One of the downsides of writing and talking about the current scene is that you often want to kill yourself or kill someone. There are only so many stories about a crazed judge issuing an equally crazed rulings you can read before you want to spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start slitting throats. To paraphrase the late comic George Carlin, there are a lot of people who need to be killed.
It is why it is a good idea to look away from the daily car wreck that is the public square from time to time. It is why I quit Twitter. I will post links to my work there, but otherwise it is on mute. The most popular figures on that platform exist to irritate everyone else, so being active on that site is like inviting people into your home so they can break things and urinate on your carpets.
It is also why this week’s show is deliberately lighthearted. I randomly selected questions from big book of questions and answered them without preparation. I am not sure how many I got through, but it is probably about twenty. The book has three hundred questions in it, so I will probably revisit this format in the future when I feel like raising the black flag and slitting throats.
I have not read all of the questions. For the show I started at the first one and kept going until I ran out of time. I skipped some of them because they were not interesting to me, but that still leaves plenty of material. The interesting thing about the ones I cover in the show is that they have no link to current events, but they relate to things far more important to daily life.
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Z, I have to strongly disagree with you on the anonymous posting answer. Do you realize that 90% of your comment section would disappear if it wasn’t anonymous? Maybe it’s because I look at that question through the lens of dissident politics and our current regime, but posts that disagree with the establishment position on race or homosexuality can make someone lose their jobs and livelihood.
I agree with you Greek.
I remain anonymous not because what I say is incorrect.
But because what I say IS correct, albeit socially taboo in clownworld.
I did not read the question in the narrow context of recent politics. I was reading it very generally. If you can put aside the pogroms against dissident over the last decade, then my answer makes sense. Imagine a world free of crazies. Would you then be a different poster as anonymous versus your real name?
Setting aside what is in favor of what ought to be is the libertarian/communist/utopian disease. The crazies and sociopaths will always be with us. And they will be drawn toward power, so anonymity will always be useful. They’re not going to suddenly invent a new type of human being … and if they did, that would be a whole new type of dystopia.
“If you set aside all the reasons why this is a bad idea, it’s a really good idea!”
It’s no just jobs and livelihood. There were bloggers I used to read who had to quit because kids – nieces and nephews- were attacked. The wives will be verbally confronted in the grocery store, and banned from the public school grounds (where her kids ought not to be anyhow). It affects every family member. Heck, look at Tucker Carlson, whose DC/MD home was attacked when his wife and kids were there. He had the money and family roots to relocate to Maine. That state is politically a disaster, but in the more rural areas ‘down east,’ it’s still a… Read more »
I thought Tucker was in Florida (also with his family) these days…?
Seems you’re right – on Gasparilla Island. I thought he was doing his broadcasts from Maine, but apparently the studio space was too small. But online it does say he lives in Maine during the summer.
Kennebunkport?
The comment section is only anonymous to the extent that we are unimportant enough to not waste the resources on de-anonymizing us. One of the stupidest ideas that oldsters are bringing forward into the present is that anything on the internet can be truly anonymous if someone with sufficient resources wants to make it un-anonymous. Feel free to believe that your handle or your VPN are protecting you, but it’s only true to the extent that it’s not worth leaning on the VPNs owner to find out the identity of Joe Schmoe for saying bad thoughts in some small corner… Read more »
Everyone posting here has already wrecked their social credit score. Even people just reading have probably dinged it a little bit.
I have to live in the present. I’ve been posting and writing dissident thoughts online since the 1990s. At what point does this “social credit score” actually appear in my existence, compared to the myriad other actual events that have determined the course of my life — and continue to, right now? What a will o’ the wisp. Chasing future threats while there are real ones — and have been — for decades all around us. I’ll be dying in a tent someday on the side of the road in a decade and the guy next to me will be… Read more »
It’s the reason I don’t bother even thinking about using a VPN any more. If you suddenly decided to start using a VPN, but you have a prior history of posts without using one, you can be identified — and you will be identified if someone or some group takes any interest. Everybody has a particular way of writing/speaking. If they could identify the UC@bomba without modern computational methods, they can identify you today using those methods, through your unique word choices. BUT… if you wanted to go anon after having a history of posting without a VPN, it might… Read more »
On second thought, I believe it would be nigh impossible to even design such software. Something we might call one’s “concern frequency” would still offer your writings up in a unique profile.
Everyone has a distinctive pattern of knowledge, even idiots. If you know a lot and can maintain your characters’ boundaries, you can probably pretend to be a few separate people. They’re all going on the same list, if the listmakers (or their software) are even slightly competent. However, any closed door is almost as secure as Fort Knox. The best investment in separating your internet self from your real self is a boring lie. In adolescence you chose the wrong deodorant and smelled super bad for a couple years, and your favorite band is Sabaton (as befits a smelly kid).… Read more »
I’m not important enough that they would come after me. Nevertheless, I’d still rather stay anonymous.
I agree. We can all talk about how stupid AI is with things like math(and it is) but it is very good at sifting large datasets like the data packet traffic of an ISP. I suspect that a decade from now, the very idea of digital privacy/anonymity is going to be laughable.
