It used to be that Good Friday was my first non-office day of the year. By that I mean it was the first non-work day of the year. It was the first break since the holidays. I’d rent a skiff and go fishing, waiting for a passing knight to heel me. Some years I’d go to the range or, depending upon the weather, I’d go for a ride. When I still went to mass, I’d go to the evening service, but I have not done that in years.
In the lock down, the normal routine no longer holds. Like everyone else I have been sheltering in place the last several weeks. Fishing is banned here now. The ranges are all closed. I can still go outside for a ride, as they are not arresting people for being outside without a hall pass. They are arresting people for violating social distancing rules, so that means I’ll need to avoid people while out and about today.
For the first couple of weeks of the lock down I tried to maintain my normal schedule, as much as possible, but that did not really work. It was like a vacation in which I was not allowed to have any fun. That and client work started to slow up as they shifted from going into lock down to adjusting for the coming depression. This week my work was probably the slowest in a decade, not counting real vacations.
As a result, I capitulated to reality and decided to use the time to take care of some small projects, like catching up with the correspondence. Like the comment section, the in-box has been hopping during the great panic. It really bugs me when I fall behind in replying to readers and listeners, but there are only so many hours in a day. It is just one of those things I have had to accept as a part of doing this thing.
I also decided to upgrade the computer I use for recording each week. The hard drive was getting full, so that meant installing a new drive and reloading all the program I use for various things. I was still on Windows 8, so it was long overdue for an upgrade, but it is a huge hassle that I really hate. Strangely, the microphone I use is much more sensitive in the new system, so the sound this week may be a little off.
All-in-all, I’m growing weary of the lock down. I’m thinking about breaking contain and going back to the office next week. I have several “letters of transit” now from clients that declare I am an essential person. Even though the building is technically closed, I have keys and the utilities are still on, I think. Perhaps I can be an example to others and this madness will come to an end sooner rather than later.
This week I have the usual variety of items in the now standard format. Spreaker has the full show. I am up on Google Play now, so the Android commies can take me along when out disrespecting the country. I am on iTunes, which means the Apple Nazis can listen to me on their Hitler phones. The anarchists can catch me on iHeart Radio. I am now on Deezer, for our European haters and Stitcher for the weirdos. YouTube also has the full podcast. Of course, there is a download link below.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00 Opening
- 03:00 Dissident Direction
- 12:00 Fatherhood & Economics
- 16:30 China
- 25:30 Universal Basic Idiocy
- 35:00 Durham Investigation
- 42:00 Binary Thinking
- 47:00 Health Care
- 50:00 Liberty & Welfare
- 55:00 Thank You
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Windows 8?? Did that actually exist, like the iPhone 2?
I think its development shouldn’t have moved past 8. It’s the perfect number for Windows: two gaping holes through which spyware can flow in and your personal data can flow out.
I was an early adopter of W8. I never had any problems with it, but I’m more technically proficient than most people. I really only use my desktop for recording, surfing and as a storage device, so the OS is not all that important to me.
Windows 8 is okay, but far too tilted towards touch-centric operation in its default state. You can turn a lot of that off if you dig into the settings.
Win10 is far better because it ditches most of the touch-centric defaults. I also like it’s simpler windowing graphics, which seem to reduce the hardware load.
Yeah I remember when Windows got into the tablet game, they all had Windows 8 or 8.1. That’s the only experience I ever had with it. Until today I didn’t even know there was a desktop version. Was 8 before or after Vista?
After, like 2012. Vista was 2006, IIRC.
Some idiot at Microsoft got it into his head that people were going to want to pay 50% more for their screen so that they could smudge it up touching it and Win 8 was born. Completely puzzling was that Microsoft ported the same interface to the server OS which rarely ever has a screen, let alone “touch”. Microsoft back-peddled a bit and put out 8.1/2012r2 and the little changes made an intolerable OS pretty good. And then they ditched all of that progress for 10. Now that we’re on 10.9 or whatever, it too is finally fairly decent, though… Read more »
You’ve really nailed the main issue with Win8 in your comment.
Heck, I absolutely *love* the detachable form factor (MS Surface Pro, Acer Switch) and I barely use them as touch tablets.
I highly recommend them as lighter laptop alternatives for frequent travelers, unless you are doing the kind of work (3-D rendering, image processing, etc) that requires more juice from the CPU and GPU in your device.
If it still has the capability, use the Windows 2000 interface. I use it on my Windows 7 machine.
Windows 2k was the best version of Windows. It was a well worthwhile upgrade no matter what version you were using before.
Windows 8 was terrible.
Son, I like you.
Because you realize how good Win 2k was.
