It’s the least we could do to put another Peak Stupidity</i post up top at no charge, this time, not a link but the whole post:

The TSA: A word to the wise.

Apparently, it’s NOT OK to say “this is kinda faggy” when being felt up by an OFFICER of the TSA.

Though Stupidity is our Core Competency here, we feel it incumbent upon us to occasionally provide some of that “News You Can Use”. That was such.

Our file photo below – supplied purely as clickbait – from this old post, shows a somewhat parallel situation but even worse. I.e., I don’t think the TSA guy in my case was gay, but I probably wouldn’t have been kicked out to another checkpoint if he had been… Just sayin’… queue up Third Rate Romance, Low-Rent Rendevoux.

https://www.peakstupidity.com/images/post_1496A.jpg

DOJ filed a brief defending the federal ban on automatic switchblades.

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William Kirk discusses the matter of Brown v. ATF, one of two major challenges to the NFA’s application to the now untaxed items.

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https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2005799526402240756
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/2005518159726690741
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2005821160995332451
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2005655071271354753
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/2005742637530186031

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I gotta say, Ron Unz’s last one – also up on top of the site right now – sounds pretty interesting, as much as we could be discussing iSteve writings.

I received the book “The Pike Report” as a Christmas present. Been reading it of an evening (in between watching The Rockford Files with the wife, thanks Achmed, great show didn’t realize David Chase of the Sopranos also wrote some of the episodes.)

An excerpt from the Pike Report:

In 1974, Miss Paton, then a high school student, inadvertently wrote the Socialist Workers Party as an academic assignment. She intended to write to the Socialist Labor Party.

The FBI was conducting a “mail cover” on the SWP and intercepted Miss Paton’s misdirected letter. They immediately began an investigation of her, and the attendant publicity in Miss Paton’s small town caused her great mental anguish.

The Bureau’s response was that the “FBI did not publicize the fact” of Lori Paton’s investigation, although they had interviewed her school principal and the local police chief.

Up through at least the 1970s, the FBI was a conservative organization and targeted liberal organizations. But with the woke capture of the FBI bureaucracy (as happens with all bureaucracies) this illegal targeting has shifted.

After years of reading articles published by Ron and the associated comments, I wonder if the “mail cover” tactics of the deep state have resulted in Ron receiving subpoenas to identify commenters?

Also, given the crazy comments on articles that Ron does not trash, the ones he trashes because they push the limits of free speech, assuredly must be of interest to the deep state. Is Ron required to report those “illegal” comments to the FBI or can he just trash them?

After years of reading articles published by Ron and the associated comments, I wonder if the “mail cover” tactics of the deep state have resulted in Ron receiving subpoenas to identify commenters?

Interesting, Sam, especially your next paragraph.

I’ve been just a tad critical of the man lately, but he sure is a stand-up guy when it comes to fee speech. I mean, he leans heavily anti-Americans, which the Regime government and its media branch would have no problem with. OTOH, Paul Kersey, Kevin DeAnna (formerly Greg Hood/James Kirkpatrick), and Jared Taylor are still published. I give him a lot of credit for this.

Anyway, I’ve not been subpoenaed yet. Then, I don’t answer the door much, and I generally don’t pick up certified or registered mail. It’s always bad.

Oh, man, speaking of subpoenas, I’ve been looking for this scene on YT for years! Non-die-hard Jim Rockford and (don’t forget Angel) fans could go to 1 min in. Yeah, it is kinda silly because checkmate is checkmate.

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Bastards! OK, the link is here.

Try Bitchute. A lot of stuff can be found there and it tends not to get blocked as much.

Anybody been following the Great Somali Daycare Scam story coming out of Minneapolis? And soon, no doubt, to be coming out of Columbus, Lewiston, and Seattle too.

Nick Shirley* publicizes the work of a Minnesotan who found multiple child daycare centers, all completely devoid of actual children, that have received millions of dollars in state and federal government funding. There are also numerous home healthcare companies, non-emergency medical transport companies and autism centers that seem to also be running this same grift. They found in one single building something like 20 “healthcare” companies staffed entirely by Somalis.

It sounds like Somalis have found a much more profitable line of work than piracy.

*It would be nice if Shirley were more polished. If you are going to be a YouTuber, you should at least learn how to speak English properly and directly.

Though this meme is topical, it isn’t really accurate since they aren’t actually doing daycare. They’re just stealing from the American treasury by using the word “daycare” to the tune of the entire GDP of Somalia.

Sort of incredible that modernity has made that possible, but here we are.

Anybody been following the Great Somali Daycare Scam story coming out of Minneapolis? And soon, no doubt, to be coming out of Columbus, Lewiston, and Seattle too.

I’ve been following this since it first came up, when it was called the biggest scam ever perpetrated against the American people. I doubt that’s the case. My guess is that Somalis are just following a script, and that most immigrant and minority ethnic groups are running major scams. Some groups have the government do the robbing for them, while others are acting on their own. The result is the same. But I doubt that the Somali crooks are the worst. Other groups are shielded, and their criminality denied, ignored, or folded into generic white crimes.

It goes without saying that Jewish crimes for Israel are far larger and much more destructive than anything that a few Somalis have done to the morons in Maine and Minnesota. Madoff alone was probably worse. I also doubt that the Somalis have caused more harm than the Latin cartels and whatever scams have been running in those immigrant communities for many decades. I can only imagine what the Hindus are up to.

Somalis aren’t unique. Everyone is coming to the West trying to steal a piece of the pie or pick over the carcass, and our rulers have opened the doors and offered excuses and encouragement.

It goes without saying that Jewish crimes for Israel are far larger and much more destructive than anything that a few Somalis have done to the morons in Maine and Minnesota.

Eh, it’s an arguable position.

But I defy you to name a single Somali who has ever contributed anything whatsover to the good of America & Americans.

They need to go.

On the other hand, I could spend all day naming Jews who have contributed greatly to the good of America & Americans – starting with RKU himself.

Is it inappropriate for a male to request a “really hot TSA girl” for pat down searches?

Asking for a friend…

On a more serious note, it’s really getting tyrannical whereby people cannot even “say stuff” to these storm troopers anymore. Just like the cops saying that filming them is terrorism.

We knew, years ago, that they would keep broadening the definition of terrorism, to eventually include almost everything, and here we are.

All politics aside, the police state always gets worse; Never better!

Dunno bout youse guys, but I, for one, am not tired of all the winning yet.

https://presskit.it/en/2025/12/30/tribunale-francese-dichiara-il-fallimento-della-piu-grande-azienda-di-allevamento-di-insetti-europea/

“You vill:

• live in zee pod

• eat zee bugs

• own nuszing

und be heppy!”

One down, two to go . . .

MN Gov. Tim Walz recently signed two Executive Orders on gun control.

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Every State Being Sued For Their Voter Records.

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https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2006084358172729449
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2006138245764018206
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2006062755875377586
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2006017476371378441
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2006077854342168820

In the middle of December I posted a comment on this website talking about problems I have had with misbehaving Blacks here in Indianapolis and said we should not make the big city Black problem worse by doing things like importing Somalis. I was surprised when Ron Unz responded to my comment because he has ignored me in the past. Ron said his impression of Somalis is that they are “quiet and polite” and asked if anyone ever had personal interactions with a Somali.

We do not have them here in Indianapolis so I did not respond. Our big refugee group is twenty thousand refugees from Burma. The problem with them is that they formed an ethnic neighborhod where they interact with each other rather than assimilate. It has been expensive to get their children fluent in English in the school system so they can be taught the various school subjects.

Is it inappropriate for a male to request a “really hot TSA girl” for pat down searches?

Asking for a friend…

Heh! To answer your jest in seriousness, I think you’d get a chuckle and no problem with that. I deal with some of them regularly and know them by face, and one manager type I know by name even. We talked guns and ammo one time due to his having one round at his desk/counter out of someone’s luggage just then. It was pretty much like nobody cared, It IS [REDACTED State] after all, and an America of some sort still.

There’s a thing now about aggressive (maybe not that exact term)speech or something. Yes, it is as you say, Dr. Rock. I saw the harm in having a Motherland Security Department, the TSA, and “Patriot Act”, all of it, right back then.

Oh, I’ll have to relate a funny story about “snapping “ a photo of a woman soldier right in her face., for another day.

Megan McArdle at Bezos Blog has demonstrated mathematically that white males were discriminated against. I couldn’t get the Bezos Blog link to archive and my offering of an alternative link might be colliding with some policy I didn’t know about. But yeah, it’s now proven mathematically and admitted to in WaPo of all places that white males were getting screwed.

Is it inappropriate for a male to request a “really hot TSA girl” for pat down searches?

No such creature exists.

If you ask, they’ll think you’re clinically insane and put you on the no fly list.

Happy New Year.

Probably this:

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

but paywalled so check archive.is

Meanwhile:

icymi:

Nearly One-Quarter Of U.S. Public School Enrollment Could Be Anchor Babies

By: Joy Pullmann
June 05, 2025
8 min read

Returning noncitizen children and noncitizen parents to their countries could save taxpayers hundreds of billions, especially in state budgets.

A few simple calculations indicate that as much as one-quarter of U.S. public school enrollment could be anchor babies, meaning children with at least one parent illegally present in the United States. This alone amounts to at least $145.6 billion in public resources diverted from U.S. citizens every year.

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/05/nearly-one-quarter-of-u-s-public-school-enrollment-could-be-anchor-babies/

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

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

Eh, it’s an arguable position.

Somali crimes are kid’s stuff compared to the Israel scam. The holocaust survivor scams on late-night television have probably raked in more than the Somalis. Madoff probably stole more all by himself. So far, I don’t think the Somali total is up to $65 billion.

But I defy you to name a single Somali who has ever contributed anything whatsover to the good of America & Americans.

There probably isn’t one. That’s not my point. If I had any say in the matter, not a single Somali would have been allowed into the country. The problem there is that the people running the country are basically traitors.

On the other hand, I could spend all day naming Jews who have contributed greatly to the good of America & Americans – starting with RKU himself.

I’m sure you could. That still doesn’t change the fact that Jews participate in ethnic based scams and crimes that greatly harm America, just like the other groups I mentioned. I think it was Trump himself who called the Somali scams the greatest crime ever committed against America. He knows better. We all know better!

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

sure their national history gives one pause but the individuals I’ve met have been quiet, orderly, and efficient

Now do Germans.

No such creature exists.

TSA ladies are more likely to resemble Bigfoot than any hot woman I can think of. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Homeland security rounded up Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, Chupa Cabra, and others, to hire them. That would be their Dream Team. I can see the Employee of the Month pictures hanging on the x-ray machines.

One of my favorite anecdotal stories about pajeets (which is one I may have witnessed, but I got around it by producing a pet rabbit, which instantly calmed and fascinated the kid), something in the way their raise their kids makes their kids completely unable to handle being around people who aren’t immediate family, eg teachers. There’s a teacher in a suddenly-jeeted area complaining on plebbit how he has noticed a problem where he can’t even talk to these kids, not from language but because they’re locked into an extreme fear reaction. He brings it up with parents and they don’t see what the problem is.

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

You are in for a real treat!

influx of H1-B pajeets and their insufferable kids.

And you’ll get a property tax hike to pay for the extra kids and the extra programming they’ll demand.

Forbidden by whom?

Supposedly, there are “only” ~700,000 Somalis here, and the vast bulk of them have only been here a few years, while the US has more than ten times as many Jews and they have been here much longer.

Stealing $9 billion in a few years when they hardly speak the language is impressive.

Probably they had some non-Somali help.

I seem to recall one of the early investigations involved a middle aged white woman who appeared to be sexually involved with certain of the men.

Probably they had some non-Somali help.

I’m sure they had plenty of help from Minnesota Nice types and criminal elements, soI don’t believe for two seconds they did this on their own. The Nordic countries also took in plenty of Somalis, and my understanding is that their schemes are pretty much limited to welfare scams or tax evasion when they do work.

Supposedly, there are “only” ~700,000 Somalis here, and the vast bulk of them have only been here a few years, while the US has more than ten times as many Jews and they have been here much longer.

So much for integration and the “melting pot.”

A commenter on X nicely summarized the establishment media’s (in this case, CBS) response to the Somali Daycare/Homecare/Healthcare racket (copy and paste link and remove “dot” from URL to see tweet)*:

https://x.dot.com/TPCarney/status/2006342009297289513

i.e. We asked the government that is being defrauded by Somali scammers who provide political support to that same government and they said that there is nothing to this story.

How much of this money stolen from the US and Minnesota tax-payer has been recycled back to Democratic Party office-holders through PACs and “community organizing” outfits?

According to some reports, some of the money has probably been sent to Somalia in the form of cash:

Former TSA agent recalls millions in cash flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport

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Somali rackets are undoubtedly being run in other cities as well – wherever there are Somalis: Lewiston, Columbus, Seattle.

One Washington State Senator, Lisa Wellman has decided to do something about it. She’s decided to cover it up, by introducing legislation that would exclude daycares from the normal public disclosure of information that all other business license holders are subject to.

https://www.facebook.com/AriHoffmanOfficial/posts/breaking-in-response-to-the-massive-daycare-fraud-being-exposed-by-independent-j/1267821031829407/

Sounds like Senator Wellman herself should be investigated.

As usual, justice won’t be done in this matter until a whole bunch of people are in jail or deported back to their s**thole country. And, as usual, I don’t expect any of that to happen.

*Ron requested that we not directly link to Tweets as it slows down the site.

Shh.

Ron said his impression of Somalis is that they are “quiet and polite” and asked if anyone ever had personal interactions with a Somali.