And the Ukraine war is busily exposing how ludicrous the idea of bugging out is in a world with cheap infrared drones capable of carrying weapons. Whatever the post-apocalyptic dystopia ends up being, it won’t be like film portrays it.
Correct. I’ve already had one attempt on my life. And I live in a remote location in the Rockies within a rural white community. As such, the invader responsible was easily recognizable. I am never unarmed now. Such is the reality we must face in this Brave New World we live in.
If anonymous posting was good enough for Ben Franklin, it’s certainly good enough for us. Or is that another privilege reserved only for the elite? I don’t see what the problem is on these comment pages. I don’t see any problem with the comments here, but then again, I don’t know what has to be black-holed. I warn normies when I post links to articles here (that is when I am allowed to) that they may find some of the comments edgier than they like, but the author is pretty solid. I think everybody should show all their cards. Lay… Read more »
Are you saying your name is NOT Tempo? :O)
Somehow I incorporated the name of the place of my first high school job in my name. It was a store called Tempo…!
1970’s TC?
1970s, yes. They were called Buckeye Mart in Ohio and Tempo everywhere else (Tempo-Buckeye). That’s how I took the name.
Tempo was the poor man’s K-Mart
They had good stores in Ohio and Michigan. When the company started falling apart and needed cash, those stores were sold to Fisher’s Big Wheel out of Pennsylvania. Those stores made it another 15 years after that. They knew how to merchandise to small towns, but not so much to big cities.
Yep. Anonymous posting was good enough for “Publius” and “Federal Farmer” in 1787.Good for us, too. Look, we are the new samizdat. We’re the Christians in the catacombs. Sure, the government can and will find us if we get on the radar screen, but each of us is only 1 of 320 million. The virtue of anonymous posting is not that it will hide you from the government, but that it will hide you from the Stasi informants (your “fellow Americans” LOL) who will put you on the government’s radar screen. We live in a highly ideological society in which… Read more »
I read a story from Torrance, California where someone didn’t tip a Hispanic waiter and wrote a note on the restaurant receipt that there are no tips for illegals and he should go back to Mexico. Someone mentioned in one of the comments that if you call the credit card company even as a third party to complain, oftentimes they will cancel that person’s account.
In other words, yes. That’s what anonymity protects us from.
It isn’t just that productivity gains are going into the pockets of oligarchs, the productivity gains are going into the pockets of the useless via government programs, non-profits and useless jobs like diversity consultants, human resources employees, lawyers and various paper shufflers.
The country would be better off if they worked for a lawn service cutting the grass.
The vibrant youth who will stab your son to death over a trivial issue and the illegal immigrant who will assault your daughter are nourished with fast food purchased by the EBT card that you pay for. USA! USA!
So I see everyone in the uniparty is absolutely freaking out about the tariffs. saying how bad they’re going to be for the US.
But you know the thing about tariffs? They can be removed as quickly as they were levied. Even if they are bad, the damage they can do in a few months or even years is reversible.
In my opinion, the reason they want them removed immediately isn’t because they’re afraid they won’t work. It’s because they’re afraid they will work.
I have a smattering of economic background, primarily from “free market” school. The gist of these readings might be summed up as “Government intervention in economies tends to favor special interests and in general fucks things up worse than had they done nothing.” I “know” little of tariff history save that I read about the major disasters (Smoot-Hawley is blamed for exacerbating tbe Depression.) I concede that, having read only one side of the issues; I don’t know the other sides’ viewpoints. I’m also reminded of the quotes you’ll often see that, distilled to their essence, generally say that economics… Read more »
“To wrap this up, it seems likely to me that the public, and perhaps even economists, are in confusion or disagreement about the benefits of tariffs” I think you’re giving the gibbering classes too much credit. They aren’t confused or “in disagreement”. That would require thinking and making an effort to understand. Instead, they have all looked in their Little Red Book of economic dogma and turned to the chapter called “Tariffs Bad, Free Trade Good”, the entire contents of which are “tariffs bad, free trade good”. It’s just like everything else on Planet Amerika, the Hive Mind decides something… Read more »
Exactly. The primary fear is the tariffs will work. “Work” is doing lots of, well, work there since reindustrialization would be a long process and might fail, but the possibility of success is what rattled the sub-Clouds. I can see them working, actually, beyond forcing markets open.
Re-industrialization would also provide something for working class young (and not so young) White men to do besides become addicted to fentanyl. I mean before you know it they might start developing some self respect and self confidence and using those good wages to buy homes and settle down and raise kids. Next thing you know young White girls are not riding the cock carousel and quitting their jobs in HR to become mothers. Then you know what happens… Yep, Hitler! Hitler is what happens. There’s also the fact that you can’t really re-industrialize and stick to your “net-zero” and… Read more »
I’ll listen to the show on the way to the farm later. However, the environment that you outlined in the written intro is something that I think about often. While I think that ignoring the judiciary is acceptable, seeing as they are simply political operatives and not calling balls and strikes, it is just a matter of time before enough people are pushed over the edge and hoist the black flag. If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is. Things have to get much… Read more »
“If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is.” Astute observation. Despite all the lunacy of the culture, our civilization continues to function exceptionally well. I think we have far too much media. Wackiness and tumult sell better in a media environment than do factors of stability. Thus, the more media one consumes, the more one tends to buy into the illusion that things are especially screwed up today, like they never have been before. The reality is that the human race has always been… Read more »
A slight semantic correction: the things we avoid are rarely important, but the avoidance itself is absolutely critical.