Most people out there give far too much credit to Win98, which did not solve all the stability issues of Win95, and WinXP, which really didn’t do much except graft a crappy set of windowing graphics onto Win2k.
Windows 8 was fairly popular for a few years but nowhere near so as Windows 7. The ‘unicorn’ you are referring to is actually Windows 9. They skipped 9 for various reasons including too much similarity to 95/98 and 10 is ‘suppose’ to be the last version of Windows. M$ will be rolling out something entirely new. Given that the company is now wall to wall Pajeets who slowly infiltrated because of the H1B scam and Gates wanting cheap slave labor for 2 decades, I wouldn’t hold your breath on that ‘new platform’. Microsoft wasn’t innovative even when it -was-… Read more »
Sill on Windows 7 at home – its annoyance factor has fallen markedly since they stopped with Update Tuesdays, and I utterly hate Win 10.
Anything Microsoft sucks now. Try using Internet Explorer, don’t even know where tf half the stuff I need is. There’s a very real correlation between cheap import labour and quality.
The pajeets ruined Windows.
Apex, I’m already resolved to switch to Linux for personal/non-work stuff within the next couple of years. I’ll always have to use Windows for a lot of client stuff but I like to have one machine in each “camp” and I’ve heard Bad Things Are Coming for MS quality-control etc…
YouTube had vidya from an ex-quality-control guy from MS who was still frenemies with his old staff there, put out some good critique of their recent changes, but you could tell he was pulling a lot of punches to avoid burning that bridge.
I recently moved from Win 7 to Linux Mint, and I only wish I had done it sooner. There is a learning curve, but if you’re at all familiar with the Control Panel (or even better, the command line), it’s not all that different from Windows. Their user forums are very accommodating to newbies, too. WIn10 is spyware and they will probably be moving to a subscription model soon anyway. Time to say goodbye.
I feel you. I don’t want Windows 10 enforced cloud. I’ve been hanging on to Windows 7 but I have lots of Linux experience. Are there any programs, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, that you can’t run? Give me the worst of it.
Zoom works fine for me on Ubuntu, though it always seems to switch from the app to the browser version in meetings. Probably anything with the word “Microsoft” in it won’t work except under Wine (the Windows emulator). There are exceptions even there. I use Visual Studio Code on Linux and that’s from MS. I strongly recommend anyone in the DR learn to use Linux for as much as possible and keep Windows machines when absolutely necessary (it seldom is) and keep them walled off in their own little network ghetto away from the machines you use for anything important.… Read more »
I just added another 64k memory to my Commodore 64. Nice and peppy now.
Well, I just added 2k RAM to my Timex-Sinclair 1000.
So there.
64k? Come on man, get with the times!
Get an REU! You can get them with a MB or more! Throw that 1541 in the trash and get a 1581. 800k. Who is ever going to need 800k?!
I used Mint for a few years and found it baffling, at least under the hood, and I’m not exactly a tech boomer. God help me if I had to download a program and the only way I could do it was via the Terminal, and then I’d get repository issues and broken files and I’m getting PTSD just thinking about it. I had to return to Windows.
I tried Ubuntu a few years back; same experience, albeit the install went without a hitch. Too many baffling little things that take too long to fix.
Cool rotating-cube multi-desktop, though.
Mint may be worth another try.
It has a Gui-based package manager that is pretty easy to understand and use.
The whole industry wants to do that. It is a GIANT step backwards. I absolutely cringe when I hear someone talking up “cloud” computing and storage or renting software. It is a return to the glory days of terminals. Anyone who trusts their data on a cloud platform is a fool. I wouldn’t put a to-do list on someone else’ computer. Everything I do is backed up to multiple places locally. Storage is so cheap there is no reason you can’t keep multiple full backups of your data. Most people don’t even have that much data. It’s funny that software… Read more »
Low Hanging Fruit. If you notice, Cars are pretty much the same as before, just a bit more reliable (as are PCs, if you don’t remember the days of IRQ errors). Houses, buildings, etc. Engineering has solved the ‘easy’ problems. The Hard ones, are well, much harder. And quality actually is better, crazy as it sounds. The problem is the demand for more magic from the box than ever before.
why cant Microsoft develop a good document search feature that does not take 2 hours
Although I’m happy either way, I’ve got my fingers crossed chanting “son, son, son, son!”
ZMan, can you recommend a good microphone for a beginner looking to start their own podcast?
I use this: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Silver/dp/B002VA464S
I think it is the most popular mic for podcasters and streamers. I used to use a cheaper mic that I got for $50 and that was okay, but the cheaper mics force you to sit directly into front of them and never move. With the Yet, I can move around like a normal person and the sound does not get weird.
