Ron, time to shave the head and grow a goatee. then you’ll look like this:

Can anyone fill me in on what’s going on in France? It seems like their own version of swamp-style disenfranchment, but I’ve been pretty disconnected recently and all I’ve seen is the MSM version of events. I know there’s more.

So … Steve ran away to Substack because he was getting ratioed in the comments here too hard?

Steve, come back! We miss you! You weren’t being used as a punching bag. We were just teasing you!

Actually, I’ve changed my mind. Jews really are the master race and should be entitled to both the West Bank and the privilege of ruling over us Christian Goyim in the West for the rest of time due to their really big genius Jew brains. I agree. You and Jack D were right all along.

Would also appreciate opinions on whether what the Trump Administration is doing with regard to students who dare to criticize zionist genocide: does this outweigh whatever good DJT has done?

https://www.unz.com/runz/the-zionist-destruction-of-american-higher-education/

Seems to me that the Establishment is up in arms because a few thousand violent criminals have been deported (or is it hundreds) to El Salvador but not so much about this. We have well over 20 million illegals…this is a drop in the bucket.

I suppose this question by Loyalty is The First Law of Morality/[one other handle I can’t recall] is a good place to start:

Why does Sailer hate Trump so much? As someone here said, Sailer seemed almost disappointed when he survived the attempt on his life. Sailer never expressed this much sass towards Biden or Obama. He rather liked those fellows.

I answered:

Trump is low-brow. Steve Sailer is a Peacetime Consigliere. He’s too high-brow, civil, and reasonable to understand that being high-brow, civil, and reasonable do not work with the enemy we have. Hey, it’s not like we haven’t tried all that, for half a century!

A couple of comments about Dark Brandon followed, but Mike Tre wrote:”

He’s too high-brow, civil, and reasonable to ”

Some might call this snobby and naive.

Good question: Does Mr. Sailer dislike “lowbrow” people, no matter how right they might be, and tailor his punditry accordingly? I bring up Marjorie Taylor Greene* a lot. She’s MAGA and she’s got the kind of spirit we could use in a couple of hundred more Congressmen and Senators. She might be considered a bit low-brow, so would Mr. Sailer not like her? (I can’t recall him bringing her up).

More importantly, for now, why all the disdain for the MAGA crowd, Trump’s oft-nutty antics notwithstanding? How about a little credit to the President for:

1) Putting troops on the southern border, bringing invasion numbers down BY 93% – all I know is about 7,000 a month (a few hundred a day) vs. multiple hundreds of thousands some months very recently. (Brandon tailed it off temporarily to help with the election.)

2) Deportations started on Week 1 and are ongoing. The numbers are not good long-term ones when you’re going for 40 million, but the visibility and sob stories are a GOOD THING.

3) Putting the hammer down on D.I.E. programs anywhere the Feral Gov’t can possibly have anything to do with it. It helps that Institutions all around are sucking on Aunt (Uncle?) Samantha’s teat. This stuff may carry over to Big Biz, but I haven’t seen that just yet in personal experience.

4) Releasing the J-6 Political Prisoners first thing. That was an important promise. He kept it. (Coulda’ been me.)

5) Working to clear out the Administrative State (which is NOT the Deep State – Mr. Sailer has that wrong) of ctrl-left evil ones.

6) Pulling the US (again) out of the Paris Accords – that’s somewhat symbolic, but it shows that Trump is smart enough not to go for that very-expensive scam.

He’s been a warmongering braggart and buffoon WHILE he’s been doing all that, but still, I give Trump-47 some credit.

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* See also MTG calls out Mayorkas as the treasonous asshole he is. (Geeze, I’m starting to sound like Andrew Anglin!)

I got really into your site today, Mr. Unz. (Doc says I’d better watch it.) Therefore, I will wait until tomorrow to put up that post about the old Laurence Guyenot article about JFK, Jr.‘s death, on my site.

His was the most interesting of all the Kennedies’ unnatural deaths. Skiing into a tree, ahhhh, boring. Getting drunk and choking in one’s own vomit – not sure any of them have, YET, but we’ll be the first not to know about it. (Found a 2nd puddle of vomit behind the grassy knoll!) The one guy your average bloke would really want to have an early unnatural death, guy named Ted, whaddya’ know, he lived to a ripe old age…

“C’est la vie”, say the old folks. It goes to show you never can tell.

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Any Cajun’s on the thread?

Message to assorted Trump Derangement Syndrome bitches/blackpillers here:

Fellas, gals, relax and enjoy the show.

Our foreign ‘allies’, ‘great friends’, whatever, are getting a much-needed wake-up call. Their ‘neoliberal’ sleepwalking daze are over. E.g., handwringing and drama over the sovereignty of “postnational” Canada …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/the-canada-experiment-is-this-the-worlds-first-postnational-country

But as well as practical considerations for remaining an immigrant country, Canadians, by and large, are also philosophically predisposed to an openness that others find bewildering, even reckless. The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, articulated this when he told the New York Times Magazine that Canada could be the “first postnational state”. He added: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

The remark, made in October 2015, failed to cause a ripple …

… being ‘threatened’ by a US takeover is silly—if they’re “postnational”, being annexed by the United States should be no big deal for them. (We’ll of course have to purge Canada of non-citizen “newcomers” after annexation. And ‘liberal’ citizens would be strongly encouraged to self-deport.)

Similarly, Greenland may or may not be in the cards for actual annexation, but the aggression by Trump against Denmark (nothing personal, kid) is a fascinating test of Europe’s ‘reflex response’—if we wanted to take Greenland by force, what are they (Europe, UK) going to do about it? Can they fight a superpower if they are, like Canada, demographically “postnational” as well? Is “Europe” even real at this point? If not, who cares what they think?

Also, domestic deportations. Imagine caring about the foreign ‘students’ getting snatched. Of course, their campus ‘counter-Semitic’ rambunctiousness has been quite entertaining (I love to see golems turn on their hosts), but no American should care if these goofballs get detained and deported.

Trump’s overarching message, delivered in deed, to the foreign dregs of the world: Don’t come here. You have limited rights here.

Now, if my li’l pep talk still leaves you myopic Eeyores morose, I’ll at least post some cathartic doom boom bangers to rock to as you ruminate. You’re welcome.

SHAWDOWHOUSE — “START AGAIN”

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BAD//DREEMS — “COLLAPSE!”

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BtW, if my calculations are correct, this year the sacred Christian day of Easter coincides with the birthday of one A.H.

What a propitious opportunity for the Great Deity in the Sky to arrange some kind of colossal, earth-shaking signal in response to the endless genocide in Palestine.

But alas, no such god exists and his supposed chosen ones know this all too well.

This is a great talk by Sam Francis for anyone who is unfamiliar or needs a refresher. It’s worth an hour. But it is broken into chapters which is so nice.

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Canada is not a country. It’s a whore. That opens her legs for the entire world.

BC & Alberta can be the 51st and 52nd states, respectively. The rest can get nuked.

Ron, time to shave the head and grow a goatee. then you’ll look like this:

I don’t think so. The forehead is all wrong.

All across Europe the entrenched are security “Our Democracy” they don’t mean yours.

Post nationalism won’t apply to Yiddistan of course.

Ted almost died in a 1964 small plane crash that killed two.
Wiki: he spent months in hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs and internal bleeding

I told paranoid Canadians on X that Trump offered them something half the world wants, American citizenship, yet they went completely nuts over that offer. They don’t seem to understand that we’ve never admitted unwilling states.

This has pretty much all you need to know.

TL;DR version: more lawfare against the Right.

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/31/breaking-marine-le-pen-found-guilty-of-embezzlement-barred-from-running-for-president-n3801318

I wrote this to our Buzz Mohawk – who knows Romania via his better half, but after hearing about the oppression and persecution of Marine Le Pen in France, I think it’s Iron Curtain 2.0 descending over the continent. Here‘s the post. My speech to the student body of Meridian, Mississippi Community College (for extra credit) via Teams:

From Stornaway in the northeast Atlantic to Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean, with a small cut-out for Hungary, Iron Curtain 2.0 has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the Woke states of Europe. Dublin, London, Paris, Munich, everybody’s talkin’ ’bout pop music .., Lisbon, Madrid, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Keeve; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Globalist sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Globalist influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Brussels.

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by Cold War victory. Nobody knows what Globalist Brussels and its Totalitarian international organisation intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and prostituting tendencies.

Plagiarism?! What? Everybody does it, the last President, the Prime Minister of Canada … what’s your problem?

Thanks, Ralph. I had no idea about this story. One does wonder what would have happened with the Hart-Cellar Act has Ted Kennedy not been there to support it. I’m not sure, but I AM sure that Mary Jo Kopechne and her family would have been much happier.

That’s not to root for things like this, but as I wrote back when Ted Kennedy died, I was only glad about it because he was still a Senator. Had he been retired then, I wouldn’t have wished ill on the guy, but if it was the only way he’d ever leave the Senate – and it was – than GOOD. Same for the bastard Juan McAmnesty.

Peak Stupidiity has a much longer, in-depth look, at MTG v AOC. There’s a stark contrast between the people of their districts, the highly-urban vs mostly rural (125 x difference in pop. density) landscape, etc, and these 2 women themselves. One’s an American – the other’s really not.

I’d forgotten some of what I wrote, but now I recall how much a traitor AOC is too, as kind of a continuation of our last thread (for Colin Wright). Just a sample:

She recalled, “I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid – a 19-, 20-year-old kid – whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone. I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system. [Straight outta’ Wiki]

“Snatched off the street”. Ha! We only wish.

“I encourage everyone to get the COVID-19 vaccine. It is safe, effective, and free for all. You do not need to have health insurance and no one will ask about your immigration status,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “There is also now no appointment necessary for you to get your COVID vaccine at city-run sites, so you can just walk up. This vaccine is the first step in getting our community reopened and keeping all our loved ones safe.”

Peak Stupidity continues:

Corona is the neighborhood, as in the old Paul Simon song, not the old term for the disease. (Too many jokes and confusion with the cheap Mexican swill, so they dropped the term.)

That was in April of ’21. 6 months later, in October, we could have read “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets Pfizer booster jab” (revealing outfit in the NY Post image for this one). 3 months after that, yahoo informed us “AOC Is Latest Member of Congress to Get Sick With COVID.” Dang it all! She should have kept on her mask down in DeathSantis’ foolhardy State of Florida during that drag queen show she attended. AOC is all better now though… physically… the rest is unsalvageable.

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A few news items from the former United Kingdom:

a) the SEND disaster. Local authorities, whose funding has been reduced quite dramatically over the last Conservative decade, are finding that the cost of “special needs” education is bankrupting them. Currently more than 18% of pupils are defined as “special needs” and by law must have individual education plans.

“A rapid rise in pupils diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder, social, emotional and mental health needs (including ADHD), and speech, language and communication needs has fuelled a 140% increase in EHCPs between 2015 and 2024, from 240,000 to 576,000.”

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/30/councils-england-insolvency-risk-send-costs

Nearly 20 councils have warned publicly that they are at risk of insolvency because of multibillion-pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support, the Guardian can reveal.

Overspending on special educational needs and disability (Send) services in England is forecast to grow by nearly £2bn over the next 12 months, a Guardian investigation shows.

Councils will see mounting special educational needs and disabilities (Send) deficits rise by 54% on average, with some anticipating accrued debts to increase by millions of pounds every month as they struggle to cope with soaring demand.

The long, sad history of “special needs” is too extensive to cover here – suffice it to say that in seventy years we’ve gone from separate education for “the sad and the bad” – so called “special schools” and “residential homes”, then everyone else in the state or private school system, to a vast expansion of those defined as “special needs”, along with well-meant attempts to educate as many as possible in mainstream schools – “social inclusion”, don’tcha know? Those who are “special” also get a number of goodies

Naturally, the private sector has leapt towards this tax-funded income stream – hedge funds and private equity are funding residential SEND schools:

One of the biggest Send budget pressures is private specialist school fees, which are typically two to three times the cost of a state school place and have led to calls for measures to curtail profiteering. The private sector has grown rapidly in recent years to meet the “overflow” from a depleted state Send sector that is full to capacity.

Warwickshire county council budgeted last March to place 470 children in independent special schools at an average cost of £55,000 a year for each place. A few months later it revised the forecast: it was now expecting to place 556 children at an average cost of £66,000. Its estimated annual overspend on private Send provision this year is £11m.

Cheltenham College, one of the UKs poshest public schools, is about £59k a year. Eton is “only” £63k.

Middle-class parents have also found that being “statemented” gives your child advantages like extra time to take exams, even apparently sometimes someone else writing for you. According to the Times, one third of pupils now get extra time in exams.

https://edumentors.co.uk/blog/how-to-qualify-for-extra-time-in-exams-uk-everything-you-need-to-know/

Are you wondering how to qualify for extra time in exams UK? Extra time creates fairness in exams, supporting students with learning difficulties, slow processing, or mental health challenges.

The UK before the Fall had hurtful words to describe people with learning difficulties or slow processing. They weren’t generally expected to pass exams at a great rate, but they are now. Must make it tricky for employers, who won’t know whether that Grade A was achieved in the stipulated time, or whether translators or scribes were involved.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-2-tests-access-arrangements/2025-key-stage-2-access-arrangements-guidance

b) (and tangentially related) the vast number of UK people with a “mental health” diagnosis. This struck me this morning listening to BBC Radio Four, what used to be the relatively highbrow talk channel, where more than half of the Woman Sour program was taken up in discussion of the case of a young woman with anorexia who was refusing to eat, and a court had decided that the medics couldn’t feed her through a tube against her will, as it would be a breach of her human rights.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nhs-refuses-force-feed-anorexic-185616309.html

This young woman’s case has cost vast amounts in medical treatment and lawyer’s bills, you have to feel very sorry for her parents – or her family at any rate, not sure where mum and dad are.

The family’s written submissions include increasingly panicked WhatsApp messages from Patricia in recent weeks, pleading for help.

In a message to her aunt on Feb 28, she wrote: “I don’t want to die… I want to walk up mountains. I want to swim in the sea. I want cuddles and kisses. I want to play and have fun.

“I’m so so scared. I’m terrified. Please help me more. WE [sic] haven’t got much time to play with. I’ll never walk if we don’t sort things now.”

Mr Lewis explained that Patricia is so severely ill with anorexia that she “cannot distinguish between broader wishes [‘I want to live’] and the narrower ones regarding life-saving interventions [‘I don’t want nasogastric feeding’].”

I don’t want to die but I refuse to eat anything or be fed through a tube? Hmm. An alcoholic friend didn’t want to die either, nor did he want to stop drinking. He died, God rest his soul, because they wouldn’t give him a liver transplant unless he stopped.

I’m pretty sure there weren’t many cases like this in the Hungry Thirties. I imagine some doctors are kind and empathetic to such patients, and others prefer to work with people who are ill. I can sort of see the appeal, all that lovely attention from caring people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2v98e39ygqo

Former charity worker Ms Ellis had had eating disorders throughout her life, but when she was 38 she was diagnosed with a form of anorexia which caused her weight to plummet.

At the time of her death, she had been trying to raise £200,000 to fund specialist treatment in England which she was told was not available on the NHS.

The treatment involved a combination of cognitive and behavioural therapy as well as information on diet and body image support.

At the inquest on Friday, her mother said that her daughter was “determined to get better and begged the eating disorders team to fund inpatient care at the Priory clinic”.

Amy’s social media videos attracted thousands of followers.

It strikes me we’re seeing a sort of reverse of the “Cat and Mouse” Act, where suffragettes on hunger strike in prison would be released until they recovered, then imprisoned again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_(Temporary_Discharge_for_Ill-Health)_Act_1913

The hunger strikers were force-fed by the prison staff, leading to a public outcry. The act allowed the prisoners temporary release when their hunger strikes began to impact their health; they then had a predetermined period of time in which to recover after which they were rearrested and taken back to prison to serve out the rest of their sentence.

