Over the last five years I have kept circling back to something the neoliberal pundit Mickey Kaus observed during the 2016 GOP primary. He said they could easily have co-opted much of the Trump vote if the candidates had moved just a little bit in his direction on immigration and trade. Instead, their reaction to his rather mild observations and proposals was to race in the other direction. It made the gap between Trump and the rest of the field much more obvious to the voters.
The question he had then, one that still resonates today, is why did they do the exact opposite of what politics demands? The spergs come in at this point and provide charts and graphs on the cheap labor lobbies or how immigrants are turning states like Texas into California. There’s that old right-wing need to believe that all people are rational, so there must be a practical explanation for all behavior. In the case of the 2016 primary, it means the donors made the candidates go the wrong way.
That’s just wishful thinking. A defect of the conventional Right is that is deeply believes they will one day find the combination of words that unlocks the secret of the Progressive mind, making it amenable to reason. One day, some bright conservative will say something so profound that the Left will stop, throw down their weapons and twirl their mustaches in astonishment. Then they will embrace their conservative brothers in a fellowship of reason and republican virtue.
The current year should put that to rest. Look around and it is hard to find any evidence of rational self-interest at work. We have a legitimate drug crisis in America and the people in charge refuse to even discuss it. It’s not because they have good reason to ignore it or they are afraid to address it. Trump mentioned the subject and they began to hiss like demons being shown a crucifix. It was if he violated some sacred taboo by pointing out the very obvious problems we have with drugs.
It is not just the drug issue, which certainly has some uncomfortable facets to it for a society steeped in multicultural oogily-boogily. Free speech used to be one issue that all sides of the political debate would defend unconditionally. Even those who thought adult material should be restricted to adults opposed bans on speech. Today, it is hard to find anyone in any corner of the political debate defending speech. The free-speech champions are the people called Nazis by the beautiful people.
You can go around the wheel of practical politics and issue after issue reveals that our ruling class and a big chunk the public has gone insane. The Biden scandal is a great example of the lunacy. Major news outlets are now weaving conspiracy theories in which Russians are behind this laptop. Within living memory the defense would have been, “What can you do? His kid turned out to be a loser.” Today, the defense is a bizarre conspiracy that reads like a movie script.
It is possible that this is just what societal breakdown looks like from the inside when you are experiencing in real-time. Maybe Russians looked around at each other at the end, wondering if their rulers had lost their minds. Maybe French peasants begin to wonder if their lord was possessed by the devil. No one records the thoughts and ruminations of the Dirt People. History is the story of Cloud People. This could just be what it is like to be a peasant at the end of days.
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- 00:00: Opening
- 02:00: What About The Opioid Crisis?
- 17:00: Why Do We Need Immigrants?
- 32:00: What’s Wrong With The Left
- 47:00: What In The Hell Happened?
- 57:00: Closing (Link)
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Saw the cover page of today’s NY Daily News and it’s accusing Mayor Giuliani of being Putin’s puppet. Literally.
Would the situation be worse if the headline was correct?
One of the other commentators said best the other day when he said that there are no real surprises here. All this hoopla does is confirm what we already know. But, we have to be careful and go through the motions and do our due diligence. It is entirely possible to fake something like this, given enough money, time and talent. We need to go over it with a fine tooth comb too. And – once we’ve done so, we can at least say, “There you go, Leftie. We gave you the benefit of a doubt that you would never… Read more »
Biden will not be locked up as any number of the cloud people are never locked up—professional courtesy.
Agree, they will have to be destroyed the old fashioned way.
I’m eagerly awaiting the Daily News pix of Bat Boy.
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“We have a legitimate drug crisis in America and the people in charge refuse to even discuss it.” This reminds me of my brother, back when he worked for me. I’d tell him about a problem with his work and his response was either excuses or denial. Not once did he acknowledge that there was a problem and that he would take responsibility for fixing it. It later occurred to me that the reason he never offered to fix his mistakes is because he didn’t know how, and he was deeply embarrassed by his inabilities. I suspect the same dynamic… Read more »
Part of the lack of ability to focus on solving problems is diversity. We have many different national and tribal peoples living inside what used to be our country. Different peoples have different preferences for how to socially, economically, and politically organize themselves and these preferences are deeply rooted in biology. Not only is there no consensus among our multicultural post-WASP elites on how to solve problems, there is no consensus on what constitutes a problem. Our biggest drug problem is opiate use among the (pre-Trump ignored) working class whites who were the first victims of globalism. Only a thin… Read more »
They’ll pay the price for their hatred of and neglect towards American Whites when China blows past the United States and establishes an enduring, unbeatable empire. For fun, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation last night trying to answer the following question, “is it possible to immigrate enough people to the United States to compete cognitively with a future developed China?” TL;DR: Nope. Here’s my rough draft answer. Keep in might that it’s only a broad answer. Unless I made a mistake in the math, this is a scary result —> China Population: 1.1 billion Han Chinese (no effort made to… Read more »
To be honest, I’m not all that convinced China is as solid as people believe. There has yet to be an East Asian country that didn’t nearly suffer economic collapse when all the skeletons finally started bursting out. The Chinese outright lie, cheat, steal, and occasionally murder to get ahead. Given history, there is no reason to believe the country’s projected image of immense stability.
I’m also bearish on China. There are a lot of hidden problems in her economy. She also has a demographic problem. For a society built on the assumption of unlimited young people, getting old is a big problem.
China’s economic and technological advancement since the 1990s has been beyond anything the world has ever seen previously, even during the Industrial Revolution. They already have the world’s most sophisticated telecommunications company, Huawei. They went from less than 1% of global smart phone sales to being on the cusp of overtaking both Apple and Samsung before Trump banned chip export to them; Apple struggled to get a non-Chinese 5G chip into their last phone. I could cite many other examples, such as China having most of the world’s best high-speed rail tech. Categorizing workers as either high- or low-skill has… Read more »
I have the same reservations regarding the Chinese, particularly militarily. Someone mentioned on here the other day Chinese military strength, causing me to look at their Aircraft carrier fleet… The fleet appeared to consist of one old Russian carrier whose journey over to China in the first place was haphazard and hamstrung. It was then refitted. They appear to have built a carrier themselves after extensive research of existing ones to compete with the west. Meanwhile, even the crummy former empire of the UK has The Queen Elizabeth class carriers and the States I believe has a program for Gerald… Read more »
Street crime is non-existent in Chinese neighborhoods, but they are very corrupt.
https://www.amren.com/news/2013/06/riot-after-chinese-teachers-try-to-stop-pupils-cheating/
to be fair to him, he did not compare usa to china, probably most would agree usa is in a very low point right now
i’m curious why anyone would prefer apple over huawei at this point?
