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From my review of the Best Picture Oscar contender Conclave in Taki’s Magazine:
Robert Harris’ heroes are clearly on the side of Vatican II. When Ralph Fiennes’s English cardinal accuses him of ambition, Stanley Tucci’s American cardinal notes that every cardinal has already picked out the name he would be known as when pope. Fiennes’ papal name, for instance, would be John XXIV.
A reader once suggested to me that the prime mover of the vast cultural revolution of the later 1960s, which in America is often attributed to the Pill, the electric guitar, the baby boom, the Vietnam War, or the assassination of JFK, was instead Pope John XXIII’s unforced decision, at the peak of the Roman Catholic Church’s prosperity and strength, to convene a council of reform:
Ever since 1789, the West, broadly, had sought a happy medium between the poles of Revolution and Reaction, and the Catholic Church represented the latter pole. In Vatican II, the Church seemed suddenly to leave the field, or indeed, seemed to throw itself on to the other pole.
But, as usual in Harris’ tales, even the bad guys get smart things to say: The right-wing Italian villain drops by the left-wing Anglo-American heroes’ lunch table to point out to the leftist English-speaking cardinals that because not even cardinals can comfortably carry on a conversation in Latin anymore, all the tables are divided up by language, unlike in the good old days before Vatican II (rather resembling Charlton Heston’s famous anecdote about how lunch on the set of Planet of the Apes was segregated by species).
Read the whole thing there.
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Now if we could get you to care about white genocide we’d really be getting somewhere!
Says who? Patriotic to what/who? Not the English people. He is obsessed with the same white ethnic squabbles that got tens of millions killed in two stupid world wars. He wrote the Fatherland which is alternative scare history about Nazis winning the war, blah blah blah. He was worried that Brexit was based on anti-immigrant feeling. The same old anti-white nonsense.
But the good news is the anti-White leftist “patriots” of his ilk skew way over 65.
My browser breathes a sigh of relief.
Has an FtM person been ordained yet? I sure hope that isn’t the plot twist.
The last 10 minutes didn’t ruin the movie.
Scare up some good actors and give them interesting things to say, what a concept!
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What’s interesting about clergymen in this age is that most of them cannot do the basics of their work particularly well, much less navigate the personalities in their congregations. As for the higher clergy, quite a few of them would perform better if they did nothing at all.
Definitely Harris’s books are better than the films.
I think probably because they are written with the same momentum as a film script so they they are picked up by producers who have little to add to them.
But also because they are very much of their time when written. Filming them 8 years later is already too late.
“The Trump-as-Caudillo theory revisited: Reversing Third Worldization through another form of Third Worldization?” (Feb. 25, 2025)
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/the-trump-as-caudillo-theory-revisited-reversing-third-worldization-through-another-form-of-third-worldization/
…and…
“The Sailer Strategy vs. the Trump Caudillo Strategy,” Hail To You, November 2024.
Re your paywalled post on the Chicago runway incursion close call (well, I mean, I don’t care about this movie too much so …*):
No, that SWA pilot on the radio had no Southern drawl like Chuck Yeager, as I recall what Tom Wolfe had to say about the imitation of the cool-as-cucumber test pilots. Of course he’s going to be calm on the radio, and doing a last second go-around is what you train for. Nice job.
Now, as to the quality of the Flex-jet crew, that was pretty bad. It’s a compact, complicated airport, but the ground/tower guy did all he could. Not only did those pilots not relate their clearance to an airport diagram (they have moving maps with one’s position now!), but they obviously didn’t take a look for traffic either.
Hey, AnotherDad, it’s just another example. The system, with the mix of WHATEVER kinds of aircraft, depends on EVERYONE having his shit together. Granted, were it a Piper Cherokee, who would have every right to be there at Midway too (I’ve been in there in a Skyhawk), the controller would extra careful, with step-at-a-time instructions, but Flexjet pilots ought to be better. As I wrote, they have too much confidence in the military having their act together, getting me back somewhat to the point of iSteve’s post. The military guys (and gals!) are far from Chuck Yeager and are not used to having to operate within the complicated and busy US airspace system as much either.
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* … but your Taki columns are always very entertaining, no matter what they are about.
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The Catholic church (along with many other denominations) completely disregarded Paul’s model of a decentralized Christian church.
Paul: each local congregation should appoint its own overseers (plural) consisting of monogamous married men with obedient children.
Catholics: a huge bureaucracy of unmarried childless men appointing an unmarried childless man to control all the local congregations. What could go wrong?
As the Catholic church moved leftward in the sixties, Catholics here in the United States moved rightward into the Republican party, leaving their traditional home in the Democrat party. Similar moves by Southern religious fundamentalists and religious Jews has caused the Republican party to be seen as the religious party and the Democrats as the secular party. Before the sixties, there was no difference in average weekly church attendance between Republicans and Democrats.
When my nonreligious high school science teacher father voted for Goldwater, it was not unusual for secular types to vote Republican. Late in his career, Goldwater’s social liberalism was seen as out of step with a Republican party that had become more socially conservative with the influx of religious voters.
The Catholic church had never been particularly enthralled with free market capitalism, preferring the distributism of a Chesterton or Belloc. The Republican party is seen as the more capitalist party in this country so many of their new Catholic voters have adopted similar beliefs. A number, though, have a weak attachment to a belief in free market capitalism, voting for Republicans more on the basis of the Republican party upholding a belief in conservative social views.
“Conclave” was just propaganda… really well made, well produced, and superbly acted anti-Christian, anti-Catholic if you prefer, propaganda.
The whole God Damned thing was just to give you a semi-Hermaphrodite Pope at the end.
That was it, the whole story.
And not for nothing, but it wasn’t exactly a perfect plot either. The Mystery Cardinal that nobody had heard of before, shows up, out of the fucking blue, and like a fucking miracle, keeps amassing more and more votes to be the Pope, with every vote taken. Neither his “out of nowhere” appearance, nor his ever increasing vote tally is ever explained in any way. They both just happen.
Frankly, that bullshit- pro-transexual, pro-homosexual, propaganda, under the guise of an uncontrollable birth defect, pissed me off greatly! That I watched that whole stupid thing, just so they could land a “Hermaphrodite Zinger” in the final minutes… what a load of bullshit!!
Fuck this movie!
So this is what we’re gonna get for iSteve: one entry every fortnight linking to the Taki column. I suppose we can ejaculate all of our pent-up on-topic, off-topic, and off-the-wall comments to reach 1,000 for each post.
Steve Sailer wrote in Taki-Magazine:
Meaning?
Preach it, Brother!
Anyway, I read the Taki column, and it was very good, as usual. It makes me want to actually go to the movies, but I doubt I could drag the family along.
It is VERY fortuitous for that German producer that he’s got this movie coming out right now. The so-called Pope they got up in there now may not be long for this world.* There may be a whole lot of interest in how this Conclave and white smoke business works. I can remember a little of this from way back in the days of the choosing of the great Anti-Communist Pope John Paul II.
The possible choice of that very Conservative African Bishop/Cardinal/what-have-you would be both interesting and true-to-life. You know they don’t want to ever pick another European White man. They tried a Liberation Theologist Commie, and it wasn’t the best thing for the church. Miss Ann Barnhardt has had a whole lot more to say on that, a WHOLE LOT MORE. (Like MTG, she is my kind of fanatic!)
Diversify, diversify, diversify! That used to be financial advice. How did people get so stupid as to think this was advice for life in general?!**
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* I won’t say I’d be especially happy about his death, as I was with Senators Ted Kennedy and Juan McCain. As I explained in Speaking Dead of the Ill – re Juan McAmnesty, it’d be one thing if these guys had been retired. I wouldn’t feel glee about their demise. However, if these destructive bastards stay in the Senate with lots of power, till death do they part, well, yeah, I was glad when they died.
It’s the same with a Pope, even more by the job description, BUT, he doesn’t really do so much damage except with his mouth. Do any Catholics even listen to this guy?
** “I said, ‘Diversify your portfolio, NOT your cornholio!’” – Beavis & Edwards, CPAs, LLC
I hadn’t even known it worked like that. One wonders what name the first black Pope will pick? Pope DuWayne I sounds reasonably Conservative, but he probably won’t know no Latin.
I followed your link to the amusing Charleton Heston anecdote about the Planet of the Apes and Beneath it sets. As with the age-old Ginger v Mary Ann question, we again will never get a solid resolution to “Who would you do, Linda Harrison or Dr. Zaius?”
When Bergolio passes shortly,my hope is Cardinal Sarah replaces him to restore order after this Jesuit Communist, who gives bar bouncers a bad name, made a mess. For an ethnic American Catholic to type such a sentence but a few decades ago would have been unthinkable. Bergolio started out as a rat for the Argentine junta in the day and his self-preservation streak has been his main focus since. There is so much bad personally and canonically with this Anti Pope. A man like Ted Mccarrick should have been tarred and feathered. Bergolio instead set him up in a nice apartment on the campus of Marquette. His 1st instincts are ALWAYS to deride traditionalists and conservative while coddling the Church’s enemies, inside and out.
It probably speaks well of Catholics that we do not debate a certain obvious topic, namely, who (after the Blessed Virgin, of course) is the greatest saint of all time? I have never once heard that question brought up, in person or in print, and when I asked the other day another Catholic who is in her sixties, she had never known the question to be debated either.
At the risk of appearing impertinent, then, I submit for your edification a case for the greatest saint I am aware of, that of Benedict Joseph Labre, patron saint of the homeless and the mentally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Joseph_Labre
He died of malnutrition at the age of 35, in Rome, on April 16, 1783, having led a life of such austere self-denial that he has been called a martyr of penance. Immediately upon his death, the children of the city ran out into the streets and commenced to proclaim, “The saint is dead! The saint is dead!” No one knew who they were talking about at first, and that way did word quickly get around that someone special had been born into Heaven. Soon enough something really amazing began to occur.
A cascade of unequivocal miracles wrought by Labre’s intercession swept through Rome in the days that followed his death. His confessor Marconi was able to tabulate 136 of them within the first three months. So numerous and undeniable were these miracles that they converted the New England Congregationalist John Thayer, who was living in Rome at the time and who thus became the first native of New England to be ordained to the Catholic priesthood. This caused quite a stir back in America and his own account of his conversion can be read here https://books.google.com/books?id=ERUCAAAAYAAJ&q=john+thayer&pg=PA1#v=snippet&q=john%20thayer&f=false
Why do I say Benedict Joseph Labre was the greatest saint of all time? Because he was utterly unrecognized in his lifetime. But for the miracles that ensued his death we would not know who he was at all. When St Francis, who is usually ranked the most popular saint of all time, was asked, Why is it always about you? he said, Because I was the biggest sinner and could never brag about being the best. By contrast, Labre was not chosen for anything in his life, he was even denied from the several monasteries he attempted to join. That, even though from all the accounts he was something of a natural born saint.
Had God chosen him in his life for some calling of note, we would have to say he was chosen because he was the best. But that is not how God works. Thank God He works that way He does and gave us a patron well-worth boasting about now.
St Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us!
So if I get your hint well, they choose a trans Pope at the end. Great. Another movie to put into those that I will never see.
American culture is one of compromise?
Good to see Steve back.
Off topic, anyone know anything about this lot, who don’t seem to have a Wiki?
https://www.trading212.com/
“Commission-free investing for everyone”
I ask because
a) their charges seem too low to be true.
b) one of my kids has invested with them
I dunno.
In 1968 with Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI reaffirmed that artificial birth control is morally unacceptable. The Roman Catholic Church permits natural family planning, which involves timing intercourse based on a woman’s fertility cycle, but it rejects methods such as condoms, birth control pills, and sterilization.
This led to horrible problems, for example in Northern Ireland contraception was legal, but in the Republic of Ireland you could not buy a condom.
And then in 1973 we had Roe vs Wade, which was strongly opposed by both Catholics (immediately) and Protestants (more as time went on and Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority became influential.)
Interestingly, in the UK none of the main political parties are particularly associated with a stance on reproductive issues and abortion is legal up to 24 weeks, albeit with the sign-off of two doctors who have to say that the health of the woman may be at risk. Since the threat to the life of a woman is greater if she carries a pregnancy to term than if she has an early termination, there is little argument–or at least there are plenty of doctors willing to sign off.
The only party that stands for changes to the abortion law is the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
The weird thing about the US is that political issues come and go so rapidly. I though that one of the things that Donald Trump got elected on was removal of federal income tax on tips and overtime, but now the election is won, you hear little about this issue.
Issues like abortion seem to be more enduring and the overturn of Roe vs Wade does not seem to have led to antiabortion voters leaving the Republicans.
Nice to have a movie that is not all violence and explosions, as there are not many of them these days.
I’m not anti-abortion but I was strongly anti-Wade/Roe. It was clearly a case of SCOTUS acting as a legislature not as a court, and, not only that, but passing an unconstitutional law.
Someone ought to write a book about all those cases where SCOTUS has made up laws on whim. When did they start to do that? Early 1800s?
Sailer is calling this globohomo tranny propaganda as a ‘good movie’?
It’s easy to make a ‘good’ movie. Get some good actors, fine technicians, and hack writers to ink in half-clever dialogue. Such movie are dime-a-dozen.
This is clearly utter garbage. What’s truly offensive is that its very simple and crude message, totally globohomo and degenerate, is conveyed through a mishmash of seemingly ‘sophisticated’ discourse on difficult matters. In other words, it wraps its imbecile propaganda in faux-complexity.
This is more offensive than straight-out homo or tranny propaganda.
And it’s sad that Sailer still falls for it to call it a ‘good movie’.
Pukeville.
Which brings up the classic:
Q. Why are there so few black nuns?
A. No matter how hard they try, they just cannot say the word “Superior” after the word “Mother”.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes: Mutants worshipping the Alpha/Omega bomb in the radiated remains of NYC, the Gorilla Army under the command of Deputy Inspector Frank Luger destroys the sacred space of the mutants, know-it-all Dr. Z gets his comeuppance, and stalwart Chuck dies a bloody, violent death as he sets in motion the Alpha/Omega, turning Earth into a crispy critter. It’s the best of the Apes. Along with Beneath Chuck played dystopian hero in two other early 70s SF masterpieces — The Omega Man and Soylent Green in which he similarly dies bloody, violent deaths. The running times in these fantastic films were but a whisper compared to the banal bloat of Christopher Nolan’s turgid turds. Did the slimy limey Nolan destroy the world even once? Didn’t he make a movie about the A1-Bomb wherein Steve’s scientistic hero mentally mumbles about destroying the earth and sky but doesn’t actually do it? Weak.
Meaning that Jews ran Hollywood.
And made pictures largely for Catholic audiences to watch, since Catholics had by that point become the largest denomination in the country and went to movies a lot.
Most Westerns and dramas portrayed characters either going to Protestant churches or had minister/clearly protestant characters in them. And historically before Ellis Island immigration most Americans had been Protestant, so any historically-accurate picture set in America would involve mostly Protestant characters/ideals. And Catholic audiences mid-Century were still “assimilating” to the middle class of America, so they longed for entertainment about the Protestants who had long run the country.
Explaining jokes isn’t fun.
Because the D’s are still fighting for it. They fund (and get funded by) Planned Parenthood and want some kind of Congressional act to get abortion back to a “national right.”
Murdering children is a sacrament to those sickos. Moloch must be appeased!
“Personally, I like Italians more than Romans because they now occasionally feel twinges of guilt about their ruthless opportunism. ”
Wow you must really like jews then.
Surely you mean Nova (Linda Harrison) or Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter)?
Doesn’t Chuck Yeager’s West Virginian qualify more as an Appalachian drawl?
What are the required qualifications for FlexJets-type pilots? The radio recording sounded young.
Spoiler alert!
Yes. Though in the book even “his” supporters didn’t know it.
Actually, if I recall it wasn’t the usual mental illness but a kind of early choice that was made due to physical characteristics. Not much snipping, if any, required. The Pope isn’t male. Just raised male and being a priest, was never seen by anyone naked.
The book is very readable, full of supposedly accurate details about how Popes are selected.
Haven’t seen the film.
Horrible.
Compared to, say, Mirpuris gang raping the entire underage working class girl cohort of post-industrial England.
Not horrible.
Comes up occasionally. It requires Congress to change the tax code. If Congress ever decides to pass a law again, you’ll hear more about it.
To go where?
Ending Roe made abortion a State issue (correctly). In theory it should no longer blight federal politics, but five decades of lobbying infrastructure doesn’t just disappear overnight. There are late-career activists on both sides who just keep executing the same code.
Not the right question.
This led to horrible problems, for example in Northern Ireland contraception was legal, but in the Republic of Ireland you could not buy a condom.
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That’s not a ‘horrible’ problem. It is an inconvenience to a certain constituency.
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Interestingly, in the UK none of the main political parties are particularly associated with a stance on reproductive issues
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Another reason, in case you needed one, to despise the British Conservative Party. (Actually, the Liberal Democrats are fanatically pro-abortion).
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I though that one of the things that Donald Trump got elected on was removal of federal income tax on tips and overtime, but now the election is won, you hear little about this issue.
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You thought wrong. It was an aside. While we’re at it the House just passed this measure.
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OT — “Woman.” I think it was Asimov who called violence the resort of the incompetant.
They use a cowardly out, “intersex” and not ftm per se. Sounds like correcting a pronoun to me. Never mind that part of becoming Pope is another priest actually touching your scrotum and telling the whole room what balls you have (as a defense against castration as a practice and castratos as a class — observe how things went in late imperial China, where eunuchs were in effective control, to see the wisdom of this idea).
Sailer appears to have found his métier: writing predictably coy, witless reviews of the MSM’s endless supply of shitty propaganda movies. Water does indeed seek its level.
I may steal that “portfolio/cornholio” rhyme.
removal of federal income tax on tips and overtime, but now the election is won, you hear little about this issue
And on Social Security. It just passed the House this week. 51 votes in the Senate are needed.
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An interesting conversation took place between Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, and the President of Hillsdale College, the Evangelical college known for having some intellectually engaged students. The discussion did not touch on criticizing Jewish influence in America or Jewish hostility toward Christianity. Instead, it focused on how best to serve Israel. Erik Prince even talked about organizing and fundraising for horizontal drilling across Gaza to flood the Hamas tunnels. As long as core America cannot recognize Jewish influence, meaningful change isn’t going to happen.
Well, I never! I was trying not to be speciest at least, much less homo… genious
But, yeah, I probably meant Zira. It’s just personal taste, mind you, but I’m partial to Nova – she looks real nice on horseback even in those old rags. Not that there’s anything wrong with sex with Chimpanzees, male or female. No, of course not!
Yeah, you’re right on the accent, A.M. I’m sure Tom Wolfe and Mr. Sailer defined it better. However, the pilots now.. many probably don’t even know who Chuck Yeager IS!
Yes, he sounded young. The FARs require an ATP for the Captain for Part 91-k operations (the “fractional” ownership companies like FlexJets and the big one – NetJets, and others), but FlexJet says they want a minimum of 3,000 total hours to be a “competitive candidate”. (That also means they could be flexible on that – see, Flex-jets.)
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How much signage are on airport runways? With all the crosshatching at Midway, I can see how a non-local pilot could lose his place.
In Marbury vs. Madison in 1803, the Supreme Court made up the law that they get to make up laws.
A lot of so-called patriots of the past were like Woody Guthrie and his guitar that ‘killed fascists’. They weren’t really loyal to their nation, they were just trying to sucker a population into a bigger struggle against “fascism”.
They started by making down laws.
Even though I am not a Catholic, I attended Catholic school from first through ninth grade, and both of my daughters have attended Catholic schools through high school. With that being said, I have a certain outsider’s strong view of the Catholic Church. For one, I don’t know of any strong adherents of the faith. My daughters are protestant and go to church on Sunday mornings far more so than their Catholic friends. When I asked my daughters if their friends attended mass on Sunday, the answer was damn near always “no.“ My few friends from the Catholic school that I attended, most are secular/agnostic at this point.
The bottom line is that the Catholic Church has a bloated roster of followers. Since they get children through confirmation at an early age, they still list them as members even if these people fall away from the faith in later years. Given that evangelical and Pentecostal churches are going rapidly in Africa and South America, it seems apparent that the Catholic Church will be greatly weakened in years to come.
Why do you care about guns so much? No one is going to use them in a George Floyd type chaotic environment. In fact the fight for gun rights gives people false reassurance.
OT — from a recent post on your Substack:
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-nurture-assumption-by-judith
Steve, did he cite any examples of the concerning triumphalism? You didn’t mention any in your article.
If it’s true he invented labredoodles, he’s probably not in Heaven. Those mutts are an abomination. Saint Francis will not be mocked.
Lots. They are standardized. If one is not, it’ll be in the NOTAMS, which are now (thank you, Trump!) back to NOices To AirMen.
Paper charts of the airport layouts that were around since the early days of flying have been superseded for most by electronic versions, many of them now showing one’s position overlayed. Still, stuff happens …
You misspelled “Kyle Rittenhouse”.
Honestly, the thing that grated on me more was that the right-wing Italian candidate is portrayed like he’s some meathead lout from the Jersey shore. That’s really cheap.
The hermaphrodite getting elected Pope is gross, and comes off as cheap propaganda in the current environment. But to give the devil his due, if there were ever a story where such a ridiculous scenario actually does make some artistic sense, I guess this would be it. Obviously the movie functions as a bit of pro-tranny propaganda, but he, or she or whatever, is not really a tranny. He is neither man nor woman. It’s important to note that the new Pope’s condition is kept secret, and he himself originally did not know that he wasn’t quite a man (he chooses the name Innocent for himself).
Who decides how to “divvy up” what, in this compromise?
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Incidentally, I see few if any Jews in the production of this movie Conclave (which may unsurprising).
The director is surnamed Berger, but he is a European. In Europe being a Berger is no clear sign of ethnoreligious status. A Hollywood-connected Berger-named person would be a clear signal in the USA, but not so for a Swiss-Austrian.
(Originally, I presume, “Berger” or variants was a high-class Christian status derived from the ancient class-title of Burgher; I don’t think Jews were allowed to be Burghers before Jewish Emancipation in the 19th century but clearly a good number grabbed the name–in the way there ais such a huge number of Blacks named Washington?).
The CEO of the “production company” FilmNation, however, is Jewish (Glen Basner). None of the other major-credit people are.
The list:
Guide me, please, towards the right question.
Never heard of ’em.
Typically, if a broker has “too low” or no fees, they are profiting either by being a market maker (i.e., buying and selling from their own inventory, at a slight markup), or by collecting payments from other market makers for sending them your order flow, which amounts to the same thing at one remove.
The net effect either way is that instead of paying a commission, you are paying a slightly higher price (or selling at a slightly lower price) than you would at a commission broker, so in effect you are paying a commission, it’s just not called that. This information may be in the fine print of the brokerage agreement.
Is it possible the pilot on the radio was different from the pilot moving the plane around? Or is there a rule that the pilot in control has to be the one talking to the tower?
Do you think the the FlexJet pilot understood what he did as it happened? For someone who had just nearly caused a mass casualty event, he didn’t sound very chastened in the recording.
Ponzi scheme.
That’s a good line, but technically Marbury v. Madison was more the Supremes declaring that they get to invalidate Federal laws rather than make up new ones, as Ralph L‘s comment implied.
To answer dearieme‘s question, I dunno. There is, TBH, some wiggle room in defining what is “making up law” versus what is ordinary judicial review. The earliest notorious case after Marbury (1803) was probably Dredd Scott (1857), where in order to forestall a looming national schism, the Court mucked around with the definition of citizenship … and ironically if unsurprisingly ended up provoking the Civil War it sought to avert. That seemed to chasten the Court for a few decades until…
The modern era of judicial activism probably starts with the New Deal and especially Wickard v. Filburn (1942) where the Supreme Court essentially rewrote the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause to mean intrastate non-commerce. But arguably the Justices were acting under the gun of the FDR admin threats, so this wasn’t activism with full scienter.
The real golden age of judicial activism was the Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s when, feeling its oats, the Supreme Court just started remaking whatever it wanted about American society. Most of the heavy jurisprudential philosophizing since then has been about whether or how to trim the Warren Court’s legacy, and mostly it hasn’t happened.
I thought Berger meant “from the mountain”, while Burger (e.g., Warren) was the citizen-class title.
Which would mean Bergers are more likely to be descended from highland shepherds, woodsmen, and miners, while Burgers are more likely to be descended from lowland townsmen and merchants.
Re. Speaking ill of the dead. Don’t do it, at least until their shade leaves this realm and descend permanently to hell. When Jimmy Carter died, a younger me would have cheered as he saw he gates of Hell open to receive him, but some years ago the ghost of Ted Kennedy taught me to leave the recently deceased alone.
I was cheered by Kennedy’s demise and publicly proclaimed how evil he was and how much I hated the bastard. His spirit was still lurking the earth, and in revenge he drown my pet orphan flying squirrel, Rufus, in a bucket of water in the barn. I found his waterlogged carcass where he had fallen in and drown trying in vain to escape
I know it was Kennedy because the next evening, he took the corporal form a rat, perched in an apple tree on the edge of the property [c’mon what are the chances?], sneering and laughing at me. I blew him off the tree with a .22, but he already had his revenge.
Do NOT speak ill of the dead! Heed me!
Aw, just heard that the late great Gene Hackman has passed away. God bless ole Popeye, what a great scream he was!!
Now no disrespect to the great artist Gene, I think he would like it for me to turn it around onwards to the next best batch of worthwhile art…..
Come on, check out this comparison to PJ and Billie…..
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Maybe you can’t hear the undertone relation, but come on, still.
“I think it was Asimov who called violence the resort of the incompetent.”
How many divisions had Asimov?
Mafia gangs – and indeed the secret services of many countries – use violence pretty effectively. “No man, no problem” as Stalin put it.
And there are armed forces …
OT, the extent of US power is amazing. The Tate brothers were almost certainly banged up at US behest, now at the same they’re being released.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/27/andrew-tate-tristan-romania-us
“Incidentally, I see few if any Jews in the production of this movie Conclave (which may unsurprising). ”
Hugh Hefner was a goy, so I guess we can conclude that jews had nothing to do with the creation and distribution of early modern pornography.
Reading Miranda rights might be an early made-up law–it made government do something new. I believe the UK started about the same time but in their normal fashion in Parliament, not the courts.
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The good news is, the people who were capable of understanding “Trout Mask Replica” are dying off. The bad news is, the people who were capable of understanding “Trout Mask Replica” are dying off.
When National Review’s film critic (John Simon at the time) reviewed The Crying Game, he got to a certain point in the plot, stopped, and said, “But I will not review further, because this movie is homosexual propaganda and therefore not art.”
Same for this “masterpiece.”
Wow, how’d you guess?
Lots. Plus they would have this electronically either on an i-pad or mounted in the instrument panel (or both), with a little airplane icon showing exactly where they were on it. Complete with the brown “HS” boxes, meaning “hot spots”, i.e. be extra careful there.
https://www.aopa.org/ustprocs/20250220/EC-3/mdw_airport_diagram.pdf
This stuff is all over the place. All you have to do is look at the signage
It’s not just possible, but that’s the usual way, with a 2 pilot crew. That means that on the ground, it’s usually the First Officer, aka, co-pilot, on the radios because (may be exceptions) for jets and any larger planes, sharp turns require use of the tiller wheel, which is only on the Captain’s (left) side.
As soon as the ground controller gave that next clearance, both of them had to know they’d screwed up. I’m not really good with voices, but I think there was a tinge of worry in the guy’s voice. (That may have been the Captain at the end.) I’m pretty sure they both will get fired.
Some confusion with that audio is that the editor overlayed both the ground and tower frequencies.* (A scanner would miss some, as it only holds on one frequency at a time.) Therefore, SW would not have heard that confusion out of FlexJet, which would have clued both SW pilots earlier that something may not go right.
Here’s the other thing. You don’t read back a wild assumption of a clearance. (I learned this the not-so-hard way in the middle of the night long ago.) The F/O should have cut himself off at … confusion …”cross 22, err 13″ with “… Wait, repeat the clearance please.” No good controller should get mad or exasperated at that – they’d normally be appreciative. That is, unless this is the 4th attempt, and you are Air China heavy trying to make your way around Kennedy Airport.
I don’t know if FlexJet was taxiing for T/O or inbound to the FBO, but either way, you pull out the diagram and kind of guess which way you will need to taxi, BEFOREHAND. That doesn’t mean you’ll go that same way, but you’ll be more familiar. Finally, it’s much better if you can picture exactly what you are to do AS the controller says it.
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* Other airports might do this differently, but please believe me that they have their reasons. There’s a trade-off between aircraft being on a common frequency more vs. fewer frequency change calls.
OT — Gene Hackman, who was in movies that were unsuccessful, but who was good in everything he was in, found dead with wife (30 years younger) and dog. No foul play suspected. Carbon monoxide?
LOL!
I’m sorry for your loss, Old Prude. I’m no animal coroner, but I have to tell you the bad news that your flying squirrel didn’t drown – Rufus suffocated.
7 cents a shot, and well worth it. What will be the next incarnation of the U-Boat Commander?
Thanks for spoiling it for me! [No sarc. – I don’t like wasting money.]
Now as to the guy that revealed the ending of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, you really did it! You revealed the ending! GD you all to hell!
Generally this effect can be overcome by limit pricing your buy and sell orders. In any case, full service brokers’ fees dwarf commission free discount brokers markups by orders of magnitude. I recently had to liquidate a small portfolio, held at a full service broker, left by a late relative with many beneficiaries. Broker’s fees ate up close to %5 of the estate.
It looks like a British version of American discount brokers like Robinhood, Active Trader etc. In the USA they’ve been around for 30-40 years. Their fee structure is in line with US counterparts mostly. Doesn’t look suspicious.
Rufus Kopechne, eh?
Conclave (2024) | Movie Scenes | Movieclips playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqr4Q1H7o30x_m2jz9D0BGuX
Miranda (1966): Warren court.
Arguably, any precendtial decision not a dismissal forces someone to do something new. The text of the Miranda decision simply says that the warnings given in Miranda’s case were inadequate, so police forces remedied that by translating Warren’s criticism into perp-friendly declarative sentences and reading that to suspects. Now it’s a thing.
Yes, most Anglophone + First World countries now have something similar to a Miranda warning, but as you say, they typically got there via legislation.
So long as the clergy are straight, the worst that can happen is a few wayward priests get women pregnant. But to a Catholic, children are a blessing, so that’s not bad.
On the other hand, with gay clergy, the worst that can happen is absolutely horrific. There’s a reason it’s condemned so strongly in the Bible.
Possibly of interest, at least to Sailersphere inhabitants out there still diligently reading:
U.S. Census 2010, surname counts and races:
BERGER: 43,851 individuals, of whom:
– 40,488 “White Alone” (92.3%)
– 1,088 “Black Alone,”
– 303 “Asian or Pacific Islander Alone,”
– 149 American Indian or Alaska Native
– 596 “Two or more races,”
– 1,228 Hispanic (“of any race”)
(Plus a huge number of variants of “something-bergers,” around 340 such surnames with over one-hundred individuals, which doesn’t even touch the “something-bergs.”
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BURGER: 19,480 individuals, of whom:
– 18,153 “White Alone” (93.2%)
– 413 “Black Alone,”
– 115 “Asian or Pacific Islander Alone,”
– 119 American Indian or Alaska Native
– 265 “Two or more races,”
– 419 Hispanic (“of any race”)
___________
The most famous Burger of all is Warren Burger, Homer Simpson’s favorite Supreme Court justice, All authorities agree on this: He was a Protestant hometown hero of St. Paul, Minnesota. The name in his case was said to trace to Austria.
Warren Burger and his family were except representatives of the Burgher (German: Bürger) type, from the old-model citizenship-classes. (Ask Reg Caesar, if he is around, for corroboration; or Art Deco, in a pinch)
He’s also named “Tedesco”, which is the Italian word for “German”, presumably meant to connote that he is a Nazi.
From what I saw in the online clips, he is one of the few likable characters: straight-talking, forthright and humorous, unlike the all other unctuous, shrill, and precious characters who populate this leftist fantasy.
Per Ann Barnhardt, who knows more about the Cardinals than most, the ‘liberal’ Cardinals are basically all homosexuals, while the ‘conservatives’ are mostly spineless.
In theory. In practice you have to shave it pretty close to deny the broker his ‘commission’, which risks nonexecution of the order. And if you do get an execution on a limit order, it could mean you forewent a better price.
In any case, as you say, the margin is small unless the broker is corrupt, so a normal investor who is not a day trader probably won’t notice the difference anyway.
We should only concern ourselves with the nothing-Burgers.
“In Marbury vs. Madison in 1803, the Supreme Court made up the law that they get to make up laws.”
No, they issued a RULING. Congress created the courts (a law!), conferring it the power to review legislation and thus enforce the Constitution. The Supreme Court then exercised this authority in a famous and critical ruling that checks the power of the legislative and executive branches.
Get it right next time.
Trump quickly signed an executive order abolishing federal tax on tips and overtime.
The issue is finished no more discussion. What do you want, salaried workers ranting and raving about no more tax on tips and overtime? Editorials written about the pros and cons? Talk shows discussing the issue?
Promised , accomplished on to the next issue. No need for discussion.
Marbury vs Madison 1805 established judicial supremacy over the executive and legislative branches. Just as the founders wrote the constitution.
The founders based the constitution on:
1 English common law which was and still is judge made law cerca reign Henry 2
2 Writings of French legal scholar higher court judge and aristocrat Montesquieu. All laws should be made by judges.With the exception of royal decrees and municipal laws by a city council. Montesquieu accepted municipal laws because those laws and ordinances are practical housekeeping. Streets garbage building codes etc.
There’s many American constitutional law books. Not fun reading. Louisiana slaughterhouses 1871 is the absolute worst example of judge made law.
Even worse than Griggs and Kaiser affirmative action for absolutely unfit unqualified negrões.
It’s the law of America. From before the revolution because American law is English common or judge made law. Slavery was legalized for negrões and negroes only in 1648 by one just one judge Antoine Johnson case.
It is what it is.
A judge’s ruling becomes the law. Until either:
1 the ruling is overturned by a law passed by legislators and signed by the executive governor president mayor
2 the ruling is reversed by another judge
Overturned and reversed are precise legal terms. Different legal terms Judicial ruling aka order becomes law as soon as a single judge signs the ruling.
You shouldn’t make comments about things of which you know nothing.
It is what is has been since Jamestown and Plymouth settlement
A judge’s ruling aka order becomes the law.
The better question is why don’t MORE people care about guns and allow their gun rights to be frittered away by the TPTB? Your gun rights were placed into the BoR in 1791, and yet here we are in 2025 trying to get rid of bans on rifles in the People’s Republics like Illinois!
Anything you say.
I recall people in Chicago being spotted with Kaslashnikovs and Tavors in the budding “George Floyd” festivities in 2020.
In Chicago 1968, we got to live through this:
Witnessed the arson fire on a south side white owned paint store during that.
LOL. Just look at the UK, AUS and New Zealand who just GAVE UP and surrendered their arms.
None of them could put up a “Battle of Athens” because they are DISARMED.
Bridget & Eamon had a pretty funny episode on that topic.
I love you Dr. Zaius!
Captain Troutface? A waste of vinyl. Garbage.
OT — Polands.
https://streamable.com/e3druk
Steve got his denominations wrong.
https://decentfilms.com/articles/hollywoodreligion
An old witticism has it that Golden Age Hollywood was “a Jewish-owned business selling Catholic theology to Protestant America.”
Intersex pope?
Ewww….when you are bored, you come with disgusting ideas. There are many things to discuss in the Church, but if you actually don’t think about them, you come up with nasty rubbish.
I had no idea that Marbury was so bizarre, but I had to verify that Corvy was wrong as usual. From Wikipedia:
“Examining the law Congress had passed to define Supreme Court jurisdiction over types of cases like Marbury’s—Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789—the Court found that the Act had expanded the definition of the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction beyond what was originally set forth in the U.S. Constitution. The Court then struck down Section 13 of the Act, announcing that American courts have the power to invalidate laws that they find to violate the Constitution—a power now known as judicial review. Because striking down the law removed any jurisdiction the Court might have had over the case, the Court could not issue the writ that Marbury had requested.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison
The Court expanded its power by striking down part of a law expanding its power!
Marshall was both judge and an actor in the case as Adams’ SecState, installing the original Deep State subversives after Jefferson’s election!
This is like Crying Game in religious garb.
Praying Game.
Anglos these days. How to fix the world? Turn everything gaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Harris’s next novel.
Putin steps down and they need a new leader. He’s gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Then next novel.
Xi steps down and they need a new leader. He’s gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Then next novel.
Ayatollah dies in Iran and they need a new leader. He’s gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
World is saved.
Gene and his wife’s death…. Don’t say you are not interested. Monoxide is not very likely; Gene was found in the mudroom & his wife in the bathroom, pills scattered around her.
To me, it looks like Gene collapsed naturally, perhaps from a stroke; then, his wife Betsy, shocked, took her life by some kind of medication.
The only inexplicable things- a dead dog, one of three.
Gayer
is the
new
prayer.
Pray gay
and all
will be
O-kay.
Say a little gayer for me.
I suspect this factor is more important than people realize. It’s been pointed out that activism for transsexuals took off immediately after Obergefell. Once the Supreme Court ruled Gay marriage legal, it left a whole activist industry without employment. You can’t agitate for something that no one can prevent.
There was some organization that had concerned itself with Transsexuals something like twice in the five years preceding Obergefell. Following the ruling it was more like twice a day.
It was literally ‘what can we lobby for instead?’
If Marbury was so wrong why didn’t anyone appeal it?
Speaking of movies … what was Gene Hackman’s vax status ?
Berger (soft g) is the french word for shepherd and, like shepherd in english, is a common (french) surname.
Gene’s turn in Unforgiven remains the most impressive portrayal of cold meanness I have ever seen. It makes it difficult to feel warmly towards him, because the mean bastardness seemed natural to him. Popeye was no choirboy either. Popeye gave us what I consider the greatest car [train] chase scene in cinematic history. RIP. Your oeuvre will live forever.
How do you know what Paul’s model is / was?
Yeah, Big Ben RoethlisBERGER strikes me as descending from those rougher sorts.
Yes! I still remember a popular meme at the time.
Questioner: Kyle, how does it feel to take the lives of two human beings?
Kyle: I don’t know, they were a couple of Marxist pedophiles.
Meanwhile, illegal alien bike gangs continue to confuse and/or terrify the Police in Colorado, just like they do in with the Police in Los Angeles on a daily basis, with no concern of the current dictates of President Trump…
Since the girls are not Catholic, they ipso facto do not attend Sunday Mass. Ergo, their reply to you is hearsay—a pretty weak tea sort of hearsay, too.
Here you are generalizing about the future state of the Church as a whole from a tiny and far from representative sample; namely, ex-Catholics who attended a Catholic school that had so little interest in the integrity and unalterable character of the Faith that the teachers and administrators complaisantly gave bad example to the Catholic students by welcoming non-Catholics into the student body, thereby weakening their Catholic charges’ resistance to the heresy of indifferentism, a heresy that many of them have sadly embraced.
Perhaps you should watch a rerun of The Paper Chase online. It might remind you of the importance of learning to think like a lawyer.
Agree. But if we cut off the NGO funding they might go out of business.
Exhibit A is the Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalitions which got $14,000,000.00 brought in for 2023 – 9,500,000.00 went to salary, travel, pensions, and benefits to the 8 individuals that supposedly run it.
I don’t care if eggs go to $20 a dozen if these useless anti American grifters get thrown out into the street, and lose their security clearances like the trannys in the DEI chat rooms at the NSA and other agencies. Tulsi (PHUH) is firing 100+ of them and they are losing their security clearances which means they will never work again.
More, faster, please.
It’s a crying shame this wasn’t known in his lifetime. “The Rat of the Senate” has a certain je ne sais quoi to it.
I went to see “Conclave” knowing full well it had a leftward tilt. I went because I will watch just about anything with Ralph Fiennes in it. Stanley Tucci is always pretty reliable, too. But it was basically barely middlebrow fare trying to pass for highbrow fare. The movie doesn’t have a single memorable line in it. It basically comes down to a Trump vs. Obama showdown, with the nearly anonymous (and ultimately victorious) Obama stand-in winning based on a single speech filled with mumbo jumbo (as in Obama’s speech at the 2004 DNC).
What I find ironic is that the film praises diversity, even as the current Communist Pope has moved to ban the diverse option of celebrating the Tridentine Mass. After all, how can we have diversity if we don’t have conformity?
“Pedophile-Rapist-Fugitive Roman Polanski Demands Respect!”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2012/05/pedophile-rapist-fugitive-roman.html
“Gene Hackman, 95, the greatest movie actor of his generation, his second wife, concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, 64, and their dog, all found dead in their New Mexico home, under highly suspicious circumstances”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene-hackman-95-greatest-actor-of-his.html
(Smile.)
Well I don’t know what went on, and I guess that maybe I don’t wanna know.
But Gene Hackman was one of the greats: in particular, he shared that weirdo 1970s moment in art, along with Robert Duvall and Al Pacino, of perfecting the Art of the Somehow Forgiveable Asshole. His great parts were being a total dick but letting you like him anyway. Maybe something like that will wind up in my obituary, along with the stuff about coyotes and Black Shakespeare and persuading George Meyer to not shoot himself.
Sort of like this also, somehow forgiveable, total c#nt (it’s sort of what I aspire to myself. Corvy, you get an F+.)
Also, that’s the best harp solo of all time at the end. Keep listening to it: even Billie and Finneas are jealous. Oh, and plus PJs head exploded at age 13 or so, around the same time mine did.
Granted the guy was an unbearable weirdo, but when he was on, you got to give him his propers, he was damn well f$cking ON.
There’s even a Ralph Fiennes speech where he demands “diversity” and “unity” within the same paragraph. He then goes on to condemn “certainty” with certainty. It’s as if no one proofread the script. Or grasps basic logic.
Or—optimistically—it’s meant as a tour de force of Jesuitical sophistry.
But most likely, the writers are so jaded by their own sloganeering, they no longer notice what words mean.
Blogspot has put a “Sensitive Content Warning” on this and demands I sign in, though I’m not aware I have an account. Is there another way to read it?
So how does it do on the Bechdel test?
This is actually a good movie review.
Disclaimer: I won’t see it on account that the present day masquerading as Catholic Church is a monstrous fabrication brought about by Vatican II which, as the reviewer notes, was instigated by a replicant of antipope John XXIII.
For the lay man to understand: before Vatican II “The West” waged eternal war on the free Catholic nations belligerently to bring them to heel under the yoke of their Israel first free-masonic jargon.
This demand upon the peaceful Catholic nations whose first principle is family, race and fatherland was rejected, so the anti-family Judeo-masonic forces let Hell reign down upon our nations till today here we are, deracinated, under strength, few in numbers, bedraggled and anti-contemporary.
It’s important to remember that the author Robert Harris is well aware of the role the Catholic Church has had in moulding Western civilisation and clearly considers it a bad thing.
Yeah, you’re right. Don’t speak ill of the dead. Just piss on their graves. Much more effective, not to mention satisfying !
Obama was put forward as such a “moving” speaker and yet nobody remembers anything he said. It was all generic boilerplate stuff. There was hope and change and that’s about all anybody remembers.
Hybrid vigor should be made of better stuff.
They love using the very rare biological anomalies as cover for the whole trans agenda.
As I said above, they love using the very rare biological anomalies as cover for the whole trans agenda.
Personally, I like Italians more than Romans because they now occasionally feel twinges of guilt about their ruthless opportunism.
No, that’s the wrong reason.
Romans must have felt guilt. They adopted as their God the man they’d crucified, after all.
And they recruited the vanquished into the empire via citizenship. Germanics, Greeks, Slavs, Arabs, Jews, and etc. gained rights, even privileges.
What makes Italians more interesting than the Romans was the creativity and originality.
Roman were too near in time and place to the great Greeks. They copied the Greeks but didn’t improve on them. Romans just made things grander(and more vulgar) but not better.
In contrast, the Italians beginning in the Renaissance reinvented art and ideas. Inspiration rather than imitation. The paintings and sculptures of this period surpassed the achievements of the Greeks. They were richer and deeper. And the architecture of the Italian Renaissance went beyond than imitative gigantism that characterized the Romans. As Italians, the Peninsulans finally came into their own. And Galileo broke free from slavish devotion to Aristotleanism.
That is why we prefer the Italians to the Romans.
“it’s meant as a tour de force of Jesuitical sophistry.”
Heh, you’re hilarious. You think that there are Jesuits in Hollywood. Hmm, maybe it might could be another word that also starts with a J.
PRO TIP: Not even s0-called Jesuit-ism is even Jesuit these days. Santo Ignacio de Loyola would be horrified.
Who can even bother to be bothered with a movie like “Conclave”? A bunch of queeny jerks in old-fashioned Halloween costumes preening around about insider politics in a museum? You know how hard Jesus would laff.
I blame Scarlet Number.
