Another week is in the books and we are a little closer to what is shaping up to a summer of madness. If you have been paying attention to the Chauvin trial, you will see that we are headed to a very bad place. The state’s case so far boils down to “He may have not paid careful attention in a safety class years ago, so he is guilty.” They have not even tried to address the key questions of the case. In a first world country, this trial would not exist. The court would not allow it.
If you read the summaries of the trial, you cannot help but wonder if both sides are trying to throw the case. The state called one witnesses that was so bad for their case, the defense added her to their witness list. Another witness had to admit that the cops probably should have been rougher with Saint George. Unless you are there every day, it is hard to get a read on these things, but it looks as if the state is not even trying to give the jury a reason to convict this guy of anything.
The defense has not been stellar either. At this stage they are limited to cross examination, so we will see when it is their turn to put on a show. So far, they seem to be happy to let the state’s witnesses do their best to undermine the state’s case. Given the levels of corruption in modern America, you have to wonder if the defense has not been told to throw the case. In a banana republic like America, in the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. The fix is always in.
Again, it is hard to judge these things from a distance. The O. J. Simpson trial is the obvious parallel. A blind man could see that Simpson was guilty, but the defense was allowed to turn the trial into a racial circus. For the jury, it stopped being about facts and law and became a weird sort of beauty pageant. They picked a winner based on how it made them feel at the moment. This jury could have made up its mind in advance and they not paying any attention to any of this.
The thing that may save Chauvin is the jury does not have many whites on it and has quite a few black women. For starters, this is Minnesota, so the white people there are thoroughly and completed cucked. If this were an all-white jury, they would be arriving to court with shirts reading “we’re so sorry.” The black women know all about guys like Saint George Floyd. If the state cannot make him look like their son, instead of their son’s ne’er-do-well father, the state has a problem.
Like people, societies make their own luck. This is a terrible case to use for a remake of To Kill A Mockingbird. Floyd is not a sympathetic character. The world is better place without him. On the other hand, Chauvin is not a good guy either. The cops everywhere are out of control and people are increasingly sick of it. The prosecutors are incompetent, and the defense thus far is not much better. The way to bet here is the jury will turn out to be just as bad as everything else with this case.
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- 02:00: Cauvin Trial
- 22:00: Math Voodoo
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I demand that the Z Blog remove the down voting function in the comments. I hate it when the dissidents, the racists, antisemites, homophobes, and other deplorables swarm my scholarly observations with them. It hurts my self esteem.
Attend to this at once or my gay Jewish black lawyer – Mx. Cornelius Rye – will be in touch.
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I demand the right to simultaneously up- and down-vote comments of this fine caliber!
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The lack of sensitivity around here is horrible! I feel like Joe Biden does when his vids on OyTube crash and burn!☹️
I gave myself an upvote. I’m sure Mx. Rye will too when xhe arrives with the subpoena…
I have my doubts about xer though… what I need is a feral, vicious lawyer with no morals or self respect. Is Kamala a lawyer? Or a strumpet?
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In the above summation you touched on something I thought of a week or two ago. If the OJ trial were held today and I was a lawyer on the Dream Team, I would be looking for an all-white jury of young, single, suburban women and men. You’d be far more likely to get an acquittal from that group, the “We Believe” crowd, than a fellow jogger with an axe to grind.
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If the state cannot make him look like their son, instead of their son’s ne’er-do-well father, the state has a problem.
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Had a buddy who served of a multi-racial jury in a case of a black guy raping his ex-girlfriend. Everyone voted to convict except, of course, a white woman who worked at a local university, and she successfully “hung” the charge in order to ‘keep another black man from going to prison’ (never minding the fact that the black women on the jury had no issue sending him to prison). It turned out the prosecutor knew right away what was up as he had run out of jury selection challenges by the time selection had gotten to her.
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When the Juice stood up in court and struggled mightily to slip the blood-splattered isotoners over the surgical gloves atop his murder mitts, that bit of theatrics was enough to slip reality in the minds of most blacks.
But in the before times most whites knew the score. The juice was doing an endzone dance.
We could recognize the circus trope of spotlighting black charm, while retaining the knowledge that savage black violence is not mutually exclusive from such smooth operators.
Current year urban bugwhites and suburban goodwhites, having been subjected to three decades of cultmarx inversion therapy, are now completely immune from such realthink.
They are infected with toxoplasma negra, unable to sniff out the savagery and disdain even when neck deep in the pheromones of kangs.
Speaking of necks. Brown bought him the gloves used to murder her. Then they became props in a mockery production to liberate him.
The foreshadowing is not subtle. We are in the second act of a great tragedy.
“If the glove dont fit, must acquit!!” Is a quaint retro heirloom of white ignorance because we still had the good sense to smell feces underfoot.
My aging good white neighbors display “I can’t breathe!” signs while the insta gurls and college kids “got your back!”.
So many Christmases with black gloves under trees. The bloodlettings will come as a great surprise.
Like those white folk of the ‘90’s, the wry smirk of the juice is long gone. Anyone paying attention can plainly see the scowl and swagger of animist spirits gloving up for reparations in the dusky faces in passing.
