This Week’s Show
Contents
- 01m51s VDARE fights on
- 07m04s Lydia’s appeal
- 17m50s Tariffs, uh
- 23m25s Atheism news
- 24m38s Fascists suppress voters
- 26m32s Wonders of Nature
- 27m30s Signoff with The Four Lads
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01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! That was a snippet from Haydn’s Derbyshire March No. 2 played on the organ at Derby cathedral, and this is your combatively genial host John Derbyshire with some comments on the passing scene.
The format this week is somewhat different, the first two segments dominant.
I can already hear the grumbling. “Hey, Derb, you’re supposed to be a conservative. Why do you go messing up your format like this?”
To make a point, that’s why. The particular point I want to make is the sinister wickedness of state lawfare against private individuals and associations.
Sure, that point has been made often, including by me. It can’t be made often enough, though. Even with an enlightened administration in Washington, D.C. those individuals and those associations still face massed legions of left-wing and corrupt judges and state officials striving to extinguish our liberties. Fight! Fight!
02 — VDARE fights on. I’m sure you know that this podcast used to be hosted by VDARE.com, along with numerous written articles and reviews I posted there. That happy state of affairs ended last July.
VDARE.com was the internet voice of the VDARE Foundation, set up in 1999 by Peter Brimelow to promote patriotic immigration reform as sketched out in his 1995 best-seller Alien Nation. That book’s subtitle was, “Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster.”
Common sense was a keynote of VDARE.com. We said aloud what everyone knows to be the case: politely and soberly, backed up with good data when necessary.
To be sure, common sense is a slippery concept, sometimes scoffed at by the wise. The philosopher Bertrand Russell is often quoted as having said, quote: “Common sense is the metaphysics of savages,” end quote. In point of fact that’s not quite what he said. But hey, that’s the kind of thing for intelligent discussion of which we go to websites like VDARE.com.
Well, that’s where we go if the powers of the State allow us to. The judicial powers of New York State, an army of left-wing activist state judges headed up by anti-white, anti-American, ferociously anti-Trump state Attorney General Letitia Lardbutt, have decided that citizens should no longer be allowed to go to VDARE.com for commentary on immigration and other social issues.
Since they were unable to find any instances where the VDARE Foundation or any of its employees had broken a law, they proceeded by lawfare, with endless subpoenas for paperwork and — as you will shortly hear — grueling KGB-style interrogations of VDARE associates or ex-associates.
To defend themselves the VDARE Foundation had to hire lawyers, which is of course expensive. After a couple of years it had got so expensive, VDARE had to cut back on their activities; hence the de-platforming of VDARE.com last July.
Yet still the assaults come, and still the lawyers have to be paid. If at last they can’t be paid the left-dominated New York courts will probably give Ms. Lardbutt a summary judgement. That will let her seize VDARE’s assets: the domain name, the archives, perhaps even the Castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where VDARE holds events. Our state Attorney General, a single lady with net worth “about $2.7 million,” is never loth to acquire out-of-state properties.
(Speaking of events at the castle, I have heard that VDARE would dearly like for there to be a conference there in the fall; but of course it depends on the Foundation being able to raise sufficient funds.)
I’m not myself much of a fund-raiser. However, last week Lydia Brimelow, Peter’s wife and President of the VDARE Foundation — a job she somehow manages to do while raising three beautiful young daughters — Lydia posted a fund-raiser at X which I strongly commend to your attention.
Lydia’s fund-raiser is quite long, but what it lacks in brevity it more than makes up for in eloquence and sincerity. I urge you please to listen or read all the way through, then respond appropriately to Lydia’s closing appeal.
I thank you on behalf of common sense, whatever Bertrand Russell said about it.
03 — Lydia’s appeal.
[Clip: I’m Lydia Brimelow, President of the VDARE Foundation. There are moments rare and piercing when I recognize that what VDARE is going through is not just lawfare. It’s actually spiritual warfare.
