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Kind of a Trumpian Overton window tactic, like the shut down ICE thing. This is the new political normal.
A couple of hundred years ago, if you said that black people and white people were equal in the eyes of God, people would have been horrified.
Exactly wrong. There was a long left-wing animus toward Southern Christianity because the promised equality of blacks and whites precisely in the eyes of god and the afterlife were seen as a major pacifier for a population that would otherwise be moved to (assumed just) revolt. Behave yourself because God will judge you when you die and all that. This is a widely discussed topic on which monographs have been written, it’s a pillar of the leftist case against Christianity.
Strange how the two absolute polar opposites of the political spectrum, who are at each others’ ideological throats in every single other issue agree in this one particular issue.
Yep, never trust libertarians. They are not now, and never were, an ally of the good and true. Run them out of town.
Just thinking. A nice slogan that can be directed towards the somnambulant suburban Becky’s and Herbs who seem to be unaware how dire the demographic situation is, and how just one term of cuck/Democrat rule can destroy their and their posterity’s future….Whiten up people. Whiten up.
Okay, it's Twitter, not a column. Didn't go through peer review. No NYT editor to write [AU: ??!!]. Still, one can't help thinking the guy had to be blind drunk to write this. https://t.co/IITWY8ob59
It is a staple of CTR spam on 4chan that a hero or leader is imposed on us (normally someone we haven’t heard of) and then ritually trashed. They’re huffing their own fumes.
Libertarianism is a prime example of the dictum that any political idea carried out to its logical end point is fallacious!
They’re not libertarians. Not even close. Letting people into a welfare state is a raid on the treasury.
Now, if they paid an admission fee to cover costs, and posted bond to insure against future costs, then perhaps you could make a true libertarian case for the state opening borders– because nature itself would close them again for about 90% of the applicants. (Cf. early 19th century America.)
Reading the genuine libertarian literature of the late 1960s and 1970s would cause most of these young pseudos to get the vapors and collapse.
It says a lot about American libertarianism that it derives from the writings in the last century of three atomized, sterile and emotionally dysfunctional women who couldn’t form stable or normal marriages, namely Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson and, of course, the deracinated immigrant Ayn Rand. Leftism and feminism draw their strength from working with the same kind of broken psychology.
P.S. Vox is accused of being funneled money by YouTube to make “educational videos” to the tune of about $20 million. Propaganda outfits like Vox are kept in business despite not being profitable by billionaire and corporate fake investments and payments for services rendered. A bit like Mike from Better Call Saul getting laundered money through a fake job.
That’s easy to fix. Soviet Union used to bump into the quota, but most CIS countries don’t bump into the quota cap.
The mainland-born 1949ers use the Chinese quota, some of those likes to whine that pre-1949ers Taiwanese have separate quotas. My retorts had always that it’s up to Chinese decide to follow the example of Soviet Union, US is not standing in the way of that.
The very next opportunity the Democrats (or Republicans) have to open the floodgates and stab the US through the heart with the demographic knife, they will do it. The USA is already teetering dangerously; look at the results in Texas, Arizona and Nevada (now a blue state). It will eventually tip even if all immigration was ended, but waiting around means a potential for a white identity to form.
So they will flood the country. Enjoy it while you can. 2040 is getting very close… It’s closer to us now than 1995 was.
It’s very sad, however, I believe in survival of the fittest. Unfortunately, I just think white people are nearing the end of their term. A true shame, but it is what it is. They’ll either wake up, or they won’t.
I remember hearing the physicist, Michio Kaku, speak in 2009 or so, blathering on about the world in 2030. One thing that jumped out was how he mentioned that a one world government was inevitable. It stood out as such an oddly religious belief.
It seems that people who believe in borderless world stuff tend to also way overestimate the power of technology to transcend human limitations, even if it’s in a dystopian way. They seem to be generalists, who maybe read some MIT Tech Review, and whose timeline of the “next big breakthrough” is always several decades too early. Self-driving cars, any day now…
Also notice this a lot in the transgender movement. A thread of naive techno optmism seems to run through all of this. As in, one day, 200 years in the future, I will be able to change my sex with a snap, so I will go ahead and become a girl immediately. Granted, I will just look like a guy who lost a bet in the meantime, but it’s the vision that counts.
Election is not over! California has 4 house races too close to call. Arizona has 600,000 uncounted ballots and has vaguely promised to count enough of them to guess at who won the Senate seat in a week or two.
One election that was firmly decided: California by a landslide wants permanent daylight savings time. Everyone is up at 6pm, few are up at 7am.
Less than half of eligible people voted. Yet this is “record turnout”. Are passions really that low?
Many – though not all – so called ‘libertarians’ are very very cunning and sly, just like the proverbial serpents.
The idea is to use massive uncontrolled immigration as a ‘torpedo’ to destroy welfare states – and all government transfer payments for that matter – by the simple ruse of making them absolutely unaffordable in any possible scenario.
Following on from this, what conclusion can be drawn from the fact that only a minority of white Americans voted Republican. Perhaps a third?
Would a trade of a Japanese style immigration regime for universal (American) healthcare help this? Or, would it make it worse?
Go to the Walmart in Las Colinas (actually Irving), Texas, and you might think you are in Bangalore.
Strike a deal: the welfare state ends totally first. Go back to what it was like before immigration was first restricted in the 1920’s.
The masses of Third Worlders arriving in Vox’s plan would have little tolerance for transgender as a concept.
Murray Rothbard pointed out for the hyper-libertarian state to exist, immigration had to be slashed. Otherwise the population wouldn’t have the beliefs for libertarianism to function. Few current libertarian commenters grasp this.
Sometimes I think about America’s sedentary, heart-diseased, fast-food gobbling, car-addicted suburbanites, sitting watching TV in their suburban castles, casually passing judgment on refugees who have walked 1000s of miles to escape oppression, and … well, it makes me mad
That is something I’ve not been sure Ron Paul has come around to realizing. Imagine if he’d brought up the immigration invasion issue in his campaign in ’12. I told him in person that he needed to do that in order to win a primary. He didn’t listen.
Your theory is unsound, #730. Libertarians HATE HATE HATE statist authorities, and a one-world government would be the biggest authority anyone has ever seen. That would be the inevitable result of having no borders.
Welfare is only one part of the Statist agent – it causes the population to become dependent on The State. These Economist writers that I keep hearing about are some sick puppies, but they are no Libertarians of any sort from what I’ve read here.
“We have to communicate with people and say: America is a great country when it’s a country of open doors.”
You can communicate all you want, buddy, but not everyone is stupid enough to believe something that ludicrous. With open doors, American will be NO country, just like your house will not be a dwelling but a public space if you keep your doors open … one with no furniture or light fixtures after a short while too.
OT but what about Rachel Maddow’s call last night for demonstrations today over Trump’s appointment of Sessions’s chief of staff Matthew Whitaker to oversee Mueller as acting attorney general? She described the alleged crisis as a “break glass moment.” Now I don’t suppose she’s seriously dog-whistling for Krystalnacht or even necessarily calling for property damage (I believe the metaphor was the covering over fire alarms), but who knows?
Rojas, whose sociological work studies how once-fringe movements (like … the antiwar movement in the early 2000s) can become mainstream
Curiously, the “becoming mainstream” of the antiwar movement seems to have coincided perfectly with the US taking on an unprecedented number of overseas military commitments (aka “wars”) with the approval of both parties.
So best case scenario for Rojas is that, like Krugman or Kristol, he is reliably wrong but still somehow esteemed.
Of course, we all know what’s really going on here. Like 99% of all leftmedia effluvia (=97% of all media), Rojas & co. are riding herd on as much of the electorate as they can, trying to convince voters that incompatible things are compatible, that certain facts don’t exist while certain non-existences are facts, that history’s arc bends their way, and that anything with detectable mind-share is on their side. And you know what? It kinda works. The cost, effort and dishonesty are massive, but it delivers just enough votes to keep the counter-reality, counter-national interest politicians in the game. Sometimes it even delivers enough to run the table.
So long as there are votes to be corralled, the oligarchs and “nonprofit” foundations will continue shoveling money into the creaking propaganda machine, no matter how absurd the output. The Rojases, Krugmans and Kristols will continue drawing paychecks, no matter how debunked their work. And dupable voters will continue selling out their birthright for a mess of pottage, no matter how glaring the swindle.
Dylan should drop the heavy black glasses frames and find some glasses that call less attention to his face. Seriously, you have to be as good looking as Buddy Holly, Colin Firth, or Peter Sellers to wear those kind of glasses. I’m sure he has a theory about how he’s being ironic by wearing glasses like that, but he’s not doing himself any favors. Get yourself some thin titanium frames that don’t shout “Look at me!”
One wonders how open are the doors of Messrs. Rojas’s, Matthews’s and Pinkerton’s homes and offices?
“I was at the front door and I was talking to my stepdad. I just started hearing these big pops. Pop, pop, pop. … ”
As anyone who has been at an indoor shooting range and took off their hearing protection will describe the sound of a handgun being dischared near you as “pop, pop, pop”.
Agree mostly, except Lefties are always dog whistling. That’s why they need to accuse the right of it.
.@TuckerCarlson: "Supporting marriage and children is the best, maybe the only way, for Republicans or any of us to save the country." #Tucker pic.twitter.com/fH82PdquWN
Let Tiny Duck open the borders of its domicile to all and, redefine the word visitor to include what is now referred to as a burglar.
I know an Indian couple who are renouncing their Indian citizenship… so they can get Nepali citizenship… so that their immigration applications will be subject to a less crowded quota.
‘Libertarians and leftists’. … at each others’ ideological throats in every single other issue agree in this one
I was standing in line with my wife at the Whole Foods once a few customers behind a large blond man who was flirting with the checkout clerk. I said, “That guy looks just like Fabio.”
Buddy Holly, now there’s a guy I’d want to clone just to see what he’d have put out for the next 20 years or so of prime.
You can’t strike a deal with the left. Any individual who is willing to deal is going to be out competed by those willing to betray you- the left isn’t agreement compatible.
In all seriousness, I’m somewhat jealous of somebody who got to live in a time like 1951. The one thing that sorely lacks is a community. The cities are flooded with Indians and Arabs, seeming to bring the worst of their home countries combining with the worst of Western culture. Community is destroyed.
I don’t know if 2016 was a tipping point, or if we just notice it more now, but yeah, things are going down very fast. I’m fascinated at the future in a sick kind of way. Things are going to get very ugly.
Libertarians like CATO are mostly fronts for corporate donations just like the so called Chamber of Commerce.
Corporations want cheap labor and customers for their products. Leftist want voters for more leftist social engineering programs… oh and to keep their leaders in power. Soft Maos or Stalins, velvet glove socialism in the US, but when do you ever see Leftists go away from wanting political power?
And they make a deal with the corporations to not nationalize them too hard usually. So corporations give love offerings to leftist politicians to keep them off their backs to a degree. Think of Silicon Valley showering Nancy Piglosi with buckets of cash.
Leon Fresco was a top Schumer staffer at the time he basically single handedly wrote the Gang Bangers of Eight bill. I remember you had a few posts in 2013 about Fresco, and also of the top Rubio staffer, a cruise ship industry lobbyist in a past life, who also helped a little bit.
The open border argument is appealing to people that are protected from at least the most immediate threat to their and their family’s lifestyle. Most government jobs are protected from open border policies. Foreign nationals are not permitted to do their job.
Why is medicine such a closed protected profession? Why doesn’t American insurance cover doctor vists in say Mexico? Why can’t Mexican doctors practice in the US, as long as they can convince a US insurer to insure them?
Why can’t foreign nationals run for elective office? If ‘the people’ want a foreign national to be their representative/ senator why not let them. A special government worker visa will be created to allow foreign nationals to replace US elected officials.
My point is guys like Rojas see nothing but personal gain and little immediate downside to open borders. Their jobs are not threatened, and they can buy cheap stuff.
I think there’s a decent likelihood that he doesn’t even need to wear glasses; he just wears them because he thinks they make him look smart (and hip and ironic), like Sec. of Energy and former candidate for 2016 Republican Presidential nomination Rick Perry or bouncy-ball player Lebron James. I have some people of my acquaintance who do that (they have had Lasik surgery to correct their vision but wear glasses for ornamentation purposes).
