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I can recall that in my first few days at Rice U. in 1976 explaining to all the non-Californians that while California is still relatively underpopulated, it’s natural trajectory is to fill up with newcomers until it’s as bad as anywhere else.

Same, of course, for the United States.

This is alway struck me as a fundamental lesson about how the world would work if you let it, but it doesn’t seem to be something that, say, Joe Biden was aware on January 20, 2021, according to a long New York Times article:

How the Border Crisis Shattered Biden’s Immigration Hopes

An examination of President Biden’s record reveals how he failed to overcome a surge in new arrivals and political obstacles in both parties.

By Michael D. Shear, Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Published Jan. 30, 2024

On President Biden’s first day in office, he paused nearly all deportations. He vowed to end the harsh practices of the Trump administration, show compassion toward those wishing to come to the United States and secure the southern border.

For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.

But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.

Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for:

… It was the first big test of his immigration agenda, and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work. During his campaign for the White House in 2020, Mr. Biden pledged to limit raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, invest in the asylum system and close private immigration prisons. On his first day in office, he proposed a vast immigration bill to Congress that would have provided a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants already living in America.

The next day, he paused deportations for 100 days, and even though a federal judge later blocked that policy, some migrants took it as a sign that it was worth a dangerous trek to the U.S. border.

Justin Trudeau’s Canada has been testing the Sailer vs. Biden Theories. Even some Punjabis are getting sick of how Canada is filling up with Punjabis. From the BBC:

Is a waning Canadian dream fuelling reverse migration in Punjab?
17 hours ago

By Nikhil Inamdar
BBC News, Bathinda, India

Canada has long been a draw for people from India’s Punjab province seeking new opportunities elsewhere. But has the Canadian dream soured?

It’s hard to miss the ardour of Punjab’s migrant ambitions when driving through its fertile rural plains. Billboards promising easy immigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK jut out through ample mustard fields. Off the highways, consultancies offer English language coaching to eager youth.

Single-storey brick homes double up as canvasses for hand-painted mural advertisements promising quick visas. And in the town of Bathinda, hundreds of agents jostle for space on a single narrow street, pledging to speed up the youth’s runaway dreams.

… But some, especially from Canada, are now choosing to come back home.

One of those is 28-year-old Balkar, who returned in early 2023 after just one year in Toronto. Citizenship was his ultimate goal when he left his little hamlet of Pitho in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. His family mortgaged their land to fund his education.
But his Canadian dream quickly lost its allure a few months into his life there.
“Everything was so expensive. I had to work 50 hours every week after college, just to survive,” he told the BBC. “High inflation is making many students leave their studies.”

… The BBC spoke to at least half a dozen reverse migrants in Punjab who shared similar sentiments.

It was also a common refrain in the scores of videos on YouTube shared by Indians who had chosen to abandon their life in Canada and return home. There was a stark difference one young returnee told the BBC between the “rosy picture” immigration agents painted and the rough reality of immigrant life in Toronto and Vancouver.

The “Canada craze” has let up a bit – and especially so among well-off migrants who have a fallback option at home, says Raj Karan Brar, an immigration agent in Bathinda who helps hundreds of Punjabis get permanent residencies and student visas every year.
The desire for a Canadian citizenship remains as strong as ever though among middle- and lower middle-class clients in rural communities.

But viral YouTube videos of students talking about the difficulty in finding jobs and protests over a lack of housing and work opportunities has created an air of nervousness among these students, say immigration agents.

… For a country that places such a high value on immigration, these trends are “concerning” and are “being received with a bit of a sting politically”, says Daniel Bernhard of the Institute of Canadian Citizenship, an immigration advocacy group.

A liberalised immigration regime has been Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature policy to counter slowing economic growth and a rapidly aging population.
According to Canada’s statistics agency, immigration accounted for 90% of Canada’s labour force growth and 75% of population growth in 2021.

… The numbers of those leaving are still small in absolute terms with immigration levels at all-time highs in Canada – the country welcomed nearly half a million new migrants each year over the past few years.

But the rate of reverse migration hit a two decade high in 2019, signalling that migrants were “losing confidence” in the country said Mr Bernhard.

 
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  1. “to counter slowing economic growth”

    Well Canada is somewhat dependent on the USSA and it’s difficult to grow economically when your main trading partner, the USSSA, has had 6,000,000 wealth producing jobs exported to China.

    Can ever high debt levels and trading houses back and forth for ever higher prices last forever?
    Seems that it can and has for the last 2 decades resulting in slower economic growth.

    • Replies: @Ultra Fine
    @interesting

    Unemployment was close to zero until the pandemic and is close to zero today.

    , @antibeast
    @interesting



    Well Canada is somewhat dependent on the USSA and it’s difficult to grow economically when your main trading partner, the USSSA, has had 6,000,000 wealth producing jobs exported to China.

     

    What US jobs were exported to China? Auto manufacturing? Those factory jobs went to Mexico. Software jobs? Call center jobs? Those service jobs went to India.
  2. How bad will America in name only have to get before illegals decide Guatemala is better.

    • LOL: 4HONESTY.com
    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @TWS

    The worse, the better. Construct you the Jeetshaker. Feel its vibrations: the test of blood and spirit.
    https://i.postimg.cc/vTMZsRQD/anon-invents-the-jeetshaker-v0-rmzg8i321kcc1.png

    Replies: @res

    , @Sick n' Tired
    @TWS

    Friends & I were just discussing how we should all move to Guatemala/El Salvador/Honduras now that they sent all their dregs to the US.

    , @Almost Missouri
    @TWS


    before illegals decide Guatemala is better.
     
    El Salvador may already be better.

    https://twitter.com/im_1776/status/1755331223000379402

    https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1755496063832674509

    Indeed, parts of Honduras are looking pretty good...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera
  3. So the ole bait and switch…TPTB made the argument that all the developed world needed to get their “demographics under control”, climate, quality of life, blah blah blah.

    Then when the demographics are “under control”, flood the country with foreigners, cuz taxes, growth, strip mall restaurants, blah blah blah

    They never thought it through, never cared.

    • Thanks: 4HONESTY.com
    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Farenheit

    Actually, I think that pro-natalism among smart Western whites is a very, very good idea as well!

  4. Off topic:

    But it has to be said.

    Givin Senile Joe’s now well documented “misremembering” of personal and family hisotory, in a now public and likely recordeed interview(s) with the DoJ Special Consul investigating his own personal trove of Official Secrets in his garage, this cannot be denied by the Narrative Media.

    Nor can it be swept away as partisan nitpicking.

    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.

    My theory has long held that Biden won’t run again (due to “health’) but remain in office until the end of his term. Gov. Gavin Newsom likely the bait-and-switch new Prez nominee. Or someone like that.

    But if Joe has to go more quickly, as now seems possible, VP K. Harris steps up.

    Everyone seems to hate her evn more than Trump.

    Slogan for Narrative Media in March 2024:

    “First Woman US President! Kamala we always loved you!”

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    , @Mike Tre
    @Muggles

    "He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind. "

    Oh yeah, we haven't heard this "dem Dems be in a bind, yo" a million times before. Nothing changes.

    Republican cucks will rattle their pathetic little sabers, snatch a crumpled up envelope off camera, and the show will go on.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Muggles

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play "hardball", per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn't belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? "Madam President..."

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama's main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party's bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Wilkey, @Paul Jolliffe, @kaganovitch

  5. Everyday I wake to this incredible tragedy.

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    But instead, we have been infected with this minoritarian mind virus–weakening our defenses or reason or very national sanity–and destroyed by its running buddy immigrationism. The dumbest, most toxic ideology that any civilization has ever had. National/civilizational Shakerism.

    • Replies: @MGB
    @AnotherDad

    Cue, Let’s Have a War, by Fear.

    Let's have a war
    Sell the rights to the networks
    Let's have a war
    Have our wallets get fat like last time
    Let's have a war
    Give guns to the queers
    Let's have a war
    The enemy is within

    It already started in the city
    Suburbia will be just as easy

    Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Looger

    , @Anonymous
    @AnotherDad


    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.
     
    If you want that kind of stuff, well, head East young man. Stick a fork in the West.


    https://cdni.rbth.com/rbthmedia/images/all/2016/11/01/open_inn_a3dc529c.jpg
    http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/18/139600690_16082833196021n.jpg

     

    , @Goddard
    @AnotherDad

    Like you, Dad, I mourn, not just for the nation that is and the even worse one that is to come, but also for the nation that could have been.

    , @Seneca44
    @AnotherDad

    Even Caitlyn Flanagan, an Atlantic Monthly liberal writer from the Bay Area of Cali is telling her kids, "...America, let's finish strong...if we're closing up shop, let's remember who we were"
    At 62 and a cancer survivor, she trashed Gavin Newsom on Maher's show for the nosedive he put California in. Maher, Bob Costas, and Ms Flanagan almost sound like republicans except for their visceral hatred of all things Trump.

  6. @AnotherDad
    Everyday I wake to this incredible tragedy.

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    But instead, we have been infected with this minoritarian mind virus--weakening our defenses or reason or very national sanity--and destroyed by its running buddy immigrationism. The dumbest, most toxic ideology that any civilization has ever had. National/civilizational Shakerism.

    Replies: @MGB, @Anonymous, @Goddard, @Seneca44

    Cue, Let’s Have a War, by Fear.

    Let’s have a war
    Sell the rights to the networks
    Let’s have a war
    Have our wallets get fat like last time
    Let’s have a war
    Give guns to the queers
    Let’s have a war
    The enemy is within

    It already started in the city
    Suburbia will be just as easy

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
    @MGB

    Whoa, a blast from the past. Is that the FEAR who released the profound “More Beer” and sang the (presumably tongue-in-cheek) “Bomb the Russians”?

    Replies: @MGB

    , @Looger
    @MGB


    Let’s have a war
     
    Yeah, let's not.

    Canada is fucking gigantic. I say we draw a line 200 miles north of the 49th parallel and call everything south, "Female-Genital-Mutilania."

    Sikhs are the only non-whites besides the Natives to live north of that line and they've integrated pretty well already, they hunt and fish and have guns. They ain't going back to India, they have it good.

    We'll let that strip of the country sort itself out. The whites will be an instant minority but it looks good on them because they've been voting for it. They won't be saved by the "redneck" Canadians like they've always subconciously hoped for, fuck it.

    Prince Rupert is the new commerce port. Fuck Vancouver.

    This is the simplest problem to sort out in the history of new countries. No one will have to move. There will be some people in the cities who want to go north, well there are online records of everything everyone has said about everything so we'll just fucking see who gets in. Farmers can build walls and there's probably just enough rifles up north to enforce it.

    All the commerce is in the north part anyway, resource extraction and selling to the USA. Female-Genital-Mutilania can exist financially for a brief time until we "negotiate" (conquer) a narrow resource corridor to send all the pipelines etc. through to the USA. After that they can enjoy all the "ECONOMIC ENRICHMENT" that the hordes of turd worlders bring with them.

    Going to be a tough time with almost no tradesmen to keep the lights on and the shit flowing.

    I wish them luck.

  7. I think a shorter explanation is that Biden is simply indifferent to the fate of his countrymen.

    • Agree: OilcanFloyd
  8. I can recall that in my first few days at Rice U. in 1976 explaining to all the non-Californians that while California is still relatively underpopulated, its natural trajectory is to fill up with newcomers until it’s as bad as anywhere else.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for:

    Back in the old days people did not even have to grasp even such rock bottom logical analysis–water flows downhill!–as this, because the ancient fundamentals “protect your tribe”, “protect your turf” were just common sense everyone understood.

    Only when people’s brains are poisoned by minoritarian glop, so they fail to just naturally do the civilizational basics, does the requirement to think logically and mathematically–“hey what will this do?” “what will people do?”–come into play. But by then … it’s hopeless. The minoritarian mind virus demands–and gets–the suspension of anything that resembles “thought”.

    • Agree: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @OilcanFloyd
    @AnotherDad


    Back in the old days people did not even have to grasp even such rock bottom logical analysis–water flows downhill!–as this, because the ancient fundamentals “protect your tribe”, “protect your turf” were just common sense everyone understood
     
    I think most people understood this from the beginning. The problem is that they trusted the system. When your defenders are people like Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, National Review types or the VDare and Jared Taylor's of the world who are really toothless and and too nice or afraid to mention the Jewish problem, a whole nation can be destroyed within a generation or two. Our "leaders" were either traitors, or mistook a war for a friendly debate. Either way, the results are the same.
  9. “Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for.”

    Naivety excusing naivety.

  10. … The numbers of those leaving are still small in absolute terms with immigration levels at all-time highs in Canada – the country welcomed nearly half a million new migrants each year over the past few years.

    The BBC is adopting the NYT tactic of putting the most relevant information at the end of the story. The story of the returnees is a case of “man bites dog”.

    • Agree: Frau Katze, ic1000
  11. @Muggles
    Off topic:

    But it has to be said.

    Givin Senile Joe's now well documented "misremembering" of personal and family hisotory, in a now public and likely recordeed interview(s) with the DoJ Special Consul investigating his own personal trove of Official Secrets in his garage, this cannot be denied by the Narrative Media.

    Nor can it be swept away as partisan nitpicking.

    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a "thing".

    Dems are in a bind.

    My theory has long held that Biden won't run again (due to "health') but remain in office until the end of his term. Gov. Gavin Newsom likely the bait-and-switch new Prez nominee. Or someone like that.

    But if Joe has to go more quickly, as now seems possible, VP K. Harris steps up.

    Everyone seems to hate her evn more than Trump.

    Slogan for Narrative Media in March 2024:

    "First Woman US President! Kamala we always loved you!"

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar

    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.

    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020–which would have helped him get elected–was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was “return to normalcy” after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement–with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery–to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole “diversity” thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It’s a train wreck now. They’ll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @AnotherDad

    If Biden tripped down the steps of Air Force One and ended up brain dead and on life support, Democrats would still vote for him. His supporters are either as dumb as a stump, (blacks and Hispanics,) or in extreme denial about his mental and physical incompetence (White Urban liberals).

    They'd all be pleased that the Deep State could now rule through a drooling figurehead.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    , @Rusty Tailgate
    @AnotherDad


    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego.
     
    You've got it. As long as Trump is his opponent, he won't drop out, because he knows the cargo cult justice system will never let Trump win. Biden is not the kind of guy to quit an un-loseable race. The only thing that takes Biden out at this point is death or a true 25th Amendment situation like a stroke that renders him unable to speak, and I'm not even sure about that last one.

    Eight years of successful dirty tricks have emboldened the Dems to engage in more and more unpopular policies, and run worse and worse candidates. They don't care because they don't have to. This is how they got stuck with Biden and Harris. And now that they've hung these odious candidates on themselves, they have to take more extreme measures to continue winning. It has a snowball effect that ends with an Ilhan Omar character as President-for-Life under the protection of corrupted federal courts.
    , @Almost Missouri
    @AnotherDad


    But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.
     
    When you own the ballots and are the media, you don't have to worry about the brand. You dictate the the brand.

    If they were worried about the brand, "President Biden" wouldn't exist. The drooling, doddering, delusional fool is an international laughingstock. But they don't care, because he does whatever they want. They like it that way. They just don't understand why you don't do whatever they want. But they have plans to fix that.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    , @Mr. Anon
    @AnotherDad


    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego.
     
    Who else does that remind you of?

    I'll give you a hint. He's kinda orange.

    It’s a train wreck now. They’ll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.
     
    I don't think it matters. Anybody who would have voted for basement-Joe in 2020 isn't going to have changed his mind. It will hinge, as it always does, on turnout. Turnout of voters. Well, at least turnout of "votes".
    , @Anonymous
    @AnotherDad


    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole “diversity” thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?
     
    There are plenty of smart and competent Jews. The problem is that Jews tend to prefer to not have a Jewish person play the showcased role in jobs like these.
  12. Didn’t Borjas say that part of why the quality of “refugees” worsened was economic reform at home meant you could live better at home, and permanent immigration is so hard you pretty much need to need to immigrate, so the third worlders kept out of the middle class by local corruption or stupidity stopped coming, becoming middle class Mexicans is preferable to becoming middle class Americans once it’s possible, and we started getting a lot more lower class people? It’s not all a big Mariel boatlift. I understand that several of the young Chinese gentlemen we’re getting are considered elite.

    • Replies: @New Dealer
    @J.Ross

    All else equal, the richest in a sending country don't want to migrate`and the poorest in that country can't afford to migrate. (The poorest never migrate, and tend to suffer from loss of the more talented from their communities.)

    When migration is cheaper, because of denser outmigration networks easing transport and resettlement, or less deterrence, or under Biden by outright rewards, the more the poorer can afford to migrate.

  13. @TWS
    How bad will America in name only have to get before illegals decide Guatemala is better.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Sick n' Tired, @Almost Missouri

    The worse, the better. Construct you the Jeetshaker. Feel its vibrations: the test of blood and spirit.

    • Thanks: bomag
    • Replies: @res
    @J.Ross

    That is brutal. In case anyone wants one.

    GPOAS 40W Concrete Vibrator Vibration Motor Single Phase AC 110V 3600RPM,Aluminum Alloy Case Electric Asynchronous Vibrating Vibrators for Shaker Table

    Link to the video.
    https://streamable.com/vr99ap

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @YetAnotherAnon

  14. Hey, Canada may not be better than Punjab anymore, but it’s still better than Niger!

  15. The Open Borders types think we have to let the orcs pour in until they don’t want to come here anymore.

  16. Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    • Agree: Mr. XYZ
    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    https://twitter.com/GoldenAxilleus/status/1755775973058896212

    https://twitter.com/Bulkington__/status/1755732568618443137




    Chogolate Milk
    @GoldenAxilleus
    23h
    Putin just delivered a 2006 forum-tier dispergtation on Russia’s historical claim to Ukraine and my president just held an emergency news conference to deny the findings he’s essentially legally retarded


    funes 🦅
    @Bulkington__
    Feb 8
    Biggest take away from Putin interview is that president not being senile or borderline mentally challenged is a cultural shock to most westerners.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Almost Missouri
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Too good to leave off:

    https://i.postimg.cc/LXcL7Tqs/West-Bestern-Putin-Interview.png

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @Mark G.
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    To tie in your OT comment with the immigration aspect of this post, Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that.

    Replies: @HA, @epebble

    , @Muggles
    @NJ Transit Commuter


    You can counter Putin’s assertions
     
    While your criticism of Tucker is mild and rational, you and other critics (all of the narrative parrots) seem to think that Tucker was there to "debate" with Putin rather than interview him.

    In an interview the subject is asked to answer questions and speak. You the interviewer don't necessarily agree with the answers given.

    You can further delve into answers at times, asking for clarification or points of inconsistency with other actions, etc. But a journalist who is given an interview isn't an invited debate opponent.

    Other than in wartime, US foes or political critics as leaders were always interviewed, but not by debaters taking issue with every answer. You don't have to agree and you can offer alternative facts which may moot an answer, but that must be carefully done. You have to listen, not debate.

    How can we understand Putin's thinking if we only "hear" or read of that via US other biased filters?

    Woke journalism, now the standard, hates straightforward interviews. Their goal is to silence and cancel, Soviet style.

    (I haven't yet delved into the Tucker interview yet.)
    , @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    , @BB753
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    "Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?"

    Steve's next book will be called ,"Unnoticing

    , @tyrone
    @NJ Transit Commuter


    fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?
     
    You mean in the 90's when Yeltsin was pretty much a door mat for the west and Harvard economists were swanning around Moscow..........we even got into the KGB archives , turns out McCarthy was right about everything........No ,what we want is to break Russia up and turn them into our street-walkers like western Europe.
  17. Many of the great civilizations of the past were also centers of technology. Rome with its roads and aqueducts, Song China with its movable type and gunpowder, 19th century Britain with its railroads and factories, 20th century America with its automobiles and skyscrapers all qualify.

    Heading into the 21st century, it looked like a new center of civilization was forming in California centered on Silicon Valley. Now you have tech companies fleeing to other states like Texas and Florida.

    Instead of producing political leaders like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, California now comes up with Gavin Newsom and London Breed. Their destructive liberal policies are destroying the state. Their rise was made possible by Democrat voting immigrants moving there from other countries and Republican voting middle class Whites engaged in internal migration out of the state.

  18. You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    The Orthodox revanchism went right over
    Tucker’s luxurious head of hair.

    I like Tucker a lot, and he knows a lot more than I do about American media and the corridors of power, but he’s got some blind spots. That’s probably inevitable, though; how can you keep track of who’s doing what if you’re buried in books all the time?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Bill P

    Tucker is a neofascist like many at unz posters who fall for "defender of traditional values"

  19. Next step is Northern invasion coming

  20. @TWS
    How bad will America in name only have to get before illegals decide Guatemala is better.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Sick n' Tired, @Almost Missouri

    Friends & I were just discussing how we should all move to Guatemala/El Salvador/Honduras now that they sent all their dregs to the US.

  21. its natural trajectory is to fill up with newcomers until it’s as bad as anywhere else. (emphasis added)

    A crucial aspect is missing from this Steve-at-Rice prediction. I realize there’s a strong chance that the above is just a partial version of what Steve said, and Steve did indeed include the crucial aspect. And, I realize that the crucial aspect follows so inevitably that to most it goes without saying. Still, it is worth saying:

    “Newcomers” should instead be “newcomers and their descendants.” The society-downgrading caused by “descendants” is actually greater than it is for newcomers. A newcomer, who is a gardener or the like, is not in a position to do you much actual harm in your daily life. However, after one or two generations, descendants of the newcomer have worked their way into positions where they are doing real stuff, and they can harm you. Further, many traditional-American colleagues of the descendants, through a process of mirroring, will downgrade their own performance; and, standards will be lowered for all. Of course the above phenomenon has been magnified by the high level of affirmative action accorded to newcomer descendants, and Steve-at-Rice, understandably, might not have foreseen that.

  22. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    https://twitter.com/Bulkington__/status/1755732568618443137

    [MORE]

    Chogolate Milk
    @GoldenAxilleus
    23h
    Putin just delivered a 2006 forum-tier dispergtation on Russia’s historical claim to Ukraine and my president just held an emergency news conference to deny the findings he’s essentially legally retarded

    funes 🦅
    @Bulkington__
    Feb 8
    Biggest take away from Putin interview is that president not being senile or borderline mentally challenged is a cultural shock to most westerners.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • LOL: BB753
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Almost Missouri



    https://twitter.com/GoldenAxilleus/status/1755775973058896212?s=20

     

    We have a president who referred to recently having a conversation with a German chancellor who died 7 years ago.


    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bb1dfa4656cd046222fc462d16426bba647c14619d480597dd23e1fa4b3b8482.png

     

  23. @TWS
    How bad will America in name only have to get before illegals decide Guatemala is better.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Sick n' Tired, @Almost Missouri

    before illegals decide Guatemala is better.

    El Salvador may already be better.

    Indeed, parts of Honduras are looking pretty good…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera

    • Agree: Fidelios Automata
    • Thanks: bomag, Paul Jolliffe
  24. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    Too good to leave off:

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Almost Missouri

    Whoever wrote that used Google translate. Never mind that, Chiang Kai-shek has half-Russian grandkids

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Chiang_Ching-kuo_and_Fang-liang_in_Gannan.jpg

    https://i.postimg.cc/nzYrnbTN/image.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Fang-liang

    Very inconvenient history for ROC-Taiwan-- it would reveal that KMT was originally a Russian proxy to be used against Japan.

    And inconvenient history for PRC-- it would reveal that CCP was originally a Soviet proxy, just like KMT was a Soviet-then-turned-American proxy. So Chiang was no more a stooge for the US than Mao was a stooge for Stalin.

    Further inconvenient history, ROC's operational plan to invade mainland in 60's, planned by Japanese advisors

    https://i.postimg.cc/Pf99dpvs/FZ-9-Nb-MVQAEmpj.jpg

  25. Anonymous[109] • Disclaimer says:

    Canada’s immigration policy consists of whatever men Trudeau likes sleeping with at the time. For most of his dictatorship, he’s been persuing Punjabi men (something about the smell of curry and a hairy body that gets Justin going). He’s let in about a million of them. Since the average IQ of the Punjab is 84, half of the population has an IQ below 84 and half of the population has an IQ above 84. A large number of them are functionally retarded. The types of jobs that they can do is very limited in an advanced society. You only need so many people who can dig holes and weed raspberry fields. Their low intelligence is felt in every aspect of Canadian society. British Columbia has had a plague of crashes on their overpasses, as dumb Punjabi truck drivers who either can’t read English signs or are too stupid to understand the concept of overheight vehicles. It’s happened 34 times since 2021 and the left-wing press and socialist governments refuse to accept the fact that is right before their eyes, Punjabi incompetence.

    https://vancouversun.com/feature/why-trucks-keep-hitting-bc-overpasses

  26. Hawaii SC decision on State RKBA.

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @Joe Stalin

    Best bit I've seen excerpted from that decision is:


    "The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities,” the Hawaiian Supreme Court wrote. “The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.
     
    One might wonder what should be the reaction of a sane system of government to such a stark rejection of it, claiming the system doesn't actually apply to a polity. After that, what do they like of the system should they still be allowed to enjoy?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @That Would Be Telling

  27. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    To tie in your OT comment with the immigration aspect of this post, Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that."

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?


    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] "The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he'd do it [but] he CAN'T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and...if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine...they'd be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that....

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is "not going to go into Ukraine,..., OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great...

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine...Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely...

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT -- Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine...The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless...


     

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @BB753, @Peter Lund

    , @epebble
    @Mark G.

    Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin could have also trolled by saying why is U.S. interested in a far off mostly White country like Ukraine when you are soon going to be a mostly non-white country. You should be interested in Latin America, Africa and Asia. That would have been received by the TC audience as a wise observation by a genius.

  28. Anon[287] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    If Biden tripped down the steps of Air Force One and ended up brain dead and on life support, Democrats would still vote for him. His supporters are either as dumb as a stump, (blacks and Hispanics,) or in extreme denial about his mental and physical incompetence (White Urban liberals).

    They’d all be pleased that the Deep State could now rule through a drooling figurehead.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Anon


    If Biden tripped down the steps of Air Force One and ended up brain dead and on life support, Democrats would still vote for him.
     
    Agree.

    His supporters are either as dumb as a stump, (blacks and Hispanics,) or in extreme denial about his mental and physical incompetence (White Urban liberals).
     
    I think they know he's totally incompetent. That's why even shilliest shills don't shill for Biden. It would be self-parody.

    It's just against their religion to admit that the Trump era was in any way okay. So what alternative do they have?
  29. From the linked BBC article on a few dot Indians leaving Canada to return to India:

    Karan Aulakh, who spent nearly 15 years in Edmonton and achieved career and financial success, left his managerial job for a comfortable rural life in Khane ki Daab, the village where he was born in 1985.

    He told the BBC he was upset by LGBT-inclusive education policies in Canada and its 2018 decision to legalise recreational cannabis.

    Incompatibility with the Western way of life, a struggling healthcare system, and better economic prospects in India were, he said, key reasons why many older Canadian Indians are preparing to leave the country.

    Unfortunately the number leaving isn’t very high: a few tens of thousands compared to millions arriving. I can’t get too excited about this.

    • Replies: @CCG
    @Frau Katze


    He told the BBC he was upset by LGBT-inclusive education policies in Canada and its 2018 decision to legalise recreational cannabis.
     
    If he thinks that India's better in that regard, he's unfortunately wrong. Cannabis is known as "ganja" in various Indian languages and its consumption is legal in many Indian states because it's part of certain Hindu rituals. And the LGBT lobby in India has been infiltrating and subverting the education system for some years now.
    https://m.timesofindia.com/home/sunday-times/why-drag-queens-are-reading-stories-to-kids/articleshow/69908347.cms

    Replies: @Frau Katze

  30. Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @Boreal Bob


    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia
     
    They are perhaps the most gold chain-y of the Indians. They may have more machismo than other Indian groups, but they also have lower IQ. Not exactly Tamil Brahmins.
    , @AnotherDad
    @Boreal Bob


    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia ...
     
    Sorry Bob, you're completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work--at whatever is available--and you don't see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants--an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.

    I'll grant they are better than Muslims who are from the civilization that is the historic of the West (Christendom). (And, of course, basically anyone is better than blacks.) But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won't care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians--half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends. (Ok, Twinkie will point out its not actually half of them because a bunch will marry new Indian immigrants--something we need to stop immediately.) Plus the typical Hindu coming for grad school or IT job is way smarter than the typical Sikh.

    Bring in Sikhs and maybe they aren't blowing up airliners anymore, but down the road you'll likely be stuck with an annoying indigestible Sikh blob in your nation. By now everyone should understand how stupid that is.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Malla

    , @Dave from Oz
    @Boreal Bob


    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated).
     
    In other words, historically and culturally they do not work for a living and despise people who do.

    That's the thing about "warrior" cultures. The way a warrior makes their way in the world is by taking other people's shit. After a few centuries of civilisation, they do it discretely by running the government (eg: the Normans). But it's still the same old parasitism.
    , @CCG
    @Boreal Bob

    Sikhs have similar problems as the other Dharmic groups.
    https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-census-2011-sikhs-jains-have-the-worst-sex-ratio-2161061
    And they bring these problems with them:
    https://www.deccanherald.com/content/220095/female-foeticide-rise-among-canadian.html

    , @Inquiring Mind
    @Boreal Bob

    You mean like Ms. Haley?

    , @anon
    @Boreal Bob

    Sikhs are just one step above Muslims.
    They are responsible for most of the street crime in Vancouver
    They are responsible for most of the political violence in Canada
    A Sikh truck driver was responsible for the Humboldt bus crash ( Why are we importing truck drivers?)

    And they are not handsome, a very physically unattractive people

  31. Atlantis, but alas, it sunk into the sea. Luckily for the Greeks, the Atlantians were able to pass on to them at least a tiny fraction of what they knew.

  32. Meanwhile, Oakland feral Negro’s attack on Western Civilization continues unabated as they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble, despite private armed guards patrolling the area.

    Even local Oakland cholo’s, acclimated to third world shitholes, were taken aback.

    • Replies: @New Dealer
    @anonymous

    Uh, Pacific Gas and Electric. Not Procter and Gamble.

    Energy, not cleaning products.

    , @AnotherDad
    @anonymous


    they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble
     
    As the Cincinnati raised son of the a near 30-year Proctor & Gamble employee, I'll just say that that P&G--generally a well managed company--is far too smart to move to California, much less Oakland.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

  33. @Mark G.
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    To tie in your OT comment with the immigration aspect of this post, Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that.

    Replies: @HA, @epebble

    “Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that.”

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?

    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] “The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he’d do it [but] he CAN’T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and…if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine…they’d be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that….

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is “not going to go into Ukraine,…, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great…

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine…Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely…

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT — Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine…The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”…Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless…

    • Agree: Frau Katze
    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @HA

    All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said.

    Replies: @HA

    , @Mark G.
    @HA

    Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve's comment section and we won't have to listen to them any more.

    Big pharma shill and shill for the corrupt Ukrainian government HA here is either not an American or is an American who does not care about his own country. He almost never talks about problems with a negative impact on average Americans like high inflation, high crime, the flooding of the country with illegal immigrants, the increasing gap between rich and poor and so on. Fortunately, the main American promoter of the Ukraine intervention, senile Biden, is likely to lose the next election.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @HA

    , @BB753
    @HA

    Who cares what Mersheimer said? John Mersheimer is an establishment guy and a limited hangout. Sometimes he says things nobody is supposed to say and that supposedly makes him a genius.

    , @Peter Lund
    @HA

    Putin himself also said he wouldn't invade Ukraine after he had invaded Georgia.

    (And how did Trump get away with saying that crap in 2016? After Russia had been in Ukraine since 2014?!)

  34. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    You can counter Putin’s assertions

    While your criticism of Tucker is mild and rational, you and other critics (all of the narrative parrots) seem to think that Tucker was there to “debate” with Putin rather than interview him.

    In an interview the subject is asked to answer questions and speak. You the interviewer don’t necessarily agree with the answers given.

    You can further delve into answers at times, asking for clarification or points of inconsistency with other actions, etc. But a journalist who is given an interview isn’t an invited debate opponent.

    Other than in wartime, US foes or political critics as leaders were always interviewed, but not by debaters taking issue with every answer. You don’t have to agree and you can offer alternative facts which may moot an answer, but that must be carefully done. You have to listen, not debate.

    How can we understand Putin’s thinking if we only “hear” or read of that via US other biased filters?

    Woke journalism, now the standard, hates straightforward interviews. Their goal is to silence and cancel, Soviet style.

    (I haven’t yet delved into the Tucker interview yet.)

  35. This isn’t a big deal. These Hindus need only to breed up some French Canadian stock, and their mutt children will become star quarterbacks in the Canadian Football league.

    And then AND THEN!….

    we will watch them score touchdowns.

  36. @Muggles
    Off topic:

    But it has to be said.

    Givin Senile Joe's now well documented "misremembering" of personal and family hisotory, in a now public and likely recordeed interview(s) with the DoJ Special Consul investigating his own personal trove of Official Secrets in his garage, this cannot be denied by the Narrative Media.

    Nor can it be swept away as partisan nitpicking.

    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a "thing".

    Dems are in a bind.

    My theory has long held that Biden won't run again (due to "health') but remain in office until the end of his term. Gov. Gavin Newsom likely the bait-and-switch new Prez nominee. Or someone like that.

    But if Joe has to go more quickly, as now seems possible, VP K. Harris steps up.

    Everyone seems to hate her evn more than Trump.

    Slogan for Narrative Media in March 2024:

    "First Woman US President! Kamala we always loved you!"

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar

    “He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind. ”

    Oh yeah, we haven’t heard this “dem Dems be in a bind, yo” a million times before. Nothing changes.

    Republican cucks will rattle their pathetic little sabers, snatch a crumpled up envelope off camera, and the show will go on.

    • Replies: @Ron Mexico
    @Mike Tre

    Until the next election steal.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

  37. Anonymous[366] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    Everyday I wake to this incredible tragedy.

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    But instead, we have been infected with this minoritarian mind virus--weakening our defenses or reason or very national sanity--and destroyed by its running buddy immigrationism. The dumbest, most toxic ideology that any civilization has ever had. National/civilizational Shakerism.

    Replies: @MGB, @Anonymous, @Goddard, @Seneca44

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    If you want that kind of stuff, well, head East young man. Stick a fork in the West.

  38. For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.

    What’s with the assumption that vegetable Joe Biden was behind any of the decisions at all? I don’t know who’s making the decisions in “his” administration, but I’m pretty sure it ain’t him.

    But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.

    The asylum system is broken by design, and no one in Congress seems to have any desire to fix it. Whatever else we do or don’t do with asylum law, the first simple change needs to be a hard ceiling on how many people can receive asylum in any given year.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for…

    That assumes that Biden has spent any meaningful amount of time in Delaware in the last 50 years. He spent 44 uninterrupted years in the Senate and as Vice President, then four years out of office from 2017-2021. Probably most of that time was spent in DC, which has achieved Tower of Babel levels of diversity. Perhaps wherever he is he’s simply been in a cocoon. More likely, he’s just too corrupt and ignorant to care.

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants. Very, very few of the people high in his administration – almost none – are white Protestants.

    1) Vice President – Kamala Harris – black/Indian
    2) Chief of Staff – Jeff Zients – Jewish
    3) Chief of Staff (previous) – Ron Klain – Jewish
    4) State – Antony Blinken – Jewish
    5) Treasury – Janet Yellen – Jewish
    6) Defense – Lloyd Austin – black
    7) Attorney General – Merrick Garland – Jewish
    8) Interior – Deb Haaland – Native American/white – religion unknown
    9) Agriculture – Tom Vilsack – white Catholic
    10) Commerce – Gina Raimondo – white Catholic
    11) Labor (Acting) – Julie Su – Chinese.
    12) Labor (previous) – Marty Walsh – white Catholic
    13) HHS – Xavier Becerra – Hispanic Catholic
    14) HUD – Marcia Fudge – black
    15) Transportation – Pete Buttigieg – British/Maltese Episcopalian (but raised Catholic)
    16) Energy – Jennifer Granholm – Irish/Swedish Catholic
    17) Education – Miguel Cardona – Hispanic Catholic
    18) Veterans Affairs – Denis McDonough – Irish Catholic
    19) Homeland Invasion Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – Jewish
    20) EPA – Michael Regan – black
    21) OMB – Shalanda Young – black
    22) National Intelligence – Avril Haines – Jewish/British (maybe)
    23) CIA – Williams Burns – possibly British Protestant
    24) US Trade Rep – Katherine Tai – Chinese
    25) UN Ambassador – Linda Thomas-Greenfield – black
    26) Council of Economic Advisers – Jared Bernstein – Jewish
    27) SBA – Isabella Guzman – Hispanic with some Jewish & German ancestry
    28) Science & Technology Policy – Arati Prabhakar – Indian

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden’s cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent. Not even many Northern Europeans in there at all who aren’t Irish. Indeed, there may only be one white, practicing Protestant, and that is Pete Buttigieg, who is best known for being gay. Meanwhile 9 of the 28 – nearly one-third – are Jewish or have significant amounts of Jewish ancestry.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent, and the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet, is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world where people were free to speak their minds without fear of repercussion. But we don’t live in that world anymore, do we?

    • Agree: Peterike
    • Thanks: That Would Be Telling, res
    • Replies: @Peterike
    @Wilkey

    “ the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet”

    And one tier down there are many, many dot Indians.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Wilkey


    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants.
     
    Biden's high school was founded by John J Raskob, who was chairman of the DNC and an ally of Al Smith. Like Smith, he turned on FDR. I'm beginning to like him. (Raskob, not Biden.) He was even in the Knights of Malta.

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden’s cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent.
     
    Haven't looked, but I'm betting almost all the blacks are Protestant.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent... is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world...
     
    The "Catholics" are pretty much all nominal. Nobody hates the Church like an ex-member, as seen in various revolutions around the globe. Biden's picks, like Joe himself, cover their inner rebellion successfully enough to get by.

    As for Protestants, it's like their absence from the Supreme Court. There is no center to them anymore. Biden isn't going to pick a Bible-thumper, and Buttcheek's conversion tells you all you need to know about the other wing.

    Replies: @Wilkey

    , @AnotherDad
    @Wilkey


    19) Homeland Invasion Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – Jewish
     
    Love the strike. In this case, Indeed invasion is its job under Mayorkas. He doesn't even hide it, he brags about it.

    Also, Homeland is in your top 5 in relevance--really its #1 these days. And what is notable about this administration is not even the glaring lack of white Protestants, it is its utter Jewish domination--almost complete in anything that actually matters. The scared 2% of the population running the country.

