Thanks MEH.

A123 claims National Socialists and Communists were competing for the same recruits, but in the geographical area they were competing (Weimar Germany), the ”contested resource overlap”, did not contain (as Herbert wrote) the “same basic requirements” because while there may have been some economic-socialist overlap between the two ‘species’, the potential recruits for National Socialism agreed with and qualify for the Nazi’s overarching German- and White Supremacist ideology, while that same ideology was anathema to potential Communist Party recruits.

So not the “same bowl”, nor the “same basic requirements”. Thus it’s bizarre for A123 to misidentify the anti-ICE leftist protesters some form of “Nazi” when they are clearly not White Supremacist in ideology.

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011476301060702329/photo/1

I think people may be misinterpreting Trump's obstinacy about annexing Greenland. I don't think he really cares for Greenland. This 'conflict' is a convenient excuse to get into a dispute with NATO countries and dissolve/get out of NATO without the headache of getting Senate to renounce a treaty that most Senators consider an eternal bond rather than a tool to fight USSR that died 35 years back. If this can be achieved with a couple of helicopters landing near Greenland parliament and taking it over without firing a shot, Trump will be a strategic genius.

" but I know of quite a few whose productive lives were severely crimped by various forms of de-banking."

OK, once again, we are talking about two different things. You are talking about people on the right who got de banked for their political views. I am talking about eliminating entitlements for aliens.

"Well, at least you noticed there are sides, that we are on one, and presumably noticed that the other side is trying to kill us, so I guess that’s progress. "

You're not far enough up stream. White liberal women are not the ones trying to kill us. The people facilitating the mass movement of illegals into the US are, but funny, I don't see ICE or anyone else addressing that issue.

"Indeed. And not just the J6 protesters, but the rest of us too. Note that this is the situation already, not speculation about what might occur in the future. "

OK, thanks for reinforcing my point. If you go back and read my earlier comments, you will find that I already referred to law enforcement's role in the kovid tyranny, so I'm not sure why you seem to think ICE won't turn their guns on civilians (oh wait they already are) when given the order to, and I'm talking about civilians with our worldview.
Honestly, I'm not even sure what you're arguing anymore. I'm talking about shutting off the money to illegal aliens and the forces that fund them, and you seem to be advocating for the death of more white liberal women by the hands of the G. White liberal women aren't the real enemy, but more like the first and easiest to be manipulated by those holding power. Orwell: "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy." They will fall in line with what ever the orthodoxy is, so what has to happen is our side must retake it. I'm not holding my breath but that's how you deal with women.

"Inasmuch as I am assuming you used “civilian” as shorthand for “innocent bystander”, "

No, I was referring to your contention that the dead lesbian forfeited her civilian status by aligning with antifa. Was her forfeiture an actual legal thing? Or just your opinion on the matter? If it's the latter, then that what I was talking about.

That's a funny cartoon. Not relevant to anything I've said, but funny.

"It’s sort of an all-or-nothing proposition. If you allow some funding, the State will use it for the things you don’t want first, while simultaneously running agitprop of Sheniqua whingeing, “Who gon’ pay fo’ mah keeds?!?”"

Yeah maybe, maybe not. So what? Like the alternative is better?

"Well, if the government is investigating a million-dollar charity under suspicion of funding antifa ops, what that means in practice is looking into John Q. NGO’s debit card purchase of a pallet of bricks at Home Depot. "

Again, investigating individuals who have direct ties to charities funding violent protests isn't the same thing as de banking people for expressing right of center views on twitter. Can you stop conflating the two issues?

I'm not really sure why you prefer street violence over just turning off the money. I guess in your view violence just seems like the easier path to putting an end to mass illegal invasion. In my view it's like picking apples in an attempt to kill the apple tree.

Replies: @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Jenner Ickham Errican

Ah yes thank you MEH, for pointing out something that I've been referring to the whole time. It's almost like if the money gets shut off, dopey lesbo protesters don't show to interfere with ICE, and no one gets shot. Causality; it's a crazy thing.

Notice how I used the term "organic" previously up thread. Maybe Matt Walsh is stealing my mojo:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-17/#comment-7456821

Related, there were 200 fewer homicides in Chicago in 2025 than in 2024, and that's the fewest in over 10 years. Gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with the financiers of street unrest keeping it low profile last year? It's almost like money goes a lot farther than bullets.

There is video of Renee’s wife screaming “Why are you using real bullets!”
 

https://twitter.com/0rf/status/2009792061223190783?s=20

Matt Orfalea @0rf

After witnessing her wife's death, Rebecca is heard screaming, blaming the cops for carrying live ammo: "Why did you have real bullets?!"

