learn about the price of an ancient attican whore,
 

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With clockwork precision . . .

Trump hits back at JP Morgan CEO’s defence of Federal Reserve

“We should have lower [interest] rates. Jamie Dimon probably wants higher rates, maybe he makes more money that way.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/14/trump-hits-back-at-jp-morgan-ceo-defence-of-federal-reserve-jamie-dimon
 

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Nah, the 40’s IVF designer baby crowd will abort at the first sign of trouble.
 

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He, sadly, passed away an hour or so ago.

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French:
[...]
And so you put all of that stuff together and then you add on top of that a poor woman is barely dead and already the administration’s calling her a domestic terrorist. Anyone can look at that video — and I think a fair viewing of the video — the worst thing you can say about her is that she panicked and responded in the wrong way in response to a very confusing situation. That is the worst thing you can say. There’s zero evidence that there is domestic terrorism here.

The worst thing that you could say, I don’t think, is even necessarily accurate, either. It looked like she was trying to wave agents past to allow them to pass her and then back up and go down the road herself. Someone comes and grabs her door inexplicably; she’s turning away. It’s very, very fast. It’s very, very quick. But it is not one of those situations where you could say, “Oh, I can totally, clearly, plainly see how this person was defying the police.”

It looked to me like a very confusing situation that just escalated so quickly, so dramatically, in such a deadly way that this is exactly what so many of us have been worrying about.
 

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Can his administration actually control rates in this manner?

Can his administration export formerly embargoed advanced AI chips (that can be used in loitering drones, for example) to China for a 25% cut in revenues (not profits) ?

Trump says he's letting Nvidia sell advanced chips to China

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-letting-nvidia-sell-h200-advanced-chips-china/
 

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The Venezuela Affair reeks of corporate gangster. But I admire the Hemisphere consolidation. The Imperial system might be the least of the bad options. Either way keep the neoliberal neocons away from power. With Trump unfortunately the neos have his ear.

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Look at the thumbnails of "his" other videos: https://m.youtube.com/@raidswithice

 
https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/splgeBUxMxc/sddefault.webp
 

I would not trust this channel. Is there any other reporting of the story elsewhere?

PEACE 😇

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I’m not sure about that. James Fields is serving a life sentence for murder even though he was being illegally detained.
 

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Israel is really lucky that “massive” anti-regime protests are breaking out exactly when they need a rationale for the U.S. to launch another regime change attack.
 

It’s a bit odd that the protests are about nothing in particular but just everything in general.
 

Western MSM are very reliable
 

A striking new protest trend involving Iranian women is rapidly spreading across the global internet, drawing attention to rising unrest inside Iran. Viral videos show women lighting cigarettes by burning photographs of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an act widely seen as an open challenge to the country’s political and religious authority.

The trend has gained momentum on social media platforms such as X, Instagram, Reddit and Telegram, with clips being shared and reposted thousands of times worldwide. Observers say the practice has become a powerful symbol of defiance and is increasingly difficult for authorities to contain, even as Iran tightens controls on dissent.

Burning the image of the Supreme Leader is considered a serious offence under Iranian law. By combining this act with smoking, an activity long restricted or discouraged for women, the protesters appear to be deliberately rejecting both state power and strict social rules, including mandatory hijab enforcement and limitations on women’s personal freedoms.

 

Christina Hoff Sommers
@CHSommers

Feminist activists in the West are in an intersectional coma.

Ronnie
@ronnie__rr

Probablemente estemos viviendo la revolución feminista más importante de la historia y por alguna razón el feminismo del mundo libre está callado

 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-OJP79X0AA2vnE.jpg
 

 

 

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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎
@NiohBerg

🔴 Tehran tonight:

"People once again brought the Lion and Sun flag, and they set fire to the Saadat Abad Mosque.

"Saadat Abad is in the hands of the people. The fucking regime bastards escaped. More crowds are joining.

Death to Khamenei."
 

