ridiculously dependent on all sorts of crap from Asia, and particularly China. And the Chicom leadership--while they've performed better than our parasitic goon "elite"--aren't exactly geniuses and made an even worse hash out of covid that in the US.
Anyway, this is dogmeat simple: a huge surge of extra money, chasing a constrained supply of goods.
Biden's contribution to this was relatively modest. Tossing further spending stimulus--but pretty much the same negative trendline pre-covid from Trump--into the mix
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
as % of GDP (the more useful picture):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
... and, of course, waving in millions of foreigners further juicing demand--especially housing--while producing little to nothing and forcing up government spending.
To its credit the Fed has been modestly "quantitative tightening" the past couple years and--too slowly--got around to raising rates and has modestly contained the "goods" inflation.
The disaster for most people--and especially for young people and "affordable family formation" is housing. There the immigration loons have seemingly nuked Ben Franklin's astute observations about why (cheap land, dear labor) America was so damn nice and stuck us with Asiatic style housing prices.Replies: @Colin Wright, @James B. Shearer
“Biden’s contribution to this was relatively modest. …”
Not sure why people want to give Biden a pass here. There was some argument for a big deficit in 2020. But considerably less of an argument for the deficit in 2021 which was almost as large. Throwing gasoline on the fire made the damage substantially worse.
Note, I'm not giving Biden any kind of pass on doing a crap job with the budget--though that pales to insignificance compared to his outright treason on the border.
Rather what I'm pointing out is where the inflationary pressure was coming from--the huge QE ("qualitative easing", i.e. printing money) that the Fed did in response to the pandemic. And then this monetary wave running into the pandemic initiated supply chain constraints. ("Hey we can't actually build any new trucks.")
Note that a federal deficit != inflation. Inflation is mostly caused by monetary expansion exceeding actual economic expansion. (I.e. demand rising faster than supply ... prices rise.) Our federal government does not print money, so can not directly monetize its deficits. (That might be better--more honest.) The Fed prints our money. And also monkeys with interest rates to regulate economic activity and money creation by the banking system. Whether a deficit creates inflation or not is complicated--what does the fed do, how much slack is in the economy, etc. etc.
In 2020, to counter the pandemic contraction the Fed directly created a whole shitload of new money--i.e. it bought up US treasury debt and paid for it by issuing new money. (It gets to just make it up--you don't.) And dropped its federal funds rate to rock bottom. This created the great monetary surge. And when the pandemic eased and people were out spending ... but the pandemic disruptions where still constraining production and/or distribution (all the shipping logjams and delays) ... boom, prices soar.
Irrelevant. Critic acclaim was never a factor as bands like Led Zeppelin and The Clash were never regarded highly by critics at the height of their popularity.
" They praise him because his music conveys ideas and emotions in a novel if crude way. "
You're really reaching here.
" But, Motley Crue’s absence shouldn’t be a surprise, their music isn’t appreciated by the critics and I share that opinion. "
Ohhhh, I get it. Since you share the critics' opinion theirs are valid.
To get back to the original point, I'm not even saying the MC should be in the HoF necessarily, but they deserve it a lot more than some shitbag wigger like Eminem.
And the plain truth is Motley Crue's music has endured the test of time compared to Eminem and the most of the rap.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Curle
The Clash were critics’ favorites.
Led Zeppelin tended not to be critics’ favorites, probably because they were so obviously awesome from the first chords of “Good Times, Bad Times” that they didn’t need critics’ help.
https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/47/c3/6b59769e46558c587b60253c49b9/l20780-bdd57-01.jpgReplies: @Steve Sailer
That’s a good one.
The US of A are a federation of republics.
One way to interpret that your daughter in the 2020s listens to music from the 1960s (beginning of the Stereo Age) is that she's listening to the oldest music available that's recorded in modern quality. Given that objective surveys of music (range, melodic complexity, etc. [Wasn't there an iSteve or SteveStack about this a few months ago?]) tend to show a gradually declining curve from left (old) to right (new), one can conclude that music has been on a secular decline for at least a hundred years, but this was offset by the rise in the quality of recording technology, until that rise began plateauing in the 1960s, so the net aural enjoyment ("NAE") peaked in the 1960s-1970s.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Curle
Here’s a recording from 1952. Sounds pretty good to me. The Treniers.
Why would anyone saddle a girl with a name that means “son of Kenneth”? I could understand if it were a family name– e.g., (Lula) Carson McCullers, (Mary) Flannery O’Connor, (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, (Nancy) Whitney Blake. (Nelle) Harper Lee’s middle name honored her family’s physician.
Where (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips got her name, I don’t know. But it wasn’t from family friend and colleague Scott McKenzie, who was all of 20 at her birth. He recounted how he got his (stage) name from her.
White folks have no idea how to christen children anymore, and are in no place to mock blacks. The program at our elementary school’s Veterans Day event showed five pupils for whom a Y was used to replace an unaccented A, E, I, or O. (“Madisyn” wasn’t one of them– don’t want to dox– but it gives you an idea.)
All that was missing was the U. No Edmynd, Tatym, or Ursyla.
STEVE. STEEEEEVE. SPIRIT AIRLINES IS GOING BANKRUPT AND SOUTHWEST IS LAYING PEOPLE OFF.
ELEPHANT IN ROOM DEPARTMENT :
What was Quincy Jones’ vax status ?
So was Bruce Springsteen at first. Tom Petty, too, if I remember. They ruled the Eighties, but were still pretty niche in the Seventies. George Thorogood. UK examples might be the Move-cum-ELO or the still-male Fleetwood Mac. And all of reggae.
Irrelevant. Critic acclaim was never a factor as bands like Led Zeppelin and The Clash were never regarded highly by critics at the height of their popularity.
" They praise him because his music conveys ideas and emotions in a novel if crude way. "
You're really reaching here.
" But, Motley Crue’s absence shouldn’t be a surprise, their music isn’t appreciated by the critics and I share that opinion. "
Ohhhh, I get it. Since you share the critics' opinion theirs are valid.
To get back to the original point, I'm not even saying the MC should be in the HoF necessarily, but they deserve it a lot more than some shitbag wigger like Eminem.
And the plain truth is Motley Crue's music has endured the test of time compared to Eminem and the most of the rap.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Curle
Critics who work for music magazines were the reason the HOF was created. The Hall is pumping the bands for the labels but needs the journos at music magazines to feel like the whole thing isn’t 100% commerce even though it is 100% commerce. Your claim that the Clash weren’t highly regarded by critics varies from my contemporaneous Rolling Stone subscribing memory, but perhaps you are right. By the late ‘70s the music press had done a 180 on Zeppelin. Read the 1979 Rolling Stone album guide if you doubt me. I bet Steve still has a copy. Zeppelin were not Terrance Trent D’Arby, embraced then discarded. Crüe were never embraced.
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. “Bitter Pill”
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. “Enslaved”
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. “Girls, Girls, Girls”
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. “Kickstart My Heart” Sixx 4:44
5. “Wild Side”
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. “Glitter” (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. “Dr. Feelgood”
SixxMars
4:43
8. “Same Ol’ Situation (S.O.S.)”
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. “Home Sweet Home”
SixxLee
3:57
10. “Afraid” Sixx 4:08
11. “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”
SixxMars
4:40
12. “Without You”
SixxMars
4:29
13. “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. “Primal Scream”
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. “Too Fast for Love” Sixx 3:21
16. “Looks That Kill” Sixx 4:01
17. “Shout at the Devil ’97” Six
Old coterie joke...
Q: Knock, knock.
A: Who's there?
Q: Terrence Trent D'Arby.
A: Terrence Trent D'Arby who?
Q: That's showbiz!Replies: @ScarletNumber
Absolutely false. They had 5 hits off of Dr. Feelgood alone.
"How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”?"
LOL Actually, this is their most remembered song and probably gets the most airplay presently. The music app I use will play a band's music in order of popularity based on whatever algorithm the app uses. For example, for LZ it's Stairway To Heaven, for Metallica it's Enter Sandman. For MC, it is Kickstart My Heart.
" Your claim that the Clash"
Look, I'm going from memory. Maybe I'm wrong about the Clash specifically, but take the point. there are a significant number of bands in the HoF who were not the favorites of critics during their heyday. Looking at wiki just now, the album Dr. Feelgood did receive overall positive reviews from your precious critics. Either way it's clearly and obviously not the sole measure and you are still evading the original point I made and choosing to just veil your opinion of the group with around the barn arguments.
Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums. It speaks for itself. The reality of the RnR Hof is that for a good half of its inductees, the group's or individual's political and or social beliefs weight heavily on the decision making process. IOW, if you're a negro, a wannabe negro, or a lunatic leftist asshole then you're almost a shoe in.Replies: @John Johnson, @Curle
The R&R hall of shame has always had a bias against what they deem “cock rock,” Van Halen / KISS as examples and heavy metal. Cock rock, hair metal, etc… are “rock.” Motley Crue more than meets the hall’s requirements based on volume of work, career longevity (over four decades) and album sales.
Why should a committee of leftist, wine snobs, trump the public’s opinion of an artist or group’s worthiness? Nobody cares that you or the hall don’t like Motley Crue’s music. Their success as deemed by radio air play, album sales / tour ticket sales should be what determines a band’s hall of fame worthiness.Replies: @Truth
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. "Bitter Pill"
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. "Enslaved"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:44
5. "Wild Side"
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. "Glitter" (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. "Dr. Feelgood"
SixxMars
4:43
8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. "Home Sweet Home"
SixxLee
3:57
10. "Afraid" Sixx 4:08
11. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
SixxMars
4:40
12. "Without You"
SixxMars
4:29
13. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. "Primal Scream"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. "Too Fast for Love" Sixx 3:21
16. "Looks That Kill" Sixx 4:01
17. "Shout at the Devil '97" SixReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @ScarletNumber, @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
“Zeppelin were not Terrance Trent D’Arby,”
Old coterie joke…
Q: Knock, knock.
A: Who’s there?
Q: Terrence Trent D’Arby.
A: Terrence Trent D’Arby who?
Q: That’s showbiz!
So why not us? Itsa mystery.Replies: @Almost Missouri
I thought Sarah Palin was pretty good. The voting public thought so too: her nomination was the only time that McCain’s campaign crested ahead of Obama in the polls.
The theme in good vs. crappy female candidates might not be foreign vs. US, but that the good ones are generally rightwing while the crappy ones are leftwing.
There could be a US vs. foreign difference that rightwing US female candidates tend to be kind of hickish, while foreign rightwing female candidates tend to be more polished operators.
It didn't last. She didn't do well on the national stage and now she can't even win in Alaska.Replies: @Almost Missouri
The academy will just play stupid games with the definition of “STEM”.
Where (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips got her name, I don't know. But it wasn't from family friend and colleague Scott McKenzie, who was all of 20 at her birth. He recounted how he got his (stage) name from her.
White folks have no idea how to christen children anymore, and are in no place to mock blacks. The program at our elementary school's Veterans Day event showed five pupils for whom a Y was used to replace an unaccented A, E, I, or O. ("Madisyn" wasn't one of them-- don't want to dox-- but it gives you an idea.)
All that was missing was the U. No Edmynd, Tatym, or Ursyla.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
To be fair a lot of American girls names are somewhat painful – Taylor for one.
OTOH I met a Hungarian girl who was one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen – and her name was Boglarka. I guess one could get used to it, but hard to imagine whispering it in her ear.
“It was the second most popular name for girls born in Hungary in 2007.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogl%C3%A1rka
This is unfashionable at the moment, but could roar back anytime. (After all, long-gone Emma, Evelyn, and Sophie did.) Edginess is more in using surnames as given ones or, as with the Ys above, in-your-face respellings.
Looks like you can a 3-pack (3 x 100 bands per pack)--enough to fix 300 prisoners--for just $14 on Amazon. Just saying.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
“my uncle still kept some sheep on my grandfather’s pasture, he would just stretch these tight little elastic bands around the rams’ testes. They would cut off the blood supply and eventually the things would wither, atrophy and fall off”
I saw some, complete with a kind of pliers applicator device, in a farmers shop in what was then rural Herefordshire 40 years ago. I never forgot the device name:
“Bal-Zac”
Sorry, meant to hit LOL. Who did you vote for, Corvinus?
Good Times, Bad Times is such an awesome first song on a debut album. Few bands have been able to announce to the world that they mean business from the get-go like this. The only other song I can think of that does this in a like manner is The Ramones’ Blitzkrieg Bop on their debut. Clash City Rockers was one but that was only on the American version so I don’t know if it counts.
The first verse of “Good Times, Bad Times” is so great — “In the days of my youth I was was told what it means to be a man” — but then they don’t repeat the melody in the rest of the song. I always thought “Honky Tonk Women” should be twice as long, but GTBT should be 3 times as long.
From that era, there are other great first songs on first albums, such as “More Than a Feeling” from “Boston.” But MTAF was Boston’s best track, while Led Zeppelin’s best song was probably “Kashmir” 7 years later. GTBT was kind of a trailer or sampler showing off Led Zeppelin’s potential back when they had a ridiculous number of melodic ideas, so they didn’t bother to pound them into the ground. But they should have repeated themselves more.
https://youtu.be/PD-MdiUm1_Y?si=htuXUTnHKZpy2eNP
This version sounds absolutely superb listening through a good sound system so the tinny speakers in a laptop won't do it justice.
It's recitative.
Part of the issue here is using bankruptcy law to get out of pension obligations, which gets us into society and the law; greater good considerations; and hacking of the system by Buffet et al.Replies: @Jim Don Bob
A case in point: Many of the airlines that went bust in the 80s dumped their pensions on the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, so pilots who expected, for example, to get $5k a month were getting $1800 instead.
Radio is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. There are many different ways of getting music and other entertainment in your car nowadays - Sirius, streaming services over your phone, stored music, etc. and with those other media you can get exactly what you want and without having to listen to a million ads.
You can mourn the fact that services that were once "free" are no longer available or have been degraded but kvetching will get you nowhere.Replies: @J.Ross, @Curle, @Brutusale, @ScarletNumber
Because of the way they are engineered, electric cars cannot receive AM radio. I agree with your implied statement that AM/FM radio is unlistenable, but that is a chicken-or-the-egg situation, as perhaps their owners have realized that no one is listening to them anymore so they don’t bother investing resources into them.
As for myself, I subscribe to SiriusXM (and was an early XM subscriber) although the current price is not worth it. What they don’t advertise is that if you call to cancel and are persistent about it, they will give you a much-more-reasonable price. I degrade myself once per year for the savings.
It's not just Sirius. I have a NY Times online subscription that cost $4/month (I used to get the physical paper and that was a LOT more). It was about to expire and they were going to renew it for $25/month. I hit "I would like to cancel" on their web system and presto chango, they offered me the $4 price again for another year. Not even a phone call.
Yes, these things were falling before Obergefell, and thus yes, the decision can be an expression of the decline as much as a causal factor. But it sure as hell hasn't helped. Talk to young people - they are broken, romance is broken, they don't care about marriage or having kids. They are empty. Just ask them! I start the semester asking this question, and they (especially the females) love talking about the horror of their worldview. But they don't know how to fix it, since religion is verboten, and theirs is a spiritual crisis. Marriage is just a weird 'agreement' to proclaim 'their love', and most of them think such a proclamation is arbitrary and silly - which it is, thanks to Obergefell.
Obergefell is part and parcel of this broad spiritual collapse in the West. Transforming marriage into something "about love", and then a slight twist into "you can love anyone", and you have completely gutted marriage of its value. No wonder they are so despondent. The age-old mechanisms towards becoming an adult and finding meaning in life - God, marriage, family - have been reduced to nothing.Replies: @Mike Tre
Homosexual marriage was in part, dare I say in large part, to allow homosexuals to exploit spousal health insurance so that they could have access to “free” or significantly less costly care for their many lifestyle related sicknesses.
One of the other dirty secrets about homosexuals (other than the aggressive pursuit and grooming of teenage males) is how unhealthy they really are on average. The very rich ones might be intelligent enough to manage their urges and afford better health care, but from the middle class down, these people are a disaster. Promiscuous, drug addicted, mentally unstable, can’t hold jobs. They call in sick constantly. They acquire weird cancers and diseases. They are not team players and do not work well with others.
Why anyone would want these people teaching their children or caring for their elderly loved ones is truly a mystery to me.
They not only pick up diseases but have all kinds of appointments. If they call out because they don't feel like working then no one will ask questions. Employers aren't going to ask a gay man as to why he keeps calling out. They are not team players and do not work well with others.At first they seem able to do well with women but they run up the chat clock. White women find them amusing and then everyone forgets that they are supposed to be working and not listening to "last night with my boyfriend" anecdotes. They are definitely not men with female brains. They are also not "normally horny men unleashed" as many here have suggested. Whatever causes gayness also comes with other neuroticisms. The lesbians don't have the same pathologies and work better with straight men. They can be bitches but will get the job done. It's definitely more complicated than as depicted on television.
Old coterie joke...
Q: Knock, knock.
A: Who's there?
Q: Terrence Trent D'Arby.
A: Terrence Trent D'Arby who?
Q: That's showbiz!Replies: @ScarletNumber
This serves to emphasize the point of your joke, but both you and Curle have misspelled poor Terence’s first name. I will point out that Wishing Well and Sign Your Name were both bona fide hits.
Welcome to the Jungle by GnR and Purple Haze by the JHE come to mind but yes I agree with you.
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. "Bitter Pill"
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. "Enslaved"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:44
5. "Wild Side"
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. "Glitter" (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. "Dr. Feelgood"
SixxMars
4:43
8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. "Home Sweet Home"
SixxLee
3:57
10. "Afraid" Sixx 4:08
11. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
SixxMars
4:40
12. "Without You"
SixxMars
4:29
13. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. "Primal Scream"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. "Too Fast for Love" Sixx 3:21
16. "Looks That Kill" Sixx 4:01
17. "Shout at the Devil '97" SixReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @ScarletNumber, @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
Your list is suffering from formatting issues.
The irony of this list is that, like many bands, their literal greatest hits are not those that are most popular with hard-core fans of the band. If you were to ask them they would say that their best songs were from their first three albums but the band didn’t achieve mainstream success until Girls, Girls, Girls, which was also their first top-12 single.
You rotate the globe with your cursor over whichever station you’d like to hear.
There are many very small radio stations in Ireland and the UK that seem to be labors of love, rather than profit-driven.
I’d far rather listen to a small radio station in the west of Ireland playing ads for agricultural lime than my local NPR affiliate begging for cash anyway.
I stream it from my phone to my car radio; I even got rid of Sirius because I simply didn’t listen to it any longer.Replies: @Ganderson
Now that I’m retired, I listen to Sirius XM Way less. I probably should get rid of it, but I like, in no particular order, Today In Grateful Dead History; baseball games , and of course Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Don’t wanna give those up!
Shockingly I am in agreement here. So my olive branch is this live version of Kashmir from 2007 by the surviving members of LZ with John Bonham’s son Jason on drums (who completely overplays the tune and actually diminishes the number, sadly):
This version sounds absolutely superb listening through a good sound system so the tinny speakers in a laptop won’t do it justice.
The theme in good vs. crappy female candidates might not be foreign vs. US, but that the good ones are generally rightwing while the crappy ones are leftwing.
There could be a US vs. foreign difference that rightwing US female candidates tend to be kind of hickish, while foreign rightwing female candidates tend to be more polished operators.Replies: @James B. Shearer
“I thought Sarah Palin was pretty good. The voting public thought so too: her nomination was the only time that McCain’s campaign crested ahead of Obama in the polls.”
It didn’t last. She didn’t do well on the national stage and now she can’t even win in Alaska.
What’s really terrible is that the bastards kept up the shelling and the killing right up to the stroke of 11 o’clock. The mind reels at darkness in the hearts of men.
And when I say "they", I mean us, the "good guys".
https://www.unz.com/isteve/guardian-world-war-one-disgracefully-lacking-in-diversity/#comment-5827950
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. "Bitter Pill"
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. "Enslaved"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:44
5. "Wild Side"
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. "Glitter" (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. "Dr. Feelgood"
SixxMars
4:43
8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. "Home Sweet Home"
SixxLee
3:57
10. "Afraid" Sixx 4:08
11. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
SixxMars
4:40
12. "Without You"
SixxMars
4:29
13. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. "Primal Scream"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. "Too Fast for Love" Sixx 3:21
16. "Looks That Kill" Sixx 4:01
17. "Shout at the Devil '97" SixReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @ScarletNumber, @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
“Motley Crue has two big songs”
Absolutely false. They had 5 hits off of Dr. Feelgood alone.
“How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”?”
LOL Actually, this is their most remembered song and probably gets the most airplay presently. The music app I use will play a band’s music in order of popularity based on whatever algorithm the app uses. For example, for LZ it’s Stairway To Heaven, for Metallica it’s Enter Sandman. For MC, it is Kickstart My Heart.
” Your claim that the Clash”
Look, I’m going from memory. Maybe I’m wrong about the Clash specifically, but take the point. there are a significant number of bands in the HoF who were not the favorites of critics during their heyday. Looking at wiki just now, the album Dr. Feelgood did receive overall positive reviews from your precious critics. Either way it’s clearly and obviously not the sole measure and you are still evading the original point I made and choosing to just veil your opinion of the group with around the barn arguments.
Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums. It speaks for itself. The reality of the RnR Hof is that for a good half of its inductees, the group’s or individual’s political and or social beliefs weight heavily on the decision making process. IOW, if you’re a negro, a wannabe negro, or a lunatic leftist asshole then you’re almost a shoe in.
Motley Crue has two big songs, Dr Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and a cover, Smoking in the Boys Room and then a bunch of songs that are best remembered from bachelor parties. How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”? In fact, in the early nineties I had the less than uplifting experience of attending an bachelor party event across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas in the kind of place where Motley Crüe was very much the House Band at least according to the song list. Apparently, they were frequent patrons as well because a drunken young woman with no top on set herself down between me and my cousin and asked us if we could guess who’d she’d given a dance to the night before and the answer was Vince Neil! She thought we’d be impressed. I was only thinking that Neil could have spent the time better improving his song writing skills. Given that I would have rather not had a dance from her, not my type, slovenly, drunk, fake boobs, the whole nine yards, I must admit my pre-existing disregard for Neil and company did not improve.
Here’s Motley’s greatest hits:
1. "Bitter Pill"
Nikki SixxMick MarsVince NeilTommy Lee
4:27
2. "Enslaved"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
3. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
SixxMarsLee
4:30
4. "Kickstart My Heart" Sixx 4:44
5. "Wild Side"
SixxMarsNeil
4:37
6. "Glitter" (Remix)
SixxBryan AdamsScott Humphrey
5:40
7. "Dr. Feelgood"
SixxMars
4:43
8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:14
9. "Home Sweet Home"
SixxLee
3:57
10. "Afraid" Sixx 4:08
11. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
SixxMars
4:40
12. "Without You"
SixxMars
4:29
13. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station cover)
Cub KodaMichael Lutz
3:27
14. "Primal Scream"
SixxMarsNeilLee
4:46
15. "Too Fast for Love" Sixx 3:21
16. "Looks That Kill" Sixx 4:01
17. "Shout at the Devil '97" SixReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @ScarletNumber, @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
You omitted from your list of Crue hits “Too Young to Fall in Love” and “Live Wire.” Your anecdote regarding the slutty groupie chick has nothing to do with Crue, as ALL groupies slut it up for rock stars from Vince Neil to Bruce Springsteen to Iggy Pop.
The R&R hall of shame has always had a bias against what they deem “cock rock,” Van Halen / KISS as examples and heavy metal. Cock rock, hair metal, etc… are “rock.” Motley Crue more than meets the hall’s requirements based on volume of work, career longevity (over four decades) and album sales.
Why should a committee of leftist, wine snobs, trump the public’s opinion of an artist or group’s worthiness? Nobody cares that you or the hall don’t like Motley Crue’s music. Their success as deemed by radio air play, album sales / tour ticket sales should be what determines a band’s hall of fame worthiness.
Well it sort of doesn't matter what the formalized Right thinks anyway, because the organized Right is incapable of thinking at all.
But it remains true that Buffet is more evil than Gates, not because of the causes and courses of action he supports, but because of what he does, inherently. Which is because, arbitrage is a form of slavery. Which makes Buffet a slave-dealer. Simple as that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @James B. Shearer, @kaganovitch, @Curle
Buffet’s son Peter was one of BLM’s major supporters.
Easy to criticize now, but with inflation as the main driver of election, the ruling party had no chance.
That’s simply incorrect. This should have been an easy win for the Democrats.
The Republicans ran a candidate that polled poorly with independents out of the gate.
All the Democrats had to do was hold an open primary and let the people vote.
Instead they also ran a candidate that had low favorability with independents.
Independents outnumber Republicans. Trump took all the swing states but within the margin of error. This was still a close election and independents were not happy with their candidates.
I suspect the DNC has become corrupted through their obsession with diversity. They aren’t hiring based on merit and too many decisions are being made based on ideology and not statistics.
'Absolutely insane': This ex-construction worker compared Trump to Hitler — but voted for him anyway
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/absolutely-insane-this-ex-construction-worker-compared-trump-to-hitler-but-voted-for-him-anyway/ar-AA1tTAf8
Maslow's hierarchy is real. Marie Antoinette was guillotined because of price of bread.Replies: @John Johnson
One of the other dirty secrets about homosexuals (other than the aggressive pursuit and grooming of teenage males) is how unhealthy they really are on average. The very rich ones might be intelligent enough to manage their urges and afford better health care, but from the middle class down, these people are a disaster. Promiscuous, drug addicted, mentally unstable, can't hold jobs. They call in sick constantly. They acquire weird cancers and diseases. They are not team players and do not work well with others.
Why anyone would want these people teaching their children or caring for their elderly loved ones is truly a mystery to me.Replies: @John Johnson
Promiscuous, drug addicted, mentally unstable, can’t hold jobs. They call in sick constantly. They acquire weird cancers and diseases.
They not only pick up diseases but have all kinds of appointments. If they call out because they don’t feel like working then no one will ask questions. Employers aren’t going to ask a gay man as to why he keeps calling out.
They are not team players and do not work well with others.
At first they seem able to do well with women but they run up the chat clock.
White women find them amusing and then everyone forgets that they are supposed to be working and not listening to “last night with my boyfriend” anecdotes.
They are definitely not men with female brains. They are also not “normally horny men unleashed” as many here have suggested. Whatever causes gayness also comes with other neuroticisms. The lesbians don’t have the same pathologies and work better with straight men. They can be bitches but will get the job done. It’s definitely more complicated than as depicted on television.
Absolutely false. They had 5 hits off of Dr. Feelgood alone.
"How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”?"
LOL Actually, this is their most remembered song and probably gets the most airplay presently. The music app I use will play a band's music in order of popularity based on whatever algorithm the app uses. For example, for LZ it's Stairway To Heaven, for Metallica it's Enter Sandman. For MC, it is Kickstart My Heart.
" Your claim that the Clash"
Look, I'm going from memory. Maybe I'm wrong about the Clash specifically, but take the point. there are a significant number of bands in the HoF who were not the favorites of critics during their heyday. Looking at wiki just now, the album Dr. Feelgood did receive overall positive reviews from your precious critics. Either way it's clearly and obviously not the sole measure and you are still evading the original point I made and choosing to just veil your opinion of the group with around the barn arguments.
Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums. It speaks for itself. The reality of the RnR Hof is that for a good half of its inductees, the group's or individual's political and or social beliefs weight heavily on the decision making process. IOW, if you're a negro, a wannabe negro, or a lunatic leftist asshole then you're almost a shoe in.Replies: @John Johnson, @Curle
Music critics are failed musicians. They wanted to be rock stars.
Of course they aren’t going to give glowing reviews to a band like Motley Crue. It’s too tawdry and mainstream for them. They don’t think it is fair that a band can be that popular from singing about smoking in school or chasing girls. Resentment of the masses is a factor. They don’t like how the masses rewarded a band that sings about getting laid instead of politics.
Music critics are no longer paid. They are just bloggers now. I honestly don’t see why anyone would pay attention to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQMl51RDIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcV8ej-Bzmw
I get it. There’s an audience for strip club music. There was an audience in the ‘80s for all kinds of hair bands, Whitesnake, etc. That I found them sonically and lyrically uninteresting except in rare instances, Guns and Roses for example, isn’t the point. That music critics found them so is why they aren’t in the R&R HoF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLuYXT6QMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJK0cEPQi4w
2013 gave us two long overdue bands (Heart being the other one), driven by the fan vote, to go with the random blacks and Jews that are the usual RnR HOF inductees. I mean really, Lou Adler and Randy Newman?
Fast foward to 2017, and here we are again; a long neglected ROCK band elected. Hey, look who's inducting them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kbcqKkTmko
In between, however, is why theRnR HOF is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rheKK_2qGk0
Joan Jett?! Are you kidding me? Is there a special section for bar bands whose hits are almost all cover tunes?Replies: @Truth
then they don’t repeat the melody in the rest of the song.
It’s recitative.
Rachel is popular, despite it being rather harsh to our ears. There is something edgy about a hard G in a girl’s name; you see it a lot in Greek, German, and Nordic names: Margaret, Agatha, Agnes, Sigrid, Dagmar, Birgit, Gunilla, Gisela, Irmengard. (The G in Solveig is either silent or said like Y, but would still work were it hard.)
This is unfashionable at the moment, but could roar back anytime. (After all, long-gone Emma, Evelyn, and Sophie did.) Edginess is more in using surnames as given ones or, as with the Ys above, in-your-face respellings.
It didn't last. She didn't do well on the national stage and now she can't even win in Alaska.Replies: @Almost Missouri
It wasn’t just me and the voting public who noticed her talent. The major media (DNC continuum) noticed too and unleashed a (till then) unprecedented wave of vitriol and slander upon her in order to neutralize her politically. She did fight back and did have supporters, but the GOP establishment were passive, and she, like most mortals, simply lacked Trump’s preternatural ability to convert hostile media attacks into forward momentum. Ultimately she succumbed.
Part of the support of the upper crust for the downtrodden is to diffuse any resentment pointed their way. Call it the Buffet Buffer.
It was worse than that: they positively ordered infantry charges across No Man’s Land into fortified enemy territory, “enemy territory” they were going to inherit soon anyway.
And when I say “they”, I mean us, the “good guys”.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/guardian-world-war-one-disgracefully-lacking-in-diversity/#comment-5827950
This isn't true. Most companies have switched from traditional defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans (like 401ks). I was working for IBM when they switched. They told us at the time that one reason was that when they were competing with other companies to hire someone the candidate typically just compared salaries and assigned no value to IBM's pension plan. I found this believable, I had no idea what IBM's defined benefit plan was worth to me each year in terms of dollars. But when they switched to a 401k it was easy to see what the company match was each year.
Defined benefit plans are costly for the company and not valued as much by employees which make them an inefficient form of compensation.Replies: @muggles
Your facts are mostly correct, but your conclusion isn’t.
It is true that when firms ended their legacy defined benefit plans, employees didn’t like it. Some employed at such places at the time were given the option to stay with the “old” plan.
While the defined compensation plans aren’t as lucrative for employees, they are not necessarily “inefficient” from a firm’s point of view.
Defined compensation plans are nearly impossible to accurately forecast and highly risky over long time frames since business performance over decades is often highly variable. Plus, it incentivizes firms to ditch older employees who have larger legacy salaries which under the DC plans, must be matched in the pension plans.
Very few firms retain such plans. Only governments, (and some not now) retain or have such costly pensions. It is a huge fraction of most local and state budgets.
Since nearly all firms now have benefit plans, it is not a factor in attracting new hires (many younger ones fail to care about pensions anyway…). It is a factor for tax funded governments to attract talent which otherwise might avoid working for those.
Some local and state governments have ended those for new hires.
When inflation was very low in the past, and the economy was largely stagnant and technology not much of a factor, you might promise employees a permanent final salary pension payment. But also, average retirement ages were low, you often had to work 20 years to get in, and most males died by age 70 or even earlier.
Such schemes don’t make sense now. The 401(k) Retirement IRA is more feasible and if you add your own voluntary contributions, can do well when properly invested in diversified assets.
...
"Such schemes don’t make sense now. ..."
If we are in agreement that defined benefit plans don't make sense today then I am not sure what we are in disagreement about.
Both sentiments should be in the past tense, but the second one should definitely be in the past tense.
What we have now are more like provinces that are permitted to posture.
It is true that when firms ended their legacy defined benefit plans, employees didn't like it. Some employed at such places at the time were given the option to stay with the "old" plan.
While the defined compensation plans aren't as lucrative for employees, they are not necessarily "inefficient" from a firm's point of view.
Defined compensation plans are nearly impossible to accurately forecast and highly risky over long time frames since business performance over decades is often highly variable. Plus, it incentivizes firms to ditch older employees who have larger legacy salaries which under the DC plans, must be matched in the pension plans.
Very few firms retain such plans. Only governments, (and some not now) retain or have such costly pensions. It is a huge fraction of most local and state budgets.
Since nearly all firms now have benefit plans, it is not a factor in attracting new hires (many younger ones fail to care about pensions anyway...). It is a factor for tax funded governments to attract talent which otherwise might avoid working for those.
Some local and state governments have ended those for new hires.
When inflation was very low in the past, and the economy was largely stagnant and technology not much of a factor, you might promise employees a permanent final salary pension payment. But also, average retirement ages were low, you often had to work 20 years to get in, and most males died by age 70 or even earlier.
Such schemes don't make sense now. The 401(k) Retirement IRA is more feasible and if you add your own voluntary contributions, can do well when properly invested in diversified assets.Replies: @James B. Shearer, @Ralph L
“Your facts are mostly correct, but your conclusion isn’t.”
…
“Such schemes don’t make sense now. …”
If we are in agreement that defined benefit plans don’t make sense today then I am not sure what we are in disagreement about.
Absolutely false. They had 5 hits off of Dr. Feelgood alone.
"How many remember “Kick Start My Heart”?"
LOL Actually, this is their most remembered song and probably gets the most airplay presently. The music app I use will play a band's music in order of popularity based on whatever algorithm the app uses. For example, for LZ it's Stairway To Heaven, for Metallica it's Enter Sandman. For MC, it is Kickstart My Heart.
" Your claim that the Clash"
Look, I'm going from memory. Maybe I'm wrong about the Clash specifically, but take the point. there are a significant number of bands in the HoF who were not the favorites of critics during their heyday. Looking at wiki just now, the album Dr. Feelgood did receive overall positive reviews from your precious critics. Either way it's clearly and obviously not the sole measure and you are still evading the original point I made and choosing to just veil your opinion of the group with around the barn arguments.
Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums. It speaks for itself. The reality of the RnR Hof is that for a good half of its inductees, the group's or individual's political and or social beliefs weight heavily on the decision making process. IOW, if you're a negro, a wannabe negro, or a lunatic leftist asshole then you're almost a shoe in.Replies: @John Johnson, @Curle
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs. Crue made it in as follows: No 6 – Dr Feelgood, the band’s only gold single in the US. No. 8 – Without You. No. 12 – Girls, Girls, Girls. And from there it’s an increasingly steep decline: No. 16 – Smoking in the Boys Room, a cover, to No.s 19, 27, 37, 63, 78 & 83 and they’re out of the charts. In other words they had three songs, one cover and six songs to varying degrees on the outskirts of the charts. This is not the stuff of which greatness is made.
Kick Start Your Heart is banal even for them.
And just to show there's no hard feelings, before you put your eminem playlist back on the sound bar in your living room, check this video out. It's quite sincerely one of the funniest videos I've ever seen:
https://youtu.be/lynAhYQgoeE?si=m44fhXzgGYNChy-eReplies: @Curle, @Jenner Ickham Errican
And McCain (R-POS) did nothing to defend Palin, even though she was the best thing about his campaign.
Well, yeah, if there’s a ceasefire coming then you want to grab as much land as possible before the deadline. This always happens in these situations.
This was not a ceasefire in place but what amounted to a surrender by the Germans. So last minute attempted land grabs were a pointless waste of lives.
Well that’s just like, your opinion, man.
And just to show there’s no hard feelings, before you put your eminem playlist back on the sound bar in your living room, check this video out. It’s quite sincerely one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen:
On a completely different musical front, here’s Dolly Parton being all girl in one of her early albums. A world away from Kamala.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljfQgLMNx-Y
“The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs. Crue made it in as follows: No 6 – Dr Feelgood, the band’s only gold single in the US. No. 8 – Without You…”
That means Motley Crue has exactly one more top 10 hit than……. Led Zeppelin (Whole Lotta Love), The Clash, Pink Floyd, The Who, and two more than Jimi Hendrix. *
Stairway to Heaven, long argued to be the song most played on the radio ever, was never released as a single and was never on the Billboard 100. Music industry standard my ass.
Beyonce has 300 grammies, Grammy legitimacy confirmed!
So someone better call the HoF committee and get Led Zeppelin’s induction revoked! Don’t they read the charts! We can’t have an industry standard going around with egg on their face!
Eminem has over twenty 10 ten hits, so I guess he just better than all of them combined, amirite?
When I get high, I get high on speed
Top fuel funny car's a drug for me
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Always got the cops coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
The lyrics aren’t buffoonish in an Ramones funny way they are buffoonish in a buffoonish way. Many, many people thought they were clowns, in a bad way at the peak of their popularity in a way the other bands they have been compared to on this thread never were.Replies: @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
Am I the only one who’s ever suspected that the lyric in Good Times, Bad Times that says “Well my woman left home for a brown-eyed man, but I still don’t seem to care” likely was a sanitized reworking of what began as “My woman left home for a brown-skinned man, but I still don’t seem to care”?
The existing line doesn’t truly make any sense (not that rock n roll lyrics always do, or need to), whereas the other version suggests something obvious and familiar. Led Zeppelin was composed of four earthy young men who would have been surrounded with that sort of banter, were well-schooled in American blues and likely aware of black culture in the US, and by 1968 thanks to the miracle of mass immigration were beginning to have good experience with blacks in England as well.
Along similar lines, we now know from Van Morrison that his famous 1968 song “Brown Eyed Girl” began life as a lyric about a brown-skinned girl, based on a young black woman he had an experience with, but Van Morrison was prevailed upon by his label to remove the racial aspect and any unwanted controversy.
Kind of like how Chuck Berry’s original line in Johnny B. Goode was not about “a little county boy who could play a guitar like ringing a bell”, but a colored boy. It was sanitized to remove a racial reference and make the song palatable to a white audience.
He apparently isn't aware that Zep was sampling, so to speak, Berry's "Brown-eyed Handsome Man." Berry's meaning was crystal clear way back then
While I'm at it, how is "Break On Through to the Other Side" not the most emphatic announcement that "We're here and pay attention"? It grabs instinctually decades later.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
And just to show there's no hard feelings, before you put your eminem playlist back on the sound bar in your living room, check this video out. It's quite sincerely one of the funniest videos I've ever seen:
https://youtu.be/lynAhYQgoeE?si=m44fhXzgGYNChy-eReplies: @Curle, @Jenner Ickham Errican
Thanks. Can you imagine paying for that? From the quality of that stripper bragging about him he seems more glutton than connoisseur
On a completely different musical front, here’s Dolly Parton being all girl in one of her early albums. A world away from Kamala.
And just to show there's no hard feelings, before you put your eminem playlist back on the sound bar in your living room, check this video out. It's quite sincerely one of the funniest videos I've ever seen:
https://youtu.be/lynAhYQgoeE?si=m44fhXzgGYNChy-eReplies: @Curle, @Jenner Ickham Errican
YouTube comments:
Let 45-year-old Matt Wolfson of Scranton, Pennsylvania tell it in his own words:
‘Absolutely insane’: This ex-construction worker compared Trump to Hitler — but voted for him anyway
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/absolutely-insane-this-ex-construction-worker-compared-trump-to-hitler-but-voted-for-him-anyway/ar-AA1tTAf8
Maslow’s hierarchy is real. Marie Antoinette was guillotined because of price of bread.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/06/04/post-trump-conviction-polls-show-warning-signs-most-independents-think-trump-should-drop-out/Independents outnumber Republicans. Yes the voters were unhappy with inflation which was another reason to not run Harris. You don't run the VP on a sour economy. You run someone from outside the administration. This is politics 101 which the Democrats have abandoned in favor of DEI feelies. Look at the swing state numbers for yourself:
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/swing-states/They're all within the margin of error. His highest numbers were in Arizona with 52%. They were both high risk candidates. The Democrats were absolute idiots for not holding a primary and finding someone that polled well with independents.Replies: @epebble
Why? The 18th century republicans, or democratic republicans if you prefer, held no strong positions matching the later middle 19th century party, having envisioned among other things forming new states out of old states and once they reached a certain size splitting and creating their own separate unions with several unions filling up North America. There’s nothing in the thinking of the early republicans leading to the conclusions pushed by the railroads and their advocate A. Lincoln.
I had to check out a couple of these election threads and went all the way through this one. Look, I don’t feel the need to respond to anything… except, Kashmir?! Get the fuck outta here. Sorry, Steve, I don’t have the right to kick you off your own blog, but this just … I can’t even…
Kashmir, you say? Listen, I was walking through this big beautiful, quiet gloomy graveyard one night in the big city (won’t say which) up to the bar. Nobody was around, and the whole hill was in the clouds – I mean it couldn’t have been much more than 100 yards visibility, and then the great jukebox at this bar had Misty Mountain Hop AND The Battle of Evermore on it. Man, when a song can put whole scenes in your head after only one beer (2 on the outside), like some kind of Hobbit thing, which I hadn’t read since they made us in High School, that’s a good song!
Well, both of them are – my ex-, current-, and future- Hippie landlord told me later that was one Sandy Denny singing on Battle of Evermore
That all said, EVEN THOSE 2 songs aren’t the best from Led Zeppelin. The inarguably (cause I don’t have time for that) best Led Zeppelin song is Houses of the Holy, which is conveniently not even on their Houses of the Holy album – it had enough great music already.
It’s great to see you guys on here. Been a while. I hope everyone is doing well.
You might be the only guy in the world who believes that. But listen to it, then listen to Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good.
Kashmir is their best song, but there are probably 25 other songs between it and HotH when talking about best.
Anyway, nice to see you. It's been a week of visits from long departed commenters.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Missed you, Achmed. The humor quotient’s been a bit low lately.