There is an unfortunate correlation between high intelligence and mental illnesses such as anorexia (if you notice, anorexia is not much of a problem among blacks). This woman was never going to breed anyway but I guess what we are going thru in the West (and in highly developed countries such as S. Korea in Asia) is a sort of evolutionary correction because seemingly “eugenic” breeding for high intelligence has backfired. It was a sort of hot house breeding that was good for producing ONE generation of high IQ people but not for creating a durable breed. In effect a sterile cross.

These crosses were set up in human hot house environments like universities where high IQ men and women were put together. In the past mating would have been much more randomly distributed because there was no careful testing and sorting method where people with closely matched IQs were put in one place together.

Combined with immigration and the higher fertility of lower IQ groups, the West is going to have a more dummified future but maybe that’s not all bad. The “smart” people seem to have f*cked things up pretty well, in accordance with Orwell’s maxim that some things are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them. Or Buckley’s quip that he would rather America be ruled by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone book than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

The ancient Greeks would have diagnosed this poor woman’s illness as hysteria. Unless the uterus receives a frequent infusion of moisture from her husband’s sperm, it begins to wander around a female’s body and cause havoc. Maybe the physiology of this is not correct but they were not wrong. In another age this woman would have been too busy caring for her husband and children to have time to starve herself to death.

Dude, you’re totally not natty, yer not fooling anyones. Get off the juice, prevent any future full-thickness tears my dude.

One should think about what happens when some member of Moms for Liberty is elected to a school board while running on DEI, pro-homosexual books, and trans athletes. Once elected, the school board members gets to see the number of the various achievement gaps, the discipline gap, and all of the issues with retaining or hiring teachers. Those Moms for Liberty cannot BS their way out of reality and most either quit early or do not run for a second term.

‘Also, domestic deportations. Imagine caring about the foreign ‘students’ getting snatched…’

‘First they came for the Communists. But I was not a Communist, so…’

I guess if you’re confident the powers that be will always be ones who are pleased with your views, you needn’t fret. You’ll be safe.

I can hear you now. ‘But you can’t lock me up. I didn’t do anything ille…’

Imagine caring.

‘…I’d forgotten some of what I wrote, but now I recall how much a traitor AOC is too, as kind of a continuation of our last thread (for Colin Wright)…’

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I told paranoid Canadians on X that Trump offered them something half the world wants, American citizenship, yet they went completely nuts over that offer. They don’t seem to understand that we’ve never admitted unwilling states.

Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee come to mind.

It would be only fair to point out to the Canadians that once in, never out.

Trump offered them something

It is not that simple. If Trump loved Canadians so much, he could have signed an EO saying any Canadian citizen can fill a DS-11 and get a U.S. passport. Many Canadians would have loved it and might have taken advantage of that generosity. Ireland and Italy (among many other countries) allow that for many U.S. citizens, and nobody has a problem with that. It is the ’51st state’ talk that they don’t like. Trump can do the same for Greenlanders without the Sturm und Drang. Imagine, conquering them with love!

Don’t come here. You have limited rights here.

There is a humane way to do that.

1. Trump signs an EO suspending visa waiver program
2. Signs another EO suspending issuance of all visas

Before you know, the flood of aliens will come down and ICE can focus on border and internal enforcement.

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She’s yet another traitor, in the vein of IOU*. No, we cannot deport AOC though.

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* IOU = Omar Ilhan, Undocumented

More fake sympathy from “Colin”.

Who probably lives in China.

How do they treat CCP critics on student visas there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ireland and Italy (among many other countries) allow that for many U.S. citizens

Italy just cracked down. Parents, yes, grandparents, maybe. But great-great-grandpa who left as a baby in 1871 won’t cut it anymore.

Here’s a map of EU countries with such policies, NB, its three years old. Some like Italy’s may have changed in the meantime.

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband is of Swiss parentage, and they looked into Helvetian citizenship for their children.

Under something like Italy’s old policy, and the current ones in other lands, Elon Musk could have done an end-run around our naturalization process. Grandfather Musk was born in Minnesota.

@mediazzzona has now recorded the names of more than 100,000 Russian servicemen who have been killed in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1907439968055591094

The “my” attached to those links isn’t Steve’s. That can be confusing to someone new here.

Speaking of Steve Sailer, Val Kilmer just passed on to the wild blue yonder yesterday. What do he and Steve have in common, along with Mike Pence, Michael Jackson, Prince Rogers Nelson, and Andrew Dice Clay, but only a small fraction of American men?

Had Val been born a day later, he’d have belonged to a much larger group, along with Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Muhammad Ali.

It is pretty obvious that Trump will not be satisfied with his presidency until World War III breaks out, US vs the Rest of the World.

It will not start this week or even this month, but next year when the soccer World Cup comes to the US.

What will set it off will be when Trump issues an executive order that he personally will be in charge of VAR, which stands for Video Assistant Referee.

Basically Trump will be able to disallow any goals scored against the US team and award penalty kicks to the US team at will. 51% of Americans will say that this is perfectly OK, because otherwise foreign teams have an unfair advantage because they have better players.

The cunning thing will be that millions of World Team military will arrive in the United States disguised as soccer fans, and in no time at all, several major cities in the US will be seized, and Canada will cut off the electricity,oil, and water to the northern tier of states. Suddenly all the Toyotas and Hondas in the US will explode simultaneously. Apple phones will cease to work at all except for TikTok.

After a quick surrender, the remaining games of the World Cup will be played in Mexico and Canada.

‘…because seemingly “eugenic” breeding for high intelligence has backfired. It was a sort of hot house breeding that was good for producing ONE generation of high IQ people but not for creating a durable breed. In effect a sterile cross…’

What I am about to say will actually be kind of morbidly amusing, because I’d rather it wasn’t so, while you’d presumably be reluctant to deny it, but…

What about Ashkenazi Jews? Haven’t they demonstrated this can work over multiple generations, at least to a limited extent?

Now, go ahead and prove me wrong. I won’t get upset — promise.

AOC has distracting curves and long dark hair but she is essentially shallow and performative.

‘First they came for the Communists. But I was not a Communist, so…’

I always find the lame passivity of that progressing quote formula funny. What, “they” shouldn’t come for the Communists and other undesirables? Why are you not among the “they” coming for the Communists? Who the fuck are you?

I guess if you’re confident the powers that be

I’m more concerned about the power that’s me (and millions of my armed friends).

But wouldn’t you know it, among the powers that be are the three branches of government currently doing the shit I want to get done, with more to come. Meanwhile, you’re kvetching here all powerless and pathetic.

You have a ‘victim’-fetish mentality, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If “they” come for you, you would go without a fight (judging by your “I can hear you now…” projection), and nothing of value would be lost.

JFK JR. and Hillary Clinton were eyeballing the same Senate seat. Guess who got it. HRC’s coven prepared a three day incantation and JFK Jr.’s plane crashed into the drink. That’s how the real world works, Mr. Newman.

Some of us didn’t need the registration to do our patriotic duty. We just went to the recruiter and subsequently barfed in a helicopter.

‘…Basically Trump will be able to disallow any goals scored against the US team and award penalty kicks to the US team at will…’

As an American, I have to admit that does sound pretty cool. The outrage at the BBC alone would make it all worthwhile.

It is not that simple. If Trump loved Canadians so much, he could have signed an EO saying any Canadian citizen can fill a DS-11 and get a U.S. passport.

What?

I assumed this was going to be something like Israel’s plan for Gaza.

We just take Canada. Not the Canadians. They can be resettled in Eritrea or someplace.

But according to the NYT 700,000 Russians have been killed, mostly with American weapons and American targeting.

More from the former United Kingdom, a comment on Starmer’s belligerence vis a vis Russia:

https://unherd.com/2025/03/britains-defence-strategy-is-pure-cakeism/

“It cannot help all those responsible for formulating the UK’s defence strategy in the 21st century that they do so in buildings whose high-ceilinged ornamented rooms once witnessed the deliberations of Victorian and Edwardian statesmen conducting the affairs of an empire that ruled over palm and pine and a great deal else in between.

A more realistic view would settle on them if they were housed in portacabins in Mablethorpe and empty commercial buildings in Ramsgate.

Instead of lunching in Westminster pubs boasting connections with Wren, they could breathe in the present condition of the country as they walk along the Mablethorpe seafront amid the closed businesses bearing faded marks of their past history, and chalets now serving as permanent housing, while trying to find a chip shop that was still trading.

The large bins outside houses whose yards are nevertheless rubbish-strewn, and the absence of human activity even at midday, would remind the strategic planners of what resources they have to draw upon. The brave display of just hanging on in the neighbouring resorts of Chapel St Leonards and Sutton-on-Sea the extent of the capacity of resilience even in the state of peace known as the welfare state.

Instead of walking to their place of work along central London thoroughfares where on turning a corner one can be surprised at meeting a statue of a Victorian military hero, and under classical facades displaying commercial and intellectual wealth of generations whose ghosted images only remain in Edwardian postcards, the planners had to perambulate through the desiccated Ramsgate town centre, what a sobering dose of present-day reality they would experience.

There, among the art deco remains of the promenade garden set up by a titled lady in the 1920s that now resemble ancient Greek ruins on Sicily, the planners could join the other DFLs (Down From London) who, like the small strata of the very rich in Third World countries, are the only ones who can afford the high-end apartments now sited where the magnificent 1930s lido used to welcome hordes of holidaymakers.

The planners could move among those they plan for; the Thanet youth whose unemployment is at 10%; the children a third of whom are defined as living in poverty; the Just-About-Managings whose pre-Covid economic fragility was increased by one third in the number of Universal Credit claims thereafter.

Living and planning in such places, the planners would be very clear about what jealous power should want to covet such a powerful, rich, and global country.”

‘…Meanwhile, you’re kvetching here all powerless and pathetic.

You have a ‘victim’-fetish mentality, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If “they” come for you, you would go without a fight (judging by your “I can hear you now…” projection), and nothing of value would be lost.’

And you seem to resort to random abuse when you find yourself without an argument.

Non-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews are among the groups that are disappearing themselves the fastest in the US.

Something that may have worked in the past may no longer work once conditions have changed. There are certain animals that do not breed in zoos. Our whole modern Western world is a zoo.

Trump announces – “we need immigration”.

‘More fake sympathy from “Colin”.

Who probably lives in China.’

You could accuse me of posting from Israel — but that would be a tad implausible, wouldn’t it?

‘Non-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews are among the groups that are disappearing themselves the fastest in the US.’

That’s true enough; but how do you account for the previous five hundred years or whatever?

After all, Ashkenazi numbers certainly waxed rather than waned over most of the past millenium, and unless you’re prepared to assert their average IQ only jumped within the last century, we would have a case of a population with at least a slightly elevated IQ successfully reproducing.

…parenthetically, the Japanese also have a slightly higher IQ than average: 1o6 seems to be the current figure. What’s interesting about that is that whatever mechanism produced it, it could hardly have been the same as that driving increased IQ among the Ashkenazim.

Thanks. “Kritarchy; Rule by Judges.” Same as here in the USA: a federal judge somewhere doesn’t agree with Trump on some issue, so invalidates Trump’s initiatives with immediate, nationwide effect. So much for checks & balances.

Marine was clearly the choice of the majority of French citizens. So, naturally, she must be prevented from running for office. This we call Democracy!

It may not be too strained an analogy to mention Tucker Carlson in this context. Not just the #1 news show on cable, the #1 cable show of any kind. Advertisers like big audiences, right? All of his corporate sponsors dropped him like a hot potato once TPTB put the focus on him. Still, he had to be fired. For what, exactly?

DDG results for kritarchy mention its prominence in ancient Jewish law, and warn that the term is now being used by “white nationalists.” The first two results are wikipedia and the third is the Forward. Situation Normal.

It would be only fair to point out to the Canadians that once in, never out.

Kinda like the rest of Snow Mexico with Kaybeck. British Canada has such a death grip on Quebec that there has to be a strategic maple syrup resevre.

Allez Parti Quebecois!

I see arguments here among three or four old commenters…

+ one or two or three old defenders of everything Zionist + deep state (but that is, of course, redundant!)

and I am discouraged.

If I had as much interest and “Qi“* as they all seem to have with regard to our treehouse discussions here now, well then, I would engage more.

Yes, the discussions now ongoing here are worthwhile. Okay.

Some topics that I think matter:

• Gaza — slaughter, wiping away people. Fucking obvious.

• Iran, preparations for war — a war for whom? A war for why?

• Obvious enforcement, jailing, and attempted deportation — whether Constitutional or not — of permanent residents, only and emphatically when offenders criticize Israel. (I don’t fucking care what your endless, legal, armchair arguments are. It is happening because Israel and you know it!)

Oh, I could go on, but I sit here wondering why I even do this or would…

*Qi is energy in traditional Chinese medicine. As I’ve mentioned here before, one of my very best old girlfriends got herself a Doctor’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and she has been operating an acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in Boulder for years now. Personally, I think it’s all “woo,” or mostly nonsense, but we haven’t dated since 1993.

You’d be correct if anyone here gave a crap about futbol.

Video Link

• Obvious enforcement, jailing, and attempted deportation — whether Constitutional or not — of permanent residents, only and emphatically when offenders criticize Israel. (I don’t fucking care what your endless, legal, armchair arguments are. It is happening because Israel and you know it!)

Nothing to add — I just thought they should have to ignore that one twice.

OK dude, I’m about 1/4 way through writing that post. I do know about that motive, but the guy who writes about it doesn’t understand the possible means.

I like the coven idea, but that’s hard to prove in a court of law. I’m leaning toward the Hildabeast being one of the AntiChrists… not the BIG ONE, mind you, but one of the lesser ones … she’s a hack.

I had to look up Moms for Liberty, Guest007. From wiki’s not-so-glowing 1st paragraph, I’ve already gained respect for the org. I’m not sure I get your point though. Do you mean that they would be surprised by the Steve-Sailer-explained real problems that make the gaps unclosable? Are you saying these people, of all Moms, would be less aware than other Moms, before becoming involved, that is?

They don’t run against D.I.E., the pro-homo books and all that (pretty much the same anti-normal White people agenda) because they think that’ll fix the schools. They’ve got their kids in these schools and they want that shit gone. We are all paying for those Government Propaganda Camps with our tax-money, even non-parents. That’s not a good bang for the buck.

Yesterday, my wife and I happened to catch, on a YouTube channel patched into our living room screen, some State Department ceremony for “Women of Courage,” some kind of award that has been given for several years now.

Well, there were seven or eight accomplished, brave women assembled there from around the world, even one from my wife’s home country of Romania. All but one had worked courageously for years at something to help others for humane purposes, worthy of recognition.

Okay, so one of them was a hostage of Hamas in Gaza. She is now safely returned. Other than that, she has not done anything like the years of serious work the other women have done for the betterment of other people.

Okay, fine, so each woman was called up and received her award from the First Lady and the Secretary of State.

Then. Then. It was announced that one of the women would now get up and speak. None of the others had this opportunity. Guess which woman had the privilege to tell her story. Well, I’m sure you can guess. It was the Israeli hostage woman.

She was a victim, brought back safely via negotiations by others. It’s good that she is safe now, but she did nothing. She was a victim. Every other woman at that ceremony had worked at something to help people. But no, we were only allowed to listen to the words of the Israeli victim.

Just another day in America.

What a first seventy days, it’s been fantastic.

Was she the same one that complained that nobody wanted to rape her?

Isn’t that similar though with non-Jewish populations, I mean, really, the only groups that are reproducing are religious (Amish, Muslims), and they are reproducing because their beliefs enable that?

Trump is facing on onslaught of lawsuits by the deep state and its supporters.

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William Kirk breaks down the current court to show you that victory IS NOT guaranteed on the Snope and Ocean State cases. in fact, it is quite possible to lose this case, even with the current makeup of the bench. (IL folks consider courts to be rubber stamps for Dems.)

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William Kirk discusses the plight of Illinois residents who have been mistreated by the State government for years.

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https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1907433056698327442
https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1907456377796083744
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1907531462573703380

That was a very interesting comment and the kind of stuff Steve Sailer and commenters used to write about, as I recall.