OT: The great Lionel Shriver hits it out of the park and yes Yojimbo, it would have been gone to dead center in the Polo Grounds too.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-time-to-scrap-the-asylum-system
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Steve Sailer may be interested in this article (in part because I believe Lionel Shriver borrows one of his patented ideas). Also by the calls by another man Shriver alludes to, Spectator columnist Patrick O’Flynn. (The latter demanded an end to the international asylum system and is now willing to mock and shame those who say that’s too big an idea. Shriver, inspired by his fighting spirit, gives a column on the same topic):
Here Lionel Shriver is clearly channeling Steve Sailer without attribution (though it seems okay to attribute him these days, now that he has a book and a Substack):
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Shriver says an article by Patrick O’Flynn had inspired her latest broadside against the holy principles of Migration-into-the-West-is-a-Human-Right-ism.
In his article, Patrick O’Flynn lightly mocked the prominent right-wing agitator Nigel Farage for, surprisingly (?), having grown soft and over-moderated himself. O’Flynn urges Farage, or others if he has grown too soft, to make hay while the sun shines — to get the “international asylum system” scrapped. An idea whose time has come. As foretold by Steve Sailer back in the closing days of August 2015 and throughout the following months (the disastrous Merkel Migrant Crisis).
I quote, below, from: Patrick O’Flynn, “Has Nigel Farage missed the immigration vibe shift?” in The Spectator, Feb. 16, 2025:
Reports say that they had been dead for at least several days before being found. I’m surprised they had no household staff or, given his age, home health aides.
“Reports say they had been dead for at least several days before being found.”
Anyone over eighty should have someone checking in on them every day. My 85 year old mother had a heart attack and my sister, who lives in the same small town, was able to find her before she died and get her taken to a hospital.
Sometimes, though, people reach a point where they just do not care that much about living longer, which may have been the case with a 95 year old Gene Hackman. Who knows what the situation was with his younger wife. You sometimes see very elderly people still just living in the same house in the same way they have for decades. They might live a little longer in an assisted care facility but they prefer the life they know. It may be hard for young healthy people to understand but elderly people can reach a “I’m ready to go” stage.
It discouraged me that there weren’t any scenes set in the astonishing Bramante Staircase, the model for the Guggenheim.
Interesting. I didn’t feel that way for the little Bill character.
Anyway, Hackman has many memorable films. Apart from usually mentioned: Scarecrow, Prime Cut, The Conversation, ……..
A snake swallowing its own tail — forever!
She was in her 60s, so I guess it was a reason for letting their lives flow without interference. Also, he was a private person.
Anyway, I don’t consider the whole scene “ghastly”. When you are dead, then you are not alive. If you don’t think there is an afterlife, there is no one left to worry about anything. If you think it is- you are finally free to live a new, wondrous non-human life. As for public opinion, who cares? They’ll all be dead in the next 100 years, so why pay any attention.
I don’t see a big difference between this & millions of mutilated corpses left on the battlefield through history.
Sorry, not interested. A lot of different strange and/or tragic things happened to a lot of other people this week too – that the guy involved in this one had been an actor means exactly NADA to me.
Let me first get this over with. (No, don’t you trouble yourself, young man.)
• Troll: ScarletNumber
That out of the way, let me say that I’d heard of The French Connection for years, I finally watched it, and it turned out booooringgg. Was it just one big chase scene? I don’t mind car chases, but you do it out on the road, like in Smokey and the Bandit and Vanishing Point, but under the El Train? (OTOH, the Blues Brothers chase scene was good.)
There is one great movie I know about that this Gene Hackman was in: Full Moon in Blue Water. Well, OK, Terri Garr was swoooo cute. That might explain most of it…
“Pharisaical pilpul” didn’t hit right.
The Frito Bandito 911 amigo is comedy gold!
Why are there no movies about Protestants as Protestants? Apart from adaptations like “Scarlet Letter”?
I surmise there are two reasons: Protestantism is not too visual & ethically alluring, while with Catholics you got all the pomp & circumstance, saints and sinners, medieval aura combined with Machiavellian politics; cinephilically, Protestantism is not very dramatic.
There is a reason for the existence of Catholic novel & non-existence of Protestant novel.
I’m surprised anyone even remembers the Vanishing Point movie. One of my friends told me it is now considered a cult classic. I saw it as a teenager when it first came out in the early seventies in my small town movie theater. There were probably not more than six people there that day watching it. I don’t remember the plot now, just a scene with a nude girl out in the desert.
I read Steve’s reviews so I don’t have to see the movies. Why would I want to see
a film made by people who hate me? Plus I usually anxiously await the latest
segment of my favorite vlogger whose adventures keep me on the edge of my
seat. The key point is that he is like me, except considerably younger, and I know
his life, including his moral dilemmas, in great detail. His life is like a novel
somebody wrote specifically for me. That’s partly why Hollywood is fast
becoming irrelevant.
Beefheart is total crap. Best that could be said about his ‘work’ is that it gave some decent future artists a conceptual basement-level entry of ‘permission’ to be inventive: I.e., ‘Whoa, some jokers call this music?? I should make my own music—even if I totally fail it will be better than this shit!’
“Hybrid vigor” is sort of an urban legend, or at least it has to be balanced against outbreeding depression.
In reality, for any given species, there is an optimum degree of outbreeding. For non-inbred humans at the current point in history, it seems to be about 7th cousins, i.e., outside your family, clan, and probably your tribe, but within your continental race.
I’m not aware of any excessive inbreeding in the Dunham line, so yeah, young Stanley Ann overdid it, as certain traits in Lord Purplelips attest.
Even if alternative hypotheses of Barack’s paternity are true, it’s still going to involve excessive outbreeding on a big whack of the genome.
Here is a comment from a non-believer ex-Protestant blog:
Ann Williams
I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church, taught that Catholics were idolators and going to Hell. As a child, I used to see priests and nuns and think to myself, “How tragic, that these people think they have devoted themselves to God, only to be destined for Hell.”
When I was in my early twenties, my mind had been broadened a bit; and I was willing to consider that at least come Catholics might know God. A friend of mine was thinking of converting to Catholicism; and, since I had never been to a Catholic mass, I decided to accompany him. Eventually, he stopped going, but I continued going without him. Something about it appealed to me.
One day, I was at mass when I began to feel extremely uncomfortable about the statues in the church. I had been taught that these were idols; and the more I reflected on this, the more uncomfortable I became. I finally decided that this was not pleasing to God and that I needed to leave and never return.
However, I reached this conclusion just as the liturgy of the Eucharist was beginning; and I knew enough by now to know that getting up and leaving, at this point, would be very rude. So, I decided I would wait until this portion of the mass was over and then leave and not return.
The priest began his invocations … and I felt the Spirit of God descend on the church. I was flabbergasted. There was no mistaking what had happened. Obviously, I had been wrong.
But just as remarkable was what happened a week or two later. I was attending a small house church, with deep anti-Catholic sentiments; and one of the people there was an ex-Catholic, who never seemed to have a good word to say about Catholicism. One Sunday, while people were standing around after church services, socializing, this man was standing nearby, talking to a few others; and I heard him tell a story. He was talking about visiting the same local Catholic church, looking around at and lamenting all the people lost in deception; and then the liturgy of the Eucharist began, and he felt the Spirit of God descend on the church.
The juxtaposition of these two events was as much a miracle as anything I have ever experienced in my life. To me, it showed, at least, that God can be found through Catholic worship. It was one of the most sacred experiences of my life.
Hmm. After finally viewing the trailer, I think the producers should have been bold and kept the working title:
The Annals of Homosex, 666: We Needa New Pope-a!
Exactly, they want to make law out of rare exceptions.
Will future census options include “hybrid nigor” ?
Note: I’m not suggesting it should, because that category could sound racist. 😐
PLUS, he was only 95. It was likely the vaccine that got ’em, all of them. Hackman: vaxxed and boosted! Wife: vaxxed, double-boosted, covered, and smothered. Dog – dug under the fence one too many times, and they told him not to! Plus, vaxxed, boosted, and ate too many socks.
I got this…
• Troll: Steve Sailer
I grant the Greeks exceeded the Romans in art, science, and philosophy but I’m not sure that proximity suppressing Roman achievement was the reason. The Romans did exceed the Greeks in other things: engineering, administration, and logistics, it’s just that those achievements are perhaps less vaunted.
Post-Renaissance European peoples were constantly outdoing each other in everything—art, science, technology, administration, engineering, logic, literature, discovery, philosophy—despite their very dense proximity.
I think it’s just that the Romans had different virtues—different souls—than the Greeks.
Yes, I agree that the Italian Renaissance was when the ancient Greek soul-achievement finally impregnated Italy. Well, northern Italy anyway.
There was a slightly ironical novel (Anatole France?) where the Italian Renaissance is kicked off when laborers accidentally uncover a Classical Greek sculptural beauty and even though the Church immediately reconceals her, the Vision spreads among the Italians like a virus.
Maybe, but Steve may actually prefer the Christianized Italians to the unashamedly pagan-Nietzschean Romans.
I’m curious if post-Calvinist rockers are part of the “anti-family Judeo-masonic forces” masquerading as Church under the moniker of “The Jesus and Mary Chain”?
Gene Hackman’s children were not to blame for not checking on him every day, as he lived with a comparatively young wife. I do wonder what relations were like between the children and the wife.
Man, I would soooo love to think that you’re not a f#cking retarded moron, because most of the time otherwise you’re one of the sharpest dudes around. But here I am afraid I must tell you that you’re so bloody stupid you’re not even wrong. But then we’ll switch keys and get back to yes, you are a very astute fellow and sharp as teddy about all sorts of other non-musical not-tastemaking things that we can agree to disagree about.
But maybe if you grew up playing Thelonious Monk in bars when you were a kid because your f*cking grampa who was a Newfoundland sailor and pretty much the living copy of Popeye kicked you out every day from the living room where the out-of-tune spinet was because he wanted to watch TV news all day (can someone explain to me why an 80-year old illiterate sailor needs to stay up-to-date on what fucking Ronald Reagan is doing from minute to minute).
Anyway you get the idea, and if not, you don’t, go watch some 1950s Bergman I guess. That’ll get you laid by a couple of art chicks.
gibbles o shibbles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan_(1972_film)
In some medieval histories of the Roman Catholic Church there was a gap between the pontificates of Leo IV (847‐ 855) and his successor, Benedict III. Possibly to explain this gap, a legend grew up concerning a woman, Joan, born near Mainz, educated in Athens, who went to Rome disguised as a monk and so impressed Leo with her wit and learning that, thinking her a man, he appointed her his secretary and made her a cardinal. Upon his death, she was elected pope.
None of the characters in Harris’s Conclave are gay.
The only sex mentioned being done by any of the Cardinals is by one Nigerian one who impregnated a woman in Nigeria. Plot complications follow…
The new Pope in this film/book isn’t gay either. The book came out before Woke or the New Gay World Order.
If you are going to obsess over this, get it right.
(Some might wonder if your obsession here over this is not something of a “tell” on your part…).
Indeed. A good comparison is polydactly (credit to JR Ewing). About the same frequency as true intersex conditions.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-nhls-san-jose-sharks-are-19-37-14-so-the-front-office-isnt-tweeting-about-hockey/#comment-5873700
The next time you hear someone going on about trans being biology based ask them if humans have five fingers on their hands. Then call them digitist (better ideas?) if they say yes.
The Michelle Trachtenberg case is different: failing liver transplant, bf on the other coast, mother in the same city but different apt.
I heard of someone going home alone after bariatric surgery and bleeding to death. My widowed sister had to be re-hospitalized for complications from two surgeries, so it was good she stayed with me after them.
This is a general minoritarian principle.
We must fill every nook and corner or the world up with blessed “diversity” …. so that every nation**, community, school, occupation, business, corporation, neighborhood … family are all the same. Anything less–the Nazis win.
(**Except, of course, for Israel.)
Philosophy of history is a complex & actually inexplicable discipline. But, we may, I think, agree on a few issues.
The Greek miracle was unparalleled, period. Romans were, of course, weaker in these fields, but the West had been rising on Roman, not Greek thought (which was lost)- Caesar, Tacitus, Cicero, Horace, Virgil,…
But, during the medieval period, the ascent of the West began. Without Greek influence and actually with little Muslim transmission:
http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/10/gods-philosophers-how-medieval-world.html
God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypatia-and-agora-redux.html
“Feminist” Hypatia
Actually, the Italian Renaissance was, regarding achievement, not very “Greek”. Its splendor lies primarily in visual arts (including architecture) & to a lesser extent in literature, with philosophy and sciences not very prominent (except a few names, most notable being Machiavelli and Galileo).
Italy was mostly exhausted by 1600, when the veritable explosion in sciences, philosophy, literature & even visual arts began in France, German lands, England, Netherlands, ….
Hahhaha…
https://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html
“Agora” and Hypatia – Hollywood Strikes Again
The real Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who was famous for his edition of Euclid’s Elements and his commentaries on Ptolemy, Euclid and Aratus. Her birth year is often given as AD 370, but Maria Dzielska argues this is 15-20 years too late and suggests AD 350 would be more accurate. That would make her 65 when she was killed and therefore someone who should perhaps be played by Helen Mirren rather than Rachel Weisz. But that would make the movie much harder to sell at the box office.
Off topic: Trump and Vance got into a shouting match in the oval office with Zelensky today as international media looked on in utter disbelief. I have never seen anything quite like it. Afterwards, Trump said on Truth Social that Zelensky disrespected the United States in the oval office today and he can come back when he is ready for peace. A joint press conference involving Trump and Zelensky for later in the day was canceled.
A Frank Zappa observed, “Don couldn’t keep time to see his life”. What kind of musician can’t keep time? Answer: a really crappy musician.
As far as it goes to understanding this dude Don Van Vleet as an “avant-garde” type: his recordings are the sonic equivalent of a banana stuck on a wall with duct tape.
I wouldn’t agree that “Crying Game” was a homosexual propaganda. It is a complex masterpiece not reducible to ideological schemes.
The Italians are at least real.
The Romans on the other hand, did they just invent their history, how much of it is real?
https://www.unz.com/author/first-millennium-revisionist/
https://www.unz.com/article/how-fake-is-roman-antiquity/
What vlogger is that?
Re Gene and Betsy…. it will, of course, take some time, but the most probable scenario is as most people say: he died of natural causes & she then, shocked, took her life. The dog, it seems, died from dehydration or hunger.
First- the house is too big. It’s actually a palace. But, well, their choice …
Second- there is nothing “tragic”, let alone “shameful” with these deaths. Much better than a protracted agony in a hospice.
Certainly, she was deeply traumatized by his death. But, sometimes- couples decide to go together.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-couple-double-suicide-capsule-clinic-peter-christine-scott-switzerland-b1180750.html
British couple plan to die in double ‘suicide capsule’ at Swiss clinic
You mean a judge’s ruling can become law in the form of case law, which is based on judicial decisions. Judicial decisions also set precedents for future cases.
The ruling in Marbury established the first time in which part of law was unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Thus, the precedent was established in which it exercised the authority as put forth by Congress to review legislation.
You shouldn’t make comments about things of which you know nothing.
This made me think.
Of course, there are many great & supreme novelists who were Catholics (at least formally), from Cervantes to Balzac, Flaubert, Conrad, Proust, Joyce, Musil, McCarthy…. but they don’t count as “Catholic novelists”.
David Lodge, an English (Catholic) author thought that John Updike could be considered a “Protestant novelist”. I don’t know, but I don’t think so-Updike the man was not Updike the novelist. There is nothing particularly Protestant in promiscuous balding fatsos.
Protestant novelist (not a novelist who was Protestant, like Dickens, Hardy, James (although- he had his moments), Mann …) in my opinion, could be the one with “Protestant sensibility”, sometimes having a “tell, not show” inclination, dealing – in the case of (ex)Calvinists- with the enhanced sense of sinfulness of human nature, spiritual isolation & a depiction of characteristically culturally-spiritually Protestant milieu.
So, I would definitely include Hawthorne, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence (with a caveat), Faulkner & Gaddis.
Melville doesn’t belong to that company (let alone Fielding, Sterne, Woolf or Meredith).
Wait, did Mr. Sailer really just put the troll button on you? I don’t ever think I’ve seen that on this fine opinion webzine.
It’s well deserved, given your d—- comment.
Arguably worse than that: “a mass face raping.”
https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-isnt-nudist-an-identity-politics-identity/#comment-6448990
No one interested in the big Washington ding-dong? Even Miss Lindsey is saying Z needs to “either resign or change”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-shouting-match-oval-office
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript
“Obama was put forward as such a “moving” speaker and yet nobody remembers anything he said. ”
You think he even remembers?
This is brilliant.
So brilliant, it will probably sail right over their heads.
William Peter Blatty went to a Jesuit HS, and I happened to play high school football with his son.
Rumors close in on cartels or “refugee” crime.
Aristotle na di most important pesin in history?
E fit be say Aristotle na di most influential pesin wey don eva live? Na wetin British philosopher John Sellars dey certainly.
Im argue say di impact of di ancient Greek thinker, plenti sotay we barely notice how much of our world wey im ideas shape.
From politics to science, literature to logic, di influence of Aristotle dey evriwia.
Im bin study marine life, wey lay di foundation for biology. Im bin examine different political systems, were make political science start.
Im analysis of storytelling for Poetics still dey shape modern cinema. And for logic, im principles of reasoning lay di groundwork for evritin from philosophy to di digital age.
Sellars, wey be professor for Royal Holloway, University of London, know say im claim dey bold. But im insist say di nobody fit match di impact of Aristotle . “Na im bin shape di way we dey tink,” im tok.
Dis principle still remain for di heart of modern science.
A legacy for politics and literature
Aristotle bin apply dia same systematic approach to politics.
Im bin collect and compare constitutions from different city-states to understand wetin bin make some societies shine while odas bin dey fail. Dis method, based on evidence rather dan opinion, dey ground-breaking and e bin lay di foundation for di social sciences.
Im influence on literature bin equally dey profound. For Poetics, im bin analyse Greek drama, im break stories into essential elements – beginning, middle, and end – a structure wey still dey shape films and books today.
Di father of logic and ethics
Aristotle work on logic na one of im most lasting contributions.
Im bin introduce key principles, like di idea say any statement must be either true or false – wetin we dey call now as di Law of di Excluded Middle.
Dis simple but powerful concept underpins evritin from philosophical debates to di binary code behind computers.
Aristotle bin also tackle one of di biggest questions of life: how we suppose live?
In Nicomachean Ethics, I bin argue say human dey succeed wen dem balance reason, social connections, and intellectual curiosity.
A good life, im beliv say, na one wey we develop self-control, engage wit our communities, and pursue knowledge.
Di influence wey we no dey perceive again
Sellars beliv say Aristotle ideas dey embedded and na part of modern thought and we no dey notice dem again.
“Im concepts dey evriwia,” im tok “but we no dey take dem serious.”
So, Aristotle na di most important pesin for history?
Sellars make a strong case. But for di end, e dey up to di reader to decide – na Aristotle na one great thinkers bifor, or im be, as Sellars dey argue, di most important human being for history?
Perhaps naming it “Holy Shit!” would have presented a fun double entendre.
When I saw it as a teenager I thought it was brilliant, but more recent reviews showed me, beyond the gayness, a facile too-cleverness, and, worse than the gayness, this leftist egalitarianism where completely unlike things are equated, good things are made evil, and evil good.
Plus it’s stupid on many details, the late period IRA was proprietarily leftist and super optics sensitive (those damn horses), they’d never allow the British to position themselves as the anti-racist party by taking a black hostage. And is Ireland really the only country that says that word?
Fun fact, similar to the studio interference with Brazil: the studio originally insisted on a nice, clean, tied-up happy ending. Jordan indulged them (it’s in the special features, and it’s as crazy as it sounds), but then he prevailed on them as far as this meaning a terrorist pulled off a James Bond like escape.
Combo-breaker: moon them, and, when they try to complain, explain that they don’t know your ass from your elbow.
Love Trump or hate him, at least politics are real now.
The Biden years weren’t just a sh*tshow, they were a FAKE sh*tshow. Whatever was being presented to you as “news” or “politics” was totally phony, irrelevant crap, completely disconnected from any recognizable reality. Wherever reality was, it wasn’t in politics or in the “news”.
Then came November. Trump won and … sh*t got real, literally overnight.
Today, a coke-addled Ukrainian dictator failed to bend the knee to his benefactors, and … minutes later he’s out the White House door on his ass. Minutes after that, his own parliament is drafting articles of impeachment against him.
Realpolitik in real time.
I’ve never seen the like.
True. But true also of driving a car, or using heavy equipment or being a pedestrian.
And again, my point is that there are different levels of “having your shit together”. There’s a difference between depending on “they must get something right” versus depending on “they must not do something wrong”.
Furthermore, I gave a quite tractable analogy. Open country road driving versus controlled access freeway or city stoplight. The whole point of ATC is to create the controlled access freeway or stop light scenario where you are precisely not depending on the pilot having to “get it right”, but rather merely that the pilot does not actively screwup to avoid a collision. (As crashes with tens or hundreds of people killed by some rando’s lack of competence would be really bad.)
In fact, this case, actually makes my point. It is not equivalent to the DC case. The ATC–ground here–instructions were clear. And these Flexjet bozos essentially ran a stoplight. (NTSB will blame them and only them.)
The DCA equivalent to this case would be if ATC had ordered the helicopter to hold north of the 33 approach and the helicopter pilots had blundered on south anyway. (ATC ordering a hold–my “stoplight” scenario—what is what I argued should have been ATC procedure there, if runaway 33 is in use, assuming these pointless helicopter flights past next to DCA should be allowed at all.)
The Midway equivalent to what happened in DCA is if the controller had cleared the Flexjet to just taxi on to its terminal/base–crossing the runway–with a “hey there’s traffic on the runway, do you see them, go after them”. Which would be–like what happening at DCA–crappy procedure.
There are different levels of “having your shit together”. And the whole point of ATC is to reduce the level of “having your shit together” required to avoid a collision in a high traffic/many-lives-at-stake area to something akin to merely not disobeying direction.
The whole point–from society’s perspective–of having a religion is to help preserve and maintain the tribe/nation/civilization.
The Catholic Church is supposed to be the bedrock “preserve civilization” bulwark institution of Western Civilization. But now–sadly–seems to be ambling incoherently toward being as unserious, useless and pointless–if not outright destructive–as these infected mainline Protestant denominations.
So, you don’t understand how this cryptohomo stuff works, do ya?
Uh gee, it’s not a sexual orientation but a medical condition.
Wink wink.
Watch the movie through a conclave mirror, and you’ll get it.
You are sooooooo easy. That’s why they get away with these ‘subtle’ propagandas. Loosens you up to take the full agenda.
The whole Western world condemns Trump. Zelensky actually showed great restraint when confronted with these two lying buffoons.
Don Vito Corelone Trump and his consigliere Vance tried to collect a racket from the owner of Zelensky’s pizzeria, which was attacked and burned by another mafia clan, Solozzo Putin. The owner of the pizzeria Zelensky unsuccessfully tried to explain to the crazed Don Corleone that his shouting will not result in paying the racket, because there is no payment if there is no protection now and in the future. In any case, it won’t be worse for Zelensky than now, because Trump has so far blocked the delivery of American weapons for most of last year through his pawns in Congress.
While it is hard to predict further US steps, one thing looks certain: if something completely unexpected happens, the EU will continue to support Ukraine 100% with their sufficient resources & don Vito Trump will further sink into isolation (along with MAGA crowd). Macron & Starmer tried to appease him by flattering, but it didn’t work.
Sometimes, it is necessary: dixi et salvavi animam meam.
Without a U -turn, there will be a rift between Europe & the US, which is essentially good for both parties (at least regarding these issues).
For those interested in exact facts & not drama:
That’s the wife Betsy Arakawa.
My uninformed guess: Once Hackman died, she didn’t have much left to live for.
The wife married Hackman decades ago which–a bit of math–she was 30ish. And they had no kids.
Everyone has a somewhat different mental makeup and their own priorities in life and this is the life she chose–or perhaps had thrust upon her by random biological circumstance. But I do not think it is generally a healthy one, particularly for women. I know even for myself–a genuine penis person–I’d be pretty bummed now if I had no children. I’m still pretty healthy, but the prospect of stuff just falling apart … and no much to look forward to? You guys are great, but there’s only so many iSteve comments to read and write.
Family is where we come from, what we are part of and–hopefully–leave behind when we depart.
Don’t worry, Bergoglio won’t last long.
Paul was pretty clear in his letters to Titus and Timothy.
GT, sincere thanks for the personal compliments (while agreeing to disagree on music, art!, etc). A few days ago I was tempted to reply to one of your cultural comments with some acerbic overall personal criticism. I’m glad I held off. Maybe it’ll be deployed in a future fusillade if I’m feeling frisky. 🙂
I do get the idea, and that’s why I don’t want to bust your balls too much. I like you. Whatever hard-knocks imprinting you may have had growing up seems to have led you to seek/idolize funky mentors outside of your family, and I have some sympathy for that. If you’re gonna grow up on the ‘street’, it might as well be lower Manhattan back in the late 20th: depressing to some, enviable to others. But if one has lived this long ‘on the edge’, that’s an accomplishment (doggone the internet caveat notwithstanding).
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
Doesn’t sound plausible.
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Per local police, the pills on the counter were thyroid medication, blood pressure medication, and Tylenol. Not what you’d use to commit suicide. She may have knocked over the pill bottles as she collapsed, or was in the process of transferring them to a pill dispenser. One dog was in a crate, the others at liberty and free to leave and enter through the open back door. The dog in the crate died, the others did not. Gene Hackman’s pacemaker indicated he’d died on 17 February, so dehydration is a passable guess as to what killed the dog in the crate.
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How they were found does look like carbon monoxide poisoning, but the latest from the coroner is that there were no traces of that in their bloodstream. Another scenario bruited about is that she collapsed and died in the bathroom from causes undetermined and that he entered the house and fell down in the mudroom and could not get up. Curious that they had no household staff and that he did not have a medicalert button.
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I thought it was grossly amusing that one of his daughters says she and her father were ‘close’ but admits she hadn’t spoken to him in two months. His children are between 58 and 66. The nonagenarian lady I know best has one of her children living with her, another she hears from daily, and a third who is on the horn several times a month.
(My google blogger minder/Gauleiter keeps finding new ways to suppress my readership. The other day, I found two items which she/he/it (“s/h/it,” for short) had walled off in a new category of folder: “trash.” The items were about the covid vaxx.)
“Pedophile-Rapist-Fugitive Roman Polanski Demands Respect!”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2012/05/pedophile-rapist-fugitive-roman.html
Pedophile-Rapist-Fugitive Roman Polanski Demands Respect! A portrait of the pedophile as an old man, 2010
By Nicholas Stix
August 22, 2005
Intellectual Conservative, and elsewhere
Roman Polanski wasn’t satisfied with getting away with child-rape. He demanded respect for his good name.
Fugitive from justice and convicted pedophile-rapist Roman Polanski just got away with one … again. But he had help.
Three weeks ago, the London High Court awarded the convicted fugitive $88,000 in a libel lawsuit. Traditionally, in the English–speaking world, no court would ever hear a libel or defamation case brought by a convict, much less a fugitive convict, but we live in a brave, new world.
In 1978, Polanski was convicted of “having sex” with a 13-year-old girl.
Polanski had lured his victim, 13-year-old model Samantha Geimer (who has since revealed her identity), to a “photo-shoot” for French Vogue at his friend Jack Nicholson’s house. Conveniently for Polanski, Nicholson was away at the time. Polanski plied his victim with champagne and quaaludes, and then raped her, afterwards telling her, as rotten.com recounted, “Don’t tell your mom.” The victim failed to cooperate, however, and did tell her mother what Polanski had done to her.
The crime was clearly plotted out. In the typical case, which is unfortunately all too common, a phony “talent agent” or “photographer” sets up a desperate, young (say, 20), “MAW” — “model, actress, whatever” for a rape (and sometimes murder), after inviting her to come over for a “photo-shoot.” But the sophisticated, citizen-of-the-world Polanski was even sleazier than the profile: He set up and raped a 13-year-old. (Samantha Geimer was alone with Polanski, without any parent or adult guardian present to protect her. What could her parents have been thinking?!)
Polanski was charged with rape of a minor, rape by use of a drug, committing a lewd act upon a person less than 14 years of age, oral copulation, sodomy and furnishing drugs to a minor. He copped a plea to unlawful sex with a minor, but fled the country on the eve of his sentencing hearing.
Polanski’s crime was not statutory rape. According to the laws in California (and the rest of the Union), the victim has to be of a certain age before she can be considered able to voluntarily consent to have sex with an adult, at which point the incident can be classified as statutory rape. If you sleep with a 13-year-old – even without drugging her – you’re guilty of first-degree rape, just as if you had used violence. But since Polanski did force himself on Geimer, the preceding is moot.
(Screen historian Leonard Maltin misrepresented the case. In a passage reprinted from Maltin’s 1994 Movie Encyclopedia on Polanski’s biography page at imdb.com, he claimed, “He was embroiled in a scandal over having sex with an underage model in 1977; rather than face the charges, he chose to flee the country.”
No, Mr. Maltin; he had already pled guilty. Rather than face punishment, he chose to flee the country.)
The genius judge in the case permitted Polanski to remain out on bail, after being convicted. The rapist then fled the country for our alleged ally, France, where he has remained at liberty ever since. The French have great reservoirs of understanding for pedophile-rapists – as long as they have committed their crimes in America.
In 2003, in an attempt apparently at removing any ambiguities the public might have had about Hollywood’s respect for morality, the law, or children, the movie fraternity awarded Polanski an Oscar as best director for The Pianist. The crowd at the Academy Awards show gave the convict a standing ovation, in absentia. For some reason, Polanski did not appear to collect his statuette. (That moral paragon, Harrison Ford, accepted it for him.)
Oh, yes, now I remember. He would have been arrested on the spot, and taken off to prison, had he appeared. And since Polanski had violated the terms of the plea bargain, all six charges would have been back in play, plus a charge of flight from justice. Polanski could conceivably have spent the rest of his natural life in prison, as the bride of someone named “Killer.”
But Polanski wasn’t satisfied with getting away with child-rape, with flight from justice, or even with his soiled Oscar. He demanded respect for his good name. I kid you not. And so, when Vanity Fair magazine in 2002 published a story claiming that in 1969, the future pedophile-rapist-fugitive had “touched [Swedish model] Beatte Telle’s leg and told her he would ‘make another Sharon Tate’ out of her in a New York restaurant shortly after Tate – his actress wife – had been murdered by followers of Charles Manson’s cult,” that was just too much for Polanski’s finely-tuned sense of morality. He insisted that he had never touched Telle’s leg. And so he sued Vanity Fair in a British court.
That should have been the end of it. After all, since we have an extradition treaty with the UK, had Polanski set foot on British soil to press his case, he would have been scooped up by Scotland Yard, and sent, manacled (but not in a way that would have titillated him), on the next flight for the States.
In any event, the jurists should simply have dismissed Polanski’s suit as frivolous.
The Crown’s courts wouldn’t possibly aid and abet a fugitive convict in his attempt to enrich himself, while evading justice … would they? After all, when you ask a plaintiff’s attorney where his client is, and he says, ‘Your Lordship, my client cannot appear in court, as he is a fugitive convicted pedophile-rapist, and will be immediately arrested and extradited, should he appear on British soil,’ bells are supposed to go off.
Unfortunately for us and our cross-Atlantic cousins, the British courts suffer from some of the same maladies as our own. And so, after permitting the pedophile-rapist-fugitive to testify from France via video hook-up, London’s High Court found for the convict/plaintiff. The judges brought shame on themselves, on the London High Court, and on the United Kingdom, which has earned a reputation as the frivolous libel lawsuit capital of the world, where the judges consider no lawsuit frivolous – as long as the plaintiff is wealthy.
Although Beatte Telle refused to testify on Polanski’s behalf, she did publicly say that he had not touched her leg or even spoken to her in the restaurant, and had only stared, dumbstruck, at her. Apparently, her public statement was sufficient for the alleged jurists.
Since we now live in a multicultural, interconnected world, in which U.S. Supreme Court justices cite foreign laws as precedents in their opinions, the Polanski verdict has all kinds of interesting legal potential. Might we now see libel suits brought by, say, the Nation of Islam mass murderers—J.C. Simon, Jesse Lee Cooks, Larry Green and Manuel Moore—currently in prison for the early 1970s’ “Zebra murders“?
How about Saddam Hussein? His attorneys could bring suit against everyone who ever said nasty but unproven things about his client. The possibilities are endless.
“Wait, did Mr. Sailer really just put the troll button on you?”
Thar’s the money shot: low IQ tard oh oh oh so confirmed ✔️ ✅️
Examining this scenario, one thing remains unclear: how & when did she die?
LOL! Corvy demonstrating his perceptiveness. Some hints.
– Compare the sizes of the dots before troll and reply.
– Look at where the troll link points and compare to other reaction button links.
– Look at the link back to AEN’s comment from your reply and notice the troll text remains.
– Look at iSteve’s comment page and notice how often he uses the reaction buttons.
– Look at iSteve’s comment page and check whether AEN’s comment is troll flagged there.
P.S. Thanks AEN for enabling Corvy to demonstrate his obtuseness.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-oleksandr-dubinsky-ukrainian-mp-calls-for-zelenskys-impeachment-amid-trump-fallout-101740791075822.html
Fallout from the Russian election interference shenanigans appears to be playing a large part in this.
I wonder why she had required a liver transplant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhosis is not an uncommon disease.
Some days, I really really like Trump. I really liked being able to watch him and be amazed in a good way and impressed.
My god, the fall out from today will be immense in Europe. Zelensky is the third rail of Western politics. You always worship him and speak respectfully to him and fund his country anything it yells for.
I really worry for the system uniting to impeach – and convict – Trump because of Ukraine but possibly over another pretext.
Or the national security state taking the final measure to preserve itself. But they’d have to have the tragic event just so happen to occur to Vance too, since he’s now proved himself a vigorous and convinced ally of Trump in ending the Ukraine religion and reorienting our direction to accommodate Russian security concerns and establish a stable, if cool, peace.
“I was tempted to reply to one of your cultural comments with some acerbic overall personal criticism.”
Oh go right on ahead — have at it, I’m a big boy: just go on ahead and blast away. Fights are fun. It couldn’t possibly be worse than getting the shit kicked out of you by the Dirty Ones.
To get more academic about it, the same thing bothers me when people say “Oh Captain Beefheart is just noise” as when they ignorantly dismiss Jackson Pollock saying “My five-year-old could do that.” No. he could not: People who don’t like Pollock simply haven’t taken the time and trouble to study his history, what he did and why he did it.
Don Van Vliet was probably the most influential cat after Lou and the Velvet Underground: in fact I could probably make a persuasive argument that Don f#cking invented the Velvet Undergound.
But without Captain Beefheart you don’t get most of post-blues, post R n B, modern rock n roll. Everyone who matters studies this guy. You don’t get anything after 70s Stones. Frank Zappa famously introduced him by saying, “Listen to what this man is doing — he is your friend, and believe me you don’t get to have many friends in life.”
Previous suggestions:
Civil Rights Victory Riot
[White] Holocaust
The Gideon/Miranda Crime Wave
Civil Rights Crimewave
Civil Rights Movement
But the cardinals who elected him will.
And they will vote for the next one.
The minerals (which aren’t really “rare”) are just a baited hook to lure the US deeper into the conflict.
Fortunately, like many things Trump says, the matter should not be taken literally. Trump (and America) already has no interest in prosecuting a war started by his (and America’s) enemies, led by an embezzling cokehead who campaigned against him, bleeding off US GDP. By raising the prospect of the US seeking reimbursement (which Trump doesn’t really expect can be repaid), Trump is building America an off-ramp from a conflict the US has no interest in. Zelensky thought he would call Trump’s bluff and get him to sign a deal for mineral rights that were anyway already under Russian control, thereby fixing the US directly into a deeper conflict against Russia at no cost to Zelensky, who could then continue to grift off the aid flow.
Unfortunately for Zelensky, just minutes from success, the whole thing blew up in his face. Now he’ll be lucky to hold on to his presidency, his country, and maybe his life. Epic fail for Zelensky. Epic success for everyone else.
Making tips tax free would just cause everyone to try to find a way to move income into the tip category. Think about a tradesmen who give you two quotes, one where the customer pays with a credit card but no tip or one where pays cash and says that most of it was a tip?
Trump is convinced that the U.S. can exist without people paying taxes. Trump is wrong.
Except for the people from the Ukraine, the Baltic States, Moldova, and Poland who do not want to be under the thumb of Putin. Trump has put Europe of a pathway for millions of refugees to start streaming into the larger NATO Counties while not spend a second thinking about the foreign policy or economic impacts.
Guys like Zelensky are just ratlike. He comes off as an ungrateful, pushy, loudmouth. Because that’s what he is. And all the Usual Suspects instinctively supported him.
These people strike me as sociopathic without the superficial charm that users are supposed to have. Instead they insult as us as we are doing them a favor. They give me the creeps. I think “RAT!” and want to get away.
So the dot before troll should have been excluded from the bolding for greater verisimilitude.
I have to admit that for a moment I was taken in and shocked by the sight of the faux Steve reaction, before it sunk in that it was to an AEN comment. And I’m the commenter who originally came up with manually typing in a counterfeit reaction.
• Agree: @Tiny Duck
Wait! So Tiny Duck is ackshually you?!?
Yes, and Ukraine and Ukrainians were prominent in both Trump impeachments.
Campaigning against Trump, impeaching Trump, . . . all failed.
What’s left?
Why “+” ?
Heinlein called it ‘The Crazy Years’. Not over yet IMO.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus
Warren Burger spent his years on the Supreme Court ordering school desegregation and school bussing . Typical Minnesota German socialist. Couldn’t stop with socialism. Went on to destroy the public school system.
Also aggressive affirmative action to the No Whites Need Apply extreme.
So, Biden’s administration actually started the war?
In which universe? The entire world saw this & was disgusted.
As a German volunteer in UAF wrote, when asked whether he watched the embarrassment, he wrote:
I thought about watching it, but then my sense of self-preservation prevailed: “Nah, I don’t have to do this to myself!”
The “Trump-is-a-showman-but-in-the-end-he-will-do-the-right-thing-for-Ukraine” train—and other common delusions—left the station long ago.
Now is the time for action. If I hadn’t already been in Ukraine for more than three years, I might be heading there today—probably after watching the Oval Office shitshow.
I think most people feel the same. All bridges between Trumpers and the civilized world have been burned by now. These folks are in the enemy’s camp. We need to unite and take a stand.
Is Paul the basis for the priesthood? Matthew 19:12, Christ said, “For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
The Klan got him for his Mississippi Burning role.
I apologize in advance for rattling on once more about Billie and Finneas, but my excuse is that they are the only artists worth rattling on about at this particular culturally-otherwise-dead moment. Not since PJ and Tori….. yadda yadda.
I mean, look at this:
Not only has she got the shockingly shocking Voice of Her Generation, plus the best songwriting partnership since Lennon/McCartney/G. Martin… but she’s also figured out how to revive Performance Art. I’m having acid flashbacks from my own work. Or was that David Byrne and JoAnne Akalaitis and Twyla Tharp, who can even remember, we were all so drunk at the time. Except of course that I wasn’t a great songwriter. Or even a good one. But I do know a thing or two about mise en scene, and Grotowski. Billie’s conception is just so fucking Robert Wilson, and I bet she’s never even heard of Bob or Elizabeth LeComte, she prolly just figured it all out on her own. Good gal!
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/01/ramadan-display-lights-up-piccadilly-circus-in-london
I wouldn’t have done, either. It’s Saint David’s Day today but I doubt Khan knows. And Lent starts on Wednesday.
Hmm. The unity of the ummah maybe.
“In the Quran, the ummah typically refers to a single group that shares a common religious beliefs, specifically those that are the objects of a divine plan of salvation.”
Unfortunately, the vlogger is multilingual. His adventures span continents
A lot of the Cardinals who elected him are either deceased or have aged out of elector status. He’s appointed some high-profile radicals like McElroy to take their place, but his practice of appointing, especially in the last three or four consistories, Cardinals from the so-called “margins” of Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, has also allowed the conservatives in the College to replenish their ranks. Even some of the so-called moderate or liberal Cardinals are more conservative on sexual issues than he is, and publicly pushed back on Fiducia Supplicans, which helped to make it a pretty damp squib. Serre Verweij, a Dutch traditionalist Catholic with the tradCath website Rorate Caeli, does a very interesting deep dive into the newer members of the College at this link:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-upcoming-conclave-close-look-at.html?m=1
Verweij, like the other Rorate Caeli writers, is no fan of Francis, so this encouraging analysis is not merely mainstream-Catholic happy talk without a basis in reality. While unfortunately we still won’t be getting the firebrand, unapologetic Crusader Pope we need, the odds are we’ll get someone more orthodox and less chaotic than Francis. Of course, the Barnhardt Benevecantivists will not be appeased by this, since their identity is wrapped up in claiming that all the Cardinals appointed by Francis are invalid; I actually read a comment by one of their bloggers to the effect that it wouldn’t matter if Francis appointed the entirety of the SSPX hierarchy to the College of Cardinals, since they would not be real Cardinals and their choice, no matter how conservative, wouldn’t be a real Pope.
It’s a remarkable about-turn, given that the State Department encouraged (maybe organised) the 2014 coup/revolution/uprising, as part of the strategy outlined in The Grand Chessboard.
That might have been a valid (if not an ethical) foreign policy in 1997, but within ten years China was to be breathing down the USA’s neck as they came up on the rails.
Unfortunately the State Department was full of people filled with ethnic resentment at the Russia of 1880, and they’ve managed to cement Russia, with its energy and untapped resources, together with a billion high-IQ, hardworking Chinese. Trump is most unlikely to separate them, as they know a change of regime, whether through vote fraud, assassin bullet or impeachment II, will change everything yet again.
No, I can’t take credit for Tiny Duck. I’ve only commented at Unz Review under my one moniker. Someone else out there is Tiny Duck/Ebony Obelisk, but I don’t know who.
The invaluable (or is it insufferable) commenter “HA” has been conspicuously absent from discussing this latest development on Zelinski’s being sent off to bed without milk and cookies.
I’ve been saying for three years the U.S. objective should be a negotiated peace. Now, three years later, a million (?) dead, hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, and not one f***ing thing has changed.
This petulant dick, Zelensky, is responsible for all the waste and death.
This is a good video and quite helpful and understanding why claims about who has paid the most to help Ukraine are murky.
It really makes no sense to conduct International diplomacy in front of TV cameras and journalists, because the vast majority of TV viewers are not fully aware of the historical background of the Ukraine war, or even perhaps not aware of the fact that Ukraine was previously part of the Soviet Union.
When Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons it was on the understanding that Europe and the US would defend it against Russia if Russia attacked it.
Trump would probably argue that this was under a previous American regime before the Trump revolution, so there is no continuity with diplomacy of prior US regimes or with treaties of prior regimes.
The 2014 Minsk Accords and the 2015 Minsk Accord 2 both led to situations in which neither side did exactly what they were supposed to do.
Then there was the horrific shooting down of the Malayan airline by Russian separatist forces in Ukrainian airspace.
Then there was the episode that led to Trump’s impeachment regarding withholding funds for weapons for Ukraine that had been authorized by Congress, but Trump unilaterally decided that the release of the funds was still conditional on extra terms set by the White House.
All this happened before the latest episode in which Putin invaded Ukraine 3 years ago after prolonged saber rattling that was ignored because everybody thought it was just diplomacy as normal.
The $350 billion number quoted by Trump does not tally with the amount of money authorized by Congress. No one ever asks Trump how he calculated this figure.
The minerals agreement seems pointless if it does not include guarantees of security for Ukraine. Why would Ukraine sign it?
None of us know what secret agreement Trump has with Putin. Why does Trump think that Zelenskyy signing the minerals agreement will bring an immediate end to the war?
The photo opportunity yesterday which turned into some kind of a press conference exposed JD Vance as a brainless Hillbilly Thug, so not good for America.
It seems like every time Vance opens his mouth he puts his foot in it.
And where was that guy who wants everybody to wear suits in the Oval Office when Elon Musk was in the Oval Office dressed as Mao-Tse Tung the other day?
Do people even wear suits and ties in Ukraine?
Does he?
That’s Zelensky’s war image, similar to Stalin’s during WW2.
Here are average Ukrainians:
I have been a cultural and literary Anglophile for as long as I can remember, but your comments are so letter-perfect in their combination of English smugness and condescension, coupled with utter ignorance, that they help me to realize that there’s some solid basis for the hatred that a lot of the non-Anglo world has for the English.
Right, and lots of common sense there (that you’ve got in spades), but if you you’re not gonna listen when I explain how it works, you’re simply never gonna get this.
I’d say you’ve got this backwards. As much as it could have been just as tragic, the boner by the FlexJet pilots is more understandable and easier* to have happen then the boner by the 2 Blackhawk pilots. Going in reverse order.
1) I and Mr. BadWhite (thanks!) noted there are lots of ways to know where one is. However, MDW Rwy 31L/13R is very narrow – 60ft, so it barely looks like a runway if one is not paying attention. They may have mistaken it for a taxiway, and then crossed what they thought (without attention to signage) was 31L (it was 31C). That’s not condoning the mistake, but this kind of thing DOES happen… more after (2).