I mean bashing the value of someone’s opinion based on their looks is a superb way of making our side come across like the better party, right?
Face it: Tuesday was a disaster for the GOP. What did we win? Mostly all we won were three senate seats that should have already been held by Republicans anyway. Three senate seats in a year when, based on the map, we should have been able to pick up five or six. Yay.
And what did we lose? Several governor’s races and perhaps up to 42 House seats (as of now 13 still apparently haven’t been decided). That’s on top of the six House seats we lost in 2016 when Trump won only because of 80,000 votes in three states. Trump has no coattails, and he’s turned off millions of people to the GOP. Support for the GOP this year was down in every demographic group.
And the future doesn’t look great. A few years back Oregon voted overwhelmingly *against* giving driver’s licenses to illegals. On Tuesday they voted, 62-38, against a referendum that would have banned sanctuary cities in their state.
In Florida, where Republicans have managed one narrow victory after another, they voted to give over a million convicted felons the right to vote. Say hello to solid blue, 29 electoral vote Florida.
And what’s the future of Texas? Ted Cruz barely eeked out a victory on Tuesday. In 83% Hispanic El Paso County only 75,000 people cast votes in the 2014 elections. On Tuesday almost 200,000 votes were cast – a 133% increase in just four years – and nearly 75% of them were for Beto O’Rourke.
In Utah – Utah of all places – the voters passed a fairly liberal medical marijuana referendum, and Mitt Romney barely managed to win the state’s largest county. Voters who typically vote 70% Republican in presidential races don’t seem any much fonder of Trump than they did two years ago, when he won just 46% of the vote.
The media is still as solidly far left as ever, if not more so. And it is increasingly controlled by a tiny handful of giant conglomerates that neither party has made any attempt to keep from getting smaller, and by newfound monopolies like Facebook that are getting better and better at silencing alternate viewpoints. Those media behemoths don’t seem to have any interest in anything that doesn’t help Democrats win elections.
The Republican Party spent the last two years doing what it always does: passing tax cuts that favor the rich while doing nothing to actually gain control of our borders or make themselves look like the party of the middle class. And now without control of the House they don’t even have the votes to do that. It’s controlled by the boorish and offensive Trump on the right and the establishment cucks like Romnney on the left. There doesn’t appear to be anyone with any plans to take on Trump in the primaries in 2020, when he will be 74 years old.
libertarianism and socialism are both Judaism, i.e. slightly different morally correct paths united in opposition to evil white nationalism.
I know we’re a very populous country but it’s an embarrassment how long it takes to fully count the vote.
Notice Tiny Duck cut and pasted a tweet that was making the rounds. Even was seen in Yahoo, where they think Twitter is journalism.
“ On Tuesday they voted, 62-38, against a referendum that would have banned sanctuary cities in their state.”
You almost nailed it but you should’ve taken one of the 3 periods you inserted between and & well and put it after mad & you would’ve had the almost perfect post. Otherwise thanks for the yucks, you grand master of unintended guffaws! (Believe me, I don’t give those exclamation marks out to just anyone. You earned it!)
Could President Trump get three SC picks in his first term, or, of Clarence Thomas decides to retire next year, four?
The tranny thing is just an attack on whites. It won’t be required once whites are firmly sidelined.
“Two-step lessons in country dancing were being offered Wednesday at the Borderline, according to its website.”
“The bar……is a popular hangout for students from nearby California Lutheran University who enjoy country music.”
Apparently he doesn’t understand the US Constitution. Or the principles that animates the Declaration of Independence. The Foinders themselves were mindful of the contradictions inherent in their actions vice their political philosophy. Regardless, the public and the courts didn’t have to invent rights, they just had to be enforced.
It’s a consistent progressive retcon to portray African American slavery as a Christian thing. Sure, most white people in 1800 thought blacks were qualitatively different, including Christian whites, so you will find many Christians during that time saying so. But the key is the abolition movement started within Christianity and nowhere else. Atheist/progressives of that time were much more racist, and after Darwin, atheists were adamant in classifying Africans as a ‘lower’ part of human evolution (eg, see Thomas Huxley, Darwin).
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/breaking-ruth-bader-ginsburg-hospitalized-85-year-old-justice-broke-3-ribs/
I have no idea in this world or any other, who this >>Byrd Pinkerton << is; however, I unconditionally disavow kinship with him or her.
Annoyingly, immigration has undermined the natives’ incentives to do jobs that are threatened by it, thus making people like Rojas want even more immigrants.
You’re right in your analysis of why the vote was sobering, especially in highlighting Florida.You’re wrong to blame Trump. The simple fact is that conservatives have thoroughly lost any ability to influence the culture, and progressivism is self-sustaining…until it self-defeats.
But sitting around and hoping progressivism’s excesses almost destroy your country so progressivism can destroy itself is not a lovely plan to follow.
Maybe Newsom will be forced to mess up California. Kevin Leon ran Feinstein to the wire in the vote.
Really? In this photo he looks like pre-SatanicMajesties Mick Jagger to me, lips, nose … but what do I know?
I am not sure it’s particularly healthy for research universities to be increasingly dominated by market-dominant minorities such as the Jews, Chinese, and East Indians, relative to their small numbers in the general population.
The idea has massive bipartisan support, with senators from Tom Cotton on the right to Kamala Harris on the left signing on and 329 co-sponsors in the House (more than three-quarters of the House’s members)
Wasn’t Tom Cotton Ann Coulter’s new-favorite-Senator? These guys just can’t stop being cucks, can they? Here’s a hint for GOP politicians about which immigration laws are good ones: if it’s co-sponsored by a Democrat, it isn’t a good immigration law. If it’s co-sponsored by Kamala Harris, it really isn’t a good immigration law.
Cotton of course also supports the Hundred Years War, the Forever War, the War on Peace, or whatever you want to call it.
True…the best we can hope for is to maintain current Immigration laws and keep immigration below 1,900,000 per year. Last year we accepted a record number of immigrants into our nation. 2018 will set another record and will approach 1.9 million (legal and illegal).
Even with an immigration restrictionist administration and a GOP congress we were unable to reduce legal immigration. Illegal immigration also was not reduced under the Trump administration and deportations were actually below the number deported under Obama.
The Trump administration was unable to end the diversity visa, despite public support and a GOP congress. Trump’s plan to end the diversity visa lottery would not have reduce legal immigration, as his plan would have granted these 50,000 visas to “qualified immigrants”.
unfortunately the American people and the GOP leadership do not want to restrict immigration. Nor do they seek to reduce illegal immigration. This was made quite clear by the recent election. All other issues have little impact on our future as a nation. The United States will not be recognizable in 20 years as we allow another 40 million “people of Color” to infiltrate our borders.
So far it appears that open borders will produce not a one world government, but a gigantic planetary strip mall/motel in which the rulers will be oligarchs who exploit the roiling homogeneous masses as markets for products made by those masses working at the planetary maximum wage of $2 an hour, while the elites live like kings.
A lot of eligible voters almost never vote. Just as well – if they can’t be bothered, I don’t want them to vote anyway. It’s already bad enough that so-called “independents” swing the elections. They aren’t really independent so much as uninformed or marginally informed. Somewhere between 20-40% of the electorate, who are mostly unpolitical and don’t pay much attention to the campaign until the last few weeks of it, end up deciding the outcome.
Passions are not high among those who are uninterested in politics. Among those who do, the passions are running pretty high.
Annoyingly, immigration has undermined the natives’ incentives to do jobs that are threatened by it,
Notice how they convey different messages? They headline contains the opinion held by the publication. The follow up synopsis, h0wever, draws third parties in (“activists”) to make it appear (in the eyes of the publication) as if the article is merely reporting on a movement or idea, because for a publication to openly advocate for controversial leftist ideas would undermine “journalistic integrity”…as if they had any.
Headlines are where a majority of fake news resides, IMO. This am on google news, there was a NPR article that said something like “Trump sides with Sudan against USS Cole survivors in lawsuit.” The emotional premise of the headline is that Trump likes Sudan more than US veterans. The headline also says nothing about the fact that it was the COURT that shot down the suit, not the Trump administration.
Actually pointing out the unattactiveness of the opposition can be a very useful tactic. The Democrats do it all the time, and it seems to work for them. Whatever works.
That said, I agree with the rest of your post. The GOP squandered the opportunity that Trump’s election gave them. Well, actually, yes and no. That assumes that Paul Ryan and like-minded Republicans work for us. They don’t. They squandered the opportunity to do something good for us. They didn’t squander the opportunity to do something good for the people whom they actually represent.
I would like to see the GOP make an issue out of student loan debt. It’s a crushing burden on the Gen-Y and Millenial generation. Perhaps some kind of loan forgiveness or amnesty. It would be especially useful if it was tied to a campaign against academia and tenure. A lot of conservatives wonder where all this socialism, LGBTQWERTY stuff, and SJWism is coming from. It’s coming from the universites, where it’s been percolating for the last thirty years. You send your kids to college for four years, and they get a non-stop diet of this garbage. Universities are the enemy of conservatives, and they should be attacked as such. Abolish tenure. Make it possible to fire professors. And then fire them. University Administrators too. Defund the useless army of administrative parasites who now infest campuses.
You took out a loan, so that some crony of the College President could get a six-figure job shuffling paper.
Saul Alinsky has a lot to teach conservatives if they would start paying attention, and start treating politics the way that the left does…………………..as war.
Or will the term persist, like the N in NAACP? Maybe NR will rename itself, but The Nation will get a pass on account of its presumed moral purity?
Excellent and deserves a 100K likes. Provides a clear, understandable, measurable definition for conservatism — policies that make it easier for people to create stable families. Different than current version, which is “what muh reagan said.”
There’s a reason that fewer people vote in mid-term elections, and that’s that if you’re in a overwhelmingly “blue” or “red” state, you know your vote isn’t going to make any difference. In my overwhelmingly blue state, I voted a straight Republican ticket in full knowledge that there was not the remotest chance that a Republican would win. I considered not bothering. It’s true that due to the Electoral College my vote also doesn’t mean anything in presidential elections, but somehow it doesn’t feel the same.
I have a solution for Tucker Carlson’s problem with the mobs outside his house and, no, it doesn’t involve a belt-fed weapon. He should install a high-powered in-ground sprinkler system that will soak anyone on his property and hook it up to a motion detector.
NYT: “Now that the election is over, let’s talk about how insanely rich democrat bankrollers and liberal enclaves have gotten off your hard work in the last decade.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/upshot/in-superstar-cities-the-rich-get-richer-and-they-get-amazon.html
One monkey wrench to Demography Is Destiny is that Jews and Homos, a tiny minority, rule and dominate America.
Tom Cotton is an unpatriotic politician whore for the GOP Globalizers and the GOP Cheap Labor Faction.
Tom Cotton is a treasonous rat for the evil Globalizers who wants to continue to use the US military as muscle to fight wars on behalf of Israel in the Middle East and West Asia.
Tom Cotton is a vile rodent who will do anything to harm the European Christian ancestral core of the United States.
I was once skeptical of obvious whore boy pussy Tom Cotton, and I changed to having the mind that Tom Cotton is a treasonous rat out to damage the United States by pushing mass immigration and unnecessary, overseas wars on behalf of Israel.
Tom Cotton is a nasty politician whore who is bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby and the GOP Cheap Labor Faction.
The actress Bo Derek, who was very much the ‘it’ girly in those far off days, was required to kiss Fabio Testi on the lips in some film or the other.
This was at the time of the great Herpes scare of 1980, very much the warning precursor of the AIDS panic of a few years later.
Well, apparently, Bo Derek was so distraught and *hysteric* at that inadvertent misadventure that she required medical sedation.
On the other hand, the welfare state is inherently drawn to destitute aliens because that is an irresistible source of increased power for them. Welfare started with the Church, and the sooner it is returned to its rightful proprietor, the better off all honest people will be.
over the past 21 midterm elections, the President’s party has lost an average 26 seats in the House, and an average 4 seats in the Senate. Yet they call it “A rebuke to Trump”. That’s kind of just wishful thinking from the leftist media.
can’t Blame Trump for the losses, more blame lies with Ryan and the GOP congress for not advancing immigration reform, building the wall and ending the diversity lottery. They missed an opportunity, but since few in the GOP actually support restricting immigration or building a wall they achieved their objective and obstructed Trump from passing his agenda. Even if the GOP had retained the House they would have blocked Trump’s agenda again.