Wkathman: “The things we avoid are often more important than the things we consume.”
Ostei Kozelskii: “the avoidance itself is absolutely critical”
TEN maternity nurses working on the same floor develop brain tumors
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Tucker has a new vidya concerning the V@xxpocalypse:
Full Tucker Interview with Mary Talley Bowden, MD; 1 hour, 22 minutes, 59 seconds: https://tinyurl.com/ym69mafj
Maybe things are great with you. Not so much for the millions of my brothers in U.S. streets. That is a VERY recent phenomenon. Best in history? Life in the U.S. in the Fifties and Sixties was superior to Current Amerika by orders of magnitude. We had FAMILIES led by FATHERS. Everywhere. High trust society. Kids played wherever they wanted, came home at dark. Great music, great film. Opportunity if you were willing to work hard. Unaffordable healthcare, unaffordable housing, rife false accusations, arrogant bitchified girlbosses, corporations that won’t hire white men, schools that won’t admit white men, hordes of… Read more »
Heck, I grew up in the 1980s in the Imperial Capital region and had that kind of childhood: played in the streets (without fear of getting run over), was out until dark during the summer nights, etc.
So it’s not just the 50s and 60s.
The evolution to insanity is much more recent than that.
It was in the 90s when kids quit playing outside unsupervised. Culturally, a lot of things changed for the worse in the 90s. In between the 60s and the advent of sail foams about 2012, I would say it was the decade when the most did.
The Eighties were still reasonably sane and decent. PC and feminism had not yet conquered all the institutions, and many Heritage Americans were still in charge.
After the Eighties were done, though, the devil took the place over completely. Even the churches folded to Princess and PC. I guess lotsa people are still living large. Many millions are not, however.
Reading your post persuaded me to reconsider my statements.
Well done.
Even though we were poor(and didn’t know it), my youth WAS unbelievably wonderful.
“If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history, even as upside down as it is.”
Depends where you live and how old you are. Also, not sure it’s better than living in other parts of the West or Japan,South korea etc.
I agree. Materially and infrastructurally, life in AINO is quite good. Very few AINOians lead a subsistence existence, the vast majority of us have access to good healthcare, and the currents of water and electricity run consistently. (So far.) However, there is far more to life than the basic materials needs. There are also the cultural, psychological and aesthetic realms. And in those areas, AINO is a living hell for any normal person.
‘Very few AINOians lead a subsistence existence’
Really? Have you looked at the streets of your cities recently? Because a lot more than ‘a few’ are living in them. Goes for the medium and small towns, too.
Life in New Amerika is great for women and foreigners, tho. I’ll give you that.
Cumulatively a fairly large number, but proportionately, statistically insignificant. What’s more, most of the street bums are cognitively incapable of leading a much better existence. They should probably be institutionalized.
There are a lot of rural, lower-income Whites who are struggling, and they aren’t bums. There are a lot of young 20s-30s Whites who are struggling as well – to find a mate, to be able to afford a house and family formation. They aren’t all bums either. The commentariat here skews older and professional. It is not an accurate reflection of the ‘average’ heritage White American.
‘It is not an accurate reflection of the ‘average’ heritage White American.’
To say the least.
Those rurals and 20- and 30-somethings may be struggling, but they’re not living on the streets and they’re not at the subsistence level. You’ve made a category error.
That is such b.s.
Most of my life in the U.S., the streets were almost empty of homeless men. Now they’re everywhere, even in the midsize towns.
You need to believe that the millions of men in New Amerika’s streets are there because they’re all bums. Bull.
Some are drunks and druggies and locos, but most are men tossed out of society to make way in the colleges and workplaces for Muh Precious Princess, homos, and the Of-Color ‘minorities’.
Been homeless many times myself. You calling me a bum, boyo?
Heh heh. You’d better slip that short gun back in the holster before it goes off and you lose a pinkie toe.
A key reason there’s more bums on the street now than in past decades is because extensive social services subsidize indigence. Plenty of scum have realized it pays better to panhandle and scam than to earn an honest living.
You are full of it. As for my ‘short gun’, you see me coming down the street, you better run. Mouthy little punk.
Heh. You mix with me and it’ll be the last thing you do.
Yep. Back in the Sixties and early 1970s even drunks and locos could get decent-paying jobs, particularly at places where they had union protection. Back in the 1980s I worked with a guy who was a nice enough guy but had a drinking problem (and admitted it). He had been canned from all the major employers in the region. If he got fired on a Friday he’d just go to the next company on Monday and get another job. When I worked with him the gravy train was coming to an end. We were at a small employer, and he… Read more »
Purely materially speaking (not spiritually, morally, or culturally), subsistence existence in AINO is pretty high on the hog
The Treasury Sec.Bessent says that the top 10% of Americans own 88% of the assets, the next 40% owns the other 12% and the bottom half has no net assets (debts>assets).