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The fact that this comment has only 2 upvotes makes me sad for the future of the reader base on this site which seems to be taking an odd turn as of late. Just thought I’d mention that. I’m not even sure exactly what I’m saying other than there is a different ‘vibe’ in the commentariat here. Or I could just be off my meds again…
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Screwtape’s comments are well written, but can be a bit much to get through for the casual browser 😉
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The sodomy in prison issue is absolutely barbaric. Reminds me of the Nasser trial where the female judge gleefully expressed how she hoped he got sexually abused just like he abused the gymnasts.
For an anecdotal story, my brother-in-law was thrown in jail for a day for breaking a restraining order instituted by a vindictive ex-wife. He placed a letter on her car apologizing for not trying harder in the marriage. Yes, I know. After they took his stuff, he had to watch a video on how to avoid getting raped in prison.
I don’t care what you do, no one deserves to get forcefully sodomized, and no evil scumbag in prison has any right to inflict that sort of punishment on anymore. If the person getting sentenced is that evil, use a firing squad like a civilized society.
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That was probably a tripping point that sent our judiciary tumbling down the stairs – allowing liberal women to redefine “civility”. As someone who has been forced to work with and for women on occasion… they think with their emotions, and people like that are the last ones you want running your judiciary.
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I’ve always had an issue with that. They know our justice system is a joke but instead of reforming it so that it more accurately reflects society’s desires and make it more reliable, they outsource “real punishment” to unreliable prison gangs
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The Larry Nasser thing is interesting in that the females that received his treatment produced world class results in their events. This not to say that what he did was acceptable in any form but that generally claims for damages are based on losses. The victims of Nasser not only didn’t lose, they made out at least as well as could be expected. There were no losses to compensate.
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There were no losses to compensate.
The psychiatric and related medical damage alone is a nearly incalculable loss (it is quite possible to calculate lifelong therapeutic care). Lesbians, celibates, substance abuse, cruelty, murder and suicide are created by sexual abuse. Personal and societal loss must be compensated in a just country.
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Please allow me to point out, Z Man, re: your remark that many people would be happier walking around with a bone in their nose, that many of these people are already doing it…just using a piece of metal as a stand-in.
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“Black students won’t reach math standards until 2097.”
That soon!!?
We all know that whatever standards are imposed, they shall not be met. Because Nature. Having said that, even meeting such standards probably will only mean that one can regurgitate. Having said that, homeschooling if it can be done ought to be done. But many folks balk at the idea of teaching mathematics… understandably.
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Our blog host missed an important element of racist mathematics: Our public educators are essentially unionized pooch screwers. We are into the third generation of them now. Their failures are a matter of public record… when your schools serve only as day cares, that provide affirmative action employment for wahmen, vibrants and joggers… our decline makes sense. The problem now is that the failure of our educators is so pronounced and profound… EVERYONE can see it. The union slobs need to divert attention away from themselves and their culpability… and this racism flea circus is the perfect answer. Before we get too smarmy about trying to teach joggers mathematic tricks… we really need to remind ourselves that whites are failing in epic numbers too. A high school diploma is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Most degrees are like that now too.
I can’t stress this enough: if you have kids in public schools, you need to get them out NOW.
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I generally don’t like people hiding black failure behind teacher’s unions and “poorly run schools”, but yeah it’s not nothing.
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Yeah, but it’s not just black people. White kids now aren’t as proficient as math as white kids, say, 50 years ago.
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Two concerns Z, short one first. Crypto is the only asset class in the world where if you turn off the power and the wifi, it disappears. A belief that crypto will ‘change the legacy financial system’ is akin to that Stalin quote about the power of the Vatican. “How many divisions does the Pope have?” The dollar may be backed by the ‘full faith and credit’ of the US government, but that is backed up by the world’s most powerful army, and you get a lot of credit when you’re pointing a gun at the head of your creditors. In the end, that’s the defense of the ‘legacy system’.
Second, regarding the magical beliefs of our leaders.
Aquinas described two paths by which people can define ‘the truth’. He called it ‘reason’ and ‘revelation’ but ‘revelation’ doesn’t fit well rhetorically into our secular society, so let’s use the word ‘inspiration’ or ‘vision’ instead. Same thing psychologically. (Let’s please not get caught up in the fact that he was a monk, he was a clever guy, and there weren’t a ton of options for clever guys in the 13th century.)
Having read you for a while I know reason is well known to you. Theory, test, validation, if necessary modification of original theory. Reason, at its core, is based on doubt. The theory does not impact a person’s identity by their awareness of it. It’s an external phenomena, psychologically detached from preferences. And therefore unlikely to be emotionally vested by the examiner.
Inspiration or vision, involves no such validation and is based on ‘belief’. It describes an idea that comes from our imagination in part, and the real world in part. It is ‘a part of us’ and frames out identity. The validation process for belief has only two portions. Belief of the original idea, and cherry picked evidence designed to support the original belief without modification.
All people use both means to define what they think is ‘the truth’. No one is purely reasonable. As an example, you may think my daughter is beautiful, but I believe this is so. This is just human psychology.
But while the difference between truth and falsehood is very brightly lit in our minds, the means by which we arrived at that categorization of an idea very much is not. It’s extremely difficult to tell when you yourself are using inspiration or reason, and this skill is uncorrelated to intelligence. Sharper minds build better traps to trap us within. Others can tell with more ease if someone else has embraced a ‘vision’, but it’s a difficult topology to navigate in our own minds.