I sure hope Mr. Sailer, if he really can scan 573 comments, knows I was just having fun. Did I need a smiley face? I mean, he IS still off the rails with this Kashmir thing though ...
About the subject that started this digression, no, Eminem should NOT be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (c)Rap/Hip Hop is not Rock & Roll, and it's not even music for that matter.
He was too busy defending Obama from the GOP base.
The R&R hall of shame has always had a bias against what they deem “cock rock,” Van Halen / KISS as examples and heavy metal. Cock rock, hair metal, etc… are “rock.” Motley Crue more than meets the hall’s requirements based on volume of work, career longevity (over four decades) and album sales.
Why should a committee of leftist, wine snobs, trump the public’s opinion of an artist or group’s worthiness? Nobody cares that you or the hall don’t like Motley Crue’s music. Their success as deemed by radio air play, album sales / tour ticket sales should be what determines a band’s hall of fame worthiness.Replies: @Truth
They all looked like Homos.
https://youtu.be/v_XT9-C5Qu8?si=Drf_mMomCRHA8ph6Replies: @Truth
In terms of STEM your only real chance is: 1) they hire a stupid diversity negro who can't do the work, then 2) hire a crooked pajeet to cover up the negro's mistakes, then 3) hire you at a discount to patch up all the collective Errors of Color, while Ta-Negro takes the credit for all three of you.Replies: @John Johnson
Real life Lara Croft.
While I understand chicks with guns is a fetish for a lot of guys, it does absolutely nothing for me. Do women ogle over pictures of guys doing needlepoint?Replies: @Colin Wright
It is true that when firms ended their legacy defined benefit plans, employees didn't like it. Some employed at such places at the time were given the option to stay with the "old" plan.
While the defined compensation plans aren't as lucrative for employees, they are not necessarily "inefficient" from a firm's point of view.
Defined compensation plans are nearly impossible to accurately forecast and highly risky over long time frames since business performance over decades is often highly variable. Plus, it incentivizes firms to ditch older employees who have larger legacy salaries which under the DC plans, must be matched in the pension plans.
Very few firms retain such plans. Only governments, (and some not now) retain or have such costly pensions. It is a huge fraction of most local and state budgets.
Since nearly all firms now have benefit plans, it is not a factor in attracting new hires (many younger ones fail to care about pensions anyway...). It is a factor for tax funded governments to attract talent which otherwise might avoid working for those.
Some local and state governments have ended those for new hires.
When inflation was very low in the past, and the economy was largely stagnant and technology not much of a factor, you might promise employees a permanent final salary pension payment. But also, average retirement ages were low, you often had to work 20 years to get in, and most males died by age 70 or even earlier.
Such schemes don't make sense now. The 401(k) Retirement IRA is more feasible and if you add your own voluntary contributions, can do well when properly invested in diversified assets.Replies: @James B. Shearer, @Ralph L
My dad collected a small monthly pension for 27 years from his ten years with Raytheon, but it was fixed–no COLA like SS and his Navy pension (which would have been significantly higher if he’d retired 2 years earlier or later instead of 1980, thanks to Carter inflation and Reagan active pay raise).
“Well, yeah, if there’s a ceasefire coming then you want to grab as much land as possible before the deadline. This always happens in these situations.”
This was not a ceasefire in place but what amounted to a surrender by the Germans. So last minute attempted land grabs were a pointless waste of lives.
They got more ass than you could possibly imagine.
If you’re a young White college student these days, there is absolutely no reason at all to go into serious student debt in order to get a STEM degree, since you will simply be locked out and stepped over in favor of hapless foreign H1-B diversity hires. This is never going to stop; or rather, this train’s last stop is at Stonehenge, and even those megalithic cave people knew more about math and astronomy than the diverse future Murcans will. You’re better off going into predatory law, since Jews seem to be abandoning that particular ship of rats in favor of more advanced forms of skimming.
In terms of STEM your only real chance is: 1) they hire a stupid diversity negro who can’t do the work, then 2) hire a crooked pajeet to cover up the negro’s mistakes, then 3) hire you at a discount to patch up all the collective Errors of Color, while Ta-Negro takes the credit for all three of you.
As for Michigan and Pennsylvania... the Democrat governors there are now in a great position to run for President in 2028.
I suspect the corrupt election system blinked, stealing it from Trump this time wouldn't work narratively, so they are rolling the dice that he won't be able to change the system before they can put the thumb back on the scales in 2026.Replies: @Greta Handel
is a safe bet on practically anything Trump. He usually doesn’t even pretend to try.
And that’s not going to change with people duped enough to already be sportsballing MIEE v.2026 and 2028.
That all changed in 2013 when the fans were given a vote. So of course the ROCK band that the critics hated most was elected by their enormous fan base.
2013 gave us two long overdue bands (Heart being the other one), driven by the fan vote, to go with the random blacks and Jews that are the usual RnR HOF inductees. I mean really, Lou Adler and Randy Newman?
Fast foward to 2017, and here we are again; a long neglected ROCK band elected. Hey, look who’s inducting them!
In between, however, is why theRnR HOF is a joke.
Joan Jett?! Are you kidding me? Is there a special section for bar bands whose hits are almost all cover tunes?
Our higher education system is leftist now and students swallow the woke intellectual poison while going through it. I looked at a map of counties here in Indiana that went for Harris. One of the counties in the state where she had the highest vote total was the one that contained Indiana University with its huge population of professors, administrators and students. Generally speaking, only cities which contain large numbers of ghetto Blacks are more Democrat than college towns.
Shrinking the number of people going through our higher education system should be a priority for conservatives. The Biden administration wanted unpaid student loans forgiven, which would have helped to keep the higher education boondoggle going. Instead, students and the colleges who gave them worthless degrees should be on the hook for paying them off. No taxpayer money should be used for this.Replies: @Prester John, @Almost Missouri, @Ralph L, @Reg Cæsar, @OldJewishGuy, @Sebastian Hawks
Indiana University if I recall is the filming location of the movie that is the ultimate, uncritical celebration of what I call the “College Cargo Cult”…Breaking Away. While the movie mostly focuses on post high school local kids struggling to find their way in life, the “awe” most of the characters have for “college” as if it is some sort of magical talisman was very typical of the era. It was just assumed by most back then all you had to do was show up and they’d hand you a fancy job…just like in Eddie Murphy’s “Mr. White” skit on Saturday Night Live where he put on white face and every stranger started handing him free money. It seems the older generation who went through the hard times of the thirties looked around them and saw a small cadre of cognitive elite and well connected blue bloods who were still pulling in a nice paycheck and instead of concluding it was because they were a cognitive elite and well connected they falsely concluded that it must be the fact they went to college that was responsible for their success and if every last bus driver and short order cook got a degree they too would be resting their feet on a mahogany desk with a brass plated pen stand. As if some dolt in the UK saw Prince Charles playing Polo and thought “gee whizz, if I send my kid off to learn how to play Polo then someday he can be King too!!!” The same misunderstanding that caused the Solomon Island Natives to build bamboo airports in the jungle expecting the GIs to swoop out of the sky and bring them more free stuff. A total waste of our nations resources sending all but that top 15-20% on for further education after high school. They should be in the workforce in the prime years of their lives full of strength and vigor, then maybe we wouldn’t need all these illegal aliens. It has also evolved into an employment racket for endless liberals. A country that doesn’t make any tangible goods now employs and occupies it’s citizenry with churning out useless degrees.
“The inarguably (cause I don’t have time for that) best Led Zeppelin song is Houses of the Holy.”
You might be the only guy in the world who believes that. But listen to it, then listen to Joe Walsh’s Life’s Been Good.
Kashmir is their best song, but there are probably 25 other songs between it and HotH when talking about best.
Anyway, nice to see you. It’s been a week of visits from long departed commenters.
Real life Lara Croft.Replies: @Mike Tre
Lara Croft wasn’t a soldier, she was an adventurer/treasure seeker. I have nothing against Gabbard per se, but she’s just larping here.
While I understand chicks with guns is a fetish for a lot of guys, it does absolutely nothing for me. Do women ogle over pictures of guys doing needlepoint?
Maybe… but unlike Tupac, NWA, Jay Z, Diddly, and countless other negro rappers, they were actually straight. All your heros were on the down low, just like you.
I'm thinking not. https://tgforum.com/trans-influenced-rock-the-1980s-1990s-and-beyond/
As for myself, I subscribe to SiriusXM (and was an early XM subscriber) although the current price is not worth it. What they don't advertise is that if you call to cancel and are persistent about it, they will give you a much-more-reasonable price. I degrade myself once per year for the savings.Replies: @Jack D
Yes, I used to go thru that charade with Sirius until I got sick of even the annual phone calls and let it lapse completely (never give a real credit card number for any sort of subscription or they will never stop auto charging you – I always give them a virtual # that expires). After I let it lapse they must have phoned me 100 times until they finally gave up. I haven’t really missed it or at least not enough to actually renew.
It’s not just Sirius. I have a NY Times online subscription that cost $4/month (I used to get the physical paper and that was a LOT more). It was about to expire and they were going to renew it for $25/month. I hit “I would like to cancel” on their web system and presto chango, they offered me the $4 price again for another year. Not even a phone call.
If we not merely tolerate homosexuality but celebrate it, and indicate our hearty approval with such phenomena as Gay Pride parades and endorsing homosexual unions via permitting homosexual 'marriages,' we'll get a lot more homosexuals.
Really. This isn't either to condemn it or to condone it. It's just to point out what will happen.
Now, speaking for myself, I see no reason to hunt homosexuals through the streets. But I also see no good reason to celebrate it. It should be tolerated. Tacitly and reluctantly. Like your teenaged son gets drunk after the friday night football game. You don't need to throw a fit -- but you also don't need to signal your approval.Replies: @Jack D
Maybe in the past when homosexuality was frowned upon, some men who are openly gay today completely repressed their urges and became Catholics priests or remained “bachelors” and just lived unhappy lives. But a lot of others just did it on the down low or molested boys.
Just because no one was openly gay does not mean that gayness did not exist. It was just more hidden. Alan Turing’s case is rather typical except that he was really stupid (for a genius) and got caught.
So did Harvey Weinstein; but I don’t want to look like that either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLuYXT6QMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJK0cEPQi4w
2013 gave us two long overdue bands (Heart being the other one), driven by the fan vote, to go with the random blacks and Jews that are the usual RnR HOF inductees. I mean really, Lou Adler and Randy Newman?
Fast foward to 2017, and here we are again; a long neglected ROCK band elected. Hey, look who's inducting them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kbcqKkTmko
In between, however, is why theRnR HOF is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rheKK_2qGk0
Joan Jett?! Are you kidding me? Is there a special section for bar bands whose hits are almost all cover tunes?Replies: @Truth
Rush was hated by critics?
This guy thinks it's because they were too white.
https://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130418buffalonews.htm
https://rockcritics.com/2013/03/05/critical-collage-rush-vs-the-critics-2/
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/rush_how_i_learned_to_forgive_and_even_like_the_most_hated_band_of_all_time/
Forty minutes in, the great documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage brings up the critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNgfTb0u8U
It strikes me as funny that 50 years ago I was listening to progressive rock, hated by the critics who thought those bands had great musical chops but nothing to say, and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say.Replies: @Truth, @Mike Tre
Thank you, Mr. Bob – I miss conversing here with y’all.
I sure hope Mr. Sailer, if he really can scan 573 comments, knows I was just having fun. Did I need a smiley face? I mean, he IS still off the rails with this Kashmir thing though …
About the subject that started this digression, no, Eminem should NOT be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (c)Rap/Hip Hop is not Rock & Roll, and it’s not even music for that matter.
The picture of the trans former candidate for VT governor accompanying this article has to be seen to be believed. Drawing attention to this might even be considered inhumane.
https://vtdigger.org/2024/11/08/civil-and-reproductive-rights-groups-in-vermont-make-plans-in-advance-of-donald-trumps-return/
By “far-left platform” I was referring to social issues, not economic issues. In my heart of hearts I think Bernie and AOC think that the far-left I am referring to is too far-left even for them.
As an aside, based on her recent videos there are rumors going around that AOC is with child. If so, good for her; she is young and attractive enough to where she should have lots of children
Her vile spawn are exactly what the US doesn't need anymore of.
As an aside, based on her recent videos there are rumors going around that AOC is with child. If so, good for her; she is young and attractive enough to where she should have lots of childrenReplies: @Mike Tre
Who’d have thunk a careerist government ward would be advocating for more non white single mothers who are also government blood suckers?
Her vile spawn are exactly what the US doesn’t need anymore of.
Just because no one was openly gay does not mean that gayness did not exist. It was just more hidden. Alan Turing's case is rather typical except that he was really stupid (for a genius) and got caught.Replies: @Colin Wright
Sure. I’ll grant some small percentage of men anywhere, anytime will be homosexual. That’s why I don’t insist on hunting them through the streets. Leave the poor bastards in peace. If you walk into a disco, and everyone’s male, figure it out.
But we are social animals. We really are shaped by our culture. That is reality. Tell people it’s good to be homosexual, and you’ll get more homosexuals. No foolin.’
Witness the British upper class, 1880 or so to…now. Homosexuality was at least tacitly condoned — and bingo. At the same time, did it run wild through the lower middle and working classes? I suspect not. Same genetic pool — different mores.
Look at Jews. I mean, no offense, but a lot of American Jews seem to have become homosexual. Think they were there a hundred years ago? No…and I don’t think they were hiding their hidden homosexuality. Ignatz the insurance actuary just wasn’t homosexual. Really, sincerely, wasn’t.
Reality is a social construct — sometimes. There’s a lot of truth to that, even if the concept does get abused. What we think — and what we want — is shaped by our upbringing. Tell people it’s wonderful to be homosexual, and you’ll get more homosexuals.
It is very far removed from the issues that really matter to the American voters who loudly made their perspective known.
Nice try, Steve.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian, @NoMoreLurking
Wrt the presidential election, I tend to agree.
However, here in TX I think Ted Cruz won a race that could have been much closer due to Soros/Hollywood/weirdo $$$ pouring in and us becoming a victim of our own success with in-migration from West (and some East) coast shitlibs. But the boys in girls’ sports/locker rooms was too much for enough of the “In this house” suburban moms(never mind the increasingly based Latinos).
Running ads that prominently featured his blonde wife probably picked up votes from White suburban women but at the cost of enthusiasm from Black women.
If the Democrats ever get the good sense to run a social moderate, macho-presenting Latino man(i.e. not Beto the manny) Cruz would be toast. He is great on the issues but not very likable. Between his smarmy, unctuous affect(especially on TV) and his troubled relationship with Trump, I thought he was very vulnerable this cycle.
I wish we could elect some new people here in Connecticut. The Trump support was much greater this time, more open, yard signs and so forth. You see, this is one of those places where one feels cautious about expressing true thoughts. How terrible is that?
And McCain (R-POS) did nothing to defend Palin, even though she was the best thing about his campaign.
It was a poor VP pick. She simply didn’t poll well with the public and she loses voters by talking.
The best theory is that he wanted someone shorter than him.
That is why he picked her over better candidates.
In terms of STEM your only real chance is: 1) they hire a stupid diversity negro who can't do the work, then 2) hire a crooked pajeet to cover up the negro's mistakes, then 3) hire you at a discount to patch up all the collective Errors of Color, while Ta-Negro takes the credit for all three of you.Replies: @John Johnson
If you’re a young White college student these days, there is absolutely no reason at all to go into serious student debt in order to get a STEM degree, since you will simply be locked out and stepped over in favor of hapless foreign H1-B diversity hires.
I wouldn’t go that far. It depends on the degree and where you want to live.
In rural America we have a shortage of all kinds of skilled workers. There is a real problem with graduates using rural America to gain experience and then they leave for the city (usually near a city with safe burbs).
I have friends in tech and they work where they please. The H1-B Indians are not 100% replacements. People find them annoying due to the language barrier and what is usually Brahmin arrogance. Everyone loves an immigrant that feels superior to everyone and can’t be understood half the time. They are used heavily in cities like Chicago because White people don’t want to live there.
'Absolutely insane': This ex-construction worker compared Trump to Hitler — but voted for him anyway
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/absolutely-insane-this-ex-construction-worker-compared-trump-to-hitler-but-voted-for-him-anyway/ar-AA1tTAf8
Maslow's hierarchy is real. Marie Antoinette was guillotined because of price of bread.Replies: @John Johnson
That’s some nice anecdotal evidence but polls have shown that independents did not want Trump.
They only split when forced against a candidate like Harris or Biden.
Meaning the Democrats could have easily won by running practically any Joe Schmoe Congressmen from a swing state.
Most independents wanted Trump to drop out
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/06/04/post-trump-conviction-polls-show-warning-signs-most-independents-think-trump-should-drop-out/
Independents outnumber Republicans.
Yes the voters were unhappy with inflation which was another reason to not run Harris.
You don’t run the VP on a sour economy. You run someone from outside the administration. This is politics 101 which the Democrats have abandoned in favor of DEI feelies.
Look at the swing state numbers for yourself:
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/swing-states/
They’re all within the margin of error. His highest numbers were in Arizona with 52%.
They were both high risk candidates. The Democrats were absolute idiots for not holding a primary and finding someone that polled well with independents.
The pompous certainty of your political analysis is equaled only by its wild inaccuracy. Palin was the only thing in McCain’s campaign that gave him a chance of winning, by galvanizing the base; the Republican ticket was actually starting to pull ahead when the 2008 economic meltdown scuttled it for good. While you’re at it, please tell us again about how Vance was a terrible VP pick who hurt Trump’s campaign.
Thank you for recognizing that and for responding to me. I have owned that print for many years now.
I bought it at a shop on Pearl Street in Boulder, many years ago.
Do you want to laugh? Today that very same space is occupied by Kimball Musk’s restaurant, The Kitchen Bistro. Yes, Elon Musk’s brother owns the restaurant on that very same spot where I bought my Ansel Adams print. He has even preserved the lettering on the glass, “Book Store,” or whatever. You see, it was both a book store and a purveyor of collectible art.
Please know that I regret how my commenting relationship with you/your blog has changed.
It appears that you and I disagree about some important issues. Or that you simply do not find those issues worthy of you attention, or that your public attention to them would be detrimental to your overall enterprise.
I respect you and what you feel that you must do.
Namaste.
The 2021 budget is Trump’s. The US budget year is Oct 1-September 30. The 2021 budget took longer to lock down and wasn’t passed until December but nonetheless is Trump’s last budget. And yes, stimulus for countering the pandemic lockdowns was part of it.
Note, I’m not giving Biden any kind of pass on doing a crap job with the budget–though that pales to insignificance compared to his outright treason on the border.
Rather what I’m pointing out is where the inflationary pressure was coming from–the huge QE (“qualitative easing”, i.e. printing money) that the Fed did in response to the pandemic. And then this monetary wave running into the pandemic initiated supply chain constraints. (“Hey we can’t actually build any new trucks.”)
Note that a federal deficit != inflation. Inflation is mostly caused by monetary expansion exceeding actual economic expansion. (I.e. demand rising faster than supply … prices rise.) Our federal government does not print money, so can not directly monetize its deficits. (That might be better–more honest.) The Fed prints our money. And also monkeys with interest rates to regulate economic activity and money creation by the banking system. Whether a deficit creates inflation or not is complicated–what does the fed do, how much slack is in the economy, etc. etc.
In 2020, to counter the pandemic contraction the Fed directly created a whole shitload of new money–i.e. it bought up US treasury debt and paid for it by issuing new money. (It gets to just make it up–you don’t.) And dropped its federal funds rate to rock bottom. This created the great monetary surge. And when the pandemic eased and people were out spending … but the pandemic disruptions where still constraining production and/or distribution (all the shipping logjams and delays) … boom, prices soar.
Psychologist psycho babble is not hard science and not to be taken seriously. Tenants of which are in a constant state of flux largely dependent upon current social trends. Being gay / lesbian was once considered to be a mental illness in the DSM and now it is not. The transgender phenomena is so disgustingly egregious that it alone would easily be enough to tank Harris’s campaign.
“The 2021 budget is Trump’s. The US budget year is Oct 1-September 30. The 2021 budget took longer to lock down and wasn’t passed until December but nonetheless is Trump’s last budget. And yes, stimulus for countering the pandemic lockdowns was part of it.”
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was a Biden administration $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law on March 11, 2021. It included $400 billion of stimulus payments that went out in March and April. This clearly increased the deficit in 2021 and was inflationary. And it was Biden’s doing not Trump’s.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/06/04/post-trump-conviction-polls-show-warning-signs-most-independents-think-trump-should-drop-out/Independents outnumber Republicans. Yes the voters were unhappy with inflation which was another reason to not run Harris. You don't run the VP on a sour economy. You run someone from outside the administration. This is politics 101 which the Democrats have abandoned in favor of DEI feelies. Look at the swing state numbers for yourself:
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/swing-states/They're all within the margin of error. His highest numbers were in Arizona with 52%. They were both high risk candidates. The Democrats were absolute idiots for not holding a primary and finding someone that polled well with independents.Replies: @epebble
This type of analysis always surfaces when a supposedly imperfect candidate wins. But the reality is, an abstract, flawless, sinless generic candidate, always beats a real, living, breathing, flawed person (with a paper trail). Any other generic Democrat, other than Gore would have beaten dunderhead GWB in 2000. Any other generic Democrat, other than Hillary would have between the Pussy Grabber in 2016. Any other Republican other than Trump would have beaten the walking corpse Biden in 2020. . . . The list goes on. Somehow that generic candidate can never be instantiated through the primary process. So, till we can resurrect/clone FDR or JFK or Reagan, we have to deal with imperfect humans. If the Democrats had an honest primary, Bernie Sanders (or his clone) may rise up (as it happened in 2020) but he would be too extreme to win in general. If, say, they put up Pennsylvania’s Shapiro, there would be loud whispers of “Jewish takeover”. Either it is an amiable dunce like Tim Walz who will end up losing or someone that will create controversy for being too extreme.