This thing about the uterus moving all around unless the husband (or could it be Jack D?) regularly gives, to be politie here, a hot sausage injection, is that the Greek theory or modern medicine? I really don’t know, and though I hate to be taught about the Byrds & the Bees at this age by commenter Alden, well…

Can you help, Dear Alden?

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Sincerely,

Hysterical in Hattiesburg

She could actually have a gastric tube more or less permanently implanted in her stomach and stitched into place if she didn’t like nasogastric tube feeding.

Just another day in America.

No opportunity for propaganda is ever overlooked, by our overlords.

Some topics that I think matter:

• Gaza — slaughter, wiping away people. Fucking obvious.

The Gazans are tough cookies, with a high birthrate. They probably aren’t going anywhere. Mutual combat between Israelis and Palestinians (especially Gazans) is an established ‘way of life’ (and death) over there. Don’t falafel about it.

• Iran, preparations for war — a war for whom? A war for why?

Big if true.

• Obvious enforcement, jailing, and attempted deportation — whether Constitutional or not — of permanent residents, only and emphatically when offenders criticize Israel. (I don’t fucking care what your endless, legal, armchair arguments are. It is happening because Israel and you know it!)

Because Israel (and also because Jewish students) is a ‘kryptonite’ pretext to upend and possibly (federally, at least) defund the major universities, using Title VI and Title IX as procedural weapons. Legally arresting students stirs the nest, as a way to test institutional response, and also tests executive plenary power relating to aliens.

Midwits focused only on Israel don’t appreciate the elegant irony of Trump using “Israel/Jews” as a Jew-jitsu legal pretext (Titles VI, IX) to attack major seats of Jewish intellectual anti-White influence. The Ivy League and other major schools have long been a taxpayer-funded safe space for Jewish administrators and faculty to indulge and promote anti-White golems who come up with stuff like “critical race theory”. That usurped “ivory tower” is now shaking, with visible cracks in the walls.

The October 7th attack by Hamas, the Israeli response, and domestic campus blowback has been a priceless gift to those of us Americans who care more about what’s going on in our own backyard than what’s happening in falafel land.

Thank you both, Gaza and Israel. ❤️

Well, there were seven or eight accomplished, brave women assembled there from around the world, even one from my wife’s home country of Romania. All but one had worked courageously for years at something to help others for humane purposes, worthy of recognition.

I checked out the video (at State’s official YouTube channel). It’s true, the Israeli was featured as the only honoree speaker, but man oh man all the honorees were a pantheon of ugly human dysgenics. All of their ‘causes’ were about ‘addressing’ dysfunction in the shitty societies they are from. One exception: The Romanian was from the most relatable background. Probably is a vampire, though.

She was a victim, brought back safely via negotiations by others. It’s good that she is safe now, but she did nothing. She was a victim.

Right, it’s like what Trump said about McCain “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, okay? I hate to tell you.”

Midwits focused only on Israel don’t appreciate the elegant irony of Trump using “Israel/Jews” as a Jew-jitsu legal pretext (Titles VI, IX) to attack major seats of Jewish intellectual anti-White influence.

“Jew-jitsu” is an inspired formulation. Thanks!

His was the most interesting of all the Kennedys’ unnatural deaths.

AEN, here’s my JFK Jr. post from 2021, with maps (charts?) :

https://www.unz.com/isteve/a-jewish-woman-culturally-appropriates-the-black-ladies-deserve-laziness-trend/#comment-4859518 (#82)

Mounting evidence shows that Netanyahu aides have quietly been working directly or indirectly for Qatar, the country that funded Hamas as it was planning the murderous rampage of October 7.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2025-03-28/ty-article-podcast/qatargate-explaining-the-scandal-that-has-netanyahu-panicked/00000195-d873-d93e-a3df-f9fb3d560000

I’d say Sailer is anti-MAGA. You’ve seen commenters post about how Sailer and Charles Murray wouldn’t be caught dead having lunch with a working class white person, and I suspect that is true. Sailer likes “well-behaved” yuppie Establishment types.

Everyone just assumed he was pro-white because he talked about race and genetics. But you can talk about those things and be as liberal or even anti-white as can be.

I’d say Sailer hates Trump – especially the white populism it represents. So does his buddy Greg Cochran, who is posting nonstop about how bad Trump and Vance are.

Thanks. I probably saw it before in some other context. A Google search for the phrase brings up this topical book, among other things (Amazon synopsis):

Jew Jitsu: Turning Our Enemies’ Arguments Against Them

Paperback – September 30, 2024
by Dmitri Shufutinsky (Author)

The Hasbara of old is irrelevant—it’s time to use our history to dismantle anti-Zionism.

Something lighthearted in the middle of all the serious stuff:

US tariffs take aim everywhere, including uninhabited islands
Washington (AFP) – The world’s remotest corners couldn’t hide from US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs onslaught Wednesday — even the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250402-us-tariffs-take-aim-everywhere-including-uninhabited-islands

What could have happened is, someone inserted the list of locales from CIA factbook database or some such and set the default tariffs to 10% for everywhere, before changing it to higher figures for big trading countries. No one checked if the locales are populated and/or engaged in trade.

It’s from Freud and Jocelyn Elders.

Boy, this exchange is revealing:

Buzz Mohawk (#52): “All but one had worked courageously for years at something to help others for humane purposes, worthy of recognition.”

Jenner Ickham Errican (#61): “[A]ll the honorees were a pantheon of ugly human dysgenics. All of their ‘causes’ were about ‘addressing’ dysfunction in the shitty societies they are from.”

But no more than your trusttheplan whitewash in #60.

The Establishment depends on Americans who will distract and lie to themselves, too. Sailer figured out years ago how to make it pay.

It’s your turn of phrase, but the book you found seems to me pretty much the same context.

“[J]ournalist, Israel Defense Forces veteran, and scholar Dmitri Shufutinsky” is exploiting the antipathy among self-identifying conservatives for “far-left, woke … Neo-Marxist ideology” and associating those scare words with “anti-Zionis[m]” and “Islamist theology.” That’s what is happening before our eyes, including on this thread. People are openly rooting for Marco Rubio and goons grabbing a woman off the street for writing an antiwar op-ed in the context of university governance.

And would it surprise you if there’s a complementary book by another scholarly journalist and IDF veteran telling progressives what they want to fear and associating that with anti-Zionism and Islam, too?

Your delusion that Trump is now dissembling and will someday vindicate Q by standing up straight and tall changes nothing about how distract & divide propaganda works.

“the Japanese also have a slightly higher IQ than average”

NE Asians tend to have higher visuo-spatial IQ while Whites and Jews have higher verbal IQ. NE Asians may have spent a lot of time chucking spears at animals out on the frozen Arctic tundra while Jews and Whites urbanized sooner, or various other environmental factors may be involved.

There used to be a critical reading section on the SAT, the one part of the test Whites did better than Asians on, but that was eventually eliminated. I have noticed when arguing with Asians that they tend to be statistics nerds but have trouble understanding abstract philosophical concepts expressed verbally. For example, some Whites can write the Declaration of Independance and other Whites can understand it, but Asians can have trouble understanding the ideas in it.

Over at another of Ron’s threads they’re having another one of those silly but highly entertaining debates about who wrote Shakespeare — apparently it couldn’t possibly be a prep-school educated UMC country lad who had a massive chip on his shoulder about his persecuted gubmint-bankrupted parents and his shotgun wife, so who ran away from home and found a new life in the London theater; no, that story makes no sense whatsoever, it must have been a conspiracy of Francis Bacon and his Rosicrucian notables, who never worked in the theater but somehow were experts about all the backstage jargon.

I got lost a long time ago, I have no idea what they’re blithering about. Apparently now some lawyer I never heard of now wrote Shakespeare, because who else could conjure up the make-believe, fairy-tale legal logic of the Merchant of Venice.

You got me.

Meantime, the best critic of Herman Melville I ever knew was a stripper in Austin TX who had run away from home in Gary IND, and she had no degree or academic credentials, she just really liked Herman Melville, and I sat around in strip clubs arguing with her about Moby Dick and Bartleby and we had a grand time, and neither of us is ever going to get an honorary doctorate from Temple University, because who would do that.

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

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

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

by Steve Sailer
April 01, 2025

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

Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology

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

By Zachary Small

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Paywall.]

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

Still energized by the “Sailer Was Right” memorandum sent to the Smithsonian this week, Steve asks on “Steve Sailer Dot Substack”:

Why is Wokeness against Heredity, in theory, but supportive Hair, in theory and in fact (loves, celebrates, champions women’s hair and hair types, which is hereditary)?

The feminist plank of Wokeness is clearly behind this; a feminization of discourse would inevitably go this way. (Note: Sailer first used the term “World War Hair” in August 2019; it has been a regular part of his output since then.)

Sailer points to two 2010s-era specimens still swinging away here in the mid-2020s: “Hair Stories” curators Yolanda Wisher (black) and Aubree Penney (a white fatness-positivity advocate), both appearing this coming week at a Smithsonian event that will celebrate Hair Diversity:

World War Hair at the Smithsonian

Race does not exist biologically, except, of course, when it comes to the world’s most important topic: women’s hair.

by Steve Sailer
April 1, 2025

As I pointed out in [“NYT: ‘Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology’,” April 1, 2025,] the Trump White House has released an executive order entitled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” featuring complaints about shows put on at the Smithsonian Institution:

Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”

In response, this led to tut-tutting that everybody who has been to college now knows that race does not exist biologically.

The one exception to the unreality of biological race, of course, is, according to numerous women intellectuals, women’s hair. Women’s hair is absolutely biological, apparently, and, hence, all existing culture must be overturned to value some races’ hair more highly than at present. Or something.

Hence, upcoming at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is yet another battlefield in World War Hair:

The Shape of Power Conversation with Monument Lab: Hair Stories

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 5:30 – 7pm EDT

SOLD OUT

SAAM has partnered with Monument Lab, a nonprofit public art, history, and design studio based in Philadelphia, for an engaging series of guided conversations about The Shape of Power exhibition. In each of the three events, Monument Lab curators Yolanda Wisher and Aubree Penney will focus on specific artworks to illustrate ideas and spark dialogue. This program will unravel the intersections of race, culture, and identity as reflected in the power of hair to shape our perceptions of style, beauty, and resistance.

Yolanda Wisher is a black poetess who sings and recites her poetry (which “focuses on the experience of being African-American”) in front of a jazz band called Yolanda Wisher and the Afroeaters. It’s not the worst stuff I ever heard, but it appears they aren’t quite good enough to make it in the highly competitive music business, so instead they play the big endowment art museum circuit, like the clip above recorded at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation. The high culture world is very much a who-you-know business, so it’s for people who like networking and writing grant proposals more than making music.

But, in general, Ms. Wisher seems less obnoxious than Ms. Penney.

From AubreePenney.com:
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Aubree Penney (b. 1990, US) is a fat, disabled Memphis-raised, Dallas-based curator, artist, writer, and project manager.

Her work addresses power dynamics in art display, confronting the impossibility of neutrality or equity in institutional structures.

Her curatorial practice is grounded in the disruption of museums’ prioritization of well and able bodies through both architectural and digital structure and installation strategy. [….]

I presume [Aubrey Penney] is white or she would have listed her Pokemon points for being nonwhite. Being white, she appears feel the career-need to be more hate-filled toward whites than the black lady does.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/world-war-hair-at-the-smithsonian

Steve Sailer says LLMs (“AI”) is unreliable for data-crunching research. In Sailer’s recent experience, AI makes things up (“hallucinates”) to a degree that is catchable by any halfway knowledgeable person paying attention. It makes both small mistakes and big mistakes.

If using these kinds of LLMs marketed as AIs for your work, you’d have to either: manually check everything (making the “AI assistance” amount to a longer task, ironically), or, give up on accuracy, abandoning exactitude to the cruel seas of autogenerated, plausible-seeming, quasi-infotainment. AI is, in Sailer’s opinion, of questionable value in a world where data matters (and where reputations for accuracy and factuality matter):

A question about AI

Is there some subscription AI service that won’t just make up wrong data?

Steve Sailer
by April 01, 2025

I’m finally fooling around with artificial intelligence, namely ChatGPT 4o. Its parent company, OpenAI, was yesterday valued at $300 billion, so it ought to be pretty trustworthy, right?

My experience with primitive AI goes back to 1985, but I finally decided it wasn’t going to be big in my lifetime.

Was I ever wrong.

On the other hand …

It’s pretty amazing these days at understanding what you type and responding with readable, coherent prose.

It seems useful for writing bureaucratic texts, something, fortunately, that I don’t have to do very often.

Still, I’m not terribly interested in machine-generated prose. I’ve always been pretty interested in different intellectual voices, the way most people over the last century like the fact that there are different singing voices.

But, what I want to use it for instead is scraping large amounts of data for my statistical analyses. I’ll do the writing if it can conveniently organize the data into a format I can paste into a spreadsheet.

I’m an old guy from the era when coding, like SAS (which I used in 1981-82), was going out of fashion and the future was spreadsheets. Then, decades later, the future reversed itself and everybody who wanted to work with data had to learn R or the like. But I’m too old to put in the effort to learn to code again in a new language. So, I was hoping to have AI do the boring work of organizing data into formats that I can paste into a spreadsheet for doing my analyses.

For example, to answer the question [Substack version] of whether pitching is really 90% of baseball, I started out by asking ChatGPT 4o to list the top ten baseball players in 2024 by Baseball Reference’s Wins Above Replacement metric. It responded:

But then I noticed that it got two of the teams wrong: Chris Sale pitched for the Boston Red Sox in the American League in 2023, but in 2024, he won the Cy Young Award for the Atlanta Braves in the National League. Similarly, Juan Soto played for the San Diego Padres in the NL in 2023, but in 2024 he went to the World Series with the New York Yankees of the AL.

Those are not obscure facts.

Admittedly, the great majority of people are not interested in baseball statistics. But, still, there are probably 8 digits worth of people who are, perhaps more than any other specific type of data.

And, looking at the table some more, it’s clear that ChatGPT completely botched the bottom 6 of the top ten. Soto, for instance, did not have 5.9 WAR, he had 7.9 WAR. Here’s Baseball Reference’s top 10 players, pitcher or position, for 2024:

So, ChatGPT 4o skipped the bottom six of the actual MLB top ten, then put in a bunch of pitchers, and made up a lower WAR for Soto, who is perhaps the highest paid player in baseball this year.

And it made a bunch of more minor errors like pitcher Tarik Skubal had, according to Baseball Reference, a 6.4 WAR instead of a 6.3 WAR.

And it may have made up WARs to the second decimal place for four players, since BR only reports them to one decimal place.

Hence, for my purposes, ChatGPT seems pretty useless. I’d have to check each data point over by hand, which would be slower than the way I’ve been getting data off the Internet since the previous millennium.

This is not to say that ChatGPT 4o is useless for other things. But that’s an unacceptably low level of data quality to risk my reputation upon.

So, I wound up copying and pasting data for several hours from Baseball Reference into my spreadsheet, same as I’ve always done.

Here’s my question: is there an artificial intelligence service that won’t make endless mistakes like these? Is there something I can pay money to and trust the output?

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/a-question-about-ai

Steve Sailer, in his latest essay (“What should be done about college admissions?“), identifies five major distortions in the U.S. college-admissions process as of the 2020s. These distortions were introduced — or (at least) became particularly serious, acute problems — in the first-quarter of the 21st century,

A U.S.-college-admission system basically oriented towards mid-20th-century White America was “gamed” by different sets of opportunists. The combined pressures undermined a lot of what remained, by the 1990s, of moral-clarity as regards to the purpose of education and the Western tradition of fair-play, and the entire “elite college” system. (As to whether that system is a good thing or not, Sailer passes on that question.)