John Cleese
@JohnCleese

More about mullahs being seen at Moscow airport, please

Omid Djalili
@omid9

The country on strike. Massive numbers on the streets. Internet cut. Mullahs seen at Moscow airport. Yet the regime still shoot at protestors. Many dead. But the people keep on coming. The courage of our fellow human beings is staggering. #IranRevolution2026
Tehran tonight ⬇️
 

 

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"Let the bodies hit the floor"

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Let’s hope that Ramaswamy’s ambitions to move swiftly to the top of the ladder by minimizing heritage contributions to the country are rebuffed.

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Then why did the State of Texas permit the project? Is it possible that they think the project is more beneficial than agriculture? In California, for example, a (semiconductor) chip plant will always get preference over agricultural interests.

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I think the main reason why housing costs keep increasing is government-imposed constraints on supply. Zoning, led by NIMBY activists who like their suburban way of life and use the power of the state to close it off to others, environmentalists who want to preserve dead space (look at the backlash when Sen. Lee proposed selling off a tiny sliver of the least desirable federally-owned land in exurban areas), plus governments restricting building to designs -- dense multifamily developments near socially undesirable amenities like train stations -- that don't match what people actually want. It's unconscionable to me, yet politically acceptable in the U.S., that the government could prevent me from renting my house to whoever I want for a few days, require me to get a permit to add a bathroom, or say it's illegal to light a fire in my own fireplace.

Also propped-up interest rates, as Trump frequently mentions, and insane property taxes to fund teachers' unions, don't help.

Of course artificial demand (through immigration) doesn't help either.

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wife of a woman ... poet
 

‘I made her come down here, it’s my fault,’
 

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Rather than a 500 billion dollar increase, we should be going in the other direction and working on a 500 billion dollar decrease down to half a trillion dollars a year. This would be more than enough to defend the country. In constant dollar terms, that is what Eisenhower was spending back in the fifties when we faced a hostile Soviet empire that controlled half of Europe plus also Mao's China.

Our major need is a nuclear umbrella in case of a possible nuclear attack, which could be maintained for a couple hundred billion dollars a year. We are fortunate to have two large oceans on each side of us. The cost of transporting enough troops across the ocean to succesfully invade and conquer the US is unaffordable for any foreign power. There is no rational reason to be increasing defense spending by another 500 billion dollars a year when it is not needed and when the federal government is running two trillion dollar a year deficits and has a 38 trillion dollar national debt.

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It's probably a good idea to get hedge funds and private equity out of the housing market. Nevertheless, it won't fix the housing price problem. For houses to be profitable for hedge funds and private equity, they have to rent or sell the houses just like anyone else. Unlike anyone else, they don't actually live in the houses, so their ownership doesn't remove housing from the market. In fact you could argue that corporate ownership is preferable to ownership by the likes of Bernie Sanders or John McCain, since the profit motive requires corporations to get the housing occupied, while Sanders and McCain just live hither or yon as the mood takes them, with their housing portfolios removed from the larger market.

In any case, corporations, such as Zillow, have not actually been very successful in the housing market and own only a tiny percentage of it. Unlike uniform manufactured widgets, houses each have a certain individuation, for which corporations are bad at devising centralized and efficient processes. The decentralized housing market is good at taking advantage of the corporations' process errors though.

One could argue that corporations reduce housing stock by buying to convert to short-term rentals (AirBnB, VRBO, etc.). But, 1) type of use is a different argument from the type of ownership, 2) municipalities who feel that short-term rentals are driving out normal homeowners already can and do ban or limit short-term rentals, 3) most short-term rentals are owned by small private owners, not big corporations, 4) such corporate ownership as exists is just a tiny percentage of the aforementioned tiny percentage, and 5) the profit motive requires corporations to keep short-term rentals in occupancy too, so corporate short-term rental owners are not depriving anyone else of residency any more than non-corporate short-term rentals are.

If Trump, or anyone else, wants to make housing more affordable, banning non-citizens from owning US homes would probably have some effect, but prepare for liberals to counterattack with their insane readings of the Fourteenth Amendment and civil rights law.

The biggest thing the Federal government can do to help housing costs is just getting rid of the hundred million or so migrants who shouldn't here. Unlike corporations, they actually do take up space (aka housing).