To you and I, the left’s current adventures seem to be akin to a religious movement. I would argue that this is because psychologically, it is. The left has vested it’s religious instinct in its quest for political power and all these unprovable assertions about the nature of society. But unlike the more established religions which have the benefit of representing a moral code which has been ‘fitted’ to human nature over millennia, theirs has been created from whole cloth from the emotional insecurities of the practitioners in just the last 50 years or so.
To them, women MUST BE the same as men in all things (except maybe those where they are viewed as superior). Black MUST BE as intelligent and productive as whites. And if it isn’t that way, then it must be the work of an external ‘evil’. A ‘dark spirit’. The great satan. This is the source of their cognitive dissonance. They are not reasoning, they are ‘believing’. In precisely the same psychological way that a devout christian may believe in god and the moral code of their faith.
Of course a religion assembled from shared insecurities looks like ‘magic’ to us. It has to because we lack the insecurity that is the source of their ‘vision’. As actual science and math have quantified human behavior, it’s pretty easy to tell early on (with a not too terrible degree of precision) who is likely to succeed in society and who is unlikely to. Individual observation may still elude us, but the broad strokes are clearly visible. I think this is the source of their insecurity and their ‘belief’. They each know that they fall onto the bottom 50% of some metric that actual science and math shows is undesirable. But in their narcissism that CAN’T be right, so to them, it isn’t.
No one on a catwalk ever wanted to redefine beauty standards. No star athlete wants to redefine the rules of their sport. No one who is likely to succeed in other domains is as interested in redefinition, as the people who can see before they enter the field, that they will likely fail.
In my opinion, a single glance at the true believers that Antifa represents, validates this idea. As does the BMI of Feminists, and the IQ and impulse control metrics of the members of BLM.
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If the power goes off and never comes back, my 401k and bank accounts will be gone too.
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Well you have a backup. A gasoline generator and a wheelbarrow will get you your 401K money. It may take some time, but it will be there. It’s still yours. And there is still a way for it to be transferred to you.
Not so crypto.
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With all their systems down, my local bank will give me some of the little cash they have on hand?
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Unlike the political system, the economic system is based on order. It might take time to enforce your claim, but you ‘own’ those assets. They belong to you. And there is a non-technical means of transferring them to your control. The bank will get it’s cash from the Fed, and give your cash to you.
It’s value in goods may have changed but you didn’t save ‘goods’ you saved dollars. Eventually those dollars will be returned to you.
When they drop the grid, real wealth will exist in the form of hard assets, like a good generator, a rainwater collection system, and storable food with a 25-year shelf life.
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Quite a treatise, but I offer a different explanation of belief for your consideration.
Long ago, our species evolved complex language and has been using it to program our youth postpartem (AKA nurturing). Typically, this programming is centered on ancient hard-earned wisdom that will help them to survive & thrive in the environment of their birth. In the time of civilization, religion has been the primary means of conducting this indoctrination because it affords consistency & repetition necessary to accomplish brain neuron wiring during a child’s developmental years. Thus the essence of belief is a mental habit acquired soon after birth and is unique to the local environment. IOW, ancient local wisdom passed on from generation to generation via the mechanism of words (vocal ideas) creating tangible neuronal pathways.
So what went wrong in our current society. Long term affluence has killed off real hardship & existential threat. The easy life has rendered ancient wisdom useless and the extinction of fitness selection culling is slowly replacing our ancient heritage of robustness with parasitic dependence. When children are no longer wired with ancient wisdom, they acquire an arbitrary mishmash of “beliefs” that imbues them with chaos rather than the tools to overcome challenges in life. What has evolved in modern society is a belief system based upon the existential need of the parasite to feed on the host in an unfettered fashion.
And this is no trivial problem.
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Yes, I’ve seen it written many times that the Left/Progressives/etc. are basically motivated by envy. I’d agree with that for the masses, ugly blue-haired women envy beautiful women (especially beautiful women with kids and a successful White husband), blacks envy Whites in innumerable ways, etc.
But I’m 100% sure that envy full explains our true masters. The small hats certainly have their fair share of envy for gentile Whites, but the small hats are plenty confident as well. They seem at least as motivated by fear and hate as envy. I suspect that their acceptance hook, line and sinker of the holocaust story has made them feel that their long-term conflict with gentile Whites has been a death match.
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Envy certainly motivates non white men, particularly Asian men. White men are taller, more handsome, funnier, more intelligent, and more masculine than any other race.
It’s hard to imagine the hatred and inferiority that Asian, Indian, and Arab men feel towards white men. Another reason the delusional civnat fantasies of “arctic alliance” will never come true.
Certain black men with higher IQ are quite attractive as well (just being honest). Their low IQ usually prevents them from being attractive though. Black women have extreme envy for white women.
Blinded by rage, all they want to do is destroy what makes them feel inferior, aka “whiteness”. My response, of course, is to be as “white” and attractive as possible. Not white in the corny geek sense but a real white man.
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Regarding equity in Math, there was actually a math program that was so successful that poor black elementary students were running circles in math around white students from private schools. It was called Direct Instruction developed by Zig Engelmann for Project Follow-Through in the 1970’s.
