Come back to Austin Steve. Please!

But, maybe, just maybe, leave that Jeremy Carl guy at home.

“I didn’t see too many people on the trains, ”

I took the train to your event, Steve. I’d say it was about 50% full both ways. I was kinda surprised to see so many riders.

“Give me the Hill Country any day.”

I’m partial to the northwest corner of the hill country up around Mason county. I remember my dad used to like driving around there a lot in the 80’s, probably bleeding off anger toward his teenage son, yours truly.

Hi Steve, I didn’t see this question in your FAQ for the Noticing Tour:

I ordered the book and tickets, and have received a shipping notification. I may have missed it, but I haven’t received any info about the tickets or venue information. Does that arrive with the book delivery?

Thanks!

you nailed it!

The claw in the machine drops into the bay. Which is more probable?

1. A plush bunny is retrieved.
or
2. A plush bunny and a plastic lizard are retrieved

Is Nuland’s departure a signal to Russia that the US is ready to start talking about talking? https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/how-pave-way-diplomacy-end-war-ukraine

Biden bows out at convention. Newsom is the nominee.

Trump dies is incapacitated. Haley is nominated.

Bobby Kennedy looks to win the election, but Haley gets it.

Musk steps away from Tesla and seeks to unload twitter.

An impeccably timed earthquake rocks Iran.

The reverse repo market triggers an equities flash crash.

No one announces a cure for cancer.

Substack gets cancelled like Parler did.

The US surges troops into Syria

Zelensky is kicked out, Ukraine makes lasting peace with Russia.

You’re a celebrity, Steve! Like a middle aged based white guy’s Taylor Swift?

Maybe all of us here crave your validation, by approving our comments. But not me! I’m too proud! (refreshes page obsessively)

Ted says that the Green party’s priorities are demilitarization and kneecapping the rich. Two things I can get behind.

But aren’t Greens wacko climate fanatics who oppose nuclear reactors and push frauds like biomass fuels? And are they truly ambivalent about DEI and gender lunacy, as Rall claims?

Thanks for letting us all know, Steve. Hope you get a refreshing break. You certainly earned it.

Add to the deep state theory of Carlson’s castration a simpler explanation.

The Murdochs need favorable treatment by the US government. By castrating Carlson, they can plausibly call in favors from Schumer in the Senate, and Cortez in the House. Both publicly called for the cancellation of Tucker. Simple transactional psychopathy.

People talk about how Carlson will just find another platform, but the Deep State has a solution for that: The RESTRICT Act. This Act grants an Executive agency broad and loosely defined authority to label American citizens as threats to national security; to fine and imprison us.

It’s “just deserts”, not “just desserts”, FFS.

Count me as clued-in now. I didn’t realize that ‘just desserts’ wasn’t considered wrong because it logically made since. In my mind, it was about receiving an earned after-meal plate of desserts; kinda like a natural cobsequence. So, I’d always spelled it with two esses, like Rall does here.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

No, I won’t vote for Desantis. He’s a neocon in sheep’s clothing.

You had a great argument, stellar really, up to this point:

You cannot grant heterosexual people a legally sanctioned right of union if you do not grant the same to homosexuals. If you want to make marriage a special religious ceremony, then that’s different. But legally? No.

Does ‘marriage’ fit your individual rights before the law argument? Isn’t a marriage two people? A group? A legal entity separate from an individual? Surely people have the right to do whatever they want in private, but does that give them claim to a governmental endorsement of their union? I think marriage exists for children, and there is a sincere public interest in government enshrining marriage in legal formality. What public good comes from gay marriage? Gay married couples can’t produce children who are legitimate.

I can see an implicit right of children to have their parents’ union protected. But what gives gay people the right to have the government bless their union as marriage? The supreme court?

I honestly don’t know the answer, but I know gay marriage is a bad idea. The rest of western civ felt the same way until like yesterday.

Again, great defense of rights and liberalism but you lost me with gay marriage. In fact, that’s exactly what caused me to stop voting democrat.

Females not only are much more interested in inflicting emotional distress – like ostracism as you mentioned – they are far more likely to appeal to authority

Really appreciate you bringing this up. As a father of daughters, and as a husband, I know exactly what you are talking about.

Expecting another person or government authority to solve personal problems is a very childish and/or feminine impulse. It is a trap if you allow someone to solve your problems because your happiness then becomes dependent upon that other person. You owe them something. If the other ‘person’ solving your problem is the government, then you’ve got an even bigger set of problems. Women and other identity groups, in my experience, participate in the dynamic as a matter of course without understanding the ramifications.

Of course, I don’t mind solving the problems of the women in my life when they pin me down and leave me no way out. But I resist!

Emil Kirkegaard did a nice piece on the fairer sex recently: https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/rationality-and-the-fair-sex?publication_id=521681

As a man who has always supported female equality, I’m starting to have doubts. It seems to me that the masculine is generally interested in laws as an equitable method for arranging societies.

Increasingly, I’m seeing that the feminine is interested in rules revolving around what is fashionable. What is fashionable – for example the idea that sex is a fungible identity, must be enforced by rules.

Ostracism for those who are unfashionable. Jail for criminals who break laws.

What we are seeing in Western Civ is the ascension of the feminine taking power away from men and their laws. Mom’s rules, if you will, where the appearance of fairness becomes justice; right and wrong no longer exist. All that matters is elite political fashion trends.

Wish I were a better writer.

Agree.