For three years we have fought against New York’s witch-hunt against VDARE. For three years we’ve shielded the names of our writers and donors from Letitia James’s inquisition. And now, now we’re in the valley of the shadow.
Letitia James does not pursue us because of some legal technicality. She pursues us because she hates what we represent: the unbroken thread of American identity and the sacred right of a people to defend themselves as a nation.
For three years we have walked through this shadow — not as victims, but as witnesses: witnesses to how far this notorious persecutor of Donald Trump is willing to go to silence the truth, how eagerly she sacrifices justice at the altar of ideology.
For three years we have fought not just for ourselves but for our pseudonymous writers who trusted us with their identities, and our anonymous donors who supported our cause when it was dangerous to do so.
Letitia James doesn’t want VDARE’s money. She wants VDARE’s submission. She wants our silence. But most of all, and worst of all, she wants names. She wants the names of our writers; not for the sake of transparency but because she knows that a truth spoken anonymously still shakes the world. A truth attached to a name can be punished.
She wants our donors’ names; not for accountability but because she knows that courage is contagious unless she makes frightening examples of those who inspire it. At VDARE we’ve paid dearly for refusing to submit — over a million dollars in legal fees that could have been used to educate, to build, and to inspire. Years of our lives have been lost towards compliance, not creation, and we’ve been burdened with the knowledge that no matter what legal hoops we manage to jump through, she’ll just build new ones.
She won’t even let us leave. VDARE Foundation was incorporated in New York in 1999 — before anybody thought about lawfare, before anybody had even heard of Letitia James — and we are not allowed to leave without permission. It turns out New York is like Hotel California: You can check in, but checking out is impossible.
Peter and I have even been forced to hire personal lawyers: not because we’ve done anything wrong, but because — according to New York — even our attempts to house our young family can be treated as a conspiracy.
Let me be clear: Your donations go to fund VDARE’s writers and VDARE’s mission. What Peter and I have to face personally is our cross to bear; but it does go to show how far Letitia James is willing to go. Which is: all the way to our kitchen table.
If VDARE can’t continue to pay lawyers to defend our writers and donors, Letitia James could move to put VDARE in a receivership. What that would mean is that a court-appointed Receiver, or possibly Letitia James herself, would then completely control VDARE, the website, the domain, and all of our archives and records, including attorney-client privilege materials. It would mean that all the donors’ names and all of the writers’ names would be completely exposed. Unless you can help now, we may no longer be able to protect them.
And yet, I do not despair. In January my husband Peter Brimelow, who was the editor of VDARE.com, took me to President Trump’s Inauguration. We went to cheer ourselves up. And we needed cheering up after watching VDARE.com get destroyed in 2024. Peter and I watched the swearing-in from the auditorium at the Heritage Foundation. It was a nostalgic return for us because that’s where I was an intern when we first met twenty years ago.
We particularly loved seeing the J6 pardon. Peter and I did not attend the January 6th protests but VDARE did run the earliest debunking of the moral panic that ensued against those who did. The January 6th pardons were not political acts, they were a reckoning with truth, and for a moment I saw the scales of justice trembling toward balance.
And then the knife. A couple of days after those January 6th pardons Letitia James hauled in a former VDARE Foundation board member — a man who resigned in 2020 — and interrogated him in a windowless room in New York for five and a half hours, under oath. He was illegally ordered not to discuss it with us. No transcript, no recourse, just the slow and grinding pressure of the State.
Let me emphasize here: VDARE has not been charged with anything, let alone convicted. This is how they break you: not with a single blow but with a thousand cuts.
But here’s what she doesn’t understand. We’re not fighting against her, we’re fighting for the historic American nation. In our fight we have witnessed miracles. When twenty-one million people saw my story on Tucker Carlson it wasn’t just exposure. It was samizdat for the digital age. When lawyers and paralegals then appeared exactly when we needed them, saving us half a million dollars, they weren’t just volunteers, they were angels in disguise.
These are visible examples of the material difference that can be made when supporters like you choose to stand with VDARE. VDARE stands at a threshold. If we fall through, then Letitia James will erase us from history — not just VDARE but the very idea that patriots can resist and win. If we stand firm Letitia James will have to face her limits.