2) When you say you have THE traffic in sight, you keep it in sight, and, given “He’s landing 33.” (or however the tower said it) you a) make sure you understand which traffic and where he’s going, b) KEEP him in sight, c) take off the stupid NVGs as you’re not in a war!, and d) at any point if you’re not sure, just state “We’ve lost that traffic.” Oh, and e) you don’t pick that particular time to let the D.I.E. student take the aircraft away from the route that supposedly provides enough safety** and up higher. As a last resort (though there was no need for this, as I explained) just get 50 ft over the water. Helicopters do that. Airliners normally don’t, not when they’re still a mile from the runway…
If (d), at ANY time, the tower would have done what I’ve written at least twice already, tell the Blackhawk to hold somewhere 1/2 mile up-river or wherever.
Nope. Both incidents involved a lack of that last DIMS check – whether the controller messed up (not the case in either, but it happens) or it was the pilots. Yes, you look and “clear left” and right, no matter, each time crossing. The Blackhawk was supposed to be doing this the whole time. The pilots knew their separation was based on their affirming that he had that PSA traffic in sight. They should have been keeping in mind the whole way past the airport “There’s our traffic.” Otherwise, you let the controller keep you out of the way.
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* In fact, the FAA has been on a Runway Avoidance kick (sorry, don’t know a better word) for about 2 decades now. This involves better lighting systems, better/more signage, and a lot of education, both for General Aviation pilots and the Airline pilots. This is indeed a good thing.
** I agree that the corridor should not be used when 33 landings are going on.
I’ll see ya and raise ya — no organized religion at all. I have found that all orgs are magnets for people who want to manipulate and control people (and for people who, weirdly, want to be manipulated and controlled). A man can be religious without the org.
You’ve got parallel runways in use lots of time. Any one plane can get lined up with the wrong one. I gave that example because it IS an example of all pilots having to get their shit together. Besides visual confirmation, there is electronic guidance, both ground-based and on-board. Things can be set wrong. That’s why there are checklists and single pilots check themselves in various ways, and dual pilot crews check each other.
The last ditch effort if something went wrong here is the TCAS that airliners have (but G/A planes can easily get the poor-man’s version nowadays) and then the controllers. Their job in general is to keep aircraft separated, so in this example a call to warn aircraft would happen, but, again, that’s a last-ditch effort, not the regular procedures. In the DCA example, that was that final call to “pass behind the jet” by the tower. It wasn’t really part of his job, specifically, but generally, of course he’s gonna do what he can, once he saw that something did not make sense. (That may have been based on visuals or a glance at the radar scope, I don’t know.)
The whole Western worldwestern Europe, a degenerate gerontocracy, overseen by effete’ grifters condemns Trump.Zelenskythe Slavic garbage grifter actually showed…The worthlessness of European “elites” is impossible to overstate. Vance was spot-on in his Munich speech. These traitors have waved in hordes of violent moslem savages, then censored and imprisoned their citizens for objecting to it, demand Americans fight to defend them.
This may be the most laughable thing you’ve ever posted. The EU does not have a single credible military. Europe is the world’s largest open air museum. A continent of elderly cowards. Oh, some over 70 bureaucrats in Brussels will issue a strongly worded letter! That’ll make Putin quake!
Turkey has some tough troops. Not in the EU, but a candidate member within the European customs union.
It’s amazing, A.M.! We think, couldn’t someone else besides Donald Trump actually do real decision-making and action like this?! Why just now? Is he some light-giver or something? No, we are so used to seeing NOTHING change in policy, because the will of the Deep State (not Administrative State) is accomplished through the UniParty.
The UniParty has been up in Washington, and none of what regular Americans want ever changed. This is why they HATE HATE HATE Trump so much. He is not in the UniParty. Stuff is now happening, which is amazing to us, because we are so not used to it, it became unimaginable.
BTW, I’d go back to Reagan and the Cold War era negotiations, the “Star Wars” bluffing at Reykjavik to see that things COULD be done to make change.
As for the divide between Europe and America on the Ukraine, on defense, NATO, and most importantly, Globalism, well, this just BEGS for a Peak Stupidity post. They’re piling up like 1040 tax returns during the Flu Manchu.
You might want to take Tacitus with a pinch of salt. There’s quite a bit of debate about the authenticity of his works. Back in the 19th century, historians Hochart and Ross suggested that Tacitus’ “History” wasn’t actually from ancient Rome but written by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini. They believed it was a sophisticated forgery.
One key issue is the sketchy backstory of how these manuscripts were found. Bracciolini “discovered” many ancient texts, but the details around these discoveries are pretty murky. Plus, there’s a huge gap between when Tacitus supposedly lived (1st century A.D.) and when his works reappeared in the 14th-15th centuries. During the Middle Ages, references to Tacitus were almost nonexistent.
Hochart and Ross’s claims were controversial and met with resistance, but they highlighted a lot of inconsistencies that still leave many questions unanswered today. Some modern scholars even think Tacitus’ works could be medieval rather than ancient, describing events from the 10th-14th centuries.
So, while Tacitus’ works are fascinating, it’s worth keeping in mind that their origins and reliability are still up for debate.
LOL, thanks for taking the bait and wasting time on this post when I was clearly trolling.
Nah breh, Achmed masterfully baited you – and you bit down HARD. Own it, Corvi.
Apparently there was comment on social media a year or so ago that Trachtenberg had lost a lot of weight. She denied being unhealthy but it seems she had in fact had a liver transplant. She is as far as I am aware the first of the main actors in Buffy The Vampire Slayer to die, at the relatively early age of 39.
What do you think are the chances Trump/Vance blew things up on purpose? I bet the body language was a sight to behold in that meeting.
Your version needs more space before the dot. Are you sure you were first? I can’t find when I first played with that (harder to do well than it looks), and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t first.
Any reply to you to you is arguably a waste of time. But that waste is dwarfed by the waste of time your oeuvre represents.
“Any reply to you to you is arguably a waste of time. But that waste is dwarfed by the waste of time your oeuvre represents.”
The fact of the matter is that you take the easy way out here by falsely saying I offer limited or no insight.
Not at all, the Soviet nukes were taken away because at the time nobody wanted to proliferate nuclear weapons to what soon turned out to be a third-world shithole.
“Even Miss Lindsey is saying Z needs to either resign or change”.
The pro-Ukraine Republican Congressman Ben Crenshaw has also criticized Zelensky for what he did yesterday.
Here in Indiana, we have the only Ukrainian-American Congressional House member, Republican Victoria Spartz. I like Victoria and wish I had her representing me rather than the radical Black leftist Muslim who is my actual representative, Andre Carson.
Spartz reacted to yesterday as follows:
“Zelensky is doing a serious disservice to the Ukrainian people insulting the president of the United States- just to appease Europe and increase his low poll ratings in Ukraine after he failed miserably to defend his country. This is not a theater act but a real war!”
“Fortunately, like many things Trump says, the matter should not be taken literally”
JFC, the man is a serial liar. He and Vance tried to set up Zelensky. It blew up it their face. Remember, hamster wheel, Trump is fellating autocrats.
The good news just keeps coming, but we are helped tremendously by how stupid and weak our enemies are. Look at little Elensky in his pyjamas. Look at Bai Dien drool on himself. Look at Kămălā Hærrıs look back at you like a deer in the headlights. Look at Charles Schumer fume. Look at Tim Walz call everyone a Nazi. The self-defeating, inept Ukrainian botfarms are going crazy on 4chan: they were so bad at their task, their noticeably increased support for Russia. Their response to this and to Elensky’s humiliating performance is to throw up one last final spam attack, hilariously demonstrating why they were so ineffective.
100% and a long time coming. The sabotage of Trump’s first term was literally planned and led largely from Ukraine (CrowdStrike). The swamp’s major real objection to Trump was specifically the fear that he would derail the Vindman-Nuland conspiracy.
Priests were mediators between the Jews and God. They offered sacrifices on behalf of the Jews. With Christ’s perfect sacrifice, mediators are no longer needed.
https://gentlemantheologian.com/2022/10/02/office-priest-found-new-testament/
Hopefully he’d start breaking some shit.
OT — Victoria Nuland’s security clearance has been revoked. Recall that Vindman did not get a pre-pardon.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/jack-smith-covington-burling-security-clearances-trump/index.html
He was also great in Get Shorty.
I wonder that too.
At some point I want to review the whole thing for clues, but I don’t have time right now.
Blatty has a spooky background, at one time working for the US Information Agency in Beirut, USIA being involved in the production and dissemination of propaganda. Makes you wonder what he was up to with his other horror fiction contemporaries like Ira Levin. I had heard somewhere that The Exorcist was inadvertently shown at a kids’ matinee shortly after its release scaring the shit out of the little ones. Oops.
So what? Europe was building a new civilization, partially, on exclusively Roman, not Greek texts.
Isn’t that sweet.
I dated a “Ukranian” woman in the late 1990s. She and her parents, and her little daughter, lived near me. (There had been a divorce back in the Ukraine, and I have no idea what Dear Father was doing back there, but I was fucking his ex-wife. Yeah, okay?)
My girlfriend’s father had been a captain in the Soviet nuclear submarine navy.
Yes, he let me put on his Soviet captain’s hat at Thanksgiving dinner, where I carved the turkey.
Okay?
So, they were a Ukranian family in my Connecticut.
She was an engineer who worked on laser gyroscopes. She told me how she covered equipment whenever she had to carry it between buildings, because she knew that American satellites were looking from above. Yes. True.
So, I know “Ukranians.” To me they are Russians. I honestly can’t tell the difference. It would be like the difference between Texans and Americans.
“Our” deep state side has driven a wedge between European people — whom I KNOW — that would not naturally exist.
Hundreds of thousands of European people had recently died as a result. Do you care?
PS: To you and others here, yes, I have had some interesting experiences! Maybe God wanted me to, but I have tried to tell you about some of them.
Let it through, Steve.
Rumor: Kash hit the ground running and is beginning to do what was long overdue at the FBI:
OT — Another violent tranny. Steve’s Girls get worse every year.
https://www.amny.com/new-york/harlem-deli-stabbing-indictment-01232025/
OT — DOOM. An anon in one of the obvious shillings for the upcoming Downey movie observed (and sources close to his thinking agree that):
Thanks very much. Sounds like mainstream historians haven’t really grappled with the issues raised about Tacitus. Probably because they don’t like the idea of giving any credence to how tenuous the provenance and accuracy of so much of our pre-1500 or so historical records really are.
Before 2019 Zelensky was a nightclub/cabaret act that integrated elements of transgenderism. He’s definitely owned and operated by some entity. More than likely an operative for the powerful Israeli/Zionist organized crime networks in Eastern Europe. The I/Z network before the Russian invasion viewed Ukraine as a base for operations. As did NATO — USAID, U.S. bioweapons labs. The asset management firm Black Rock also has a proprietary interest in Ukraine, largely in the re-building bonanza that Europe and the U.S. will fund. Black Rock elites are also philosophically invested in the transhumanist reset — the biodigital convergence which includes QR code cities and human augmentation. Trump is very friendly with the Zionists as is the entirety of the GOP. What happened in the saintly Oval yesterday was probably theatre. Trump and Zelensky share allies.
Cawl cannin is quite tasty. And easy to make.
Which in most years is St Piran’s Day. The Sabbath supersedes saints’ feasts, but I don’t know if Ash Wednesday does. It is not a holy day of obligation, nor is Good Friday.
It’s certainly handy that the Welsh and the Cornish have their patrons’ feasts the same week.
Johnny Carson was a bit more progressive:
I recommend Night Moves. It has everything going for it except plot…but Roger Ebert would say that plot is only a bit player. Okay, SafeNow, give me an example of clever screenwriting that captures Hackman’s character in only a few words. Sure. A woman asks Hackman, “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” He replies: “Which one?”
Hackman’s persona lent itself to screenwriting like this. He was clever, quick, thoughtful, ironic, and put a smile on his lamenting and sarcastic observations that would otherwise be too mean. For example, Hackman is asked why he resists the charms of a young, sexy babe who likes him. Hackman: “Before we could have a conversation about anything, I would have to fill her in on the subject first.”
(Yes, you’ve been there.)
On the other hand, when I pay a tip (we’re notoriously poor tippers in the UK) I’m paying it of my own free will, out of taxed income. I think of it like a gift. I don’t want the revenue to get another bite at it – they’ve had one already.
If you gave a teenage child 100 dollars as a gift, you’d be pretty cross if someone demanded 10 dollars of it as a tax.
OT — Was the Oval Office Ambush a spontaneous reaction or a set-up? Has a deal already been made with Russia? It might clarify things to know that TASS, the Russian news service, isn’t allowed into the normal White House press set, but somehow, in what we would hope is a reasonably secure location, they were able to get in (or were deliberately and quietly let through), and, shucks, just in time for the entire nearly hour-long dust-up. After TASS was permitted without a permit to record the dethroning of Elensky, a security man discovered the error and escorted them out.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-removes-russian-state-media-reporter-oval-office-official-says-2025-02-28/
To be fair, they have some decent industry (though not enough of it) and some decent people (just not enough of them).
Mollie Hemingway has a better explanation – BHO and his minions encouraged Zelensky to do what he did.
It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up.
These people have blood on their hands.
I think there’s historical evidence that the Russians would naturally prefer to be allied with other white people over the Chinese. It’s our current elites they have a problem with.
WDCB.org
’s Juke Box Saturday Night for today features “Count Basie on the Air” (’37-’39) if anyone is interested.Availible on their two-week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive
Res, yeah I screwed up with that bolding of the dot. I knew that before but forgot. I also ran into a big hassle in loading the page I wanted in order to get the link to Steve Sailer comments, so I settled on his Teasers page out of impatience. Good point on the 3rd -. I might not have caught that myself.
Your 4th – is something subjective. Corvinus figured there’s a first time for everything.
One might also notice, once there’s more responses, that the initial spoof is not lined up.
My fooling of the Corvinus was unintentional, I assure you.
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For MEH, I went to your link. I may have read that thread, but I didn’t notice or remember your having done that. I came upon this independently. It’s kind of fun.
Yes, you’ve got to watch the whole thing – here if you want, with commentary – to see. It’s just 50 minutes. IMO, it answers that question in the negative.
I could see at times, earlier, that Trump was holding his head down, still keeping his cool, and (I’m guessing) thinking that “This guy is gonna ruin the deal if he keeps this upl!” I have more respect for Trump after viewing this, I gotta admit.
Ha! You reminded me for some reason of Caroll O’Conner’s role in that Heat of the Night TV show. Old Arch with a fake-ass Southern accent. Come on, y’alls guys.
Do they take the name Joan?
Let them through, Steve.
WTF is this?
Back in 2018, you facetiously requested an AMEN button from Ron Unz, and I manually typed one in in reply:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/seattle-times-why-have-seven-decades-of-gap-closing-failed-in-seattle-schools/#comment-2157920
https://www.unz.com/isteve/seattle-times-why-have-seven-decades-of-gap-closing-failed-in-seattle-schools/#comment-2158065
China….
and Taiwan…..
I dunno, Mike. Mine has a ‘naughty’ pun, alliteration, and ethnic humor.
( But no LOLs yet 😐 )
Makes sense. Velvet Underground is super boring. I guess one ‘had to be there’ to appreciate them. Or put stock in ‘hep cats’ insisting that Velvet Underground is cool, man, ya dig?
LOL. Emerging technology created the possibility for all types of contemporary music—people were going to innovate no matter what. Beefheart was merely a joker. As I wrote above: at best a ‘negative’ inspiration for a few others of actual talent.
Perhaps the Robert Duvall film “the Apostle” can be said to be a (Evangelical) Protestant movie. At any rate, it captures something of the vitality of American Evangelical Protestantism. Good movie.
Scurry along now, kvetching furriner. The Don is in charge.
Yes please, pop up in public so we can see you better …
GT, you should change your handle to Jerry Attrick
Why are you cursing about the American People’s choice for President? You’re always smugly stating that it’s good that people will make their own choices, yet here you are complaining about it nonstop. Schizo much?
There was a church in DC, that had permission to do Latin mass. Not a renegade one, but allowed. This was because it was on embassy row and the whole language thing. My mom went occasionally.
I watched the whole thing. It looked to me like Vance got fed up with Zelenskyy refusing to any kind of cease fire or negotiations. The Zelensky said something that pissed off Trump. Trump lost his cool and gave Zelensky the business. It seems pretty clear at this point that Zelensky is an obstacle to peace.
If Zelensky won’t talk, America will walk.
• Agree: MEH 0910
Res, you did a thorough breakdown of the differences between real and counterfeit reactions to comments while in conversation with AEN back in 2023:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/emmett-tills-victim-dies-before-she-can-by-lynched/#comment-5938979 (#143)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/emmett-tills-victim-dies-before-she-can-by-lynched/#comment-5940512 (#168)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/emmett-tills-victim-dies-before-she-can-by-lynched/#comment-5941966 (#175)
Oh, yeah. Thanks. I’d forgotten about that 7.2 years ago thing, but I remember all this now – that was fun.:
Canned responses we would like to see:
Forgot, as per Reg Caesar:
• This has already been covered on Peak Stupidity: Achmed E. Newman
What else would he write about?
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-chancellors-long-goodbye/#comment-2602613 (#161)
It’s about time for these leeches to be fired. They can go be perverts from Grandma’s basement.
The current anti Pope.
Michael Tracey:
Zelensky White House meltdown
Streamed live on Feb 28, 2025
Donald Trump revealed on Saturday that the number of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States reached a record low of a little over eight thousand in February:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/invasion-of-our-country-is-over-u-s-records-record-low-number-of-illegal-entries-in-february
While the United States and Europe have been worrying in recent years about a possible future invasion from Russia to the east, an actual invasion of immigrants has been taking place, primarily from the south. Under Biden, the number of illegal immigrants trying to cross the border had at times reached three hundred thousand a month.
It was the failure of American and European leaders to slow the immigrant invasion that has led to rightwing parties who oppose large scale immigration from third world countries becoming more popular.
Thanks. I had not realized that was so recent. Your Jan 2018 link seems like a decent candidate for first.
P.S. FWIW, the thread you linked contains an exchange about the Tu Quoque fallacy with Corvinus which I think is entertaining.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/emmett-tills-victim-dies-before-she-can-by-lynched/#comment-5943231
If you ignore the atmospherics and go strictly by the results, Trump’s actions have been good. He is effectively dismantling NATO, which, while being 35 years late, is a welcome development. There is no sense in keeping our troops in Germany, Italy and U.K. when they can be fruitfully deployed on the southern border (and some even on northern border) to interdict illegal immigrants and drugs. Maybe they can be deputized for interior enforcement too using the emergency declaration. I was also very skeptical of his capabilities. But his foreign policy successes are giving me hope. Next, we need a similar restructuring in East Asia.
Come on, Steve.
Duvall wrote The Apostle. His interest in evangelism was sparked by his starring role in that weird early-‘90s cinematic adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale.
LOL!
And yet you prefer to make ad hominem attacks, or rather a strawman national argument instead of answering a single point, Mr. Vance (it is you, isn’t it?)
Game, set, and match, as they say in the game of commentary tennis.
Anyone think this whole thing was a cunning setup by Trump and Starmer?
a) Trump heaves a great chunk of cost (not all, the ISR planes were out in the Black Sea and near Kaliningrad today) in the general direction of Europe, while at the same time
b) Starmer can pose as The Leader Of Nearly All Of Europe plus Canada, getting the EU onside in the post-Brexit world
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/02/ukraine-war-volodymyr-zelenskyy-keir-starmer-donald-trump-us-europe-eu-russia-defence-latest-live-news#top-of-blog
Starmer still has to crack the problem of more weapons AND better living standards for Brits, but you can’t have everything. Or we Brits can’t, anyway.
You keep conflating “the entire world” and “effete Western Europeans”. Aren’t you a Croat? Your people still have some dignity. Why cast your lot with the likes of self-hating Germany and Cuck Island?
Calm down. The bridges aren’t burned. You’ll be back demanding we protect you soon enough.
Also, its amusing when you use “civilized” to describe places where moslem savages drive cars into citizens, and the governments’ responses are to censor and imprison the citizens for objecting, all while venerating homosexuals. FFS, how many of your “defense ministers” are women?
Have at it. Its about time.
“The best songwriting partnership since Lennon/McCartney”
As a huge Beatles fan, I had always considered Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas to be the Lennon/McCartney of today but had always wondered which one was John and which one was Paul. This was answered for me by Paul McCartney himself when he was asked in an interview which musical artist of today reminds him most of himself and, after thinking about it a moment, said “How about Billie Eilish?”
Finneas has said in interviews that Billie loves the spotlight and is a charming people pleaser who wants everyone to like her, very Paul-like traits. She sang a James Bond movie song like Paul. She appeared at the Oscars a few years back and sang Paul’s “Yesterday”. Billie gushed over Paul when they both appeared at the same Glastonbury Festival. The first song Billie ever learned to play was “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, something she did when she was six years old. She has said she owes ninety percent of her success to Paul and the Beatles.
I’m old enough and was troublesome enough to remember seeing this in the “National Lampoon in the early 1970s. Now THAT was a humor magazine.
You’ll have to read the book or see the film for yourself.
It may be a surprise Academy Award winner tonight.
The trans actress who stars in the Mexican cartel film, formerly touted, was revealed to have previously posted some comments on social media which were disliked by the Woke Commissars.
So Conclave has a shot.
I won’t be watching so later, someone can fill in my Woke scorecard of winners.
Thanks for this.
Remember, previously, before the invasion, Ukraine was rated by international groups widely respected, as the most corrupt nation in Europe. Even worse than Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, etc.
Do you think that suddenly stopped?
About six months after the invasion Zelensky canned a large number of military honchos for stealing funds in various ways. Not much said about this kind of thing lately.
So after Z is removed, retired, off on his post war book tour, the nasty details of how much aid was stolen or resold, traded or diverted will start to emerge. The CIA probably already knows.
Trump’s general campaign mantra was “enough is enough!” And he’s acting on that.
Despite his black ops outfit, Zelensky hasn’t ever been in combat. If you can’t win, the best outcome is to “not lose.” Trump is merely trying to get a ceasefire/truce/settlement done.
In ten years hence, most of the damage will be over or resolved. New Russian leadership and also in Ukraine.
Turkey is in NATO. Yes, some decent military.
Poland is in the EU and NATO. Has long times to Ukraine, historically, ethnically and politically.
They are pretty quiet now.
The UK Prime Minister can bluster about poor Ukraine and saint Zelensky. Easy for them to do.
The Poles, who dislike both Germany and Russia, so far have been pretty quiet.
Russia is literately next door. They have one of the best NATO member militaries, but aren’t making cheap promises. They actually do spend more in defense.
So, Russia/Putin wants a deal, time to make that happen.
Gorbachev’s post-Soviet vision was that of a “common European home” from Lisbon to Vladivostok. It’s a great tragedy that the idiots in charge of American policy couldn’t have embraced that.
““Our” deep state side has driven a wedge between European people — whom I KNOW — that would not naturally exist.”
European peoples have been fighting wars for hundreds of years so evidently there are natural divisions. Or at least divisions that aren’t our fault.
But are food servers paid the same per hour as the dish washers or line cooks? Because in the U.S. the servers are not paid the same because the tip is assumed to be part of the wage.
But if the U.S. follows the policy of give Putin whatever he wants, the millions of refugees will move into Europe trying to escape Putin. And Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Moldova will cease to exist.
They’d have more decent industry if Germany didn’t decide to commit economic suicide. But yeah I agree, I enjoy Europe whenever I go (last June most recently). But they’re governed by horrible communist or communist-adjacent people whose first instinct is to preserve their power (e.g. just straight-up stealing elections in Romania). The EU is bordering on evil.
The decent European people need to overthrow their governments and start sending “refugees” back to where they came from.
“If you ignore the atmospherics”
That is ridiculous and unrealistic. Look at how European leaders are rallying to the cause.
“and go strictly by the results, Trump’s actions have been good.”
According to Whom/Who.
“He is effectively dismantling NATO”
Not quite. Again, you’re way better than this.
From ABC News
—British Prime Minister Kier Starmer outlined a plan to support Ukraine, including continuing the flow of aid to Ukraine and keeping up economic pressure on Russia. He said any lasting peace agreement must ensure Ukraine’s sovereignty and security, and Ukraine must be at the negotiating table.
European leaders were quick to rally around the Ukrainian leader and his team, though several stressed the importance of Kyiv retaining good — and repairing damaged — relations with the U.S.
[He is] ready to back the plan with boots on the ground and planes in the air. He said he also recognizes that not all countries will be able to make this kind of commitment. Starmer said that for a deal to work, it will need strong U.S. backing.
“We are working on a durable peace,” Starmer said. When asked by a reporter about whether President Donald Trump would support the plan’s framework, Starmer said he spoke to Trump “last night” and that he “wouldn’t be going down this road if I didn’t think it had a chance.”—
“There is no sense in keeping our troops in Germany, Italy and U.K. when they can be fruitfully deployed on the southern border (and some even on northern border) to interdict illegal immigrants and drugs. Maybe they can be deputized for interior enforcement too using the emergency declaration”
No, they should be used to take over Greenland and Mexico.
If the IRS treated tips as gifts, Phil Mickleson might be the only person who would have to pay gift tax on tips.
The “Bolding of the Dot” has a certain ring to it like the “Running of the Bulls.” Take it away Germ Theory…..
That’s cause I didn’t get it until you pointed it out. Sad.
That’s okay. Some of my stuff is more, uh, ‘conceptual’. Sometimes the vibe works, sometimes not. 🙂
The reaction of the Uke ambassador said it all.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/u0NiUPjKwk-Ix9v4-klqrJgOAbjSGnGYfZlYYDasZBI/rs:fit:500:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pMi1w/cm9kLmlyaXNoc3Rh/ci5jb20vaW5jb21p/bmcvYXJ0aWNsZTM0/NzczNzA5LmVjZS9B/TFRFUk5BVEVTL3M2/MTUvMV9Va3JhaW5l/QW1iYXNzYWRvcjI4/Ni5qcGc
So the poncy asshat that goes on about JD Vance being a brainless hillbilly thug is whining ad hominem?
Eh, the Russia of Pushkin, Tolstoy and Turgenev is long gone.
Right, Mr. Ross. Americans have been truly blessed with a ctrl-left that lies on the ultra low wavelength bands of the Stupidity Spectrum. Your Lenins, Castros, and Maos were stupid only in the idealogical sense but otherwise nothing like the people you mention.
How would we fare against any of those types? Keep your guns. (Thank you, Joe Stalin, for the continual updates.)
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PS: I like your spelling of Kămălā. It gives out a certain connotation of foreignness and GTFOability.
So what was the Budapest Memorandum of 1994?
Bloodsucking Bastards is funny.
Copshop is hilarious
The Bolding of the Dot sounds like that new Bollywood movie about a young man coming of age in his small village Stratford-upon-Ganges. Steve Sailer really ought to review it.
Speaking of this sort of thing, here’s a small anecdote from the other day: I have been really curious about this culture, and so I just had to know – yeah, the internet, what-the-hell-ever – so I just brought it up to a guy at the convenience store the other day.
“Hey, why DO you have that red dot on your forehead?”
“What red dot?”
Holy crap, we both dropped to the floor before a big BANG rang out. Luckily that .380 round didn’t go through that 1 1/4″ plexiglas. Turns out it was this guy’s competitor, apparently of a lower caste, with an attempted revenge killing for his theft of his Blueberry Squishy recipe.
“I watched the whole thing. It looked to me like Vance got fed up with Zelenskyy refusing to any kind of cease fire or negotiations.”
Hogwash. Give him some actual guarantees that any cease-fire or peace will hold, and he’ll grab them. What he got instead was some con-job consisting of flat-out refusals and stonewalling (as in Trump opining “I don’t know if Ukraine is going to even be around in a few years”), a demand for rare earth metals based on some ridiculous claim that Europe’s shipments of aids have some guaranteed payback that the US doesn’t, and some finger-wagging from the angry baby-man Karen to the effect that Zelensky has not once thanked the American people. Which of course was also a lie.
Pretending that Zelensky was the one obstructing here is not fooling anyone, and plenty of people know it, so feel free to get up out of your mothers’ basements and echo chambers and take a look around (as opposed to wondering about my take, like the jailbait-chasing trucker weirdo above who inquired after me above.) I mean, I understand that the poor little baby-man Karen even had to cut short his ski vacation. Wahhhh, the humanity! Wahhh, the inconvenience! I guess he knows exactly how those Ukrainians losing lives and limbs feel right now.
What Zelensky wants and needs are safeguards against Putin shredding the next set of security guarantees in the way he shredded the last set. When Trump was asked by a reporter about what would prevent Putin from doing exactly that, Trump’s answer was “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head now?” Well, thanks so much for the existential angst, there, Donny, though I suspect Sartre or Camus would have phrased it more poetically. But I suspect Zelensky has a bit more cause to be worried about things like that than Trump himself, and if the latter feels differently, he can get DOGE to fire the secret service guarding him from the next set of projectiles whizzing at HIS head. Think what a savings that would be!
In any case, dismissing legitimate concerns like that is not a good faith negotiation — it’s flagrant gaslighting. The way smaller (and even bigger) states deal with big bullies bent on destroying them is typically to team up and act in concert. That’s just how it goes — hence NATO, or some other set of arrangements. If Trump doesn’t like NATO, because it gets in the way of his own designs on Canada or Greenland, or because Putin told him to feel that way and he always does what Lil’ BB wants, then that’s his own business, but if he really wants a deal with Zelensky, he should offer some constructive way of getting Ukrainians actual security deals that stand to work better than the last set of security guarantees we pressured Ukraine to sign. Because as it turns out, those didn’t work out so well.
Barring that, the end result of all this is going to be a whole lot of states who realize that having a pile of nukes of their own is the only way to get into the we’re-all-secure club. The ironic thing about that inevitable outcome is that none of us will be safer or more secure. Indeed, the whole reason we pressured Ukraine to give up their nukes in the first place was in large part an effort to prevent that. So thanks for all that peacemaking, Donnie. I’m sure ethnically cleansing Gaza will also reap some similar “peace dividends” throughout the years.
Oh, and while I’m at it, there’s one more jaw-droppingly idiotic thing that Trump said that I want to highlight given that it hasn’t received as much attention as it should. Trump OPENLY ADMITTED that Putin broke deals with Obama and Biden but he says Putin didn’t do it with him because Putin “respects” him.
Lay aside the fact that “respect” is actually code language for Trump caving in to Putin at every opportunity (and forget for a moment that Putin DID break a weapons deal with Trump, but Trump’s response was to pull out of the deal like the good little dog-collar-wearing fetch-it he is). On what planet does any of that make sense? And how does any functioning adult, let alone someone who fancies himself a dealmaker, not get that? If Donne is going to give Putin the leeway to renege on any deal based on how much he respects whoever is in the White House at the moment, then he’s admitted that Putin is worthless as far as trust and security goes. Which means HE — and anyone stupid enough to go along with him, fanboy or not — are the stumbling blocks. I mean, I don’t get to back out of my lease any time I decide the new management at the dealership hasn’t earned my respect. That’s not how it works, and if this were anything but a crowd of MAGA loons, I wouldn’t have to explain it, but there — I just did.
First, he has to admit this is the best film of 2024.
I had a nice relaxing Sunday today visiting the library, eating dinner in a restaurant and going to the grocery store. It’s nice to know that Trump is not going to let Zelensky drag America into WW III. If the Ukrainians want to keep on fighting with the help of the Europeans, that’s fine with me. We will be coming home, as we did with Vietnam and Afghanistan, and focusing on domestic affairs.
The biggest threat to this country are the corrupt parasitic verbalist elites that have been running it, not any enemy overseas. In the last election, it was college graduates who voted for Harris by a majority. Much of our higher education system is involved in turning out Woke Whites who are incapable of rational thought and can only repeat like a parrot the liberal bromides taught to them by our educational system and mainstream media.
Trump has many flaws but the anger at him is coming more from the overeducated elites than from the average working person in this country. There is still a lot of common sense among these average people and they realize the previous four years of Biden and Harris was a disaster for America.
There have already been 23 popes named Joan, and two more named Joan Pau. This doesn’t include three antipopes with the name.
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_XXIII
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Pau_II
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llista_de_papes_de_Roma#Papes_de_Roma
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipapa#Llista_completa_d’antipapes
As for that more recent conclave, I was impressed with Vlad Jr’s English. (Vlad Sr’s isn’t too bad, either.) “Costume” wasn’t meant as an insult, merely a “false friend” error– it’s also the Ukrainian word for “suit”.
But which is better– his English, or his Ukrainian?
Zelensky wants to know and speak Ukrainian better
What you have written doesn’t contradict new foreign policy by Trump team. If Europeans don’t like Putin’s hegemony, they have to spill the blood and treasure. Looking westward for help won’t work anymore.
As for redeployment to southern border:
Why we need to disentangle from East Asia too:
Giving only “assurances” and not “guarantees”, it was more of a Memorandum Mori.
No Guarantees
https://www.unz.com/isteve/poland-here-us-and-germany-you-give-our-mig-29s-to-ukraine/#comment-5221228 (#102, etc.)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/sailer-putins-best-laid-plans/#comment-5239745 (#632)
https://www.unz.com/isteve/sailer-putins-best-laid-plans/#comment-5240402 (#677)
Spoiler alert: Ukrainians will never have actual security. Have you seen the map? It’s been in the news for at least a few years that Ukraine shares an encroaching border with a “gas station with nukes” that has plenty of gas and plenty of nukes. It’s a tough neighborhood.
Very well said. Sums it up succulently and accurately.
If Trump/Vance hadn’t televised this on live TV the punditocracy would have never believed how badly Zelensky screwed up.
What US President ever did this? This is what transparency looks like.
I predict that this will blow over and Ukraine will make the deal. The UK and Euros can’t keep Zelensky afloat much longer, financially. Over time this will work out in favor of Ukraine with some tradeoffs.
Zelensky is not indispensable, despite the PR hype cleverly manufactured. Putin isn’t immortal either.
Your own military barracks must not be too shabby if they allow you this much Internet access.
“Ukrainians will never have actual security.”
Neither will Finland or Sweden or Estonia. And yet, with the help of security assurances that they’ve willingly negotiated without sabotage and subterfuge, they’ve done OK, so far. One way or another, Ukraine is going to want something similar.
By the way, there are still idiots who persist in insisting that it’s pronounced Come On Nowlah or whatever. One of the virtues of the almost virtueless Hindians is that their writing systems clarify all this perfectly. It’s Kămălā.
The work of these people. Note the guy with the Lindsey Graham tie, but with the stripes in the other direction.
Pourquoi mourir pour
DantzigBurisma?A bit late for that: Would you say Ukraine has “done OK, so far”? Have you seen the map? What Ukraine wants isn’t likely to be close to what Ukraine gets.
Gene Hackman and John Cazale, in Coppola, Guerra, Bond and Antonioni’s
The Conversation (1974), Johnny Carson Interviewing Hackman on The Tonight Show about the Picture, and Guerra, Bond, and Antonioni’s 1966 Masterpiece, Blow-Up (Videos, Videos, Videos!)
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2025/03/gene-hackman-and-john-cazale-in-coppola.html
Gene Hackman, 95, the greatest movie actor of his generation, his wife, and their dog, all found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene-hackman-95-greatest-actor-of-his.html
“Would you say Ukraine has ‘done OK, so far’”?
They’ve done a whole lot better than the utter annihilation that was planned for them.
In fact, large chunks of Ukraine are — even according to the trolls — not all that bad. The trolls also like to show conscription offices press-ganging unwilling conscriptees, and say that must mean the Ukrainians are desperate, but if that beach nightclub scene was what I was leaving behind, I’d be really hesitant to go into service too, so in that sense, the backwater Buryats and other Central Asian ethnics in Russia who see service as a way to escape the hellhole they daily experience might have an easier time in believing the lies of their conscription offices.
And if Ukraine will never be safe, well, they’re not the only ones. Trump will never be safe either. Does that mean he should take his own advice, shrug his shoulders and play inane “What if anything” word games, and let those Secret Service guys get dismissed by Elon?
If not, then what kind of a fool is he to think that Zelensky would fall for the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do routine of a man unwilling to take his own advice.
So only the Wizards get the real dictionaries? Very spiteful, if you ask me.
The only legitimate concern President Trump and the American people have is to do what is best for the United States, which is to get the hell out of Ukraine, Europe and the middle east. We have zero security interest in Ukraine. Our war for survival is on the Rio Grande, not the Dnieper. Trump can do whatever he needs to – lie, cheat, hand Ukraine over to the Russians, sell it to the Chinese – as long as it gets the US military OUT of Europe.
Go back to Europe HA. You are not wanted here and don’t belong here. There is a nice rifle and rucksack waiting for you in the trenches in Ukraine.
The whore movie won best picture and four other Oscars. Which whore movie, you ask?
Anora
You have read literally nothing in Timothy and Titus in a way that corresponds with Paul’s documentably plain sense of how he understood the hierarchical structure of the Church, a structure that the other Apostles got straight from the lips of Jesus Himself and that Paul fully accepted.* Indeed, as you simply leave out everything in the New Testament—in the Epistles, Gospels, Acts, and Revelation—that fails to conform with your baseless and deficient preconceptions, you may justly be described as reading Paul with the self-imposed prejudices of a typical Protestant.
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*Even in his famous dispute with Peter during the Council of Jerusalem, Paul never questioned, far less denied, Peter’s primacy among the Apostles and the finality of Peter’s authority within the Church.
The servers, dishwashers, and line cooks are paid what the proprietor or manager elects to pay them. What he elects to pay them is a function of the restaurant’s revenue and a function of the quality of employee for which he is willing to settle.
It doesn’t sound like Ukrainians take the war too seriously. Young men are usually the most patriotic and willing to fight when they feel their country has been invaded. Sounds like they don’t care much about the Eastern part.
Maybe they don’t care about any of it?
Didn’t you know? Bolding of the Dot (or BotD to hardcore fans) was the greatest thing to ever happen to music that nobody ever heard of! When I was splitting my time between park benches on rooftops and underground restrooms in the Sierra Nevadas, I used to daydream about playing the ukulele alongside frontman Flars Ubrichtstin, as he wailed on his self built 1 string bass banjo. There was no better manipulator of the theremin than Randy “Rand” Randlestocking!
These guys literally paved the way for Billie Eyelash as well as the entire “Cadaver Pop” genre!
I have been in situations like Zelensky was, with bullies, abusers and narcissists, and you can try the ridiculous fawning technique of Macron and Starmer, but when they do that, it just blows back. You can’t stand up to bullies with facts and rational thought either, like Zelensky did. Really all you can do is be silent, stand up and walk away. Turn your back so to speak, it takes away all their power over you.
Re: Ukraine
You want to know about a country? Consult its neighbors. They
know exactly what’s going on, info that never reaches Western Europe or the U.S.
So this is based primarily on what Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary have to say.
1. Ukraine is obscenely large for its small population (roughly 35 mln at this point).
It should be carved up. (Of course, Russia is also obscenely large. Ideally, it should
be broken up into pieces. There is nothing Russian about Siberia).
2. What the neighbors especially notice is the Ukrainians’ entitled behavior – “They
behave like we owe them – financially, medically, …” etc. They refuse to show
gratitude, i.e. exactly what Trump and Vance pointed out. They are often rude.
They walk down the street in groups, and speak loud (typically in Russian). Shouldn’t
they be at the front?
3. In Poland, they first began to arrive in 2014, and took jobs as caregivers,
maids, nannies, cooks, cleaners, with men in construction. Many came to study
at Poland’s universities. They gradually began to open their own stores and
eateries. They are doing fine. But the huge wave that came in 2022 is more
entitled and more aggressive. Many people now can’t wait for them to go home.
By the way, Poland has a large Vietnamese community that arrived mostly in
the late 1970s. Nobody has any complaints about them. They are seen as
a model minority.
4. People point out that 75% of Ukraine, mostly in the west, has not been affected by war. Putin has been very restrained. Russia has made no attempt
to conquer and occupy western Ukraine. It’s almost like Putin
is nostalgic about the situation hundreds of years ago when Ukraine was not a country,
but simply a territory – western Ukraine was ruled by Poland (as Polish-Lithuanian
Res Publica), and eastern by Russia. Kiev was a Polish city for 100 years.But then
at ita peak, ca. 1620, Poland ruled half of Europe, in the east
the border of Rzeczpospolita ran 50 miles from Moscow.
I’m sure Putin wouldn’t mind if Poland took Lvov back. To conclude, since 3/4 of
Ukraine has not been affected by war, people are saying, “Shouldn’t most Ukrainians
go home instead of living at somebody else’s expense?”
It varies, but a good waiter at a nice place will make a lot more than the back of the house. Waiting tables is a true meritocracy: the harder you work and the more covers you handle, the more you get paid.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
I’d like to hear from people in states listed in the first tranche. Waitrons make the real minimum wage in these jurisdictions. What do you tip? There’s no way I’m tipping 25% to someone already making the minimum wage, as in this day and age, a lot of them detract from, not add to, the dining experience.
Some restaurants here in the People’s Commonwealth have added a 3% fee, allegedly to distribute to staff, but my restauranteur friend says that most use it to pay the credit card fees.
Pro tip: sit at the bar. One place where we became semi-regulars has tremendous food, but the beer list isn’t so hot. After a couple of visits, one night the bartender said she had something for me, and pulled a pint can of Delerium Tremens out of the cooler, along with a Gunnar’s Daughter stout for dessert! I had duked her pretty well in the past, and she told the bar manager she’d like to take care of me. He regularly got beer samples from his liquor distributors, which he usually either didn’t want or would take and give to an employee.
I was charged $7 for a beer that’s usually $12-$15. It appeared on the check as “Misc. Bev.” Not exactly legal, but I’m not complaining. Quasi-legality is a feature, not a bug, of the restaurant business.
It’s very suspicious when a country like Ukraine that was barely in the news 15 years
ago is suddenly receiving a lot of attention, on the front page of the NY Times, no less,
and not just due to the war but for social and cultural reasons. Specifically, what I’m
referring to is the fact that about once a month in the last couple of years the NYT
has had a full color article devoted to the Ukrainian people, to be truthful mostly young
women and under-age girls in which their legs are shown in loving display, almost posed.
No other country gets this kind of treatment.
So what do the TPTB want from Ukraine? Perhaps they want to turn it into another
Czechoslovakia. During WW II Czechoslovakia was never reduced to rubble partly
because the Nazis began to think of the country as the place where the German
soldiers could get a little R & R. The fact that Czechoslovakia, even though technically
Catholic, was heavily atheistic and hence more open to the idea of sex for sale, also
helped.
Hundreds of thousand of young Ukrainian women have moved to Poland, and
romance between them and Polish men is apparently thriving. Some men in Poland
even say, “It’s like in Ukraine they have a factory producing beautiful women.” Perhaps
it’s the result of the survival of the fittest during the Holodomor in the early 1930s
that killed millions of Ukrainians. Interestingly, Roosh V, who thrived during the
peak of the PUA movement ca. 2010, and became famous as a sex tourist who’d
visit a country and write books like “Bang Ukraine,” … could not make up his
mind whether Polish or Ukrainian women were more beautiful. He since repented,
and was admitted into the Christian Orthodox church. He is Iranian – Armenian
by ethnicity.
I watched it through inofficial means, mostly with the sound off. It was fine, and unlike most modern movies it kept my attention until the end.
BIG SPOILERS
One very explicit callback to Pretty Woman, but overall it was more like the original (dark) PW script than the megahit movie.
Despite the topic, the sex scenes were a lot less explicit than, say, Blue is the Warmest Color or Basic Instinct.
After the first third of dizzy partying, the good part of the movie begins. I really liked these poor Russian guys who had to tactfully take care of the crazy oligarch son and his crazy hooker girl. Too much insane screaming for my taste but it was acceptable. Very well done and acted overall.
Learnings:
Marriage across class boundaries doesn’t work.
Modern marriage is bunk.
Don’t marry a walking overdose in the first place.
Calm down, Hillary.
Actually, things are more complex than the circus which Trump & his lap dogs arranged.
It is either you live in the (imperfect) world of the law, or with the “law” of the jungle.
The second one is what the current US administration, backed by many (most?) Americans, wants. It would be America, China, Russia and to a lesser extent Europe somehow dictating “the others” their lives. Similar to the 19th C age of empires- which vanished.
This is a self-destructive approach because of technological, communication, demographic, cultural changes. It is- unlike what Orwell prophesied- an unstable world because even small, let alone mid-size countries, can produce nukes or biowarfare. Even with primitive technology various terrorists, when they decide they have had it enough, can deal irreparable blows to the big powers. The 19th C concept of power is definitely gone.
The first way is that of the international law & “freedom principles” (to call them that), albeit imperfect. That’s what enabled American power in many areas for many post WW2 decades. When you break those principles- they backfire (Mosaddegh’s ousting in Iran ultimately led to Khomeini).
If you are led primarily by accepted principles of the Western world, even breaking them now & then, you will be prosperous & successful – imperfectly, with periods of instability, but still..
If you follow the “might makes right” world-view, you will be ultimately destroyed in the modern world. Everything, from technology to demography, from history to future, conspires against you.
“What you have written doesn’t contradict new foreign policy by Trump team.”