I don’t care if they are “quiet and polite”. They are quite evidently clannish, insolent, and disposed toward criminality. Moreover, they are alien to this country and to our civilization, and they don’t belong here. They should never have been permitted to come here.

Thanks, George H.W. Bush, for intervening in Somalia* and opening the door to Somali immigration. IIhan Omar is Bush’s godchild.

*It never fails: once we intervene in some country, there is unleashed an endless stream of immigrants from that country: Vietnam, Central America, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela (which we have been embargoing for years). Now the Donald wants to add Nigeria to that list.

We know about the individual scam, we know about the solitary pajeet who comes here and steals money through lying; recently more people have learned about the conspiratorial scam involving potentially hundreds of recently arrived “refugees,” focusing on the Somali community, but probably applicable to most “refugee” communities (Chaldeans in Michigan: an awful lot on Bridge Card, the same lot drive Denalis). We recall the Chinese scam in Vancouver — an inside cousin at the bank, an uncheckable claim about overseas equity; now all Vancouver real estate is owned by recently arrived Chinese. Now a story is coming together about pajeet real estate scams, involving hundreds of people and using their own banks. The bank of “Texas” employs only recently arrived pajeets, gives housing loans on favorable terms to only recently arrived pajeets. And so on. The pattern will be reliable for as long as the state doesn’t care about law enforcement and losing money.

Indian-registered companies in the state of Illinois have received approximately 42% of all small business loans equaling $5 million each, amounting to a total of at least $85m.

Indians make up only ~2% of the total population of Illinois.

All of a sudden, kids started showing up at the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis. Which is strange, as neighbors said they had never seen any children there before.

The manager’s son was filmed outside the “business” talking to a reporter (or someone), saying that Nick Shirley didn’t even come during normal business hours, which he says are 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Strange hours for a daycare, aren’t they, only opening mid-afternoon? By the way, a Minnesota State Official was quoted as saying that the QLC closed last week. Sounds like she and her Somali pets didn’t quite coordinate their cover story.

https://x.dot.com/CollinRugg/status/2006031966181941687

By the way, Map Quest shows the QLC’s hours to be 6:00 a.m. – 10 p.m.

https://www.mapquest.com/us/minnesota/quality-learning-center-400818101

You’d think that with all the dough they’ve been raking in, they could hire somebody to keep their lies straight.

This is hilarious. Racists broke into a Somali daycare, vandalized it, and, most racistly, stole all the business documentation which could have proven that the daycare was not a scam. (There was only one copy each of these documents.)

Madoff probably stole more all by himself.

Certainly possible, but Madoff stole mostly from fellow Jews rather than the taxpayer at large. Madoff’s crimes are best categorized as a huge affinity scam.

Certainly possible, but Madoff stole mostly from fellow Jews rather than the taxpayer at large. Madoff’s crimes are best categorized as a huge affinity scam.

I don’t know if that’s true. It’s my understanding that Mafoff’s scam made lots of money in later stages by targeting any group that had enough money to play, while he was very selective early on. I saw a documentary years ago about his victims, which included small municipalities in places like Norway. The early investors made quite a bit of money. His victims seem to be a mixed group. Either way, the taxpayers did foot the bill for the investigation and attempts to recover funds. I’m not sure about the cost of that.

“…Either way, the taxpayers did foot the bill for the investigation and attempts to recover funds. I’m not sure about the cost of that.”

The taxpayers paid for the criminal investigation and jail costs. But I believe the attempts to recover funds were largely paid for out of the funds recovered (which were substantial even after recovery costs were deducted).

Hello Mr. Anon,

1) I imagine this is the best we can do for our Dr. Rock here.

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

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

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

5) I like that this ex-TSA lady said “Somalians”.

6) I’m glad Mr. Unz either just said this or programmed it in. I looked back at the last, IIRC, about 1,100 comment actual iSteve post, and getting to the comment linked- to was impossible on my phone, dues to the embedded tweets I gotta assume.

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* That’s another thing I agree with you on. Even if these people were more honest than White Minnesotans, they STILL need to go!

I tried to archive it, I’m afraid they developed a block.

Someone managed to archive it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/21/diversity-hiring-white-men/
https://archive.is/Z6kcz

The diversity overcorrection in the workplace
Discrimination against young White men was an open secret in hiring.
Megan McArdle

TSA ladies are more likely to resemble Bigfoot than any hot woman I can think of.

So, (to connect the dots on this thread thus far) not a ‘Quality Leering Center’?

Yes, agreed! Re:

… once we intervene in some country, there is unleashed an endless stream of immigrants from that country:

… and, even when we don’t. I mean yeah, we had a war with Mexico, but… and we have invaded neither China nor India, yet…

I personally think the “invading the world” is just being used as an excuse (one of many) to “invite the world”. Since Mr. Sailer did coin this, I thought back but can’t recall if he ever stated this cause & effect. I blogged about it: Invade the World/Invite the World: Cause & Effect.

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

Open secret? It has been no secret at all since the 19-freaking-70s! It’s just that proving it would only get you fired or blackballed from your career… till about, say, Jan 20th of ‘25.

I’m not ranting at you, MEH but at this “new” news story in general.

No shit, Megan McArdle

– White man (any of us)

The taxpayers paid for the criminal investigation and jail costs. But I believe the attempts to recover funds were largely paid for out of the funds recovered (which were substantial even after recovery costs were deducted).

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-
department-announces-total-distribution-over-4-billion-victims-madoff-ponzi-scheme

I’m not sure what has happened since, but by 2022 a total of $4 billion has been paid back according to the DoJ.

My initial point was that the Somali case is not the biggest scam perpetrated against the American people, and that most immigrant and ethnic groups run scams. I have seen the Somali scam called the greatest fraud against the American people, which is clearly not the case, and it’s not even close. That’s all I meant.

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

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

I believe you were thinking of Aimee Bock:

Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock ordered to forfeit $5.2 million

This article has a picture:

Jury seated in trial of Aimee Bock, alleged ringleader of Feeding Our Future scheme

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

From Steve’s Substack:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/my-ideology-citizenism

My Ideology: Citizenism
Citizenism is patriotism understood not as shouting that America is the best but as wanting the best for Americans.
Steve Sailer
Dec 31, 2025

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/my-ideology-citizenism/comments

Happy 1/1 @ 1:11 GMT !!! 🥳 🍾 🤪 🥂 🤮

Same to you!

If we want to reenergize young white men and give them purpose and a mission why not put them back into the U-Boats and retake the Atlantic from the Bengalis?

May be the ‘Stranger Danger’ ‘talk’ has become extremely effective! A lot of immigrants are very fearful of guns in U.S. They hesitate to call the police even if they are victims (of minor crimes like theft).

https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/2006442123424575745
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2006189590839976183
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2006384771958776194
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/2006426560514130395
https://twitter.com/AmmoLand/status/2006376556499804175
https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2006190310968185261

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

At the end of this year, we can now see that this was a pretty disappointing year for conservatives. On the plus side, Trump was successful in slowing the influx of illegal immigrants. Against that over the negative side you had the failure of DOGE to cut enough spending, the mishandling of the Epstein files, and the excessively pro-Israel foreign policy resulting in the bombing of Iran and the inability to stop the mistreatment of Palestinians in Gaza. The last resulted in a major split in Trump’s MAGA movement.

Next year is likely to get worse as inflation starts to rise, we bomb Iran once again, our Ukraine intervention turns out in the end about as well as our ones in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and the Republicans losing the House and possibly the Senate in the midterms. Trump will likely get little accomplished in his last two years and it will be up to some future Republican or third party president to turn things around and get this country on the right track again.

1943 US C-Rations.

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

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

Also, the chaos that accompanied the new trade war/tariffs have frozen innumerable small businesses into fearful indecision. That guaranteed very little economic growth outside of huge AI speculative investments. This will continue going forward in 2026.

And I never got a clue how a brand-new undeclared war on Venezuela was hatched from nothing like a modern-day Big Bang episode. Congress seems to be yet another idle spectator like rest of us.

2026 will see the high drama of a sycophant being appointed Fed chair and tasked to debase the dollar as fast as he can. If that happens, we can relive the glorious Carter years of the 70s.

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

Perhaps it shouldn’t be, but it is. I’ve heard plenty of stories of the TSA flagging large amounts of cash. I gather the procedure is that they make you step aside and call a custom’s agent who then interviews you and takes the cash. You then have to bring suit in Federal court to get it back. There was an article in Reason magazine about it a few years ago. Many people – white people – have had thousands of dollars in cash seized as the US Government considers cash itself to be suspect. But, apparently, if you’re a Somali with millions in cash that you are flying out of the country, they just wave you on through? This woman’s story needs to be investigated more closely.

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

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

Yeah, I noticed it 20 or 25 years ago, passing through SEATAC, that a large number of the workers in the secure areas of the airport were Somali. They weren’t in the TSA so much then, but I’m sure they are heavily represented now. It’s to laugh. We make a big deal about airport security, feeling up grannies and soccer moms as if they were armed desperados, and making people half strip, and then hire a bunch of people from a pirate/thief country to man the security lines. It’s because the people who run our society hate us.

It’s because the people who run our society hate us.

This.

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

The PTB make a big deal about Islamic terrorism, use it as a reason to ditch our traditional freedoms, make war on half of the world, and build a surveillance state, and then they staff airport security with Muslims. This makes me think that it isn’t Muslims that they fear.

Buzz, you will appreciate this: A flash mob in Romania singing a passage from Il Trovatore (actually an opera company performing as a flash mob to advertise an upcoming performance):

This is European civilization. Not “diversity”. Not “inclusiveness”. Not those bloodless functionaries who staff the EU and other such agencies of self-abnegation, conformity, and oblivion.

But, rather, European (and European-derived) men and women who love true beauty and art.

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

Thing is, if you’re in India, then teaching your kids to be mortally terrified of anyone not from your security compound (all the rich Indians live in security compounds) is just common sense.

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

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

I seem to recall one of the early investigations involved a middle aged white woman who appeared to be sexually involved with certain of the men.

The boys at https://www.powerlineblog.com have been after this for years, while the local rag, the Star Tribune, studiously avoids any mention.

Flash — Switzerland —

There was an explosion tonight inside the Constellation bar near ski resort Crans montana.
Local police says there’s at least 10 dead and more than 40 injured.
We’re waiting for more morning news from the police (it’s 10AM here).

Now 40 dead 100 injured, list growing.

Nice. But Youtube says it was 11 years ago.

They might have watched Western movies and think we solve our problems by just shooting guns around. While U.S. has high rate of gun related deaths compared to other countries, a majority of them are suicides. Only about 18,000 (out of 50,000) gun deaths in 2023 were homicides.

Here is that abomination:

Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982).

Written by Brennan. One of the worst White traitors ever to sit on SCOTUS. May that bastard burn in hell for eternity.

Happy New Year to everyone.

Same to you!

Breaking down gun deaths in the US on a racial basis also is illuminating.

Grammar aside, perhaps “who” would be more accurate there?

Please don’t bombard me with technical details. The U-Boats I’m most interested are composed of materials extraterrestrial in nature gleaned from Nazi activity in Antarctica. Other than that I’m preoccupied by that strange song on my head.

“by whom” is grammatically correct for passive voice.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/who-vs-whom/

Really Manly Fun.

https://twitter.com/gunrights/status/2006641175952765193
https://twitter.com/gunrights/status/2006576714122432531
https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/2006757830536396865
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2006845790044696931

It was meant to be a joke. “Grammar aside” indicated that I recognized that whom was the correct case (i.e. object). My reference was to iSteve’s who/whom formulation. Which I think is usually interpreted as the “who” doing unto the “whom.” So in AM’s statement “Forbidden by whom?” I was observing that Steve’s “who” would be the ones doing the forbidding.

Nice. But Youtube says it was 11 years ago.

So? It’s still nice. Yes, it isn’t new, but it is still good.

Of all the fads that have come and gone in the last 20 years, flash mobs (of this kind) are one that I liked. Fairly ordinary people (albeit artistic) people coming together to put on public performances of great music. It seems to have peaked in the first half of the 2010s. And COVID killed it off altogether (as indeed the COVID regime destroyed lots of nice, normal things).

Of course, the term “flash mob” now just means a bunch of feral “teens” descending on a convenience store to clean it out.

Thank you!

That’s in Cluj-Napoca (Hungarian: Kolozsvár) the old capital of Transylvania. It’s where my wife went to college.

Boldog Új Évet! (Happy New Year!)

One of the positive things to be said for India is that (compared with almost anywhere else “enriched”) the streets are very safe. The guys who come over to “help you” in Connaught Place might try to con you or take you to “my brother’s shop” but they won’t hit you over the head and rob you.

OTOH the police might be pretty nasty to your tuk-tuk driver for dropping you in the wrong parking space. But tourists are almost sacrosanct. I wandered around half a dozen cities, phone in hand, in perfect safety. It would have been different were I an unaccompanied female, I admit.

OT but of interest to us and also to Steve, if he ever reads comments, perhaps AnotherDad or someone could pass this on. A neat explanation of “lawfare”, as told by senior UK “human rights” lawyer the late Geoffrey Lionel Bindman to Jeremy Corbyn.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/letter-sir-geoffrey-bindman-obituary

Geoffrey said: “He might get off, he might go to prison, but there is an alternative … We lose on all counts, but he gets stuck in his house talking to lawyers all day for the rest of his life. You wouldn’t believe how long and arduous a punishment that would be.”

The subject is General Pinochet, but that’s irrelevant. With enough money and (deliberately?) loosely constructed “hate laws”, you can give political enemies, even those in retirement, a hard time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl97xyzyr0o

Former leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin has appeared in court accused of stirring up racial hatred – for allegedly sharing a cartoon on social media that showed a giant spider with a Star of David on its head.