Eminem, no matter how disfavored the style, is nevertheless interesting within the context of his style. This really isn’t about Eminem it’s about Motley Crue who had two decent hits, Dr Feelgood and Girls, Girls, Girls, one popular ballad, and a lot of dreck. Some might say they were an objectively bad band in a way the others were not but this, of course, is a matter of opinion. The problem is that it’s a lot of people’s opinion. And when one compares them to other bands of the time of the same style, GNR is a good example, their weaknesses as songwriters and stylists become even more apparent. Here’s a representative sample of lyrics to Kick Start Your Heart:
When I get high, I get high on speed
Top fuel funny car’s a drug for me
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Always got the cops coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
The lyrics aren’t buffoonish in an Ramones funny way they are buffoonish in a buffoonish way. Many, many people thought they were clowns, in a bad way at the peak of their popularity in a way the other bands they have been compared to on this thread never were.
When I get high, I get high on speed
Top fuel funny car's a drug for me
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Always got the cops coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
The lyrics aren’t buffoonish in an Ramones funny way they are buffoonish in a buffoonish way. Many, many people thought they were clowns, in a bad way at the peak of their popularity in a way the other bands they have been compared to on this thread never were.Replies: @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
” This really isn’t about Eminem it’s about Motley Crue”
Actually it isn’t. It’s about the RnR HOF selection criteria and its obvious biases. You’re just repeating your personal opinion of each performer as if it it carries any more weight than mine.
It’s unfortunate that you support the RnR Hof’s process of considering political, social and racial factors that favor negroes and wannabe negroes over the actual success and influence of the performer. I know you don’t like it, but Motley Crue was tremendously successful and influential, and their music endures. Eminem’s doesn’t. It’s as simple as that.
Single-sex schools, often boarding schools for the elite, probably have done much to encourage homosexuality in Britain. Puberty arrives, hormones are racing out of control and all you see around you are males. Add to that the fact that masturbation was heavily discouraged – not just sinful but you’ll go BLIND! – and you have a recipe for homosexual practices. (I’ve read two biographies of Turing and it is pretty obvious that girls were just not a feature of the school or schools he went to.)
Yeah, they were. If you watch the induction, Dave Grohl touches on it.
This guy thinks it’s because they were too white.
https://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130418buffalonews.htm
https://rockcritics.com/2013/03/05/critical-collage-rush-vs-the-critics-2/
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/rush_how_i_learned_to_forgive_and_even_like_the_most_hated_band_of_all_time/
Forty minutes in, the great documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage brings up the critics.
It strikes me as funny that 50 years ago I was listening to progressive rock, hated by the critics who thought those bands had great musical chops but nothing to say, and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say.
1987: The Beach Boys
1989: Bobby Darin
1990: The Kinks (and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say. Maybe.) The Who, The Byrds.
1991: The Yardbirds, Cream, CCR, The Doors.
1993: The Animals
1995 Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane
1996: Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Crosby Stills and Nash
1997: The Eagles, The Mamas and the PapasNow Up until this point it's pretty good, these bands predate Rush.
1998: Billy Joel
1999 Bruce Springsteen
2000: The Lovin' Spoonfull, Aerosmith
2001: Queen
2003: The Police
2004 ZZ TopEtc. Now, I will be perfectly honest here, looking at this list I was surprised by how many black acts are in the R&RHOF, and by how many "soulful" white acts, so you may be on to something, but here's the question:Now are you telling me that Rush is whiter than Aerosmith?....Billy Joel (Yes, I know what you are thinking)? The Mamas and the Papas? Bobby Darin? THE BEACH BOYS?Or is that Rush is associated with basically one great overwhelming hit? And it's the one that the biggest douche in school used to play too loud in his bondo-crusted Camaro driving up to school? For TWO YEARS?I'll tell you another interesting thing about Rush later, if I have time.Replies: @Brutusale
Or as MJK of Tool said in their song Eulogy: "He had a lot to say; He had a lot of nothing to say."
https://youtu.be/v_XT9-C5Qu8?si=Drf_mMomCRHA8ph6Replies: @Truth
LOL
I’m thinking not.
https://tgforum.com/trans-influenced-rock-the-1980s-1990s-and-beyond/
One actually gets the phenomenon of figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. They emerge from adolescence as confirmed homosexuals — then discover women after a decade or so. Evelyn Waugh seems to have followed a similar trajectory: a lot of mucking about, then finally finds a nice seventeen-year old girl and proceeds to have lots of children.
I had a teacher at school who took the morning register - the first class of the day at which your attendance was noted. I don't know if this was a general phenomenon but this particular teacher would spend fifteen or twenty minutes telling us his views on life before we were due to go to our first proper class of the day. Sometimes he talked about the Italian campaign in WW2 (he had taken part as a British soldier and was coming up to retirement by the late 1970s, when I encountered him). Another time he expressed the view that single-sex schools produce homosexuality. His view today might be regarded as reactionary but I suspect he was largely correct.
I remember soft-core porn magazines circulating rather freely among the male pupils at my school, which was co-educational. I dare say the same would happen in US schools. It could be considered an example of theory before practice.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
Once they achieve high status, men don't have to go looking for women. You will never get any male animal no matter how supposedly gay that will ignore a receptive female if one in put in his cage.Replies: @Colin Wright
This guy thinks it's because they were too white.
https://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130418buffalonews.htm
https://rockcritics.com/2013/03/05/critical-collage-rush-vs-the-critics-2/
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/rush_how_i_learned_to_forgive_and_even_like_the_most_hated_band_of_all_time/
Forty minutes in, the great documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage brings up the critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNgfTb0u8U
It strikes me as funny that 50 years ago I was listening to progressive rock, hated by the critics who thought those bands had great musical chops but nothing to say, and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say.Replies: @Truth, @Mike Tre
OK, so the R&RHOF was opened in 1986, and the first couple of years, they inducted a lot of old Black Blues/R&B/Rock Singers. For obvious reasons; that is where the art form originated.
But there are still plenty of whites induced:
1986: The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly
1987: The Beach Boys
1989: Bobby Darin
1990: The Kinks (and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say. Maybe.) The Who, The Byrds.
1991: The Yardbirds, Cream, CCR, The Doors.
1993: The Animals
1995 Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane
1996: Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Crosby Stills and Nash
1997: The Eagles, The Mamas and the Papas
Now Up until this point it’s pretty good, these bands predate Rush.
1998: Billy Joel
1999 Bruce Springsteen
2000: The Lovin’ Spoonfull, Aerosmith
2001: Queen
2003: The Police
2004 ZZ Top
Etc.
Now, I will be perfectly honest here, looking at this list I was surprised by how many black acts are in the R&RHOF, and by how many “soulful” white acts, so you may be on to something, but here’s the question:
Now are you telling me that Rush is whiter than Aerosmith?….Billy Joel (Yes, I know what you are thinking)? The Mamas and the Papas? Bobby Darin? THE BEACH BOYS?
Or is that Rush is associated with basically one great overwhelming hit? And it’s the one that the biggest douche in school used to play too loud in his bondo-crusted Camaro driving up to school? For TWO YEARS?
I’ll tell you another interesting thing about Rush later, if I have time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk
Seriously, Steven Tyler's great-great-great-grandfather was a mulatto.
BTW, Run-DMC is in the RnR HOF and they belong. They were the Kings of Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzWlPL_TKwThey had 24 gold and 14 platinum albums. They are third on the list of rock bands with consecutive gold/platinum records, behind the Beatles and the Stones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_discography
Show us on this doll where Tom Sawyer touched you!The old bluesmen, along with the likes of Chuck, Richard, and the Isleys, belong. The likes of Martha and the Vandellas and Joan Jett don't. They're in, but Tool, Bad Company, Jethro Tull, ELP, Thin Lizzy, Joe Cocker, Grand Funk Railroad, Boston, Iron Maiden, Edgar and Johnny Winter, Brian Eno, Ted Nugent, The B-52s, Smashing Pumpkins...aren't.
Prog rock has little to do with anything that came before it. The argument could be made that the (((music industry))), represented here by Jann Wenner, has a special dislike for prog rock because it has little to do with blues or R&B.
I look at the RnR HOF the same way I look at the MLB HOF; it's more about who I'd remove than who I'd add.
When I get high, I get high on speed
Top fuel funny car's a drug for me
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Always got the cops coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
The lyrics aren’t buffoonish in an Ramones funny way they are buffoonish in a buffoonish way. Many, many people thought they were clowns, in a bad way at the peak of their popularity in a way the other bands they have been compared to on this thread never were.Replies: @Mike Tre, @VinnyVette
You can keep on keeping on. Fact is because you do not like Crue or their music does not make them unworthy of the hall of fame. $100 million gold / platinum records sold and enduring popularity after a 4 plus decade career trumps your opinion.
Eminem is all but a forgotten has been.
There are many artists / bands in the hall whose music I think sucks, but I can agree they belong in the hall “on the merits.” Any sensible person would.
They don’t have a cross tab for those in or out of the HoF but if sales decide matters you may be waiting a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
https://vtdigger.org/2024/11/08/civil-and-reproductive-rights-groups-in-vermont-make-plans-in-advance-of-donald-trumps-return/Replies: @Anonymous
Yeah, that’s a man in a wig. Any 11-year-old child can see that. Adults are ‘smarter’ though.
You might be the only guy in the world who believes that. But listen to it, then listen to Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good.
Kashmir is their best song, but there are probably 25 other songs between it and HotH when talking about best.
Anyway, nice to see you. It's been a week of visits from long departed commenters.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
I wrote you back re: Joe Walsh on PS, Mike, but maybe you haven’t listened to this one LOUD.
I mean, it’s gotta be where the bass is jostling your internal organs around. This is how you play electric guitar – this is how you play drums (of course, John Bonham) – this is how you play bass – this is how you sing Rock, unless you’re John Fogerty (a cut above the rest), but Plant comes pretty close when he goes up in pitch about half-way through.
Yes, departed commenters. I am from the Future. Keep prepping, gentlemen.
Or maybe you haven't listened to any other LZ song, loud or othewrwise. lol
Of the 6 songs on disc one of Physical Graffiti, HotH is 4th or 5th best, depending on one's opinion of Custard Pie.
I'll check it out your reply on PS.
I haven't actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.Replies: @Prester John, @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Colin Wright, @John Johnson
I haven’t actually noticed a lot of public admiration for lawyers. There are lots of unflattering lawyer jokes out there. But I guess there are more lawyers than engineers in Congress.
I actually know of an attorney that is straight out of the Simpsons.
Extremely greedy and completely amoral to levels unimaginable. I really think he has a hard time understanding morals and tries his best to mimic them.
The Simpsons attorney does some unethical side jobs that have nothing to do with law and at the time I thought it was an exaggeration.
Nope. Not an exaggeration. Said attorney was accused of scamming in some office job that he took while waiting for the bar. The job even paid well.
I was completely shocked when I learned that Trump actually trusted an attorney to involve in a crime.
Attorneys are mercenaries. If you don’t need one then don’t associate with them. Their reputation is deserved.
Here’s the list for List of best-selling music artists. Eminem’s on it, not that I care, but guess who isn’t? There are artists in the same general category as Motley Crue, GNR, for instance. Acts that are also known for the general quality of the product they produced. Sensing a trend here? The lowest Crue-like artist to make the list is not surprisingly the one most like them in terms of very indifferent quality of output; that artist, KISS, is second to last on the list. I took a girl to a KISS concert once, it was forgettable except for the number of smokers in the audience (before cigs were banned from stadiums).
They don’t have a cross tab for those in or out of the HoF but if sales decide matters you may be waiting a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
Single-sex schools, often boarding schools for the elite, probably have done much to encourage homosexuality in Britain. Puberty arrives, hormones are racing out of control and all you see around you are males
Oh it’s much worse than that.
Those private boarding schools have had cultures of rape.
But cuck island is really the result of the wars. They killed off too many strong men.
Their enlistment process in WW1 was entirely dysgenic. The brave volunteered at the start of the war and were mowed down by German machine guns. By the time they developed strategies other than “run forward” they had killed off their warrior class. Britain had a strong military upper class before WW1. So they were killing off a lot of strong willed college graduates and future leaders. The very type of men that would stand up to liberalism. The timid and effete were able to avoid being drafted for the front in the early years. Even just having glasses could get you out of it. Then after the war the women can’t be as choosy.
There were also pretty high fatality rates in those early battles. Kind of hard to survive a machine gun bullet to the chest in 1916 when there are piles of wounded. WW2 was also dysgenic but they didn’t have the big dumb runs into machine guns.
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he's also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
Ernst Roehm also comes to mind; flamboyantly homosexual but a fine war record as well. It may not how we would like reality to be -- but reality isn't determined by our preferences.Replies: @John Johnson
Require the schools to co-sign the loans. Problem solved.
Eminem is arguably the most influential musical act of the 21st century.
Curious what or how you mean this. No sort of hip-hop expert here, sort of gave up on it by the time Wu-Tang came around, but from the little I can tell, Eminem is very good at what he does -- but how is he "most influential"? Artistically, or just increased sales/audience/scope?
I can't say that I hear how the landscape is different in a before-after way with Eminem, or what his influence is, the way that say rock n roll all just sounded different after Brian Wilson and the Beatles. I just thought of him as a guy who made some good records and made a lot of money, and had front-row seats with the likes of Jay-Z and Chuck.
Care to clue us in?Replies: @Truth
I’m skeptical of such theories; reality doesn’t seem to support them. For one, the Germans suffered severe losses as well — proportionately, worse than the British did. Yet their performance in the Second World War was if anything more impressive.
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he’s also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
Ernst Roehm also comes to mind; flamboyantly homosexual but a fine war record as well. It may not how we would like reality to be — but reality isn’t determined by our preferences.
The war was also dysgenic for the Germans but they did not have as many soldiers from the upper class in the early battles.
Germany and Britain also had different drafting systems.
Britain also relied more on volunteers in the early years. They did not have a draft until 1916. Germany had a peacetime conscription system before the war started.
Yet their performance in the Second World War was if anything more impressive.
Performance is not a measurement of long term genetic trends. You can have high performance in war and extremely dysgenic losses.
The Greeks were concerned with war dysgenics and didn't like to use men in battle that were childless. This is not some spurious subject. There is a historian that made a strong case that the French lost about 1" in height from the Napolean wars.
If Britian sent all redheads into battle first then it would change the population. Western society is in denial of how much genetics matter. You can't just kill 880 thousand men without any consequences to a population of 41 million. It's either going to be eugenic or dysgenic. It's mathematically impossible for it to be perfectly neutral.
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he’s also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
I don't see what homosexuals have to do with war dysgenics.Replies: @Colin Wright
While I understand chicks with guns is a fetish for a lot of guys, it does absolutely nothing for me. Do women ogle over pictures of guys doing needlepoint?Replies: @Colin Wright
Maybe the idea is that a woman who is willing to violate one taboo would be open to violating others. As to men, it’s already assumed they’re willing to have sex. Doing needlepoint won’t help.
This guy thinks it's because they were too white.
https://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130418buffalonews.htm
https://rockcritics.com/2013/03/05/critical-collage-rush-vs-the-critics-2/
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/rush_how_i_learned_to_forgive_and_even_like_the_most_hated_band_of_all_time/
Forty minutes in, the great documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage brings up the critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNgfTb0u8U
It strikes me as funny that 50 years ago I was listening to progressive rock, hated by the critics who thought those bands had great musical chops but nothing to say, and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say.Replies: @Truth, @Mike Tre
“those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say. ”
Or as MJK of Tool said in their song Eulogy: “He had a lot to say; He had a lot of nothing to say.”
“but maybe you haven’t listened to this one LOUD. ”
Or maybe you haven’t listened to any other LZ song, loud or othewrwise. lol
Of the 6 songs on disc one of Physical Graffiti, HotH is 4th or 5th best, depending on one’s opinion of Custard Pie.
I’ll check it out your reply on PS.
“Eminem is arguably the most influential musical act of the 21st century.”
Curious what or how you mean this. No sort of hip-hop expert here, sort of gave up on it by the time Wu-Tang came around, but from the little I can tell, Eminem is very good at what he does — but how is he “most influential”? Artistically, or just increased sales/audience/scope?
I can’t say that I hear how the landscape is different in a before-after way with Eminem, or what his influence is, the way that say rock n roll all just sounded different after Brian Wilson and the Beatles. I just thought of him as a guy who made some good records and made a lot of money, and had front-row seats with the likes of Jay-Z and Chuck.
Care to clue us in?
I don't know where you live and it really doesn't matter. Get on your radio and take it to the left end of the FM dial. Now scan all the way to the right end, stop at every station. and if a commercial is on just wait until the programming restarts.
Now, how many "urban" stations were on your dial?
How many were there in 1999.
Great. Point made.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
I assume you mean negatively influential.
After all, the Beatles were without question the most negatively influential act of the 20th century, right?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hLAITMrWNwV6Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he's also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
Ernst Roehm also comes to mind; flamboyantly homosexual but a fine war record as well. It may not how we would like reality to be -- but reality isn't determined by our preferences.Replies: @John Johnson
I’m skeptical of such theories; reality doesn’t seem to support them. For one, the Germans suffered severe losses as well — proportionately, worse than the British did.
The war was also dysgenic for the Germans but they did not have as many soldiers from the upper class in the early battles.
Germany and Britain also had different drafting systems.
Britain also relied more on volunteers in the early years. They did not have a draft until 1916. Germany had a peacetime conscription system before the war started.
Yet their performance in the Second World War was if anything more impressive.
Performance is not a measurement of long term genetic trends. You can have high performance in war and extremely dysgenic losses.
The Greeks were concerned with war dysgenics and didn’t like to use men in battle that were childless. This is not some spurious subject. There is a historian that made a strong case that the French lost about 1″ in height from the Napolean wars.
If Britian sent all redheads into battle first then it would change the population. Western society is in denial of how much genetics matter. You can’t just kill 880 thousand men without any consequences to a population of 41 million. It’s either going to be eugenic or dysgenic. It’s mathematically impossible for it to be perfectly neutral.
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he’s also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
I don’t see what homosexuals have to do with war dysgenics.
The war was also dysgenic for the Germans but they did not have as many soldiers from the upper class in the early battles.
Germany and Britain also had different drafting systems.
Britain also relied more on volunteers in the early years. They did not have a draft until 1916. Germany had a peacetime conscription system before the war started.
Yet their performance in the Second World War was if anything more impressive.
Performance is not a measurement of long term genetic trends. You can have high performance in war and extremely dysgenic losses.
The Greeks were concerned with war dysgenics and didn't like to use men in battle that were childless. This is not some spurious subject. There is a historian that made a strong case that the French lost about 1" in height from the Napolean wars.
If Britian sent all redheads into battle first then it would change the population. Western society is in denial of how much genetics matter. You can't just kill 880 thousand men without any consequences to a population of 41 million. It's either going to be eugenic or dysgenic. It's mathematically impossible for it to be perfectly neutral.
For another, of the sample I cited, the most definitely homosexual was Siegfried Sassoon. Yet he’s also the one who won a Military Cross; as I recall, he took a trench virtually single-handed, driving off forty or so Germans with the aid of a single enlisted man.
I don't see what homosexuals have to do with war dysgenics.Replies: @Colin Wright
The Kindermord bei Ypern? That was the offscourings of Britain’s slums shooting down potential officer cadets.
In any case, while I grasp the theory, it doesn’t seem to actually work that way. Maybe repeat for ten generations?
It makes no difference. EVERY best selling international music sensation is a set up propaganda agent meant to cause negative influence. There are NO exceptions.
After all, the Beatles were without question the most negatively influential act of the 20th century, right?
Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0I assume you’re being sarcastic.
What’s the executive summary of the poorly-framed TLDW video you posted?Replies: @Truth, @Truth
Evelyn’s son Auberon was an obsessive hater of homosexuals, going as far as to stand against Jeremy Thorpe at the 1979 election after Thorpe was tried and acquitted of a murder conspiracy against a man who said the former Liberal leader had been his homosexual partner. Auberon Waugh only got a handful of votes but Thorpe lost the seat to a Conservative.
I had a teacher at school who took the morning register – the first class of the day at which your attendance was noted. I don’t know if this was a general phenomenon but this particular teacher would spend fifteen or twenty minutes telling us his views on life before we were due to go to our first proper class of the day. Sometimes he talked about the Italian campaign in WW2 (he had taken part as a British soldier and was coming up to retirement by the late 1970s, when I encountered him). Another time he expressed the view that single-sex schools produce homosexuality. His view today might be regarded as reactionary but I suspect he was largely correct.
I remember soft-core porn magazines circulating rather freely among the male pupils at my school, which was co-educational. I dare say the same would happen in US schools. It could be considered an example of theory before practice.