Exactly. Twenty-two percent own all the assets, seventy-eight percent own . . . squadoosh.
But yes! Things are ever-so-wonderful in New Amerika! Just ask Ostei. He’s doing GREAT!
And if you’re not doing so well, hey, then you must be a ‘bum’.
I’m not worried about the “bums”—whoever they are. It’s those (large majority) who work their ass off everyday, only to get up the next and do the same—while hope for a better life (the American dream) fades into oblivion as they get ground down by the system. These folk break down and eventually retire to a life of poverty and fear of—yes—homelessness. This is really 3rd world shit. With respect to Ostei, those young people are sons and daughters of good friends and decent people. They work hard, but are only a few paychecks away from bankruptcy. I was what… Read more »
“There are also the cultural, psychological and aesthetic realms.”
Yep, the psychological especially. Many of us have attempted to secure that through isolation. I can respect that, but that leaves the other 90% with little recourse. The stress level here—even for those we conclude are doing quite well—seems intolerable. That and genetics are my go too’s to explain much of what we see wrt to the “crazies” of the world.
“If you think about it, life right now in the US is still the best in history” This is probably true for upper middle-class and above, but for all below that line this is not the case. In the 90s, as a recent college grad, I had no trouble buying a tolerable fixer-upper starter home on pay that was pretty pathetic. At the same time I also paid off my college debt in short order, because it was vastly cheaper to go to a state school than it is now. Getting in as a patient in a white male doctor’s… Read more »
The 90s is when all this stuff was first being caused. Look at housing, for example. I remember driving to work past this new division they were building with a big old sign saying “starting in the low 400s” Allen Greenspan started bubblenomics in the 1990s and it has gone on full steam until today. A lot of the dysfunction in people was also created in the 90s, at least among the 30s and 40s crowd. They were the first generation raised on helicopter parenting and participation trophies. It was also when the schools started age based passing of grade… Read more »
The roots of our problems are indeed old – and the wise saw, and warned, back then. And were ignored, largely. But most evil seeds take time to grow and flower.
But the experience of living in that time allows me to see that this is not a time a of peak material affluence for most Americans. That’s already way back in the rearview mirror. That said, truly things have never been this good for the upper classes. They’d best enjoy it while they can.
“But the experience of living in that time allows me to see that this is not a time a of peak material affluence for most Americans.” Yep. Simply look at the disparity in wealth distribution. Slice it as you will, since the .com bubble, the bottom 80% of the population fight over 20% of the wealth. Even the touted “Boomers” are not all wealthy as we’d think. They now enter retirement with a median net worth of $200-300k with no pension other than SSI. No matter how you invest $300K (how do you invest that if most of it is… Read more »
20K is enough to rent a basic studio or one-bedroom apartment.
Whatcha gonna do about food, gas, car, health-care, meds, clothes, basic household items like light bulbs and toilet paper, and on and on.
Compsci: “Slice it as you will, since the .com bubble, the bottom 80% of the population fight over 20% of the wealth.“ The cynic might argue that there’s nothing which can be done about it; that the Pareto Distribution is simply an iron law of human sociology. BTW, PA, over at PA World & Times, recently observed that the V@xxpocalypse had just about a perfect Pareto Distribution in the USA: Females v@xxinated: 82% Males v@xxinated: 77% SOURCE: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/ Then the arithmetic looks like: (82 + 77) / 2 = 79.5% vaccinated 100 – 79.5 = 20.5% NOT vaccinated =============== 20.5%… Read more »
Indeed. I’d like to make it not so good for those upper classes, in a real big hurry.
‘This is probably true for upper middle-class and above, but for all below that line this is not the case.’
Correct. It is most certainly not.
It’s been a 50-year-long Wipeout for lower and middle class U.S. men. A planned and micro-managed Wipeout.
New Amerika is a degraded, dying, lying, hypocritical slut of a nation. Lotsa millionaires tho!