Thanks Z! Looks like they’re pretty reasonably priced.
Z-
I thought your audio was quite good this week.
I thought you sounded clearer on the podcast than you did in previous weeks.
Get yourself a used Sennheiser shotgun mic. They can be pricey. Just look around on eBay. If you’re in a big city, call around to various recording studios and see if they have one they want to get rid of.
Angler, heal thyself.
It’s Friday, which means the highlight of the week: The Z Blog Power Hour! And it’s Good Friday, too. : )
I thought the virus must be hitting harder than expected when I saw my schedule this morning. It has appointments listed every 20 minutes and then, at the bottom:
2:00p CLOSED FOR GOOD
FRIDAY 2PM
They’re closing down the doctors? Is it funding?
It’s more like: I gave up drinking for a month. Change the punctuation and change the meaning: I gave up. Drinking for a month.
As far as goes UBI, the idiocy is drawing the line around it, at exactly the point where Whites would get it.
Universal means everyone gets it. I agree that it seems unlikely that everyone would get it but in that case they’re gonna have to call it something else.
Everyone??
do you think they’ll be able to find all the homeless people, force them to open direct-deposit bank accounts?
What about the off-grid people, the hippies in the hills, the gypsies?
Are they going to go looking for them?
The people on our side who think UBI will be truly universal are completely delusional. The powers that be will start giving increased benefits to single mothers and other favored groups as soon as it is passed. The “universal” bit will be part of the lie they use to get the thing enacted into law. From there it will be much easier to monkey around with who gets what using regular congressional budgeting.
You use the expression “waiting for a passing knight to heel me.” Could you tell me the meaning and origin of this phrase. I have looked elsewhere with no success because I am reluctant to lazily use other people’s time. I am a long time reader of your words. Listening, not so much because of hearing. Since coming across your words a few years ago I have always enjoyed them – thought provoking, humorous, and fascinating – fascinating that people so far apart geographically could be so akin in attitude. But then, my work (engineer) took me all over the… Read more »
It is a reference to the Fisher King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King
Meanwhile out in rural Indiana, life is pretty much going on with no difference from day to day. It is a hassle that I can’t get toilet paper from Sam’s Club delivered but otherwise this apocalypse has been pretty disappointing.
No draconian prison-style lockdowns from your state or local government? And no one with an “I don’t believe the liberal media” bumper sticker cheering for it?
Same in Copenhagen, really. I’ve seen one or two people masks in the last couple of weeks, and the shelves are stocked as usual, people are playing ball in the parks.
Should be interesting how Sweden fares. They’re pretty much running business as usual, except they’ve locked up their geezers – the Stockholmers are out and about, reveling in the spring weather.
https://3speak.online/watch?v=rairfoundation/wiutwmyy&jwsource=cl
This is America’s DeBaathification.
De-Baathification was absolutely the proximate cause of the Iraqi insurgency; because it forced out of work the competent part of the country, which had access to vast munitions stores and organization, intelligence files and the like.
Now the same results aren’t happening here because above all there’s no organization, no way to organize under these conditions, no money, no networks, no leadership. No will either as of yet.
So Operation Time Out is working (its brilliant really, we should have thought of this) but how long can Operation Time Out last?
I don’t think I can fault the libertarians or other “perfectionist” cults for striving toward an ideal society, as long as they understand the striving will probably fall short of perfect, and in those instances we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Example: Yes, the Constitution gives the right to bear arms and the policy of a Bloomberg to stop and frisk minorities is the kind of “infringement” that would get certain libertarians (and ACLU types) in a lather, but not getting shot or stabbed in a subway (and, incidentally, keeping blacks and Latinos from getting… Read more »
Joey, I know what you’re saying. But “not getting shot or stabbed” is also a justification for taking our guns and/or knives. As a defense attorney, I asked juries if they could find a man who committed the crime not guilty in order to honor the Constitution’s protections for all of us. That is, if the prosecutor could not prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt, as required by due process, could they find my client not guilty, even if they had lingering suspicions he did what he was accused of doing. Another way to look at it . .… Read more »
Well, if you don’t want to make certain exceptions for certain people (minorities) in certain times (now) in certain places (New York or any other large metropolis), then understand your chances of getting your face sliced on the train is higher.