The regime’s weakness is not in its cruelty, it is in its dependence on our fear. Every donation, every forwarded email, is another brick pulled out of their foundation of lies. The rumors we hear of coming justice, of a reckoning for the lawfare machine, could soon become a reality. They haven’t really coalesced in a way that I can confidently mention them now, but it is interesting to note that before Donald Trump’s election there were no friendly rumors at all.
We have three immediate legal needs.
- Number One: Overturn New York State’s one-thousand-dollar-a-day fine. This was imposed on us in a naked act of tyranny over a dispute with VDARE’s compliance. It’s not over anything that has to do with our management of the VDARE Foundation. The lawyers call it “a process crime,” meaning it wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for this investigation that Letitia James has thrown at us. We are appealing this fine.
- Number Two: We have appealed our First Amendment case in the federal court. If this appeal is unsuccessful then we can take it to the U.S. Supreme Court where truth still has a chance.
- Number Three: We want to file ethics complaints against Letitia James. It’s time to expose her lies to the courts. Letitia James’s habitual violation of ethical norms is an open scandal. A year ago Representative Elise Stefanik filed a 64-page complaint against Letitia James’s persecution of Donald Trump. We can match that. Letitia James as an officer of the court is not supposed to lie to judges, but she has lied to judges about VDARE, repeatedly. Ethical violations are a very serious matter. Notoriously Trump allies John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani are facing disbarment for supposed ethical violations while they were defending Donald Trump. But what Letitia James has done to VDARE is far more serious.
Before we can see any of these victories, though, we have to survive. Survival isn’t passive. It’s what our writers do when they post pseudonymously. It’s what our donors do when they give their money despite the risk. And it’s what I do every morning when I come into the office and face subpoena instead of building the American institution that I love.
The heat we feel now is a fire that they hope will consume us. Stand with us: not in the ashes but at the forge. See what strength we can temper. Please give generously. Every dollar shields our writers and donors from ruin. You can give online at www.GiveSendGo.com/VDARE or you can give offline by mailing your donation to VDARE Foundation, P.O. Box 211, Litchfield, CT 06759. All donations are fully tax-deductible and every dollar counts.
Also please share this message. Every forwarded email is a torch passed. VDARE can’t afford our email marketing services any more. We can’t send out mass emails. If you could share this with your friends, share it on social media, forward an email, mention it to somebody, call in to a podcast, write a blog, …
We rely on you, our supporters, and the true grass roots to alert the world to the fact that while immigration patriotism — VDARE’s true cause — may be winning the battle, VDARE itself has been left bleeding on the field.
And above all, pray without ceasing. This is a spiritual battle as much as a legal one and we must ask God to intervene here, where the losses are so concrete and the victories are still precarious.
The castle still stands and VDARE still lives. The hour is now. Thank you.]
04 — Tariffs, uh. The news headliners this past few days have been all about tariffs. Where does Radio Derb stand on this?
Uh, nowhere very firmly. I don’t know much about Economics and am not ashamed to admit it. In fact I have argued previously in this podcast that Economics is a pseudoscience, not to be taken very seriously.
That opinion goes back to the early 1960s when I was just starting to form political opinions. Britain’s Prime Minister was a chap named Alec Douglas-Home, a sort of languid aristocratic character out of P.G. Wodehouse. He had once famously confessed that he tried to make sense of economic documents by doodling with matchsticks.
British voters, feeling that the head of their government ought to have some deeper understanding of Economics than that, in 1964 booted out the matchsticks man and replaced him with Harold Wilson. Wilson didn’t just know Economics, he’d taught it at Oxford University. Just the man to get the country back on the rails, right? Well, to quote myself from that previous piece, quote:
I wouldn’t say Wilson’s government was an economic disaster, but no-one thought it was an economic triumph. “Lackluster” pretty well describes it, with the devaluation of the pound sterling against the dollar in 1967 as a low point.