I can’t attend the rally tomorrow, but I did buy a tee shirt that arrived yesterday. I’ll wear it proudly tomorrow in solidarity. I hope I encounter some of my ‘liberal’ friends and get the chance to open a conversation with them.

https://rageagainstwar.com/

Despite pressure to the contrary from their friends at the highest levels of the political and financial establishment, publishers Arthur Sulzberger and Meg Greenfield set aside their usual caution and helped bring down President Richard Nixon

Oh Ted. What you are describing is a coup, not an example of ethical excellence in journalism. Are you seriously not aware of Woodward’s resume? Are you ignorant of how many of the Watergate burglars were CIA assets?

Perhaps you’re not aware of how President Nixon, elected with an extraordinary majority, was overthrown by our own intel agencies.

The New York Times is doing what they’ve always done: manufactured consent.

FWIW, I didn’t find the nitpicking bothersome. A story as explosive as Hersh’s needs to be viewed critically and you did that.

It could be true you missed the forest for the trees, while you attended to the devil in the details. So what!

I was born in 1970 and my generation felt nuclear anxiety. So did boomers, but not mellenials or younger. Recall the Jason Robards movie, ‘The Day After.” But I never had dreams about nuclear war until last night. Sitting with my wife in my dream I saw the missile come down, the explosion, and heard myself urging my wife to run. She, an ignorant liberal, refused to budge. I woke up. I blame Nuland et al for my nuclear anxiety, neocons generally and incurious US citizens.

Exposing the hypocrisy is a mitzvah of hope that the truth will spread, and Whitney has done more than his fair share.

I doubt Hersh’s story is completely accurate. It’s like a pipeline lab leak theory limited hangout. It may not have the details right, but it correctly fingered the perpetrator, and that’s what matters.

Hi Sulu,

I take it you have no intention of facing reality with respect to race.

As a regular reader of UR, Sailer, Kersey, Derbeyshire, G. Loury, E. Kirkegaard, C. Murray, et. al, I, well… what more needs saying? Most Americans have been trained to pretend otherwise, but everyone knows about racial differences. E.v.e.r.y.o.n.e.

His race comes into the discussion because his actions demonstrate for the millionth time that blacks of any age are typically the most violent and criminality prone of all the races.

Depends on the crime, but I take your point. However, hyper-focusing on his race doesn’t draw positive attention. It turns decent people off.

The reason that White people use pejoratives like “niglet” and “Bantu” is because we are sick and tired of the endless disfunction emanating from the black race.

The reason people call names is because they are angry and lack the discipline, intellect, vocabulary, or experience to be heard without using loaded language. In other words, young children. I’m not saying that is you, but it’s generally true.

Every damn bit of this can be laid at the feet of black culture but instead of addressing that little fact you whine about name calling.

Would it make you feel better if I acknowledge that there’s a problem with Black culture in that it is not working well for its constituency? I think most people know this. The problem is, what to do about it. The US has been trying to solve this problem earnestly since at list ’65. All the obvious interventions have been tried.

Speaking of blame, why not lay it where it truly belongs:

https://rumble.com/v1zybe4-they-own-everythingthey-dont-care-about-youthey-got-you-by-the-balls..html

Until you wake up and call out blacks for their own disfunction the problem will not have a solution.

You’d have me do what, confront this six year old’s mother and call out her son’s dysfunctional behavior, suggesting, as you did, that he should be placed in a burlap sack and drowned?

When I said that people on UR throwing around derogatory terms for Black people are a bunch of pussy little faggots, I wasn’t talking about you Sulu.

Can’t get through these comments. So many retarded children using offensive terminology for black people. Negro, Bantu, etc. Geez, could you morons please go back to 4chan or your parents basement and leave us civilized people alone?

Using offensive language to gain attention is the behavior of a young child. You look like idiots, unless you are in fact 5 years old.

This child is 6 years old. In what retarded works view does his race come into the discussion.

What the hell happened to him for this horrific chain of events to unfold. Someone is to blame, and obviously it can’t be a six year old child.

All you racists are closeted faggots.

And the current President is being blackmailed, not to send more weapons and men to Ukraine, but to stop the WWIII.

I think the opposite is more likely – that the CIA wants M1 tank deliveries to Ukraine and Uncle Joe’s handlers are getting cold feet about the whole thing..

One thing I wish more Americans understood is, whether Biden or Trump, the worship of classified documents is a peccadillo only of the CIA. So, we know who the true enemy is.

Right, and in all likelihood China knew covid was really pretty mild. They must also have known it was a Us bio-attack. What does China do? Act like it’s a world ending virus, spreading scary videos of people dead in the streets and hospitals built in a week.

Net result, the US population loses its mind and suffers worse consequences than China.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and china finally admits, by ending covid zero, that there never was anything to worry about.

China’s response to Pompeo’s stupidity is truly amazing – China won the battle.

I presume they are lying about the reason flights are frozen. When aren’t they liars?

Absolutely gorgeous narration, Dr. Thompson. Merry Christmas!

And here we receive the latest staged event in which the ‘liberal’ play-actor Mr. Rall presents faux humility in defense of the rich who run vith parties. Unless, Ted, you earnestly believe that voting matters? That there are two distinct parties of the people? That ‘diversity’ is anything other than a plot to divide the people against themselves while the rich bend us over?

Perhaps you think Oswald acted alone?

Meanwhile, the bipartisan-endorsed vote rigging in Nevada and Arizona continue. Seems ‘the democrats’ are doing just fine; and so are ‘the republicans’. It’s the parties that count the votes, not the people. The people have become too distracted to see the truth.

‘Democracy is on the ballot.’ Good one.

Haha musicals. You nailed the punchline Kylie

The conversation we need to be having is about our collective cowardice in the face of certain destruction.

Instead, we chatter on about palace intrigue like a pack of women.

How about this instead, Ted? Revoke all business licenses and access to US courts for any entity employing non-American labor, whether off shore or in America. That would solve the wage issue and remove the need for massive military budgets without destroying capitalism.

