Also, a Nazi sympathizer, yes?

For multiple clear reasons, in the near future, the Big Land Fight of the era will be over the arctic.
Russia is already perfectly positioned.
We are not.
Do you even Great Game, bro?

Good point w/ the photo.

Oilfield work is usually well paid but hard work, long hours much of which is far from home.

For those willing to do hard work, stay sober and drug free, pay is excellent. No degrees needed other than for higher level managers or superintendents. Even those historically were promoted without needing college. Though that helps nowadays.

Much of it almost all, is on the job learning, but also many trade skills like welding or even electrical.

It is a form of mining and like mining, you work hard but can do well. Sometimes dangerous but so is Uber driving.

Nearly all White but minorities can succeed if they want, usually. Very few women try. Fewer stay with it.

Nearly all the physical stuff we use is originally mined in some fashioned.

I spent some time in the oil patch years ago and I never met anyone educated at an Ivy League university. But a lot of Cajuns, Texans, Okies, etc.

These workers are reviled and distained by the Woke/Dem elites. Like other miners and field workers in construction, they are invisible to media/intellectual elites.

To the mostly bi-coastal elites, they are invisible Deplorables who need to stay quiet and do what they are told to do.

One of the best things about the administration’s push to defund the likes of USAID is the future lack of NGO funding that all these useless eaters need to get a job, given their silly degrees.

You know, it’s fucking stupid and disingenuous what Zionist apologists tell us in their efforts to deflect our minds and our discourse from the fucking pain in the ass that is Israel

Your intemperate attitude here is getting worse. So, people who support the existence of Israel should just “shut up’? How about supporters of Muslim terrorism?

The Zionist Jews (some not all Jews) got their “state” post WWII and WWI when the Turks were on the wrong side in WWI. The Brits, who took over Palestine post WWI, decided after WWII that letting persecuted Zionist Jews back to their Biblical homeland was a solution to a problem for them.

That was in 1948, before you (maybe) and I were born. And before nearly all Gazans were born.

I am not Jewish, and neither I or virtually all of the Jews I know or have known support “Zionism”.

But it is now a historical fact of reality. Despite numerous attacks by neighboring Arab Muslim states to displace “Israel” from former Palestine. Israel has prevailed and now is a nuclear armed state. They aren’t leaving.

Anti-Israel policies by most (not all) neighboring states is mainly used to prop up their local dictatorships by demonizing Izrael to distract citizens from their own horrible governments.

No one has ever made a cause celeb over the fact that Iran and Saudi Arabia have long claimed that their territories are “holy places” where non-Muslims (or the “wrong kind of Muslims”) cannot visit or live. Certain places there are considered part of their religious heritage and must always be owned by Muslims.

This is “Muslim Zionism”.

Non-Jews (Arab Muslims) can be and are legal citizens of Israel and can reside there peacefully. Even Christians. Certain citizenship rights are limited, just like for non-Muslims in Arab nations.

Why do you care as an American about something that happened far away in 1948?

Do you now hate Italians for the Roman conquest of Gaul (now France) circa 40 BC for their killing and enslavement of millions of Gauls? After all, it was long ago. Romans either stayed there or eventually left.

Eventually the Arabs will tire of attacking Israel (like some now) and the entire issue will be moot.

It’s not our problem whether or not the Romans or Jews barged in some territory and took over before we were born.

I’m not interested in being a stooge for Arab dictators and their mercenary mafias. Italy and France now get along well, for the most part (some horse trading over the eastern Riveria, now France again.)

There are tons of liberal Jewish (American) journalists & TV host shows who are explicit about their opinion that Israel is a terrorist colonial enterprise & has no right to exist at all.

And?

Nothing

Dumbass.

I hate to name call here but you are either deliberately lying or are willfully ignorant.

This entire subject is about foreign student visa holders in the US.

The fact that some American Jews dislike current Israeli policy towards Gaza and echo the pro Gazan line (as do some Israelis in Israel) has zero to do with the subject of deportation of student visa holders and others who, when public ally vocal about supporting (official terrorist group in question) Hamas recently by the State Department.

When you are here as a “guest “of the US government, you have to be mindful of that status.

The Trump administration has taken a different view of that guest status than did Biden and public protest about policies supporting official terrorist labeled groups.

Does the government of wherever you live have a different view of foreign guests publicly supporting groups they have labeled as “terrorists”? Which have killed citizens of that nation?

This hijab nut who will leave upon finishing her dumb studies is no threat to American society.

Let’s not overlook the fact that many, not all, of these foreign grad students are also or mainly looking for that “Mrs.” or “Mr.” degree from some hapless Americano.

Few are candid about this, but in reading bios of “experts” or “researchers” from Woke and leftist blogs or publications, many are foreigners who married a US citizen (at least for a while). Thus allowed to remain here as a citizen.

While nature can take its own course in these, more than a few are carefully planned out in advance.

I would say it’s especially true of Third World/Muslim females, whose own domestic prospects are generally dim. These female students are smarter than average, after all.

In conclusion, many of them are not in the “who will leave” category.

(1) Send her home
(2) Send her home
(3) No she didn’t. You don’t have to break any laws to be sent home. Send her home.
(4) No, she’s not. Also, she’s of no benefit to the USA. Send her home.

Yeah, you’re an indifferent observer, because you don’t live here. If I live in your country – what’s it, The Ukraine? – and I’m studying Underwater Basketweaving there, doing a post-doc, in fact, using facilities paid for by Ukrainian taxpayers, and I write some pro-Russian, pro-UK, whatever, letter, and it turns out after someone looked into my visa that I’m really of no benefit to The Ukraine, I wouldn’t have any argument really if they SENT! ME! HOME!.

What’s is so hard about this to understand?.

This Turkish student wrote some pro-Palestinian piece in some local paper (or something similar). As far as I know-this is not against your laws.

After all the chatter here about “foreign grad students” you seem to remain willfully ignorant.

If she is a “foreign student visa” admittee to the US, she is here at the discretion of the US State Dept.

That Department, under a new administration (have you noticed that?) has taken the stance that in response to recent pro Hamas demonstrations, riots, attacks on self-identified Jewish students, etc. that foreign student visa admittees who publicly proclaim support for US govt. described “terrorist organizations” are subject to having their visas revoked and thus, must go home.

Wherever you are a citizen, I assume that government would take a similar position about a student visa holder doing much the same for their “terrorist group” advocacy.

US citizens are free to say what they want, short of advocating violence.

I might remind you and others that the Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea” is a thinly disguised advocacy of “genocide” for Israelis. How else would they “reclaim” this territory otherwise. This isn’t a slogan for renewed negotiations, is it?