ray- I agree. I believe the current destruction of people’s investment and retirement accounts is to create an economic draft that encourages desperate people to participate in the next big war, either in the factories or on the front lines. I know some will argue that it’s all funny money, and those working people with something in their accounts are getting what they deserve. I disagree with that perspective, mainly because I, and tens of millions of other working people out there have killed themselves for years and decades to earn and set aside the money to fund those accounts.… Read more »
life right now in the US is still the best in history True in part, but it comes down to who/whom and to some extent where, doesn’t it? Someone under forty who has no prospect ever of owning a home, young white males are targeted for discrimination and have no good future job prospects, you get the picture. But, yes, most still have unprecedented financial comfort. This allows for all manners of fuckery and madness without pushback. That is going away, though, and once gone all bets are off. I actually suspect long run the tariff business will push off… Read more »
Broadly on the same topic is what Prof. Betz speaks of. He thinks the UK is sliding to civil war or similar societal crisis as reported on Derb’s show last week. I was a bit started to see his name mentioned in this opinion article in 4/3 Telegraph (a major UK “paper”). The US isn’t the UK of course, But many of the topics you discuss in your post are found in Betz’s interviews.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/03/civil-war-is-coming-to-britain/
Let’s hope. Civil war is England’s last hope. Then, finally, there would be some anti-government rebels worth throwing the “black ops” budget at. Man, that would be something to see…
“One of the downsides of writing and talking about the current scene is that you often want to kill yourself or kill someone. There are only so many stories about a crazed judge issuing an equally crazed rulings you can read before you want to spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start slitting throats. To paraphrase the late comic George Carlin, there are a lot of people who need to be killed.” It can’t be coincidence that so many of us all arrive at this exact same conclusion. Looking around at the current state of things, I… Read more »
Looking around at the current state of things, I completely understand why lots of old men prefer the company of dogs to people…
My husband has to deal with people on the phone all day (I listen to his end and later ask about and commiserate with his day). We normally go to town, church, and/or see neighbors once a week. Due to highly inclement weather, neither of us have left the house since last Wednesday – it’s not due to stop storming until Sunday afternoon and our dirt/gravel road is likely to be a mess. I used the last of the fresh strawberries last night, and we lost power for a few hours this morning (Generac came on). We have each other’s… Read more »
The individual vote matters in a jury trial, because it can decide the verdict, especially when a unanimous verdict is required. But when millions vote and a bare majority is decisive, the value of the individual vote is near zero. One economist has calculated that you are more likely to be run over on your way to the polls than to make any difference with your vote. No wonder democracy has been defined as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” So much for the idea that voting is a fundamental freedom, or that it… Read more »
“So much for the idea that voting is a fundamental freedom, or that it protects freedom.’ True, but an argument to that conclusion is a fundamental sophistry of “our democracy”. If you accept the argument and its conclusion, you are much less likely to ask potentially confusing questions about how democrats could have established democracy democratically. “The more democratic,…the larger and more rapacious it has become.” According to an old cliché, usu. attributed to JQ Adams, I think, every democracy wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. A better cliché would hold that every democracy wastes, exhausts, and murders the people in… Read more »
Even if voting functioned as promised, it is completely useless. The managerial class simply is not interested on our opinion on any subject. “Democracy” simply means rule by the managerial class. No matter what we vote for or tell pollsters or letters we write to the editor, we get “more of the same” Some study came out a couple years ago which found that the more public wanted something, the less likely the elite were to implement it, but that the elite always got what it wants. Voting is to government what commercials are to products. It’s nothing more than… Read more »
“Even if voting functioned as promised, it is completely useless.”
IMHO, this forum is more important than voting. One needs to thresh out ideas and sharpen argument. That is done here—whether we perceive it or not. Some say we are in a bubble and just preaching to the choir. Fine, but I for one steal shamelessly from the group, and for that, thanks.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t vote for Trump last election. 😉
Oh, I voted for him too. But I live in WA state, where it hardly mattered except as a cantankerous FU to the powers that be (and my idiot neighbors).
I need sites like this as a reminder that the Remnant still exists. Otherwise I’d be as gloomy as a Pacific Northwest winter.
“I need sites like this as a reminder that the Remnant still exists.”
Speaking of pseudo names and anonymity, “Remnant” seems a good one. Up for grabs. 😉
Sounds better than “Residue”…
If voting doesn’t matter–and I don’t deny it–then women voting also doesn’t matter. A Tradissident paradox?
I don’t think so. Everything with women is something the managerial class already wanted. They use voting as an excuse. The managerial class pushes what it wants and then it catches on with the women voters. Then the managerial class uses the wishes expressed by the women as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do. If women came up with their own political desires at odds with what the managerial class wanted, they would just ignore them. As I said in my earlier comment, voting is just propaganda. When the voters put in the guy they want,… Read more »
The only thing that matters in voting is influencing masses of voters using propaganda. If you can move 10,100,1000,… voters using persuasion based on costly means like ads, emails, but mostly manipulating a news source that people follow you can take the voting day off and go to the beach. At the end the election is won by the machine with more persuasive power. InfoWars is a great word for what our political environment is. The white pill is progressives/warmongers have the most expensive and sophisticated machine and they still need to cheat. The real war is the war for… Read more »
Modern democracy is really a mobocracy. It is the problem Plato talked about when it comes do democracies, “as soon as people realize they can vote themselves a raise…they will and the gig is up”.
The idea of good honest men running a government is a valid idea. If only a financial supporter of the government was allowed to vote it would hopefully encourage a more honest and sane system. That seemed to be the intention of the Jefferson and the rest of the mob at the time.
What we have now is shit. IMHO.
The daily car wreck of news isn’t all bad. Just this morning I was reading about a jewish “philosopher” at Yale who has moved to Canada to escape fascism. He says it’s like leaving Germany in 1932 or 33. No matter how you spin it around, a negative angle in this story cannot be found! Speaking of whether “work” and “purpose” makes one happy, I’d say it depends both on the work and on the time spent doing it. I’ve engaged in my share of wageslave drudgery, and I’ve engaged in my share of carefree idleness, and I know which… Read more »
The Jewish professor leaving continued the leftist white and Jewish streak of leaving to go to a historically white country to flee white racism.