    You can say Harris is "relevant" in terms of being the ugly blob they are stuck with if Biden actually dies. And there's the black guy at defense, but I doubt he's doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management. Well and then there's Jill--she apparently gets pissed and yells at people when they are lax and let Joe by Joe and embarrass himself.

    It's a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy--most critically Mayorkas's "drown the goyim!" open border. You just aren't supposed to notice it ... much less say anything about it, you Nazi!

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Anonymous

    , @Inquiring Mind
    @Wilkey

    I thought Jewish persons were high IQ.

    How to Mr. Biden pick everyone from the far left tail of their distribution?

  39. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that."

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?


    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] "The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he'd do it [but] he CAN'T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and...if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine...they'd be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that....

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is "not going to go into Ukraine,..., OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great...

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine...Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely...

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT -- Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine...The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless...


     

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @BB753, @Peter Lund

    All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said.

    • Replies: @HA
    @J.Ross

    "All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said."

    Perfectly true, you say? OK, then. Let's put a pin on that and remember it the next time any fanboy makes a prediction or a statement about Ukraine -- say the one about how Russia will inevitably prevail against the West and NATO or whatever -- we should keep in mind it actually has a sell-by date that is 3 months or so which, after which the total opposite may apply.

    And when that great and wise sage Mearshimer, for example, says that "Russia CAN'T create a greater Russia because Russia is a declining power, and doing so is actually a good way to wreck Russia because it will lead to no end of trouble and Putin is much too smart for that", it's only "perfectly true" at the moment he utters it, and then afterwards it becomes true in only a "less than perfect" way -- as in Russia can just snap out of its "declining power" rut because it's a Tuesday or something, at which point trying to swipe surrounding territory then actually becomes a genius move. Or something.

    Thanks, fanboys -- doubling down on fanboy stupidity makes it seem so much less stupid!

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Anonymous

  40. @Wilkey

    For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.
     
    What's with the assumption that vegetable Joe Biden was behind any of the decisions at all? I don't know who's making the decisions in "his" administration, but I'm pretty sure it ain't him.

    But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.
     
    The asylum system is broken by design, and no one in Congress seems to have any desire to fix it. Whatever else we do or don't do with asylum law, the first simple change needs to be a hard ceiling on how many people can receive asylum in any given year.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for...
     
    That assumes that Biden has spent any meaningful amount of time in Delaware in the last 50 years. He spent 44 uninterrupted years in the Senate and as Vice President, then four years out of office from 2017-2021. Probably most of that time was spent in DC, which has achieved Tower of Babel levels of diversity. Perhaps wherever he is he's simply been in a cocoon. More likely, he's just too corrupt and ignorant to care.

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants. Very, very few of the people high in his administration - almost none - are white Protestants.

    1) Vice President - Kamala Harris - black/Indian
    2) Chief of Staff - Jeff Zients - Jewish
    3) Chief of Staff (previous) - Ron Klain - Jewish
    4) State - Antony Blinken - Jewish
    5) Treasury - Janet Yellen - Jewish
    6) Defense - Lloyd Austin - black
    7) Attorney General - Merrick Garland - Jewish
    8) Interior - Deb Haaland - Native American/white - religion unknown
    9) Agriculture - Tom Vilsack - white Catholic
    10) Commerce - Gina Raimondo - white Catholic
    11) Labor (Acting) - Julie Su - Chinese.
    12) Labor (previous) - Marty Walsh - white Catholic
    13) HHS - Xavier Becerra - Hispanic Catholic
    14) HUD - Marcia Fudge - black
    15) Transportation - Pete Buttigieg - British/Maltese Episcopalian (but raised Catholic)
    16) Energy - Jennifer Granholm - Irish/Swedish Catholic
    17) Education - Miguel Cardona - Hispanic Catholic
    18) Veterans Affairs - Denis McDonough - Irish Catholic
    19) Homeland Invasion Security - Alejandro Mayorkas - Jewish
    20) EPA - Michael Regan - black
    21) OMB - Shalanda Young - black
    22) National Intelligence - Avril Haines - Jewish/British (maybe)
    23) CIA - Williams Burns - possibly British Protestant
    24) US Trade Rep - Katherine Tai - Chinese
    25) UN Ambassador - Linda Thomas-Greenfield - black
    26) Council of Economic Advisers - Jared Bernstein - Jewish
    27) SBA - Isabella Guzman - Hispanic with some Jewish & German ancestry
    28) Science & Technology Policy - Arati Prabhakar - Indian

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden's cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent. Not even many Northern Europeans in there at all who aren't Irish. Indeed, there may only be one white, practicing Protestant, and that is Pete Buttigieg, who is best known for being gay. Meanwhile 9 of the 28 - nearly one-third - are Jewish or have significant amounts of Jewish ancestry.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent, and the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet, is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world where people were free to speak their minds without fear of repercussion. But we don't live in that world anymore, do we?

    Replies: @Peterike, @Reg Cæsar, @AnotherDad, @Inquiring Mind

    “ the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet”

    And one tier down there are many, many dot Indians.

  41. @Almost Missouri
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Too good to leave off:

    https://i.postimg.cc/LXcL7Tqs/West-Bestern-Putin-Interview.png

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Whoever wrote that used Google translate. Never mind that, Chiang Kai-shek has half-Russian grandkids

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Fang-liang

    Very inconvenient history for ROC-Taiwan– it would reveal that KMT was originally a Russian proxy to be used against Japan.

    And inconvenient history for PRC– it would reveal that CCP was originally a Soviet proxy, just like KMT was a Soviet-then-turned-American proxy. So Chiang was no more a stooge for the US than Mao was a stooge for Stalin.

    Further inconvenient history, ROC’s operational plan to invade mainland in 60’s, planned by Japanese advisors

    • Thanks: Almost Missouri
  42. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    Similar here

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Do you think that a Russia led by the Socialist Revolutionaries instead of either the Tsar or the Bolsheviks would have had a less imperialist policy towards China, perhaps even eventually up to the point of going to war against Japan in China in the 1930s and 1940s in order to liberate China and possibly even Korea from Japanese rule?

    , @OFWHAP
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    I love the frog representing the French crawling from the south in the second picture.

    , @Almost Missouri
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China
     
    To the extent that Chinese feel aggrieved about history, what is their rank of grievances? I know Japan ranks high. Does Britain selling opium to addicts outrank Russia hiving off outer Manchuria? And what about the Manchu themselves? They used to be the dynastic overlords, and therefore the "oppressors" in Marxist demonology, but now they seem to be about as Han as anyone else and an offense against them is an offense against China.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @Joe Stalin
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    LOVE the Frenchie Indochina being represented by the frog in the last map.

    That's how cartoons were in the distant past in America - we were NOT afraid of being culturally insensitive to the targets being lampooned.

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @J.Ross
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    What the hell, why does the bear look like a cat or a beaver or a ... marmot? This is like the "do you think I like begging" animation.

  43. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that."

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?


    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] "The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he'd do it [but] he CAN'T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and...if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine...they'd be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that....

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is "not going to go into Ukraine,..., OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great...

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine...Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely...

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT -- Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine...The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless...


     

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @BB753, @Peter Lund

    Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve’s comment section and we won’t have to listen to them any more.

    Big pharma shill and shill for the corrupt Ukrainian government HA here is either not an American or is an American who does not care about his own country. He almost never talks about problems with a negative impact on average Americans like high inflation, high crime, the flooding of the country with illegal immigrants, the increasing gap between rich and poor and so on. Fortunately, the main American promoter of the Ukraine intervention, senile Biden, is likely to lose the next election.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Mark G.

    All those words yet none of them address HA's point.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    , @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve’s comment section and we won’t have to listen to them any more."

    For the record -- check the paper trail if you doubt me -- YOU were the one who decided to make an off-topic reference to Putin and Ukraine in response to yet another off-topic comment. I merely responded, and nonetheless still managed to trigger you about how I'm the one who's pushing things with regard to Ukraine.

    Moreover, if you don't want to listen to my words, fanboy, that "Ignore" button is just a click away, as I've reminded you plenty of times. If you're too lazy or dumb or hypocritical to click it, like anyone with any common sense would, well, that says more about your directives regarding American foreign policy, not to mention your grasp of common sense, than anything I could.

  44. He vowed to end the harsh practices of the Trump administration, show compassion toward those wishing to come to the United States and secure the southern border.

    So he vowed to “secure” the border by erasing it, at least insofar as what a “border” means in terms of differentiating between citizens of a country and illegal entrants into that country.

    It’s a lot like the liberal solution to black crime: Just legalize shoplifting and don’t enforce all sorts of other laws, and — voila! — the crime rate goes down. Brilliant!

    …as chaos engulfs the border

    “Chaos” is their new buzz word. Everyone got the memo. Loosely translated, it means, “Just stop making such a fuss about all these people wandering in, and stop pestering them with things like walls and razor wire so there can be a nice, orderly invasion.

  45. @Almost Missouri
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    https://twitter.com/GoldenAxilleus/status/1755775973058896212

    https://twitter.com/Bulkington__/status/1755732568618443137




    Chogolate Milk
    @GoldenAxilleus
    23h
    Putin just delivered a 2006 forum-tier dispergtation on Russia’s historical claim to Ukraine and my president just held an emergency news conference to deny the findings he’s essentially legally retarded


    funes 🦅
    @Bulkington__
    Feb 8
    Biggest take away from Putin interview is that president not being senile or borderline mentally challenged is a cultural shock to most westerners.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    We have a president who referred to recently having a conversation with a German chancellor who died 7 years ago.

  46. @Mark G.
    @HA

    Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve's comment section and we won't have to listen to them any more.

    Big pharma shill and shill for the corrupt Ukrainian government HA here is either not an American or is an American who does not care about his own country. He almost never talks about problems with a negative impact on average Americans like high inflation, high crime, the flooding of the country with illegal immigrants, the increasing gap between rich and poor and so on. Fortunately, the main American promoter of the Ukraine intervention, senile Biden, is likely to lose the next election.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @HA

    All those words yet none of them address HA’s point.

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @Anonymous

    He didn't address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of. Why didn't you call him out on that? Are you another person who doesn't care about what is happening to this country, Mr. Anonymous?

    The other countries in Europe have a GDP several times that of Russia and could easily afford militaries to fend off Russia. Their defense should not be paid for by American taxpayers. We have two large oceans on each side of us and Russia could never launch a successful invasion of the United States.

    We have a 34 trillion dollar national debt, much of it due to our foreign wars and bloated military budget. Social Security and Medicare is 60 trillion dollars short of what is needed the next 30 years to cover the retirements of the Boomers. Yearly interest payments on the debt are almost a trillion dollars. Crime is rising, illegal immigrants are flooding across the border and living standards of the average American is declining. What dictator wins the Russia-Ukraine war is of trivial importance by comparison.

    Replies: @HA

  47. @Mark G.
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    To tie in your OT comment with the immigration aspect of this post, Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that.

    Replies: @HA, @epebble

    Putin asked Tucker why America pays so much attention to the Ukraine when we have major problems here at home like our open borders and 34 trillion dollar national debt. That was a good question.

    Putin could have also trolled by saying why is U.S. interested in a far off mostly White country like Ukraine when you are soon going to be a mostly non-white country. You should be interested in Latin America, Africa and Asia. That would have been received by the TC audience as a wise observation by a genius.

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
  48. Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware

    For whatever reason, the University of Delaware in Newark is very popular with college students from the Mid-Atlantic. 64 percent of UDel undergrads come from out-of-state, as opposed to 17 percent at Rutgers.

    Despite being a corporate haven, UDel cannot support its own law school and has to send its residents to Widener, which has a campus in Wilmington. Joe himself went to Syracuse for law school.

    • Replies: @res
    @ScarletNumber


    For whatever reason, the University of Delaware in Newark is very popular with college students from the Mid-Atlantic. 64 percent of UDel undergrads come from out-of-state, as opposed to 17 percent at Rutgers.
     
    Delaware as a whole having a population of 1 million (contrast New Jersey at 9.3 million) probably has something to do with it. As does geography.
    https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-wide-is-delaware-total-distance-from-east-to-west/

    Newark is 2 miles from Maryland, 3 miles from Pennsylvania, and about 15 miles from New Jersey.
  49. @Farenheit
    So the ole bait and switch...TPTB made the argument that all the developed world needed to get their "demographics under control", climate, quality of life, blah blah blah.

    Then when the demographics are "under control", flood the country with foreigners, cuz taxes, growth, strip mall restaurants, blah blah blah

    They never thought it through, never cared.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ

    Actually, I think that pro-natalism among smart Western whites is a very, very good idea as well!

  50. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    Do you think that a Russia led by the Socialist Revolutionaries instead of either the Tsar or the Bolsheviks would have had a less imperialist policy towards China, perhaps even eventually up to the point of going to war against Japan in China in the 1930s and 1940s in order to liberate China and possibly even Korea from Japanese rule?

  51. Cotton pickin’ Punjabis…

    • Replies: @Wielgus
    @Reg Cæsar

    Some of the most productive farmers in India. They appear to be Sikhs - that looks like the characteristic turban in the first photo.

  52. @Wilkey

    For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.
     
    What's with the assumption that vegetable Joe Biden was behind any of the decisions at all? I don't know who's making the decisions in "his" administration, but I'm pretty sure it ain't him.

    But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.
     
    The asylum system is broken by design, and no one in Congress seems to have any desire to fix it. Whatever else we do or don't do with asylum law, the first simple change needs to be a hard ceiling on how many people can receive asylum in any given year.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for...
     
    That assumes that Biden has spent any meaningful amount of time in Delaware in the last 50 years. He spent 44 uninterrupted years in the Senate and as Vice President, then four years out of office from 2017-2021. Probably most of that time was spent in DC, which has achieved Tower of Babel levels of diversity. Perhaps wherever he is he's simply been in a cocoon. More likely, he's just too corrupt and ignorant to care.

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants. Very, very few of the people high in his administration - almost none - are white Protestants.

    1) Vice President - Kamala Harris - black/Indian
    2) Chief of Staff - Jeff Zients - Jewish
    3) Chief of Staff (previous) - Ron Klain - Jewish
    4) State - Antony Blinken - Jewish
    5) Treasury - Janet Yellen - Jewish
    6) Defense - Lloyd Austin - black
    7) Attorney General - Merrick Garland - Jewish
    8) Interior - Deb Haaland - Native American/white - religion unknown
    9) Agriculture - Tom Vilsack - white Catholic
    10) Commerce - Gina Raimondo - white Catholic
    11) Labor (Acting) - Julie Su - Chinese.
    12) Labor (previous) - Marty Walsh - white Catholic
    13) HHS - Xavier Becerra - Hispanic Catholic
    14) HUD - Marcia Fudge - black
    15) Transportation - Pete Buttigieg - British/Maltese Episcopalian (but raised Catholic)
    16) Energy - Jennifer Granholm - Irish/Swedish Catholic
    17) Education - Miguel Cardona - Hispanic Catholic
    18) Veterans Affairs - Denis McDonough - Irish Catholic
    19) Homeland Invasion Security - Alejandro Mayorkas - Jewish
    20) EPA - Michael Regan - black
    21) OMB - Shalanda Young - black
    22) National Intelligence - Avril Haines - Jewish/British (maybe)
    23) CIA - Williams Burns - possibly British Protestant
    24) US Trade Rep - Katherine Tai - Chinese
    25) UN Ambassador - Linda Thomas-Greenfield - black
    26) Council of Economic Advisers - Jared Bernstein - Jewish
    27) SBA - Isabella Guzman - Hispanic with some Jewish & German ancestry
    28) Science & Technology Policy - Arati Prabhakar - Indian

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden's cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent. Not even many Northern Europeans in there at all who aren't Irish. Indeed, there may only be one white, practicing Protestant, and that is Pete Buttigieg, who is best known for being gay. Meanwhile 9 of the 28 - nearly one-third - are Jewish or have significant amounts of Jewish ancestry.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent, and the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet, is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world where people were free to speak their minds without fear of repercussion. But we don't live in that world anymore, do we?

    Replies: @Peterike, @Reg Cæsar, @AnotherDad, @Inquiring Mind

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants.

    Biden’s high school was founded by John J Raskob, who was chairman of the DNC and an ally of Al Smith. Like Smith, he turned on FDR. I’m beginning to like him. (Raskob, not Biden.) He was even in the Knights of Malta.

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden’s cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent.

    Haven’t looked, but I’m betting almost all the blacks are Protestant.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent… is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world…

    The “Catholics” are pretty much all nominal. Nobody hates the Church like an ex-member, as seen in various revolutions around the globe. Biden’s picks, like Joe himself, cover their inner rebellion successfully enough to get by.

    As for Protestants, it’s like their absence from the Supreme Court. There is no center to them anymore. Biden isn’t going to pick a Bible-thumper, and Buttcheek’s conversion tells you all you need to know about the other wing.

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    Thanks. My point was really more about the ethnic component than the religious one. To that point, as I wrote, the lack of non-Irish Northern Europeans, who comprise a huge percentage of America's overall population, is really quite glaring. It's hard to believe that it wasn't deliberate, especially since there are plenty of us around in every sphere of life. Even in just the US Senate there are 18 Northern European, Protestant Democrats. That's more than twice as many as the number of Jewish Democrats (8). There are 11 white, non-Hispanic Catholic Democrats in the Senate, at least a few of whom aren't Irish.

    So it's not for the lack of people that Biden has excluded Northern Europeans/Protestants from his Cabinet. It's a deliberate choice.

  53. Even if the Punjabis leave, they will be replaced by Haitians or Somalians, and those ain’t going back.

    Half a million are coming every year. Canada is toast.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  54. If you’re an Indian with a good education it probably isn’t hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country’s poverty. Overall the weather is probably nicer and the country more scenic, with the bonus being that it’s something you’re used to.

    In Canada you get to shut yourself inside for 5-6 months out of the year and forget the sun even exists. And in order to enjoy the blessings of living in Canada, Land of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you get rent or mortgage payments that could buy you a medium-sized village in India.

    And then there’s one other thing: it’s probably a lot easier to live as an Indian in India than it is to live as an Indian (or a European) in Canada, in terms of the bullshit political and cultural attitudes you’re required to profess. Having to live in Airstrip One pretending that what you see with your own eyes isn’t real? Living in a poorer country may actually be worth the benefits to your sanity.

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the tech segment of India’s middle class as AI (supposedly) takes over. For that matter, it will be interesting to see what happens in the USA, as well. How much louder could the demand for reduced immigration be when tens of of millions of Westerners lose their jobs to AI, and suddenly want one of those jobs (not easily replaced by AI) that “Americans won’t do.”

    Artificial Intelligence may cost millions of people in Western countries their jobs. In a strange way that could very well be what saves us.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Wilkey

    "If you’re an Indian with a good education it probably isn’t hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country’s poverty. "

    I had pretty long chats with an Indian IT guy who was one of 60 or so brought to the UK to be trained up by UK staff, so that the system could be administered in India while the UK staff were made redundant (I was a contractor).

    He spent two hours on the train to work and two hours back each day in India.


    "How do you stand that? Don't you miss the free time?"

    "But you see, when I get back my time is completely my own. I have someone to cook for me, someone to clean the house and wash and iron all my clothes, everything. All my time then is leisure time."
     
    The company who hired me were pretty open about what they were doing, and most of the senior IT guys were due big payoffs and pension boosts (a pain for the younger guys though, IT is just not the career it was).

    But delightfully, a good deal of the company's cleverness came back to bite them on the bum. The guy I mentioned and half his colleagues, with six months training (and language improvements) in the UK, found that their market value in India had gone up, and left soon after their return to India.



    Full transcript of the Carlson/Putin interview for those who prefer words to sounds and images:

    https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-carlson-interview-full-transcript

    Tucker: Who blew up Nord Stream?

    Vladimir Putin: You for sure.

    Tucker: I was busy that day. I did not blow up Nord Stream. Thank you though.

    Vladimir Putin: You personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi.

    Tucker: Did you have evidence that NATO or the CIA did it?

    Vladimir Putin: You know, I won’t get into details, but people always say in such cases, look for someone who is interested. But in this case, we should not only look for someone who is interested, but also for someone who has capabilities, because there may be many people interested, but not all of them are capable of sinking to the bottom of the Baltic Sea and carrying out this explosion. These two components should be connected. Who is interested and who is capable of doing it?

    Tucker: But I’m confused. I mean, that’s the biggest act of industrial terrorism ever, and it’s the largest emission of CO2 in history. Okay, so if you had evidence and presumably given your security services or Intel services, you would that NATO, the US, CIA, the West did this, why wouldn’t you present it and win a propaganda victory?

    Vladimir Putin: In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions. Don’t you know that? So it is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information and we will not achieve results. It is clear to the whole world what happened then. Even American analysts talk about it directly. It’s true.

    Tucker: Yes I, but here’s a question you may able to answer. You worked in Germany famously. The Germans clearly know that their NATO partner did this, but they. And it damaged their economy greatly. It may never recover. Why are they being silent about it? That’s very confusing to me. Why wouldn’t the Germans say something about it?

    Vladimir Putin: This also confuses me, but today’s German leadership is guided by the interests of the collective West rather than its national interests. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the logic of their action or inaction.
     
    Tucker was wrong about it being the biggest CO2 release in history, he probably meant "greenhouse gas" which methane certainly is. Mind, there are methane volcanos in Siberia's permafrost, they might be bigger.
    , @That Would Be Telling
    @Wilkey

    In general you're arguing hard against the revealed preferences of millions of Indians, but you start off with a very big problem, "If you’re an Indian with a good education...." Note most of the below is generally true for India, but a number of specifics are for Punjab which is what we're in theory discussing:

    A good education is very hard to achieve, two big problems are there's just too many people and too few schools of any quality (and even the ITTs back in their heyday had indifferent professors, curricula and equipment (like computers), their biggest advantage was gathering so many of the country's smartest).

    And if you're in a higher cast, especially Brahmin, there's now severe discrimination in favor of the lower castes and those outside the system like the "untouchables" AKA Dalits, which Wikipedia tells us "32% of Punjab's population consists of [them]." This is becoming an issue in the US especially in high tech.

    See also the jāti system which divides the people into around thirty thousand endogamous groups (caste plus this means you can't use normal HBD like IQ reasoning about the population). Which also tends to come with standard occupations for those in it, I'm told this relates to all the Patels who run motels in the US. So I wouldn't be surprised that if you wanted to do something your jāti doesn't do you'd have to emigrate.

    Then there's a zillion quality of life/can you live at all issues. Off the top of my head, compared to Canada today, 24x7 electricity, ditto water, half the population has no access to toilet facilities (not sure this relevant, especially since we're told those ways aren't changing (much) when they move to Canada).

    Drugs sold in India made by Indian firms tend to be the lower or no quality lots. Even as bad as the Canadian health system is, it could provide generally better access; not at all sure about that, but it likely also provides higher quality services if you can bear the wait time, and perhaps the option of going down to the US for health care is a practical one.

    If you're both smart, serious about getting a real education vs. cheating to get a ticket, and good enough at English, I'm pretty sure getting a good education is much more practical in Canada. You won't for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn't make that cut, who wasn't for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).

    Communal and other group interpersonal violence is thing in India, the police are infinitely more corrupt, the legal system appears to take decades to do what Western ones do in a few years, Canada is less crowded (but that's likely changing in the urban areas). Ah, while Canada is I'm sure a lot colder than most of Punjab which is fairly far in the north of India, "Even though only limited regions experience temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F), ground frost is commonly found in the majority of Punjab during the winter season." That's enough to kill you without suitable clothing etc.

    It's humid, "Punjab's rainy season begins in the first week of July as monsoon currents generated in the Bay of Bengal bring rain to the region. The monsoon lasts up to mid-September." and "The maximum temperatures usually occur in mid-May and June. The temperature remains above 40 °C (104 °F) in the entire region during this period." And see above for A/C prospects to keep yourself cool during periods of high demand.

    For economics, I'm sure for a lot of people the prospects are still better in Canada than in India/Punjab. Again, see the revealed preferences. I'd also wonder how many see Canad as a way station to getting into the US.

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Anon

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Wilkey

    "If you’re an Indian with a good education it probably isn’t hard to live well in India "

    Don't know what happened to the rest of my comment, but the point was that the Indian guy with a two hour commute each way in India had people to cook his meals, clean his house, wash and iron his clothes.

    He never had things to do around the house as I did. Sometimes in summer I'll spend the entire weekend in the (big) garden, mowing, strimming, cutting hedges. Whereas when he got home his time was his own.

    He lived in that sense like a middle-class Victorian would in England. Servants are cheap in India, just as they were up to WW1 in the UK.

  55. @Muggles
    Off topic:

    But it has to be said.

    Givin Senile Joe's now well documented "misremembering" of personal and family hisotory, in a now public and likely recordeed interview(s) with the DoJ Special Consul investigating his own personal trove of Official Secrets in his garage, this cannot be denied by the Narrative Media.

    Nor can it be swept away as partisan nitpicking.

    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a "thing".

    Dems are in a bind.

    My theory has long held that Biden won't run again (due to "health') but remain in office until the end of his term. Gov. Gavin Newsom likely the bait-and-switch new Prez nominee. Or someone like that.

    But if Joe has to go more quickly, as now seems possible, VP K. Harris steps up.

    Everyone seems to hate her evn more than Trump.

    Slogan for Narrative Media in March 2024:

    "First Woman US President! Kamala we always loved you!"

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play “hardball”, per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn’t belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? “Madam President…”

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama’s main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party’s bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven't read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it's too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we're already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won't have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn't know and pretend it's so sad and pretend it wasn't entirely planned and "Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?"

    If you didn't already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it's hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn't get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    Replies: @bomag, @res, @J.Ross, @BB753

    , @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar


    Gavin Newsome is too weird
     
    I meant to add: California, the state itself, is Gavin Newsom's biggest liability. California is gorgeous. Despite all the crappy videos we see of people robbing Apple stores in broad daylight and homeless people shitting on the sidewalks of San Francisco, there are still many parts of the state that are just this side of paradise. Unfortunately most of those parts are far out of reach for more and more Americans. Not just slightly out of reach, but forever "not unless I win the lottery" out of reach.

    California used to be a beacon. People used to say, "I'd love to live in California, if it weren't so expensive." People who lived there and left would say, "I loved it, but couldn't afford to stay."

    But today what more and more people are saying is "I wouldn't live in California even if I could afford it." Today, even people who can afford it are leaving.

    More and more, the subject of California leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of Americans. It's a reminder of what America once was, but can maybe never be again. Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.

    Replies: @Muggles

    , @Paul Jolliffe
    @Reg Cæsar

    Two dark horses, both from Michigan:

    Jennifer Granholm and Gretchen Whitmer.

    Both photogenic, both ruthless, and both driven to get higher up the Democratic ladder.

    Both have a tyrannical streak inside and both are listening to mysterious donors who’ve paved their way (certainly not ordinary voters in Michigan.)

    I wouldn’t bet serious money on either, but they are both in the conversation, if Biden doesn’t survive this month politically (or literally).

    If either does happen, you read it here first.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Paul Jolliffe, @Paul Jolliffe

    , @kaganovitch
    @Reg Cæsar


    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama’s main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party’s bench?
     

    Diane Feinstein!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  56. @Reg Cæsar
    @Wilkey


    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants.
     
    Biden's high school was founded by John J Raskob, who was chairman of the DNC and an ally of Al Smith. Like Smith, he turned on FDR. I'm beginning to like him. (Raskob, not Biden.) He was even in the Knights of Malta.

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden’s cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent.
     
    Haven't looked, but I'm betting almost all the blacks are Protestant.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent... is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world...
     
    The "Catholics" are pretty much all nominal. Nobody hates the Church like an ex-member, as seen in various revolutions around the globe. Biden's picks, like Joe himself, cover their inner rebellion successfully enough to get by.

    As for Protestants, it's like their absence from the Supreme Court. There is no center to them anymore. Biden isn't going to pick a Bible-thumper, and Buttcheek's conversion tells you all you need to know about the other wing.

    Replies: @Wilkey

    Thanks. My point was really more about the ethnic component than the religious one. To that point, as I wrote, the lack of non-Irish Northern Europeans, who comprise a huge percentage of America’s overall population, is really quite glaring. It’s hard to believe that it wasn’t deliberate, especially since there are plenty of us around in every sphere of life. Even in just the US Senate there are 18 Northern European, Protestant Democrats. That’s more than twice as many as the number of Jewish Democrats (8). There are 11 white, non-Hispanic Catholic Democrats in the Senate, at least a few of whom aren’t Irish.

    So it’s not for the lack of people that Biden has excluded Northern Europeans/Protestants from his Cabinet. It’s a deliberate choice.

  57. @Reg Cæsar
    @Muggles

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play "hardball", per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn't belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? "Madam President..."

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama's main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party's bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Wilkey, @Paul Jolliffe, @kaganovitch

    I haven’t read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it’s too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we’re already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won’t have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn’t know and pretend it’s so sad and pretend it wasn’t entirely planned and “Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?”

    If you didn’t already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it’s hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn’t get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    • Agree: ic1000
    • Replies: @bomag
    @Wilkey

    I'm sure the Dems are considering the late switch; but the main plan looks to have the courts damage Trump/keep him off the ballot.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    , @res
    @Wilkey

    Interesting idea. Thanks.

    , @J.Ross
    @Wilkey

    Yes, after all, these are the people who came up with "superdelegates."

    , @BB753
    @Wilkey

    If anything, the Biden presidency has proven that the POTUS doesn't run anything and that it doesn't matter who gets to the White House. Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.
    Democracy is a bad theater only fools believe in.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  58. @J.Ross
    Didn't Borjas say that part of why the quality of "refugees" worsened was economic reform at home meant you could live better at home, and permanent immigration is so hard you pretty much need to need to immigrate, so the third worlders kept out of the middle class by local corruption or stupidity stopped coming, becoming middle class Mexicans is preferable to becoming middle class Americans once it's possible, and we started getting a lot more lower class people? It's not all a big Mariel boatlift. I understand that several of the young Chinese gentlemen we're getting are considered elite.

    Replies: @New Dealer

    All else equal, the richest in a sending country don’t want to migrate`and the poorest in that country can’t afford to migrate. (The poorest never migrate, and tend to suffer from loss of the more talented from their communities.)

    When migration is cheaper, because of denser outmigration networks easing transport and resettlement, or less deterrence, or under Biden by outright rewards, the more the poorer can afford to migrate.

  59. @anonymous
    Meanwhile, Oakland feral Negro's attack on Western Civilization continues unabated as they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble, despite private armed guards patrolling the area.

    Even local Oakland cholo's, acclimated to third world shitholes, were taken aback.

    https://youtu.be/7Y8BbbSAVac

    Replies: @New Dealer, @AnotherDad

    Uh, Pacific Gas and Electric. Not Procter and Gamble.

    Energy, not cleaning products.

  60. @Anonymous
    @Mark G.

    All those words yet none of them address HA's point.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    He didn’t address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of. Why didn’t you call him out on that? Are you another person who doesn’t care about what is happening to this country, Mr. Anonymous?

    The other countries in Europe have a GDP several times that of Russia and could easily afford militaries to fend off Russia. Their defense should not be paid for by American taxpayers. We have two large oceans on each side of us and Russia could never launch a successful invasion of the United States.

    We have a 34 trillion dollar national debt, much of it due to our foreign wars and bloated military budget. Social Security and Medicare is 60 trillion dollars short of what is needed the next 30 years to cover the retirements of the Boomers. Yearly interest payments on the debt are almost a trillion dollars. Crime is rising, illegal immigrants are flooding across the border and living standards of the average American is declining. What dictator wins the Russia-Ukraine war is of trivial importance by comparison.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "He didn’t address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of."

    So address them. Pay down that debt; fix the crumbling infrastructure. Dig deep. Trying to deflect from that worthwhile task by convincing us that Putin is the one with common sense, despite your abject lack of it, is about as convincing as the rest of your hypocritical tripe.

    Because let's be real -- when it's something you care about, e.g., getting the government to facilitate your alternative cheap-steroid therapies to COVID, or whatever other quack cures you're into, you're happy to get the nanny state involved, so that they can always be there to blame in case your hypocritical pseudo-libertarianism blows up in your face (which in that case, it most certainly did, at which point, your response was to blame the government for its stupid decisions instead of taking responsibility for your own). Whereas when it's something you don't care about, then it's a distraction from the debt, and something we don't have the time or money for, or whatever.

    Who does all this remind me of? Oh, yeah:

    Marjorie Taylor Green: Our government is sending $1 billion dollars to Ukraine every single month. Imagine the difference if instead our government spent $1 billion a month on mental health in America.

    Readers added context they thought people might want to know:
    Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of only 20 House Republicans who voted against legislation reauthorizing grants for community mental health services supporting adults with mental illnesses and children.
     

    When you're reduced to aping people like her, that's when you know you've run out of things to say.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Mark G.

  61. “For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle.”

    “… It was the first big test of his immigration agenda, and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work.”

    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.

    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.

    This isn’t a news story, it’s just dnc talking points. fake president/real gangster Joe Biden is merely continuing the strategy of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama.”

    “The Myth of the 11 Million: Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-myth-of-11-million-already-in-2014.html

    • Agree: AceDeuce, Mr. Anon
    • Thanks: J.Ross
    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Nicholas Stix


    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.
     
    Exactly this.
    , @BB753
    @Nicholas Stix

    "Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”"

    Does that mean that there are 80 million illegals now?

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Nicholas Stix


    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.
     
    Exactly. We no longer have "reporters". We now have "journalists".
  62. @Reg Cæsar
    @Muggles

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play "hardball", per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn't belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? "Madam President..."

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama's main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party's bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Wilkey, @Paul Jolliffe, @kaganovitch

    Gavin Newsome is too weird

    I meant to add: California, the state itself, is Gavin Newsom’s biggest liability. California is gorgeous. Despite all the crappy videos we see of people robbing Apple stores in broad daylight and homeless people shitting on the sidewalks of San Francisco, there are still many parts of the state that are just this side of paradise. Unfortunately most of those parts are far out of reach for more and more Americans. Not just slightly out of reach, but forever “not unless I win the lottery” out of reach.

    California used to be a beacon. People used to say, “I’d love to live in California, if it weren’t so expensive.” People who lived there and left would say, “I loved it, but couldn’t afford to stay.”

    But today what more and more people are saying is “I wouldn’t live in California even if I could afford it.” Today, even people who can afford it are leaving.

    More and more, the subject of California leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of Americans. It’s a reminder of what America once was, but can maybe never be again. Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.

    • Agree: New Dealer, Renard
    • Replies: @Muggles
    @Wilkey


    Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.
     
    While I don't disagree with your negative analysis of Newsom, none of that keeps him from being reelected, defeating recall elections, and leading the Cal. Dem Party to near total political monopoly in major cities in California.

    Yes, the Dems want to "Californize" America. He is their leader for that.

    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren't the majority of voters.

    Newsom is a good looking youngish man (compared to Biden/Trump). "Good Hair". Married to several beautiful women (over time, not all at once) and loved by tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.

    Not saying he's perfect. But who else they got? A bunch of Liz Warrens?

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no...)

    The Dems have nobodies for choices behind Newsom.

    Trump was President, and the sole remaining GOP candidate, because of his out-sized very public personna known to the public via TV shows.

    Who do the Dems have? Oprah? Their normal electeds are like other politicians, mostly horrible personalities. Dull, blah, colorless, liars, speech readers, etc. RFK Jr. could out poll them.

    Biden is now toast, even the Dem string pullers see that. So who's up next? That is the question.

    Some Dem state no name Governor? They have a second string, but like the GOP bench, a painfully bad bench compared to P.T. Barnum Trump...

    Replies: @Joe Paluka, @Wilkey

  63. Anonymous[514] • Disclaimer says:

    Don’t believe a single word of that blatant BBC propaganda piece.

    Actually, this line that ‘immigrants are just so sick of the host country that they are longing to return home’ is an old one, and has, for example, been trotted out in the UK at regular intervals for the last 70 years or so. Yet, the numbers of immigrants always but always increases in an exponential fashion.

    The idea behind this particular piece of BBC falsehood is to gas light Canadian whites into thinking that they are being beastly to the Punjabi – so that more Punjabi can come.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous

    The only truth to emerge from that piece of lying and deceit from the BBC is the revelation - to some - that practically every single bazaar in the subcontinent, a region approaching 2 billion in population - is populated by 'agents', (if there ever was a more stereotypical subcon job than that), who for a fee offer the complete package of setting up, placements and coaching to get round desultory UK, Canadian, Australian etc 'immigration restrictions' and to con your way in as a permanent settler - and eventually bring the entire family - by impersonating an 'international student', who apparently are seen as gold dust by the Economist whipped elite who run the west.
    Subcon bazaars are festooned with great big banner adverts advertising the services of these agents.

    , @Frau Katze
    @Anonymous


    Don’t believe a single word of that blatant BBC propaganda piece.
     
    Compare the numbers leaving (tens of thousands) with the numbers arriving (millions). This is not even worth reading. Agree, I wonder about BBC’s motives.
  64. Mika Brzeziński said this week that Putin! was against the fake Senate border bill. This morning she and Joe were perplexed and furious that anyone would suspect Biden of being cognitively compromised; and anyway Trump is bad, bad, bad. The increasingly intense and perverse falsity of MSNBCNN propaganda frightens me.

    I’ve noticed some things in the last few weeks that permit a speculation to form. FBI’s Wray testified that the terrorism threat is high because of wars in the Middle East and the illegal invasion. Biden reportedly sent minions to Mexico reportedly to get them to help slow the flow before the election.

    Next, why the fake Senate border bill? If Biden wanted reduced flow he could by executive order immediately restore Trump’s more effective policies. The propaganda on the bill was that he could only reduce the flow if the bill were passed, when as a matter of fact the bill would have increased illegal entry and more zealously rewarded illegals for crossing. Then the Democrats shouted over and over that the Republicans and bad Trump opposing the bill meant that the invasion would get worse and it would the Republicans’ fault for that happening. Why?

    Butler County, Ohio Sheriff Richard Jones informs the media that he just recently came back from a conference in Washington D.C. with FBI Director Christopher Wray.

    Christopher Wray has been quoted as saying, “It’s not a matter of if, but when (terror attack).”

    Sheriff Jones states that there are more “red flags” with illegals coming into the United States than even before 9/11.

    It’s not just that the flow will be accelerating between now and the election. My speculation is that CIA/FBI/DHS recently predicted the high likelihood of several terrorist attacks on soft targets before the election, and that the border bill charade was run so as to be able to deflect blame on Republicans for (lie) failing to support the strongest immigration enforcement bill in decades.

  65. Anonymous[514] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    Don't believe a single word of that blatant BBC propaganda piece.