End quote.
So don’t come to me for sage words about Economics. I understand of course that governments have to raise revenue somehow, for pensions and armies and such. Tariffs, it seems to me, are a perfectly sensible way to raise it. Where income taxes are concerned, I’m inclined (especially at this time of year) to agree with the character in one of Robert A. Heinlein’s books who opines that, quote from memory: “Taxation is theft; income taxes are Grand Larceny.” End quote.
I have of course been following the commentary. My impression is that the pro-Trumpers have the better of the argument. I’ll admit, though, that that impression is colored by plain pro-Trump prejudice. The contrast with Sleepy Joe — you know: Sleepy, Lying, Corrupt Joe — is simply staggering.
With Trump we have a guy who’s actually been engaged with the mercantile world for decades: evaluating counterparties, deal-making, winning, losing, keeping your feet while riding the ice-floes of commerce. I guess he could be wrong; but when I listen to the opposition, I know for certain that their wrongness prospects are way higher.
Rather than expound any further on a subject I don’t know well, I’ll hand you off to the man himself. Here he was in a TV interview earlier this week.
[Clip: People took advantage of our country and they ripped us off for a very … for decades. I’ve been thinking about this for decades.
I’ve been … If you ever saw me on television, I was young like these guys. And, er … Those were the good old days, I’ll tell you, Roger. But I was like these guys — young. And I was talking about it. Nothing, nothing changed and nothing was done about it.
Then I did it; in my first term I did it, and did it well. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China — and others — and I started the process.
But then we had a fix-up from the COVID mess, caused by China. We had a fix-up from that and we did a good job doing it. And when we handed back the reins after a rigged election, and when we handed back the reins, the stock market was higher than it was before COVID coming in.
So, y’know, we did a great job. But we didn’t have time to do the big things, which we’re doing now. And it’s like the patient is sick, you have to do surgery. The patient is very, very sick. And, er, Joe Biden handed us over a country that was in very serious trouble, economically and in every other way. They let China run away with things; they let other countries run away with things.
And maybe worst of all in a certain way is what they did at the border. We had people pouring into our country by the millions …]
05 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: I don’t normally have anything to say about religion, but in last week’s podcast there was a segment about atheism.
If you yourself, listener or reader, are an atheist, I hope you found that segment interesting. One who did sent me a link to an event I hadn’t known about: American Atheists 2025 National Convention. The prospectus promises, quote:
[O]ne of the most diverse line-ups of speakers of any atheist, freethought, or secular convention, including politicians, poets, international secular activists, and many more.
End quote.
The event takes place in Minneapolis. The dates are April 17th to 20th; so if you haven’t signed up yet, better get on it. Godspeed!
Item: Thursday the House of Representatives passed a bill, the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, to require that states obtain proof of citizenship in person from people who are registering to vote. The vote was 220-208, just four Democrats voting aye.
Coming up to our nation’s 250th birthday and we still don’t require proof of citizenship for voters? That’s incredible: like not having any checks on blind people getting pilot’s licenses.
And the Act is not yet law. It still has to be voted on by the Senate. It’s not clear how that will go. There’s a 60-vote threshold for it to pass, but Republicans only have a 53-47 majority.
Democrats are passionately opposed to the Act, and we all know why. Their opposition is fortified by the fact that the Act doesn’t just stop illegal aliens from voting, it also requires states to remove them from existing voter rolls and allows American citizens to sue election officials that don’t follow the proof-of-citizenship requirements. Voter suppression! Fascist! Nazi Nazi Nazi!
Item: My personal favorite headline of the week is from Discover magazine, headline: Tipsy Fruit Flies Are More Successful in Mating Than Their Sober Counterparts.
From the text of the story, quote:
Alcohol makes male fruit flies of the species Drosophila melanogaster sexier by stimulating the production of sex pheromones. As a result, male flies are more successful at mating after consuming certain amounts of alcohol.
End quote.
Isn’t Nature wonderful?