Mr Griffin, 66, of Welshpool, Powys, is accused of sharing a “threatening, abusive or insulting” cartoon on X in 2021, in a private prosecution by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism is a UK charity, believe it or not.

AFAIK, there were two Madoff restitution funds, the Department of Justice’s Madoff Victim Fund led by Richard C. Breeden, and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation’s Madoff Recovery Initiative led by David J. Sheehan.

They restored about $4 billion and $16 billion respectively, which they said were something like 96% and 2/3 of “allowed claims”, respectively, which implies that Madoff’s total cash intake was about $28 billion, of which about $8 billion was not recovered. Some news stories proclaimed that the Madoff scam was $64 billion, but AFAICT this figure is based on Madoff’s last round of (fictitious) statements mailed to his clients of what their (fictitious) balances were. Needless to say, over the years a lot of clients got used to the idea that these statements really showed their ownership balances, so they weren’t so happy with getting back only what they put in.

AFAICT, both funds ignored the time value of money, which made the accounting easier, but means there was an off-book opportunity cost for the longer a client “invested” with Madoff, but that may not be especially unjust by the standards of these things. It probably also made the high recovery percentages possible, since the unspent money held by Madoff and his beneficiaries increased through interest and inflation over four decades, meaning that even after financial dissipation, there was still a big pot of recent cash to pay back old “investments”.

Both funds made a point that they did not take a portion of the recoveries for themselves, which is a polite way of saying that taxpayers paid for it instead. Last I checked, the Madoff Victim Fund fund had racked up billings of a billion and a half dollars (lawyers and forensic accountants don’t work cheap[er than they have to]), which means the other fund probably racked up a similar amount. So taxpayers got to kick in at least $3 billion not including the costs of prosecution, incarceration, etc. In fact, I seem to recall that some fiscal bill in Congress, perhaps a reauthorization of the Securities Investor Protection Act, had to include extra funding specifically to pay for the extraordinary costs of the Madoff unwinding.

So how does the Somali fraud compare? Still early days, but it being government fraud involving the more potent and media-savvy political party, the accounting will probably be murkier and more incomplete, and the recovery less determined, but the taxpayer hit will almost certainly be bigger, especially if this somehow results in the US invading Somalia to recover from al-Shabab.

It would have been different were I an unaccompanied female, I admit.

Even accompanied females can fare poorly in India when the accompaniment is outnumbered…

https://www.the-independent.com/asia/india/india-spanish-tourist-rape-jharkhand-b2506088.html

Yeah, I agree, but Megan is piling on the stir caused by the recent Jacob Savage article in Compact. You and I knew about this for a long time (all our adult lives?*), but there is still value in getting this acknowledged into the public record, even if it only means moving the Establishment narrative from “It isn’t happening” to “Okay, it is happening, but it’s good”, probably soon to be “This is in the past [i.e. your entire life], so why are you whining?”.

Why did the “Lost Generation” [actually more like three lost generations, and it ain’t over] article finally break through the media’s Narrative Exclusion Zone? Steve, as a near-perpetual consignee to the NEZ, had some thoughts about it, but I can’t find them now. As I recall, one reason he suggested was that this time Savage didn’t mention the Jewish dimension.

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*I can recall having conversations in my high school where we were aware of racial preference in college admissions, so longer than just our adult lives, actually.

They also adulterated the law in various ways to go after Trump, we might recall. NYC was particularly active. After Mar-a-Lago, Trump should send his forces to comb through Joe Biden’s house as well as those of Biden’s appointees. Perhaps do Obama too while you’re at it. And don’t forget to arrive at 5 AM, guys!

The Campaign Against Antisemitism is a UK charity, believe it or not.

Well, of course. By hook or crook someone else will fund it, and fund it generously.

I wouldn’t recommend camping in India.

I do remember the Italian peace activist/performance artist whose last project was to hitch solo to Jerusalem in a wedding dress. She was killed in Turkey after being gang-raped.

OTOH two friends (m/f) rode motorbikes from the UK to Thailand in the early 80s, through Turkey, across the Iranian desert and through Afghanistan and North India. But they were both tough cookies. They’d been picked up by people they assumed were smugglers near the Afghan border when their bikes were sinking in soft sand – bikes put on the lorries and off into the mountains.

They did get a bit twitchy when they were separated and undressed by the women and men of the tribe/group – he said he thought about resisting, looked at the scars on the men and decided not. Then they were both dressed up in local clothes and were guests of honour at a feast !

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

Trump.

I’m serious, Mr. Missouri. He’s made it A-OK for people to talk about it publicly. The Feral Beast of a government we have now has long tentacles, ones that could get you were a normal UniParty Regime member in that office.

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

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

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/sailer-why-is-the-establishment-so/comment/188974402

And a Happy New Year to you too, sir.

Thanks. I noted you didn’t mean the grammar, but I couldn’t pull up the iSteve reference from my head.

Boldog Új Évet!

Cluj-Napoca

Maalox ™ may be of help. Many such cases …

2026 will see the high drama of a sycophant being appointed Fed chair and tasked to debase the dollar as fast as he can. If that happens, we can relive the glorious Carter years of the 70s.

Trump appears to have lots of sycophants in Congress (at least publicly – privately they may despise him) and of course at FOX “News”, which may as well now be called “The Trump Channel”. I look forward to seeing them heaping effusive praise on Trump’s proposed Triumphal Arch*.

Trump says construction of ‘Triumphal Arch’ will begin by February and floats 10 UFC championship fights in June

<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15425457/donald-trump-triumphal-arch-ufc-fights.htm

*What “triumph” exactly is being commemorated? Trump’s triumph over decorum and good taste?

The PTB make a big deal about Islamic terrorism, use it as a reason to ditch our traditional freedoms, make war on half of the world, and build a surveillance state, and then they staff airport security with Muslims. This makes me think that it isn’t Muslims that they fear.

Indeed. Muslim terrorism was not the cause for the erection of America’s police-state regime (and that of other western countries). It was merely the excuse. The cause was that they, the PTB, wanted to do it.

The reason that the Patriot Act was passed so quickly in early October of 2001, less than a month after 9/11, is that it had already been substantially written, as the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It was ostensibly written by Joe Biden – he took credit for it, but as we all know, Congressmen don’t actually write legislation. Who actually did write it? Who knows. Probably some lobbyists and deep-state security bureaucrats.

That 1995 Act was introduced in response to the Oklahoma City bombing and I suspect that the real purpose of the OKC bombing was to provide the justification for the adoption of that Act, and more besides. The newly elected Gingrich majority in Congress opposed it. Six years later and we had 9/11, and almost nobody opposed it then.

I am not sympathetic with the notion, held by some, that everything is a false-flag. It’s ridiculous and childish. But when a major “terrorist” event leads to sweeping policy changes, or proposed changes, like OKC or 9/11, I begin to wonder: was this really just a terrorist attack? Or was there more to it?

9/11 was a major break-point in our history. It fundamentally changed this country and not in any good way. Those in power like calamity as it gives them a way to force changes on the populace that they otherwise would not accept. So – yeah – I think it’s worth looking into a little more closely.

About once a year we have a completely preventable mass death fire event in a music venue that serves alcohol and lacks exits. Many of these happen in Europe, which is over-regulated but massively corrupt.

“But it’s totally agnostic as to whether “diversity” or ethnic unity is “best” for Americans”

Steve is cagily admitting that Americans consist of whites and non-whites, and we are at our best when we are united as a nation. It is based on our posterity—past peoples who had been denied citizenship and inclusion in our body politic fought for that liberty via our institutions. It’s who we are. Always has been. Always will be.

“It’s because the people who run our society hate us. This”

LOL, the reference is to YOUR tribe, the Jews. You are part of our ongoing demographic problem, remember? It’s why whites can’t have nice things. Or so we’ve been told.

when a major “terrorist” event leads to sweeping policy changes, or proposed changes, like OKC or 9/11, I begin to wonder: was this really just a terrorist attack? Or was there more to it?

…to say nothing of the whole Covid scam.

Years of insanity that nobody in power wants us to think about, ever again.

OL, the reference is to YOUR tribe, the Jews.

No it isn’t and don’t presume to speak for me, you stupid a**hole.

When I wrote “the people who run our society”, I meant: the people who run our society.

Some of them are Jews. Many are not.

Stick to commenting on things you know something about.

Which is nothing.

You senile old libtard idiot.

I see that even with the brand new year, you’re still the old angry, irrational curmudgeon. Just delaying the inevitable glue factory!

Again with the “glue factory” bullsh*t, huh? You are older than I am, you decrepit old f**k.

And you lied about what I said, presuming to know better than me what I meant. You don’t.

Everyone here despises you. They despise you for a reason. Because you have earned it.

So just f**k off, you rancid piece of crap.

I’m prepared to offer my sauna services to both you and Steve in order to patch things up and save your marriage.

Did the locals eventually eat your friends?

I don’t use the Ignore Commenter button, and I read everybody’s posts, including the ones I disagree with, but not Corvy’s.

I do hope he is getting paid.

Zohran Mamdani laid out his dystopian vision for the future of New York.

DOJ has filed a major lawsuit against Virginia in federal court, arguing that VA unlawfully grants in-state college tuition and related benefits to undocumented immigrants while denying the same benefits to U.S. citizens who are not VA residents.

William Kirk discusses the huge ruling in Baird v. Bonta.

William Kirk discusses a new legislation being proposed in Ohio that wold serve as a deterrent for legislators that want to knowingly pass laws that violate a state’s preemption statute.

https://twitter.com/gunrights/status/2007161979421766009
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2007155793788055986
https://twitter.com/2AFDN/status/2007140427917603216
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2007180117542408400
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/2007157905271988643

It is an Obama/Biden/Harris voting troll. You cannot fix that. Allowing it to wind you up is counter productive.

This site provides a “Commenters to Ignore” feature above comment #1 in each thread. I placed it on my exclusion list years ago.

PEACE 😇

“Again with the “glue factory” bullsh*t, huh?”

The shoe fits. Wear it.

“ You are older than I am, you decrepit old f**k.”

Hardly.

“So just f**k off, you rancid piece of crap.”

Angry, irrational, and crass. Remarkable.

“ You are older than I am, you decrepit old f**k.”

Hardly.

Based on what you’ve written you are. So were you just lying, you odious piece of garbage?

Yeah, I guess that fits.

F**k off, pustule.

It is an Obama/Biden/Harris voting troll.

And you mostly present as a pro-Trump, pro-Israel troll.

Allowing it to wind you up is counter productive.

Who says it is winding me up? When the toilet is stopped up, one comments on it. It doesn’t mean you are bent out of shape about it.

And Corvinus is a crap-filled, stopped up toilet.

That MORE Saudi Arabians and other Moslems have been allowed to enter America yearly after 9/11/01 than before should prompt the realization that all the anti-terra policies have been meant for us.

LOL. It’s okay. I’m feeling good. On New Years Day, my wife gave me Kocsonya.

(She did. Made it herself.)

LOL

First, make sure you hose down your sauna and give it a thorough HAZMAT treatment after Corvinus leaves.

‘Pyrotechnics’ igniting ceiling seems almost a standard pattern in all these accidents.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croma%C3%B1%C3%B3n_nightclub_fire

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

“it’s totally agnostic as to whether diversity or ethnic unity is best”

The first immigration law in 1790 had two requirements in order to become a citizen. The first requirement was that the immigrant swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the second was that the immigrant be White. Apparently, Americans of that era thought that Whites were more likely to support the political system just created by the Founders.

There were no religious requirements to become a citizen. George Washington sent a letter to a Jewish synagogue affirming freedom of religion and John Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 which said the United States was not founded on Christianity and was not hostile to Muslims.

While most Americans were and are Christians, the United States is not a Christian nation in the same way Israel is a Jewish nation or many Arab countries are Muslim nations. When Jews and Muslims immigrate here and take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, that includes the Bill of Rights with its freedom of religion.

Communist Zohran Mamdani, in his inauguration speech as Mayor of New York City, promised to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/comrade-mamdani-sworn-quran-nycs-next-mayor

Herewith, some photographs depicting the warmth of collectivism:

‘Pyrotechnics’ igniting ceiling seems almost a standard pattern in all these accidents.

Indeed.

I don’t know about the others, but the Station Nightclub also had styrofoam insulation glued to the walls and ceiling, which the owners put in there to keep the joint from violating noise ordinances. A fireman I talked to once said that they referred to styofoam as “solid napalm”.

If you ever walk into a bar or restaurant or other indoor venue and the walls are covered with cloth or, especially, plastic of any kind,……………walk out. If you ever walk into a bar or restaurant or other indoor venue and people are lighting off fireworks,……………walk out.

Jews and Muslims immigrate here and take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution

Arguably, if certain sects of Jews or Muslims (or even Christians) make a sincere oath to the US Constitution, it also renders them apostate to their erstwhile religion since their religions require exclusive allegiance and/or the contents of Constitution contradict their religious precepts.

No doubt this was a feature not a bug that, with the requirement to be “white”, was meant to make and keep the US as an ethnostate+, meaning a white Protestant Christian nation plus those white and white-adjacent enough and either Protestant or religiously flexible enough to lay oath to Constitutional principles.

It’s less clear if the Founders reckoned with the possibility of taqiyya or taqiyya-equivalents in other religions.

I, for one, welcome New York’s new collectivist overlord and the fate that goes with that.

Pity about the Met though.

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Seriously though, replacing “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”? I know that everything gay race communists such as Mamdani say is a strawman, but when has New York City ever practiced rugged individualism? It’s always been collectivist, the question being only, whose collective?