    Actually, this line that 'immigrants are just so sick of the host country that they are longing to return home' is an old one, and has, for example, been trotted out in the UK at regular intervals for the last 70 years or so. Yet, the numbers of immigrants always but always increases in an exponential fashion.

    The idea behind this particular piece of BBC falsehood is to gas light Canadian whites into thinking that they are being beastly to the Punjabi - so that more Punjabi can come.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Frau Katze

    The only truth to emerge from that piece of lying and deceit from the BBC is the revelation – to some – that practically every single bazaar in the subcontinent, a region approaching 2 billion in population – is populated by ‘agents’, (if there ever was a more stereotypical subcon job than that), who for a fee offer the complete package of setting up, placements and coaching to get round desultory UK, Canadian, Australian etc ‘immigration restrictions’ and to con your way in as a permanent settler – and eventually bring the entire family – by impersonating an ‘international student’, who apparently are seen as gold dust by the Economist whipped elite who run the west.
    Subcon bazaars are festooned with great big banner adverts advertising the services of these agents.

  66. For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle.

    That is an obvious and ridiculous lie. Joe Biden has no principles. He is an unprincipled, corrupt hack. He lies as he breathes. His entire political history proves that he will say anything, no matter how transparently false, to gain a momentary rhetorical advantage.

    He is the Eddie Haskel of American political life.

    Moreover, he is in the grip of senile dementia. He is now a mere shell of the (lousy, honestly) man that he once was. The only principle he has anymore is “ooooh, Ice Cream………” He could be replaced by a slobbering dog

    • Agree: Muggles
  67. Rice U. in 1976

    Penn Jillette always refers to his alma mater as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College because as long as he worked for the circus he was contractually obligated to use the full name. Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as “Rice U.” when the more colloquial “Rice” would serve the same purpose?

    • Replies: @Rusty Tailgate
    @ScarletNumber

    He is just taking care to distinguish Rice, the university from rice, the grain.

    , @Muggles
    @ScarletNumber


    Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as “Rice U.” when the more colloquial “Rice” would serve the same purpose?
     
    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just "Rice" and people think about the food.

    "Did Uncle Ben go there?"

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @ScarletNumber

  68. @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven't read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it's too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we're already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won't have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn't know and pretend it's so sad and pretend it wasn't entirely planned and "Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?"

    If you didn't already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it's hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn't get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    Replies: @bomag, @res, @J.Ross, @BB753

    I’m sure the Dems are considering the late switch; but the main plan looks to have the courts damage Trump/keep him off the ballot.

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @bomag


    I’m sure the Dems are considering the late switch; but the main plan looks to have the courts damage Trump/keep him off the ballot.
     
    In more detail, the two cases to really watch are in NY/NYC, the civil one in progress with no victim to make him pennyless by taking his businesses and likely grabbing the rest with a multi-hundred million "fine." And the criminal one that should start fairly soon will likely have him locked up for the rest of his life in a New York state prison he can't pardon himself out (nor could a Republican President in 2025+, not that anyone from the GOPe would be inclined to do so).

    I gather this can all happen before the Republican National Convention, so we could see both parties' conventions replacing their current front runners not long before the election.
  69. @Mike Tre
    @Muggles

    "He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind. "

    Oh yeah, we haven't heard this "dem Dems be in a bind, yo" a million times before. Nothing changes.

    Republican cucks will rattle their pathetic little sabers, snatch a crumpled up envelope off camera, and the show will go on.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

    Until the next election steal.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Ron Mexico

    I'm not sure I take your point. The Republican party had more than enough grounds to conduct a serious investigation into the 2020 presidential election, but didn't.

    Those envelopes are heavy.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

  70. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    “Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?”

    Steve’s next book will be called ,”Unnoticing

  71. @NJ Transit Commuter
    Totally OT, but Steve, no comment on the Putin interview?

    My quick take:
    Carlson deserves credit for having the gumption to go to Moscow and interview him. Thumbs up for that. But the problem with Carlson is the same as most of the DC ruling class: his power is based on who he knows rather than what he knows.

    He let Putin mix legitimate points about NATO duplicity and unnecessary aggression towards Russia, without being able to identify and challenge the Russian propaganda adroitly mixed in. Lets Putin get away with saying Russia acted honorable towards Poland in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler agreed to dismember the country? Allows Putin to complain about NATO expansion without pointing a key factor behind it was fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri, @Mark G., @Muggles, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms, @BB753, @tyrone

    fear of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe?

    You mean in the 90’s when Yeltsin was pretty much a door mat for the west and Harvard economists were swanning around Moscow……….we even got into the KGB archives , turns out McCarthy was right about everything……..No ,what we want is to break Russia up and turn them into our street-walkers like western Europe.

  72. The “Canada craze” has let up a bit – and especially so among well-off migrants who have a fallback option at home,

    So, Canada will be getting weaker rather than stronger immigrants in the future? Lovely.

  73. @Anonymous
    Don't believe a single word of that blatant BBC propaganda piece.

    Actually, this line that 'immigrants are just so sick of the host country that they are longing to return home' is an old one, and has, for example, been trotted out in the UK at regular intervals for the last 70 years or so. Yet, the numbers of immigrants always but always increases in an exponential fashion.

    The idea behind this particular piece of BBC falsehood is to gas light Canadian whites into thinking that they are being beastly to the Punjabi - so that more Punjabi can come.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Frau Katze

    Don’t believe a single word of that blatant BBC propaganda piece.

    Compare the numbers leaving (tens of thousands) with the numbers arriving (millions). This is not even worth reading. Agree, I wonder about BBC’s motives.

  74. @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego.

    You’ve got it. As long as Trump is his opponent, he won’t drop out, because he knows the cargo cult justice system will never let Trump win. Biden is not the kind of guy to quit an un-loseable race. The only thing that takes Biden out at this point is death or a true 25th Amendment situation like a stroke that renders him unable to speak, and I’m not even sure about that last one.

    Eight years of successful dirty tricks have emboldened the Dems to engage in more and more unpopular policies, and run worse and worse candidates. They don’t care because they don’t have to. This is how they got stuck with Biden and Harris. And now that they’ve hung these odious candidates on themselves, they have to take more extreme measures to continue winning. It has a snowball effect that ends with an Ilhan Omar character as President-for-Life under the protection of corrupted federal courts.

  75. @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    When you own the ballots and are the media, you don’t have to worry about the brand. You dictate the the brand.

    If they were worried about the brand, “President Biden” wouldn’t exist. The drooling, doddering, delusional fool is an international laughingstock. But they don’t care, because he does whatever they want. They like it that way. They just don’t understand why you don’t do whatever they want. But they have plans to fix that.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @Almost Missouri


    When you own the ballots and are the media, you don’t have to worry about the brand. You dictate the the brand.
     
    Basically true but eventually you run out of road. Witness Disney, A. Busch et al.
  76. @ScarletNumber

    Rice U. in 1976
     
    Penn Jillette always refers to his alma mater as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College because as long as he worked for the circus he was contractually obligated to use the full name. Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as "Rice U." when the more colloquial "Rice" would serve the same purpose?

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Muggles

    He is just taking care to distinguish Rice, the university from rice, the grain.

  77. Anon[300] • Disclaimer says:

    “I had to work 50 hours every week”

    Haha! Poor baby!

    Reading between the lines, I think this is a “fake trend” article. The New York Times owns the patent on that; they should sue the BBC. I think the BBC writer somehow stumbled onto a TikTok video of some carping Punjabi, rewatched it, and then the algorithm handled the rest, serving up dozens of similar videos whose makers could be contacted as sources. Voila, a trend!

    There are trillions of TikTok and YouTube videos, as well as tweets, so no matter how rare and obscure the topic the service can serve up dozens of videos or tweets on it. You could search for “Punjabis fleeing Canada for Novosibirsk” and get a hundred hits.

  78. @Wilkey
    If you're an Indian with a good education it probably isn't hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country's poverty. Overall the weather is probably nicer and the country more scenic, with the bonus being that it's something you're used to.

    In Canada you get to shut yourself inside for 5-6 months out of the year and forget the sun even exists. And in order to enjoy the blessings of living in Canada, Land of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you get rent or mortgage payments that could buy you a medium-sized village in India.

    And then there's one other thing: it's probably a lot easier to live as an Indian in India than it is to live as an Indian (or a European) in Canada, in terms of the bullshit political and cultural attitudes you're required to profess. Having to live in Airstrip One pretending that what you see with your own eyes isn't real? Living in a poorer country may actually be worth the benefits to your sanity.

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the tech segment of India's middle class as AI (supposedly) takes over. For that matter, it will be interesting to see what happens in the USA, as well. How much louder could the demand for reduced immigration be when tens of of millions of Westerners lose their jobs to AI, and suddenly want one of those jobs (not easily replaced by AI) that "Americans won't do."

    Artificial Intelligence may cost millions of people in Western countries their jobs. In a strange way that could very well be what saves us.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @That Would Be Telling, @YetAnotherAnon

    “If you’re an Indian with a good education it probably isn’t hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country’s poverty. “

    I had pretty long chats with an Indian IT guy who was one of 60 or so brought to the UK to be trained up by UK staff, so that the system could be administered in India while the UK staff were made redundant (I was a contractor).

    He spent two hours on the train to work and two hours back each day in India.

    “How do you stand that? Don’t you miss the free time?”

    The company who hired me were pretty open about what they were doing, and most of the senior IT guys were due big payoffs and pension boosts (a pain for the younger guys though, IT is just not the career it was).

    But delightfully, a good deal of the company’s cleverness came back to bite them on the bum. The guy I mentioned and half his colleagues, with six months training (and language improvements) in the UK, found that their market value in India had gone up, and left soon after their return to India.

    Full transcript of the Carlson/Putin interview for those who prefer words to sounds and images:

    https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-carlson-interview-full-transcript

    Tucker: Who blew up Nord Stream?

    Vladimir Putin: You for sure.

    Tucker: I was busy that day. I did not blow up Nord Stream. Thank you though.

    Vladimir Putin: You personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi.

    Tucker: Did you have evidence that NATO or the CIA did it?

    Vladimir Putin: You know, I won’t get into details, but people always say in such cases, look for someone who is interested. But in this case, we should not only look for someone who is interested, but also for someone who has capabilities, because there may be many people interested, but not all of them are capable of sinking to the bottom of the Baltic Sea and carrying out this explosion. These two components should be connected. Who is interested and who is capable of doing it?

    Tucker: But I’m confused. I mean, that’s the biggest act of industrial terrorism ever, and it’s the largest emission of CO2 in history. Okay, so if you had evidence and presumably given your security services or Intel services, you would that NATO, the US, CIA, the West did this, why wouldn’t you present it and win a propaganda victory?

    Vladimir Putin: In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions. Don’t you know that? So it is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information and we will not achieve results. It is clear to the whole world what happened then. Even American analysts talk about it directly. It’s true.

    Tucker: Yes I, but here’s a question you may able to answer. You worked in Germany famously. The Germans clearly know that their NATO partner did this, but they. And it damaged their economy greatly. It may never recover. Why are they being silent about it? That’s very confusing to me. Why wouldn’t the Germans say something about it?

    Vladimir Putin: This also confuses me, but today’s German leadership is guided by the interests of the collective West rather than its national interests. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the logic of their action or inaction.

    Tucker was wrong about it being the biggest CO2 release in history, he probably meant “greenhouse gas” which methane certainly is. Mind, there are methane volcanos in Siberia’s permafrost, they might be bigger.

  79. @Anon
    @AnotherDad

    If Biden tripped down the steps of Air Force One and ended up brain dead and on life support, Democrats would still vote for him. His supporters are either as dumb as a stump, (blacks and Hispanics,) or in extreme denial about his mental and physical incompetence (White Urban liberals).

    They'd all be pleased that the Deep State could now rule through a drooling figurehead.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    If Biden tripped down the steps of Air Force One and ended up brain dead and on life support, Democrats would still vote for him.

    Agree.

    His supporters are either as dumb as a stump, (blacks and Hispanics,) or in extreme denial about his mental and physical incompetence (White Urban liberals).

    I think they know he’s totally incompetent. That’s why even shilliest shills don’t shill for Biden. It would be self-parody.

    It’s just against their religion to admit that the Trump era was in any way okay. So what alternative do they have?

  80. @J.Ross
    @HA

    All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said.

    Replies: @HA

    “All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said.”

    Perfectly true, you say? OK, then. Let’s put a pin on that and remember it the next time any fanboy makes a prediction or a statement about Ukraine — say the one about how Russia will inevitably prevail against the West and NATO or whatever — we should keep in mind it actually has a sell-by date that is 3 months or so which, after which the total opposite may apply.

    And when that great and wise sage Mearshimer, for example, says that “Russia CAN’T create a greater Russia because Russia is a declining power, and doing so is actually a good way to wreck Russia because it will lead to no end of trouble and Putin is much too smart for that”, it’s only “perfectly true” at the moment he utters it, and then afterwards it becomes true in only a “less than perfect” way — as in Russia can just snap out of its “declining power” rut because it’s a Tuesday or something, at which point trying to swipe surrounding territory then actually becomes a genius move. Or something.

    Thanks, fanboys — doubling down on fanboy stupidity makes it seem so much less stupid!

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @HA

    Well, a lot of predictions have been rubbished on both sides, but Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction.

    Replies: @HA

    , @Anonymous
    @HA

    It's you who sounds like a "fanboy" of the neocons and globalists.

  81. @anonymous
    Meanwhile, Oakland feral Negro's attack on Western Civilization continues unabated as they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble, despite private armed guards patrolling the area.

    Even local Oakland cholo's, acclimated to third world shitholes, were taken aback.

    https://youtu.be/7Y8BbbSAVac

    Replies: @New Dealer, @AnotherDad

    they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble

    As the Cincinnati raised son of the a near 30-year Proctor & Gamble employee, I’ll just say that that P&G–generally a well managed company–is far too smart to move to California, much less Oakland.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @AnotherDad

    P&G just wrote off another couple billion on their Gillette brand after their foray into tranny world.

    https://www.investopedia.com/p-and-g-will-take-up-to-usd2-5-billion-in-charges-for-restructuring-and-gillette-impairment-8410912

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djj1AkGMbJM

  82. @Mark G.
    @HA

    Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve's comment section and we won't have to listen to them any more.

    Big pharma shill and shill for the corrupt Ukrainian government HA here is either not an American or is an American who does not care about his own country. He almost never talks about problems with a negative impact on average Americans like high inflation, high crime, the flooding of the country with illegal immigrants, the increasing gap between rich and poor and so on. Fortunately, the main American promoter of the Ukraine intervention, senile Biden, is likely to lose the next election.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @HA

    “Another reason to end our intervention in the Ukraine and focus on the serious problems in this country is that Zelensky fanboys like HA will give up pushing that war here in Steve’s comment section and we won’t have to listen to them any more.”

    For the record — check the paper trail if you doubt me — YOU were the one who decided to make an off-topic reference to Putin and Ukraine in response to yet another off-topic comment. I merely responded, and nonetheless still managed to trigger you about how I’m the one who’s pushing things with regard to Ukraine.

    Moreover, if you don’t want to listen to my words, fanboy, that “Ignore” button is just a click away, as I’ve reminded you plenty of times. If you’re too lazy or dumb or hypocritical to click it, like anyone with any common sense would, well, that says more about your directives regarding American foreign policy, not to mention your grasp of common sense, than anything I could.

  83. “to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for”

    Here, this is the false premise.

    US is the world hegemon, she is responsible for each and every country. The populace of the world officially have no full agency at running their own countries in the “rulees based order”.

    Therefore, everyone is morally entitled to move to the US.

  84. @Ron Mexico
    @Mike Tre

    Until the next election steal.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    I’m not sure I take your point. The Republican party had more than enough grounds to conduct a serious investigation into the 2020 presidential election, but didn’t.

    Those envelopes are heavy.

    • Replies: @Ron Mexico
    @Mike Tre

    It clearly happened here in Michigan where I live. But, yes, prominent Republicans do next to nothing about it. Why is that?

  85. Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for:

    Or he’s just genuinely not a thoughtful person who is incapable of thinking beyond “nation of immigrants” platitudes

  86. @interesting
    "to counter slowing economic growth"


    Well Canada is somewhat dependent on the USSA and it's difficult to grow economically when your main trading partner, the USSSA, has had 6,000,000 wealth producing jobs exported to China.

    Can ever high debt levels and trading houses back and forth for ever higher prices last forever?
    Seems that it can and has for the last 2 decades resulting in slower economic growth.

    Replies: @Ultra Fine, @antibeast

    Unemployment was close to zero until the pandemic and is close to zero today.

  87. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that."

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?


    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] "The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he'd do it [but] he CAN'T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and...if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine...they'd be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that....

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is "not going to go into Ukraine,..., OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great...

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine...Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely...

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT -- Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine...The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless...


     

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @BB753, @Peter Lund

    Who cares what Mersheimer said? John Mersheimer is an establishment guy and a limited hangout. Sometimes he says things nobody is supposed to say and that supposedly makes him a genius.

  88. “I can recall that in my first few days at Rice U. in 1976 explaining to all the non-Californians that while California is still relatively underpopulated, it’s natural trajectory is to fill up with newcomers until it’s as bad as anywhere else.”

    Well, you’ll be pleased to note that California is growing slower than the U.S. as a whole and actually lost a congressional seat in the 2020 census.

    Isn’t the example of Toronto a refutation of the whole overpopulation idea? When people vote with their feet, they want “overpopulation,” they’re not heading out to wide-open Saskatchewan.

    Steve grew up in California and it seems he absorbed the Sierra Club “green” stuff without the Negrolatry that would later become central. It’s still wrong.

  89. @Mark G.
    @Anonymous

    He didn't address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of. Why didn't you call him out on that? Are you another person who doesn't care about what is happening to this country, Mr. Anonymous?

    The other countries in Europe have a GDP several times that of Russia and could easily afford militaries to fend off Russia. Their defense should not be paid for by American taxpayers. We have two large oceans on each side of us and Russia could never launch a successful invasion of the United States.

    We have a 34 trillion dollar national debt, much of it due to our foreign wars and bloated military budget. Social Security and Medicare is 60 trillion dollars short of what is needed the next 30 years to cover the retirements of the Boomers. Yearly interest payments on the debt are almost a trillion dollars. Crime is rising, illegal immigrants are flooding across the border and living standards of the average American is declining. What dictator wins the Russia-Ukraine war is of trivial importance by comparison.

    Replies: @HA

    “He didn’t address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of.”

    So address them. Pay down that debt; fix the crumbling infrastructure. Dig deep. Trying to deflect from that worthwhile task by convincing us that Putin is the one with common sense, despite your abject lack of it, is about as convincing as the rest of your hypocritical tripe.

    Because let’s be real — when it’s something you care about, e.g., getting the government to facilitate your alternative cheap-steroid therapies to COVID, or whatever other quack cures you’re into, you’re happy to get the nanny state involved, so that they can always be there to blame in case your hypocritical pseudo-libertarianism blows up in your face (which in that case, it most certainly did, at which point, your response was to blame the government for its stupid decisions instead of taking responsibility for your own). Whereas when it’s something you don’t care about, then it’s a distraction from the debt, and something we don’t have the time or money for, or whatever.

    Who does all this remind me of? Oh, yeah:

    Marjorie Taylor Green: Our government is sending $1 billion dollars to Ukraine every single month. Imagine the difference if instead our government spent $1 billion a month on mental health in America.

    Readers added context they thought people might want to know:
    Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of only 20 House Republicans who voted against legislation reauthorizing grants for community mental health services supporting adults with mental illnesses and children.

    When you’re reduced to aping people like her, that’s when you know you’ve run out of things to say.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @HA

    As someone generally sympathetic to Russia and Putin I'd like to thank you for your work here.

    , @Mark G.
    @HA

    I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use. You were the advocate of the nanny state, wanting to direct everyone by the use of force what to do. I have told you that multiple times and you always pretend I never did. You engage in mental evasion about your true nature. I can see what you are.

    Russia gave up Poland and the other Eastern Europe countries. Why would they want them back? They received little benefit from them the last time they controlled them. Any lurid fantasies about Putin rolling across Europe and then invading Alaska, followed by the conquest of America, have no basis in reality.

    Polling shows an increasing percentage of the American population say we are doing too much to help the Ukraine. Among Republicans it is a majority. Republicans are about as eager to stay involved in an endless war as they are to run out and get that next Covid booster shot. Republicans in Congress and Trump are listening to their base and showing an increasing disinclination to support the corrupt Ukrainian dictator. The person supporting the war, Biden, is becoming increasingly unpopular.

    Replies: @HA

  90. The BBC spoke to at least half a dozen reverse migrants in Punjab who shared similar sentiments.

    It was also a common refrain in the scores of videos on YouTube shared by Indians who had chosen to abandon their life in Canada and return home.

    “At least half a dozen!” “Scores, *scores* I tell you!” What will we do without these migrants to care for us in our old age?

    Well, how many are still coming every year? Oh:

    The numbers of those leaving are still small in absolute terms with immigration levels at all-time highs in Canada – the country welcomed nearly half a million new migrants each year over the past few years.

    So what you’re saying is… the entire premise of your article is garbage? There are still ~10 times as many migrants arriving each year as leaving? How many readers of this article bother to read long enough to find out that the “reverse migration” bemoaned in the article’s title is not even remotely close to being “net reverse migration”?

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @pirelli


    How many readers of this article bother to read long enough to find out that the “reverse migration” bemoaned in the article’s title is not even remotely close to being “net reverse migration”?
     
    I noticed the same thing. So a handful go back. Big deal!
  91. @Nicholas Stix
    “For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle.”

    “… It was the first big test of his immigration agenda, and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work.”

    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.

    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.

    This isn’t a news story, it’s just dnc talking points. fake president/real gangster Joe Biden is merely continuing the strategy of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama.”

    “The Myth of the 11 Million: Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-myth-of-11-million-already-in-2014.html

    Replies: @Lurker, @BB753, @Mr. Anon

    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.

    Exactly this.

  92. Anonymous[159] • Disclaimer says:

    A good heuristic for explaining the reality of nonwhite invasion to judeo-marinated normie Whites is the environmentalist concern for invasive species.

    An invasive species is a plant or animal nonnative to a region that was imported, usually by humans who wanted to look at something exotic or wanted a more productive crop (for dem shekels).

    In very small numbers, *certain* invasive species will have minimal impact on the native species, because of the way they reproduce. Nurseries wil sell nonnative plants with warnings. Trim their suckers (to prevent rhizome propagation) and keep them isolated in their own beds so there’s no risk of cross-pollination.

    So, you can manage a little bit of invasion if you keep the invaders walled off, by themselves, and sterile. And trim their suckers.

    In reality, most invasive species are like kudzu. It quickly escapes its enclosures and spreads like wildfire, smothering the life out of the native species. It pollinates and drops seeds everywhere, stealing nutrients from the native plants. Similar processes occur with invasive animals.

    That’s what’s happening to White America. Nonwhite invaders are the kudzu; we are the native species starved for water and sunlight.

    —NWA

  93. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Putin said Russia had no interest in invading Poland or other Eastern European countries because it would start a global war. He said anyone with common sense understands that."

    Ah yes, the old anyone-with-common-sense argument. Where have I heard that one before with regard to Putin, and how well did it work out?


    SEP 25 2015 [Prof. John Mearshimer:] "The idea that [Putin] is bent on creating a Greater Russia? I think if he could do it, he'd do it [but] he CAN'T do it. Russia is a declining great power, and...if they were trying to create a Greater Russia by invading Ukraine...they'd be jumping into the briar patch. In fact, again, if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble [and] I think Putin is much too smart for that....

    AUG 1, 2016 Trump says Putin is "not going to go into Ukraine,..., OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,”

    DEC. 15, 2021 Barring a catastrophic mishap, Putin has no intention of invading or attacking Ukraine. The costs would be too great...

    DEC 6, 2021 Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine...Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely...

    DEC 10, 2021 Why Russia won’t likely invade Ukraine: Despite a troop build-up on the border signs are US and Russia are moving towards a deal rather than a conflict over Ukraine

    12 NOV 2021 RT -- Russia says it won’t invade Ukraine...The Kremlin has strongly denied suggestions that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine, after reports emerged that officials from the US had warned their counterparts in Europe that Moscow is considering a “military operation.”...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the suggestion as groundless...


     

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Mark G., @BB753, @Peter Lund

    Putin himself also said he wouldn’t invade Ukraine after he had invaded Georgia.

    (And how did Trump get away with saying that crap in 2016? After Russia had been in Ukraine since 2014?!)

    • Agree: HA
  94. @AnotherDad
    Everyday I wake to this incredible tragedy.

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    But instead, we have been infected with this minoritarian mind virus--weakening our defenses or reason or very national sanity--and destroyed by its running buddy immigrationism. The dumbest, most toxic ideology that any civilization has ever had. National/civilizational Shakerism.

    Replies: @MGB, @Anonymous, @Goddard, @Seneca44

    Like you, Dad, I mourn, not just for the nation that is and the even worse one that is to come, but also for the nation that could have been.

  95. @HA
    @J.Ross

    "All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said."

    Perfectly true, you say? OK, then. Let's put a pin on that and remember it the next time any fanboy makes a prediction or a statement about Ukraine -- say the one about how Russia will inevitably prevail against the West and NATO or whatever -- we should keep in mind it actually has a sell-by date that is 3 months or so which, after which the total opposite may apply.

    And when that great and wise sage Mearshimer, for example, says that "Russia CAN'T create a greater Russia because Russia is a declining power, and doing so is actually a good way to wreck Russia because it will lead to no end of trouble and Putin is much too smart for that", it's only "perfectly true" at the moment he utters it, and then afterwards it becomes true in only a "less than perfect" way -- as in Russia can just snap out of its "declining power" rut because it's a Tuesday or something, at which point trying to swipe surrounding territory then actually becomes a genius move. Or something.

    Thanks, fanboys -- doubling down on fanboy stupidity makes it seem so much less stupid!

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Anonymous

    Well, a lot of predictions have been rubbished on both sides, but Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction.

    • Replies: @HA
    @J.Ross

    "Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction."

    Oh, so his predictions work only as long as he's in office, and as long as anyone who gets elected after him has been compromised by the Russians to the same extent? Neglecting to mention that seems like a significant omission on his part, but then, I'm not a fanboy. Or are you saying that the Russians were simply unable to gather any kompromat worth holding over Biden, despite all his baggage, and that's the reason Ukraine was invaded?

    Moreover, has "State Department terrorism that was committed since Trump left office" now became the new lucky winner upon this week's spin of the Roulette-Wheel-of-Lame-Excuses-for-Invading-Ukraine? I guess ousting the neo-fascists (yeah, go get 'em WagnerGroup) and becoming the new "Peter the Great" lost out yet again. Either way, those cheap rationalizations seem as changeable and flimsy as your cheap predictions.

    And since the prediction you seem especially bothered by is the one that the plus-sized Troompa-Loompa made, I take it we're all OK with Mearshimer's claim about how "Russia is a declining great power, and…if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble..."? If so, that's also good to know.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  96. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    I love the frog representing the French crawling from the south in the second picture.

    • Agree: kaganovitch
  97. @Nicholas Stix
    “For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle.”

    “… It was the first big test of his immigration agenda, and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work.”

    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.

    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.

    This isn’t a news story, it’s just dnc talking points. fake president/real gangster Joe Biden is merely continuing the strategy of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama.”

    “The Myth of the 11 Million: Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-myth-of-11-million-already-in-2014.html

    Replies: @Lurker, @BB753, @Mr. Anon

    “Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!””

    Does that mean that there are 80 million illegals now?

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @BB753


    N.S.: “Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”
    BB753: “Does that mean that there are 80 million illegals now?”

     
    I don’t know, but here’s my take.

    You cannot go wrong, overestimating the number of illegals in your country, but underestimating them can cost you your country.
  98. @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia

    They are perhaps the most gold chain-y of the Indians. They may have more machismo than other Indian groups, but they also have lower IQ. Not exactly Tamil Brahmins.

  99. TLDR:

    If you go to a country full of Punjabi’s why not stay in the Punjab?

  100. @Wilkey

    For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.
     
    What's with the assumption that vegetable Joe Biden was behind any of the decisions at all? I don't know who's making the decisions in "his" administration, but I'm pretty sure it ain't him.

    But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.
     
    The asylum system is broken by design, and no one in Congress seems to have any desire to fix it. Whatever else we do or don't do with asylum law, the first simple change needs to be a hard ceiling on how many people can receive asylum in any given year.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for...
     
    That assumes that Biden has spent any meaningful amount of time in Delaware in the last 50 years. He spent 44 uninterrupted years in the Senate and as Vice President, then four years out of office from 2017-2021. Probably most of that time was spent in DC, which has achieved Tower of Babel levels of diversity. Perhaps wherever he is he's simply been in a cocoon. More likely, he's just too corrupt and ignorant to care.

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants. Very, very few of the people high in his administration - almost none - are white Protestants.

    1) Vice President - Kamala Harris - black/Indian
    2) Chief of Staff - Jeff Zients - Jewish
    3) Chief of Staff (previous) - Ron Klain - Jewish
    4) State - Antony Blinken - Jewish
    5) Treasury - Janet Yellen - Jewish
    6) Defense - Lloyd Austin - black
    7) Attorney General - Merrick Garland - Jewish
    8) Interior - Deb Haaland - Native American/white - religion unknown
    9) Agriculture - Tom Vilsack - white Catholic
    10) Commerce - Gina Raimondo - white Catholic
    11) Labor (Acting) - Julie Su - Chinese.
    12) Labor (previous) - Marty Walsh - white Catholic
    13) HHS - Xavier Becerra - Hispanic Catholic
    14) HUD - Marcia Fudge - black
    15) Transportation - Pete Buttigieg - British/Maltese Episcopalian (but raised Catholic)
    16) Energy - Jennifer Granholm - Irish/Swedish Catholic
    17) Education - Miguel Cardona - Hispanic Catholic
    18) Veterans Affairs - Denis McDonough - Irish Catholic
    19) Homeland Invasion Security - Alejandro Mayorkas - Jewish
    20) EPA - Michael Regan - black
    21) OMB - Shalanda Young - black
    22) National Intelligence - Avril Haines - Jewish/British (maybe)
    23) CIA - Williams Burns - possibly British Protestant
    24) US Trade Rep - Katherine Tai - Chinese
    25) UN Ambassador - Linda Thomas-Greenfield - black
    26) Council of Economic Advisers - Jared Bernstein - Jewish
    27) SBA - Isabella Guzman - Hispanic with some Jewish & German ancestry
    28) Science & Technology Policy - Arati Prabhakar - Indian

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden's cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent. Not even many Northern Europeans in there at all who aren't Irish. Indeed, there may only be one white, practicing Protestant, and that is Pete Buttigieg, who is best known for being gay. Meanwhile 9 of the 28 - nearly one-third - are Jewish or have significant amounts of Jewish ancestry.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent, and the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet, is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world where people were free to speak their minds without fear of repercussion. But we don't live in that world anymore, do we?

    Replies: @Peterike, @Reg Cæsar, @AnotherDad, @Inquiring Mind

    19) Homeland Invasion Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – Jewish

    Love the strike. In this case, Indeed invasion is its job under Mayorkas. He doesn’t even hide it, he brags about it.

    Also, Homeland is in your top 5 in relevance–really its #1 these days. And what is notable about this administration is not even the glaring lack of white Protestants, it is its utter Jewish domination–almost complete in anything that actually matters. The scared 2% of the population running the country.

    You can say Harris is “relevant” in terms of being the ugly blob they are stuck with if Biden actually dies. And there’s the black guy at defense, but I doubt he’s doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management. Well and then there’s Jill–she apparently gets pissed and yells at people when they are lax and let Joe by Joe and embarrass himself.

    It’s a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy–most critically Mayorkas’s “drown the goyim!” open border. You just aren’t supposed to notice it … much less say anything about it, you Nazi!

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @AnotherDad


    And there’s the black guy at defense, but I doubt he’s doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management.
     
    Maybe not even that, at least Officially. Seeing as how we're in another Quasi-War in the Middle East.

    We're told that when complications from his prostate cancer surgery put him in the ICU for days no one in Team Biden noticed he wasn't available! As in, nothing they were considering or doing involved consulting him, he's that much of a token.

    Technically he's in the chain of command which for operations per the Goldwater–Nichols Act runs from the President through the Secretary of the DoD to the unified combatant commands, here it should be the United States Central Command.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Anonymous
    @AnotherDad


    It’s a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy–most critically Mayorkas’s “drown the goyim!” open border. You just aren’t supposed to notice it … much less say anything about it, you Nazi!
     
    And yet Sailer mocks people who say there are puppet masters pulling Biden’s strings.
  101. @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia …

    Sorry Bob, you’re completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work–at whatever is available–and you don’t see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants–an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.

    I’ll grant they are better than Muslims who are from the civilization that is the historic of the West (Christendom). (And, of course, basically anyone is better than blacks.) But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won’t care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians–half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends. (Ok, Twinkie will point out its not actually half of them because a bunch will marry new Indian immigrants–something we need to stop immediately.) Plus the typical Hindu coming for grad school or IT job is way smarter than the typical Sikh.

    Bring in Sikhs and maybe they aren’t blowing up airliners anymore, but down the road you’ll likely be stuck with an annoying indigestible Sikh blob in your nation. By now everyone should understand how stupid that is.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @AnotherDad


    Sorry Bob, you’re completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work–at whatever is available–and you don’t see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants–an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.
     
    Good point.
    , @Malla
    @AnotherDad


    But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won’t care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians–half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends.
     
    What an idiot. Do not get any non Whites. If at all, get some East Asians who are not Muslim.
  102. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "He didn’t address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of."

    So address them. Pay down that debt; fix the crumbling infrastructure. Dig deep. Trying to deflect from that worthwhile task by convincing us that Putin is the one with common sense, despite your abject lack of it, is about as convincing as the rest of your hypocritical tripe.

    Because let's be real -- when it's something you care about, e.g., getting the government to facilitate your alternative cheap-steroid therapies to COVID, or whatever other quack cures you're into, you're happy to get the nanny state involved, so that they can always be there to blame in case your hypocritical pseudo-libertarianism blows up in your face (which in that case, it most certainly did, at which point, your response was to blame the government for its stupid decisions instead of taking responsibility for your own). Whereas when it's something you don't care about, then it's a distraction from the debt, and something we don't have the time or money for, or whatever.

    Who does all this remind me of? Oh, yeah:

    Marjorie Taylor Green: Our government is sending $1 billion dollars to Ukraine every single month. Imagine the difference if instead our government spent $1 billion a month on mental health in America.

    Readers added context they thought people might want to know:
    Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of only 20 House Republicans who voted against legislation reauthorizing grants for community mental health services supporting adults with mental illnesses and children.
     

    When you're reduced to aping people like her, that's when you know you've run out of things to say.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Mark G.

    As someone generally sympathetic to Russia and Putin I’d like to thank you for your work here.

  103. @MGB
    @AnotherDad

    Cue, Let’s Have a War, by Fear.

    Let's have a war
    Sell the rights to the networks
    Let's have a war
    Have our wallets get fat like last time
    Let's have a war
    Give guns to the queers
    Let's have a war
    The enemy is within

    It already started in the city
    Suburbia will be just as easy

    Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Looger

    Whoa, a blast from the past. Is that the FEAR who released the profound “More Beer” and sang the (presumably tongue-in-cheek) “Bomb the Russians”?

    • Replies: @MGB
    @RadicalCenter

    That’s them. Lyrics that wouldn’t get sung today. Like X, Los Angeles.

    She had to leave
    Los Angeles
    All her toys wore out in black and her boys had too
    She started to hate every nigge‍r and Jew
    Every Mexican that gave her a lotta shit
    Every homosexual and the idle rich
    Idle rich, idle rich
    [Chorus]
    She had to get out (Get out)
    Get out (Get out)
    Get out (Get out)

  104. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "He didn’t address the point that this country has serious problems here at home we need to take care of."

    So address them. Pay down that debt; fix the crumbling infrastructure. Dig deep. Trying to deflect from that worthwhile task by convincing us that Putin is the one with common sense, despite your abject lack of it, is about as convincing as the rest of your hypocritical tripe.

    Because let's be real -- when it's something you care about, e.g., getting the government to facilitate your alternative cheap-steroid therapies to COVID, or whatever other quack cures you're into, you're happy to get the nanny state involved, so that they can always be there to blame in case your hypocritical pseudo-libertarianism blows up in your face (which in that case, it most certainly did, at which point, your response was to blame the government for its stupid decisions instead of taking responsibility for your own). Whereas when it's something you don't care about, then it's a distraction from the debt, and something we don't have the time or money for, or whatever.

    Who does all this remind me of? Oh, yeah:

    Marjorie Taylor Green: Our government is sending $1 billion dollars to Ukraine every single month. Imagine the difference if instead our government spent $1 billion a month on mental health in America.

    Readers added context they thought people might want to know:
    Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of only 20 House Republicans who voted against legislation reauthorizing grants for community mental health services supporting adults with mental illnesses and children.
     

    When you're reduced to aping people like her, that's when you know you've run out of things to say.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Mark G.

    I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use. You were the advocate of the nanny state, wanting to direct everyone by the use of force what to do. I have told you that multiple times and you always pretend I never did. You engage in mental evasion about your true nature. I can see what you are.

    Russia gave up Poland and the other Eastern Europe countries. Why would they want them back? They received little benefit from them the last time they controlled them. Any lurid fantasies about Putin rolling across Europe and then invading Alaska, followed by the conquest of America, have no basis in reality.

    Polling shows an increasing percentage of the American population say we are doing too much to help the Ukraine. Among Republicans it is a majority. Republicans are about as eager to stay involved in an endless war as they are to run out and get that next Covid booster shot. Republicans in Congress and Trump are listening to their base and showing an increasing disinclination to support the corrupt Ukrainian dictator. The person supporting the war, Biden, is becoming increasingly unpopular.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use."

    You wanted them to give you "easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs...and cheap patented steroids"; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.

    I distinctly remember people came on this site and told you how they learned, with just a little internet searching, how one could order HCQ and whatnot despite the restrictions that came into place once people started dosing on aquarium cleaner and having heart issues in ER's (earlier, HCQ had actually been given "emergency use authorization"). And as for "nutritional supplements" -- whatever that means -- those were never restricted. In other words, you definitely could have gotten a hold of basically anything you wanted with little or no effort, as the case may be, but you didn't and instead of admitting you were just too lazy to get around to it, you now whine about how the government didn't allow you easy enough access. Yeah, I'm sure that was the real problem.

    The government did, through enormous effort, make a vaccine readily available for you, but you passed on that, too, and chose to roll the dice instead. And surprise, surprise -- as you yourself admitted in an unguarded slip of candor, you wound up in the hospital with COVID. Are we at least clear on that? I guess those nutritional supplements you speak of (again, those were never restricted so I assume you at least fortified yourself to the gills with those, am I right?) didn't quite live up to their potential, did they? Or did they somehow lose their efficacy due to the government failing to force them down your throat in that "easy access" manner you insist on?