Yep. Gimme a jingle when one of those ass-clowns moves to Namibia.
I think there is really something to twitter and keeping up with the news in general, or current events, as a way to prevent most people, not mr man of course, from thinking deeply. Keeping up with current events makes you constantly locked in the “now” and not in the good way! From old Joe: When you internalize an author whose vision or philosophy is both rich and out of fashion, you gain a certain immunity from the pressures of the contemporary. The modern world, with it’s fads, propaganda, and advertising, is forever trying to herd us into conformity. Great… Read more »
from the evidence I see, our elites are satanically evil and benefit in their efforts from technology. I do not expect for technology to improve life in the future. it has been used almost entirely to reduce freedom ,propagandize and impoverish for the last 25 years. when the WWW first came out and it was the “wild west” it was a great improvement in many areas of life. However, it has been turned into a complete tool of oppression in the last 20 or 25 years. It has gone from a great source of objective information to a monopoly on… Read more »
That post was a real shot in the arm, miforest. Thanks a million!
Yes, the panopticon is a dismal prospect, but there are always counter-currents: (1) Passive or active resistance. There are always ways to game systems. London’s ULEZ cameras are constantly being vandalized, for instance. Will CBDC record every transaction? Maybe. But how will they know that the dozen eggs “I” bought were actually traded to my neighbor as payment for some off-the-books good or service? Is all cash outlawed? Perhaps. But no government anywhere has ever stamped out black (free) markets. The underground may trade in gold or silver coins, packs of cigarettes, or what-have-you, but freedom doesn’t die easily.… Read more »
Amen brother, Carlin was right.
Next Friday I pop smoke & put the day job in the rear view.
Head out to the tree farm to watch & wait while clinging to my guns & Bible. Still check you everyday though, so far your stuff has helped me hanging on
If you ever get out to the PNW
I’ll take ya fishing..
best of luck , enjoy the farm.
I have also cut back my Twitter usage for the same reason as Z. DOGE sucked me back into reading posts off and on throughout the day. When it became apparent nothing would change in a major way to the system, I started cutting back. Once when I was younger, I quit following the news for a year. When I went back to following the political show, I realized nothing had really changed in that year. Same old, same old. I need to follow politics at a high level to overstand the likely trends in the stock and housing market… Read more »
For a while I was following the war in Ukraine very closely, watching the Military Summary youtube channel. Every day the Russians would seize a few more blocks of rubble in some bombed-out village and the narrator would promise that a major breakthrough was about to happen. But it never did, only the same creeping grind. Eventually I stopped watching the daily video updates and checked in only once a week or so to find that nothing much had changed. Now I don’t even bother with the videos, instead I take a quick look at the maps once a month… Read more »
Same with me on the Ukraine and stocks as well as Gaza and the rest. I find with stocks I am leaning increasingly to Buffet’s advice on just investing in some index funds ( along with some gold and bitcoin).
The market, like everything else, is just too rigged for the insiders. I have found The Dow Theory folks to be the best on bigger picture market trends so I just follow them for when to sell or buy the indexes. A general sense of politics just let’s me know how to allocate to what indexes.
I’ve been hearing that the Russian’s 2025 spring offensive is ready to kick off any minute now!
I’m still waiting for Col. Doug MacGregor’s (Ret.) call on Russia’s “Great Winter Offensive of 2022”.
For any sane person to retain his sanity, he simply must exit the Great Derangement from time to time. Z got out of Twit, I did the same with Farcebook many moons ago. And I agree that writing about the demented menagarie that is our public square requires some hard bark. For many years I wanted to be a syndicated columnist, but as Z says, doing that kind of work requires one to wade through the mephitic dreck constantly. Not good for one’s mental health. Relatedly, it’s a good thing I never pursued a professorship. Life within the belly of… Read more »
mephitic drek; excellent work my friend.
Spasiba bolshoi.
The general health of the American people is worse now than fifty years ago. Chronic disease is rampant, obesity out of control, and developmental diseases in children skyrocketing.
the perfect genetic and environmental storm of “liberalism” is coming to a head.
And that’s to say nothing of mental health, which, I suspect, has never been worse.
The one continuous thread I see through all American history is exceptional craziness.
For a litany of reasons we all spend some of our free time lengthening, American madness no longer produces greatness.
We’re a sad woman now, not a wild man.
G.K. Chesterton — ‘It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ’
Ha. May have to slap that one on the bumper of my Malibu…
Cheer up Z. And, uh, do what I say not what I do. It is bleak. That said, I think when leftists like this say the same things you said a couple of days ago, we are not far from flags hoisted. I think there are those of the old liberals, who got bamboozled by the GAE’s Imperial Leftism, who have come around. It is interesting to listen to them talk this way, and also to walk over the history and the people behind it. I post this to perhaps find something to take heart in. Even old liberals are… Read more »
I would refer you to “Belling the Cat.”