China’s demographic problem likely isn’t as severe as America’s. First, the available talent pool in China greatly exceeds the entire talent pool of much of the rest of the world combined. Second, despite the popular misconception, China’s mean age is actually younger than America’s currently. Meanwhile, America’s valuable White demographic is aging rapidly, even shrinking in some states while its White TFR is converging to European levels. As was pointed out above, the quality of Hispanic immigrants is very low, so having young brown people come in from Central and South America won’t allow the United States to compete globally… Read more »
When America transfers its capital, manufacturing capacity, and IP to China, when America trains a generation of Chinese scientists and engineers… I guess you could call that advancement. Either that or affirmative action.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame China for taking that deal, and I know the Chinese are capable people, but I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s been a long time since the invention of gunpowder and fireworks.
China and Russia are well ahead of the US in key areas like integrated air defense and hypersonic missiles.
The Chinese also like to spit in elevators
causing me to look at their Aircraft carrier fleet That’s a pretty poor way to look at things. China has just started to field aircraft carries, and it’s not clear if those ships won’t be obsolete by the time the next war gets here. Further, they are building them at a rate to match the United States sometime before 2045. Technologically, China is rapidly closing the gap, as US defense analysts have already admitted. China has a deep ability to manufacture ships, an enormous number of sophisticated missiles, and a huge airforce that’s rapidly closing the gap with their American… Read more »
Carriers are overrated.
Fleet air defenses are easily overwhelmed by drone or missile swarms.
China and Russia both have extremely quiet subs that can penetrate the fleet ASW defenses and killshot a carrier.
If China or Russia have developed any sorts of underwater kamikaze drones, entire battlegroups would be at risk.
That’s the odd difference. The Asians stay in place, get crowded, and have a mass paroxysm of either plague or murder, as if Nature’s purge.
Whites leave. We spread all over the world to reach similar population numbers. That’s some pretty epic numbers right there, Toriador.
Which is stupid. How is that allowed to happen? Elon Musk has rockets that land themselves. Hypersonic missiles should be a cakewalk.
I groan whenever I hear “high speed rail.” Have you ever read an account of a “normal” railroad derailment? Are you aware that a rail bed is easily sabotaged? The New York subway provided a recent example. Now, just imagine that if a homeless lunatic can throw debris onto a track causing close to a million dollars in damage, what could a determined vandal do to a track that hosts a train going 200 or 300 MPH? There’s probably a name for these general vulnerabilities. There are many such examples of ideas that sound good in principle, but alas are… Read more »
Professionally, I’ve dealt with a team working on one of US’ projects.
They were nowhere close to the caliber of folks who designed the SR-71 or Saturn V.
Informative answer, thanks for that.
Do you suspect that, if India are also up and coming, then China’s dominance in that region, and the world, could be checked?
I recall reading a book called Prisoners of Geography, in which the author identified numerous future flashpoints between countries. And he had rather a lot to say about Chinese/Indian relations. Of course, you’ve then got Russia thrown into the mix – although I am not sure how much of a game changer that’ll be.
Demographics parts is what scares me. Japan has an dying population and is the go-to example, but that problem is at least approachable. But for the Chinese mainland population, a young minority of pissed off Han boggles my mind.
A lot of America’s problems are self-inflicted. It might have been possible to contain China effectively if we had started on this decades ago. I remember back in the 1990s globalists telling me how outsourcing to China was great and how even talking about Chinese competition was fear mongering: “they said the same thing about Japan and they were wrong.” What got me is how I could point out how China had many times the population of Japan but this never changed their minds. America’s ruling class is dangerously myopic. Sad. After the Cold War ended, we could have brain… Read more »
May I ask: Was diversity involved? Or were these chaps just not up to past standards regardless?
COIN. We wasted the 00s droning brown guys in bedsheets while our competition pooled all their resources into certain key technologies. Now, we have to race to keep up. We were so busy fighting the last war our leaders didn’t stop to consider the next one.This is a common theme across much of the military these days. Russia and China have also raced head with long range anti-ship missiles while we were building the trash LCS, which in its first iteration is basically unsurvivable in a modern naval clash.
High speed rail already works quite well in most of the advanced Asian countries like Japan and China, so I fail to see how anything you wrote matters. We are not talking a hypothetical technology, but one that already exists in Asia.
Example: “are you aware that a rail bed is easily sabotaged?”
So what? Are they? Very rarely. The same criticism could be made of American oil pipelines.
And, everyplace else. One memory that stuck with me from a visit was walking through the palace that is the Beijing airport and having Chinese gurgle their throat to spit an extra sticky one into the corner of a walkway. From what I’ve heard though it’s not nearly as bad as it once was, but still.
There is a triple whammy with the consequences of china’s one child policy besides frustrated men who can create an unstable society: 1. Now that Chinese are living longer a family may well end up supporting and taking care of 2 sets of parents and grandparents. In most families children are the retirement plan 2. Children often live a long way from their parents unless the parents live in major job centers. 3. Then of course there is the staggering percent of the population who will be out of the main workforce and both draining tax dollars and reducing taxes… Read more »
India can’t oppose China alone. The PLA, in terms of relative military strength, is about three times as powerful as India.To put that into perspective, that’s nearly the same gulf between India and Pakistan currently. China would probably now mop the floor with India in a conventional conflict. Although, not without significant casualties if India tries to counter in the one area they might be able to compete: ground forces. That would be a huge disaster on all sides. India might attempt an invasion of China thinking the Chinese don’t have enough stuff to shoot them with as long as… Read more »
They have rail, we have airplanes. That’s the comparison.
The Chinese have some pretty unsinkable carriers—known as islands—in the South China Sea. Aside from that, they don’t need them if they don’t intend to build and maintain empire across the world. That’s an American thing.
China also has very few few mounted archers. They are definitely in trouble in the next war.
I think COVID-19 has demonstrated just how easy it is to beach a US Carrier task force non-kinetically.
OrangeFrog-
There was a mixture of both your points topped off by a mechanical engineer leading a project that was largely electrical in nature.
The biggest issue is economics. There’s just very little market for high speed rail, because the population density just isn’t there to support it.
It’s good to remind oneself that China was supposed to collapse every year at least since the end of the 1990s.
These are third world problems. Is the US that bad already? In normal countries, these kind problems are extremely rare.
Yep, it looks dire. And the thing is it was according to plan from what I gather. Seems like somebody thought to use the spirit of the Marshall Plan to dominate the world, i.e., sacrificing American strength to create globalist economic zones.