    And now, instead of taking responsibility for your own stupid choices, you want to pretend it was the government that dropped the ball? Spare me. If you want to do it on your own, then do it. If you're too lazy, stop whining about what the government failed to do, especially with your botched record.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

  105. “It’s hard to miss the ardour of Punjab’s migrant”

    BBC needs better copy editors. The word is spelled “odor.”

  106. @bomag
    @Wilkey

    I'm sure the Dems are considering the late switch; but the main plan looks to have the courts damage Trump/keep him off the ballot.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    I’m sure the Dems are considering the late switch; but the main plan looks to have the courts damage Trump/keep him off the ballot.

    In more detail, the two cases to really watch are in NY/NYC, the civil one in progress with no victim to make him pennyless by taking his businesses and likely grabbing the rest with a multi-hundred million “fine.” And the criminal one that should start fairly soon will likely have him locked up for the rest of his life in a New York state prison he can’t pardon himself out (nor could a Republican President in 2025+, not that anyone from the GOPe would be inclined to do so).

    I gather this can all happen before the Republican National Convention, so we could see both parties’ conventions replacing their current front runners not long before the election.

  107. @AnotherDad
    @Wilkey


    19) Homeland Invasion Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – Jewish
     
    Love the strike. In this case, Indeed invasion is its job under Mayorkas. He doesn't even hide it, he brags about it.

    Also, Homeland is in your top 5 in relevance--really its #1 these days. And what is notable about this administration is not even the glaring lack of white Protestants, it is its utter Jewish domination--almost complete in anything that actually matters. The scared 2% of the population running the country.

    You can say Harris is "relevant" in terms of being the ugly blob they are stuck with if Biden actually dies. And there's the black guy at defense, but I doubt he's doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management. Well and then there's Jill--she apparently gets pissed and yells at people when they are lax and let Joe by Joe and embarrass himself.

    It's a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy--most critically Mayorkas's "drown the goyim!" open border. You just aren't supposed to notice it ... much less say anything about it, you Nazi!

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Anonymous

    And there’s the black guy at defense, but I doubt he’s doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management.

    Maybe not even that, at least Officially. Seeing as how we’re in another Quasi-War in the Middle East.

    We’re told that when complications from his prostate cancer surgery put him in the ICU for days no one in Team Biden noticed he wasn’t available! As in, nothing they were considering or doing involved consulting him, he’s that much of a token.

    Technically he’s in the chain of command which for operations per the Goldwater–Nichols Act runs from the President through the Secretary of the DoD to the unified combatant commands, here it should be the United States Central Command.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @That Would Be Telling


    Technically he’s in the chain of command which for operations per the Goldwater–Nichols Act runs from the President through the Secretary of the DoD to the unified combatant commands, here it should be the United States Central Command.
     
    Barry has a say in nuclear weapons policy to this day? Joke's on you, Lyndon... until the next AA president, at least.


    And, to put the coming "Big Game" in perspective, sports, music, books, and movies not only rank below video games in economic impact, the four do so even when combined.

    There's a huge audience out there watching videos of other people playing video games. Weird, but then, golf has been on TV from the start. (From a course our Steve has almost certainly examined, if not played.)
  108. “Everything was so expensive. I had to work 50 hours every week after college, just to survive,”

    I LOLed at the college student describing 50 hours a week in an office job.

  109. “Meh Delaware”? Isn’t the whole state a beach?

  110. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China

    To the extent that Chinese feel aggrieved about history, what is their rank of grievances? I know Japan ranks high. Does Britain selling opium to addicts outrank Russia hiving off outer Manchuria? And what about the Manchu themselves? They used to be the dynastic overlords, and therefore the “oppressors” in Marxist demonology, but now they seem to be about as Han as anyone else and an offense against them is an offense against China.

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Almost Missouri

    Dr. K the "Boogie Woogie" piano dude points to this music video from Asia hitting the PRC "People of the Dragon" schtick.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUjDh7d64uo

    , @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Almost Missouri

    The CCP puts out Julius Streicher-tier anti-Japanese propaganda.

    On the grievance list, lower, are towards Anglos for the Opium War, and for backing Japanese imperial expansion-- Britain handed over German Qingdao to Japan, and US was Japan's primary oil supplier until the 1941.

    Unfortunately this is further aggravated by (((American))) historians who writes "ground-breaking new research", about Hirohito committed five Holocausts against China and never apologized.

    https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Holocaust-History-Imperial-Murder-ebook/dp/B0CLKZNPTC?nodl=1&dplnkId=6f35b297-7bef-4144-abfd-aceb548dee30

    And many Chinese view Japan and America as allies so Japan is viewed as "US imperialist dogs protected from answering for their war crimes".

    Reality is that Japanese imperialism was largely a response to Russian imperialism. There are numerous parallels to the current war-- Soviets (NATO) instigated color revolutions in China (Ukraine), renegade Chinese soldiers (Azov Nazis) massacred Japanese (Russian) civilians, Japan (Russia) invaded Manchuria (Crimea) as a buffer zone, then escalated to Shanghai (Donbass).

    But CCP is not going to bring this up because it came to power through that color revolution. And most American historians is not going to either, they want to emphasize "how evil Japanese militarism were" and justify the nuclear usage decision.

    The Manchus are actually the key part of this history-- during Manchu conquest in 17th CE Han Chinese came to Japan begging for help. One of the key Han resistance figures was half-Japanese

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga

    Then Sun Yat-sen came to Japan for support to overthrow Qing. When Qing was overthrown Manchus they came to Japan for patronage for independence. The emperor pair up one of his relatives to brother of the last Manchu emperor as a marriage alliance

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Aisin-Gioro_P%C7%94ji%C3%A9_and_Lady_Hiro_Saga_1937_wedding_photo.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Saga

    But this whole story got washed away because Manchukuo got canceled by Stalin, and Manchus assimilated. Then Stalin helped Mao get back Qing borders. So there's no grievance against Manchus because PRC claims succession from Qing.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

  111. @That Would Be Telling
    @AnotherDad


    And there’s the black guy at defense, but I doubt he’s doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management.
     
    Maybe not even that, at least Officially. Seeing as how we're in another Quasi-War in the Middle East.

    We're told that when complications from his prostate cancer surgery put him in the ICU for days no one in Team Biden noticed he wasn't available! As in, nothing they were considering or doing involved consulting him, he's that much of a token.

    Technically he's in the chain of command which for operations per the Goldwater–Nichols Act runs from the President through the Secretary of the DoD to the unified combatant commands, here it should be the United States Central Command.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Technically he’s in the chain of command which for operations per the Goldwater–Nichols Act runs from the President through the Secretary of the DoD to the unified combatant commands, here it should be the United States Central Command.

    Barry has a say in nuclear weapons policy to this day? Joke’s on you, Lyndon… until the next AA president, at least.

    And, to put the coming “Big Game” in perspective, sports, music, books, and movies not only rank below video games in economic impact, the four do so even when combined.

    There’s a huge audience out there watching videos of other people playing video games. Weird, but then, golf has been on TV from the start. (From a course our Steve has almost certainly examined, if not played.)

  112. @Wilkey
    If you're an Indian with a good education it probably isn't hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country's poverty. Overall the weather is probably nicer and the country more scenic, with the bonus being that it's something you're used to.

    In Canada you get to shut yourself inside for 5-6 months out of the year and forget the sun even exists. And in order to enjoy the blessings of living in Canada, Land of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you get rent or mortgage payments that could buy you a medium-sized village in India.

    And then there's one other thing: it's probably a lot easier to live as an Indian in India than it is to live as an Indian (or a European) in Canada, in terms of the bullshit political and cultural attitudes you're required to profess. Having to live in Airstrip One pretending that what you see with your own eyes isn't real? Living in a poorer country may actually be worth the benefits to your sanity.

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the tech segment of India's middle class as AI (supposedly) takes over. For that matter, it will be interesting to see what happens in the USA, as well. How much louder could the demand for reduced immigration be when tens of of millions of Westerners lose their jobs to AI, and suddenly want one of those jobs (not easily replaced by AI) that "Americans won't do."

    Artificial Intelligence may cost millions of people in Western countries their jobs. In a strange way that could very well be what saves us.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @That Would Be Telling, @YetAnotherAnon

    In general you’re arguing hard against the revealed preferences of millions of Indians, but you start off with a very big problem, “If you’re an Indian with a good education….” Note most of the below is generally true for India, but a number of specifics are for Punjab which is what we’re in theory discussing:

    A good education is very hard to achieve, two big problems are there’s just too many people and too few schools of any quality (and even the ITTs back in their heyday had indifferent professors, curricula and equipment (like computers), their biggest advantage was gathering so many of the country’s smartest).

    And if you’re in a higher cast, especially Brahmin, there’s now severe discrimination in favor of the lower castes and those outside the system like the “untouchables” AKA Dalits, which Wikipedia tells us “32% of Punjab’s population consists of [them].” This is becoming an issue in the US especially in high tech.

    See also the jāti system which divides the people into around thirty thousand endogamous groups (caste plus this means you can’t use normal HBD like IQ reasoning about the population). Which also tends to come with standard occupations for those in it, I’m told this relates to all the Patels who run motels in the US. So I wouldn’t be surprised that if you wanted to do something your jāti doesn’t do you’d have to emigrate.

    Then there’s a zillion quality of life/can you live at all issues. Off the top of my head, compared to Canada today, 24×7 electricity, ditto water, half the population has no access to toilet facilities (not sure this relevant, especially since we’re told those ways aren’t changing (much) when they move to Canada).

    Drugs sold in India made by Indian firms tend to be the lower or no quality lots. Even as bad as the Canadian health system is, it could provide generally better access; not at all sure about that, but it likely also provides higher quality services if you can bear the wait time, and perhaps the option of going down to the US for health care is a practical one.

    If you’re both smart, serious about getting a real education vs. cheating to get a ticket, and good enough at English, I’m pretty sure getting a good education is much more practical in Canada. You won’t for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn’t make that cut, who wasn’t for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).

    Communal and other group interpersonal violence is thing in India, the police are infinitely more corrupt, the legal system appears to take decades to do what Western ones do in a few years, Canada is less crowded (but that’s likely changing in the urban areas). Ah, while Canada is I’m sure a lot colder than most of Punjab which is fairly far in the north of India, “Even though only limited regions experience temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F), ground frost is commonly found in the majority of Punjab during the winter season.” That’s enough to kill you without suitable clothing etc.

    It’s humid, “Punjab’s rainy season begins in the first week of July as monsoon currents generated in the Bay of Bengal bring rain to the region. The monsoon lasts up to mid-September.” and “The maximum temperatures usually occur in mid-May and June. The temperature remains above 40 °C (104 °F) in the entire region during this period.” And see above for A/C prospects to keep yourself cool during periods of high demand.

    For economics, I’m sure for a lot of people the prospects are still better in Canada than in India/Punjab. Again, see the revealed preferences. I’d also wonder how many see Canad as a way station to getting into the US.

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @That Would Be Telling


    I’d also wonder how many see Canada as a way station to getting into the US.
     
    Some of them might want to go to the US but I don’t think it’s that easy. I don’t know how the quotas work but to move legally is likely not that easy.

    There’s one exception: if they’re coming as students. They can get their English down pat then transfer to a US university.

    Elon Musk first moved to Canada for university (his mother was Canadian) then transferred to a US university.
    , @Anon
    @That Would Be Telling


    You won’t for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn’t make that cut, who wasn’t for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).
     
    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @epebble

  113. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    LOVE the Frenchie Indochina being represented by the frog in the last map.

    That’s how cartoons were in the distant past in America – we were NOT afraid of being culturally insensitive to the targets being lampooned.

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Joe Stalin

    The second one is a Chinese depiction. This is how the French saw it themselves-- Russia wasn't the bear but mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who's most menacing -- the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later


    "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China).

    French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents "Chine" (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,

    William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst thrusting a knife into the pie to signify aggressive German intentions),

    Nicholas II of Russia, who is eyeing a particular piece, the French Marianne (who is diplomatically shown as not participating in the carving, and is depicted as close to Nicholas II, as a reminder of the Franco-Russian Alliance),

    and a samurai representing Japan, carefully contemplating which pieces to take. A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless.
     

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg

    The cake of kings

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Gateau_des_rois1.JPG

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous

  114. @J.Ross
    @TWS

    The worse, the better. Construct you the Jeetshaker. Feel its vibrations: the test of blood and spirit.
    https://i.postimg.cc/vTMZsRQD/anon-invents-the-jeetshaker-v0-rmzg8i321kcc1.png

    Replies: @res

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @res


    Holy Cow, it's a giant cell phone vibrator with spinning cam masses!
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWgN20Xx-5A
    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @res

    When I was doing foundations and footings for a large garage we used a concrete vibrator to ensure the pour was level and there were no air voids in the mix.

    https://brandonhirestation.com/media/catalog/product/v/i/vibratech_plus_studio_1_1.jpg

  115. @Almost Missouri
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China
     
    To the extent that Chinese feel aggrieved about history, what is their rank of grievances? I know Japan ranks high. Does Britain selling opium to addicts outrank Russia hiving off outer Manchuria? And what about the Manchu themselves? They used to be the dynastic overlords, and therefore the "oppressors" in Marxist demonology, but now they seem to be about as Han as anyone else and an offense against them is an offense against China.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Dr. K the “Boogie Woogie” piano dude points to this music video from Asia hitting the PRC “People of the Dragon” schtick.

  116. @res
    @J.Ross

    That is brutal. In case anyone wants one.

    GPOAS 40W Concrete Vibrator Vibration Motor Single Phase AC 110V 3600RPM,Aluminum Alloy Case Electric Asynchronous Vibrating Vibrators for Shaker Table

    Link to the video.
    https://streamable.com/vr99ap

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @YetAnotherAnon

    Holy Cow, it’s a giant cell phone vibrator with spinning cam masses!

  117. @ScarletNumber

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware
     
    For whatever reason, the University of Delaware in Newark is very popular with college students from the Mid-Atlantic. 64 percent of UDel undergrads come from out-of-state, as opposed to 17 percent at Rutgers.

    Despite being a corporate haven, UDel cannot support its own law school and has to send its residents to Widener, which has a campus in Wilmington. Joe himself went to Syracuse for law school.

    Replies: @res

    For whatever reason, the University of Delaware in Newark is very popular with college students from the Mid-Atlantic. 64 percent of UDel undergrads come from out-of-state, as opposed to 17 percent at Rutgers.

    Delaware as a whole having a population of 1 million (contrast New Jersey at 9.3 million) probably has something to do with it. As does geography.
    https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-wide-is-delaware-total-distance-from-east-to-west/

    Newark is 2 miles from Maryland, 3 miles from Pennsylvania, and about 15 miles from New Jersey.

  118. @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven't read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it's too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we're already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won't have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn't know and pretend it's so sad and pretend it wasn't entirely planned and "Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?"

    If you didn't already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it's hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn't get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    Replies: @bomag, @res, @J.Ross, @BB753

    Interesting idea. Thanks.

  119. @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar


    Gavin Newsome is too weird
     
    I meant to add: California, the state itself, is Gavin Newsom's biggest liability. California is gorgeous. Despite all the crappy videos we see of people robbing Apple stores in broad daylight and homeless people shitting on the sidewalks of San Francisco, there are still many parts of the state that are just this side of paradise. Unfortunately most of those parts are far out of reach for more and more Americans. Not just slightly out of reach, but forever "not unless I win the lottery" out of reach.

    California used to be a beacon. People used to say, "I'd love to live in California, if it weren't so expensive." People who lived there and left would say, "I loved it, but couldn't afford to stay."

    But today what more and more people are saying is "I wouldn't live in California even if I could afford it." Today, even people who can afford it are leaving.

    More and more, the subject of California leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of Americans. It's a reminder of what America once was, but can maybe never be again. Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.

    Replies: @Muggles

    Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.

    While I don’t disagree with your negative analysis of Newsom, none of that keeps him from being reelected, defeating recall elections, and leading the Cal. Dem Party to near total political monopoly in major cities in California.

    Yes, the Dems want to “Californize” America. He is their leader for that.

    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren’t the majority of voters.

    Newsom is a good looking youngish man (compared to Biden/Trump). “Good Hair”. Married to several beautiful women (over time, not all at once) and loved by tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.

    Not saying he’s perfect. But who else they got? A bunch of Liz Warrens?

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no…)

    The Dems have nobodies for choices behind Newsom.

    Trump was President, and the sole remaining GOP candidate, because of his out-sized very public personna known to the public via TV shows.

    Who do the Dems have? Oprah? Their normal electeds are like other politicians, mostly horrible personalities. Dull, blah, colorless, liars, speech readers, etc. RFK Jr. could out poll them.

    Biden is now toast, even the Dem string pullers see that. So who’s up next? That is the question.

    Some Dem state no name Governor? They have a second string, but like the GOP bench, a painfully bad bench compared to P.T. Barnum Trump…

    • Replies: @Joe Paluka
    @Muggles

    The only reason Newsom gets in over and over regardless of his inability to do anything right, is the same way Democrats get in in every recent election, all across the nation, they cheat, they manipulate the votes. Newsom's friends in Silicon valley make the voting machines, write the programs and bribe the judges. Nothing can go wrong, he could sacrifice babies and push little old ladies in wheelchairs down stairs on live televison and his friends would make it so he would win elections over and over again regardless of public opinion.

    , @Wilkey
    @Muggles


    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren’t the majority of voters.
     
    I don't think that. I do think that a lot of Americans have this view of California as a place that was once alluring but now repulsive, thanks to the changes that have been wrought by people like Gavin Newsom. Whether or not that's enough to keep him out of the White House? Good question, but I think it might be.

    California was a place I once thought unaffordable. Now it's a place where I could afford to live (my wife and I have actually discussed this), but I'm increasingly sure I don't want to.

  120. @ScarletNumber

    Rice U. in 1976
     
    Penn Jillette always refers to his alma mater as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College because as long as he worked for the circus he was contractually obligated to use the full name. Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as "Rice U." when the more colloquial "Rice" would serve the same purpose?

    Replies: @Rusty Tailgate, @Muggles

    Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as “Rice U.” when the more colloquial “Rice” would serve the same purpose?

    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.

    “Did Uncle Ben go there?”

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @Muggles


    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.
     
    Exactly: people outside the US would be especially confused. “Rice U” adds just one letter and helps the comprehension.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber

    , @ScarletNumber
    @Muggles


    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.
     
    Not when it is capitalized

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Muggles

  121. @Reg Cæsar
    Cotton pickin' Punjabis...




    https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2023/09/03/550x309/First-picking-of-cotton-balls-has-started-in-the-s_1693766781415.jpg
    https://englishtribuneimages.blob.core.windows.net/gallary-content/2022/4/2022_4$largeimg_493530039.jpg

    Replies: @Wielgus

    Some of the most productive farmers in India. They appear to be Sikhs – that looks like the characteristic turban in the first photo.

  122. @That Would Be Telling
    @Wilkey

    In general you're arguing hard against the revealed preferences of millions of Indians, but you start off with a very big problem, "If you’re an Indian with a good education...." Note most of the below is generally true for India, but a number of specifics are for Punjab which is what we're in theory discussing:

    A good education is very hard to achieve, two big problems are there's just too many people and too few schools of any quality (and even the ITTs back in their heyday had indifferent professors, curricula and equipment (like computers), their biggest advantage was gathering so many of the country's smartest).

    And if you're in a higher cast, especially Brahmin, there's now severe discrimination in favor of the lower castes and those outside the system like the "untouchables" AKA Dalits, which Wikipedia tells us "32% of Punjab's population consists of [them]." This is becoming an issue in the US especially in high tech.

    See also the jāti system which divides the people into around thirty thousand endogamous groups (caste plus this means you can't use normal HBD like IQ reasoning about the population). Which also tends to come with standard occupations for those in it, I'm told this relates to all the Patels who run motels in the US. So I wouldn't be surprised that if you wanted to do something your jāti doesn't do you'd have to emigrate.

    Then there's a zillion quality of life/can you live at all issues. Off the top of my head, compared to Canada today, 24x7 electricity, ditto water, half the population has no access to toilet facilities (not sure this relevant, especially since we're told those ways aren't changing (much) when they move to Canada).

    Drugs sold in India made by Indian firms tend to be the lower or no quality lots. Even as bad as the Canadian health system is, it could provide generally better access; not at all sure about that, but it likely also provides higher quality services if you can bear the wait time, and perhaps the option of going down to the US for health care is a practical one.

    If you're both smart, serious about getting a real education vs. cheating to get a ticket, and good enough at English, I'm pretty sure getting a good education is much more practical in Canada. You won't for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn't make that cut, who wasn't for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).

    Communal and other group interpersonal violence is thing in India, the police are infinitely more corrupt, the legal system appears to take decades to do what Western ones do in a few years, Canada is less crowded (but that's likely changing in the urban areas). Ah, while Canada is I'm sure a lot colder than most of Punjab which is fairly far in the north of India, "Even though only limited regions experience temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F), ground frost is commonly found in the majority of Punjab during the winter season." That's enough to kill you without suitable clothing etc.

    It's humid, "Punjab's rainy season begins in the first week of July as monsoon currents generated in the Bay of Bengal bring rain to the region. The monsoon lasts up to mid-September." and "The maximum temperatures usually occur in mid-May and June. The temperature remains above 40 °C (104 °F) in the entire region during this period." And see above for A/C prospects to keep yourself cool during periods of high demand.

    For economics, I'm sure for a lot of people the prospects are still better in Canada than in India/Punjab. Again, see the revealed preferences. I'd also wonder how many see Canad as a way station to getting into the US.

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Anon

    I’d also wonder how many see Canada as a way station to getting into the US.

    Some of them might want to go to the US but I don’t think it’s that easy. I don’t know how the quotas work but to move legally is likely not that easy.

    There’s one exception: if they’re coming as students. They can get their English down pat then transfer to a US university.

    Elon Musk first moved to Canada for university (his mother was Canadian) then transferred to a US university.

  123. @Nicholas Stix
    “For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle.”

    “… It was the first big test of his immigration agenda, and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work.”

    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.

    Biden’s immigration agenda has been to swamp Whites via illegal aliens into a hated, disenfranchised, dispossessed minority in their own country.

    This isn’t a news story, it’s just dnc talking points. fake president/real gangster Joe Biden is merely continuing the strategy of the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama.”

    “The Myth of the 11 Million: Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-myth-of-11-million-already-in-2014.html

    Replies: @Lurker, @BB753, @Mr. Anon

    The moment an alleged reporter starts referring to a corrupt politician as acting out of “principle,” clip his press card.

    Exactly. We no longer have “reporters”. We now have “journalists”.

  124. @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven't read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it's too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we're already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won't have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn't know and pretend it's so sad and pretend it wasn't entirely planned and "Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?"

    If you didn't already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it's hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn't get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    Replies: @bomag, @res, @J.Ross, @BB753

    Yes, after all, these are the people who came up with “superdelegates.”

  125. @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego.

    Who else does that remind you of?

    I’ll give you a hint. He’s kinda orange.

    It’s a train wreck now. They’ll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    I don’t think it matters. Anybody who would have voted for basement-Joe in 2020 isn’t going to have changed his mind. It will hinge, as it always does, on turnout. Turnout of voters. Well, at least turnout of “votes”.

  126. @Muggles
    @ScarletNumber


    Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as “Rice U.” when the more colloquial “Rice” would serve the same purpose?
     
    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just "Rice" and people think about the food.

    "Did Uncle Ben go there?"

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @ScarletNumber

    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.

    Exactly: people outside the US would be especially confused. “Rice U” adds just one letter and helps the comprehension.

    • Replies: @ScarletNumber
    @Frau Katze

    How often do you plan on bringing up the fact that you're a foreigner? I promise you it isn't as interesting as you may think it is.

    Replies: @Frau Katze

  127. anonymous[408] • Disclaimer says:

    I’ve been around Sikhs here in Canada all my life and all I can say about them is that they trash every industry they touch. When I was a kid there were few here, nobody liked them, but they were easy to ignore. They mainly worked in sawmills and a few worked berry farms. In the 70’s they got into the taxi industry and trashed that. If you ride a taxi in a large city in Canada you can guarantee it will be manned by a stinky Sikh who barely speaks English. Then, they got into the trucking industry, and trashed that, they’re trucks are always having accidents because of brake failure and bald tires. Now I hear in British Columbia, they’ve had 34 overpasses damaged by illiterate Sikh truck drivers (in the past 3 years) who don’t even understand the concept of overheight vehicles. They’ve taken over the housebuilding industry because nobody can compete with them paying ten dollars an hour to their relatives recently off the boat from India. The houses are renowned for poor quality and gasfitting, electric and plumbing put in by non-trades-certified installers. They get away with this by bribing inspectors and politicians. They’ve infiltrated politics in every party (mainly left-wing parties) and have corrupted government on every level. Politicians love them because the leaders can command their illiterate masses to bloc vote. Not only do Sikhs trash and corrupt, they’re probably the largest drug dealers in Canada and are always shooting at each other with handguns (in a country that supposedly has some of the toughest gun laws in the world). Sikhs have committed the most terrorism of any group in Canada and with regularity assassinate their leaders who get unpopular. The head of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh (Canada’s third federal party) is banned from going to India. If Canada were a leg, the Sikhs would be gangrene to that leg and they sure are like gangrene to the body of Canada.

    When I see on hear people (mostly Americans with no experience with them) praise them like they were the finest Germans, I just shake my head. It reminds me of the first time I saw an episode of Star Trek the original series, where Ricardo Montalban plays this superman called Khan, who leads a group of hippy like people who have come out of hibernation from the 20th century earth. He is supposed to be a Sikh, I laughed out loud the first time I saw it and every time since, to think that these stinky illiterate people that we have in Canada called Sikhs could in any way be related to them. Ricardo Montalban was a handsome, classy gent who spoke with a classy Spanish accent, he was about as far as one could get from the troglodytes we know as Sikhs here in Canada. I guess Gene Roddenberry’s guru told him to show Sikhs in such a positive light.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @anonymous

    Perhaps Ricardo Montalban was merely playing 'Hiding Sikh'.

    Replies: @Muggles

  128. @pirelli

    The BBC spoke to at least half a dozen reverse migrants in Punjab who shared similar sentiments.

    It was also a common refrain in the scores of videos on YouTube shared by Indians who had chosen to abandon their life in Canada and return home.
     
    “At least half a dozen!” “Scores, *scores* I tell you!” What will we do without these migrants to care for us in our old age?

    Well, how many are still coming every year? Oh:

    The numbers of those leaving are still small in absolute terms with immigration levels at all-time highs in Canada - the country welcomed nearly half a million new migrants each year over the past few years.
     
    So what you’re saying is… the entire premise of your article is garbage? There are still ~10 times as many migrants arriving each year as leaving? How many readers of this article bother to read long enough to find out that the “reverse migration” bemoaned in the article’s title is not even remotely close to being “net reverse migration”?

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    How many readers of this article bother to read long enough to find out that the “reverse migration” bemoaned in the article’s title is not even remotely close to being “net reverse migration”?

    I noticed the same thing. So a handful go back. Big deal!

  129. @Mark G.
    @HA

    I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use. You were the advocate of the nanny state, wanting to direct everyone by the use of force what to do. I have told you that multiple times and you always pretend I never did. You engage in mental evasion about your true nature. I can see what you are.

    Russia gave up Poland and the other Eastern Europe countries. Why would they want them back? They received little benefit from them the last time they controlled them. Any lurid fantasies about Putin rolling across Europe and then invading Alaska, followed by the conquest of America, have no basis in reality.

    Polling shows an increasing percentage of the American population say we are doing too much to help the Ukraine. Among Republicans it is a majority. Republicans are about as eager to stay involved in an endless war as they are to run out and get that next Covid booster shot. Republicans in Congress and Trump are listening to their base and showing an increasing disinclination to support the corrupt Ukrainian dictator. The person supporting the war, Biden, is becoming increasingly unpopular.

    Replies: @HA

    “I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use.”

    You wanted them to give you “easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs…and cheap patented steroids”; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.

    I distinctly remember people came on this site and told you how they learned, with just a little internet searching, how one could order HCQ and whatnot despite the restrictions that came into place once people started dosing on aquarium cleaner and having heart issues in ER’s (earlier, HCQ had actually been given “emergency use authorization”). And as for “nutritional supplements” — whatever that means — those were never restricted. In other words, you definitely could have gotten a hold of basically anything you wanted with little or no effort, as the case may be, but you didn’t and instead of admitting you were just too lazy to get around to it, you now whine about how the government didn’t allow you easy enough access. Yeah, I’m sure that was the real problem.

    The government did, through enormous effort, make a vaccine readily available for you, but you passed on that, too, and chose to roll the dice instead. And surprise, surprise — as you yourself admitted in an unguarded slip of candor, you wound up in the hospital with COVID. Are we at least clear on that? I guess those nutritional supplements you speak of (again, those were never restricted so I assume you at least fortified yourself to the gills with those, am I right?) didn’t quite live up to their potential, did they? Or did they somehow lose their efficacy due to the government failing to force them down your throat in that “easy access” manner you insist on?

    And now, instead of taking responsibility for your own stupid choices, you want to pretend it was the government that dropped the ball? Spare me. If you want to do it on your own, then do it. If you’re too lazy, stop whining about what the government failed to do, especially with your botched record.

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @HA

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    Replies: @Anon, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    , @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    You wanted them to give you “easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs…and cheap patented steroids”; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.
     
    That isn't what he meant, you deceitful nitwit. He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment - i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER.

    You were nothing but a fountain of sewage on the topic of COVID - not just wrong-headed and tyranical, but stupid.

    As Mark G pointed out, you're not even an American, so when it comes to American domestic politics, why should anybody here care what you think.

    Or indeed for that matter about anything. You want Russia to be fought? YOU go fight Russia. Assuming you are able to leave your sterile lock-down bunker and have enough face masks.

    You're a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself.

    Replies: @HA

  130. @Muggles
    @Wilkey


    Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.
     
    While I don't disagree with your negative analysis of Newsom, none of that keeps him from being reelected, defeating recall elections, and leading the Cal. Dem Party to near total political monopoly in major cities in California.

    Yes, the Dems want to "Californize" America. He is their leader for that.

    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren't the majority of voters.

    Newsom is a good looking youngish man (compared to Biden/Trump). "Good Hair". Married to several beautiful women (over time, not all at once) and loved by tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.

    Not saying he's perfect. But who else they got? A bunch of Liz Warrens?

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no...)

    The Dems have nobodies for choices behind Newsom.

    Trump was President, and the sole remaining GOP candidate, because of his out-sized very public personna known to the public via TV shows.

    Who do the Dems have? Oprah? Their normal electeds are like other politicians, mostly horrible personalities. Dull, blah, colorless, liars, speech readers, etc. RFK Jr. could out poll them.

    Biden is now toast, even the Dem string pullers see that. So who's up next? That is the question.

    Some Dem state no name Governor? They have a second string, but like the GOP bench, a painfully bad bench compared to P.T. Barnum Trump...

    Replies: @Joe Paluka, @Wilkey

    The only reason Newsom gets in over and over regardless of his inability to do anything right, is the same way Democrats get in in every recent election, all across the nation, they cheat, they manipulate the votes. Newsom’s friends in Silicon valley make the voting machines, write the programs and bribe the judges. Nothing can go wrong, he could sacrifice babies and push little old ladies in wheelchairs down stairs on live televison and his friends would make it so he would win elections over and over again regardless of public opinion.

  131. @AnotherDad
    Everyday I wake to this incredible tragedy.

    And this ought to be a Golden Age in the West, with our development of this communications revolution and the AI/robotics one coming down the pike. Really a true Golden Age should be upon us. Western peoples really flourishing as individuals, communities, nations, a civilization.

    But instead, we have been infected with this minoritarian mind virus--weakening our defenses or reason or very national sanity--and destroyed by its running buddy immigrationism. The dumbest, most toxic ideology that any civilization has ever had. National/civilizational Shakerism.

    Replies: @MGB, @Anonymous, @Goddard, @Seneca44

    Even Caitlyn Flanagan, an Atlantic Monthly liberal writer from the Bay Area of Cali is telling her kids, “…America, let’s finish strong…if we’re closing up shop, let’s remember who we were”
    At 62 and a cancer survivor, she trashed Gavin Newsom on Maher’s show for the nosedive he put California in. Maher, Bob Costas, and Ms Flanagan almost sound like republicans except for their visceral hatred of all things Trump.

  132. @Wilkey
    If you're an Indian with a good education it probably isn't hard to live well in India and escape many of the worst aspects of that country's poverty. Overall the weather is probably nicer and the country more scenic, with the bonus being that it's something you're used to.

    In Canada you get to shut yourself inside for 5-6 months out of the year and forget the sun even exists. And in order to enjoy the blessings of living in Canada, Land of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you get rent or mortgage payments that could buy you a medium-sized village in India.

    And then there's one other thing: it's probably a lot easier to live as an Indian in India than it is to live as an Indian (or a European) in Canada, in terms of the bullshit political and cultural attitudes you're required to profess. Having to live in Airstrip One pretending that what you see with your own eyes isn't real? Living in a poorer country may actually be worth the benefits to your sanity.

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the tech segment of India's middle class as AI (supposedly) takes over. For that matter, it will be interesting to see what happens in the USA, as well. How much louder could the demand for reduced immigration be when tens of of millions of Westerners lose their jobs to AI, and suddenly want one of those jobs (not easily replaced by AI) that "Americans won't do."

    Artificial Intelligence may cost millions of people in Western countries their jobs. In a strange way that could very well be what saves us.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @That Would Be Telling, @YetAnotherAnon

    “If you’re an Indian with a good education it probably isn’t hard to live well in India “

    Don’t know what happened to the rest of my comment, but the point was that the Indian guy with a two hour commute each way in India had people to cook his meals, clean his house, wash and iron his clothes.

    He never had things to do around the house as I did. Sometimes in summer I’ll spend the entire weekend in the (big) garden, mowing, strimming, cutting hedges. Whereas when he got home his time was his own.

    He lived in that sense like a middle-class Victorian would in England. Servants are cheap in India, just as they were up to WW1 in the UK.

  133. @res
    @J.Ross

    That is brutal. In case anyone wants one.

    GPOAS 40W Concrete Vibrator Vibration Motor Single Phase AC 110V 3600RPM,Aluminum Alloy Case Electric Asynchronous Vibrating Vibrators for Shaker Table

    Link to the video.
    https://streamable.com/vr99ap

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @YetAnotherAnon

    When I was doing foundations and footings for a large garage we used a concrete vibrator to ensure the pour was level and there were no air voids in the mix.

  134. @Mike Tre
    @Ron Mexico

    I'm not sure I take your point. The Republican party had more than enough grounds to conduct a serious investigation into the 2020 presidential election, but didn't.

    Those envelopes are heavy.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

    It clearly happened here in Michigan where I live. But, yes, prominent Republicans do next to nothing about it. Why is that?

  135. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use."

    You wanted them to give you "easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs...and cheap patented steroids"; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.

    I distinctly remember people came on this site and told you how they learned, with just a little internet searching, how one could order HCQ and whatnot despite the restrictions that came into place once people started dosing on aquarium cleaner and having heart issues in ER's (earlier, HCQ had actually been given "emergency use authorization"). And as for "nutritional supplements" -- whatever that means -- those were never restricted. In other words, you definitely could have gotten a hold of basically anything you wanted with little or no effort, as the case may be, but you didn't and instead of admitting you were just too lazy to get around to it, you now whine about how the government didn't allow you easy enough access. Yeah, I'm sure that was the real problem.

    The government did, through enormous effort, make a vaccine readily available for you, but you passed on that, too, and chose to roll the dice instead. And surprise, surprise -- as you yourself admitted in an unguarded slip of candor, you wound up in the hospital with COVID. Are we at least clear on that? I guess those nutritional supplements you speak of (again, those were never restricted so I assume you at least fortified yourself to the gills with those, am I right?) didn't quite live up to their potential, did they? Or did they somehow lose their efficacy due to the government failing to force them down your throat in that "easy access" manner you insist on?

    And now, instead of taking responsibility for your own stupid choices, you want to pretend it was the government that dropped the ball? Spare me. If you want to do it on your own, then do it. If you're too lazy, stop whining about what the government failed to do, especially with your botched record.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    • Agree: Mr. Anon
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Mark G.

    "Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits."

    Nah, it changed because the GOP became the party of paranoid, low-IQ oppositional culture. Same with 9/11 conspiracy theories which began on the left.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Ben tillman

    , @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered?"

    Did men with big butterfly nets come and forcibly remove you to the ER, kicking and screaming? Take it up with whoever connected you with the medical establishment in the first place, instead of setting you down by the voodoo practitioners or palm readers or astrologers or anti-vaxx "practitioners" you think would have served you any better. And by all means, stay away from the medical system for good next time and save that ER bed for someone worthier of saving.

    The fact remains, you had the chance to gobble up as much of whatever snake oil you now claim was needed to sail through COVID without a hitch, and you evidently didn't bother with even so much as the nutritional supplements you also say you wanted more of (and were never restricted) -- and despite all that, somehow it's still the government's fault for not making it even easier to get all those things you evidently made zero effort to acquire or consume on your own. Really pathetic.

    So let's be real -- however much you want to retcon your COVID story, the reason you didn't gobble down any of those things you now say would have sufficed, restricted or not, is that before COVID gave you that rude awakening, what you were really fuming about, government-wise, is that they they were making a big deal out of a nothingburger in the first place. That's the plain truth of it, I'd bet. All the rest is just a cover-up to deflect blame away from the real culprit in this scenario, which is you. The short answer as to why the government wasn't more responsive to your directives and your self-entitlement is simply that you have abysmally poor decision-making skills and no medical expertise. The fact that someone still needs to explain something that obvious to you is just sad.

    , @Anon
    @Mark G.


    It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.
     
    Big Pharma gave more money to Biden than Trump for the same reason that every industry apart from oil gave more money to Biden than Trump. They're run by high-class people who don't like low class guys like Trump and yourself.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Mark G.

    Commenter "HA" is a COVID authoritarian who was wrong about everything pandemic-related: lockdowns, masking, etc. He's a highly educated nitwit.

    He also appears to be a Ukraine war shill, playing that whole "Let's you and him fight" routine and deriding anybody who disagrees with him as a "Putin fan-boy".

    In short, HA is a nasty, petulant fool. You aren't going to disabuse him of his foolishness.