The basic of the project was to test several different education paradigms in the real world and see how it held up against traditional instruction. Most were based on exploratory learning, self-esteem focused education, and extremely loose protocol that was supposed to increase a child’s creativity. The output was every one of the fancy new methods made in academia failed miserably.
Engelmann’s extremely concise, regimented, and, most importantly, thoroughly tested methods that went in the face of all of modern academia won hands down. Of course, they then just said every method failed, because a single school of the 20 Direct Instruction failed to employ did not show improvement (which stopped DI after a few months into the study due to political reasons). They memory-holed the multi-million dollar study and here we are.
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“poor black elementary students were running circles in math around white students from private schools.”
Yeah, right.
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To clarify, the white kids using traditional instruction did worse than blacks using DI. Now if one compared white students using DI with the poor blacks, the whites did better, but all groups did far superior with DI than traditional or our modern methods.
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I’ve heard countless claims like that, but the data always show whatever small difference instruction makes disappears by middle school and achievement gaps widen significantly by high school and college. Countless education methods have been tried (common core, headstart, small schools …) and endless billions have been spent on personalized instruction, nutrition programs, infrastructure improvements, computers, prep schools, vouchers and the like and the result is always the same: no appreciable difference in closing black-white (or black-other) achievement gaps. This has been true since the 1980s, at least, and probably even going back to the 1970s.
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It’s true! The poor black elementary students ran around in circles while white private school children did math problems.
My grade school, thankfully, did not rely on the “hows” and “whys” of simple math and instead relied on brute force memorization. As a result, even in my later years I’m able to “run circles” around those even more brilliant than I in regards to “simple math” (i.e., the math normal people use for 100% of their lives). So yeah, I can believe it.
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Remember the, “Magic Minute,” tests in grade school where you had to correctly calculate as many simple arithmetic problems as possible in 60 seconds?
Those were great.
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With a lot of effort, you can keep black elementary school students from falling too far behind their White and Asian peers.
Why? Because even black kids are generally smart enough to basic arithmetic. But once you hit middle and high school where you move on to algebra and higher level math, no amount tutoring can get the black kids to keep up. They simply lack the IQ.
There’s magic program to fix genetic differences in IQ and behavior.
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That’s a pretty key point. I was home-schooled, with an essentially 19th century curriculum. When I went to college, I discovered that I was the only person in math class that could perform simple math without pen, paper or a calculator. I don’t know if the IQ gap could ever be bridged, but no one, especially black kids, is well served by modern pedagogical methodology.
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
The seminal law of warfare.
Maximize your strengths & focus the enemy’s greatest weakness. So what are the strengths of the DR? Well, to start, there are about 15 million skilled game hunters in the US and the vast majority are likely to be on this side of the great divide. Better still, most of these men & women are the solid citizen, salt-of-the-Earth, reticent rural type that form the backbone of their communities. They tend to be thoughtful, serious, cautious, and inured to the long deprivations of the game hunt. They are not the sort that get profiled by LEOs or otherwise draw attention to themselves. They move effortlessly and benignly through society and are typically the neighbor that you know you can count on in a pinch. And did I mention that they number about 15 million, a statistic that has held pretty steady over the past few decades.
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The DR is 200 people on the internet. If you asked the 15 million gun hunters what the dissident right was they’d probably answer either the 2A or the right to dissent, the latter answer would require digging.
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Maybe you should meet a few hunters before concluding they’re based, Rambo-type survivalists that the government can’t touch.
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At this point in time we would be better served by 15 thousand Zman style propagandists for our cause.
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What good is a general without an army? A million Z-Mans wouldn’t matter if no one else showed up to the battle.
What are these hunters going to do? Have a hot war with USAF? Do you suppose the USAF is going to make soldiers put on bright red coats and stand in a straight line, move in columns and fight like it’s the early 19th century? If there’s a hot civil war, it will be fought in tech, infrastructure and logistics domains, not a recreation of Gettysburg or Antietam.
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I thought you were about building community. Why alienate 15 million people who can feed themselves naturally if things go to Hell in a hurry?
Do you see how this cope works? I’ll translate: “Look at this impressive thing that will one day solve our problems if some arbitrary line is crossed in the future, meaning I don’t have to take any action in the present.”
Aging, mostly civilian, boomers scattered over an entire continent and armed with relatively light weaponry arrayed against a huge, well-trained army with the latest weaponry and institutional support — drones, intelligence agencies, the banks, the entire government apparatus, police agencies, and media — will mop up Elmer and company during any conflict. There are only a few circumstances I can think of where that might not be the case, but as the last thread about national divorce showed, this group isn’t willing to go there. So, this idea is a nonstarter at best and, likely, just a coping mechanism.
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“Today in the mountains – Tomorrow the world.”
Worked well for the Left. Given enough desperation it could work for the Right. Civil war means civilian vs civilian. When the government’s goons go home for the day they too, become civilians.
The anti-Russian foreign policy is just so stupid. We should be working to pull them into the west and away from the Red Chinese.
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Pull them into the Western degeneracy?
Maybe it’s better if they are kept separate. In a few decades, Russia may be the last remnant of Western Christian civilization, even though, or maybe because, they are distancing themselves from the West today.