Regarding your health care comparisons, apples v oranges son. Talk to me about German/UK health care after a few more years of refugee invasions.

Who will enforce your ban on the worst weapons if not the nation with the worst weapons?

No offense, Ted, but your suggestions are those of an enemy of the Constitution.

I did not say that not voting would solve any problems. I did say that IF you want to break the two-party (multi-party) system, then don’t vote.

I think you made it explicit that the two party (multi-party) system is the problem and you propose that the solution is not to vote. Look, I can understand the impulse. There is very little difference between the two marquee parties in the US. For example, the US House/Senate voted overwhelmingly to go to war with Russian in Ukraine.

Right from the very beginning, government was constantly seeking to infiltrate, investigate, and intimidate those citizens, passing legislation which was designed to transfer power and wealth from said citizens to government AND making war on them if they resisted.

Such is the nature of power and politics. So it has ever been.

As a thought experiment, what would happen if everyone suddenly decided not to vote. Vote counts came out zeroes across the board. Would that be a victory? How would that likely play out? Do you think all the elected officials would pack up their offices at the end of their terms and go home, ending democracy? Is that what you want?

How am I to know that your motives are pure?

How does me not voting solve any problem?

But let’s stick to reality. Until we free ourselves of the Democratic-Republican stranglehold, we’re stuck with the two-party system

If you are really interested in breaking the two party system, vote MAGA; even if you disagree with MAGA politics.

The Russian analysis of the nature and purpose of those in control in the West seems to me to be pretty damn accurate. The depiction of the Fake Joe Biden Regime as the most reckless evil and dangerous in US history is dead on.

I’d be home free

Yes, if you’re Black. The DoJ needs to answer why they declined to prosecute the Navy’s prime suspect. “But but but George Floyd” is not an acceptable answer.

No one has mentioned the latest predominantly feminine post viral fatituge syndrome on its way to becoming the next “identity group” yet…

Remind you of anything lately?

Thank you Steve for reading the NYT so we don’t have to. There’s some hope that the little bit of ‘therapy’ in the article will shake folks loose of the idea that gender identity and biological sex are the same thing.

After reading, I’m much reminded of Covid mass hysteria. Lots of people are still wearing masks. Some are even taking Covid vaccine boosters.

Yes, the “Japs” did attack Pearl Harbor.

And there is important context:

1. FDR cut off oil to Japan,
2. FDR refused multiple attempts by Japan to negotiate a solution before Dec 7. Including on Dec 6 ’41.

Much like FDR before him, Biden’s teleprompter is lying to the American people that we won’t be going to war with Russia while we are literally making war on Russia. And Germany, apparently.

But you seem to know this already.

During WW2, prior to official entry into war (during lend-lease), the US was targeting and sinking German vessels in the Atlantic and lying about it. Even a false flag against a US warship didn’t rouse the Americans to want to enter open war. FDR desperately wanted into WW2 but despite his best efforts, the American people were strongly against it. Then he got the gift of Dec 7 and ‘The Sleeping Giant” awoke. The solution to the Depression was in hand.

The ruling elite desperately need a War now. We have a serious economic crisis in the US and the UK. The Central Banks are up against a wall. It’s not the Great Depression yet, but it’s headed that way.

Biden’s Teleprompter is needs to awaken the Sleeping Giant once again. My fear is that the US/NATO is intentionally provoking a Russian tactical nuke deployment on Kiev for the purpose of rallying support for massive war in Europe. A modern Pearl Harbor, if you will.

China will grab Taiwan and grab other low lying fruit, but that’s a small price to pay I suppose.

Somebody, anybody, tell me I’m crazy.

The U.S. fingerprint. As had been said NATO is designed to keep Germany down and Russia out.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/whodunnit-facts-related-to-the-sabotage-attack-on-the-nord-stream-pipelines.html#more

https://southfront.org/no-way-back-for-europe/

This seems pretty prescient, from February 11

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/

The Ukrainian crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s about Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn. Even so, Nord Stream has pushed ahead and is now fully-operational and ready-to-go. Once German regulators provide the final certification, the gas deliveries will begin. German homeowners and businesses will have a reliable source of clean and inexpensive energy while Russia will see a significant boost to their gas revenues. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.

The US Foreign Policy establishment is not happy about these developments. They don’t want Germany to become more dependent on Russian gas because commerce builds trust and trust leads to the expansion of trade. As relations grow warmer, more trade barriers are lifted, regulations are eased, travel and tourism increase, and a new security architecture evolves. In a world where Germany and Russia are friends and trading partners, there is no need for US military bases, no need for expensive US-made weapons and missile systems, and no need for NATO. There’s also no need to transact energy deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US Treasuries to balance accounts. Transactions between business partners can be conducted in their own currencies which is bound to precipitate a sharp decline in the value of the dollar and a dramatic shift in economic power.

This is why the Biden administration opposes Nord Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a window into the future; a future in which Europe and Asia are drawn closer together into a massive free trade zone that increases their mutual power and prosperity while leaving the US on the outside looking in. Warmer relations between Germany and Russia signal an end to the “unipolar” world order the US has overseen for the last 75 years. A German-Russo alliance threatens to hasten the decline of the Superpower that is presently inching closer to the abyss. This is why Washington is determined to do everything it can to sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany within its orbit. It’s a matter of survival.

PDave – if NATO did it, I don’t think they bothered telling several NATO members. Almost certainly US or (possibly) UK job with US in driving seat.

It’s going to be very hard for the Germans to deny that the Nordstream sabotage was not targeted at them, regardless of who did it.

The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated the organization’s goal was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”. Google has a lot of hits on that quote.