Funny to see a Muslim woman student defending Muslim terrorists. Most Muslim nations (though not Türkiye) don’t permit women to pursue advanced graduate degrees at home. Some don’t even permit them university admission. Some, like Afghanistan, don’t permit them to learn to read.

“Sauce for the goose but not for the gander.”

is the filmed ICE seizure of a woman off the street

No.

Once again, drama but no actual facts. So what if it was “filmed” or “she was taken off the street’?

Mere window dressing. Arrests aren’t fun.

I therefore must speculate that you are referring to some Green Card holder foreigner, maybe a low tier academic or grad student, who may have penned a pro Hamas editorial or something.

The State Department (not “right-wingers/conservatives”) have deemed Hamas a foreign terror group since some of the people it killed and kidnapped in Israel are American citizens. The State Department has a policy, now, of revoking public advocates of terrorist organizations from US residence via Green Card.

This the best you got? As I have previously posted here, no foreign country would act differently for a visa holder foreigner who was similarly publicly cheerleading for some group it deemed a foreign terrorist group. No Arab state and probably no EU state would hesitate to boot them out. Arrested and beaten first, in Muslimland.

Most of those won’t let their own citizens do that. When you are a guest, you shouldn’t preach about how much his neighbor hates the host for good and proper reasons.

Or maybe you are that kind of guest…

You all are the fucking peanut gallery.

and

This place depresses me.

After bragging here about your wonderful dinner, life, etc. you come and say this here?

Tired of defending Hamas are you? (I’m tired of them too, btw).

You are unique here, lately anyway, in bragging about your personal life and yet come here to comment, sometimes lucidly, but then dismiss us all as inferiors.

“Sitting in his multistory log cabin in the mountains, eating off golden plates. Yet, ennui has set in again. He glances at his laptop. So tempting. She, the apple of his eye, beautiful, ignores him and searches instead for some fun streaming. He then pops open the laptop, finds the saved icon, and taps to quietly go in. Those silly fools, why do I bother, yet, again…”

She has a common disease in this kind of discourse.

Cynicism masquerading as wisdom.

A lot of righties have that too. “Greta” I don’t know what swamp she’s from.

“She”…

This kind of “argument” is intellectually a cop-out and is usually done to clog the discourse with hopelessness/helplessness.

“Go home and watch TV”. Etc.

I suspect many are Chinese being paid to do this. Though I see some similar stuff on rightwing sites where cynicism is worn like a shield against rational argumentation and logic. “Things aren’t now perfect so everyone is corrupt.” etc.

Fuck you. People hate Israel because it’s evil.

This is level of discourse you bring here.

Even worse than Corvy, most of the time.

I don’t think Israelis ram cars into crowds in Germany or shoot/blow up groups of civililans on the streets there and sometimes in the US.

Do they hijack airlines and crash them into city buildings? They never did that even in hostile Arab nations.

Fortunately very few Muslims are insane terrorists. But far more than “evil” Israelis.

Culturally they are among the most retrograde groups on the planet, BTW.

Why do you “hate” Israelis, “Colin” or Achmed or Salim or whatever it really is?

Did a smarter Jewish kid keep you out of Medical School? Ha!

Desiccated deflection. Just come out and say that you’re fine with what’s happening.

Your alliteration isn’t an argument, much less a coherent reply.

A claim was made about some kind of “censorship” by Trump or the GOP right but zero details of that were cited.

Rhetorically, I asked if he meant the numerous instances of Woke/left deplatforming, firing, non-hiring, etc. of anyone who took issue with Woke.

I gave examples (commonly known) of Woke censorship, one sided news, etc.

He (and you) thus far hasn’t cited any instance of Trump or “rightwing” censorship, etc.

This nonresponse to my challenge is in no way being “happy with what’s happening” since I still don’t know what that is supposed to be, happening.

I don’t support any suppression of ideas by any “side” unless it is calling for violence or harm to others.

That isn’t the case with Wokies and their political enablers.

Meanwhile, work continues by the powers that be on limiting freedom of speech and criticism of certain groups and certain subjects.

Are you referring to the mass censorship of non Woke commentary on social media for many years until very recently? Or the non-existence of any conservate/right/libertarian/Republican views or commentators on the government funded propaganda outlets like NPR and VOA?

Or the total absence of any conservative or even moderate news commentators on legacy media outlets other than Fox?

The silencing and suppression, and non-employment or even firing of non-Woke professors at major colleges and universities. How many magazines and newspapers are owned or run by non-Democrats or leftists? Any?

You should be more specific.

What about the “thirdworldization” of former President Trump by the Dem/commie political machines?

You know, where the loser of an election is railroaded to jail and accordingly kept off the next presidential ballot?

That is the norm there when they bother to hold elections.

It is also what Putin does (the former, “second world”). Only his former opponents are sent to Siberia first and then die mysteriously from “illness” or something.

The numerous bogus court cases levied against Trump (and his former aides, lawyers, etc.) were all along the South American model. They mostly failed. The one verdict that was “guilty” by a kangaroo NYC court/judge was so serious that, unlike every other guilty verdict in history, no punishment of any kind was levied.

Trump hasn’t started any wars, nor has he jailed any of his former political opponents. Their worst fate in a handful of cases was to be removed from cushy federal jobs or losing access to government “secret intelligence” or favored seats at presidential press conferences.

The Dem/commies tried to keep Trump from running at all. They failed. Now he is more popular than ever.

Even their psyops efforts to murder him failed.

Just wait until more of the dirty secrets from the Biden administration are uncovered.

Then we’ll find out who the “caudillo” really was…

If you’ve ever dealt with TSA/security/government mouth-breathing retarded goons, you know that I mean. Ever since I started writing critical comments here (I mean truly critical of the powers that be, not my previously agreeable comments to Steve) I have magically been taken aside for, cough — “RANDOM” — screening at airports.

Again and again.

It is not random

Your comments here lately have taken on a “all about Buzz” look and feel.

I’m not a fan of the TSA but when the lovely Muslim nutsos (who many here seem to cherish) began hijacking airliners decades ago, something bad had to stop something worse. Or did you forget about 9/11?

I have traveled abroad many times since I began posting here and not once have I been given any unusual extra screening (well, once, overseas…) even that wasn’t much.

I think one of your bad habits (too much drinking) is leading you into the “histrionic” personality disorder.

No, the government isn’t spying on you. They already know from reading your posts you are just another commentator here with opinions.

Maybe the TSA agents are just smelling your breath.