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Right on, Hun. The CUE axis (China US, EU) have have been salivating over the treasure trove of Russia’s vast resources since the fall of the USSR. And they almost got away with it in 1990s with the bufffon Yeltsin. But then Putin came along and became the staunch nationalist that he is which is why Russia went from being the Left’s darling to their mortal enemy and why they worked 24/7 to align Putin with Trump. Both put their own nation’s interest first over Globohomo progressivism (though one can argue Trump wasn’t all in like Putin). Of course being a nationalist is akin to being racist these days so Putin must go and Russia must be made to heel. Thus the coming gang rape of Russia by CUE is imminent. But Putin will not go down without a fight. I think all this bluster though. CUE will just run out the clock on Putin (10 years tops) and Russia will be theirs and the last major majority white country will be raped and pillaged. Time is on their side. RIP W Civ.
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I gave Drake an upvote, but I can see your point. Putin may be performing an adroit balancing act: keeping a distance from the West and Peking while cultivating detente with the Visegrad nations and Turkey. He also seems to have achieved a working relationship with Netanyahu as their nations pursue their (perceived) interests in the Whackamole War in Syria. The thing that angers me is the cynical alliance of the Left and the neocons in making Russia the Beltway Bogeyman, even though China is a far more formidable rival and that Russia didn’t start the conflict with Ukraine–the West-sponsored Kiev coup d’ etat did so.
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TBH, Russia is actually the remnant of Eastern Christian civilization. It’s never really had much of a Western tradition, the paleness of Russians’ skin notwithstanding. If Western Christian culture is to be preserved, it will be by dedicated Western Christian men, not Russians. It’s our duty and no one else’s. Besides, if we won’t work to preserve it, why would anyone else?
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Ironic, isn’t it.
And yet, a civilization’s legacy can be preserved by a new, fresh civilization. Western civ is said to have originated with ancient Greece, but that was the Classical civilization which no longer exists. The West followed up on it.
In the same sense, Russia, as a young civilization according to Spengler, is preserving the legacy of the Western civilization for the future.
Who cares if Russia is best friends or worst enemies with China? Neither is the enemy of American Whites.
Are the Russians or Chinese responsible for filling my area with Central Americans?
Are the Russians or Chinese trying to take your guns?
Are the Russians or Chinese calling you a domestic terriorist and threatening to ruin your life?
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Yes, the Chinese are in control of many media outlets that are gleefully participating in our destruction.
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Which ones? What is their share in those media outlets. Who owns the rest?
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Please be so kind as to enlighten me about all of the Chinese-controlled media outlet in the United States vs those owned and/or run by Jews?
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I’ve worked with Chinese and Russians in my professional life. They are good people. IMO, we have nothing to fear from the Russians.
The overseas empire we have built is a grift at this point. Bring our military home now!
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This was linked in an Unz article this week. I thought a very interesting, sober view on the current situation:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/04/they-neocons-may-have-anger-issues.html
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Americans are global leaders in a number of developed strategies, that there is only one problem with all of them—they are not survivable when faced with reality.
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He can say that again…
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Chauvin is already well upon his way to the slammer. The jurors would be doxxed if he walked, and they know damn well what would happen to Minneapolis and most other large cities throughout the country too.
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Scott Johnson from Powerline did good reporting on the jury selection. The jury is terrible for Chauvin. Attending a protest in the aftermath of St. George Floyd’s death was not considered an automatic disqualifier for serving on the jury. There was one prospect who almost certainly would have voted to acquit, a blue collar white man in his 50s who said he would decide the case based on the evidence presented and had a negative view of defunding the police. The prosecution had him dismissed for cause. The best outcome for Chauvin is a hung jury.
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I think that riot talk is overwrought. It will burn if the betters decide it should burn, and if they do it probably doesn’t matter what the verdict is (and likewise, in the unlikely event that they rather their city not burn more, it wouldn’t matter either).
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Here’s the UPI bit on B-2’s deploying to Europe:
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2020/03/09/B-2-bombers-deploy-to-Europe/5961583771118/
Yes, it’s under the guise of an, “exercise,” but isn’t that always the case?
Hugely provocative move on the Deep State’s part.
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I thought B2’s were never stationed outside continental US because of all the classified tech they contain. They just refueled midflight repeatedly. But that limited their mission options to static targets whose locations would be known for the next day or two.
Deep State now wants plausibly deniable drone strikes.
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I had the same understanding regarding B2 deployment.
The folks at Aus Airpower *thought* the B2 could survive in a modern integrated air defense system controlled environment back in 2009:
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-02.html
11 years is a long time ago.
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B2s require air-conditioned hangers because the radar absorbing epoxy delaminates in high humidity. The F-35 has its radar absorption built into its skin.
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“https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39537/the-air-force-needs-to-reverse-engineer-parts-of-its-own-stealth-bomber”
We don’t even know how we built the B2s (see link below). If we own the thing and don’t know how we made it, do we have to worry about other state actors stealing our secrets (which we ourselves don’t know anymore)?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39537/the-air-force-needs-to-reverse-engineer-parts-of-its-own-stealth-bomber
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I must say when I saw the article I thought it was daft that the USAF did not know how to do this. But a moments reflection tells me it is very, very common and to be expected. Goodness knows how many persons worked on the plane and then how many different companies – all specializing in different fields – designed and manufactured parts for it. And this would have been when? Thirty odd years ago?