Then again, I think if America’s nationalist turn goes permanent, and if we stop weighing ourselves down with diversity and social engineering, we could turn the tide sooner than anyone expects.
America has one “very stable genius ” and that is all we need.
You are overly generous with the iq levels of third world peoples. Africans average around 70. By White standards, that’s retarded. Many Indians in the US are medical professionals, but the average iq in India is 82. Perhaps they would score higher if they ate a steak occasionally.
Yes, that’s what makes it scary. I did that deliberately under the assumption that those scores were max values under perfect conditions. Even under the best of circumstances, the most optimistic, it’s not possible to do what guys like Matt Ysglesias imagine.
I actually managed to convince one Hindu gal to start enjoying beef.
The joke writes itself, no?
Very nicely done!
The high IQ caste in India, the Brahmin, are what many of us here encounter. They are somewhat less than 5% of the population. They have often been called the “Jews of India”. If not for them, India would be toward the bottom of the barrel technologically.
I’m pleased to report that she also enjoys nice, juicy hamburgers on occasion!
IQ is very important but when you’re talking about innovation it’s obviously not the deciding factor. If it was, Asia would’ve blown past the rest of the world and never looked back.
It takes imagination and freedom to make the most of intelligence, neither of which are fostered by rigidly bureaucratic and hierarchical societies.
Intelligence is composed of what I call the Four Cs of Intelligence: Creativity, Computation, Capacity and Curiosity. The extent to which all four of these characteristics manifest in IQ scores is somewhat unknown. Creativity, in particular, may or may not boost the score. Presumably though, those who are creative will have greater intelligence than those who are not, and this theoretically should be reflected in IQ scores.
The 85 IQ for Sub Saharan Africa is probably high. American blacks, most of whom have some European admixture, have an average IQ of 85. The average for SSA is closer to 70.
I thought the average IQ for Han Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese was 105.
Good post. To maintain an advanced society, you also need an average IQ above 90-95. If you factor in all of the low IQ illegal aliens, we are probably closer to 95 than 100. This will be another factor in the inevitable collapse of the US.
I stopped reading at “China Mean IQ 100”. There is no mainstream HBD researcher who has ever stated this number. Lowest I’ve seen is 105 for China as a whole. Also (minor quibble), 1B Chinese are basically peasants. Whether the genius IQ ability of a peasant is recognized and brought into use is not established in my mind—but I know zero about their educational process.
The other thing is what does their IQ get used for. Both Thomas Sowell and Steve Sailer have alluded to the fact that their IQ is higher since the facets of their society demand it. IOW, by the time they use their mental acuity to figure out their written language, the arcane rules for their daily societal interactions where everyone is trying to scam each other, etc. what’s left in the tank can barely be used to interpret the rules of professional basketball.
Nice post. I like to do these kind of analyses too. A couple thoughts(Forgive me if anyone beat me to the punch, I haven’t refreshed page in a while) : These are quantitative points, not qualitative. An admittedly cursory inspection shows similar disproportionate Chinese to European populations in past centuries, but recent history tells us who lead in productivity, creative genius and certain standards of social well being/civic culture, despite being vastly outnumbered. Which begets the next point… The difference between Asians/Chinese and White’s isn’t merely one of IQ, it’s styles of civilization that create different per capita creative genius… Read more »
That’s the thing – the victims are white, so the elites ignore it, or even endorse it. Essentially opioids are a quiet and peaceful way for “obsolete” (from an elite perspective) whites to kill themselves and not cause too many problems. We also have alot of class stratification. I’m upper middle class; I literally do not know one person with an opioid addiction. My peers got hooked on coke or booze in college, then sobered up and joined their dad’s firm. Even for a sympathetic person like me, there’s nothing I can do because i just don’t come into contact… Read more »
The inhumane part- well, everything progressives achieve is inhumane, but- the inhumane part is that legitimate chronic pain sufferers are the ones being punished.
The deaths are from illegal production.
Even having met or known a lot of junkies, still, their network is a deep dive. How the heck these people connect is a mystery, even to me.
The sad truth is that it is very difficult to quit an opioid habit. It may seem unfair to those unfamiliar with hard drug addiction, but it is for good reason that serious drug habits are grounds for losing security clearances, jobs, trust, etc. This is especially difficult counsel when the addict is friend or family: there is very little you can do to help the addict. While he’s active, at best you are going to protect your property from being stolen or the smaller chance of assault, at worst you will be enabling his self-destructive behavior if you provide… Read more »
Ben, harsh, but more correct than wrong.
Most sad thing is that all over they country, and here in my State as well, we are joining the chorus of liberalizing drug laws. More low IQ people move in, more drug use exasperates the problem, and the downward spiral continues.
Our leaders embarrassed by something? They have no shame and hate us. They probably hope the opioid crisis takes us all out.
No, they don’t. Political power is defined largely by the quantity and quality of people you can reasonably expect to follow your orders. Killing your subordinates weakens, not strengthens you. Inspiring disloyalty is also a problem, in that you put yourself in a position to be completely without followers. This may come as a shock to you, but you are not important to anyone, which means our political leaders aren’t out to get you, and don’t wish the opioid crisis on anyone. Analyzing political leaders is really easy if you remember two things: 1) you are not the center of… Read more »
>>This reminds me of my brother, back when he worked for me.<<
This brother, was he an older brother by any chance?
Vox Day, for all his issues, has helpfully pointed out that Progs are never affected by dialectic, only rhetoric.
I went to his site yesterday for the first time in ages to see if he was still pushing #Trumpslide.
Answer was yes.
And he still calls Trump “the God-Emperor.”
Ugh. How embarrassing.
Pretty sure that the US special forces are in Chad supporting the French-led Operation Barkhane.
I think the US is also providing transport and signals intelligence to support that operation as well.
ttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barkhane
Gotta love those pictures, it’s like some real-live, deadly video game where two teams are fighting over some desolate Martian crater.
TWGH, It would only surprise me if they weren’t. https://tinyurl.com/uzzp5zc https://tinyurl.com/yybvm2cp Does the media ever report on this? Does congress ever vote on it? Or does this whole system run on autopilot now?
Drugs: why are these questions not being asked? Because the deep state is part of the trade, duh! The spice must flow! Just like controlling our borders, there is no will to do it.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/rumors-persist-that-the-cia-helps-export-opium-from-afghanistan/209687/
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/31/u-s-embassy-opium-rich-afghanistan-fires-6-allegedly-using-dealing-drugs/
cia agents getting rich from drug trade
Began in ‘Nam. Air America and all that. Continued in Columbia. Mena, Arkansas, guns for drugs. Now in Afghanistan. Nice work. Nice profits.