Whether the pseudo-collective of gay race hipsters and multicult dreck that Mamdani purports to represent can actually do any of the pictured accomplishments—railway construction, organized dormitory living, or tidy cemetery construction—is in grave (heh) doubt. A corrupt slide into (even more) incompetent and expensive anarcho-tyranny is the more likely outcome.

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Re the Koranic swearing in, it’s a remarkable arc. A quarter-century ago this year, New York City, where Muslims were rare, was attacked by Muslims, for specifically Islamic purpose, citing Koranic chapter and verse. This year, a Muslim takes the city’s helm, his hand on the Koran.

It cost him his life, but Osama bin Laden won his battle.

Carney and the Mexicans must be getting real nervous.

When Jews and Muslims immigrate here and take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, that includes the Bill of Rights with its freedom of religion.

So what? The Constitution is just the law of the land anyway, which has to be followed regardless of whether anyone agrees with it or not. So what if immigrants are pledging “allegiance” to the commerce clause and the electoral college? I don’t even know what it means to have “allegiance” to the mandatory legal provisions defining the scope of federal powers and the separation of political power between different branches of government.

The Constitution is just a political power sharing agreement. Not a sacred moral text.

But however the Constitution is interpreted, just agreeing to follow it doesn’t mean that current American citizens should agree to include an immigrant in the citizens’ club. Steve says that net benefit to current Americans should be the test, but he’s too chickenshit to take a stand on what criteria would satisfy the test he proposes.

“But however the Constitution is interpreted, just agreeing to follow it doesn’t mean that current American citizens should agree to include an immigrant in the citizens’ club.”

The point I was trying to make, though, was that was originally not the only requirement for becoming a citizen. There were two requirements, not one requirement, with the other requirement being that the immigrant desiring to be a citizen also be White.

That meant that not only were non-Whites excluded from becoming citizens but also Whites that did not believe in our system of government, as shown by the fact that they refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, were also not wanted as citizens.

While Steve might be vague on what the criteria should be for letting immigrants become citizens, for the majority of our history the criteria were not vague. That immigration system worked remarkably well, with the United States becoming the wealthiest country in history from being a majority White country under the political system designed by the Founders. It was a combination of us abandoning both a immigration system giving a preference to Whites and our original form of limited government with its emphasis on freedom and individual rights that is leading us into an era when we become poorer and life becomes harder for the average American.

The theme of Unz’s article about Rasputin is similar to the one you illustrate. It’s actually one of his better efforts the last couple of years.

Nice job, Mr. Anon. I thought the same thing as Mr. Missouri, and not only is there no rugged individualism in NYC, but there’s not much left in this whole Matriarchal Welfare State called America.

My thoughts have been leaning towards this: I haven’t seen Communism and Islam go together much, and only as forced within the old USSR and there’s China’s northwest, Xinjiang. What’s it gonna be, man(dammi), Communism or Islam? I’ll give ya 4 years to figure it out.

I say his Communist mindset is heartfelt right now, but his Islamic roots will emerge and beat it in the end.

For you, Mr. Toad, and others on this 20 y/o iSteve article. I think he did a very nice job with that, not just the writing but the ideas. He figured we could make do with what we had in terms of the citizens on hand. However, 20 more years more of mass immigration (some a little better and 4 of them massively worse) have gone by.

Mr. Sailer likes things to remain calm and peaceful . Deportations aren’t always calm or peaceful. A SERIOUS deportation program of 25-50 million is doable, but the resistance from the destructive ctrl-left and Globalists will make things increasingly more violent. He knows what’s at stake but doesn’t think any big turmoil is worth keeping our nation.

Here’s a question: If we figure that deportation of actual American citizens is going plain too far – what if some of them obtained said citizenship under false pretenses, by scamming the system in some way. There are a LOT of ways. How about if we finally get rid of that bug-out-baby scam – what of those who obtained citizenship via that scam? Would Mr. Sailer be OK with deporting masses of such scammers and their families.

I would. I would want to start with Congressraghead Omar Ilhan (D-SO).

I personally think the “invading the world” is just being used as an excuse (one of many) to “invite the world”. Since Mr. Sailer did coin this, I thought back but can’t recall if he ever stated this cause & effect.

I too addressed the question here a few years back. I too concluded that there is no necessary connection between invading and inviting, and that the invade-invite phenomenon is a relatively new thing for the US dating to the “War On Terror”.

Why it has nevertheless become an unspoken axiom of US foreign policy is therefore a question that could spill many pixels to answer. The short version, though, may be as simple as “In a democratic polity, major policy needs a hold on both the masculine and feminine side of electorate simultaneously, and Invade-Invite does this irrespective of the yin and yang halves being logically unlinked, and irrespective of both halves being terrible policy.” This then becomes a critique of democracy itself, especially in the post-suffragette form.

I appreciated Hail’s interesting and characteristically fact-rich comments on your blog. He makes a good case that invade-invite antecedents go back as far Spanish-American War. He may be right about that, but I would characterize the Spanish-American War as a different kind of war from the subsequent WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam conflicts. Ironically, we may now be back to the Spanish-American-type of wars.

Oh, right, he’s gay too. This is getting complicated.

Communists want no other religion than Communism, so they’ll have to bulldoze the Mosques and bury the Moslems, asses still up, in ditches. Moslems have a very strict book to go by, so they throw gay people off of high-rise roofs. Gay people won’t stand for Communism due to the dull olive-drab clothing and the long lines to buy failure-prone butt-plugs.

NY City under this Pinko-rag-headed homo is in for a high stakes widely watched game of Rock/Paper/Scissors. For those of us not stupid enough to remain there:

So what? The Constitution is just the law of the land anyway, which has to be followed regardless of whether anyone agrees with it or not. So what if immigrants are pledging “allegiance” to the commerce clause and the electoral college? I don’t even know what it means to have “allegiance” to the mandatory legal provisions defining the scope of federal powers and the separation of political power between different branches of government.

I agree with this. Declaring “allegiance” to “The Constitution” is a poor basis for citizenship. Until recently though, no one thought otherwise, which is why an allegiance oath was only one among many requirements to immigrate and naturalize. Others were being white, being free from disease, not being a “public charge”, etc.)

Many of these requirements are still on the books, they just haven’t been enforced—or even mentioned—for a long time. The Trump admin is starting to talk about them though. Whether this will lead to actual action remains undetermined.

How about if we finally get rid of that bug-out-baby scam

Do you mind defining what this is?

Next lily in the lily pads may be Greenland. Jeff Landry, the Governor of Louisiana, has been appointed as ‘Special envoy to Greenland’ to support ‘freedom’ of Greenland from Denmark with the goal of eventual acquisition/annexation.

‘Triumphal Arch’

It is just a play on the word. As the link mentions – In a phone interview with Politico, Trump said construction on the ‘Triumphal Arch’ – nicknamed the ‘Arc de Trump’ – will begin shortly. , he really wants it to be known as Arc de Trump. Like Washington monument and Lincoln memorial.

“The Trump admin is starting to talk about them”

I certainly hope that continues and leads to action. Trump is spending way too much time on foreign affairs, doing things like kidnapping the president of Venezuela. He should have completely walked away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict on his first day in office rather than spending months alternating between threatening Putin or trying to work out a peace deal between him and Zelensky. He shouldn’t be bombing Iran, Nigeria or anywhere else or talking about taking over Greenland. We have so many problems here at home we need to work on fixing that instead are not getting the attention they deserve.

way too much time on foreign affairs

He will feel unfulfilled as an Emperor without a few foreign conquests. I think all presidents have this urge, some more than others. GHW Bush even expressed it openly by saying he is bored by all the ‘Domestic stuff’. He felt invigorated as soon as Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait and took great pride in how he waged and won the 1991 war.

I believe he means “birthright citizenship” but I will not presume to speak for Achmed. So just take that as my interpretation. Especially as practiced nowadays, either Chinese birth tourists or poor Third Worlders sneaking over the border 8-1/2 months pregnant and showing up in the ER to plop out a “citizen,” who, our enemies insist, is just as American as you and I.

OK, I just now read through the whole thread from that Sailer post in April ‘22. Firstly, those posts that point out the Regime Media (in this case, the NYT, as it is a a lot) articles that lie, lie, lie in so many ways are usually my favorites. He’d get pretty snarky too. The comments had me missing quite a few of the guys – great thread.

As for yours, I agree with all. About this:

Even the Vietnam War did not immediately produce much Vietnamese immigration, though there was arguably some guilt/shame-induced immigration allowed to trickle in over the following decades.

The 130,000 that came here early is not like the number of Haitians that have come (and not nearly as bad a crowd either ), but those Vietnamese people who came over just after the Commies took the place were significant, for the time anyway. I say, for that first batch, it was neither guilt nor shame but real loyalty. I know some of these people who’d have been killed right away if they’d not gotten on boats to nowhere at first. That is because they were the educated ones who spoke English and/or French. Most of the boat people did come a few years later, so yes, guilt and shame.

I suppose one could say the same, that it was appropriate loyalty, about the supposedly vetted Afghans who’ve come over the last 2 years , but nah, for multiple reasons.

Also, A.M., Mr. Hail had a whole lot of interesting things to say based on obscure (to me) historical facts in that thread. Looking back, I should have had a much longer conversation with him there. However, I didn’t know enough really, and I may have already been writing other posts (though not commenting here at the time). He’s done that on plenty of other PS threads. I have tried to goad him into copying some of his writings onto his own blog, as it’s often a good amount of material that I’m sure he spent a lot of time on.

He has not written a post on his own blog in about 5 months. I know he takes weeks or months long breaks from here too, but it’s been too long this time.

It’s my own term for “anchor baby”, which, as you know, describes deliberate abuse of the Birthright Citizenship BS. I am thinking of mostly the Chinese version. They want someone who can help them bug out of China, along with the usually illicit money these low-paid government officials have collected. It might be now that they bug out to their big house on the hill in Vancouver, Seattle, San Fran, any nice college town, etc. or much later when the heat is on. Uh-uh, uh-oh… caught up in the action…

Coincidentally, I used the term in the very Peak Stupidity thread we refer to above.

The Constitution is just a political power sharing agreement. Not a sacred moral text.

Quite right. The law is the law. One should not read more into it than that. Hence the old alt-right meme: “Muh Constitution!”.

Ultimately, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. It will no more preserve your civilization than will a dollar bill – another piece of paper – preserve your wealth.

Annnnnnd……………………..we invaded Venezuela.

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

Trump is saying that this was done because Maduro was a drug trafficker, although he just pardoned a former President of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking.

Trump is saying this is not about oil, and then quickly adds that we will take over their oil industry.

I guess this is the triumph that his gaudy, tacky triumphal arch (the Arch d’Trump) will commemorate.

I’m sure the paid lickspittles on FOX will be bending over backwards to tell us how this is part of the “America First” agenda.

Why the US has the legal right to depose foreign leaders, embargo their trade, and meddle in their internal affairs is never explained nor indeed do the “Press” ever seem to ask. Bondi even charged Maduro – the head of state of an entirely different sovereign government – with violating the US Firearms Act of 1934. As if he is obligated to abide by laws of another country.

When the Democrats take the House later this year – and they will – their first order of business will be to impeach Trump. And this time, they will have my full support in that endeavor.

Regarding that organized dormitory living, Communists are very good at arranging such accommodations. Comrade Mand…errr Kaprugina explains this to Doctor Zhivago at 01:27:

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Really this Dr. Zhivago coming home scene can really put the chill in you, as far as what these people are really about, once it all goes down their way.

Especially as practiced nowadays, either Chinese birth tourists or poor Third Worlders sneaking over the border 8-1/2 months pregnant and showing up in the ER to plop out a “citizen,” who, our enemies insist, is just as American as you and I.

It isn’t just garden-variety birth tourists anymore. Chinese tycoons are sowing armies of offspring on American soil:

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chinese-billionaires-surrogacy-pregnancy-7fdfc0c3?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfOTxJSIInea7lXgUuT43CRemJXxwIyxMfwI0QxDsVMleEel8En3F-6&gaa_ts=695979fc&gaa_sig=Aw2t7r4xH5JVbKGs4dTUM65ogTrPnicYXrWCQgqL902Gec7RE6oN3ZuAQoLIGiDcSBopYQ5FZPXw4d85pHWJGg%3D%3D

Orville was terribly gay. I only hope most of you were spared his hot butter concoction.

Isolationism may sound good on paper, but it falls apart in practice.

He should have completely walked away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict on his first day in office

Remember every Republican is not MAGA. There are establishment holdovers (e.g. McConnell, Tillis, Cornyn, Graham). Trump faced 51+ votes in the Senate to deny every cabinet and judicial appointment if Trump simply walked. Sad, but true.

Working within the system allowed Trump to cut new appropriations to ZERO in the BBB and 2026 budget. That was the maximum that was available for his administration to win.

He shouldn’t be bombing Iran

Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei and their degenerate theocracy have been capturing and killing Americans for decades. The only rational response is strength.

Preventing psychotic evil from obtaining nuclear weapons is obviously the correct call. Who else will proliferate if Iran joins the club — Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Greece will all be forced in to respond. Italy may feel they must jump in as well.

Nigeria or anywhere else

If Nigerian Christians become refugees due to Muslim aggression, where will they go? Do you want them here? Helping Nigerian Christians stay in Nigeria is another good decision. It avoids all sort of downside risks.

IMHO we should give every Nigerian Christian a rifle, ammunition, and training. Alas, that is too much to hope for.

talking about taking over Greenland.

The American economy needs resources such as specific Rare Earth Elements not available within our borders. Greenland is one option to obtain some of them so it was worth exploring.

That it also discomforted European Globalists was side benefit. Open borders EU weasels are a large part of the Globalist threat to those who believe in God.