The distortions:

(1.) The usual anti-White race-ideologues pushed for, and got, a turbocharging of (already existing) anti-White race-quotas, reaching comic proportions by ca.2020;

(2.) Asians, both foreign and domestic, steadily “gamed” a system that was created by and for White Northwest-Europeans. This includes with test-prep culture, cheating (both hard and soft forms), and an entire array of gamifications of the system This includes mass-applications, applying to dozens of colleges rather than one or a small handful as in the past. It has made college-application “culture” to the median interested White teenager of the 2000s-2020s increasingly unrecognizable to that known by White 20th-century applicants;

(3.) Too much sports;

(4.) Grade inflation at high-schools making GPA less valuable a measure than before;

(5.) The turn-away, for a few years, from standardized testing.

Steve says that fixing this system along Sailerian lines would not be hard, once the authorities face up to the problems:

What should be done about college admissions?

Colleges have gotten worse at identifying the best applicants since 1995. This wouldn’t be hard to fix.

by Steve Sailer
April 01, 2025

Besides being April Fools’ Day, April 1st is the the day when we hear from all the high school seniors with 1590 SAT scores and 4.37 GPAs who got rejected by all 27 colleges they applied to, from MIT to Wayne State.

One obvious problem is that it has become harder for kids to stand out just because they are smart and hard-working.

In this post, I’m not going to delve into the deeper questions about whether America should have a pyramidical system of colleges ranked by prestige, largely driven by endowment size, with H-Y-P-S at the top. After all, Canadians don’t worry much about which college they go to, and Canada seems like an OK country Canada delenda est!

Instead, I’m just going to focus on some simple reforms that could make the current system work better at identifying the highest potential applicants, the way it did in the later 20th Century.

There are several main reasons for this worsening failure of college admissions to find the academically best applicants.

First: because of increases in the number of applicants, both nominal and real.

Richard B. Spencer responds to Steve Sailer’s proposal to reform the elite-college-admissions system along Meritocracy lines:

I’m ambivalent about the “meritocracy” that conservatives say they want in the Ivy League. Harvard and Yale could fill entire classes with boring, shallow test-takers, all of whom want to be lawyers or investment bankers—but at what cost? Who would produce photography or theater on campus? Who would play sports? Who would, dare I say, throw fun parties?

For a century, colleges have been seeking out “well-rounded students” or at least “well rounded student bodies” with lots of different interesting people on campus. The goal is to produce a better nation, not give a skillful test-taker a leg up in getting a promotion. I agree that affirmative-action has run its course, but “meritocracy” is not the solution.

Steve Sailer points to news of a Black-on-White homicide at a Texas high school to say, TV-show scriptwriters and purveyors have got the race-and-violence topic all wrong:

Frisco stabbing proves “Adolescence” is a documentary

Can you guess the stabber and stabbee at a Frisco, TX track meet?

by Steve Sailer
April 02, 2025

If you’ve been watching the hit Netflix series Adolescence [see also: Substack version], you know what teen stabbers look like:

By the way, sports-crazed Frisco, TX, a fast-growing exurb-becoming-suburb north of Dallas, has the highest black and Hispanic school achievement test scores and the smallest white-black gap in the country. The stabber and stabbee were teammates on the high school football squad.

The victim died in his identical twin’s arms.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/frisco-stabbing-proves-adolescence

“Something that may have worked in the past may no longer work once conditions have changed. There are certain animals that do not breed in zoos. Our whole modern Western world is a zoo.”

You’re very likely correct about that. It reminded me of a book my biology teacher in high school discussed many years ago. IIRC it was written by Isaac Asimov and was called The Human Zoo. I will have to look that one up and try to find time to read it.

Here’s my question: is there an artificial intelligence service that won’t make endless mistakes like these? Is there something I can pay money to and trust the output?

If there is one, it’s probably Wolfram Alpha or perhaps Wolfram GPT.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Back in the mid-90s there used to be a (print) newsletter called the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. (In fact, Ron Paul later was point-and-sputtered by the MSM for writing an article for it.)

Anyhow, Murray Rothbard wrote an article for it called “Clintonian Ugly.” It was one of the better invectives I had seen up to that point. Always better to laugh at our enemies, I suppose. Your post here reminded me of that article. It’s uncomfortable to realize just how dangerous a group of fugly, resentful misfits can be if they have even a modicum of intelligence and access to the levers of power.

>with regard to students who dare to criticize zionist genocide
1) Hopefully, sets a precedent on getting rid of foreign troublemakers
2) Shut it down, Morty, THE SOYIM KNOW!!

The writer and producer of Adolescence wanted to play the father. Thus the murderer needed to be white.

Actually their kids are usually in second tier, non-college prep religious private schools (to avoid the trans, gay, and non-white kids).

The issue is that the Moms for Liberty do not care about public schools and just want to act on their pet issues without realizing what being a school board member really means. That is why you get Moms of Liberty blaming the white/black achievement gap on genetics or black culture but blaming the male/female achievement gap on bigoted female teachers.

Steve Sailer remembers physical-anthropologist Ralph Holloway (one of the few in the later decades of the 20th century who did not heed the taboo against racial-anthropology, which feel more-or-less into place soon after 1945 and only began to be rediscovered in the 2000s Internet era):

When did skulls become racist and icky?

Reading a generous NYT obituary for the great skull anthropologist Ralph Holloway is a window into the less anti-science past.

by Steve Sailer
April 03, 2025

In recent years, media opinion has turned sharply against the study of human skulls as being icky. And racist.

And icky.

It wasn’t always this way. […]

You can see this from the New York Times’ highly positive obituary for physical anthropologist Ralph Holloway, the leading skull scientist of the late 20th Century. I suspect it was mostly written about 15 or 20 years ago, before most of the Great Dumbing Down:

Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

By Adam Nossiter

April 2, 2025

Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in the evolution of humans, died on March 12 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.

His death was announced by Columbia University’s anthropology department, where he taught for nearly 50 years.

Mr. Holloway’s contrarian idea was that it wasn’t necessarily the big brains of humans that distinguished them from apes or primitive ancestors. Rather, it was the way human brains were organized.

Brains from several million years ago don’t exist. But Dr. Holloway’s singular focus on casts of the interiors of skull fossils, which he usually made out of latex, allowed him to override this hurdle. …

Of course, cultural anthropologists were already trying to cancel physical anthropologists from the 1960s onward:

Dr. Holloway was in some respects a traditional anthropologist, committed to what the discipline once called the “four fields” of anthropology: archaeology and cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology. But that multidisciplinary approach has long fallen out of favor, with biologists increasingly pushed aside.

“I was quickly isolated and marginalized at Columbia, and remain so,” he wrote in 2008.

He was further isolated when he defended the educational psychologist Arthur R. Jensen, remembered for a deeply contested 1969 Harvard Educational Review article positing a genetic explanation for a divergence in I.Q. scores between Black and white people. One fellow anthropologist called him a “racist,” Dr. Holloway wrote, after “I had the temerity to defend Arthur Jensen” from an “assertion that Jensen was a bigot.” Some who knew him said the charge was deeply unfair.

One nice thing about newspapers writing obituaries years before (hopefully) they need to run them is that they are less polluted by recent fads.

Hence, when James D. Watson, now 96, dies, the New York Times obituary will hopefully largely consist of text written before he got cancelled in 2007 for noting the IQ difference between the races.

Then again, maybe the NYT’s obituary of James D. Watson will be rewritten by American Studies major Amy Harmon…

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/when-did-skulls-become-racist-and

Yeah, my friends’ kids are a sign of that. My three closest Jewish friends have a collective seven children, and only one married a Jew.

He gets extra credit, though, as she’s an Israeli doctor!

Has anyone noticed how anti-white K-Pop is? You occasionally see other races in K-Pop videos but you almost never see whites. Casting a white person in a K-Pop video seems to be practically forbidden.

For example, some Whites can write the Declaration of Independance and other Whites can understand it, but Asians can have trouble understanding the ideas in it.

And other Whites know how to correctly spell the Declaration of Independence!!

NE Asians tend to have higher visuo-spatial IQ while Whites and Jews have higher verbal IQ. NE Asians may have spent a lot of time chucking spears at animals out on the frozen Arctic tundra while Jews and Whites urbanized sooner, or various other environmental factors may be involved.

Indeed, for chapter & verse see “The Ice Bomb: the Story of the Third Reich’s Daring Attempt to Harness the Power of Inuit Physics”.

and neither of us is ever going to get an honorary doctorate from Temple University, because who would do that.

You mean grant it or receive it?

Mutual combat between Israelis and Palestinians (especially Gazans) is an established ‘way of life’ (and death) over there. Don’t falafel about it.

What I falafel about is that “my” government (with my tax money!) is facilitating the slaughter in front of the whole world. It is a shameful activity that is damaging the reputation of my country and my people. Just as Israel can never again claim victimhood, never again scream, muh, Holocaust!, America cannot now pretend to hold the moral high ground.

I don’t really give a damn what happens in the Middle East, which is why my opinions in that regard have long been isolationist. The US is part of the ‘way of life’ that you imply is the norm there; our nation has been facilitating that way of life for decades. Mutual combat between Israelis and Palestinians didn’t happen before Israel existed. Zionists planted their flag there and manipulated the West into saluting it, dragging us all down into the toilet with them. Terrorism (both real and false flag) on our soil and in our skies was the result. You and I have paid the price and watched the resulting security state be erected around us.

Midwits focused only on Israel don’t appreciate the elegant irony of Trump…

First of all, it is generally midwits who throw the term midwit around to denigrate intelligent people they disagree with. Second, it is the real midwits who simplemindedly get happy about specifics while ignoring the general, more important issues. Your imagined Jew-jistsu” is really just “Jew.”

There are tens of millions of people I want deported from my country, but what is happening is a show by a showman, both to get you excited and to placate a foreign power that has far too much power in our homeland. Woo hoo, some brown people are getting kicked out, and the president is sticking it to the colleges!, while the real work isn’t getting done and our principles are being thrown out the window. I don’t care for student protestors, but enforcement of law has been highly selective, and there is a real pall falling over speech in the one country that is supposed to stand for freedom.

(Reposted from my comment at SteveSailer.net):

Some notes and thoughts on the anthropologist Ralph Holloway’s “place in history,” with a word on the interesting pairing at Columbia, in the mid-1960s, of Holloway (a White-Protestant) and Stephen Jay Gould (Jewish), both young scholars there at the time but representing such different visions of the Study of Man and out approaches to it:

_____________

RALPH HOLLOWAY
– born, Feb 1935, in Philadelphia, “to Ralph Holloway, who was in the insurance business, and Marguerite (Grugan) Holloway, a secretary. He attended high school in Philadelphia […] He later moved with his family to Albuquerque…”;
– 1956: Drexel Institute of Technology, Co-op Program in Metallurgical Engineering;
– 1959: BA, Geology and Engineering, University of New Mexico;
– May 1964: PhD, Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley;
– ca. Summer 1964? Hired by Columbia University;
– By 1969, he was “isolated and marginalized at Columbia” (by his account) but went on producing great work;
– May 2003: Retired from teaching at Columbia University.

_____________

I ask, first of all: How possible would a “Ralph Holloway” [b.1935] be, if born seventy years later (i.e., a non-elite U.S. White-male, born 2000s)? Or fifty years later (same, born 1980s)? Or even just thirty years later (same, born 1960s)?

AOC…is essentially…performative.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by the word “performative” here?

Is there somewhere online hosting “Rothbard-Rockwell Report” archives?

The name hysteria is derived from the Greek word hystera which means uterus. In the earliest known treatise dealing with the complaint—Kahun papyrus dating from about 1900 BC—it is attributed to starvation or displacement of the uterus. This theory is repeated by Hippocrates, Plato, Celsus, Arataeus, and Soranus. Galen of Pergamon (AD 129-99) denied the ability of the uterus to move about but agreed that the common factor in most cases was some uterine affection…..

This sexual theory held on through Augustine and throughout the Dark Ages until the 13th century, when it began to be replaced by the theory of demoniacal possession leading to treatment by exorcism and finally to torture

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/488986#:~:text=The%20name%20hysteria%20is%20derived,Celsus%2C%20Arataeus%2C%20and%20Soranus.

This shows you that novel theories do not always represent actual “progress”.

IDK whether it is similar or worse. Colin was the one who said that Ashkenazis were not affected and either way he is wrong.

I wouldn’t belittle the woman the way Trump did McCain, and I’m glad she was rescued. It probably did take courage just to hold on until she got out. She is an innocent victim; McCain was a scoundrel.

I was simply noticing the obvious privilege and special treatment given to the Israeli over all others. I’m sure it was done not only because our government constantly kisses Zionist ass, but also because it was a timely opportunity to remind us all that Israel is the most important country in the world and that its people are Victims of never-ending persecution who need our support to continue.

Re John McCain: Even my father, a naval officer and Republican, didn’t like him. Dad wasn’t happy when the party nominated the former POW for the presidential race. His words were basically, “Meh, he got himself shot down.” That’s harsh.

The whole idea of “moral high ground” is bullshit. It’s a fairy tale for children and not something adults should be indulging in. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. America is a great country. It did not lose the “moral high ground” when it brought people in chains from Africa and treated them as chattels. The Declaration is real, it is not a BS document despite this. America did not lose the moral high ground when it vaporized hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It had good and sufficient reasons for doing so. Supplying any number of weapons to Israel (or to the Saudis or any number of not very nice regimes) will not deprive America of the “moral high ground” because this ground does not exist any more than Valhalla exists.

As far as deporting Muslim agitators vs. other sorts of illegal and troublesome aliens, you gotta start somewhere. It’s a heck of a lot better than Biden who wasn’t willing to deport a single soul.

Antisemites have been wanting to take the “victim card” away from the Jews from the moment the crematoria cooled off. Maybe the Holocaust didn’t happen at all? So they will always have fresh bullshit reasons as to why “Israel can never again claim victimhood”. People should consider the source of the people making these claims.

The world loves Jews so long as they are victims but not the moment that they fight back. What would the American response have been if the Mexicans launched a cross border raid and murdered 1,200 Americans and raped and kidnapped a couple of hundred more? Would we have treated the Mexicans with love and kindness and in strict accordance with the impossible rules of “human rights advocates” or would we have blasted the shit out of whoever did this so they would never do it again?

My words were:

America cannot now pretend to hold the moral high ground.

If our country has pretended in the past, this current sin makes it even harder to pretend.

As for your hackneyed list of past American abuses, the implication is that now it is okay to condone and assist another atrocity because bad things were done a few times in the past.

“People of the jury, I tell you my client may have aided and abetted the murderer of the victim, but that is okay because he himself has murdered before!”

Jack, do you just sit around waiting with a hair trigger to serve Israel and Jews the second you smell even the slightest whiff of anything critical of them or critical of assistance to them?

I will start checking my spelling for you before I post my comments when you start paying me to comment here.

Ask Wolfram alpha AI why negroes have bad IQ test scores. Go for it.

(By the way the NSA has a row in your file they increment every time you type about negro IQ test scores on your computer or mention negro IQ test scores around your phone mic.)

The Daily Mail had a photo of Lena Denham giving a speech yesterday. It appears she has been on a steady diet of Coca Cola, Frito Lay, and McDonald’s products since the last time they posted her photo. She is probably now fatter than the max value you can now display on the Body Mass Index Visualizer tool.

Lizzo land.

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

Now let’s try applying that criteria to every other somewhat simplified presentation in the museum.

“Is there somewhere online hosting the Rothbard-Rockwell Report archives?”

It looks like Ron Unz has them here.

https://www.unz.com/print/RothbardRockwellReport/

They are also available in book form, titled “Irrepressible Rothbard” at Amazon.

I had a subscription while they were coming out, being a big fan of Rothbard. Lew Rockwell later went on to start lewrockwell.com. The internet has done a lot to help get out the message of the value of a free market economy, non-interventionist foreign policy and limited government.

As far as deporting Muslim agitators vs. other sorts of illegal and troublesome aliens, you gotta start somewhere. It’s a heck of a lot better than Biden who wasn’t willing to deport a single soul.

The difficulty is that the ‘Muslim agitators’ aren’t illegal — but we are attempting to deport them. At the same time, we are not really getting going on deporting the actual illegals.