Liberty is more important to me than physical safety. Having said that, I will tell you that I live in Oklahoma, a constitutional carry state, and I have absolutely no fear of being harmed. Perhaps we are no longer a one size Bill of Rights fits all country. Making exceptions swings both ways. It all depends on who is in power. It will be your civil liberties and my civil liberties being tossed out when the Democrats get in power. They have already, with the acquiescence of Republicans, criminalized our thoughts and now we can be charged with a crime… Read more »
One black (gray?) bill the Zman has fed me is this: What does he call it? Like when you are de-platformed or banned from “private” but near-monopoly services (Google, Twitter, PayPal, etc.) Indeed, a day may come when you have lost much access to communcation, commerce and even financial services, yet no one has violated your legal rights! Is this the first time in history when private corporations were among the biggest powers?
The powers that be just wish the citizen cherished his rights, but not necessarily use them. Sure, we like our rights to speech, assembly and so on, but you must admit the Tyrant has a point: I value my right to a jury trial, but I will be even more grateful if I can live without needing that right 🙂
Nothing is as normal. My 85 year old mother had a massive stroke as this all started. After we got her in a nursing home we could no longer visit due to the lock-down. Then a swallowing incident lead to CPR and the ICU at the hospital. Could not see her as the hospital was locked down. She was put on a breathing machine and got pneumonia and about a week goes by and they transfer her to hospice. We get to see her in hospice but she only lasts 5 days there. They say she died of coronavirus and… Read more »
> I understand the some are predicting 50 million unemployed people. For what? To save a few thousand Boomers? They were going to die anyway. (I am high risk myself)
I’m sure the tens of millions of unemployed 20-30 year olds are more than happy to lose their jobs if just one 80 year old diabetic can live a couple of years longer. If they don’t, well that’s just selfish.
MY condolences, BTW.
The oldest Boomer is 74 this year. The ones who really need to worry are older – upper 70s and beyond.
The remaining members of the Silent Generation (ie the only group really at risk) are the only ones who have handled themselves with any dignity through this ordeal.
That’s the chits Mark. I am sorry for your loss.
It’s a good thing your mother is protected from all of her loved ones.
I get to see my grandma through her balcony on the second floor! The experts know best, though.
I’m getting pretty sick of this crap. I wish we could do something.
The idea of not sitting out more than 10 chairs at a funeral for this is pure loonacy nut job. And old people need our loved ones near us when we die.
These jack offs are making Stalin look good.
Sorry for your loss.
The cowardice of our Christian leaders has been something to behold, at least for myself.
Christ tells us we don’t live by bread alone, yet I look around and see Christian’s of all stripes demanding everything except the grocery store be closed down.
Sorry for your loss, and I’m sorry it had to occur in a shroud of lunacy.
The “vision thing” is binocular – what we can do short-mid-term on the one side and what’s ideal on the other. Like the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts in your head at once, a lot of people have trouble coherently merging those world-views. Those of us who believe in building communities from the ground up rather than seizing Washington ala 2016’s higher hopes are more than willing to share the road with fellow travelers who stay in their lane. When you reach your desired exit, depart the caravan peacefully and fare thee well. The try-hard efforts at discrediting… Read more »
Those of us who believe in building communities from the ground up rather than seizing Washington ala 2016’s higher hopes are more than willing to share the road with fellow travelers who stay in their lane. When you reach your desired exit, depart the caravan peacefully and fare thee well.
Well put.
The striking thing about Venner was that he was from his youth both a man of letters and a man of action unlike most of his contemporaries. He volunteered for the Algerian War and afterwards had always felt the need to inject himself into some public action even if he felt it was futile. Winning required losing a lot, but the injection of energy into the public sphere would in time pay off. He would rail against the intellectually cloistered believing ideas and strategies always needed to be tested IRL outside of the chambers they were formed in. When he… Read more »
The circumstances French far-Rightists faced in his waning years were black-pilling. He’s been (unfairly) labeled the “French Mishima” for obvious reasons but there is no fair comparison between the lives of the admirable Venner and the degenerate Mishima rather than their deaths. Despair is our greatest enemy, even more than dissension. It’s existentially important for guys to find normal life outlets and simple pleasures to feed their souls when the meta-politics grind you down. I’ll cite Steyn again, from After America – don’t just live in words and ideas. Have a hobby. Make things. Learn to cook. Staring into the… Read more »
Latest #s from my hospital. No positive tests for over a week. • Veteran Testing: o We received 2 COVID-19 test results today; 2 negative and 0 positive. Total tests sent: 184 Positive: 6 Negative: 171 Pending: 7 • 6 COVID-19 cases to date; 2 in inpatient/ED, 2 recovering at home, 2 deceased • Employee Testing: o We received 1 COVID-19 test results today; 1 negative and 0 positive. Total tests sent: 15* Positive: 0 Negative: 15 Pending: 0
Thank you for continuing to post these numbers. The number of expected deaths in my former home state of Colorado had been revised downward from 33,200 to 254. No joke. In the original model Colorado was supposed to be experiencing hundreds of deaths per day by now. Under the new model it was supposed to be experiencing 30-40 deaths per day now. The actual numbers were more like 5-15 per day. Apparently these numbers weren’t scaring the masses sufficiently so yesterday the Health Department reviewed their case files and “discovered” a bunch of unreported Covid deaths that they had failed… Read more »
They’re counting KungFlu cases like they count Democrat votes!
