With Harris it is obvious she is a zero and a puppet and figurehead as was Biden. The question is who pulls the strings?

Trump's brand is that he has personal autonomy and is controlling at least some policy. However, there is no doubt he is controlled by Jewish interests. The question is who specifically is pulling the strings?

The old-timer's grandparents possessed a bond issued by the Confederate-controlled city government. The old-timer was due funds in Confederate money.

Replies: @Jim H

45 million of "hostile, sub-90 IQ criminals"? I think you don't have your data straight. The rest of the resulting miscalculations is a consequence.

Or the glowing trunk interior of the scientist's car in the movie 'Repo Man'

Unz found a pretty deep toilet bowl to plumb up
 

Agree with you about The Cars, but I just thought the Feelies record is its equal, is stranger, more interesting, more deeply-felt and less well known, so deserved a nod. ("I think it's time for you to face it. You never felt right in our world. You never felt right about yourself." is way deeper than anything Ric ever did.)

Boston -- very well done, just too plasticky radio-friendly, too much "product" for my blood. It's sort of like nominating the first Foreigner record.

Violent Femmes -- good but too coterie, too much of the way too affected hipster guy with the black lipstick living across the hall in your dorm.

GnR -- live by the sword, die by the sword.

REM -- not their debut, they didn't really bloom until later.

Led Zep -- merely promising at the time; also didn't really bloom until later.

Velvet Underground -- agree but it's so iconic I think they can survive being left off this one. Plus (I love it too, but) it's sort of an acquired taste -- how many people besides us two actually sit through ALL of "European Son"?

I left off Queen's debut, which is quite extraordinary and plus most of those songs are not a well known part of their catalogue. But again, they were so yuge they'll survive the slight.

Whether you prefer Ramones to The Clash is sort of a matter of taste, I'll just say Ramones is kind of a concept album based on a single idea, whereas The Clash is more involved with more dimensions of real life, and is a bit more musically varied.

The B-52s is great because it was just so unexpected, its sound and substance were so unfamiliar and out-there. There are lots of "better" albums, but they don't quite stick in your ear the same way.

I believe that if you sit down for a mo and have a cuppa, you're actually being more smartypants than smart.

"Aren’t you the guy always going on about shitty contemporary female singers? Top notch trolling, really. Public Enemy AND Taylor Swift."

Feel free to ignore all this, I just happen to enjoy arguing about cultural stuff.

Shitty contemporary singers? Best muzik video I've seen in a while..... (it's kind of old, which just goes to show I... just don't get around much any more.)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK30r_SIZ-g

As for Public Enemy, you need to look a little past hip-hop and into general music history. In the grand tradition of negroes thinking they invented stuff (like jazz and blues) which white people had been doing decades or centuries before, the Bomb Squad and their fan-base appear to have thought they invented noize-rock and/or noise music or "musique concrete" which is of course hilarious. Nevertheless Bum Rush the Show and Nation of Millions and Fight the Power were all perfectly good iterations of same -- and if they opened the ears and minds of a bunch of otherwise illiterate ballers, well then all to the good I guess.

As to Taylor Swift, piss off mate: she was an industry-manufactured "product" for nearly all of her career. But recently with her latest work she appears to have grown up and begun doing real, authentic work. Come on, this is just plain good....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGbyjwGiCA

If I had been with her in the editing room I would have told her to lose the coda and just land it on the haunting line "wearing imaginary rings", but that's just me. At this point she's writing some occasionally rather important stuff, but it's over-produced, sixteen layers of studio: she needs the late Steve Albini (PBUH), and Butch Vig is probably too old for her, and me I'm just being coy. Maybe La PJ herself could produce her next record, now wouldn't that be a pip.

As for other "shitty contemporary female singers," now come on --- the goddess Billie Eilish has got us all beat on all fronts, confess.

Hmm, maybe Taylor could get FINNEAS to produce her next record, now that would be a true hoot.

Cheap Trick.
The Pretenders.
The Babys.
X.

and the REM EP that came out around 82 or so was brilliant. 'Gardening at Night' like the Cocteau Twins 'Persephone', the first songs i heard from both, set the stage.

as for the B52s, great live band, but 'Rock Lobster' is one of those novelties that wears thin after 10-15 listens. Like 'Detachable Penis'. 'Quiche Loraine' 'Give me back my Man' and 'Mesopotamia' i go back to. Never Lobster.