The left in Europe and the US are pushing for open borders, but communist countries like the USSR,China under Mao, North Korea and Cuba had extremely strict border controls.
The USSR and China even had very strict internal border controls, controlling movement into the major cities.
It is highly likely in the event of open international borders, the authoritarian/totalitarian future state would enact very harsh internal control measures.
Behind the ‘we are the world’ feel-good blather of open borders are the moneybag interests who want it just for the financial prospects it offers. They’re the ones who would want something like a NAU (North American Union) for their own benefit while for the vast majority of US residents it would be totally destructive of their way of life. That’s why this is couched in moralistic, noble platitudes so as to sucker people into believing it’s the right thing to do.
Some young people refuse to believe that the country (Canada, in my case) wasn’t previously largely white. There was a small Chinatown in Vancouver in the 1950s, is my recollection.
It’s like the idiots who say there were plenty of blacks in Great Britain in Roman times. It was always a “nation of immigrants.”
I’m cooling on Trump because Trump has no ability(or lost it) to ever play anything cool. He’s not entirely to blame because many unhinged followers(Spencer after inauguration, Charlottesville, magabomber, etc) set the tone.
Some young people refuse to believe that the country (Canada, in my case) wasn’t previously largely white
Well, tomorrow night, into Saturday, will be the 80th anniversary of The Night of Broken Glass, so….
It’s very sad, however, I believe in survival of the fittest. Unfortunately, I just think white people are nearing the end of their term.
It doesn’t appear to be intelligence, drive, or morality – rather, it’s fecundity. The parts of the world’s population that have given rise to the current “Camp of the Saints” invasion of western Europe and the United States have a median IQ of 80 or so, and may not be as “fit” intellectually as the established local populations they are replacing, but they excel in out-breeding peoples of European stock. The latter will be as doomed as the native red squirrels of Europe are in their competition with invasive grey squirrels, or as the prairie grasses and wild flowers of the upper Midwestern U.S. have been in the face of invasive buckthorn.
We must either become more fecund ourselves, or repel the invasive population – and so far, we have exhibited no will to do either.
This is precisely why the Declaration of Independence says “all white men are created equal”. No, wait, it doesn’t. Slave owners understood that blacks and whites were equal in the eyes of God – their treatment differed under the laws of men but in the eyes of God we were all His children.
Jefferson was not an idiot and perfectly understood the contradictions. He (and most of the other slaveholders) knew that slavery could not endure in the long term but no one could figure out how to get from here to there. Not only was the wealth and social structure of the South wrapped up in slavery but no one knew what to do with the ex-slaves either – it was obvious that with their lower intelligence and greater sex drive and tendency toward violence they would not fit well into Western society (and indeed they have not even two centuries later).
Nevertheless, if the cotton gin and the great cotton boom had not come, slavery might have faded away. Maybe there could have been some gradual emancipation scheme and a really serious effort made to ship the ex-slaves back to Africa. But the cotton boom created great fortunes and really changed the economics of slavery and turned what might have been a manageable problem into an unmanageable one.
The opposite happened to the British in the Caribbean – the economics of slave based sugar production on small Caribbean islands was not that favorable so turning all the slaves loose was not that painful. There weren’t that many white people there to begin with (a lot of the planters didn’t even live there or at least not full time) so more or less abandoning the region to the slaves was not a big deal.
“There doesn’t appear to be anyone with any plans to take on Trump in the primaries in 2020, when he will be 74 years old.”
The moment that I heard that Mitt Romney (b. 3/12/47) was planning to run for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Orrin Hatch, I assumed that Romney’s only reason for doing so was because it provided a more plausible political base from which to challenge Donald Trump (b. 6/14/46) for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, in 2020. Nothing that has happened since my hearing that news — including his tweet, yesterday, supporting the Mueller witch hunt– has changed my assumption.
Silicon Valley, et al., promote “cultural Marxism” in the hope that it will distract the left from pursuing old-fashioned economic Marxism. So far, the strategy appears to be working.
I think ultimately almost everywhere in N. America and Europe ends up like the Caribbean, where the overwhelming majority of the population is not white. White people still exist but they are fairly rare. Maybe some countries end up like Haiti where there are almost no pure whites and others end up like Cuba where they are still a substantial % of the population. Even in the places where there are almost no whites, the ruling class is whitish – Eric Holder types. Or if the blackety blacks take over the place falls into African dysfunction.
Notice that in the Caribbean (except for Haiti) the black takeover was not accomplished thru violent upheaval. Indeed the black population had been imported at the behest of the ruling whites themselves.
I think the new left style is to look unkempt and ridiculous, not to de-emphasize one’s unfortunate features. Matthews’ hair always seems to be greasy, uncut or unstyled, and just sort of laid on his head. I think the vibe they’re going for is that of the absent-minded professor, engrossed in thoughts and figures as a way of giving them some intellectual gloss that they don’t really merit. They’re perhaps trying to distinguish themselves from the stable of young pundits on Fox news, who are generally wholesome, well put together, and attractive with a heritage America look.
With regard to the thick rimmed glasses, while your perception is that they’re bringing attention to his face they may be masking a lack of facial symmetry by imposing it with the bold lines of the glasses. Women do this with similarly thick rimmed glasses, sometimes to great effect. It could also be the case that he likes the look and the image that he thinks it presents, but nobody has the heart to tell him it makes him look like a smacked ass.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/san-francisco-s-biggest-companies-now-forced-pay-homeless-tax-n933391
When the nasty rodents in the Democrat Party allow the tired geezer Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire, Trumpy should put Kris Kobach on the US Supreme Court.
@NHDems @Walt4NH If the GOP nominated Alabama Jeff Sessions & Kansas Kobach, they would win the presidency in 2016. #Immigration #nhpolitics
It doesn’t appear to be intelligence, drive, or morality – rather, it’s fecundity. The parts of the world’s population that have given rise to the current “Camp of the Saints” invasion of western Europe and the United States have a median IQ of 80 or so, and may not be as “fit” intellectually as the established local populations they are replacing, but they excel in out-breeding peoples of European stock.
There’s a paradox here, in that the Third World’s population has boomed as a result of the importation of foreign technologies invented by and in high IQ societies – i.e., modern sanitation, farming/food production, supply and distribution chains and modern medicine. Their “fecundity” is a result of marrying primitive societies with technologies that rescue them from themselves, so they don’t experience mass famines and epidemics which would ordinarily keep their populations in check.
This is not a biological advantage of non-white peoples of the Third World, but rather an unearned advantage gifted to them by fitter men from a fitter society.
The era of the 20th century, establishment Republican ended on Tuesday. The term limits in the House, pushed out older Republicans even if it meant losing some seats. The Senators who retired leave behind no meaningful intellectual footprint. For any young politician now, it is evident that GloboRepublicanism is a career dead end.
While your items warrant thought, the biggest challenge for the last 50 years has been Republicans, who are unwilling to play hardball on anything other than tax cuts and abortion. Those Republicans no longer control the future of the party.
Let’s face it most Whites particularly women want open borders. Mass immigration drowns the White working class and screws over White beta males. It’s Eat Pray Love right next door.
The CIA Globalizer White woman Spanberger defeated Dave Brat in the 7th congressional district in Virginia.
One of my ancestors was in the Henrico County, Virginia, area in the 1600s. Some skunk named Byrd sued one of ancestors in Virginia. Byrds and Carters and Washingtons and Randolphs ain’t the whole story of Virginia settlers.
Never forget the White woman Spanberger supporter quoted in the New York Times who said she moved away from mostly Black Richmond to mostly White VA-7 to get away from the trouble. The Democrat party will bring Richmond type trouble to VA-7 for sure.
The Democrat Party is a squalid coalition of Blacks, Jews, Mestizos, Asians, White government workers and other White wackos.
Ms. Gaborik said she moved to the county from Richmond several years ago for the same reason so many other women have — for the schools and lower housing prices.
The Caribbean will be an interesting place going forward. As the global economy goes into terminal decline, the capital will not exist to keep rebuilding the tourist traps after every hurricane. We’re already seeing the beginning of this process in Puerto Rico. With the collapse of tourism and trade, and having stuff-all for natural resources, the islands are going to get pulverized by storms and the standard of living there will subside to a very low ebb. Another century and it will be the same hellhole of degenerate cannibals it was when Columbus found it.
Have you not noticed the growing Police State being erected in about every Western country, Alfa? This gigantic-strip-mall (haha) idea won’t work without big government to put a stop to people who’ve had enough of the 3rd world and still remember the alternative that was. That’s unless you wipe out white people entirely, I guess, except for at the elite level. Maybe that’s the plan.
OT,begging your pardon,but there’s now a movie about RBG. When she was young,apparently she was an attractive goyim.
And don’t forget that broken down contract bulk mail truck (minority owned of course) out on the side of some desolate stretch of highway in the pines between Brunswick and Atlanta. It has sacks full of uncounted absentee ballots for Stacy Abrams
I consider myself a libertarian and I have never heard of Rose Wilder Lane or Isabel Paterson. And I would not consider Alice Rosenbaum aka Ayn Rand “deracinated”. She very much made an exception for the right to property when Palestinians were concerned…
All five are white or Asian. It would have been fun to throw in a black student, have him compare SATs with one of the whites or Asians, and have a conversation about “privilege”.
GOP Rep. Comstock loses after record of usually acting for more foreign workers and more immigration-forced population growth and congestion. https://t.co/xoTIsb8rkA
It’s a possibility but I am more optimistic. The effects of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering will probably benefit white European culture disproportionately, with homogeneous white societies reaping the largest benefits.
Also a possibility that as ai and prebirth eugenic screening gain traction in the first world, the biggest barrier to low-skill immigrants will be the inability to find an economic niche, outside of pure welfare. Also suspect that the ability for women to successfully and inexpensively conceive in their 40′s will be a game changer.
At the extreme end, low skilled immigrants could end up like American Indians, who in lacking the genetic and cultural “right stuff”, are relegated to a societal netherworld in a developed economy.
Good. Without the threat of some consequence for liberal ideology, there is no barrier to prevent its spread. Personally, I believe Trump should have spent his political capital not on tax cuts for the rich but rather on a racial relocation of poor blacks from swing states to rich, democrat-voting blue areas in Blue States – Malibu, Cupertino, …
Remember, the Soviets weren’t defeated on the field of battle. Rather, their entire ideology was exposed as a sham by letting them have what they wanted and making them live with the consequences in front of the whole world. Same with liberalism. Give them what they say they want and make them live with it. Urban whites want multiculturalism? Fine. Make their kids go to public schools and bus in immigrants to their neighborhoods using eminent domain and section 8 housing projects. There is an empty lot in Malibu, right? That might make a good place for a migrant relocation center about now. Unfortunately, conservatives tend to be less bright, more principled, and more poorly organized than their more sociopathic liberal competition; and the GOP leadership is corrupt and run by and for the ultra rich who definitely don’t want those groups in their neighborhoods.
the Nazi regime is the embodiment of the past century’s greatest evils, evils that unfortunately and terrifyingly live on to this day with a resurgence of power as authoritarianism takes hold across the world. That’s why, now more than any time within the era of the popular blockbuster, it is important that we are afforded the catharsis of seeing Nazis killed on-screen, to release the terror and heartache that real Nazis are spreading forth in the United States today.
Now, detractors of the idea of violent fiction targeted at a particularized group would claim it is a form of propaganda, and in the sense that propaganda is the distribution of information to popularize a political point of view, that assessment is absolutely correct. But in that sense just about any popular art can be said to carry a message of political value, as politics are nothing more than the mechanisms by which we parse ideas and effectuate them as a society. The term “propaganda” largely received its negative connotations from its abuse by governments, like the Third Reich, who attempted to use misleading falsehoods to manipulate the masses, but that doesn’t mean that all propaganda from all sources must inherently be false in spirit or in moral righteousness, so long as fiction is clearly denoted as such. And fiction that postulates its portrayals of violence as corrections to injustice serves a beneficial societal purpose in its emotional release, helping us to keep our fear of a group like the Nazis in check by reassuring us that they are indeed surmountable.