Antisemites have been wanting to take the “victim card” away from the Jews from the moment the crematoria cooled off.

You can have your victim card — but how does it confer on you the right to commit crimes against still others? And worse, why should we tolerate you bamboozling us into supporting those crimes?

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

Do you mean the book by Desmond Morris?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Zoo_(book)

Also see his earlier book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape

Cowgirl! Yeehaw!

See this book.
https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Irrepressible%20Rothbard_2.pdf

Clintonian Ugly chapter starts on page 395. That specific essay starts on page 403.

“Passport shopping” strikes me as morally wrong. Even if able to “loophole” through it legally in certain cases, it’s still wrong to do take steps to become a citizen of a country you have not lived in and have no meaningful ties to. The process often involves people taking advantage of open institutions and rules meant that are as they are to facilitate the way for people who really need them.

Passport shopping: I would include in the category most of the relatively quick-‘n’-easy citizenships (by world standards) by people such as Asian immigrants in the USA. People who are not Americans in any meaningful sense but grab the passport for strategic reasons. An affront to the concept of citizenship.

Certain cases are really outright fraud — few, people if any, would truly defend Birth Tourism, for one.

Some types of person are more willing than others to engage in Passport Shopping. Some cultures think fraud is okay as long as you’re not caught.

The U.S. Men’s national soccer team roster has on it a goalie named Matt Turner. Early in his career, Matt Turner engaged in the worst sort of passport-shopping, from a moral point-of-view, from a dignity-and-meaning-of-citizenship point-of-view. The Matt Turner case, in being so egregious, is a good example of the phenomenon writ-large.

The story: Matt Turner, who is Jewish, has a distant ancestral connection to Lithuania. (Original family-name: Turvoski.) As a young man, as he was contemplating a pro soccer career, Turner passport-shopped his way into becoming a dual-citizen with Lithuania. (He could add Israel to his passport-shopping cart, easy, to become a triple-citizen.)

Matt Turner grabbed this extra passport despite zero ties to Lithuania. The story is a little crazu: He didn’t even know he had such a connection to Lithuania until he uncovered some old documents, he says, and discovered a grandparent had been from there. Matt Turner himself had no contact with Lithuanian culture and had never even been to Lithuania! Amazingly, he had still not even once set foot in the country even after receiving his “citizenship.” After receiving his dual-citizen passport, he vaguely told a U.S. sports journalist that he sure would like to visit the country of Lithuania, “some day.” The country which had just granted him citizenship!

Matt Turner’s grab of this alt-citizenship was solely to advance his career. As a “European citizen,” he’d be better placed to be recruited to European soccer (football) teams.

Is this absurd story a “victimless crime”? What harm does it to Joe Palooka from the outskirts of Vilnius, if a citizenship-certificate is handed out to some soccer-crazed New York bozo who had a Jewish grandparent who’d once lived in Lithuania?

Is it the same as the victimless-crime Birth Tourism from wealthy Asians? The people who do that are from the ethically-flexible, always-elbowing-for-advantage, lying-and-cheating cultures, which are often good at charming people. What harm is there, to White family in Peoria, if a few million crafty PRC-Chinese grab extra “U.S. passports” via Birth Tourism?

The victim is the meaning of citizenship. If it’s all so easily game-able by crafty cosmpolitans, and/or the ethically flexible — and switching citizenships is treated like switching credit-cards to get a slightly better rate — we all lose.

(To glance at the facts of the Matt Turner case, by the way, is to reach one’s hand down into the wellspring of classic European anti-Semitism, I think. Variants of the Matt Turner case were, frankly speaking, the modus operandi of Jews in much of Europe for a long time. Not all Jews everywhere always, but lots of them in lots of places some of the time. The taking advantage of local naivete, or good-will, or relative openness, with zero interest in contributing to “the commons” but perfect willingness to take from the commons for self-benefit. Intellectual and ethical traditions do differ between civilizations. Sympathizers with the historical European Jews would say it was the local rulers’ faults, or the like, for not running a right ship.)

Here is my profile of Matt Turner written in 2022, along with the ethnic-ancestral profiles of the rest of the U.S. Men’s National Team:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/world-cup-2022-racial-national-origins-of-team-usa/#turner

Quote:

‘…There used to be a critical reading section on the SAT, the one part of the test Whites did better than Asians on, but that was eventually eliminated. I have noticed when arguing with Asians that they tend to be statistics nerds but have trouble understanding abstract philosophical concepts expressed verbally…’

That may simply owe more to a greater familiarity with English than to any genetic difference. If I prove better than Jack at spotting trout in a stream, does this suggest that gentiles have greater visual acuity than Jews — or simply that I’ve done a lot more trout fishing than he?

Unless the difference is truly impressive, I’d put my money on cultural factors. Were the philosophical concepts in question Western ones to begin with?

The Naked Ape. I read it 45 years ago in my log cabin, partly by kerosine lamp. It’s a good one.

The world loves Jews so long as they are victims but not the moment that they fight back. What would the American response have been if the Mexicans launched a cross border raid and murdered 1,200 Americans and raped and kidnapped a couple of hundred more? Would we have treated the Mexicans with love and kindness and in strict accordance with the impossible rules of “human rights advocates” or would we have blasted the shit out of whoever did this so they would never do it again?

Shall I explore the flaws in this analogy? We can start with where the border is, and the past history of it: how many of the ‘Mexicans’ are descended from inhabitants of America that we drove into Mexico to begin with?

Or how many times had we ourselves invaded ‘Mexico’? How many ‘Mexicans’ had we killed in just the year that they finally struck back? Had we invaded Mexico in 1956, 1967, 2008, 2014? For how many years did we occupy Mexico? How many Mexicans had we shot down when they tried protesting at the wall?

Now, shall we go into HOW we waged war in Mexico? The deliberate attacks on concentrations of civilians? The open exhortations to kill women and children? The songs of rejoicing over the slaughter we were wreaking? The incessant lies and cruelties? The wallowing in forms of torture other peoples wouldn’t even conceive of?

Now we can move on to the various successive agreements and commitments we made concerning ‘Mexico,’ the terms we agreed to when we received ‘America…’

And now finally, your expectation that we support these crimes, that we crush all attempts to even protest them?

I really wonder: could this become more vile? What depths are you planning to plumb next? I mean, my imagination genuinely fails me. Help me out here, Jack…

Woo hoo, some brown people are getting kicked out, and the president is sticking it to the colleges!, while the real work isn’t getting done and our principles are being thrown out the window.

Once again, nothing to add — another one from you that bears repeating because it will be ignored or deflected.

Also re-hosted by Ron Unz, as pointed out above by Mark G.:

https://www.unz.com/print/RothbardRockwellReport-1994may-00005/

CLINTONIAN UGLY
by Murray N. Rothbard
[in the May 1994 issue of “The Rothbard-Rockwell Report”]

I have to face it: My loathing of the Clintons and their Administration is so intense that it has become absolute, unbounded, almost cosmic in its grandeur…

That is why you get Moms of Liberty blaming the white/black achievement gap on genetics or black culture but blaming the male/female achievement gap on bigoted female teachers.

Which M-F gap are they discussing? The grades gap with females doing better is probably largely due to the feminization of schooling (roughly what they say IMHO). The test scores gap with males doing better (at least at the high end, more larger SD than higher mean, though both in play) is probably more genetics.

— On Lena Dunham’s Place in History —

I’ve never been able to remember why I’m supposed to remember the name “Lena Dunham.” I know Steve Sailer has mentioned her name many times since she emerged into fame in or about the early 2010s.

Looking back in the archives, I find Steve Sailer first mentioned her name in April 2012 (“Lesley Arfin: The Witch Hunt for the Young Female John Derbyshire”).

Lena Dunham was, in 2012, mixed up in a highly forgettable Mini Race Panic, related to a tv-show she was involved with (Girls). The source of the controversy: There were no Nonwhites on the show! Is this Racism? What is to be done? No Nonwhites? How could this happen?!

These critics, though, were really thrown into a rage when a writer for Lena Dunham’s tv-show, a woman named Lesley Argin, mocked the controversy with a facetious comment: “What really bothered me most about Precious [a then-recent movie with an all-Black cast] was that there was no representation of ME.”

A flurry of articles soon came out with titles like “Lesley Arfin, John Derbyshire, Vice, Taki Magazine, and the Lingering Cultural Capital of Racism.” (This was the spring of 2012, a cool thirteen years ago. It was a few weeks after the death of Trayvon Martin, whose death later inspired the Black Lives Matter movement.)

Steve Sailer commented:
“It’s fascinating how in this Age of Point ‘n’ Sputter, this Era of Not Getting the Joke, how much pride some of these people take in being humorless buffoons.”

Commenter candid_observer wrote at the isteve blogspot at the time:

All these young women self-appointed Joe McCarthys are no doubt looking at Lena Dunham and her bizarre, groundless, over-the-top fame, and asking themselves, what does she have that I’ve don’t have?

The answer, of course, is nothing — which is what they all have.

And so, as young competitive females are wont to do, they find a way to dish. And nothing dishes these days like an accusation of racism — which can never be trumped up, because it’s always there, being the Original Sin of Whiteness.

Candid_observer, thanks! Your efforts, lo those thirteen years ago, were not for naught. You have conveyed to us, via message-in-a-bottle left adrift on the digital sea, the essence of the Lena Dunham mystery. She was famous for being famous. A product of the Wokeness era herself, in part; and of the digital era. Her own politics are standard-issue Wokeness, so the controversy was a little strange from the start.

The kind of moral panic seen there in spring 2012 was quite familiar for the rest of the decade; and relatively familiar, if less frenzied, for decades prior.

Sailer commented on the Lena Dunham “Whiteness crisis” several more times in the spring of 2012: “Roots of ‘Girls’ Whiteness Crisis: ‘Tiny Furniture’,” “No Sign Yet of ‘Girls’ Whiteness Crisis Abating,” “Latest Girl Racist: Zooey Deschanel,” “The 2012 Whiteness Crisis and the Race-Riot Card,” and “Signs “Girls” Whiteness Crisis Abating” all between late-April and late-May 2012. He took great interest in it because of what it seemed to symbolize for the state of racial politics.

A lot of people in the 2020s breezily claim Wokeness emerged from nowhere in the early-mid 2010s. In fact, plenty of people identified all its core components in 2012, evident inter alia during the responses to the Lena Dunham “Whiteness” crisis.

Sailer took occasional interest in the ongoing work of Lena Dunham in the years after her debut, before she became obese, then got thin, then got obese again. Sailer’s final entry about Lena Dunham is titled: “Lena Dunham Not Levantine Enough for the Woke,” dated October 2018. (Lena Dunham is herself half-Jewish but “presents” as full White-Christian, or post-Christian).

In that final post on Lena Dunham of the 2010s (Oct 2018), Sailer wrote:

[T]he now omnipresent pejorative “whiteness” may have first swum into my ken in early 2012 involving Lena Dunham’s TV show Girls.

The first signs of the mental breakdown in liberal America that became broadly visible in 2013 started to become noticeable in early 2012 […]

The Naked Ape. I read it 45 years ago in my log cabin, partly by kerosine lamp. It’s a good one.

I would give it two panda thumbs down.

Morris was selling establishment serving science wrapped up in a complete bullshit labcoat of objectivity.

He and writers like Gould knew full well as to what they were doing which is to undermine Christian creationism while keeping the race taboo.

It’s the liberal establishment underpants gnome theory on race:

1. Well you see all these evolutionary changes in the past so creationism probably isn’t correct
2. (???????)
3. And so the science has determined that race doesn’t exist..cause not enough time or something…look White people are just assholes that held everyone back…just go with it…ok? Stop asking questions. We got all the scientists and we have decided. The science has spoken. Race isn’t real…except maybe in sports…medicine…that’s it. No more questions.

I don’t remember any race denial in the book, but it has been 45 years.

What I do remember is interesting takes on our animal side, for example how human sexuality is different from that of other animals and primates and perhaps has contributed to the increase of human intelligence.

It was a fun read at a time and place that for me was perfect for reading many books.

I wouldn’t call it race denial. It was total race avoidance which is in servitude to the liberal order.

Such books may be interesting by they have a political angle which amounts to:

Look at all these evolutionary changes in nature and humans…..but let’s avoid race.

I get that the guy has to make a living but establishment science is anti-White at the core and he is serving their goals.

The liberal academic establishment wants to undermine Christianity (but not Islam) while maintaining the liberal religious belief that race is just painty color from a long period of human biology. A long period where the rules of biology just happen to not apply fully to humans for about 80k. Well isn’t that convenient. Oh and since race doesn’t exist that means White men are to blame for everything and you can’t ask questions.

Writers like Morris knowingly serve that order. It isn’t by chance that he wrote about Whale bones instead of African vs European medical differences.

Well I am White and I am sick of this establishment bullshit. They’re intentionally deceiving students while pretending to be objectively studying human evolution. They have no choice but to lie about race and blame White people….and really we mean White men. The alternative for them unpalpable.

AMERICA’s ASTONISHING ACT OF SELF-HARM

Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity

By The Financial Times Editorial Board
April 3, 2025

If it endures, Donald Trump’s decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history. They will wreak untold damage on households, businesses and financial markets across the world, upending a global economic order that America benefited from and helped to create.

The entire SW US, including the fantastically valuable Texas and California, sits on land that was “stolen” from Mexico. And yet the Mexicans are not on some sort of fanatical, suicidal mission to get their lost territory back.

Sometimes after you lose a war, let alone 5 or 6 of them, you recognize that you are never going to get it back and you move on and you remake your destiny in wherever you find yourself.

Present day Kaliningrad was German territory for 1,000 plus years and yet Germany is not locked in some kind of futile struggle with Russia to get it back.

The Nationalists of Taiwan no longer plot to retake the mainland. They consider themselves lucky if the Chinese will let them keep their little island.

If your identified goals are “all or nothing” then nothing is one of the possible outcomes.

No matter how “vile” the imaginary Israeli crimes are, they could not possibly be as vile as what the Gazans did on 10/7. Don’t talk to me about vile after what was done on 10/7.

Neither of these two girls (one dead of pneumonia, one still alive) wanted tubes in either nose or stomach. What they wanted was lots of expensive attention, which you can get by starving yourself.

The various therapies involve lots of talking to well paid psychiatrists and therapists about what to most of us is the most fascinating topic in the world – oneself.

(You can also get it by self-harming, or various drug addictions, being in and out of hospital with overdoses. But the doctors tend not to love you so much when there are really sick people in need of a bed.)

bad things were done a few times in the past

Done by whom? You can’t even bring yourself to say it. “Bad thing” would be an apt description of say having separate water fountains for black people and white people. But, I think you need a stronger term for, for example, vaporizing 140,000 people with a single bomb. Vaporizing is actually too nice – many of these people were hideously burned and irradiated and suffered slow painful deaths.

Note BTW that Israel HAS similar weapons but has not used them or even contemplated using them. If Hamas was so equipped would they have hesitated for one moment before destroying Tel Aviv?

No matter how “vile” the imaginary Israeli crimes are, they could not possibly be as vile as what the Gazans did on 10/7. Don’t talk to me about vile after what was done on 10/7.

Are you kidding us right now?

Has “10/7” already been added to the tiresome anthology of tales in your religious literature and tradition? Will American public schools have to close on “10/7” every year now? Will there be a “10/7” museum by the Mall in Washington and others in cities around the world? Will there be Oscar-winning Hollywood movies about “10/7”?

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Interesting conversation in the twitter thread. Some things which jumped out at me.

They use a complicated formula which seems designed to baffle rather than enlighten given this.

The passthrough and elasticity values were just chosen so they would sum to 1 (res: multiply to 2 seems more accurate to me), because they wanted the formula to be trade deficit/imports, but to look like it was more theoretically sophisticated than that.

Surowiecki says services are excluded.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions

They didn’t quantify anything. They just assumed that a trade deficit with a country is entirely the result of tariffs + non-trade barriers. Oh, and they excluded services from their calculation of trade deficits.