Replies: @emil nikola richard

"I’ve never listened to the B-52s debut,"

So in other words, with respect to the building blocks of late-20th-century American rock, you basically don't know what the f#ck you're talking about. Woulda been noice if you had admitted that up front, yo.

"but the rest of your list has got to be intentionally ridiculous"

Now we're getting into Crazy Town. Somebody call Rose Royce.

I dunno, man... do you rilly wanna diss tha f#cking Feelies?

Unlike most of you chuckleheads, I've read both Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam.....

All the way the lights are,
I can see your face is getting clearer.
It's like you never even left here.
It's like you never had a reason
To want to know.
Well, I don't know:
I think it's time for you to face it.
You never felt right in our world.
You never felt right about yourself.
And I think about
What it might be like,
If I could go alone,
If I could go at night,
Would it be just like
You said it would?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1RLFGF-Z84

"Aren’t you the guy always going on about shitty contemporary female singers?"



Okay so we have at least these.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbtjaWXQVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiNhqboGwM8

If you think that is "shitty" then you must have one hell of a septic-tank cleaner.


So now I am going to tell you a story (HOMER SIMPSON: I *like* stories.) Ahem.

So I was vomiting my brains out on the floor of a Greyhound Bus Station in Reno NV at 4:00 AM in the middle of nowhere, while waiting nine hours for the only bus in the 24-hour sked to take me to a Paiute Indian Reservation in northern Nevada, where an avant-garde theater company I had helped found was doing a residency of "The Oresteia". How's that for openers.

So after I had finished vomiting in the bus station, I noticed that the only other guy there was this ancient one-armed babbling homeless dude. So I did the right thing, I sat down next to him and talked to him. Sounds virtuous but of course nine-hour wait covered in vomit, didn't have much of a choice.

Turned out this guy was a war hero from the Korean War, a perfectly articulate and sober veteran, and he talked my ear off with tales of his amazing life. After he was out of gas, he said to me You know most people don't take the trouble like you did to listen to an old coot like me. So I am going to reward you: as you can see I am a smoker and I have only one arm, which makes it hard to light a cigarette. Now of course I could just use a lighter, but where's the fun in that? So I am going to teach you how to light a cigarette with just one hand... but very smooth and stylish, it has to be James Bond-stylish or else it won't impress the girls.

So he spent two hours teaching me how to light a cigarette one-handed, but smooth and stylish.

Years later when I was shall we say no longer broke, I was at some pricey hipster bar down on Spring Street, and as circumstances required, I lit a supermodel's cigarette the way Ol' One-Arm had taught me, and then wound up in her bed. Karma, I reckon.

The whole night I thought to myself, That guy must be laughing his ass off in Heaven.

Replies: @kaganovitch

The Hong Kong exports have got to be mostly re-exported.
 

Exactly. Not sure why the US is ground zero for every brown skinned wannabe activist to apply their grift.

they can go be morally outraged somewhere else.

Why should he not have been here in the first place? Have you moved any distance away from where you were born (I've moved about 12 miles, myself)?

Unfortunately, the vlogger is multilingual. His adventures span continents

Copshop is hilarious

https://youtu.be/ezHiQwwzEjU?si=xnxvzwaHHsBI22Ta

I was always kind of expected you to migrate back there
 

She was 95, like 5'1 and using a walking frame.

For additional context, the female cop tried to grab her arm which had the knife and almost got stabbed.

The woman died from a head injury caused from her fall after being hit with the taser. I think the use of the taser was lets say.... uhh "controversial", BUT she could have just as easily fallen over when the female officer tried grabbing her arm and she pulled back and died

"it's the end of an era"

About a dozen years ago I was following a number of blogs like Steve, Audacious Epigone, Gucci Little Piggy, Half Sigma, Dennis Mangan, Chateau Heartiste, and a number of others. They are mostly gone now. It was difficult to make money from blogs unless the blogger used his blog to promote his books, as the bloggers Captain Capitalism and Roosh did.