Inglorious Basterds makes no secret of its framing as a modern propaganda film, creating a fictional platoon of Jewish soldiers to scalp Nazis on the audience’s behalf.
In the film’s fiction, this team’s purpose is to strike fear into the hearts of the Nazi ranks through merciless dehumanization through scalping and branding the survivors so they must forever live with the shame of their Nazi affiliation.
But for the modern audience, an audience that should justly revile the hateful message of the Nazi Party and their modern equivalents, the Jewish soldiers are a symbol of hope and catharsis. The hope is that we would be able to stand against a similarly terrifying swell of Nazism, with the Nazis’ most famous casualties stepping up to lead in the revenge; the catharsis is to see the justice of retribution in a war that we didn’t fight ourselves
Tarantino’s film is at one level a piece of wish-fulfillment, a thought experiment on a different conclusion of World War II that placed the power firmly in the hands of the people most hurt by Nazi dominion. But on a deeper level, Inglorious Basterds is a testament to the power of cinema, that flickering lights on a screen have the power to radically change our world as the performances they display stoke our emotions. It absolutely should feel good to see Nazis suffer, so it might just be time for our cinema to embrace that emotion and give us all the catharsis necessary to survive the rising tides of darkness.
Sure, I get that. It is similar to how our elections work but, with less than half voting, the remaining majority could decide anything.
I guess it’s context dependent. In the right environment – say 1800 – the white European is clearly more fit than the average disease-struck African, being under selection pressure for both large families and higher IQ in a geography more conducive to both. In the wrong environment – say 2018 – the same white European is much less fit, being fat on various bread and circuses provided by the state. Whites did not evolve for this kind of environment and are poorly adapted for it; they’re like a native species under assault from a better adapted invasive species for which they have no natural defense: extinction is the clear, inevitable, outcome.
If China takes over the world, I fear it will be due to their well-adapted social strategy of collectivism plus a lot of luck in the sense that their society was under similar selection pressures as the white European until much more recently. If only America had bloomed 100 years later, we could be on our way to sending a white male to Mars now while also having the whole century open to us for the taking (plus better movies, books, and architecture). Close I guess, but no cigar.
No matter whether you would see it positively or negatively, the notion that mass immigration would cause a “collapse” of the welfare state has always been entirely implausible. What really happens is that the welfare state bloats, but native recipients will simply get less than before.
If he starts blocking immigration, and the Democrats start trying to demand that he open the borders, they’ll lose.
Because the left is the coalition of ‘smash stuff and loot the results’ and people desire power and loot.
He (and most of the other slaveholders) knew that slavery could not endure in the long term but no one could figure out how to get from here to there.
Slavery endured in China for about 5,000 years. I’m not seeing why it couldn’t do the same in the United States.
Not only was the wealth and social structure of the South wrapped up in slavery but no one knew what to do with the ex-slaves either – it was obvious that with their lower intelligence and greater sex drive and tendency toward violence they would not fit well into Western society (and indeed they have not even two centuries later).
Societies other then the US imported black slaves and managed to survive just fine- Egypt had been doing it for thousands of years.
Nevertheless, if the cotton gin and the great cotton boom had not come, slavery might have faded away.
That assumes there are no other cash crops slaves could have grown. “Slavery will die out” nonsense was driven by the fact slavery was originally based on tobacco and tobacco depletes the soil. That was only really an issue because of how cheap land was- it becomes more expensive and people are going to start growing crops to reinvigorate the land so they can grow tobacco steadily, instead of just strip mining the soil.
The opposite happened to the British in the Caribbean – the economics of slave based sugar production on small Caribbean islands was not that favorable so turning all the slaves loose was not that painful.
Sugar plantations were so profitable they could pay for the constant importation of slaves- unlike the US, the Caribbean islands had stable populations despite the massive number of slave imports. The British embraced abolitionism because they were profitable- unless you think abolitionists were motivated by their love of all humanity (unlike every other political movement in human history), spite and envy explains their actions.
The left fantasizing about murdering their opposition, with their opposition being basically any heretic on the right? Where have we seen that before?
“Red Guards were a student mass paramilitary social movement mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution. … the Red Guards received personal support from Mao, and the movement rapidly grew. Mao made use of the group as propaganda and to accomplish goals such as destroying symbols of China’s pre-communist past, including ancient artifacts and gravesites of notable Chinese figures. Moreover, the government was very permissive of the Red Guards, and even allowed the Red Guards to inflict bodily harm on people viewed as dissidents … The Red Guard groups also suffered from in-fighting as factions developed among them.”
Read the rest of the article and think about what you’ve been reading in the headlines since about 2012.
There seems to be a parallel here; in fact, these parallels are remarkably one-to-one: destruction of pre-CoTF history and culture through attacks on Confederate monuments and gravesites and threats to destroy Mount Rushmore and Stone Mountain; organized antifa mobs that harass and attack dissents; adoption of revolutionary sayings (triggering, heteronormative, manspreading, white privilege …); state media defending and encouraging such groups (CNN’s Cumo claiming that there is no moral equivalence between antifa and Nazis); purges of dissident academics and wrongthinkers …
Born in ’47, the Fifties were glorious for a kid, tremendous community, freedom to do anything you wanted that wasn’t overly destructive…No helicopter parents, no nannies in school, serious academic standards…Every decade since has shown serious decline, but it started to really accelerate after the Reagan Amnesty.
US Senator Tom Cotton is an untrustworthy stooge for the Israel First Interlopers in the Jew-controlled Neo-Conservative faction in the Republican Party.
Tom Cotton has been tasked by the Neo-Cons with corralling the White Core American GOP voters on the immigration issue so as to keep the GOP White Core American voters in the Republican Party.
Tom Cotton’s role is to make a big show about doing something about the mass immigration invasion destroying the United States in order to keep the voters on board for more ISRAEL FIRST wars in the Middle East and West Asia. Tom Cotton puts the interests of Israel ahead of the interests of the United States. Tom Cotton is an untrustworthy fraud.
“At the extreme end, low skilled immigrants could end up like American Indians, who in lacking the genetic and cultural “right stuff”, are relegated to a societal netherworld in a developed economy.”
Or they could form a mob and take over the government and redistribute the goodies to themselves like they did in Venezuela. Democracy is a numbers game, after all. The difference here is that American Indians are a very small proportion of the overall population compared to immigrants and their recent descendants. With the fringe democrats taking over, expect them to bring up previous efforts to double legal immigration to about 2 million per year, making this a distinct possibility within your lifetime.
Agreed in toto. It was a complete disaster and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse. Donald Trump absolutely blew the last chance we will ever have to keep this country functional. His only mandate, the whole reason he was elected (not to mention his only hope of personal survival), was to go hard on immigration, close the border, get us out of the Middle East, and prosecute the criminal Left, e.g. the Clintons. He did precisely none of that, instead opting to try to out-Neocon the Neocons and ingratiate himself with every swamp-running scumbag in or out of the beltway.
At this rate, he has no possible hope of winning reelection in 2020. He was dragged over the line in 2016 by a razor thin margin of desperate people who were willing to gamble that just maybe they had finally found somebody who would represent the needs of middle America. But Trump has been squandering that trust hand over fist since his very first hours in office. He refused to do anything about the rampant, treasonous, and criminal corruption in the DNC; he bombarded Syria based on obvious false flags; and he has elevated back into the corridors of power the very same people that his voters decisively rejected when they elected his worthless ass in the first place. Trump has been a total POS in office and if the Democrats manage to carve him up and scatter his flesh to the birds of the air, he deserves everything he has coming to him. Why in the hell does Mueller still have a job?
There is one last chance to salvage this situation, and if anybody in Trump’s inner circle peruses this blog, they had better listen to me now like they haven’t been listening the past two years. Trump needs to become the Dictator. He needs to declare martial law in order to close the border and suppress the inevitable Leftist protests. He needs to abrogate the Constitution and announce his intention to govern extra-constitutionally. He needs to sideline and quite possibly dissolve Congress. He has no choice in this. The Democrats are going to shred the last scraps of the Constitution when they get back into power in 2020 anyway, so there is no use in clinging to it now. Trump is riding the tiger and he cannot jump off. His last, best chance is to go for broke.
If Trump doesn’t do this, then his whole legacy, his personal fortune, the future of his family, and the fate of the nation he presumed to lead are all going to go down in flames, and he will enter the history books as the biggest loser ever to don a spray tan. The remains of his coalition will still back him if he shows some strength, but his hour is rapidly waning.
MY is one of the top 10 causes of anti-Semitism in the USA. He’s inspirational, though not in the usual sense.
Doxx and publicly expose mob members. Have the internet call every employer they ever work with. Fight fire with fire
CNN is standing by Jim Accost-Her, saying the video is fake. Presumably the witnesses are all lying. A Democrat reptesentative is saying that the incident happened but was “set up.” I’m not sure how you would set up the announced attempted removal of a microphone.
Antifa are heroin addicts who do what they’re told. If you go after anyone go after the all-important lawyers and leaders.
As far as the ground game, if only there were a uniformed team of trained men who could arrest people who disturbed the peace and made threats.
The savvier approach would be to side with professors/teachers against administrators. The really egregious stuff is at the administrative/HR level.
Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, and Jews rewarded him with a whopping 17% of the vote yesterday.
The strategy here is that this guy and his ilk are trying to legitimize violence against their political opponents by blaming their victims for his side’s own actions, which are much more severe and came first – he cries out in pain as he strikes you. This guy has no legitimate example to provide or argument that could be make that also couldn’t be countered 10 fold and he knows it, so violence to suppress dissidents it is. Shameful.
It wasn’t Trump or Carlson who spent years and wrote THOUSANDS of racist articles across Salon, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Guardian, and all the rest lionizing violent statue attacks, false accusations of rape against white men at Duke and Virginia, attacks on non-existent “white privilege” “man spreading” “mansplaining” and whites in general. It wasn’t Trump or Carlson who adopted racist discriminatory affirmative action programs aimed primarily at whites. It wasn’t our president who labeled most of the country “bitter clingers.” Carlson doesn’t control these late night and cable programs that continually spew hatred against whole swaths of the country. It wasn’t Trump or Carlson who have spent nearly every waking moment since 9/11 braying for more wars in the Middle East that disproportionately kill white men. It’s not those two who have tried to destroy democracy with demographic replacement. They didn’t edit George Zimmerman’s 911 calls to make him look racist. They didn’t whip up BLM mobs in Fergussen based on lies or downplay that terrorist who murdered a bunch of white cops in response. They didn’t transfer trillions of dollars of our wealth in social programs to people who vote en masse against us and for the worst, most racist candidates possible. Who wrote the article with the headline “Let’s Blow Up Mount Rushmore”? Trump or Carlson…or neither. Who the hell posted videos celebrate mobs attacking our monuments? TYT or Carlson? Did the media question whether their rhetoric or Obama’s led to the Rep. Scalise mass shooting? Did Tucker Carlson form a mob of punks to run white kids off the campus of Evergreen State and then cover it up? Imagine if the races were reversed. BTW, where’s that corroborating evidence state media told us existed that proved Brett Kanaugh guilty? And did Fox News run an editorial by Andrew Cumo telling people that antifa aren’t the bad guys and shouldn’t be compared to Nazis?
And honestly, our side needs to start organizing to deplatform guys like this and those who tolerate or promote his “logic”, meaning his employer and whatever social media platform he uses. I don’t see why we can’t pressure Twitter to terminate his account when so many others have had their accounts terminated for less. Until we summon the backbone to go after his employer’s advertisers and internet service providers publicly, boycott any store that carries their product or any television station that advertises for them, and use state legislatures to deny service and access to the raw resources those companies use, this kind of crap will continue. You fight fire with fire. You don’t turn your belly to them as they are censoring you and plead for mercy. Censor them back. Either they win and we ruin their credibility in the process (we are on that path anyway), we win and shut them down, or they learn the Golden Rule and start behaving themselves.