Anyone one who tested “positive” for Chinese Virus and then dies will be listed as a Chinese Virus death, even if the individual actually died as a result of being run over by a Chevy Suburban while crossing a highway. I read elsewhere that death will automatically be attributed to Chinese Virus, even of someone who was never tested.
At this point I believe NYC is counting nearly every death as Corona to keep feeding the media hysteria and to make Cuomo look good for locking down the entire state.
Yes. I have personal knowledge of someone who was diagnosed with bone cancer about 3 months ago, died yesterday in a hospice. He also had corona virus that he picked up in the hospital, treatment center, or hospice; his death is listed as corona-related, although that was hardly a contributing cause.
What Guest said: thanks for the updates.
How big is your catchment area?
Portland (Oregon) VA medical center. Largest VA hospital between Seattle and San Francisco. Going east, Denver probably the next big one. Pretty big area.
Thanks.
As a person who has not reached certainty regarding the severity of the virus, due to untrustworthy data, I am concerned by the intensity of our in-group infighting. Ramzpaul parted ways with the Swan of Tuonela, the sweet and intelligent Tiina, over their disagreements over the virus.
We don’t have to shred ourselves over this. People of good faith can disagree.
We have to act now and that entails making decisions, but even if you disagree with a comrade’s prescription, we can acknowledge the uncertainty. We don’t have to insult and hate each other over this.
2 million Americans to 1 million to half a million to 260,000 to 80,00 to 60,000. Our reaction to this virus was nothing short of retarded. And the media will go on thinking they’re sanctified geniuses.
If only there were a way we could broadcast their retardation to normies.
The bleating normies, in all their mask-wearing, virtue-signaling glory, are every bit as retarded as the media.
I got a bunch of dirty looks at the grocery store from a bunch of AWFLs and suburban bugmen for daring to walk around with my face uncovered.
Went to Walmart this morning and stopped at the door and ordered to put a mask on. I wear a fancy scarf as a mask that has a habit of slipping off of my face, but it got me through the door. Mandatory in NJ.
Me too, BT.
This is very unfortunately true. It is also true that the revised estimates have not put a dent in normie behavior.
They are a herd, and they have not been given the signal to change direction yet, so onward they walk, in unison, towards the cliff.
This crisis has proven not only the cynicism and incompetence of our rulers, but the craven submissiveness of the general population.
The majority just rolled over and exposed their collective bellies without even a growl.
Pathetic.
You’re a mean man! I’m going to tell my caseworker about you 😀
I was expecting worse (in fact my old “model” expected peak either late this month or mid-June) not that my doubling some figures on a calculator constitute a good model. But do give the epidemic its due. Let us hope the casualties will be relatively few, but it’s still got to run the current wave and we are promised possible future waves. “You never know who’s going to win til the race is run.” (widsom from AC-DC’s misogynistic “Kicked in the Teeth”)
On the plus side, we see how people have reacted under fire – particularly who’s been more interested in sectarian sh*t-stirring than leveraging the situation for White advantage on the whole.
Nothing at issue in the last 3 months is worth wrecking a long-term collaboration like RamZ and Tiina had – that’s a shame.
it’s possible the decision was mutual. they both had different paths and objectives.
Ramzpaul parted ways with the Swan of Tuonela, the sweet and intelligent Tiina, over their disagreements over the virus. I doubt it was about the virus: he has signed on Styx, who’s totally on the Armageddon bandwagon. And good for Ramz; nothing more annoying than when a talented host needs an echo girl to laugh at his jokes and repeat his points. Steven Crowder + idiot chorus line Jared Taylor + obsequious wossisname Henrik Palmgren + ditzy soccer mom Lana Lokteff All shows I can’t bear listening to because of the goofy sidekicks. I might start listening to Happy Homes… Read more »
Ooosh. Lana is not a ditz.
She is so. Henrik is one of the best hosts on our team, but Lana is awful.
YMMV, Felix. I’ve never found either Lana or Tiina “ornamental” and Styx strikes me as Moly with a dirtbag aesthetic.