We are born with our raw, unfocused impulses and desires. How to satisfy them is something we seek to learn, and are taught. Doing well in school will win you the approval of authority figures. Becoming intimate with the opposite sex can produce intense satisfaction. Channeling behavior in this way has the happy effect of producing enduring, successful societies.
Or, you can encourage other avenues for seeking gratification. That's what we're doing now.
I had a teacher at school who took the morning register - the first class of the day at which your attendance was noted. I don't know if this was a general phenomenon but this particular teacher would spend fifteen or twenty minutes telling us his views on life before we were due to go to our first proper class of the day. Sometimes he talked about the Italian campaign in WW2 (he had taken part as a British soldier and was coming up to retirement by the late 1970s, when I encountered him). Another time he expressed the view that single-sex schools produce homosexuality. His view today might be regarded as reactionary but I suspect he was largely correct.
I remember soft-core porn magazines circulating rather freely among the male pupils at my school, which was co-educational. I dare say the same would happen in US schools. It could be considered an example of theory before practice.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
“Another time he expressed the view that single-sex schools produce homosexuality.”
He wasn’t being specific enough: remote, all-male country boarding schools for toffs produce homosexuality, (or rather, homosexual Lord of the Flies behavior but not necessarily real, born-that-way Frank O’Hara-class homos). But OTOH urban all-male Catholic schools for toughs aren’t queer factories in any measurably-distinct way than the average.
Put a bunch of rich, hyper-class-conscious, hierarchical, easily-bored teenage boys who are kind of smart but not *that* smart, sons of rich but negligent/indifferent parents, locked away in a remote Gothic castle and fenced-in environs with no one for instructors but gnarly old eccentric celibates and scholarly semi-repressed poofters, and only weird poncey sports for physical activity (viz no one’s ever worked with their hands for a living among other working men) and… let the games begin. Is anyone surprised that hot-houses grow hot-house quality tomatoes?
Meanwhile, the boys who go to Saint Vincent the Matador Boys Academy on Wrongside Street who shuck oysters in the kitchen at their uncle Paulie’s restaurant on weekends and date the girls from St. Ursula of the Seven Veils Prep generally turn out just fine… well, before they go to jail, anyway.
In Ezra Klein podcas, Michael Lind giving a superb explanation for the trans and other issue being pushed to counter productive extremes against the instincts of senior Dems. He says it is about the way non profits aim to cause outrage, and how they are not about winning election, but getting pushback, and counter-pushback donations.
It varied a lot between schools as to whether it was tolerated as normal or stamped out.
Once they achieve high status, men don’t have to go looking for women. You will never get any male animal no matter how supposedly gay that will ignore a receptive female if one in put in his cage.
Of course, the situation on ships was hard to avoid. The situation in English public schools was artificially produced. It really does seem to have all been unnecessary. A figure like Robert Graves seemingly takes half his life to discover that girls really are preferable. Then he goes on to have eight children -- but this could have been expedited.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Sean
Jack Black’s character in High Fidelity was the meta critic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQMl51RDIQ
Curious what or how you mean this. No sort of hip-hop expert here, sort of gave up on it by the time Wu-Tang came around, but from the little I can tell, Eminem is very good at what he does -- but how is he "most influential"? Artistically, or just increased sales/audience/scope?
I can't say that I hear how the landscape is different in a before-after way with Eminem, or what his influence is, the way that say rock n roll all just sounded different after Brian Wilson and the Beatles. I just thought of him as a guy who made some good records and made a lot of money, and had front-row seats with the likes of Jay-Z and Chuck.
Care to clue us in?Replies: @Truth
Well, I will make it very simple for you;
I don’t know where you live and it really doesn’t matter. Get on your radio and take it to the left end of the FM dial. Now scan all the way to the right end, stop at every station. and if a commercial is on just wait until the programming restarts.
Now, how many “urban” stations were on your dial?
How many were there in 1999.
Great. Point made.
Besides, I wager that Eminem's "influence" as an artist pales, so to speak, beside guys like Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, who really did change the soundscape. Maybe Eminem did too, but that's not the case you tried to make.
And besides, who listens to the radio anymore?Replies: @deep anonymous
I believe there have been numerous scandals involving schools run by the Christian Brothers, whose pupils tend to be working class or lower middle class.
But the very fact that these are scandals implies that the behavior is not condoned — at least not among the boys. I would guess the behavior remains furtive, unseen, and probably confined to a small minority of the boys and (hopefully!) a small minority of the staff.
I had a teacher at school who took the morning register - the first class of the day at which your attendance was noted. I don't know if this was a general phenomenon but this particular teacher would spend fifteen or twenty minutes telling us his views on life before we were due to go to our first proper class of the day. Sometimes he talked about the Italian campaign in WW2 (he had taken part as a British soldier and was coming up to retirement by the late 1970s, when I encountered him). Another time he expressed the view that single-sex schools produce homosexuality. His view today might be regarded as reactionary but I suspect he was largely correct.
I remember soft-core porn magazines circulating rather freely among the male pupils at my school, which was co-educational. I dare say the same would happen in US schools. It could be considered an example of theory before practice.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
I’d take the view that among humans — probably among all higher mammals — such behavior is learned, at least partially.
We are born with our raw, unfocused impulses and desires. How to satisfy them is something we seek to learn, and are taught. Doing well in school will win you the approval of authority figures. Becoming intimate with the opposite sex can produce intense satisfaction. Channeling behavior in this way has the happy effect of producing enduring, successful societies.
Or, you can encourage other avenues for seeking gratification. That’s what we’re doing now.
Once they achieve high status, men don't have to go looking for women. You will never get any male animal no matter how supposedly gay that will ignore a receptive female if one in put in his cage.Replies: @Colin Wright
Interestingly, the same thing seems to have happened on ships. The reference is oblique, but Richard McKenna’s novel about the interwar US Navy, The Sand Pebbles, refers to the USS Pittsburgh as being particularly notorious as a ship where ‘the beast was loose.’ Implicitly, it was at least kept down to a dull roar on other vessels.
Of course, the situation on ships was hard to avoid. The situation in English public schools was artificially produced. It really does seem to have all been unnecessary. A figure like Robert Graves seemingly takes half his life to discover that girls really are preferable. Then he goes on to have eight children — but this could have been expedited.
https://irishwriting.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/images.jpeg
Nancy Nicholson. She ruled her husband Graves. I think Graves was bisexual, not one of the rugby playing 'bloods' category of pupil that Tolkien's schooldays memoir wrote of, but rather more the feminine 'tarts' used as girlfriends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxzwfZ2Wa94
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Over the years I have read of an awful lot of poets, well known and very minor, who died in wars, and more than a few of them seemed to have invited it. A huge proportion of the best WW1 poets had nervous breakdowns requiring hospitalisation, and some seemed to be unable to cope with life and were melancholy before joining up. Taking it up the arse from the Grim Reaper?
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Pre-Musk Twitter single issue activist retweet cancel culture took over the Dems and doomed them. Unfortunately, the single issue crowd are all about taking pro social issues and going one step beyond common sense to draw pushback and counter pushback donations from BILLIONARES (Musk is not a typical billionaire). Dems limits of debatable issues narrowed because they were driven by non profits, who are not about winning elections. Hence powerful single issue progressives on the old Woke Twitter got the trans issue being pushed into mainstream Dem received wisdom . Kamala poke approvingly of 'defund the police and trans extremes extended to schools. The changes at Twitter altered politics and Twitter changed because it was bought by Elon Musk, a man whose has said he is going to destroy the trans virus because he lost a son to it. Ezra Klien and Michael Lind had a podcast conversation the other day and a part was published by the NYT, and in it Lind says that the same kind of damage done to Kamala by trans Tweeters and defund the police types in their heyday on Twitter is now going to be done by right wing autodidacts on Twitter to Trump.
The new algorithm allowing bots to run wild promoting CIA biowarfare labs in Ukraine stories, is bad housekeeping by Twitter. However, it must never be forgotten that spreading Trump's assertion while President that the pandemic came from a Chinese lab ( I myself am pretty sure the COVID pathogen was accidently created and released unawares through a series of bad biosafety mistake), as outright banned by social media on the grounds it was 'fake news' or disinformation. That ban was then quietly withdrawn. Quite a few people are saying they now think the explanation Trump subscribed to was correct.
However, here in TX I think Ted Cruz won a race that could have been much closer due to Soros/Hollywood/weirdo $$$ pouring in and us becoming a victim of our own success with in-migration from West (and some East) coast shitlibs. But the boys in girls' sports/locker rooms was too much for enough of the "In this house" suburban moms(never mind the increasingly based Latinos).
Running ads that prominently featured his blonde wife probably picked up votes from White suburban women but at the cost of enthusiasm from Black women.
If the Democrats ever get the good sense to run a social moderate, macho-presenting Latino man(i.e. not Beto the manny) Cruz would be toast. He is great on the issues but not very likable. Between his smarmy, unctuous affect(especially on TV) and his troubled relationship with Trump, I thought he was very vulnerable this cycle.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Thank you for your informative reply. I just found it. I hope you read this. Thank you, and hello down there in Texas!
I wish we could elect some new people here in Connecticut. The Trump support was much greater this time, more open, yard signs and so forth. You see, this is one of those places where one feels cautious about expressing true thoughts. How terrible is that?
Yeah, but were those scandals about teachers or students? My experience in an all-male parochial high school in the 70s was a lot like Germ summarized. But we definitely had a few queer teachers from time to time. When they got caught, the Church authorities would quietly ship them out to Servants of the Paraclete, and a few years later, they were sent to some other unsuspecting parochial school. My high school had Franciscan Friars rather than Christian Brothers. In my city, the school with Christian Brothers had a higher SES profile. The wealthiest had Jesuits.
I had a blast recently listening to Sound Opinion, the NPR music critic show, talk about REM. Apparently Michael Stipe is gay.
1987: The Beach Boys
1989: Bobby Darin
1990: The Kinks (and punk rock, which the critics loved because those bands had horrible musical chops but a lot to say. Maybe.) The Who, The Byrds.
1991: The Yardbirds, Cream, CCR, The Doors.
1993: The Animals
1995 Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane
1996: Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Crosby Stills and Nash
1997: The Eagles, The Mamas and the PapasNow Up until this point it's pretty good, these bands predate Rush.
1998: Billy Joel
1999 Bruce Springsteen
2000: The Lovin' Spoonfull, Aerosmith
2001: Queen
2003: The Police
2004 ZZ TopEtc. Now, I will be perfectly honest here, looking at this list I was surprised by how many black acts are in the R&RHOF, and by how many "soulful" white acts, so you may be on to something, but here's the question:Now are you telling me that Rush is whiter than Aerosmith?....Billy Joel (Yes, I know what you are thinking)? The Mamas and the Papas? Bobby Darin? THE BEACH BOYS?Or is that Rush is associated with basically one great overwhelming hit? And it's the one that the biggest douche in school used to play too loud in his bondo-crusted Camaro driving up to school? For TWO YEARS?I'll tell you another interesting thing about Rush later, if I have time.Replies: @Brutusale
Rush is WAY whiter than Aerosmith. After all, Aerosmith had the first rap hit. 😉
Seriously, Steven Tyler’s great-great-great-grandfather was a mulatto.
BTW, Run-DMC is in the RnR HOF and they belong. They were the Kings of Rock.
They had 24 gold and 14 platinum albums. They are third on the list of rock bands with consecutive gold/platinum records, behind the Beatles and the Stones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_discography
Show us on this doll where Tom Sawyer touched you!
The old bluesmen, along with the likes of Chuck, Richard, and the Isleys, belong. The likes of Martha and the Vandellas and Joan Jett don’t. They’re in, but Tool, Bad Company, Jethro Tull, ELP, Thin Lizzy, Joe Cocker, Grand Funk Railroad, Boston, Iron Maiden, Edgar and Johnny Winter, Brian Eno, Ted Nugent, The B-52s, Smashing Pumpkins…aren’t.
Prog rock has little to do with anything that came before it. The argument could be made that the (((music industry))), represented here by Jann Wenner, has a special dislike for prog rock because it has little to do with blues or R&B.
I look at the RnR HOF the same way I look at the MLB HOF; it’s more about who I’d remove than who I’d add.
If (indeed) it was Drumpf’s ‘IDEA’ to create that Ad, I’d be surprised. Some say the ‘courses’ he took at PENN were handled by surrogate$. Is he not too reactive to be an actual strategist? In any case, it would appear that Israel ‘won’ his election for him.
After all, the Beatles were without question the most negatively influential act of the 20th century, right?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hLAITMrWNwV6Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Really. You don’t like ABBA?
I assume you’re being sarcastic.
What’s the executive summary of the poorly-framed TLDW video you posted?
The Beatles were an MI-6/CIA creation who's songs were written by some Indian guy who worked for MI-6 (This information doesn't stay up long) with the purpose of making young people stupider, more nihilistic and sleazier than they were, and it was a huge success. The Rolling Stones, the same thing.
As I have said multiple times, there are no "good" platinum selling, artists, and there are no "good" blockbuster movies or network television programs. It is ALL propaganda meant to harm you.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Oh, and by the way, these clowns don't die young, they just get assigned new roles to play when their music no longer sells. John Lennon did not die in 1980, he died in 2011.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zekSqCZc-ZfFqFHTlxoYRjy82U4OwQHf1vZI9cTpGFHrCYJ3NyMUYRKMrAS9UQ3vdAiq5m6BqrYduAZrTag3cxnhbP9f11H9CXqPQsWKNb9Nxbv8DVmeGlDFfRtAQZ2AIYVJPExBzHZou_SNaW_NIRhAcQ=w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu
Jim Morrison did not die in 1971 he was first assigned a new role shortly after that:
https://i.chzbgr.com/original/5024657152/h9B1CC953/chevy-chase-comedians-comedy-jim-morrison-musicians-5024657152
Then another one, and he finally died in 2021...
https://caliberhitting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/rush_limbaugh_jim_morrison5.jpg
Jimmy Hendrix, no.
https://hugh.cdn.rumble.cloud/s/s8/1/m/p/P/v/mpPvi.qR4e-small-Jimi-Hendrix-and-Morgan-Fre.jpg
So there is the story of your idols; upshot; you're a sucker, your idols are all a group of Khazar-created government spooks, your entire childhood was a simulation, and Eminem wasn't so bad.
Enjoy your evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0I assume you’re being sarcastic.
What’s the executive summary of the poorly-framed TLDW video you posted?Replies: @Truth, @Truth
The executive summary is that the Beatles were not a “band” anymore than Target, Walmart, Khols, or K-Mart, or for that matter, Amazon and Twitter, are “businesses.”
The Beatles were an MI-6/CIA creation who’s songs were written by some Indian guy who worked for MI-6 (This information doesn’t stay up long) with the purpose of making young people stupider, more nihilistic and sleazier than they were, and it was a huge success. The Rolling Stones, the same thing.
As I have said multiple times, there are no “good” platinum selling, artists, and there are no “good” blockbuster movies or network television programs. It is ALL propaganda meant to harm you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0I assume you’re being sarcastic.
What’s the executive summary of the poorly-framed TLDW video you posted?Replies: @Truth, @Truth
Video Link
Oh, and by the way, these clowns don’t die young, they just get assigned new roles to play when their music no longer sells. John Lennon did not die in 1980, he died in 2011.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zekSqCZc-ZfFqFHTlxoYRjy82U4OwQHf1vZI9cTpGFHrCYJ3NyMUYRKMrAS9UQ3vdAiq5m6BqrYduAZrTag3cxnhbP9f11H9CXqPQsWKNb9Nxbv8DVmeGlDFfRtAQZ2AIYVJPExBzHZou_SNaW_NIRhAcQ=w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu
Jim Morrison did not die in 1971 he was first assigned a new role shortly after that:
https://i.chzbgr.com/original/5024657152/h9B1CC953/chevy-chase-comedians-comedy-jim-morrison-musicians-5024657152
Then another one, and he finally died in 2021…
Jimmy Hendrix, no.
So there is the story of your idols; upshot; you’re a sucker, your idols are all a group of Khazar-created government spooks, your entire childhood was a simulation, and Eminem wasn’t so bad.
Enjoy your evening.
Of course, the situation on ships was hard to avoid. The situation in English public schools was artificially produced. It really does seem to have all been unnecessary. A figure like Robert Graves seemingly takes half his life to discover that girls really are preferable. Then he goes on to have eight children -- but this could have been expedited.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Sean
American boarding schools seemed to have less pederasty than English boarding schools.
Could be because American upper-class parents were aware of the possibility but unequivocally intolerant of it. Any school that permitted such a thing was dead.
Or it might have been because American upper-class society was less intolerant when it came to normal adolescent sexuality. I think somewhere in F. Scott Fitzgerald there's an extensive discussion of the art and science of 'petting' as a common social activity. That would imply boys were getting steered in the right direction. Is there anything equivalent in English literature?
Finally, in other societies it seems to be pretty routine for the son and heir to knock off the maid. I've heard a story to that effect from Peru; the maid complained and was duly fired. That Hitler's grandmother might have been impregnated by the son of her Jewish employer turned out to apparently be untrue -- but it's significant that it struck Hitler as a real possibility. He had the rumor investigated.
Again, however reprehensible, such patterns of behavior would tend to keep the son and heir from seeking other outlets.
The striking thing about Edwardian and Victorian England in particular of course was the often almost total repression of any suggestion of anything resembling illicit sex. Of course it happened -- but it definitely wasn't supposed to. This differed from other societies: others merely circumscribed the permissible arena for sexual activity, but the English tried to pretend there was no such thing. The results were predictable.
...but just to argue with myself, when we entered the First World War, it was we who notoriously tried to prevent any prostitution among our troops. I believe even the British had licensed bordellos with inspected prostitutes. We didn't -- and I understand that we had a spectacularly high rate of venereal disease as a result.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Curle
Conan Doyle (a hulking ruff nut who loved dangerous sports throughout his life) said at his Catholic boarding school they were never allowed to be alone together.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-gender-gap-votecast-05672b6426cb5965c446ae2871d97eafReplies: @Nicholas Stix
Gotta be.
I don't know where you live and it really doesn't matter. Get on your radio and take it to the left end of the FM dial. Now scan all the way to the right end, stop at every station. and if a commercial is on just wait until the programming restarts.
Now, how many "urban" stations were on your dial?
How many were there in 1999.
Great. Point made.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
But Eminem or not, hip-hop was expanding anyway, just as rock n roll was contracting, due to a) rock’s creative exhaustion, b) lack of new blood and top talent, which were all sucked away by the internet: by 1999, ambitious young LMC white kids no longer formed garage bands, they formed internet startups instead, and c) a generation of white teens grew up whose parents also listened to rock n roll: so in order to piss off their parents and be rebellious, white teens had to find something other than rock to listen to.
Besides, I wager that Eminem’s “influence” as an artist pales, so to speak, beside guys like Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, who really did change the soundscape. Maybe Eminem did too, but that’s not the case you tried to make.
And besides, who listens to the radio anymore?
The Beatles were an MI-6/CIA creation who's songs were written by some Indian guy who worked for MI-6 (This information doesn't stay up long) with the purpose of making young people stupider, more nihilistic and sleazier than they were, and it was a huge success. The Rolling Stones, the same thing.
As I have said multiple times, there are no "good" platinum selling, artists, and there are no "good" blockbuster movies or network television programs. It is ALL propaganda meant to harm you.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Are Apple, Google, and Microsoft fake businesses as well? Right now I’m presumably hallucinating that someone with your handle is using at least one of those companies’ devices and/or operating systems to tell me it’s all fake: Truth is stranger than fiction.
Should that ABBA video have an age restriction sign-in?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5FkBwOfZUReplies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Yeah, no possibility of confusion there.
I thought this was well known.
Besides, I wager that Eminem's "influence" as an artist pales, so to speak, beside guys like Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, who really did change the soundscape. Maybe Eminem did too, but that's not the case you tried to make.
And besides, who listens to the radio anymore?Replies: @deep anonymous
I think the biggest reason for the decline of rock and the rise of genres like rap is the same reason that football has displaced baseball as the biggest pro sport in the USA. The demographics of the country have changed drastically. The older, displaced forms of popular entertainment appealed to a Whiter audience. The country is not White anymore.
Rap became huge because the people in charge of dolling out the bread and circuses wanted it to become huge. The Big Lie is that the shift from rock to rap was organic. Absolutely not.
Say what you want about 80's rock, but it was high T. 90's rock turned to low T incel pity party rock almost overnight, just as the high T gangster rap, regardless of how awful it was, was getting all the air time. All part of the slowly-then-suddenly deconstruction of US culture.Replies: @deep anonymous
Ah, ABBA…
CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDOReplies: @Buzz Mohawk
Two “attractive “ trannies singing, “take a chance on me”?
Yeah, no possibility of confusion there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5FkBwOfZUReplies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
As shown, blasting an upbeat ABBA track would be an effectively terrifying and confusing psy-op before an armored assault. Or, maybe a Type O Negative cover of “Fernando”:
CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDO
In any case, while I grasp the theory, it doesn’t seem to actually work that way. Maybe repeat for ten generations?
What do you mean it doesn’t work that way? War dysgenics of WW1 isn’t merely a theory. It’s biology and the question is to what degree.
Take a population and send half the breeding age men to war before they have children.