Then Rebecca blames herself.

"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."

7:59 PM · Jan 9, 2026
 

The Shooting of Renee Good
Was it murder? Or self-defense?
Matt Orfalea
Jan 09, 2026
 

January 13, 2026
Posted at 10:55 am by Ed Driscoll
 

By Erica L. Green
 

Renee and her “partner” attended some kind of Womyn Warrior ICE Resistette training where she and her fellow indoctrinees were misinformed that ICE has no power of arrest or right to use deadly force in carrying out their mission . . .
 

Replies: @MEH 0910

This is also a case where the ambulance-chaser parasite class could actually do some social good. Renee and her "partner" attended some kind of Womyn Warrior ICE Resistette training where she and her fellow indoctrinees were misinformed that ICE has no power of arrest or right to use deadly force in carrying out their mission, and were encouraged to get in ICE's faces and otherwise risk making martyrs of themselves. Whoever runs and backs those trainings is ripe for a fat wrongful death suit, which is double good because they probably have Soros-tier backing and overlap with Antifa terrorist cells. Scott Bessant has promised criminal investigations, so a lot of the heavy lifting is already being done for you tort lawyers!

Other possibly deep-pocketed parties to add to the wrongful death suit: the politicians, celebrities, and nonprofits encouraging people to interfere with lawful ICE operations, and misinforming citizens of the law and circumstances of that interference. Also, Renee's "wife", who already admitted fault on video and encouraged Renee to make the aggressive maneuver that ended her life. Including her as a wrongful death defendant also helps the grandparents in their upcoming custody dispute.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob

Becca said in her statement to MPR that she will now raise Renee’s 6-year-old and “continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear
 

and
 

anger in their hearts
 

and we need to show them a better way.”
 

If this kid has any living grandparents, they should consider taking custody from this non-related interloper. The interloper is in part responsible for his mother's death.

Replies: @MEH 0910

Becca Good said in a new statement that she plans to raise her late wife’s 6-year-old son, who has now lost both his parents, and “continue teaching him
 

Well she did get "lit up" so I guess in a sense she did sparkle. (Too soon?).

"Probably because you’ve never tried to question work permit credentials only to find that the administrative state’s reading of civil rights law prevents that."

I am aware that if an applicant presents a driver's license (or other acceptable form of ID) and it isn't facially invalid (for example the picture obviously doesn't match the applicant) you aren't supposed to inquire further. However this has nothing to do with E-Verify. You are allowed to use E-Verify for everybody.

"As it turns out, it’s often ineffective even when it is used, because of 1) the widespread availability of fake credentials, and 2) the administrative state’s prohibition of questioning those credentials."

The point of E-Verify is to identify many of the people using fake credentials because they don't have a valid matching social security number.

"Also possibly true, but ignores that it was just explained why it’s not actually so easy to “make it harder for them to work”. ..."

Pushing E-Verify seems like the easiest path currently available.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Once again demonstrating why the future belongs to China.

In America one can’t drive by a motel without shuddering. It’s better to rent a Sprinter Van than risk the filth from an Indian run establishment.

“Indians usually bathe in rivers mixed with filth.”

In Varanasi (Benares as was, the holy city on the Ganges) people swim in and across the river. They must have impressive immune systems - one of our party dipped her foot in up to above the ankle and it went bright red. It's slightly concerning to see bed sheets drying along the banks - were they 'washed' in the river?

(Nonetheless we enjoyed our stay, wonderfully chaotic place. Crossing the road is quite an adventure.)

Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard

I just assume everything is staged at this point in the timeline.

I can't recall when David French was ever right about anything. He even supported the Trayvon Martin Hoax, weeks after it had been exposed. He's morally perverse, and has a batting average of .000.

"At Commentary, French, Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey Sacrifices George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin Hoax"

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2013/03/at-commentary-french-cheese-eating.html

"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."

They're always so worried about people's health.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/politico-reporter-launches-thinly-veiled-threat-at-youtuber-who-exposed-somali-daycare-fraud/ar-AA1TiEKR

Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein claimed in a Monday post on X that citizen journalists investigating Somali scammers could be shot under “stand your ground” laws, which some commenters viewed as a threat.
...
Gerstein, though he later denied the threat, hinted that violent confrontations could be imminent as other journalists
 

Replies: @A123

More David French:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/opinion/renee-good-trump-ice-minneapolis.html
https://archive.is/2Aowb

[...]
Good’s SUV was blocking part of a road, and she appeared to signal for other traffic to go around her when an ICE vehicle approached. Multiple agents approached her car. One said, “Get out of the car,” using an expletive. An eyewitness, however, said that she heard conflicting instructions — one agent telling Good to get out of the car, while another agent told her to drive away.
 