No, what I have written is that Trump’s foreign police is aligning itself with autocratic regimes and is demanding that Ukrainian sovereignty be beholden to Russian interests.
“If Europeans don’t like Putin’s hegemony, they have to spill the blood and treasure.”
Assuming that Putin’s hegemony is legitimate to begin with. Moreover, a number of European countries seem prepared to continue to help Ukraine ward off Russian aggression. Again, if Ukraine decides to capitulate to Putin’s whims, so be it. But it appears to me that Ukraine will continue to fight. Great for them.
“Looking westward for help won’t work anymore.”
Currently, Europe’s actions say otherwise.
Man, you really are ramping up the shilling for Russia and China.
“Why we need to disentangle from East Asia too:”
Thanks for the link to propaganda. Right now, it’s all talk from China. Does it have the guts to invade Taiwan and risk World War III, at worst, or a global economic boycott, at best? We shall see.
That live TV has become quite famous. This is a banner in Tehran:
I predict China and Taiwan will resolve their issues, hopefully with as little violence as possible, in the next 4 years. There won’t be any kind of ‘World War III’ over this (or anything else). Any economic boycott will be small and temporary as China is the fulcrum of world manufacturing economy (unlike Russia). Note that Trump is always bombastic and rude with Canada and Mexico but ever so gentle while talking or acting on China. They are the big dog in world economy now.
The key point I should have mentioned is that many people in Central and Eastern
Europe continue to regard Ukraine as a territory, and not a country, and therefore the
internal borders between Russia and Ukraine are not worth defending. Ukraine is
obscenely large for its small population, and therefore needs to be carved up anyway.
Ukr.should continue to exist as a separate country, but only in a highly diminished form.
Putin tolerates the existence of Belarus as a separate country. He will tolerate the
existence of Ukraine reduced to perhaps one third of its former size. Those are not
necessarily my views but the views of millions of people in that region.
Peak Stupidity says “Fuck the Oscars”. As for more Bread & Circuses, fuck Gene Hackman too. Actually, nothing against him or his late wife and doggie, but (sorry Nick Stix) that’s Infotainment. I’m having none of it.
Oh, and Trump to Robert DiNiro: “You talkin’ to me? There’s nobody else here. You must be talkin’ to me.” Click.
I had a friend who wanted help in developing an inside-the-sleeve gun racking device like the Taxi Driver had. I told him it was kind of a niche market, so I wasn’t too excited about working on that.
Wendy, I thought that was a fake, some more modern meme using old styling. It’s amazing that you could do that sort of thing 50 years ago – very good humor indeed! I’m glad to know this since I’m saving it to post some time.
Looks like your X link was deleted. Fake news?
Well at least you’re willing to concede, thanks to me, that your wish …
… is utter nonsense.
LOL wut. Trump isn’t begging foreign entities for protection, unlike Zelensky. If Ukraine has to beg outsiders for protection, that’s a pretty good indication that Ukraine’s ‘sovereignty’ is questionable.
BTW, have you seen the map?
LOL.
Well billions of pixels were shed, but eventually you managed to come around to my original common sense–common geometry?–point.
No, Wendy is absolutely correct. I, too, am old enough to remember when that “ad” appeared in National Lampoon. Probably around 1973 or 1974. They were amazingly irreverent. They had an article about Africa that could not possibly be printed today or even 20 years ago. I think it might have been called “Discovering Africa” or something but I am not sure. IIRC there was a picture of some witch doctor with a bone through his nose next to a photograph of a moon rocket launch, with a caption to the effect that after all, all cultures are equal.
Not sure if it is still available, but my nephew found a digitized collection of all the back issues within the last 20 years. I haven’t seen it in quite a while, he lives far away.
Interesting. I wonder if that ‘one weird trick’ works on creatures like mountain lions. Are mountain lions bullies?
When people come to the States it would be ideal if they didn’t try to get the US involved in their ethnic squabbles back “home”.
I remember the Irish in NYC and Boston (and SF a bit) used to collect money and sometimes arms for “the bhoys”. 9/11 made that sort of thing unfashionable.
Israel are the masters of the game of course.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114099480566604857
You started with a lot of erroneous points, and it seems like you’ve come around to agreeing on most, the Covid-19 effect on ATC training (can’t expect many people to have heard about that), and the CAUSE of the accident (the stupidity of the helicopter pilots – in accepting a clearance to maintain visual separation and in being off on altitude and position).
Now, I do NOT say that the corridor down there is the REASON for the crash. However, when things happen, often rules are changed beyond those actually involved. Yes, it’d be common sense to say no passage down the corridor with Rwy 33 landings in progress. You say all the time, even for use of 1/19. I don’t really see a problem with shutting the whole thing down and letting those “important military missions” happen somewhere else either. That wasn’t the cause, but nobody’s gonna be comfortable with that arrangement again, rwy 33 landings that is.
Until I were to write a big essay on the whole point of ATC, no, you don’t really get it. The closest I have is the link to that post about 9/11 (why one guy’s video started out with too many wrong ideas for me to want to listen to the rest about things I DON’T know about.)
I’ve wasted enough time on you with this. The NTSB will have their say, hopefully pretty soon.
The Guardian seems real triggered by Zelensy’s crash & burn. That’s a pretty strong sign Trump & Vance did a good day’s work for America.
“LOL wut. Trump isn’t begging foreign entities for protection, unlike Zelensky.”
The US didn’t decide to turn over its nukes with the help of arm-twisting from Ukraine. It was the other way around. As for broken links, I can’t help it if trolls operate from “suspended accounts” but unless you’re really too stupid to try a search yourself, try this or do your own work.
Sailer has basically cut this site loose for just a few weeks, and the signal/noise ratio has dropped tenfold. “LOL, wut…” it’s like you go out of your way to be an idiot, even though something like that requires no effort.
I first read that as “shred”. Which led to more questions. Can pixels be shred(ded)? Then again, e-mails and other communications work by shredding the data, and recomposing it at the destination. The electronic equivalent of “Beam me up, Scotty”.
FBI Investigation Shows Epstein List Shredded Itself
“You are not wanted here and don’t belong here.”
Ah yes, the “true American” argument from someone who chose a Confederate user-name. And for some reason, I keep hearing around here that it’s the Jews who lack any self-awareness.
You could always, you know, fight your own battles. The sense of entitlement from Euro-weenies is breathtaking. Trump is a bully for not wanting to shovel more money into this war. Got it.
Zelensky’s “rational thought” consisting of “I’m going to go to the White House dressed like a Ticketmaster salesman and demand more money”.
“Spoiler alert: Ukrainians will never have actual security”
Try again.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/03/europe-led-north-baltics-nordics-ukraine/
Any content of note in that article you can quote, or did you just like the silly picture?
The Unz site spellcheck fooled me.
My eyesight betrayed me.
“It’s never my fault…”
Right. We have actual sovereignty. Guess who didn’t? Ukraine was helpless as the big boys came in and made them an offer they couldn’t refuse: The Budapest Memorandum Mori.
Now if Ukraine had its own nukes, as you laughably claim, why didn’t they use them to light up Russia as the split happened (if not earlier)? Looks like either:
A) Those were actually Moscow’s nukes, with the Kremlin controlling the launch capability (which makes you a liar claiming they belonged to Ukraine), or
B) Ukraine had full control over the nukes (“their nukes”, as you claim) but pussed out and failed to light up Russia when it had the chance (preempting the vaunted Memorandum Mori), which leaves only Ukraine to blame for its position today.
HA, which is it— A or B?
Finally, some hot compelling content from HA. Slavs love their disco action.
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HA, you better find somebody to love… maybe form a polycule with Johnson, Mason, Kaldian, Jack D, etc. Take it on the road like the Zizians? The possibilities are endless.
Look to whom I was replying: The dismissive tone is perfecto.
>best film of 2024
Yeesh. And apparently both are wrong, the Oscar for best picture goes to Overpriced Meandering Porno starring Slutty Jewess. I am told (I haven’t seen any of these messes) that Anora has the same plot as Pleasure, but was not as good. I find entertainment refuge from the current year in good old stuff, and I’m not alone. An anonymous anon on 4chan once said, and this is like a kid and he’s talking specifically about Star Trek but it’s representative of a wider phenomenon: “check out 1960s tv shows, the weekly guest star is consistently the hottest woman you’ve ever seen.”
How can your cost-free arms dealer and E-Z Credit financier be deemed a “bully”?
This “bully epithet” is being bandied around by the Usual Suspects. Trump hating neo commies who regard taxpayer money like grains of sand at the beach. Something to be scooped up and used to build fanciful sandcastles.
Tough guy poser Zelensky had made a deal but when at the Oval Office, he reneged.
Moochers often express ingratitude at their benefactors, since they feel guilt and shame with their hands always out for more. Self-hating but have to pose otherwise.
Why should the US “guarantee” anything for Ukraine? Trump hasn’t even proposed making Ukraine a US State.
I say “not one penny more” for Zelensky and his corrupt ungrateful cronies. Let the Trump hating Euros foot the bill. They have a long history of “guaranteeing” European borders (at US expense).
That will last a few weeks until the Russian T-95 tanks are at Kiev’s front door. Then Z’s replacement will come flying into DC, begging for more.
By then, retired black jump suited Zelensky will be enjoying his retirement book tour on the same bill with Kamala Harris.
Both “victims of bullying” don’t ya know…
“Any content of note in that article you can quote,”
Sure. There’s nothing silly about standing up to a Russian oligarch who is a former KGB agent that curbs internal dissent.
—Now, recognizing Ukraine’s struggle for survival under Russian onslaught, the Nordics and Baltics have changed course. Not only are they now interested in more European integration, but they are also finding their voice and beginning to take initiative. For the first time since the start of European integration in the early 1950s, they are taking the lead on common issues such as security and defense. The meeting in Kyiv on Feb. 24 was just one example.—
Led to:
Some dorks had a meeting! As reported in Foreign Policy. Putin must be shaking…
Security for Ukraine assured! (LOL)
You’ve been in situations where you had to ask someone for help and you acted like a jerk to them?
Yeah, I believe you.
We did the best we could to help Ukraine be free. And they’ve been bubbling over with gratitude ever since!
Some people you just have to stay away from. If you do them a favor, they claim that you owe them for the rest of time.
Ukrainians had no operational control over those nukes and you know that. If they did have that they would have negotiated a different deal.
We helped out and got them a pretty good deal of reasonable independence. But then your crowd decided to push aggressively against Russia because it’s a white gentile country and you thought you could subvert it.
OT — Using AI to calculate the cost of our “alliance” with Israel.
I asked Grok to account for the cost of all direct aid, plus money spent on securing peace with Israel’s regional neighbours, and any other costs of support that can be measured.
Noting that Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding in 1948, Grok cites the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to show the U.S. has provided Israel with over $310 billion in direct aid (adjusted for inflation) since 1948. This is about $225 billion in military aid, and $80 billion in economic aid.
Since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict on October 7, 2023, the U.S. has significantly increased military aid. Grok finds an estimate from A Brown University report, putting the figure to at least $17.9 billion in military aid from October 7, 2023, to late 2024. Additionally, the current MOU (2019–2028) commits the U.S. to $3.8 billion annually, totaling $38 billion over the decade, with $5 billion earmarked for missile defense programs.
But this is just direct aid. The U.S. has also invested heavily in regional stability to support Israel’s security, often tied to peace agreements with neighboring countries. These costs are difficult to measure, and so the numbers Grok generates here are just the most conservative estimate.
The best example is Egypt. Following the 1979 Camp David Accords, the U.S. pledged significant aid to Egypt to secure peace with Israel. From 1948 to 2022, Egypt received approximately $85 billion (inflation-adjusted), with about $56 billion in military aid and $29 billion in economic aid.
In 2019, Egypt received $1.4 billion as part of a broader Middle East aid package of $3.1 billion intended to secure regional stability for Israel.
Grok concludes that conservatively, the U.S. has spent over $120 billion (inflation-adjusted) since 1948 on Egypt, Jordan, and other neighbours to secure peace agreements and stability benefiting Israel, and notes that this figure excludes broader diplomatic or military operation costs.
But there are yet more costs:
– Since October 7, 2023, the U.S. has spent at least $4.86 billion on enhanced military operations in the Middle East, including deploying aircraft carriers, fighter squadrons, and the THAAD missile defense system to deter Iran and its proxies (e.g., Houthis, Hezbollah). This figure, from Brown University, covers operations through late 2024 and excludes costs post-Lebanon escalation in September 2024.
– Historical operations (e.g., post-1973 Yom Kippur War) add unquantified billions, but no precise total exists.
– Loan Guarantees and Forgiven Loans: The U.S. has provided over $24 billion in loan guarantees since 1992 (e.g., $9 billion in 2003 for economic recovery), not counted as direct aid since no funds are transferred unless default occurs. Historically, some military loans (pre-1984) were forgiven, adding to the $225 billion military aid total.
This gives Grok the following calculations:
Direct Aid: $310 billion (1948–2023) + $17.9 billion (2023–2024) + $3.8 billion (2025 annualized) ≈ $331.7 billion.
Regional Peace Costs: ~$120 billion (Egypt, Jordan, others since 1948).
Other Support Costs: $4.86 billion (operations since 2023) + $10 billion (missile defense pre-2023) + unquantified historical operations ≈ $15–20 billion (conservative estimate, excluding unmeasured costs).
Grand Total: Approximately $466.7–471.7 billion (inflation-adjusted to 2023 dollars, with some 2024–2025 costs in nominal terms). This figure could rise with ongoing conflicts and untracked expenses (e.g., intelligence, pre-2023 operations).
So Grok gives us a figure of almost half a trillion dollars in measurable costs. There is much we can’t account for, like the cost of isolating and sanctioning countries like Iran and other opportunity costs geopolitically. Grok gives me an estimate of $452–$955 billion for the total cost of isolating and sanctioning Iran, but I will omit this figure since people can quibble about the degree to which America’s adversarial stance to Iran is because of Israel (I would argue almost entirely.) But keep that figure in mind.
But lastly, in my opinion we must also include the costs of the Iraq War.
There is no doubt the Iraq War would not have happened if not for the influence of Israel-first Zionists. The chief architects of the Iraq War — Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, David Wurmser, Paul Wolfowitz, Abram Shulsky — were hawkish Jewish Zionists, with some of the aforementioned involved in drafting the “Clean Break memo” for Benjamin Netanyahu, which called for an overthrow of the Saddam regime. The Jewish-led Office of Special Plans, created by Wolfowitz and Feith, created the fake intelligence used to justify the war.
Additionally, the sociologist James Petras has documented that the Jewish lobby was the most influential force behind pushing for the Iraq War, finding over 2,000 statements, press releases, conferences, op-eds etc. from the Jewish lobby which helped push America’s leadership into supporting regime change in Iraq, a long-time goal of Israeli foreign policy.
The Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has estimated the cost of the Iraq War to be $3 trillion, and even more conservative estimates still put it at around $2 trillion.
So in conclusion, the answer to the question “what has American support for Israel cost America?” is at least half a trillion dollars. But including the greatest case of American blood and treasure spilled for Israeli interests — The Iraq War — the figure we are left with is $3.5 trillion. Or, just over $10,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.. And, if we include the costs of isolating Iran because of its hostility to Israel, the number would rise to well over $4 trillion.
Amazing how common this attitude is among certain groups. You see it in the comments on this very blog. The only people who have the ability to pull off such an attitude are beautiful young women. They are the only ones who get rewarded just for showing up.
We need to make it quite clear to other groups, they can’t play that card.
“The Romans were indeed strong and noble men, stronger and nobler than any people who had lived on earth up until then or even than any people who had ever been dreamed up. Everything they left as remains, every inscription, is delightful, provided that we can guess what is doing the writing there. By contrast, the Jews were par excellence that priestly people of ressentiment, who possessed an unparalleled genius for popular morality. ”
Nietzsche
“Now if Ukraine had its own nukes, as you laughably claim, why didn’t they use them to light up Russia as the split happened (if not earlier)?”
Um, maybe because up until 2014, the Russians weren’t invading Ukraine, and contented themselves with the usual day-to-day of poisoning Ukrainian presidential candidates they didn’t like, while busily working to get Russian stooges elected?
It could also be because we swooped in and hastily scurried around trying to get stuff signed precisely so as to prevent any such “Yugoslavia with nukes”. (In hindsight, they probably should have added a “no poisoning or running stooge candidates” clause to that memorandum, but like I said, given the exigencies, it needed to be done in haste and I’m guessing it just slipped through the cracks.)
I know there’s more to your drivel, but I stopped reading after that. There’s no recovering after a start that weak.
Your comedy act needs work.
Maybe, coulda, shoulda, woulda …
HA, you got nothing.
Mmm-hmm. Despite yourself, you read the whole thing and enjoyed it. 🙂
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Corvinus, be sure to let us all know when Ukraine gets “actual security”.
“Corvinus, be sure to let us all know when Ukraine gets “actual security”.”
Ukraine has it.
You’re just trying to hustle us with your No True Scotsman Fallacy.
Again “actual security” does NOT mean it MUST ONLY come from the U.S. and Russia making a deal for Ukraine’s ‘benefit” without this country at the negotiating table.
“Maybe, coulda, shoulda, woulda …”
Let’s remember you opened with “why didn’t Ukraine didn’t nuke Russia the moment the USSR went kaput?” Seriously. I know it seems unbelievable, but that was actually what you asked me. And the way it was phrased made me think that even if only for a moment, a question that stupid was able find purchase in that desolate expanse between your ears, as opposed to being something a stroke victim babbles as he’s being wheeled into surgery. The end result of which is some confusion on my part. I admit that, but don’t try and pin the blame on me.
Are you sure? Supposedly there’s some sort of war happening over there, with people getting killed. Is that fake news?
Instead of the ol’ point and sputter, you could answer the question.
Instead of groveling like a bitch for lame “assurances” to counter a known threat, Ukraine could have used the nukes you claim they owned to attack Russia. For some reason that didn’t happen. Pretty stupid of Ukraine if they could have done so, but held back. Do you agree? Or are you reaching for the smelling salts?
You should append that accurate admission to every one of your comments. 🙂
“Ukraine could have used the nukes you claim they owned to attack Russia. For some reason that didn’t happen.”
Ooh, look who’s using coulda this time around? Oh, but wait. I guess it doesn’t count if you do it, am I right?
And yes, it didn’t happen because at the time, no invasion by Russia was imminent. They hadn’t even poisoned Yuschenko. yet. That being the case, no nukes needed to be introduced into the dynamic. Nukes are, after all, generally considered by sane people as a last-resort kind of deal. Again, it boggles the mind that something this obvious apparently needs explaining to you, to the point where you would persist in uttering something that stupid. Then again, given that you’re a fan of Putin, who is pretty free-wheeling when it comes to threatening to push the red button, I suppose there’s at least some consistency there. But it doesn’t make the point — or more correctly, the lack thereof — any less absurd.
“Supposedly there’s some sort of war happening over there, with people getting killed. Is that fake news?”
It’s not a war, it’s an action taken by Russia to remove Jewish Neo-Nazis. Or something. And yet three years going, Russia isn’t any closer to scoring imminent victory. Why doesn’t Putin just use nukes to win? Wouldn’t that just be easier? Gets the job done, right?
Anyways, looks like you willing to die on that No True Scotsman Fallacy hill, huh. Again, let this sink in—“actual security” does NOT mean it MUST ONLY come from the U.S. and Russia making a deal for Ukraine’s ‘benefit” without this country being at the negotiating table.
Hahaha. You’re the one emotionally invested in what happens between Russia and Ukraine. I certainly am not. When I wrote, “could have”, it was merely to further expose your logic or lack thereof on the matter. When you used “could”, “should”, etc. it was from a position of wistful desperation.
So why would Ukraine need third-party “security assurances” way back in 1994? Either Russia was a grave potential threat or not. If not, requesting third-party “security assurances” in 1994 was asinine grandstanding by Ukraine, by your logic (“hadn’t even poisoned Yuschenko”). But if Russia was a known threat to Ukraine (e.g., anyone heard of the Holodomor?), then it was dumb to not launch “their” nukes at Russia if they could have done so. Looks like Ukraine pussed out. Why do you have sympathy for a nation that pussed out?
You contradict yourself: The presence of nukes in Ukraine at the time of the fall of the USSR is one of your repeated talking points ad nauseam. Are you finally admitting your “Ukraine gave up their nukes” blather was a red herring all along?
Related to that, some good news we can both agree on:
According to you, Ukraine already has “actual security” without America’s help, so we certainly don’t need to waste any more money on them. Win-win.
The security guarantees Zelensky wants is US $, weapons, and troops. FTS.
May this satanic antipope meet his demise deservedly so that he can spend eternity getting his just reward for turning his back against God.
Breach of Commandments 1 through 3 right there.
Turn away from evil and turn to God!
You’re all held to account, even supposed popes.
Your Movie Review should have been of:
1) a scene where ‘Mericans first understand the necessity of 2nd amendment rights
End scene: Clint Eastwood standing over your dead dad
The discussion was about the United Kingdom. And the UK definitely does have a minimum wage and does not appear to have a separate minimum wage for waiters.
https://www.visitbritain.org/business-advice/pink-book/national-minimum-wage-and-tips
No one ever looks clever by intentionally misunderstanding something.
First, anecdotes are worthless.
Second, the discussion was on the UK and Britons being bad tippers. It was not about high end restaurant in the U.S.
At the time of the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine was not outright anti-Russia, but it was moving toward a more independent foreign policy that sometimes clashed with Russian interests. The government sought to balance relations between Russia and the West rather than fully align with either side.
The Ukrainian economy was still heavily linked to Russia, and many Ukrainian politicians, including Kuchma, wanted to preserve strong trade and security ties. However, Ukraine was also pursuing stronger ties with the West, joining NATO’s Partnership for Peace in 1994 and seeking European cooperation.
Several PfP members eventually became full NATO members, such as Poland, the Baltic states, and Romania.
The history of Ukraine since independence in 1991 has been pretty fraught and I would imagine that Zelenskyy would have a more detailed memory of events that have taken place in his lifetime than would Trump and Vance.
Many younger Americans may not even have live memories of Ukraine as part of the USSR.
I cannot possibly write a potted history of the Ukraine in the time and space available, but to discuss the issue people probably need to know at least something about:
1. 1991 independence.
2. Orange Revolution, move away from pro-Russian policies.
3. 2010 election and move back to pro-Russian policies.
3a. UEFA Euro 2012 soccer championship was co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland with final in Kiev.
4. 2013 Euromaidan protests and revolution–move away from pro-Russian policies.
5. 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.
6. 2014 to present–war in Eastern Ukraine.
7. 2017 visa-free travel to EU.
8. 2019 election of Zelenskyy, star of a popular sitcom called Servant Of The People, about a schoolteacher who is elected President having founded the Servant of the People Party to fight corruption.
9. 2022 Russian invasion, start of Russian trade sanctions by NATO nations.
10. 2022 application for EU status.
11. 2025 Zelenskyy spat with Trump over credibility of Putin’s promises.
12. 2025 Trump ceases all aid to Ukraine.
“Related to that, some good news we can both agree on:”
Bitch, don’t put your words in my mouth–Will Smith
No surprise. TrumpWorld has business deals to be made with Russia, led by an oligarch who has a knack for removing permanently his political opponents. Certainly our current government has the authority to make that policy switch. OK. It may be temporarily, it may be permanent. But my vague impression is that in future the U.S. under different leadership will cool it with its current fellatio of autocrats like Putin.
“According to you, Ukraine already has “actual security” without America’s help””
Again, you’re tripling down on the No True Scotsman Fallacy. You want to define this term as being ONLY ONE WAY, which is not how it works.
POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK, ON X:
A sovereign, pro-western Ukraine which can defend itself, means a stronger and safer Poland, Tusk said, adding: “In the political turmoil and growing chaos, this is what counts most. Whoever questions this obvious truth contributes to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s triumph.”
CZECH PRIME MINISTER PETR FIALA, ON X:
Europe must “take full responsibility for our own security. This requires increased investment in defence. Ensuring our security also means intensifying our support for Ukraine. We cannot allow Russia’s aggressive policy, which threatens us all, to succeed.”
GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANNALENA BAERBOCK, ON X:
“Two things are now essential for peace through strength: additional aid – military and financial – for Ukraine, which is defending our freedom. And a quantum leap to strengthen our EU defence.”
So much for Russian hegemon.
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I notice that, 3 years into this, you’re still just a keyboard warrior. As has been pointed out to you many times, Ukraine is accepting volunteers. Yet here you are, emitting words by the thousands. The fact you are here, blathering endlessly, rather than there fighting, tells everyone that as much as you expel words, you really aren’t that worried about Ukraine. If you were, you’d be…you know…actually defending Ukraine.
My view: it makes no difference who is right or wrong, Ukraine should just surrender and put an end to the war. Letting Russia have the disputed areas in Eastern Ukraine won’t matter because they’re so heavily Russian-populated in the first place. The rest of Ukraine will be fine.
I’ll give an analogy. There are a number of counties in southern Texas in which almost all the inhabitants are of Mexican origin and speak Spanish. Just for argument’s sake let’s assume that the US was at war with a powerful Mexican military over those areas and suffering heavy losses. To stop the bloodshed the US concedes defeat and lets Mexico have those counties. It would not be any huge loss to the rest of the country and we’d rapidly get over it.
See my reply to you here.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cambridge-fires-cofnas-for-mentioning-racial-gaps-in-iq/#comment-6534191
There is also a National Lampoon archive here:
http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/
Page 35/37 of this issue.
http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1970’s/1976/1976_05.pdf
“I predict China and Taiwan will resolve their issues, hopefully with as little violence as possible, in the next 4 years.”
It’s a wild prediction. My vague impression is that the citizens Taiwan do not want to lose their political freedoms just to be part of China and thus will reject reunification.
“Any economic boycott will be small and temporary as China is the fulcrum of world manufacturing economy (unlike Russia)”.
An invasion by China of Taiwan would lead to a massive global boycott of its goods and strangle its economy. Chinese leadership wisely acknowledges this world strategy.
“but ever so gentle while talking or acting on China.”
Because he wants his own empire to remain viable there for his personal business dealings! Wake the f— up.
I predict China and Taiwan will resolve their issues, hopefully with as little violence as possible, in the next 4 years.
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Chuckles. “Their issues” would be Taiwan’s preference for being left in peace over Xi’s wish to subjugate them. What will ‘resolve’ them is if Xi is taken out by a cerebral aneurysm and his successors decide they can get along without stomping on people who threaten no one.
How about you try defining “actual security” then? If you refuse we can only try to figure it out. As JIE has done.
You have a poor memory. The ‘troubles’ lasted from 1969 to 1999 and were over prior to 9/11. The collections of the Jewish National Fund amount to 0.44% of Israel’s gross national income and they do not have a specifically military destination.
The discussion was about the United Kingdom.
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Doesn’t matter. Wage determination works the same way absent collective bargaining.
I’ll give an analogy. There are a number of counties in southern Texas in which almost all the inhabitants are of Mexican origin and speak Spanish. Just for argument’s sake let’s assume that the US was at war with a powerful Mexican military over those areas and suffering heavy losses. To stop the bloodshed the US concedes defeat and lets Mexico have those counties. It would not be any huge loss to the rest of the country and we’d rapidly get over it.
In fact, exactly that, but in reverse, is how Texas joined U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
Once Trump signs a beautiful deal with Xi on Rare-earths or some other investments and pulls back from East Asia, Taiwan will see the writing on the wall and there will be some sort of ‘One country, two systems’ arrangement a la Hong Kong. Hong Kong joined mainland over a quarter century ago and there has been no ‘subjugation’. This may eventually lead to some sort of modus vivendi for Koreas and Japan too. They are all too interconnected by commerce to get into fight. Trump has been a changemaker beyond anyone’s expectations.
OT — Pajeets doing Pajeet things.
I was trying to agree with Wendy, D.A., but my poor English nixed that. My 1st word should have been “I’d”, not “I” to make it clear. English is my first and only language, but still… ;-}
“You have a poor memory.”
And you have poor comprehension. No offence.
Israel are masters of the game called “try to get the US involved in their ethnic squabbles back “home”“.
To be fair, you can remove “back home” and it still applies. I’m using “Israel” in its widest sense of course.
Also on topic, after 9/11 was when terrorist bombers/gallant freedom fighters suddenly lost favour:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fury-as-ira-bomber-leads-us-parade-today-1.416936
More generally, what a shame Steve is taking his talents elsewhere at a time when history is positively rattling along.
“There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen”.
Oh, come on, you need
an IDa real email to vote?! Can I justprint up my own mail-in ballotdo this on the Unz.com secure servers?[ ]
Back Russia conquering UkraineRemain the world’s policeman and back the Russian Bear into a corner with NATO[√] Fight DEI, trans, immigration in US
Don’t I get a sticker?
“There are a number of counties in southern Texas in which almost all the inhabitants are of Mexican origin and speak Spanish. ”
This is a hilarious comment. If the “inhabitants of Mexican origin” are of Aztec or Mayan decent, then they have no ancestral claim to the territory. Neither of those tribes ever lived north of the Big River before the 1800’s, and most of the heritage Mexican/Texan population were some form of European.
So comparing that to the ethnic Russians that have occupied the donbass for however long they have is risible.
Further, I don’t understand this malfunction people have with just conceding land to our enemies, as if that will stop any further encroachment. It actually enables further encroachment.
OT — Of course the GDP will go down, it has to, it was fake, it was kleptocrat fed scum moving giant sums of money around while pretending to be a charity. Meanwhile, we must restore manufacturing, which means short term pain, but it’s the only way forward. Ignore the screaming trannies and stand by the lion.
“The security guarantees Zelensky wants is US $, weapons and troops.”
The ultimate goal here is to have US ground forces introduced into the fighting alongside the Ukrainians. I have seen this movie before as a child with Vietnam. You have the same domino theory being trotted out and the same steady escalation as the South Vietnamese then and the Ukrainians now are unable to hold back the enemy. Trump, though, does not want to end up as the new Lyndon B. Johnson. He wants another Eisenhower or Reagan era of peace and prosperity.
Beside the Vietnam war of the sixties, the other failed war LBJ got us into was the war on poverty. That second war led to increasing out of wedlock Black births, increasing Black crime and increasing levels of Black hostility to White middle class values. We have had something similar again in recent years under Obama and then Biden.
The whole Trump phenomenon is just part of the inevitable reaction to the failures of Woke leftism. This same reaction is happening in other Anglo countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand and also over in Europe. You see the rise of rightwing populist movements in most of these places. The Woke ideology has infected all the White countries.
Only the White countries are being targeted with “Diversity!”
You forgot the part about Ukraine bribing Joe Biden by putting his crackhead kid on the board of Burisma. What years did that cover?
OT — Are you still there?
Jeez, one would think ‘leaders’ in Ukraine would realize that was a bad idea, given that Ukraine is weak and they share a border with Russia. What idiots.
Huh? Everything I blockquoted you actually wrote.
Again, huh? I’m agreeing to agree with you. You’ve written that Ukraine has “actual security” in the present:
Which means Zelensky has no need to ask or demand anything from America. Yet he came to the White House for no reason other than to be humiliated, schvitzing on camera in his underwear. Whatta clown.
To recap, we agree:
You wrote: “Ukraine has it.” [“actual security”]
I wrote: “We certainly don’t need to waste any more money on them. Win-win.”
Unless you want to be childishly contrarian, why not be happy we agree?
You start with a false premise and then build an anti-Semitic trope from it. Typical Men of Unz bullshit.
Berger means someone who lives on a mountain and has nothing to do with the class title.
Jews didn’t “grab” anything. Traditionally Jews did not have surnames at all and used a patronymic naming system (Isaac the son of Joseph). The bureaucratic state, with its birth registries and census and draft registries, etc. demanded (starting as late as the 19th century in some countries) that Jews take surnames the same as Christians.
Jews often picked names that were somewhat fanciful or poetic or which resembled Jewish names (Berger sound like Baruch) and not because they literally lived up in the hills, let alone hills made of gold or silver (Goldberg, Silverberg, etc.) . OTOH, poor Jews sometimes got assigned names that were descriptive in what we would consider to be demeaning way today ( blind, deaf, crippled, etc.) – Blind, Taub, Krim, etc.
To the Men of Unz, Jews are bad when they try to blend in and “grab” names that “belong” to Gentiles. OTOH, they are also bad when they fail to assimilate and keep their own customs. It’s almost as if Jews can’t win with you guys.
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/zelenskys-hostility-to-peace-triggers
VWs floating was a real thing —
And the unironic whitewall tires are super groovy.
OT — FOR GREAT JUSTICE —
The FTC is going after the mega investors that are buying up all of the single family homes and turning them into rentals. The FTC will force them to sell them and the housing market will plummet.
Make an anonymous comment to the FTC and
help [bother] these mega investors and Stacy’s zestiment.
READ & LEAVE A COMMENT HERE:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2025-0016-0001/comment?postedDateFrom=2024-12-05&postedDateTo=2025-03-04
Examples of comments:
And
Also
Blogger cannot tell “e” apart from “u,” Jews hardest hit, now due compensation.
They are in good company. The aristocratic Roman names Claudius and Cæcilius, from which several modern names derive, mean “lame” and “blind” respectively.
OTOHOTOSOTW, this victim is more than twice as old as all three of his attackers combined:101-year-old man allegedly assaulted and robbed by three people in ‘disgraceful’ Darwin CBD attack
No demographic information on the “three people” is given, other than that all were female, two of them minors. Darwin is ca. 80% white, with the remainder split among various Asians and indigenous. It may be similar to Alaska, the end of the road where all kinds of loose cannons end up, and crime is at elevated levels for all demographics. Imagine what these girls’ parents might be like.
I am delighted that Jack D has joined the campaign to update the definitions of certain words to modern realities.
See the following comments by Jack D :
https://www.unz.com/isteve/deconciliation/#comment-6320862
https://www.unz.com/isteve/oak-park-vs-austin/#comment-6805502
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-new-column-on-the-jewish-donors-strike-in-the-ivy-league/#comment-6314847
Of course, I was saying this, and using the correct definition of the term, many years before Jack D, so he is late to get on the train, and is just adopting what I invented. But it is good that he has joined the cause, which increases awareness of the correct, new definition of this word and others.
Remember that I wrote two songs years ago to strengthen the cultural depth of this meme :
i) “Little Shop of Wiggers”
ii) “The Marriage of Wigger-O”
This has nothing to do with my comment, so I assume it is answering somebody else. Nevertheless, I’ll bite:
The “current US administration” is all about making deals. This isn’t either of your two choices, but can be employed with both. Thus…
…even you suppose.
“Blogger cannot tell “e” apart from “u,” Jews hardest hit, now
duedemand compensation.” FIFY2022:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-lost-temper-zelenskyy-phone-call-ukraine-aid-rcna54592
https://archive.is/eeqSk
1972 Volkswagen Beetle Commercial – “Floating Beetle”
Sotomayor is skeptical, so this looks like the frijolitos lose a 9-0 decision
Oh. We finished that discussion long ago. Only the Snow Mexicans are worse. Carry on.
Res, you’re a National Treasure.
Piano Man was coached by Democrats and jonesing bad. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
More fantasy from you.
That’s what many people thought when
https://www.history.com/news/nixon-china-visit-cold-war
happened.
2014 to 2019. Burisma, owned by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, had been under scrutiny for corruption allegations, but I cannot find any definitive sources for information about how Biden Jr. was hired.
Zlochevsky was accused of doling out licenses to companies he owned when he was Ecology Minister and of trying to bribe officials.
In December 2024, former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty in a California court to fabricating claims about bribery payments to Joe and Hunter Biden, undermining previous allegations against the Bidens.
He had alleged that Joe and Hunter Biden received $5 million a pop from Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky in exchange for helping to oust former Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin sometime between 2015 or 2016.
More specifically, Smirnov suggested to the FBI that an executive claimed to have tapped Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” according to court documents.
This all sounds incredibly suspicious, I would agree, but the majority of Ukrainian citizens were probably not aware of it at the time and the exact mechanism by which Joe Biden put Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma (if that is what happened) has never been fully explained.
Most likely Burisma hired Hunter in the hope that he would be able to provide a direct pipeline to the White House at a time when Burisma was facing corruption charges. It seems unlikely that Hunter Biden was hired for his business acumen or legal skills.
True for many values of “this.”
Regarding US military aid to Ukraine, it was hardly ever in the form of cash transfers via Western Union.
What would often happen was that the US government would send Ukraine munitions from existing old stock to Ukraine and then order replacements from US defense contractors–probably at a very high markup–and pay for it out of US taxpayer’s money.
Hence shareholders and employees of US-based defense firms and other businesses in the vicinity of large defense companies like diners and gas stations would have profited immensely from the transactions and most of the money would actually have stayed in the US all the time.
Some of the money would have returned to the federal US government in the form of income taxes, capital gains taxes, corporation taxes, and also to states in the form of sales taxes, automobile registrations, property taxes, etc.
This raises an interesting question as to whether on balance benefits the US economy to foment wars in other countries or to prevent them.
Trump’s plea for an end to the fighting in Ukraine is couched in humanitarian terms, but there are a number of other factors in play.
For example, Ukraine is the world’s biggest producer of corn, wheat, barley, sunflower seeds and oil, rapeseed (aka canola) soybeans, and sugar beets used for commercial production of sugar.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2023 to address the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. During their meeting in St. Petersburg, President Ramaphosa emphasized that the war must end.
His primary concern was the effect of the war on global food security, particularly in Africa with rising food and fertilizer prices, which exacerbate hunger and poverty across the continent.
Ramaphosa, urged Putin to renew the Black Sea grain deal to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain and alleviate food shortages, but Putin withdrew from the grain export agreement in July 2023 anyway.
Maybe we/they could just go with a land ackowledgement? “We acknowledge we are eating/drinking this barbeque/this borscht on the ancestral lands of Hernan Cortes/Kievan Rus. We thank them for their hospitality and stewardship of the land. Bottoms up, nazhdrovye, l’chaim” That should make everyone content.
Aboriginal is a good bet.
No, I started with:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/something-else-to-worry-about-an-asteroid-with-a-1-3-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-12-22-2032/#comment-6977100
–and have stuck with–one non-erroneous point: that allowing helicopters to fly down this low altitude Potomac corridor while aircraft are cleared to land on 33 is just ridiculously stupid and dangerous. With ancillary shots at these imperial pompous parasitic “elites” who are oh so f’ing important that they demand this “national security” helicopter chauffeuring.
Then you responded to my outburst of common sense with not just one, but two–Hudson junk bond king helicopter and standard parallel runway scenario–that were non-analogous and completely off point of why this particular scenario is so stupid and dangerous.
Our discussion strikes me as the old forest from the trees thing. Heck I could cook up a forest analogy–a big fire started by sparks from a loggers chainsaw.
AnotherDad: “This is f’ing stupid! The that forest is bone dry and full of built up dead fuel. No one should be cutting here till we get some rain and cooler fall weather. Then we should do some thinning and prescribed burns.”
Achmed: “You don’t understand how it works. The system depends on every woodsman maintaining his equipment, including keeping his spark arrestor properly functioning.”
Some people can actually reason–about all sorts of things, nations, borders, immigration, crime, marriage, sex, fertility, economics, budgets, finance, trade and yes aviation safety … –without being an expert, but rather from first principles, data, logic, math, and common sense.
I can reason from basic geometry and looking at a map: Hmm, the last 3/4 of mile approach to 33 is going to be going across the Potomac from 300ish to near 0 feet. That makes a 200 foot helicopter corridor unsafe to operate at the same time.
I can reason from experience: Never seen–and you’ll never see–this sort of ridiculous send-traffic-across-final-approach nonsense at any commercial airport I’ve been to.
I can reason from first principles: The point of ATC is to make air travel–particularly commercial air travel–safer than just pilots left to get it right on their own.
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But yeah, the NTSB will have their say. And no it will not just be “bad helicopter screwed up”. I’m 95% confident they’ll have some “forest” people on board who will suggest changes to ATC procedures, most likely closure–holding traffic–of this helicopter corridor when aircraft are landing on 33. (I.e. they will actually make suggestions to try and fix the problem.) Perhaps they’ll decide it is a political question outside of their purview, but also possible they’ll call into question the “need” for this volume of helicopter traffic as well.
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BTW if anyone is still interested and wants some actually expert opinions I was clicking around last night and the WaPo managed to quickly find NTSB investigators and a bunch of experienced pilots who’ve had close calls there and think–like I do–that this scenario is bullshit, and an accident (no longer) waiting to happen:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/02/04/dca-close-calls-plane-collisions-history/
https://archive.is/trDVc
LONDON (Reuters) – Jack Vettriano, the self-taught Scottish painter best known for the work “The Singing Butler”, has died aged 73, his publicist said on Monday.
“He was not only an extraordinary artist but also a deeply private and humble man who was endlessly grateful for the support and admiration of those who loved his work,” Vettriano’s publicist Jack Freud said in a statement.
“His paintings – capturing moments of intrigue, romance, and nostalgia – touched the hearts of so many around the world, and his legacy will live on.”
Born into a poor coal mining family in the Scottish seaside town of Methil, Vettriano took up painting after a girlfriend gave him a box of watercolours for his 21st birthday.
His 1992 work “The Singing Butler”, which depicts a stylish couple dancing on a storm-swept beach as their butler and maid hold umbrellas nearby, fetched 744,800 pounds ($944,400) at a 2004 auction, a Scottish record at the time.
Many surnames started as descriptive names (and the descriptions were not P.C. – they told it like it was). So if there were two (or more) Joes in your village you couldn’t just tell your friends, “Hey, I just saw Joe” because then they would ask you, “Which Joe”. So would call one Fat Joe and the other one Ugly Joe, and then your friends would know which Joe you were talking about.
The approach to National crosses the river so unless you make helicopters avoid DC altogether, you have to have a crossing. This helicopter was supposed to evacuate high gov. officials in case of national emergency. You can’t ban helicopters from DC completely.
That being said, they didn’t need to be doing these drills in this spot at night and at a time when there was active traffic. Either do them in broad daylight or the middle of the night or get your proficiency training in a safer place. This will certainly be done going forward.
However, the glide slope does not hit zero until you are past the runway threshold at the start of the landing zone. If your plane is at zero feet (or even 200ft) in the middle of the river close to the other bank where the accident happened, you are in big trouble (and the plane was not – in fact it was at 400ft).
And 200 ft. is supposed to be the CEILING for the helicopter. It was supposed to be somewhere between UNDER 200 ft , not AT 200 – the idea is that you fly along the river just high enough to avoid hitting the bridges and other obstacles but well below the airport traffic. You do this under visual rules (the pilot is supposed to be able to see and avoid the other aircraft) the same way that you drive your car down the highway 5 ft from the cars in the next lane and you don’t hit them. Helicopters often fly visually in close quarters because of the nature of their missions and normally it is no problem.
This OK worked for many years, but it is not without risk and should only be used in case of absolute necessity, not for a routine training mission and not in the dark where (night vision googles or not) it can be hard to see other aircraft. Here you had a less experienced female pilot and god knows what the instructor was doing and they both lost track of their altitude and awareness of the situation and the result was tragic.
Trump has made it clear that the military will not longer operate with DEI preferences and so hopefully the future emphasis (at least for the next 4 years) will be on selecting the most competent candidates only and not pushing thru marginally qualified females and minorities.
“Many surnames started as descriptive names”
My surname is the Welsh word for “cross-eyed”. I even know the specific ancestor who got that surname since he has a wikipedia article that mentions he got it because he actually was cross-eyed. He had a common first name, David, and, like you say, was probably called David the cross-eyed to distinguish him from someone else in his Welsh village with the same first name.
Old Yiddish joke: Tzvey yidden trefn zikh oyfn veg in a kretschme. Eyner fregt dem andern “fun vu kummt a yid?” entfert ehr ” fun Bobroisk.”
Zogt der ershter; “Fun Bobroisk! Kennt ihr avader meyn shvester kind Yankev Mordkhe, ah milikh yid.”
Zogt der Bobroisker; “Bobroisk iz a groysse shtot, ikh kenn nisht alle yidden dort.”
Zogt der ershter; “Ihr musst ihm kennen! Ah geyler, blind in eyn oyg?”
Zogt der Bobroisker; “Ah geyler milikh yid, blind in eyn oyg? Neyn, ikh kenn ihm nisht.”
Zogt veyter der ershter; “Ihr musst ihm kennen! Ehr hut oykh a hoyker und a krummeh nosz.”
Der Bobroisker; “Yankev Mordkhe, a geyler milikh yid, blind in eyn oyg mit ah hoyker und ah krumme nosz? Es tuht mir leyd, ikh kenn ihm nisht.”
Veyter der ershter; “Vi kenn dus zeyn?! Ihr musst ihm kennen! Ehr hut oykh an oysgedreyter fus!
Der Bobroisker; “Yankev Mordkhe, a geyler milikh yid, blind in eyn oyg mit ah hoyker und ah krumme nosz und an oysgedreyter fus? Avader kenn ikh ihm, Ah shayner yid!”
For non tribe members
Two Jews meet on the road at an inn. One asks the other “Where are you coming from?” He answers “Bobroisk.”
The first one says; “Bobroisk! Then you certainly know my cousin Yankev Mordkhe, a dairyman.”