06 — Signoff. That’s all I have, listeners and readers. Thank you as always for your time and attention, and please do whatever you can, if only by reposting, to help VDARE in the fight against Letitia Lardbutt.
For signoff music, a novelty song from 1953. I gave this song a passing mention in my column in the April issue of Chronicles magazine. I thought Radio Derb listeners, many of whom I am sure subscribe to Chronicles, might like to hear it.
The song comes with some historical background. The Middle Ages, as everyone knows, began on Saturday, September 4th, A.D. 476, when Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, handed in his lunch pail to Odoacer the Goth. The Middle Ages ended on Tuesday, May 29th, A.D. 1453 — “Terrible Tuesday” — when Turkish Sultan Mehmet II captured Constantinople and killed Constantine XI, last ruler of the Eastern Empire.
That’s a pretty good innings for a historical epoch — nearly 977 years — so let’s hear it for the Middle Ages.
Look at that latter date, though: A.D. 1453. The year nineteen fifty-three was exactly five hundred years on from that, the semi-millennial. If that wasn’t a cue for a novelty song, I don’t know what could have been. So here were the Four Lads singing “Istanbul (Not Constantinople).”
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
I suspect that President Trump will be too busy chasing down antisemites to worry too much about good people like the Brimelows, his pardon of the J6 participants notwithstanding. In fact, I would be somewhat surprised if his Justice Department were to take meaningful action against AG Leticia James for doing the same to himself.
You’re probably right. Trump should leave the anti-Israel protestors alone. They did nothing illegal. The US is a full accomplice to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It’s a monstrous crime, compounded by political censorship at home. The Constitution, including the free speech, protects everyone here, not just US citizens.
“The Constitution, including the free speech, protects everyone here, not just US citizens.” Let’s think that through to its implications. An armed invader, whether acting alone or with domestic help, is a criminal according to the so-called “supreme Law of the Land”, of which the great Con is a part. (Other parts are statutes and treaties. Neither of these are amendments to the Con, therefore the Con is not itself the supreme Law of the land, as our conservatards are fond of repeating to each other.) Now, is the invader entitled to protection under the 1st amendment when and after… Read more »
Our legal protections don’t apply to armed invaders. In a war, we can kill the enemy for free, without penalty. However, Mahmoud Khalil has a green card. He’s a legal resident. He’s not an armed invader or a terrorist. His only “crime” was to peacefully protest against Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Now, the US govt is using police-state tactics to round up people such as Khalil, throw them in jail, and later expel them. All without any warning, justification or due process. Khalil is innocent of any crime, just as were the J6 protestors. The US govt does this to… Read more »
You are correct that MAGA is a stalking horse for Israel First, if that’s what you intended to imply about MAGA. Still, I think you’ve missed the point about your fashionable generalization. You wrote that The Constitution, including the free speech, protects everyone here, not just US citizens. If true, it would protect invaders, who needn’t be armed to count as such. A common purpose of invasion is occupation of territory and displacement of the inhabitants, as in the case of swarming immigration under way for more than a decade. Here we have the government itself bearing arms on behalf… Read more »
I agree that MAGA is a front for Israel, at the our expense. I dislike libertarianism, but I also oppose autocracy. I want a strong government, but within the law, with checks and balances, such as was advocated by Aristotle, Cicero and many others. I am against all non-White immigration. I am right-wing on social issues, and somewhat left-wing on economic issues and foreign policy. I support Israel, but oppose their genocide in Gaza. I oppose giving them any military or financial aid. They should have agreed to a cease-fire after the Hamas attack, and negotiated a hostage exchange. Instead,… Read more »
“I support Israel” A-ha, more of the picture is coming into focus. “I oppose giving them any military or financial aid.” Wishy-washy, an unstable position. You are already, by your disposition, an easy mark for a sob story. “Oh, Talleyrand, six million Jews are threatened by Israel’s enemies,” one will say. “Have a heart. Put some money where your mouth is. Then we will send you a little pin to wear. We will even give you an extra one for your friend, John Derbyshire, to wear when you’re at the pub” “Netanyahu chose war and genocide” Shocking, I say! Who… Read more »
“I want a strong government, but within the law,” How can you say truthfully that “I support Israel” yet allow the anti-Semites to preach their hatred to others? Israel remains at risk of failing to conquer the whole Earth so long as a single one enjoys the breath of life. “I am right-wing…, and somewhat left-wing…” You are muddleheaded, a slightly different variety of slow progressive but a conservatard nonetheless. But you are no Talleyrand, it seems. The T man would have sussed out problems with the preamble and Article VII without being prompted. The lame devil would likely, however,… Read more »
Seems like high time there was a little lawfare directed at LJ and her sidekick AB by the Trump admin. I can’t say the Trump admin is falling down completely in this department, in light of actions taken against leftist law firms who have been major lawfare players, but these two particular ripe targets seem oddly spared.