Blogs were largely replaced by YouTube videos, Facebook and Twitter. These eventually ran into a censorship problem. For example, Mark Zuckerberg just told Joe Rogan that government officials put pressure on his Facebook company to block information about the side effects of the Covid vaccines. This opened a door for Substack to come in. I like Substack but I think Ron Unz has come up with a better commenting system. If I see a comment I like, I can click on the commenter's name and read all their other comments. I come here as much to read the commenters as I do to read the writers.

Replies: @AnotherDad

Ron was dissing on him as if they were a couple of teenage girls.

Link?

The mask thing probably didn’t matter. I imagine our AI borg overlord has us down to the eyebrows,
 

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this event. On the one hand, murder is bad, and this guy shot down a total stranger in the back, a pretty dirty thing to do. On the other hand, there are any number of powerful people (not this particular guy) that, if I woke up and found out that they had gotten their head ventilated the previous day - honestly, all I could manage would be a Jerry Seinfeld like "That's a shame.".

I think maybe one reason that some people have expressed sympathy for this murderer is a vague, instinctive desire to see somebody somewhere get away with something in our highly surveiled, highly digitally connected society - the realization that a society in which you can not get away with a crime is a society that isn't really free.

Have you ever heard about Jury Nullification? This is a legal means of overturning or ignoring unjust laws in the USA. I don't think that any other country has this provision.

The problem in Germany is that the findings of the Nuremburg war crimes "court" were incorporated into the Basic Law which is the constitution of Germany at the insistence of the victorious allies when this Law was formulated around 1950 or a little earlier.

Now the Germans have to live with those legal provisions even though the Nuremberg zoo was nothing but lies.

That's about as profound as saying a glass half-empty is also half-full. When you're vastly outnumbered and outmanned, it's best to face reality and concede.

Of course, if your "religion" says that you will die a martyr if you kill Jews, Christians, or other "infidels" and will go straight to heaven where Allah will grant you 72 virgins...well, I suppose continuing to pick fights Israel makes a lot of sense.

Too much cousin marriage has not served the Muslim world well.

Replies: @John Johnson

Have to hate the Yankees more.

Replies: @J.Ross

...the not-quite-entirely-Hispanic NY Mets.
 

"What’s strange is, there are plenty of gory pictures (not x-rays) of kids who were obviously shot in the head with massive damage. Why roll out phonies?"

Don't know about photos, but the sources being used in the media are 3 physicians who were in gaza. They are the main source for this allegation against the IDF.

Maybe the x rays images are just examples of "where the bullet went through", remember the hospitals are all destroyed for better evidence or proof.
Listen to this guy making fun of these monsters coming out of a weapons show...

There are no baby shredding machines but...he's got a point ...

https://twitter.com/PaliNewsNetwork/status/1847417217190711778?t=aSArx2xZo25f1LKKg1AiyA&s=19

Especially if he was using 40 S&W
 

.40s&w has a pretty bad reputation. It's cheap and widely available because of all the departments opting against it, and it was invented in the first place to be an inferior version of 10mm. I'm not sure that it's significantly more powerful than 9mm. (I have a few pistols chambered in that caliber, and my purchase reasoning was that they were good quality, cheap, and "as good as" 9mm.) That said, the only good study on what should be a heavily studied topic, which I did link once years ago, found that you're going to need to be ready to put about four shots into an attacker no matter what caliber you use. An ex-cop looked up number of hits before the bad guy needed to take a break in real life attacks in a big city and found that nothing achieved a one-shot stop, not even .45 (there was no .50 AE because it's not that widespread, but it did include .22lr). A related anecdote is a morgue worker in NOLA saying the most commonly encountered caliber is .380 ACP (Bersa).

Russia took out a couple/few F-16s and some of the Americans around the flight line in Western Ukraine with a few hyperionics. One American who died was a pilot/instructor and his wife threw a message out on social media about losing her husband in these stupid wars in Ukraine, - It was taken down immediately but enough people saw it so Russia confirmed the hit on a F-16 base in W U. Remember, there are hundreds of censor trolls working for the USG on the internet.

They are here to replace the native population.
 

Replies: @dean 1000

Central Americans [—] arriving and asking for one thing: a job.
 

I'm happy the guy is being a real fighter instead of a keyboard warrior like most of us.