‘However, I have yet to read of any news regarding Israeli citizens going to neighboring countries and attacking civilians in those places…’

Norway? Iran? Tunisia? Libya? Egypt? Jordan? Iraq? Lebanon? Palestine? Germany? Columbia University? UCLA?

A few years ago Texas adopted a “top 10%” GPA for public high school students for admission to their two large flagship state universities (UT and TX A&M).

This resulted in some gaming the admissions system by parents who could afford to move or have their kid move into a worse high school so their own GPA could instantly rise in the final year.

I’m not sure what was done about it. I think they made Senior year transfers harder to do or the GPA had to reflect a longer time span of attendance.

Jock transfers (for football anyway) had long had a two-year requirement with the first year being ineligible for HS football teams.

The history of admitting unqualified students to harder schools shows that most such admittees fail to graduate at all. In Texas, students in second tier state schools (or even private universities) can often gain flagship school admissions if their first two year’s GPA is high enough by some criteria.

This makes sense and ends gaming at the high school level. If you demonstrate high achievement in a less difficult enviroment, you probably can handle classes at better schools overall.

Now then. You know perfectly well the Jews kill whether there is resistance or not.

You aren’t Buzz Mohawk who I was responding to.

But now in reply to my argument you claim that committing a war crime by not surrendering when your military has been driven out of a foreign land and retreating into your own territory and hiding in civilian occupied neighborhoods isn’t a “war crime.”

Your logic? That the IDF would be killing Gazan civilians anyway even if Hamas wasn’t hiding among them in apartments and tunnels?

Wow.

So why did the IDF wait until Israelis were killed and kidnapped to move into Gaza and go after Hamas? If they are simple mass murderers, why now and not 20 years ago?

There are still hundreds of thousands of Gazans (or millions, not sure) living there. If the IDF wanted to “exterminate” Gazans (as criers of “genocide” assert) then the place would be leveled, and everyone would be dead by now.

Israel certainly has the ammo and military to do that.

The IDF has gone to a lot of trouble to avoid killing noncombatants. But when Hamas openly brags about hiding in private apartments, tunnels and occupied buildings, it is hard to avoid civilian casualties.

Your “Jews are merely bloodthirsty demons who kill without distinction” is absurd and contrary to the facts. It doesn’t matter, you insist, because the Hamas war crime hasn’t increased the death toll.

Your Cloud Cuckoo land argument fails to impress.

like much of my Twitter feed comes from Turkish sources, and they are more willing to show the dark side of Zion.

The Turkish government has long been publicly hostile to Israel. They are a Muslim nation officially.

You believe some person from Turkey is not beyond misusing or faking something to post on Twitter/X?

Do you also trust Iranian or Iraqi posters?

You obviously aren’t Armenian.

Maybe this was real and in context, or not. Muslim Palestinians have attacked Israeli citizens in Israel ever since it was founded. Bad stuff no matter who is doing it.

However, I have yet to read of any news regarding Israeli citizens going to neighboring countries and attacking civilians in those places. Violence begets violence.

Although he doesn’t claim to be a “libertarian” “jack johnson” here is happy to tell us about “what they believe.”

So, all Wokies believe the “same thing.” Ditto conservatives, liberals, leftists, moderates?

Yes there is a tiny political party called “Libertarian”. They have a platform which a few dozen or even several hundred party members have voted upon (not unanimously of course) to reflect their views at the time. They do these every four years since 1972.

Does this process involving a few party members establish what all libertarians believe now, today?

How about Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Socialists?

Ayn Rand denounced “libertarians” by the way. Does that affect your analysis?

Your tiresome anti libertarian rants here are foolish.

Did someone calling themselves a libertarian once steal your girlfriend? Boyfriend?

Your claims about Ron and Rand Paul are equally foolish.

If you think these notional “libertarians” are responsible for America’s problems the last few decades, you are living in a different country than I am.

But enjoy your ignorance here. Just stop trying to infect others with your nonsense.

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Why is it that you defenders of war crimes think that I will somehow excuse what you condone, just because my country did terrible things too?

Wow. You totally ignore the comparison between today’s Hamas Gaza redoubt, and Hitler’s Berlin April 1945. Both places full of civilians occupied by a defeated army that won’t surrender.

The “war crime” I originally mentioned, is by the way, the crime of mingling your soldiers among civilian populations who become casualties unwillingly. Held hostage by fighters who hide, hit and run.

In 1945 Berlin the damage was done by Allied bombing and at the end, point blank ground artillery and tanks. German officers would not surrender until after Hitler was dead. Few blame the Allies or the Red Army in particular for those harsh tactics. Defeated armies must surrender or permanent truce.

The Germans got what Hitler asked for and the Gazans are getting what the Hamas leadership asks for.

I hate to bother to comment on this tired topic.

But are those photos of Gaza, or Berlin in April 1945?

When you launch a surprise attack on your neighbors, bad things can happen when your army loses.

Especially when your “leader/leaders” refuse to surrender after being defeated.

If all you do is retreat and hide in the now defeated Capital City and shoot at the victorious army from apartments and tunnels, and increasingly large mounds of ruins, bad things will happen to hapless civilians you are hiding among.

That is a well-recognized War Crime, by the way.

Do you still weep over the many dead and injured Berliners from 1945? Is your point that the Allies should have left a defeated Berlin alone as a Nazi remnant to spare civilians from harm?

Please explain.

Notice how you are led into supporting a series of almost absurdly indefensible propositions. Doesn’t this bother you at all?

Project much?

Along the lines of the Hair is a biological inherited trait, but IQ isn’t, I am still seeking an answer to the recently possible matter of:

what is the name of the “wigged out/electroshock” black female hairstyle?

You know, the female Afro that sticks out in all outward directions anywhere from 5 to 12 inches?

That is made possible by glued onto the scalp plastic extensions to which real/fake hair is also attached or glued.

I have never heard of the name or term for that.

Asking a pro White mostly male audience here must surely yield a prompt and correct answer.

The arc of history bends towards Steve Sailer’s closet. Sailer points to this week’s order to invalidate “Race is Not Real” ideology at the Smithsonian:

NYT: “Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology”

“His executive order faulted an exhibit which ‘promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,’ a widely held position in the scientific community.”

by Steve Sailer
April 01, 2025

While there has been a vibe shift in the more nimble spheres of discourse, in the marble museums of our culture, thinking about race hasn’t moved on at all from the hysteria of June 2020. Thus, from the New York Times’ news section:

Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology

His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a widely held position in the scientific community.

By Zachary Small

Zachary Small is a Times reporter writing about the art world’s relationship to money, politics and technology.