"... when he made the first shot, ..."

The first shot can be good and the last shot can still be bad.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

It is not so clear cut that an officer can continue to fire at a fleeing vehicle, especially after he is in a place of safety. I had a case several years ago where a cop was giving a traffic ticket to someone, with his arm inside the driver's side of the car. The car suddenly fled, the surprised officer managed to pull his arm out, and he fired several shots at the rear of the fleeing vehicle. The officer was fired from his job and was found guilty of misconduct in office for unlawful use of force.

Now if I were on a jury deciding this cop's fate, I would probably acquit, but that is a different matter than purely legal analysis. The crazy bitch deserved what she got.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

I thought inline reddit links stopped working. Did you post your own html string?

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

Yep, it was excessive force.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Hypnotoad666, @WJ

Not only him but apparently all Republicans in Ohio are garbage we are better off without.

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed
 

... was an anti-ICE “warrior”...

... her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” ...

... “She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” ...

... sent the boy to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 which has from its inception been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” ...

... “From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” ...

... current event topics like the killing of George Floyd were regular parts of the curriculum, and that last month students took a field trip where they learned about “aboriginal issues” — a reference to the indigneous people of far-away Australia ...

... ICE Watch activists can also turn confrontational — with numerous instances of activists ramming agents with their cars in the past.

“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,”
 

The Goods had no love lost for President Trump themselves, leaving their Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood to Canada after the 2024 election with plans to leave the country for good.
 

Rebecca, who was confronting ICE agents outside of the SUV at the time of the shooting, was filmed sobbing “it’s my fault” after the shots rang out and she realized Renee had been struck.

“I made her come down here’ it’s my fault,” she said ...

“... I have a 6-year-old in school,” she said. [Emphasis added. Not "we".]
 

Replies: @res, @MEH 0910

I initially read that as "ICE Witch". Which is probably more accurate.

wife of a woman ... poet
 

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

Replies: @J.Ross, @MEH 0910

Those two women look like middle aged mutants in less instagrammed shots (see article below). Some sort of anti-ICE activist/terrorists. Guilty!

Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota, The Post has learned.

Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota, where Renee Macklin Good was shot dead Wednesday after allegedly trying to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle.

Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the “Trump agenda,” and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records.

 

Women don’t have wive’s. What nonsense.

I agree with all of your points. The Flynn effect seems contrary to his conclusion, but perhaps he included it for completeness. I haven't listened to learn how he resolves the issue.

Knowing how bad the system is didn't prepare me for a study that shows average of 102 IQ for college students! He mentioned that Canadian employers can use the results from a 60 question IQ test as a substitute for a degree, since the degree is no longer a useful predictor of performance.

I wonder about the IQ of students earning (or receiving) advanced degrees.

AI has great potential for personalized education. Unfortunately, I expect it will be used to replace thinking and will be the most anti-intellectual technology ever created.

The more I know about that pajeet, the more I loathe him.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

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.

Replies: @J.Ross

Social Media Is a Trap for Politicians
 

Replies: @deep anonymous

Agreed, but also for another reason. This former drug shyster shows his true colors here, in the NY Times (archive, thank you MEH!). This makes him come across as an idiot:

Third, create broad-based participation in wealth generation from stock market gains. In the A.I. era, it’s conceivable to envision a future with stock market outperformance even in the face of stagnating wages and job losses. That is a formula for social unrest, and shared equity offers a practical solution. If every kid legally born in the United States receives an “American dream birthright” in the form of $10,000 invested in the S&P 500, every young American would become a millionaire by age 60 (assuming a modest 8 percent annual return, which falls below historical five-, 10-, 20- and 40-year averages). That’s the mathematical magic of compounding.
 

Yes, we'll ALL be millionaires, rich enough to buy, say, used Lincoln Navigators - '12 models with 117,000 miles on them - though that will take our entire millions is the thing ...

Dear, dear, Vikram is not so smart after all. This is a guy that had risked it all to become THE most successful telemarketer in the Lipofederin industry. From Vivek v Vikram:
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He made a great pitch to the American people:
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https://www.peakstupidity.com/images/post_2837A.jpg
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I've had a hard time keeping these guys straight.

https://www.peakstupidity.com/images/post_2837B.jpg

Oh, right. That was the Haitians...