The Bobroisker says; “Bobroisk is a large town, I don’t know every Jew there.”
The first one replies; “You must know him. A blond man and blind in one eye?”
The Bobroisker says; “A blond dairyman, blind in one eye? No, I don’t know him.”
The first one exclaims; ” But you must know him! He is a hunchback as well with a crooked nose!”
The Bobroisker replies; “A blond dairyman, blind in one eye with a hunchback and a crooked nose? I’m very sorry but I don’t know him.”
The first one laments; “How can this be? You simply must know him! He also has a twisted foot.”
Replies the Bobroisker; “Yankev Mordkhe, a blond dairyman, blind in one eye with a hunchback and a crooked nose and a twisted foot? Of course I know him! A worthy Jew.”
One of the interesting things about Australia is that there were no mammals, only marsupials and birds before humans came. But you still had certain ecological niches and marsupials evolved to fill those niches – kangaroos filled the “grazing animal” niche, there were marsupial foxes (unrelated to real foxes but which kinda looked like them) that filled the predator niche, etc.
Anyway, in human societies there are also certain ecological niches (for example, middle man minority – in the West we think of Jews but in Asia this was Chinese and in Africa it was Indians) and one of those niches seems to be the lower class niche. The lower class niche has an affinity for drugs, alcohol and crime and a tenuous relationship with work. In the absence of blacks (until recently) the Australians had to make d0 with Aborigines to fill this niche.
Even by the low standards of aboriginal people, the Australian Aborigines were always sort of a pathetic bunch. They went around practically naked and their “houses” were one step above what a chimp would build:
No one ever named a sports team for Aborigines or put them on their money the way we did in the US. Even the Maori were admired as a fierce warrior race but the Aborigines were just sort of pathetic. I don’t think they even make good criminals which requires a certain amount of cunning. They (thankfully) did not hurt this man badly and they were caught immediately.
Anyway, in human societies there are also certain ecological niches (for example, middle man minority – in the West we think of Jews but in Asia this was Chinese and in Africa it was Indians) and one of those niches seems to be the lower class niche. The lower class niche has an affinity for drugs, alcohol and crime and a tenuous relationship with work. In the absence of blacks (until recently) the Australians had to make d0 with Aborigines to fill this niche.
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Distribution is a function. Vagrancy is not. There is no ‘lower class niche’. There are social segments composed of people who function poorly. The relative size of such segments varies from one society to another.
It’s a dirty job but someones gotta do it. Dzigan, back in the day in Tel Aviv used to do a skit where he played a prisoner in Israeli jail. He used to say “Ikh, mit Ben-Gurion und Levi Eshkol und Moshe Sharett zennen tzusammen gekummen ins land. Ben-Gurion iz gevorn premien minister, Eshkol iz gevorn finans minister, Sharett iz gevorn ausen minister, und ikh bin gevorn zeyr arrestant.” = ” I, Ben Gurion, Levi Eshkol and Moshe Sharett came to the Land together. Ben-Gurion became prime minister, Eshkol became finance minister, Sharett became foreign minister and I became their prisoner.”, which is kind of getting at a similar idea.
I suppose one must be fortunate in one’s choice of underclass as well. I remember a commenter here (Don’t remember who)writing/quoting a while back “The Irish used to be the dregs of society. That’s how good society was.”
As looking down on someone seems to be a human need, one could say a ‘lower class’ is kind of a niche. But there are lower classes and then there are lower classes. As the commenter I cited earlier said “The Irish used to be the dregs of society. That’s how good society was.”
Obviously I am referring to a new division that is indeed our fault!
Is this Borscht Belt humour? It’s rather lengthy.
That gobbling up of single-family homes in California was Black Rock engaging in social distortion — a nation of renters ruled by the parasitic rentiers.
“The Irish used to be the dregs of society.”
Still are, potato-headed SOBs.
Glad to hear it.
We should be allowing the 2017 Trump income tax cuts to expire for households bringing in more than, say, $1 million per year (amply indexed for inflation going forward). Billionaires like Trump,. Musk, Michael Bloomberg, JB Pritzer, the Sackler drug-dealers, Jeff Bezos, etc. have more money than their children and grandchildren can ever spend; they can readily afford to pay it and they should.
Use that additional revenue to offset the revenue loss from repealing the fed income tax on Social Security benefits. Helps all of us eventually, whereas most of us do not work for tips and many people never work (or have the option to work) overtime.
Incidentally, if Trump is serious about repealing fed income tax on tips, it may be because that helps employers just as much. They can continue paying insultingly low “wages” to their workers in restaurants, bars, and elsewhere, knowing that we schmucks will make up the difference with tips, and untaxed tips go farther towards making up their employers’ gross “legal” underpayment.
If Trump is serious about repealing fed income tax on overtime, that also may be because it helps employers. Often it’s better for the employer to to have 8 employees working 50 hours per week, instead of 10 employees working 40 hours per week: the employer (in some cases) contributes towards the employee’s medical insurance, so 8 is better than 10.
As for Social Security, retirement benefits need to be increased, with COLAS that actually keep up with inflation (including food, fuel, and housing, unlike the bullshit “core” inflation measure we usually see). Yes, this is fair, necessary, and affordable, even if Bernie Sanders is also for it 😉
The system can be solvent for decades, with increased benefits, by requiring households with more than $1 million in annual income to pay the 6.2% FICA tax on the amount over $1 million. Currently they pay no FICA on any annual income above $177,000 or so. This too must be amply indexed for inflation to prevent “bracket creep.”
The dregs of which society?
Marsupials are mammals. As are monotremes.
Marsupial and monotreme milk—a review of its nutrient and immune properties
Apparently ‘roos’ and other marsupials’ milk is a light shade of blue, though some deny this. (Hippopotamus milk is off-white, like most mammals’, but often looks pink thanks to an unrelated nearby secretion; perhaps “blue roo” undergoes a similar pollution.)
Two joeys of the same doe several months apart in age will get individually-tailored milk from separate teats. Now that’s efficiency!
Composition of Milk from Red and Grey Kangaroos with Particular Reference to Vitamins
Seven of the Most Extreme Milks in the Animal Kingdom
Should you care for any orphaned wallabies on your station, you can get their counterpart of Similac:
(This “Pty” also offers artificial lactation for a surprising array of species.)
They were girls, 13, 15, and 19. Blacks of that description can do damage, especially the corn-fed American ones, but abo lassies may be closer to the global mean. Asians are somewhat below that, though their sheilas tend to behave. And no doubt Oz’s Northern Territory has its share of white trash, much like Alaska’s.
Don’t know for certain what the commenter meant but I understood it as referring to the post potato famine hegira, so the antebellum and immediate postbellum era here.
Maybe you could tell us why we read literally nothing in the New Testament that corresponds with your asssertions about Peter’s primacy among the Apostles or the hierarchical structure of the Church.
IOW assertions are not arguments and Romanism is alot more about ‘lost apostolic oral traditions’ than Scripture. Which is why there was a Reformation.
You’re welcome.
If you look around the corners, there’s some good stuff these days.
Such as…
Kid Cannabis (a complete riot)
Lamb (Iceland horror)
Lean on Pete (maybe best horse movie since Black Stallion)
Oddity (superior horror)
American Star (the guy looks like Al Pacino)
Better Watch Out (wicked fun)
Blackthorn (superior western with Sam Shepard)
Brightburn (dark spin on superhero stuff)
Bullet Head (LOL crime caper)
Cop Car (sure beats Footloose)
Detour (very clever)
Dreamland
The Drop (them Irish hoods)
Emily the Criminal (shiite)
England Is Mine (Morrissey story)
The Favourite (perverse but looks gorgeous)
The Finest Hours (old fashioned in the best sense)
Fort Tilden (asking for ice coffee at immigrant grocery, total ROTFL)
Freaks (superior kid with paranormal power movie)
Cold Pursuit(and the Euro original In the Order of Disappearance – wild and steady)
Into the Forest (before Ellen Page went nuts – one of the better apocalyptic movies)
Logan Lucky (more fun than Oceans 11)
Maze (Irish prison movie)
Monolith (psychological thriller)
Prospect (very superior sci-fi)
Shadow in the Clouds (neato action flick)
South of Heaven (hick goes super badass and mows down everyone)
Sputnik (very good Russian sci-fi horror)
Trap (fun stuff from Shyamalan – good to see Hartnett back)
Crown Vic (different kind of cop movie)
Deep Water Horizon
Kid Detective
Miranda’s Victim (sympathy is with the victim, not Miranda)
My Friend Dahmer (surprisingly non-exploitative)
Sing Street (bad message but good execution)
Sisters Brothers (crazy western)
The Kitchen (Ladies take over Irish American crime. Funny as hell)
The Bandit (goodfelllas lite)
Etruscan Smile (familiar tropes but works)
Jeff Who Lives at Home (loser comedy)
Tiger Hunter (Vivek story)
Dog Soldiers (dumb idea but fantastic action)
W.E. (shocking but Ms. Ciccone made a decent flick)
Your Lucky Day (crime meets multiculturalism and all hell breaks loose)
Abigail (most unusual vampire comedy)
Studio 666 (excessive violence for a comedy but big laughs)
Happy Death Day (clever twist on Groundhog Day)
Blue Ruin (beta-male turns into rogue killer)
Dumb Money (game stop controversy)
Free Fire (too many guns in America?)
One of my favorite local conspiracy theories is that the famous Laurel Canyon rock scene of the mid-1960s (The Doors, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, The Byrds, etc.) was a Deep State psy-op to … well, what the purpose of it was is usually a little speculative.
Sailer is here referencing compatriot David McGowan’s “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream.” A touchstone in the conspiracy realist’s almanac. Classic Irish investigative journalism without kotowing to the powers that be, genuflecting at the altars of in-the-know fellows or simply paid off grifters David McGowan was a giant in the field that led the way to Whitney Webb and James Corbett.
His family would appreciate the royalties should you buy it and not only that, but Moondoggie, my favouriteis a free read bonus.
I don’t know why Sailer, like Vox Day, never references the very thing they’re grinding their axe against. The manly thing would be to give the offender or offence a clear shout out and hyperlink reference. The snide insinuated reference has always seemed to me sort of womanly.
Yet, who am I to judge as antipope Francis once infamously said.
For those opposed to “conspiracy theorists”, like our blog master who himself is associated in a conspiracy of sorts as he well knows, himself associated with the Thiel Talmudic network which publishes him, it must be confusing to see the world through the undistorted objective lens through which the basic goy public assesses his actions.
The basic of us are always presumed to be in a sort of open revolution against the presiding kakistocary of the day and our impudent rejection of taxation, traffic violations, and family law interfering with the natural rights of man must be not only suppressed, but oppressed by the full weight of the state: the combined forces of the media, the police, the politicians and judiciary in that order.
How does any White man looking about today not conclude there must be some sort of conspiracy against him?
For Steve, his job is to convince you otherwiese, take his pay and hang in for another 4 years to keep feeding his 401K leeching off the public while pretending to be on our side, anti-conspiracy, pretty cool and with JD Vance 2028.
You mean there were no placental mammals before humans came to Australia.
And there were placental bats, mice, and rats in Australia before humans came.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammals_of_Australia#Placental_mammals
As is bantha milk.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_milk
Sorry to be humorless here. See Andrew Greeley on this point. By the 1920s, household income among Irish Catholics was above the mean. My potato famine great-great grandparents were very much a part of the bourgeoisie where they lived, and they were so within 25 years of entering the country. Their proximate relatives were not as well-to-do, but they certainly weren’t the dregs. Small merchants and artisans, skilled workers, &c. Irish Catholic life has had two disagreeable features – heavy drinking and machine politics.
FIFY!
As I understood it, that was kind of the commenter’s point. When the lowest rung on your society’s status ladder (dregs) is occupied by a demographic that’s going to be bourgeoisie in a couple of decades, your society/civilization is in pretty good shape.
“its share of white trash, just like Alaska’s”
This is a long-ish but interesting video that shows how what starts as a simple police interaction with a white skell in Juneau spirals further and further out of control:
iSteve on the march … from today’s NYTimes …
No, that wasn’t his point.
“Huh? Everything I blockquoted you actually wrote.”
Except I never said this or implied this–“Related to that, some good news we can both agree on:”
So, yes, bitch, don’t put your words in my mouth.
“You’ve written that Ukraine has “actual security” in the present:”
**OK, let’s backtrack. YOU have written that Ukraine does not have “actual security”. I was saying there is no such thing. Rather, it is simply “security”. Now, when you made reference to “actual security”, it seems to me there is no definition on your part as to exactly that term means, at worst, OR there seems to be but only ONE implication regarding its meaning, at best. What is that implication? It appears that you think only the U.S. and Russia can offer that “actual security” (whatever the hell that means) to the Ukraine by way of a deal without Ukraine being at the table, that these two countries have Ukraine’s best interest.
“Which means Zelensky has no need to ask or demand anything from America.”
Of course he can ask or make “demands”. And, of course, the U.S. can say yes or no to those requests. But Ukraine has security–borders and a military and aid from other countries. Again, your notion of “actual security” comes across as the No True Scotsman Fallacy.
“Yet he came to the White House for no reason other than to be humiliated, schvitzing on camera in his underwear. Whatta clown.”
According to Who/Whom?
“You wrote: “Ukraine has it.” [“actual security”]. “I wrote: “We certainly don’t need to waste any more money on them. Win-win.”
Refer to **.
OT —
You have sown the wind, and you will reap the whirlwind.
LOL, y u mad tho? Ohhhh, you’re confused, as usual: What you put in quotes above was my opinion, based on the ‘logic’ of your argument. I didn’t write it as a quote from you, you hysterical maroon.
You unironically endorsed the term “actual security”, not me, who was mocking HA’s phrase “actual security deals”. Pretty stupid of you to lie when your comments are visible for all to see:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7019469
You are the only one here who thinks there is or can be something called “actual security” regarding Ukraine. HA floated it, then backpedaled big time when I pointed out the stupidity of her phrase “actual security guarantees”.
Now you regret and are backpedaling your own hasty endorsement of HA’s “actual security”, as I whoop you real good with facts and logic.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7019469
Are you still going to pretend you didn’t write the above—“Ukraine has it.” ? It’s amusing you have a problem with yourself putting words in your own mouth: Now you’re angry and embarrassed, because your comments are there for all to see. Are you going to apologize for lying and being hysterical? You should.
Or, at the very least, punch yourself in your mouth for putting dumb words in your own mouth: “Ukraine has it.”
OT — In Syria, Alawites (the tribe on the coast connected to Assad’s family) have risen up and attacked al-Qaeda, who became the government after a country-wide bribery blitz. In other words, they didn’t win, they bribed everyone else to take a week off and then declared victory (cf the US in Iraq). Russia has made supportive noises but has done nothing yet. Israel expanded and expands (and in the West Bank, has launched a second war, with some refugee camps being cleared out and declared closed). Now Turkey is moving in.
I can sympathize with Corvinus here. Can you imagine having to take responsibility for some of things he writes?!
He does exhibit some particularly poor judgment in choosing hills to die on. I am still waiting for him to define what HE meant by “actual security.”
We fought our war for independence, but a large portion of the land was inhabited by “Tories” who preferred British rule.
It is what is now called Canada.
I heard that Ryan Air is attempting to limit the blood alcohol content (BAC) of passengers on their jets by closing airport bars and other measures. Apparently drunken behavior on flights has gotten out of hand.
I wonder if any of these “indigenous” people (none of them are literally indigenous) ever do their own land acknowledgments. Do the various groups of aborigines apologize to other aborigines for their ancestors killing and stealing land thousands of years ago?
It would be nice to see the Comanche apologize to the Tonkawa for the land they stole. They killed almost every last Tonkawan.
Jack D. has impressed many people many ways but this is truly the king, here he is laying out his claim as by far the biggest racist on the Internet.
Social Security, Medicare and various other welfare state benefits can be partially saved by raising taxes on rich people but there is a limit to how much of that you can do. At one point the socialist government in Sweden raised taxes on the rich to very high levels. The result was it did not work out because it encouraged rich people to cut back on working, engage in tax evasion or leave the country. Sweden then moved back to a system where ordinary people paid more taxes.
The dysgenic effects of our welfare and immigration policies of the last sixty years will lead to a future of fewer high IQ highly productive Americans that can be taxed. Our two trillion dollar a year deficits are leading to higher interest payments on the increasing debt that eat up increasing amounts of tax revenues. There is no getting around the fact that just raising taxes on rich people will allow things to continue as they are.
You can’t just look at Social Security in isolation without considering our fiscal situation overall. Tax increases could be combined with increasing the retirement age a couple of years. A system that was set up when the average person lived to 65 can’t work when the average person lives to 78 or longer. Old people who can’t work due to poor health can be covered under disability pensions. Another way to help shore up Social Security and Medicare is by making cuts in our bloated defense budget and transferring the money over to those two programs.
Thought what? Nixon paid a diplomatic visit to a foreign power which had been bickering with our principal adversary for 12 years at that point. What came out of it was that each established a diplomatic mission in the other’s territory. (Britain had had diplomatic relations with Mainland China for over 20 years at that point).
The NAFO fed shill plan for the enormously popular State of the Union this past Tuesday was to spam 4chan’s /pol/ board with one of the least effective propaganda efforts in a unique history of self-defeating messaging: a caricature of JD Vance photoshopped to be slightly chubby. The board was frozen (new posts prevented by disabling capcha) but when talk resumed, that’s what it was about. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but that was their wunderwaffen. Between that, Mr Johnson’s recent hot takes, and the Democrat theatrics, these people are yelling about Steiner.
It is possible that this event proved moderator corruption by NAFO. It is well known that NAFO flat out took over /k/, once the best board on the site and a major source of admiration for Russia and Soviet-era weaponry, overnight a branch of the Ukrainian propaganda ministry. The flooding and spamming of slightly chubby Vance was completely tolerated, the freeze followed actual /pol/ users pointing it out. We have screencaps of pure spam threads (every single post exactly the same, different user IDs), than an actual human says the word “NAFO” and in minutes the thread is deleted.
It wasn’t ‘a large portion of the land’. Over the vast bulk of the British (formerly French) land claim, the only people present were aboriginals and a few fur trappers. The settled portions were three. One consisted of a swatch of territory along the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City. The limit of settlement might have been fifty miles out on each side of the riverbank. Another was Nova Scotia. The third consisted of a few fishing villages on the Newfoundland coast. The total population of all this was < 100,000. To this was added a five-digit population of loyalists who settled in New Brunswick after 1783.
OT — ADDITIONAL WINNING.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-issues-class-wide-labeling-changes-testosterone-products
https://nitter.poast.org/iansmithfitness/status/1897780288085979175
Where is Pat Hannagan when you need him?
Nah, this is Old Country Jewish Humor. It is steeped in Yiddish folk culture. Borscht belt humor was much more Americanized.
OT — ADDITIONAL WINNING — ALL PRAISE TO TRUMP.
It’s not letting me link it but a Twitter account named OSZ is claiming that for the first time in months, the new employment of Americans has outpaced the employment of foreigners.
There were no humans (indeed hardly any placental mammals at all) in Oz before the abos showed up. And that was 50,000 years ago (about 10,000 years before homo sapiens showed up in Europe) so you would have to carry the apology thing WAAAY back.
New Zealand is interesting because the Maori (again the first human settlers) did not show up until 1320. So the Europeans were not that far behind.
However, the Maori did invade the Chatham Islands and they slaughtered (and ate!) and enslaved the native population, starting in 1835:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_genocide
The British were complete gentlemen to the Maori compared to the way that the Maori treated the Moriori.
This reminds me of a famous religious joke:
It’s cute (and there were always the “lace curtain” Irish who were generally well behaved) but the Irish of today are not yesterday’s Irish. Back when the Irish were the lower class in the Northern cities, they really were a handful, especially when they got liquored up, which was often. Of course, they were nothing compared to today’s well armed underclasses. A drunken dispute would usually be settled with fisticuffs and not with firearms.
Ah yes, Fort Tilden, the definitive film about the millennials. Their Catcher in the Rye.
Beats Lena Dunham’s nonsense.
OT — It’s clear that the defeated rump state line is to try to scare people over the necessary economic hardships that will break oligarch hostility to the American worker and enable the restoration of manufacturing. A Detroit rag had three differemt front page headlines, all of which were “Trump bad, money gone.” These retards apparently didn’t get the memo about the basis of Trump’s popularity being the untrammelled suffering of everyone not in the ruling class. Already Honda has announced they will build their new electric Civic in the US to avoid sanctions.
Woah – Jack & Art are still hanging out here? They haven’t yet moved over to SS’s Substack?
“You unironically endorsed the term “actual security””
No, I correctly questioned your use of it. Period. And you’re now twisting and turning what you said to steer clear from your use of the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Not having any of it.
The bottom line is that Ukraine has security, whether or not the U.S. helps. It appears Europe is going to beef up its military strength due to Putin’s former KGB background, his oligarchical policies, his insistence in expanding Russian power, and his knack for curbing internal dissent. Ukraine will fight on until it decides, on its own behalf, to make a deal it can live with.
And it’s hard to take Trump seriously when he then puts out on Truth Social–“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you”.
I think it is safe to say that Trump is not going to risk his own future business dealings in Russia by putting forth as president any further economic punishment on his boy Putin.
steve is such a clown.
the roman church committed suicide with vatican i. papal infallibility was then used only twice and both times about mary shit.
it’s fine if scotus’s idea is believed and the assumption follows but to declare either dogma is gay and retarded.
proddies are gay and retarded too but barth was right when he said “mary is the heresy of the roman church.”
the orthodox need to convert the romans. they’ve got the greek, the language of the NT.
LOL
This joke story could be an allegory for all human groups, not just Christian, as you must know. In fact it seems that we people almost always continue, as if instinctively, to subdivide ourselves at every opportunity.
Wouldn’t you agree?
The Catholic church was infiltrated almost 2 thousand years ago. They are just a coterie of gheys and trannies, today, wearing bizarre, symbols of pedophilia on their blood-red robes and shoes. Conclave was the perfect “movie” to showcase all the tackiness & nonsense, lies of the Catholic Church…any church.
Protestant churches, mosques and synagogues, are also, just nonsense & a waste of time, for the hard-earned (and taxed) non-rich/non-elite people. God is not inside of a building. Without coming to the Source of All Being, you will be left behind. I suppose you all can continue arguing with each other in some other realm. All religions/churches are only about scaring normies to give up their money, nothing else. Terrorizing people has been the only reason churches/religions exist.
I am happy that Anora won rather than the pathetic, frilly & frocky, Conclave – I’m tired of trannies. My brother always said that sex-workers are the only ones who are honest workers outside of the trades/crafts…everyone else is just a slave to the enslavers/masters of money. And, we both had agreed, long ago, that religion is just the “opium…” I am so tired of stupid, pompous, supercilious & unctuous people.
“Obviously I am referring to a new division that is indeed our fault!”
Perhaps you can make the case that the US has made an existing division worse. But it didn’t create the division. As you may know Soviet policy caused many Ukrainians to starve to death in 1932-1933. Which is the sort of thing that tends to produce ill feelings.
“As for Social Security, retirement benefits need to be increased, with COLAS that actually keep up with inflation (including food, fuel, and housing, unlike the bullshit “core” inflation measure we usually see). Yes, this is fair, necessary, and affordable, even if Bernie Sanders is also for it ”
The case for giving more money to old people when they are already better off than average seems dubious to me.
I heard that joke a couple of decades ago as a Muslim joke: “Are you Muslim or Christian … Sunni or Shia … ” etc.
Given the notoriously homicidal Islamic sectarian strife, the joke seems more apropos that way.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/03/06/asian-allies-fear-being-dumped-by-trump
Nope, here’s the exchange, again:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7019469
No questioning there, liar, only an assertion by you that Ukraine has “actual security”.
You can’t pretend you didn’t endorse HA’s phrase—look at the blockquote, dipshit. You wrote, “Ukraine has it.”
Good. Then we don’t need to help. Trump is correct.
I’m sure the Māori are simply misunderstood by Western chauvinists.
Look for Kevin Costner to do a Dances with Māori movie.
There is nothing to thank you for, smartass, especially as you seem to have forgotten to read Acts. You at least appear to have decided to give a miss to John 21, where grasp-at-straw papacy haters have been confecting excuses for two thousand years as to why none but Peter was directed to feed both lambs and sheep. Even Luther didn’t stoop that low. Yet you are still thick enough to fail to see that Christ always gave Peter primacy among the Twelve, even or, better, especially when Peter was behaving at his own thickest or weakest.
Since I guess this is last call on the sinking-ship movie thread, I’ll toss in this…..
For a couple of days recently, I was kinda-sorta house-bound for health and other reasons. Having nothing else to do but read Iaiaianian McGilchrist rattling on about his brain theories, I put on the cable TV, and, soon discovering that old Law and Order SVU re-runs were the only watchable thing, I flipped over to MTV, thinking, Well it may be torture but at least it’s research: I’ll find out what the kidz are up to these dayz.
Unsurprising news: Kendrick Lamar is every bit as horrible as you thought he was.
Truly surprising news: given how dreadful our current Official Film Culture is (see Oscarhand Massacre, pace John Jesurun), and also given that apparently much to my surprise she writes, directs, and EPs all her rather inventive and *very* strange music videos, it turns out that the best, most innovative, most interesting film-maker of our time is… Taylor Swift.
Stick it in your craw, Cornel West: and take it from an old Performing Garage weirdo — by *far* the two most interesting artists of our time are the psycho avant-garde White-chick poptart Billie Eilish, and the (surprisingly) even weirder and more original White-chick super poptart Taylor Swift.
As my Newfie fisherman grampa would have “actually” said….
Well blow me down.
I’d love to do a faux iSteve account on Unz if Ron would have me, I can do all the pretend sympathy for your circumstance, maybe even take a seat next to you in your lounge as if we were equals while at the same time driving home a subtext, like:
I’ve often thought the capitalisation of the W in white was unnecessary. After all, if they’re supreme shouldn’t the W be there as a matter of course?
But I’ve been to some towns where white people behave like animals. I hate them and am so glad I did a 23andme to prove I’m not in anyway associated with them, but at the same time I still want to feed off them if not live with them.
For the fascination.
With their terribleness.
If Ron would like to pay me the same as iSteve I can fill fill in. Just comment below.
Before Conclave there was a time where White people didn’t have to hide or pretend to be ashamed of our history
“Makes sense. Velvet Underground is super boring.”
If you’re bored… well, as Flavor Flav said, I can’t do nuthin for ya, man.
https://www.google.com/search?q=carol+van+dijk&sca_esv=38d05e23988e767d&source=hp&ei=uVnMZ4HaEqSW5OMP0LihaQ&iflsig=ACkRmUkAAAAAZ8xnyW-RZ3HRCVE9Lu1GnOXxr9my3-ch&gs_ssp=eJzj4tFP1zc0NKpMSzEzTjNg9OJLTizKz1EoS8xTSMnMygYAhYYJQw&oq=carole+van+dijk&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ig9jYXJvbGUgdmFuIGRpamsqAggAMgcQLhiABBgNMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMggQABgIGA0YHjIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIESIB2UABY7VxwAHgAkAEAmAF8oAHbCKoBBDE0LjG4AQHIAQD4AQGYAg-gAvMJwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjRAxiDARjHAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAgUQABiABMICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIFEC4YgATCAhEQLhiABBixAxiDARjUAhiKBcICDhAuGIAEGMcBGI4FGK8BwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICCxAuGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgQQABgDwgILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwGYAwCSBwQxMy4yoAfR0AE&sclient=gws-wiz
“Tyler Cowen stumps the NYT’s genetics correspondent.”
You draw this conclusion without even presenting a shred of evidence. More importantly, Cowen begs the question when he states “Now to unimaginative people, that will sound impossible, but if you think about the equilibrium rolling itself out slowly” and “If I knew nothing about you, and I knew about the rest of your family, I’d be more inclined to let you into Yale, and that would’ve been a good decision”
Cower assumes that the use of DNA in education and employment is a desirable end, a welcomed part of the decision making process, without considering its ethical and legal quandaries.
“thus denying Trump a chance to take credit for the success of the vaccine before the election.”
Still passing off this outright lie?
Come on, Steve. 2
Sorry, AM. I meant to hit the Agree button. More coffee stat.
OT — The brainless and unforgivable Kursk adventure is finally over, collapsing faster than expected, with men and equipment left behind. Pretty much everybody who’s not an Azov retard predicted this, many Ukrainians criticized it, Roepke criticized it.
Rumor: the Alawite ibsurgency in Syria is already over, it was intercepted and rolled up perfectly ny the new government, and this is because Russia embraced realpolitik and sold out their historical allies.
“Once Trump signs a beautiful deal with Xi on Rare-earths or some other investments and pulls back from East Asia”
Again, I take this as sarcasm.
“Taiwan will see the writing on the wall and there will be some sort of ‘One country, two systems’ arrangement a la Hong Kong.”
No. Taiwan is way too smart for that. They are fine with their current arrangement. China will have to invade if they want it, spilling much blood and then suffering fork a global boycott of their goods.
“Hong Kong joined mainland over a quarter century ago and there has been no ‘subjugation’.”
To the contrary, on June 30, 2020, China imposed a draconian national security law on the city. Since then, independent newspapers have been closed down, protests quashed and more than 10,000 people arrested for crimes such as “uttering seditious words.”
Quite simply, you’re lying
https://www.hrw.org/feature/2021/06/25/dismantling-free-society/hong-kong-one-year-after-national-security-law
“Trump has been a changemaker beyond anyone’s expectations.”
Observably, for the worse.
My Dear Generic American,
While I side with you, I wish to admonish you for engaging thus with the likes of Corvinus. I come here to see if there is anything worthwhile to read, and I find back-and-forth verbiage. Fine. Be a part of that if you must. It leads me to feel a bit better about my embarrassing entries here before, because, you see, I see those entries now in comparison:
I may have raged drunkenly here on my own, but I never have allowed myself to be drawn into an ongoing fight such as yours — “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
LOL, my friend.
“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia…”
It’s performance art. If the mask hadn’t already slipped, they might have even gone through the motion of putting some sanctions on for a few days and then taking them off, but since it’s doubtful that would fool anyone at this point, they might as well not bother. A few hours later he was back to “I’ve always had a good relationship with Putin. He wants to end the war…And I think he’s going to be more generous than he has to be.” Yeah, sure — I’m confident those long-awaited Russian concessions will start rolling in at some point. And it’s weird how it’s the country that’s being asked to capitulate that seems to be the one that is more resistant to signing. In any case, let’s remember that Trump thinks it’s OK for a country to renege on agreements as long as they don’t respect whoever is in charge at the time, and I suspect that will come in handy for both sides (as opposed to just applying to Putin).
It certainly is a mystery as to whether Trump is some kind of freak with an IQ of 200 who is always playing multi-dimensional chess and thinking 20 moves ahead and lying to the general public to conceal the subtle international diplomacy that is going on behind the scenes on encrypted telephone lines.
Marco Rubio used to be absolutely anti-Russia and JD Vance thought that he might be the next Hitler, and yet both of them have absolutely turned around their point of view.
Have they been intellectually overcome by Trump or is it just that they pretend to agree with him so as to further their careers? No doubt both of them have aspirations to be president of the United States sometime in the future.
Then again there are the people who have met and known Trump face-to-face like Scaramucci, John Bolton, various generals who worked in the White House, and others who say that the man is an absolute idiot and ignoramus.
Bolton has said recently that Trump sees diplomatic relations between countries simply in terms of whether he is personally friendly with their leaders, and that it has nothing to do with policy. If this is true, then it is pretty damning.
(My own view for what it is worth, which is obviously not much, is that Trump is one of these people who could be a very successful street market trader or television preacher who is almost illiterate, but extremely good at ad-libbing and giving the impression that he knows what he’s talking about while he actually doesn’t have a clue. If this is correct then presumably politicians divide into two camp: those who see through him and those who don’t.)
“Marco Rubio used to be absolutely anti-Russia and JD Vance thought that he might be the next Hitler, and yet both of them have absolutely turned around their point of view.”
True. Here’s a good;recap of Vance’s views on trump. As always, Ron Unz seems to have some bug up his backside about reddit so depending on the rendering in your browser, you have to replace any (dot) in the link by a period:
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/duplicates/1j212i4/this_jd_vance_video_was_deleted_from_twitter_by/
As for Rubio, some people think he might still have a spine somewhere, given that “Rubio is privately frustrated that Trump has effectively sidelined him…One of the sources said they felt as though Rubio is often the last to know when foreign policy decisions are made in the White House. [Another source] speculated that Rubio will only last in the job 18 months before he resigns.”
“occupied by a demographic that’s going to be bourgeoisie in a couple of decades, your society/civilization is in pretty good shape.”
Not when the Jews came storm trooping into the United States. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told.
How is that self deportation coming along?
Rubio and Vance are cucks. They are only concerned about power, not principles.
What is Steve’s movie review of George Droid memes? George Droid memes are generally AI-produced brief webms in which the maximally depraved and maximally technologically enabled oligarchs like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg resurrect civil rights hero George Floyd as a cyborg, so that he can lace milk in school cafeterias with fentanyl and defeat pregnant women.
Credit goes to a Chicagoan (of course), Philip Soltanec, a.k.a. Emo Phillips.
Also known for this favorite of iStevers’:
“He”?
Putin? Trump? Rubio? Vance himself? You are not clear here.
Or maybe aren’t itching to be the next Harry Truman.
As Ukraine is already at war with Russia, should the former join NATO, we will be as well. For the first time ever. Perhaps the Indians and Pakis could advise us on how to wage war with another nuclear power without actually pushing the button.
Meditation? Daily rifle dances at the border? Might not translate to the Diomedes.
…and who permitted “dysphoric” transvestites to “serve”, though most were in it for the lifelong medical benefits and would struggle to find five accomplishments for Elon’s e-mails…
I would trust generals in the field before those in the White House. Hell, I’d trust sergeants in the field. The ones in DC are the equivalent of the “house Negroes” on the plantation.
Well, mad scientist Dr Fauci had him going for a while. Brooklyn 1, Queens 0!
Fortunately, like the rest of us he wised up to the scam.
“Lines”? Are you living in 1939? Even Hezbollah is wireless now. (Though they may be reconsidering landlines.)
The claim by HA and others that Trump is Putin’s puppet contradicts their other claim that he’s the reincarnation of Hitler. They assume that Putin will back out of any deal. But history shows that it’s the Hitler/Trumps who do the backing out, and invading… and exterminating minorities.
Which presumably include their own grandchildren.
Trump is suggesting abrogating US-Japan defense treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_and_Security_between_the_United_States_and_Japan
In that case, Japan will all but certain acquire nukes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapons_program#De_facto_nuclear_state
In that event, who do you think Japan will aim those nukes at?
China and Russia did not nuke Japan twice.
There is nothing to thank you for, smartass, especially as you have plainly neglected to read Acts and choose to ignore the dozen or so obvious spots where Our Lord makes Peter’s primacy plain, even when Peter is being his thickest or his weakest. At least you don’t make an utter fool of yourself by claiming that in John 21, Our Lord’s tripartite instruction to Peter, culminating in “feed my sheep,” did not have a special application.
There is also chapter 16 of Matthew, where Our Lord tells Peter that upon Peter himself will He, the Lord Christ, build His Church. The mode of transfer of the Keys of the Kingdom were, like everything else the Church needs to accomplish its earthly mission, left to the discretion of Peter and his successors, not to a committee of “reformers,” the terms of whose actual membership remain dubious as day follows day.
You’re correct, smartass, assertions are not arguments, and Christ’s Living Church is not a book. It is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, whose human head, however fallible, dwells in Rome in the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, “who succeeds from the Father and the Son and with Them is no less adored and glorified.”
One thing I am confident of is that if Luther himself witnessed this disagreement, he would flog your arse with a cat-o’-nine-tails for the utter incompetence of your argumentation.You wouldn’t be able to sit for a month.
Japan has a very different economic system to the West, and it’s certainly the view of Eamonn Fingleton, who spent 20 years there as FT correspondent, that Japan is closer to China than the West thinks.
After all, Japan has been the model for the economies of China and Korea.
So it may be that in a post-Trump world order we’ll see a neutral Japan rather than an American ally.
OT but the FTC is taking public commentary on mega-Corps (blackrock and such) buying up all the single family homes
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/24/2025-01657/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-comment-request
My understanding is that the hotline between Washington and Moscow now uses a combination of fiber optic cables and both Russian and American satellites. Probably they have built in translation.
I would imagine that the link ups are heavily encrypted to prevent eavesdroppers, but I was able to pick up this snippet this morning.
“Hello Vladimir, you’re looking nice in that jacket and tie.”
“Comrade Donald. WTF? It is 3:00 in the morning here. Thank you for your work for the blessed cause of Mother Russia.”
“No prob Vlad? Anything to help the Axis of Evil.. Fuck the Ukes. Any news on the permitting for the Trump Kremlin Country Klub?”
“Not yet, but if you can get Sir Vancelot on TV again with some more gaffes, we might be able to expedite it. I’ll have our speech writers work on it.”
“Okey doge big bro, you know Melon and I will always love you.”
Indeed, I have always loved that joke. The format of the two jokes are similar but the point is very different.
It’s hard bein’ a man. Livin’ in a garbage pail.
My landlady called me up — she tried to hit me with a mop.
Och, you blokes are just gonna have to take it from here, I’m too f#cking tired. And besides, I’ve got this like 800-page Iain McGilchrist ton of bricks to struggle through, all about crazy Brain Science and sh#t.
The facts we hate:
We’ll never meet.
Walking down the road,
Everybody yelling Hurry up,
Hurry up!
But I’m waiting for you,
I must go slow.
— X as always
Don’t you motherf#ckers ever say, I never did anything for you.
Here it is, in all its glory: the Only Record (Except for Billie Eilish) Worth Your Time to Listen To…
Ladies and gentlemen, may your humble servant present… the ever un-reproduceable D. Boon, George Hurley, and F#cking Mike Watt….
Serious as a heart attack! Makes me feel this way.
Dig in, cats. And don’t say sorry.
“The claim by HA and *others* that Trump is Putin’s puppet contradicts their other claim that he’s the reincarnation of Hitler.”
I skipped to the end of that embarrassing word-sludge you just upchucked, but next time, maybe wait till the fever dream subsides before commenting.
And “others”, you say? Why, it was JD Vance himself (back before he, like you, sold out) who suspected that Trump was America’s Hitler. Not that he’s the only one who, having dealt with him, came to similar conclusions,:
And keep in mind that analogy doesn’t need to be perfect to be eerily applicable. Even Hitler wasn’t always, well, “Hitler” — there was a long progression of steps that led up to that transmogrification (let’s see if Trump and his followers aren’t confused by that word, too).
As for me, I did point you that in addition to his efforts to do an Anschluss with Canada (despite having a lot less support up north than Hitler enjoyed in Austria), he has offered to ethnically cleanse Palestinians of Gaza which is indeed eerily analogous of an earlier solution to another knotty problem. If that’s not history repeating itself, it sure is rhyming well enough. If you want a better analogy than Hitler, I’d say Trump aspires to be more of an Orban than a Hitler or Putin, but I suspect he’d be OK being some combo-trans-mix of all of the above, though in order to achieve that, today’s Americans will have to be just as clueless and desperate as were 1930’s Germans, and not everyone is as confused about history as that word-sludge of yours indicates that you are, though some are just as weaselly about it:
In any case, the puppet/Hitler analogies are a lot easier to square than your claim that he’s a not-warmonger, or that his moves on Canada and Greenland and whatever else are just bargaining chips in some grand design that amounts to anything other than grabbing Canada and Greenland and whatever else his tiny little hands can grab. The whole “that’s not *really* what he means” routine wore thin a long time ago.
Lastly I will say again that if you’re trying to cram Fauci/Truman/Pakistanis/HouseNegroes/Hezbollah into one post, dial it back and narrow your focus. Maybe opt for Adderall (or even some anti-psychotics) next time instead of the shrooms and the sweat lodge.
The effect of Putin’s invasion–jumping back to old style grab-some-turf imperialism–was to dramatically revivify NATO and get everyone thinking about their security and getting nukes.
The post-War pax-Americana–end to imperialism, independent nations, open trade, low levels great/mid-power hot war–was generated by America nukes and security guarantees. Obviously not a utopia–lots of internal “i’m in charge” civil wars, some local border conflicts and animosities and a few great power (ideological democratic-capitalism-vs.-communism) hot wars, along with a lot of spy-vs.-spy shennanigans. But nukes and the America security umbrella meant a much reduced need for a whole lot of nations to worry about or spend on their military security.
The rise of China–more importantly its prospective economic dominance–was already generating questions. Putin reviving old style grab-shit imperialism generated a whole lot more questioning especially in Europe.
Trump nuking various American security guarantees pretty much guarantees that a bunch of nations will decide they need their own nukes. Things that seemed fanciful only three years ago like Poland or Germany getting nukes or even some sort of pan-European nuclear armed defense force, Trump has put on the table in only a few weeks.
If you are Germany or Poland or Finland or actually anyone who was once part of the post-1945 maximum extent of the Russia Empire you are flat out foolish not to build at least a few nukes. Ditto Japan, South Korean, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines … And of course all these folks in the turbulent middle east–Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia.
It’s a chaotic world. Want some security–get nukes!
(I don’t have one–currently–myself, but I’m thinking about it.)
Normally in the art of salesmanship, you try to “under-sell” things, in order to get the sucker — sorry I meant buyer — to “discover” the virtue of the product on its own, and get excited on his own, as if he was the one who thought of it.
But here I am today, telling you something just for your own good, and not trying to make even a dime.
The only record in the world which will make you into an actually better person for listening to the whole thing, start to finish… you can literally feel yourself becoming smarter as it goes on. Don’t believe me? Who cares, your loss!
Greg Cochran has already spewed more venom at Trump and Elon than he did during all of Biden and Obama’s years. I can’t tell any difference between him and a standard issue “Never Trumper” who is basically a Democrat in hiding.
The HBD crowd – the political side – is really duplicitous. A bunch of snakes.
So you’re relying on a pro-Russian propagandist to offer truth? JFC.
Wow, finally a post from you that makes sense while criticizing your boy Trump. Congratulations.
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/lets-get-trump-a-big-beautiful-globe
With epistemology like that, the world is your oyster!
“With epistemology like that, the world is your oyster!?”
Sure, that portion of the world that has the same strained relationship to accuracy and fact as whatever Trump manages to babble out. And isn’t Unz-dot-com the home of “I’ll believe the opposite of whatever the MSM tells me”? Here’s a typical snippet:
But you want to bring epistemology into the discussion now, all of a sudden?
“The Mercator projection might help explain his not unreasonable interest over the last 8 years in buying Greenland and his new, out-of-the-blue obsession with grabbing territory from Canada.”
All that stuff stops being reasonable the moment that Canada and Greenland say NO and he doubles down by not refusing to rule out military means to get what he wants, not to mention cozying up to Putin, and by saying he needs the “kind of generals Hitler had” in terms of absolute loyalty to him.
Don’t kind yourself, he doesn’t hunger for absolutely loyal generals because he wants to shoot BLM protesters in the legs (though he wanted to do that, too) or get rid of generals wearing wigs and Spandex.
But then, one would have to be a reasonable person to understand that, so I can understand why some commenters here would be confused. If Mercator projections, and easier-to-color-maps are one’s fixation, one could let Canada have Alaska, or get rid of latitudinal arguments altogether by donating them some lefty-liberal Great Lakes states, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say his map rationalizations only work to his advantage.
Braid: Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says
Canadian ‘niceness’ is a myth that would vanish overnight in the face of invasion
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-invading-canada-would-spark-guerrilla-fight-lasting-decades-expert-says
Yes, no one has a good word today for old Pooter, but Ukraine has ALMOST NEVER had clearly defined borders and at times various parts of what is today considered to be the Ukraine have been part of the Ottoman empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Russian empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Soviet Union.
Independent from the Soviet Union since 1991, the Crimea and the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine have remained contested territory and at least at a low level fighting has been going on for years.
Remember it was 2014 when Donbas separatists/Russians shot down the Malayan civilian airliner over Ukraine. It was probably a mistake but a Dutch court eventually found two Russian nationals and one Ukrainian separatist guilty of murder, sentencing (in absentia) them to life imprisonment.
The EU and the United States expanded economic sanctions against Russia shortly after MH17 was shot down, targeting its finance, energy, defense sectors, and individuals closely tied to President Vladimir Putin.
Trump was not a lot of help to Ukraine during his first spell in office. Although he did authorize the javelin missiles, he also gave a lot of mixed messages and was reluctant to condemn the actions of Russia.
“The brainless and unforgivable Kursk adventure is finally over, collapsing faster than expected, with men and equipment left behind.”
This turned out about as well as the Confederates in the American Civil War invading the North and engaging in the battle at Gettysburg. The Confederates and the Ukrainians both had the same problem, with their opponents having almost triple the population of men of fighting age available. For the Ukrainians to win, they would have to be able to figure out how to drag America into a direct war with Russia with American forces on the ground in the Ukraine.