March 31, 2025, 6:39 p.m. ET

When President Trump issued an executive order claiming that the Smithsonian Institution had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” he singled out a sculpture exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

The exhibition, called “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” explores how, for more than 200 years, sculpture has both shaped and reflected attitudes about race in the United States.

The president’s order noted, among other things, that the show “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating ‘Race is a human invention.’”

In interviews, several scholars questioned why the executive order appeared to take issue with that view, which is now broadly held. Samuel J. Redman, a history professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst who has written about scientific racism, said that “the executive order is troubling and out of step with the current consensus.” He added that pseudoscientific attempts to create a hierarchy of races with white people at the top were seen “in places like Nazi Germany or within the eugenics movement.” […]

“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters.”

Race is, of course, about who your ancestors are.

Of course, we’ve had huge advances in the 21st century in DNA scans since DNA entrepreneur Craig Venter more or less socially constructed the Race Does Not Exist conventional wisdom in his speech at the 2000 White House Human Genome project ceremony. Now, if you have four grandparents from one place, such as Provence, commercial race science firms like Ancestry[-dot-]Com and 23andMe can usually nail their average location down to within a hundred miles or so, much less just get correct the continent.

Of course, before mass migration, you could pretty much do the same just by looking at people. As recently as the 2002 World Cup, anthropologist Dienekes could overlay photos of World Cup and other national teams to get a sense of what the indigenous people of each European country look like on average.

[Paywall.]

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-taking-aim-at-smithsonian-trump

Hmm, that’s funny. Israel wasn’t committing any atrocities in Gaza on October 6, 2023. Was there something that the Gazans did on the following day that changed the status quo? Gazans are not opposed to atrocities, they just want to be the ones committing them.

More fake sympathy from “Colin”.

Who probably lives in China.

How do they treat CCP critics on student visas there?

I used to travel on business to foreign countries which were basically some sort of dictatorship.

Believe me, neither I nor my colleagues ever made any public commentary about the local governments. Privately, the expats will fill us in.

Nearly everyone now be bounced out are here shilling for some foreign mafia group (claiming to be political) which the US government has even pre-Trump labeled as a “terrorist” group.

Citizens here may do so. Guests have a shorter leash.

Just go to the UK and start openly criticizing gays, Muslims, Wokesters and see how long it takes to “notice” you, especially if you are vandalizing, social media posting and oh, don’t forget, blockading public schools and universities with your noisy and threatening behavor. Over matters that are occurring in places outside of the UK.

In Mother England, even citizens there are jailed for social media posts the State doesn’t like.

Does anyone ever hear of any pro Israel protests anywhere in a Muslim nation?

“Best to shed your tears for Hamas in private, dearie…”

These open threads are now down to about 15 commentators making 90% of the comments.

You know who…

The signal/noise ratio down considerably.

Colin W and Corvey now vying for 50% or more it seems. Coln W now leading.

I may be forced over to Substack since if comments worth reading get any fewer, not much gold in the gravel here left.

Plus, I’m missing out on New Trends in Golf Course Architecture or film review for stuff I would never watch.

NUUK NOW!

it reminded me of the Gulags in USSR. The people are not even being put on a plane and shipped to their homelands. That would have been preferable to holding them in faraway places indefinitely. I don’t know why the DoJ is so lacking in confidence that that can’t get a charge written up, say ‘National security’, get it stamped from a co-operating judge and put them on an airplane out.

You “don’t know why” because like many here, you are too lazy to do easy research.

First, you know nothing about the actual Gulag. It was nothing like deporting illegal gang members here who have no valid immigration status. Nearly everyone in Stalinist gulags was a citizen of the USSR.

The “reason” the TdA gangsters weren’t nicely flown to Venezuela is that until after the deportations to El Salvador occurred, the Venezuelan government refused to accept deported illegal “migrants.”

Now they have changed that policy, they say.

A relevant recent WSJ story documented the tale of a woe begotten American solo sailor who foolishly thought sailing into Venezuela unannounced (and shipwrecked) was a good idea.

In his 50s, he was accused of being a spy, held in various jails and prisons, and treated harshly like a criminal. After 5 months of captivity, he along with several other accused American “spies” were swapped for some Venezuelans who had been in American captivity for various crimes.

So, the VZ government treats “illegal migrants”, even those washed up on shore, absent their boat, even worse than the US treats theirs.

No nation on earth has let their country become flooded with strangers and no vetting like Biden did. If you travel abroad absent host country permission and procedures, you will be arrested and booted out.

Maybe

I’m just a “conspiracy nut” who belongs in the loony bin.

Maybe. Though “conspiracy nuts” who are later proven correct are then deemed “prophets.” Doesn’t happen often but…

This trend towards reducing candidates by declaring them criminals or ineligible is an old Third World staple.

The Biden Democrats worked hard to disqualify Trump in various ways, but those failed.

Now Europe is working on this, France and Romania, among others. Ukraine no longer bothers to hold elections. In Russia, losing candidates end up in Siberia or dead, or both.

Third party candidates in the US rarely get on ballots and it is quite expensive and time consuming to do so. Every presidential election year some group comes out of the blue to declare a “new party” and run someone, liberalish, usually. A few states have easy ballot access. But reality sets in and most give up.

So, two choices, not just one.

Lawfare is the usual means to exclude candidates. Corrupt DAs, judges, etc.

One reason why Trump is going after DC fixer law firms who worked against him. Also purging Justice Dept lawyers and FBI goons who tried to set him up, harassed him, etc.

Where is that second would be Trump assassin? The guy at the FL golf course. He has disappeared into the ozone. Why?

“Democracy” ain’t for the faint of heart.

My point stands: Sailer is a conventional thinker who supports the powers that be and inserts mainstream assumptions into his writing.

This is a rather odd assertion about our now departed iSteve.

How “conventional” is “noticing” things which are rarely if ever seen in Respectable Media?

How does he, any more than you or I, “support the powers that be’?

Should we be vandalizing Teslaas now? Rioting w/ BLM and antifa? Voting for Kamala?

How does he “insert mainstream assumptions into his writing” any more than anyone else?

He isn’t pro Hitler or Stalin either. People who try to follow your Style Guide here are mostly in nuthouses or posting rants elsewhere. Nor is Sailer required to be a Rebel With All the Causes.

Steve does have an eye for the unusual, but with literally thousands of posts and articles on Unz and elsewhere, how “different” must he be to satisfy your tastes?

Your own stuff here hasn’t been particularly earth shattering either. Most of what we observe is pretty much what it seems to be.

If I had a buck for every bad “prediction” here, I’d be in a much higher tax bracket. But that’s just my sour “mainstream” assumption back in my harness.