We have so many problems here at home we need to work on fixing that instead are not getting the attention they deserve.

Presidential administrations have to handle multiple issues at once. Wins on the domestic front include (but are not limited to):

• New illegal arrivals at unprecedented lows
• 2.5+ million illegals Remigrated
• Court cases launched to end mythical “birthright citizenship”
• Gasoline prices at multiyear lows
• Termination of CIA fronts such as USAID
• Gutting of the failed Department of Education
• Pushed back against DEI and other state sponsored deviance
• Won multiple lawsuits at SCOTUS for more progress in 2026 and beyond.

Has he delivered 100% of absolutely everything? Of course not. That standard is impossible to meet.

On an objective basis — Trump’s 2nd term has gone pretty well in its first 11 months.

Would you please name the last President who has achieved more in such a brief period?

PEACE 😇

meddle in their internal affairs

Monroe doctrine redux, relabeled as Trump corollary or something (2025 ‘National Security Strategy’). According to which, world is tripolar with U.S., Russia and China as the global hegemons. Putin will boss over Europe, Xi over Asia and Trump over Western hemisphere.

impeach Trump

If they have any brains, they should avoid such time-wasting circus and allow the full ‘American experiment’ to play out. They may benefit from it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CR-L17Cj2_0

Many deaths are from inhaling smoke from smoldering insulation/acoustic foam than heat from fire. This may be better than highly inflammable materials, but better to never allow any flammable materials into the hall.

Isolationism may sound good on paper, but it falls apart in practice.

How could it, given that it is never practiced?

And – I notice – you casually conflate minding our own damn business with “isolationism”. You act as if we are espousing some American form of Juche.

Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei and their degenerate theocracy have been capturing and killing Americans for decades. The only rational response is strength.

You conveniently leave out the antecedent for all that – our installation and support of a puppet regime in Iran for nearly 25 years. Oh, and we blew up one of their airliners too. Oh, and we backed Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran as well.

Preventing psychotic evil from obtaining nuclear weapons is obviously the correct call.

Are you talking about Israel?

If Nigerian Christians become refugees due to Muslim aggression, where will they go? Do you want them here? Helping Nigerian Christians stay in Nigeria is another good decision. It avoids all sort of downside risks.

Where have you been for the last sixty years? It is always the case, when we go a-intervening in some other country, that it looses a stream of immigrants to our shores. The way to keep them out is to not go over there.

The American economy needs resources such as specific Rare Earth Elements not available within our borders. Greenland is one option to obtain some of them so it was worth exploring.

What, are they going to mine them through a mile of ice? And what gives us the right to simply take over other countries because we “need” their stuff. Ordinarily that is called “theft”.

You are quite evidently a pro-Israel shill wearing MAGA camouflage. It won’t work on me. I never liked “MAGA” anyways. It was always bulls**t. Prole-feed for MAGA-tards.

“Preventing psychotic evil from obtaining nuclear weapons is obviously the correct call.”

Then why should Israel be allowed to have nuclear weapons? (For that matter, you might even apply that adage to the US.)

No, they were able to leave on their bikes a day or two later. It’s hard to credit that in the 70s and early 80s Afghanistan was a stop on the hippie trail. These mountain men were amazed to be told about countries like Holland where large amounts of dry land were below sea level.

Hopeful points about Maduro: if anyone had to go, it should’ve been him, his reputation is Chavez without the brains or restraint or military career; plus, where Iraq War I came at the perfect time to overturn the Vietnam syndrome and Iraq II was hurried along by domestic tragedy, this has now happened so often and is such piddling bullshit that diminished returns are inescapable.

Aside from the issue of whether the acoustic foam must be fireproof is the issue of whether a sparkler even needs to be pyrotechnic. For use at sea, the conversion is well underway from pyrotechnic flares to electronic flares. The USCG will finalize its own e- flare endorsement this April. The advantages of e-flares at sea are too numerous to detail here. For use in a nightclub, the most relevant advantages are that e-flares are much safer to handle, and, cannot start a fire. (and, are reusesble) For nightclub use, I would envision an e-sparkler that is smaller and cheaper than the ones used at sea. My boom box has a light-show button that you push and it commences a really cool multicolor, electronic lightshow.

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

Sure looks that way.

That said, they seem to have pulled it off pretty well.

I’m genuinely torn, now: should I want this intervention to work out for the benefit of the Venezuelazan people. or should I want it to fail?

Thanks, I heard about this and was meaning to look up the WSJ article when I had a chance.

Turns out “we” (the global “we”) are already getting started on the genetic utopia/dystopia I commented on last year, specifically the “grow [via IVF] as big a dynasty as you can afford”. Billionaires can afford a big one. And Chinese billionaires aren’t encumbered with romantic notions of genetic ethics that afflict the West.

All of our various foreign interventions will come to an end as we enter into a decline, just as various other empires of the past did. Social Security and Medicare costs are rising and those programs are headed for insolvency as the large Boomer generation retires. Interest costs are rising as the huge national debt continues to expand. The ability of the government to get new tax revenues decreases as native Whites do not have enough children to replace themselves and the workforce becomes increasingly made up of low IQ non-Whites who generate little wealth.

We will not be able to spend a trillion dollars a year on our military in order to project power around the world in the future. Sir John Glubb wrote a book about how empires last about 250 years, giving various historical examples. If you take the beginning of this country as 1776 and add 250 years you get 2026. The American Empire is coming to an end and we will either return to the old American Republic or go into a permanent decline.

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

“Isolationism may sound good on paper, but it falls apart in practice.”

Ding! Wrong Answer. Isolationism works so well, US Presidents have to lie to and trick their citizenry into supporting war on the other side of the world.

As far as that silly cartoon you put up: Notice how none of those incidents happened on US soil? It’s almost as if interventionism is what gets US citizens killed, not isolationism.

“PEACE 😇”

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Ninth Circuit three-judge panel, led by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, ruled that CA’s effective ban on open carry of handguns is unconstitutional under the 2nd and 14th Amendments.

WDCB.org’s Those Were the Days for today features the Andrew Sisters.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3
PATTY, MAXENE, LAVERNE… AND DANA

BOB HOPE SHOW (1-2-45) Broadcast from the Yuma Army Air Field in Yuma, Arizona, with Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford, Skinnay Ennis and the Orchestra, Barbara Jo Allen as Vera Vague and guests the Andrews Sisters, who sing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and join Bob for a Western sketch. Pepsodent, NBC. (29 min) Read the article about the Andrews Sisters in the Winter 2026 issue of Nostalgia Digest.
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (5-14-45) “Weather is a Weapon” starring Dana Andrews as a weather forecaster in Greenland who is sent to Europe to help plan the counterattack for the Battle of the Bulge. Cast includes Ken Christy. DuPont, NBC. (30 min)
N-K MUSICAL SHOWROOM (10-31-45) Starring the Andrews Sisters, Curt Massey, Vic Schoen and the Orchestra and guest Jane Cowl, who presents a scene from the play Smilin’ Through. The Sisters sing “Did You Ever Get That Feeling in the Moonlight?”, “Down in the Valley” and others. Nash-Kelvinator, CBS. (29 min)
LUX RADIO THEATER (2-8-55) “The War of the Worlds” starring Dana Andrews and Pat Crowley in a radio adaptation of the 1953 film, about a Martian invasion of Earth. Irving Cummings hosts, with Les Tremayne, Herb Butterfield, Paul Frees, Bill Bouchey, Parley Baer, Howard McNear. Announcer is Ken Carpenter. Lux Soap, NBC. (21 min & 17 min & 22 min)
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW (4-26-45) With Sidney Fields, Cliff Nazarro, Connie Haines, WIll Osborne and the Orchestra, announcer Ken Niles and guests The Andrews Sisters, who sing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Bud and Lou plan to appear in the Sisters’ new film. Camel Cigarettes, NBC. (29 min)

Availible on their two-week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive

Mark G., sorry but I don’t see how a return to the old society is possible. I am of the “point of no return” school of thought. Maybe that’s because I am ancient, lived through it, grew up in it, and know first-hand how incredibly sweet a time it was.

https://i.insider.com/5cfec69eb7640115c642d269?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webp

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando
3h

The White House official account just dropped an unedited “nigga” on the main, what a time to be alive

The White House @WhiteHouse
5h

If you don’t know, now you know 🦅

Thanks for your 2A updates. You are the one who introduced me to William Kirk (Washington Gun Law) and Mark Smith (Four Boxes Diner).

I predict the 9th Circuit will hear this case en banc and reverse. Another 2A expert (some Greek guy with a gap in his teeth, I forget his name, he writes a lot of amicus briefs in federal courts, his first name is Kostas IIRC) recently wrote an amicus brief in the 9th Circuit pointing out how results oriented that circuit has been regarding 2A. He mentioned that every time a panel rules in favor of gun rights, the en banc Court has reversed.

No sooner did I post this than I came across this article, which explains exactly what I was talking about (and quotes the expert whose name I couldn’t quite recall–Kostas Moros).

California’s Open-Carry Ban Shot Down By Federal Appeals Court

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

But what is the “it” which has happened? A single politician (and his wife) have been removed. It seems likely that Maduro either agreed to surrender himself or was forced to do so by the other members of the regime, for the purpose of taking some wind out of the regime-change project.

There is still a legitimate Venezuelan government and lots of Venezuelans with lots of weapons. Trump has likely just started our Venezuelan adventure, not ended it. Of course, it would be nice to know what we are seeking to accomplish, and why. Maybe someone will get around to telling us a non-phony reason eventually.

As far as that silly cartoon you put up: Notice how none of those incidents happened on US soil?

The one that always bugs me is the 1983 “Marine Barracks Bombing,” in which we intervened in an ongoing civil war in Lebanon. We were literally shelling the Shiite side from the (recommissioned ) Battleship Missouri. And when they retaliated by striking our combat troops in a combat zone (which we stupidly bunched together in a vulnerable location) we said (and continue to say) that it was immoral “terrorism” by the other side.

C’mon, man. Words have meanings.

Whatever your opinion of the ’83 truck bombing I am still pissed that in ’77 the Seabees were loaded on the ship and supposed to go to Lebanon to build truck barricades around the barracks but it was called off at the last minute for “diplomatic reasons”. I do not celebrate the death of Marines as “they deserved it”. Blame the politicians not the grunts.

I am not sympathetic with the notion, held by some, that everything is a false-flag. It’s ridiculous and childish. But when a major “terrorist” event leads to sweeping policy changes, or proposed changes, like OKC or 9/11, I begin to wonder: was this really just a terrorist attack? Or was there more to it?

But false flags and provoking others into actions to justify other acts and agendas is common. I don’t claim to know exactly what happened on 9-11, or other cases where the official story is fishy, but the official story of 9-11 has many loose ends and points that don’t add up. The dancing Israelis, Israeli art students, Israeli movers, passports found in the ruins, etc. show that something was off.

I don’t think that the Israelis were thrilled about US Marines in Lebanon at the time.

“Of course, it would be nice to know what we are seeking to accomplish, and why. Maybe someone will get around to telling us a non-phony reason eventually.“

Regime change. And oil. That’s why we are there. It’s not about removing facilitators of drug kingpins or stopping the flow of drugs to the U.S. Recall that Trump pardoned and/or commuted the sentences of several drug lords.

“C’mon, man. Words have meanings.”

Speaking of which, are you still sticking to your story that Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk? How is your evidence collection coming along?

No, he’s not my type, C.T., and neither is his popcorn. Thanks for the, errr advice. Word-up.

There is still a legitimate Venezuelan government

Is there one?

Are you aware that Maduro lost in 2024?

The Older Millennial
@teameffujoe

He is not “President” Maduro.

He lost. Badly. Wasn’t even close. Then he used his cartel army to violently take power.

And you liberals are on social media doing everything but sucking him off from the back.

 

 

Maduro was almost certainly sold out by those close to him. We don’t know why. Was it patriotism? Or more material concerns, such as money or power?

Arresting Maduro was a clean police procedure. The criminal was apprehended. No American casualties. No American troops left on the ground. It was effective “one & done” operation.

it would be nice to know what we are seeking to accomplish, and why. Maybe someone will get around to telling us a non-phony reason eventually.

The cocaine smuggling angle and associated financial crimes by themselves are wholly legitimate reasons to arrest Maduro.

Venezuelan armed forces were preparing to invade Guyana. The last thing South America needs is another war. That was nipped in the bud before it could start.

Oil is a globally traded commodity. Both Venezuela and Guyana going offline during a protracted war would have bumped up U.S. energy prices. Helping preserve the peace also served a domestic priority in addition to being morally right.

Trump has likely just started our Venezuelan adventure, not ended it.

Hopefully you are wrong about this. There is talk about attempting to “run” Venezuela, but that seems like a bluff. With no advance planning, how could America jump in and do such a thing? No one wants a repeat of GW Bush’s post-war fiasco in Iraq.

The Venezuelan people are happy that Maduro is gone. They need fair elections ASAP to produce a legitimate government. Then they can fix their own country.

PEACE 😇
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they retaliated by striking our combat troops in a combat zone … we said (and continue to say) that it was immoral “terrorism” by the other side.

Yeah, that’s an irritatingly sissy rhetorical technique our government uses: if you attack our military, it’s “terrorism”, but if our military attacks anything—military or civilian, it’s “anti-terrorism”.

The 2000 USS Cole attack was another instance. Four years earlier, al-Qaeda had declared war on the US presence in the Arabian Peninsula. Then they attacked a military vessel on a military mission. “Terrorism!” It’s like, dude, what? You think our military should be immune to attack? They even pre-announced they were at war with us, so we can’t claim any kind of Pearl Harbor-type of “sneak attack”.