Trump took this off the table so the Ukrainians are now headed for their eventual defeat. Americans are not eager to go over there to fight. They do not really believe if we don’t stop the evil Putin, he is going to cross the ocean with his forces and take over this country and make us all drink vodka and learn to speak Russian. The Europeans are not eager to fight the Russians either. They are just eager to fight the war down to the last Ukrainian.
The Chinese economy is more aligned to the U.S. than you care to admit.
—The trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening China’s economic jewel, its sprawling industrial complex, at a time when persistently sluggish household demand and the unravelling of the debt-laden property sector are leaving the economy increasingly vulnerable.—
“They are only concerned about power, not principles.”
It tends to be a thing with Trump rationalizers. Some of them are pretty open about it.
That’s according to the new deputy director of the FBI. But all of a sudden, the alt-right is a-OK with government leaders telling us the only thing that matters is power, because they’re convinced that it’s only Canadians or dudes in dresses or someone else on the other side who will get tossed out of high-rise windows or whatever.
My comment may amount to just an aside, but I want to thank you for that comparison map of Mercator vs. actual size of countries.
Let me just copy and paste it again here to reiterate:
You see, I have a personal story that I think goes along with this rather well:
I have mentioned here before that I once had a girlfriend from the Ukraine whose father had been a captain in the Soviet nuclear submarine navy. I enjoyed an American Thanksgiving dinner with the family. I carved the turkey. Her father proudly presented his captain’s hat and let me put it on at the dinner table.
At that same Thanksgiving dinner, my girlfriend’s father bragged about a lot of things. He bragged that if they had only had more money, the would have built more magnificent nuclear submarines! (I, an American banker at the time, didn’t bother to tell him that funding the construction of such machines of war is, oh, I don’t know, maybe “half the battle!” and that “WE” did it better — but I digress…)
Then, the best part: My Ukrainian girlfriend’s — immigrant — father bragged to me that, paraphrasing, “our country had TWELVE TIME ZONES!”
Again, I didnt’ have the heart to reply that those time zones were at an extremely high-northern lattitude and thus very narrow.
Your map simply shows my point, and I thank you.
One thing I learned, years ago, about Russian men (whether or not they call themselves “Russian” or “Ukrainian” LOL-FUCKING-LOL!) is that they are very full of, oh, you know, “bravado,” “machismo,” “bragadoccio.”
I am sorry, but they all are a fucking joke to this American Man. (And in the end, I fucked his daughter, and he was stuck living in a shitty apartment in Norwalk, Connecticut.)
Ukrainians tried to do this multiple times. Thank God, as decadent and out of touch as we are, we didn’t take the bait. British mercenary who voluntarily wemt to Ukraine to murder Russian civilians, who has now lost one arm and one leg: “Can’t you see that Russia is the enemy?”
“It tends to be a thing with Trump rationalizers.”
Oh fer Feck’s sake, that is so bone-crushingly stoopid that GO ON AND LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE, LADDIE! You’ve caused me to break my vow of never replying to retards again — *that* is how retarded you are. Hope you’re happy.
So lemme get this straight…. after years upon years of wielding unchecked Power since the Bush/Obama/Hillary/Trump 1/Biden years (same Jewish agenda, who cares what label it wears) you are suddenly shocked, *shocked* to discover that the only effective reply to naked aggressive power moves is…. other power moves?
Wow man, you should check out this new movie I just saw, it’s called like “Terminator 2” or something.
>generals totally loyal to him
Hitler: Wait, what?! Where?
Department of Let’s Make Renard’s Head Explode Department…
Speaking of the “Terminator” movies, or I guess if you want to puzzle it out, lots of other people’s movies too, this cracks me up….
I was sitting at a hipster hotel bar, randomly enough somehow next to The Most Famous Movie Director Alive and he — weirdly and unexpectedly — posed me this challenge…
–> I will drink with you, (quoth He), If you will answer me this one question… tell me, lad: what is your opinion of Sharon Stone?
I thought that was kind of an odd question to ask if you only had one question, but I could tell that he was sincere, so I said…
–> Sharon is a very interesting detail-oriented actress (I had worked with her), and what she’s done is — she has created this very peculiar and very specific onscreen presence, it’s not just your standard femme fatale it’s really quite precise and individual… but not enough people have figured out how to write good parts for it, or to capitalize on it in a meaningful way.
My man smiles and shouts to the bartender, Two more Laphroaigs!
I get this blog is on its last legs and you’re offering up softball questions to what Trump and Musk are doing on Substack. Maybe you will wake up and start NOTICING, but my vague impression is you want money for closet renovations and better dog food brands. I know this falls on deaf ears, but someone has to guide you toward truth.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate
“You catch the Mason show?”
“Jackie Mason?”
“No, Jonathan Mason.”
“Never heard of him.”
“He’s big in Ecuador.”
Are kapital K Kaganovitch and lower-kase kaganovitch the same person?
Back in those days I preferred Crazy Girls off of Sunset (hi Erin!), but I guess Kurt liked Jumbo’s off Hollywood.
You do realize that this was what that was about, right? And sort of what most art is about? Sorry, ladies.
Eh, I have a longstanding interest in epistomology. If I don’t comment on every unhinged post do I lose my right to a presumption of good faith? In any case I’m not sure anything from commenter Alden is typical of anything. She’s kind of unique. Speaking of which, that reminds me of an old Yiddish joke, but then again almost everything does…
Old Yiddish joke;
Ah yid geyt koifen ah tzeitung, zogt em der farkoifer “Fuftzig piaster.”
Zogt der yid “Vus heyst, in tzeitung selbst shteyt tzvantzig piaster?! ”
Entfert ehm der farkoifer “Ihr gleybt azoy als vus ihr leynt in tzietung?”
=
A fellow goes to the news agent to by a newspaper, the agent asks for 50 piastre.
The customer says “What do you mean, the newspaper itself has the price listed at 20 piastre?!”
The news agent responds “What, you believe everything you read in the newspaper?”
Assuming you mean their handlers, and not the “artists” themselves, it’s possible you may be right.
It’s all so fake. And gay.
Afaik, I’m the only commenter commenting as kaganovitch upper or lower.
You like to play Mephistopheles. You’re pretty good at it.
Indeed, would have been news to Rommel.
I find this quite implausible. In the first place, it lacks verisimilitude. It is premised on the notion that not only the Left thinks that Trump is Hitler, but that Trump himself also thinks so and furthermore thinks it’s a good thing. This is highly unlikely to be accurate. When journalism was a blue collar profession and big city journalists were drawn from basically the same demographic pool that big city cops were drawn from, journalism was a much more skeptical/empirical profession. Now that journalism has become an elite school/ trust fund profession, whose practitioners have been pickled in ‘studies’ narratives from childhood on, they have absolutely no feel for verisimilitude and can’t get out of their own heads at all. No amount of real life experience tends to change their minds either, as all of it is processed through ‘studies’ colored lenses. In this they are somewhat like the old joke, (not Yiddish!) :
A man goes to a psychiatrist. To start things off, the psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first inkblot and asks the man what he sees.
“A man and a woman making love in a park,” the man replies.
He holds up the second inkblot and asks the man what he sees.
“A man and a woman making love in a boat.”
He holds up the third one.
“A man and a woman making love at the beach.”
This goes on for the entire set of inkblots; the man says he sees a man and a woman making love in every one of them. At the end of the test, the psychiatrist looks at the patient and says, “I think it’s safe to say, you have a preoccupation with sex.”
And the man replies, “Me!? You’re the one showing the dirty pictures!”
Additionally, I find it implausible that Trump ever took an interest in the subject of Hitler’s generals or his relationship with his generals. It’s not the kind of thing that interests him.
In moderation, probably.
“I’m not sure anything from commenter Alden is typical of anything. She’s kind of unique.”
Come on, I’m not exactly a newb here. Even someone as obviously out-there as Alden starts getting some clapping when she pulls the old “do the opposite of what the media tells you” nugget from her box o’ classics for yet another tiresome refrain. And that means the sentiment extends well beyond her. If you doubt me, Unz has made it pretty easy to look up.
That’s not in any way exhaustive and I probably mixed up some of those links, but they get the general drift across. Like I said, if this is the kind of the thing that interests you, you picked an odd time to pipe up.
“Additionally, I find it implausible that Trump ever took an interest in the subject of Hitler’s generals or his relationship with his generals.”
OK, but does that really have anything to do with him saying what he said? You’re finding it hard to believe that he watched (or heard some people talking about) a WWII movie or two at some point in his life and from then on assumed he knew pretty much everything there was to know? The paper mentioned two people willing to corroborate the quote, and it dovetails nicely with the “can’t you just shoot them in the legs or something?” he was also remembered to have blurted out.
Just how naïve does someone have to be at this point to think any of that is out of character for someone like him?
“Hitler: Wait, what?! Where?”
Wow, you mean Trump gullibly believed in something that wasn’t true? Oh, say it ain’t so! Why, next you’ll be telling me that he believed Haitians were eating people’s pets or that Ukraine invaded Russia.
I’m curious, do you yourself think that Trump admires Hitler?
But Trump said Ukraine is the aggressor.
The model for the ceasefire was supposed to be Korea. Syngman Rhee was no less corrupt and dictatorial as Zelensky, and drove an even harder bargain. Rhee’s initial ask was reconquest all of the peninsula.
But Eisenhower didn’t kick him out of the Oval Office, and Dick Nixon didn’t go like “did you ever say thank you?”
This is not a reality TV show. He tells bald-face lies everyday. Then Elon, who is high all the time, shills for him on X with all the flunkies and sycophants.
He cherry-picks the tranny mice experiments, but those outlays are a drop-in-the-bucket.
https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/monthly-interest-tracker-national-debt/
The alleged “DOGE Savings: $175 billion” is a fraction of 2025’s interest payments.
And this is what his crypto pump-and-dump scams are really about
https://www.promarket.org/2025/02/24/the-real-target-of-trumps-crypto-strategy-is-the-federal-reserve/
There is not one uniform “economic system of the West”. And unadvisable for Americans and Britons to assume so.
China followed the Japanese model in early days of Deng’s reforms, later the Anglo model, more recently this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine_capitalism
The greater issue is the collapse of American credibility. At this point why wouldn’t Taiwan hand over TSMC to curry favors with Beijing?
You can ask Grok: “Can it be argued that TSMC is the most important company in the world for AGI development?”
“I’m curious, do you yourself think that Trump admires Hitler?”
If the last five people he spoke to at any moment happened to have admired Hitler, or else did the usual dodge-and-dogwhistle routine about how “you know, Hitler wasn’t ALL bad”, then yes. That tends to be how his mind works. Classic 14-year-old edgelord blather about how even though the common wisdom says this, the cool kids know the real truth. And given the circle of followers he surrounds himself with, there’s a good chance he could have picked up what follows from one of them:
Do I believe Kelly more than Trump, given all the obviously untrue things the latter tweets out in any given day? Of course I do. What sane person wouldn’t? We’re not talking Alden, who maybe read somewhere in the media that Trump likes Hitler and therefore insists the opposite is true, but that’s why I stipulated “sane”. Does Trump really strike you as someone who goes out of his way to study up on a topic in all its nuances before he mouths off on it?
Buzz, I know such ‘arguments’ can clutter up a thread, and mine with Corvinus is somewhat circular (I am the referee as he argues with himself), but I’ve succeeded in making him angry, which is rare for him—he’s usually just glib, but I trapped him when he endorsed HA’s “actual security” phrase, and he can’t stand that he got trapped. Which equals moderate lulz. 🙂
Commenter HA is somewhat more intelligent than Corvinus: knowing I beat her in debate upthread, she stopped replying. Argument over (for now).
Your answer may have earned you a drink (so you say), but the only correct answer is:
“I have no opinion on Sharon Stone.”
Best delivered with a raised eyebrow and Connery Bond arch bemusement.
How it really went down:
“My man smiles and shouts to the bartender, Two more Laphroaigs!”
“Buddy, I knew you two wuz phroaigs the minute youse walked in.”
“I find this quite implausible. In the first place, it lacks verisimilitude. It is premised on the notion that not only the Left thinks that Trump is Hitler, but that Trump himself also thinks so and furthermore thinks it’s a good thing. This is highly unlikely to be accurate.”
This is classic begging the question on your part. First, Trump values loyalty. Just like Hitler. Second, Trump values being dictatorial–his way or the highway. It does not mean Trump IS Hitler, it just means he admires those qualities that Hitler possessed, given Trump’s own conduct throughout his business and personal life. There is a cognitive dissonance on your part–you cannot wrap your head around the fact that Trump, similar to Hitler, has multiplied attacks on “the ‘enemies within” or the “radical left thugs who live like vermin” who must be removed at all costs from the body politic, and he demonstrates ruthless determination to remove any barrier that interferes with him achieving his goals.
But at least Trump is friendly to your brethren, right, even though your kind are mischief makers, or so I’ve been told on this fine opinion webzine.
“Now that journalism has become an elite school/ trust fund profession, whose practitioners have been pickled in ‘studies’ narratives from childhood on, they have absolutely no feel for verisimilitude and can’t get out of their own heads at all.”
Two things can be true at the same time. The journalists you speak of can be from this type of background, and they can also show how Trump in certain ways ACTS like Hitler or chooses to be around people who ACT like Hitler.
“No amount of real life experience tends to change their minds either, as all of it is processed through ‘studies’ colored lenses.”
Project much?
Eh, Hitler comes up entirely too often in the ‘memoirs’ of Anti-Trumpers to be plausible. It seems to reflect the obsessions of the Anti-Trumpers far more than Trump’s. I don’t buy it.
MEPHISTOPHELES: Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it.
Well you’re a very good fellow so if you have the patience and/or the inclination, I’ll tell you the actual story of what happened and maybe why I’m not really a perv (well I guess it’s really up to you to decide…)
After I got roundly kicked out of the avant-garde, largely because of HIV (hey bud, *you* try working the Emergency Rooms in the late 80s during both the crack-epidemic/gang-GSW epidemic and the AIDS epidemic, see how long your burnout straw is; I’m the poster boy for that flavor of PTSD), I wound up living in MacArthur Park in downtown LA for a while. Go figure. I later stole a copy of Grey’s Anatomy from the UCLA bookshop and used it as a pillow/cover story for pretending I was a UCLA student and sleeping there instead, but that’s another story.
Just to give you an idea.
Flash forward to a little while later I’m somehow now hanging out at the SNL wrap parties and turning down invitations to chill with Marty (Scorsese) and baby-sitting David Bowie, hmm what a reversal.
But now on to the next reversal….
The next thing you know is, at my peak of dumb-ass success, my best friend is killed in a stupid traffic accident. Just as while I am in the middle of doing You-Don’t-Want-to-KNOW-What. Puts me into a tail-spin like you wouldn’t believe.
I had at the time this very nice girlfriend who Very Much Wanted to Get Married, and because I wasn’t sure about the whole thing, I didn’t want to lean on her too heavily and incur an emotional debt that way, so I didn’t know what to do.
So I discovered sort of by accident that you could avoid the really tacky emotionally decadent strip clubs in LA, but that the “decent” ones were full of chicks who were not actually meth-retarded morons but actual good empathetic conversationists: grad students and law students and avant-garde artists and sort of real human beings. (I later found out that the above-mentioned GF had put herself thru law school by doing same, but that’s another story.) I have a hilarious side story of becoming besties with an entire gaggle of wealthy Brazilian super-models who were sort of “slumming” in the States and they thought I was a hoot because I knew their buddy Carlos Fuentes… yeah another time.
So for a while I became an afficionado of the Hollywood Mephisto scene. For a while. And under certain stringent moralistic conditions. It was my version of the Algonquin Round Table. Except that Dorothy Parker was topless. Whaddaya gonna do. Then of course I finally came to my senses and said Goodbye To All That. And now I’m just some random jerk on the internet, go figure.
So how do you think the Kursk salient is doing?
Please. Canada is like the wife in Henny Youngman’s famous punch line:
“Take my wife . . . please.”
Since the changes to their immigration laws starting in the 1960s, Canadians have already “passively accepted conquest without resistance” by invading foreigners with names like “Aisha Ahmad.”
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Henny_Youngman
“A doctor gave his patient six months to live… but he couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.”
“My wife’s purse was stolen, but I didn’t cancel her credit cards. Why should I? The guy who stole ’em spends less than she does!”
“My wife said to me, ‘For our anniversary I want to go somewhere I’ve never been before.’ I said, ‘Try the kitchen!’”
“My wife’s cooking is fit for a king. [Gesturing as if feeding an invisible dog.] Here, King; here, King!”
“Last night my wife said the weather outside was fit for neither man nor beast, so we both stayed home.”
Not nearly as much as you. What makes you think kaganovitch sees things through “‘studies’ colored lenses”?
This has all the valence of ‘Hitler was a vegetarian’. Loyalty has been prized by everyone from Marcus Aurelius to Queen Elizabeth II. Similarly, my way or the highway has been the dominant trend among corporate and political leaders since forever.
Not that the phenomenon needs an origin story, but if we are looking for a pro loyalty influence on Trump, we would be far better served looking in the direction of the late George Steinbrenner, who Trump idolized as our host has often remarked, than some nonexistent identification with Hitler. It’s not only that there is no reason to suspect such an identification, it’s entirely un-Trumpian; Hitler was a loser!
Alas, a passionate Catholic! Nothing else could explain the pouty and hyper-sensitive response to my bland observations. Frankly, this is good to see. Passionate Catholics are very rare these days. Deus Vult!!!
Since I assume that your only knowledge of the law is from The Paper Chase, my daughters’ subjective observations as to their classmates’ attendance at mass can be given weight in a court of law, relative to other evidence.
Next, it is well and objectively established that the Catholic Church is shrinking in this country. Ignore it if you will. But hey, keep binge watching on The Paper Chase. Lol!
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/growth-and-decline-us-catholic-church
The Ukrainians are not doing very well in the Kursk region. I expect the pro-Ukraine side to say this is only because Trump has cut off weapons to the Ukrainians. However, before he left office, Biden sent as much over there as he could in order to “Trump proof” the Ukrainian war effort. The Ukrainians will eventually run out of weapons but it will take longer than one week after Trump stopped shipping them over there.
Near the end of the Vietnam war, you heard talk about “a light at the end of the tunnel” and how if we just stayed a little longer we could win. When we did pull out, our puppet government almost immediately collapsed since there was no indigenous support for it. Pretty much the same thing happened with Afghanistan. Since there are no independent media outlets in the Ukraine and the Zelensky government controls the press, he has been able to propagandize the populace into supporting him. Once it becomes evident, though, he has led his country into a disaster, he’ll be lucky to get out of there without being hung upside down from a lamppost.
This movie is based on the theory of double creation of man, Genesis 1:27:
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The chosen hermaphrodite (male and female) pope is obviously the realization of this pre-Adamite ideal, ministering all his life among accursed Hamites. Gays are obviously closer to this hermaphroditic ideal, which may explain their affinity for Church and attempts to conquer it.
The double creation of man is an old heretical theory, being extolled by such mystic writers as Jacob Boehme. The seed of serpent, or Lilith, fights with children of Adam. So why is lily a symbol of Virgin Mary, together with rose, which only appears in the Bible in the apocryphical “Song of Songs” as rose of Sharon?
There is something suspicious, something hidden here if you ask me.
Pity that not many people will understand the true meaning of “Conclave”. I always ask myself – what is worth waving truths unrecognized by profanes before their very eyes…?
The v. Papen ministry had included Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economy and he was retained by the v. Schleicher ministry and then by Hitler, holding the job until 1937. Germany between 1932 and 1939 registered a growth in per capita product that exceeded that of every occidental country bar one. Unlike the United States, the recovery in production was co-incident with a recovery in the labor market. (You’ll recall Marge Schott was raked over the coals for remarking on this; it was on the bill of particulars for stripping her of her managing partnership).
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The coda of this was that Schacht later had a falling out with Hitler and spent the last years of the war in a concentration camp. At the end of the war, the Allies put him on trial for ‘war crimes’.
“Germany between 1932 and 1939 registered a growth in per capita product that exceeded that of every occidental country bar one.”
Hitler did that by engaging in high levels of government spending on the German welfare state and military spending in order to stimulate the economy. By 1939, though, the German economy started to slow down and the German government was starting to run large deficits. Government spending can stimulate the economy in the short run but to have a healthy economy in the long run you need to keep government spending low. The fastest economic growth rate in this country was the fifty year period between 1865 and 1915 when federal government spending was less than five percent of GDP.
Whenever I bring up Hitler’s economy starting to falter at the end of the thirties and the German government starting to run deficits here at this website, typically some Hitler admirer demands I provide evidence of that. I then provide some links, followed by silence rather than him thanking me for my effort. I don’t know why I even bother.
We never saw the ultimate failure of Hitler’s economic program because he stupidly got involved in a two front war and died in a bunker in Berlin in 1945. Trump is, to certain extent, a believer in high spending too. In his first term he added seven trillion dollars to the national debt and pressured the Fed to engage in inflationary policies to keep stock prices up and the economy from entering a recession.
Economic growth in this period, though, was slow compared to previous eras of American history. Also, while Biden got blamed for the high inflation during his presidency, that was at least partly caused by Trump. If Trump wants to do better this time in encouraging long term economic growth, he needs to cut government spending and not pressure the Fed to lower interest rates. However, presidents seldom look at the long term.
Hitler did that by engaging
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Ordinarily, fiscal policy has a weak effect on production levels. The Depression may have been an exception inasmuch as you had a great deal of excess capacity.
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Looking at the United States, rapid expansion of the economy began in the Spring of 1933, coincident with changes in monetary policy and banking supervision. During the period running from 1933 to 1940, the ratio of federal spending to domestic product was about 0.065, as opposed to 0.03 prior to the depression. The ratio of federal borrowing to domestic product never exceeded 0.04.
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Lots of suboptimal policies followed by the Roosevelt Administration, but these were ill-considered regulatory schemes and (arguably) monetary policy errors.
Hitler’s government was responsible for the rapid expansion of the German interstate highway system, although it had already been started.
This was copied by the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s and led to the modern format of the United States–a network of suburbs, shopping malls, bridges and parking lots linked by free-to-use multilane freeways.
The Biden high inflation was surely related to a massive amount of newly minted money being pumped into the economy during Covid to keep millions of Americans from starving or losing their homes. It started during the Trump 1 regime.
Is that what they’re calling the drunk tank now?
“Eh, Hitler comes up entirely too often in the ‘memoirs’ of Anti-Trumpers to be plausible.”
As opposed to, what, the sections when Trump mentions the sky is blue? Why would anyone spend a lot of time talking about that? And what about Kelly makes you think he’s more likely to bend the truth than Donald Trump? And try to answer that with a straight face.
Look, there’s a lot that gets plastered up and down Unz-dot-com. Occasionally some of it is downright reasonable. But rest assured, when some outsider comes in and has a look, and then describes what he saw in going through this site to some other outsider, Unz’s foray into Hitler apologias will loom LARGE and will take up a good deal of the conversation, even though it’s just one chapter in Unz’s ouvre. Same thing here.
No one is saying Trump obsesses about Hitler, or that he stands in front of a mirror every day reciting translations of his speeches, or even that he talks about him often. Or even that he made any effort to find out anything all that much about him at all. What they’re saying is that he’s taken up yet another topic of which he knows almost nothing about, and then, based on some “let me tell you the REAL story they don’t want you to know” rehash by some Joe-Roganesque huckster, tried several times to impress upon others that he’s not just some normie, no sir — no, he’s sophisticated enough to suss out the REAL truth that the rest of you just can’t handle. That’s what we’re talking about here.
If you really find that hard to believe, despite all the other examples of Trump acting similarly that we can point to, it’s because you prefer to walk around blind. And remember, these weren’t anti-Trumpers originally. They got turned into anti-Trumpers direct from the source. And even if they’re all just lying scumbags — like, say, Roger Stone or someone like that — it’s doubtful that they lie anywhere near as much as Donnie, so that alone gives them the win in terms of plausibility. So thanks for the epistemology lesson, but no thanks. If so many anti-Trumpers are former colleagues, maybe that’s something you need to consider, too.
I’m not saying there isn’t some truth to the notion that history as it’s commonly regarded is watered down, and details about getting inflation under control and getting the trains to run on time get overlooked in favor of more sensationalistic stuff. But it doesn’t mean that Hitler wasn’t really all that bad or that if someone tries to impress that upon me more than once, it’s not going to stick out in my memory thereafter if I’m asked for insights into what that someone was really like.
“Hitler was a loser!”
You mean, like those fallen soldiers Trump didn’t want to be associated with? Those “suckers and losers”?
Or are you gonna squirm around and toss consistency aside and say, well, in that case, there’s a whole other reason why it’s actually those around Trump, as opposed to Trump himself, who are lying?
And again, where is there any evidence that John Kelly’s penchant for telling whoppers is anywhere close to the reputation Trump has earned in that regard?
Canada just elected a new Prime Minister. He is showing some backbone.
Canada’s next PM Mark Carney vows to win trade war with Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36wkg47z1po
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Saudi Arabia for peace talks over Ukraine and Russia.
Greeted by high ranking Saudi officials on the tarmac, the diplomat immediately launched into the traditional American greeting: ‘Why are you all wearing kitchen dishrags on your heads? Show respect!”
He was later escorted to a balcony suite on a very high floor of a luxury hotel.
Yes, I mean like those fallen soldiers. I’m not engaged in defending Trump’s character, though I’m sure we differ regarding that as well, I’m assessing the plausibility of his purported admiration/identification of/with Hitler. Btw, I doubt he watches podcasts much, Rogan or otherwise, he watches network TV.
HA, if you’re done squirming*, are you going to finally explain to us why Ukraine failed to nuke Russia when it had the chance? You often claim Ukraine had its own nukes but surrendered them—if true, why are you attempting to defend a stupid nation that gave up its effective weaponry?
*You squirmed away by not replying here:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7019521
Btw, I doubt he watches podcasts much, Rogan or otherwise
I also doubt he spends all those golf outings in mute silence. On the contrary, on the rare occasions when he’s not monopolizing the conversation by yammering about himself, he listens to the other blowhards he surrounds himself with. Like his son, for example, or his boss Elmo, or any number of other people who do have some passing familiarity with the weed-adled Rogannesque hucksters who regard themselves as dispensers of bitter-tasting red pills too unpalatable for normies. Those are far more likely to be part of his circle than any historian.
“he watches network TV.”
Hence, his shallow and superficial reading of Hitler and his supposedly fanatically loyal generals and the fact that Hitler was supposedly always portrayed as a 100% baddie. It’s all bogus. Becase of course it is — we’re talking Trump. You mentioned Rommel, but at least Rommel stayed (selectively) loyal to Hitler. Stauffenberg, on the other hand, actually tried to kill him — how’s that for not being fanatically loyal? And that was a Tom Cruise movie, though I doubt Trump ever even bothered to sit through that, either.
Ditto for the notion that no one ever mentions the good things Hitler did. Any real biography — the kind I also doubt Trump has ever bothered to read — generally has a lot to say about the widely acclaimed statesman Hitler was before the dark side and the methamphetamines took over and he went off the rails.
So of course what he said about Hitler isn’t true. But if you could for once shake off the naïveté-colored glasses, you’d admit that getting stuff completely backwards has never been much of an obstacle to Trump regarding himself as the resident expert on that very same stuff, as we see from his oh-s0-precise analysis of the war in Ukraine, or just who was eating all those missing cats and dogs of Springfield.
Lying sleazebag hucksters who are so deluded that they actually buy into their hokum have always been with us. That’s why there are still plenty of Mormons out there.
“You often claim Ukraine had its own nukes but surrendered them…”
That’s because they DID have their own nukes. And whatever they lacked in “operational control”, or whatever other stupid wordplay the fanboys fall back on when they can’t make a point stick, they had decades to find a work-around. I don’t know how to hot-wire a car, but if someone leaves me a fleet of Porsches, then even if he takes the keys, then I’ll go out and learn. Or hire someone with the requisite know-how. Or maybe even sell the Porsche parts for a complete working set of Nissans, keys included. Any of those would work.
So go away and stop pretending you’ve got an argument. You don’t. Nobody backpedalled on anything. You’re just generally too much of a moron to bother answering.
Ahh hearsay, no evidence, from TDS-suffering John Kelly. Great source. You’re not good at debate. Yet you like to type. A lot. 😐
We look forward to seeing your new blog.
How is it possible Ukraine “lacked in “operational control”” over their own (as you claim) rather serious weapons? If Ukraine allowed others to have operational control over Ukraine’s own (as you claim) nukes, Ukrainians were never fit to govern themselves, obviously. And yet you have sympathy for irresponsible Ukraine morons who let others control ‘Ukraine’s weapons’. You’re hysterical.
The “quote” is certainly fictitious (Trump is clueless about history; Hitler’s generals were not blindly obedient to him).
But it captures the essence of Trump’s 2nd presidency.
Those who disagreed left long time ago (Tillerson characterizing Trump as a “fucking moron”).
City of Los Angeles to tear down Treehouse of Horror:
Next thing you know, Steve Sailer will be going all Libertarian on us.
Glad to have helped… you’re welcome!
“How is it possible Ukraine ‘lacked in “operational control’ over their own (as you claim) rather serious weapons?”
Because they were once part of a multi-state entity known as the USSR. Maybe you’ve heard of it. So some stuff got distributed across different states. But the actual nukes — the big, usually pointy things, that were designed to drop down and go BOOM (is that getting through? do you need me to sketch you a picture?) — were IN UKRAINE. Not the “remote controls” so to speak. Those were in Russia, so the Ukrainians would have had to hot-wire or work-around those, or sell the parts for a full working set of somewhat smaller nukes, or whatever else one can eventually do in several decades given a humongous pile (3rd larges in the world, as I recall) to start with.
All this was already explained to you in clear detail in the last comment, and no sane person should needed to have had something so obvious explained to him in the first place.
“Ahh hearsay, no evidence, from TDS-suffering John Kelly. “
The paper cited two other sources. And “TDS” isn’t going to change the fact that Trump’s reputation for telling whoppers outsizes Kelly several times over. Try again.
This is the one part of your colorful tale that is truly believable.
Of course, here you have a lot of similar company.
“The Ukrainians are not doing very well in the Kursk region. I expect the pro-Ukraine side to say this is only because Trump has cut off weapons to the Ukrainians. However, before he left office, Biden sent as much over there as he could in order to “Trump proof” the Ukrainian war effort. The Ukrainians will eventually run out of weapons but it will take longer than one week after Trump stopped shipping them over there.”
In the short run the problem isn’t weapons but intelligence. Ukraine doesn’t have spy satellites.
Well, I’ve long since ceased to pay attention to both TDS & TWS types of bipeds.
“It started during the Trump 1 regime.”
Yes, the first stimulus bill to offset the negative economic effects of the Covid lockdowns was signed in 2020 by Trump. At the time, fiscally conservative Congressman Thomas Massie opposed the bill. This caused Trump to tweet out an attack on Massie, with the Donald saying Massie should be kicked out of the Republican party.
I think Massie was right there and Trump was wrong. That stimulus bill and the ones that followed increased the national debt and led to the high inflation of 2022. We could have gone without the lockdowns. Florida did not engage in lengthy lockdowns and, adjusted for age distribution, had death rates no higher than the national average. The same was true of the limited lockdowns of Sweden compared to other European countries which engaged in harsher lockdowns. Sweden ended up having excess death rates no higher than the rest of Europe.
Former lockdown opponent Jay Bhattacharya is now about to head the NIH while lockdown opponent RFK Jr. is heading up the Dept. of HHS. We certainly would have been better off if we had listened to them back during the Covid epidemic, along with Congressman Massie.
Well, it is certainly the case those were Russian nuclear weapons under the control of the Russians and they were not going to hand them over to the Ukrainians and walk off.
However, it is not too late for the Ukrainians to win the war. To save the day, the New Magnificent Seven of Zelensky fanboys HA, Corvinus, John Johnson, Bardon Kaldion, Jonathan Mason, Twinkie and Jack D. could head on over there. We may have trouble finding our Korean friend Twinkie, though. He has been in hiding ever since Trump started talking about deporting dog eating foreigners.
The evil Putin will quake with fear when the New Magnificent Seven show up and Zelensky will breathe a sigh of relief, knowing his country and his cocaine supply are safe.
“Some random jerk on the internet” with the makings of quite a novel.
https://twitter.com/SidKhurana3607/status/1899242703272989023
Yes, true. But few read novels these days.
Also, most of the “bold type celebrities” mentioned are now very aged and either dead or pretty obscure to contemporary readers.
The hotties and big shot guys are now using canes and heavy makeup.
Does anyone want to read a novel featuring Sinatra’s Rat Pack?
“Celebrity” name dropping is a very old, tired writer’s crutch. It’s really All About Me (or the main character/author) than it is about anyone else.
Former EMT druggie/homeless guy in LA eventually rubs elbows of people Boomers/Millennials might know of and have slight nostalgic appeal. Only if the author is Jewish, however…
It is a sad comment on the way how the US is run if people seriously argue about psychoanalysis of an individual who happens to be an elected official in a democratic country. Perhaps something is fundamentally wrong with socio-cultural-political mechanisms in that country.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1899262314194366746
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1899188256924909782
You completely ignored this important factor. Why not address it?
There is a cognitive dissonance on your part–you cannot wrap your head around the fact that Trump, similar to Hitler, has multiplied attacks on “the ‘enemies within” or the “radical left thugs who live like vermin” who must be removed at all costs from the body politic, and he demonstrates ruthless determination to remove any barrier that interferes with him achieving his goals.
https://twitter.com/GarbageHuman24/status/1899259367595397433
As a keen student of history Trump will probably want to be added to the short list of presidents that includes the name of McKinley.
So why did Ukraine give them up? Are they stupid? Seems so. Why do you have sympathy for an idiotic country?
Also, don’t be shy—hit REPLY so my trouncing you can be easily followed comment to comment.
Don’t you mean memoir?
“my trouncing you”
Right. I’m guessing you’re referring to zingers such as accusing people of having “TDS”? Alas, that’s just the rightwinger equivalent of a liberal pointing a finger and shouting “racist!” whenever he’s too stupid to come up with an actual argument. Not so much a trouncing as a self-own.
“So why did Ukraine give them up? Are they stupid?”
Glad we’re finally agreed they gave them up, in which case, it really wasn’t much of a trouncing at all. As for Ukrainians being stupid, they sure will be, if they trust whichever American blowhard is pushing them to sign a piece of paper next time, all the while offering empty assurances that it’ll be for the best. (Not to mention indignantly demanding thank-yous.)
Then again, Trump has already let slip that he’s totally fine with Putin breaking deals when Obama or Biden or anyone else he doesn’t respect is in charge, and given all the respect the Ukrainians feel for Trump right about now, that wiggle-room might come in handy at some point.
We had always agreed they gave them up. You are the goofball claiming the nukes belonged to Ukraine. They never did. If Ukraine didn’t have the controls to the nukes, that obviously means they didn’t belong to Ukraine. You have elected to be trounced some more, I see.
Already were—we both agree Ukraine gave up nukes in their physical possession—to Ukraine’s biggest national threat, no less! How dumb is that?
Trump knows it’s not in America’s interest to get involved in a violent domestic dispute overseas, unless somehow Ukraine is willing to make it worth our while: Them Uke hoes gotta put out some tasty minerals at a good price if they want our pimp hand to regulate in the region, otherwise they’re Putin’s (admittedly feisty) bitch. And if they’re Putin’s bitch, you’re also Putin’s (whiny) bitch given your lost cause laments for Ukraine.
Do I get any brownie points for having an ancestor who was known as “Mad Dog” Ned? Oh and also a saint: Saint Oliver Plunkett, Bishop and Martyr. He’s muh dude.
You know there’s this old saying (well not really old, just Erma Bombeck-sort of old): Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is literally a fruit not a vegetable, but Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in the fruit salad.
A while ago I had to attend a memorial service for a great good dude who had died tragically young. They played a recording of George Harrison/The Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” — I guess as a way to seem kind of up-beat on such a sad event. But it had the un-intended effect of forever associating a rather splendid and well-beloved song with this impossibly horrible occurrence. It did nothing to enhance our fond memories of the deceased, but it ruined our associations with that song forever. I can never listen to it again with any sort of pleasure, it will always be associated with death and horror. Think twice, etc.
And on that sunny note……
Gawd, to think that i once shared that stage with that goddess…..
Well I mean, Heaven forbid anybody should have any sort of a life just a squeaky bit more interesting than your own pitiful little thing.
What purpose in these deeds?
Oh Fox Confessor, please.
What marries me
To this awful world?
It’s not for you to know,
But for you to weep and wonder.
““Some random jerk on the internet” with the makings of quite a novel.”
Actually I guess “Some random jerk on the internet” would make a pretty good title these days. I’m no longer very au courant about all this Instagram sh#t, but it maybe seems like down-grade is good-grade these days. Pfft. Kids.
But my working title is, “Get AWAY from Me, Goddam You!!” — after my working form of address for every blood-covered crack-addict nuisance who showed up at my ER desk. And somehow for some reason they always do seem to be covered in blood. Followed of course by… And what’s your Social? Are you a diabetic? Es diabetico? Are you allergic to any of the following medications….?
Hilarity ensues. I once had a guy who was actually literally named “Elvis Presley,” who had a… well I don’t wanna tell you his problem, unless you have a VERY large bottle of Makers Mark….
In addition to the tariff, Hoover doubled the top income tax rate to 50%, while pushing big business to keep wages high to increase demand. FDR raised it in ’33 and again in ’37 to 91%, causing the recession of ’38. It’s safe to say both parties made the Depression worse.
You mean he wants to be shot in the abdomen?
VIOLA: Thy reason, man?
FESTE/CLOWN: Troth sir, I can yield you none without words;
And words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
VIOLA: I warrant thou art a merry fellow, who care’st for nothing.
CLOWN: Not so, sir, I do care for something: but in my conscience, sir… I do not care for you.
This. Canadians used to have their own solid, respectable “Great White North” national identity–Voyageur fur trappers, hardy prairie pioneers, Mounties–distinct from Americans.
But their “identity” now is “we are better”–more pacific, more pozzed, more pompously virtue-signaling and more do-gooder globalist and immigrant pickled than those “cowboy” Americans. I.e. other than “not-quite-the-US” Canadians hardly have any identity. They have globo-homo’d themselves.
All that would happen if the US took Canada over is … American politics would get even worse.
Och, the way that Time gets away from you. Sometimes I just forget just how goddam OLD I am.
A few nights back I was having dinner with a bunch of young artists, the totally naive Billie Eilish born-in-this-century crop, (except not shockingly brilliant like La Goddess) and I made a joke about Ludwig Bemelmanns. No recognition. “–>The guy who wrote the ‘Madeline’ books.” One or two belated laughs of acknowledgement. “–>He painted the damn ‘Central Park’ mural in the bar-room which you are now sitting in.” Oooh, okaaaaay.
Somebody asked me, on the spur of the moment, to tell a story about Central Park without taking a second to think about it, just tell the story, right on the spot.
ME: Okay, what is the name of that theater, you know, the Shakespeare in the Park Theater, that they have by the lake, and the castle and what-not?
–> The Delacorte.
ME: Yeah, that one. I almost burned it to the ground by accident, back when I was a teenager.
Agh, enough of this.
Looks like DOGE is following in the foot steps of the US Secret Service…
Use the Signal app for your regular text communications because it’s YOUR private comms.
Everyone should be using such software as a matter of course.
Yes you are right of course, it really ended quite differently (I have edited so as not to get sued). Nothing horrible or un-toward happened, I can say that much. But we got really plastered, and let me tell you, this guy is a walking encyclopedia of everything about Film and “the movies” — he just knows every goddam thing, every damn actor and actress, all their quirks and oddities, it’s uncanny. You get an entire MFA from USC and maybe also a degree in Psychotherapy, just drinking with him for two hours.
I wouldn’t try to guess but he probably asked me about Sharon Stone because maybe it was on his mind, maybe he was thinking about casting Sharon in some project or other, who knows. But the guy’s wheels are turning and spinning every single hour of every single day, you get worn out just by the project of watching him thinking, that is a chore and a half just by itself. It’s a little like Jim Brooks, another guy you just can’t keep up with.
Ah, well, the Bronze Age was followed by the age of irony.
While it seems like Trump admires President McKinley and wants to be known in some way as his successor, and believes that school children should learn the name of McKinley, I wonder if Trump even knows that McKinley died of lead poisoning.
He really is an enigma. Is he a kind of Rain Man autistic genius, or is he more akin to the Peter Sellers character in the movie Being There in which a gardener is somehow promoted to the position of President and even his most inane remark is treated with awe and exaggerated reverence?
He is neither of those things and that’s perfectly obvious.
This was copied by the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s and led to the modern format of the United States–a network of suburbs, shopping malls, bridges and parking lots linked by free-to-use multilane freeways.
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You’re confusing the effects of the institution of limited-access highways with poor town planning in suburban jurisdictions.
No, I look forward to YOUR blog, given how you anonys over the years have soiled this fine opinion webzine.
Much of the German high command were participants in an assassination plot on 20 July 1944. I doubt DJT is hankering after that.
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Trump’s background and concerns bear little resemblance to those of the bosses of fascist movements in inter-war Europe. The whole meme is silly.
EMERGENCY MESSAGE TO STEVE SAILER,
Steve,
Rosie O’Donnell, star of “The Flintstones,” has moved to Ireland for her safety. Due to mean comments, she has abandoned TikTok and established a substack account in order to communicate with her legions of admirer’s, and control her mean commentariat, but is having major problems figuring out how to post on it!
Could YOU reach out to her, and learn her how to work it right?
Thank you for your consideration. 🙂
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1899574062764134483
“I was sitting at a hipster hotel bar, randomly enough somehow next to The Most Famous Movie Director Alive and he — weirdly and unexpectedly — posed me this challenge…–> I will drink with you, (quoth He), If you will answer me this one question… tell me, lad: what is your opinion of Sharon Stone”
God damn, you make up the best stories. You try so hard to top the ones you made previously. It’s quite the spectacle.
“Trump’s background and concerns bear little resemblance to those of the bosses of fascist movements in inter-war Europe. The whole meme is silly.”
JFC, no. Just stop. Fascism is not a binary. Fascism is a process. When Trump instituted the Muslim ban and described Latino immigration as a sort of infestation, for example, this is how attacks on “an enemy within, a group that can be targeted and scapegoated for all the problems of society”—not to mention his now absolute demand for loyalty at all levels of government (dissension is not tolerated)—is fascism in action.
**And then you have this from the high command—DOGE employees were instructed to communicate via messaging app Signal, which has a function that deletes and permanently wipes messages after they are sent and received.
**You OK with this?
But at least Trump loves the Jews, right? You won’t be targeted come the purge…
“Trump’s background and concerns bear little resemblance to those of the bosses of fascist movements in inter-war Europe. The whole meme is silly.”
The “meme” in this case is the fact that Trump’s own Chief of Staff Mark Kelly (and according to The Atlantic, two corroborating sources) recall Trump saying he wanted the kind of loyal generals Hitler had, and also saying that nobody remembers the good things that Hitler did. I’m sure you can join any number of active internet discussions with those who suspect Trump is the American Hitler (like, say, this guy once did, and maybe deep down still does) but that’s a totally different meme, and bringing it up, or unconvincingly claiming, as Kaganovitch did, that what Kelly stated is “premised on the notion” that not only is Trump Hitler, but that Trump agrees that Trump is Hitler, is ridiculous (and also simply untrue since plenty of bosses have demanded total loyalty without becoming Hitlers). And none of that requires any premise whatsoever. If Kelly heard him say it, it stands on its own, whatever premises you want to pretend it rests on.
Moreover, trying to brush that aside by any of the subsequent smoke-blowing that was attempted — e.g., noting that Hitler’s generals weren’t in fact particularly loyal — is likewise unconvincing, given that it is completely irrelevant, for the simple reason that historical accuracy (even on something as recent as something that happened 3 years ago, or as noted above, at Pearl Harbor) doesn’t have much to do with what Trump says or believes. (And I’m not even going to bother with lame TDS appeals, for reasons I already stated.)
If one can demonstrate that ex-astronaut/naval-pilot/husband-of-Gabby-Gifford/senator/ex-chief-of-staff Mark Kelly is a lying scumbag, or that even as early as a few years ago was maybe slipping into early dementia (i.e. more so than Trump), then you’ve got something. Otherwise, this is all just squirming around in a failed attempt to avoid the obvious conclusion that Kelly wasn’t just making stuff up and at the very least is far more credible than Trump (not that that isn’t a pretty low bar).
Agree that the quote is fictitious. Not a big fan of “fake but accurate” stories, generally. Tillerson’s characterization of Trump is appropriate from a certain vantage point but ultimately much more wrong than right.
Larval?
https://twitter.com/2aHistory/status/1899569139242381388
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1899550917050929360
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1899566050426896630
“Big if true”, as the sarcastic saying goes.
You’ve personally got “lame TDS” covered:
HA says: March 12, 2025 at 12:26 am GMT • 1.1 hours ago
“’Big if true’, as the saying goes.
No that’s not a big if at all. Consider rather the question of if it is remotely likely for Kelly to have done anything in his life to be less credible than Trump at this point. THAT is what you could legitimately call a big if. As it stands, and given the fact that two other sources corroborated what he said, the matter is settled, in terms of plausibility/credibility/preponderance-of-evidence. If you seriously doubt that, then you’re the one deranged about Trump, or else have been living under a rock (or in your case, maybe both).