The Icelanders protect their language, sure, but they also speak English. No reason why the Irish couldn’t do the same with Gaelic.

They already do. Have a Gaelic radio and TV broadcast. Many local signs are in Gaelic.

That was 50 years ago, probably more now.

But whether languages can be “protected” by such things is another matter. How does this benefit anyone, forcing an ancient language to be used.

Does anyone miss conversational Hittite?

According to Chat GPT, that was a quote by John Wayne!

That reminded me of another John Wayne quote:

“Life is hard, it’s even harder when you’re stupid.”

However, Snopes and other Internet chatter says there is no proof he ever said that.

Well, he should have said it. It’s true and demonstrated daily.

When I read it, I can hear Wayne’s voice saying it…

The intention of the Elon life form is to fuck a lot of people in the face.

Ha! Your crude, rude statements are best kept in the dank recesses of your soul.

I bought ten shares of Tesla for $104/ea. It had been as high as nearly $500 and the WSJ had just bad mouthed it after the new year last year.

I figured it was a steal. I sold half of those recently for about $ 440/ea.

I don’t know where your hate comes from. But it isn’t investment wisdom.

Trying to stop and reverse Fedgov bloat and waste is unpopular with the beneficiaries of that.

Taxation is theft, after all. No one forces you to buy a Tesla or pay for a ride on SpaceX.

Since the Democrats have become nothing but the Party of Hate, I suspect that is where you come from and belong. Please take that elsewhere.

That, I think, is the crucial difference between European West & East, as far as it goes for numerically smaller peoples. That stubbornness of will to be, rooted in history.

Yes, language can make a “people” though not necessarily a nation. As for literature, it is more of a sad historic legacy, practically a “folk tale” than some kind of magic national identity.

Unless things drastically change, minor languages will go extinct. Trade and mass culture already dominate via a small number of European and Asian languages.

People will insist on teaching their children languages which matter to commerce, politics, larger cultures. They may still learn “native tongues” but for how long?

The Chinese are already forcing mass teaching of Mandarin and generally discouraging other languages by non-Han ethnic groups. English is now the dominate language for trade, science and many mass cultural purposes. It is relatively easy to learn, read and write.

Russian serves the same purpose in the far eastern former USSR.

Modern electronic communication has accelerated this homogenization.

The long run effect on “national identity” is more uncertain. But in 500 years, Poland will probably exist as a nation, but few other than scholars will probably write/speak “Polish.”

And what about green card holders–permanent residents of the United States? People who may have paid taxes, contributed to Social Security, have American spouses, professional licenses, parented American children, etc. Is it really right that one man can dismiss them from the country on a personal whim? If that is the law, then shouldn’t it be change

So join the Democrat Party (while it still exists) and crusade for the “rights of foreign visitors” to be treated just like citizens.

In the current cases, those being kicked out (other than gangsters) have openly espoused support for federally designated “terror groups”. I.e. groups which have or espoused violence against Americans and American property.

In what fairy tale foreign land is such outspoken support for enemies tolerated and welcomed?
These people are visitors and should expect to show respect and deference to the wishes of the governments which permit them entry.

How long would you remain in any other nation when publicly agitating and endorsing terror groups which that government has declared criminal? And organizing boycotts and shutdowns of public and private universities in support of said terror groups?

Go to the National University of Spain and shut it down in support of the ETA. See what happens.

Or the Real IRA at Oxford. Or as a foreign student (or even a citizen) close down the University of Berlin to support “Justice for Neo Nazis.”

What fairy tale land do you recommend?

I just assumed that at the conclusion of the Vance’s visit to Nuuk, J.D. would announce the annexation of Greenland as a new US territory.

I am undecided as to whether that would be a good thing.

I think Trump thinks it is a smart long run real estate play for global warming.

“Get it while it’s cheap!”

Meanwhile, promote summer vacation ski trips. The designs for the new Trump Ski Resort and Casino look terrific!

If Al Gore still believes in Global Warming, why has he been so quiet about this? Is he still alive? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Especially in Yemen.

I can still remember news from “North Yemen” and “South Yemen” in the 50s-60s, though the Brits for a while had military troops in one of those, “advisors.”

I believe that the Sunni/Shia Muslim divide is a great factor in the chronic Yemeni fighting.

Today, roughly, the Saudis fund the Sunni “South Yemenis” whereas Iran funds the “North Yemenis” who are mainly Shiite.

Various groups are also referred to as “tribesmen” and “tribes” probably are the main political unit.

None of these groups could fight with anything other than small arms were it not for outside funding and supply.

So, the more things “change” there, the more they stay the same.

Like Ireland, the Catholics and Protestants still don’t get along…

Incidentally, Israel’s kill in Gaza seems to have just surpassed Nazi Germany’s in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Your team, this time. This is what you are.

Let me chime in. Not personal.

So, in your Warsaw Ghetto Uprising analogy, the Israelis are the Nazis. Who is the notional Red Army, sitting outside Warsaw until the show was over?

Seems as if Hamas assumed they could engender some “Arab intervention” there, or somewhere, that would cause the Israelis to back off. No such effort was seriously considered. So other Arabs sat and are still sitting on their hands. Gazans ruled by the Hamas mafia, now getting hit again.

Why do other Arabs shun Gazans and fail to act? Or invite refugee Gazans to take shelter? If things are so horrible. Warsaw WWII Jews couldn’t get out. Gazans can but won’t.

This is what the Hamas terrorist mafia wants.

Freud called it the narcissism of small differences. You couldn’t tell a Serbian from a Croatian to save your life because they are so similar but they hate each other with a white hot passion.

Good point, Jack. See also, Russians and Ukrainians.

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

Hey, that’s great. Thanks!

Wisdom always sounds better in Latin. Or at least more intelligent.

About 50% of the iSteve presence here was the tidbits found in the comments.

Stuff that people got from other websites, online social media, etc. which let’s face it, we’re mostly too busy to look for or find. Things that sometimes get later reported in Respectable Media.

Interesting analysis, but I think things are far more complicated than this.

Who predicted 15 years ago that American “Identity Marxists” of the former SDS terrorists’ kind would have so successfully taken over the old Democrat Party?

But that Woke monstrosity, mostly held together by opportunistic power and money-grubbing motives, has now run out of steam.

The Identity mob held on to Biden for too long because he willingly did their bidding.

With Kamala a failure of that brand of Marxism writ large, they have no place go or hide.

Ignoring the obvious isn’t going to work.

“Victory has 1,000 fathers. Defeat is an orphan.” old military adage

The Democrats usually do best when they pick a southern moderate. LBJ, Carter and Clinton all beat Republican opponents. There are fewer of these southern moderate Democrats than there used to be. Beshear in Kentucky is a possibility. He was able to become governor in a Republican state.