“In August 1996, when the San Jose Mercury News published an in-depth series about the CIA-contra crack shipments that were flooding East Los Angeles, the major media held true to form and suppressed the story. But after the series was circulated around the world on the Web, the story became too difficult to ignore, and the media began its assault. Articles in the Washington Post and The New York Times and reports on network television and PBS announced that there was “no evidence” of CIA involvement, that the Mercury News series was “bad journalism,” and that the public’s interest in… Read more »
‘Spengler’ (David Goldman) had a classic piece in Asia Times about how the ‘spice’ trade fueled some 400 years of naval exploration and commercial wars between the empires.
The CIA and MI6 are East India Companies. Same owners, same trades- ‘spices’, weapons, and human trafficking (slaves). An old, established merchant tradition.
Edit: Dang, forgot the oil. A whole ‘nuther kind of spice. It must flow!
No mention of the Dutch,french ,Venetians,Portuguese,Spanish etc.
Are you some sort of continental European?
Blame Les Anglo-Saxons.
The smart/not-insane response by the Biden people would have been to keep going with the “Hunter, like many Americans, is struggling with addiction issues.” It’s the politer variant of “My kid’s a screwup.” That would not only have not hurt Biden but maybe helped him. Blacks who remember the crack wave of the 80s would have sympathized, as would have Boomers who gave their kids their hedonistic hippie outlook without the affluence to go with it (Taking LSD in an alpine retreat on doctoral sabbatical’s a bit different than dropping it while living with your mom in a shabby apartment… Read more »
I think that would have worked to a point. Carter pretty much got a bye on Billy, who was acknowledged to be an alcoholic. Problem with Hunter is it’s increasingly clear that Sr. needed him as the family bag man to keep the cash flowing in and actively enabled the behavior. Carter let Billy have a beer brand and promote Subaru vehicles…but he didn’t let him run his own foreign policy.
A Biden win also means nobody goes to jail. As long as der Trumpenfuhrer reigns, there’s still a chance.
Hunter was the family bagman but I’ve begun to wonder if he was being directed towards the opportunities. People have tried to give Biden Sr. A pass on Hunters corruption, but what if the dad was pointing the kid in the direction of where to get the money?
Rumor has it Hunter’s got bigger problems than drug use…
It seams to me that some combination of environmental factors are causing insanity on a massive scale.
Plastics? Hormonal birth control? Pharmaceuticals? Social Media? Perhaps a combination of all and more.
There’s definitely something beyond ideology happening here.
Don’t forget the now omnipresent electromagnetic radiation from cellphone towers, Wi-Fi routers, and all the devices attached to them.
None of that existed prior to the mid-to-late 80s.
Now, even people in small cities and towns are continuously awash in high frequency electromagnetic radiation.
Oh man. Good catch.
No doubt that environmental factors influence mental health and cognition. But don’t discount the massive influence of ideology. I used to wonder why my math students were so dense, with the attention span of a fruit fly. Then, open-house – i.e. I got to meet the parents. To categorize their ideology, I would have to call it the “doctrine of amusement.” If they didn’t have to think – it was good; if they had to apply cognitive powers – it was troubling. The ideology of ease & comfort is so pervasive and ubiquitous across social classes and geography that it… Read more »
Yeah Capt, this is what I see as well. “I learned it by watching you, mom”. Facebook wine moms on fones with instawhore daughters on xanny in tow. Gelded dads on sportsball and booze with basement boys on warcraft and pot. The combo I see is this: the almost complete decoupling of biology from truth followed by the propagation of avoidance of discomfort at all costs. The first ensures that the negative feedback loops that reinforce biological reality are buffered and redirected into pozzitive feedback loops. The second ensures that the natural signaling of the dangers of those pozz loops… Read more »
Something like 1/4 to 1/3 of our population is on some sort of mind-altering drug prescription. Zoloft alone (a dangerous drug treating dangerous behaviors) is prescribed to 37 million people, and it is just one of many. Chicken and egg as to the needs and the prescriptions, but here we are. Is it any surprise that our culture appears largely immune to rational thinking and reasonable behavior?
Chicken and egg indeed, I have a friend who has to keep their border collie on metal meds because they don’t have a pasture for him to run around in, i.e., he is in an unnatural state and is ill-equipped to mentally deal with, what is basically, torture.
It’s not an ideology, it’s a disability.
I have a severe allergy to work.
(That, or a phobia.)
You’re on to something. I’m pretty sure if I was born a generation or so later, I’d be living in a trailer park somewhere. Even at my age, I suffer from much of the “social media disease” you elaborate upon.
“No” to both Dino above and Wild in this thread. Every advanced civilization since the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens has catastrophically collapsed. Every. Single. One. There’s no reason to suspect that the process we’re experiencing now is the result of something-new-under-the-sun. There appears to be some kind of fundamental defect in the species. More’s the pity.
All of ’em. We’re fouling the nest.
Overpopulation does that.
The two most obvious causes of the current insanity are industrial production and democracy. With the former, you have a lot of people who can eat and receive medical care while remaining completely ignorant of the factors that make such a thing possible. With the latter, you get a bunch of people who believe their thoughts and opinions are useful and important, and thus become quite narcissistic. Thus, we have a society that is literally hell-bent on indulging every person’s tendencies towards ignorance and self-importance, which a recipe for social insanity and the collapse of public trust.
One explanation I’ve settled on to explain to others goes thus: Historically, societal consensus has occurred where the competing spheres of government, economy and religion/moral systems intersect. Think a Venn chart. Each might have more or less sway at a particular moment, but there is some degree of long term equilibrium and balance as each system competes and checks the others. Leftism is a closed system that combines all three in one package. So you end up with feedback loops that amplify each other. Thus, as Z has pointed out, it has no limiting factor built in and you see… Read more »
Laptop and no encryption. Tisk-tisk.
I’ll admit I haven’t read the articles, but they’re all lies anyway 🙂 Actually that is what I’m commenting upon: the laptop just seems to pop up at a convenient time. We learn that the FBI got a copy of the files back in December. So how long has somebody been sitting on this data? Not saying the laptop and its incriminating data isn’t authentic. But things like this can be faked. More relevant, though: I haven’t seen any claims (yet) the data have been faked.
It’s called the “October surprise” and it’s not just a Democrat thing. I used to get upset at this tactic, now I am happy “we” are using it.
(I apologize for the term “we”. Just can’t think of a better phrasing at the moment. DR folk here are anything but to be described as Rep’s or Dem’s.)