I may have said this before, but when I started in the financial services business in 1979, there weren’t any billionaires that I can remember, other than maybe the Hunt brothers, who were trying to corner the silver market at the time. The mere fact that there are now untold billionaires in this country, let alone the world, shows how massively skewed monetary things have gotten. But the screaming meemees will be screeching about a “market meltdown”…
Best guess in 1979 was 13 billionaires. In 2024 Forbes listed, 813 billionaires. This is in line with the “great divergence” in American wealth. Middle class income remained flat, arguably losing to inflation. Wealth in the hands of the upper quintile—really upper 10%—soared exponentially. Aside. Tucker had the new Sec of Treasury on his show. When asked about tariffs and stock market decline said this (paraphrase): ‘The stock market reflects the very wealthy’s interests. 88% of the stock market is owned by the top 10% of the population. The next 40% own the remaining 12%. It’s the bottom half of… Read more »
Excellent show. This may be a better format and funner way to do the show. It seem the following of your show are quite aware of how far we have fallen as a society. I like you have been very angry as of late. It is because our smart fraction running things are perfectly happy looting the country and people for their benefit. They should be smart enough to know this will lead to societal failure of epic proportions. Yet they have built the system to benefit the people running it to the detriment of the system. It appears there… Read more »
They are kakistocrats, i.e. the worst possible rulers. More generically, they are vermin, filth, intestinal parasites, that sort of thing.
That is a good word. I figured you might have the word for them.
Demons-in-training. Destined for the Pit.
Sports: Athletics is a way for society or tribe to discern which boys and young men are fit for war, and which are not. That was always its purpose. In fact, we need MORE athletics at young ages for boys, and none or few for girls. . . and before dotter-daddy hits the roof, consider again the prime reason for athletics, which is NOT television or commercial revenue or stroking the egos of females, but to identify which of your young men have the fighting spirit. Hanging the Occasional Politician: Would change exactly nothing. Modern politicians are largely frontmen and… Read more »
Mayorkas First!!!!
Suits me. Plenty to pick from.
“Hang the right people”: Sadly, that is precisely why in unstable societies it is the custom to kidnap, ransom, sometimes torture and murder not only wealthy businessmen and politicians but also (alas) their relatively innocent family members. For extra anarchy, add assassinations of influentials to the mix, be he a local politician, judge, or even reporter that was writing something that pissed somebody off. As with a great many things, we in “The West” take it for granted that we can (with nearly if not 100% assurance of security) travel from one city to another without being waylaid, or even… Read more »
“Even here”.
Hmmm. The US is quite violent by the standards of other OECD countires.
I assume you’ve never used public transport in NY or Chicago.
Something is going to give soon.
Don’t be fooled about George Carlin. He was an original anti-white Soyjack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8WE23x3CCQ
No one here thinks a 70s liberal puke is admirable. This doesn’t mean he didn’t say apt things sometimes. Heck, check out his piece of public education.
Your take on AI and it’s repercussions seem a bit different than your conversation with Paul Ramsey. What you say today about how irrelevant AI creative content will ultimately be because of the unhuman part. I don’t even like to watch a decent youtube video narrated in a pleasing robot english voice. Good art and music will always find an audience even if by some standards crudely done. Just because Paul can generate cute art for his daily shows doesn’t eliminate the use of most human created artist. People like that never invest or purchase our work. Obviously a lot… Read more »
Like everyone else, I get suggestions from Spotify of what music I might like. Some of it I do end up liking, and save to my playlists. Much of it by artists I never heard of before. If this music was AI generated, and I liked it enough, I’d save it to my playlists just the same. So I guess the question is how much money is in that for the creator, and if it’s worth the trouble.
Much the same here, but I listen mostly to SoundCloud. SoundCloud was set up precisely so that independent creators could upload their wares and (hopefully) profit form it. I’m strictly a listener, but I like the niche music available, whether individual artists or mixes created either by the service of by DJs who produce mixes sometimes including legacy music. These latter strongly recall the real, live radio DJs of yore, which I think disappeared from the scene decades ago. Tastes differ, but I’d much rather hear some obscure European creator’s new electronic music that’s in a genre I like, than… Read more »
That first paragraph….amen!
OT: Please tell me how Marjorie Taylor-Greene got a $6 million trading portfolio.
https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/G000596
Presentation from July 29, 2009; Dan Slane of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. This dude was quite a successful businessman, lawyer and real estate developer from Ohio, and Speaker of the House John Boehner nominated him to join the commission. He has some very interesting insights about doing business in China. I saw this in real time back in 2009, but it left an impression on me. I thought I would watch it again and I thought you all might be interested. He was no MAGAt. In fact MAGA didn’t even exist back then. He’s just a run-of-the-mill… Read more »
Anyone familiar with this guy Julius Ruechel? I just discovered him last night and I think he may be on to something as far as understanding our current predicament:
https://juliusruechel.substack.com/p/hackable-humans-part-1-why-western
A transcript would be like a gift from Heaven.
Why wait for Heaven to move when the Interdragnet is waiting for you search for the string ‘video transcription’?
https://restream.io/tools/transcribe-video-to-text?conversionId=64818151-9828-4ee7-9697-bfec0c896b3f
Well now I feel stupid. I plead old age.