Nevertheless, there seems to be some further underlying reasons that housing gets perpetually more expensive irrespective of country, immigration, inflation, etc. Part of it is undoubtedly the modern cost disease (formerly living was cheap but things were expensive, now things are cheap but living is expensive) discussed here earlier, but I think there may also be an unexplored process where as an economy and society ages and sclerotizes, economic value becomes tied up static real estate rather than dynamic commerce. Maybe a economics grad student will look into it one day.

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Social Media Is a Trap for Politicians
 

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"also if global warming is real"

Going back, I first attempted Ben Nevis in Scotland in 1974, in August. Top 2,000 feet covered in snow, damn cold on the top. Thirty years later I was taking the kids skiing there in February, and sometimes there'd be zero snow. Back in the 70s Scotland was going to be a big ski place, thirty years later a lot of the tourist attractions were being demolished.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39p0nvgglzo

There's a 1970 video here of Scottish skiing - and there's loads of snow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cjmm3ndr3pgo

In Iceland I've seen this glacier retreat about 300 yards in six years between my visits. If you look at it on Gmaps the car park, built in the 1990s at the glacier tip, is now well over half a mile from the glacier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3lheimaj%C3%B6kull

Finally, winters here in England are nowhere near as cold and snowy as in my childhood - but there's now a vineyard on my dog walking route, and a farmer in Lincolnshire is growing olives. One can argue about the causes, but warming is real both here and in the Southern Hemisphere. New Zealand glaciers are retreating just like Alpine and Himalayan ones are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Glacier#Recent_retreat

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They’re eating the cats!
 

According to Islamic dietary laws, the consumption of cat meat is Haram as it is considered a terrestrial predator.
 

Islam is the predominant religion followed in Somalia with over 99.9% of the country adhering to the religion.
 

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Vivek Ramaswamy vs. Nick Fuentes
Who should be let in? John von Neumann or Sirhan Sirhan?
Steve Sailer
Jan 07, 2026 ∙ Paid

From the opinion section of the New York Times:

Groyperism Isn’t Conservatism. It’s Anti-Americanism.
Dec. 17, 2025
By Vivek Ramaswamy
Mr. Ramaswamy was a Republican candidate for president in 2024 and is running for governor of Ohio in 2026.
[...]
 

 

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https://pro.stateaffairs.com/oh/news/dewine-praises-ohio-somali-community

DeWine responds to Trump’s comments about Somali community
Dec 5, 2025

Gov. Mike DeWine is praising the work ethic of Ohio's Somali community after President Donald Trump labeled Minnesota Somalis "garbage."

“I’ve heard the comments by the President,” he told reporters Thursday. “I would say that in Columbus we have many people who came here from Somalia, who work hard and contribute to the community and to the economy.”
 

Governor Mike DeWine urges Ohioans to report suspected daycare fraud, not investigate it on their own
Jan. 5, 2026

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - After a viral video made the case that there was fraud at Somali childcare centers in Minnesota, the governor of Ohio is speaking out and fielding questions about potential daycare fraud here in the Buckeye State.

“There’s been some connection I’ve seen on social media from people who say, ‘Well, there’s a lot of Somalians in Ohio, too. There’s Somalians in Minnesota. Therefore, Ohio probably has a huge problem,” said Gov. DeWine, speaking to the media. “I don’t think that’s fair. You know, have we found fraud? Yes.”

Gov. DeWine said the state’s Department of Children and Youth conducted 10,000 unannounced visits to childcare centers in Ohio in 2025. Those visits resulted in the closure of 38 centers, with two more going through administrative hearings.

The governor added that the issue of fraud is not exclusive to Somali daycare centers.

“What we found in fraud in Ohio has certainly included people who are not Somalians. Has it also included people who have a Somali background? Yes,” said Gov. DeWine. “We need to just not fixate on any population. We need to fixate on the problem.”
 