Z, Is there a way to listen to a replay of your Killstream appearance? On DLive, it just says it is offline.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/killstream/id1128890743
There’s a link in yesterday’s comments.
who asked for immigration?
putin of course
“The Biden scandal is a great example of the lunacy.” Politicians wallowing in corruption is the norm. The lunacy is that a dementia sufferer is considered by a large part of the population as a legitimate choice to become the titular ruler of the most important country on earth. The Preatorian Guards’ selection of Caligula and Caracalla as emperors couldn’t be any more ridiculous than the US elites’ choice of Biden as interim head of state. When Rome finally became irrelevant western civilization hibernated within the other major institution, the Catholic church. As the US culture, based on the phony… Read more »
South Asian tech CEOs paid the DNC-CCP-media a lot of money to install Harris in the WH.
That’s 1*10^-8 % of the population.
If the rest of the populace allows this installation, we didn’t deserve to keep the country.
Grill n’ chill, it’ll come back, it always does…
You raise an excellent point tha tis commonly neglected except for the small hats element. Namely, the effects of overwhelming foreign influence in the matters of America. I interact frequently with European executives. To a one they express belief that America is too important to be left to the governance of the American people. It’s no wonder they literally buy our politicians and prearrange our executive suites and second-career defense industry leadership through stock and other fundings. America ain’t been American at the top for decades.
I’ve thought the river of foreign money flowing into DC via K-street lobbyists is one of America’s most critical problems for quite a while.
It’s sickening to realize that almost all foreign governments have more, ‘representation,’ in DC than Joe and Jane Average.
At least the K-street lobbyists have to register as agents of foreign interests.
But that’s an effort you’re helping to correct Z-man. Thanks for the daily posts, and keep compiling that book!
Half a dozen explanations from other commenters and many of them are still, in some way, doing what Z is talking about above. They are going into paragraph long ‘deep-thinker’ explanations attempting to unravel the Gordian Knot of the Insanity of the Masses. Let’s review- “Can’t take responsibility”, “Environmental Factors”, “Deep State”, “Big Pharma”, “Only Rhetoric”, etc. So still lots of complex theorizing and hand-wringing. There may even be some truth to some of it but it is only tangentially relevant. Allow me to play Alexander in front of this Gordian Knot that people are, once again, attempting to think… Read more »
Apex:
All true, but you might want to add another item to your list. It is something that Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey recently noted about 2nd generation Asians. Their parents were against affirmative action but their children support it, even though it may superficially work against them. The crux of the matter is that supporting BLM and the like helps one enter upper class society. Wokeness is the new luxury good, just like fancy cars and exotic vacations were. Being Woke shows that one is hip and “with it”. I hate to say it, but upper-class white people may be the big problem here.
I see what you’re saying.
However, I find it impressive that white people are still standing after such historic brainwashing measures. No other people would last this long. South Korea has succumbed to Globohomo in 10 years.
The death cult is real, though. Many white people want to die, and bring everyone else down with them. A common theme for leftists is hatred of themselves, and by extension a hatred of white people and our societies.
If we crack open metaphysical possibilities it’s worth considering that mankind simply falls far short of Divine perfection. Not trying to proselytize but it seems Calvin sliced through this Gordian knot a few centuries back. Humans are selfish, lazy, and prideful. (Don’t agree? Have children.)
Usually most of these conversations get back to one’s metaphysical view of man – is he inherently good and perfectible or inherently flawed? The Gordian knot is secure until that question is addressed.
I think Zman sometimes forgets that normies don’t know even a 10th of what he knows about what’s going on, so they can’t ask those questions. They get their info from FB, Twitter and the MSM, and all those topics are verboten.
The story isn’t that Biden (or say, McConnell, as the case may be) is corrupt, even the normies know that, but those normies could never guess just how insanely corrupt all of Washington is if the MSM says Putin is the source of all evil and its just his agents in Washington that are the problem.
The AWR hatred of Russia is fascinating. Prior to the collapse of the USSR, Leftists were, at most, ambivalent about Russia, and many not so secretly cheered for it. (I knew an AWR who cheered for the USSR in the Olympics in ’84, especially when it competed against the US.) After the Soviet Union imploded, Leftists basically ignored Russia until Putin took over, at which point it became the global archvillain. It has gotten so bad that Russian historians in the West now deny that Russia suffered under a “Tatar Yoke.” When I completed grad school in 2005, nobody in… Read more »
Progressivism is a fundamentalist religion.
That’s why I’m wondering if the original videos from Wuhan- people tottering, then dropping dead in the street, surrounded by corpses like a scene from “The Stand”- wasn’t a big holocaust production, the entry ticket into the Great Reset club.
Climate change theology just didn’t grab ’em by the nads. NY, LA, and Honolulu were supposed to be gone by… 2002… so no immanentization.
We’re getting skewed messages from above because an entirely different ecology and economy is at work above borders. Modernity, fueled mechanization, is moving a little bit too fast, confusing the monkeys.
>>That’s why I’m wondering if the original videos from Wuhan- people tottering, then dropping dead in the street, surrounded by corpses like a scene from “The Stand”- wasn’t a big holocaust production, the entry ticket into the Great Reset club.<<
I’m of the opinion that it was a Chinese PsyOp; propaganda designed to create a Western overreaction.
If so, it’s the single most successful piece of psychological warfare in human history.
I’m of the opinion that it was a Chinese PsyOp; propaganda designed to create a Western overreaction. so you think gates, obama and fauci are chinese agents?(they are in wuhan here) But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year… Read more »
“Willful dupe” is not the same as “actively working for.”
The whole history of the American Left during the Cold War is a great example.
so fauci and gates fearing for our well being closed the businesses because commies tricked them?
basically the commies devised a plan that took into consideration the love and care the western elites had for their own people, chinese generals visualized fauci not sleeping at night thinking how he can remedy the health crisis, they planned ahead knowing usa will cripple its own economy.
Makes perfect sense, such evil masterminds they are.
They may not be Chinese spies, but I bet they stand to make millions, possibly billions on vaccine patents and pharmaceutical equity investments they hold.
did you know there was an article in a kennedy magazine(1997) claiming there will be a problematic airborne virus in 2020 affecting mostly old people. Gates gave an interview in that issue as well, coincidentally.
Apparently those writers were able to decipher the communist intention of the future chinese elites.
The pre-pandemic funding and collaborations are not secret at all. What’s more interesting is to speculate whether and to what degree these people are aligned with the Chinese or with various “plots” or organizations with one goal or another. I still hold to the opinion that the virus accidentally got out of a lab, probably WIV. Of course, more nefarious conjectures are also possible.
The other party is clearly not arguing in good faith and I’d suggest ignoring him
Totally agree.