I am not sure of the extent of the calamity with the B-2, but all massively complex systems suffer from this when they age. Most of our financial calculations appear to be run using the COBOL language; and this is not widely adopted amongst youthful programmers today. Even supposing you get a person who knows the language to look at an individual module of it, he will not be privy to all the information in the original developer’s mind when he coded it. Questions like ‘Why is that there?’ or ‘Why did Tyrone do it this way?’ abound.
Even at my workplace we have an old desktop application that runs only on XP. Nothing newer. Development stopped years ago and the original developers are probably approaching their sixties now. If we ever need to modify it we will need to ‘reverse engineer’ it seeing that there is no decent documentation even for it’s large scale architecture. I have often though how a company could ever avoid this, and I am not sure that they can. It would require the sort of thorough training (master/apprentice) type relationship, along with an environment that prized a low staff turnover to accomplish.
Returning to the example of the B-2, I think the original manufacturer was Northrop, but who knows how many company ‘mergers’ they’ve been absorbed into by now. Furthermore, the scope of the project would have been huge, perhaps involving contractors of questionable ability and competence. It may have been common place for individual components to have been created by some small time outfit who had no idea of their greater purpose. Would such a small outfit still have the records? Still exist? The B-2 may in part be a victim of it’s own secrecy.
As a final point, the article does mention that it is the USAF that need to do the reverse engineering. Would they have even known that much about the aircraft in the beginning. They themselves will have a limit of technical knowledge so I can see why they would see fit to perform this analysis.
In summary, immensely complex mechanical and computational systems will always have this issue. It can be well managed or it cannot be. It is more likely to be poorly managed when it occurs and perhaps not even considered initially because – in my experience – many management bigwigs think only up until the next deadline. Still, it’ll be interesting to see how things progress with the B-2.
I do believe that my favourite aircraft, the B-52, is very much still in service. That thing must be over fifty years old… along with the Vulcan bomber, seeing it takeoff a close quarters is a thrilling experience.
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B2 entered service in 1994. Designed the decade prior. All the guys and most of the companies (not Northrup, but the subcontractors) are long gone.
I think USAF doesn’t want to do the reverse engineering. They want to hire someone else to do it (private company). They are running into these reverse engineering problems all over the place as their air frames age and the US supply chain disappears to China.
Mother of a friend is a grandmother-aged COBOL programmer. She helps maintain software for financial systems at banks. Its a good profession, as you say, because few people learn this language now.
First quote in my previous comment should read:
“I thought B2’s were never stationed outside continental US because of all the classified tech they contain.”
I think that the reason that societies have traditionally celebrated soldiers for killing while viewing executioners as pariahs is that the executioner is killing a person who is, at that point, helpless while soldiers are killing people who are fighting back. Also, soldiers are killing while exposing themselves to great risk of injury or death. The executioner exposes himself to no danger.
It is a stark contrast. Soldiers are given medals and parades and monuments. The executioner generally wears some kind of mask or hood to hide his shameful identity.
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First time listener to your radio show: nice job! If that was a fair example of your work, it has been my loss for not tuning in earlier.
Thank you for putting your show (and this website) together.
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Starting from “way too old to have it make much difference” I’ll observe that we’re in about the third generation that the prosperity has ruined. The only difference I see between the Minnesota trial and those little one act scenes that are played out locally is scale. All the worlds a stage and ……
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Former Officer Chauvin has been made out to be a bad cop and lousier person. This is Perception Management at play, designed to assuage the resulting anarchy by the willfully ignorant and reprobates looking for a reason to create chaos.
Truth is, Chauvin was called to the scene by the Cup Foods store manager, who was alerted to his manic behavior and passing the fake $20. Chauvin came from a “domestic”, arguably the most difficult of calls. After a time he managed to deescalate that situation without incident…he was professional and calm. Then gets called to this debacle where his life is put into a threshing machine. Floyd was no saint. And Chauvin and his fellow officers were entering the gates of Hellishness. Yesterday the State’s “experts” were told to say what they said, these people were searched for and hand-picked for their ability to lie under oath. With the Perception Management of creating facts that don’t exist, then peddling the false narrative to their fake news talking heads and politicians, this will not go well regardless of the outcome.
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That was my impression yesterday as well: these were all professional liars, people whose testimony contracted even the other prosecution witnesses. I’m not sure how the jury will digest it, but it’s an issue, I’d think, when the prosecution’s case has veracity issues even before the defense presents it’s case.
Yes the defense attorney could have pressed his luck to press them as liars, but that was all risk and little reward. If the jurors couldn’t already see it then they probably wouldn’t have been helped along by him going into “jerk” mode and making the liars seem worthy of sympathy.