No, he did that all wrong. They’ve got his number now. Just say you won’t speak without counsel present and shut the door.
 

Replies: @onetwothree

Just because the media cocks something up doesn’t mean they are reading from a script.
 

If you watch the full coverage that day, they made countless errors because it’s unavoidable.
 

It was not done with "100 sticks of dynamite".

Look up Nano-thermite, look up Dr Niels Harrit of Copenhagen University and Dr Steven Jones of Brigham Young and then try again.

And then doing the same for another building that would not have a plane crashing into it.
 

Replies: @onetwothree

I wish people would drop the explosives BS.
 

Replies: @John Trout, @onebornfree

Imagine workmen drilling into the concrete and steel supports to install 100s of sticks of dynamite and laying down miles of wire and nobody noticing.
 

"Imagine workmen drilling into the concrete and steel supports to install 100s of sticks of dynamite and laying down miles of wire and nobody noticing."

High-tech thermite was used as the go-to explosive as it does not leave any detectable trace like conventional explosives and unlike conventional thermite also has an explosive effect.

It reduces to aluminium oxide (white smoke and dust) and metallic iron in the form of small spheres, rather than detectable nitrates as per conventional explosives like dynamite. The explosive residue was therefore indistinguishable from normal building debris and dust. Zillions of iron microspheres were found the dust, at a far greater percentage than any normal building collapse. (Some iron microspheres are normally generated from welding operations and also come from fly ash filler in the lightweight concrete used for floors.)

Large amounts of unburned high-tech thermite were also found in the dust, according to the paper:

Active thermitic material discovered in dust from the 9/11 World Trade Centre Catastrophe

https://benthamopenarchives.com/contents/pdf/TOCPJ/TOCPJ-2-7.pdf

One theory has it that the thermite was formed into boards and laid up like plaster. The twin towers had an internal core used for lift shafts which was entirely separate from the office areas. It would be unlikely that hard wiring was used, more likely a radio signal to trigger a timed response on each floor as the collapse progressed.

"Imagine workmen drilling into the concrete and steel supports to install 100s of sticks of dynamite and laying down miles of wire and nobody noticing."

This really is a shallow argument. Buildings that size have a small army of maintenance workers. The average office worker wouldn't pay any notice to them. It's not like they would be wearing overalls that read Acme TNT on the back. Plus there were always weekends, when the buildings would be much more deserted.

No offense, but you have got to cut back on use of the word “minoritarian”. Maybe stop altogether.
 

I just heard your name in a bad "dad" joke yesterday. OneTwoThree Cat challenged UnDeuxTrois Cat to race across the Channel. Of course, OneTwoThree Cat won, because...

UnDeuxTrois

https://i.imgur.com/6LOWaP5.gif

No offense, but you have got to cut back on use of the word “minoritarian”. Maybe stop altogether.
 

Replies: @Frau Katze, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Colin Wright, @martin_2

Used properly, it is not a pejorative. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoritarianism

The Congressional rules of Filibuster, for example, are minoritarian for the 40% who can kill a bill in spite of 60% approving it. Many Constitutional amendments may need two thirds or even three fourths' majorities. They are minoritarian rules in favor of one third (or one fourth). While the term minoritarian, in parliamentary sense, may sound unfair, it prevents many bad laws from being enacted in the spur of the moment. The much-derided Filibuster rules have prevented the Congress from becoming a legislative shredder plus press every two years, wherein all previous laws from the previous Congress are repealed and new ones promulgated on change of party holding majority. That is what we have in the Presidency now. Trump creates a few dozen Executive Orders, Biden comes and deletes them and creates his dozens, next Trump gets elected and deletes all Bidens orders and reinstitutes his which may be reversed again in 2029.

LOL. That is some stupid shit.

Double dutch jump rope would be more interesting.

It's not copyright, it's the chaos of zero talent zero contribution mockingbird influencers mucking up search.
Computer, show me an orange.
Here's Mr Beast eating an orange.
Are oranges real?
This racist threw an orange at a black person -- what happens next will shock you!
Here is a slice of bread.

That is just about the most embarrassing thing I've seen in years.

And I'm the guy who still gets ribbed for staging one of Hamlet's soliloquies in a bubble bath. (I had good reasons! Well, at the time, maybe. Sort of.)