It was a very low-risk, high-potential reward op.
If it didn’t work, just play it off as an overreaction, sweep it under the rug, wait a few years for people to forget, then try again.
It did work, spectacularly, so here we are.
Also note life in Wuhan has been back to normal for months.
Interesting Western media does not report that fact at all.
I guess the underlying idea is that big religions are based on a framework of political fraud.
The old polytheists must’ve looked at the monotheist supremacists and said, “who da f*** you think you are?!!”
Well, heck, anybody would say that to any invading army. The invaders, without doubt, would have whatever vindication at hand.
I believe many of those are fakes.
To me, the dead giveaway are the drop-dead videos where the hazmat suit guys immediately appear.
If the person who dropped dead simply had minor cold symptoms, how did hazmat suits know they should have been near that person at that precise moment?
Even better are the ones where they are equipped with stretchers and ambulances.
The Bat-Eaters knew Western Karens would buy it, and that’s what matters
The thing about Kaus’ observation on 2016 politics is that he was at least one, probably three election cycles out of date. Had someone risen to challenge McCain in 2008, or Bush II four years prior, they would, and in fact were, easily co-opted by the GOP power center. That’s precisely what happened to the Tea Party. But Trump had a base because those who formed it understood that that particular ship had long sailed. The GOP had lied and would continue to lie on immigration, and because Trump was utterly unique in his utterances on that topic that year,… Read more »
I will listen to the podcast over lunch, but, wow, very thought-provoking introduction. I never considered the role hubris played in the Buckleyites’ belief they could change left-wing minds. You made particularly good observations about mass migration and drug abuse.
So ‘grats. Very seldom do I read pieces that change how I think about an issue. This one did on several points. Look forward to the podcast.
Joe Biden’s Greatest Hits! Order while supplies last
https://twitter.com/realPowerTie/status/1313983383198863360
Re: Your question if there is anyone in the media who has figured out it might not be advisable to endlessly court the hatred, rage, and distrust of the public: there is an interesting interview making the rounds in mainstream conservative circles wherein Wolf Blitzer is interviewing Pelosi that’s worth a look. Pelosi is wide-eyed and out of her mind, looking like Mommy Dearest when she had her breakdown about wire hangers, and though Blitzer keeps a poker face, you can tell it’s dawning on him that these people he’s been running interference for are basically psychotic, stupid, and corrupt… Read more »
That was an eye-opener. She went berserk rather than answering softball questions from an ally.
Yes as for vestigial humanity in Wolf Blitzer, no as to Chris Matthews; he’s just too much of an asshole. Always has been.
He is an asshole but self-aware enough to recognize that he used to be a normal working-class, Irish-Catholic kid from Holy Cross, middle-of-the road JFK worshiping moderate Democrat. He must look around once in a while and wonder what the hell happened.
What happened is that he sold his soul for fame and lots of money.
Some are corrupt, some are true believes.
Anglo-Saxon / heritage Americans are just corrupt and self serving. Jewish, Indian and other anchors actually hate us.
I tell people, “If you had lost as much money over the course of your career to the H1B program as I have, you’d be hunting Indians with dogs.”
I’ve noticed the vast majority of normies simply seem to perceive Indians who speak fluent English and have decent hygiene as fellow whites who happen to be brown.
Well, if they have high IQ’s and have assimilated, is that so bad? There are many good Jews, and despite them being semitic people, many (including Jared Taylor) see them as “white”.
Jared Taylor also says that they’re not *us*.
True Sandmich, but they’re also not consumed with burning hatred toward whites, combined with ever-expanding demands for entitlements, “reparations” and free shit in general. Nor do they commit crime out of all proportion to their percentage in the population. Nor are they aggressive. They work. They learn. They self-support. They maintain familial structures. They are not us. But they’re not consumed with hatred toward us either.
Jared Taylor like Rush Limbaugh is very intelligent and has devoted his life to making sense of American society and decline — yet neither can see how the JJJs factor into it?
I find a hard to believe tbh
You can’t be that intelligent and not connect the dots
Thete is a certain energy and understanding between south asian and European people. Maybe our common Aryan ancestors.
I generally have had good relations with Indians. In fact I have no problem with them on the individual level.
On the societal level though they will destroy us.
Confucius say man who can’t clean Slurpee machine can’t run a society
Immigration – Who asked for it. Perhaps the very definition of a rhetorical question FFS. Better phrased who demanded and orchestrated the invasion of ALL white countries.
I could litter the comments with a dozen clips of various chosenites telling us why white nations cannot remain white. While there are certainly many traitors among our own people (cheap labor exploiters), this video exemplifies the primary drivers of importing low IQ, violent, culturally hostile third world garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2oKhAb1BxI.
Politicians and the two parties are completely controlled by these parasites.
that’s a low iq nazi conspiracy theory, the truth is obvious, white people begged non-whites to come cause young whites are too lazy
Not completely true, only partial. Lazy in the sense that young Whites want it all now without the work involved to obtain the mastery of study to enable the high wages they require. Hence we saw a dearth of STEM majors and a great influx of business majors. However, businesses, particularly high tech, were happy to hire on Asians for 1/3 the wages needed to hire an American technician. Hell, at that rate they could hire two and come out ahead (as they saw it). And finally, all this could not be accomplished without the connivance of the Federal government… Read more »
Lazy or just realizing that working 24/7 is not how life is supposed to be despite the country pushing that idea on us and demonizing us if we disagree
Work is only meant to be a facet of life. The country wants it to be everything, and if we dare challenge them they simply replace you
We are treated worse than zoo animals. Think about it. If a zookeeper treated animals like the government treats us he’d be in jail.
i was just being sarcastic
The answers to these questions are basically NRx 101. Briefly stated, the loons are in charge of the asylum. Their ‘purity spiral’ covers most of it. Jews figure prominently. At first I wanted to take exception to our esteemed blog host; in my days of dwelling within The Hive, asking Normie and Leftie these questions invariably produced anger and cognitive dissonance. Scoff as you will: I personally see a slow tectonic shift in public perception and awareness. I remember when you didn’t talk about this stuff unless you wanted a fight. My family fell apart 6 or 7 years ago… Read more »
I’ve never heard a coherent argument for why it helps matters to burden a drug addict with not only a horrible addiction, which he already has, but also with the risk of multiple years in prison. Simiarly, you never hear discussed how draconian drug laws impede the legal users of these drugs. I hope you never have need of a powerful opioid. The drugs are so demonized that many doctors will rightly be leery of prescibing them, even if their use were clinically indicated. It’s not only “addicts” at risk of civil and criminal penalties. I hope you never have… Read more »
There is a lot going on and I’m not the one to unpack it all. There is a big pharma side of it – they gladly push narcotic pain killers and mood-altering happy pills – which often become addictive and are a gateway to heroin. Most the state mental hospitals have been closed, so crazy people are on the street or at home medicating themselves. And now rehab and drug testing labs have become yet another industry that profits off of the “opioid crisis”. Bottom line – lots of people make money on it and don’t really want it to… Read more »
My brother in law had an addiction problem. There is an entire cottage industry built around it. And these recovery centers are tied in with the government so it means guaranteed money for them when the court forces you to go. And they don’t cure the person, and they know their practices can’t cure the person, but if you listen to the government and the media, the rehab center is like magic and the answer to all that ails
Portugal wound up legalizing everything and emphasizing education and rehab.