In fact, everything in the Gary Varvel cartoon, except Khobar Towers and the embassies, were military attacks on a military targets in war zones. Like, whaddya expect?

The Khobar Towers attack is widely regarded, including by me, as an al-Qaeda attack, not Iranian.

The 1983 barracks bombing, the 1984 embassy bombing, the 2007 Ka[r]bala raid, and the 2024 drone attack were all conducted not by Iran, but by other, local, groups. The US government, perhaps under pressure from a certain foreign lobby to blame Iran, deems these groups to be “proxies” of Iran. Maybe they are. But if so, to maintain the moral claim, the US has to accept responsibility and accountability for everything that US proxies have done over the last half century, which is a much steeper bill.

That leaves as official Iranian deeds,

1) the 2020 missile strike on a US military base (zero dead), which was in retaliation for the US’s assassination of Iranian commander Soleimani (10 dead) while in a neutral third country, and

2) the US’s original gripe of Iran holding US embassy personnel hostage 46 years ago, when the Iranian government was barely formed, there was widespread grievance with US meddling in Iran, and from which the hostages were peacefully released unharmed.

So not really all that much to premise “terrorism” charges, much less a new war, on.

“For one thing, anyone will be able to reproduce with anyone else from whom one can get a genome, with or without consent, living or dead.“

Deep down though, if this results in more white babies being born, you would support such an endeavor.

So how does the Somali fraud compare? Still early days, but it being government fraud involving the more potent and media-savvy political party, the accounting will probably be murkier and more incomplete…

That’s probably the case with most major cases of massive fraud. How often does fraud at that level go unrecognized and unaided?

My point was that the Somali daycare fraud is obviously not the largest case of fraud ever committed against the American people as has been claimed. The criminality of the Latin American drug cartels is much more of a threat. Hidu scams are probably more of a problem. Wall Street does worse. And the biggest and most destructive fraud from public view is the Israel scam, where it’s likely that only the tip of the iceberg is seen or reported on. In comparison, Madoff and the Somalis are small fish.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo
19h

Did you know the Maduro regime hosts international Antifa [an actual terrorist organization] conferences in Venezuela where American and other Western leftists are invited as guests? Maduro himself was the featured keynote at the last Antifa conference in January 2025.

I do not celebrate the death of Marines as “they deserved it”. Blame the politicians not the grunts.

I agree. While stationed in Greece, my father’s unit was loaded up for an invasion of Lebanon that was also called off at the last minute. He said they were close enough to see people on the beaches before being called back.

He’s not blaming the Marines, or any ground forces. They were literally pawns on a much larger geopolitical chessboard.

The point is let’s not insert our troops into foreign conflicts between two hostile forces, bomb the latter, and then act surprised that our guys get attacked.

It’s a bizarre arrogance/sense of entitlement that concludes an enemy isn’t allowed to strike back after we have attacked them first.

Delcy Rodríguez—despised by her own people—was in Russia as Trump staged an operation in Caracas to anoint her. She criticised the military action as “brutal aggression” and called for Maduro’s immediate release.

So why was she temporarily put in charge? Why wasn’t she arrested as well?

In Rodríguez, Trump engages a leader of a government he has labeled illegitimate—while abandoning Machado, whose movement won an election last year in a victory widely recognized as stolen by Maduro.

“Did you know the Maduro regime hosts international Antifa [an actual terrorist organization] conferences in Venezuela where American and other Western leftists are invited as guests?”

Readers added context—Antifa is considered a loose, decentralized political movement or ideology with no central leadership or formal organizational structure.

Furthermore, the World Festival of the Anti-Fascist International took place in Caracas from January 9-11, 2025. It reportedly attracted over 2,000 delegates from social movements, political parties, and cultural organizations worldwide. The festival coincided with Maduro’s inauguration for his third presidential term, serving as a platform for international groups to express support for his government. Attendees and Venezuelan officials called for the creation of a powerful, global anti-fascist alliance and network to fight against what they term “fascism, imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, and all forms of exploitation”.

I thought fighting against Zionism is a noble “pro-white” endeavor.

possible PSA

Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner @KurtSupeCPA
20 Nov 2025

Your son makes $92K and just turned 40 in a rental apartment.

You have $5.1M collecting dust.

Explain that to me.

My client watched this happen for 3 years.

“I don’t want to enable him.”

Enable him to what? Own a home?
Stop bleeding $2,800/month in rent?
Give your grandkids their own bedrooms?

We finally structured a $225K gift last month.

Now his son owns a home. The grandkids have a yard. And he gets to hang out with his grandkids in a space they’ll remember forever.

Your kids don’t need your money at 65.
They need it at 35 when:

Houses cost $500K
Daycare is $2,400/month
Student loans are $87K

Hope is running out

Give them the inheritance while you’re alive to see them use it.

This is literally my x-father in law, my father’s sister (executor of my grandparents’ estate; 78 years old; never married, no kids; receiving a fat CPS pension after retiring 20ish years ago), and to a lesser extent, my step father.

All in their 70’s/80’s.

The cocaine smuggling angle and associated financial crimes by themselves are wholly legitimate reasons to arrest Maduro.

I agree, but if drugs were the issue, much of Latin America would be on the list for invasion, the CIA disbanded, Big Pharma declared drug pushers and dealers, and the CEOs put on public trial. None of that is going to happen. I know people in the military who claim that their job in Afghsnistan was to guard the poppy fields! I’m all for getting rid of the drug trade, but that can’t be the real reason that the U.S. took Maduro out.

I think the father may be concerned that gifting large amounts of money may cultivate “trust fund baby” mentality where younger people expect to inherit wealth instead of learning to work hard and save to build wealth. Many wealthy people give away their money to charitable causes they like instead of leaving it to their heirs.

Here’s a little ditty about our friends the Hindus:

https://rumble.com/v6yr0a4-indian-fatigue.html

While your logic is impeccable, if you see this data:

Year Inflation Unemployment 30 year bond yield
1976 5.7% 7.7% 8%
1986 1.9% 7% 7.5%
1996 2.9% 5.6% 6.2%
2006 3.2% 4.6% 5.1%
2016 1.3% 4.7% 1.8%
2026 2.8% 4.5% 4.9%

30-year bond market is saying we have better future than any time in the last 50 years, except 2016. That people are buying paper at less than 5% interest with hope of getting paid in 2056 in sound money is a miracle.

I’m all for getting rid of the drug trade, but that can’t be the real reason that the U.S. took Maduro out.

Nope, as Mr. Anon wrote above, Trump just last month pardoned ex-President Hernandez of Honduras. He allegedly helped ship 400 hundred tons of co~caine, nothing to sneeze at.

It’s about China at a strategic level. As much as all this unConstitutional stuff (I mean, arresting a foreign leader on weapons charges?!) irks me, I understand these strategic reasons. It’s been a couple of hundred years of the Monroe Doctrine being in effect, with minor Cold War interruptions. The Chinese are heavily involved in South America, as they are on every other continent.*

I’d like to see America go hard isolationist. However, we will feel kinda funny with the Chinese running the World the way the West did a century prior.

I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s about.

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* Yes, they have 5 Antarctic stations.

Trump removed the dictator of Venezuela by arresting him in his palace.

The Indictment Against Nicolas Maduro.

William Kirk discusses the enactment of IL SB 0008, which creates new safe storage provisions and new reporting requirements for gun owners.

Not to mention that they just had the odious PATRIOT Act sitting around on the shelf ready to go. Makes a cynic like me very suspicious. Qui bono and all that.

but that can’t be the real reason that the U.S. took Maduro out.

The trade war with China is the real reason with China manipulating its currency by purchasing Venezuelan oil and Brazilian soybeans with yuans instead of dollars.

Double hit to China, have to go back to buying oil with its dollar reserve (increasing yuan value to usd) and losing a cheap supply of sanctioned oil (good luck with all those Chinese heavy crude refineries).

Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports brought down Maduro.

Deep down though, if this results in more white babies being born, you would support such an endeavor.

Why do you insist on putting words into other people’s mouths and thoughts in their heads? You presume to know with certainty what other people think. Are you a psychic? It is smug and insufferable.

But then, you are smug and insufferable, you despicable, loathsome piece of s**t.

Stick to what you do know. Which is nothing.

Maybe we should consult Mr. Rogers on this subject. He seems suspect, but I think he got it right (as long as he wasn’t too close to the boys and girls.)

BTW, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood (here today, with frozen snow and sunshine.)”

In fact, everything in the Gary Varvel cartoon, except Khobar Towers and the embassies, were military attacks on a military targets in war zones. Like, whaddya expect?

That Khobar Towers building was housing American and other military personnel. It was no different than attacking a barracks on a military base, something that US military forces have done as well.

I agree, the labeling of all of our enemies as “terrorists” is childish and, more importantly, dishonest. But then America is an empire and it makes imperial propaganda. Dishonest propaganda (is there any other kind?) It’s no different than Rome referring to its enemies as “barbarians”.

But false flags and provoking others into actions to justify other acts and agendas is common.

It is commonly claimed to be the case. I have no idea how common it really is. There are people who seem to think that everything is a false flag. I remember, a few years ago, some deranged TV news guy, who had been fired from his job, murdered a reporter and cameraman from the same station – shot them to death while they were out on assignment. I think I read about it on Occidental Dissent. And the commentariat there all said it was a false flag. Somehow, this was supposed to have been orchestrated by the Powers That Be for………..reasons, unexplained.

Many people said the same about Sandy Hook. If you look at comments at Zero Hedge or Info Wars or similar sites (like this one, for example), those notions are quite common. You may say they are irrelevant. And they are to the country at large. However I don’t think they are irrelevant to the dissident right. In short, the dissident right has a “false flag” problem. They tend to subscribe to every conspiracy theory, no matter how crackpot it is. And bad (i.e. false) conspiracy theories drive out good ones (i.e., those that are true).

I don’t claim to know exactly what happened on 9-11, or other cases where the official story is fishy, but the official story of 9-11 has many loose ends and points that don’t add up. The dancing Israelis, Israeli art students, Israeli movers, passports found in the ruins, etc. show that something was off.

I agree. There was a lot that was “off” about the official narrative. Everything you mentioned, for example. There was a lot that was highly suspicious. Things that surfaced in the weeks and months after 9/11, that were then suppressed and/or forgotten. And officialdom wanted those things suppressed and forgotten.

And given how far-reaching and how malign the consequences of 9/11 were, I think deeper, honest investigation into those loose ends is warranted. I don’t just dismiss it with a casual “Hey, s**t happens.”

Monroe Doctrine being in effect

Now renamed Donroe Doctrine.

BTW, Denmark is not happy with Mrs. Stephen Miller’s new target:

Denmark reacts after wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller posts image of U.S. flag covering Greenland
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denmark-trump-aide-stephen-miller-wife-katie-miller-posts-image-us-flag-greenland/

Not trying to open a can of worms, but there were some very strange things about the Sandy Hook shooting. One of those being that there were only 2-3 photos of the kid that supposedly did the shooting, all of them with the kid staring blankly into the camera eye in the same exact manner, and one of them looked like it was merely an elongated replica of the younger version with some poorly photoshopped hair added.

We are told he was developmentally delayed, but I find it hard to believe that a slightly built, noticeably autistic child could carry out that shooting from any aspect: emotionally, physically, functionally, or operationally.

There’s another potential benefit as well. Most US refineries are optimized for heavy crude. Heavy crude is particularly good for producing diesel, which has a significant impact on inflation – transportation, agriculture, mining all run on diesel. Trump is currently attempting to kick the inflation can down the road. The US doesn’t have many moves left with respect to the inflation or crash conundrum, but holding down the cost of diesel fuel is one of them. If installing a friendly puppet in Venezuela gets US oil companies to go back in (with a US military guarantee that they won’t have their assets stolen again), that can actually have a noticeable impact on the cost of goods in the US.

Trump sticking Maduro in an NYC jail immediately after Mamdani becomes mayor, saddling him with this commie albatross that his libtard base will constantly hector him over while he’s able to do absolutely nothing about it is so fucking funny.

Well, that’s an angle I hadn’t thought of.

This really is the end to any pretense that the US is a Constitutional Republic.
There will of course be some of the MAGA moron’s who like this Caligula but who will not do well under the next one.

There will of course be some of the MAGA moron’s who like this Caligula but who will not do well under the next one.

The ctrl-left is going to go all out next chance they get, no matter what. They SET the precedents in unConstitutionality. You get Ron Paul in there even, going by the actual Law-‘o-the-land… for 4 years, soon as he’s gone, none of that matters to them.

Stock up.

This really is the end to any pretense that the US is a Constitutional Republic.

Ignoring the voters on just about every major issue has also proven that the U.S. isn’t a democracy. What is the U.S.?

There was S.J.Res.90 – A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress. It was rejected by Yea-Nay Vote 49 – 51 on November 6th. So, there is an implied Constitutional fig leaf allowing Trump to use ‘Armed forces against Venezuela’.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/90/all-actions

“Everybody’s fancy, everybody’s fine…” Mr. Roger’s was kinda fancy.

What a find, though, Buzz! At the end Johnny said “Happens frequently out here.” I guess Carnak the Magnificent wasn’t there that show to divine how all THAT stuff was gonna go over 40 years later.

As far as that silly cartoon you put up: Notice how none of those incidents happened on US soil?

Good catch there.

Trump has likely just started our Venezuelan adventure, not ended it. Of course, it would be nice to know what we are seeking to accomplish, and why.

Word on the street is that there’s a eugenic “bleach Right” pilot program in the works for Latin America. Kurt Caz has done some recon down there:

Not trying to open a can of worms, but there were some very strange things about the Sandy Hook shooting.