A good first step here is for some guy to create a phone app that would list all the advertisers that do business with his employer along with contact information for said advertiser to solicit complaints and locations where their products can be found for boycotting and public demonstrations along with their contact information for complaints. Honestly. Enough is enough of these people. Disengage with them and deny them service.
Why would any smart and ambitious American kid go into computing as a profession when he will have to compete with hordes of Indian coolies willing to work for pay and conditions far below the American norm?
Barry from Indonesia did not deport in great numbers. He redefined what deportation means. Look it up. Turning foreign nationals around at the border is not deportation.
China doesn’t have an intellectual and media leadership that is trying to drive the Chinese to extinction.
Stephen Colbert attempts to slow down the crowd he helped to whip up. Replies: shut up, it would be more cowardly to not attack people.
Trump needs to become the Dictator. He needs to declare martial law in order to close the border and suppress the inevitable Leftist protests. He needs to abrogate the Constitution and announce his intention to govern extra-constitutionally.
He needs to, but alas he won’t. On the other hand, they call him a dictator anyway, even though he is uncommonly scrupulous in following procedure (unlike, say, Obama, who did what he wanted and said “what you gonna do?”). So why not, then, become the dictator everyone says you are?
Unfortunately, I think we got Trump 10 years too late, both in terms of America and in terms of Trump. He’s the best President since, I dunno, McKinley probably, yet he falls vastly short of what we need.
If you watch the Acosta clip from yesterday, Trump himself endorses it as a means to bragging about all the businesses that are being brought in (who will need immigrant workers).
To all conservatives and civic nationalists: You will never win over blacks and Hispanics. Asians are now lost, also. White people are what made this nation and her institutions; and we are the only ones attempting to preserve it…Democracy is a racial headcount.
Yes, he seems to have no moral qualms about targeting families…..provided that they have the right phenotype, of course…..
A more effective strategy would be to point out to the Pentagon Brass that the democrat ruling coalition isn’t going to be so good for their worldwide full-spectrum dominance plans. I noticed that there were a few posts on one of Sailer’s entries from a few days ago about the rise of China and dissolving US and European Union ties / Japan kicking us out of Okinawa in the future that might cause some of the brass to shit their pants (you are already seeing this with Macron’s call for a European Union Army). You win revolutions by having some element of the elite on your side. Having the military commanders who worry about China and our ability to compete with them would do the trick nicely. You might be able to accomplish that by reposting some of those China comments elsewhere.
Also, we need a cogent plan acceptable to Trump’s voters to make something like that happen. Which unfortunately conservatives aren’t so good at producing such plans. Although, there have been some interesting posts on this blog referencing Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Do we do that? Maybe buy off the military by ensuring adequate funding? Buy off conservatives by curtailing immigration and repealing the 1965 immigration act + enacting programs to attract some of those valuable 500 million Europeans + ensuring gun rights? Buy off the general public by proposing to keep a democracy and fundamental rights but restrict suffrage to the military and current republicans and likely republicans and those who serve a term of service in the future? Buy off minorities with massive social programs (paid for by Blue States) to relocate them to rich, democrat-voting areas like Malibu? Buy off some liberals with guaranteed abortion, transexual, and gay rights (compromise is necessary to win – if the 1965 Immigration act were reversed and we shifted to increasing European immigration and European birth rates, I’d be cool with it)? We could sill have a democracy, but simply limit suffrage rights to those who go the Heinlein route of military service. That might be the only chance we have to enact needed demographic and constitutional reforms (term limits for all officials, including judges and campaign finance, birthright citizenship abolition) while also preventing China from encircling us forty years hence. Maybe we could call a constitutional convention of all Red States under the understanding that something like that mentioned above will be enacted regardless of what new constitution they write. The current course will fail as Trump’s appeal to blacks provably did not work, so there will be no coalition going forward, just Marxism.
That’s actually his best pic I’ve seen. He could stand to lift and/or get more outdoorsy and/or wait ten years, but the glasses are dece.
If anything the smirk draws attention to his unfortunate lips, but that’s kind of required for his profession.
Yes, the result will be some sort of communism, with poverty shared equally by all, not the abolition of welfarism.
“Ms. Gaborik said she moved to the county from Richmond several years ago for the same reason so many other women have — for the schools and lower housing prices.”
Lol. That’s code for “no blacks.” She moves away from diversity and then goes off and soothes her guilty conscience by voting for the very party that supports the policies she fled from; either that or she’s a sociopath like most extreme Leftists. This democracy thing becomes a greater farce by the day.
My Texas suburb is the same. It has been completely transformed over the past two decades. It’s not unusual to see more women in hijabs than white people at the grocery store.
In addition, Indians and Asians (mostly Chinese) dominate. Chain migration only makes it worse, and believe me, they arrive fully aware of the gib-me-dats they are entitled to; imagine leaving your 4,000-square-foot McMansion and driving up to the school in your late-model Mercedes sedan to sign your foreign-born kid up for the free lunch program.
The issues with this takeover are numerous, but one of the most obvious is our county now votes majority Democratic after years of being a Republican stronghold. This past Tuesday, all manner of GOP officeholders were swept away thanks to straight ticket voting and Betomania.
OT: Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke three ribs in a fall. I didn’t think she’d have much longer to live, and 3 broken ribs aren’t going to help. At her age, you heal slowly, so it’s likely to be more than 6 weeks until she recovers. I have never seen a picture of her with a walker, even though she fell and broke a couple of ribs back in 2012. At that point, sensible doctors tell you to start using one to provide stability. It’s very likely she angrily rejected one because it would make her look bad, much for the reason she rejected retiring under Obama. “I’m not old! Etc.” Her arrogance may do her in, as well as cause a problem for the Democrats. ‘Taking one for the team,’ is not something Democrats are taught, and it always hurts them in the end.
That dropped head syndrome she has is caused by a nerve-muscle problem, and that sort of medical condition is not just isolated to your neck. It’s system-wide. Sometimes it’s a side effect of medications, and if it’s an anti-cancer medicine, she can’t stop taking it because she’s had cancer twice, including pancreatic cancer, which is tough to beat.
But if your head is drooping, that makes it harder for you to keep your balance when you’re walking. You need a upright head to get good-quality signals from your inner ear when you’re in motion. When your head is drooping, your inner keeps signaling, ‘you’re always unbalanced,’ and you tend to compensate for this in a manner that can send you toppling.
With the broken ribs, she won’t be able to exercise to keep her muscle tone up, so she will become very frail and weak during her recovery period. This is likely to lead to another serious fall within the next couple of months, especially if she demands they send her home early, or she tries to go back to the court early. Your law clerks are not trained nurses, and they’re too busy to remember to hover over you every single time you get up to move around.
If you end up in the hospital in winter, you can catch an illness that finishes you off. Although they don’t like to admit it, hospitals have ventilation systems that circulate bacteria and viruses through their air vents. When the air is dry in winter, this makes it easier to infect other patients. Besides, anyone who is so sick they have to go to the hospital is going to be carrying around an unusually massive bacteria/viral load that makes them like a Typhoid Mary to everyone around them, and they sometimes carry strains of bacteria or viruses that are more virulent than normal, which is why they had to go to the hospital in the first place.
Africa is slated to have over 4 billion people by the end of this century. We can’t and shouldn’t compete with that. Among other things it’s an environmental disaster of unparalleled proportion.
Liberals used to care about issues like this until they decided that a ruined world full of dark-skinned people is preferable to a livable world with white people in it.
Because the United States is not China. Slavery is (in the long run) incompatible with Christianity, which is why it disappeared in all Christian nations.
BREAKING: The Trump administration said it would prohibit people who illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico from claiming asylum https://t.co/sckSdA3p9M pic.twitter.com/OCWiHOhSl0
No. I certainly never believed Trump had a chance of winning. I voted for Ted Cruz in the primary because of thought and because I thought Trump was making the immigration issue toxic. But I voted for Trump in the general and wich him well. I just don’t think he’s going to win in 2020 (yes I’ve been wrong before) unless the Dems nominate someone even crazier.
On the far end of the troll scale from concern troll there’s the Pollyanna troll. “Keep doing what you’ve been doing and everything will be just fine.” After Tuesday I think we should know that isn’t true.
People like to imagine that they are free-thinking but generally they think what they’re told to think and vote how they’re told to vote. Who’s doing the telling? Who owns the mass media? Where else do people get information? Facebook? Google?
I’m reading Bad Blood, about Theranos, recommended by Steve. In it, the CEO of Safeway says he’s excited about socialized medicine because the healthcare costs borne by his company are threatening to drive it under.
As an observation, for those of you who want gov’t to take over healthcare, remember after the Obamacare experience: whatever scheme is concocted, count on it to raise your taxes considerably. Who will pay for all this free healthcare? You will!
There is one last chance to salvage this situation, and if anybody in Trump’s inner circle peruses this blog, they had better listen to me now like they haven’t been listening the past two years.
this is good for employers in the short term as it effectively means part of their wage bill gets shifted to welfare – so far so good (for them)
problem is mass immigration means either you need to raise more tax to pay for the extra infrastructure for the extra people or you keep tax the same and let the extra people slowly degrade your infrastructure and the cheap labor can’t pay the tax needed cos they’re cheap labor – so the extra tax has to come from the shrinking middle class
eventually the only people left with any money to tax are the greedy sociopaths who wanted the cheaper labor in the first place and so they leave too, either driven out by the extra tax or the decaying infrastructure
A few years back Oregon voted overwhelmingly *against* giving driver’s licenses to illegals. On Tuesday they voted, 62-38, against a referendum that would have banned sanctuary cities in their state
Did you bother reading 105? I did. The measure’s language only applies to illegal immigrants who have committed no other crime besides being here illegally. It stops far short of California’s SB-54, which shields from deportation illegals convicted even of animal abuse.
Have you compiled data on the voting preferences of these ex-felons? Did you know DUI is a felony in Florida? I certainly didn’t know drunk drivers automatically voted Democrat. Maybe you have better information.
In Utah – Utah of all places – the voters passed a fairly liberal medical marijuana referendum, and Mitt Romney barely managed to win the state’s largest county
Yes, Mittens who hates Trump with the hot hot heat of a thousand suns, struggled. This certainly bolsters your point about Trump’s fading popularity.
Ok Evan McMullin. He has 2 more years to get other stuff done. Judging from that presser yesterday, I see a pit bull straining to be released. I think this 4 act play is just getting started.
Today’s feature Nazi program is Rio Rita, a 1942 Abbott and Costello movie in which they “foil Nazi spies in a Texas border town”.
The other night, on National Geographic channel no less, a show in which Jews devised schemes to murder 6 million Germans was on offer.
Generally speaking, one can count on at least one anti-Nazi flick or documentary per evening courtesy of our Jewish owned media. They’re not subtle (or particularly smart). They actually believe that via Pavlovian conditioning they can fool all the people all of the time.
Student loan forgiveness (there’s a loaded term) will be enacted in the year 2021 but will only apply to women and people of color.
More people were enslaved in the 20th century than the 19th. The fact that they were called ‘enemies of the state’ or something similar rather than ‘slaves’ doesn’t change their situation.
This is more of your typical unsubstantiated balderdash. All abuses notwithstanding, slavery in and of itself is not incompatible with the natural law and the Church issues no blanket condemnation of it.
Love it. We need Hollywood Torture Porn to warm our cold souls when torturing white people in the real world isn’t satisfying (or widespread) enough.
More OT: New headline about Ginsberg. Her cancer has come out of remission, and she’ll be retiring in January 2019. Apparently the Senate Dems were told about this earlier, which is why they went crazy at the Kavanaugh hearings.
What you call the “Reagan Amnesty” was really just Hart-Celler Part II, and in fact came about just as the real effects of Part I were being felt.
On the one hand, it’s telling that they’re attacking his wife and children now (and of course the “respectable” media have no trouble with this).
Because it means some of the man’s message is getting through, and being heard. And they are threatened, angry and afraid when any such truths are permitted to see the light of day.
But it’s also quite worrisome because I don’t think Mr Carlson recognizes how real and present the danger is.
Steve, Here’s the great video clip you posted recently of Ezra Klein discussing open borders with Bernie Sanders in 2015.
The court noted it was created because of the “cruelty and wastefulness of deporting productive young people to countries with which they have no ties.”