But I am not seeing that elsewhere? This would be a big deal given the goods/services imbalance in US trade.
https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-december-and-annual-2022

AI summary.

U.S. Exports of Services (2022): $1,026.6 billion
U.S. Imports of Services (2022): $748.2 billion
Services Surplus (2022): $243.7 billion (exports – imports)
Goods and Services Deficit (2022): $948.1 billion
Goods Deficit (2022): $1,191.8 billion

I have not commented on Steve Sailer posts for some time, so I’m not sure if I am an approved commentator or not. But this post should get a response, so I will make the attempt.

First, I have just seen a study claiming that going to “college” in the United States now reduces the lifetime earnings, on a net basis, unless the major is in STEM, some sort of business type major, or property management. A lot of the reason is that most of employers hold a negative opinion of college graduates filling entry level jobs, so a college degree actually reduces the chances of getting an entry level job, unless STEM or absolutely required for licensing or some sort of career track. Even STEM graduates have been reporting reduced employment opportunities.

Since its a long time since university education has been associated with, well, learning things, we actually are close to seeing the education bubble finally burst. I’m not sure when this happens. One clue is that the Boomers were the last generation to actually benefit from holding a college degree.

So who gets into selective colleges might turn out to be completely irrelevant. Companies have abandoned any pretense of merit in hiring anyway, that in ten years I can see major corporations and firms drop the college degree fig leaf and just higher directly from connected families and castes. And that is really how its been throughout most of human history.

But if you care about this, the obvious way to do it would be for the higher educational institution itself create an admissions test, and determine based on its own test which applicants it wants to educate. Which really how it was normally done, outside of imperial America.

Funny you should mention this because my paternal ancestors earned their livelihood from catching freshwater fish. More carp than trout and with a net in a pond but same idea.

But this perhaps does not line up with the stereotype that Jews didn’t do anything but study Talmud and find ways to middle man and exploit the goyim and so did not develop any visual-spatial skills. A lot of Jewish work in Poland (tailor, shoemaker, teamster, baker, miller, blacksmith, etc. – these were all very typical Jewish occupations) was “hands on” and studying the holy books was a sideline to your breadwinning occupation and even then only for a minority.

I believe the Verbal- Math SAT gap exists even among American born Asians with full familiarity with English. The races are in many ways very similar to each other with large overlap in many traits but they are not all exactly THE SAME nor are we 100% the product of our environment alone.

Thanks.

are finding that the cost of “special needs” education is bankrupting them.

This is happening all over the Anglosphere. American state and local governments currently pay about the same per head as the UK councils to educate special needs children, and, depending on the disability, it often costs about the same to continue to care for those people after they graduate, i.e., for the rest of their lives.

Coincidentally that is only slightly less than the price tag per head as caring for the insane, but governments have solved that budget problem by just dumping those people into the streets where they now count as homeless statistics, but at least the municipal budget doesn’t have an “insane asylum” line-item anymore. Perhaps the special-needs cases will eventually also reach such a pass.

Also coincidentally, that is about the same price tag per head pre year as for educating a student at an Ivy League college, the differences being that a college student’s costs only last four years, and that upon graduating, the student presumably takes up some kind of productive function, though that’s an increasingly presumptuous presumption.

Anyhow, it’s ironic that this is an especially Anglosphere problem as the Anglophones should at least be familiar with Copybook Headings, such as “What you subsidize you will get more of.”

The cunning thing will be that millions of World Team military will arrive in the United States disguised as soccer fans, and in no time at all, several major cities in the US will be seized, and Canada will cut off the electricity,oil, and water to the northern tier of states.

LMAO. The MANLY Canuck of The Great White North has been replaced by the metrosexuals!

A majority of Canadians support stronger gun control laws. Moreover, many citizens are increasingly concerned that President Trump’s threat to annex our country will lead to American-style gun laws in Canada.

That’s why it’s never been more important to become informed about each political party’s position on gun control and to demand – with your vote as your voice – reasonable gun laws that safeguard our homes, schools and communities from the devastation of gun violence.

https://twitter.com/Polysesouvient/status/1907468702506689000

Re John McCain: Even my father, a naval officer and Republican, didn’t like him. Dad wasn’t happy when the party nominated the former POW for the presidential race. His words were basically, “Meh, he got himself shot down.” That’s harsh.

I think that’s really what Trump was getting at. It wasn’t just his disdain for ‘losers’. I think he had heard and half digested, (as is typical for him) that McCain was habitually irresponsible and perhaps in this instance as well.

If your identified goals are “all or nothing” then nothing is one of the possible outcomes.

Israel could try actually honoring her own agreements — see if that suffices.

I suspect that even a bit of that would. After all, when the Palestinians were allowed to live in relative peace after the Oslo Accords, those committed to continued armed struggle swiftly became a marginal and ineffectual faction — something like the IRA in Great Britain, if that. Most Palestinians turned out to be more interested in building decent lives for themselves than in continuing the glorious struggle. They are, after all, only ordinary people — not a nation of heroes.

It is only continuing Jewish aggression and bad faith that leads to this still going on today. What if Israel had honored her acceptance of the UN Partition boundaries? What if she had allowed the remaining gentile inhabitants of Israel proper to become equal citizens in fact as well as in theory?

What if Israel even merely agreed to limit herself to her gains prior to 1967? What if she had permitted the actual formation of a demilitarized Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza — as she agreed to do when she made peace with Egypt?

What if she had abided by her commitments concerning al Aqsa? After all, what brought about October 7th? And who wanted that to happen? And why?

No one’s asking that the Zionists keep every promise they made: after all, at Versailles they assured all present that ‘a Jewish National Home’ would never be taken to mean an actual independent state — God forbid! Please — just a community with its own schools and newspapers. That’s all we mean.

But how about trying to keep just one set of promises? What if you tried something other than endlessly planting your boot in the face of your victims and grinding it about while exulting in your power?

Just for a change.

Note BTW that Israel HAS similar weapons but has not used them or even contemplated using them. If Hamas was so equipped would they have hesitated for one moment before destroying Tel Aviv?

Oh please. You’d build gas chambers and import Zyklon B — if only you dared.

You do everything you calculate you can get away with.

Witness what happened when Trump was inaugurated — and insisted on a cease fire agreement.

You signed it — and kept it until he moved on to other things.

Then as soon as he was otherwise engaged, you broke the agreement and went right back to killing, slathering it all as usual with a generous layer of infuriating lies. Right now you’re even discussing getting South Sudan and Somalia to accept the Palestinians. Apparently, Madagascar would be insufficiently hellish.

This is what you are. Is it even an exaggeration to say you are invariably as evil as possible?

It sounds like it must be hyperbole, but I don’t know. Just what sort of hell-spawn are you? How will the Jewish people ever live this down?

Do you enjoy this? Parsing sentences and using past wrongs to justify or numb yourself from wrongs that you condone now? Wrongs in a microcosm of wrongs that would not even be happening if not for the insane project you verbally defend, one that would have failed decades ago if not for the support of my country?

A project created by the screechiest little group of drama queens in the world. One that has brought terror, both real and fake, to my land, with the accompanying infringements on my liberty.

Neurotic, paranoid drama queens landed themselves inside a hornet’s nest, thereby setting in motion generations of suffering, arguing, warring, expense, political manipulation, media deception and control that otherwise would not exist. Israel, Israel, Israel. What a dumb, fucking project we’ve all been paying for in blood, treasure and freedom.

And you have the gall to say,

You wanna play that game?

Also, who did it FIRST is very important in these situations – see 9/11, see Pearl Harbor . The pictures you show represent the FO end of the FAFO equation. They should not have FAed and then there would have been no reason for the FO part. Israel wasn’t bombing any part of Gaza on 10/6.

“The Establishment depends on Americans who will distract and lie to themselves, too. Sailer figured out years ago how to make it pay.”

Ba fair. Steve could have been a wealthy Atlantic or NYT pundit were it not for that damn Noticing.

I’m very grateful to him, even if I disagree about things like The Vax and Ukraine.

The U.S. Mideast envoy’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson, along with Israel’s creation of the ‘voluntary emigration’ bureau for the Gazan population’

‘Voluntary Migration Bureau…’

What did the Germans call their office? There we go: ‘The Central Agency for Jewish Emigration.’ Founded in July 1938.

Curiously parallel function. Of course, German measures to ‘encourage’ Jewish emigration had been considerably less forceful than those Israel has undertaken, and German Jews might — or might not — have wanted to go to Palestine.

It’s going to be a tough sell, getting Palestinians to agree to the South Sudan. Even to Somalia.

Perhaps still more encouragement will be required. Or screw it.

Showers?

‘Also, who did it FIRST is very important in these situations ‘

Indeed. But we already discussed who did it first, didn’t we, Jack?

Do you really want to take a trip down memory lane? Whatever led the ancestors of all those Palestinians to move to Gaza, for example? More recent events, perhaps? 2008? 2014? Where would you like to go, Jack?

We’re in Disneyland. What’s to be the first ride? What do you want, Jack? You wanted to come here.

“You mean grant it or receive it?

Ah don’t be silly. no university is gonna grant either me or Kimmy any sort of degree, honorary or otherwise, any time soon.

Besides she has now passed on from us, alas, and now presides over the Great Big Moby-Dick slash Punk Rock Conference in the Sky. But you can find my commentary here.

Ars est in artem concelere, yadda yadda something.

It’s the slippery slope fallacy, but more poetic.

There seems to be an assumption that Steve Sailer would have somehow been a star if he had chosen to write about other things.

More likely he became more successful by finding his niche and staying in it.

tarnish US prosperity

What looks like an act of self-harm is actually necessitated by the lopsided consumption/production capacity of U.S. economy. For about 3 to 4 decades, we have been consuming more than we are producing and making up the deficit by borrowing. In a ‘normal’ country, this would have been fixed via the feedback loop of devaluation. But since USD is ‘world’ currency, that is difficult to achieve without the co-operation of major trading nations*, which are reluctant to allow USD to depreciate i.e. allow their currency to appreciate, for fear of losing competitiveness. So, Trump is trying to do the best he can by inducing a stagflation that will reduce the trade deficits. People without jobs or incomes (and smaller assets) can’t buy much stuff. As a bonus, that will also help Fed lower the interest rates and long bond interest rate may come down without the pressure of mortgage and auto loans.

* It was done before, 4 decades back:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

Those burnt out cars are more than Hamas can do on its strongest day, but they would be a piece of cake for an Israeli attack helicopter carrying out the Hannibal directive.

McCain used his powerful relatives to ignore an unwritten rule of naval aviation, that if you crash two planes, your third ride is a desk. Guess which crash led to him getting captured. In other words, if the same rules everyone else obeyed applied to him, he never would have been tortured.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project much?

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Hamas dindu nuffin. Arabs could not have brought down the Twin Towers either. What about them Dancing Israelis? Same old tired anti-Semitic shit. It never gets old with the Men of Unz.

She was not exactly a looker even before becoming fat. BTW, the expression I forgot to mention earlier, it may have been coined or at least popularized by Emil Kirkegaard and/or Edward Dutton, is “spiteful mutants.”

You must be right. I wonder why I associated it with Asimov. Anyway thanks for correcting my faulty memory. Now I really better dig up the book. The bigger problem is to make the time to read it.

I hate to bother to comment on this tired topic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please explain.

“More likely he became more successful by finding his niche”

Yes, Steve found his niche and “niche” is a good word for it. Assuming the commenters here are representative of his readers, they diverge quite a bit from your typical normie American. Here in Indiana, most people talk about their hobbies or personal relationships. If they talk politics it is to complain about things like high prices, local crime or immigrants who don’t know how to speak English or drive a car properly. Even there, this is not a regular occurrence. National or international affairs seldom come up. I do not think I have heard the words “Ukraine” or “Israel” ever uttered in everyday life.

Steve figured out how to appeal to political junkie types, particularly to a particular segment where he could successfully outcompete competitors for their attention. He made a living as a writer, something many attempt but few succeed at.

Two thoughts come to mind. I think this cynical gaming of citizenship via dubious ties semi-frequently comes into play when athletes try to figure out what country they might “represent” in the Olympics.

IIRC, someone on VDare (don’t recall if it was Brimelow, it could have been given his background in financial journalism) tried to estimate the dollar value of US citizenship. I believe their estimate was in the 6 figures.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Hamas dindu nuffin. Arabs could not have brought down the Twin Towers either

In completely agreement with you. Sunnis are a plague on civilization.

What about them Dancing Israelis?

You just had to throw this in. The dancers knew what was going to happen and were taking selfies. They were deported and the FBI files, when released, were heavily redacted. At best, Israel knew the Sunnis were planning 911, at worst they aided them to drag the US into a Mideast war.

I don’t know. On the one hand most economists who study economic history I have read approve of tariffs. On the other the formula for calculating these numbers looks like Elon Musk pulled it out of ass when very stoned.

The Financial Times not liking it is of no consequence at all. My first impression is all the people yelling the loudest hate Donald the Fat regardless and this is just driving them over the edge; as if they weren’t over the edge before. New edges to go over have been revealed.

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

Please explain.

Okay, I’ll ‘splain it, Ricky.

You and I will not agree in this area. I think the US should have stayed out of the “world” war that Britain and other interests expanded in Europe in the late 30s – early 40s. America helped to divide Europe and give half of it to communists. My country had no business being there.

And yes, I think what US and UK bombers did to Germany was vile. (As were the fire bombings and atomic bombings in Japan.)

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

If a tree falls in the forest, and Zionists control the media, is there a sound?

‘Israeli School Massacre a Wake Up Call to the Entire World.’

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

I love the logic. I stole a car when I was an adolescent — so I’m barred from interfering if Jack wants to molest an eight year old.

Bat chain.
Puller.
Bat chain puller.
Puller, puller.

In zones of rust,
They gild gold
Sawdust into dust,
Bat chain puller.

‘I don’t know. On the one hand most economists who study economic history I have read approve of tariffs. On the other the formula for calculating these numbers looks like Elon Musk pulled it out of ass when very stoned.’

You need to start somewhere. Now people can sit down with the US and work out more reasonable formulas.

Personally, I can appreciate why Japan would have tariffs, and I don’t blame them at all for having them. At the same time, I can see how the same applies to us.

Does Mossad make a practice of disclosing top secret information to people who are peddling magazine subscriptions door to door?

His niche – actually a shtick – is much narrower than “political junkie types.”

It didn’t take long after his arrival here at TUR to see that Sailer isn’t so much a dissident as a copium denmother for disaffected white guys who skew 40+ in age. In practically all other respects — and, thus, effectively in that one — he narrates or stands silent on behalf of the Establishment.

What’s the last important thing he’s written or skirted that those two sentences don’t explain?

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/25/sanctions-on-lawyers-for-filing-motion-containing-ai-hallucinated-cases/#more-8318749

The court sanctioned the author of the motion (Ayala) $3000, and also sanctioned the other lawyers who signed it (Morgan and Goody) $1000 each, noting that “[a] finding of subjective bad faith is not required to impose sanctions.” It also withdrew Ayala’s permission to participate in the case pro hac vice (i.e., as a lawyer who is not a member of the court’s bar and is admitted just for this case, in association with a bar member). It noted that, “Because of Mr. Ayala’s oversight, Respondents’ clients essentially lost their opportunity to file meritorious motions in limine, as they withdrew their Motions. Without belaboring the point, society has an interest in attorneys’ ethical conduct, and Mr. Ayala’s conduct fell short of that standard.”

This sort of thing seems to be becoming more commonplace, and slap on the wrist penalties like this are not going to stop it. Eventually, when all information is digital and Big Tech/Media gets through rewriting history, there won’t even be any way to check what’s real and what’s not.

You are god awful at analogies. You’re starting to sound a lot like HA, so I’ll give you the advice that Mr. Anon gives him regularly: Buy a gun and book a flight to Palestine.

subscriptions door to door?

Does the FBI make a practice of holding people for eleven weeks who didn’t do nuffin’?

There is a story there. You guys better make sure it never gets told.

For as long as you are able, of course.