The “strange things” you cite are due to personal perceptions/feelings, not actual evidence contradicting the official story (you haven’t offered any). The only way to fight a presumably false official account is to uncover and share contradictory evidence. “I find it hard to believe” (or conversely, “I believe”) only puts the ‘theorist’ in the “big if true” post-hoc speculation/rationalization slop-content zone. In which it is better not to be.

21st Century false-flag-feels events with zero credible contrary evidence promoted/alluded to by different commenters recently:

9/11 ‘controlled demolitions’
Sandy Hook massacre
Las Vegas massacre
Charlie Kirk assassination

Maybe I’ve missed a few…

“This really is the end to any pretense that the US is a Constitutional Republic.”

If the criterion is “arbitrary military interventions in foreign countries for the purpose of overthrowing the government, unaccompanied by an official declaration of war “, we blew past that milestone well over a century ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Government_of_Santo_Domingo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/

Heck – here’s a list starting in 1953 in Iran.
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-dictators-us-ousted-throughout-history-11304537

And of course there are a number of other criteria we could use to establish the same point. I could argue that we haven’t been a constitutional republic since the civil war.

21st Century false-flag-feels events with zero credible contrary evidence promoted/alluded to by different commenters recently:

9/11 ‘controlled demolitions’
Sandy Hook massacre
Las Vegas massacre
Charlie Kirk assassination

I can see lone nuts and picked-on misfits shooting up schools on their own. I didn’t pay much attention to the Las Vegas shootings, but I have no doubt that many woke and Antifa types would shoot Charlie Kirk if they could. 9-11 has lots of strange happenings around it that are questionable outside of the coldness and explosions. I have seen reports of thermite in dust around NYC, and Architects and Engineers for Truth has claimed that the official story is wrong, but I haven’t really followed that, and I wouldn’t know enough to tell which side has the best evidence.

The problem is that most Americans don’t trust the government not to do such things. I never believed the stories about them chemtrails, but I wouldn’t put it past the government to experiment on the population or cause intentional harm.

The problem is that most Americans don’t trust the government not to do such things.

Right, it’s smart to be reasonably inquisitive/skeptical about official narratives. But endless ‘speculation’ is a waste of time. Cough up credible evidence, or move on.

Nah, don’t try to diminish my argument by evoking my feelings; I haven’t shared my feelings. I have shared my observations concerning some parts of the official story, to include the history, origins and the realistic capabilities of who we are told is the shooter. The official story doesn’t offer much in the way of evidence for its own support. It pretty much amounts to: This was done by this person. The End. Adam Lanza doesn’t even have his own wikipedia page. At least Steve Paddock does. Lanza might be the only accused mass shooter in history not to, at least within the category of sensationalized incidents.

The October 1 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas is not technically a false flag event and its purpose remains murky. The activity of Las Vegas Police Chief Joseph Lombardo indicates operative behavior. The presence of Michael Chertoff at the site of the massacre who served as B2’s Homeland Security Advisor has never been fully explained although it might point to Zionist or high-level Saudi involvement.

I didn’t follow the Sandy Hook shootings, so I don’t know much about it. But crazy kids with guns often do crazy things, especially if they are angry.

There was a shooting in a school northeast of Atlanta last year with four dead, and the shooter was another misfit who was picked on. My niece went to middle school with the kid before going to a neighboring high schools, and she said the shooter was picked on and often accused of being gay in middle school. Kids are vicious. Not an excuse, obviously, but it is true.

Clandestine services like CIA, MI6, Mossad, ect,, have long-controlled illegal narcotics networks for a number of reasons including the top two — operations cash and intelligence.

Nah, don’t try to diminish my argument by evoking my feelings; I haven’t shared my feelings.

You literally wrote “I find it hard to believe”, therefore adding a subjective speculative element (belief). You likely wouldn’t have done that if you didn’t have negative feelings about the official account.

I have shared my observations concerning some parts of the official story, to include the history, origins and the realistic capabilities of who we are told is the shooter.

As you may have guessed, I dispute that your observations of “the history, origins and the realistic capabilities of who we are told is the shooter” have merit. For one thing, your cited ‘circumstantial evidence’ doubts are extremely vague/irrelevant, indicating that feelings, not facts, are informing your objection to the official account. Do you really want me to take down your “observations” point by point? As a friendly courtesy, I earlier refrained…

The official story doesn’t offer much in the way of evidence for its own support. It pretty much amounts to: This was done by this person. The End.

Which makes perfect sense if that person did it. So far you’ve offered no evidence to the contrary.

Adam Lanza doesn’t even have his own wikipedia page. At least Steve Paddock does.

So? Cue spooky music? [x_files_theme.mp3]

Lanza might [e.a.] be the only accused mass shooter in history not to, at least within the category of sensationalized incidents.

Big if true! [x_files_theme.mp3]

Though, you might want to check on up that useless hedged “might”.

You’re offering more irrelevant innuendo in lieu of evidence, indicating feelings are motivating you, rather than a desire for factual veracity, in this instance.

1953 Iranian coup d’état has been the most expensive of all as we have maintained mutual hatred with Iran for more than half a century involving us in many Middle-Eastern wars fomented by Iran. The most recent Iraq war that marked the beginning of U.S. decline is a descendent of the Frankenstein monster unleashed by the 1953 coup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

VA is screwed.

Too convoluted to be good bait.

“Where’s the sizzle, bubbe? This ain’t gonna get asses in seats! Where’s the hooka with a heart of Goldschläger? Ha cha cha!”

“I think the father may be concerned that gifting large amounts of money may cultivate “trust fund baby” mentality where younger people expect to inherit wealth instead of learning to work hard and save to build wealth. Many wealthy people give away their money to charitable causes they like instead of leaving it to their heirs.”

This is silly. If your children are competing with children receiving financial assistance from their parents and you can afford to provide such assistance yourself you aren’t doing them any favors by refusing to help them financially. Being poor doesn’t actually build character.

Of course if you know a kid will squander any money you give them that is a reason to hesitate. But if they are working hard and spending prudently but are still struggling financially why not help them out if you are in a position to do so.

The father’s own words – “I don’t want to enable him” – seem pregnant with meaning.

I agree. But Lanza was 20 and his victims were mostly 6-7 year olds. That doesn’t really fit the revenge seeking MO. I’m not trying to reopen the case here, merely pointing out that there are enough peculiarities about the incident to be suspicious about the official story, to include the extremely limited amount of information available about the accused shooter.

There is a ton of info out there, by some fairly credible sources if you become interested.

“You literally wrote “I find it hard to believe”, therefore adding a subjective speculative element (belief). You likely wouldn’t have done that if you didn’t have negative feelings about the official account.”

Oh Jenny Jenny Jenny, the word games you like to play just to deflect! If you prefer to believe the official story (feelings!) that is your right. But in an incident shockingly devoid of real facts, belief is all you yourself have as well.

Like I said to Oilcan, I’m not trying to revisit the case, just point out the suspicious aspects of it. (Like a guy running around with a gun outside the school at the time of the shooting who was explained away as a SWAT cop from a different town – totally normal.)

What’s next from you, that Iraq really did have WMD’s! (This suggestion might be good enough to get you to waste another 500 words talking out of both sides of your mouth)

“The father’s own words – “I don’t want to enable him” – seem pregnant with meaning.”

If the kid is a drug addict, sure. Otherwise not so much.

Regarding Iran, we overthrew their government in 53 and installed a repressive dictator who had a really good at torturing intelligence service- Savak.

We gave Iraq weapons, funding and other support when then Invaded Iran in 1980. We assisted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iranians. We even provided Iraq with the tech to build chemical weapons.

We shot their civilian airliner out of the sky in 88. We invaded their neighbor in 2003 and I would say they had every right to intervene in Iraq as they did.

Your point about immigration is valid though. Joe had the borders wide open

I concur with this list, except that when I last looked at declassified documents from the 1953 coup, it looked more like the CIA was barely keeping up with events rather than driving them. When they decided the outcome was a “win” anyway, they decided to take credit for it back in DC, though they hadn’t actually done much.

So, one could argue the US became morally culpable more than materially culpable.

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

Here it is:

https://www.takimag.com/article/one-million-words/
https://archive.is/nGmhl

One Million Words
Steve Sailer
January 01, 2026

But in an incident shockingly devoid of real facts, belief is all you yourself have as well.

What are the “real facts” that are missing? Please share.

Like I said to Oilcan, I’m not trying to revisit the case, just point out the suspicious aspects of it. (Like a guy running around with a gun outside the school at the time of the shooting who was explained away as a SWAT cop from a different town – totally normal.)

Pretty weak that you don’t cite sources for your claimed “suspicious aspects of it”. Did you personally witness a SWAT cop running around suspiciously?

There is a ton of info out there, by some fairly credible sources if you become interested.

I am interested! Can you post links for us all to check out?

You are commenting on unz dot com.

Do you ever read any of Ron Unz’s articles?

There is a ton of info out there, by some fairly credible sources if you become interested.

If there is, I have never seen it. I saw a lot of Alex Jones level stuff at the time it happened, but none of it was plausible or supported by the evidence. But if you can suggest anything, I will take a look at it.

One necessary condition for a false-flag assertion to be true is a plausible motive. What do the PTB and the state agents who work for them gain from a false-flag attack? Often times, such a motive is lacking. For example, when that girl murdered those people at the Christian school in Nashville in 2023, I saw claims on the internet that it was a false flag. Huh? Whose interests would that serve? The elite, and the government at the time, were pushing the idea that trans-ideology was perfectly fine and normal – as American as apple pie. The fact that a deranged, liberal, gender-confused, and openly white and christian hating woman murdered a half dozen people (including three children) at a school hardly reinforces that narrative. The fact is that a lot of “trans” people appear to be violent, dangerous lunatics, which one would expect given the fact that they are obviously mentally ill to begin with.

Now with the Sandy Hook shooting, a false-flag motive is apparent. I remember when I first heard about it, seeing the first TV reports while on my lunch break, and thinking: here it comes – the calls for gun restrictions and gun bans. If you wanted to create a justification for increased gun control, the Sandy Hook massacre would certainly fit that bill, as it was the most outrageous such attack that had yet taken place. That said, I still see no reason to think that it was a staged event.

And I could see a plausible false-flag motive for the Las Vegas shooting as well – as trying to gin-up enthusiasm for gun control among the redneck set. But that’s not where the conspiracy theorizing went – it all went toward some supposed sinister plot involving Saudi royals and arms merchants – stuff that made no sense.

The fact is, there are a lot of sick and evil people in our society, and given how degenerate our society has become, such crimes are perhaps not surprising. The most plausible explanation I have seen for the increased frequency of such senseless slaughters is the one put forth by our former host, Steve Sailer: the decline in religious belief and the increase in nihilism, and the concomitant decline in divine judgement.

You are commenting on unz dot com.

More specifically, I’m commenting in the iSteve community forum.

Do you ever read any of Ron Unz’s articles?

I’ve checked out a few over the years.

Another understated and underreported reason for the seeming proliferation of mass shootings is the widespread use of medications such as SSRIs, which can have bad side effects. Big Pharma wouldn’t want that in the minds of the proles, so their paid press organs don’t mention it.

Not what epebble means. His point is that the father is, perhaps unintentionally, revealing that for complex psychological reasons he wants to hold his son back from success.

For the general delectation of our commentariat/community: Read it and laugh or weep as you are inclined ( Either choice is supportable, I think )

https://twitter.com/lizcollin/status/2007940190220808349

“SHUT IT DOWN”

https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/business/israeli-tech-billionaire-urges-americans-to-limit-the-first-amendment/

Israeli tech billionaire Shlomo Kramer urges Americans to ‘limit the First Amendment,’ sparks outrage

Shlomo Kramer, the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Cato Networks, sparked outrage online after he urged Americans to “limit the First Amendment” — arguing that democratic nations must respond to emerging dangers by controlling online speech before it’s “too late.”

Kramer, a serial entrepreneur who helped found Check Point Software and Imperva, told CNBC that artificial intelligence has given authoritarian governments an “unfair advantage” over democracies that protect free expression.

“I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it,” Kramer said during the interview.

He argued that unrestricted speech on social media platforms is fueling polarization and allowing hostile actors to undermine “the fabric of society and politics.”

According to Kramer, governments and technology companies should take direct control of online platforms and determine who is allowed to speak — and how much influence their speech should carry.

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

Are you a member of SAG?

I wish I had a few grandkids to provide @ $1,500/day for 3 days.

Diversity is Our Strength,

and

Our Children are Our Future.

I agree. But Lanza was 20 and his victims were mostly 6-7 year olds. That doesn’t really fit the revenge seeking MO.

That is odd. I didn’t follow the case, so I don’t know what happened.

I could be if I lay off the little blue pills.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike, luv ya (no homo), but your extensive fuzzy memories and half-assed notions don’t amount to jack. Would you accept the ‘quality’ your own goofy rationalizations if instead of you it was Jack D or Twinkie making them about some other topic/incident? I doubt it. GET YO SHIT TOGETHER BROHEEM, we here in the iSteve community are rootin’ for ya.

I hate to say it but you’re kinda acting like corvi here and it’s annoying.

It happened in a town a little way up to the north of me.

If we are to believe it (and I don’t know either way) Lanza took out the gun(s) in his typical, Connecticut McMansion and proceeded to shoot his mother to death and then proceeded to the local elementary school and proceeded to shoot numerous little kids to death and at least one of their teachers.

All for no apparent reason.

The world is a weird place, but the only thing weird about Connecticut (to me) is how normal it is. They don’t call it “the land of steady habits” for nothing. This was weird.