Somali Chamber of Commerce Endorses Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor
04 Jan 2026

STATEWIDE - As the Republican primary is beginning to ramp up, drawing nearer to the February deadline, information is rolling in regarding candidate endorsements. The current Republican frontrunner, Vivek Ramaswamy, has garnered several standard party endorsements and recently some obtuse ones. It was recently discovered that the Somali American Chamber of Commerce, an entity located in Columbus Ohio, has given Vivek Ramaswamy their full endorsement.

In a recently unearthed February post, Shafi Shafat, president of the Somali Chamber of Commerce gave a full endorsement to the candidate he believed would help empower minority communities in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy.
 

“As the President of the Somali American Chamber of Commerce USA, and on behalf of the Somali community in Ohio, I am proud to officially endorse Vivek Ramaswamy as the next Governor of Ohio. After extensive discussions with community leaders, business professionals, and our youth, we have unanimously decided to support a leader who embodies integrity, vision, and a deep commitment to the future of Ohio. Vivek Ramaswamy is a man of high dignity, strong principles, and a youthful energy that will drive Ohio toward greater prosperity and inclusivity. We believe that under his leadership, Ohio will flourish, fostering economic growth, empowering minority communities, and creating opportunities for all. His commitment to entrepreneurship, innovation, and fair governance aligns with the values we hold dear. We stand with Vivek Ramaswamy and look forward to a brighter future for Ohio under his leadership!”
 

The endorsement is somewhat troubling to some given the recent revelations about fraud rings involving Somali run daycares. With Columbus Ohio being the second largest Somali population center in the nation, many are looking to the state capital for some level of investigations into their own suspicions of fraud occurring in the state.

Earlier last week, X account 'Libs of TikTok' posted information that Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s ambassador to the United Nations, previously served as a director of a 'suspicious' healthcare company in Ohio. According to an investigation, Osman was listed as a managing director of Progressive Health Care Services Inc., a healthcare company in Cincinnati, from 2014 until May 2019.

This coincided with his tenure as Somalia’s U.N. ambassador, which began in June of 2017, meaning his “work” at Progressive Health Care Services Inc. overlapped his U.N. tenure by two years. During these two years, “Progressive Health Care Services Inc. was subject to billing and compliance scrutiny" due to irregularities discovered.
 

Despite these 'oddities', the state government has maintained there is unlikely to be any widespread fraud issues in Ohio, with Governor DeWine issuing a statement on the matter stating Ohio's guardrails are foolproof enough to have discovered any potential fraud.

Still, many are demanding greater action and the revelation of the Somali Chamber endorsement of Vivek could not have come at a more difficult time for the candidate.
 

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"The Connecticut State Police initially reported at a press conference that Adam Lanza had committed all of his murders at Sandy Hook with a semi-automatic pistol, and left his rifle in his car’s trunk. About one week later, however, H. Wayne Carver II lied and asserted that Lanza had killed everyone with the rifle. This was apparently because the democrat party was looking for a pretext to ban “assault” (sic) rifles."

So you think Remington Arms settled for $73 million even though the murders were committed with a pistol?

"A company that made a rifle used in one of the US's deadliest school shootings has settled with the families of victims for $73m (£53.9m)."

"The settlement from Remington Arms comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the families of nine of 26 victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre."

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Ron Unz wrote that all his buddies believe the Israel spooks murdered Charlie Kirk. Obviously all of the evidence that he and you and I are privy to is skunked so what are we to do?

The truth facts are above my pay grade and I am stuck:

1. say absolutely nothing;
2. say P ~ .9 Israel or American Jew criminals did it which I honestly think is the probable case.

You have the right to say evidence or shut the hell up. The fruit of that comment is a dead end not more comments so what would be the point?

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"I saw a lot of Alex Jones level stuff at the time it happened, but none of it was plausible or supported by the evidence."

Alex Jones is ridiculous. I am proud to say I never watched a single 5 minute stretch of any of his material and even the sound of his voice induces cringe. I'll share a few more thoughts from memory but I'm really not that interested in the story anymore. The Sandy Hook Story reminds me very much of other events that in history that are shaped into fact more so because of an appeal to emotion than an appeal to facts. Remember the little girl with perfectly unaccented English claiming to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers stealing incubators out of Kuwaiti hospitals, leaving infants to freeze to death (or something)? That kind of emotional manipulation applies to SH.