Perhaps even more embarrassing is the sheer idea that this is an "Olympic" "event", and that it actually has "judges."

Will wonders never cease. VOICE IN HEAD: No. No, they will not.

Biden cannot remember what he had for breakfast. He doesn't know the names. Ron Klain indubitably know some names. Mollie Hemingway through her research likely can identify names in particular jurisdictions. A great many of the names are just going to be local Democratic Party water-carriers whose work is sustained by our dishonest judiciary.

If Tim Scott was the pick, his soon to be wife, would have been the first bearded lady in the White House.

Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

You say that Benjamin Harrison was the last president to have a beard, but you forget Barack Obama. He has a beard. Her name is Michelle.

Replies: @The Alarmist

. . . if he becomes president, as is actuarially quite likely . . .
 

That's all comers though, and with smoking the single biggest factor down the list (3.5 year life expectancy difference for males overall), we can probably get Trump up over 75% or so, especially since he's also a non-drinker with overweight as his only obvious health issue.

Last, Trump only has to survive 4.5 more years from now, not 5, to survive a second term, so we're getting up at least into the high 70's.

Reasonable people can debate whether, say, 22.5% constitutes "actuarially quite likely" but I'll give you this: I was surprised it was that high.

Replies: @EdwardM

Looks to me like the shooter shot his 8-of-9 rounds and then put the last one in his head.
 

My imaginations never come off.
 

The shooter was in the open and had line of sight to Trump, so the dozing Secret Service sharpshooters presumably had line of sight back to him. There was a SS sniper visible behind Trump and higher up and presumably others. Plus the witness who claims to have been pointing out the sniper when he was crawling on the roof said he say the guys head get "blown off". So, no, it wasn't a suicide and you need to question why it "looked" that way to you.

I've never been much for conspiracy theories and still assume a lone Oswald shot JFK, but this event really strains credibility. How could the Secret Service not overwatch the few roofs with a shot at the podium? And the witness says he was crawling there with his rifle in sight for a few minutes, so it sounds like there was plenty of time to see him and he couldn't even have been mistaken for another agent, which anyway ought not have been possible. Hey, a DEI hire Capitol Keystone Cop SERGEANT demonstrably incapable of following trigger safety or self-defense protocols or even keeping track of his gun when he went to the bathroom shot Ashli Babbitt, so we already knew that the rot was running pretty deep, but this is beyond that.

There always has to be somebody who is too cool for school.

But he wouldn't be Butt-Tucker without those things.

You called it.

Well score one for onetwothree

I think you are correct.

Biden must have been given a placebo tonight instead of the adderall-like drug cocktail he has probably been receiving before his speeches the past couple of years.

If Biden did have his performance-enhancing cocktail and still had a showing like this, then he really must be pretty bad off in private.

Replies: @BB753, @AceDeuce

Biden is such a good symbol of the failing white "race-blind" goobers we've endured for 60 years.

Bingo!

Wow, you called it.

What was the motive? Stab in the back to get someone else on the ticket?

Biden is his handler's meal ticket. They would have to be pretty desperate to sabotage their own meal ticket. Maybe they thought that they were going to lose already and this was a hail mary?

I don't think it will work. The only someone else they could put on the ticket without blowing up the Democrat Party is Kamala and she's even worse than Joe. She doesn't have senility as an excuse.

As I mentioned before, my sister in law has Parkinsons and sometimes the meds work and sometimes they don't. I can't imagine that they sabotaged his meds but I can imagine that he took them and for some reason they just didn't do the trick last night.

Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous, @Reg Cæsar

Biden will be replaced at a point in time deemed the most opportunistic for the DNC. To all those that say Biden can’t be replaced because he’s the best vassal for his handlers: I say they’re all puppets! No matter whether it’s Biden, Newsome, Kamala, or some other candidate, they’ll all do their master’s bidding! The same people will still be running the show no matter who the DNC selects, it’s just a new actor on stage speaking.

Both party's need to be thrown into the dustbin of history, but it’s critical that the Bolshevik Democrats be thrown in first.

-Rooster

I think it is difficult for the owner to be the Alpha if they pick up and carry the dog's poop.

Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic and the millions of fans who enjoy watching them shoot and pass and dribble are "idiots."