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Reasonable people like to buy, not be sold. We hate being sold snake-oil. Then again, look what social media has done to peoples brains, so all bets are off on what the jury will do. I believe the defense knows this is a tough sell because all that came before (as Z used with the OJ debacle where, in that case, the prosecution was disallowed damning evidence by media-hound Ito, with his Apple laptop front and center). Speculative on my part, but thinking the defense is being patient and will bring out the solid evidence, with their own experts (who will be rational and fair), and make this a no-brainer with facts. Will the jury “see”? If they are honest and not bought off. If it were me, the moral path is to follow the facts and tell those threatening to “do their worst and go pound sand.” I’d rather be dead knowing I did right by the truth as presented.
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At this point, nothing goes well. Ever.
I think you’re being a little too harsh (or cynical) regarding the Chauvin defense team. Never forget the old maxim that when one’s enemy is destroying himself, the best thing to do is get out of his way.
And the prosecution is doing a bang- up job of torpedoeing their own case. Their witness, who turned out to be St. Floyd’s drug dealer, who turned around, lawyered up, and took the 5th the day before he was scheduled to testify was huge. That the prosecutors didn’t see that happening is mind- boggling incompetent.
The second point is that the defense is probably not playing to “win,” in the sense of going for an acquittal on all charges. Given the notoriety of the case and the demographics of the jury, to say nothing of the politically charged atmosphere the jurors are facing, a full acquittal is probably impossible. The defense is playing for a hung jury as their best possible outcome. That means picking a handful of the most likely skeptical jurors and making your arguments to them. A big part of that will be making them like the attorney on a personal level, which means being very careful to not come across as a jerk.
From what I’ve seen, the lead defense attorney is doing a good job of being low- key and reasonable and, therefore, likable to jurors.
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Spot on…Floyd was seen in the Cup Foods store cameras acting erratic, obviously high as a kite, then passes the fake $20, of which he had already done elsewhere. Like the Matthew Shepard case, where the national media and local activists made that case to be about gay-hating, not drug dealing, the Laramie District Attorney knew all the facts (laid out in “The Book of Matt”…by a gay author), yet was threatened with everything under the sun if he did not tow the line. Chauvin’s defense team knows the facts, knows the case is political and built on made-up social media crap, so is waiting to mount their defense, which to reasonable folks will be damning with an acquittal. Will it matter? Only God knows…but it absolutely should if we are to remain a Constitutional Republic governed by laws (yeah, right…but one can hope).
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According to the official narrative, Matthew Shepard, a homosexual, went into a redneck bar in a redneck city in a redneck state in a redneck country and tried to pick up, not one, but two rednecks for homosexual fun.
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Shepard was in the sex trade and drug trade and was a drug addict…Denver to Fort Collins to Laramie. Sad and tragic life his mother don’t want people to see. Shepard personally knew McKinney. They were “lovers”. Never about homosexual crime…all about drugs and getting paid. The book by Jimenez is an excellent read, which is why it has been worked hard to discredit and he’s been shunned by “his own” in the LGTB community. He doesn’t care, truth matters.
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Not sure how the case will turn out, but I am sure of the reporting on this case. Every single MSM outlet—and some RINO conservatives—comment *only* on how bad the evidence looks for Chauvin. The bias is palpable. If Chauvin by some miracle is found innocent, cites will incinerate over night as the scenario has been set for “no justice, no peace” civil disruption.
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Let them burn…
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My thoughts as well…reaping what they have sown. The powers that be are either clueless or want the anarchy, or both. Leave them to their own devices.
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Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. Job 4:8
Some things really never change
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More Deep State provocation as two US warships are confirmed to have entered the Black Sea:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-confirms-2-us-warships-enter-black-sea-ukraine-russia-posturing-grows
Maybe ol’ Vlad will send a couple Su-24s to give them the, “Donald Cook,” welcome.
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A provocation, but done on a regular basis under all Presidents.
With respect to the defense not being stellar, if the prosecution’s own witnesses are destroying the prosecution’s case, it seems to me that doing nothing is a perfectly acceptable approach.
Wasn’t it Napoleon who said not to interfere when you enemy is making mistakes?
I’d refrain from judgment until we see the witnesses for the defense — assuming they’re needed by the time the prosecution has finished.
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How do you get your avatar to show up again? None of the 4 “connect with” links in the reply area work.
I like how everyone’s a jerk here and won’t help me.
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Hope you are not serious about the lack of help.
Anyways, Zman says comment system is broken and will address it in the future.
Disqus doesn’t work for sure.
Frip, you wound me, baby… I’d help you if I could ever figure out how these darn computers work.
“A blind man could see that Simpson was guilty, but the defense was allowed to turn the trial into a racial circus. For the jury, it stopped being about facts and law and became a weird sort of beauty pageant. They picked a winner based on how it made them feel at the moment.”
No, they picked a winner based on their race. OJ trial was decided at jury selection. The selection resulted in 8 blacks, 2 hispanics, 1 half-white half-native American, and 1 white women. OJ prosecution (Marcia Clark) made mistake of seating black women jurors. Jurors that are mostly black and female, despite familiarity with black men and their problems, are loyal to their race. HBD wins again.
For more on this, see:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/simpson/Jurypage.html
Chauvin is luckier that there are more white jurors at his trial. He has 6 white people in his jury. This should be enough for him to get a hung jury result.
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Everything is a racial spoils game right now, and the only people who are not playing are whites. I have my doubts that a single white juror will have the guts and fortitude to hang the jury, but I suppose there’s an outside chance.