…ever notice how Mormons, Overseas Chinese, Lebanese Christians don’t have these sort of problems? Could there be a moral there?

You are god awful at analogies. You’re starting to sound a lot like HA, so I’ll give you the advice that Mr. Anon gives him regularly: Buy a gun and book a flight to Palestine.

I’ll give you some advice.

Stick to bowling and posts on You Tube videos.

Now there’s a couple of experts for ya’. ;-}

“…But, I think you need a stronger term for, for example, vaporizing 140,000 people with a single bomb. Vaporizing is actually too nice – many of these people were hideously burned and irradiated and suffered slow painful deaths.”

140,000 is the high estimate, 70,000 is the low estimate.

Thanks, Jack. The old Greeks knew their shit. (The modern Greeks, not so much.)

Since you brought up the subject, I think America could use to start some type of Exorcism program, say for Non-Binary no Bi-Polar , that’d be demon-possessed people (to use the term loosely) like Minnesota Rep Kozlowski (D-Looking Glass).

I never thought I’d agree with the likes of Bernie Sanders, but I would not be against Federally funded exorcisms. At least it should be mandated for all healthcare plans.

Haha, only the official maps are “charts”, somehow. Thank you, G.A., for reminding me of that thread – nothing to do with iSteve’s post, but that’s not unusual and often a feature here.

This is getting bad, but I will have to finish that one tomorrow on my blog, as I really need a couple of solid hours to think. In the meantime, Canadian and Ukrainian flags flying together now, and also a quick post about Hooters Going Tits Up.

You’re the only story that I’ve never told.
You’re my dirty little secret, wanna keep you so.

So just for fun the other night, I went out and signed up for an Open Mic at some comedy club. It’s been so long, nobody had any idea who I was, I just sort of walked up out of the blue, got onstage and killed. It was fun doing that, after all these amateur morons, watching people’s jaws gradually dropping as they slowly realized who, or what, really, they were dealing with.

AMERICA’s ASTONISHING ACT OF SELF-HARM

Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity

By The Financial Times Editorial Board…

This would seem to say more about the Financial Times that it does about the wisdom of Trump’s tariffs. How precisely our imposing tariffs that are half of those imposed on us is an ‘astonishing act of self-harm’ escapes me.

I mean, even we assume that Trump’s criteria for measuring the tariffs we are subjected to might be screwy, it all seems like a fine start to me.

That can be the basis — and now we can talk. What’s the problem?

Boy, this exchange is revealing:

But no more than your trusttheplan whitewash in #60.

The Establishment depends on Americans who will distract and lie to themselves, too. Sailer figured out years ago how to make it pay.

Eh, you need to Greta more specific. Your ‘oracular’ huffings are not quite intelligible.

Solicitor General John Sauer was just confirmed by the US Senate; this changes everything…

William Kirk discusses the plan to allow non-citizen police officers in Washington state as we examine SB 5068, a bill which would permit legal aliens to become police officers and Prosecuting Attorneys.

The US Supreme Court needs to step up and fix anti-gun rulings like we see in a recent Illinois state court decision.

https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1907913055448772613
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1907855657342046461
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1907946303029494030

People are openly rooting for Marco Rubio and goons grabbing a woman off the street for writing an antiwar op-ed in the context of university governance.

Is that why Rubio (or whoever ordered the arrest) says she got snatched? Seems unlikely.

And would it surprise you if there’s a complementary book by another scholarly journalist and IDF veteran telling progressives what they want to fear and associating that with anti-Zionism and Islam, too?

His book sounds like schvitzing cope. I doubt he has any viable strategies to “give Jewish students and their allies the tools they need to rid academia and progressive movements of this pseudo-historical and bigoted movement’s appeal” as the synopsis puts it.

The silver lining of Trump being economically clueless and crashing the stock market is that it hurts leftist-captured institutions that depend on market returns to fund their degenerate mission. Ideally, layoffs, and even closures, will follow. Admittedly it sux for normal people whose assets are evaporating.

Hey! So you’re this guy:

Thanks for the laughs. I haven’t seen you in a long time.

Great PJ selection, BTW.

Seriously, maybe you are that guy. When I read the Wikipedia bio, it sounds possible, Murray.

It is a shameful activity that is damaging the reputation [e.a.] of my country and my people.

Really? Who are the sainted innocents tsk-tsking us? Please name names …

Just as Israel can never again claim victimhood, never again scream, muh, Holocaust!, America cannot now pretend to hold the moral high ground.

That’s better for both countries, right? Or do you think the USA should be a self-proclaimed “humanitarian superpower” like Sweden once declared itself? Trying (or pretending) to “hold the moral high ground” often leads to fake and gay outcomes. Shirley you don’t want fake and gay outcomes.

Second, it is the real midwits who simplemindedly get happy about specifics while ignoring the general, more important issues.

We’re in agreement in the abstract, it’s just that we disagree which is “more important”—namely, a focus on Israel/Palestine vs. a focus on the United States. It’s the same problem with others, like commenter HA and her Ukraine obsession, who are more concerned with the fate of foreigners than with American domestic concerns.

while the real work isn’t getting done and our principles are being thrown out the window

That’s pretty vague. What would that “real work” look like in action? E.g., are you going to write to AOC and ask her to ask Trump to divest from Israel? LOL

there is a real pall falling over speech [e.a] in the one country that is supposed to stand for freedom

Since Musk took over Twitter and the “vibe shift” occured, the bold claim is out-of-date. E.g., prominent people at rallies (like Musk, Bannon) are asking in German Sign Language if anyone’s seen Kyle, and aren’t being canceled, and are in fact publicly cheered.

But on back on campus, if you have a problem with Title VI being enforced, argue that it should be repealed, and write a letter to AOC to get it repealed, LOL. Meanwhile Trump is using the weapon VI (million) to ‘protect the Jews’ as a pretext to roger the universities sideways, with possible yuuuuge financial penalties, and to heighten intra-institutional turmoil. Are you not entertained?

TL/DR

Pointless, annoying garbage argument.

Have a nice day. 🙂

Jeffrey Sachs doesn’t like them.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/03/jeffrey-sachs-trumps-absurd-trade-policies-will-impoverish-americans-and-harm-the-world/

So just for fun the other night, I went out and signed up for an Open Mic at some comedy club. It’s been so long, nobody had any idea who I was, I just sort of walked up out of the blue, got onstage and killed. It was fun doing that, after all these amateur morons, watching people’s jaws gradually dropping as they slowly realized who, or what, really, they were dealing with.

As Kool Rock Chick #2 said, you are “A f#cking legend?!”

https://www.unz.com/isteve/open-thread-1-2/#comment-7046690

As one who shares a similar College/Post-grad (law school in my case) background, I get Sailer’s discomfort with the Trump MAGA vibe. But like many commenters I realized at some point in the last 5 years that this is war, and when it comes to that, you’re better off sharing a foxhole with a MAGA lowbrow than almost any given conservative intellectual (myself included, probably). But it is tough to be a traitor to your class, wrong-headed (or in the case of Woke-insane) as they are. Also, having prospered at my legal craft for 40 years (enabled in part by a certain reticence about my politics), I can’t deny Sailer his chance at some late financial rewards for his craft. God knows others have been cannibalizing his insight for profit precisely because he was anathema.

People are openly rooting for Marco Rubio and goons grabbing a woman off the street for writing an antiwar op-ed in the context of university governance.

Is that why Rubio (or whoever ordered the arrest) says she got snatched? Seems unlikely.

“Seems unlikely”? If you wanted to know what happened to this woman and why, it’s been addressed repeatedly here at TUR, including by Giraldi and Unz.

But based on 200+ comments this year, you apparently confine your reading to Sailer’s HBD tree fort. Why?

Agreed, Mr. Richard. I don’t know enough about the numbers from Elon Musk, but I’ve had a long argument about tariffs here on this site, and I read part of a book by Alfred Eckes (Opening America’s Market) on the history of tariffs in America. It’s long – the history of having tariffs, that is. There was good conversation here on my site, and Mr. Hail recommended the book and commenter Adam Smith kindly linked us to an online copy.

Here‘s the .pdf.

The Financial Times not liking it is of no consequence at all.

Yep. I picked up a copy recently – maybe the 2nd time in my life – and it was, as the Brits are wont to say, rubbish!

You’re a bigot, stoked and soothed by Sailer for so long that you don’t even see the good in or sympathize with other people.

See also #180.

Sailer specifically and rightist radio writ large re tarriffs: but things have been going this way for all this time! And he wants to put them that other way!

All true. That’s also my take on the matter. I don’t knock Mr. Sailer for running his new substack operation the way he wants, including content-wise. He does deserve some fame and more remuneration for his many ideas that people have “borrowed”.

I’m just starting to disagree with him more often. Maybe it’s on 5-10% of his specific statements rather than 1% back before the Kung Flu, at least. It wasn’t just that PanicFest thing, but, as of more recently. his Establishment Ukraine War stance, his disdain for good MAGA people, refusal to say (hardly) anything good about Trump directly, and – just remembered this – his claim that Bai Dien was running the show because there is no Deep State – only what he calls the “Deep State”, actually the Administrative State. These are 2 separate entities.

That term ‘Self-Harm’ is wrong. It is more like swallowing bitter medicine or sacrifice. But no doubt there will be a lot of pain. With 20% effective tariff on all imports, we will see nearly that much jump in prices almost immediately. That means, in the baskets of goods one purchase, an immediate drop of purchasing power. Secondarily, as the cost of imported inputs goes up by 20%, the market shrinks leading to sizeable job losses. There is no running away from stagflation in the near term and if there are retaliatory tariffs by other countries, in the medium term too. The benefits of businesses moving their factories to U.S., if they happen at all, will take years to materialize. Meanwhile, most people’s investments, 401(k) etc., will take sizeable hits – much larger than impact due to inflation. We might have already lost tens of Trillions of wealth in the second Trump era. This will feel like Ford-Carter era of 1970’s.

Trump tariff policy can cause $30 trillion loss, warns former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/trump-tariff-policy-can-cause-30-trillion-loss-warns-former-us-treasury-secretary-lawrence-summers-11743666745906.html

If you wanted to know what happened to this woman and why

You’re worked up about it, not me. Seems suspicious you only offered your ‘editorial take’ on why she was arrested, but failed to quote the arresting authority—likely because you don’t have the chops to dispute anything other than your own rhetorical straw men. Which makes you a passive-aggressive pussy.

But based on 200+ comments this year, you apparently confine your reading to Sailer’s HBD tree fort. Why?

Hmmm. You can tell what I’ve read or not by my comments? Amazing!

You’re a bigot

Ahhh, there it is. Tell us, what shithole country are you from?

you don’t even see the good in or sympathize with other people

“Other people”? Again, why so vague? What people, exactly?

It was fun doing that, after all these amateur morons, watching people’s jaws gradually dropping as they slowly realized who, or what, really, they were dealing with.

Hmm. Not saying you should, not saying you shouldn’t—but have you ever considered self-doxxing here? (The caveat for beholders being, of course, never meet your weirdos.)

On the one hand most economists who study economic history I have read approve of tariffs.

The Chicago school is pretty well known and they are very much anti-tariff.

It isn’t that tariffs are inherently bad.

The problem is that it is easy for a trade war to get out of hand.

You can easily spook the market and erase all of your planned gains from the revenue.

Trump is really making one of the worst moves possible which is to start multiple trade wars.

He doesn’t know what he is doing and the markets are mostly betting against him.

The Financial Times not liking it is of no consequence at all. My first impression is all the people yelling the loudest hate Donald the Fat regardless and this is just driving them over the edge; as if they weren’t over the edge before.

Is that what they are saying at Fox News? Critics must be Democrats?

If Harris had passed all these tariffs then the Fox/Newsmax right would be calling her a lunatic.

Well if you live on a certain side of a certain street, then kinda sorta, yeah. But only on that street.

Put it this way, I work in a kind of maybe sorta secret industry only building, yeah we have those and you don’t know about them for that exact reason. All the same you got your actual legal name stuck on a name plate outside your office door. So I’m leaving for the day and some twenty-something Kool Rock Chick says Hey, are you actually Germ Theory I said sure, what can I help you with, she said, No I guess I phrased that wrong, I meant, Are you actually THE Germ Theory, the Germ who did X and Y and Z wait til I tell my girlfriends, they won’t believe it.

So if you’re THAT sort of nerd, then yeah. But it’s a big IF, right.

I have noticed when arguing with Asians that they tend to be statistics nerds but have trouble understanding abstract philosophical concepts expressed verbally…

That may simply owe more to a greater familiarity with English than to any genetic difference.

Right. How many Asians have ever heard of a regatta? Perhaps in China, a legatta, leading to confucian.

And now finally, your expectation that we support these crimes, that we crush all attempts to even protest them?

Oh nooooo, these poor souls are being crushed—it’s anudda Shoah!

“Anti-racists” claim that race doesn’t exist and then proceed in the next sentence to assume it does. Yes, that inconsistency was noted over 30 years ago.

Black women will be inconsistent in order to get benefits for their own people. Meanwhile, white intellectuals will be inconsistent in order to screw over their own people. Which do you think is worse?

And why is Sailer only interested in sneering at these Black women, but never the White intellectuals who pushed a genocide against their own race.

“…What’s the problem?”

The problem is the costs are obvious and immediate and the benefits are delayed and uncertain.

“Jeffrey Sachs doesn’t like them.”

Former Reagan OMB director David Stockman is not particularly opposed to tariffs for revenue purposes but does not think lack of tariffs is a major cause of our trade deficits. A major cause, not the only one but a major one, is the inflationary policies the Fed has followed since we left Bretton Woods and severed the last link to gold in 1970. Our big trade deficits started after that.

U.S. manufacturing wages in 1970 were 3.35 dollars per hour. With a mild 2% increase a year they would be ten dollars an hour now. Instead, because of higher real inflation, they are 27.50 dollars per hour. By comparison, Chinese manufacturing wages are 5.70 dollars per hour. If you factor in things like the cost of transporting goods across the ocean, if American wages were only ten dollars an hour, we could compete better with the Chinese. The lower inflation that would have led to ten dollar an hour wages would also have led to lower domestic prices so you could easily live on that wage.

High inflation hurts savers but helps borrowers. The biggest borrower in this country is the federal government so it is pursuing a high inflation policy to benefit itself.

BUBBLEGUM: Banana Guards — SEIZE HIM! Okay, now, let him go. And now, SEIZE HIM! all over again. And now let him go, and now — seize him! Sorry I got it wrong that time, let’s try this again… SEIZE HIM!! I don’t really want anybody to seize anybody else, but man I just like saying that.

“never meet your weirdos.”

Probably good advice.

Hey fellas, just so you know, my last two comments from SS Open Thread #2 & 3 respectively were deleted even after excessive limbo due to my extended absence.
The whim is strong in this one and given the whitelisting of the usual suspects in the past 3 threads this does not bode well at all.

Tell us, what shithole country are you from?

I’m from yours.

What people, exactly?

Pretty much anyone who’s not, like those “honorees [who] were a pantheon of ugly human dysgenics. All of their ‘causes’ were about ‘addressing’ dysfunction in the shitty societies they are from.” Which, in my own little way, is why I hang out here talking with the likes of you.

“How will the Jewish people ever live this down?”

Live what down?

More UK news:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/02/young-women-england-wales-likely-have-just-one-child-35-ons-study

Girls who turn 18 this year are projected to have an average of one child each by the age of 35 – unlike their mothers’ generation who had an average of one child per woman by the time they reached 31.

Projections from the ONS suggest that the birthrate in England and Wales will continue to drop, with women having smaller families after having babies later in life than previous generations.

Young women turning 18 this year are projected to have most of their children after turning 30 years old, in contrast to previous generations who had had most of their children by that age. Women born in 1978 had about half their children by the age of 30, while their mothers (born in 1951) had had three-quarters of their children. The study found that in 2023 the average age for a woman to have a baby was 30.9.

Figures from the ONS showed that the birthrate in England and Wales had dropped to an all-time low of 1.44 children per woman in 2023, with deaths outstripping births in the UK for the first time in nearly half a century.