Letitia James and Alvin Bragg are pro-crime Democrats. They enable Black violent criminals to attack Whites. They are the willing tools of the criminals who run the NY “justice” system. They promote anarcho-tyranny.
I wonder if Derb, calling Kevin McDonald “the Marx of the antsemites” , thought he would be protected when he wrote “The Talk” back in 2012. After he was canceled did he sit around saying “I am one of the good ones”?
Z’s done the same thing. I’m always glad there are people in this thing of ours with the courage to stand up to anti semites. It takes a lot of guts to kick that target.
Seriously? Pro-Semitism has the full weight and power of the US government behind it. Standing with the pro-Semites doesn’t take a ton of courage.
No, not seriously. That was the single most sarcastic comment I’ve ever written on this website and I’m astounded you didn’t notice that.
Z’s constant countersignalling the “anti semites” as if that’s even an organized thing is my least favorite thing about the guy, and I say this as a guy that loves this dude.
How the hell did you people not pick up what I was saying was obviously being sarcastic?
The sarcasm was obvious, but I think that you misperceive the Z man’s swipes at the anti-Semites. He’s just tweaking humorless haters gently, to keep them from tumbling too far down into a dead-end hole of irrational hatred. Maybe he’s also tossing red herrings to fool the ghouls, including those who believe that it doesn’t matter that the Exodus is a myth. Perhaps John Derbyshire doesn’t mind big lies, but I say that it does matter if the Exodus story is a big lie. Let mythology alert us to the possibility also that the alleged national captivity by the Egyptians—an… Read more »
“an obvious sob story used to stir up Israel’s own people”
That’s very 2025 of you. There were no “sob stories” back in the day; having been enslaved was a mark of shame, and Jewish tradition has always treated it as such.
I mean if you look at Unz or Zerohedge you get commenters that would have made that same comment without an ounce of sarcasm. Unfortunately, sarcasm can be difficult to communicate with written language and without knowing the commenter’s true opinions beforehand. Believe me I’ve fucked up on this plenty of times thinking I’m being funny just to have someone I agree with giving me the business thinking I was serious.
Derb did not call Kevin “the Marx of the antisemites.” That was an editor of American Conservative.
if it’s not emjs white boys it’s Mr mans antisemites; come on y’all can’t we all just get along?
Al Stewart did a better song about the fall of Constantinople. Constantinople – YouTube 1453 was also the year the Hundred Year’s War ended with a decisive French victory over the English at Castillon. Although the English victories at Crécy, Agincourt and Poitiers are more memorable, at Castillon the French used massed field artillery to destroy the English army, forcing a withdrawal from Aquitaine. England was left with only Calais on the continent, which I believe it lost during the reign of Mary Tudor. Other events marking the end of the Middle Ages were the victory of Henry VII over… Read more »
Yeah yeah, but it’s nice to have a neat marker. 1453 to 1517 was 64 years — way too long for a marker.
Martin Luther …. wasn’t he the bloke that nailed his feces to a church door? I never figured out why….