It’s worked out pretty well for them. I think removing the taboo aspect shuts down a lot of interest in and demand for the harder drugs.
I don’t think you could mimic that in the US because Portugal is a geographically tiny country with a small, fairly homogeneous population.
I would look closer to home
In Los Angeles, drugs are all pretty much legal. Cocaine is just a misdemeanor. I think heroin is too (in small amounts).Pot is totally legal.
And I can tell you, I am not seeing my life improve. There are drug addicts everywhere like zombies. It was better before when there were tough restrictions. What apparently works in Portugal does not work here.
The problem may be (IMO, but from some readings) that perhaps the addict has fundamentally damaged his brain via the prolonged use of some or our serious, new, and heavy duty drugs. This damage is irreparable. Therefore, we are faced with some terrible options. One of course, is to leave the addict roam the streets, stealing, robbing, or in the case of many—degrading oneself sexually and morally. Or two, imprisonment (confinement) in an institution for longer and longer periods of time until the problem “sorts itself out”. Due to our own morale debasement, we as a society basically choose the… Read more »
Perhaps part of the answer is what seems to be a shift away from preserving your national heritage. By that I mean we used to plant trees so our grandchildren would have shade. Today’s generation plants trees to virtue signal how much they care about the earth mother. Generations in the not so distance past accepted that life was both hard and difficult. Their sacrifices, doing without and only spending what they earned, were to ensure a future that would be better, safer, and hopefully more comfortable for their children. American politics might have been about what was best for… Read more »
Voting for the “cool” candidate started with Clinton and his saxophone. That family has been a scourge in this country more ways that can be calculated. Kind of like the body count that mysteriously follows in their wake.
Probably why the government keeps pushing “mobility” as some civic virtue. And they make it almost impossible for someone to stay in the same town or place for more than a generation. They will flip the city over with immigrants just when you are starting to get comfortable — or something with similar effect — to make you so uncomfortable you have to leave. I also think Social Security has been a major factor in fraying the social fabric. Grandma gets sent off, SS will pay for it, she doesn’t need her children. She’s the government’s problem now. Families break… Read more »
Here’s a thought, would China as it is today, exist at all if America had not been available to steal ideas from or to be competed with as a source of shaming China for being so backward?
If not for the U.S., I assume China would still be a Japanese colony.
Precisely. The Japanese army had more than a million soldiers on the ground in China when the war ended – they couldn’t bring them home by ship to defend the place because we’d sunk everything that floated. China was firmly in their grasp, even at the end.
It’s the “Needham Question” https://tinyurl.com/y5o65oz7.
That’s exactly how I feel…liker a peasant in the end of days.
“There’s that old right-wing need to believe that all people are rational, so there must be a practical explanation for all behavior.” Yes; there is no rational explanation. Libertarians take this foolish false assumption and put it on steroids. Still foolish. Still false. Something else is at work. My guess: There’s a defect in human beings at the biological level. Everything else defaults to biology, right? Why not this type of punctuated, wheel-like, ever-repeating historical insanity?
Good news – the internet may have changed that. Bad news – have you seen the thoughts of some of the Dirt People?
Why is Fentanyl production not on the table in China? Fair question, OK, but why are the makers of Oxycontin and Roxycontin not sitting in prison? If Mexicans and Afghanis should be on the table, why not Americans? There is a huge section of my city where heroin and Fentanyl are easier to get than a soda. They give out free samples of the crap! There are El stops you can go to where the steps and the streets around the steps are loaded with empty wax paper baggies about a 1/2 square. I know 3 guys that didn’t see… Read more »
That’s of course tragic. But there is another side as has been mentioned, legitimate use restriction culminating in pain, suffering, and disability. Here’s my anecdote: Years ago, I used to shoot at the range with a fellow with degenerative back disease. Could not walk without a cane, and without OxyContin, could not walk at all—nor sit, nor lie down, nor do anything but writher in agony (this I was told, but observed most of the rest myself). At any particular shooting session, he was pretty sharp and articulate as near as I could observe, but boy he was chewing those… Read more »
When our media elites set up a question from a woman last night on ABC to a man running for President, Mr Joe Biden and the woman asks him about eight year old rights to be a transgender and the candidate for the Presidency supports the eight year old and his transgender transition.
We have lost it. Western Civilization in the United States, its gone.
Only a matter of either floating bodies down the Potomac to change this or waiting for an internal collapse.
It probably won’t be long wait. Look at ammo supply and prices to see that many other people agree.
I’m actually now finding the exact ammo in large quantities (thousands) that I seek. Northwestern Indiana. It’s rather nice spending time there, too.
The rounds I’ve sought are soft-nosed rifle and “law enforcement-tactical” pistol ones, e.g., 147 +p Federal HST blah blah, are now abundant apparently.
Plenty of AR-pattern rifle kits available. Get outside the metro areas and I believe you can find your product. Good luck.
edited to add: prices in N’west Indiana, pre-tax and post-tax, are back to normal unless you are seeking specialty/low demand items such as blackout, glaser etc.
Excellent column. “Twirling their mustaches”–ROFL. Regarding irrationality, it seems the postmodernists have gotten their wish. They–with Foucault in the van–have long argued that the rational subject (the ego) is innately authoritarian and oppressive. The id, on the other hand, is the ego’s irrational and good Other. Therefore, irrational acts and perversion are benevolent transgressions against hegemonic rationality. Those on the right who cavalierly dismiss the intentional madness of the postmodernists are overlooking a primary key to the destruction of the West. The Intellectuals of Insanity took over the humanities/social sciences some time in the 80s, and their deranged views are… Read more »
When one combines an elite/political/media operation to incessantly implant certain deviant attitudes and behaviors into the population, along with a population who has been intellectually put to sleep by the current zeitgeist, pharmacological, and environmental inputs, along with a breakdown and destruction of all of the historical and cultural tethers, is it any wonder that the wheels are coming off? I’m surprised it isn’t worse than it is, though we are getting worse quickly now.