By “no ties,” the Court was referring, of course, to the respective countries in which these illegal aliens were born, and in which they may have lived up until the age of 16 (assuming that the illegal aliens are telling the truth about their being brought to the United States, against their will, as “children” under the age of 16)– and the respective countries in which they actually hold citizenship!
Want to alienate a huge part of the electorate? Stick taxpayers with school debt. We sacrificed to save for college for our three kids. The kids all held various jobs or had their own businesses (mowing lawns, baby sitting, etc.) for years before starting college. One son was in the Army Reserve for six years and did one tour of duty overseas. All three worked all summer while in college. I’m contributing for college savings for grandkids now.
I worked 15 to 40 hours a week during almost all of my time in college while majoring in engineering. I worked full time in grad school.
And now my tax dollars are going to go to pay the debt of brats who went to expensive private schools and never held a real job, all while majoring in grievance studies? I would become a single issue voter at a speed just below that of light.
That it is unearned does not matter. The tech is not going away. Even India with most of its people without toilets has a space program.
Trump just signed EO denying asylum to all illegals. Obviously it’ll be challenged, probably by the dumb f- AG of WA Bob Ferguson, and fast tracked to SCOTUS. NYT said Neil Gorsuck could vote against it like he did the criminal alien deportation case.
I knew Gorsuck was a mistake, that’s why the Dems were so happy to appoint him without much of a fuss. He is becoming Trump’s worst mistake. If Trump gets another chance with Ruth Ginsburg retiring he needs to pick someone to the right of Kavanaugh, maybe Jeff Sessions. Gorsuck can no longer be counted on. He’s gone to the dark side.
If Open Borders is so great, why isn’t there much opposition among Libby-dibs against Trump’s sanctions on Iran? That restricts trade.
And why are US and EU using anti-Russian paranoia to erect barriers between Eastern Europe and Russia?
Open Borders are really Siege Towers. It’s a way to restore imperialism. US is new Rome, and all roads must lead to Rome. And US military and finance and media must break down all barriers and colonize others with guns, funs, and money.
I always liked these glasses on Athol Guy, the double bassist of The Seekers (who also worked as a television host and politician). Along with his solid jaw, Athol also has broad shoulders and hairy arms, which made him one of the more unpretentiously masculine musicians of his age.
There is this coat brand called “Canada Goose” that makes $1000 jackets. I didn’t realize this until my friend pointed this out to me, and now I can’t stop noticing. I was walking down Comm. Ave near BU and I saw like 10 of the coats in 5 minutes; you see them a lot downtown too. It seems especially popular with rich international students. So there’s that.
There’s been a biotech boom in Cambridge, and there are lots of new office buildings in a formerly industrial area next to MIT.
Our Republican governor who is affable and very non-ideological won re-election by 35% points, and got 50% of the vote in Boston.
There’s been a fair amount of gentrification over the past 30 years in Boston. The last big wave has been concentrated along the red line (heavy rail subway) in Cambridge and Somerville. The two next most likely targets for gentrification are East Boston (hispanic neighborhood) and Roxbury (black neighborhood).
So the bottom line is that Boston, and surrounding areas, will continue to be a stronghold of “creative class” types.
“Libertarianism is a prime example of the dictum that any political idea carried out to its logical end point is fallacious!”
By that logic all immigration to the USA should be ended since it would be cruel to bring people into the USA who have no ties with the USA.
All those nice White suburbanites who voted Democrat moved out to the suburbs to avoid having to live around Blacks and other non-Whites. Well, in the Northeast, they liked their state and local tax deductions too, and the GOP took them away!
I just read this article on the horrors of politics in Hungary and Poland in the Atlantic from last month.
The basic premise is: The governments of Poland and Hungary have become dangerous right-wing oligarchies for literally no reason at all. Sure, they *blame* migrants, but hey, last time I checked there WERE no migrants in Hungary and Poland, so that proves it’s all a fabrication to frighten the people into accepting one-party rule.
Did you catch that? The primary goal of the Orban presidency is to keep out the migrant invasion, and because he has so far succeeded, it proves he overreacted. Something something Kafka something.
I mean bashing the value of someone’s opinion based on their looks is a superb way of making our side come across like the better party, right?”
I always enjoy your comments but I think you got this one wrong. My take was not that eah was referring to the guy’s features but to his supercilious expression. Big difference.
I thought Michelle Obama couldn’t help having unattractive facial features and outsized mandibles. But I did object to her rude facial expressions, eye-rolling, etc. when, as FLOTUS, she made public appearances. Who the hell did she think she was? Ditto Teresa Kerry and her sulkiness when campaigning (presumably) for her husband.
The left does a lot of that. It’s just another way to demonstrate the contempt they feel for the civility preferred by traditionalists.
1) What’s holding back marriage isn’t really that couples are “too poor”–Americans are actually ridiculously well off by any sort of current “purchasing power parity” standard, much less in world historical terms.
– The immigration driven rise in (coastal) house prices; specifically to get into a neighborhood with “good schools” (i.e. low NAMS). Basically immigration is destroying Americans’–young Americans just starting out–ability to create traditional American nuclear families, living by themselves in a comfortable house; not having to live in an extended family home with mom+dad.
Tucker nods at this with “safe neighborhood. But it’s really the core of the economic pressure against marriage/family and–as with everything else–leads back to immigration.
– Men and women simply do not need each other as much. Women have their own careers and often don’t need a man to have a nice “lifestyle”. And correspondingly the guys relative wages aren’t as high as they used to be. And women–fattened up and often full of unpleasant feminist b.s. (and ergo full of themselves)–often don’t offer much value for a guy. I should turn over my paycheck for that?
Not expecting/advising Tucker to raise this non-economic issue in this context, though it does havve a political dimension, this hostility is what the Democrats have pushed for the last 50. But in fairness it’s a big driver of cratering marriage rates.
Tucker hits around it pretty well, but i’d have liked him to really hammer home that marriage/family/children transmitting your genes and your culture really is what civilization is. And when you talk about “conservatism” … what are you conserving if you are not conserving that?
This is the critical point our rhetorically challenged Republicans continually fail to make. Pretty much everything the Democrats do is designed to destroy the basis for the continual successful transmission of the American nation into the future. Republicans–the actually conservative (i.e. nationalist) ones anyway–are fighting to allow you to pass the nation onto your children.
The Polish example is maddening because everything they accuse the Law and Justice party of doing was actually done more egregiously by Donald Tusk before he was kicked up to the EU central bureaucracy. L&J is repairing damage from the globalists they replaced. The media says nothing about that and presents L&J actions as ex nihilo. The major sources in the English language are Radek Sikorsky and his wife Anne Appelbaum, which is like asking Michelle Obama for an analysis of the Trump presidency.
>the Catholic church never stopped slavery or opposed it in the New World or formulated philosophical objections to it
How old are you? Your plain meaning is clear enough — there was hypocrisy, failure, backsliding, and Catholic-administered labor conditions only academically different from slavery, sure. But your point as formulated is rubbish.
I live in Boston. Agree that there are a ton of foreign students now, especially Asians. A lot of them are here on temporary student visas, so they have a limited time after graduation to get a visa-sponsoring job if they want to stay. And a large portion of them do want to stay, but it’s not always easy for them to get the jobs they need. Not sure what the long-term success rate is, but there sure are a lot of them. Especially around MIT.
The other element at work is the explosion of biotech and general tech jobs, which pay very well and draw in highly-educated Silicon Valley types from other parts of the country. Kendall Square and the Seaport in particular are booming, and large office and lab buildings are going up left and right. The employees at these places have driven rents way up. New development is highly restricted in most jurisdictions around Boston, although Boston proper is allowing a lot more under the new mayor. So rents may be stabilizing now, but at a much higher level than they used to be.
The high housing prices have caused an exodus of the old-school Boston residents you mentioned. Southie is still mostly white (and even Irish), but the working class people have largely been replaced by yuppies with yoga mats. My Uber driver last week was a twenty-something woman from Dorchester- huge personality with a totally over the top Boston accent. She could have been a bit character in a Ben Affleck movie. It struck me how infrequently I interact with people like that anymore. We got to talking and she said she’d just moved to Rhode Island with her husband and their kids. Couldn’t afford the rent anymore, even in the sketchy neighborhoods.
A few months back I talked to a guy who works for the company that owns the Prudential Center mall in Boston. They got a Canada Goose store in there a year or so ago. Apparently Canada Goose is making absolutely insane amounts of money from those coats, so much so that they paid the previous retail tenant for months of that tenant’s Christmas season sales so they could get them out of the space faster. Like you I was only vaguely aware of these coats until he pointed them out, but now I see them everywhere. And yeah, the Asians are all over that.
I heard the song, last Sunday, the 4th, which caused me to look it up, hoping to read exactly when, in 1965, it peaked in the American charts. The Wikipedia.org entry did not say, but I did learn that (a) it had been recorded, at Abbey Road Studios, 54 years ago, that very day, and (b) the song had been written by the same man who produced that single for The Seekers: Tom Springfield, the brother, and former band mate (The Springfields), of Dusty Springfield, who had become a huge solo star, in that same momentous year in popular music.
I have some information in moderation in the next thread. tldr the Democrats are doing exactly what they always do and as of now the DoJ is letting them do it, so every single remaining post will go to them barring action. Laura Ingraham just called the Arizona race for Sinema.
Yes! Finally, someone with an audience is getting down to brass tacks! Maybe this is just the first pass – I’d expect Tucker to drill down with time and develop this theme. Hopefully Trump will pick it up, and add his special speak. And hopefully Fox won’t cave.
Your kid’s professor is paid to make up stories and teach them to your child. Don’t you wish you had that job?
Great post, agree on all points. But…Trump’s support is 40-45% for ages. I suspect the measure of Trump support is consistent with support for statements like “fighting to allow you to pass the nation onto your children.” Are he residual of 55-60% receptive to this message? If not, it clarifies the objective and makes a great call to arms.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe has a good essay arguing that liberal immigration violates freedom of association. More generally, Hoppe has argued in favor of private covenant communities that would have power to exclude whomever they want. He’s one of the more based libertarians around. He taught econ at UNLV and got in trouble for explaining why homosexuals tend to have high time preference in one of his lectures.
…a democratic ruler, quite unlike a king, undertakes little to actively expel those people whose presence within the country constitutes a negative externality (human trash, which drives individual property values down). In fact, such negative externalities – unproductive parasites, bums, and criminals – are likely to be his most reliable supporters.
Anne Applebaum, as you mention, wrote the Atlantic piece. It is filled with distortions and at least one outright lie.
She describes a party in the Polish countryside in the 90′s. In trying to illustrate the exuberance of the gathering, she describes a female guest pulling a handgun from her purse. Then, she supposedly fired a “blank” into the air. Who carries a gun loaded with blanks? The party guest fired a bullet into the air. The writer is a liar.
I would like to see the GOP make an issue out of student loan debt. It’s a crushing burden on the Gen-Y and Millenial generation. Perhaps some kind of loan forgiveness or amnesty.
This is what Occupy Wall Street was really all about, though the organisers were always cagey about stating it openly. These movements always like to camouflage demands for free stuff with a lot of noble-sounding universalist altruistic objectives.
Trump urgently needs to appoint a council to investigate voter fraud. He was going to do this in 2016 then dropped it, which was a really bad idea. There’s massive fraud going on in voter registration. In the West coast, when you go get your driver’s license, they ask if you would like to register to vote, if you say yes, it’s done, you get your ballot in the mail, there is no check on whether you are a citizen because the DMV does not have the capability to check.
A couple of years back some Turkish immigrant shot up a local mall, killed 5 people. After he got arrested, they found out that he had illegally voted — 4 times, all for Democrats, while living here on a green card.
Our county used to be solidly red, now it’s solidly blue with a huge influx of Indians and Chinese, majority speak heavily accented English, there’s no way these people are citizens, yet it would not surprise me one bit if many voted.
Trump needs to sign an EO saying that any none citizen caught voting illegally will have his/her green card and citizenship application denied. Voting record can be easily verified during the vetting process.
Yes this is the ‘Einstein’ gambit. Would you exclude geniuses like Einstein? People who don’t know how this game is played will say no, of course not, we’d make an exception for Einstein.