You make some good points.

The problem now is that most of the Dem southern “heroes” are loud, black females who run in black/Dem districts. The white male moderate Dems are hard to find there.

The “back-to-black” Dem strategy in the South relies on a large base of legacy white Dem voters. Aside from govt. bureaucrats and cat lady school teachers, not many of those being created. Black males in particular aren’t big fans of Whimpy Woke and transvestites competing against their daughters at schools.

If they can find a male elected Democrat with authentic military service (in a conflict zone) that is a first start. One with a family and a real wife.

That AZ astronaut they have was good, but now too old and very thin political record. Also, a toady.

I suspect they will default to Gavin Newsom 2.0, pretending California under his one-party rule was a “success.” But he has enemies and people are leaving there for many good reasons, most of which are due to bad politics. Still, he’s what they’ve got now. In a few years, maybe…?

TDS and Woke Brain Rot are diseases not easily self cured. The only thing they hope now is that Trump will somehow fail Big.

“But the Allies will soon start feuding and fall apart!” – A. Hitler, 1944

When I used to visit Maracaibo VZ many years ago, our office was just across the street from a large camp for shanty’s and open tents, fires.

When I asked our locals who lived there, they said it was illegal “migrants” Columbia.

Now, some 50 years later, Columbia has similar camps for Venezuelan migrants/refugees.

The difference is that the former corrupt, leftist civil war ridden Columbia mostly solved its problems while the “clenched fist poster” MAS party (Movement for Socialism) eventually took over Venezuela.

They won one free election; the following ones were not. Like recent American Democrats tried but failed, they outlawed candidates from opposition parties who looked likely to win.

The problem with “refugee creator” nations is bad, insane politics ruins them. Then those trapped there fight to flee rather than remove corrupt regimes.

Danial Ortega’s Sandinista ruling party (and himself) has been running a leftist dictatorship there for years. He was the Left’s favorite project 30 years ago. “Bringing democracy” and all.

“One-two-three many North Koreas!” is their real true motto.

Allowing victims escape en masse to America only postpones the problem.

Citation needed for this claim.

Since the USSR didn’t sign the Geneva Conventions re: POWs, both the Nazis and Communists mutually starved to death or let disease take care of most of their enemy POWs.

Germans put some of them to work, often to death.

About 5% of Soviet German POWs were alive and returned to Germany postwar.

Don’t know about the Soviet POWs. Stalin had most of them put into the Gulags for a while since surrender was a “mark of betrayal.”

Needless to say, Western front German POWs did a lot better.

Immediately postwar in Germany, food was quite scarce. I suspect POWs did as well or better than the civilians. They weren’t deliberately starved.

Thomas Carlyle said it most succinctly. In the South, it was “God bless you. And be a slave.”

Carlyle was wrong of course.

In the slave South it was illegal to teach slaves to read or write (though some were taught). They didn’t want slaves to read the Bible.

Nor were slaves permitted to attend church services. A few were able to both read and hold rump church services.

The hypocrisy was no secret. All major slave holding civilizations held a doctrine that their believers shouldn’t be enslaved. Infidels only.

Fedgov moochers get riled up when their subsidies are cut.

Then they wonder why average Non moochers aren’t marching in the streets for them?

But when the recent Biden administration and the Federal Reserve adopted both “Modern Monetary Theory” (e.g. printing money willy-nilly regardless of consequences) and further inflating our multiple trillion-dollar federal deficit, Trump realized that something must be done.

Moochers of course ran to federal judges whom they knew would be Dem sympathetic, but cutting spending and agencies isn’t some kind of crime.

They are now on the receiving end of their cheerleading for the vast expansion of Presidential executive authority they pushed during the Obama/Biden administrations.

Our mostly useless “allies” abroad are also whining about the harsh reality that their gravy train is over. Why should we pay heavily to protect them? So they can enjoy retirement at 55, 35 hour workweeks and free everything?

Trump told us what he wanted to do and is now doing it. No surprise. And currently this is very popular.

In Bizzaro World Democrat politics, longtime Senate cheerleader Chuck Schumer is being pilloried for Not shutting down the government in a recent vote. Because Woke Dems now suddenly hate the federal government since they no longer are in charge of it.

Chuck didn’t follow the Party Line, as widely announced on CNBC, CNN, PBS and other major news-propaganda outlets.

The Dem Politburo which booted out Poor Joe after a unanimous primary nomination and suddenly replaced him with Kamala Harris, who not a single Dem voter cast a ballot for, is now spiraling into a full frenzied Purge Mode.

Can this party be saved? Or time for a major reset?

I suppose if you’re an unqualified token Black female head honcho, every unkind word starts to feel like a hemp fiber closing around your neck…

The main problem is that she didn’t have the most important liberal administrator characteristic which is knowing when to lie and when to stay quiet.

Being a liberal administrator is more work than most here realize.

It’s not enough to be completely full of shit. There are a lot of nuances with the complexity of the lies that they have to maintain. It’s a complex acting job that requires remembering all kinds of contradictions with subrules and special exemptions. You need the ability to lie and also must have an excellent memory with a key understanding of the central narratives that are being presented to the public. Any amateur can work the job for a while until being grilled by an outside source which is what happened. That’s when the University couldn’t cover for her.

She was clearly out of her league and I guess they couldn’t feed her answers on the back of those glasses.

My father’s company usually had a helicopter parked in front of the headquarters building to take executives to the airport and wherever else.

Does this still happen that much, in our age of teleconferencing, Skype, WhatsApp, and so on?

I suspect less so. Helicopters are rarely used for simple commuting (see, recent military chopper crash in DC, Koby Bryan, etc.) and they are noisy and expensive to own/operate.

In recent years the IRS has gone ballistic on all “deductible” private aircraft by companies or individuals. Onerous recordkeeping and high likelihood of audits. Also, expensive personal tax via personal miles attributed, so expensive for users to use aircraft for other than “necessary” purposes.

The existence of corporate takeover firms monitoring companies for perceived lavish perks also puts this in unfavorable light. Many corporate executives don’t want to be seen as pampered travelers in public. Workforce doesn’t like it.

Few businesses have HQ or large buildings in areas zoned for private aircraft takeoffs/landings.

The danger level for helicopters is many times worse than for fixed wing aircraft.

This kind of travel mainly used for branch to HQ trips or for firms in smaller remoter locations.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM, not the grifters) land is largely unhabitable.

The land adjacent to private ranches is usually leased out to ranchers for their herds. Some is adjacent to small subdivisions or towns but usually very remote. Ranchers can offset costs by repairing fences and roads, maintaining firebreaks and other services.