Maybe the Ukraine makes more sense as a proxy war against Germany & Russia because they were starting to work together, which intentionally or accidentally challenges US hegemony in Europe.

It was helpful to me to re-acquaint myself with how FDR led the US into World War II. Michael Tracey has great recent coverage on this topic, which I strongly recommend. Maybe all that talk early in Biden’s Presidency about him being like FDR had nothing to do with the New Deal and everything to do with a new war to hobble Russia and kneecap Germany (NATO’s founding purpose, apparently).

https://mtracey.substack.com/p/a-fairy-tale-version-of-world-war

It looks to me like WW3 started the moment Biden was elected. Or, perhaps the day Victoria Nuland was born.

The EU statement is on Zerohedge; https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/damage-nord-stream-pipelines-unprecedented-may-have-been-sabotaged , as Sailer’s well informed readers probably are aware.

Biden famously said the US would end the pipeline.

The Poles seem to be blaming the US.

Is it considered an act of War to destroy a gas pipeline under the current circumstances? Will NATO blame Russia? Who will Germany blame?

What will the narrative be?

As predicted an hour ago, though I’m not very impressed with myself because it is an obvious prediction:

Who will be first to come out and say that Russia destroyed the pipelines in an aggressive act of war against Germany and NATO? When the propaganda machine starts accusing Russia, quoting anonymous “senior intelligence sources,” you can be sure it won’t be long before NATO declares a “no fly zone” over Ukraine.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/damage-nord-stream-pipelines-unprecedented-may-have-been-sabotaged

Update (1445ET):

German magazine Spiegel said the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently warned Berlin about the increasing signs of a planned attack on the Nord Stream pipeline system.

Spiegel reported, citing unnamed sources, that the CIA tipped off Berlin in the summer about possible attacks on NS1 and NS2.

It must be a chore to moderate comments and I’m glad PCR has opened them up for this article.

Did not see this mentioned in the piece or the comments:

Snowden publishes from time to time. I submit to the commentariat that they’d not be wasting any time reading his most recent piece:

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-open-wound

Free to read, but for a nominal subscription fee we can send American Hero Edward Snowden a little care package from home.

If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan and send U.S. troops to fight the invaders.

Biden’s teleprompter is bluffing about China and lying about Russia.

Certainly, after 50 years and at least two decades of CCP duplicity, we as a nation could change our position on Taiwan. Instead, we’re scrambling to re-orient our chip manufacturing supply chain away from Taiwan (funds have been appropriated). Biden’s fibs are designed to confuse and delay the CCP from bringing TSMC et. al. under its firm grip. It’s hard for me to believe Buchanan doesn’t understand this.

Biden’s teleprompter has stated that the US won’t be going to War with Russia. The actions of the US and NATO tell a different story. It was in May, IIRC, that we got the Congressional Declaration of War against Russia in the form of an Appropriations Bill that was overwhelmingly supported in the House and Senate, complete with a MSM psyop narrative for “We, The People” and a Vanity Fair cover story for Zelensky. The Bill sailed through. It didn’t have the format of “The US declares War on Russia,” a quaint notion from the past, but money and arms have been Appropriated to go to Ukraine, without any oversight, for the sole purpose of killing Russian soldiers. That’s a Declaration of War, quite obviously.

Many other factoids stand out between the May Appropriations the present that support the thesis that WW-III has been started with Russia. The most recent data point is the curious explosions disabling the NordStream 1/2 pipelines that Germany relies upon. Who will be blamed for the sabotage? Who will be first to come out and say that Russia destroyed the pipelines in an aggressive act of war against Germany and NATO? When the propaganda machine starts accusing Russia, quoting anonymous “senior intelligence sources,” you can be sure it won’t be long before NATO declares a “no fly zone” over Ukraine. The only question is if they’ll include the Donbass and Crimea. I think they will.

In the news this morning, Congress adds $12BN in Ukraine Aid into Stopgap Funding Bill and, even more telling, Biden’s teleprompter approved sending 6 mid-range air defense missile systems into Ukraine. Actually, I think Zelenksy got to make that announcement himself. What a good little globalist he is, rolling out the red carpet for the US Military Industrial Complex. What could go wrong?

Not much would be different if Trump had been allowed to stay President, but he may have mucked things up for the DeepState.

I don’t think Trump will be elected Speaker of the House because he will not have the entire Republican caucus behind him. I think McCarthy will throw him under the bus.

There are plenty of MAGA House members willing to throw McCarthy under the bus. With proof in hand that MAGA returned the GOP to majority status, expect a MAGA Speaker.

It might not be Trump. That really depends on the perceived need to make him a member of the Legislative Branch, and thus protected from Executive Branch over reach. Even if Trump is selected, expect him to delegate most of the duties. He will be heading out onto the GOP Primary campaign trail almost immediately.

The Republican pledge is more of the same bullshit they’ve been slinging for decades, utterly absent of any America First details. That’s no accident and it ain’t MAGA

The pledge is indeed small potatoes. However, MAGA is already winning. There is not a great deal of reason to announce detailed programs that cannot clear a veto from the occupied White House.

If your enemies are intent on cherry picking, hide the cherry tree.

Too many of the Republican Party feel coldly toward Trump.

The transition from Establishment to MAGA is a *work in progress*. It will take multiple cycles to identify and expunge the corporate shills.

I’m sorry if what I am saying is demoralizing to the cause, but I’m not a Republican and I never have voted for Trump. In 2024 I would toss him a protest vote

If you are not a Republican, you cannot be RINO. My apologies.

The number of #NeverTrump nutters trying to blow up the MAGA movement from the inside is exasperating. Given the obstacles Trump faced, he actually over performed in office.