If those breeding men do not have the same trait distribution as the men that stayed home then the population will change. It’s mathematically impossible for such an action to be neutral. It has to be eugenic or dysgenic.
The British volunteers and regulars of 1915-1916 were not randomly selected. They were far more likely to be brave or have a sense of duty to the country (responsibility). Upper class men were more likely to go to the front and they do not have “average genes” as leftists want to believe.
Bravery and responsibility are both genetic traits. This is not theory.
Western man has got to stop deluding himself over genetics. Man has population genetics just like any other biological group. He does not have some free pass from his imagination.
Britain’s men are most likely less brave due to WW1 and WW2. That in fact helps explain their political situation.
American losses in the American Civil War among Southern white males were demographically about as significant as it gets -- yet when we entered the First World War we were famously not especially competent but impressively willing to get ourselves killed.
But in spite of the demographically insignificant losses there, it left a bad taste in our mouths. The US Army basically fought the Second World War with the implicit understanding that heavy losses were to be avoided: artillery conquers, infantry occupies.
The Germans, on the other hand, did suffer demographically significant losses. But they fought their way through the Second World War with if anything even more ferocious determination than they had the First.
Finally there's Serbia. They suffered the loss of some staggering proportion of their male population in 1914-18. Did that turn them into pussycats? No...they went right ahead and displayed the same behavior in the Second World War.
Serbia aside, even the worst of these culls doesn't come to much more than 5% of the population -- and it is total population we've got to look at: women have just as much to do with it as men, and the underaged will (hopefully) be quite unaffected.
Finally, of course, the killing only becomes more random with time. An artillery shell doesn't care whether it kills Sergeant Rock or some frightened clerk cowering two miles behind the line.
So your one cull of a partially random twentieth of the population isn't going to do much. Any variation in military performance is going to be a function of culture, society, and training -- not genetics.
That this is so is supported by the actual evidence we have. Germany fights in 1940 but France doesn't. Why? French losses in the First World War were demographically more severe than those the Germans had suffered -- but not by much. What mattered was that unlike as in 1914, by 1940 French society didn't want to fight, their soldiers didn't want to fight, and they weren't prepared to fight. The killing of the brave had nothing to do with it. Had that been the case, the Germans would have been similarly irresolute.
CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDOReplies: @Buzz Mohawk
My wife is a big fan of ABBA. She started to learn English as a girl because she wanted to understand their lyrics. Her parents got her English lessons as a result, which were unusual in their country then, and the rest is history.
I recently did some Ancestry.com research and discovered that I am at least 1/8 Swedish/Norwegian. (Back in the mid-nineteenth century, those ancestors were handwritten in the Northern California books as “Norwegian,” but their family name was Swedish, and I know those parallel lands had a mixed history then…)
If that’s true, in a more or less prurient world it would be interesting to investigate precisely why.
Could be because American upper-class parents were aware of the possibility but unequivocally intolerant of it. Any school that permitted such a thing was dead.
Or it might have been because American upper-class society was less intolerant when it came to normal adolescent sexuality. I think somewhere in F. Scott Fitzgerald there’s an extensive discussion of the art and science of ‘petting’ as a common social activity. That would imply boys were getting steered in the right direction. Is there anything equivalent in English literature?
Finally, in other societies it seems to be pretty routine for the son and heir to knock off the maid. I’ve heard a story to that effect from Peru; the maid complained and was duly fired. That Hitler’s grandmother might have been impregnated by the son of her Jewish employer turned out to apparently be untrue — but it’s significant that it struck Hitler as a real possibility. He had the rumor investigated.
Again, however reprehensible, such patterns of behavior would tend to keep the son and heir from seeking other outlets.
The striking thing about Edwardian and Victorian England in particular of course was the often almost total repression of any suggestion of anything resembling illicit sex. Of course it happened — but it definitely wasn’t supposed to. This differed from other societies: others merely circumscribed the permissible arena for sexual activity, but the English tried to pretend there was no such thing. The results were predictable.
…but just to argue with myself, when we entered the First World War, it was we who notoriously tried to prevent any prostitution among our troops. I believe even the British had licensed bordellos with inspected prostitutes. We didn’t — and I understand that we had a spectacularly high rate of venereal disease as a result.
Well if it was that common to murder the help, then small wonder all those moneyed young rogues got sent packing off to America, where you can't just kill the maid and expect to get away with it. Unless of course you're a rich Jew and you're lucky enough to just murder an Irish girl.Replies: @Steve Sailer
As I say, it doesn’t seem to work that way.
American losses in the American Civil War among Southern white males were demographically about as significant as it gets — yet when we entered the First World War we were famously not especially competent but impressively willing to get ourselves killed.
But in spite of the demographically insignificant losses there, it left a bad taste in our mouths. The US Army basically fought the Second World War with the implicit understanding that heavy losses were to be avoided: artillery conquers, infantry occupies.
The Germans, on the other hand, did suffer demographically significant losses. But they fought their way through the Second World War with if anything even more ferocious determination than they had the First.
Finally there’s Serbia. They suffered the loss of some staggering proportion of their male population in 1914-18. Did that turn them into pussycats? No…they went right ahead and displayed the same behavior in the Second World War.
Serbia aside, even the worst of these culls doesn’t come to much more than 5% of the population — and it is total population we’ve got to look at: women have just as much to do with it as men, and the underaged will (hopefully) be quite unaffected.
Finally, of course, the killing only becomes more random with time. An artillery shell doesn’t care whether it kills Sergeant Rock or some frightened clerk cowering two miles behind the line.
So your one cull of a partially random twentieth of the population isn’t going to do much. Any variation in military performance is going to be a function of culture, society, and training — not genetics.
That this is so is supported by the actual evidence we have. Germany fights in 1940 but France doesn’t. Why? French losses in the First World War were demographically more severe than those the Germans had suffered — but not by much. What mattered was that unlike as in 1914, by 1940 French society didn’t want to fight, their soldiers didn’t want to fight, and they weren’t prepared to fight. The killing of the brave had nothing to do with it. Had that been the case, the Germans would have been similarly irresolute.
Britain has very strong libel laws, and we have the 1st Amendment.
Sometimes you just need to (takes off sunglasses) take a chance.
Could be because American upper-class parents were aware of the possibility but unequivocally intolerant of it. Any school that permitted such a thing was dead.
Or it might have been because American upper-class society was less intolerant when it came to normal adolescent sexuality. I think somewhere in F. Scott Fitzgerald there's an extensive discussion of the art and science of 'petting' as a common social activity. That would imply boys were getting steered in the right direction. Is there anything equivalent in English literature?
Finally, in other societies it seems to be pretty routine for the son and heir to knock off the maid. I've heard a story to that effect from Peru; the maid complained and was duly fired. That Hitler's grandmother might have been impregnated by the son of her Jewish employer turned out to apparently be untrue -- but it's significant that it struck Hitler as a real possibility. He had the rumor investigated.
Again, however reprehensible, such patterns of behavior would tend to keep the son and heir from seeking other outlets.
The striking thing about Edwardian and Victorian England in particular of course was the often almost total repression of any suggestion of anything resembling illicit sex. Of course it happened -- but it definitely wasn't supposed to. This differed from other societies: others merely circumscribed the permissible arena for sexual activity, but the English tried to pretend there was no such thing. The results were predictable.
...but just to argue with myself, when we entered the First World War, it was we who notoriously tried to prevent any prostitution among our troops. I believe even the British had licensed bordellos with inspected prostitutes. We didn't -- and I understand that we had a spectacularly high rate of venereal disease as a result.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Curle
“in other societies it seems to be pretty routine for the son and heir to knock off the maid.”
Well if it was that common to murder the help, then small wonder all those moneyed young rogues got sent packing off to America, where you can’t just kill the maid and expect to get away with it. Unless of course you’re a rich Jew and you’re lucky enough to just murder an Irish girl.
... and he plans to end it:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1855119856649355729
Whoever is writing this stuff is much more focused than last time.Replies: @Robin Whittle, @Gandydancer
Damn, those big green flashing letters in the Trump spiel are aggravating and distracting. I guess they have to be that way to be read on a phone, but I turned it off within seconds. Not that I’ve ever listened to a Trump speech anyway. I’ve voted for him several times because the opposition was worse, but that doesn’t mean I want to hear him.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1854922544815489168
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1854960892560998411
Feeling pretty good.Replies: @guest007, @Almost Missouri, @JohnnyWalker123, @Corvinus, @Truth, @Gandydancer
Has Trump shrunk? He’s supposed to be the same height as Bing reports Musk and Vance to be, 6’2″, but it sure doesn’t look that way in the photograph. (And I had no idea Musk was that tall.) I mean, it obviously doesn’t matter, but I was surprised.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2024/11/12/barron-trump-how-tall-melania-ivanka-height/76203274007/
That’s the second use of “seemingly obscure” in the column. Is that your judgment on Sailer as well?
Of course the death of Peanut also seems to have played a role in the outcome, and I don’t know how that compares with World War T. I doubt either is in in the same league as inflation. And Trump has some of the actual guilt for the last.
I don’t know how commenter Malone can wax on about “brown-eyed man” and its (skin) deeper meaning. This is news?
He apparently isn’t aware that Zep was sampling, so to speak, Berry’s “Brown-eyed Handsome Man.” Berry’s meaning was crystal clear way back then
While I’m at it, how is “Break On Through to the Other Side” not the most emphatic announcement that “We’re here and pay attention”? It grabs instinctually decades later.
The late Jeff Buckley used to do a very funny version of "Break On Through" where he sang it through a comb and tissue paper, in a tinny, old-timey Tin Pan Alley voice like he was playing on a scratchy old victrola, it was a hoot.
People get shorter in old age.
He apparently isn't aware that Zep was sampling, so to speak, Berry's "Brown-eyed Handsome Man." Berry's meaning was crystal clear way back then
While I'm at it, how is "Break On Through to the Other Side" not the most emphatic announcement that "We're here and pay attention"? It grabs instinctually decades later.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“how is “Break On Through to the Other Side” not the most emphatic announcement that “We’re here and pay attention”? It grabs instinctually decades later.”
The late Jeff Buckley used to do a very funny version of “Break On Through” where he sang it through a comb and tissue paper, in a tinny, old-timey Tin Pan Alley voice like he was playing on a scratchy old victrola, it was a hoot.
I only saw it used once, by the timesmen.
Do Pilates.
The first number 1 rap album was Dr. Dre’s The Chronic back in 1992, and the only reason it went number one is because a shitload of white teenagers (see Germ’s comment above about teenagers) went out and bought it.
Rap became huge because the people in charge of dolling out the bread and circuses wanted it to become huge. The Big Lie is that the shift from rock to rap was organic. Absolutely not.
Say what you want about 80’s rock, but it was high T. 90’s rock turned to low T incel pity party rock almost overnight, just as the high T gangster rap, regardless of how awful it was, was getting all the air time. All part of the slowly-then-suddenly deconstruction of US culture.
Of course not, but nor was the shift from Frank Sinatra to the Rock and Roll, from Bill Haley and the Comets to The Beatles, etc.
Your slavemasters control every aspect of your lives, and let you think you are in control.
Some jazz did continue to sell into the sixties. My fellow Indianapolis native Wes Montgomery had success with a commercial sound, something some jazz critics complained about at the time. Wes had a large family to take care of so he needed to put out a commercial product. Unfortunately, he worked too hard and passed away at an early age.
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1856505151378600160
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1856426748231200918Replies: @NoMoreLurking
I appreciate your contributions and think 2A is foundational in that it deters the gov’t from tyranny. I know I am a newbie here, but have you ever considered using that MORE function?
The all look tiny next to junior.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2024/11/12/barron-trump-how-tall-melania-ivanka-height/76203274007/
The anti-gay effort failed probably because most people know at least some gays who outwardly look and act somewhat normal. Trannies are entirely different, they usually look and act grotesque. So this may be a losing issue, yet the dems, being morally twisted, will not be able to drop it.
Rap became huge because the people in charge of dolling out the bread and circuses wanted it to become huge. The Big Lie is that the shift from rock to rap was organic. Absolutely not.
Say what you want about 80's rock, but it was high T. 90's rock turned to low T incel pity party rock almost overnight, just as the high T gangster rap, regardless of how awful it was, was getting all the air time. All part of the slowly-then-suddenly deconstruction of US culture.Replies: @deep anonymous
I agree as far as this goes. But I think that at the same time, the culture destroyers also were opening the floodgates to the Third World, thereby killing off affordable family formation; preventing White men from gaining financial independence through Affirmative Action, thereby reducing the White birth rate; plus the differential influence of feminism tended to further reduce the White birth rate both relatively and absolutely. A lot of factors working together, all to our detriment.
Could be because American upper-class parents were aware of the possibility but unequivocally intolerant of it. Any school that permitted such a thing was dead.
Or it might have been because American upper-class society was less intolerant when it came to normal adolescent sexuality. I think somewhere in F. Scott Fitzgerald there's an extensive discussion of the art and science of 'petting' as a common social activity. That would imply boys were getting steered in the right direction. Is there anything equivalent in English literature?
Finally, in other societies it seems to be pretty routine for the son and heir to knock off the maid. I've heard a story to that effect from Peru; the maid complained and was duly fired. That Hitler's grandmother might have been impregnated by the son of her Jewish employer turned out to apparently be untrue -- but it's significant that it struck Hitler as a real possibility. He had the rumor investigated.
Again, however reprehensible, such patterns of behavior would tend to keep the son and heir from seeking other outlets.
The striking thing about Edwardian and Victorian England in particular of course was the often almost total repression of any suggestion of anything resembling illicit sex. Of course it happened -- but it definitely wasn't supposed to. This differed from other societies: others merely circumscribed the permissible arena for sexual activity, but the English tried to pretend there was no such thing. The results were predictable.
...but just to argue with myself, when we entered the First World War, it was we who notoriously tried to prevent any prostitution among our troops. I believe even the British had licensed bordellos with inspected prostitutes. We didn't -- and I understand that we had a spectacularly high rate of venereal disease as a result.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Curle
Could it be that though there are plenty of private schools in the US there aren’t as many boarding schools as the UK? Speculating here.
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.Replies: @John Johnson, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
This makes for ominous reading. Unfortunately, it may be true.
Commentary: US car industry is passing the baton to China with barely a fight
Detroit got the world on the road but BYD will inherit the earth, says Bloomberg Opinion’s David Fickling.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/us-american-car-industry-automakers-china-electric-vehicles-4754226
Your slavemasters control every aspect of your lives, and let you think you are in control.Replies: @Mark G.
Jazz became less popular because it went off in directions that would be unappealing to a mass audience. Ornette Coleman did not appeal to the average person in a way that Louis Armstrong or Benny Goodman did.
Some jazz did continue to sell into the sixties. My fellow Indianapolis native Wes Montgomery had success with a commercial sound, something some jazz critics complained about at the time. Wes had a large family to take care of so he needed to put out a commercial product. Unfortunately, he worked too hard and passed away at an early age.
Well if it was that common to murder the help, then small wonder all those moneyed young rogues got sent packing off to America, where you can't just kill the maid and expect to get away with it. Unless of course you're a rich Jew and you're lucky enough to just murder an Irish girl.Replies: @Steve Sailer
I suspect knocking up the maid was more common than knocking off the maid: e.g., Strom Thurmond.
Oh wait, that's Jeb's wife, my mistake.
Karl Marx knocked up his maid and wouldn't recognize the child as his.
Schwarzenegger knocked up his very plain looking Mexican maid and the result was a buff halfican.
NOTCE a pattern? Or are you going to be cagey on this when it comes to morals?Replies: @epebble, @James B. Shearer
Senior boys (young men really) were given little kids as servants in British schools such as Eton. These were officially called the senior boy’s “fag”.
Harold MacMillan was said to have been expelled from Eton for homosexuality.
Conan Doyle (a hulking ruff nut who loved dangerous sports throughout his life) said at his Catholic boarding school they were never allowed to be alone together.
Of course, the situation on ships was hard to avoid. The situation in English public schools was artificially produced. It really does seem to have all been unnecessary. A figure like Robert Graves seemingly takes half his life to discover that girls really are preferable. Then he goes on to have eight children -- but this could have been expedited.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Sean
Interesting, there always seemed something seemed odd about way the male supporting characters in the Sand Pebbles film ganged up on McQueen’s lead. The captain played by the great Richard Crenna was even more odd.
Nancy Nicholson. She ruled her husband Graves. I think Graves was bisexual, not one of the rugby playing ‘bloods’ category of pupil that Tolkien’s schooldays memoir wrote of, but rather more the feminine ‘tarts’ used as girlfriends.
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Over the years I have read of an awful lot of poets, well known and very minor, who died in wars, and more than a few of them seemed to have invited it. A huge proportion of the best WW1 poets had nervous breakdowns requiring hospitalisation, and some seemed to be unable to cope with life and were melancholy before joining up. Taking it up the arse from the Grim Reaper?
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Pre-Musk Twitter single issue activist retweet cancel culture took over the Dems and doomed them. Unfortunately, the single issue crowd are all about taking pro social issues and going one step beyond common sense to draw pushback and counter pushback donations from BILLIONARES (Musk is not a typical billionaire). Dems limits of debatable issues narrowed because they were driven by non profits, who are not about winning elections. Hence powerful single issue progressives on the old Woke Twitter got the trans issue being pushed into mainstream Dem received wisdom . Kamala poke approvingly of ‘defund the police and trans extremes extended to schools. The changes at Twitter altered politics and Twitter changed because it was bought by Elon Musk, a man whose has said he is going to destroy the trans virus because he lost a son to it. Ezra Klien and Michael Lind had a podcast conversation the other day and a part was published by the NYT, and in it Lind says that the same kind of damage done to Kamala by trans Tweeters and defund the police types in their heyday on Twitter is now going to be done by right wing autodidacts on Twitter to Trump.
The new algorithm allowing bots to run wild promoting CIA biowarfare labs in Ukraine stories, is bad housekeeping by Twitter. However, it must never be forgotten that spreading Trump’s assertion while President that the pandemic came from a Chinese lab ( I myself am pretty sure the COVID pathogen was accidently created and released unawares through a series of bad biosafety mistake), as outright banned by social media on the grounds it was ‘fake news’ or disinformation. That ban was then quietly withdrawn. Quite a few people are saying they now think the explanation Trump subscribed to was correct.
I never understood the boarding school thing. The Badwhite kids are grown and (mostly) off the payroll. We miss having them around all the time. You only get your kids living with you (if you do it right) for 21-23 or so years. Those years were wonderful.
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.
Evelyn Waugh once went with a friend out to the suburbs to visit the friend's Mum, a lovely aged LMC lady, salt of the earth type. "Mr. Waugh," she said on being introduced, "I have read a few of your novels, but I am afraid I don't understand them."
"My dear lady," Waugh replied, "my novels were not written for you. They are intended to be understood by dreadful people."
These people seemed to have a gift for making themselves miserable with a great deal of money. See the haunting poverty in almost everything Orwell ever wrote. Why? It was all self-inflicted. Jesus: do like an auto worker back in the day. Work your eight hours, go to the bar after your shift, buy a cottage on a lake in Upper Michigan. What's not to like?
...it was a real pathology. See also D.H. Lawrence's short story, The Rocking Horse Winner, in which the (wannabe) upper middle class household is haunted by the unspoken plea: 'There must be more money.'
And for what? They didn't make themselves happy. It didn't pay for a little hottie on the side -- or a boat, or anything sensible. It all went to some artificial scramble up a social pyramid nobody else cared about. I mean, tell me you went to Oxford rather than Kings College London. See if anything changes.Replies: @Wielgus
John Edwards, Arnie, Jeb…
Oh wait, that’s Jeb’s wife, my mistake.
I suspect knocking up the maid was more common than knocking off the maid: e.g., Strom Thurmond.
Karl Marx knocked up his maid and wouldn’t recognize the child as his.
Schwarzenegger knocked up his very plain looking Mexican maid and the result was a buff halfican.
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.Replies: @John Johnson, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.
Upper classes on television have grace and manners. They always excel in civility and congeniality. They have hobbies like gardening or boating and are able to play at least one instrument. It’s a very nice fantasy created by television writers that have never been around them.
I assume this is exaggerated even further in British television shows.
The American upper class is a chore to be around. I almost knocked out one of their men for speaking down to my wife in public. They are used to giving orders and will actually start barking to random people to get their way.
I’ve had to be around them at a few social functions and they will annoy you in ways that you never imagined. They will do stuff like leave a conversation while you are talking mid sentence or or walk directly in your path while expecting you to move. It’s like being around autistic assholes. I assume a lot of them were born into wealth and never developed social skills.
I will take that bet. How much?
Do you seriously expect that there’ll be any substantial reining in of voting by mail, no ID requirement, etc., in time for MIEE v.2026?
Sure, Trump might blather about it depending on the context and audience at any given moment. But the Establishment not only wants to pick winners, it’s desperate to keep up the numbers indicating participatory faith in Our Democracy.
I won’t be playing, even if they start giving us toasters.Replies: @Precious
That doesn’t make sense. Why would she want to move the needle down? SHE doesn’t get paid by the click
The "transgender" nonsense at the logical level is no more insane than the idea that America's core white gentile population should bend over and grab its ankles for any other minority--Jews, black, Muslims, homos, immigrants, etc. Logically any organism not "should", but must prioritize its own survival and reproduction.