Other large bits are indeed deserts or tundra in the Arctic/subarctic or are large chains of Rocky Mountains and smaller ranges.

Only small bits near large cities could be used for housing.

“Land shortage” isn’t a major factor in housing prices, other than in a few places hemmed in by water or large mountains and steep hills.

New developments for housing face much bigger hurdles. Political, mainly. But also cost of installing new roads, utilities, drainage/sewers, water lines, bridges and similar. Also, hazards like heavy forestation or flammable brush, steep drainage, earthquake and avalanches.

The real estate industry is very intelligent and knowledgeable about opportunities.

Yes. black female hairdoos.

When I asked my female hair cutter about those more recent black female “electric shock” sticking-way-out Afro doos, (what are they called? how are they made to stick out 7 inches?) I was told that it was “hair extensions”.

When I inquired further about their length from the scalp/head, she told me that they were also glued to plastic hair extension “braces” (or whatever the technical term is) and the hair is glued to them to stick out.

The hair extends further than the plastic and black braces aren’t usually even visible.

When my reply “whuuu…?” was heard, she said, “that’s why you see so many black women with bald heads now. When the hair style is changed or cut, those plastic extensions must be unglued.”

So, cutting off all of that hair completely is often done. The braces are, therefore, somehow glued to the head before the hair is poofed out. Still don’t know what that style is called.

That “head ‘o hair” must be pretty bulky and heavy. Not much fun to sleep on or in hot weather (coming soon!).

There are many “beauty supply” stores where I live (diverse big city) so I guess some of this is do-it-yourself stuff, though I suspect the Shocked Afro look is best done, expensively, in a salon.

I doubt of the Men of Unz like myself have much insight into this, but I though I’d share what little I know.

By comparison, Michelle/Mike here looks pretty tame.

“Give me a Minnie Mouse Triple…”

Which caption comes closest to explaining why this woman was lynched in Congress?

Alas, this didn’t happen.

She resigned as president, and I believe is still on the faculty.

She came under a lot of public criticism and her board of trustees decided she wasn’t worth the trouble.

Congress, some, had nothing to do with it other than some members criticizing her.

I suppose if you’re an unqualified token Black female head honcho, every unkind word starts to feel like a hemp fiber closing around your neck…

This gives a clue which is the fat percent of calories correlate with cancer incidence.

Correlation v. causation aside, are you saying that urban, Western people eat more fat or less? (And what kinds of fat?) I honestly don’t know.

At present, we are living in a time when we are hearing all kinds of things about diet, often conflicting. “More fat, less fat, more protein.” “Cholesterol doesn’t matter.” “There is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol.” “Eat more fiber.” “Eat eggs and butter.” “Avoid sugar.” “Avoid carbs.” “Avoid flour.”

The government food pyramid was definitely upside down, that’s for sure.

Do certain fats clog our arteries or not? A lot of Hungarians that my wife knew died of cardiovascular problems, and those people eat a lot of meats and fats. Sausages. Pork fat, etc. There is a correlation, but is it the cause? Are they just genetically problem-prone with regard to their blood flow? BTW their high fat diet is practiced very much in non-urban, poorer, less developed villages as well as cities. High fat diets are very common among the commoners in many places.

Also, French people famously enjoy lots of cheese and wine. It’s true, and they also are famously seldom fat. (I don’t know about their cardiovascular health.) They also made nuclear power a big part of their electrical system, with no apparent harm as far as I can tell.

So, who knows? I once lived on fig bars for two weeks in my log cabin, and I was as fit as a mountain lion. I tend to think humans can live on whatever they can find to eat.

My advice, based on personal success: Watch your calories. Eat lots of protein. Keep the carbs down. Avoid sugars, including fruits and juices. Avoid man-made additives. Buy your own, quality ingredients and prepare them yourself. Don’t eat until noon. Exercise, both by walking/moving around a lot and working with weights. Don’t drive yourself crazy trying to follow all of the latest advice you see on all the media all over the freaking place. Know that God is the final decider, and that your body works its way and others might differently. Do what works for you. You will die someday, so try to enjoy the ride in the meantime.

The first thing that Chinese and Japanese observed from dealing with whites is that whites had zero honor in dealing with each other.

Just another anti-White trope put here by a seeming Asian commentator.

“Honor” is in the eye of the beholder.

Just ask any Chinese person about the honorable Japanese. Or a Korean. And probably, vice versa.

There are plenty of barbaric historical acts committed by various Asians of all kinds. Such citations about Europeans fail to establish any kind of proof.

Or, if you aren’t already enjoying your life in North Korea, you might want to try your “bromance” there. Let everyone here know how wonderful it is after you’re there for a while…

The Act effectively removed the impoundment power of the president and required him to obtain Congressional approval if he wants to rescind specific government spending.

Thanks for your follow up. The quote here is from the Wikipedia article you cited.

However, it fails to clarify how “impoundment” actually works. As opposed to simply no longer spending funds which Congress appropriated but which the current Department Secretary or President (who appoints them at his pleasure with Senate approval) no longer chooses to spend.

If “impounding” is some explicit, formal way of declaring that “we no longer want to spend $ XX million on project/purpose Y” then maybe this Act speaks to Trump’s current situation.

Yet Trump doesn’t appear to have declared any “impoundments” with recent spending announcements regarding cuts or not funding certain things.

Is not spending a prior authorized budgeted sum an “impoundment”?

I am unaware that there is any legal restriction about “not spending” an entire budgeted amount. For deciding during a fiscal year that a certain project or plan is no longer necessary or needed.

The Executive Branch controls agencies which are funded by congressional approval. But as far as I am aware no appropriation can dictate whether or not the Executive Branch must spend the funds even when approved.

I think the crux of the current legal arguments about Trump’s declared “cuts in spending” have not been sufficiently clear in recent news accounts.

Otherwise, it seems, any budgeted but unspent funds at the end of a fiscal year would be seemingly “mandated” to be spent on the budgeted purpose. But that isn’t the case, is it?

Here I will note my latest question about recent “court rulings” by lower federal courts trying to prevent DOGE and Trump from drastically cutting federal govt. employee head counts and huge amounts of (presumably) previously congressionally approved budgeted spending.

While there have been prior references to “impounding” such spending (what does that exactly mean?) I am unaware that in prior Executive branch departments and agencies there was some rule or law that made “not spending” an entire budgeted sum of funds illegal or unconstitutional.

Yes, the old joke about buying a years’ worth of copy paper on the last day of the budget year so as to not reflect a dreaded spending “shortfall” exists. But when was any law or decision made that said that NOT SPENDING every authorized budget dollar was a crime?