Cats are the only pet endorsed and theoretically allowed, and of course you know about dogs, although there is the usual loophole for the very wealthy, and you will have seen the webms of a few very wealthy Arabs who basically have private zoos amd play with bears amd lions.

Replies: @Currdog73

DeWine is a corrupt slimeball who is persinally directly profitimg from this using a fake charity, this whole thing comes in part from him.

They're eating the cats!

Replies: @MEH 0910

Somali Chamber of Commerce Endorses Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor
 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/07/gov-mike-dewine-endorses-vivek-ramaswamy-for-governor/87395826007/
https://archive.is/alxI6

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine endorses Vivek Ramaswamy as successor
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine endorsed Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as his successor − even though DeWine worked closely with Democratic candidate Dr. Amy Acton during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan. 7, 2026

[...]
DeWine had repeatedly said that he would support the GOP nominee for governor in 2026. Ramaswamy cleared a slate of more politically experienced foes to win that mantle.

DeWine, a loyal Republican, never seriously considered endorsing Acton, despite appointing her as state health director and standing by her side throughout the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both were praised for their early response to the pandemic, then later scorned for their decisions to close schools, businesses and the polls.
 

Governor Mike DeWine
@GovMikeDeWine

My statement endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor and Rob McColley for Lieutenant Governor:
 

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.
 

Replies: @J.Ross, @QCIC, @Hypnotoad666, @MEH 0910

I love that Vivek's plan is to command Americans to sit down and listen while he tells us what our words mean.
I honestly think Democrats are so on the ropes that this midterm is the Republicans' to lose, but it would be highly acceptable if bad Republicans were cleaned out.

Replies: @deep anonymous

What a long, strange post by our iSteve.

(I'm subscribed, so I can read it all, for better or worse)

"Vivek Ramaswamy"

Thank God this walking turd never got close to the presidency.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

More trademark iSteve ambiguity and plausible deniability. There's a debate raging about American identity and immigration policy and Steve's contribution is a Trivial Pursuit list of how many U.S. Presidents are Mayflower descendants. Stunning and brave!

(Note: above the Paywall only, but I'm sure it doesn't get better).

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/social-media-is-a-trap-for-politicians-17074209
https://archive.is/zSlAP

Social Media Is a Trap for Politicians
I’m swearing off Instagram and X, where it’s too easy to get a distorted sense of the public’s concerns.
By Vivek Ramaswamy
Jan. 5, 2026

[...]
Social media’s warped projection of reality is reinforced inside modern government. Political staffers on both sides of the aisle skew young and hyper-attuned to social media. Twitter was built to imitate real-life conversations, but in modern younger political circles, real-life conversations are imitating Twitter.

As political commentator Richard Hanania observed last year, young political aides now compete to be the most “based,” one-upping each other with increasingly unhinged positions on race, sex and who the good guys were in World War II. If you’ve ever winced at a social-media post by an official government account, remember that the person who wrote it is often a young employee who takes most of his cues from the internet. Over time, the state itself begins to sound like X.
[...]
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-anti-indian-hate.html
https://archive.is/ElJ3V

Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right
The leading Republican candidate for Ohio governor is calling out his party for rising intolerance, including against Indian American immigrants and their children, like him.
By Pooja Salhotra
Dec. 19, 2025

Vivek Ramaswamy, the front-running Republican candidate for Ohio governor, challenged a gathering of conservative activists in Arizona on Friday to denounce a rising tide of bigotry on the political right and reject the idea that ancestry or “heritage” defines what makes an American.

“The idea that a ‘heritage American’ is more American than another American is un-American at its core,” Mr. Ramaswamy, a wealthy entrepreneur and candidate for the presidency in 2024, told an audience at AmericaFest, a conservative conference organized by Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the slain activist Charlie Kirk.

He added, “The online comment threads of Twitter might preach that our lineage is our strength. No, I’m sorry, our lineage is not our strength. Our true strength is what unites us across that diversity and through that lineage.”
 

[...]
Now, Mr. Ramaswamy is highlighting a new pressure point facing his party, surging intolerance toward Indian Americans.

“This is deeply personal to me,” he said in a text to The Times. “It isn’t really about defending Jews, Indians, or any other minority group. It’s about defending the essence of America itself.”
[...]
But derogatory slurs that were once seen only in extreme, right-wing pockets of the internet are becoming more mainstream, as are claims that Indians are “stealing American jobs,” according to organizations tracking online hate.