Why are you so harsh on Martin Luther? I was raised as a Presbyterian, but lapsed into apostasy a long time ago. And today I rather favor the positions taken by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churcheson the sources of Christian authority, although as a non-believer I feel I have no real stake in the outcome. Nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church in the late 15th and early 16th Century was really corrupt and Luther had every right to contest its practices. His willingness to defend his position before Emperor Charles V at Worms (“here I stand, I can do… Read more »
Harsh? For goodness’ sake, not everything we say is Taking A Position on something or someone. Some of it is just Dad humor — in that case, obviously. Stop taking everything so damn seriously. I bet even old Martin could crack a smile at a Dad joke. There, see, I Took A Positive Position on him.
Belittling or dismissing the Reformation in European history with a one-liner, joke or not; “harsh” or not (whatever these terms mean) — suggesting the whole thing an odd sort of antiquarian trivia, with no greater meaning — seems to me neither wise nor useful.
Corruption and other administrative failures were the focus of at best a third of Luther’s corpus, serving as a vehicle for the rest which was decidedly theological in nature. Some of his questions were reasonable enough to posit, others not so much. Rome considered and addressed them all, and while his doctrinal dissent had universally already been answered by existing teaching or functioned to finalize it, the temporal issues were taken quite seriously. Most had already been on the radar and the target of concerted eradication efforts for decades if not centuries, and they spent the next century working in… Read more »
Don’t forget Gutenberg and hisprinting press
Although the Gutenberg methods were achieved by the mid-1450s, as usual it took several decades to really make people “feel” it; to appreciate the potential of the new technology; for social-cultural adjustment to occur. For centuries it’s been widely commented on that the Reformation of the 1510s-1530s owed its success to Gutenberg. That both emanated from Germany no coincidence, but the argument is both cultural and technological. The alternative argument nominally fitting the facts: Gutenberg and the Reformation had NO connection to one another, BUT shared a common-cause — in the NW-European spirit of progress, freedom, liberty-of-thought, and technical tinkering;… Read more »
Very much agreed that the timing of the Reformation was vital to its success. The precarious political situation on the continent in the XVI century might have been enough on its own without Gutenberg’s invention, but I’m not sure if events in Britain, especially in the XVII, would have taken the same course without intensive pamphleting. Americans often think of our struggle for independence, its ideas and methods as something novel but it was neither the first nor the last in a long series of internal conflicts rehashed at a shockingly detailed level. As far as the proper end date… Read more »
If you peg the fall of the Byzantines to the end-date for the Medieval period, it should be specified this is the European Medieval period. Medieval(-like) institutions definitely survived outside Europe for centuries beyond that, still active in the 19th century all over the map (even if disrupted by European expansion), and shadows of the same lingering into the 20th century a bit. The marvel of the story of Meiji Japan is how one state dramatically transformed itself from a medieval-like status to a modern state so quickly and so relatively successfully. (But their success, even then, of course, was… Read more »
The game is to go to that atheism convention’s promotional website and find a photograph of a white person who isn’t visibly sexually perverse. (You lose.) Good corporate citizens, the atheists. Not as good as antifa, but…maybe. A test: Find someone weak enough for a sexless nerd to kill with a punch—maybe in a children’s hospice—and see if the police let you get away with it because you’re “with atheism.” If so, you’re in the army now. If not, gutting and de-intellectualizing the “movement” to suck up to the regime may not have been rational. I mean, if it wasn’t… Read more »
Atheists organizing is kind of like anarchists organizing
I tried going to an atheist group once but as I was approaching I could see them through the window and it was literally all obese middle aged neckbearded men. I took it as a sign from God that I was meant to go elsewhere to socialize.
Now I’m remembering an interview with Jerry Garcia about his beginnings in bluegrass. Bluegrass was pretty big up until the 70s. I think his comment was how limiting it was and he saw in the beginnings of rock much more potential for variety and musical exploration. So he abandoned bluegrass.
Bela fleck, David grisman mark occinnor probably exhausted its limits. So I’m thinking this billy strings phenomenon is comfort music for whites in harrowing times.
“Human casualties: 0.0”
oh terminator 2; you had it all!