However, once you allow this loophole, hostile parties will progressively widen the definition of ‘genius’ to the point where it includes every educated foreigner. (This is what happened to the H1-b program, which began as a program to recruit small numbers of exceptionally talented people.)
Our elite institutions are no longer educating, they are now indoctrinating, and Harvard leads the pack. Check out this Sex Week garbage now offered at the Ivies, led by Harvard and Yale:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ivy-league-universitys-inaugural-sex-week-offers-porn-masturbation-orgasms/
Liberals are depraved and obsessed with sex, and they are increasingly dragging our kids off the deep end with them. I’m not even going to let my kids apply to these shit schools, even though both are A students. They deserve better.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet//briannaheldt/2018/11/08/some-harvard-students-speak-out-against-the-schools-sex-week-n2535617
Pardes said she secured financial support for the endeavor from Hillel – a Jewish student campus group – as well as the school’s Social Planning and Events Committee and the LGBT Center. All three groups are listed on Penn’s website as registered student organizations.
University of Pennsylvania has now joined Brown, Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League universities in the growing and controversial Sex Week tradition.
And no surprise, sponsored by Jews and gays, the two most sex obsessed, depraved groups of people dragging western civilization off the deep end.
The only people who want open borders or mass immigration are people who hate America, they want to see her destroyed from within.
I’ve got a morbid fascination with the latter’s autopsy report. I would bet 2:1 odds that he’d had a bilateral orchiectomy.
Trump needs to behave civilly like past Republican Presidents McCain and Romney. Now those two had coattails.
Now these groups are not the worst immigrants one could bring in (assuming you were determined to) and thus Vancouver doesn’t get in headlines over Muslim terrorism or no-go areas.
Whites may still be the largest ethnicity by I doubt they’re > 50%. There’s a lot of other ethnicities too.
Visiting the city or following housing prices. Chinese tax cheats were buying real estate as an investment, tulipomania set in, one-room shacks went for a million.
There is actually a long, mostly spoken word song about this on the South Park Chef Aid CD. The, ah, tenderoni are in a jar labeled “Jack Michaelson.”
In moderation in the next thread, but see supplements to it posted later, currently at 30 and 36. Charts, links and the text of Rick Scktt’s suit in pdf.
I understand that there is a category of “weapon” aka “gas guns” that use a “blank” cartridge that contains a tear gas mixed with the gunpowder that is available in Europe.
Basically, Rules for Radicals and Reveille for Radicals are the Cliff’s Notes for Mein Kampf. And everyone who is anyone in realpolitik has read that, you can be sure.
LOL!! And you’re the biggest ignoramus of all on libertarianism if you believe that Rand was a libertarian. Rand was an objectivist who firmly distanced herself from and hated libertarians and libertarianism:
Actually, it will be a much worse hellhole; Caribes were better than west Africans, but unfortunately they are extinct and cannot repopulate the region.
One way to look at Trump’s perspective is that unlike any other candidate in decades he thinks the US should be treated like a going concern rather than a liquidation or, in Garrett Hardin’s terms, a commons. Trump thinks it’s actually important for the country to produce wealth while everyone else just wants to redistribute it.
So he picked non-African sperm donors for “his” children despite being, at least superficially, intact.
As with many medical problems that seem minor to the young, rib fractures can be very serious in an 85-year old woman.
About 19 percent of older adults who sustained fractures of three or four ribs died from complications, according to one study.
Pain often occurs with deep breathing. When patients can’t breathe deeply or cough, the risk of pneumonia increases. About 30 to 35 percent of people over 65 with rib fractures contract pneumonia.
Other serious complications can occur with fractures due to mild to moderate trauma. Lung bruising and swelling, bleeding into and around the lungs or a collapsed lung require prompt medical attention. These complications may require insertion of a chest tube or other surgery, blood transfusion or artificial ventilation. Emergency care may be needed for light-headedness, shortness of breath and significant chest pain, particularly if the condition is worsening.
I expect she will have an around-the-clock medical team of progressive, Jewish phsyicians monitoring her, something like the control room at NASA in the 1960s, or the underground lab in The Andromeda Strain.
No, it doesn’t. It comes from the faculty who have, in the students, a captive audience, and pour their poison into their ears. A lot of the ills of the modern World began as some school of thought (or rather of indoctrination) in academia
Okay. Then you can just wait for the socialists that today’s young people want to vote into office to simply seize your dough when they become powerful enough. They’re angry and resentful, and they don’t care that you were financially responsible.
When evaluating a patient for possible discharge or admission after blunt trauma, you need to know which patients are at highest risk of pneumonia and death. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis sought to identify the factors that contribute to mortality after blunt chest trauma . They found the following:
– Advanced age doubles your risk of death. Patients over 64 had an OR (odds ratio) for death of 1.98.
– Pre-existing cardiopulmonary disease, such as CHF gave an OR for death of 2.4. [Bader had heart surgery to place a stent in 2014 to clear a blocked coronary artery.]
– Development of pneumonia has a huge impact on mortality, with an OR 5.24. In the ED, after an initial trauma evaluation, of course, you will not know which patients will develop pneumonia. However, if a patient “bounces back” to the ED with pneumonia after blunt chest injury and fractures, you should have a very low threshold to admit the patient given the high OR for mortality, particularly if they are older, or have underlying lung disease.
I hadn’t even known that Romney was running for Senate, until yesterday. Like you, when I heard that he was, and that he had won, I instantly assumed that he intends to run in 2020.
When she’s sent home a medical advisor will visit her home to make sure it’s been elder-proofed, no slippery rugs and the like.
Rand, who was to Isabel Paterson and Rose Wilder Lane what Madonna was to Nancy Sinatra and Debbie Harry, (except Madge is not nearly as fat and ugly as Rand was) regarded libertarianism as Scientologists regard efforts like the FreeZone: heretic and “squirrel” offshoots, a dishonest and second rate version of the straight stuff, the typical reaction of an established church to a new offshoot. Her pet poodle Peikoff published a “First Blast of the Trumpet” polemic entitled Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty.
In It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, Jerome Tuccille takes the reader on a “hilarious romp through the wild and kooky reaches of the libertarian right,” according to Publisher’s Weekly. Along the way he explodes many myths surrounding leading right-wing heroes, including Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan, and many others. He doesn’t spare himself from the satirist’s pen either, describing in detail his comic run for Governor of New York in 1974—an adventure that ended in near bankruptcy and personal turmoil. “[Tuccille] is damned funny. His book is a quick read; its pages turn quickly. This is pop history, not deep theory, so most of the pauses in the reading are caused by sudden bouts of laughter. What are we to make of a book that, when discussing Rand’s comments about pollution, adds, ‘Ayn, you sweet, lovable, crazy bitch’? David Friedman wrote in his foreword to the 25th anniversary edition of this book: ‘If you are looking for a careful scholarly history of the libertarian movement… you had better look somewhere else. But for a vivid and entertaining picture of the early years of libertarianism, Tuccille’s book has no equal.’” –The Colorado Freedom Report–www.freecolorado.com “Jerome Tuccille’s classic history of contemporary libertarian politics is as informative as it is entertaining. Tuccille takes the reader along as he tells of his political conversion from Objectivist to Miscellaneous to Anarchist. He blends an element of mockery of the fringe in the political sphere with a genuine care for the people and events. I recommend it to anyone who is already familiar with the Libertarian world but needs a little education on the genesis of it.” –freemarket.net “Tuccille has got to be everyone’s favorite right wing individualist anarchist.” –Library Journal
There was an abolition of serfdom almost everywhere among European peoples, though it wasn’t all at the same time. Something changed, and neither slavery nor serfdom made sense any more.
Atheist/progressives of that time were much more racist, and after Darwin, atheists were adamant in classifying Africans as a ‘lower’ part of human evolution
If you don’t include Southern Baptists in that you’re making a fatal omission. When you can distinguish African vs. European race with an fMRI of the brain with well over 90% accuracy, there’s scientific proof that Africans are a distinct class. “Higher” or “lower” depends on the figure of merit, but “distinct” is not honestly deniable. (The dishonest will say whatever they need to to promote their dishonest ends, and we really ought to be finding ways to make such dishonesty painful at the very least.)
These were almost the exact type of spectacles that the UK’s free-at-the-point-of-use NHS or National Health Service system of socialized medicine used to hand out free to any schoolkid diagnosed by in-school eye tests needing vision correction.
You could compare it to the Northern Ireland stuff. It was (and is) a local thing. They settled it somehow and that was end of it.
“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.” –Flannery O’Connor
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.” –ibid.
I read Tuccille’s book about 40 years ago. I think I also have his Trump book– his was the first about the man.
Weren’t Harry Potter roundish P3s also NHS freebies, and their poverty-stricken image was why Potter wore them?
Unlike Steve, I don’t see any problem with low-grade doxxing to identify would-be anonymous activists by name, if reasonable care is taken.
I also think that contacting employers is the only way to balance the current asymmetry in tactics. Many of the employers will be institutions of higher education, meaning nothing will happen, but from a data collection standpoint it’s important that our representatives know how many academics are weekend vandals and stalkers.
And even non-academic employers should not be firing people for this stuff without an investigation, which should take no shorter than a month. By the time a month passes most employers realize that the mob has moved on and there is no need to panic, and that proportionate discipline short of termination is enough to handle the situation.
Slavery existed during the last dynasty. While there were emancipation proclamations, those have occurred repeatedly throughout Chinese history- slavery always returns.
The earliest dynasty we have records for is the Shang and they had slavery notably also engaging in human sacrifice.
Given the Old Testament explicitly endorses slavery, I’m fascinated to learn how it is incompatible with Christianity.
Women desire powerful men, therefore all men desire power. This is usually refereed to as “original sin”- it is not a left wing concept since it applies to every human on the planet.
That is a bit like looking at the trend towards legalizing homosexual marriage and declaring stopping it ‘no longer made sense’. If serfdom doesn’t make economic sense, then the owners of serfs let their serfs convert their obligations into cash payments. Abolition of serfdom was driven by political considerations, not social or economic ones.
The Church opposed the slave trade, i.e. the deliberate trafficking in human flesh, not the condition of slavery per se. And before throwing around the word “rubbish,” you may wish to check out what the Catholic Encyclopedia actually has to say on the subject.
That’s why these statistics are not that meaningful. Sure if you are in the nursing home and break some ribs then you will get pneumonia and die because no one is going to pay any more attention to you after your fall than they did before you fell, but Notorious RBG is going to be watched 24/7 and get antibiotics up the wazoo and made to get out of bed, etc.
That being said, there is a limit to what medical science can do against the ravages of time and disease and RBG should probably be buying her mayo in the pint jar.
He didn’t do it for Jews, he did it for Christians. And believe me, there are quite a few Christians who LOVE that.
Kaku spins a good yarn when he sticks to science/futurism, but his politics are totally nuts. Listen to his utter contempt for American STEM grads:
I am very saddened by the demise of The Atlantic Magazine hard copy magazine in the early 1990s to what it is now:
The Atlantic Magazine hard copy magazine in the early 1990s was my favorite political/cultural magazine presented an intelligent, secular Liberal perspective but nothing like Political Correctness.
Occasionally a few very well written, intelligent articles from this honest secular Liberal perspective still made it through like this best ever account of
I believe the top editor at The Atlantic Magazine is now some guy named “Goldberg” who is a dual Israeli/USA citizen who served as an Israeli prison guard during the Intafata – he would try to bound with the Arab POWs and share his American Lib university contacts to get them accepted to go to college in the USA and become anti White, Lib Leftist Itentitarians in American domestic politics.
Arabs/Muslims vote overwhelming Lib Leftist Socialist domestic politics in the USA, Europe, UK in about as high % as American Jews ~ 80%.
Once immersed in American/Western European/UK media/academia everything becomes about hating White people, hating Western civilization – sure there are still some occasional lip service negative comments, boycotts against the Zionists/Israel the israel lobby but it never amounts to anything compared with other Lib Left causes like
There isn’t too much to do except to retreat, set up monastical preservation of our civilization when it was ours – I think they call that “The Benedict Option”
Great you found exactly one still alive human Libertarian Hans-Hermann Hoppe that isn’t bat Shi* insane about mass 3rd world immigration to the USA/Europe/The West.