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I wouldn’t, certainly not the lone white hold-out.
Though sending him to prison is an obvious miscarriage of justice, he’s a cop and he most certainly is not on our side.
The crowd of cops who cheered Kyle Rittenhouse, not a one of them resigned in protest when he was arrested and charged. We live in a world where lynch mobs trying to kill a 17yo for no particular reason are the good guys and the 17yo kid trying desperately to defend himself when the police would not, is the bad guy.
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You don’t get out much in 2021 do ya?
Asians and Latinos are FAR preferable to ‘bone to pick’ darkies and woke AF white cat ladies & hipsters. Either of which would send you to the gallows faster than you can say “I’m not a racist!”. Or if you are -really- lucky you can get a “jury of your peers” which would be normal sane White people which are becoming a rarer commodity by the year. Your watch stopped in about 1988…
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I have a friend who is a public defender. He is careful in jury selection to make sure as many of the jurors are the race of the defendant as possible. He will do whatever he can during voir dire to stack the race of the jury pool in his favor. He can’t admit to doing this, but this is what has worked best in his experience. Stacking jury by race gives him the best chance of getting a not guilty verdict or deadlocked trial. He has lived and tried cases in different places. Its easier for him to get his clients off (who are all guilty and almost always POC) when he has jury pools with more minorities in them. These are the jury pools that he sees now in big cities. In the future these will the jury pools everywhere.
OJ won because his jury was stacked with black jurors.
Chauvin has a good chance for a hung jury because he has 6 white jurors.
Thinking that there are a bunch of based asians or hispanics that will save the day is a cope. Thinking that jurors aren’t making most of their decisions based on race (e.g., “beauty pageant” or “feel at the moment” reasons) is also a cope.
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Time for some basic calculus.
Blacks will approach asymptote “LOW IQ” as Lim x–>inf
X = resources allocated to negro education
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Haha geek + racist humour
What a nice combination. Never seen it before
Where the soap guys go?
The Neo-con anti Russian lunacy is really the greatest redpill on Juice.
I’m not particularly anti Semitic. I still think white gentiles are just as big a problem as Juice in contributing to our demise. Fix our own problems first you know.
But the evidence is unmistakable around Russia. (((Rubin))) (((boot))) (((browder))). It’s literally Every. Single. Time. So yeah something is going badly wrong here. They clearly feel entitled to control Russia and have a deep hatred for Russian people. Evil and nasty people.
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B125, I appreciate your thoughts but I must pose a question. You say, “Fix our own problems first you know.”
I’ve always said that we have more than one problem to solve.
But what if fixing our own problems entails removing the media that misleads our people? It seems to me that you have the order of problems that we must solve in the wrong order.
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I can’t think of another act that would be more effective to our cause than shutting down the media.
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I can. Kill the magneto of AWR–academia. Media people are not thinkers. Every horrendous idea they push they learned while in college.
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Ah, so the problem with sodomy in the outside world is, it’s unlicensed. Like moonshine.
In prison, though, it’s a lamentable but necessary function of the criminal justice system. The rapists are like trustees, helping out the system. Certainly not disgusting perverts, like those people engaging in consensual sodomy outside.
“Remember, this hurts me more than it does you.”
And here I thought black folks were putting a strain on the system, filling up the prisons, when actually, they are a necessary function. Although I guess it is a new kind of slavery: we needed them to pick cotton, now we need them for sodomy. Doing jobs White people won’t do!
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They politicized covid from the beginning. Even the term Covid-19 is itself political.
But even before the hysteria, politicians were calling anyone worried about the Wuhan Flu as “racist” complete with politicians recommending you go shopping in Chinatown and “hug an Asian”
When the religious arrests started and the ridiculous overreach of mask and lockdown enforcement lead to protests, protesting was suddenly going to kill everyone. Literally the same week they were denouncing lock-down protests as “super-spreader” events, Saint Floyd happened and suddenly “peaceful protesting” was 100% safe and actually good for your health.
They have become even more political and more hysterical ever since. You cannot really believe a single word they say on any subject.
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Z: Regarding the Prog math initiative. At 3:30 “As a black person this is my answer for 2 + 2…” LOL There’s always the 2+2 gag. But that one really gets it. I can see a black college math student asked to solve an equation on the chalkboard in front of his white classmates who are following him seriously and reverently.
6 – 20 + 5x (9) = I’ma Sex Machine. That’s what those numbers mean to ME. That’s MY math truth.” (applause)
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The whole Russia thing is puzzling. Biden’s team is intent on war with Russia over Ukraine, while having open borders at home (at a min that leaves ample opportunity for Russian mischief) and packing the Supreme Court (Biden’s team say its on) and now funding Iran and dropping sanctions and sending billions to the Palestinians and demanding Israel withdraw to the 1967 borders.
Its all insane and contradictory. War with Russia while demanding Israel basically abolish itself which is sure to create conflict with the Israel lobby at a time when the ruling faction needs peace with them. War with Russia while sending billions to Iran. And thinking there will not be any comeback of the open border. The Dems are just squabbling ultra woke factions in charge of everything now. Corporations are amazed that weak senile Biden can’t head off massive tax increases. That their wokeness and be less White have purchased them nothing.
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