Lana deserves credit for putting her money where her mouth it and actually birthing white children
Big deal. If she really were to walk the talk, she should be at home, minding the sprogs, making lacto-acid preserves from her garden harvest, instead of interfering in daddy’s work.
I’ve never found either Lana or Tiina “ornamental” Neither have I, I find them “detrimental”. Tiina isn’t as bad as Lana, at least she’s got some Finland-stories – in fact, she was better when she ran a Finnocentric solo show. Styx strikes me as Moly with a dirtbag aesthetic. He’s from one of the whitest states in the Union, what did you expect? I have hopes that we might turn him to the dark side yet: at the moment, he’s bunkered up in some white suburb of Rotterdam but they’ve started shifting diversity into Vermont, so maybe he has a… Read more »
We’re reaching deep levels of irony when we’re talking about converting a lolbert Satanist to our “Dark Side.” What a great time to be alive.
I’m not sure Tiina and Paul split just because of this virus stuff. Maybe it was the final push, but Tiina has a lot of other irons in the fire in terms of European activism. I suspect Paul and Tiina just went as far as they could go with their show and it was time for a change. I’ve seen Tiina mad, so I think I’d know if she was mad at Paul.
What a great time to be alive.
Amen to that.
He says he’s not a Satanist, rather than something-something magical, but I can understand why people get confused.
I peg him, most of all, as a sperg. He needs his bubble pierced from the outside.
Also, Styx’ singing voice isn’t half bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ381LrQFXU
Given the persona, Felix, I was kinda hoping for Tool or at least Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast.”
Now I’m picturing him singing “Horse with No Name” for the Sunday Night Thelema Society Sacrifice… Strange days.
Totally mercenary move for more subs and super chats.
As for Styxx, no thanks. His 666 handle, shirtless libertarian and now some kind of expat stance is just foolish cosplay to me. No matter what right wing takes he has.
Ramz should do consulting work if he needs more dough.
The reason it should be interesting, is exactly that he’s a libertarian, that he’s not on our team.
I look forward to seeing them lock horns over the China Plague and, of course, ethno-nationalism. Should put a dent in our popcorn hoards.
Yep. The greasy hippie vibe, the satanism – he’s just another cretin trying to sell an empty brand. He’s not a serious person that you’d want speaking for your movement.
i say give him a chance. it will be interesting to see how they collaborate
“Nailed them, with their own words.
In this article, I’ll present quotes from official sources about their own diagnostic test for the coronavirus. I’m talking about fatal flaws in the test.
Because case numbers are based on those tests (or no tests at all), the whole “pandemic effect” has been created out of fake science.”
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/08/corona-creating-illusion-of-pandemic-through-diagnostic-test/
The one he wrote today is even more powerful. We have been lied to, and we have been screwed. I think it is far to lake to recover from this. Maybe 50 million unemployed say some economists. 50 million???? Damn.
My opinion on RamZPaul is that bringing on Styx is a good move. For the American audience anyway. Tina seems like a nice lady and very wise and on our side but her accent is sometimes hard to understand and the flow of the show slows down. I think with Styx, although some of his ideas I don’t agree with, the overall flow of the Happy Homelands show will speed up and the give and take will be more interesting for listeners and viewers. You gotta understand questions and answers clearly to enjoy a podcast and the flow of the… Read more »
I caught the last couple of minutes of Ramz’s first stream with Styx; the later was insisting that Mexicans are going to start voting Republican soon…
So he’s basically a Satanist Erick Erickson?
I’m amazed that someone could believe that, unless the GOP becomes W’s party of treason.
Told you about Crozier, and told you about Modly.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reinstating-fired-brett-crozier-navy-aircraft-carrier-2020-4?amp
This lockdown national time out while the Green Zone loots the American taxpayer is exactly DeBaathification BTW.
It will end differently, because we are Christians and slaves to our bitches, and the Iraqis are Muslims.
How different cannot be foreseen.
The FBI will not allow anyone to record them. It is illegal to record them. Their written record is THE record. The agents can write down anything and there is nothing to contradict what they say. Even entering a room with an FBI agent puts you in a bad place. They can say you said anything and there is no way to prove they are lying! Like all cops, they can lie to you perfectly legally, but it is a felony to lie to them. Just last week some weasel FBI agent called a cop on his phone, set up… Read more »
As long as you’re in public, you keep filming them. They’ll try their best to brow beat you into making your contact off the record, but they can’t “make” you stop recording them. It’s not illegal. Watch the below video to see how it’s done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqC3Ep9Oxc
Great video. Scumbags (and at least one (((scumbag))) ).
Notice how they immediately started talking to the high trust Boomer father. Who almost certainly would have complied if he had been alone.