    Replies: @MGB

  136. Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no…)

    To clarify the rules for everyone else, electors cannot vote for two candidates from their own state. So this would mean forfeiting more than two dozen electors for one candidate, if not both. (Which is it?) Dick Chaney had to hightail it back to Wyoming for this reason; he and GWB were both domiciled in Texas, the #2 prize. (Had both been in Wyoming, this might not have mattered in 2004, but definitely would have in 2000!)

    earlier, HCQ had actually been given “emergency use authorization”

    Two of our kids are down with the flu, and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired) which carry that phrase as well. Should I give it to them?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    "and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired)"

    Why "perhaps?" Are you a 70 IQ antivaxxer too stupid to read an expiration date?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @ScarletNumber
    @Reg Cæsar


    So this would mean forfeiting more than two dozen electors for one candidate, if not both. (Which is it?)
     
    Electors can only vote for one candidate from their state, so California's 54 electors could vote for only Gavin OR Kamala, not both. If their slate has a total of at least 297, then half of the electors would be told to vote for Gavin and the other half would be told to vote for Kamala, and they would still each have the 270 needed. If you are between 270 and 296 I would imagine you would sacrifice Kamala to make sure Gavin was elected president. The VP vote would then go to the newly-elected senate.
  137. @Joe Stalin
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    LOVE the Frenchie Indochina being represented by the frog in the last map.

    That's how cartoons were in the distant past in America - we were NOT afraid of being culturally insensitive to the targets being lampooned.

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The second one is a Chinese depiction. This is how the French saw it themselves– Russia wasn’t the bear but mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who’s most menacing — the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later

    “China — the cake of kings and… of emperors” (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to “consume” China).

    French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents “Chine” (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,

    William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst thrusting a knife into the pie to signify aggressive German intentions),

    Nicholas II of Russia, who is eyeing a particular piece, the French Marianne (who is diplomatically shown as not participating in the carving, and is depicted as close to Nicholas II, as a reminder of the Franco-Russian Alliance),

    and a samurai representing Japan, carefully contemplating which pieces to take. A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless.


    The cake of kings

    • Replies: @ScarletNumber
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who’s most menacing — the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later
     
    While most of us are cousins to one degree or another, it is worth noting that Nicholas and Wilhelm were not particularly close cousins. However, they were both first cousins of George V of the UK (the great-grandfather of the current King Charles). Christian IX of Denmark was the maternal grandfather of both George and Nicholas.

    The more interesting part of the picture is Wilhelm stabbing the pie while looking menacingly at Victoria, as Victoria is his maternal grandmother! Victoria, of course, was also the paternal grandmother of George V, but Wilhelm was her first-born grandchild.

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    , @Anonymous
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    This was published in January 1898. The previous November the Germans had occupied Tsingtao, which is presumably what prompted the cartoon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiautschou_Bay_Leased_Territory

    Replies: @Anonymous

  138. it’s natural trajectory

    its. The pronoun doesn’t have an apostrophe.

    until it’s as bad as anywhere else

    This one is a contraction and does have the apostrophe.

  139. @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated).

    In other words, historically and culturally they do not work for a living and despise people who do.

    That’s the thing about “warrior” cultures. The way a warrior makes their way in the world is by taking other people’s shit. After a few centuries of civilisation, they do it discretely by running the government (eg: the Normans). But it’s still the same old parasitism.

  140. Anon[315] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mark G.
    @HA

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    Replies: @Anon, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    “Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.”

    Nah, it changed because the GOP became the party of paranoid, low-IQ oppositional culture. Same with 9/11 conspiracy theories which began on the left.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Anon

    Yeah, we get it - you are a snotty, elitist creep. Elitists always dislike "oppositional" culture because you don't want anybody to oppose you.

    Of course, you (probably) aren't a true elitist, in the sense of being a member of the elite. Rather you are just one of their cheering fans. The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart. The actual elite views you with the same contempt with which they view the rest of us.

    You are the worst kind of highly educated cretin, because you are a willing stooge of people who despise you. Well, in fairness, they do have a point.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Ben tillman
    @Anon

    9/11 conspiracy theories began with the USG, which adopted an especially dumb one as the official story.

  141. @Reg Cæsar

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no…)
     
    To clarify the rules for everyone else, electors cannot vote for two candidates from their own state. So this would mean forfeiting more than two dozen electors for one candidate, if not both. (Which is it?) Dick Chaney had to hightail it back to Wyoming for this reason; he and GWB were both domiciled in Texas, the #2 prize. (Had both been in Wyoming, this might not have mattered in 2004, but definitely would have in 2000!)

    earlier, HCQ had actually been given “emergency use authorization”

     

    Two of our kids are down with the flu, and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired) which carry that phrase as well. Should I give it to them?

    Replies: @Anon, @ScarletNumber

    “and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired)”

    Why “perhaps?” Are you a 70 IQ antivaxxer too stupid to read an expiration date?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    Are you a 70 IQ antivaxxer too stupid to read an expiration date?
     
    Didn't bother to look for it. If it's expired, it won't work, isn't that all? It's not gonna fester botulism.
  142. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "I never said I wanted the government to facilitate my Covid treatment. I said I did not want the government to ban the treatment I wanted to use."

    You wanted them to give you "easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs...and cheap patented steroids"; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.

    I distinctly remember people came on this site and told you how they learned, with just a little internet searching, how one could order HCQ and whatnot despite the restrictions that came into place once people started dosing on aquarium cleaner and having heart issues in ER's (earlier, HCQ had actually been given "emergency use authorization"). And as for "nutritional supplements" -- whatever that means -- those were never restricted. In other words, you definitely could have gotten a hold of basically anything you wanted with little or no effort, as the case may be, but you didn't and instead of admitting you were just too lazy to get around to it, you now whine about how the government didn't allow you easy enough access. Yeah, I'm sure that was the real problem.

    The government did, through enormous effort, make a vaccine readily available for you, but you passed on that, too, and chose to roll the dice instead. And surprise, surprise -- as you yourself admitted in an unguarded slip of candor, you wound up in the hospital with COVID. Are we at least clear on that? I guess those nutritional supplements you speak of (again, those were never restricted so I assume you at least fortified yourself to the gills with those, am I right?) didn't quite live up to their potential, did they? Or did they somehow lose their efficacy due to the government failing to force them down your throat in that "easy access" manner you insist on?

    And now, instead of taking responsibility for your own stupid choices, you want to pretend it was the government that dropped the ball? Spare me. If you want to do it on your own, then do it. If you're too lazy, stop whining about what the government failed to do, especially with your botched record.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

    You wanted them to give you “easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs…and cheap patented steroids”; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.

    That isn’t what he meant, you deceitful nitwit. He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment – i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER.

    You were nothing but a fountain of sewage on the topic of COVID – not just wrong-headed and tyranical, but stupid.

    As Mark G pointed out, you’re not even an American, so when it comes to American domestic politics, why should anybody here care what you think.

    Or indeed for that matter about anything. You want Russia to be fought? YOU go fight Russia. Assuming you are able to leave your sterile lock-down bunker and have enough face masks.

    You’re a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself.

    • Agree: Mike Tre, Mark G.
    • Replies: @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "You’re a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself."

    There, there, little guy. Rest easy and slurp your meds in peace. I know you think you're making me look bad, but take a lesson from Stancil and the Streisand effect, and keep your conniptions to yourself or you're just gonna make a bigger deal out of "highly educated" me than you want. And at this point, wiping all that spittle off your screen is probably getting to be a chore for your caregivers.

    Hey, why don't you go through some Superbowl recaps? How did that turn out, by the way?

    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

    And now the conspiracy goons are claiming that "Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine"? Yeah, I guess that's right -- out of all the other elders of Zion, Biden has learned that it's highly educated me that he needs to follow, first and foremost. How's that for relevance -- good of you to recognize all that. Watch yourselves, or I'll rig up the next Superbowl just the same way I'm gonna rig up November's elections.

    "He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment – i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER."

    As clueless as ever. Mark G. kept whining that the hospital didn't release him soon enough and kept him around too long. I.e. he's willfully blind about something that real doctors learned early on, which is that the happy tweets that relatives would dispense a week or two after grandpa was admitted, to the effect that "everything is looking up and he's going to be released soon", were all too often followed by a somber "there's been a downturn" tweet about how a secondary infection set in. So much for "we need more outpatient treatment". Yeah, sure. Mark G. luckily managed to dodge that secondary infection bullet and now whines that the doctors should have somehow been able predict that from the start, and not bothered with the precautions they did, and he's as confident about that as he once was about how COVID was nothing that he needed to be concerned with in the first place -- but he wasn't as lucky that time.

    It's true that the doctors don't always get it right and sometimes err on the side of caution, but that's still no reason to let clueless backset-driving illiterates like him dispense medical advice. Sputter about that all you want, and pretend you don't care or read what I say or that I'm the one who has to have the last word, but again -- try and realize how badly that's gonna backfire.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

  143. @Frau Katze
    @Muggles


    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.
     
    Exactly: people outside the US would be especially confused. “Rice U” adds just one letter and helps the comprehension.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber

    How often do you plan on bringing up the fact that you’re a foreigner? I promise you it isn’t as interesting as you may think it is.

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @ScarletNumber

    You don’t need to read my comments if you find them boring. Just hit the Ignore Commenter button.

  144. @Muggles
    @Wilkey


    Gavin Newsom goes into any election wearing that around his neck, and he is completely unapologetic for what he has done to make California what it has become.
     
    While I don't disagree with your negative analysis of Newsom, none of that keeps him from being reelected, defeating recall elections, and leading the Cal. Dem Party to near total political monopoly in major cities in California.

    Yes, the Dems want to "Californize" America. He is their leader for that.

    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren't the majority of voters.

    Newsom is a good looking youngish man (compared to Biden/Trump). "Good Hair". Married to several beautiful women (over time, not all at once) and loved by tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley.

    Not saying he's perfect. But who else they got? A bunch of Liz Warrens?

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no...)

    The Dems have nobodies for choices behind Newsom.

    Trump was President, and the sole remaining GOP candidate, because of his out-sized very public personna known to the public via TV shows.

    Who do the Dems have? Oprah? Their normal electeds are like other politicians, mostly horrible personalities. Dull, blah, colorless, liars, speech readers, etc. RFK Jr. could out poll them.

    Biden is now toast, even the Dem string pullers see that. So who's up next? That is the question.

    Some Dem state no name Governor? They have a second string, but like the GOP bench, a painfully bad bench compared to P.T. Barnum Trump...

    Replies: @Joe Paluka, @Wilkey

    You seem to think the conservative, rational anti Woke Americans leaving California will somehow stop Newsom, et. al. Why? They aren’t the majority of voters.

    I don’t think that. I do think that a lot of Americans have this view of California as a place that was once alluring but now repulsive, thanks to the changes that have been wrought by people like Gavin Newsom. Whether or not that’s enough to keep him out of the White House? Good question, but I think it might be.

    California was a place I once thought unaffordable. Now it’s a place where I could afford to live (my wife and I have actually discussed this), but I’m increasingly sure I don’t want to.

    • Agree: Muggles, Renard
  145. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Joe Stalin

    The second one is a Chinese depiction. This is how the French saw it themselves-- Russia wasn't the bear but mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who's most menacing -- the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later


    "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China).

    French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents "Chine" (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,

    William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst thrusting a knife into the pie to signify aggressive German intentions),

    Nicholas II of Russia, who is eyeing a particular piece, the French Marianne (who is diplomatically shown as not participating in the carving, and is depicted as close to Nicholas II, as a reminder of the Franco-Russian Alliance),

    and a samurai representing Japan, carefully contemplating which pieces to take. A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless.
     

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg

    The cake of kings

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Gateau_des_rois1.JPG

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous

    mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who’s most menacing — the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later

    While most of us are cousins to one degree or another, it is worth noting that Nicholas and Wilhelm were not particularly close cousins. However, they were both first cousins of George V of the UK (the great-grandfather of the current King Charles). Christian IX of Denmark was the maternal grandfather of both George and Nicholas.

    The more interesting part of the picture is Wilhelm stabbing the pie while looking menacingly at Victoria, as Victoria is his maternal grandmother! Victoria, of course, was also the paternal grandmother of George V, but Wilhelm was her first-born grandchild.

    • Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @ScarletNumber

    Britain and Germany was at odds on spheres of influence in China, but later came to agreement upon appeal by-- United States

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Putting_his_foot_down.jpg


    US cartoon from 1899: Uncle Sam (center, representing the United States) demanding Open Door access to trade with China while European powers plan to cut it up for themselves.

    From left to right: Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Umberto I (Italy), John Bull (Britain), Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and President Emile Loubet (France). Emperor Franz Joseph I (Austria) is in the back.
     

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Fair_field_and_no_favor.jpg

    Uncle Sam (United States) rejects force and violence and ask "fair field and no favor," equal opportunity for all trading nations to enter the China market peacefully, which became the Open Door Policy.

    Editorial cartoon by William A. Rogers in Harper's Magazine (New York) November 18, 1899.
     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy

    Nicholas also married another one of Victoria's grandchildren, whose sister in turn married Wilhelm's brother Heinrich (that is, her first cousin); and another sister married Nicholas' uncle. So he is in addition, an in-law to Wilhelm in three ways! (at least)

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/51/Gruppenbild_1903.jpg


    Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt with his sisters and brothers-in-law (from left) on October 8, 1903:

    Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsar Nicholas ll. from Russia; Princess Irene and Prince Henry of Prussia; Grand Duchess Yelizavyeta Fyodorovna and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov; Princess Victoria and Prince Ludwig Alexander of Battenberg
     

  146. @Reg Cæsar

    Also he keeps Kamala from remaining on their ticket (two Californians, no…)
     
    To clarify the rules for everyone else, electors cannot vote for two candidates from their own state. So this would mean forfeiting more than two dozen electors for one candidate, if not both. (Which is it?) Dick Chaney had to hightail it back to Wyoming for this reason; he and GWB were both domiciled in Texas, the #2 prize. (Had both been in Wyoming, this might not have mattered in 2004, but definitely would have in 2000!)

    earlier, HCQ had actually been given “emergency use authorization”

     

    Two of our kids are down with the flu, and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired) which carry that phrase as well. Should I give it to them?

    Replies: @Anon, @ScarletNumber

    So this would mean forfeiting more than two dozen electors for one candidate, if not both. (Which is it?)

    Electors can only vote for one candidate from their state, so California’s 54 electors could vote for only Gavin OR Kamala, not both. If their slate has a total of at least 297, then half of the electors would be told to vote for Gavin and the other half would be told to vote for Kamala, and they would still each have the 270 needed. If you are between 270 and 296 I would imagine you would sacrifice Kamala to make sure Gavin was elected president. The VP vote would then go to the newly-elected senate.

  147. @Muggles
    @ScarletNumber


    Is this the same reason you refer to your alma mater as “Rice U.” when the more colloquial “Rice” would serve the same purpose?
     
    The founder of Rice University in Houston was William Marsh Rice.

    You mention just "Rice" and people think about the food.

    "Did Uncle Ben go there?"

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @ScarletNumber

    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.

    Not when it is capitalized

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @ScarletNumber

    Reminds me of an occasion when the British comedian was discussing the librettist Tim Rice during a TV comedy show.
    To make his point he held up a can of that British delicacy 'Rice Pudding' , (a sweetened confection of boiled rice and condensed milk), to the camera and exclaimed loudly "Tinned Rice !!!! ".

    , @Muggles
    @ScarletNumber


    Not when it is capitalized
     
    Wearing my Nitpicker-R-Us hat today.

    This misunderstanding the word "Rice" may be true for those who

    a. are not aware of the context (e.g. discussing universities).

    b. are reading capitalized "Rice" at the beginning of a sentence

    c. think that the capitalized "Rice" is a typo

    d. have never heard of "Rice University" and think you are somewhat crazy to say/write that you "attended/went to" a cereal grain ("I'm a Barley grad!")

    To be kind to others who may occasionally fall into one of these categories, adding "University" is simply a hallmark of good manners.

  148. @J.Ross
    @HA

    Well, a lot of predictions have been rubbished on both sides, but Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction.

    Replies: @HA

    “Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction.”

    Oh, so his predictions work only as long as he’s in office, and as long as anyone who gets elected after him has been compromised by the Russians to the same extent? Neglecting to mention that seems like a significant omission on his part, but then, I’m not a fanboy. Or are you saying that the Russians were simply unable to gather any kompromat worth holding over Biden, despite all his baggage, and that’s the reason Ukraine was invaded?

    Moreover, has “State Department terrorism that was committed since Trump left office” now became the new lucky winner upon this week’s spin of the Roulette-Wheel-of-Lame-Excuses-for-Invading-Ukraine? I guess ousting the neo-fascists (yeah, go get ’em WagnerGroup) and becoming the new “Peter the Great” lost out yet again. Either way, those cheap rationalizations seem as changeable and flimsy as your cheap predictions.

    And since the prediction you seem especially bothered by is the one that the plus-sized Troompa-Loompa made, I take it we’re all OK with Mearshimer’s claim about how “Russia is a declining great power, and…if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble…”? If so, that’s also good to know.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @HA

    It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly. Horses are a luxury now but at one time they were a practical necessity. What you are dodging is that there was a version where Putin did not invade, and the feds chose the version where he did.

    Replies: @HA

  149. @BB753
    @Nicholas Stix

    "Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”"

    Does that mean that there are 80 million illegals now?

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    N.S.: “Already in 2014, an Old Immigration Hand Estimated that there were 50 Million Illegals in the U.S.!”
    BB753: “Does that mean that there are 80 million illegals now?”

    I don’t know, but here’s my take.

    You cannot go wrong, overestimating the number of illegals in your country, but underestimating them can cost you your country.

    • Agree: J.Ross, BB753
  150. @Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    "and I just got a pair of free Covid tests from the library (perhaps expired)"

    Why "perhaps?" Are you a 70 IQ antivaxxer too stupid to read an expiration date?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Are you a 70 IQ antivaxxer too stupid to read an expiration date?

    Didn’t bother to look for it. If it’s expired, it won’t work, isn’t that all? It’s not gonna fester botulism.

  151. @Mark G.
    @HA

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    Replies: @Anon, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    “Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered?”

    Did men with big butterfly nets come and forcibly remove you to the ER, kicking and screaming? Take it up with whoever connected you with the medical establishment in the first place, instead of setting you down by the voodoo practitioners or palm readers or astrologers or anti-vaxx “practitioners” you think would have served you any better. And by all means, stay away from the medical system for good next time and save that ER bed for someone worthier of saving.

    The fact remains, you had the chance to gobble up as much of whatever snake oil you now claim was needed to sail through COVID without a hitch, and you evidently didn’t bother with even so much as the nutritional supplements you also say you wanted more of (and were never restricted) — and despite all that, somehow it’s still the government’s fault for not making it even easier to get all those things you evidently made zero effort to acquire or consume on your own. Really pathetic.

    So let’s be real — however much you want to retcon your COVID story, the reason you didn’t gobble down any of those things you now say would have sufficed, restricted or not, is that before COVID gave you that rude awakening, what you were really fuming about, government-wise, is that they they were making a big deal out of a nothingburger in the first place. That’s the plain truth of it, I’d bet. All the rest is just a cover-up to deflect blame away from the real culprit in this scenario, which is you. The short answer as to why the government wasn’t more responsive to your directives and your self-entitlement is simply that you have abysmally poor decision-making skills and no medical expertise. The fact that someone still needs to explain something that obvious to you is just sad.

  152. @ScarletNumber
    @Frau Katze

    How often do you plan on bringing up the fact that you're a foreigner? I promise you it isn't as interesting as you may think it is.

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    You don’t need to read my comments if you find them boring. Just hit the Ignore Commenter button.

    • Agree: duncsbaby
    • Troll: ScarletNumber
  153. @HA
    @J.Ross

    "Trump assuming he would win in 2020 and so continue his policies and thereby avoid State Department terrorism and therefore deny Putin a pretext for anything special sounds like arithmetic to me, not a failed prediction."

    Oh, so his predictions work only as long as he's in office, and as long as anyone who gets elected after him has been compromised by the Russians to the same extent? Neglecting to mention that seems like a significant omission on his part, but then, I'm not a fanboy. Or are you saying that the Russians were simply unable to gather any kompromat worth holding over Biden, despite all his baggage, and that's the reason Ukraine was invaded?

    Moreover, has "State Department terrorism that was committed since Trump left office" now became the new lucky winner upon this week's spin of the Roulette-Wheel-of-Lame-Excuses-for-Invading-Ukraine? I guess ousting the neo-fascists (yeah, go get 'em WagnerGroup) and becoming the new "Peter the Great" lost out yet again. Either way, those cheap rationalizations seem as changeable and flimsy as your cheap predictions.

    And since the prediction you seem especially bothered by is the one that the plus-sized Troompa-Loompa made, I take it we're all OK with Mearshimer's claim about how "Russia is a declining great power, and…if you want to wreck Russia, what you should do is tell them to try and create a greater Russia; it will lead to no end of trouble..."? If so, that's also good to know.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly. Horses are a luxury now but at one time they were a practical necessity. What you are dodging is that there was a version where Putin did not invade, and the feds chose the version where he did.

    • Replies: @HA
    @J.Ross

    "It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly."

    It was made after the so-called Maidan-revolt -- i.e. the coup d' etat the fanboys insist happened at America's instigation, and after the Russo-Georgian war which they characterize similarly, so you'll have to be a little more specific as to which particular outburst of "State Department terrorism" changed the circumstances so "wildly".

    Or is this a tacit admission on your part that none of what Nuland did back then was really that big a deal in the first place, given that Trump was able to assure us even afterwards that there is no way, no how, Putin would invade -- as in, mark it down and take it anywhere you want.

    Again, if that's the case, well, good to know.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  154. @Reg Cæsar
    @Muggles

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play "hardball", per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn't belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? "Madam President..."

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama's main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party's bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Wilkey, @Paul Jolliffe, @kaganovitch

    Two dark horses, both from Michigan:

    Jennifer Granholm and Gretchen Whitmer.

    Both photogenic, both ruthless, and both driven to get higher up the Democratic ladder.

    Both have a tyrannical streak inside and both are listening to mysterious donors who’ve paved their way (certainly not ordinary voters in Michigan.)

    I wouldn’t bet serious money on either, but they are both in the conversation, if Biden doesn’t survive this month politically (or literally).

    If either does happen, you read it here first.

    • Replies: @ScarletNumber
    @Paul Jolliffe

    Granholm is not eligible as she is a foreigner

    , @Paul Jolliffe
    @Paul Jolliffe

    Good point - I had forgotten that.

    , @Paul Jolliffe
    @Paul Jolliffe

    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  155. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @NJ Transit Commuter

    Quite rich for Russians to play victim. This was American depiction, satire publication Puck in 1900, the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_real_trouble_will_come_with_the_%22wake%22_-_J._Ottmann_Lith._Co._Puck_Bldg._N.Y._LCCN2002718142.jpg

    Similar here

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/%E6%97%B6%E5%B1%80%E5%9B%BE.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @OFWHAP, @Almost Missouri, @Joe Stalin, @J.Ross

    What the hell, why does the bear look like a cat or a beaver or a … marmot? This is like the “do you think I like begging” animation.

  156. The liberal party loves its brown race replacements for Canadians.

  157. @Paul Jolliffe
    @Reg Cæsar

    Two dark horses, both from Michigan:

    Jennifer Granholm and Gretchen Whitmer.

    Both photogenic, both ruthless, and both driven to get higher up the Democratic ladder.

    Both have a tyrannical streak inside and both are listening to mysterious donors who’ve paved their way (certainly not ordinary voters in Michigan.)

    I wouldn’t bet serious money on either, but they are both in the conversation, if Biden doesn’t survive this month politically (or literally).

    If either does happen, you read it here first.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Paul Jolliffe, @Paul Jolliffe

    Granholm is not eligible as she is a foreigner

  158. @AnotherDad
    @Wilkey


    19) Homeland Invasion Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – Jewish
     
    Love the strike. In this case, Indeed invasion is its job under Mayorkas. He doesn't even hide it, he brags about it.

    Also, Homeland is in your top 5 in relevance--really its #1 these days. And what is notable about this administration is not even the glaring lack of white Protestants, it is its utter Jewish domination--almost complete in anything that actually matters. The scared 2% of the population running the country.

    You can say Harris is "relevant" in terms of being the ugly blob they are stuck with if Biden actually dies. And there's the black guy at defense, but I doubt he's doing much on the policy side, just crank turning management. Well and then there's Jill--she apparently gets pissed and yells at people when they are lax and let Joe by Joe and embarrass himself.

    It's a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy--most critically Mayorkas's "drown the goyim!" open border. You just aren't supposed to notice it ... much less say anything about it, you Nazi!

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Anonymous

    It’s a Jewish shop, enacting mainstream Jewish policy–most critically Mayorkas’s “drown the goyim!” open border. You just aren’t supposed to notice it … much less say anything about it, you Nazi!

    And yet Sailer mocks people who say there are puppet masters pulling Biden’s strings.

    • Agree: OilcanFloyd
  159. Anonymous[155] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    @Boreal Bob


    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia ...
     
    Sorry Bob, you're completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work--at whatever is available--and you don't see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants--an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.

    I'll grant they are better than Muslims who are from the civilization that is the historic of the West (Christendom). (And, of course, basically anyone is better than blacks.) But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won't care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians--half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends. (Ok, Twinkie will point out its not actually half of them because a bunch will marry new Indian immigrants--something we need to stop immediately.) Plus the typical Hindu coming for grad school or IT job is way smarter than the typical Sikh.

    Bring in Sikhs and maybe they aren't blowing up airliners anymore, but down the road you'll likely be stuck with an annoying indigestible Sikh blob in your nation. By now everyone should understand how stupid that is.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Malla

    Sorry Bob, you’re completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work–at whatever is available–and you don’t see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants–an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.

    Good point.

  160. @Bill P

    You can counter Putin’s assertions without regurgitating US propaganda. But that requires someone with intelligence and an understanding of history, which is obviously beyond TC’s capabilities….
     
    The Orthodox revanchism went right over
    Tucker's luxurious head of hair.

    I like Tucker a lot, and he knows a lot more than I do about American media and the corridors of power, but he's got some blind spots. That's probably inevitable, though; how can you keep track of who's doing what if you're buried in books all the time?

    Replies: @Anon

    Tucker is a neofascist like many at unz posters who fall for “defender of traditional values”

  161. Anon[138] • Disclaimer says:
    @That Would Be Telling
    @Wilkey

    In general you're arguing hard against the revealed preferences of millions of Indians, but you start off with a very big problem, "If you’re an Indian with a good education...." Note most of the below is generally true for India, but a number of specifics are for Punjab which is what we're in theory discussing:

    A good education is very hard to achieve, two big problems are there's just too many people and too few schools of any quality (and even the ITTs back in their heyday had indifferent professors, curricula and equipment (like computers), their biggest advantage was gathering so many of the country's smartest).

    And if you're in a higher cast, especially Brahmin, there's now severe discrimination in favor of the lower castes and those outside the system like the "untouchables" AKA Dalits, which Wikipedia tells us "32% of Punjab's population consists of [them]." This is becoming an issue in the US especially in high tech.

    See also the jāti system which divides the people into around thirty thousand endogamous groups (caste plus this means you can't use normal HBD like IQ reasoning about the population). Which also tends to come with standard occupations for those in it, I'm told this relates to all the Patels who run motels in the US. So I wouldn't be surprised that if you wanted to do something your jāti doesn't do you'd have to emigrate.

    Then there's a zillion quality of life/can you live at all issues. Off the top of my head, compared to Canada today, 24x7 electricity, ditto water, half the population has no access to toilet facilities (not sure this relevant, especially since we're told those ways aren't changing (much) when they move to Canada).

    Drugs sold in India made by Indian firms tend to be the lower or no quality lots. Even as bad as the Canadian health system is, it could provide generally better access; not at all sure about that, but it likely also provides higher quality services if you can bear the wait time, and perhaps the option of going down to the US for health care is a practical one.

    If you're both smart, serious about getting a real education vs. cheating to get a ticket, and good enough at English, I'm pretty sure getting a good education is much more practical in Canada. You won't for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn't make that cut, who wasn't for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).

    Communal and other group interpersonal violence is thing in India, the police are infinitely more corrupt, the legal system appears to take decades to do what Western ones do in a few years, Canada is less crowded (but that's likely changing in the urban areas). Ah, while Canada is I'm sure a lot colder than most of Punjab which is fairly far in the north of India, "Even though only limited regions experience temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F), ground frost is commonly found in the majority of Punjab during the winter season." That's enough to kill you without suitable clothing etc.

    It's humid, "Punjab's rainy season begins in the first week of July as monsoon currents generated in the Bay of Bengal bring rain to the region. The monsoon lasts up to mid-September." and "The maximum temperatures usually occur in mid-May and June. The temperature remains above 40 °C (104 °F) in the entire region during this period." And see above for A/C prospects to keep yourself cool during periods of high demand.

    For economics, I'm sure for a lot of people the prospects are still better in Canada than in India/Punjab. Again, see the revealed preferences. I'd also wonder how many see Canad as a way station to getting into the US.

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Anon

    You won’t for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn’t make that cut, who wasn’t for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).

    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @Anon


    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?
     
    That's a good hypothesis. I never knew a competent Indian in my career of software and systems who hated whites.
    , @epebble
    @Anon

    Some people may have bad memories of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj

  162. @Reg Cæsar
    @Muggles

    Joe Guzzardi says outright and Victor Davis Hanson implies that Joe (B.) is now actively being pushed out the door. They play "hardball", per Joe G. Problem is, how do you get him off the ticket without admitting he doesn't belong on the job in 2024, never mind 2025? "Madam President..."

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama's main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party's bench? Decrepit and/or crazy whites, and a congeries of uninspirationals of various colors. Republicans can unite behind someone who has already held the job.

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Wilkey, @Paul Jolliffe, @kaganovitch

    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama’s main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party’s bench?

    Diane Feinstein!

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @kaganovitch

    I said bench, not bier!

    Replies: @kaganovitch

  163. @Almost Missouri
    @AnotherDad


    But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in “votes”, having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.
     
    When you own the ballots and are the media, you don't have to worry about the brand. You dictate the the brand.

    If they were worried about the brand, "President Biden" wouldn't exist. The drooling, doddering, delusional fool is an international laughingstock. But they don't care, because he does whatever they want. They like it that way. They just don't understand why you don't do whatever they want. But they have plans to fix that.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    When you own the ballots and are the media, you don’t have to worry about the brand. You dictate the the brand.

    Basically true but eventually you run out of road. Witness Disney, A. Busch et al.

  164. Anonymous[322] • Disclaimer says:
    @ScarletNumber
    @Muggles


    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.
     
    Not when it is capitalized

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Muggles

    Reminds me of an occasion when the British comedian was discussing the librettist Tim Rice during a TV comedy show.
    To make his point he held up a can of that British delicacy ‘Rice Pudding’ , (a sweetened confection of boiled rice and condensed milk), to the camera and exclaimed loudly “Tinned Rice !!!! “.

  165. @interesting
    "to counter slowing economic growth"


    Well Canada is somewhat dependent on the USSA and it's difficult to grow economically when your main trading partner, the USSSA, has had 6,000,000 wealth producing jobs exported to China.

    Can ever high debt levels and trading houses back and forth for ever higher prices last forever?
    Seems that it can and has for the last 2 decades resulting in slower economic growth.

    Replies: @Ultra Fine, @antibeast

    Well Canada is somewhat dependent on the USSA and it’s difficult to grow economically when your main trading partner, the USSSA, has had 6,000,000 wealth producing jobs exported to China.

    What US jobs were exported to China? Auto manufacturing? Those factory jobs went to Mexico. Software jobs? Call center jobs? Those service jobs went to India.

  166. @Paul Jolliffe
    @Reg Cæsar

    Two dark horses, both from Michigan:

    Jennifer Granholm and Gretchen Whitmer.

    Both photogenic, both ruthless, and both driven to get higher up the Democratic ladder.

    Both have a tyrannical streak inside and both are listening to mysterious donors who’ve paved their way (certainly not ordinary voters in Michigan.)

    I wouldn’t bet serious money on either, but they are both in the conversation, if Biden doesn’t survive this month politically (or literally).

    If either does happen, you read it here first.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Paul Jolliffe, @Paul Jolliffe

    Good point – I had forgotten that.

  167. @anonymous
    I've been around Sikhs here in Canada all my life and all I can say about them is that they trash every industry they touch. When I was a kid there were few here, nobody liked them, but they were easy to ignore. They mainly worked in sawmills and a few worked berry farms. In the 70's they got into the taxi industry and trashed that. If you ride a taxi in a large city in Canada you can guarantee it will be manned by a stinky Sikh who barely speaks English. Then, they got into the trucking industry, and trashed that, they're trucks are always having accidents because of brake failure and bald tires. Now I hear in British Columbia, they've had 34 overpasses damaged by illiterate Sikh truck drivers (in the past 3 years) who don't even understand the concept of overheight vehicles. They've taken over the housebuilding industry because nobody can compete with them paying ten dollars an hour to their relatives recently off the boat from India. The houses are renowned for poor quality and gasfitting, electric and plumbing put in by non-trades-certified installers. They get away with this by bribing inspectors and politicians. They've infiltrated politics in every party (mainly left-wing parties) and have corrupted government on every level. Politicians love them because the leaders can command their illiterate masses to bloc vote. Not only do Sikhs trash and corrupt, they're probably the largest drug dealers in Canada and are always shooting at each other with handguns (in a country that supposedly has some of the toughest gun laws in the world). Sikhs have committed the most terrorism of any group in Canada and with regularity assassinate their leaders who get unpopular. The head of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh (Canada's third federal party) is banned from going to India. If Canada were a leg, the Sikhs would be gangrene to that leg and they sure are like gangrene to the body of Canada.

    When I see on hear people (mostly Americans with no experience with them) praise them like they were the finest Germans, I just shake my head. It reminds me of the first time I saw an episode of Star Trek the original series, where Ricardo Montalban plays this superman called Khan, who leads a group of hippy like people who have come out of hibernation from the 20th century earth. He is supposed to be a Sikh, I laughed out loud the first time I saw it and every time since, to think that these stinky illiterate people that we have in Canada called Sikhs could in any way be related to them. Ricardo Montalban was a handsome, classy gent who spoke with a classy Spanish accent, he was about as far as one could get from the troglodytes we know as Sikhs here in Canada. I guess Gene Roddenberry's guru told him to show Sikhs in such a positive light.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Perhaps Ricardo Montalban was merely playing ‘Hiding Sikh’.

    • Replies: @Muggles
    @Anonymous


    Perhaps Ricardo Montalban was merely playing ‘Hiding Sikh’.
     
    I thought that was 'Haydn Sikh'.
  168. @Paul Jolliffe
    @Reg Cæsar

    Two dark horses, both from Michigan:

    Jennifer Granholm and Gretchen Whitmer.

    Both photogenic, both ruthless, and both driven to get higher up the Democratic ladder.

    Both have a tyrannical streak inside and both are listening to mysterious donors who’ve paved their way (certainly not ordinary voters in Michigan.)

    I wouldn’t bet serious money on either, but they are both in the conversation, if Biden doesn’t survive this month politically (or literally).

    If either does happen, you read it here first.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Paul Jolliffe, @Paul Jolliffe

    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Paul Jolliffe


    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.
     
    Well, another recent president was surmised to have been born in Vancouver as well:

    Obama was born at B.C. Hospital, conspiracy theorists say


    Chester Arthur may also have been born in Canada. No chicanery-- he himself didn't know for sure. He needed "natural-born citizen" status for some state job in New York, and that was good enough for Washington.

    However, it is way too early for anyone named "Jennifer" to be President! Though a certain Ronald (peaked in 1943) used that to his advantage a certain Walter (peaked in 1914).

    Then again, a Jenifer signed the Constitution:


    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oUEtpMU3L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  169. @Wilkey
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven't read what others are speculating, but I would guess Democrats are just waiting until it's too late for anyone but party insiders to pick the nominee. Possible we're already past that point, but if Biden bowed out now registered Democrats would still expect the party to scramble to stage some last minute primaries. Wait until July or August and they won't have to bother. All of the Dem Party bigwigs will pretend they didn't know and pretend it's so sad and pretend it wasn't entirely planned and "Sorry it had to be done this way, but what can you do?"

    If you didn't already think we were coming to the end of democracy, then after that it's hard to keep pretending. Four years living under President Bernie Lomax while the country is actually being run by God Knows Who, then one party locks out its voters from having any say whatsoever in who gets to be its next nominee. Oh, and when the general election comes you can mail in your ballot and hope it gets counted, and hope it doesn't get drowned out by the 10-12 million new immigrants Biden has waived in since the last joke of an election.

    Replies: @bomag, @res, @J.Ross, @BB753

    If anything, the Biden presidency has proven that the POTUS doesn’t run anything and that it doesn’t matter who gets to the White House. Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.
    Democracy is a bad theater only fools believe in.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @BB753


    Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.
     
    Jews. Jews run the show.

    Replies: @BB753

  170. I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for Indians, Punjabi or otherwise, to leave Canada.

    https://artandcommentarybykidist.blogspot.com/p/the-giant-exotica-of-multiculturalism.html?m=1

    • Agree: Frau Katze
  171. I call them INVADERS. Yes, I know I’m not the only one. And what does a rational, serious, ACTUAL “country” do with/to invaders? They machine gun them. Every. Single. One of them. Now, if the faint-of-heart want to WARN them first. Go ahead. Warn them. But after the warning…NOT A SINGLE ONE SHOULD GET THROUGH. If this MENTALITY is not firm in the minds of the citizens of said serious country, it is NOT serious. And it will be destroyed. By all those WRECKING, DEATH-DEALING *INVADERS.*

  172. @Frau Katze
    From the linked BBC article on a few dot Indians leaving Canada to return to India:

    Karan Aulakh, who spent nearly 15 years in Edmonton and achieved career and financial success, left his managerial job for a comfortable rural life in Khane ki Daab, the village where he was born in 1985.

    He told the BBC he was upset by LGBT-inclusive education policies in Canada and its 2018 decision to legalise recreational cannabis.

    Incompatibility with the Western way of life, a struggling healthcare system, and better economic prospects in India were, he said, key reasons why many older Canadian Indians are preparing to leave the country.
     
    Unfortunately the number leaving isn’t very high: a few tens of thousands compared to millions arriving. I can’t get too excited about this.

    Replies: @CCG

    He told the BBC he was upset by LGBT-inclusive education policies in Canada and its 2018 decision to legalise recreational cannabis.

    If he thinks that India’s better in that regard, he’s unfortunately wrong. Cannabis is known as “ganja” in various Indian languages and its consumption is legal in many Indian states because it’s part of certain Hindu rituals. And the LGBT lobby in India has been infiltrating and subverting the education system for some years now.
    https://m.timesofindia.com/home/sunday-times/why-drag-queens-are-reading-stories-to-kids/articleshow/69908347.cms

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @CCG

    Thanks for the info. I didn’t realize drag queen story hour was catching on in India.