Now I'm not suggesting that 20 kids weren't killed. I don't know about photoshopped photos or crisis actors (you have to admit that one dad laughing as he walked up to make a statement was not quite right). My question is who actually did the shooting. Consider:

Adam Lanza: 20 year old autistic kid. Extremely reclusive. No online footprint. Supposedly destroyed all of his PC's prior to the shooting (why if he planned to commit suicide). No wikipedia page. I'm no expert but autistic children, even in mild cases, do not like loud noises, struggle to manage moderate mechanical tasks and have difficulty designing plans. But I'm supposed to imagine this 20 year old was proficient with multiple types of semi automatic firearms (trained by who?) drove on his own to a school with seemingly no relation to him and carried out a methodical mass shooting, killing 26 people in less than 15 minutes, reloading magazines and with no hearing protection. There's been 13 years, and we still know almost nothing about this kid in an age where we known almost everything about a shooter within 72 hours of them being identified.

The original report was that he used handguns only. The use of an AR was added later.

Were death certificates ever released? I remember reading that the CT AG issue a special order that barred releasing them to the public.

There were 1-2 (I can't remember) men running around in the forest adjacent to the school right at the time of the shooting wearing camouflage. Who they were or what they were doing was never explained.

They also demolished the school shortly after the shooting. Was that already scheduled to happen?

The lawsuit against Alex Jones and those 2 other university professors were outrageous, and point more to a silencing effort than addressing aggrieved family members.

The fact that nearly all videos questioning the official story have been taken down from yt, many of which merely contained footage and audio from media sources dishing the official story, but compiled to illustrate the contradictions.

I am fully prepared to concede that I don't know what the purpose of covering up the actual events/shooters could be, other than an excuse for more gun control. But even for a kid, Adam Lanza does not fit the normal profile for a school mass shooter.

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20 kids @$1500/day × 3 days = $90,000. Plus the risk premium of being found out committing this obvious fraud. That's a lot of money just to keep a crappy "daycare" open. More than the profit of a legitimate daycare.

Which kind of implies it ain't really about keeping a "daycare" open.

The Somali "community" has notoriously high unemployment. And almost all the women are stay-at-home mothers. They must be the people in the US least in need of daycare. Why do people who don't work and don't leave the house need daycare? Yet somehow they soaked up $9 billion of subsidies for the stuff...

Tim Walz says he won't run for Governor again next year, to prevent "cynical" Republican "gamesmanship". (He was the 80% odds-on favorite to win.) "Not on my watch," he says, meaning the gamesmanship, I guess. So he's abandoning his watch. Somehow that's supposed to make sense.

It could make sense if he knows he's sitting on top of the biggest RICO case in Federal history, though.

I've long said that Walz comes across as having something to hide.

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You should want it to not have happened, but, now that it has and cannot be undone, we should all want the best for the Venezuelan people.

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No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.
 

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We make a big deal about airport security, feeling up grannies and soccer moms as if they were armed desperados, and making people half strip, and then hire a bunch of people from a pirate/thief country to man the security lines. It’s because the people who run our society hate us.
 

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True, but SCOTUS said in the 1980s that all children are entitled to a free public education.

I'd like to see about 10k Somalis deported for fraud after being stripped of their naturalized citizenship. C'mon, DJT!

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I tried to archive it, I'm afraid they developed a block. The other thing I tried to link summarized it well but is apparently forbidden.

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What a coincidence you wrote about this today, Mr. Ross. I’ve been well acquainted with, and friends with (years ago, when they were the best of their crowd) a number of Indians. However, these were either single guys or I never met their kids anyway.

We were just with an Indian family on a tour, and the 2 chubby kids were just as you described. They must be teenagers. Uncanny.

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No, Steve sent out his triweekly column to a selected list of his Subshack subscribers and it was all about U-Boats. Sorry you missed out.