It’s not so much “off the record” as it is “only OUR record of what was said”
I agree about recording them in public, but only to a degree. Never, ever talk to the cops, especially not the FBI, EVER. Nothing good can come of it. You will never talk them out of arresting you and nothing you say, even if you have a perfect record of it, can be used to help you and anything you say can be used to hurt you. Your good statements are hearsay and your bad statements are evidence against you.
The consolidation of the banking system, the offshoring of manufacturing, etc., may have all “just happened.” On that question I demur, but I will set that issue aside, for now. That said, The biggest disaster of the post WWII era, the Immigration and Nationality Act (i.e., Hart-Celler) of 1965, definitely did NOT “just happen.” Emanuel Celler was a member of Congress in 1924 when the previous immigration law (Johnson-Reed) was passed, and he argued strenuously against it. Celler remained in Congress over the next several decades, and he was instrumental in the creation of President Truman’s commission that produced report… Read more »
And feel free to look up the biographical information of the chairman of the and members of the commission:
https://archive.org/details/whomweshallwelco00unit/page/n7/mode/2up
“Medicare for all” is just a desire to put aliens and certain other people on the dole. People who have full time jobs get insurance through their employer and people already on the dole get Medicaid and, of course, seniors get Medicare. Further, they don’t want to give Medicare to the aliens and others, they want to give Medicaid to them. Medicare has a lot of co-pays and costs money (monthly premium). The premiums come out of their checks and the co-pays can be pretty high. Medicaid is totally free and has almost no co-pays. Medicaid also comes with free… Read more »
Notice how so many of your PO box letters come from the big multi-kulti cities. Nothing builds contempt like familiarity. The more exposure to diversity, the more realistic you have to be about equality and HBD. People in college towns can afford to be married to the concept of equality and rejection of HBD, but people who have daily interactions and have share the streets with diversity know all too well what that means.
Great show.
Check out these unsuspecting white liberals on the remote Scottish island of Lewis.
They really have no idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBEg-xw_t-k
“Mission Accomplished”
Liberals have been saying for I don’t know how long that prejudice is ignorance. Sometimes that’s true, but it’s equally true IMO that familiarity breeds contempt. Brings to mind an African joke: what’s the difference between a tourist and a racist – two weeks.
Holding a low opinion of a particular group doesn’t necessarily translate to wishing them harm or hating them, but sometimes means that don’t want them around.
The terms prejudice and discrimination were honorable and necessary concepts in the 18th century. Then Leon Trotsky began the task of twisting and inverting definitions and at the same time inventing new ones. Even as people were using the same words they had taken on a different meaning. That is how the left lives rent free in our heads.
This is unfortunately where WhereAreTheViking’s libertarianism (see comments above) crashes against the POC reality. Constitutional rights aren’t really compatible with POC and POC cities.
We wuz vikings!
On the issue of UBI I think looking at it as an additional grand (to use your example) is the wrong way to look at it. In the medium to long term with automation and various other labor saving techniques UBI will become many, if not most, people’s sole source of income and therefore putting up the price of the BMW will put it out of the UBI recipients reach.
Also, it’s not like ubi is spent on a single good, such as BMWs, or that all stores will coordinate raise prices at once. Do you really think the 7-11 or Wawa keeps tabs on the cpi? doubt it. Stores may choose not to raise prices if a UBI means more sales,which is the more likely outcome. Inflation will go up, but probably not nearly as much as feared.
On the issue of UBI I think looking at it as an additional grand (to use your example) is the wrong way to look at it. In the medium to long term with automation and various other labor saving techniques UBI will become many, if not most, people’s sole source of income and therefore putting up the price of the BMW will out it out of the UBI recipients reach.
Of course I only follow the ROE. I only think Goodthink. But if I were thinking Badthink; * Let the Left rise and raise their arms first. They already are beginning to howl for it. Let them. *As the Jacobins took the Giorodnists as the Bolshies came behind the Cadets so ride behind whoever breaches the gates, or even makes the attempt. *Avoid as the worst of all, the pariahs among Lepers the Pilgrimage of Grace Types, you will know them by their talk of the Constitution, of not wanting this or that, avoid the Dietrich Bonhoeffers. You will die… Read more »
I am sitting here listening to Trump’s press conference, hearing him say that it was the government’s “aggressive measures” that saved the day. He just gave a green light to every would-be dictator in this country that it is open season on small business and its employees as well as on civil liberties. I can’t believe what I am hearing. Instead, he should be announcing that heads are rolling today over Fauci’s and Birx’s hysterics that led to this debacle.
What did you expect, that the orange clown will take the responsibility for having created/participated in the greatest lunacy since 1914?