“The hateful rhetoric we are seeing right now is nothing like we have seen before,” said Raqib Hameed Naik, the executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a nonprofit that tracks online extremism.

Mr. Ramaswamy spotlighted that surge this week when he revealed the anti-Indian slurs dogging his campaign for governor and argued in The New York Times article that being an American has nothing to do with one’s ancestry. Instead, he said, any U.S. citizen who vows allegiance to the country is an American so long as they “believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream.”

That was a direct challenge to “national conservatism,” whose adherents include prominent Republicans, including Mr. Vance, who gave a speech this summer in which he worried that if being an American meant simply adhering to an ideal, “let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence,” American identity “would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of foreign citizens.”

“At the same time,” the vice president continued, defining citizenship purely as adhering to the principles of the nation’s founding documents would exclude many on the right who don’t subscribe to those principles and whose “own ancestors were here at the time of the Revolutionary War.”

In his opinion article, Mr. Ramaswamy took what seemed to be a veiled shot at Mr. Vance, who responded in October to outrage over the young Republicans’ racist texts by saying, “I refuse to join the pearl clutching.”

“The point isn’t to clutch pearls,” Mr. Ramaswamy wrote, “but to prevent the gradual legitimization of this un-American animus,” condemning a “reluctance from my former anti-woke peers to criticize the new identity politics on the right.”

Far from sparking introspection, Mr. Ramaswamy’s piece flushed out the bigotry he condemned. Mr. Fuentes said on social media that “foreigners who have no right to be here don’t get to lecture me about what it is to be American.”

Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a social media hotbed for intolerance, said in a more-than-2,000 word response that the notion that anyone could become an American is “the most destructive lie ever told about American identity.”
[...]
According to a recent survey from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, almost a third of Republicans under the age of 50 openly express racist or antisemitic views, a finding based on a poll of about 2,800 mostly Republican voters.

Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of Stop AAPI Hate, said the anti-Indian rhetoric has been driven partly by policies of Mr. Trump, such his moves to limit H-1B visas, a program that has historically allowed 85,000 skilled workers, the vast majority of whom are Indian nationals, to work in the United States each year.

“It’s essentially about collective punishment against communities based on perceived threats,” she said.
[...]
Mr. Ramaswamy made the leap from business to politics by denouncing “wokeness” — a vaguely defined term many Republicans use to describe what they see as a liberal policing of speech involving minority groups.

With books, media appearances and a presidential campaign, he amplified the issue of “wokeism” and encouraged a backlash. But in his Times essay, he lamented what he called a natural consequence of that backlash: more people celebrating what they see as a historical bond of white people to America’s founding.

Earlier this year, Mr. Vance delivered a speech at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank, in which he painted America in starkly different terms than Mr. Ramaswamy. “I think that people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong,” he said.
[...]
 

Replies: @Curle

killing your own advocate because he’s only backing you 60% instead of 90% (when the alternative is 0%) seems like a poor motive for professional murder. And that’s before the fact that all the technical evidence implicates Robinson and no evidence I know of implicates Israel.
 

Here's a straightforward point -- How long would it take to identify, recruit, train, and ensure Robinson's reliability? The plan fails if the patsy does not show up or spills. Would it take a full year? Maybe only 9 months? The rift between Kirk and his donors did not exist back then.

There is simply no way that such a complex plan could be put together in just a few days. Either it is what it seems (most likely). Or, the background organization working on it for many months was Islamophile Globalist, such as the The Fascist Stormtroopers of Antifa.
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Here is another fact free hate scam. Muslims are trying to claim that Netanyahu had one of his trial judges murdered. It's 100% fiction.

• Netanyahu’s trial is in Jerusalem District Court, with judges Rivka Friedman-Feldman, Moshe Bar-Am, and Oded Shaham presiding.

• The individual who died was Judge Benny Sagi, the President of the Be’er Sheva District Court.

There is no connection between the deceased and Netanyahu’s current trial. Different district. Different judges.

PEACE 😇

Have you asked Ron Unz?

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“So, if there’s a three paragraphs or fewer answer to this, why does anyone think Israel did it?”

Because Jews are the punching bag around here. Whites can’t have nice things because of this group, right? You help to contribute to this notion. And then you have the gall to ask that question? Wow, just wow.

Replies: @Pericles

Might as well have the tune to go with the lyrics.
https://youtu.be/V5-4nWhg5kw?list=RDV5-4nWhg5kw

We had this back on Threads 14 & 15.
 