I’ll never see him as anything more than a grifter who got in front of a Populist movement that Ross Perot tapped into in ’91 and the Tea Party later squandered

Why would Trump spend millions of his own money to ‘grift’?

Did Trump enter the 2016 race as a ‘message candidacy’ with the intent to move the party, rather than actually become President? That is a good question. The field was dismal after the damage inflicted by Romney and McCain. GOP candidate Cruz was an unappealing prospect, and it got worse from there.
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• Perot proved that trying a 3rd party does not work.
• Trump’s first term proved that a President without a party works poorly.

We are now to the *beginning* of a change to MAGA that will take many more years to complete.

I’m sorry if what I am saying is demoralizing to the cause

Faith is what sustains us. If you do not have it, I cannot explain it to you.

PEACE 😇
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Jump to 0:25 if the video starts at 0:00.

“Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning.” — Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5: “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”

A fundamental problem of Judeo-Christian society is the tendency of the people to expect someone to save them.

With proof in hand that MAGA returned the GOP to majority status, expect a MAGA Speaker.

That’s how it should go, if everyone involved had integrity. For sake of argument, let’s say that MAGA in the House rules the day and elects either Trump or a Trump designee as Speaker of the House. Would this be a good thing for hard working American folks that Biden slandered as fascists? What would a Trump-directed House likely do?

They’ll form some committees related to Hunter Biden, J6, and Russiagate. Then they’ll pass bipartisan tax cut legislation that will sail through the the Senate and that Biden will pretend he doesn’t want to sign, but will. They’ll fail to come up with a solution to the ‘complicated’ immigration problem.

No, you might say. Trump will send legislation to the Senate funding the border wall. With Trump-as-speaker, the House will cut the DoD budget and all appropriations dedicated to clandestine CIA wars in Ukraine, Syria, and god only knows where else. Bridges will be built, oil wells dug, if Trump-is-speaker.

An optimist might say, well, Trump learned his lesson from Bolton and Bill Barr. He’ll surround himself with good people this time; people who don’t get entrapped like Flynn; people with less skeletons in the closet than Bannon. But, in the end, he’ll ‘appoint’ McCarthy as Speaker of the House and McCarthy, literally owing Trump nothing, will tell Trump what he wants to hear and then do whatever he wants. Am I wrong that McCarthy doesn’t give a shit about Trump or MAGA? We could argue over details, but the point is that Congress is an impenetrable leviathan and all the legislative heavy lifting is done with money. The My Pillow guy hardly has the juice to lobby more than a junior ranking State Assemblyman. Trump lacks powerful allies.

The number of #NeverTrump nutters trying to blow up the MAGA movement from the inside is exasperating. Given the obstacles Trump faced, he actually over performed in office.

Fair enough. They were out to get him from the start. Marc Elias created Russiagate (HRC has been improperly credited by the Right), aided and abetted by corrupt DoJ officials, narrated by Democratic operatives masquerading as expert commentators on cable news and print, and formalized by the imminently corrupt Pelosi and Raskin in the House with their impeachments. Then, to add insult to injury, Marc Elias came back with a plan so foul that Mark Zuckerberg threw $400 million at it and, with a profane degree of chutzpah, published their crime in Time Magazine as a David vs Goliath story of how they secured the election in 2020, when what they really did was rig it. They literally cheated and wanted public credit. The breadth of the evil of Marc Elias is biblical. He should be convicted of Treason. Yet, no one – left or right – shows the slightest curiosity about Elias and his co-conspirators. Well, maybe Greenwald and Taibbi care, not the DoJ or States Attorneys, which is what matters.

Yes, Trump had it hard but he wasn’t up for the challenge and was fundamentally ignorant on too many topics and incurious about policy details. He’s a showman and he works off a script or bullet points. That’s not disqualifying and I’ll vote for him if he can get nominated, but I’m not going to pretend he is something he is not. Only a fool would see salvation in Trump. I see in him a friend because he is the enemy of my enemy, and the way I know my enemy and his are the same is by the way in which they have treated him and continue to pursue him even though he is out of office.

A123 – really, if we’re being honest, what is the point of us debating the Kabuki that the elite monsters are presently submitting for our entertainment while they are literally engaging in WWIII, stripping us of our Constitutional rights, sexualizing our children, importing who knows what across the Southern border, injecting us with poison to ‘protect’ us from minor illness that they literally engineered, and stealing or future with inflation?

And what is the offense given by Trump, and by MAGA, to the SJWs and their enabling globalist institutions? We offend them with our NASCAR, our guns, or Bibles and family values, our country music, foul mouths, feminine women and independent attitudes. Our small businesses and distrust of strangers. Our desire to be left alone and disinterest in the suffering of foreigners in foreign lands. That’s the bulk of it. That’s why the elite who rule America (and the West) hate us. They aren’t going to stop hating us. There’s ample evidence that they just want us gone.

So, I for one will vote a Republican ticket the first time in my life this November. When the inevitable happens, I’ll assume that Democracy is not the solution to the problem of citizenship in a nation where half the population hates me because my quaint ideas became unfashionable in like a minute.

This isn’t about faith.

Thanks for listening.

You seem disappointed in me. Please don’t be. I read your commentary frequently and always find it insightful. What follows are the words of an A123 fan.

I don’t think Trump will be elected Speaker of the House because he will not have the entire Republican caucus behind him. I think McCarthy will throw him under the bus. The Republican pledge is more of the same bullshit they’ve been slinging for decades, utterly absent of any America First details. That’s no accident and it ain’t MAGA.

Too many of the Republican Party feel coldly toward Trump. None of consequence have come to Trump’s aid on the DOJ Mar-a-Lago bullshit. DeSantis has said nothing. Abbot is mum. The Republican Part doesn’t want Trump and will never let him be Speaker. Bet on it.