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2) It’s not really – shouldn’t be – the TSA’s job to worry about cash, fentanyl, foreign bananas, whatever, though Customs has been not much of a thing as of late, BUT,
 

3) I’m guessing the reason no one cared is that MSP’s TSA “agents” are significantly Somalian. I’m sure they’d have no qualms about being in on this,

4) I’ve written about this before and one time remarked about it in front of a bunch of people there in the MSP – Lindbergh Terminal: You’ve got the TSA rummaging through the personal stuff of, and feeling up, your White Minnesota grannies and toddlers while half the people working the ramp with access to compartments all over the airplanes are Somalians! Thespian Security, but it’s not at all funny. Oh, wait, Tampon Timmah Walz says they’ve been vetted, vetted out the ass, I tells ya.*
 

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Forbidden by whom?

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And with the 2 data centers being built here we'll also get an influx of H1-B pajeets and their insufferable kids.

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As I noted before "they" put the Somali's and Burmese in govt housing 2 miles from where I live and made the local Walmart a no go zone. A single Somali may be polite and quiet (haven't met one yet) but in a group they are loud and obnoxious especially the females. The Burmese are very insular and as Mark said create their own ethnic enclaves which are also no go zones.

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Probably this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/21/diversity-hiring-white-men/

but paywalled so check archive.is

Meanwhile:

Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5
Dec 30

I want to take a victory lap and remind everyone that I was explaining how welfare fraud works months ago before this Somalian stuff hit the news. Anons on FrogTwitter are always months ahead of the newscycle. Foreigners get free money to push out the white American middle class.

Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5
Oct 5

reminder that foreigners outcompete native citizens because Western governments give them free money and preferential DEI loans at a rate of 100-140% the median household income.

government gives foreigners free money, then claims they are successful businessmen. Sweet gig

Just consider the New York State Medicaid-funded program for paying people to stay home with aging relatives. Back in 2014, only 20,000 people were paid by the program. When eligibility rules changed in 2015 during the outgoing Obama administration, the number of jumped to 250,000. Today, the figure is more than 620,000 people. This taxpayer-funded program now makes up 12 percent of New York City's private sector jobs, according to Bloomberg.
 

As some have pointed out, there are asylum hotels in the centre of London. One, in particular, sits near studio apartments for rent starting at £1,600 a month. With your illegal earnings at roughly £17,860 of spending power over 52 weeks, £19,200 of Zone I housing services, no council tax (a £1,530 saving for our Band B flat) or utility bills (say £1,261) to pay (meals provided by your hotel), and £9.95 in weekly cash from the Government, a hypothetical boat arrival would enjoy a lifestyle that a taxpaying legal worker would have to earn more than £50,000 to achieve.
 

Jeff Kuhner @TheKuhnerReport

Gov. Healey is handing out $30,000 in taxpayer stipends to EACH migrant family to help them pay for rent & buy furniture. But it gets worse. Each family also gets $4,000-a-month in EBT cash, $500-a-month for food, free health care & cable. She's destroyed Massachusetts! #mapoli

8:43 PM Aug 5, 2025 · 730.3K Views
 

Vagrant of Rhodes @vagrantwires

Illegals are getting $500/month in free food, $4000/month in cash stipends, plus free housing, healthcare, and utilities, in addition to a $30,000 lump sum payment for "housing". Meanwhile Americans work multiple jobs and overtime just to make their mortgages, pay down student loans or finish off giant medical bills.

Evil.

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes
4h

Ohh my god it's true, Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is giving $30,000 to each illegal migrant family to help them move into homes Maura Healey is shifting shelter costs to the state's HomeBASE program. The program provides rental assistance to migrant families,
Show more

GOP CRITICIZES MASS. GOV OVER HOMEBASE PROGRAM

AS MUCH AS MAURA HEALEY WOULD LIKE THE PUBLIC TO THINK SHE IS IMPROVING THE
SYSTEM, THE DATA TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY."