What actually happened is the leaders, up to the highest level of government, conspired to replace the existing population (who usually can do math, with or without expensive training), with a new lower-IQ, darker-skinned population (who often cannot do math even with expensive training). The leaders warped, distorted, and corrupted every institution in the path of their maniacal and so far mostly successful quest, and now they are seeing ‘unforeseen’ consequences, like technical college students who can’t do fractions, while the young men who could do fractions languish in the family garret, or die on the streets of fentanyl.

But on the bright side, their DEI targets were hit!
 

Totally believable. This is what happens.

This is what happens when kollege is a business propped up by taxpayer-backed student loans that raise the price of higher education while simultaneously lowering the standards.

"Laugh or Cry; You Decide!" is a great concept. You should find a way to copyright it -- or to monopolize and capitalize it, as our "betters" would. Please do it before they co-opt it and turn it to serve their program, as they do with everything they touch.

Hoo boy! What did I just write there?

We had this back on Threads 14 & 15.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-14/#comment-7386045

Not complaining, just mentioning. More coverage of the UCSD farce is good.

I second Buzz's comment that a lot of material here could be repackaged as a “Laugh or Cry; You Decide!”™ product. And as our most esteemed Cousin of Briscoe colleague, you may be the most qualified to market it.

I don't know who Justin Skycak is, but he is—and most of the people covering this are—missing most of the story. They write as if the primary and secondary schools just somehow forgot to teach math to a bunch of their kids. And then the college(s) forgot to check if their students could do math before admitting them.

That's not what happened at all. And presenting the story that way makes no sense anyhow.

What actually happened is the leaders, up to the highest level of government, conspired to replace the existing population (who usually can do math, with or without expensive training), with a new lower-IQ, darker-skinned population (who often cannot do math even with expensive training). The leaders warped, distorted, and corrupted every institution in the path of their maniacal and so far mostly successful quest, and now they are seeing 'unforeseen' consequences, like technical college students who can't do fractions, while the young men who could do fractions languish in the family garret, or die on the streets of fentanyl.

But on the bright side, their DEI targets were hit!

Replies: @Dmon, @kaganovitch, @vinteuil

1. What's the age limit?
2. Will they pay for my plane fare there?

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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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Why did the “Lost Generation” [actually more like three lost generations, and it ain’t over] article finally break through the media’s Narrative Exclusion Zone?
 

Yep, it’s been over half a century by my recollection. I know I’ve related this multiple times, but I know someone who was turned down for a great Disc Jockey job - back when that job was pretty much the coolest in the world - due to worries by the manager that they’d best hire a black guy cause the FCC. This was a Country Music radio station.

Why did the “Lost Generation” [actually more like three lost generations, and it ain’t over] article finally break through the media’s Narrative Exclusion Zone? Steve, as a near-perpetual consignee to the NEZ, had some thoughts about it, but I can’t find them now.
 

Steve Sailer Dec 17

I’ve been pointing that out for decades. I presume Savage benefited from my data but also from me as a counter-example of what not to do by my blurting out the various implications of the data rather than focusing on just a few. Savage has been writing really good stuff along these lines for a few years now, but he finally broke through this time by:

1. Combine data and human interest in one article

2. Make the bad guys older white men

3. Don’t mention the IQ Gap

4. Don’t mention the Jews this time as in his 2023 article.
 

Wait, it was about Unterseebooten? Electric or diesel? Did he mention the Decima Mas?

Replies: @Corpse Tooth

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.

Replies: @J.Ross

I don't know why Steve is so proud of "Citizenism." It just proposes that we should follow a procedure of deciding "what's best for Americans," and then do that. But it's totally agnostic as to whether "diversity" or ethnic unity is "best" for Americans. It's like saying "hey, this is an issue, so somebody ought to figure it out and do the right thing!" Such insight.

It's obviously just a way to sit on the fence while passing the buck (to mix metaphors). So that's what Steve has been doing for 20 years.

Replies: @Corvinus, @Corpse Tooth, @Mark G.

Huh, no new biweekly Taki’s Magazine column from Steve today.
 

One Million Words
Steve Sailer
January 01, 2026
 

A Million Words
What are my greatest hits columns in Taki's Magazine over the last 19 years?
Steve Sailer
Jan 05, 2026
 

Discrimination against young White men was an open secret in hiring.
 

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Ryan Girdusky is married and lives in Queens, New York. However, the identity of his husband is not publicly disclosed.