Han-Chinese ethnocentrism is far stronger than Jews, because Chinese actually self sacrifice for the group interest
in other hand, Jews couldn’t trust so had to kill the Jewish Epstain because individual Jew always choose self interest
Every other ethnic group notice what Jews did past centuries, so if white are racially mixed to death then Jewish century is finished due to absence their powerful ally
white people are already brainwashed and castrate as human being, therefore white people always be a slave owned by Jews
Ironically, only way to defeat Jewish people is total destruction and extinction of white people
“Han-Chinese ethnocentrism is far stronger than Jews, because Chinese actually self sacrifice for the group interest in other hand” I’ve seen video of Chinese scratching and clawing each other for free stuff and while engaged in disputes for other reasons. They were like so many of the USA’s niggers. I’ve seen video of your ghost cities and close-up video of Chinese new construction, some of the flimsiest junk I’ve ever seen. Do you remember the 2008 milk scandal? Some of your self-sacrificing Chinese were tainting food sold domestically to skew chemical analysis. It’s a stereotypical fraud of the Chinese go-getter.… Read more »
Trump is wrong about tariffs, and he’s wrong about Covid origins. The Covid-19 virus was developed in our biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick MD. In Oct 2019, US agents planted it in Wuhan, China. It was a biowarfare attack against China (and later Iran) by the US regime. As for free trade, everyone benefits. And tariffs harm everyone. Trump doesn’t understand basic Economics-101. His mega-tariffs are illegal. There is no “emergency”. He’s lying when he says there is. The President has no authority to levy taxes, including tariffs. Only Congress can do that. Only the House of Representatives can… Read more »
“But our side can’t use the power of the state, that would be ILLEGAL!”
I don’t know what to tell people like you anymore. Rule of law has been dead for 170 years and people are finally noticing and you’re sad about it. Being retarded must be difficult.
There is no such thing as free trade. There is trade. Adding the modifier is deception.
OK, not “free trade”. But we need some trade. We gotta buy stuff and sell stuff worldwide. It benefits everyone. That’s Economics 101. We cannot simply tear up treaties unilaterally and arbitrarily. No one can do business with someone like that. Those kind of tactics might work in the NY real estate business, which is inherently corrupt. But not for honest businesses. Trump is going to tank the stock market, tank the economy, and worse of all, give the Democratic Party full control of Congress after the 2026 election – just like he did in 2017. Paul Ryan and the… Read more »
We do not need trade. North America has massive natural resources. Into the 20th century, we imported very little from the outside world relative to consumption. We may want to trade with other countries, but the reason must be the public good.
As far as the 2026 election, I do not care. The stupid party losing seats or gaining seats has never made a difference.
“His mega-tariffs are illegal…The President has no authority to levy taxes, including tariffs. Only Congress can do that.” That’s a plausible assertion given what anyone can read in I.8.1, but there’s something which you refuse to understand about “this Constitution”. The people who imposed it never accepted its words at face value. They have always rejected the plain meaning of those words. They disregard also, as they see fit, both the assumptions which those words require and the logical relationships of the propositions asserted with those words in the document. Now look at A7. Just read it for once without… Read more »
I am against autocracy, even by an enlightened despot with good ideas. That’s not Trump. His ideas are dumb. No one voted for mega-tariffs and tax-cuts for the super-rich.
I think that you mean monocracy. Misuse of the word “autocracy” can be traced back to Aristotle, as I recall. The parts of the word indicate that it means self-rule, not one rules all. And fyi, if our borrowing from Greek had been less sloppy, we’d write aftocracy and say the word as suggested with the f. Now please address the more important points which I made about the Constitution of no authority, which helped to elevate Trump into power. People who’ve been turning a blind eye to that have no claim to moral high ground from which to shoot… Read more »
If there were any doubt about the legality of Trump’s tariffs, they’d have been overturned by now. There’s no shortage of judges willing–make that eager–to do so with the flimsiest of excuses.
The problem is whenever “we” play by the rules “we” lose, because the crazies don’t.