• AMY CARNEVALE
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIR
 

 

 

literally it's impossible to compete. The government will tax your income and give your money to foreigners to compete against you, price you out of urban cities, and take elite sinecures.
On an individual level, you can always escape the middle class by climbing into the top 5-10% of earners. But in the aggregate, the white American middle class suffers constant, inexorable downward mobility towards poverty and global labor arbitrage.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2eFZ5jWEAA5VM9.jpg

the average adult male in India earns about $4,000 per year. So that's where the bottom of this social experiment in globalism aims to end at: with Americans forced to compete against 8 billion foreigners, paid about $4,000 per year in a country that costs $100k.
let's just say that if you're a white man, this system is designed to crush you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2eGBdrXUAA__LU.jpg

Marc Andreessen

The combination of DEI and immigration
 

Systematic discrimination against the Trump voter base.
 

The Trump voter base has figured this out.
 

I have not yet found anyone in university leadership who will engage on this
 

(Washington Post illustration; Obtained by The Post)
 

Marc Andreessen

I was born in 1971 in Iowa and grew up in Wisconsin. My cohort of citizens was told that we just had to put up with this as a cost of prior American bigotry, even though the discrimination was now aimed at us. And for the most part we did.
 

But then the insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020 totally shredded that complacency.
 

And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore.
 

The universities are at ground zero of the counterattack since they are BOTH actively discriminating against us AND primary origin points and propagation vectors for this worldview and these policies.
 

They declared war on 70% of the country and now they're going to pay the price.
 

(Washington Post illustration; Obtained by The Post)
 

Marc Andreessen

When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade, they systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.
 

I believe those of you here who do PhD admissions that YOU'RE not discriminating, but you're at the end of a long pipeline that HAS discriminated, starting with undergrad admissions (as well as private K-12 admissions for some students, as well as public magnet schools).
 

So of course you have to go overseas to get qualified PhD candidates, most of the native born kids who could have been in that pipeline were cut out of it long before you would have met them.
 

But if your institutions have an undergrad component, THEY are certainly discriminating in these ways, actively and enthusiastically.
 

(Washington Post illustration; Obtained by The Post)
 

 

 

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Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner is one of the best of the UK limited series. But then Patrick turned his back on narrative and decided to put the kibosh on the Secret Agent scenario. He turned theatre geek in the last two episodes and went absurdist.

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"When we stop borrowing from future for present consumption, .."

We aren't borrowing from the future. They aren't sending us stuff via time machine. What we consume today is for the most part produced today. There is no need to reduce consumption.

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Thanks, ePebble - we may end up visiting some day. I thought that was LOL funny, as, talk about missing the point. I take it they don't make any "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" type jokes for the same reason. "What, it that a trick question?"

How do you say "No shit." in Hebrew, just in case?

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(There's an interview somewhere around with a Brit porn star now working in the States. Probably his most interesting revelation was that a lot of lady porn practitioners won't do the deed with a guy who also does gay porn.)

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A lot of British stuff I got to see on Canadian TV (and some Canadian stuff) was hilarious and holds up well, but depends on an over-confected, tortured, too-perfect premises. When you're eleven, it's brilliant, but as an adult, you Stevily think, well, it would never get to that point, because of layers of problem prevention "in real life." With that said, THREE SWASTIKAS!

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Then he married a little fat girl, gave up drinking and became a pastry chef.
 

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Translation: It pays to be on the side of the Jews.
 

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One thing that strikes me about old 70s sit-coms, when I think back on them, is how unfunny they were. The same can be said about 60s sitcoms. As a typical boomer, I got the recommended daily allowance of brain-rotting television and, other than M*A*S*H (about which I wrote upthread) and maybe the Bob Newhart Show, I hardly recall ever having laughed at a sit-com from that era. I guess they had jokes in them, but they all seemed to fall flat.

I suppose the same could be said for every decade. What little I've seen of 80's and 90s sitcoms, are all unfunny too.

The only sitcoms I've seen that were consistently funny were Cheers, Seinfeld, and Just Shoot Me.

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This was one of my favorite comments from Germ. Not only did it capture much of his personality, his summary of the SNL skit was funnier than the actual skit and convinced me he really was a comedy writer. Plus, he signed off with his real first name (a big part of how I ided him).
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-rights-weird-new-age/#comment-7024978

P.S. Corvinus impugning Germ's veracity is annoying not least because I can't think of two commenters who better represent the poles of:
- True in spirit even if details might be embellished on occasion.
- Lying in spirit even if everything written happens to be literally true.