If Trump orders his department heads to spend less, that seems a legitimate Executive branch decision and function. Surely, after a war or emergency is declared (as in the past) some agencies are told to increase spending (say, Defense) whereas other departments (say, Transportation) might be ordered to decrease spending below authorized upper limits.

Where is the law that says departments “must spend every dollar’?

If Trump says, no more AID spending this year, why is that “illegal’?

To date the discussions, I have read about this matter appear to ignore this issue.

Budgets normally constrain upper spending limits, not mandate spending 100% of budgeted amounts.

Logically you’d think that the attitude of various minorities in white nations would be “thank you”–a grateful appreciation of what white people have built. But that of course is not how human psychology works for a lot of folks. Some groups and personality types are just “butt hurt” by the reality that other people built nice stuff without them and don’t need them around at all.

Kind of instantly made me think of a recent “nonracial/ethnic” incident demonstrating this.

When Zelenskyy (note the politically correct dual “y”!) was on camera w/ Trump and Vance.

Mr. Z mumbling on and on about his “needs” whereas JD gave him the lecture on gratitude.

The counterintuitive emotional response to receiving aid (for most men and non grifters) is to feel resentment over being helpless and needy.

If you make them earn it, they may feel gratitude about the opportunity. If you gift it, the emotion is sulky resentment.

Has the Trump Administration released this year anything that wasn’t already available to the public on Epstein or JFK?

Asking others to do heavy lifting research for you is pretty lazy, wouldn’t you agree?

The JFK stuff just came out this week. The Epstein stuff has been out for a month or two but researchers of that (I suspect tabloid writers and TDS sleuths) have said not much of interest.

So far, “no new names” on the flight manifests…

Mr. Unz may have an interest in that but to casually ask him to do magic eight ball answers for you is really more about you.

Have you personally ever done any tedious document research?

Come back in six months and I’m sure some good links about “secret good stuff” will be available.

While I am not anti-Jewish or in the “Holocaust is a myth” camp, there is something “off” about the constant whining and complaining about “anti Semitism”.

A good recent example is in the 3/18/25 WSJ editorial opinion page, by one Gerald Baker. He is a seeming neocon and one of their reliable TDS opinionators.

In this piece, titled “Anti Semitism Rears Its Head on the Right” Baker manages to attack Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan for appearing on podcasts and the like which have or in Rogan’s and Carlson’s cases, hosted people who are either Holocaust deniers or critics of Israel.

What is disturbing about this often-seen critique is that this is the one rare subject where usually rational commentators go full Stalin-Mao or just ugly authoritarian.

“Some subjects must never be discussed, much less in public!”

Are there any other topics treated openly and frequently like this? By normally “liberal minded” public intellectuals or opinionators?

One can find, here and there, people who still champion Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Franco, et.al. and numerous other figures or movements which certainly are minority or freakish views. People claiming that either bad things didn’t occur or if they did, they are exaggerated or unfairly described.

Yet none of those minority opinions are ever subjected to the “just shut up!” kind of hectoring that Baker and similar ilk want to hammer down regarding anti-Jewish subjects or events.

What ever happened to “free speech is the best disinfectant” idea?

Bad ideas or narratives are best challenged by open debate. Not banishment to dark and unseen or unheard realms of discourse.

Then there is also a virulent strain of “guilt by association” if one even offers to hear some of these anti-Semitic ideas being put forth by someone.

I have found, here on Unz and elsewhere, when I bother to read some research ideas put forth on these topics, that the evidence is not compelling or solid. Evidence piles up and conclusions are drawn based on preponderance of evidence and logic. Not necessary to label any such discourse as taboo.

Let sunlight prevail! There are always flat earthers or people who think the moon landings are all fake. Adults in the US run around pretending to be “furries” for kicks, or mental illness.

So what?

Forbidden fruit has it’s own bizarre appeal. If we respect people, we have to respect their right to decide things for themselves, right or wrong.

Jews are, in general, famously argumentative and fans of debate. To make them a subject of discourse taboos doesn’t do them any favors. Their history needs no Iron Guard of censorship.

Well, I should be on the “approved” list. So, I will find out.

But where will we find the news about golf, baseball stats history, movie reviews (remember movies?) and the other dozens of faves from iSteve?

The answer is Substack, but that seems to be pretty corporate and confusing.

Here on Unz we can see what the neo-Nazis are thinking, if at all. Or the conspiracy theory de jure.

While I’m sure iSteve has the March Magic bracketeering all done up, I’m not too interested.

Maybe iSteve will visit here again, now and then. Tout his latest Substack pieces.

I hope he’s making money there. Or he just spiffing up his venue to gradually edge onto those Fox News chat shows?

For now, I’ll hang out for a time at Mr. Unz’s Smoky Pool Hall of Ideas. Eventually we throw out the obnoxious ones and crazies. Maybe visit Substack if I ever get a real date…

tl;dr: it’s worse than you think, but all the layoffs will almost certainly depress prices somewhat.

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.

“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.

about their extreme narrative bias – it’s not news, it’s 24/7/365 indoctrination

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

“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?”

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!”

“Don’t you mean memoir?”

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.

“Some random jerk on the internet” with the makings of quite a novel.

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…

And now I’m just some random jerk on the internet, go figure.

This is the one part of your colorful tale that is truly believable.

Of course, here you have a lot of similar company.

After nearly 1,000 comments I come back to this.

A handful of regulars, many not worth reading normally, and spats between some of them.

Most are off topic as usual. I came back to see what had happened and it is kind of boring.

There is likely a growing set of research papers on this phenomenon. How threads on topics eventually devolve into less and less new or worthy content over time.

Maybe shut-ins start to become the more regular posters. Probably some sociological insights about all of this, “last posting” stuff.

I’m closing in on # 1,000 here so my own sludge will nearly close it out.

Your Libertarian Derangement Syndrome is showing again.

All the yak about immigration into the US unchecked? Biden wasn’t any kind of ‘libertarian’ yet this was his policy. So, blame the libertarians.

Rand didn’t consider herself a libertarian and later, denounced them as drug taking hippies.

You are full of “what libertarians think” but can barely cite any evidence other than a few (maybe true) bits of the Libertarian Party Platform, which no one cares much about. Even Party members. Also, that is constantly revised was never a “future blueprint” with all the details worked out.

Trump’s current policies, since January, have largely been “libertarian” in direction and intention, yet Trump isn’t calling himself a libertarian.

I guess until they find a vaccine for libertarian derangement syndrome, we’ll just have to endure it.

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).