You realize that every single politician and doomsday asshole will claim to be world savior among the ruins they had created in the first place
It is one thing to struggle it is entirely different one to struggle and see assholes who made you suffer elevating themselves to world saviors
But there will not be the days of rage, it has been banished along with hate from dictionaries by the very same people
miga..make Israel and immigration great again .
Folks there is a new bestseller out there
Jogging in Time of Corona
by
Antonius Faucius Merdius
It is about the innate human desire to be locked down and the perpetual evil that tries escape the confinement which is like literally nahzi omg
https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/1248447827270930432
I wonder if they are still Trump worshipers over at that site where everyone is “high IQ” and only a “gamma” would argue with the host.
Trump has let Dr. Death (Fauci) dismantle the US economy and put perhaps 50 million people out of work. I don’t think that makes Trump “on our side”.
And what about those guys in the tree house. I have not read a post over there in 3 years, but they used to worship every word Trump uttered.
And what about the Q people. Was destroying the economy “believing in the plan”??
You mean the “Tri-racial” guy? Haven’t thought about him and his gooble-gobble cult in a while.
But I’ve said too much; don’t want to get accused of infighting again…
That comment brought a smile to my face. It really did.
yup typical of trump to defer to and elevate ‘experts’ who work against the interest of his voters and Americans. . trust the plan, baby!
Concerning the Durham investigation, I never thought it would go anywhere due to the probability that the gay mulatto Obama was at least aware of, if not involved with, the whole mess.
There is no way anyone in Washington DC wants to be part of an investigation that implicates the “first African-American” President. He is practically God to the DC establishment. No Republican (especially an insider like Barr) who wants to remain in good standing with that crowd is going to step into that pile of crap.
Here’s a great example of the barking mad stupidity of the elected filth.
We are entering the Greatest Depression and this clown wants much higher energy prices.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/senate-bill-seeks-force-saudis-slashing-oil-output-withdrawing-all-us-troops
There are not enough lampposts and they are not high enough.
Does anyone remember when MicroSoft sent their goons around to Sterling Ball to enforce their licencing?
https://www.cnet.com/news/rockin-on-without-microsoft/
For you folk in the USA, UKColumn have been doing some excellent, non-hysterical reporting on our ‘current crisis situation’.
This chart they have presented is very interesting – detailing the difference between the countries which are in lockdown (house arrest) – against those which are not: https://youtu.be/rNPSG3mHGkE?t=372
Z, good explanation of the UBI issue, or more specifically the problem of prices adjusting upward to new money. If there is any critique of your logic, it is the $2500 for community college example. This example is valid (grant only spendable on one service). However for money spendable on anything, it is not as clear. Yes, basic economics of more goods chasing money tends to higher prices. However, giving me $1000 to spend on anything gives the buyer a temporary advantage, at least in the sense that he has a far greater array of goods and services to bid… Read more »
See my discussion below on thinking of it as a tax credit in a way (and welfare for the non-taxpayer). The inflationary effects are considerable if the money is *printed* for the welfare portion, and simply handed out. Part of the problem is the massive amount of credit drives price inflation too, but all the economists are *still* worried about deflation due to the possibility of asset values crashing down and the resulting credit defaults. The bigger problem to me is the danger to the labor markets of more free money for not working.
You mentioned a “coming depression” at Counter Currents. Not gonna happen, bro! V-shaped recovery! Buy the dip! I’m up 50% on stocks! Throw in my Trump bucks, and it’s a windfall! Money money money! Explanation points for everyone! ALL CAPS BABY!
Trump will get us back to WINNING!
Yup a month later and we’re still all paying the price of that Trump CDC speech which sett the ball of this global shutdown in motion . That was our 911, Colon Powell UN WMD speech, and Lehman Brothers moment wrapped up in one hour that will go down in infamy, and set a precedent that we and future generations will pay for, as such shutdowns and quarantines become increasingly commonplace and supplement the Patriot Act and other post-911 legislation. . After doing the travel ban ,all these foreign countries retaliated with shutdowns and bans of their own.
In regards to UBI, I think maybe thinking of it as just another ‘federal tax credit’ helps to show it’s effects. Say, $1000/month for everyone. So for a poor ‘working’ family with two kids, their EITC goes from ~$500/month to ~$1500/month. 20% of tax filers claim the EITC (I don’t have numbers on how many get the ‘refundable’ amounts). EITC is sort of a (small) UBI run through tax code (with some qualifications). For a net federal taxpayer, they would basically get a $12,000 *credit* on their income tax (each person), which would essentially, with the current tax code, likely… Read more »