A nation must prioritize the maintenance and reproduction of the nation's people and culture--i.e. the nation--or else it simply ceases to exist. Minorities properly accommodate themselves to the majority. Either--best case--just throwing in with it and integrating. Or accepting that they are a minority and organizing themselves to maintain/reproduce themselves privately as a separate minority while the nation's majority publicly carries on with its norms/traditions/culture.
What is distinct is the transgender thing is just obviously and unpleasantly nuts. Unlike some normal racial/ethnic group that just happens to be through some accident of history in some other people's nation, trannies are mentally ill people demanding the normies bend over for them. "Transgender" takes the core logic of minoritarians and rubs it in normal peoples' face.
And again: this makes trannies a great punching bag for conservatives. But unless conservatives explain what's actually wrong here--the deep illogic--and channel normie disgust into an understanding and rejection of the entire ideology of minoritarianism ... it is simply a one-off--oh gee you saved women's sports, whoopeee--pointless.
I'll give the Trump campaign due credit for latching onto this normie disgust. And their "they/them" vs. "you"--i.e. normal people--is excellent. But it should have beenexplicitly thematically joined with ads about the border--"they" (foreigners) vs "you" (Americans)--with ads about crime--"they" (criminals) vs. "you" (productive law abiding citizen). To really move forward that whole "normies first", majoritarian ideology should be front and center and hammered home.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mactoul, @Gandydancer
Great idea. It’s too bad that it’s too late for 2024, but, yes, EVERY Trump ad should have ended with the tag line, “It’s they/them vs. you”. As a phalanx that would have gotten lots of free positive pub out of the Dem’s irrepressible negative reactions. But unless the Dems change Vance could still use it, and maybe in 2032 too.
(I read somewhere that she has a Twit presence as "Mariana Gatlinburg.")
How that worked, I couldn't tell you, but as a result, I wouldn't be surprised if she had still more aliases.
What I find more shocking is that someone who had every incentive to keep a low profile would feel so safe in being so aggressively racist. Then again, when do blacks ever get in trouble for their racism, no matter how blatant? As a neighbor of mine said on what used to be Independence Day several years ago, "It's their country now." That's why I no longer refer to the Fourth of July as "Independence Day," but alternately as "Slave Day" or "Eva Marie Saint Day."Replies: @Gandydancer
Not getting the reference to Saint, but I see that she is alive and just over 100 years old.
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.Replies: @John Johnson, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
“that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.”
Evelyn Waugh once went with a friend out to the suburbs to visit the friend’s Mum, a lovely aged LMC lady, salt of the earth type. “Mr. Waugh,” she said on being introduced, “I have read a few of your novels, but I am afraid I don’t understand them.”
“My dear lady,” Waugh replied, “my novels were not written for you. They are intended to be understood by dreadful people.”
Obama kept those single issue pressure groups under control, they got momentum on the old Twitter and Kamala fell for it.
Trump switching the centre of gravity of his attack ads to the trans front at a crucial point may have been encouraged by Musk
Speaking about sex scandals and iSteve content generators, yet another one of Trump’s cabinet nominees is facing scrutiny. Linda McMahon, Matt Gaetz, Peter Hesgeth, and RFK Jr.
NOTCE a pattern? Or are you going to be cagey on this when it comes to morals?
Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?Replies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
The act leading to pregnancy certainly happened to Moll Flanders.
NOTCE a pattern? Or are you going to be cagey on this when it comes to morals?Replies: @epebble, @James B. Shearer
I think after Clinton and Trump, we should delete sexual morality as a topic for political discourse and move on to something else – like policies. Harping on Gaetz 24�7 is starting to sound like we are in Victorian England. That 17 years 11 months and 20 days old ‘girl’ obviously was a willing prostitute. Trying to screw Gaetz for that indiscretion (of not sufficiently scrutinizing her Driver license/Instruction permit/Passport?) doesn’t sound rational. He seems to be a lightweight on so many other grounds (except, he might be the very best candidate if the purpose is to destroy DoJ, which might very well be the manifesto), why keep needling him on this non-crime?
Cleveland won anyway. His supporters then paraded around calling out, 'Gone to Washington, ha ha ha!'
Barring extremes, I just don't care about a candidate's private life.Replies: @Wielgus, @Corvinus
NOTCE a pattern? Or are you going to be cagey on this when it comes to morals?Replies: @epebble, @James B. Shearer
“NOTCE a pattern? …”
Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?
Corrected for accuracy --> Politicians like to make accusations of their opponents of sexual misconduct, and will cover for one of their own out of necessity.
Doesn't matter now, Gaetz withdrew his nomination. It gives him free time to find another under age tart to bang. So long as it's not your daughter or granddaughter, right?
JFC, you’re WAY better than this.
“I think after Clinton and Trump, we should delete sexual morality as a topic for political discourse and move on to something else – like policies.”
How convenient of you to say. Except the policy at hand is what evangelicals and religious folks on the right–the Another Dad’s of the world–is a nation that 1) embraces Christian morals and 2) adheres to the rule of law. Rooted in that policy is to castigate sexual deviancy, which includes out of wedlock sex, extramarital affairs, gay sex, and sexual assault. Until the right completely removes itself as the morality police, they have no leg to stand on by claiming foul in this investigation of Gaetz’s sexual proclivities.
And where is Mr. Sailer in all of his hullabaloo? Being cagey.
“Harping on Gaetz 24×7 is starting to sound like we are in Victorian England.”
This is more than just heavy petting and male curiosity.
“That 17 years 11 months and 20 days old ‘girl’ obviously was a willing prostitute.”
Which is against the law, any way you slice it. Ironically, the role of the Department of Justice is to prosecute offenders of our law. If Gaetz had nothing to hide, why resign from his seat, and subsequently withdraw his nomination?
“Trying to screw Gaetz for that indiscretion (of not sufficiently scrutinizing her Driver license/Instruction permit/Passport?) doesn’t sound rational.”
You’re right. Gaetz should have been extremely diligent in ensuring the woman he was paying for sex was of legal age. You would think a man of his stature would be more careful, especially if he is going to throw her around and have his way for her, that slut. But, hey, he is just grabbing women by the p—- like his mentor, or Hunter Biden. Take your pick.
“except, he might be the very best candidate if the purpose is to destroy DoJ, which might very well be the manifesto)”
The manifesto by whom? To what extent did Trump voters insist that the new AG destroy the very institution he is sworn to uphold and protect? Is this something that ought to be even seriously considered? And how is Gaetz even remotely qualified to head the DOJ in your opinion?
“why keep needling him on this non-crime? ”
Sounds like you are Gaetz’s defense attorney. Perhaps you are in contact with Gloria Allred?
Again, you are WAY better than this.
1. Gaetz was a poor choice for the job.
2. His paying for consensual sex, for a 'girl' slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character.
3. Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ. He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person. He has been following this strategy for other departments too. One need not dismantle an organization by openly going about doing it. Appointing a weak but loyal person can do it. If the department becomes like a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) of a state, the purpose is achieved.Replies: @Corvinus
Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?Replies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
“Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?”
Corrected for accuracy –> Politicians like to make accusations of their opponents of sexual misconduct, and will cover for one of their own out of necessity.
Doesn’t matter now, Gaetz withdrew his nomination. It gives him free time to find another under age tart to bang. So long as it’s not your daughter or granddaughter, right?
We have some friends that sent their kids to boarding school. When I asked them why they explicitly cited that being how it is done by their upper classes in the UK. Why anyone would emulate those awful people is beyond me.Replies: @John Johnson, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Colin Wright
What’s always struck me is how those upper middle class types in England will undergo serious deprivation to send their children to ‘public schools.’ See John Masters’ memoirs, in which he discusses his retired father serious taking up a second career managing a farm to pay his son’s school fees.
These people seemed to have a gift for making themselves miserable with a great deal of money. See the haunting poverty in almost everything Orwell ever wrote. Why? It was all self-inflicted. Jesus: do like an auto worker back in the day. Work your eight hours, go to the bar after your shift, buy a cottage on a lake in Upper Michigan. What’s not to like?
…it was a real pathology. See also D.H. Lawrence’s short story, The Rocking Horse Winner, in which the (wannabe) upper middle class household is haunted by the unspoken plea: ‘There must be more money.’
And for what? They didn’t make themselves happy. It didn’t pay for a little hottie on the side — or a boat, or anything sensible. It all went to some artificial scramble up a social pyramid nobody else cared about. I mean, tell me you went to Oxford rather than Kings College London. See if anything changes.
The education snobbery is found elsewhere - in John le Carré's work for example. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, there is a brief argument about whether a particular educational establishment is "redbrick", with an undertone of disparagement about it.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/red_brick_university
It is a part of the UK's social pathology.
Seriously. Wasn’t this settled in 1884 or thereabouts? The Republicans tried to make a campaign issue out of the fact that Grover Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock. They paraded around calling out ‘Ma, ma. Where’s my pa?’
Cleveland won anyway. His supporters then paraded around calling out, ‘Gone to Washington, ha ha ha!’
Barring extremes, I just don’t care about a candidate’s private life.
No. The moralists in the GOP and the advocates of white Western Civilization tout anti-gay, no sex unless married, and anti-trans, which are the bulwark of family formation policies.
“Cleveland won anyway.”
Context matters. Cleveland espoused a reformist agenda, and his opponent James Blaine himself faced allegations of exchanging political favors for cash. In the end, Clevelsnd was able to secure the presidency through a narrow victory.
“Barring extremes, I just don’t care about a candidate’s private life.”
Trump’s life is about extremes. Ask Michael Cohen.
Hypocrisy abounds.
Multiple facts that appear to contradict each other may be true.
1. Gaetz was a poor choice for the job.
2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character.
3. Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ. He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person. He has been following this strategy for other departments too. One need not dismantle an organization by openly going about doing it. Appointing a weak but loyal person can do it. If the department becomes like a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) of a state, the purpose is achieved.
Exactly.
"2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character."
It is in dispute regarding her age at the time of the act. And the difference here is that the nominee was to head the Justice Department and he was under investigation himself for violation of state law. How are we to trust his decision making given his unsavory past? Furthermore, Trump supporters include evangelicals and the AnotherDad's of the world who insist that government officials be of a "high moral standard", one that is required to put back on track Western Civilization and "white" values. Based on this metric, Gaetz's conduct disqualifies him.
"Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ."
Which goes directly against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. "
And I would say he is a hypocrite by engaging in that same excessive politicizing he supposedly opposes. What a cagey way for the fox to tell the farmer "trust me, I won't eat any hens if you let me inside the fence". We know Trump's track record for skirting the law. Ask Michael Cohen.
"A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person."
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been following this strategy for other departments too."
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I'm not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump's part?Replies: @epebble, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Cleveland won anyway. His supporters then paraded around calling out, 'Gone to Washington, ha ha ha!'
Barring extremes, I just don't care about a candidate's private life.Replies: @Wielgus, @Corvinus
And that was in the Victorian era, though admittedly it was less extreme in the USA than in Britain.
These people seemed to have a gift for making themselves miserable with a great deal of money. See the haunting poverty in almost everything Orwell ever wrote. Why? It was all self-inflicted. Jesus: do like an auto worker back in the day. Work your eight hours, go to the bar after your shift, buy a cottage on a lake in Upper Michigan. What's not to like?
...it was a real pathology. See also D.H. Lawrence's short story, The Rocking Horse Winner, in which the (wannabe) upper middle class household is haunted by the unspoken plea: 'There must be more money.'
And for what? They didn't make themselves happy. It didn't pay for a little hottie on the side -- or a boat, or anything sensible. It all went to some artificial scramble up a social pyramid nobody else cared about. I mean, tell me you went to Oxford rather than Kings College London. See if anything changes.Replies: @Wielgus
Orwell’s family background was comfortable enough but he was required to go to expensive establishments where he was one of the less well-off pupils, and it seemed to scar him.
The education snobbery is found elsewhere – in John le Carré’s work for example. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, there is a brief argument about whether a particular educational establishment is “redbrick”, with an undertone of disparagement about it.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/red_brick_university
It is a part of the UK’s social pathology.
1. Gaetz was a poor choice for the job.
2. His paying for consensual sex, for a 'girl' slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character.
3. Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ. He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person. He has been following this strategy for other departments too. One need not dismantle an organization by openly going about doing it. Appointing a weak but loyal person can do it. If the department becomes like a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) of a state, the purpose is achieved.Replies: @Corvinus
“1. Gaetz was a poor choice for the job.”
Exactly.
“2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character.”
It is in dispute regarding her age at the time of the act. And the difference here is that the nominee was to head the Justice Department and he was under investigation himself for violation of state law. How are we to trust his decision making given his unsavory past? Furthermore, Trump supporters include evangelicals and the AnotherDad’s of the world who insist that government officials be of a “high moral standard”, one that is required to put back on track Western Civilization and “white” values. Based on this metric, Gaetz’s conduct disqualifies him.
“Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ.”
Which goes directly against the rule of law and law and order.
“He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. ”
And I would say he is a hypocrite by engaging in that same excessive politicizing he supposedly opposes. What a cagey way for the fox to tell the farmer “trust me, I won’t eat any hens if you let me inside the fence”. We know Trump’s track record for skirting the law. Ask Michael Cohen.
“A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person.”
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
“He has been following this strategy for other departments too.”
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I’m not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump’s part?
No; He has been elected properly; popularly too. If Senate consents or decides to take a recess to allow him to appoint without hearing, it is legal.
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I’m not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump’s part?
Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring. He promised it and wants to deliver it. It may not be good or to their liking, in which case someone else can do something else after January 20, 2029. This is how our system works. There is no 'Buyer's Remorse' clause in the Constitution. I don't like Trump for various reasons, but I would give him a A+ for 'Truth in Advertising'.Replies: @Corvinus
Government should be small, weak, and ineffectual. It should consist of modest offices manned by a few powerless clerks to whom I can resort if all else fails. As I say, I don't claim the attitude is logically defensible, so I won't debate it, but it is what I want.
Gut it, hamstring it, eviscerate it.Replies: @Corvinus
If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you'll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born -- which implies impregnation at thirteen. Going back further, we have such episodes as France's Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he'd taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
Going back further still, I've read that the Romans held that a man should wait until he was thirty to wed. Eleven was the ideal age for his bride.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery -- weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: 'Under thirteen, penetration however slight.'
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed. Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don't seem to be being very consistent about this. Are we having a new era of moral depravity or aren't we?
I think we're confused.Replies: @Wielgus, @John Johnson, @Corvinus
Exactly.
"2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character."
It is in dispute regarding her age at the time of the act. And the difference here is that the nominee was to head the Justice Department and he was under investigation himself for violation of state law. How are we to trust his decision making given his unsavory past? Furthermore, Trump supporters include evangelicals and the AnotherDad's of the world who insist that government officials be of a "high moral standard", one that is required to put back on track Western Civilization and "white" values. Based on this metric, Gaetz's conduct disqualifies him.
"Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ."
Which goes directly against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. "
And I would say he is a hypocrite by engaging in that same excessive politicizing he supposedly opposes. What a cagey way for the fox to tell the farmer "trust me, I won't eat any hens if you let me inside the fence". We know Trump's track record for skirting the law. Ask Michael Cohen.
"A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person."
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been following this strategy for other departments too."
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I'm not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump's part?Replies: @epebble, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
No; He has been elected properly; popularly too. If Senate consents or decides to take a recess to allow him to appoint without hearing, it is legal.
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I’m not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump’s part?
Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring. He promised it and wants to deliver it. It may not be good or to their liking, in which case someone else can do something else after January 20, 2029. This is how our system works. There is no ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ clause in the Constitution. I don’t like Trump for various reasons, but I would give him a A+ for ‘Truth in Advertising’.
Lawmakers are no longer traveling by stagecoach and rail, so there is no longer a need for the president to fill vacancies on an emergency basis because Congress would not be meeting for months. It’s a straight up power play.
In effect, Trump is weaponizing the government at the expense of the rule of law. Which is hypocritical given his disdain for the practice allegedly employed by Democrats. I thought the GOP embraces tradition.
And you know damn well if Democrats pulled this same stunt, conservatives would be making the same argument about patent executive overreach.
“Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring.”
How do you know this to be accurate or true? Did they envision him circumventing the process just to ensure his loyalists will guard against dissent over what appears to be an extremist agenda?
Again, you’re way better than this.Replies: @epebble
No; He has been elected properly; popularly too. If Senate consents or decides to take a recess to allow him to appoint without hearing, it is legal.
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I’m not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump’s part?
Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring. He promised it and wants to deliver it. It may not be good or to their liking, in which case someone else can do something else after January 20, 2029. This is how our system works. There is no 'Buyer's Remorse' clause in the Constitution. I don't like Trump for various reasons, but I would give him a A+ for 'Truth in Advertising'.Replies: @Corvinus
Bypassing the Senate dilutes the checks-and-balances system that provides Congress with oversight over the executive branch. It reeks of authoritarianism. Is that something you advocate?
Lawmakers are no longer traveling by stagecoach and rail, so there is no longer a need for the president to fill vacancies on an emergency basis because Congress would not be meeting for months. It’s a straight up power play.
In effect, Trump is weaponizing the government at the expense of the rule of law. Which is hypocritical given his disdain for the practice allegedly employed by Democrats. I thought the GOP embraces tradition.
And you know damn well if Democrats pulled this same stunt, conservatives would be making the same argument about patent executive overreach.
“Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring.”
How do you know this to be accurate or true? Did they envision him circumventing the process just to ensure his loyalists will guard against dissent over what appears to be an extremist agenda?
Again, you’re way better than this.
Lawmakers are no longer traveling by stagecoach and rail, so there is no longer a need for the president to fill vacancies on an emergency basis because Congress would not be meeting for months. It’s a straight up power play.
In effect, Trump is weaponizing the government at the expense of the rule of law. Which is hypocritical given his disdain for the practice allegedly employed by Democrats. I thought the GOP embraces tradition.
And you know damn well if Democrats pulled this same stunt, conservatives would be making the same argument about patent executive overreach.
“Majority of Trump voters wanted some sort of restructuring.”
How do you know this to be accurate or true? Did they envision him circumventing the process just to ensure his loyalists will guard against dissent over what appears to be an extremist agenda?
Again, you’re way better than this.Replies: @epebble
President-elect Donald Trump’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-signals-a-seismic-shift-shocking-the-washington-establishment.html
Again, the evangelicals and the AnotherDad’s of the world supposedly champion a return to “white” character and integrity into our institutions, yet Trump’s picks are the antithesis of that policy.
Hypocrisy abounds.Replies: @epebble
Again, is this action he is undertaking of his own doing, or Bannon and Miller? And is this something the American people actively seek and fully comprehend the consequences? Is the potential upheaval worth it in the end, given Trump’s known past to skirt the law and grift for his benefit?
Again, the evangelicals and the AnotherDad’s of the world supposedly champion a return to “white” character and integrity into our institutions, yet Trump’s picks are the antithesis of that policy.
Hypocrisy abounds.
Cleveland won anyway. His supporters then paraded around calling out, 'Gone to Washington, ha ha ha!'
Barring extremes, I just don't care about a candidate's private life.Replies: @Wielgus, @Corvinus
“Seriously. Wasn’t this settled in 1884 or thereabouts?”
No. The moralists in the GOP and the advocates of white Western Civilization tout anti-gay, no sex unless married, and anti-trans, which are the bulwark of family formation policies.
“Cleveland won anyway.”
Context matters. Cleveland espoused a reformist agenda, and his opponent James Blaine himself faced allegations of exchanging political favors for cash. In the end, Clevelsnd was able to secure the presidency through a narrow victory.
“Barring extremes, I just don’t care about a candidate’s private life.”
Trump’s life is about extremes. Ask Michael Cohen.
Hypocrisy abounds.
Again, the evangelicals and the AnotherDad’s of the world supposedly champion a return to “white” character and integrity into our institutions, yet Trump’s picks are the antithesis of that policy.
Hypocrisy abounds.Replies: @epebble
Deconstructing DoJ, Intelligence agencies and DoD was core MAGA manifesto and Trump & Co seem to be delivering it. One can comment on effectiveness only after the task is done. I personally believe our foreign entanglements were too large to be financed with our shrunken (and shrinking) GDP share (of the world) and somebody has to kill the beast. We should learn from British empire and shrink (our entanglements) gradually and not like USSR. We should, may be, interpret Ukraine and Gaza wars (if Iraq and Afghan wars were not sufficient) as our Suez Crisis of 1956.
Again, is that what the general public seeks/desires? Besides, WHO are the ones behind it--Miller and Bannon. Trump is not a policy wonk, he goes with the flow. And, DOMESTICALLY, Trump is on board because its transactional--he can have his toadies exonerate him from his conviction in a state court.
"One can comment on effectiveness only after the task is done."
No, we can evaluate to what extent it may or may not be effective and to what level it may be helpful and hurtful to individual citizens and their trust in our institutions as a collective. Targeted evaluations help policymakers determine and assess priorities.
"I personally believe our foreign entanglements were too large to be financed with our shrunken (and shrinking) GDP share (of the world) and somebody has to kill the beast."
I agree with that point. But that is NOT the only focus by the Trump Administration. There are major concerns regarding his domestic policy agenda and its effect on our economy.
"We should, may be, interpret Ukraine and Gaza wars (if Iraq and Afghan wars were not sufficient) as our Suez Crisis of 1956."