    I guess it’s all part of globalization.

  173. @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

  174. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Joe Stalin

    The second one is a Chinese depiction. This is how the French saw it themselves-- Russia wasn't the bear but mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who's most menacing -- the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later


    "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China).

    French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents "Chine" (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,

    William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst thrusting a knife into the pie to signify aggressive German intentions),

    Nicholas II of Russia, who is eyeing a particular piece, the French Marianne (who is diplomatically shown as not participating in the carving, and is depicted as close to Nicholas II, as a reminder of the Franco-Russian Alliance),

    and a samurai representing Japan, carefully contemplating which pieces to take. A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless.
     

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg

    The cake of kings

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Gateau_des_rois1.JPG

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous

    This was published in January 1898. The previous November the Germans had occupied Tsingtao, which is presumably what prompted the cartoon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiautschou_Bay_Leased_Territory

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous

    And of course, "King cake" is consumed at Christmas time, so the artist would have been eating it while drawing this cartoon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake

  175. @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

    You mean like Ms. Haley?

  176. @Wilkey

    For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.
     
    What's with the assumption that vegetable Joe Biden was behind any of the decisions at all? I don't know who's making the decisions in "his" administration, but I'm pretty sure it ain't him.

    But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.
     
    The asylum system is broken by design, and no one in Congress seems to have any desire to fix it. Whatever else we do or don't do with asylum law, the first simple change needs to be a hard ceiling on how many people can receive asylum in any given year.

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for...
     
    That assumes that Biden has spent any meaningful amount of time in Delaware in the last 50 years. He spent 44 uninterrupted years in the Senate and as Vice President, then four years out of office from 2017-2021. Probably most of that time was spent in DC, which has achieved Tower of Babel levels of diversity. Perhaps wherever he is he's simply been in a cocoon. More likely, he's just too corrupt and ignorant to care.

    Joe Biden still seems to live in the world of his youth, in the 1950s Delaware, when it was Irish Catholics vs. Protestants. Very, very few of the people high in his administration - almost none - are white Protestants.

    1) Vice President - Kamala Harris - black/Indian
    2) Chief of Staff - Jeff Zients - Jewish
    3) Chief of Staff (previous) - Ron Klain - Jewish
    4) State - Antony Blinken - Jewish
    5) Treasury - Janet Yellen - Jewish
    6) Defense - Lloyd Austin - black
    7) Attorney General - Merrick Garland - Jewish
    8) Interior - Deb Haaland - Native American/white - religion unknown
    9) Agriculture - Tom Vilsack - white Catholic
    10) Commerce - Gina Raimondo - white Catholic
    11) Labor (Acting) - Julie Su - Chinese.
    12) Labor (previous) - Marty Walsh - white Catholic
    13) HHS - Xavier Becerra - Hispanic Catholic
    14) HUD - Marcia Fudge - black
    15) Transportation - Pete Buttigieg - British/Maltese Episcopalian (but raised Catholic)
    16) Energy - Jennifer Granholm - Irish/Swedish Catholic
    17) Education - Miguel Cardona - Hispanic Catholic
    18) Veterans Affairs - Denis McDonough - Irish Catholic
    19) Homeland Invasion Security - Alejandro Mayorkas - Jewish
    20) EPA - Michael Regan - black
    21) OMB - Shalanda Young - black
    22) National Intelligence - Avril Haines - Jewish/British (maybe)
    23) CIA - Williams Burns - possibly British Protestant
    24) US Trade Rep - Katherine Tai - Chinese
    25) UN Ambassador - Linda Thomas-Greenfield - black
    26) Council of Economic Advisers - Jared Bernstein - Jewish
    27) SBA - Isabella Guzman - Hispanic with some Jewish & German ancestry
    28) Science & Technology Policy - Arati Prabhakar - Indian

    So of the 28 people who are or have been in Joe Biden's cabinet, virtually none are Protestant or of British descent. Not even many Northern Europeans in there at all who aren't Irish. Indeed, there may only be one white, practicing Protestant, and that is Pete Buttigieg, who is best known for being gay. Meanwhile 9 of the 28 - nearly one-third - are Jewish or have significant amounts of Jewish ancestry.

    The nearly complete absence of any Protestants of British, Germanic or Scandinavian descent, and the overwhelming dominance of Jews + blacks in his Cabinet, is something that would be more noticed and remarked upon in any sane world where people were free to speak their minds without fear of repercussion. But we don't live in that world anymore, do we?

    Replies: @Peterike, @Reg Cæsar, @AnotherDad, @Inquiring Mind

    I thought Jewish persons were high IQ.

    How to Mr. Biden pick everyone from the far left tail of their distribution?

  177. Anonymous[265] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    @Muggles


    He is clearly damaged goods. Republicans in media blurbs are discussing applying the 25th Amendment. This could become a “thing”.

    Dems are in a bind.
     
    Indeed.

    Biden is simply a very mediocre guy with a gianormous ego. The easy approach for him in 2020--which would have helped him get elected--was to say up front he was only going to be a one term president, whose job was "return to normalcy" after the Nazi Trump.

    AnotherBrother was convinced the Democrats were going to ease him out. And for a while last summer it looked like there was a bit of movement--with stories on his capability and the Hunter/Ukraine bribery--to give him a little push. But all of this really needed to have been done last year.

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole "diversity" thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    It's a train wreck now. They'll pull out all the stops to stop Trump. But even if they deliver the necessary bales of mail in "votes", having this doddering doofus, to be succeeded by the most unappealing, incompetent diversity hire is really going to be bad for their brand.

    Replies: @Anon, @Rusty Tailgate, @Almost Missouri, @Mr. Anon, @Anonymous

    One problem is the Democrats have a laughably weak bench. It comes with the whole “diversity” thing. And their 2020 candidate roster was a testament to that. Which, of course, is why the money guys choose to throw in on empty suit Biden, despite his age/infirmity. Who else?

    There are plenty of smart and competent Jews. The problem is that Jews tend to prefer to not have a Jewish person play the showcased role in jobs like these.

  178. @AnotherDad

    I can recall that in my first few days at Rice U. in 1976 explaining to all the non-Californians that while California is still relatively underpopulated, its natural trajectory is to fill up with newcomers until it’s as bad as anywhere else.
     

    Perhaps because he’s from meh Delaware, Biden never internalized the lesson that there are countless people out there who want to move to the USA because it’s a better place than the countries that they and their relatives are responsible for:
     
    Back in the old days people did not even have to grasp even such rock bottom logical analysis--water flows downhill!--as this, because the ancient fundamentals "protect your tribe", "protect your turf" were just common sense everyone understood.

    Only when people's brains are poisoned by minoritarian glop, so they fail to just naturally do the civilizational basics, does the requirement to think logically and mathematically--"hey what will this do?" "what will people do?"--come into play. But by then ... it's hopeless. The minoritarian mind virus demands--and gets--the suspension of anything that resembles "thought".

    Replies: @OilcanFloyd

    Back in the old days people did not even have to grasp even such rock bottom logical analysis–water flows downhill!–as this, because the ancient fundamentals “protect your tribe”, “protect your turf” were just common sense everyone understood

    I think most people understood this from the beginning. The problem is that they trusted the system. When your defenders are people like Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, National Review types or the VDare and Jared Taylor’s of the world who are really toothless and and too nice or afraid to mention the Jewish problem, a whole nation can be destroyed within a generation or two. Our “leaders” were either traitors, or mistook a war for a friendly debate. Either way, the results are the same.

  179. Anon[112] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mark G.
    @HA

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    Replies: @Anon, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Big Pharma gave more money to Biden than Trump for the same reason that every industry apart from oil gave more money to Biden than Trump. They’re run by high-class people who don’t like low class guys like Trump and yourself.

    • Troll: Ben tillman
    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @Anon

    When you talk about Democrats being high class are you talking about Biden sniffing the hair of various women or his son smoking crack and cavorting with hookers? Or are you talking about Bill Clinton having White House interns perform oral sex on him? Or are you talking about Teddy Kennedy driving off a bridge and swimming off and leaving a woman to drown?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  180. Anon[118] • Disclaimer says:

    Punjabis have a sense of humor, which is unique among Asians. I have never met a Hindu / Muslim / East Asian that was anything close to funny. Punjabis see the humour in things though, same as White people.

    There are also some “cool” Punjabi dudes, which again, other Asians all lack the cool factor. Not cool as in sexy to women, but cool as in the average blue collar white guy is cool (which they are despite the media narratives). I don’t know if this is something learned because of their proximity & overlap with working class whites (in the trucking industry, etc.)

    They don’t have the massive chip on their shoulders towards whitey either (just a small one, lol). The Sikhs fought for AND against the British throughout history with decent results. They weren’t totally dominated by European colonists like the rest of Asia.

    I also see them as a candidate for complete assimilation in the coming decades – they literally have nowhere to go. The Hindu nationalists are pushing the Sikhs out of their homeland (Punjab) and many villages are now all old people and dying off.

    I actually don’t really have a problem with them, except that they aren’t my people and I prefer to live around my own people – Punjabis also have the same mindset. In a common sense nation we may have been able to get along. Unfortunately my city is no longer recognizable as a European / British one due to immigration and is emptying out of my own group of people (Brampton, ON).

    • Replies: @BB753
    @Anon

    "I also see them as a candidate for complete assimilation in the coming decades "

    Will Sikhs give up their beards, long hair, turbans and ritual knives in the coming decades? I doubt it. It'll take centuries.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

  181. @J.Ross
    @HA

    It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly. Horses are a luxury now but at one time they were a practical necessity. What you are dodging is that there was a version where Putin did not invade, and the feds chose the version where he did.

    Replies: @HA

    “It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly.”

    It was made after the so-called Maidan-revolt — i.e. the coup d’ etat the fanboys insist happened at America’s instigation, and after the Russo-Georgian war which they characterize similarly, so you’ll have to be a little more specific as to which particular outburst of “State Department terrorism” changed the circumstances so “wildly”.

    Or is this a tacit admission on your part that none of what Nuland did back then was really that big a deal in the first place, given that Trump was able to assure us even afterwards that there is no way, no how, Putin would invade — as in, mark it down and take it anywhere you want.

    Again, if that’s the case, well, good to know.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @HA

    Gibberish. Okay.

    Replies: @HA

  182. @HA
    @J.Ross

    "It was contingent on circumstances and circumstances changed wildly."

    It was made after the so-called Maidan-revolt -- i.e. the coup d' etat the fanboys insist happened at America's instigation, and after the Russo-Georgian war which they characterize similarly, so you'll have to be a little more specific as to which particular outburst of "State Department terrorism" changed the circumstances so "wildly".

    Or is this a tacit admission on your part that none of what Nuland did back then was really that big a deal in the first place, given that Trump was able to assure us even afterwards that there is no way, no how, Putin would invade -- as in, mark it down and take it anywhere you want.

    Again, if that's the case, well, good to know.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Gibberish. Okay.

    • Replies: @HA
    @J.Ross

    "Gibberish. Okay."

    Right, and yet, for some strange reason -- just like my other detractors who get upset that I have the audacity to reply to their comments regarding topics that they themselves can't seem to stop yammering about -- you just can't bring yourself to click that "Ignore" button.

    Of course, you like to PRETEND that you ignore me, but for whatever strange reason, you just can't bring yourself to make that one little click. Weird.

  183. @kaganovitch
    @Reg Cæsar


    Gavin Newsome is too weird and Dean Phillips too raw green. Hillary Clinton is too old, both as person and as news. Michelle Obama’s main talent is making Kamala Harris look better in comparison.

    Where is the party’s bench?
     

    Diane Feinstein!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    I said bench, not bier!

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @Reg Cæsar

    If you think about it, it's a much more satisfactory arrangement than the Biden situation where you always have to walk back one Presidential position/statement or another. In the Feinstein administration the President will never contradict the Deep State bureaucracy, not even in the smallest of matters. It is the purest expression of "Our Democracy."

  184. @Anon
    @That Would Be Telling


    You won’t for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn’t make that cut, who wasn’t for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).
     
    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @epebble

    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?

    That’s a good hypothesis. I never knew a competent Indian in my career of software and systems who hated whites.

  185. @Paul Jolliffe
    @Paul Jolliffe

    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.

    Well, another recent president was surmised to have been born in Vancouver as well:

    Obama was born at B.C. Hospital, conspiracy theorists say

    Chester Arthur may also have been born in Canada. No chicanery– he himself didn’t know for sure. He needed “natural-born citizen” status for some state job in New York, and that was good enough for Washington.

    However, it is way too early for anyone named “Jennifer” to be President! Though a certain Ronald (peaked in 1943) used that to his advantage a certain Walter (peaked in 1914).

    Then again, a Jenifer signed the Constitution:

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Reg Cæsar

    Under a strict interpretation of "natural born citizen" - an interpretation that makes sense too, given the fact that the founders bothered to make that distinction - Barack Obama was not eligible to be President, even if he was born on U.S. soil (which he probably was). Neither are Ted Cruz and Nikki Haley.

  186. @Anon
    @That Would Be Telling


    You won’t for example be competing with a quarter million high school seniors in your state for a handful of ITT slots (so I was told by an resentful envious Indian who didn’t make that cut, who wasn’t for example any good at programming or managing programming/programmers, then again a hatred of whites got in the way of that).
     
    Why do Indians harbor so much hatred toward Whites? Does it originate in feelings of inferiority, insecurity?

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @epebble

    Some people may have bad memories of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj

  187. See if the canook incels had of listened to Saint Idi Amin the ruby dot noggins would still be looking for a place to shit in the city.

  188. @Joe Stalin

    Hawaii SC decision on State RKBA.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7SRGa0YUs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqtmYjKtwU
    https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1756059830861635895
    https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1756045647491244384
    https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1755992539729928375

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    Best bit I’ve seen excerpted from that decision is:

    “The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities,” the Hawaiian Supreme Court wrote. “The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.

    One might wonder what should be the reaction of a sane system of government to such a stark rejection of it, claiming the system doesn’t actually apply to a polity. After that, what do they like of the system should they still be allowed to enjoy?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @That Would Be Telling


    The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.

     

    Capt. Cook's crew might disagree!




    https://collections.rmg.co.uk/media/2/445/821/bhc0424.jpg

    Replies: @Muggles

    , @That Would Be Telling
    @That Would Be Telling

    Wait, this Hawaii Supreme Court decision is much worse than I realized from descriptions I thought were hyperbole, they've got actual "Aloha Spirit" jurisprudence (!!!). Here I add such context to the quote:


    e. The Aloha Spirit

    In Hawaiʻi, the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation. See Sunoco, 153 Hawaiʻi at 363, 537 P.3d at 1210 (Eddins, J., concurring). When this court exercises “power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment of [our] responsibilities, obligations, and service to the people” we “may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the ‘Aloha Spirit.’” HRS § 5-7.5(b) (2009).

    The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities.

    The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others. [Then goes into their utterly irrelevant law and case law history of extreme gun control.]
     
    I learned this from a blog posting where one commentator notes this is a established religion by the state, all of this of course being verboten by the Fourteenth Amendment. Heck, Hawaii was never even a state during the period where ones like Massachusetts had an official state religion. Plus the Congress is given explicit powers WRT to militia which is basically all able bodied citizens; you're not even a "citizen" in the old meaning if you're not allowed to bear arms in defense of your polity.

    And it turns out I'm not the only one immediately seeing how "Hawaiʻi" has declared itself to not be a state subject to US jurisdiction, and what should be done about that. For the above was followed by "How Do You Turn States Into Territories?"
  189. @That Would Be Telling
    @Joe Stalin

    Best bit I've seen excerpted from that decision is:


    "The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities,” the Hawaiian Supreme Court wrote. “The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.
     
    One might wonder what should be the reaction of a sane system of government to such a stark rejection of it, claiming the system doesn't actually apply to a polity. After that, what do they like of the system should they still be allowed to enjoy?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @That Would Be Telling

    The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.

    Capt. Cook’s crew might disagree!

    • Replies: @Muggles
    @Reg Cæsar

    Agree.

    The history of Hawaii is replete with accounts of tribal Hawaiian massacres of rival armies or groups of people from other islands who were feuding with each other.

    There is a famous massacre site (on the Big Island I think) where King Kamehameha defeated rival island warriors who were all driven over a very tall cliff.

    Only after he consolidated his sole rule (via violence) did this imaginary Hawaiian peacefulness come to pass.

    Not different than any other place where a single ruler dominated (there, only for about 110 years).

    Replies: @anon

  190. @AnotherDad
    @anonymous


    they rob groups of workers from Proctor & Gamble
     
    As the Cincinnati raised son of the a near 30-year Proctor & Gamble employee, I'll just say that that P&G--generally a well managed company--is far too smart to move to California, much less Oakland.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    P&G just wrote off another couple billion on their Gillette brand after their foray into tranny world.

    https://www.investopedia.com/p-and-g-will-take-up-to-usd2-5-billion-in-charges-for-restructuring-and-gillette-impairment-8410912

  191. the turban fellas are the most crooked of north indian subCONS better count your change before leaving their gas stations or store, and like other subCONS they are scared of confrontation at least towards chinese, they are all bark but no substance behind it.

  192. @That Would Be Telling
    @Joe Stalin

    Best bit I've seen excerpted from that decision is:


    "The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities,” the Hawaiian Supreme Court wrote. “The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.
     
    One might wonder what should be the reaction of a sane system of government to such a stark rejection of it, claiming the system doesn't actually apply to a polity. After that, what do they like of the system should they still be allowed to enjoy?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @That Would Be Telling

    Wait, this Hawaii Supreme Court decision is much worse than I realized from descriptions I thought were hyperbole, they’ve got actual “Aloha Spirit” jurisprudence (!!!). Here I add such context to the quote:

    e. The Aloha Spirit

    In Hawaiʻi, the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation. See Sunoco, 153 Hawaiʻi at 363, 537 P.3d at 1210 (Eddins, J., concurring). When this court exercises “power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment of [our] responsibilities, obligations, and service to the people” we “may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the ‘Aloha Spirit.’” HRS § 5-7.5(b) (2009).

    The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities.

    The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others. [Then goes into their utterly irrelevant law and case law history of extreme gun control.]

    I learned this from a blog posting where one commentator notes this is a established religion by the state, all of this of course being verboten by the Fourteenth Amendment. Heck, Hawaii was never even a state during the period where ones like Massachusetts had an official state religion. Plus the Congress is given explicit powers WRT to militia which is basically all able bodied citizens; you’re not even a “citizen” in the old meaning if you’re not allowed to bear arms in defense of your polity.

    And it turns out I’m not the only one immediately seeing how “Hawaiʻi” has declared itself to not be a state subject to US jurisdiction, and what should be done about that. For the above was followed by “How Do You Turn States Into Territories?

  193. @RadicalCenter
    @MGB

    Whoa, a blast from the past. Is that the FEAR who released the profound “More Beer” and sang the (presumably tongue-in-cheek) “Bomb the Russians”?

    Replies: @MGB

    That’s them. Lyrics that wouldn’t get sung today. Like X, Los Angeles.

    She had to leave
    Los Angeles
    All her toys wore out in black and her boys had too
    She started to hate every nigge‍r and Jew
    Every Mexican that gave her a lotta shit
    Every homosexual and the idle rich
    Idle rich, idle rich
    [Chorus]
    She had to get out (Get out)
    Get out (Get out)
    Get out (Get out)

  194. @J.Ross
    @HA

    Gibberish. Okay.

    Replies: @HA

    “Gibberish. Okay.”

    Right, and yet, for some strange reason — just like my other detractors who get upset that I have the audacity to reply to their comments regarding topics that they themselves can’t seem to stop yammering about — you just can’t bring yourself to click that “Ignore” button.

    Of course, you like to PRETEND that you ignore me, but for whatever strange reason, you just can’t bring yourself to make that one little click. Weird.

  195. @ScarletNumber
    @Muggles


    You mention just “Rice” and people think about the food.
     
    Not when it is capitalized

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Muggles

    Not when it is capitalized

    Wearing my Nitpicker-R-Us hat today.

    This misunderstanding the word “Rice” may be true for those who

    a. are not aware of the context (e.g. discussing universities).

    b. are reading capitalized “Rice” at the beginning of a sentence

    c. think that the capitalized “Rice” is a typo

    d. have never heard of “Rice University” and think you are somewhat crazy to say/write that you “attended/went to” a cereal grain (“I’m a Barley grad!”)

    To be kind to others who may occasionally fall into one of these categories, adding “University” is simply a hallmark of good manners.

    • Troll: ScarletNumber
  196. @Reg Cæsar
    @That Would Be Telling


    The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.

     

    Capt. Cook's crew might disagree!




    https://collections.rmg.co.uk/media/2/445/821/bhc0424.jpg

    Replies: @Muggles

    Agree.

    The history of Hawaii is replete with accounts of tribal Hawaiian massacres of rival armies or groups of people from other islands who were feuding with each other.

    There is a famous massacre site (on the Big Island I think) where King Kamehameha defeated rival island warriors who were all driven over a very tall cliff.

    Only after he consolidated his sole rule (via violence) did this imaginary Hawaiian peacefulness come to pass.

    Not different than any other place where a single ruler dominated (there, only for about 110 years).

    • Replies: @anon
    @Muggles


    There is a famous massacre site (on the Big Island I think) where King Kamehameha defeated rival island warriors who were all driven over a very tall cliff.
     
    Oahu, Nuuanu Pali
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nu%CA%BBuanu

    The losing king was offered as sacrifice
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanik%C5%ABpule

    White man's guns played a role in Kamehameha's victory.
  197. @Mark G.
    @HA

    Why should I have not been able to go to a local doctor offering home treatments rather than go out searching on the internet and possibly getting in legal trouble if I was discovered? You continue to be evasive about the fact that force or the threat of force was used by the government in the form of threatening to yank the licenses of doctors offering such treatments.

    Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.

    Biden and his equally corrupt son also engaged in questionable activities in the Ukraine. Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine. Has that made him more popular? Maybe with you but not the general public. Are you going to put a Biden-Harris 2024 bumpersticker on the back of your car and vote for him? Even if you are not a citizen I am sure the Democrats will find a way to count your vote.

    Replies: @Anon, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    Commenter “HA” is a COVID authoritarian who was wrong about everything pandemic-related: lockdowns, masking, etc. He’s a highly educated nitwit.

    He also appears to be a Ukraine war shill, playing that whole “Let’s you and him fight” routine and deriding anybody who disagrees with him as a “Putin fan-boy”.

    In short, HA is a nasty, petulant fool. You aren’t going to disabuse him of his foolishness.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • Replies: @MGB
    @Mr. Anon

    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.

    Replies: @HA, @Mr. Anon

  198. @Anonymous
    @anonymous

    Perhaps Ricardo Montalban was merely playing 'Hiding Sikh'.

    Replies: @Muggles

    Perhaps Ricardo Montalban was merely playing ‘Hiding Sikh’.

    I thought that was ‘Haydn Sikh’.

  199. @Reg Cæsar
    @kaganovitch

    I said bench, not bier!

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    If you think about it, it’s a much more satisfactory arrangement than the Biden situation where you always have to walk back one Presidential position/statement or another. In the Feinstein administration the President will never contradict the Deep State bureaucracy, not even in the smallest of matters. It is the purest expression of “Our Democracy.”

  200. @Anon
    @Mark G.

    "Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits."

    Nah, it changed because the GOP became the party of paranoid, low-IQ oppositional culture. Same with 9/11 conspiracy theories which began on the left.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Ben tillman

    Yeah, we get it – you are a snotty, elitist creep. Elitists always dislike “oppositional” culture because you don’t want anybody to oppose you.

    Of course, you (probably) aren’t a true elitist, in the sense of being a member of the elite. Rather you are just one of their cheering fans. The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart. The actual elite views you with the same contempt with which they view the rest of us.

    You are the worst kind of highly educated cretin, because you are a willing stooge of people who despise you. Well, in fairness, they do have a point.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Mr. Anon

    I'm an elitist in the sense that I'm not fat, dont smoke meth, didn't knock any girls up, and have never been to jail. I do indeed look down on those who do.

    "The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart."

    Lol no. I dispise NPR and everything it stands for. You must be another low-IQ guy incapable of understanding that someone can reject the left without being part of the cult of low-IQ white trash like yourself.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  201. @Anon
    Punjabis have a sense of humor, which is unique among Asians. I have never met a Hindu / Muslim / East Asian that was anything close to funny. Punjabis see the humour in things though, same as White people.

    There are also some "cool" Punjabi dudes, which again, other Asians all lack the cool factor. Not cool as in sexy to women, but cool as in the average blue collar white guy is cool (which they are despite the media narratives). I don't know if this is something learned because of their proximity & overlap with working class whites (in the trucking industry, etc.)

    They don't have the massive chip on their shoulders towards whitey either (just a small one, lol). The Sikhs fought for AND against the British throughout history with decent results. They weren't totally dominated by European colonists like the rest of Asia.

    I also see them as a candidate for complete assimilation in the coming decades - they literally have nowhere to go. The Hindu nationalists are pushing the Sikhs out of their homeland (Punjab) and many villages are now all old people and dying off.

    I actually don't really have a problem with them, except that they aren't my people and I prefer to live around my own people - Punjabis also have the same mindset. In a common sense nation we may have been able to get along. Unfortunately my city is no longer recognizable as a European / British one due to immigration and is emptying out of my own group of people (Brampton, ON).

    Replies: @BB753

    “I also see them as a candidate for complete assimilation in the coming decades ”

    Will Sikhs give up their beards, long hair, turbans and ritual knives in the coming decades? I doubt it. It’ll take centuries.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @BB753

    the more likely outcome is we'll be wearing the turbins in the next 50 years.

  202. @Reg Cæsar
    @Paul Jolliffe


    I meant to say that I agreed with ScarlettNumber that Granholm is ineligible as she is a Canadian by birth.
     
    Well, another recent president was surmised to have been born in Vancouver as well:

    Obama was born at B.C. Hospital, conspiracy theorists say


    Chester Arthur may also have been born in Canada. No chicanery-- he himself didn't know for sure. He needed "natural-born citizen" status for some state job in New York, and that was good enough for Washington.

    However, it is way too early for anyone named "Jennifer" to be President! Though a certain Ronald (peaked in 1943) used that to his advantage a certain Walter (peaked in 1914).

    Then again, a Jenifer signed the Constitution:


    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oUEtpMU3L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Under a strict interpretation of “natural born citizen” – an interpretation that makes sense too, given the fact that the founders bothered to make that distinction – Barack Obama was not eligible to be President, even if he was born on U.S. soil (which he probably was). Neither are Ted Cruz and Nikki Haley.

  203. @Anon
    @Mark G.


    It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits.
     
    Big Pharma gave more money to Biden than Trump for the same reason that every industry apart from oil gave more money to Biden than Trump. They're run by high-class people who don't like low class guys like Trump and yourself.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    When you talk about Democrats being high class are you talking about Biden sniffing the hair of various women or his son smoking crack and cavorting with hookers? Or are you talking about Bill Clinton having White House interns perform oral sex on him? Or are you talking about Teddy Kennedy driving off a bridge and swimming off and leaving a woman to drown?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Mark G.

    "Anon" was one of Gerry Studds's pages, and later frequented Barney Frank's basement. Sam Brinton was a good friend until his arrest.

  204. @MGB
    @AnotherDad

    Cue, Let’s Have a War, by Fear.

    Let's have a war
    Sell the rights to the networks
    Let's have a war
    Have our wallets get fat like last time
    Let's have a war
    Give guns to the queers
    Let's have a war
    The enemy is within

    It already started in the city
    Suburbia will be just as easy

    Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Looger

    Let’s have a war

    Yeah, let’s not.

    Canada is fucking gigantic. I say we draw a line 200 miles north of the 49th parallel and call everything south, “Female-Genital-Mutilania.”

    Sikhs are the only non-whites besides the Natives to live north of that line and they’ve integrated pretty well already, they hunt and fish and have guns. They ain’t going back to India, they have it good.

    We’ll let that strip of the country sort itself out. The whites will be an instant minority but it looks good on them because they’ve been voting for it. They won’t be saved by the “redneck” Canadians like they’ve always subconciously hoped for, fuck it.

    Prince Rupert is the new commerce port. Fuck Vancouver.

    This is the simplest problem to sort out in the history of new countries. No one will have to move. There will be some people in the cities who want to go north, well there are online records of everything everyone has said about everything so we’ll just fucking see who gets in. Farmers can build walls and there’s probably just enough rifles up north to enforce it.

    All the commerce is in the north part anyway, resource extraction and selling to the USA. Female-Genital-Mutilania can exist financially for a brief time until we “negotiate” (conquer) a narrow resource corridor to send all the pipelines etc. through to the USA. After that they can enjoy all the “ECONOMIC ENRICHMENT” that the hordes of turd worlders bring with them.

    Going to be a tough time with almost no tradesmen to keep the lights on and the shit flowing.

    I wish them luck.

  205. @Mark G.
    @Anon

    When you talk about Democrats being high class are you talking about Biden sniffing the hair of various women or his son smoking crack and cavorting with hookers? Or are you talking about Bill Clinton having White House interns perform oral sex on him? Or are you talking about Teddy Kennedy driving off a bridge and swimming off and leaving a woman to drown?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    “Anon” was one of Gerry Studds’s pages, and later frequented Barney Frank’s basement. Sam Brinton was a good friend until his arrest.

    • Thanks: Mark G.
  206. @ScarletNumber
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    mild-mannered Nicholas; it was Wilhelm who’s most menacing — the two cousins still getting along at the time before SHTF 16 years later
     
    While most of us are cousins to one degree or another, it is worth noting that Nicholas and Wilhelm were not particularly close cousins. However, they were both first cousins of George V of the UK (the great-grandfather of the current King Charles). Christian IX of Denmark was the maternal grandfather of both George and Nicholas.

    The more interesting part of the picture is Wilhelm stabbing the pie while looking menacingly at Victoria, as Victoria is his maternal grandmother! Victoria, of course, was also the paternal grandmother of George V, but Wilhelm was her first-born grandchild.

    Replies: @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    Britain and Germany was at odds on spheres of influence in China, but later came to agreement upon appeal by– United States

    US cartoon from 1899: Uncle Sam (center, representing the United States) demanding Open Door access to trade with China while European powers plan to cut it up for themselves.

    From left to right: Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Umberto I (Italy), John Bull (Britain), Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and President Emile Loubet (France). Emperor Franz Joseph I (Austria) is in the back.

    Uncle Sam (United States) rejects force and violence and ask “fair field and no favor,” equal opportunity for all trading nations to enter the China market peacefully, which became the Open Door Policy.

    Editorial cartoon by William A. Rogers in Harper’s Magazine (New York) November 18, 1899.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy

    Nicholas also married another one of Victoria’s grandchildren, whose sister in turn married Wilhelm’s brother Heinrich (that is, her first cousin); and another sister married Nicholas’ uncle. So he is in addition, an in-law to Wilhelm in three ways! (at least)

    Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt with his sisters and brothers-in-law (from left) on October 8, 1903:

    Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsar Nicholas ll. from Russia; Princess Irene and Prince Henry of Prussia; Grand Duchess Yelizavyeta Fyodorovna and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov; Princess Victoria and Prince Ludwig Alexander of Battenberg

  207. @BB753
    @Wilkey

    If anything, the Biden presidency has proven that the POTUS doesn't run anything and that it doesn't matter who gets to the White House. Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.
    Democracy is a bad theater only fools believe in.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.

    Jews. Jews run the show.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
    • Replies: @BB753
    @Anonymous

    Say 40 % Jews, 60 % WASPs.

    Replies: @Ben tillman

  208. anon[319] • Disclaimer says:
    @Muggles
    @Reg Cæsar

    Agree.

    The history of Hawaii is replete with accounts of tribal Hawaiian massacres of rival armies or groups of people from other islands who were feuding with each other.

    There is a famous massacre site (on the Big Island I think) where King Kamehameha defeated rival island warriors who were all driven over a very tall cliff.

    Only after he consolidated his sole rule (via violence) did this imaginary Hawaiian peacefulness come to pass.

    Not different than any other place where a single ruler dominated (there, only for about 110 years).

    Replies: @anon

    There is a famous massacre site (on the Big Island I think) where King Kamehameha defeated rival island warriors who were all driven over a very tall cliff.

    Oahu, Nuuanu Pali
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nu%CA%BBuanu

    The losing king was offered as sacrifice
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanik%C5%ABpule

    White man’s guns played a role in Kamehameha’s victory.

  209. Anon[315] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mr. Anon
    @Anon

    Yeah, we get it - you are a snotty, elitist creep. Elitists always dislike "oppositional" culture because you don't want anybody to oppose you.

    Of course, you (probably) aren't a true elitist, in the sense of being a member of the elite. Rather you are just one of their cheering fans. The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart. The actual elite views you with the same contempt with which they view the rest of us.

    You are the worst kind of highly educated cretin, because you are a willing stooge of people who despise you. Well, in fairness, they do have a point.

    Replies: @Anon

    I’m an elitist in the sense that I’m not fat, dont smoke meth, didn’t knock any girls up, and have never been to jail. I do indeed look down on those who do.

    “The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart.”

    Lol no. I dispise NPR and everything it stands for. You must be another low-IQ guy incapable of understanding that someone can reject the left without being part of the cult of low-IQ white trash like yourself.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Anon


    I’m an elitist in the sense that I’m not fat, dont smoke meth, didn’t knock any girls up, and have never been to jail. I do indeed look down on those who do.
     
    Yeah, because that it is chiefly who makes up the Republican base, right? Meth addict ex-cons.

    You seem unable to even assess people's social background. But then stupid people like you often attribute stupidity to others. Idiots like you are predictable.

  210. @Anonymous
    @BB753


    Who really runs the show? Think tanks, Foundations, NGOs, the CFR, the Trilateral, ivy league/ CIA universities like Yale and Harvard, etc.
     
    Jews. Jews run the show.

    Replies: @BB753

    Say 40 % Jews, 60 % WASPs.

    • Replies: @Ben tillman
    @BB753

    Not really. Perhaps 10% WASPs. And 40% Jews amounts to complete control.

    Replies: @Anon

  211. @Mr. Anon
    @Mark G.

    Commenter "HA" is a COVID authoritarian who was wrong about everything pandemic-related: lockdowns, masking, etc. He's a highly educated nitwit.

    He also appears to be a Ukraine war shill, playing that whole "Let's you and him fight" routine and deriding anybody who disagrees with him as a "Putin fan-boy".

    In short, HA is a nasty, petulant fool. You aren't going to disabuse him of his foolishness.

    Replies: @MGB

    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.

    • Replies: @HA
    @MGB

    "in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material."

    Alas, like so many of the other just-a-flu bros, you got it backwards. For example, I will remind everyone here of a recent repost (off-topic, as is typical, since the just-a-flu bros can't seem to let COVID go, demonstrating that its damage is long lasting indeed) of how just-a-flu-bro numero-uno Alex Berenson, who deceitfully claimed that a recent Italian study alerted everyone to the danger of taking one shot of the vaccine. But as I pointed out, Berenson somehow forgot to mention that the study he actually linked to noted that "the individuals who received greater than or equal to one booster dose showed a ≥85% lower risk of severe or lethal COVID-19."

    So if you want to gripe about congenitally dishonest people who post links that actually come to the opposite conclusion of what they're claiming, look to your own backyard and echo chamber and false prophets, bro, and you'll seem far less congenitally dishonest yourself.

    "As a consequence I never read its comments."

    In the meantime, go ahead and keep pretending that you never bother to read my comments -- except of course those written months ago which you claim to remember to this day. Wow, with all these people popping up to insist that they never read what I write, and yet still managing to make elaborate (but unsourced) claims about comments I wrote months or even years ago (I mean, assuming we're talking about the COVID pandemic), I'm sure that even more people will be of the mind to completely ignore anything I say from here on out, right? Totally forgettable, that's what I am -- you really nailed it.

    What could possibly go wrong with a foolproof strategy like that?

    , @Mr. Anon
    @MGB


    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.
     
    HA was one of the leading hysterics hereabouts shilling for COVID authoritarianism. And, as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point. What his posts lack in quality, he tries to make up for with volume. He seems incensed that other people don't see in him the universal genius he obviously believes himself to be. He is a pathetic clown.

    Replies: @HA

  212. @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    You wanted them to give you “easy access to nutritional supplements, cheap expired patent drugs…and cheap patented steroids”; but come on, stop kidding yourself: you NEED the government around so you can have someone to blame other than your own stupid decisions.
     
    That isn't what he meant, you deceitful nitwit. He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment - i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER.

    You were nothing but a fountain of sewage on the topic of COVID - not just wrong-headed and tyranical, but stupid.

    As Mark G pointed out, you're not even an American, so when it comes to American domestic politics, why should anybody here care what you think.

    Or indeed for that matter about anything. You want Russia to be fought? YOU go fight Russia. Assuming you are able to leave your sterile lock-down bunker and have enough face masks.

    You're a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself.

    Replies: @HA

    “You’re a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself.”

    There, there, little guy. Rest easy and slurp your meds in peace. I know you think you’re making me look bad, but take a lesson from Stancil and the Streisand effect, and keep your conniptions to yourself or you’re just gonna make a bigger deal out of “highly educated” me than you want. And at this point, wiping all that spittle off your screen is probably getting to be a chore for your caregivers.

    Hey, why don’t you go through some Superbowl recaps? How did that turn out, by the way?

    And now the conspiracy goons are claiming that “Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine”? Yeah, I guess that’s right — out of all the other elders of Zion, Biden has learned that it’s highly educated me that he needs to follow, first and foremost. How’s that for relevance — good of you to recognize all that. Watch yourselves, or I’ll rig up the next Superbowl just the same way I’m gonna rig up November’s elections.

    “He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment – i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER.”

    As clueless as ever. Mark G. kept whining that the hospital didn’t release him soon enough and kept him around too long. I.e. he’s willfully blind about something that real doctors learned early on, which is that the happy tweets that relatives would dispense a week or two after grandpa was admitted, to the effect that “everything is looking up and he’s going to be released soon”, were all too often followed by a somber “there’s been a downturn” tweet about how a secondary infection set in. So much for “we need more outpatient treatment”. Yeah, sure. Mark G. luckily managed to dodge that secondary infection bullet and now whines that the doctors should have somehow been able predict that from the start, and not bothered with the precautions they did, and he’s as confident about that as he once was about how COVID was nothing that he needed to be concerned with in the first place — but he wasn’t as lucky that time.