I can sort of understand all the weird shootings and shit that have happened back in my home state of Colorado. It’s not “the land of steady habits.” It’s the home of people like me, whatever I am. It’s more wide open. The mythical “Oooolllld West.” Connecticut is not. Better salary here, more bankers, etc. so, you know…

Oh, I love youz too, but I don’t care that much, and me going off and spending hours looking up old stuff all in the hope of changing one mind or less really isn’t worth it to me. I’ve already spent more time than I ever intended. Maybe Lanza did do it all they way it’s told to us. Just too many peculiarities for me to swallow whole.

Besides, you don’t need my efforts, you have JIE AI!

I hate to say it but you’re kinda acting like corvi here and it’s annoying.

Anything incorrect I’ve written, or is it just a ‘tone’ thing?

All for no apparent reason.

The world is a weird place, but the only thing weird about Connecticut (to me) is how normal it is. They don’t call it “the land of steady habits” for nothing. This was weird.

Only weird if you believe that autistic freaks somehow can’t exist in Connecticut. Why would you believe that?

Besides, you don’t need my efforts, you have JIE AI!

ChatJIE™ 🙂

I have long suspected that you were the control Jew.

An oligarchy that responds to the edicts of a globalist cryptocracy.

I wasn’t thinking of complex psychological reasons – more like the father thinking, rationally perhaps (father knows best), the son is not really suited for home ownership. Home ownership is a big responsibility and burden that many people are not prepared for. It is not even suitable for many people – like someone who may have to move, who may not have steady reliable income etc., Pushing the son towards homeownership when he didn’t even ask for it doesn’t sound pragmatic. Far better to help him with rent if he is in need or help otherwise (healthcare, children’s education, cars, vacation …). Anyway, that’s what I would do.

I have long suspected that you were the control Jew.

“Keaton always said, ‘I don’t believe in Control Jew, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well I believe in Control Jew, and the only thing that scares me is Jenner Ickham Errican.”

In the previous thread, there were a few posts on how currency ‘debasement’ is funding our deficits and will be the chosen path going forward. I saw an interesting article when Janet Yellen, former Fed chair, expressed similar fear. Her choice of euphemism – ‘Fiscal Dominance’ – sounded new to me.

Janet Yellen warns the $38 trillion national debt is testing a red line economists have feared for decades

Two thousand years before the U.S. federal government’s debt crossed the $38 trillion threshold, the Roman Empire faced a similar-looking calculus: a state with increasingly expensive obligations and a very limited appetite for taxes. To pay for this discrepancy, emperors pursued a policy known as “debasement”: gradually shaving off the silver from the coins until the value of the metal became more about its symbol than the metal itself.

In practical terms, it was a way to pay bills without fully admitting the cost. The long-run risk wasn’t just hyperinflation; it was that once people stopped trusting the coin, everything else in the economy became harder to coordinate.

The modern equivalent isn’t literal coin shaving. But as 2026 starts with the U.S. staring down a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio, top economists, including former Fed chair Janet Yellen, fear a different sort of debasement will begin—something called fiscal dominance.

Here’s What the Law Says About What’s Going On In Minnesota.

https://twitter.com/gunrights/status/2008238824560750808
https://twitter.com/GodwinMeter/status/2008015424869511382
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/2007561252491669862
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/2007640902739865607
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2008282380365115485
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2008237081428984121
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/2008221979229217108

Another understated and underreported reason for the seeming proliferation of mass shootings is the widespread use of medications such as SSRIs, which can have bad side effects. Big Pharma wouldn’t want that in the minds of the proles, so their paid press organs don’t mention it.

Yes, I think that is also a big part of it.

Another theory is that some people who, in years past would have become serial killers, have instead turned to mass murder because it’s become much more difficult to be a serial killer, what with ability to reconstruct people’s movements and doings made possible by modern technology (video surveillance, cell phones, online and credit-card purhcases). I don’t know how plausible this is. Serial killer and rampage killers would, I think, be different personality types. Serial killers seem to want to remain at liberty and also seem to get an added thrill by eluding law enforcement.

I think the drugs and the erosion of religious belief are more likely causes.

I’m no expert but autistic children, even in mild cases, do not like loud noises, struggle to manage moderate mechanical tasks and have difficulty designing plans. But I’m supposed to imagine this 20 year old was proficient with multiple types of semi automatic firearms (trained by who?) drove on his own to a school with seemingly no relation to him and carried out a methodical mass shooting, killing 26 people in less than 15 minutes, reloading magazines and with no hearing protection.

It’s as if you never watched that ‘Accountant’ movie with Mr. Affleck. If you don’t understand that movies trump empiricism, you understand nothing about our era.

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

Which kind of implies it ain’t really about keeping a “daycare” open.

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

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

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

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

Part of the so-called Satanic Panic in the 80s that was useful and interesting yet immediately forgotten is that it came out that there’s no legal criteria or threshold for daycare. You can just declare your front room of your house to be a daycare center.

Have you seen Dear Wolfgang or We Need To Talk About Sandy Hook?

“…But I’m supposed to imagine this 20 year old was proficient with multiple types of semi automatic firearms (trained by who?) …”

According to wikipedia

“… He had access to guns through his mother, who was described as a “gun enthusiast who owned at least a dozen firearms.”[150][151][152][153] She often took her two sons to a local shooting range, where they learned to shoot …”

“… drove on his own to a school with seemingly no relation to him …”

According to wikipedia:

“Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary School for four and a half years. …”

See also USA Today :

“The signatures of Lanza and his fifth-grade classmates are on a Sandy Hook Elementary T-shirt made by the school and given to each student. Lanza and other fifth graders attended the school in fall 2002.”

Vodka the first: I promise I won’t get all political.
Vodka the nth:

Janet Yellen, FiscDom, lol.

With that said, these are hardly fresh new concerns. I think I heard basically the same thing when the debt was $36tn, not that long ago come to think of it.

Remember Ashli Babbitt – summarily executed by the Federal government five years ago today. Trump should put her name on a building.

He could also put a plaque on a a toilet “The Micheal Leroy Byrd Commemorative Bathroom Stall – True excellence comes from within”

I believe I watched the latter 10 or so years ago.

Tone condescending nasty sarcastic “the I’m right and you’re stupid for believing that stuff” very unbecoming try harder, just simply say you disagree.

The KK caught up to you there, too, Achmed.

Thanks, too. (I’m low on my quota, so I can’t hit the “thanks” button.)

2/21/13: NBC Admits That Adam Lanza Didn’t Kill Anyone at Sandy Hook with a Rifle; So Why Have the MSM Permitted Obama, et al., to Hijack National Discourse with Their Assault Rifle Lie?
And what is the connection to Gun-Grabbers and the Obama Administration of Connecticut’s Chief Medical Examiner, H. Wayne Carver II, Who Started the Assault Rifle Lie?

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

Social Media Erupts Over Report Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd and Wife Ran ‘Unaccredited’ Daycare

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/01/06/social-media-erupts-over-report-capitol-police-officer-michael-byrd-and-wife-ran-unaccredited-daycare-n2197810

Still, when a Fed chair lays it out in black and white, it is significant. Whether at 36 or 38, the footsteps are getting louder. This is Thomas Andrews saying, “it is a mathematical certainty”.

Social Media Erupts Over Report Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd and Wife Ran ‘Unaccredited’ Daycare

Ms. Omar if you’re reading this, and I feel certain you are, Lt. Byrd would make a splendid Honorary Marshal for the annual Somalia Day parade. If you want more of this type of sagacious political advice have Tim’s people call my people etc….

For another installment of our recurring “Laugh or Cry; You Decide!” feature,

https://twitter.com/justinskycak/status/2007885994020708656

This is the 6th ranked public university in the USA, mind you.

Rather than our large national debt leading to a sudden crisis, we may just have a slowly worsening situation that lasts over multiple decades. You could even argue we have already entered it, starting after the 2008 financial crisis or maybe even earlier, with things slowly getting worse for the average person.

One way to measure this might be to look at life expectancy measures. In the hundred year period from 1865 to 1965 average US life expectancy increased by 30 years, going from 40 years to 70 years. Over the last 60 years, increases in average life expectancy have greatly slowed, with it barely budging over the last fifteen years.

If you look at rankings of countries by life expectancy, you can see the US steadily dropping. In 1960 we ranked 18th in the world in average life expectancy. By 2010 we had dropped to 32nd. By 2020 we were down to 40th and we are now at 46th. The drop has been continuous, with the only exception being a period in the seventies when public health campaigns encouraging people to stop smoking and to get their blood pressure checked and get on recently developed drugs to treat high blood pressure if needed were successful in resulting in a temporary improvement.

While there were a number of reasons for this decline, the worsening economic situation of average people probably plays a major role. An increasing feeling that the future will be worse has led to increasing feelings of despair and hopelessness and a lack of long term planning. Average people don’t work as hard on getting an education, pursuing a career, starting a family, saving money to buy a house or fund a future retirement, or take care of their health under such conditions. Even though Trump talks about us entering a new Golden Age, most people do not believe that.

Okay, okay, Generic American. I get it.

You win.

Are you happy?

WTF is it with you? Sometimes I think you of like mind, and other times like this, I think you are just a fucking asshole — or worse.

Which is it?

I fucking said “This was weird.” What about that doesn’t imply that I already know it was, in fact, weird for Connecticut?

So, to sum up for those whose brains lack logical strength: I think it was weird for Connecticut. Wow, imagine that.

Who appointed you hall monitor?

Thank you for yet another shitty shot at me. Have nice day.

“dissident right has a “false flag” problem. They tend to subscribe to every conspiracy theory, no matter how crackpot”

I also hang out at Moon Of Alabama for Ukraine commentary and news links, and there are a huge number of idiots and monomaniacs. I do wonder if some of them aren’t deliberately posting to discredit the site or make the comments not worth ploughing through. There’s one guy who thinks every bad thing in the world is down to “the English”, even though the English are rapidly becoming a minority in all their cities, and another who tells us that everyone from Putin to Hitler (and all the Nazi elite) is or was Jewish.

Totally believable. This is what happens.

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

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

Hoo boy! What did I just write there?

Movies are fiction. Effective empiricism is non fiction.

movies trump empiricism

You could not prove this in a million million years.

We had this back on Threads 14 & 15.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ay, Caramba!

The entire US political and mainstream media establishment was unanimous for 5 years that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had absolutely nothing to do with covid-19, and you guys are worried that the dissident right has a problem with conspiracy theories?

Might as well have the tune to go with the lyrics.

Sometimes I want Israel to win. The Israeli judge who just died in a freak highway motorcycle crash was not connected in any way to the Netanyahu cases, in fact he wasn’t at the right level and the judges judging Bibi are in a panel of three, so naturally Muslim Twitter and numerous news agencies are claiming that this judge was the one presiding over the Netanyahu case.

Anything incorrect I’ve written, or is it just a ‘tone’ thing?

Tone condescending nasty sarcastic “the I’m right and you’re stupid for believing that stuff”

Ah, that’s a relief. It would be unusual for someone to point out a factual error on my part, thus my initial concern. 🤠

just simply say you disagree

If I didn’t care about KNOWLEDGE IS GOOD, sure, I could let it slide. If some known troll says some bs, I don’t bother to respond (earnestly, anyway). But Mike is a good guy, I like him and I want him to be right.

Suggestion to AEN for the next Peak Stupidity headline/post:

EPISTEMOLOGY, BITCHEZ!

epistemology |iˌpistəˈmäləjē|

noun Philosophy

The theory of knowledge, esp. with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek epistēmē ‘knowledge,’ from epistasthai ‘know, know how to do.’

In a forum like this, claims on ‘controversial’ topics are often made, some logical, some not so much. What I want to know when the latter occurs with non-trolls is: How much do they really know, factually, what they claim about the topic? If that person is evasive and non-specific, or cites dubious sources, or even better (aka worse LOL)—cites nothing, etc., I’m gonna bring the epistemological ‘tough love’ and see how sincere they are about it.

Sometimes it ends friendly with ‘agree to disagree’ as with Mike. Mike’s a big boy, he don’t take any of it poysonal, but it seems summa youze gentle onlookers got a little upset. That ain’t my intent, but it don’t break me up too much either, gnome sane?

Mr. Stix, got any links?

We had this back on Threads 14 & 15.

Oh, I knew that. What I didn’t know, or at least didn’t remember, is that they were giving remedial classes to get in to the remedial classes. This struck me as a particularly succulent morsel, thus my comment.

Movies are fiction. Effective empiricism is non fiction.

Kaganovitch’s comment on autistics ironically is bait for autistic literalists.

Hol’ up, I’ve just been handed a note…

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

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

I keep trying to come with something to add to this, and I keep failing.

Official reports from the Sandy Hook Elementary School investigation established that Adam Lanza used a semi-automatic rifle to kill all 26 victims at the school. Initial reports from December 14, 2012, contained conflicting information because of the rapidly evolving nature of the crime scene.

Initial Reports (Dec 14, 2012): Early law enforcement statements and media reports erroneously claimed the rifle was found in the trunk of Lanza’s car. Some sources initially believed only handguns were used inside the school.

Correction (Dec 15, 2012): State Police and the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, clarified the weapons’ locations the following day. They confirmed a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle was used for all fatalities inside the school, while a 12-gauge shotgun was left in the car’s trunk.

Final Findings: The investigation concluded Lanza fired 154 shots from the rifle and two shots from a Glock 10mm pistol (one into a hallway and one to commit suicide.

Sandy Hook is no false flag. Lanza committed the heinous crime. Alex Jones was exposed as a fraud.

Significant difference betwixt serials and the mass killers. Serials are cold-blooded, calculating predators whereas the mass killers are filled to the brim with violent emotion ie combustible fuel which suddenly explodes. Mass killers are slobs.

I’m not upset just pointing out that you were being an asshole but hey that’s just my opinion.