Except Trump wholly supports Israel. How is his intention "starving the beast"when the U.S. will continue to supply Jews with weapons from our military-industrial complex, aka The Swamp, to murder Gazans?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-said-lift-military-restrictions-163823989.htmlReplies: @epebble
Exactly.
"2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character."
It is in dispute regarding her age at the time of the act. And the difference here is that the nominee was to head the Justice Department and he was under investigation himself for violation of state law. How are we to trust his decision making given his unsavory past? Furthermore, Trump supporters include evangelicals and the AnotherDad's of the world who insist that government officials be of a "high moral standard", one that is required to put back on track Western Civilization and "white" values. Based on this metric, Gaetz's conduct disqualifies him.
"Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ."
Which goes directly against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. "
And I would say he is a hypocrite by engaging in that same excessive politicizing he supposedly opposes. What a cagey way for the fox to tell the farmer "trust me, I won't eat any hens if you let me inside the fence". We know Trump's track record for skirting the law. Ask Michael Cohen.
"A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person."
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been following this strategy for other departments too."
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I'm not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump's part?Replies: @epebble, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Speaking for myself, I don’t like government. That attitude may be open to criticism — but it is my attitude.
Government should be small, weak, and ineffectual. It should consist of modest offices manned by a few powerless clerks to whom I can resort if all else fails. As I say, I don’t claim the attitude is logically defensible, so I won’t debate it, but it is what I want.
Gut it, hamstring it, eviscerate it.
Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?Replies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
Democrats like to accuse Republicans of sexual misconduct?
You guys live in such an echo chamber.
There were Republicans that wanted him out before he was nominated. You went to “librul conspiracy” before even reading about the case.
The guy is a sleezeball…….and he is out.
It was most likely an intentional hit by Trump. There is no way that Gaetz would have survived a Senate hearing. Some Republican probably wanted to get rid of Gaetz and this scheme was devised. He was not loved by other Republicans. Both he and Moscow Marge are hated by Senate Republicans.
“Deconstructing DoJ, Intelligence agencies and DoD was core MAGA manifesto and Trump & Co seem to be delivering it.”
Again, is that what the general public seeks/desires? Besides, WHO are the ones behind it–Miller and Bannon. Trump is not a policy wonk, he goes with the flow. And, DOMESTICALLY, Trump is on board because its transactional–he can have his toadies exonerate him from his conviction in a state court.
“One can comment on effectiveness only after the task is done.”
No, we can evaluate to what extent it may or may not be effective and to what level it may be helpful and hurtful to individual citizens and their trust in our institutions as a collective. Targeted evaluations help policymakers determine and assess priorities.
“I personally believe our foreign entanglements were too large to be financed with our shrunken (and shrinking) GDP share (of the world) and somebody has to kill the beast.”
I agree with that point. But that is NOT the only focus by the Trump Administration. There are major concerns regarding his domestic policy agenda and its effect on our economy.
“We should, may be, interpret Ukraine and Gaza wars (if Iraq and Afghan wars were not sufficient) as our Suez Crisis of 1956.”
Except Trump wholly supports Israel. How is his intention “starving the beast”when the U.S. will continue to supply Jews with weapons from our military-industrial complex, aka The Swamp, to murder Gazans?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-said-lift-military-restrictions-163823989.html
I wouldn't classify Trump as a deep thinker; but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words. Now that he has won and has Congress on his side (and sympathetic U.S. Supreme court too), it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcMVdh915AEReplies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
Government should be small, weak, and ineffectual. It should consist of modest offices manned by a few powerless clerks to whom I can resort if all else fails. As I say, I don't claim the attitude is logically defensible, so I won't debate it, but it is what I want.
Gut it, hamstring it, eviscerate it.Replies: @Corvinus
Thank you for the honesty. Its foolish in my opinon, but it’s honest.
Again, is that what the general public seeks/desires? Besides, WHO are the ones behind it--Miller and Bannon. Trump is not a policy wonk, he goes with the flow. And, DOMESTICALLY, Trump is on board because its transactional--he can have his toadies exonerate him from his conviction in a state court.
"One can comment on effectiveness only after the task is done."
No, we can evaluate to what extent it may or may not be effective and to what level it may be helpful and hurtful to individual citizens and their trust in our institutions as a collective. Targeted evaluations help policymakers determine and assess priorities.
"I personally believe our foreign entanglements were too large to be financed with our shrunken (and shrinking) GDP share (of the world) and somebody has to kill the beast."
I agree with that point. But that is NOT the only focus by the Trump Administration. There are major concerns regarding his domestic policy agenda and its effect on our economy.
"We should, may be, interpret Ukraine and Gaza wars (if Iraq and Afghan wars were not sufficient) as our Suez Crisis of 1956."
Except Trump wholly supports Israel. How is his intention "starving the beast"when the U.S. will continue to supply Jews with weapons from our military-industrial complex, aka The Swamp, to murder Gazans?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-said-lift-military-restrictions-163823989.htmlReplies: @epebble
Again, is that what the general public seeks/desires? Besides, WHO are the ones behind it–Miller and Bannon. Trump is not a policy wonk, he goes with the flow.
I wouldn’t classify Trump as a deep thinker; but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words. Now that he has won and has Congress on his side (and sympathetic U.S. Supreme court too), it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind.
Right, we agree. He is taking his orders from Bannon, Miller, and Flynn.
"but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words."
Not as much as him focusing on the economy; Again, to what extent are his supporters on board with this domestic agenda? There are inherent risks with putting into motion his plans. Seems to me that you are running interference for Trump amidst serious concerns that his policies are rooted in fascism.
"it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind."
How are you certain it will be glorious and not a nightmare given Trump's knack for outright lying and his willingness to bend the law in his favor? Ask Michael Cohen.
Remove "rogue bureaucrats". What does that even mean? Seems arbitrary and capricious.
Agencies that have been weaponized will be deweaponized through Trump's weaponization. And, remember, he and others in his orbit were legitimately investigated for their activities. Just ask Michael Cohen. Since when does Trump observe the rule of law and law and order personally?
Corrupt actors include potential members of his administration!
Expose whistleblowers who want to hold accountable ANY member of the executive branch is observing their constitutional duties.
Disinformation and misinformation campaigns has been a stalwart with Trump and his legal team.
Again, hypocrisy abounds.
I wouldn't classify Trump as a deep thinker; but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words. Now that he has won and has Congress on his side (and sympathetic U.S. Supreme court too), it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcMVdh915AEReplies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
“I wouldn’t classify Trump as a deep thinker”
Right, we agree. He is taking his orders from Bannon, Miller, and Flynn.
“but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words.”
Not as much as him focusing on the economy; Again, to what extent are his supporters on board with this domestic agenda? There are inherent risks with putting into motion his plans. Seems to me that you are running interference for Trump amidst serious concerns that his policies are rooted in fascism.
“it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind.”
How are you certain it will be glorious and not a nightmare given Trump’s knack for outright lying and his willingness to bend the law in his favor? Ask Michael Cohen.
Remove “rogue bureaucrats”. What does that even mean? Seems arbitrary and capricious.
Agencies that have been weaponized will be deweaponized through Trump’s weaponization. And, remember, he and others in his orbit were legitimately investigated for their activities. Just ask Michael Cohen. Since when does Trump observe the rule of law and law and order personally?
Corrupt actors include potential members of his administration!
Expose whistleblowers who want to hold accountable ANY member of the executive branch is observing their constitutional duties.
Disinformation and misinformation campaigns has been a stalwart with Trump and his legal team.
Again, hypocrisy abounds.
Sorry, just saw your reply.
Do you seriously expect that there’ll be any substantial reining in of voting by mail, no ID requirement, etc., in time for MIEE v.2026?
Sure, Trump might blather about it depending on the context and audience at any given moment. But the Establishment not only wants to pick winners, it’s desperate to keep up the numbers indicating participatory faith in Our Democracy.
I won’t be playing, even if they start giving us toasters.
Exactly.
"2. His paying for consensual sex, for a ‘girl’ slightly younger than 18, should not be a veto on nomination, this day and age when we have had Presidents with equally seamy character."
It is in dispute regarding her age at the time of the act. And the difference here is that the nominee was to head the Justice Department and he was under investigation himself for violation of state law. How are we to trust his decision making given his unsavory past? Furthermore, Trump supporters include evangelicals and the AnotherDad's of the world who insist that government officials be of a "high moral standard", one that is required to put back on track Western Civilization and "white" values. Based on this metric, Gaetz's conduct disqualifies him.
"Trump might like to appoint a poorly qualified man to weaken DoJ."
Which goes directly against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been campaigning that DoJ is excessively politicized and if elected, he would dismantle it. "
And I would say he is a hypocrite by engaging in that same excessive politicizing he supposedly opposes. What a cagey way for the fox to tell the farmer "trust me, I won't eat any hens if you let me inside the fence". We know Trump's track record for skirting the law. Ask Michael Cohen.
"A good way to weaken it would be to appoint a poorly qualified but loyal person."
Again, that goes against the rule of law and law and order.
"He has been following this strategy for other departments too."
Is this what the majority of American citizens seek? I'm not talking about those who voted for him, I am talking about Americans as a whole. Would those who voted for him outright support his approach? What is the end result here on Trump's part?Replies: @epebble, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
You’re mistaken about what constitutes ‘Western civilization.’
If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you’ll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born — which implies impregnation at thirteen. Going back further, we have such episodes as France’s Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he’d taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
Going back further still, I’ve read that the Romans held that a man should wait until he was thirty to wed. Eleven was the ideal age for his bride.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery — weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed. Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this. Are we having a new era of moral depravity or aren’t we?
I think we’re confused.
Not in the least. Anti-homosexuality, pro-white, anti-feminism, pro-Christianity.
“If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you’ll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born — which implies impregnation at thirteen”.
Examples, please. Furthermore, it is other than surprising for the time period if she was married at an early age. They were chaste until hitched, lest severe consequences by the family and society writ large for their sexual indiscretions.
“I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’”
WHEN married. Outside of marriage? No, at least according to Christians. Perhaps you have your own fetish for pre-teens? So feel free to allow your nubile, underage granddaughter to get openly mauled. No problem that a darkie has her way with her, right, after Friday night football?
“We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery”
Not really.
https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2017/10/fornication-as-crime-in-18th-century-massachusetts/
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this”.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery — weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
“Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed.”
Right. 16 gets you 20.
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this.”
Wow, extreme argument fallacy. But I get your point.Replies: @Colin Wright
If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you'll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born -- which implies impregnation at thirteen. Going back further, we have such episodes as France's Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he'd taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
Going back further still, I've read that the Romans held that a man should wait until he was thirty to wed. Eleven was the ideal age for his bride.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery -- weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: 'Under thirteen, penetration however slight.'
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed. Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don't seem to be being very consistent about this. Are we having a new era of moral depravity or aren't we?
I think we're confused.Replies: @Wielgus, @John Johnson, @Corvinus
To me it looks like prudish censoriousness about heterosexual behaviour, libertine attitudes to homosexuality.
I wouldn't classify Trump as a deep thinker; but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words. Now that he has won and has Congress on his side (and sympathetic U.S. Supreme court too), it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcMVdh915AEReplies: @Corvinus, @John Johnson
I wouldn’t classify Trump as a deep thinker; but in this video, he has explained his manifesto in a way that a 6-year-old can understand. He campaigned on that, repeating it numerous times, without using difficult words.
Yes and he did the same thing in his first campaign with the wall.
A big beautiful wall and Mexico is gonna pay for it.
Where is the wall and why are there huge gaps in the border? I watched a crowd of Haitians simply walk in over the Rio.
it is hard to begrudge that he can affect a Glorius Revolution of the American kind
That could indeed be hard if you ignore his first term and are swayed by rhetoric over actions.
He also said he would fix the ACA and never had a plan other than get rid of it.
If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you'll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born -- which implies impregnation at thirteen. Going back further, we have such episodes as France's Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he'd taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
Going back further still, I've read that the Romans held that a man should wait until he was thirty to wed. Eleven was the ideal age for his bride.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery -- weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: 'Under thirteen, penetration however slight.'
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed. Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don't seem to be being very consistent about this. Are we having a new era of moral depravity or aren't we?
I think we're confused.Replies: @Wielgus, @John Johnson, @Corvinus
Gaetz
You can stop defending the sleezeball politician that paid a 17 year old whore and showed off pictures to his friends.
He is out of Congress.
One of the most pro-Russia MAGA House Republicans who was previously unknown to most of America is now known as the guy who banged a 17 year old. He probably has even less of a chance at state politics after Trump nominated him.
Up next on the chopping block will be RFK.
If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you'll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born -- which implies impregnation at thirteen. Going back further, we have such episodes as France's Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he'd taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
Going back further still, I've read that the Romans held that a man should wait until he was thirty to wed. Eleven was the ideal age for his bride.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery -- weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: 'Under thirteen, penetration however slight.'
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed. Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don't seem to be being very consistent about this. Are we having a new era of moral depravity or aren't we?
I think we're confused.Replies: @Wielgus, @John Johnson, @Corvinus
“You’re mistaken about what constitutes ‘Western civilization.’”
Not in the least. Anti-homosexuality, pro-white, anti-feminism, pro-Christianity.
“If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you’ll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born — which implies impregnation at thirteen”.
Examples, please. Furthermore, it is other than surprising for the time period if she was married at an early age. They were chaste until hitched, lest severe consequences by the family and society writ large for their sexual indiscretions.
“I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’”
WHEN married. Outside of marriage? No, at least according to Christians. Perhaps you have your own fetish for pre-teens? So feel free to allow your nubile, underage granddaughter to get openly mauled. No problem that a darkie has her way with her, right, after Friday night football?
“We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery”
Not really.
https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2017/10/fornication-as-crime-in-18th-century-massachusetts/
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this”.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery — weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
“Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed.”
Right. 16 gets you 20.
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this.”
Wow, extreme argument fallacy. But I get your point.
Last time, he was an amateur. This time he is more experienced. He has also surrounded himself with people with agenda. He is already putting his foot down by nominating his loyalists above all else. That and his majorities in Congress will ensure a far more frictionless administration. Just now, he has announced massive tariffs on our neighbors (and China too). Even if that doesn’t stick, it can realign international relations. I think he will play the tariffs and deportations as his main act.
Oh, you sweet summer chile.Replies: @John Johnson
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-barely-won-the-house-9d5e1bb5Replies: @epebble
“He is already putting his foot down by nominating his loyalists above all else. That and his majorities in Congress will ensure a far more frictionless administration.”
Oh, you sweet summer chile.
Oh, you sweet summer chile.Replies: @John Johnson
He’s a good kid.
Not in the least. Anti-homosexuality, pro-white, anti-feminism, pro-Christianity.
“If you go through the biographical details of many American figures from the early Nineteenth century, you’ll find a remarkable number of cases where their mothers were fourteen or so when they were born — which implies impregnation at thirteen”.
Examples, please. Furthermore, it is other than surprising for the time period if she was married at an early age. They were chaste until hitched, lest severe consequences by the family and society writ large for their sexual indiscretions.
“I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’”
WHEN married. Outside of marriage? No, at least according to Christians. Perhaps you have your own fetish for pre-teens? So feel free to allow your nubile, underage granddaughter to get openly mauled. No problem that a darkie has her way with her, right, after Friday night football?
“We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery”
Not really.
https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2017/10/fornication-as-crime-in-18th-century-massachusetts/
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this”.
We seem to be adopting some new standard of prudery — weird, considering other developments. I can recall a Marine veteran I knew in the seventies. He used to quote a maxim from the Corps: ‘Under thirteen, penetration however slight.’
That would get you crucified. Now, forget twelve. Seventeen will get you in trouble. Witness Gaetz.
“Obviously, our (supposed) standards have changed.”
Right. 16 gets you 20.
“Given such phenomena as Drag Queen Story Hour, child strippers, the sexual mutilation of children, and NAMBLA, we don’t seem to be being very consistent about this.”
Wow, extreme argument fallacy. But I get your point.Replies: @Colin Wright
I think you just demonstrated that I was right when I claimed we were confused.
Perhaps you could list the posts where I did so?
Do you seriously expect that there’ll be any substantial reining in of voting by mail, no ID requirement, etc., in time for MIEE v.2026?
Sure, Trump might blather about it depending on the context and audience at any given moment. But the Establishment not only wants to pick winners, it’s desperate to keep up the numbers indicating participatory faith in Our Democracy.
I won’t be playing, even if they start giving us toasters.Replies: @Precious
Trump promised on Joe Rogan to establish free and fair elections. He is in better position to do it now than if he stayed in the White House in 2021. We will see.
“A hidden Catch-22 that could ruin Donald Trump’s plans”. Matt Robinson. Newsweek.
Looks like Trump doesn’t have this mandate after all that the GOP is playing up.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-barely-won-the-house-9d5e1bb5
Yes you were clearly making a rationalization for Gaetz with this statement:
Going back further, we have such episodes as France’s Henry IV taking an army into Flanders in pursuit of some fifteen year old hottie he’d taken a fancy to. Her betrothed had fled France with her.
That’s defending a sleezeball politician that had sex with a 17 year old.
You’re trying to downplay his actions by showing that it happened in the medieval period.
Well so did blood letting and witch trials. Doesn’t mean they are good ideas today.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-barely-won-the-house-9d5e1bb5Replies: @epebble
And for the numerically curious, with 99.7% reporting, he has exactly 50.0% of popular votes.
What Matt Robinson is calling a ‘bug’ is actually a ‘feature’. If the Secretary of Defense and his minions are incompetent, the power transfers over to the White House. We may think it is horrible, but that is how Trump and his coterie like it. A Hegseth fail equals Musk (and Ramaswamy + Stephen Miller … ) win. Think Trump as the King and Musk as the Prime Minister. The buzzword for this trick is “Unitary executive”.
“A Hegseth fail equals Musk (and Ramaswamy + Stephen Miller … ) win. Think Trump as the King and Musk as the Prime Minister.”
And how is this exactly good for America? How is this a mandate?
See, our resident pattern recognizer knows this is nuts, but doesn’t have the guts to say it out loud. He’s rather focus on building his brand to buy more dog food and remodel his closet.Replies: @epebble
No, it’s a bug, and it is horrible. A normal chief executive doesn’t put in incompetent people into important positions of power to upend the system and jeopardize the lives of citizens, especially those who voted for him. So if the electoral college was serious, the electors would not vote for Trump.
“A Hegseth fail equals Musk (and Ramaswamy + Stephen Miller … ) win. Think Trump as the King and Musk as the Prime Minister.”
And how is this exactly good for America? How is this a mandate?
See, our resident pattern recognizer knows this is nuts, but doesn’t have the guts to say it out loud. He’s rather focus on building his brand to buy more dog food and remodel his closet.
“A Hegseth fail equals Musk (and Ramaswamy + Stephen Miller … ) win. Think Trump as the King and Musk as the Prime Minister.”
And how is this exactly good for America? How is this a mandate?
See, our resident pattern recognizer knows this is nuts, but doesn’t have the guts to say it out loud. He’s rather focus on building his brand to buy more dog food and remodel his closet.Replies: @epebble
If the Senate confirms Hegseth, then, it must be ‘good for America’. I and you get a vote each, we are not arbiters of what is good for America. Now, history may judge it differently; but that is a different story.
No, it is good for the GOP and the ensuing chaos.
It’s crazy to put in a person who wants to destroy the very institution that they are constitutionally bound to uphold.
“I and you get a vote each, we are not arbiters of what is good for America.”
Of course we decide. We constantly debate what is good or sound policy, and what is bad or unsound policy. We use our vote to decide who will represent us and what we think is good for our country. That’s how it works. It’s odd for you to say otherwise. You’re better than this.
“Now, history may judge it differently; but that is a different story.”
No, we the people judge in the moment, or regarding our past, or what we think could be our future.
At least you are of the mindset that Trump will be a dishonorable man who will likely fail.
No, that’s you taking my words out of context. I wasn’t interested in Gaetz at that point. I was responding to Corvinus’ idiotic drivel what about the traditional values of Western civilization are.
First, it’s clear you have a thing for underage teens, say 16 or 17. Just don’t get caught.
Second, please show us how and why anti-homosexuality, pro-white, anti-feminism, and pro-Christianity are NOT rooted in the traditional values of Western civilization.
“If the Senate confirms Hegseth, then, it must be ‘good for America’.
No, it is good for the GOP and the ensuing chaos.
It’s crazy to put in a person who wants to destroy the very institution that they are constitutionally bound to uphold.
“I and you get a vote each, we are not arbiters of what is good for America.”
Of course we decide. We constantly debate what is good or sound policy, and what is bad or unsound policy. We use our vote to decide who will represent us and what we think is good for our country. That’s how it works. It’s odd for you to say otherwise. You’re better than this.
“Now, history may judge it differently; but that is a different story.”
No, we the people judge in the moment, or regarding our past, or what we think could be our future.
At least you are of the mindset that Trump will be a dishonorable man who will likely fail.
“I was responding to Corvinus’ idiotic drivel what about the traditional values of Western civilization are.”
First, it’s clear you have a thing for underage teens, say 16 or 17. Just don’t get caught.
Second, please show us how and why anti-homosexuality, pro-white, anti-feminism, and pro-Christianity are NOT rooted in the traditional values of Western civilization.