    It’s true that the doctors don’t always get it right and sometimes err on the side of caution, but that’s still no reason to let clueless backset-driving illiterates like him dispense medical advice. Sputter about that all you want, and pretend you don’t care or read what I say or that I’m the one who has to have the last word, but again — try and realize how badly that’s gonna backfire.

    • Replies: @vinteuil
    @HA

    Wow.

    Checking out HA's posting history, it's hard not to conclude that he's an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    , @Mr. Anon
    @HA

    Mask-boy feels insulted.

  213. @CCG
    @Frau Katze


    He told the BBC he was upset by LGBT-inclusive education policies in Canada and its 2018 decision to legalise recreational cannabis.
     
    If he thinks that India's better in that regard, he's unfortunately wrong. Cannabis is known as "ganja" in various Indian languages and its consumption is legal in many Indian states because it's part of certain Hindu rituals. And the LGBT lobby in India has been infiltrating and subverting the education system for some years now.
    https://m.timesofindia.com/home/sunday-times/why-drag-queens-are-reading-stories-to-kids/articleshow/69908347.cms

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    Thanks for the info. I didn’t realize drag queen story hour was catching on in India.

    I guess it’s all part of globalization.

  214. @BB753
    @Anon

    "I also see them as a candidate for complete assimilation in the coming decades "

    Will Sikhs give up their beards, long hair, turbans and ritual knives in the coming decades? I doubt it. It'll take centuries.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    the more likely outcome is we’ll be wearing the turbins in the next 50 years.

    • LOL: BB753
  215. @Almost Missouri
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms


    the Bear was the most rapacious of imperialist in China
     
    To the extent that Chinese feel aggrieved about history, what is their rank of grievances? I know Japan ranks high. Does Britain selling opium to addicts outrank Russia hiving off outer Manchuria? And what about the Manchu themselves? They used to be the dynastic overlords, and therefore the "oppressors" in Marxist demonology, but now they seem to be about as Han as anyone else and an offense against them is an offense against China.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    The CCP puts out Julius Streicher-tier anti-Japanese propaganda.

    On the grievance list, lower, are towards Anglos for the Opium War, and for backing Japanese imperial expansion– Britain handed over German Qingdao to Japan, and US was Japan’s primary oil supplier until the 1941.

    Unfortunately this is further aggravated by (((American))) historians who writes “ground-breaking new research”, about Hirohito committed five Holocausts against China and never apologized.

    And many Chinese view Japan and America as allies so Japan is viewed as “US imperialist dogs protected from answering for their war crimes”.

    Reality is that Japanese imperialism was largely a response to Russian imperialism. There are numerous parallels to the current war– Soviets (NATO) instigated color revolutions in China (Ukraine), renegade Chinese soldiers (Azov Nazis) massacred Japanese (Russian) civilians, Japan (Russia) invaded Manchuria (Crimea) as a buffer zone, then escalated to Shanghai (Donbass).

    But CCP is not going to bring this up because it came to power through that color revolution. And most American historians is not going to either, they want to emphasize “how evil Japanese militarism were” and justify the nuclear usage decision.

    The Manchus are actually the key part of this history– during Manchu conquest in 17th CE Han Chinese came to Japan begging for help. One of the key Han resistance figures was half-Japanese

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga

    Then Sun Yat-sen came to Japan for support to overthrow Qing. When Qing was overthrown Manchus they came to Japan for patronage for independence. The emperor pair up one of his relatives to brother of the last Manchu emperor as a marriage alliance

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Saga

    But this whole story got washed away because Manchukuo got canceled by Stalin, and Manchus assimilated. Then Stalin helped Mao get back Qing borders. So there’s no grievance against Manchus because PRC claims succession from Qing.

    • Thanks: Malla
    • Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    I forgot to wish you a happy Plaza Accord day.

    A fine celebration Chinese and Americans can both agree on.


    https://twitter.com/Kdenkss/status/1755264836060192805

  216. @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "You’re a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself."

    There, there, little guy. Rest easy and slurp your meds in peace. I know you think you're making me look bad, but take a lesson from Stancil and the Streisand effect, and keep your conniptions to yourself or you're just gonna make a bigger deal out of "highly educated" me than you want. And at this point, wiping all that spittle off your screen is probably getting to be a chore for your caregivers.

    Hey, why don't you go through some Superbowl recaps? How did that turn out, by the way?

    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

    And now the conspiracy goons are claiming that "Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine"? Yeah, I guess that's right -- out of all the other elders of Zion, Biden has learned that it's highly educated me that he needs to follow, first and foremost. How's that for relevance -- good of you to recognize all that. Watch yourselves, or I'll rig up the next Superbowl just the same way I'm gonna rig up November's elections.

    "He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment – i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER."

    As clueless as ever. Mark G. kept whining that the hospital didn't release him soon enough and kept him around too long. I.e. he's willfully blind about something that real doctors learned early on, which is that the happy tweets that relatives would dispense a week or two after grandpa was admitted, to the effect that "everything is looking up and he's going to be released soon", were all too often followed by a somber "there's been a downturn" tweet about how a secondary infection set in. So much for "we need more outpatient treatment". Yeah, sure. Mark G. luckily managed to dodge that secondary infection bullet and now whines that the doctors should have somehow been able predict that from the start, and not bothered with the precautions they did, and he's as confident about that as he once was about how COVID was nothing that he needed to be concerned with in the first place -- but he wasn't as lucky that time.

    It's true that the doctors don't always get it right and sometimes err on the side of caution, but that's still no reason to let clueless backset-driving illiterates like him dispense medical advice. Sputter about that all you want, and pretend you don't care or read what I say or that I'm the one who has to have the last word, but again -- try and realize how badly that's gonna backfire.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

    Wow.

    Checking out HA’s posting history, it’s hard not to conclude that he’s an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @vinteuil

    He's probably one of Sailer's inlaws or neighbors.

    , @HA
    @vinteuil

    "pit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC."

    And yet, in all those comments I've written, there's not a single word against America's decision to leave Afghanistan (or in favor of ever having gone there in the first place). What a weird omission on the part of those AI bot programmers. As for Big Pharma, its wisdom and good will far has indeed surpassed that of the just-a-flu bros since COVID came along, but that's not in any way a compliment of the former as it is a condemnation of the latter.

    In other words, regardless of whether we're talking about matters military or pharmaceutical, your batting average remains as consistently abysmal as ever. All those years you spent in philosophy grad school, and this is what you have to show for it? Amazing. The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I've seen of their bungling these past few years, and that's saying a lot.

    And hey, you guys keep posting stuff like that or else slapping "Agree" on it -- I'm sure it'll get everyone else to ignore me completely.

    Replies: @vinteuil

    , @Anon
    @vinteuil

    Real mystery that on a blog run by a guy who's pro-vaccine and pro-Ukraine, there's a commenter who's pro-vaccine and pro-Ukraine. He must be AI generated!

    , @Mr. Anon
    @vinteuil


    Checking out HA’s posting history, it’s hard not to conclude that he’s an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.
     
    A bot would be more original in its thinking.
  217. @vinteuil
    @HA

    Wow.

    Checking out HA's posting history, it's hard not to conclude that he's an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    He’s probably one of Sailer’s inlaws or neighbors.

  218. @vinteuil
    @HA

    Wow.

    Checking out HA's posting history, it's hard not to conclude that he's an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    “pit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.”

    And yet, in all those comments I’ve written, there’s not a single word against America’s decision to leave Afghanistan (or in favor of ever having gone there in the first place). What a weird omission on the part of those AI bot programmers. As for Big Pharma, its wisdom and good will far has indeed surpassed that of the just-a-flu bros since COVID came along, but that’s not in any way a compliment of the former as it is a condemnation of the latter.

    In other words, regardless of whether we’re talking about matters military or pharmaceutical, your batting average remains as consistently abysmal as ever. All those years you spent in philosophy grad school, and this is what you have to show for it? Amazing. The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I’ve seen of their bungling these past few years, and that’s saying a lot.

    And hey, you guys keep posting stuff like that or else slapping “Agree” on it — I’m sure it’ll get everyone else to ignore me completely.

    • Replies: @vinteuil
    @HA


    The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I’ve seen of their bungling these past few years, and that’s saying a lot.
     
    Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years.

    I, for one, am all ears.

    Replies: @HA

  219. @vinteuil
    @HA

    Wow.

    Checking out HA's posting history, it's hard not to conclude that he's an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    Real mystery that on a blog run by a guy who’s pro-vaccine and pro-Ukraine, there’s a commenter who’s pro-vaccine and pro-Ukraine. He must be AI generated!

  220. @Anon
    @Mark G.

    "Before 2020 the antivaxxer types were mostly liberals. The most prominent antivax organization was headed by RFK Jr. who is a liberal. Why did that change? It changed because big pharma donated more money to Biden than Trump in the 2020 election. The corrupt Biden paid them back by supporting national vaccine mandates and three thousand dollar Remdesivir in order to increase their profits."

    Nah, it changed because the GOP became the party of paranoid, low-IQ oppositional culture. Same with 9/11 conspiracy theories which began on the left.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Ben tillman

    9/11 conspiracy theories began with the USG, which adopted an especially dumb one as the official story.

  221. @MGB
    @Mr. Anon

    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.

    Replies: @HA, @Mr. Anon

    “in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material.”

    Alas, like so many of the other just-a-flu bros, you got it backwards. For example, I will remind everyone here of a recent repost (off-topic, as is typical, since the just-a-flu bros can’t seem to let COVID go, demonstrating that its damage is long lasting indeed) of how just-a-flu-bro numero-uno Alex Berenson, who deceitfully claimed that a recent Italian study alerted everyone to the danger of taking one shot of the vaccine. But as I pointed out, Berenson somehow forgot to mention that the study he actually linked to noted that “the individuals who received greater than or equal to one booster dose showed a ≥85% lower risk of severe or lethal COVID-19.”

    So if you want to gripe about congenitally dishonest people who post links that actually come to the opposite conclusion of what they’re claiming, look to your own backyard and echo chamber and false prophets, bro, and you’ll seem far less congenitally dishonest yourself.

    “As a consequence I never read its comments.”

    In the meantime, go ahead and keep pretending that you never bother to read my comments — except of course those written months ago which you claim to remember to this day. Wow, with all these people popping up to insist that they never read what I write, and yet still managing to make elaborate (but unsourced) claims about comments I wrote months or even years ago (I mean, assuming we’re talking about the COVID pandemic), I’m sure that even more people will be of the mind to completely ignore anything I say from here on out, right? Totally forgettable, that’s what I am — you really nailed it.

    What could possibly go wrong with a foolproof strategy like that?

  222. @BB753
    @Anonymous

    Say 40 % Jews, 60 % WASPs.

    Replies: @Ben tillman

    Not really. Perhaps 10% WASPs. And 40% Jews amounts to complete control.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Ben tillman


    Not really. Perhaps 10% WASPs. And 40% Jews amounts to complete control.
     
    The Jewish share of political campaign donations by itself is remarkable (to say nothing of influence through media, academia, the judiciary, wealth, hiring, and tribal pressure groups). Isn’t it something like half of all Republican contributions and 75% of Democrat?
  223. @Anon
    @Mr. Anon

    I'm an elitist in the sense that I'm not fat, dont smoke meth, didn't knock any girls up, and have never been to jail. I do indeed look down on those who do.

    "The sort of person who hangs on every word from NPR because it makes you feel smart."

    Lol no. I dispise NPR and everything it stands for. You must be another low-IQ guy incapable of understanding that someone can reject the left without being part of the cult of low-IQ white trash like yourself.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    I’m an elitist in the sense that I’m not fat, dont smoke meth, didn’t knock any girls up, and have never been to jail. I do indeed look down on those who do.

    Yeah, because that it is chiefly who makes up the Republican base, right? Meth addict ex-cons.

    You seem unable to even assess people’s social background. But then stupid people like you often attribute stupidity to others. Idiots like you are predictable.

  224. @vinteuil
    @HA

    Wow.

    Checking out HA's posting history, it's hard not to conclude that he's an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @HA, @Anon, @Mr. Anon

    Checking out HA’s posting history, it’s hard not to conclude that he’s an AI bot programmed to spit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC.

    A bot would be more original in its thinking.

  225. @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "You’re a piece of human garbage. Go f**k yourself."

    There, there, little guy. Rest easy and slurp your meds in peace. I know you think you're making me look bad, but take a lesson from Stancil and the Streisand effect, and keep your conniptions to yourself or you're just gonna make a bigger deal out of "highly educated" me than you want. And at this point, wiping all that spittle off your screen is probably getting to be a chore for your caregivers.

    Hey, why don't you go through some Superbowl recaps? How did that turn out, by the way?

    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

    And now the conspiracy goons are claiming that "Biden has pretty much followed the HA position on Covid and the Ukraine"? Yeah, I guess that's right -- out of all the other elders of Zion, Biden has learned that it's highly educated me that he needs to follow, first and foremost. How's that for relevance -- good of you to recognize all that. Watch yourselves, or I'll rig up the next Superbowl just the same way I'm gonna rig up November's elections.

    "He was saying that he wanted hospitals to provide outpatient treatment – i.e. not just tell people to go home and wait until they were so sick that they needed to go into the ER."

    As clueless as ever. Mark G. kept whining that the hospital didn't release him soon enough and kept him around too long. I.e. he's willfully blind about something that real doctors learned early on, which is that the happy tweets that relatives would dispense a week or two after grandpa was admitted, to the effect that "everything is looking up and he's going to be released soon", were all too often followed by a somber "there's been a downturn" tweet about how a secondary infection set in. So much for "we need more outpatient treatment". Yeah, sure. Mark G. luckily managed to dodge that secondary infection bullet and now whines that the doctors should have somehow been able predict that from the start, and not bothered with the precautions they did, and he's as confident about that as he once was about how COVID was nothing that he needed to be concerned with in the first place -- but he wasn't as lucky that time.

    It's true that the doctors don't always get it right and sometimes err on the side of caution, but that's still no reason to let clueless backset-driving illiterates like him dispense medical advice. Sputter about that all you want, and pretend you don't care or read what I say or that I'm the one who has to have the last word, but again -- try and realize how badly that's gonna backfire.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

    Mask-boy feels insulted.

  226. anon[914] • Disclaimer says:
    @Boreal Bob
    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia and if my daughter or son married one, well the biggest concerns would come from the Sikh side of the family but like any immigrant group they do come with some baggage, but it is not anti western.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @AnotherDad, @Dave from Oz, @CCG, @Inquiring Mind, @anon

    Sikhs are just one step above Muslims.
    They are responsible for most of the street crime in Vancouver
    They are responsible for most of the political violence in Canada
    A Sikh truck driver was responsible for the Humboldt bus crash ( Why are we importing truck drivers?)

    And they are not handsome, a very physically unattractive people

  227. @MGB
    @Mr. Anon

    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.

    Replies: @HA, @Mr. Anon

    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.

    HA was one of the leading hysterics hereabouts shilling for COVID authoritarianism. And, as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point. What his posts lack in quality, he tries to make up for with volume. He seems incensed that other people don’t see in him the universal genius he obviously believes himself to be. He is a pathetic clown.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point."

    So weird that you didn't bother to tell me any of this at the time. In any case, feel free to provide an actual example, in the way I was able to these often posted links you remember even now, despite insisting that you don't even bother reading what I post. So believable!

    Otherwise, continue to take comfort in your retconned delusions as to who was posting links that undermined the arguments being put forth.

    "He seems incensed that other people don’t see in him the universal genius"

    Don't kid yourself. I know all too well that one doesn't need genius of any kind to make a fool of you, or the rest of the bros. Rage at me all you want, but deep down, I think even you know full well you pretty much did that to yourselves, without any help from me.

    Replies: @Frau Katze

  228. @Ben tillman
    @BB753

    Not really. Perhaps 10% WASPs. And 40% Jews amounts to complete control.

    Replies: @Anon

    Not really. Perhaps 10% WASPs. And 40% Jews amounts to complete control.

    The Jewish share of political campaign donations by itself is remarkable (to say nothing of influence through media, academia, the judiciary, wealth, hiring, and tribal pressure groups). Isn’t it something like half of all Republican contributions and 75% of Democrat?

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  229. Trust me, most Canadians don’t “welcome” immigrants — we are sick and tired of them. The sooner they go back to what they consider home, the better for all.

    • Agree: Frau Katze
  230. @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms
    @Almost Missouri

    The CCP puts out Julius Streicher-tier anti-Japanese propaganda.

    On the grievance list, lower, are towards Anglos for the Opium War, and for backing Japanese imperial expansion-- Britain handed over German Qingdao to Japan, and US was Japan's primary oil supplier until the 1941.

    Unfortunately this is further aggravated by (((American))) historians who writes "ground-breaking new research", about Hirohito committed five Holocausts against China and never apologized.

    https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Holocaust-History-Imperial-Murder-ebook/dp/B0CLKZNPTC?nodl=1&dplnkId=6f35b297-7bef-4144-abfd-aceb548dee30

    And many Chinese view Japan and America as allies so Japan is viewed as "US imperialist dogs protected from answering for their war crimes".

    Reality is that Japanese imperialism was largely a response to Russian imperialism. There are numerous parallels to the current war-- Soviets (NATO) instigated color revolutions in China (Ukraine), renegade Chinese soldiers (Azov Nazis) massacred Japanese (Russian) civilians, Japan (Russia) invaded Manchuria (Crimea) as a buffer zone, then escalated to Shanghai (Donbass).

    But CCP is not going to bring this up because it came to power through that color revolution. And most American historians is not going to either, they want to emphasize "how evil Japanese militarism were" and justify the nuclear usage decision.

    The Manchus are actually the key part of this history-- during Manchu conquest in 17th CE Han Chinese came to Japan begging for help. One of the key Han resistance figures was half-Japanese

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga

    Then Sun Yat-sen came to Japan for support to overthrow Qing. When Qing was overthrown Manchus they came to Japan for patronage for independence. The emperor pair up one of his relatives to brother of the last Manchu emperor as a marriage alliance

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Aisin-Gioro_P%C7%94ji%C3%A9_and_Lady_Hiro_Saga_1937_wedding_photo.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Saga

    But this whole story got washed away because Manchukuo got canceled by Stalin, and Manchus assimilated. Then Stalin helped Mao get back Qing borders. So there's no grievance against Manchus because PRC claims succession from Qing.

    Replies: @Noviop Co-Prosperity Sphere

    I forgot to wish you a happy Plaza Accord day.

    A fine celebration Chinese and Americans can both agree on.

  231. @Mr. Anon
    @MGB


    And congenitally dishonest. It was posting links purporting to support its Covid position, in some cases the linked material coming to the opposite conclusion of its summary of the material. As a consequence I never read its comments.
     
    HA was one of the leading hysterics hereabouts shilling for COVID authoritarianism. And, as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point. What his posts lack in quality, he tries to make up for with volume. He seems incensed that other people don't see in him the universal genius he obviously believes himself to be. He is a pathetic clown.

    Replies: @HA

    “as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point.”

    So weird that you didn’t bother to tell me any of this at the time. In any case, feel free to provide an actual example, in the way I was able to these often posted links you remember even now, despite insisting that you don’t even bother reading what I post. So believable!

    Otherwise, continue to take comfort in your retconned delusions as to who was posting links that undermined the arguments being put forth.

    “He seems incensed that other people don’t see in him the universal genius”

    Don’t kid yourself. I know all too well that one doesn’t need genius of any kind to make a fool of you, or the rest of the bros. Rage at me all you want, but deep down, I think even you know full well you pretty much did that to yourselves, without any help from me.

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @HA

    Agree but I’ve run out of response buttons.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

  232. @AnotherDad
    @Boreal Bob


    Punjabis are generally Sikhs, a warrior caste and not hindu. As a whole they are energetic, political and a handsome group (sober and family orientated). They are the cream the crop from Asia ...
     
    Sorry Bob, you're completely missing the most critical aspect here.

    Sikhs indeed are hardworking. The word from my Indian friends is they always work--at whatever is available--and you don't see Sikh beggars. Overall it would be a fine religion/culture for a nation.

    But they are the worst possible sort of immigrants--an atomic minority like the Jews. They have their particular unique religion, and set themselves off from the majority with their dress/rules. Basically, they form an atomic indigestible blob wherever they plop down.

    I'll grant they are better than Muslims who are from the civilization that is the historic of the West (Christendom). (And, of course, basically anyone is better than blacks.) But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won't care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians--half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends. (Ok, Twinkie will point out its not actually half of them because a bunch will marry new Indian immigrants--something we need to stop immediately.) Plus the typical Hindu coming for grad school or IT job is way smarter than the typical Sikh.

    Bring in Sikhs and maybe they aren't blowing up airliners anymore, but down the road you'll likely be stuck with an annoying indigestible Sikh blob in your nation. By now everyone should understand how stupid that is.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Malla

    But you are far better off just getting Hindus than Sikhs. The Hindu religious thing has zero purchase in the US. The 1st generation may setup temples and do their stuff, but the 2nd generation won’t care and will gravitate toward being normal Americans/Canadians–half of them will marry out to their non-Indian college/grad school boyfriends/girlfriends.

    What an idiot. Do not get any non Whites. If at all, get some East Asians who are not Muslim.

  233. @HA
    @vinteuil

    "pit venom at anybody who questions the wisdom & good will of big pharma & the MIC."

    And yet, in all those comments I've written, there's not a single word against America's decision to leave Afghanistan (or in favor of ever having gone there in the first place). What a weird omission on the part of those AI bot programmers. As for Big Pharma, its wisdom and good will far has indeed surpassed that of the just-a-flu bros since COVID came along, but that's not in any way a compliment of the former as it is a condemnation of the latter.

    In other words, regardless of whether we're talking about matters military or pharmaceutical, your batting average remains as consistently abysmal as ever. All those years you spent in philosophy grad school, and this is what you have to show for it? Amazing. The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I've seen of their bungling these past few years, and that's saying a lot.

    And hey, you guys keep posting stuff like that or else slapping "Agree" on it -- I'm sure it'll get everyone else to ignore me completely.

    Replies: @vinteuil

    The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I’ve seen of their bungling these past few years, and that’s saying a lot.

    Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years.

    I, for one, am all ears.

    • Replies: @HA
    @vinteuil

    "Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years."

    Well, there was the one where they hired you in the first place, wasn't there? I suspect I wouldn't have needed 20/20 hindsight to see that wouldn't end well.

    Replies: @vinteuil

  234. @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "as you say, he would often post links unaware that they actually undermined his point."

    So weird that you didn't bother to tell me any of this at the time. In any case, feel free to provide an actual example, in the way I was able to these often posted links you remember even now, despite insisting that you don't even bother reading what I post. So believable!

    Otherwise, continue to take comfort in your retconned delusions as to who was posting links that undermined the arguments being put forth.

    "He seems incensed that other people don’t see in him the universal genius"

    Don't kid yourself. I know all too well that one doesn't need genius of any kind to make a fool of you, or the rest of the bros. Rage at me all you want, but deep down, I think even you know full well you pretty much did that to yourselves, without any help from me.

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    Agree but I’ve run out of response buttons.

    • Thanks: HA
    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @Frau Katze

    During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage. When they tried to implement these programs, they were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses. If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    HA supported this but will not openly admit it. Instead he tries to change the subject. Did you support that?

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Looger, @HA

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Frau Katze

    You run away from arguments just about as well as HA.

    Tell us, cat lady, did you support the COVID lockdown regime? Are you still wearing a mask?

    Replies: @Frau Katze

  235. @vinteuil
    @HA


    The very fact that it took three years for the NHS to be rid of you is as astounding and alarming as most anything else I’ve seen of their bungling these past few years, and that’s saying a lot.
     
    Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years.

    I, for one, am all ears.

    Replies: @HA

    “Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years.”

    Well, there was the one where they hired you in the first place, wasn’t there? I suspect I wouldn’t have needed 20/20 hindsight to see that wouldn’t end well.

    • Replies: @vinteuil
    @HA


    ...Well, there was the one where they hired you...
     
    Well, yeah, come to think of it, you're probably right about that.

    Zeke Emanuel hired me 'cause Amy & Leon Kass wrongly thought they spotted a bit of talent in me.

    Replies: @HA

  236. @Frau Katze
    @HA

    Agree but I’ve run out of response buttons.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

    During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage. When they tried to implement these programs, they were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses. If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    HA supported this but will not openly admit it. Instead he tries to change the subject. Did you support that?

    • Agree: Mr. Anon
    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @Mark G.

    Re: Covid

    I’m 72 years old, a high risk group. I took the vaccines.

    I have no opinion on how it’s treated. I’m also in Canada where the controversial drugs were completely unavailable.

    I’m not in favour of forced vaccinations, however.

    , @Looger
    @Mark G.


    If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.
     
    Well, a couple hundred doctors being shot in the street within a couple days would definitely have helped topple the covid-madness.

    I guess hundreds of microbiologists 11-12 years before weren't enough of a wake-up call...

    Lots of people knew better but went along, and now they will never admit they were wrong. There is still a huge split and it will never heal - covid was absolutely the fault line.

    The medical establishment in general has been slowly backing away, from their insane and unhinged lows of rhetoric. So they know they went too far.

    We needed those doctors to die for the truth. Hate to say it but they were on the spot and they let us down.

    Fuck all doctors, I gave zero fucks about them before as they were nothing but pharma salespeople. If what you say is true then they are the lowest of the low and it may be pertinent to catalog and file them away for the time when lists and ropes and gas cans are distributed.

    , @HA
    @Mark G.

    "During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage."

    You mean HCQ? It was given emergency authorization,


    In March 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also called the FDA, allowed emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19. The FDA based this authorization on data collected from healthcare professionals and tests done on cell lines, not humans.
     
    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn't help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn't kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess -- you didn't take any of that either.

    Look, the fact is that well before Thalidomide came along decades ago (a drug that our FDA never allowed precisely because it had stricter controls than comparable European agencies), there were bad experiences with snake oil merchants being able to market and sell their "home remedy" custom-made cancer cures, baldness remedies or hangnail relief on the fly, and whatever else. And so the FDA was established to try and put some rules as to who could claim this or that was a cure. You're as ignorant of history as you are of epidemiology so you ignore all that, but if you don't like it, go to the land of tiger penis cures and rhino horn extracts, or the one where they prefer cow urine. It may well be that in some or many cases these governing bodies are too rigid and slow and procrustean (and that wouldn't surprise me given the slipshod way they're funded and managed -- largely because of people like you who refuse to fund them because you think the debt and your other pet causes are much more important), but if that's your claim, stop whining about it and put together some actual data and actual tests and you might impress somebody that your proposed changes would wind up saving more people than they kill. Or go the courts, as I've repeatedly encouraged you, given that they've occasionally ruled in your favor. But instead, you lie and retcon and whine all over the internet about how everyone should have listened to you, because that's all the COVID truthers have going for them (apart from the stuff they cribbed from earlier anti-vaxx playbooks).

    And as I noted earlier, this is all hypothetical anyway, aside from sleazy goalpost shifting and misdirection, and regardless of whatever "home remedies" were available, you would have turned them down along with the "nutritional supplements" you also now say you want, but were also too lazy to take, because before you got sick and VOLUNTARILY chose to go the very medical establishment you now decry, you were listening to the idiots who assured you COVID was no big deal and wouldn't be a threat to you in the first place. But being the weasel you are, you refuse to own up to that and now want to instead hype another bunch of quack prophets who assure you that their home remedies would have kept you out of that same hospital the earlier set of false prophets assured you you'd never need and the one you wound up in. I.e., even with 20/20 hindsight, you STILL can't get it right. Amazing.

    Lastly, consider the fact that most people aside from loons like you have gotten over this. Sweden awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine to the developers of the vaccine (and no, I don't mean Malone). Your boy DeSantis bent over backwards to placate the COVID loons, but he still did dismally in the primaries, losing out to someone who boasted of his role in developing and spearheading what he referred to at the time as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. The only candidate running on an anti-vaxx platform (and he wants to enable Putin as well) is RFK Jr., and he's not doing any better than DeSantis is, but hey, feel free to throw away your vote on him. I.e., as much as you want to claim that you got it right, and Sailer and everyone else needs to apologize, you're increasingly regarded as the modern day equivalent of those loons of yesteryear who (as lampooned in Dr. Strangelove) assured us that fluoridated water was a Communist plot, a conspiracy theory that has itself sort of come full circle, given how many of you are now eager to endorse up whatever all-too-real conspiracies Moscow engages in.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

  237. @Frau Katze
    @HA

    Agree but I’ve run out of response buttons.

    Replies: @Mark G., @Mr. Anon

    You run away from arguments just about as well as HA.

    Tell us, cat lady, did you support the COVID lockdown regime? Are you still wearing a mask?

    • Replies: @Frau Katze
    @Mr. Anon

    Re: Covid

    I am not in favour of forced vaccinations. As I’m over 70 I thought it prudent to get all vaccines. Elderly people are at high risk.

    I don’t wear a mask.

    Replies: @3g4me

  238. @Mark G.
    @Frau Katze

    During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage. When they tried to implement these programs, they were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses. If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    HA supported this but will not openly admit it. Instead he tries to change the subject. Did you support that?

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Looger, @HA

    Re: Covid

    I’m 72 years old, a high risk group. I took the vaccines.

    I have no opinion on how it’s treated. I’m also in Canada where the controversial drugs were completely unavailable.

    I’m not in favour of forced vaccinations, however.

    • Thanks: Mark G.
    • Troll: ScarletNumber
  239. @Mr. Anon
    @Frau Katze

    You run away from arguments just about as well as HA.

    Tell us, cat lady, did you support the COVID lockdown regime? Are you still wearing a mask?

    Replies: @Frau Katze

    Re: Covid

    I am not in favour of forced vaccinations. As I’m over 70 I thought it prudent to get all vaccines. Elderly people are at high risk.

    I don’t wear a mask.

    • Replies: @3g4me
    @Frau Katze

    You're not elderly, poseur Frau. You're an OLD LADY. Deal with it.

  240. @Mark G.
    @Frau Katze

    During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage. When they tried to implement these programs, they were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses. If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    HA supported this but will not openly admit it. Instead he tries to change the subject. Did you support that?

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Looger, @HA

    If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    Well, a couple hundred doctors being shot in the street within a couple days would definitely have helped topple the covid-madness.

    I guess hundreds of microbiologists 11-12 years before weren’t enough of a wake-up call…

    Lots of people knew better but went along, and now they will never admit they were wrong. There is still a huge split and it will never heal – covid was absolutely the fault line.

    The medical establishment in general has been slowly backing away, from their insane and unhinged lows of rhetoric. So they know they went too far.

    We needed those doctors to die for the truth. Hate to say it but they were on the spot and they let us down.

    Fuck all doctors, I gave zero fucks about them before as they were nothing but pharma salespeople. If what you say is true then they are the lowest of the low and it may be pertinent to catalog and file them away for the time when lists and ropes and gas cans are distributed.

  241. I am not in favour of forced vaccinations.

    Good for you. Not everybody was so liberal minded.

    You weren’t hereabouts at this site during the height of the COVID madness. But commenters like “HA” and “That Would Be Telling” were proponents of forced masking, forced vaccination, lockdowns, etc. – the whole panoply of authoritarian measures that governments enacted as part of that whole sinister agenda. If you wonder why I am so hostile to people like “HA”, that is why.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Mr. Anon

    Most importantly, so was Steve Sailer. HA and that Would be Trolling were practically brand new or rarely seen commenters up until kovid and were immediately given instant moderation.

  242. @Mark G.
    @Frau Katze

    During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage. When they tried to implement these programs, they were threatened with the loss of their medical licenses. If they had their medical licenses revoked and tried to continue offering such treatments, they would be arrested. If any of them had tried to resist arrest, they would have been shot and killed.

    HA supported this but will not openly admit it. Instead he tries to change the subject. Did you support that?

    Replies: @Frau Katze, @Looger, @HA

    “During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage.”

    You mean HCQ? It was given emergency authorization,

    In March 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also called the FDA, allowed emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19. The FDA based this authorization on data collected from healthcare professionals and tests done on cell lines, not humans.

    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn’t help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn’t kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess — you didn’t take any of that either.

    Look, the fact is that well before Thalidomide came along decades ago (a drug that our FDA never allowed precisely because it had stricter controls than comparable European agencies), there were bad experiences with snake oil merchants being able to market and sell their “home remedy” custom-made cancer cures, baldness remedies or hangnail relief on the fly, and whatever else. And so the FDA was established to try and put some rules as to who could claim this or that was a cure. You’re as ignorant of history as you are of epidemiology so you ignore all that, but if you don’t like it, go to the land of tiger penis cures and rhino horn extracts, or the one where they prefer cow urine. It may well be that in some or many cases these governing bodies are too rigid and slow and procrustean (and that wouldn’t surprise me given the slipshod way they’re funded and managed — largely because of people like you who refuse to fund them because you think the debt and your other pet causes are much more important), but if that’s your claim, stop whining about it and put together some actual data and actual tests and you might impress somebody that your proposed changes would wind up saving more people than they kill. Or go the courts, as I’ve repeatedly encouraged you, given that they’ve occasionally ruled in your favor. But instead, you lie and retcon and whine all over the internet about how everyone should have listened to you, because that’s all the COVID truthers have going for them (apart from the stuff they cribbed from earlier anti-vaxx playbooks).

    And as I noted earlier, this is all hypothetical anyway, aside from sleazy goalpost shifting and misdirection, and regardless of whatever “home remedies” were available, you would have turned them down along with the “nutritional supplements” you also now say you want, but were also too lazy to take, because before you got sick and VOLUNTARILY chose to go the very medical establishment you now decry, you were listening to the idiots who assured you COVID was no big deal and wouldn’t be a threat to you in the first place. But being the weasel you are, you refuse to own up to that and now want to instead hype another bunch of quack prophets who assure you that their home remedies would have kept you out of that same hospital the earlier set of false prophets assured you you’d never need and the one you wound up in. I.e., even with 20/20 hindsight, you STILL can’t get it right. Amazing.

    Lastly, consider the fact that most people aside from loons like you have gotten over this. Sweden awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine to the developers of the vaccine (and no, I don’t mean Malone). Your boy DeSantis bent over backwards to placate the COVID loons, but he still did dismally in the primaries, losing out to someone who boasted of his role in developing and spearheading what he referred to at the time as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. The only candidate running on an anti-vaxx platform (and he wants to enable Putin as well) is RFK Jr., and he’s not doing any better than DeSantis is, but hey, feel free to throw away your vote on him. I.e., as much as you want to claim that you got it right, and Sailer and everyone else needs to apologize, you’re increasingly regarded as the modern day equivalent of those loons of yesteryear who (as lampooned in Dr. Strangelove) assured us that fluoridated water was a Communist plot, a conspiracy theory that has itself sort of come full circle, given how many of you are now eager to endorse up whatever all-too-real conspiracies Moscow engages in.

    • Replies: @vinteuil
    @HA

    I dare - indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    Replies: @Mark G., @HA, @Mr. Anon

    , @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn’t help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn’t kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess — you didn’t take any of that either.
     
    The "stories" of people overdosing on HCQ were just that - stories. Can you cite one actual case of that?

    Upthread you mentioned people overdosing on aquarium cleaner, which was also a lie. There was, to my knowledge, one case of somebody purportedly overdosing on chloroquine phosphate. The man almost certainly didn't take it himself but was fed the stuff by his wife (who was probably trying to poison him). She was investigated for murder, but the prosecutors gave up the case. I'm not surprised given how well it served the narrative.

    The stories about Ivermectin causing a rash of overdoses, as reported in Rolling Stone for example were equally bogus.

    You seem as uninterested in the truth as is the mainstream media.

    Replies: @HA

  243. @HA
    @J.Ross

    "All these quotes were perfectly true and reasonable at the time they were said."

    Perfectly true, you say? OK, then. Let's put a pin on that and remember it the next time any fanboy makes a prediction or a statement about Ukraine -- say the one about how Russia will inevitably prevail against the West and NATO or whatever -- we should keep in mind it actually has a sell-by date that is 3 months or so which, after which the total opposite may apply.

    And when that great and wise sage Mearshimer, for example, says that "Russia CAN'T create a greater Russia because Russia is a declining power, and doing so is actually a good way to wreck Russia because it will lead to no end of trouble and Putin is much too smart for that", it's only "perfectly true" at the moment he utters it, and then afterwards it becomes true in only a "less than perfect" way -- as in Russia can just snap out of its "declining power" rut because it's a Tuesday or something, at which point trying to swipe surrounding territory then actually becomes a genius move. Or something.

    Thanks, fanboys -- doubling down on fanboy stupidity makes it seem so much less stupid!

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Anonymous

    It’s you who sounds like a “fanboy” of the neocons and globalists.

    • Agree: Mark G.
  244. @HA
    @vinteuil

    "Please do tell us all more about the bungling of the NHS these past few years."

    Well, there was the one where they hired you in the first place, wasn't there? I suspect I wouldn't have needed 20/20 hindsight to see that wouldn't end well.

    Replies: @vinteuil

    …Well, there was the one where they hired you…

    Well, yeah, come to think of it, you’re probably right about that.

    Zeke Emanuel hired me ’cause Amy & Leon Kass wrongly thought they spotted a bit of talent in me.

    • Replies: @HA
    @vinteuil

    "Zeke Emanuel hired me ’cause Amy & Leon Kass wrongly thought they spotted a bit of talent in me."

    Well, perhaps there's still time, then. Put away whatever bottles and conspiracy theories are cluttering up your head and go try and live up to the potential that they saw. Prove them right. Getting bitter about the NHS in internet comments after all this time is not a way to do yourself any favors.

  245. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage."

    You mean HCQ? It was given emergency authorization,


    In March 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also called the FDA, allowed emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19. The FDA based this authorization on data collected from healthcare professionals and tests done on cell lines, not humans.
     
    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn't help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn't kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess -- you didn't take any of that either.

    Look, the fact is that well before Thalidomide came along decades ago (a drug that our FDA never allowed precisely because it had stricter controls than comparable European agencies), there were bad experiences with snake oil merchants being able to market and sell their "home remedy" custom-made cancer cures, baldness remedies or hangnail relief on the fly, and whatever else. And so the FDA was established to try and put some rules as to who could claim this or that was a cure. You're as ignorant of history as you are of epidemiology so you ignore all that, but if you don't like it, go to the land of tiger penis cures and rhino horn extracts, or the one where they prefer cow urine. It may well be that in some or many cases these governing bodies are too rigid and slow and procrustean (and that wouldn't surprise me given the slipshod way they're funded and managed -- largely because of people like you who refuse to fund them because you think the debt and your other pet causes are much more important), but if that's your claim, stop whining about it and put together some actual data and actual tests and you might impress somebody that your proposed changes would wind up saving more people than they kill. Or go the courts, as I've repeatedly encouraged you, given that they've occasionally ruled in your favor. But instead, you lie and retcon and whine all over the internet about how everyone should have listened to you, because that's all the COVID truthers have going for them (apart from the stuff they cribbed from earlier anti-vaxx playbooks).