I’m sorry if what I am saying is demoralizing to the cause, but I’m not a Republican and I never have voted for Trump. In 2024 I would toss him a protest vote, but I’ll never see him as anything more than a grifter who got in front of a Populist movement that Ross Perot tapped into in ’91 and the Tea Party later squandered. If I’ve given a different impression here on Unz, I apologize.

Does the prospect of Trump being elected Speaker of the House give me hope?

Even if I thought Trump could hold a thought in his head for more than a fleeting moment, he still has to get legislation through (presumably) McConnell. There are only so many days in a Congressional session to waste on maneuvers that won’t get enough votes in the Senate. Added to that, there are way too many wishy washy Republicans in the House and Senate to be able to build any useful momentum (the status quo for decades).

Alas, Trump would waste the opportunity if he was elected Speaker, same as he wasted the Presidency. I’m unimpressed by the several accomplishments of his Presidency, and his bungling of Covid-19 is frankly unforgivable.

Of course, Biden/Klain is worse.

For me to be hopeful I need to see an activist grassroots maga movement that is independent of Trump. Somehow I don’t see Trump’s audience showing up for any event that places them in the driver’s seat and requires actual personal sacrifice.

Things are going to get much much worse and Trump will not save us. No one will save us. We must save ourselves. Funny how American’s have forgotten that basic truth.

Peace back at’cha, A123

Agree, except the part about a hopeful rebirth.

Please reassess your hopefulness with these near term possible events in mind:

1. Russia goes all-in against the US in Ukraine.
2. House flips Red in Midterms, Congress rallies for sending aircraft and troops to Ukraine.
3. European economy collapses.
4. Fed engineers recession but inflation remains elevated
5. China moves on Taiwan
7. Pandemic emergency powers are reintroduced in the US
8. Trump is arrested

None of these bode well for middle America or the near term future of MAGA party folks who, incidentally, may not consider themselves Republicans. I know I don’t. But I’ll vote for Trump in ’24, assuming Biden doesn’t declare martial law and suspend elections to “protect Democracy.”

Give me some hope, A123.

You must be kidding

You have fallen for the charade. Trump is part of the Deep State…a kind of good cop bad cop sham

If that were true, wouldn’t Trump be a paid contributor in MSNBC by now? I’m not saying Trump is scary, but it is clear the elite managerial class hates him out of fear. Clear to me, anyway. Hell, the DOJ just raided him for documents a month ago.

How do you reconcile the sincere efforts of the Deep State to hobble Trump if he is one of their own? A good cop bad cop kabuki? I suppose anything is possible but Trump doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who could manage such a charade.

My concern is that DeSantis is just a polished version of Lindsay Graham. A Reagan figure. He talks a good game, but he’s 100% Uniparty elite.

I suppose I could be wrong, but throwing shade on Disney has hardly slowed his corporate backed campaign funding. He’s setting fundraising records! Where is that money coming from?

They are scared of Trump. No one is afraid of DeSantis.

Trump gave us “Operation Warp Speed”. Whoever supports him supports that

I predicted long ago that once people started to realize the ‘vaccines’ were failures, they’d blame Trump.

Thursday night’s 8/25/2022 Tucker Carlson spent a lot of time on this.

So, to be clear, last week the DNC started campaigning on Trump’s vaccine failure. And here we are, chatting about it.

Tip:

70 year old grandma murdered on a country road near Austin. Youth arrested today. More at kxan.com, with colorful photo of murderer.

https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/arrest-made-in-murder-of-70-year-old-florence-grandmother/

Here’s a copy/paste from the top of the story;

Joshua Anthony Gilbreath (Courtesy: Williamson County Sheriff’s Office)
by: Grace Reader
Posted: Aug 13, 2022 / 02:50 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 13, 2022 / 03:12 PM CDT
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the murder of a 70-year-old Florence grandmother. Investigators said they believe this was an “unprovoked” and “random” act of violence.

Joshua Anthony Gilbreath, 26, has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Diana Lynn Pier after she was found shot to death. He is being held on a $1 million bond.

I figure I’ll probably get progressive multifocal glasses that automatically tint to sunglasses in the sun and wear those all the time.

I was laughing out loud, thinking that certainly the tinted lens is a joke. But, is it? Technology is moving along faster than my imagination sometimes. Still I hope it’s a joke. I’m not ready for the world of designer lenses. Unless they can see through clothing. That’s what the teenaged boy in me wishes for

Very happy for you, Steve. Mozel tov!

Thanks!

Have you seen Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece of Jake Sullivan fluffing yet?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-russian-defeat-in-ukraine-could-save-taiwan/ar-AAZWxOa

Jake Sullivan should be indicted for his Russia Hoaxing, instead he gets to run a proxy war against his imagined enemy.

God help us.

We should always make a point of sequencing the letters in terms of the impact their project will have on ordinary people

I capitalize Black and write it is DEI so as to obfuscate the AI sorting algorithms such that I hopefully delay the inevitable moment that someone comes knocking on my door to ask about my Internet posting.

And, of course, you are correct about the ordering, brother.

An actual congressional declaration of war would usually have a period of time where the intent gets floated in the media to take the pulse of the country

I take the recent multi-billion bipartisan aid package to Ukraine, including armament, to be proof that Congress has endorsed the US proxy war with Russia.

War has been declared. No?

Blah blah blah. It’s obvious that someone is lying, and I agree with Giraldi, not that I’m in any position to disagree. I’ve been propagandized by this vampire squid leviathan all my life; same as everyone else.

Who’s to say that anything written before was ever true? We are only just now able to see truly competing narratives in this US, but it takes great effort and patience, and more than a little bit of IQ.