The sun rises in south east corner of things To look on the tall house of the Shin For they have a daughter named Rafu, (pretty girl) She made the name for herself: ‘Gauze Veil,’ For she feeds mulberries to silkworms. She gets them by the south wall of the town. With green strings she makes the warp of her basket, She makes the shoulder-straps of her basket from the boughs of Katsura, And she piles her hair up on the left side of her headpiece. Her earrings are made of pearl, Her underskirt is of green pattern-silk, Her overskirt… Read more »
“We live in the world where robots are taking over labor.”
Yeah, in some areas, sure. But in other areas, robots just aren’t flexible enough. AI is this generations “flying cars”: always just around the corner.
Regarding the poppy production in Afghanistan, the explanation I have heard for its continued operation is two-fold: A. Fairly innocuous, that the Afghan farmers scratching a living will make several times more in profit growing poppies than they will growing something like wheat, rice or nuts. Plus the climate of Afghanistan is perfect for growing poppies, which cannot be grown just anywhere with dirt. They don’t call Afghanistan the “Golden Crescent” for nothing. B. More sinister, the rumor goes that the CIA (and other such organizations) runs the poppy plantations and makes a killing in untraceable cash profits to the… Read more »
FWIW I used to skydive. My first dz was run by “Wild Bill” Hasenfus, who was a former CIA pilot during the Vietnam war. Bill got his brother Eugene a job as a CIA aerial cargo handler ostensibly running guns to Nicaraguan “contras.” Eugen was shot down by the sandanistas but survived – I’ve stood on the CIA-financed airstrip in Costa Rica where Eugene’s aircraft took off and was supposed to land and I’ve also hiked the crash site in Nicaragua. According to Bill, the gun running was pretext and the true purpose of the CIA aircraft there was flying… Read more »
I garden. Poppies can be grown anywhere with dirt, full-sun, and drainage. You can’t grow them in the shade or in bogs. That’s about it.
There is a strong reason why Congress could give a shit about their 17% approval rating. If you look up the approval rating of each individual congressman, for the most part the constituency loves them, hence they are reelected over, and over and over.
The congress everyone hates is the OTHER persons congressman.
The fact of the matter is the average America is as dumb as shit, dumber than shit, when it comes to politics, and the rulers know it.
in similar vein, I think their hatred is borne of contempt and complete lack of respect
If you lied to a person all the time, make him all kinds of promises, never keep to your word, and yet that person always keeps coming back for more and keeps voting for you, are you going to respect him?
It’s human nature. In our lives, if someone treated you like shit day in and day out but you keep coming back, will that person respect you?
Still, there’s a difference between loving your own high priest in the respected temple and having a high level of tolerance for your own homeless dude in a bum fight. If there was an occasion where people got to vote to gulag all of Congress, but including their congresscritter, that supposedly beloved congressman would find out just how much “love” he actually had.
Congress cares about donors.
and increasingly they are foreign entities
Put bluntly, they don’t need us, and it has been this way since foreigners have been able to donate huge amounts — starting, I guess, with Clinton
Much of the behaviour of the white left can be understood in terms of status, identity and fear of class contamination. The white eloi do not have much of an identity. So they construct one. For most of them, this identity is based on their social status, and is signalled through consumer choices and support for causes. The main component of this identity is a notion of superiority to the deplorables. There is nothing these people fear more than 1) being mistaken for a deplorable or 2) the idea of deplorables rising in status above them. So they signal very… Read more »
Z’s today brings to mind two memorable gems from yesterday:
“I’ve given up trying to understand…”
“These people are terrifyingly stupid.”
Why does no one notice fentanyl production in China, poppy fields in Afghanistan or narco terrorism south of the border? Follow the artfully laundered money lining the pockets of politicians. Godfather Biden is the rule, not the exception.
The template for giving the criminal infiltration of our political system a pious face in a dowdy suit.
“Jeffrey Peterson: What is the Arizona Mafia?” https://www.bitchute.com/video/arsOGDzUN8U/
Why did they stop caring?
Reminds me of a relationship that one day you wake and realize you don’t love the person anymore
That said, people break up for a reason. And most of the time it boils down to a few key differences, and the religion of the other person is a key and that applies in our current situation. So therein may lie a clue. The other is physical compatibility, which may trace back to ethnicity. And that one also applies.
Things like this
“No Year Has Seen Legal Immigration Cut Like the 2nd Half of FY 2020” https://www.cato.org/blog/no-year-has-seen-legal-immigration-cut-2nd-half-fy-2020
They’re refering to the President’s EO from April https://tinyurl.com/yarebd8a (renewable at 60-day intervals.) The GDP über alles crowd at Cato objects to the President trying to protect American jobs during a time of massive unenployment and closed borders. In Q1 immigration was up. https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics#
Right Wing/DR/Nationalist potential philanthropists need to create their own STEM schools where admission is based almost entirely on an IQ test, and not based on trait conscientiousness, that anyone, of any age or education level can take, to potentially be admitted tuition free to create the next wave of right wing white innovators and creators and original thinkers, that fell through the cracks, to help save Western Civ..
I think even starting local private schools would be great
They may seem “controversial” today but in time they will be well respected and prestigious
ABSCAM was in Washington state, i was a kid but remember it well, it was fairly small compared to many of the other corruption sandals in the states history. we may not have invented ballot stuffing but it sure as hell was perfected here.
As far as Trump droning Sullimoni, great the bastard was responsible for at least half of the IED deaths in the forever wars.
See what an EFP does to a nineteen year old. A little of my seething hate & desire for revenge was satisfied.
Excellent, excellent show Z-Man. However, I would have thought it obvious why media and corporations and Congress and all other big institutions don’t care about being hated and distrusted. POWER. They have it, as either monopoly or at most duopolies, and thus just make money through economic rents. Take Hollywood. Spielberg has warned for years that at least one major studio would go bankrupt as its model for making money was totally dependent on big budget blockbusters and when one was a giant flop they’d be on the hook. The FT noted in response that Hollywood was basically giant amusement… Read more »
I’ll add in that vein that Wolfgang Munchau of EU Intelligencer announced his last column for the FT and not so subtly denounced their group think. I notice most of the older White guys being replaced by young, mostly White women who look like they slept with the boss to move up. Munchau noted that entrenched monopolies are very, very good at defending their rents, through lobbying and political influence and revolving doors in/out of government, but very bad at adapting to new models and that Tesla’s market value reflects that no other car company can tackle the engineering issues… Read more »