After Hoppe this cult has to include dead people such as Murray Rothbard to defeat the evidence that Libertarianism isn’t a suicide/homicide cult for the West.
Ron Paul and Rand Paul have made near constant, insane statements about immigration such as Rand Paul’s official response to Obama state of the Union address where Rand Paul said any person in the world, without number restrictions or restrictions on race, ethnicity country who wants to move to the United States provided he/she wants to work a job should be welcome.
Bot Ron Paul and Rand Paul argued that the Al Qaeda terrorist leader in Yemen should have been recognized as a full US citizen because of birth right citizenship.
Having read a bit of Flannery O’Connor as well as some Rand, I think that reflected more religious differences than those of taste. Rand makes an interesting study both for insights and errors & omissions, but I would never pick up O’Connor to read again. This society is already marinated in Catholic guilt, I doubt that anyone needs to imbibe more.
That would prohibit any hierarchical relationship. Given Christianity has a hierarchy and has had one since the time of Jesus, that is not what those words mean.
sure it is – practicality leads to those words only being applied to the currently most egregious examples of where the principle is being breached
“This society” sure isn’t the country I live in. It’s hard to find Catholic guilt even in the Catholic pews anymore.
“Open Borders are really Siege Towers. It’s a way to restore imperialism. US is new Rome, and all roads must lead to Rome. And US military and finance and media must break down all barriers and colonize others with guns, funs, and money.”
History likes her irony. That immigration is going to destroy the US Empire 30 years hence. It will drive the EU and US apart and perhaps the US from Japan, all while China rises. Eventually, this idiocy will make Australia China’s aircraft carrier by making Australia majority Chinese. Interesting times ahead.
It’s well past time that somebody photoshopped Buddy Holly glasses on photos/pictures of the most prominent historical figures.
Clicked on the link to the Seekers. Wonderful sound. Back here after 20 minutes on YouTube. Dragged myself away after this one. What the hell happened to Boogie Woogie?
Others have answered this, but you’d have to be a fool, in a high wage country, to enter a profession that is being opened up to labour arbitrage with the low wage world.
*Probably these are not an issue at the highest levels. Even all MBAs speak the same cultural and general language. But it is really rubbish for a lot of people to not be able to socialise effectively with the colleagues they spend most of their waking life with.
This is the first time I’ve heard this one. Everyone else here attributes it to leftover Puritan shaming.
The Catholic countries in Europe held off divorce and abortion far longer than the Protestant ones, and even now still prohibit sperm “donation” and surrogacy. Genuine Catholic guilt does some good.
"Coon figured Europeans and sub-Saharans were closer to each other than they were to East Asians, New World Indians, and Australians. In Coon’s thinking, the giant mountains of central Asia were the main divide, not the Sahara and Congo rainforest." The people of Sub-Saharan Africa were just...
Wrong. 250,000 is a big enough sample to preserve almost all the variation that existed in west Africa. That depends on whether that 250,000 was representative or not. No reason to assume slavery grabbed a representative, random sample of West Africans.
Beat me to it. Add to that "all from a relatively small, concentrated part of Western Africa convenient to the coasts," for the most part. No reason that wasn't a bottleneck itself.
Wrong. 250,000 is a big enough sample to preserve almost all the variation that existed in west Africa.
But the distribution of caputs in the per capita would have been quite different.N.B. in re 1870, Britain, the Low Countries, Denmark, Switzerland, and Spain had significantly higher standards of living than did Ireland, as did North America, the Antipodes, and the Southern Cone of South America....
Another good comedy viddy: “The worst conversation adults can have with kids about race is no conversation at all,” says author Jemar Tisby. “Talking to kids about race needs to happen early, often, and honestly.” In a new episode of Home School, The Atlantic’s animated series a...
Yet, he has absolutely no aplomb in any situation, no capacity to stand up for himself, no capacity to induce anyone else to back off. Personality makes a man. There are plenty of men who served in the military and came out not one bit manlier. He has a mostly passive personality. His ch...
Rice in Asia is for children. In the Chinese families I know in Hong Kong, none of the adults touch it.
Presumably no one who would play Pushkin or Dumas would be playing Cleopatra, but in this age that presumption may be untoward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5s9N_pTUs
'...but the genes for self control...' Genes for self-control? I'm all for arguments that give due weight to genetic factors -- but it's possible to get carried away.
Cheerios are whole grain with only 1g of sugar per serving. But the bowl of milk is high in sugar. See that's what I'm trying to understand. Doesn't the fat in the milk sow the absorption of the carbs and make the cereal "stick to your ribs"? My own experience tells me so, but then maybe...
Most of the time blacks seem like a necessary but not sufficient main Diversity ingredient. One notable exception is Black colleges which are maximally diverse because they're full of blacks. But in other contexts where blacks are already well represented, Diversity can increase by replacing rema...
I don't see how it's irrelevant. It was very relevant to unionized labor, which was largely destroyed as a result, and to business practices. And it still takes place. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner production was moved out of Washington state and its unionized labor and into some place in the South wit...
the UK political elite have been dragging their feet, hoping for a way to reverse Brexit so this is as expected - but it's not over till the fat lady sings. # membership of the EU greatly effects immigration and will increasingly do so in the future as the EU is hellbent on transporting hal...
> when they say “Celebrate Diversity” they deep down most intensely mean “Celebrate Sub-Saharans.” It certainly seems that way when watching TV or movies. I'd guess that Hispanics are the least represented, compared to their actual prevalence. Or perhaps Native Americans.
There is a thing called Google, try it for "Kurgan sutee" and you will get results like Men were dominant over women and warrior chiefs ruled over their inferiors, the most inferior being their slaves. ... Kurgan graves have likewise yielded the bones of children and of numerous others, possibl...
Good point. But since African Americans are from 15% to 75% European they must have measurable Neanderthal DNA.
> With current tech, [saving Western civ] surely [means killing people]. As a thought experiment, consider what could be done with infinite political will. For example, people below some criteria (e.g. requiring welfare assistance, criminal convictions, etc) could only have children from ad...
Italy, Hungary, Poland, Austria etc don't want to leave the EU, they want to flip it. Now that the liberal Brits are out, its easier for European nationalists to take over. And once Merkel and Macron are booted out, it's pretty much game over for European liberals. This is the big irony of Bri...
But what if being stupid is an adaptive advantage? Perhaps even a strong one? That's the amusing thing about all of this: everyone assumes that intelligence is an adaptive advantage, while we watch the "smart" and disciplined people contracept themselves out of the gene pool. The stupid and ill ...
Pat, so then do we eliminate the children that would be a drain on society? You know what might be a future idear? Genetic locking. Tweak the DNA so that a person can produce kids only with others with the same 'keys'. So, if some Jews are upset that too many are marrying OUT, then they...
Prof. Alan Wildeman has been reappointed to a second five-year term as vice-president (research). The announcement was made today by president Alastair Summerlee.
“The University has experienced major growth in its research activities during the past five years,” said Summerlee, who chaired a committee that reviewed Wildeman’s first term in office, which began in 2001.
Each year for the past three years, U of G has been named Canada’s No. 1 comprehensive research university, a ranking that is based both on research income and output measures such as publications and research intensity. In addition, Guelph has been the top comprehensive university for four straight years in the annual “Top 50 Research Universities List,” which ranks Canadian universities based solely on sponsored research income.
“Dr. Wildeman has shown strong leadership and guidance in facilitating this growth while managing a research portfolio that is extremely complex and has undergone significant change,” said Summerlee.
Research and scholarship across the disciplines are of fundamental importance because they make Guelph a richer institution, they underpin innovation and they enhance the University’s ability to deliver outstanding education and training, said Summerlee.
“Alan has worked hard to build on Guelph’s reputation for its multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research excellence, to foster important external partnerships that broaden the way the world sees us, and to improve the quality of the University’s research infrastructure.”
In 2002, Wildeman oversaw the extensive consultative planning process associated with the restructuring of services and facilities funded under U of G’s enhanced partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). The partnership includes the University’s campuses in Ridgetown, Kemptville and Alfred, numerous research stations and Laboratory Services.
Looking forward, Summerlee and Wildeman see three important priorities for the Office of Research. First, there will be a complete review of the office’s service mandate, looking at ways the office can support the growing research community and support how regulatory issues are introduced and managed. Second, U of G will be renegotiating the OMAFRA contract, which provides a vital component of the innovation agenda for agriculture and life sciences in the province. Third, the University will review the way research infrastructure is managed at the institution. Guelph will also continue to focus on the unique ways teaching and research are integrated and supported here.
“The University of Guelph is truly an extraordinary place for creative endeavours,” said Wildeman. “Our success is due entirely to the quality of our faculty, staff and students, and I am truly honoured to have been asked to serve another term. I look forward to continuing to help the Office of Research best support everyone’s aspirations and to working with the president and my colleagues to position Guelph so that it makes an even greater difference in the world.”
In addition to Summerlee, the review committee included deans, professors and staff members. They examined services, grant applications, ethics practices, technology transfer, international activities and commercialization under the Office of Research. The committee sought input and feedback from the U of G community on the areas of leadership, administration and management, relationship and partnership building, communications and oversight of the OMAFRA contract. The committee also sought and received wide feedback from members of internal and external communities associated with the University’s research enterprise.
The specialized surgical and maternity hospital in Kafr Zeta, Hama, was leveled this weekend after being attacked three times in 24 hours. The first attack happened on Friday April 28 at 4 p.m Damascus time causing damage to the facility and the outpatient clinics. The second attack happened on Saturday April 29 at 8:45 a.m. Damascus time.
This attack caused major damage to the emergency department and injured one staff member. The third attack happened at 2 p.m. Damascus time on April 29 and completely destroyed the facility. No fatalities or injuries were reported as the hospital was evacuated due to earlier attacks. The hospital provided 4,050 consultations, 100 natural birth deliveries, 40 C-sections, 280 major surgeries, and 66 war related trauma cases a month.
The hospital was built and donated by Dr. Hassan Al-Araj, a cardiologist, who was killed in a targeted attack of the Cave Hospital in Hama one year ago in April. Dr. Al-Araj wanted the specialty hospital to provide free medical care to the people in the area.
Dr. Ahmad Dbais, UOSSM Safety and Security Director and a close colleague of the late Dr. Al-Araj said: “Despite the countless attacks, Dr. Al- Araj was insistent that they continue operating the hospital because he wanted to serve the people who needed it most. Every time a window would break or the hospital would get damaged, he would personally make sure it was repaired. Dr. Al-Araj left his family in Turkey and insisted on physically being at the hospital to see his patients. He would always tell me this hospital must remain open to serve the people, it was the only one, and he was the only cardiologist in the area. The hospital was attacked more than most facilities in Syria. He was constantly working to fortify the hospital; with dirt, with concrete, and any way he could to keep the staff and patients safe. Dr. Al-Araj was a true hero who gave his life to serve others.”
Dr. Dbais added, “We wanted to keep this hospital running to fulfill the legacy of Dr. Al-Araj. He made a deep impact on anyone who knew him and worked with him. It is such a tragedy to see his hospital destroyed, but we will continue to fulfill the legacy of this hero. Doctors and staff will continue their work and new hospitals will be built.”
Attacks on medical facilities continue in all areas of Syria. Today, May 1, at 11 a.m. Damascus time, the Arbeen Surgical Hospital in eastern Ghouta was attacked and put out of service after the four-story building next to the hospital collapsed on the facility. Three civilians were killed (two children and a woman) and tens of civilians were wounded. The hospital provided an average of 1,400 consultations and 125 major surgeries a month.
On April 29 at 12:30 p.m. Damascus time, the Kafr Zeta Civil Defense Center (White Helmets) was attacked killing eight staff. The facility was put out of service.
On Friday, April 28, at 1 a.m. Damascus time the Nuaymah Hospital in Daraa was attacked and put out of service.
A picture of Dr. Dbais (left) with the late Dr. Al-Araj, (right) in front of emergency entrance to the hospital, which he covered with dirt to fortify the building. The emergency entrance to the hospital after it was completely destroyed.