    And as I noted earlier, this is all hypothetical anyway, aside from sleazy goalpost shifting and misdirection, and regardless of whatever "home remedies" were available, you would have turned them down along with the "nutritional supplements" you also now say you want, but were also too lazy to take, because before you got sick and VOLUNTARILY chose to go the very medical establishment you now decry, you were listening to the idiots who assured you COVID was no big deal and wouldn't be a threat to you in the first place. But being the weasel you are, you refuse to own up to that and now want to instead hype another bunch of quack prophets who assure you that their home remedies would have kept you out of that same hospital the earlier set of false prophets assured you you'd never need and the one you wound up in. I.e., even with 20/20 hindsight, you STILL can't get it right. Amazing.

    Lastly, consider the fact that most people aside from loons like you have gotten over this. Sweden awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine to the developers of the vaccine (and no, I don't mean Malone). Your boy DeSantis bent over backwards to placate the COVID loons, but he still did dismally in the primaries, losing out to someone who boasted of his role in developing and spearheading what he referred to at the time as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. The only candidate running on an anti-vaxx platform (and he wants to enable Putin as well) is RFK Jr., and he's not doing any better than DeSantis is, but hey, feel free to throw away your vote on him. I.e., as much as you want to claim that you got it right, and Sailer and everyone else needs to apologize, you're increasingly regarded as the modern day equivalent of those loons of yesteryear who (as lampooned in Dr. Strangelove) assured us that fluoridated water was a Communist plot, a conspiracy theory that has itself sort of come full circle, given how many of you are now eager to endorse up whatever all-too-real conspiracies Moscow engages in.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

    I dare – indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    • Thanks: Mark G.
    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @vinteuil

    A February 2022 Business Insider article reported that Trump stopped promoting the Covid vaccines in interviews and during rallies for fear of a backlash from his base. The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA.

    Biden has been an ardent supporter of the Covid vaccines and our puppet Zelensky but it does not seem to be helping him much in the polls. Almost every month he hits a new record low.

    Replies: @HA

    , @HA
    @vinteuil

    "HA is on the take."

    That's right -- the COVID truthers here at Unz-dot-com have been so brilliantly persuasive, that someone from Big Pharma was hired to go after them (and of course, root for Ukraine -- everyone knows that Big Pharma and Ukraine are peas-in-a-pod sister causes).

    Makes perfect sense!

    Seriously, it took just a few of your comments to figure out you have some serious alcohol (and possibly other substance) issues. I mean, even your bandwidth stinks of liquor. To the extent that people at the NHS who endured your presence for three whole years didn't catch on to that in the way I was able to (and I'm not saying they didn't), that would be yet another black mark on their record.

    , @Mr. Anon
    @vinteuil


    I dare – indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.
     
    I don't think HA is on the take. I think he's just a horse's ass.
  246. @Mr. Anon

    I am not in favour of forced vaccinations.
     
    Good for you. Not everybody was so liberal minded.

    You weren't hereabouts at this site during the height of the COVID madness. But commenters like "HA" and "That Would Be Telling" were proponents of forced masking, forced vaccination, lockdowns, etc. - the whole panoply of authoritarian measures that governments enacted as part of that whole sinister agenda. If you wonder why I am so hostile to people like "HA", that is why.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    Most importantly, so was Steve Sailer. HA and that Would be Trolling were practically brand new or rarely seen commenters up until kovid and were immediately given instant moderation.

  247. @vinteuil
    @HA

    I dare - indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    Replies: @Mark G., @HA, @Mr. Anon

    A February 2022 Business Insider article reported that Trump stopped promoting the Covid vaccines in interviews and during rallies for fear of a backlash from his base. The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA.

    Biden has been an ardent supporter of the Covid vaccines and our puppet Zelensky but it does not seem to be helping him much in the polls. Almost every month he hits a new record low.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA."

    Don't be a moron. All I'm saying is that bending over to the COVID truthers wasn't enough to do much for him in those primaries. And you may be willing to forget what Trump said about being vaccinated -- given the many convenient memory lapses you're prone to regarding your own spotty record -- but not all truthers are as forgiving as you are, and you can bet the internet still remembers.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Mark G.

  248. @vinteuil
    @HA

    I dare - indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    Replies: @Mark G., @HA, @Mr. Anon

    “HA is on the take.”

    That’s right — the COVID truthers here at Unz-dot-com have been so brilliantly persuasive, that someone from Big Pharma was hired to go after them (and of course, root for Ukraine — everyone knows that Big Pharma and Ukraine are peas-in-a-pod sister causes).

    Makes perfect sense!

    Seriously, it took just a few of your comments to figure out you have some serious alcohol (and possibly other substance) issues. I mean, even your bandwidth stinks of liquor. To the extent that people at the NHS who endured your presence for three whole years didn’t catch on to that in the way I was able to (and I’m not saying they didn’t), that would be yet another black mark on their record.

  249. @Mark G.
    @vinteuil

    A February 2022 Business Insider article reported that Trump stopped promoting the Covid vaccines in interviews and during rallies for fear of a backlash from his base. The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA.

    Biden has been an ardent supporter of the Covid vaccines and our puppet Zelensky but it does not seem to be helping him much in the polls. Almost every month he hits a new record low.

    Replies: @HA

    “The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA.”

    Don’t be a moron. All I’m saying is that bending over to the COVID truthers wasn’t enough to do much for him in those primaries. And you may be willing to forget what Trump said about being vaccinated — given the many convenient memory lapses you’re prone to regarding your own spotty record — but not all truthers are as forgiving as you are, and you can bet the internet still remembers.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @HA

    "COVID Truthers"!

    You really are a smug, stupid a**hole.

    , @Mark G.
    @HA

    Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins. I imagine it is because the both of you show the same levels of sound judgement and mental acuity and that leads to the same policy prescriptions. So are you going to throw your support behind Slow Joe in the upcoming election? After all, he is doing so badly in the polls and every little bit helps. Just coming out for him in the comment sections here will impress all the other commenters and sway a lot of votes.

    Replies: @HA

  250. @vinteuil
    @HA

    I dare - indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    Replies: @Mark G., @HA, @Mr. Anon

    I dare – indeed, I double dare, any honest person to read all the way through this post and conclude anything other than that HA is on the take.

    I don’t think HA is on the take. I think he’s just a horse’s ass.

  251. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA."

    Don't be a moron. All I'm saying is that bending over to the COVID truthers wasn't enough to do much for him in those primaries. And you may be willing to forget what Trump said about being vaccinated -- given the many convenient memory lapses you're prone to regarding your own spotty record -- but not all truthers are as forgiving as you are, and you can bet the internet still remembers.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Mark G.

    “COVID Truthers”!

    You really are a smug, stupid a**hole.

  252. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "During the Covid epidemic some doctors tried to develop early home treatments to treat patients before the disease reached an advanced stage."

    You mean HCQ? It was given emergency authorization,


    In March 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also called the FDA, allowed emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19. The FDA based this authorization on data collected from healthcare professionals and tests done on cell lines, not humans.
     
    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn't help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn't kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess -- you didn't take any of that either.

    Look, the fact is that well before Thalidomide came along decades ago (a drug that our FDA never allowed precisely because it had stricter controls than comparable European agencies), there were bad experiences with snake oil merchants being able to market and sell their "home remedy" custom-made cancer cures, baldness remedies or hangnail relief on the fly, and whatever else. And so the FDA was established to try and put some rules as to who could claim this or that was a cure. You're as ignorant of history as you are of epidemiology so you ignore all that, but if you don't like it, go to the land of tiger penis cures and rhino horn extracts, or the one where they prefer cow urine. It may well be that in some or many cases these governing bodies are too rigid and slow and procrustean (and that wouldn't surprise me given the slipshod way they're funded and managed -- largely because of people like you who refuse to fund them because you think the debt and your other pet causes are much more important), but if that's your claim, stop whining about it and put together some actual data and actual tests and you might impress somebody that your proposed changes would wind up saving more people than they kill. Or go the courts, as I've repeatedly encouraged you, given that they've occasionally ruled in your favor. But instead, you lie and retcon and whine all over the internet about how everyone should have listened to you, because that's all the COVID truthers have going for them (apart from the stuff they cribbed from earlier anti-vaxx playbooks).

    And as I noted earlier, this is all hypothetical anyway, aside from sleazy goalpost shifting and misdirection, and regardless of whatever "home remedies" were available, you would have turned them down along with the "nutritional supplements" you also now say you want, but were also too lazy to take, because before you got sick and VOLUNTARILY chose to go the very medical establishment you now decry, you were listening to the idiots who assured you COVID was no big deal and wouldn't be a threat to you in the first place. But being the weasel you are, you refuse to own up to that and now want to instead hype another bunch of quack prophets who assure you that their home remedies would have kept you out of that same hospital the earlier set of false prophets assured you you'd never need and the one you wound up in. I.e., even with 20/20 hindsight, you STILL can't get it right. Amazing.

    Lastly, consider the fact that most people aside from loons like you have gotten over this. Sweden awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine to the developers of the vaccine (and no, I don't mean Malone). Your boy DeSantis bent over backwards to placate the COVID loons, but he still did dismally in the primaries, losing out to someone who boasted of his role in developing and spearheading what he referred to at the time as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. The only candidate running on an anti-vaxx platform (and he wants to enable Putin as well) is RFK Jr., and he's not doing any better than DeSantis is, but hey, feel free to throw away your vote on him. I.e., as much as you want to claim that you got it right, and Sailer and everyone else needs to apologize, you're increasingly regarded as the modern day equivalent of those loons of yesteryear who (as lampooned in Dr. Strangelove) assured us that fluoridated water was a Communist plot, a conspiracy theory that has itself sort of come full circle, given how many of you are now eager to endorse up whatever all-too-real conspiracies Moscow engages in.

    Replies: @vinteuil, @Mr. Anon

    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn’t help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn’t kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess — you didn’t take any of that either.

    The “stories” of people overdosing on HCQ were just that – stories. Can you cite one actual case of that?

    Upthread you mentioned people overdosing on aquarium cleaner, which was also a lie. There was, to my knowledge, one case of somebody purportedly overdosing on chloroquine phosphate. The man almost certainly didn’t take it himself but was fed the stuff by his wife (who was probably trying to poison him). She was investigated for murder, but the prosecutors gave up the case. I’m not surprised given how well it served the narrative.

    The stories about Ivermectin causing a rash of overdoses, as reported in Rolling Stone for example were equally bogus.

    You seem as uninterested in the truth as is the mainstream media.

    • Thanks: Mark G.
    • Replies: @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "Can you cite one actual case of that?"

    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don't bother reading anyway. Here's something to get you started:


    An 80-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of dizziness after ingestion of 6 grams of hydroxychloroquine. The patient stated that he was prescribed the hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis against COVID-19, and after exposure to a coworker with symptomatic COVID-19,...While there is no well-established lethal dose of hydroxychloroquine, animal trials and case studies have suggested that toxic doses can occur in the 20 mg/kg range with lethal doses potentially as low as 30 mg/kg.4 Our patient ingested approximately 85 mg/kg, placing him well within the range of a potentially lethal ingestion.
     
    And for good measure, here's a lady who used HCQ for suicide, but she only took 10-15 tablets (about 2-3 grams, or half what the 80-year-old guy took). Didn't die, and seems to be more of one of those "cries for help" that women with pills often attempt half-heartedly, but it's still an overdose.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said "it didn’t kill people", and that it was never proscribed, so that's just you sputtering. It's not that you don't read my comments. It's more that you have abysmally poor reading comprehension and can't do your own thinking or even do a simple internet search without assistance.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  253. @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    As noted in the same link, that emergency use lasted until doctors in the ER noticed that it caused heart complications, and was only then revoked (the stories of people overdosing also didn’t help matters.) As for Ivermectin, as it turns out, that was a bust too, but since it didn’t kill people, that was never proscribed the way HCQ was, but let me guess — you didn’t take any of that either.
     
    The "stories" of people overdosing on HCQ were just that - stories. Can you cite one actual case of that?

    Upthread you mentioned people overdosing on aquarium cleaner, which was also a lie. There was, to my knowledge, one case of somebody purportedly overdosing on chloroquine phosphate. The man almost certainly didn't take it himself but was fed the stuff by his wife (who was probably trying to poison him). She was investigated for murder, but the prosecutors gave up the case. I'm not surprised given how well it served the narrative.

    The stories about Ivermectin causing a rash of overdoses, as reported in Rolling Stone for example were equally bogus.

    You seem as uninterested in the truth as is the mainstream media.

    Replies: @HA

    “Can you cite one actual case of that?”

    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don’t bother reading anyway. Here’s something to get you started:

    An 80-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of dizziness after ingestion of 6 grams of hydroxychloroquine. The patient stated that he was prescribed the hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis against COVID-19, and after exposure to a coworker with symptomatic COVID-19,…While there is no well-established lethal dose of hydroxychloroquine, animal trials and case studies have suggested that toxic doses can occur in the 20 mg/kg range with lethal doses potentially as low as 30 mg/kg.4 Our patient ingested approximately 85 mg/kg, placing him well within the range of a potentially lethal ingestion.

    And for good measure, here’s a lady who used HCQ for suicide, but she only took 10-15 tablets (about 2-3 grams, or half what the 80-year-old guy took). Didn’t die, and seems to be more of one of those “cries for help” that women with pills often attempt half-heartedly, but it’s still an overdose.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said “it didn’t kill people”, and that it was never proscribed, so that’s just you sputtering. It’s not that you don’t read my comments. It’s more that you have abysmally poor reading comprehension and can’t do your own thinking or even do a simple internet search without assistance.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don’t bother reading anyway. Here’s something to get you started:
     
    So - somehow I'm supposed to do your internet searches, but you're too important to do mine.

    Hey, you found one. Good job, a**hat. Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won't find many stories about those. Just side effects.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said “it didn’t kill people”, and that it was never proscribed, so that’s just you sputtering.
     
    And there was a massive PR campaign against it - including blatant lies about people ODing on it. And it was proscribed, idiot. Pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions for it.

    But then I don't expect anything approximating the truth from deranged liars like you.

    Replies: @HA

  254. @vinteuil
    @HA


    ...Well, there was the one where they hired you...
     
    Well, yeah, come to think of it, you're probably right about that.

    Zeke Emanuel hired me 'cause Amy & Leon Kass wrongly thought they spotted a bit of talent in me.

    Replies: @HA

    “Zeke Emanuel hired me ’cause Amy & Leon Kass wrongly thought they spotted a bit of talent in me.”

    Well, perhaps there’s still time, then. Put away whatever bottles and conspiracy theories are cluttering up your head and go try and live up to the potential that they saw. Prove them right. Getting bitter about the NHS in internet comments after all this time is not a way to do yourself any favors.

  255. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "The theory that he beat DeSantis in the primaries because he was more pro-vaccine is pretty ludicrous, even for HA."

    Don't be a moron. All I'm saying is that bending over to the COVID truthers wasn't enough to do much for him in those primaries. And you may be willing to forget what Trump said about being vaccinated -- given the many convenient memory lapses you're prone to regarding your own spotty record -- but not all truthers are as forgiving as you are, and you can bet the internet still remembers.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Mark G.

    Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins. I imagine it is because the both of you show the same levels of sound judgement and mental acuity and that leads to the same policy prescriptions. So are you going to throw your support behind Slow Joe in the upcoming election? After all, he is doing so badly in the polls and every little bit helps. Just coming out for him in the comment sections here will impress all the other commenters and sway a lot of votes.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins."

    Because to obsessives like you, there are only two issues in the world that matter? Well, that explains a lot about your blinkered little world.

    But since RFK Jr. thinks a lot like you when it comes to COVID and Ukraine, I guess that means you're his ideological twin, according to your logic -- so why don't you decide on how best to campaign for him rather than telling other people how to vote? That seems to be a thing with you -- so much that went wrong in your life, what with you getting sent to the hospital for something that should have been no worse than a typical bout with flu had you bothered to get yourself vaxxed, and yet, instead of fixing something close to home, here you are blaming everyone else for what they should have done differently. And you think I'm going to take voting pointers from the likes of you?

    Replies: @Mark G.

  256. @Mark G.
    @HA

    Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins. I imagine it is because the both of you show the same levels of sound judgement and mental acuity and that leads to the same policy prescriptions. So are you going to throw your support behind Slow Joe in the upcoming election? After all, he is doing so badly in the polls and every little bit helps. Just coming out for him in the comment sections here will impress all the other commenters and sway a lot of votes.

    Replies: @HA

    “Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins.”

    Because to obsessives like you, there are only two issues in the world that matter? Well, that explains a lot about your blinkered little world.

    But since RFK Jr. thinks a lot like you when it comes to COVID and Ukraine, I guess that means you’re his ideological twin, according to your logic — so why don’t you decide on how best to campaign for him rather than telling other people how to vote? That seems to be a thing with you — so much that went wrong in your life, what with you getting sent to the hospital for something that should have been no worse than a typical bout with flu had you bothered to get yourself vaxxed, and yet, instead of fixing something close to home, here you are blaming everyone else for what they should have done differently. And you think I’m going to take voting pointers from the likes of you?

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @HA

    I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here? So, since those two issues are so important to you, why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from.

    You are such an evasive fellow. You will not say what country you live in. That should be important, since if you are not an American your allegiance may be to some foreign power. You will not say what type of work you do. Are you part of the Zelensky administration? I hear he just replaced his top general. At this point, that is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

    Also you keep switching the subject on one important question. If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    Replies: @HA

  257. @Frau Katze
    @Mr. Anon

    Re: Covid

    I am not in favour of forced vaccinations. As I’m over 70 I thought it prudent to get all vaccines. Elderly people are at high risk.

    I don’t wear a mask.

    Replies: @3g4me

    You’re not elderly, poseur Frau. You’re an OLD LADY. Deal with it.

    • Troll: Frau Katze
  258. Hey there HA,

    Did you know that the Punjabis, and everyone else our taxes are paying the interest on the expenses to import here, DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE THE !VAXX???

    It was just for the suckers who are being replaced.

    Ponder on that for a minute.

  259. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "Since Biden largely agreed on your Covid policies and now agrees with you on assisting the Ukraine it appears you two are ideological twins."

    Because to obsessives like you, there are only two issues in the world that matter? Well, that explains a lot about your blinkered little world.

    But since RFK Jr. thinks a lot like you when it comes to COVID and Ukraine, I guess that means you're his ideological twin, according to your logic -- so why don't you decide on how best to campaign for him rather than telling other people how to vote? That seems to be a thing with you -- so much that went wrong in your life, what with you getting sent to the hospital for something that should have been no worse than a typical bout with flu had you bothered to get yourself vaxxed, and yet, instead of fixing something close to home, here you are blaming everyone else for what they should have done differently. And you think I'm going to take voting pointers from the likes of you?

    Replies: @Mark G.

    I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here? So, since those two issues are so important to you, why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from.

    You are such an evasive fellow. You will not say what country you live in. That should be important, since if you are not an American your allegiance may be to some foreign power. You will not say what type of work you do. Are you part of the Zelensky administration? I hear he just replaced his top general. At this point, that is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

    Also you keep switching the subject on one important question. If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here?"

    I don't discuss either of them unless some can't-let-it-go loser pops in and starts lying about them, in which case I sometimes correct them. COVID has been over for almost two years now, and check the paper trail -- I wasn't the one who detoured the discussion there and keeps doing so. Again, maybe it's time to let it go, and then you none of you will have to pretend to ignore me. And I write about plenty of other stuff -- if you haven't noticed, again, check your own obsessions before presuming to correct mine.

    "why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from."

    No, there's RFK Jr. What's stopping you from going after him? Is it because you can't deal with your own baggage and only want to dictate what other people do?

    "You are such an evasive fellow."

    Because it's my arguments that matter, not me. Even who I choose to vote for is hardly germane. I stick to the topic at hand and leave it at that. What, are my posts not long enough for you as it is? And now you think I should further pad them with personal info? You think a lawyer gets to prattle on about his private matters when making a case without the judge or the opposing attorney raising the matter of relevance? Take a tip from them. You don't even know if I'm a "fellow" per se, and I'm happy to keep it that way. I do get that you're regretting having let slip what a total bonehead you were during COVID, winding up in the hospital and all, and failing to take any of those so-called home remedies (because you stupidly believed those who were telling you COVID was a "nothingburger") and so you instead retcon yourself into claiming you were thwarted from doing any of that by governmental bureaucracy instead of your own stupid laziness and decision to listen to COVID truthers who tell you to this day you to do nothing. Like I said, a total bonehead, but again, that's your baggage. Own up to it, and leave it at that. Given how stupid your TMI slips made you look, you seriously think I'd want to follow suit? I don't. Therefore, your creepy inquisitiveness into my personal affairs isn't doing you any favors, and you already have enough on your plate to deal with.

    Replies: @Mark G.

  260. @Mark G.
    @HA

    I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here? So, since those two issues are so important to you, why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from.

    You are such an evasive fellow. You will not say what country you live in. That should be important, since if you are not an American your allegiance may be to some foreign power. You will not say what type of work you do. Are you part of the Zelensky administration? I hear he just replaced his top general. At this point, that is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

    Also you keep switching the subject on one important question. If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    Replies: @HA

    “I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here?”

    I don’t discuss either of them unless some can’t-let-it-go loser pops in and starts lying about them, in which case I sometimes correct them. COVID has been over for almost two years now, and check the paper trail — I wasn’t the one who detoured the discussion there and keeps doing so. Again, maybe it’s time to let it go, and then you none of you will have to pretend to ignore me. And I write about plenty of other stuff — if you haven’t noticed, again, check your own obsessions before presuming to correct mine.

    “why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from.”

    No, there’s RFK Jr. What’s stopping you from going after him? Is it because you can’t deal with your own baggage and only want to dictate what other people do?

    “You are such an evasive fellow.”

    Because it’s my arguments that matter, not me. Even who I choose to vote for is hardly germane. I stick to the topic at hand and leave it at that. What, are my posts not long enough for you as it is? And now you think I should further pad them with personal info? You think a lawyer gets to prattle on about his private matters when making a case without the judge or the opposing attorney raising the matter of relevance? Take a tip from them. You don’t even know if I’m a “fellow” per se, and I’m happy to keep it that way. I do get that you’re regretting having let slip what a total bonehead you were during COVID, winding up in the hospital and all, and failing to take any of those so-called home remedies (because you stupidly believed those who were telling you COVID was a “nothingburger”) and so you instead retcon yourself into claiming you were thwarted from doing any of that by governmental bureaucracy instead of your own stupid laziness and decision to listen to COVID truthers who tell you to this day you to do nothing. Like I said, a total bonehead, but again, that’s your baggage. Own up to it, and leave it at that. Given how stupid your TMI slips made you look, you seriously think I’d want to follow suit? I don’t. Therefore, your creepy inquisitiveness into my personal affairs isn’t doing you any favors, and you already have enough on your plate to deal with.

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @HA

    If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    Replies: @HA

  261. @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "Can you cite one actual case of that?"

    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don't bother reading anyway. Here's something to get you started:


    An 80-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of dizziness after ingestion of 6 grams of hydroxychloroquine. The patient stated that he was prescribed the hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis against COVID-19, and after exposure to a coworker with symptomatic COVID-19,...While there is no well-established lethal dose of hydroxychloroquine, animal trials and case studies have suggested that toxic doses can occur in the 20 mg/kg range with lethal doses potentially as low as 30 mg/kg.4 Our patient ingested approximately 85 mg/kg, placing him well within the range of a potentially lethal ingestion.
     
    And for good measure, here's a lady who used HCQ for suicide, but she only took 10-15 tablets (about 2-3 grams, or half what the 80-year-old guy took). Didn't die, and seems to be more of one of those "cries for help" that women with pills often attempt half-heartedly, but it's still an overdose.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said "it didn’t kill people", and that it was never proscribed, so that's just you sputtering. It's not that you don't read my comments. It's more that you have abysmally poor reading comprehension and can't do your own thinking or even do a simple internet search without assistance.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don’t bother reading anyway. Here’s something to get you started:

    So – somehow I’m supposed to do your internet searches, but you’re too important to do mine.

    Hey, you found one. Good job, a**hat. Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won’t find many stories about those. Just side effects.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said “it didn’t kill people”, and that it was never proscribed, so that’s just you sputtering.

    And there was a massive PR campaign against it – including blatant lies about people ODing on it. And it was proscribed, idiot. Pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions for it.

    But then I don’t expect anything approximating the truth from deranged liars like you.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • Replies: @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "Hey, you found one."

    I found two with one simple search, which is two more than you bothered to look for, at which point I stopped.

    Again, it's not that you don't read my comments -- it's more that basic reading comprehension and even simple counting, is beyond you. Check out that Long COVID story I pulled for Mark G -- seems to apply to you as well, though maybe you were a basket case well before COVID came along.

    "Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won’t find many stories about those. Just side effects."

    More lies. There was plenty of effort put into trying to quantify myocarditis risk, for example. When I put "covid myocarditis vaccine" into a search engine, I get close to 1.,8 million hits. You can also do a search on Martina Patone from Oxford -- she was the statistician who was among the first to try and quantify that risk for different cohorts. Later and better controlled studies (which took a while, so that for several months, Patone's early study was all we had to go with, even though it was skewed in terms of who was choosing to take the vaccine) affirmed that the risk was real, but not nearly as bad as the myocarditis that the unvaccinated experience with COVID. Lots of other stuff, too -- e.g., the vaccine can mess with the timing of a woman's menstrual cycle, etc. Again, one has to be able to do simple internet searching, and that's evidently beyond you at this point.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  262. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "I talk about other issues here so obviously I think many issues are important. You like to only mainly discuss two issues. So, who is the obsessive here?"

    I don't discuss either of them unless some can't-let-it-go loser pops in and starts lying about them, in which case I sometimes correct them. COVID has been over for almost two years now, and check the paper trail -- I wasn't the one who detoured the discussion there and keeps doing so. Again, maybe it's time to let it go, and then you none of you will have to pretend to ignore me. And I write about plenty of other stuff -- if you haven't noticed, again, check your own obsessions before presuming to correct mine.

    "why not support Biden? It is from the Republican side that most of the opposition to Covid authoritarians and Zelensky fanboys like you come from."

    No, there's RFK Jr. What's stopping you from going after him? Is it because you can't deal with your own baggage and only want to dictate what other people do?

    "You are such an evasive fellow."

    Because it's my arguments that matter, not me. Even who I choose to vote for is hardly germane. I stick to the topic at hand and leave it at that. What, are my posts not long enough for you as it is? And now you think I should further pad them with personal info? You think a lawyer gets to prattle on about his private matters when making a case without the judge or the opposing attorney raising the matter of relevance? Take a tip from them. You don't even know if I'm a "fellow" per se, and I'm happy to keep it that way. I do get that you're regretting having let slip what a total bonehead you were during COVID, winding up in the hospital and all, and failing to take any of those so-called home remedies (because you stupidly believed those who were telling you COVID was a "nothingburger") and so you instead retcon yourself into claiming you were thwarted from doing any of that by governmental bureaucracy instead of your own stupid laziness and decision to listen to COVID truthers who tell you to this day you to do nothing. Like I said, a total bonehead, but again, that's your baggage. Own up to it, and leave it at that. Given how stupid your TMI slips made you look, you seriously think I'd want to follow suit? I don't. Therefore, your creepy inquisitiveness into my personal affairs isn't doing you any favors, and you already have enough on your plate to deal with.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    • Replies: @HA
    @Mark G.

    "government agents shooting and killing him"

    Hysterical much? If a doctor dispenses tiger penis and rhino horn or anything else claiming that it will cure anything, be it COVID or toenail fungus, I support whatever medical boards are responsible for preventing those kinds of scams to make sure he follows the same proof of safety and efficacy protocols the rest of the medical establishment does, which again, is why Thalidomide wasn't a problem here. In fact, given how many died from Vioxx and FDA-approved opioids, maybe the rules they have now should be far stricter, but I doubt there's much historical precedent for government agents shooting and killing snake oil merchants -- unless the snake oil is poison Kool-Aid dispensed in some Guyana compound, or something similar.

    I.e. you're just nuts. But given your COVID hospital stay, you may have an excuse:


    Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

    ..What's more, two of those signs of brain injury persisted into the recovery phase, ..."Our study shows that markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19,..." These brain complications associated with COVID-19 have ranged from mild (headaches) to potentially life-threatening (seizures, stroke, and encephalitis [and also a drama-queen fondness for bizarre conspiracy theories and wacky hypothetical scenarios unhinged from reality]..."
     

    Actually that boldfaced bit is mine, and is heavily influenced by what I've seen here at Unz's site, but I'm sticking with it.

    Replies: @Mark G.

  263. @Anonymous
    @China Japan and Korea Bromance of Three Kingdoms

    This was published in January 1898. The previous November the Germans had occupied Tsingtao, which is presumably what prompted the cartoon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiautschou_Bay_Leased_Territory

    Replies: @Anonymous

    And of course, “King cake” is consumed at Christmas time, so the artist would have been eating it while drawing this cartoon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake

  264. @Mark G.
    @HA

    If a doctor tried to develop and implement early home treatments during the Covid epidemic, would you have supported government agents shooting and killing him if needed to prevent that? Yes or no.

    Replies: @HA

    “government agents shooting and killing him”

    Hysterical much? If a doctor dispenses tiger penis and rhino horn or anything else claiming that it will cure anything, be it COVID or toenail fungus, I support whatever medical boards are responsible for preventing those kinds of scams to make sure he follows the same proof of safety and efficacy protocols the rest of the medical establishment does, which again, is why Thalidomide wasn’t a problem here. In fact, given how many died from Vioxx and FDA-approved opioids, maybe the rules they have now should be far stricter, but I doubt there’s much historical precedent for government agents shooting and killing snake oil merchants — unless the snake oil is poison Kool-Aid dispensed in some Guyana compound, or something similar.

    I.e. you’re just nuts. But given your COVID hospital stay, you may have an excuse:

    Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

    ..What’s more, two of those signs of brain injury persisted into the recovery phase, …”Our study shows that markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19,…” These brain complications associated with COVID-19 have ranged from mild (headaches) to potentially life-threatening (seizures, stroke, and encephalitis [and also a drama-queen fondness for bizarre conspiracy theories and wacky hypothetical scenarios unhinged from reality]…

    Actually that boldfaced bit is mine, and is heavily influenced by what I’ve seen here at Unz’s site, but I’m sticking with it.

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @HA

    So the answer is "yes" you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors offering early home treatments for Covid.

    Big Pharma donates large sums of money to politicians each election cycle. They are not doing this for altruistic reasons. They want to influence the government to implement policies that will increase their profits. In the case of Covid, that meant mandatory mass vaccinations and three thousand dollar Remdesivir. Only inexpensive steroid drugs made it through the approval gauntlet designed to prevent low profit treatments.

    So, basically you are an advocate of murdering people in order to increase Big Pharma profits.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @HA, @Mike Tre

  265. @Mr. Anon
    @HA


    Do your own internet searches instead of wasting my time writing comments that you then laughably try to pretend you don’t bother reading anyway. Here’s something to get you started:
     
    So - somehow I'm supposed to do your internet searches, but you're too important to do mine.

    Hey, you found one. Good job, a**hat. Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won't find many stories about those. Just side effects.

    As for Ivermectin, I specifically said “it didn’t kill people”, and that it was never proscribed, so that’s just you sputtering.
     
    And there was a massive PR campaign against it - including blatant lies about people ODing on it. And it was proscribed, idiot. Pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions for it.

    But then I don't expect anything approximating the truth from deranged liars like you.

    Replies: @HA

    “Hey, you found one.”

    I found two with one simple search, which is two more than you bothered to look for, at which point I stopped.

    Again, it’s not that you don’t read my comments — it’s more that basic reading comprehension and even simple counting, is beyond you. Check out that Long COVID story I pulled for Mark G — seems to apply to you as well, though maybe you were a basket case well before COVID came along.

    “Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won’t find many stories about those. Just side effects.”

    More lies. There was plenty of effort put into trying to quantify myocarditis risk, for example. When I put “covid myocarditis vaccine” into a search engine, I get close to 1.,8 million hits. You can also do a search on Martina Patone from Oxford — she was the statistician who was among the first to try and quantify that risk for different cohorts. Later and better controlled studies (which took a while, so that for several months, Patone’s early study was all we had to go with, even though it was skewed in terms of who was choosing to take the vaccine) affirmed that the risk was real, but not nearly as bad as the myocarditis that the unvaccinated experience with COVID. Lots of other stuff, too — e.g., the vaccine can mess with the timing of a woman’s menstrual cycle, etc. Again, one has to be able to do simple internet searching, and that’s evidently beyond you at this point.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @HA

    Good Boy. You are a good little tool.

    If the Pharma industry awards something like an "Order of Lenin" medal, you are sure to get one.

    You are a moron.

  266. @HA
    @Mark G.

    "government agents shooting and killing him"

    Hysterical much? If a doctor dispenses tiger penis and rhino horn or anything else claiming that it will cure anything, be it COVID or toenail fungus, I support whatever medical boards are responsible for preventing those kinds of scams to make sure he follows the same proof of safety and efficacy protocols the rest of the medical establishment does, which again, is why Thalidomide wasn't a problem here. In fact, given how many died from Vioxx and FDA-approved opioids, maybe the rules they have now should be far stricter, but I doubt there's much historical precedent for government agents shooting and killing snake oil merchants -- unless the snake oil is poison Kool-Aid dispensed in some Guyana compound, or something similar.

    I.e. you're just nuts. But given your COVID hospital stay, you may have an excuse:


    Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

    ..What's more, two of those signs of brain injury persisted into the recovery phase, ..."Our study shows that markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19,..." These brain complications associated with COVID-19 have ranged from mild (headaches) to potentially life-threatening (seizures, stroke, and encephalitis [and also a drama-queen fondness for bizarre conspiracy theories and wacky hypothetical scenarios unhinged from reality]..."
     

    Actually that boldfaced bit is mine, and is heavily influenced by what I've seen here at Unz's site, but I'm sticking with it.

    Replies: @Mark G.

    So the answer is “yes” you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors offering early home treatments for Covid.

    Big Pharma donates large sums of money to politicians each election cycle. They are not doing this for altruistic reasons. They want to influence the government to implement policies that will increase their profits. In the case of Covid, that meant mandatory mass vaccinations and three thousand dollar Remdesivir. Only inexpensive steroid drugs made it through the approval gauntlet designed to prevent low profit treatments.

    So, basically you are an advocate of murdering people in order to increase Big Pharma profits.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Mark G.

    I don't think that HA actually works for a pharma company. He's just a fanboy. He doesn't even profit from his shilling. He's just a puppy-dog-like repeater for the narrative of wealthy interests who wouldn't give him a first notice, let alone a second.

    He is an NPC. A mindless drone.

    , @HA
    @Mark G.

    "So the answer is 'yes' you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors..."

    And there we have the just-a-flu bro "logic" at its run-of-the-mill extreme. If the rest of the world doesn't bow to their adolescent tantrums, it can only mean someone is planning to shoot and kill people who agree with them.

    , @Mike Tre
    @Mark G.

    And this is Steve Sailer's guy.

  267. @HA
    @Mr. Anon

    "Hey, you found one."

    I found two with one simple search, which is two more than you bothered to look for, at which point I stopped.

    Again, it's not that you don't read my comments -- it's more that basic reading comprehension and even simple counting, is beyond you. Check out that Long COVID story I pulled for Mark G -- seems to apply to you as well, though maybe you were a basket case well before COVID came along.

    "Now do vaccine side effects. Of course you won’t find many stories about those. Just side effects."

    More lies. There was plenty of effort put into trying to quantify myocarditis risk, for example. When I put "covid myocarditis vaccine" into a search engine, I get close to 1.,8 million hits. You can also do a search on Martina Patone from Oxford -- she was the statistician who was among the first to try and quantify that risk for different cohorts. Later and better controlled studies (which took a while, so that for several months, Patone's early study was all we had to go with, even though it was skewed in terms of who was choosing to take the vaccine) affirmed that the risk was real, but not nearly as bad as the myocarditis that the unvaccinated experience with COVID. Lots of other stuff, too -- e.g., the vaccine can mess with the timing of a woman's menstrual cycle, etc. Again, one has to be able to do simple internet searching, and that's evidently beyond you at this point.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Good Boy. You are a good little tool.

    If the Pharma industry awards something like an “Order of Lenin” medal, you are sure to get one.

    You are a moron.

  268. @Mark G.
    @HA

    So the answer is "yes" you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors offering early home treatments for Covid.

    Big Pharma donates large sums of money to politicians each election cycle. They are not doing this for altruistic reasons. They want to influence the government to implement policies that will increase their profits. In the case of Covid, that meant mandatory mass vaccinations and three thousand dollar Remdesivir. Only inexpensive steroid drugs made it through the approval gauntlet designed to prevent low profit treatments.

    So, basically you are an advocate of murdering people in order to increase Big Pharma profits.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @HA, @Mike Tre

    I don’t think that HA actually works for a pharma company. He’s just a fanboy. He doesn’t even profit from his shilling. He’s just a puppy-dog-like repeater for the narrative of wealthy interests who wouldn’t give him a first notice, let alone a second.

    He is an NPC. A mindless drone.

  269. @Mark G.
    @HA

    So the answer is "yes" you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors offering early home treatments for Covid.

    Big Pharma donates large sums of money to politicians each election cycle. They are not doing this for altruistic reasons. They want to influence the government to implement policies that will increase their profits. In the case of Covid, that meant mandatory mass vaccinations and three thousand dollar Remdesivir. Only inexpensive steroid drugs made it through the approval gauntlet designed to prevent low profit treatments.

    So, basically you are an advocate of murdering people in order to increase Big Pharma profits.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @HA, @Mike Tre

    “So the answer is ‘yes’ you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors…”

    And there we have the just-a-flu bro “logic” at its run-of-the-mill extreme. If the rest of the world doesn’t bow to their adolescent tantrums, it can only mean someone is planning to shoot and kill people who agree with them.

  270. @Mark G.
    @HA

    So the answer is "yes" you would like to have seen the government shoot and kill doctors offering early home treatments for Covid.

    Big Pharma donates large sums of money to politicians each election cycle. They are not doing this for altruistic reasons. They want to influence the government to implement policies that will increase their profits. In the case of Covid, that meant mandatory mass vaccinations and three thousand dollar Remdesivir. Only inexpensive steroid drugs made it through the approval gauntlet designed to prevent low profit treatments.

    So, basically you are an advocate of murdering people in order to increase Big Pharma profits.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @HA, @Mike Tre

    And this is Steve Sailer’s guy.

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