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The yes man thing is an issue. I think an even bigger issue with this analysis is GIGO. See discussions in the links AM gave to iSteve and the original source.

I think the Monty point indicates the opposite of your concern. That was NOT what I was expecting.

BTW, IIRC you made astute comments in the 2017 iSteve thread so I definitely welcome more of your feedback here.

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Another take looking at the top Civil War, WWI, and WWII leaders.

Sorry if I am getting a bit overenthusiastic here, but this seems a rich vein to mine. Thanks again for the data.



All-Time Rank,Commander,War,Side,Impact,# Battles,WAR/Battle,Notable Achievement
1,Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,WWI,Ottoman,4.3208,11,0.3928,Defense of Gallipoli
2,Georgy Zhukov,WWII,USSR,3.889,10,0.3889,Capture of Berlin
3,P.G.T. Beauregard,Civil War,CSA,3.8416,14,0.2744,Defense of Charleston
4,Ferdinand Foch,WWI,France,3.6322,13,0.2794,Hundred Days Offensive
5,Douglas Haig,WWI,UK,3.588,12,0.299,Breaking the Hindenburg Line
6,Ulysses S. Grant,Civil War,USA,3.2688,16,0.2043,Vicksburg & Overland Campaigns
7,Nathan Bedford Forrest,Civil War,CSA,2.8405,13,0.2185,Cavalry raiding / Mobile defense
8,Fedor von Bock,WWII,Germ,2.736,9,0.304,Blitzkrieg in France/Russia
9,Gouverneur K. Warren,Civil War,USA,2.7167,7,0.3881,Defense of Little Round Top
10,Henry Ware Lawton,Civil War,USA,2.708,5,0.5416,Capturing Geronimo / Civil War
11,Bernard Montgomery,WWII,UK,2.622,6,0.437,El Alamein / Normandy
12,Émile Fayolle,WWI,France,2.5002,6,0.4167,Battle of the Somme
13,Stonewall Jackson,Civil War,CSA,2.4228,12,0.2019,Shenandoah Valley Campaign
14,Aleksandr Vasilevsky,WWII,USSR,2.3985,5,0.4797,Operation August Storm
15,Henry Rawlinson,WWI,UK,2.3752,8,0.2969,Battle of Amiens


### **Cross-Era Observations**

#### **1\. The Eastern Front & Ottoman Defense: The "Leverage" Theaters**

The top two spots are held by **Atatürk** and **Zhukov**. Both operated in theaters where the sheer scale of infantry engagement was unprecedented. In these "high-leverage" environments, a commander who outperformed replacement level even slightly had their impact multiplied by the massive volume of troops and outcomes they controlled.

#### **2\. The Civil War's Tactical Weight**

The American Civil War produced **six** of the top 15 leaders. While the absolute troop counts were smaller than the World Wars, the "WAR per battle" scores for leaders like **Lawton** (0.54) and **Warren** (0.38) are exceptionally high. This suggests that in the mid-19th century, individual tactical brilliance could still drastically swing the outcome of a battle compared to the more industrialized, attritional nature of the 20th century.

#### **3\. Command Level vs. Impact**

* **Supreme Commanders (CIC/Supreme):** Men like Foch, Haig, and Grant dominate the list. Their Impact is a result of **Longevity**. They stayed in command long enough to accumulate impact across 12+ major battles.
* **Specialists (Cavalry/Division):** **Nathan Bedford Forrest** and **Henry Ware Lawton** are the only non-theater commanders in the top 10\. Their presence here is a statistical anomaly, indicating they performed at a level so far "above replacement" for their rank that they provided as much value as a theater general.

#### **4\. The Replacement Level "Floor"**

Commanders in WWI (Haig, Foch) have remarkably similar impact scores. In the static environment of the Western Front, the "replacement level" general was often quite poor at breaking the deadlock. Therefore, any general who successfully oversaw the transition to combined arms in 1918 (as Haig and Foch did) gained massive statistical ground over the "replacement" baseline.

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