Meanwhile, we here in the comments section are engaged in mutually masturbatory violin playing on the Titanic. What we need now is action. Let me know when that starts.

In the interim, I’m enjoying Westworld Season 4 as an allegory for what the goal of the elite is, and even the mechanism by which they are achieving it. I’m heartened that the writers of Westworld managed to sneak the truth into their product, despite the DEI production restrictions.

Point me at the elite and hand me a pitchfork, comrades.

I really wish Steve could get a substack or something so I could read him without coming to this site.

Maybe at this stage in his life Steve just doesn’t want the hassle of learning a new publishing platform. I can relate to that feeling.

I get the sense you only come to Unz for Sailer’s blogs? I wonder how many other Unz visits are primarily driven by Sailer. I originally came here after following Dr James Thompson to Unz. Then I discovered iSteve and all the other great writers.

OT, maybe. I just subscribed to Linh Dinh Substack for $7/mo. Haven’t been able to support Unz directly since Patron deplatformed him. I feel guilty about it.

Steve, every fundraiser you do reminds me I need to support your critical commentary; and eyesight. But I am lazy and all the payment methods you support are 100x more tedious than double-clicking my side button to subscribe on Substack with Apple Pay. If that is rude to say, I am sorry.

Can’t you cross-post? I could continue to read you here, but support you on Substack. I think you’d make a lot of money on Substack Steve

Your reference to Imperial College presumably has to do with its inferior modelling of the Covid pandemic. Right? Anything more?

IC was also wrong on Mad Cow disease and H1N1, perhaps others. That Neil Ferguson fellow is a propaganda legend.

“Republicans, on the other hand, will almost certainly renominate an old white man, Donald Trump.”

Do you really think so? It seems like folks have moved on from Trump. He didn’t have many accomplishments beyond court appointments and those were arguably McConnel’s wins, not Trump’s.

I see Trump as more honest than the DC average, but primarily a grifter who rode the wave that Ross Perot started. There is no Trumpism.

There is just a large minority of voters who have always been skeptical of government and, in the age of the Internet, have had their suspicion that money controls politics validated. They now know beyond doubt who the liars are. They know that the elite don’t care about America unless it greases their bottom lines to pretend they do. These are Tea Party people. These are people who are appalled by the Patriot Act and AUMF; by the treatment of Assange. These are people who believe America *is* The Constitution. They want to live, and to let others live. Socially, they are no more or less liberal than a 90’s Democrat. They think abortion should be legal and rare and limited, that taxes should be fair, that welfare should be means-tested, the borders secure, police supported, and public schools should stick to the basics. They understand the purpose and importance of the first two Amendments. They believe trannies are mentally ill. They believe homelessness should not be capitalized upon by non-profits with huge budgets and no hope of success. Many of them are even starting to doubt the covid propaganda. They believe in America, contra Progressives who claim the US is literal evil.

Trump was a thorn in the heart of the elite. That much was obvious early in the 2016 election cycle. Trump’s ability to get the elite to act fearfully, to show their true colors, to expose the deceit, is how he got votes. When he immediately started kissing Deep State ass, returning to grifter form, is when he lost his support. His handling of Flynn was abhorrent. Trump should have built the wall, at least, but he didn’t because he doesn’t care about immigration. He doesn’t care about anything but slipping in front of a parade to pretend to be the leader. He’s gone, yet the parade rolls on. Trumpism is branding.

Trump won’t run. He’ll boost his brand and continue the grift. He’ll endorse DeSantis, whether DeSantis asks or not. That’s my prediction, anyway.

For the record, I voted for Obama twice, Clinto once, and no one in 2020. I’m voting a straight R ticket through 2024 just to test the hypothesis that it’s doesn’t matter who we vote for because nothing will change; America is nothing but a modern plantation, with the slaves enjoying the pretense of liberty from the faux privacy of their over-priced/taxed suburban homes.

As for Ted Rall, it’s been lovely to witness as he slowly redpills himsef.

How is it a ‘mistake’ when China has done NOTHING to punish the US and Europe for their complete support of Ukraine, including logistical, training and intelligence support?

Well, they did lock down Shanghai, unless one believed their cover story that it was for Covid.

but Americans will not tolerate a war that results in Americans coming back in body bags.

What if the Deep State – MSM – Thinktank – Educated Class , etc. redefines those as white supremacists in body bags? They are already pushing the idea that the military is full of white supremacists.

My point is that, unfortunately, the American people seem all too eager to tolerate all sorts of stuff. Somehow I don’t see BLM crying if a Russian nuke wipes out thousands of people of European descent. The MSM is unperturbed by white people suffering.

People can’t comprehend a billion, but they do understand a thousand and a million.

Forty-thousand million dollars!

I abhor what is, on its face, a Russian war of aggression.

Well sure, we all abhor the violence Ilana. But what if the US intentionally goaded Putin into invading. It certainly seems that way to me.

Why would the US support a policy with the certain outcome being, at a minimum, tense times with a nuclear adversary?

Now we have Victoria Nuland accidentally on purpose ‘admitting’ to Marco Rubio that Ukraine has bio labs, eg wmd facilities. Are we seriously to believe that Rubio or Nuland accidentally stumbled into this? I call bullshit

Why is the Undersecretary of State for Ukraine talking about Ukranian Biolabs?

Oh and Nuland worked for Dick Cheney during the Iraq days. But whatever. Nothing to see here. Putin is the Devil. Zelenaky is George Washington and the vaccines work just great.

Seems to me Nuland doesn’t blurt out in public hearings anything unintentionally.