Speaking of which, a discussion of what Trump did or did not say and/or believe is indeed going to have a lot of mentions of Trump. Does that really surprise you, to the extent that you thought citing seven examples of such would be probative in any way? Then again, if you were any less desperate to make a point (now there’s a really, really big if), you’d have picked up on that without me having to tell you.
Yes, but that supports my point rather than yours. If a demand for loyalty is commonplace and not particularly relevant to Hitler than there is no plausible reason to mention Hitler in this context unless one has a thing with Hitler . I find it implausible that Trump has a thing with Hitler.
So your version of history is that Trump decided to cross the aisle and select a Democrat as his Chief of Staff? Big if true! How come nobody gives the Donald credit for his bipartisanship?
“In the short run the problem isn’t weapons but intelligence.”
The U.S. just resumed military aid and providing intelligence. We’ll see if that makes a difference.
My guess is it won’t. Now, three years into the war, America and the Ukraine are calling for a ceasefire. It is quite possible they both know the slow Ukrainian retreat is about to speed up and want to freeze the conflict before this happens. I doubt Russia will be eager to stop now unless all of its demands are met first. Then they will agree to a ceasefire after that.
Since Russia started the war with three times the population of the Ukraine, they knew if they maintained close to a one to one casualty ratio the Ukrainians would eventually run out of men first. The Russian goal was not mainly to take territory. It was to get the enemy to a point it could no longer continue the war. What the Ukrainians need now are not American weapons and intelligence but American or European troops on the ground in the Ukraine, something neither the Americans or Europeans want to do because that might lead to WW III.
“I find it implausible that Trump has a thing with Hitler.”
Again with the straw man arguments. No one is saying he has a “thing with Hitler”. (I suspect even plenty of those who think he might have the makings of a Hitler would admit that he’s too ignorant of history for that to be intentional or based on careful study). Plenty of people who are not Hitler in any way have some good things to say about him. Lefty gay fashionistas might admire the Hugo Boss uniforms. Likewise, the openly gay Philip Johnson had a thing for Speer that is unsurprising to anyone who has seen his buildings. The Marlon Brando biker aesthetic likewise owes a lot to Nazi fashion. Hippies loved their VW Beetles. The list goes on. None of them have a “thing for Hitler” (well, apart from Johnson maybe).
So why is it so hard for you to acknowledge that something similar may hold true for Trump, regardless of whether what he likes is based on some complete distortion of WWII history?
“So your version of history is that Trump decided to cross the aisle and select a Democrat as his Chief of Staff?”
You definitely got me there, thanks, and I concede the point. It was indeed the former Marine and Iraq war commander who was Chief of Staff, but the overall argument stands — in fact, being a general himself, the John F Kelly I should have specified is presumably a lot more knowledgable about WWII than Kelly the ex astronaut, and given the former’s military past, discussions of generals of one type or another between him and Trump are that much more plausible, do you not agree? So you just made my argument that much stronger. And do you seriously want to pretend he’s less credible than Trump, even when he’s backed up by two corroborating sources? Come on, even some of Trump’s most loyal lapdogs admit that his own credibility is sketchy.
Another song that’s been ruined for many people is Billy Joel’s “She’s Always a Woman,” an instrumental version of which was playing on the World Trade Center plaza even as debris and bodies were crashing down all around:
We seem to be talking past each other here. What I’m trying to say here is that there was no reason (and hence it’s implausible that he did) for Trump to mention Hitler in the context of loyalty. It would only be plausible for him to have done so if he had a thing with Hitler which I, (and I think you as well), don’t think he has. Just as you wouldn’t, by the same token, expect someone extolling the virtues of vegetarianism to say “I think everyone should adopt vegetarianism just like Hitler”.
Verbalist shyster as I am, I can think of half a dozen ways offhand to get the money quote without technically lying. E.g. –
Trump: I wish I could count on my cabinet members to be loyal rather than this endless backstabbing/leaking that they do.
Kelly: You mean like Hitler’s generals were loyal to him?
Trump: I don’t know, I guess…
Tldr: Trump expressed his frustration with his cabinet and wished they were more like Hitler’s generals.
Is that a question anyone other than you is asking? Seems unlikely.
As to Trump’s alleged quotes about Hitler—if Trump really said what Kelly claims, do the “quotes” bother you? It seems they do, which is funny.
Who were the sources?
A song that I really liked when it first came out that has been ruined for me is “Stuck in the Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel. It was used as background music for a torture scene in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs movie and I always think of that now when I hear the song.
Why, it was in The Atlantic! Surely you don’t doubt The Atlantic?
The “meme” in this case is the fact that Trump’s own Chief of Staff Mark Kelly (and according to The Atlantic, two corroborating sources) recall Trump saying he wanted the kind of loyal generals Hitler had, and also saying that nobody remembers the good things that Hitler did.
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You might be more selective in the stupidities you try to advance (with excess verbiage). You have one talent, and that’s making the crank contingent here look pleasant.
Nah, I stomped around 8H for a bit back in the days when it was considered boring and irrelevant (oh wait that’s also now, too, as well). All the same it was the stage of Phil and Dana and Farley, so that’s something, I guess. But it’s funny to think that La Goddess Billie was not even born back then. And she made much better visual use of it than I ever did, and I’m supposed to be the one who is the visual-spatial genius, she’s supposed to just write incredible songs, but she out-did me as she does in all other things. We’re not worthy.
Either way. I guess I was personalizing. For years, I’ve had readers telling me to publish my autobiography, but I always tell them, “Too Dickensian.” So, I figure, write a novelistic version, or forget it, or just pepper essays with autobiographical musings.
[Smile.]
https://twitter.com/volkova_ma57183/status/1884208442686202312
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1762188260644659282
The Atlantic has the best anonymous “corroborating sources” this side of the… Atlantic! If you can’t trust TDS sufferer Jeffrey Goldberg, who can you trust??
General John F Kelly and Senator Mark Kelly are two different people. Kelly is a fairly common surname of Irish origin.
“Kelly is a fairly common surname”
A tragic young couple named Kelly
Were forced to live belly-to-belly.
One night, sad but true
They mistook Krazy Glue
For their jar of lubricant jelly.
“It would only be plausible for him to have done so if he had a thing with Hitler…”
No. Everybody and his cat has an opinion on Hitler at this point, and has heard about the Nuremberg defense and the notion of being willing to do whatever your superiors tell you no matter what it is. Or seen some WWII movies (whether it’s quasi-realistic or some campy Ilsa she-wolf caricature) with fanatical Nazis willing to mow down women and children for Mein Geliebter Führer. You don’t have to have a thing with Hitler to have been exposed to any or all of that.
Why is it so hard for you to believe that any of those things got muddled around in Trump’s head to make him believe that Nazi generals were fanatically loyal? Is he some keen historian? Does he exhibit a devotion to accuracy and scholarship? Of course not — for all anyone knows he could have been thinking of Boris and Natasha, and in the spur of the moment assumed they were Germans instead of Russians.
“Kelly: You mean like Hitler’s generals were loyal to him?”
Now THAT is implausible. Kelly is a military man, and a military instructor. I would bet good coin that he knows far more about Hitler’s generals than Trump does. But you want to pin the stupidity on Kelly, as opposed to the one who has a well-known habit of considering himself wiser and smarter than everyone around him?
There’s this semi-private semi-secret music club in West Hollywood, I don’t really know if it’s even there anymore but it used to be, where people would just sort of drop by unannounced and do a quick set, then get out the door before anybody else caught on. So Fiona and Jon used to swing by once in a while and go through some stuff, they did this once or twice it was pretty great.
I love the hate-filled rage in this song, reminds me of back in the days when I was still capable of feeling hate.
“General John F Kelly and Senator Mark Kelly are two different people.”
Got it, thanks — not that it makes me look that much better, but for what it’s worth, I will note that I had earlier in the day read the stories about Senator Mark Kelly being labeled a “traitor” by Musk after visiting Ukraine and expressing support.
“You might be more selective in the stupidities you try to advance…”
Would you prefer I obsess about Obama’s birth certificate instead? Maybe Haitians eating our dogs and cats? Or the one about how “We’re just one day … a half a day … away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen…”? Are those stupidities more to your liking?
Next time, instead of trying to pretend the Nazi generals quote is nothing more or less than claiming Trump is Hitler, which it clearly isn’t, try the old WHAT HE REALLY MEANT TO SAY flim-flam. As in “akshully, he was probably just referring to the Nazi generals who WERE fanatically loyal, as opposed to Rommel or Stauffenberg and oh, how corrupt the media is to try and make that seem sinister in any way,.”.. and on and on, wherein every idiotic thing Trump ever says is sanitized into something innocuous, or else is interpreted as being just another “bargaining chip”, or better yet, is taken to be some elliptical Oracle-of-Delphi profundity that means whatever his followers wish it means. When it comes to advancing stupidities like that, that never seems to get old around here.
I’m absolutely sure Kelly is orders of magnitude more knowledgeable about military history than Trump. That doesn’t mean he is immune from the very human tendency to torture the data until it confesses. If you think Trump is a fascist it will be foremost in your mind and you will jump at any opportunity to ‘prove’ it. I’m not suggesting Kelly thinks Hitler’s generals were models of loyalty, it is sufficient that he believes Trump to think so, for the conversation to go as I speculated.
I am leaving aside the possibility that Kelly deliberately ‘entrapped’ Trump into various statements, that shorn of context, make him look worse than he is, with an eye to destroying him later or profiting personally. I have always found it peculiar that people think that military men, and particularly general officers, are ‘straight shooters’ when so much of their doctrine and training revolves around selling large scale deception.
I, for one, would buy it.
I understand that the new German leader Herr Merz has invited Trump and his entire cabinet plus Musk for a trial visit to come and hang out in Nuremberg.
Trump has said that he looks forward to visiting his ancestral home to take part in a Nuremberg rally in his Tesla.
You’ve touched on a great point.
Left wing bots such as (H)systerical (A)ss lack the self-awareness to realize that nobody obsesses about Hitler and “fascists” all day except for them. Normal people don’t fit “Hitler” into every conversation.
I’m sure you fancied throwing chaff in my face was clever.
“an enemy within, a group that can be targeted and scapegoated for all the problems of society”
He freed the J6ers!
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So this is how iSteve, and maybe the world ends: this crazy broad HA screaming and calling people names.
Its Von Stauffenberg. Idiot.
You got old “around here” a long time ago.
Now, about Hitler: Boy that Hitler sure was on the ball. Except for the part where he died childless in a bunker and destroyed his entire country. But I wish I had some chefs like Hitler did. Man, if I had the swing coach Hitler had, I could shave 10 strokes off my game. Don’t even get me started on his dry cleaners!
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He won the presidency at least two times — watt chu dun cracker!
I think Kelly saying that sarcastically is one of the more likely possibilities for your scenario.
Indeed. Especially given how much politicking seems to be part of reaching general in peacetime.
Trump is a man of remarkable energy & resilience who has, through a combination of his “positive” (for him) characteristics & opportunity offered by a historical nadir of globalist Democrats, succeeded to win the presidency twice.
A few contradictory elements have to be taken into account.
It is more that Democrats lost (imbecile Kulturkampf, ultra DEI, anti-white immigration inundation, incredibly lousy candidates for POTUS) than he has won- excepting his admirable tenacity & trolling talent which gives quick results in a stupidified world.
Those who compare him with Hitler are right only about one crucial, but essentially completely irrelevant issue if we take into account some imagined historiosophical schemes- serious German historians agree that Hitler’s talents were in his ability to attract & transform, like a refracting lens, various types of resentments (industrialists, militarists, German nationalists, petit bourgeoisie, peasants,..), giving promises right & left he will solve all their problems and build a powerful, healthy & successful society- which he did, bar Jews, mentally handicapped etc.
Just, one must take into account that Hitler operated in a basically mononational, although ideologically divided society.
Trump’s gifts as a politician are that of a successful Barnumesque wheeler-dealer who recognized that core Americans were fed up with being trampled on by a sleazy coalition of racial-national minorities & globalized alienated plutocratic “white” rulers.
His base, including Evangelicals, is composed of nationally semi-conscious Euro-Americans, including those we could call traditionalists, normal average whites, desperate rust-belt working class people, right-wing “intellectuals” & most white women with families.
It is true he got some votes from minorities (Asians, blacks, Mestizo Hispanics,..)- but they are not his base. They all voted, very clearly, for Democrats & only a segment of that population- which is simply tired of globalist chaos-induced state of a society- voted for him.
As for his statesman-like qualities- he has none. He is an American phenomenon, but not in a positive sense: he is not a sheriff, but neither a rogue who would in any traditional Western be run out of town on a rail. Trump is a prosperous pimp in a small Western town who has enough reason not to cross lines, who lacks basic morality & who worships power.
He is not politically, socially … educated & intelligent, but possesses a survival instinct of a modern troll- such types dominate American popular culture (in that sense, he is a “populist”). Trump doesn’t have a grasp on the wide, diverse world & its complexities (as a completely opposite character, I would recommend Mrs Thatcher’s work “Statecraft”). Trump’s vocabulary & thought processes, as far as we can decode them, are that of a childish bully with a fragile ego, while simultaneously gifted by a sense of self-preservation. MAGA world is populated by sincere Podunk losers- while their enemies are either globalist lunatics or deceptive billionaire “friends”.
In sum- such types emerge in the times of crisis of a society, promise much & deliver little, or even worse, produce even more instability & chaos. In his defense, one could say that probably no person could do much in a society so divided & and positioned, after 50-70 mostly affluent years, in a turbulent world that changes with the speed of video games.
That’s what you get when you live not by principles, but as an opportunist.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
As to Trump’s alleged quotes about Hitler—if Trump really said what Kelly claims, do the “quotes” bother you? It seems they do, which is funny.
And with that, we can see the frog being boiled before our very eyes, with the water temperate being raised from “Nah, he didn’t say it”, to “what would be so bad if he did say it?” Or else, “he doesn’t REALLY want Canada and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, they’re just bargaining chips”, to “well, would shoving them into the Golan Heights be any worse than where they are now?” The temperature just keeps rising.
The answer to your question is that Trump’s sloppy and one-sided take on most anything — including Nazi generals — comes with serious problems when he starts spouting about how swell it would be if he could pull off the kind of regime that Orban has managed to do. Trump thinks there’s nothing wrong with that, just like he thinks the fake-news liberal-left media only tells us about the bad things Hitler did, but the fact that he isn’t able to appreciate the downside is not reassuming. Yes, I realize that the ability to see both sides, and to be aware of the fact that there’s a long trail of dead one has to tramp through in order to reach the end of of the authoritarian rainbow, can cause sane people with some modicum of compassion to hesitate in ways that psychos and strong-men authoritarians don’t, and that disappoints the zealots who demand to see their enemies’ heads roll. But there’s a reason why that stuff doesn’t work out as planned in the end, though I doubt anyone here will admit that as long as the strong man is seen as being on your side.
And he’s not always wrong, of course. Even an idiot can maybe be smarter than some pointy-headed gender theorist when it comes to understanding that a teen too young to vote, drink, or join the military, even with parental approval, is also too young to choose chemical castration. But again, that’s a low bar. Even if you buy into the Curtis Yarvin tripe, Trump is simply too dim-witted to be the god-emperor we all supposedly need. I don’t like Orban, but at least he’s smarter than Trump. I’ve also read some of Buchanan’s stuff on the virtues of protectionism, and agree that when it comes to having a secure food supply or a deep bench of technically-skilled workers, some governmental heavy-handedness is needed. That’s fine — I don’t have a problem with somewhat more protectionism. But when you get someone like Trump in charge, you wind up going way being that into some whiplash now-it’s-on-now-it’s-off tariffs that evidently aren’t fooling the markets into thinking prosperity lies ahead. So maybe it’s time to admit it — he just doesn’t know where he’s going.
“Who were the sources?:
At this point, ANYONE is likely to have a higher Equifax credibility rating than Donnie — be it John Kelly, Mark Kelly, Megyn Kelly, Machine Gun Kelly, or Kelly Clarkson. That goes for Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic. If it were otherwise, you’d have a comeback that were less lame than noting that when reporters ask Kelly about his time at TRUMP’s White House, and his impressions of how it was to work with TRUMP, he tends to talk about Trump a lot. “See, that’s TDS right there!” Yeah, right.
“I have always found it peculiar that people think that military men, and particularly general officers, are ‘straight shooters’ when so much of their doctrine and training revolves around selling large scale deception.”
Again, pick your poison. You’re stacking him against Trump and complaining Kelly is the one selling large-scale deception? Who are you kidding? And even if what you say is true, Trump is pivoting, this time around, from men with actual military-command experience to Fox News and other right-wing talking heads. Any large-scale deception you want to complain about there?
If not, well, OK, then — frying pan, meet fire.
” If you think Trump is a fascist”
I realize you may be using “you” in a purely hypothetical sense without referring to me in particular, but I will state again that I’m not saying Trump is a fascist, or that Trump has read up on or even understands fascism in any scholarly fashion. What I have noticed from his glowing descriptions of his stable genius is a general tendency — especially whenever he is in charge — to lay down the notion that he’s the smartest guy in the room, be it about economics, or history, or business or anythibg else. Therefore, I find it eminently plausible that in shooting the breeze with a chief-of-staff with a military background, he might have brought up at more than one instance the one about all those fanatical military guys willing to do anything for Hitler without question, which he sloppily lumped together as “Hitler’s generals”. To the extent that’s a distortion of history is irrelevant (even though lots of Nazis were indeed just that fanatical). You put all that together, Kelly’s take is far more convincing than Trump’s denial. Again, that doesn’t require anyone to believe that Trump is a fascist so to the extent that’s part of anyone’s comeback, they’re missing the point.
I meant, as I thought was obvious, Kelly. Kelly is indeed on record as saying that he thinks Trump is a fascist.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-kelly/index.html
“I’m sure you fancied throwing chaff in my face was clever.”
Nah, it’s pretty clear that when it comes to Trump, you prefer to walk around with eyes shut. Good luck with that.
And it’s totally made financially possible by the “Emerson Collective”, (see, a literary reference!) which is basically all Steve Job’s widow’s moolah.
So, a oligarch’s widow (he was talented and smart, she, well…?) underwrites snarky leftist “publication” which is the Go To source for every anti Trump TDS victim and otherwise unemployable journalist/writer not surviving on Substack handouts or podcast ads.
So, basically it is like your own (or my own) iSteve Unz commentary blog except comes in paper format (I assume) and is often cited by People Smarter Than You. Or at least faithful, now cranky Democrats.
Steve Jobs, the actual funder, never lived near the actual Atlantic but buying an old, failing liberal magazine named the Atlantic, is kind of an inside joke.
No, I don’t get it either. But we’re not smart enough to appreciate it.
“The Atlantic, like the New York Times only worse!”
“You catch the Mason show?”
“Jackie Mason?”
“No, Jonathan Mason.”
“Never heard of him.”
“He’s big in Ecuador.”
“He is?”
“Alright, maybe not all of Ecuador but he’s big in Quito.”
“What’s his act like?
“Man, it’s bleeding edge stuff, never been done before! Trumpf as goose stepping Fuehrer, Musk as mini Goering. Mesmerizing!”
“You think we can bring it to Broadway?”
” I dunno, maybe too avant garde?”
Culture versus civilisation :
very iSteve-y.
… whichever American blowhard is pushing them to sign a piece of paper next time, all the while offering empty assurances that it’ll be for the best…
All assurances , reassurances, and promises are contingent. Everyone knows that. So what?
It is absolutely of no importance whether he said it or not.
What is revealing of Trump’s character is that he praised Putin for attacking Ukraine as a “stroke of genius”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923
Trump calls Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for Ukraine invasion
Never mind that Putin’s move turned out to be anything resembling the behavior of a strategic “genius”, it is Trump’s reaction that is telling. It bares Trump’s mindset naked.
I think no one of sane mind needs to dissect this.
If you’re the frog in that analogy, you’re boiling yourself by coming here and losing arguments. Hey, some people are masochists: You’ll be forever ‘croaking’.
Speaking for myself, I never wrote that Trump “didn’t say it”: I made the point, assisted by you (thanks!), that your penchant for quoting dubious ‘sources’ is dubious, putting your obsessive speculation about it in the realm of TDS delerium.
Are you kidding? Trump’s wealth and credit rating blows all those chumps away.
People with TDS get upset and emotive when their or others’ TDS is pointed out. Are you denying you are consumed by TDS?
Jeffrey Goldberg’s initial tenure, and later position as editor-in-chief at The Atlantic pre-dates the Emerson Collective’s purchase of its Atlantic stake.
“I meant, as I thought was obvious, Kelly.”
Fair enough, though as long as we’re into matters epistemological, I would note that I think the actual phrasing he used is important:
I.e. we’re talking about the difference between blind and “legally blind”, and I don’t think I’m being tendentious in reading that as saying he thinks Trump is “kinda what people colloquially and therefore somewhat sloppily refer to as ‘fascist’ even when they’re not necessarily well-versed in the precise meaning of the word”. He’s certainly not saying Trump is Hitler.
The very fact that he’s careful enough to qualify what he says in the way he does makes me think he’s trying to get it right, and to NOT be sloppy in the way Trump often is, and he is not just making stuff up by way of massive deception. (He’s also not just throwing “fascist” around in the way some leftists do in order to shut down a discussion they can’t otherwise win, though that does seem to be how CNN is trying to spin the interview headline, possibly for the added clickbait.) In the end, there’s nothing particularly implausible about any of this. Trump maybe mixed up the Sturmabteilung with “Hitler’s generals”, maybe because the former (for all their fanaticism and loyalty to Hitler), were largely dirtbag street-fighting thugs, while the latter were well-trained and disciplined professionals (but far more divided about him). But let’s be honest, Trump tends to garble things a lot so none of it is surprising.
Then again, and this goes to your point, people are going to read into that whatever they want.
August 30th, 2024:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/kursk-incursion-might-be-ukraines-gettysburg-offensive-212546
11 hours ago:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/12/videos-show-russian-troops-retaking-kursk-regions-sudzha-a88327
So, the widow Mrs. Jobs just bailed him out but didn’t change the Party Line.
Like the rest of their Party, The Atlantic went from staunchly liberal to TDS virtue signaling unhinged.
“Onward through the fog! All engines on full…”
My next hope is that Elon buys out the (now begging for money) Associated Press. Bring back somewhat objective reporting, etc.
We can hope.
OT — Most criticisms of Trump really are unworthy of reply, they’re outright lies, they’re nonsense. One substantive criticism of Trump is that he promised to release the JFK files and hasn’t yet. Tucker Carlson recently reported that a source tells him that this wasn’t Trump’s fault, the necessary process was held up by a particular person getting held up on their way to the committee that would release the files; the holdup was thanks to Tom Cotton, the only American politician more beholden to Israel than Trump. Cotton once said that if the ICC in the Hague made good on its threat to arrest and try Israelis, we should invade the Netherlands. Here is what sensible people should do:
Spam the message
ISRAEL KILLED JFK
Optional
He was trying to stop them getting nukes
Also
COTTON GRIDLOCKING JFK RELEASE PROVES IT WAS ISRAEL
And finally
Tom, please concentrate on the border, the budget, and our corrupted weak anti-military. Trump’s not going to let anything happen to Israel.
Steve, could you kindly post a new notice here at Unz Review of your latest biweekly Taki piece, for us commenters to comment upon?
https://www.takimag.com/article/mickey-17-where-bong-goes-wrong/
https://archive.is/AURMJ
https://twitter.com/2aHistory/status/1899911053560946954
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1899860823637712982
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1899484668526809132
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1899894831096451454
OT — This sounds right, can somebody find a reason to doubt this?
While I can understand the transition to Substack, the comment volume is much higher here, and the comment interface here is light years ahead of Substack comments. Really, really dislike that reddit style layout.
My favorite land acknowledgement is for the Chimicum, courtesy of Chief Seattle. Heads up!
All of the elites imagine it’s 1955 and they can make it to the Appalachians by helicopter when the balloon goes up.
My sense is the Hokey Pokey game (in various areas) is more Trump being Art of the Deal negotiator guy. The overall theory is intriguing though.
Regarding egg prices, here is weekly data. The drop over the last month has been something.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
Seems likely this was the cause.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/02/26/usda-invests-1-billion-combat-avian-flu-and-reduce-egg-prices
Steve Sailer, the absentee landlord!
We’re Eleanor Powell to his Glenn Ford
just prior to divorce;
and his Substack, of course,
equals Rita Hayworth, with whom Glenn scored.
“Mickey 17”? I haven’t been yet.
Warren Beatty, longtime movie screen vet
Was in “Mickey One”
But I haven’t seen none
Of the Mickeys from two through sixteen yet.
That’s the few who are barely aware that anything is wrong.
OT — A Dutch anon had an interesting idea:
HA vs ArtDeco !
To cheer you both up, did you hear about the Russians in Suhzda?
I got this from a trusted NATO source.
They sent thousands of North Koreans into the gas pipes, but Ukraine ignited the gas, incinerating the Koreans but sadly destroying the bodies and any evidence that Koreans were ever there.
Then Russian troops met the same fate.
Then, flushing the pipes with good air, Ukrainian troops advanced and cleared bridgeheads even deeper into Russian territory.
None of this is yet public, but when the news reaches ordinary Russians, Putin is toast !
OT — The future after whites is tango november delta. Whites will be gone but the Moon will still shine.
https://twitter.com/chris490360/status/1900047570367590553
Sometimes an anon says something so brilliant you instantly know it to be true and it takes the air out of your lungs.
https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/1900287581264249214
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1900345356661256200
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1900336116365934862
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1900245890499276841
“Trump is trying to crash the market at least 20%, causing a flight to treasuries.”
Oh, so no worries, then. We LIKE stock market crashes all of a sudden. Good to know. Say, did all that happen in October of ’29? A flight to treasuries resulting in unparalleled prosperity in the following years? Now that I think of it, I’m pretty sure the prices of groceries came down, so that at least checks out. Good times ahead!
So why was Trump complaining about how any stock market drops under Biden were a sign of inept leadership?
“More than 94% of stock is owned by just 8% of the US population”.
Yeah, and those remaining 92% of the population, aka the “poors”, are stuffed with T-bills, is that what you’re saying? The rich don’t own a disproportionate chunk of treasuries, too? Again, good to know. And whereas 20% of the stock market value is going to vaporize under this scenario, some 24% of the treasuries are owned by foreign countries, isn’t that right? You’re saying we can keep relying on them to keep buying treasures through thick and especially thin, no matter how much Trump ticks them off? Because they would never do anything to retaliate or make things worse for him?
Yeah, that’s some real rock-solid finance out there on 4chan. I can see where Trump gets the ideas for all those 4d chess moves.
I don’t think Trump is trying to cause a stock market decline. The problem is the Fed has two alternatives, neither of which are good. To keep the stock market bubble going, they need to slash interest rates. However, that would bring back the high inflation which helped cause Harris to lose. If, on the other hand, the Fed does not slash interest rates then we have a stock market crash followed by a recession.
This country is in trouble because of decades of bad policies. By trying to keep the stock market bubble going, this has led to almost continuous inflation and the dollar losing value from keeping interest rates low. The ten percent of people who own ninety percent of the stock in this country have benefited but the average family has suffered declining standards of living as prices rise faster than wages.
Trump got elected by working class people. The majority of voters who make over a hundred thousand dollars a year and the majority of college graduates voted for Harris. He should be less concerned about people who did not vote for him and more concerned about those who did, which means keeping prices down for average people even if the higher interest rates required to do that causes rich people to be less rich from their stocks going down.
Russia Hoax, Impeachment Hoax Didn’t Stop Trump, so the New York Times Tries Anti-Asian Hate-Crimes Hoax
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2025/03/russia-hoax-impeachment-hoax-didnt-stop.html
A good part of the stock market crash is in response to the chaotic policy making and the expectation of new tariff regime that will disrupt international trade based system. There is also the faint appearance of too much debt and not enough buyers pushing up long bonds.
This points directly to the Big Lie that I have pointed out before.
The United States claims to be one of the richest countries in the world, but it is actually only a middle income country as far as most of its population is concerned and it also has enormous areas of poverty where people just work like hamsters on a wheel to pay for the car that takes them to work and for fake health insurance that does not even cover their health costs.
At the end of the Biden presidency we were informed that the United States had one of the best economies in the year that was the envy of Europe, and yet when the Trump regime got in there and looked at the books they discovered that the United States was on the point of economic collapse due to the federal deficit.
Under Trump the USA has tried to implement absolutely desperate efforts to save its economy through tariffs and withdrawal from international trade, but the economy is probably going to crash anyway, which is possibly the reason why Trump is looking for a war with NATO as a distraction for the ignorant hillbillies who voted for him. Otherwise they might turn on him and come back to the White House with their guns add gallows, only this time they will be looking for him. (And as we know the Capitol police is not very effective at dealing with this kind of thing if DOGE has not already dismissed them.)
At this time NATO is kind of pretending to play nice, but behind the scenes they are probably planning a devastating attack to take out the US.
The vulnerabilities are already there. On 9/11 passenger aircraft were used as bombs.
Washington has an International airport ridiculously placed only hundreds of yards from the Capitol where disguised NATO airliners could easily come in and accidentally crash into the White House while pretending to avoid helicopters.
It would not be difficult for NATO to take out the White House, the Pentagon and the New York stock exchange before anybody even knew there was a plane off course. This would be combined with a simultaneous attack on every US base in Europe.
This would really get the attention of the Washington hillbillies.
Anyway, the rest of the world is perfectly capable of surviving without any trade at all with the United States.
Europe can certainly survive without American whiskey and motorbikes. I don’t think I have ever drunk a glass of American whiskey in my life, and divas to majority of motorbikes in the world are made in Japan or China or Korea. I had a Yamaha in my twenties.
However a peaceful resolution is possible without Trump’s War. The top economic teams of the G20 and the BRICS should get together for a major economic summit and thrash out a durable global trade treaty.
If the United States wants to withdraw from world trade and close its borders like North Korea, then so be it. The world can respect that.
One thing that would benefit many nations would be the elimination of tax Havens including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Jersey, Ireland, and Delaware.
They should also be a minimum 15% corporation tax within the countries where the business is actually done without the profits being syphoned off to tax havens.
This would enormously help the government of the United States and reduce deficits. Trump might even get the Nobel prize for economics to put on the wall in his nursing home.
Another obvious solution is to use the US Constitution in the form of the 25th amendment to immediately have Trump removed as it is now obvious to everybody that he is quite insane. Or his family could be asked to come and get him.
By the way the stock market is not really crashing. It is simply overvalued. If it went down 50% it would still probably represent less than fair value. Elon Musk’s Tesla is just an extreme example of a company being overvalued. In reality it is not worth more than BYD. So Tesla is probably still worth only 1/6 of the current price.
“Trump is looking for a war with NATO as a distraction for the ignorant hillbillies who voted for him”
One of the reasons the Democrats lost in this last election was that they looked down on average people as “ignorant hillbillies”, much the same way Hillary lost in 2016 by thinking of these same people as a “basket of deplorables”. The Democrats have gone from being the party of the average working person to the party of overeducated parasitic elites.
Democrat Sen. John Fetterman said after the election Democrats need to stop shaming, scolding and talking down to these people and telling them “Hey, I know better than you” or “You’re dopes” or “How can you be this dumb?”. And then, by the way, they’re fascists. Fetterman went on to say he knows and loves people in his state of Pennsylvania who voted for Trump and they aren’t fascists.
Fetterman thinks it will be hard to win back these voters, especially the male ones. He said Democrats need to stop dismissing issues of importance to men. He also said Democrats need to be for a secure border and stop gaslighting people and saying that is not a problem.
Russia- Nigeria with snow.
The US- Nigeria with Wall Street & Harvard.
Speaking of Russians ….
but it is actually only a middle income country as far as most of its population is concerned
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This is a nonsense statement. In any country, the distribution of personal income has a skew. That in Latin America has a much larger skew than that in Scandinavia. In the United States, that means the lower 90% of the population corrals about 68% of all personal income rather than the 75% you might see in Scandinavia. (In Latin America you have an additional phenomenon of the lest affluent 20% having 2% rather than the 4% or 6% you might see in an ordinary occidental country). The typical affluent country outside the United States has a per capita product around 25% below ours. The middle strata in this country is more affluent than their European counterparts.
as a distraction for the ignorant hillbillies who voted for him.
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There aren’t many hillbillies in this country and you will never be in a position to call another human being ignorant. You’ve spent oodles of verbiage making declaratory statements about daily life in a country you have never visited.
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Another obvious solution is to use the US Constitution in the form of the 25th amendment to immediately have Trump removed as it is now obvious to everybody that he is quite insane. Or his family could be asked to come and get him.
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You keep making statements which indicate that normal-range human beings are a mystery to you.
And the same woman on the US…
This is misleading because the middle strata in Europe mostly have much more available access to affordable healthcare, medications, and public transportation. They also have access to better food in street markets and supermarkets.
Also in the USA travelling to work may be a major expense due to lack of transportation and zoning laws that make walking to work almost impossible.
So any nominal measure of currency earned and converted into euros has to be weighed against this.
You simply cannot measure the standard of living in one country against another by converting average salaries into US dollars. This is the big con that they are trying to sell to you, and you are apparently buying.
For example, here in Ecuador you can get metal dental braces to straighten teeth for 25 US dollars a month. The information I am looking at now on a screen says that this costs $3 to $7 thousand dollars in the United States.
A Ventolin inhaler for asthma costs $6.82 with free delivery to the house here in Ecuador today at one of the more expensive pharmacy chains. In the United States the same product averages $90 and you may have to pay $200 to a doctor to get a prescription.
If you need a medication that comes in injection form, the pharmacist will administer the shot to you for no extra charge. In the USA the pharmacist wouldn’t do it and this would probably cost you at least a hundred dollars.
People in lower GDP countries figure out all kinds of more efficient and less costly ways of doing things. Most people don’t have computer printers in their home for occasional use, they just Whatsapp their document to the local print shop and pick it up later for a few cents per page.
As I recall I paid 135 dollars per month for lousy Comcast internet in the United States, which was a monopoly. Here I pay $18 per month for fiber optic into the house (not an introductory offer), and if I move to a different address they will move it for free. I can choose from several internet providers.
I bought large brown eggs yesterday at a supermarket. 15 for $1.99. Could have got a lower price per egg for a tray of 30 at the local egg emporium.
Americans are being conned into thinking they have a great life, but the fact is that with the internet and modern technologies the whole world has changed and a lot of the world has caught up even as the quality of life in the United States has gradually regressed.
Trump is obviously crazy, but even he realizes that the US is looking into the abyss.
Not everyone has the benefit of a rich daddy like ol’ man Fred the slumlord, who gave Donnie half a billion dollars or thereabouts (or, say, an emerald mine) in order to get him past his 6 bankruptcies. I.e., Trump had a little more help than most of us, so when you factor in that (and the bankruptcies and divorces and the affairs and the felony convictions, get back to me about how much farther he supposedly got in life than anyone else, myself included. (Oh, and how about the kid who he made the first lady who apostasized and then bragged that it was the best thing she ever did — I’m sure the faith and values and Christian nationalism crowd sees nothing wrong with that.)
Also, I’ve had to deal with tougher opponents in life than Hillary and Kamala, though I also never managed to lose to a hack like Biden (or get ahead by selling us out to Putin). I know, I know — people around here like to pretend that losing to Biden was only because Democrats “cheated”, but lying to the extent Trump does isn’t playing fair, now is it?
I don’t think you can get a realistic picture simply by focusing your attention on a few data.
First- it is not fair to compare some big country, over 150 million people, to a smaller country of up to 10 million, even if they share similar civilization.
Second- numbers don’t lie, but it depends how you interpret them.
Third- some things are simply inexplicable. For instance, Denmark and Norway (healthy lifestyle, ecology & food) have higher cancer incidence than the US (crappy food & average bad lifestyle).
India has a lower cancer rate, but that’s because they die of other causes before they can get cancer.
The US has a life expectancy of an average European developed country, give or take 2 years, which is negligible.
On the other hand- Euro-Americans are now 55-60%, while affluent European countries still have over 80% whites (average, not too rich- over 98%).
In the US, most people work much more than in the rest of the world (except some east Asian countries).
So, it depends on population homogeneity, genes, cultural differences, resources, ethics, ….
If you take, per capita: drug addiction, HIV, cancer rate & mortality, dental care, employment, work hours, satisfaction with life (which is very subjective because it depends on ethics & world-view), education levels, ….- you will end up with rather confusing results.
For instance, in many aspects the US is near Luxembourg. And in comparison with Luxembourg, the US is a shithole country. So, data can deceive …
HA lecturing us on playing fair (and lying). LOL!
Yet here you are, a hysterical woman screaming at people on the internet, while he is a 2 term POTUS. That kind of makes you the loser, no?
OT — It is happening again. Apparently DOGE isn’t moving fast enough, or maybe they should branch into the use of private funds for terrorism, which I’m pretty sure is already illegal.
“He freed the J6ers!”
Right, lawbreakers such as yourself. That is par for the course with Trump. Just ask his fixer Michael Cohen. Isn’t he Jewish?
I would agree to this if the webpage let me. Most North Americans do not realise how much better life can be when you are not living in a society where you are forced to pay for a car and private education.
In your last post though you talked about a NATO attack on the US which seemed extremely unlikely to me. There is no way of doing this without starting a world war, which would damage other NATO members far more than the USA.
Getting rid of Trump through the 25th amendment sounds difficult. The issue is not can Trump carry out his duties but how he is doing so. If ever there was a moment for the sort of complicated assassination conspiracy that people like to imagine happened to JFK to be likely, it is now. Trump is more use to the Republicans as a martyr than a leader.
This is misleading because the middle strata in Europe mostly have much more available access to affordable healthcare, medications, and public transportation. They also have access to better food in street markets and supermarkets.
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No, it is not ‘misleading’. Most people have ample access to affordable medical care. The people who do not are commonly drawn from demographic segments which have a low propensity to spend on medical care. People do not ‘have access’ to public transportation because there is little demand for it. As we speak, the revenues of purveyors of medical care account for 6% of the sum of revenue streams in this country and those of purveyors of ground transportation for passengers amounts to 0.3%.
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I am not interested in your latest set of biographical fictions.
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Value-added isn’t calculated any differently in Europe than it is here. There’s just less of it.
You’ve made three false statements in your first three lines of text. There’s a reason you’ve persuade every participant on these boards that attempting to converse with you is unproductive.
“HA lecturing us on playing fair (and lying).”
Big on the “truth” talk, little on the evidence. Classic anti-vaxxer. The shoe fits well.
“You’ve made three false statements in your first three lines of text.”
Again — big on the claims, little on the evidence, so I’m not exactly clear on the specifics of what you’re saying, but let’s try a more complete rundown:
So rounding up 413 to 500 is a Trump-supporter’s idea of “false”? Who’s stretching the truth now?
As for ol’ man slumlord, that was a reference to the song Woody Guthrie wrote about him. And while I do realize that much of his profiting as a housing magnate was actually achieved by keeping blacks OUT of his properties, nonetheless, he managed he following:
I’m not sure what kind of squalor you live in, but given the rat/roach infestations, pushing back against the slumlord accusation is a strange hill to die on.
Then the six bankrupcies:
So I think my count is a lot more accurate and evidentiary than yours. But feel free to make some snide crack as you walk away with your tail between your legs and with nothing else to back up what you say. If you’re mad that I conflated “emerald mine” with “made money shipping emeralds from mines”, that seems picayune. Or, in order to appeal to a truth devotee such as yourself, maybe I should have just couched my opposition to mass immigration as an accusation that the Haitians are eating our pets?
“That kind of makes you the loser, no?”
More so than you, you mean? Or are we to forget your own track record of screaming at people on the internet? In any case, I realize you’re unable to comprehend the fact that not everyone who speaks against Trump secretly wants the kind of life Trump had, so we’ll leave it at that, except to note that by your logic, your repeated tirades against the women who annoy you might well be part of some long-standing rage of not having been born a woman yourself. And having lost out in the game of life in that sense, you now console yourself accusing other people of being losers.
I was hoping you would challenge me on that (you might consider thinking a move ahead, you are all too predictable, that was why I “neglected” to give evidence, though finding evidence of you lying is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel).
Perhaps you would care to back up that half a billion dollars figure? I’ll give you a start. Here is the NYT article I suspect you are using (directly or not) as a source.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
Here is their top line claim.
Unfortunately you aren’t as good a liar as the NYT and neglected to specify “today’s dollars.” The NYT stated “starting when he was a toddler.” For reference $1 in 1950 was worth $10.89 in 2018. Since you like evidence (well at least when demanding it, much less so when it is necessary to provide it):
https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1&year=1950
One thing notably missing from that LONG article is a simple table showing how they arrived at the $413M figure (hard to believe an honest accounting would spend so many pages on rhetoric and neglect a succinct summary table, eerily reminiscent of a typical HA comment). From skimming the article it looks to me like there is double counting going on (e.g. in 1997 Trump and siblings gain control of FT’s empire worth $X, in 2004 they sell part of it for $Y). But since they don’t itemize the total showing the sum of items it is difficult to tell for sure. If you would like to recreate their analysis have at it.
TLDR: Much of that figure comes from inflation adjustment and I don’t see any itemized total laid out in a way to avoid double counting.
Pro tip: If you are going to complain about lying it is best not to lie in the same comment.
Also, when you have nothing better than ad hominem for a response, perhaps better to remain silent. FWIW, that is actually good advice though I know there is zero chance you will take it. I mean how short would your comments be if you took out all of the ad hominem? You would have almost nothing left.
You are not nearly as smart as you think. Though you are certainly verbose (and venom filled) enough for any ten people combined (well, maybe need to exclude Corvinus from being one of the ten).
P.S. In general, calling me “little on the evidence” might be the biggest whopper/funniest thing you have written here. And that is an almost insurmountably high bar.
“A good part of the stock market crash is response to … expectation of new tariff regime.”
Trump admires Willam McKinley and said his high tariffs made the country prosperous. During the McKinley administrion, though, the federal government was also only costing about four percent of GDP and the country had sound money and the gold standard. Trump should adopt the whole McKinley program if he admires him.
Jonathan Mason said today us Trump voters are hillbillies. How did he know? I just got off work and am headed out the door to go possum hunting. After I shoot one, I’ll have my wife, who is also my cousin and who I marrried when she was 14 years old, cook it up for dinner. Then, after dinner, I plan to take my weekly bath. I don’t have indoor plumbing so I’ll have to bring in some buckets of water from the well in my back yard. I won’t have to brush my teeth because I don’t have any. Then I might sit out on the front porch for a spell with my old hound dog and do some whittling or hop on my mule and head down to the general store and have a chaw of tobacco while socializing with some of my fellow Hoosier hillbilly Trump voters.
Of course it is a matter of opinion.
My methodology is to look at the quality of life of people working in those ordinary jobs that you will find in every community on the planet, for example policemen, teachers, nurses, bus drivers, truck drivers, pharmacists, plumbers.
Artificial Intelligence suggests that if you compare France with an average earnings of $55k per year if you divide the GDP by the population and the USA for which the number is $80k, the quality of life in France is probably better for these everywhere workers or retirees.
You can go on forever about anecdotal evidence, but it is quite common to hear that people in America say they cannot afford to have children, because they cannot afford to pay for child care while they go to work. In France childcare and birthing is paid for out of taxes, so there is no one who cannot afford to have a child.
If people cannot afford to have a child, then the USA is not one of the world’s richest countries.
“Perhaps you would care to back up that half a billion dollars figure?”
I actually said half a billion or thereabouts, and didn’t specify that it was in “today’s dollars”. THAT’S your big gotcha?
And as for “seems like” double counting, that’s as weaselly a phrase as telling us the number of shots you have to take these days is “daunting” and then pretending you’ve said anything meaningful (i.e. par for the course, as far as you’re concerned). Given that kind of “pro”-fessionalism, I’ll pass on your tips, but thanks anyway.
I.e., another swing and a miss from res — same goes for the other sad little ankle-biters trying to take out on me their anger that Sailer has left them high and dry so that they’re going to have to shell out for Substack or else be stuck with Unz.
Learned a new word. Thank you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittling
I don’t get TDS. Maybe it’s his mercantile mentality. I prefer his transactional approach to governing over the posthuman ideologies proffered by his enemies. All the static emanating from the stick-in-ass conservos at the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Dispatch is sour grapes due to their irrelevant status.
I would include also more qualified professions like engineers, dentists working in NHS (Europe), economists & lawyers in middle-sized companies, …
It is immensely better. And not just France- even poorer countries like Hungary and Poland.
This is a complex issue, having more to do with Zeitgeist & culture. In most Euro-races’ countries, people can afford to have children. They just find excuses not to have them. I’ve told a true story about my acquaintances’ son working in London (PhD in experimental physics, now working in science marketing, big salary) & his wife, originally from China (some city you never heard of, 8 M inhabitants), who has PhD in biophysics & then switched to AI/data science (big, big salary).
Discreetly asking this man when he will become a grandpa, he said they cannot afford it. I didn’t reply, just said to myself: bullshit.