It’s a good plea. Sometimes I invoke also the head injury I experienced while skiing in Colorado ca. 2000. I was in some moguls which ran parallel to a groomed part of the run. Lost my groove, veered onto the hard corduroy, lost my balance, and wham!. Hit the back of my head. Felt woozy and nauseous for hours afterwards.
I do not use a script or much in the way of notes, so producing a transcript would be a lot of work. That and I am firm believer that the spoke word should be consumed with your ears. Just as Shakespeare is best experienced live, the Power Hour should be heard, not read.
Agree, but that assumes a bit as to how we assimilate information. Yes, I am a great one for the spoken word—especially poetry from a trained voice. But for more complex thought, reading is my thing. Many a time I’ve had to read and reread a particular point in the essay. Sometimes my concentration wains and I need to stop and rest. All too often I am ignorant of a concept, or an acronym, or even an alternative word meaning and must look that up to read/understand further. Of course there is the occasional quotations in a foreign language to… Read more »
This is particularly true of a great deal of philosophy. If it reads rather like nonsense, it will be totally incoherent gibberish when listened to.
Can’t AI do that kind of thing? Don’t worry about the mistranslations. Just give the people what they want, albeit imperfectly.
But I agree with you…has anyone read Rush Limbaugh’s radio shows? I don’t think so
Sorry, but wrong here. Shakespeare is better read. And, if you disagree, I would invoke the great Dr. Johnson, who wrote on that specific subject in his “Preface to Shakespeare.” Too much depth to Shakespeare. No offense – I’m a subscriber and have been for years – but you are not the Bard!
The problem with Shakespeare onstage in the last century or so (I dunno how it was at the Globe back in the day) is it is almost invariably overacted. Extremely overacted, usually.
Producing a transcript would not be a lot of work, Z. But only if you want to: take your final (aired) audio file and load it into Grain.com and it will make a transcript for you in 5 minutes or less. (Account and subscription required of course.) BUT — just FYI. Its a good service. I have it connected to my zoom account, so if I need a zoom meeting recorded, the recording automatically goes over to Grain and I can get a PDF of the meeting. Not saying this is necessary. BUT– as Derbyshire said about this scholar guy… Read more »
Agreed on the fact that AI will kill AI-generated artistic content. Once the novelty wears off, all you’ve got is cheap AI produced junk that required no talent to produce. We will see human-created content gain in popularity and value, but in smaller niche markets. Make a product, create an audience willing to pay for it, make a living as a craftsman. Maybe have a side hustle for income stability.
Always fun to make a comment on Thursday and hear your commentary on the same topic coincidentally the next day.
I foresee just one of what would likely be sundry problems with AI generated entertainment, audio or video. Consider that a large fraction of the normal “text” on today’s Internet is AI generated to varying degrees. Some is easily detected by errors of grammar, context, etc. But some is skillful and even deceptive, as anyone who’ used Grok or a similar AI could attest. Problem: many of the current so-called large language models are “trained” on stuff scraped from the Internet. There’s probably little or no quality control, thus the ancient rule of computer science rears its ugly head:… Read more »
It’s an economic problem. After the fad wears off, AI will drive the economic value of its own products to zero. It takes no effort to produce it, so there’s no good way to charge for it. No bands, no production teams, no tours. AI may herald the end of consumer culture. If any stupid slob can “write” (ie generate) a novel and own fancy gadgets, then those things no long have value as status symbols. If something has no value, there’s no point in having it. It’s the same problem utopians like Rogan are starting to wake up to.… Read more »
I can tell it’s still you (the “live” Z Man) writing the posts, because there are typos.
🙂
And in this case, that’s “clear evidence of authenticity”). Even though I hate that word “authentic,” in this case, it’s relevant.
So it’s a positive case for having typos!
AI can mimic that
Are you making “the conservative case for having typos”?
Oh man, no way.
i hate typos and they drive me batty.
I never thought I’d view typos as a “sign of life”, but here we are.
Machines taking over the world is basically Musk’s vision for the future. Robots and AI doing the work and the government subsidizing all those now unemployable humans. It makes Communism look good in comparison.
The Z-Man is officially Lord Kira from Death Note!
You stole my Dick Banana epithet!
This was a refreshing show. A bit of a break from Disney’s latest turd or other melodrama.
Pro sportsball could easily be converted to an AI format operated by gaming algorithms seeded with the usual dice-roll random events that are embedded in on-line games. Players are no longer actually human, of course, but computerized renditions with profile and aptitude qualities purchased by franchises using “league dubloons” – same, same as in an on-line game. The economic argument for AI Sportsball is compelling and the fans wouldn’t care. One could even hire representational human contract actors to pose for selfies and sign merch a la comi-com events. This inspiration came from televised Covid Era sports stadia bleachers packed… Read more »
Great show – especially 2 of the last 3 questions – revenge fantasies turbocharged…
The ‘goodbye’ power is something straight out of ‘Death Note’ and yes all our lives would be real busy : ^ )) But if you really think about it, the requirement of physically being there would lead to your capture in a matter of days due to the surveillance state. So I’d get in a WEF event to make sure at least the big parasites are out of the picture. Great show!
Twitter has some sensible commentators but you can also enjoy the freak show aspect (P.T. Barnum online).