Ukraine has WMD’s. US must put boots on the ground in Ukraine. That is the State Department foreign policy and we’ve seen it before in Iraq

Next, Nuland will channel her inner Colin Powell at the UN.

The US wants to crush Russia. Probably to harvest its mineral wealth. The plan was working until Putin came along.

I don’t have a problem with Russia. Russia became my friend when the USSR collapsed without nukes raining down on us.

I don’t know any American who feels anything other than warmth toward Russians.

We’re all being punked.

Steve I’m listening to this now, early in you and Charles are interested in schools moving away from standardized testing. I am too.

But, don’t worry. The SATs are old technology, scheduled for culling by modern Big Data AI any day now.

All these kids using google classroom are having every imaginable metric tracked throughout their schooling. Google classroom data scientists know who the smart kids are. They just need to package it into a product to sell.

The implications are scary.

I’m refusing to fill out my employer’s survey monkey asking if I have or ever had or intend to have the vaccine.

That’s one thing everyone can do. Resist.

Of course, John Roberts is an Executive fellating surrender monkey who will find a way to ‘let’ OSHA ‘force’ our ’employers’ to ‘vaccinate’ us. The scare quotes denote words of fluid definition. For example, ’employers’ feels more like ‘owners’ when they are mandated by a regulatory body to inject their ‘livestock’ (employees) with an ‘experimental therapeutic’ (vaccine) with trillions potential in cancer treatment profit, once deemed generally safe by our mythologizing media.

White ppl. amirite

Oops, forgot to paste the Taibbi link: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-authoritarians

Here’s Taibbi’s coverage on Jan 6 and Cheney.

Apologies all, but seeing tape of Cheney getting his d€%~ sucked by Democrats on the House Floor is a bit much to take while I’m literally watchingFace the Nation interview Pelosi fail to ask her about Cheney

The arrogance of the Elite toward Patriots is insufferable. Buchanan’s NYT fluff piece exposes him for all to see.

A source at MSNBC says that Pelosi has long had a good relationship with Dick Cheney, cartoon bad guy of evil banalities, going back to her days as a staffer in the 1970’s. To help shore up democracy in 2020 Cheney was a natural ally, the source stated. Cheney’s extensive experience as War Criminal, who convinced the American people it was Sadam Hussein who did 9/11, was an immeasurably valuable resource, said Marc Elias. Some readers may recall Marc Elias from the russia hoax and zuckerbucks scandals.

Seriously, with a little AI, these stories could write themselves. That’s how a Revolution is done in the days of Twitter, a source said.

I mean, C’Mon genius Pat Buchanan. Jesus. If you see something, say something man.

Instead, Buchanan covers a new york times story for his Jan 6 coverage. Says it all, doesn’t it.

Hey Pat Buchanan, riddle me this.

What the F does it mean that Dick Cheney was on the House Floor accepting handshakes from Deep State attendees at an Republican boycotted event on Jan 6? Fakers. Coupers. Liars all.

If Pelosi welcoming Cheney into the House on Jan 6 isn’t an example of a politician accidentally telling the truth, I don’t know what is.

Trump 2024 is the only non-violent solution that I see

I’ve never lost my sense of smell or taste from a flu or cold, or been in bed for 3 weeks with cold or flu like I was for Covid

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Were you also tested fir the flu, or just SARS-CoV2?

OT and apropos of nothing, with all apologies to the moderator.

The evil face of the woke mobs currently rewriting our language such that a misses is a they, or a man is a woman, or an SUV is an entity that murders paraders needs a name.

The opponent(s) must be identified.

Chan-Zuckerberg is a candidate for the face of the opposition. A very good candidate couple. This is the team that literally has the near constant attention of a startling percentage of the cherished 18 to 40 market group. And members in that group with high socio-economic standing are even more engaged, as are women generally. Think about how many hours a day you or your wife is trolling instagram vs reading. How many years of that habit before people literally believe that Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines to murder peaceful Black BLM peaceful protesters?

Those suffering the disease of social media addiction use it to the exclusion of other hobbies and develop a warped world view consistent with whatever algorithmic matrix delivered their infotainment. Throw in lockdowns and work from home and, well one can see what happens with addicts in isolation. They slowly lose track of reality and go mad.

These people are social media’s customers. Like oxycontin, their value is their addiction. They lose interest in sex and marriage. They pile on trendy woke memes in order to cash in on the powerful high that ‘likes’ provide.

And Congress doesn’t care.

These people don’t watch TV or cable news. MSNBC’s audience is 50 and older. Complacent and afraid of being called a racist and catching covid. Neutered.

And Congress doesn’t care.

Our young and ambitious get all their news about the world from Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Some read the Times or Slate. Few read Revolver or City-Journal or even understand the concept of substack.

That’s a lot of gullible eyes on Zuckerberg’s platform. He’s watching us. Who is whispering in his ear?

The Deep State?

Someone prove to me that Zuckerberg-Chan doesn’t present a clear and present danger. If i’ve not filled-out my thesis completely, it is only because it all seems very obvious.

US citizens and fans have reason to be angry. They’ve been fucking us all at least since that banal Wall Street movie normalized greed. And the Wars. And the self-dealing. And the Covid-19 Pandemic brought to you by Fauci-Pfizer. Or the contested election of 2020 sponsored by $400million Zuck Bucks. Or the pee tapes brought to you by Clinton lawyer Marc Elias and the Pulitzer committee.

We need a bill of complaints, and a face to attack. Unfortunately, we don’t have private capital’s patsy in the form of King George this time.

Social Media is the antichrist that rises in the west. That’s obviously hyperbole, right?

There, if you’re afraid to speak the glaring truth, then I’ll do it for you.

Your statement is accurate if you do one global search and replace in your posting:

s:/white/wealthy/