I don’t know about the US, but I know that in virtually all whites’ inhabited countries you can have at least 1-2 babies.
Example from my family.
My older, closest cousin is now 72. He was a mason, bricklayer (now, of course, retired) & his wife a housewife. He lives in a country hamlet. He has 5 children & as yet 13 grandchildren. All his children are nurses, middle level technicians etc. No political & social connections. And they can afford it.
And they have good lives. Especially having in mind his wife & he have had in the past 5 years difficult health situations (colon cancer, diabetes II, both of them going to doctors at least 6-10 times a year regularly & taking a bunch of medications). I don’t know how many CT scans & MRIs etc.
In the 19th & a big part of the 20th C, the US was a land of freedom & opportunity. Certainly until the 70s & probably later. Now- due to many changes, mostly cultural, it could be different (or not, I don’t know…)
Speaking of protests: Come join Corpse Tooth and Art Deco for a sit-in at the SFV post office where MIA Steve keeps his mail box. We will link arms whilst singing the olde songs until our beloved Steve continues contributing regularly to Ron Unz’s conspiracy website.
Nudity is required.
Even “high class” people must try hard when searching for a friggin’ home.. From 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/realestate/striking-while-the-iron-is-hot.html
Striking While the Iron Is Hot
Hey Buddy. You bet I’m willing to scrape up some scratch to gain entry into Steve’s Subshack. Right now I’m in payments to an ebay vendor for a batch of Planet of the Apes action figures. The payments end in July. On August 1 my membership to Steve’s Subshack will be active.
Let’s hear from some Americans..
Food
American food is allowed to contain a certain amount of contaminants. In Europe this figure is zero.
American food is allowed to contain quantities of sugar which would be illegal in Europe, even in savoury food. This high sugar makes food unpalatable to Europeans in quantity.
American food is allowed to contain amounts of salt which would be illegal in Europe. High salt content makes food unpalatable to Europeans in quantity.
Beef is pumped full of steroids which is shown to cause health problems. The amount of steroid allowed in European beef is zero.
Animal husbandry standards in the USA are so low that suppliers are required to sterilise meat products and chlorinate chicken. In Europe, husbandry standards are much higher and suppliers are prohibited from treating meat products with chemicals at all.
American processed meat (burgers, sausages) is usually “mechanically retrieved” and is so tasteless it is either served with melted cheese or smothered in sauce or in many cases both.
In general American food is considered much poorer quality and you rarely see American food in British supermarkets because it just does not sell. Many years ago they tried to launch Cheetos in the UK, it was a flop because UK consumers found them tasteless and had way too much salt. You do see “American style” food but this will normally be produced in the EU or the UK to suit the European palate.
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Work
I have worked 15 years in the US, 11 years in Germany and 16 years in France.
First a few observations: Americans do put in more hours, but that does not mean they get more work done; also each country has the same share of slackers and super-productive people.
I list 3 reasons, but I think legally imposed job security accounts for the biggest difference in attitude towards work between Europeans and Americans.
• Americans often socialize at work. French do it less. Germans only at lunch hour. (This makes only a small difference in my opinion – work happens during socializing too).
• Europeans put in a productive days work, go home and relax – even when there is more to do. Americans come early, often work late and check e-mails all waking hours. Despite this, many are anxious that they have not done enough. Americans fear losing their jobs. European jobs are much better protected from the whims of employers.
• Europeans get more done by working fewer hours (I know this seems crazy, but hear me out). By law Europeans must take (not just get) 4 weeks of PAID vacation per year. This is rare in the US. There are many workers who get no paid vacation. Productivity decreases drastically with fatigue and stress. Productivity increases after a relaxing break. Sometimes less is more.
Productivity does not lie. In 2015 the US led the world in productivity (GDP/hr. worked at PPP). They were slightly more productive than France (2nd) or Germany (3rd).
For the statistics, I believe the US and Germany both count 40 hours as the work week. France counts 35.
In reality, Germans stick to their 40 hours. The French (with exceptions) stick to the 35 hours. But my impression is that many US workers significantly exceed their 40 hours.
The GDP result is almost the same though! The extra hours add no extra value.
To sum it up, I don’t think Americans are less capable or less productive. I think it means they could benefit hugely from a better work-life balance. By working less (and smarter) they could boost productivity, improve health and experience a higher quality of life.
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Enjoying life
Most of them have no idea what they have in comparison to other countries. I’ve been fortunate enough to live in other countries and learned a bunch more about myself as an American. We in the US are not at all as well off as some places are and that we are much better off than others.
I learned is that it does not matter what the standard of living is wherever you live if you do not realize how to live. Most Americans think having stuff, and Bigger stuff is what life is all about. Most Americans think poorly. They may make millions and live in houses 1000 times the size they need to live in. They waste because “they can”. The sad thing is that they don’t even realize it. I’ve known wealthy people who live in mansions but really only live in or use two or three rooms. That have giant custom pools but never use them. They have private jets and all the toys but most of them sit collecting dust. And quite a few of them cannot be in a relationship of any kind for an extended period.
Many Americans who travel the world do so in a bubble of isolation from the way people actually live in the countries they visit. Even the middle class people do not ever learn not care to learn how the people in the countries they visit actually live. They just think they already know and they take them for granted by thinking “I’m an American! The best place to live on this planet! They could not possibly have it as good as we do. So I’ll visit and see the sights and run back home to the Good Ol’ USA. And they never learn how life really is in the places they visit. Because they don’t care.
I suppose there are a certain amount of people like that in every country. But the USA produces these ignorant people in the millions. Very few of us care to learn how others in the world live and think. And I’m saying ignorant Americans do not have to learn about themselves either. Because they don’t want to hear the truth about how we think and we live. We just want to believe we are the world. It’s really sad because so many other countries choose to follow our paradigms until they come here and see the truth about this country. They run home as well once they realize the facades Americans live behind and see how stupid we are generally. How dirty we are. What the real America is like. Many of my friends from other countries come here only once. And they go home with greater appreciation for their freedoms and ways of life. A couple tried to live here but only made it here a few years. All the rest have no desire to return. For me, I choose to live the way I do because I learned that it’s not about how much stuff you have. Life is way better lived the less I have. The relationships I have and the lessons I’ve learned by other ways of life and I’m grateful I got to learn about living from all sorts of people around the world. They taught me that learning other ways of thinking and living force me to examine the life I have learned to live here in the USA. And it has changed me and my outlook on mankind dramatically. For the better I believe. Even-though I still live in the USA. At my age (66 as of now) I am staying as long as I can stay somewhat away from the American “walking dead” and seek out those of us who are alive and living.
You didn’t say it was in American dollars either. What a weasel. You are a good liar, just not as good as the NYT. Something to aspire to I guess.
As far as you dismissing the idea of possible double counting. That says a lot.
Regarding my “It is daunting how many shots they expect us to get” statement I will note that was accompanied by a CDC link (now dead) showing the vaccine schedule. Which was why your demand for precision then was laughable. And why your invocation of it now is an own goal.
But since you object to that so much, I will provide a current link for California.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/immunization/Babies.aspx
Over 30 vaccines recommended before 15 months. Here is a definition of “daunting”:
Perhaps it is just me, but I think that is a fine descriptor for the idea of giving over 30 vaccines to a child before they are 15 months old. And the problem is not your much loved “fear of needles” red herring. I am intimidated by the idea of what effect that melange of vaccines and adjuvants might have on the child.
How about you? How many Covid vaccines/boosters have you had so far? Are you up to date?
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html
(just trying to decide what your exact mix of sheeple and hypocrite is)
“As far as you dismissing the idea of possible double counting.”
No one’s dismissing it. Stop lying, if you possibly can, or at least stop accusing others of doing so at the very same time. What I dismiss is using weasel-words like “seems like” as opposed actual evidence of double counting which you failed to produce, all in some pointless effort to try and convince anyone that — what? — Trump is truly a self-made man? That he DIDN’T inherit a potload of money way beyond what most parents leave to their children, as opposed to “only” a $1 mill loan as he claims? That his track record of “winning” is not littered with bankruptcies, betrayals and outright lies? You actually expect anyone to believe that or to pretend that his 1-million-loan-only claim is anywhere closer to the truth than what I cited?
Get over yourself, you self-proclaimed dispenser of pro-tips. This is, as stated, ankle biting about any facts and evidence that displease you, on a site that prides itself for being willing to lean into wherever facts and actual evidence may lead. So we can add hypocrisy to your other examples of small-mindedness.
And you must really have a high opinion of your argumentative skills to make me think I would want to open up another can of worms and derail the thread even further, on a topic sure to be full of your weaselly nitpicking whenever it suits you (“how dare anyone calculate a decades-old number in today’s dollars? get out the pitchforks!”), along with sloppy tendentious catchalls like ‘seems like” and “daunting” when you’re unable to come up with anything substantive and want to nudge the needle in your favor anyway. No thanks. Try commenting outside the echo chamber once in a while and you’ll see what I mean, since you’re obviously having trouble seeing what I’m telling you when you look in a mirror. Or don’t. In any case, good luck to you here at Sailer-free Unz. Doesn’t smell like winning, as opposed to a bunch of lapdogs stress-sweating over being too poor to be on Substack, but just keep flacking for Trump and pretending he’s on your side, and I’m sure that will take the sting out.
While reviewing the old thread HA referenced (daunting) I ran across something it seems we missed.
Jussie Smollett’s conviction was overturned in November.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jussie-smollett-attorney-conviction-overturned-reaction/story?id=116138247
I guess they were just cleaning up loose ends before Trump took office (and after he was elected).
Here is the prosecutor’s response.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121640576/en/
I guess you missed the possible example in the parentheses. Try to work on that reading comprehension, please.
The only thing I was trying to prove (and think I did) is that you are a liar.
That you think my comments are lacking in “anything substantive” is hilarious. Especially when compared to your comments.
Are you current on your Covid vaccines?
for those of you who skip the front page of Unz, this is a very interesting aeticle:
https://www.unz.com/article/grok-3-agrees-that-white-european-men-are-responsible-for-almost-all-the-greatest-human-accomplishments/
It was brought up at the time by an anonymous commenter in the comments to Steve’s Unz Review post on his “Race and Rome” piece in Taki’s Magazine:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/race-and-rome/#comment-6871461 (#173)
HA even chimed in on it:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/race-and-rome/#comment-6872639 (#232)
OT — A Finnish anon posted this:
https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000011100693.html
You know what would be hilarious in that case? If somebody actually did it (not really), and Smullett tries to tell people about it, but now nobody believes him. In fact if I was a Chicagoan I would start harassing him in highly improbable ways, no contact or threats but full time wierdness, so that if he told anyone they wouldn’t believe him. “Racist white people are walking up to me and racistly reciting pi to the fiftieth decimal!”
Your follow-up of the Jesse Smollet conviction (has Jesse left acting or just disappeared?) let me to a quick search for more info on the long delayed BLM federal “nonproft” 990 tax return filings.
Two separate articles by the NY Post are at these links:
2022 : https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/blm-paid-co-founders-baby-daddy-far-more-than-trayvon-martin-group/
2023 : https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/blm-recorded-9m-deficit-last-year-tax-docs/
Couldn’t find more recent info.
As you might expect, most of the money, nearly all, went to insiders and relatives thereof, or equally sketchy front groups supposedly doing “Black” themed works of some kind.
Evidently millions were still in BLM coffers but no tax or financial info more recent seems to be readily available online. So, basically a giant scam by blacks to milk gullible lefty/liberals. Whites, one assumes.
Huge salaries, real estate purchases, etc. Maybe Trump will now get the IRS to start auditing these grifters, since belated filings have been done for a few years. Superficially a lot of that insider spending at first glance appears to violate IRS regs on self-dealing and outsized payments to insiders and their relatives.
The Biden regime of course took no action on any of that and no fines by the IRS for late return filings are mentioned.
Unz has sometimes good authors, for instance Taylor or Ricardo Duchesne
https://www.unz.com/article/grok-3-agrees-that-white-european-men-are-responsible-for-almost-all-the-greatest-human-accomplishments/
GROK 3 Agrees That White European Men Are Responsible for Almost All the Greatest Human Accomplishments
He may die from the effects, like Kissinger, Carter & Gene Hackman.
As the Space X rescue mission was launching Friday evening, it received literally zero
coverage on the front page of the NYT (electronic edition). Tells you everything you want
to know about their extreme narrative bias – it’s not news, it’s 24/7/365 indoctrination
https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1900640027329098095
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1900589959632839044
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1900623977250443386
Thanks. BLM financial documents here.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824862489
Includes Form 990 for FY through 6/30/23 filed 5/13/24.
Looks like Jussie is raising his profile.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJpM4muJfR/
More on his appellate win.
https://fedsoc.org/scdw/understanding-jussie-smollett-s-appellate-win
Scene: Imperial Star Battleship Executor
ADMIRAL OZZEL is conferring with an IMPERIAL TECHNICIAN in a data bay, viewing probe footage from the ice world Hoth
ADMIRAL OZZEL: — devoid of human life …
DARTH TRUMP: [with a separate group, in the middle of explaining how he is a genius, interrupting Admital Ozzel] Whoa, the rebels!
ADMIRAL OZZEL: My lord, there are so many uncharted star systems —
DARTH TRUMP: You know, you don’t have to be a genius, although I am a genius — I’m more militaristic — I love war, but only when we win — by the way, when was the last time we won a war?
iSteve is a ship that has sailed … sailed over to Substack.
https://www.stevesailer.net/
You have to give the NYT credit. In addition to being extremely good liars, they manage to get people to pay them to be fed propaganda. Impressive.
Some coverage of the SpaceX mission.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/spacex-nasa-mission-international-space-station
Looks like the NYT has something now. It has no comments, which I think implies they are underplaying it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/science/nasa-spacex-astronauts-iss-launch.html
Here is some spin. There is more spin there.
The NYT seems much more devoted to negative SpaceX articles. Such as this one. My search indicated it was to appear in the March 18th print edition (8 days after online publication, which seems odd).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/science/spacex-nasa-spherex-punch-launch.html
Another from March 8th. The NYT is dedicated to reporting on SpaceX missions being scrubbed. Perhaps they would rather the launch proceed despite inappropriate conditions and cause another Challenger type incident?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/science/nasa-spherex-punch-launch.html
No, that’s not true, Art. Jonathan Mason spent a couple of decades living in America. You’re right that he knows nothing about daily life anyway, because he’s constitutionally incapable of learning a damned thing. I have seen this over his 8 years writing here.
I was just watching Dr. Zhivago for the 2nd time but only had time to get about 1/2 way through. This important scene below is chilling, and that’s not just because Moscow can get really cold.
Watch this scene as Dr. Zhivago comes home from the Great War to his beloved wife/cousin (I’m not sure because I didn’t have the CC on in the beginning, and these people speak British in the movie – it’s probably be easier to watch it in Russian!)
This is what we would have to look forward to, had we patriotic Americans not made the effort to hold onto our gun rights. They WILL be coming out of the woodwork to tell us how they have a better way, during the time of the financial SHTF to come. We don’t have to let this happen here. Thank you, America’s Founders, for thinking ahead!
Keep regulated, gentlemen.
I suppose this was O/T, but I don’t remember the original topic … oh, movies! (I could have watched that Pope movie, but thank you all for the warnings. Not happening.)
“iSteve is a ship that has sailed”
The old Steve largely left a couple years ago. That Steve combined HBD with something like a paleocon Pat Buchanan style criticism of the elites running the country engaging in a policy of “invade the world, invite the world, in hock to the world” as Steve once phrased it.
Steve had adopted this because of changes in his preferred writing venue National Review back in the nineties. First NR got rid of most writers critical of Israel and an interventionist foreign policy like Joseph Sobran. Then they moved away from publishing writers on HBD and immigration like John O’Sullivan, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, J. Philippe Rushton, Charles Murray, Richard Lynn, John Derbyshire and Steve.
Steve was unable to be a star writer for National Review because of this but maintained his career with this combination of HBD and paleocon political principles by writing for smaller magazines and websites geared for that. For some reason, though, when the Ukraine war broke out, he decided to break with his paleocon allies and support becoming involved on the side of Ukraine. I think it is pointless to speculate why this is. However, I never really felt the Steve after that was quite the same Steve whose blog I had been reading for years.
The Catholic Church is the extension of the Roman empire & the source of Western civilization.
With-supposedly- Paul’s model, one could get some kind of Mennonites or Congregationalists, so nothing significant.
Yes, good point.
Contrast that to the fake news of antifa vandals attacking Tesla outlets and deranged TDS sufferers buying Teslaas and then burning or destroying them (on camera), w/ announced PR of course).
The tiny sign wielding laid off fed worker “protests” in DC get lots of media love, but in fact are pathetic govt. employee union sponsored.
Few real people Americans not on the Uncle Sam dole care about this. The large government paid Moocher Class is concerned, but otherwise, no.
Note to “Primitive thinking” laid off ex-fed workers: burning a Tesla will not magically bring your job back. Nor will endless media fake news about the “plight” of now unemployed Swamp Dwellers who no long can afford their $800K DC area McMansions.
Some of course do productive or needed work and won’t be laid off. Otherwise, time to learn to do something people are willing to pay you to do.
“govt. employee union sponsored”
As a federal employee, I would not join protests against laying off federal workers. If they laid me off, I have accounting and computer skills and could just get another job. They aren’t going to do that anyway because I do accounting for the military. Having people tracking how taxpayer money is spent is an essential job.
The government employees likely to be terminated and then complain either work nonessential jobs, do not have any job skills that are of value in the private sector, or get poor job performance ratings. The worst are all the affirmative action hires. We should be kicking as many of these people as possible out of their jobs.
I never joined my government union where I work. It and all government unions are leftist. I used to eat lunch with a pretty black female union official and would listen to her leftist rants while we were eating. It is quite educational to hear a radical black leftist union official offering her honest opinions.
Dear Mr. Crayon,
Your comments are what they are, the usual uniformed Romanist insulting diatribe, no?
But hey what would I know as a cradle RC.
IOW prove me wrong.
As re. the crown jewel of Matt. 16:18 and papal supremacy/infallibility, note that not 5 verses later, the Lord tells Peter, the erstwhile RC pope, to “Get thee, behind me Satan (16:23).”
Ahem.
Could this be that in both cases, the Lord is referring to something Peter said?
In 16:16 Peter confesses that Christ is the Son of God.
In 16:22 Peter denies Christ’s comments about the necessity of his upcoming suffering and death.
Because the horns of the dilemma are simply this: if Christ is not referring in both instances to what Peter said, but what/who Peter really is, then Peter is both pope and Satan.
Or if one prefers, the Antichrist.
Hmmm.
Those with reasonable souls wonder, romanists maybe not so much.
You’re welcome/cheers.
If you like, although I’m not sure whether all these workers exist in just about every community on Earth, particularly economists. I did mention pharmacists as an alternative to dentists and doctors.
Of course in much smaller and more isolated communities you will find a wider spread of professions. For example in somewhere as small as Saint Kitts you will find politicians, judges, lawyers, musicians, surgeons, bankers, economists, engineers, architects, electrical engineers, etc. but you’re not might as many in a typical population of similar size (<40,000) in the US.
You simply can’t be trusted when you support these things.
Trump: “To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don’t need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it.”
Karoline Leavitt: “You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President of the United States”
Tommy Tuberville: “When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same: send them to jail.”
Alas, Steve’s way down down down in that… subbacultcha
$800K won’t get you much in the close in DC suburbs let alone a McMansion.
A friend of mine bought a brick 1950 vintage colonial in Arlington VA just 4 miles from DC for $200k in 1990. He expanded it to 2700 sf for $200k in 2000, then sold it for $1,030,000 in 2020. Zillow says it is now worth 1,519,000.
Builders have been buying similar 1950 houses for $700+ thousand, knocking them down and building $1.5+ million McMansions.
tl;dr: it’s worse than you think, but all the layoffs will almost certainly depress prices somewhat.
Even FDR thought guvmint unions were a bad idea. We can thank Saint JFK for getting them started at the Federal level and Pat Brown of California for the state level.
It’s 100 miles to Taiwan from China. Taiwan will certainly get pounded by missiles and may not have much of an air force left, but I hope they are building thousands and thousands of drones.
With modern PGMs, if you can see it, you can kill it.
https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1900737395915440260
And those twentysomething athletes.
The Church of England and Church of Scotland had pretty consequential runs for almost 400 years, eclipsing the Catholic societies, with married male officiants. They’re less than useless now, of course, with half the males are married to each other and the other half female.
That is rich coming from someone who above wrote:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7020101
How about you crawl back under your rock? (or maybe “bridge” would be more appropriate?)
There once was an weird fellow called Trump,
Who hokey-coked ta-riffs in a clump.
He said, “If it can’t be done squarely,
I’ll just tax them unfairly,
And Canada can go take a dump!”
There was another fellow named Vance,
Who demanded a tie and pressed pants.
“No t-shirts,” he swore,
As he waltzed on the floor—
Yet Ukraine wouldn’t give him a dance!
I knew another tech bro named Elon,
Whose logic seemed more like a paradox
He launched cars into space,
With his strange Chinese face,
And ranted all day on his X.box!
Well, the news broke loose, it was quite a sight,
Muskrat walked in on a Monday night.
To the Oval Office, all polish and trim
With a Mao suit and hat loosely fitted on him.
The President stared, said, “What’s all this here?”
Musk just grinned from ear to ear.
“I thought I’d bring a little flair,
Since capitalism’s outta repair.”
One day he’s a genius, the next he’s unhinged,
One twiddly tweet from the market unpinned.
Billionaire’s blues, what a sight, oh, shoot!
A tech overlord in a damn commie suit.
If you look at the map, a lot of the states (and counties) seem to have artificial lines too, for example the Four Corners states. England on the other hand, has no straight lines on its borders or county borders, even the ones drawn by the Romans.
Based on population Canada would probably form a group of five or six states rather than one, considering that different time zones, languages, oceans, and climates are involved, and have 40 members of Congress and a dozen senators.
Trump could then invade and incorporate a few tax havens, and Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and the Caymans could each have one congresscritter and two senators. Same for the new state of Trumpland, formerly known as Greenland. But just one senator, I think, for the Trump Gaza resort and model city.
Perhaps also make the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico into states too.
Once that has been achieved (in about 6 months) it will be time to think about Mexico. Its official name is already the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), so its name can be changed by executive order to the United States of America and voilà.
I like the bit about Elon’s “strange Chinese face.” I may steal that.
LOL thanks Mason. The last few years your shtick has mostly been boring marveling about how much better X,Y,Z is in Ecuador. An observation worthy of the “jobs Americans won’t do” immigration loons. Essentially you are demonstrating that Ecuador has much lower labor costs–i.e. its people are much poorer–than the US. (That rich Westerners can go to a poor 3rd world country and find all sorts of services are cheaper and they can live well is not a stunning insight.)
But I have to say that this:
is classic and may well be the crowning jewel of clueless Masonry. (Maybe that was cleverly droll deadpan but it was stuffed in there with all your usual 1/2 and 1/4 baked slop so it just came off as more as confused speculative “what if” inanity.)
You must be aware that NATO is the US extending its security umbrella over Europe. Europe–baring France–has basically been on military welfare from the US since 1945. Trump has blown that up and Europe is scrambling to figure out what the heck to do. Even if the “political will” is there, how the heck to even coordinate at the defense industry level much less operational level, much, much less the question of nuclear deterrent? And then how many European men will want to step up and do a stint defending their nations from the Russkis when Euro elites are determined to turn their nations over to muzzie and African foreigners?
Anyway, in terms of just flat out inanity, this was stellar. Well done Mason.
Thanks.
The DC metro area RE suburban price index will be a nice indirect measure of how effect DOGE has been.
For many years this area has led the nation in housing price increases and “young adults moving into” surveys. Life is good in the Emerald City.
Areas of certain crime ridden inner city DC, not so much. Too much “diversity” I suppose.
There is a vast and costly network of Metro subways, rail lines and freeways serving the large population of federal workers (!) and related federal contractors and lobbyist groups.
Congress was always willing to “invest” in these perks for their staff and DC bureaucrat class. Where you live, expensive travel infrastructure is much slower to appear if at all. Though the Austin TX area has been lavishly funded by the State Highway Dept. with new freeways built far out to the west and north. Voting wise, Austin area has been a TX Democrat stronghold, even with GOP state political control.
The huge UT academic enclave (lavished with money) along with the state bureaucracy ensures a We Love Government attitude. Somewhat Woke for Texas, though, surprise-surprise, a near total white-bread demographic.
Dem liberals love dem’ diversity types so long as they reside far, far away.
However, in contrast to former times, private sector mainly tech investment in that area is now a major employer and growth engine. Climate wise, Austin (along with San Antonio) is about as good as it gets in Texas.
No, you wholeheartedly believe and support those things I listed. Just be honest and own it.
“I would suspect he is mentally impaired.”
Yes, that is what you said. You are right, Trump is. Yet you give him way too much credit for his foreign affairs policies. Do you realize the cognitive dissonance on your part?
NATO attacking the US is a fantasy (and vice versa). It is less likely than Steven King writing “The Great American Novel”.
Trump will survive this mandate, even with health issues. Eventually, he’ll be not so bad president after all, his stupid moves changed & succeeding in repelling immvasion and destroying woke lunacy.
Since this thread is, formally, about a movie- a repost of my old comment:
What have we learned from American movies ?
Cough is a sign of a deadly disease. A detective can only solve a case if he is suspended from duty. The man will show no signs of pain as he receives the most cruel blows, but he trembles as the woman tries to clean his wounds.
One match is enough to light a room of any size. Each lock can be opened in a second with a credit card or paper clip – unless it is a door leading to a burning building with a child trapped inside. It’s not necessary to say “hello” or “goodbye” when you start or end a phone call. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
A man who shoots at twenty people has a better chance of killing them than twenty people who shoot at one man. Kitchens do not have light switches. When you enter it at night, you just need to open the refrigerator door and use its light as a replacement. It doesn’t matter if you are vastly outnumbered in a fight that involves martial arts – your enemies will patiently wait for you to attack one by one, playing around in a threatening mantra, until you overthrow their predecessors.
Mothers prepare eggs, bacon and cakes for their husbands and children every morning, even though they never have time to eat them. Once applied, lipstick will never be erased – even while diving with full diving equipment. Officers are always assigned partners who are their exact opposite.
Cars that collide almost always explode in flames. Even when driving down a completely flat street, it is necessary to vigorously shake the steering wheel from left to right every few moments. Honest and hard-working police officers are usually wounded or killed three days before retirement. If you want to introduce yourself as a German officer, it is not necessary to know German – a German accent is enough. The police chief always suspends his chief detective or gives him an impossible deadline to complete the job. The more a man and a woman hate each other, the more likely they are to fall in love.
The ventilation system of any building is the perfect place to hide. No one will ever think that they are looking for you in it and you can easily reach any part of the building. When confronted by an evil international terrorist, sarcasm and wit are your best weapons. When you pay a taxi driver, you don’t have to look in your wallet while withdrawing money – just grab one banknote at random and give it to the driver. It will always be the exact amount of the ride price.
When alone, all foreigners prefer English. Stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets. If staying in an occupied house, women should explore every strange sound in the most scanty underwear. If you need to reload your weapon, you’ll always have enough ammunition – even if you haven’t brought it before.
If you find yourself caught in a situation that can be quickly clarified with a simple explanation, be sure to keep your mouth shut! If you see a large glass, someone will soon be thrown through it. If someone is following you around the city, you can take refuge in St. Patrick’s Day parade, which takes place at any time of the year. If you decide to dance on the street, everyone you come across knows dancing steps.
When someone is in love, it is customary to sing a song enthusiastically. When a person is unconscious from a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage. When driving a car, it is normal not to look at the road, but at the person sitting next to or behind, during the whole trip. The cursor is never seen on the computer screen, only: “Enter Password Now”. You will survive any battle in any war unless you make a mistake and show someone a photo of your loved one at home.
Television daily news usually contains a story that particularly concerns you at the time. It is easy to land a plane if there is someone in the control tower to give you instructions. An electric fence strong enough to kill a dinosaur will not cause lasting consequences to an eight-year-old child.
During all police investigations, it is necessary to visit a strip club at least once. It is always possible to park right in front of the building you are visiting. You can always find a chainsaw when you need it. Most people keep an album of newspaper clippings, especially if one of their relatives or friends was killed in an unusual accident. In America, every date ends in fucking. In America, no one rides the subway except when running away from the FBI or a psycho killer.
In America, by the age of 40, it’s completely O.K. to live with a roommate. No woman plans to get married before 40. No woman plans to have children before the age of 45. People at home almost never go to the toilet, but at work they work half the time and spend half in unisex toilets.
Nobody does physical work, everyone works in offices or they are actors … 99% you won’t lose a lawsuit (no matter how stupid you are) if you are defended by the main characters. In Mexico, it is fashionable to dress like a cowboy and go out into the city.
Nobody drinks the prescribed therapy, but just pours half a bottle of sedative into their throats without fear of consequences, overdose, etc ….. Jumping through a closed window leaves no visible consequences for you. Especially if you’re John McClain. He can’t beat terrorists without broken glass on his soles.
They usually drink alcohol with a tranquilizer. What water, water is for the weaklings … Stephen Seagal is a calm, contemplative guy, but there is always some jerk in the bar who needs to be taught a lesson in good behavior … and never with a conventional weapon, but with a billiard ball or a stick. Cowboys are not cow herders (their profession), but gunslingers and never aim and never miss.
In fact, Dolph Lundgren just stands still, while various film directors and scenarios change around him. Men always cum in women during sex, no one “takes it out on time” … it’s a thought noun, in this case a verb. Middle-aged, well-preserved, good-looking black women with a penetrating voice are ideal for the president’s secretaries to monitor the crisis situation and do the logistics. If a divorce occurs, it is always his fault. Even if she does, she did it for the good of the relationship so again he is guilty. LA is the center of the world and all dictated numbers start with 555 …, and there are 911 ambulances worldwide.
In a team of several people in an unenviable situation (catastrophe, etc.), there is always one defeatist who dies first. The psychopath was necessarily an unloved child, and his brother or sister was loved by those same parents. In SF-movies, when the action takes place in space on a ship, you always hear the sound of the ship moving through space (and there is no sound in a vacuum) … During World War II, all the villains were Germans, during the Cold War they were all Russians, and during the war with Iraq they were all terrorists.
If a Jewish character is present, he’ll probably have a Holocaust survivor as a relative. Old-money WASPs have some dark secrets, skeletons in a cupboard & have frequently a gay relative in the closet and neglected children. Italians are, more or less, all in the mob. The preferred professions for blacks are computer scientists, doctors & high ranking spooks. Middle class women are in search of themselves, especially if they have a family and children. When in danger in a dark wood possessed by mysterious, threatening invisible forces, people in a group tend to split up, instead of staying together.
Married women never fall out of love & initiate a divorce, until pressed to the wall- they are forced because husbands mistreat them physically & verbally. Children are either always complaining or are wiser than their parents. When an expedition goes to catch dinosaurs in a jungle, they usually have just a rifle or two, plus a handgun. If a Russian appears in a movie, someone will certainly mention vodka. If a Muslim civilian is in a movie, he will always be pious & and a sage. The same with the rabbi. A priest always has a dark secret, generally sexual. A minister is always trapped in an unhappy marriage. All black believers do nothing but sing. Grandmothers are devoted to family, while grandfathers are cold and distant.
Your words support those things. Just be honest and own it.
Everyone:
Since this thread is well past 800 comments, I’ve opened up a new iSteve Open Thread, perhaps the first of many depending upon user interest:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/open-thread-1-2/
As I explain, I’ll set up automatic comment approval for members of the “iSteve Community”
No, as someone who has faith in quantum mechanics, I subscribe to the Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut. Trump may be mentally impaired and surrounded himself with yes men who may never question or challenge his bad decisions. But this, unfortunately, may be the exact remedy we might have needed to ‘restructure’ the federal government i.e. reduce it to half its size. In that respect, he is an accidental Gorbachev. In an ideal world, we would be having a thoughtful President and a conscientious Congress jointly deciding to restructure the government to live within our means. But now we have filed Chapter 11 and have to do what is needed to survive.
Not that your point is mistaken, but it’s ‘Stephen’ King.
https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1901492986447569087
Is this constitutional?
Only after the Catholic Church has stabilized European societies & created the Western civilization. Without centralized Roman power, there would have been no Europe.
9/11 showed how vulnerable the US is to attack, and with a major international airport only a few hundred meters from the White House, it only takes one disguised passenger jet to narrowly miss the runway and wreak havoc in the ovary office. (Of course the pilot will be wearing a tie to escape detection by the Capitol’s keystone cops.)
“I guess you missed the possible example…”
POSSIBLE example? You mean, let’s see if yet another group of weasel words will dig you out from the ones you previously blurted out? Sorry, ratcheting up the verbal Ponzi-scheme is not going to work, especially when you’re trying to argue in favor of the “only a million dollar loan” guy.
“That you think my comments are lacking in ‘anything substantive’ is hilarious.”
Guffaw as loud as you like, if that’s all you got. When you’re done trying to distract from your lack of anything substantive, fix the weasel words and get back to me, assuming it’s even “POSSIBLE”. But I’ll tell you this: any discussion with me will indeed be “unproductive” if all you got is more straw-man nonsense or more of what you just spewed out.
Excellent. I don’t know if this is from AI or you wrote it yourself, but very good!
I learned everything I knew about America from TV and movies, in particular from reality shows like The Beverly Hillbillies which educated the world about the peculiar mineral rights laws in the US.
“Unz has sometimes good authors”
Perhaps, but the crackpots in the comment sections just about everywhere else on this site make the ones on Sailer’s posts seem downright sane by comparison.
I was hoping you would engage with that as well. Thank you for being a slow learner who needs to work on his reading comprehension. You did read the NYT article YOU linked, right?
Here is my original parenthetical statement which you either missed or failed to check. Emphasis added.
Here are excerpts from the NYT article we both linked laying out what I summarized above as a possible example of double counting. As I said above, it is difficult to be sure because the NYT failed to lay out in straightforward what numbers and adjustments went into their $413 million total. Something I would expect from an honest accounting. Emphasis added to tie parts of the excerpt back to my comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
What I can’t tell is which of those numbers is included in the total. It seems clear the $236.2M is most of it though.
Also, for a NYC paper the NYT seems oddly unaware of how much of a bull market there was in NYC real estate from the late 1990s to 2007. That explains in large part why the building valuations increased so much. Seems like an astute businessman to have sold during that period.
See Figure 2 in this paper.
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/Whats%20Mahattan%20Worth%20v3.1%20Oct%202015.pdf
Back to you (though it is easy to tell the difference).
Guffawing away. Eventually you will learn that I am generally able to back up what I write. Far more than you, anyway. As I said, a slow learner you are. Also worth looking at the time stamps of our comments to see how little time and effort this took me.
Oh, the projection. At least you are entertaining.
Are you current on your Covid vaccines? Remember that you are the one who first referred back to a Covid-era conversation in this this thread. That really was an own goal as I said above.
Perhaps after we get done establishing your mix of sheeple and hypocrite regarding Covid vaccines we can revisit your Kursk assessments back in December?
P.S. I invite anyone reading this to follow my links and consider whose comments here contain more substance. Mine or HA’s. A liar shouting something repeatedly does not make it true.
SNL did a sendup of this decades ago about Blacks always being killed off in the movies.
My personal favorites are when a gun fight happens a wooden table will be turned on it’s side to act as as a shield, or better yet, when characters hide in back of a sofa when being shot at.
Suppose it is not, then who has the Standing? That would be United States, i.e. Trump’s DoJ. So, Trump’s DoJ has to argue that Trump’s actions are unconstitutional?
I wrote it before AI..
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/leviathan-2014/#comment-4399640
My fave is that in even post-1990s Westerns, in a faux-naturalistic environment, you kill a guy by just one shot & that quick draw mythology still exists.
Just keep digging in deeper. I’m sure the result will be different this time around. You know, I’ve read plenty of articles on plenty of swindlers, in NYT and elsewhere. I have yet to see a “simple table” showing this or that in any of them, however “hard to believe” that may be to you. But this time around, it’s a total deal-breaker and “notably missing”. Ditto for other weaselly (dis-)qualifiers in your increasingly vehement spew of bandwidth, such as “skimming…looks to me…difficult to tell for sure” that, again, amount to you spinning your wheels and furiously digging in further in the vain hope the smoke and dust will obscure the fact that you’ve got nothing. However “generally able” you regard yourself, blowing more and more smoke isn’t going to save you this time around. And let’s remember, all this to try and defend someone who claims he only ever received a million dollar loan from Daddy, but who even some of his most devoted fans will admit has an infamously shaky relationship to truth and facts. Anti-vaxxer logic at its finest.
Speaking of which, did you submit any simple tables telling us the number of vaccines we have to take these days has officially reached the “daunting” level? No? For shame! — that’s another deal-breaker, right? (By the way, you use that word a whole lot. Maybe invest in a thesaurus — you could consider ‘disconcerting’, ‘unnerving’, or ‘unsettling’, for example, or else just admit to yourself that you’re trafficking in pointless scare words and go with “problematic”, that other tiresome word that lefties like to use, though I’m sure you’d be quick to recognize it for what it is whenever it gets tossed around, as if it were any different from what you’re doing.)
In short, get over yourself. Hey, it’s POSSIBLE that TSLA shoots up in price today and my deep out-of-the-money call options will earn me enough to go out and buy everyone who reads this their own Cybertruck. How about that? It truly is possible! Console yourself with that, and if it leaves you empty at the end of the day, I can you can always spew some more.
I take it from your verbal mannerisms that there’s more going on here than you’re willing to admit about yourself, and it limits what I’m allowed to say to you, but for your own sake, at least make an effort to weed out all those weaselly disclaimers from your own drivel before criticizing anyone else.
Oh, the projection.
I guess that misattributed quotes link is your idea of substantive. LOL!
You mean like “or thereabouts”? Some consider qualifying statements to make them more accurate a mark of intellectual honesty. But you would not know much about intellectual honesty.
Oh, the ad hominems. It is almost like you have no substantive response but just feel compelled to respond.
There is that lack of reading comprehension again. I linked to a CA vaccine schedule. Which just happened to have a table. As for an exact threshold, not sure where that is, but over 30 vaccines before 15 months sure seemed to qualify as “daunting” to me.
That search you helpfully linked showed I had used it in 11 out of 14,843 comments. Hardly “a whole lot” though that does not matter to a liar like you. And I don’t need your thesaurus help given that all three of your suggestions already appear in my comment history. I rather enjoy the way you so clearly signal your lack of thoroughness.
Physician, heal thyself.
Are you current on your Covid vaccines? Hypocrite or sheeple?
“I linked to a CA vaccine schedule.”
Nope, it’s a dead link. Around here, that apparently means it is to be suspected as being “fake news”, or so I have been told. I.e., another fail.
And if you want to try again, make sure the word “daunting” appears on the y axis. That being said, if you do want to round up 413 to 500 at any point, an “or thereabouts” would indeed be helpful. Glad you’re starting to pick up on things like that.
There you go proudly demonstrating your lack of reading comprehension again. My goodness you are a soft target. Aren’t you tired of losing yet? The dead link was a CDC vaccine schedule in my original 2023 comment here:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-are-celebrities-dying-like-flies/#comment-6295251
The CA vaccine schedule link appears in this comment above:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7034185
And here it is again. Alive and well.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/immunization/Babies.aspx
Here is a recent archive link in case it does disappear.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250315044806/https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/immunization/Babies.aspx
It would. It works even better at allowing someone cover for a >20% overestimate. Especially given that the more specific number was provided in the article you referenced. Not what I would call rounding. Does explain why you are so attentive to the idea of qualifiers as weasel words though. Just reflects your own practices. More projection.
Are you current on your Covid vaccines? Hypocrite or sheeple?
“The dead link was a CDC vaccine schedule in my original 2023 comment here:”
No, that’s not right — I know that because I did a ctrl-f with “daunting”. Zero hits.
So go through those links and figure out which one of them has the goods, and get back to me. I’m tired of your wild goose chases and ink clouds and expecting me to do your work for you. And when I said “daunting” was overused, I of course meant in comparison to your use of ‘disconcerting’, ‘unnerving’, or ‘unsettling’. Really, how is it that something that simple needs explaining to you?
And by the way, TSLA is down 4.79% today (ordinarily, I’d say “down 5% or thereabouts” but I don’t want you to have another meltdown). So that means no Cybertrucks yet, but hey, it’s POSSIBLE that Trump might issue another EO in the next few minutes to the effect that the official price of TSLA is now eleventy billion (or thereabouts), and then we’re off to the Tesla dealers. Fingers crossed! Bring some body armer — like, say, a Stahlhelm. Don’t want those nasty leftists zinging at you.
Stop lying and follow the links. Here they are again. This comment above has “daunting” and the link to the CA vaccine schedule.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7034185
And here is the CA vaccine schedule link itself. You know, the link which you claimed was dead.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/immunization/Babies.aspx
Here is the comment where you made that claim. Note that you specifically quoted CA.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-conclave/#comment-7038467
And here is my original 2023 comment which contains both “daunting” and the dead CDC link.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-are-celebrities-dying-like-flies/#comment-6295251
Are you current on your Covid vaccines? Hypocrite or sheeple?
P.S. I get that you are trolling, but it is a pathetic troll who has to lie to troll people. As I said above, what I care about is demonstrating that you are a liar. And I consider the comment to which I am responding to be definitive proof of that. Thanks. It should prove useful in the future. To make it easy to find: #HAisaLIAR
P.P.S. To anyone who cares, hopefully this exchange makes clear that nothing HA writes or has written should be trusted.
“Trump may be mentally impaired”
No, he IS.
“surrounded himself with yes men who may never question or challenge his bad decisions.”
Right. And that jeopardizes the rule of law and law and order in our country. Where is Mr. Sailer to reiterate this point? That’s right, Mr. Unz low-balled him, and he bailed from this fine opinion webzine.
“But this, unfortunately, may be the exact remedy we might have needed to ‘restructure’ the federal government i.e. reduce it to half its size.”
I agree in principle, but not in practice. You have two unstable figures at the helm, both of whom are circumventing the decisions of judges. That is why we have checks and balances in our country.
“In that respect, he is an accidental Gorbachev.”
WAY too much credit here, and WAY too early to make that type of call.
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1901779431989129661
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1901710141268853153
https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/1901747761831149605
OT — Is Israel planning on starting another mid-east war using white men harvested from the American midwest? Anon emerges from a schizoid fever dream long enough to post:
>Wisconsin – 80% Non-Hispanic White
>Ohio – 77% Non-Hispanic White
>Michigan – 74% Non-Hispanic White
>Florida – 67% Non-Hispanic White
>Alabama – 65% Non-Hispanic White
>South Carolina – 63% Non-Hispanic White
>North Carolina – 60% Non-Hispanic White
>Illinois – 59% Non-Hispanic White
Trump will declare war on Iran – yesterday Trump declared that the us would “go into it (Iran) militarily” which means boots on the ground in Iran.
Here is Meir Dagan (MOSSAD DIRECTOR) saying that the US should fight Israel’s war with Iran for them and that US soldiers should die while Israeli citizens sit in comfort – They openly say this on CBS.
[Open]
A MILITARY DRAFT IS IMMINENT.
>THREAD THEME:
[Open]
Another anon said:
“Stop lying and follow the links.”
Follow the links? You mean, another wild goose chase? No thanks. And where in those tables does the word “daunting” appear? Anywhere? If not, then case closed. Gotcha! Mind you, don’t confuse “daunting” with “dengue”, which I did see there, even though daunting certainly applies in that case — good thing there’s a vaccine for it, however scared you may be of those ouchy hurty needles.
All this to say, your comment yet again “seems to be” dangerous anti-vaxx hogwash. I mean, it’s certainly “possible”. So again, case closed. And if you don’t like those rules, maybe you shouldn’t have started playing with them.
I actually thought of you the other day when I came across another anti-vaxx loon who, like you, gets angry and irate whenever measles gets slammed in the media:
See, that’s the kind of clinical precision I expect from my feel-good anti-vaxx “experts”. No wonder Robert Jr. put her in charge of his loony bin. So good to know that measles not SUPER severe serious. It’s only SORTA super severe serious. Or maybe super severe SORTA serious.
Or maybe just sorta “dauting” — i.e. kinda like a case of dengue. Which pile of nonsense weasel-words would you go with, seeing as you’re the expert?
Oh, and some sad news: TSLA “seems to be” down %5.34 today (again, I’d say it’s down 5% and thereabouts, but I really don’t want to trigger another seizure from anyone.)
But don’t worry, I think I have till Friday till those call options expire, and once that EO is issued, we’re sure to be in the black again to the tune of eleventy zillion. It’s eminently “possible”, after all, which in res-speak is tantamount to a sure thing.
“If you can’t trust TDS sufferer Jeffrey Goldberg, who can you trust?”
Apparently it isn’t people trying to make hay out of TDS. That cause has just received a bit of a setback:
Then again, maybe he was just trying to get a photo-op or thumbs-up from Trump.
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1902089935110164652
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1902132909819015474
https://thecarousel.substack.com/p/178-steve-sailer
178. Steve Sailer
Feb 23, 2025