Affordable family formation is dead here. And when you consider that these figures will include various high fertility minority groups…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/28/uk-house-prices-rise-nationwide-average

The average UK house price rose by 0.4% during the month, up from 0.1% the month before, according to an early measure from Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society. The average price of a house bought through Nationwide grew to £270,493.

The increase meant that prices grew by 3.9% over the last 12 months, although that was slightly slower than the 4.1% annual rate recorded in January.

Seems suspicious you only offered your ‘editorial take’ on why she was arrested, but failed to quote the arresting authority—likely because you don’t have the chops to dispute anything other than your own rhetorical straw men. Which makes you a passive-aggressive pussy.

Here’s the MSM report of what Rubio and others publicly said that Unz hyperlinked in his recent “The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education” article you should check out:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/marco-rubio-student-visas-palestine-00005141

You can tell what I’ve read or not by my comments?

I said “apparently,” but yeah — and here once again — pretty much.

Let’s not stereotype. We can each speak for ourselves.

I can’t respond to all your charges against the Irgun, but if they drove the Arabs (the term “Palestinians” had yet to be invented) out of Israel, I say, more power to them!

Nicholas Stix (December 18, 2014)

The New American magazine puts out a yearly rating of Congressional representatives according to how closely their votes adhere to the Constitution. Last year Ilhan Omar got 19 out a hundred while Thomas Massie got 99 out of a hundred.

Now both these individuals are critical of our government’s pro-Israel stance. If someone suffers from an extreme Jew fixation to such an extent this is the main issue of importance to them, they are likely to view both these individuals as on their side.

I do not think that way, though. I think we face many issues of importance and like Massie more because of his overall stance on all these issues. For expressing that opinion, though, on another part of this website that our position on Israel is just one of a number of important issues I was just accused of being a yarmulke wearing Jew. The commenter doing that has a history of following me around and barking at me like an annoying little dog, spewing insults at me and being obnoxious. I think it seriously hurts the movement to have a less pro-Israel foreign policy by having people like that on our side and that is one reason why we are not successful so far.

Steve’s main shtick was to say things many people know but do not say like Whites commit fewer crimes than Blacks or are smarter than Blacks. His career was in no danger from that.

Where he really went against the elites running this country was him saying their policy was invade the world, invite the world, in hock to the world. I think he eventually decided if he continued in that vein it would hurt his career. Thus, him going along with the establishment on the Ukraine and Israel.

I do not put the change earlier during Covid. Steve had never given much indication he opposed the medical establishment. So, no real change there when he went along with them on our Covid response.

It’s been so long, nobody had any idea who I was, I just sort of walked up out of the blue, got onstage and killed. It was fun doing that, after all these amateur morons, watching people’s jaws gradually dropping as they slowly realized who, or what, really, they were dealing with.

You are … Dave Chappelle?

However that may be, I expect it gets the baseball stats right.

(By the way the NSA has a row in your file they increment every time you type about negro IQ test scores on your computer or mention negro IQ test scores around your phone mic.)

A column, I suppose? Hey, did you know if you do it enough, the counter overflows and you go back to zero.

There was a Turkish film early in the Erdoğan period, Eve Dönüş (“Returning Home”). It was set at the time of the 1980 military coup in Turkey, which incidentally was supported by the USA, Britain etc. In the film an apolitical worker is picked up by the police and tortured. It transpires they have mistaken him for a left-wing militant leader. After about two weeks of torture the police realise their mistake and turn him loose – the chief of the torturers drives up to him in a car as he is walking on an Istanbul street and warns him not to say anything about his time in detention because they can always arrest him again. He goes into a tea shop and encounters his former landlord – he had been behind on his rent and when the worker was arrested the landlord evicted his family. The landlord buys the worker a tea, trying to ingratiate himself with the worker, fearing him a bit now he has been released. A couple of other men in the tea shop see the worker and start muttering about him, “That’s the Red who was arrested. What’s he doing free?” Suddenly a couple of army officers come into the tea shop and tell the two men they are wanted for questioning. One of the men says, “But abi ,” (“older brother” – a sort of honorific in Turkey) “there must be a mistake. We didn’t do anything.” At that point the film ends. As the credits roll there is a list of statistics, such as the numbers of people detained at least briefly during the martial law period, several hundred thousand but I forget the actual figure, the number of people who died under torture, the number who disappeared in custody, the number who were fired from work under martial law provisions etc.

Attorneys who do that should be subject to professional discipline, up to and including disbarment, from whatever authority is responsible for regulating attorney conduct. Conduct like that violates professional ethical rules such as those requiring diligence and candor to the tribunal.

Unfortunately those authorities have become increasingly politicized nowadays, so any attorney discipline probably will depend more on who/whom than on any reasonably objective assessment.

One needs to keep up with the latest data. females have higher, on average, SAT/ACT scores than males (the bottom end is just as important as the top end). Girls have higher verbal scores. There is a small and closing gap on the SAT math portion at the very highest end.

Compare that to boys being held back much more than girls, falling way behind in middle class, dropping out of high school much more often than girls, that the top 10% of a high school class is usually more than 70% female, that 75% of valedictorians are female. Females are much more likely to go to college, much more likely to complete college, much more likely to attend graduate school. Remember, law school, medical school, dental school, pharmacy school are all majority female. And the MBA programs are majority female with many of the top programs still being around 50% male.

Try looking up data instead of depending on outdated memes.

I generally agree here. I don’t know anything about Greg Cochran. He sounds like he’s not too bright.

I’m pretty sure he has (it may complicate things but shouldn’t that a lot of “white intellectuals” aren’t white).

Hats off to Mr iSteve for his new piece on the Sentinelese.

It’s refreshing to read something intelligent that includes race, language, and culture without the writer feeling obliged to doff his cap, bow to the conventional wisdom, and profess that he’s a civilised chap really.

Not sure why advocating for my own people makes me a bigot, and not sure you realize that shouting “bigot!” at anyone who doesn’t agree with you is pretty much straight out of the jewish cultural subversion playbook, page 1.

Howard Univ. is only 18% black male. It now has more non-blacks than black men.

I strive not to “shout” call just “anyone” anything, and did so there only after the subject asked me to be “more specific. Your ‘oracular’ huffings are not quite intelligible.” Like I said to Nicholas Stix in #201, each man bears responsibility for his own words.

So, I’m not sure why you’re now jumping in to claim otherwise. Or does Mike Tre endorse those of Jenner Ickham Errican quoted in #197?

“I generally agree here. I don’t know anything about Greg Cochran. He sounds like he’s not too bright.”

Cochran is plenty bright. Which isn’t the same thing as agreeing with you about everything.

“You are … Dave Chappelle?”

Close but nah. But I do remember Dave back when he was a brilliant teenager, and everybody was looking at him and thinking “We have the next Eddie Murphy here, we just have to figure out how to play this” and somehow nobody could — i first met the guy in the waiting room outside Lorne’s office — which gives you an idea. His personal-services tax-corp was, if i remember properly, “Pilot Boy” b/c everybody wanted to do a pilot with him but nobody wanted to roll the dice on taking it to series.

and they are very much anti-tariff…The problem is that it is easy for a trade war to get out of hand….You can easily…and the markets are mostly betting against him…If Harris had passed all these tariffs then the Fox/Newsmax right would be calling her a lunatic.

IOW, people who are smarter than you are anti-tariff, therefore you’re against them. “If” and “easily could” are tells of a:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Midwit

Even here, one can find Jeb!sites among the Zionists.

Most of your comments include outright name calling or similar invective. Your reply to me is a complete non sequitur.

The fundamental disagreement here is this:

You, Colin Wright, and Buzz feel Palestinians (specifically and more so than other groups) possess fundamental or Constitutional rights to come to the US, occupy a position in school or workforce, and commence to using that position as a staging ground to agitate and advocate for a foreign conflict that is of zero consequence to the average US citizen, even thought it is the US citizen’s taxes that finance these alien provocateurs’ existence here in the US.

The sad irony that you three (and others) don’t recognize is that the “Palestinian cause” pet moral vanity project of yours has less to do with the Palestinians being persecuted, and more to do with your own (justifiable, to be sure) hostility towards Israel. To put it another way, you’d care a lot less about the Pally’s if it were the Saudi’s putting them to the screws. Further, none of you seem to give a shit about all of the different Christian sects in that region who are and have been under constant persecution, sometimes by the muslim Palestinian majority itself.

On the other side of this, you have those like me, AEN and JEA, who define this issue as a need for a complete full stop on all immigration and its loopholes: Student visas, work visas, refugees, marriage schemes.. all of it. I don’t care if they are Pallies, mestizos, Chinese, or even the ridiculously high numbers of Eastern European immigrants who arrive here and don’t assimilate, and bring their nasty and ignorant dispositions with them. All of them can go back.

They don’t belong here, regardless of how you try to twist “muh Constitution” into a pretzel in order to proclaim “no really, Ben Franklin really wanted a bunch of mud people here on the dole talking about how evil the place is!” No, the US is for Western European whites, and preferably, whites who don’t hate themselves and their own kind like you do.

And the accusation that those on my side don’t see the hypocritical and selective enforcement in immigration policy is just laughably ridiculous. Like what? The heritage white American population of the US, who has sent its sons to die for jewish globalist causes the last 110 years, HASN’T been subject to this same hypocritical and selective treatment throughout the entire socioeconomic, cultural and judicial landscape since the early 1900’s? Excuse me, BUT ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ASSHOLE? Heritage white US citizens have been subject to jewish hostility far longer and in a far more destructive way than the Pallys, even while WE HAVE BENT OVER BACKWARDS TO WELCOME THEM INTO THE US AND ACCOMMODATE THEM.

Among a great long list of other things, one of those destructive things heritage Americans have been taught is to hate themselves, their culture, and to put the priorities of other racial/ethnic groups ahead of their own. You can go ahead and enter yourself into evidence as “Exhibit A” in that regard. You don’t even realize that it is through the jewish efforts of white replacement that Palistinians are even in this country to begin with.

So I’m a bigot for prioritizing whites over anyone else? Ok, fine, I’m a bigot. But wait, are Pally’s bigots for putting Pally’s before anyone else? No? Typical jewish double standard. You can go fuck yourself.

Does Mossad make a practice of disclosing top secret information to people who are peddling magazine subscriptions door to door?

You seem to be conflating the “Dancing Israelis” with the Israeli “Art Students”. They were selling kitschy mall art door-to-door, not magazine subscriptions. And they weren’t really selling art either, because they only showed up at the doors of DEA employees, at their homes and offices. They were spying on DoD facilities as well.

You can’t really spin that as innocuous. They weren’t a bunch of fun-loving kids on a work-study abroad gig. They were a spy ring. Carl Cameron reported on it in December of 2001 on Brit Hume’s show, but the ADL and others leaned on FOX News to squelch any further reporting on it and to remove it from their archives.

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Well now that we’re being nosey, I will tell you a little bit about life on Fourteen.

Number one: nobody ever slept. Ever. It was just up all night from Monday morning when you pitched to the host, until Wednesday night when you wrapped the table read and all the Supreme Court Justices went inside Lorne’s office to figure out what was going in. And then it gets worse. And THEN you have to somehow wake your damn self up and write Update. Lorne used to be a good chap and somehow wander around with a fresh pot of coffee and a lot of charming stories. The show gets re-written while it is in progress, while it is airing, the writers are still cutting and pasting and doing god knows what.

Number two: Chris Farley was a saint. So was Downey, and in his own way Sandler too, but Farley was a comedic and also a personal saint. I’m not sure why the guy liked me, but he did. I can’t tell you how much that guy was an inspiration: my one regret is we worked together on his hilarious Charles Laughton impersonation, but then somehow we couldn’t get it to air.

The biggest borrower in this country is the federal government so it is pursuing a high inflation policy to benefit itself.

It might not have mattered before, when the debt was small. But with $36 trillion (and going up), even at 4%, interest is $1.5 trillion, larger than DoD budget. That is why I think the government is trying to tap on the brakes to reduce growth and bring down long bond interest rates. If the long bond can somehow be pushed down to 2.5%, the debt spiral may come back to controllable mode.

Broadbrushed attribution (and NAME CALLING) for 600 words, leaving no room to answer my specific question: “Or does Mike Tre endorse those of Jenner Ickham Errican quoted in #197?”

And if you want to find something else I’ve actually said to refute, we can have an adult, unWhimmed conversation about that, too.

MAGA! Trump administration selling access to America for $ 5 million.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/03/26/at-5-million-each-1000-gold-card-visas-have-been-sold-could-this-pay-off-the-us-debt/

In related grifting news, I saw an ad the other night on FOX – Donald Trump hawking his “God Bless the USA Bible”. Imagine that – a sitting President appearing in a television commercial hawking his own branded bible (a book he’s probably never cracked since he was in Sunday School). I’m sure the fawning sycophants at FOX “News” will be all for it.

I bring up Marjorie Taylor Greene* a lot. She’s MAGA and she’s got the kind of spirit we could use in a couple of hundred more Congressmen and Senators. She might be considered a bit low-brow, so would Mr. Sailer not like her?

I completely agree that this is war, we need people with fighting spirit. These assholes are trying to destroy the greatest civilization in history–which happens to be my civilization–with their toxic minoritarian garbage and immigration lunacy. We need to fight.

I’m 100% on board with trying Mayorkas and Biden for treason. Heck, I’d be more than happy to pull the trap door or fire the rifle or boil the oil myself.

But … we still want better than dingbattery from our leaders. MTG would be a fine–at home baking cookies for her kids and posting on Facebook. But she lacks brains and rational judgement and should not be a “leader” in our movement, just cause she’s got spirit.

Give me a nationalist leader like George Washington. He had a comfortable life, but was actually out there–putting his life on the line–fighting for our independence from the imperialist running dogs. A ton of fighting spirit. But not a bozo, but a level-headed clear thinking man.

More broadly nationalists, conservatives can not win “led” by a bunch of “look at me!” girls. Defending the community, the nation is inherently the job of the responsible men of the nation. If we do not do it–do not have strong, intelligent, level-headed leaders step up to lead–the nation will fail. We know who the enemies of America, of nations, of the West are–they are literally people who can’t shut up, and yap “must have immigration” and sing the praises of globo-homo incessantly. Responsible men must rise up, organize and crush them.

Thanks. Here is a Marginal Revolution discussion.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/02/what-is-the-dollar-value-of-u-s-citizenship.html

Notable for having many comments from iSteve including a link to what may be (?) your VDare article (written by iSteve). Here is an archive version.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240822125911/http://www.vdare.com/articles/birthright-citizenship-anarcho-tyranny-and-beverly-hills-nativism

I could have clicked “Agree” too.

I used to like reading Surowiecki’s “Financial Page” at the New Yorker because he had a layman’s knack for explaining economic or economic-adjacent phenomena, even if his knack wasn’t always successfully executed, and his Page increasingly became merely a venue for his limousine liberal politics.

What’s notable about his deboonking of the Trump tariffs is that while decrying simplicity in the tariffs as if simple and comprehensible tariffs were bad, his supposed exposé via simplification seems to create as much new murk as new light, so he’s simultaneously condemning simple tariffs as bad while his own implicitly good simplification reduction is not actually so simple. Simplicity: bad when Trump does it but good when Surowiecki does, but then he doesn’t actually do it very well.

This is kind of that same thing that happened with his Financial Page at the New Yorker. After some initial achievements, he fell into ‘simplicity sophistry’, while surreptitiously side-loading his fashionable politics into a contrived debate. Apparently even the New Yorker got tired of this because they discontinued his Page.

The New American magazine puts out a yearly rating of Congressional representatives according to how closely their votes adhere to the Constitution. Last year Ilhan Omar got 19 out a hundred while Thomas Massie got 99 out of a hundred.

Thanks. They make both the Freedom Index (starting 2017) and the Congressional Scorecard (starting 2001) available here.
https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/

With 20% effective tariff on all imports, we will see nearly that much jump in prices almost immediately.

It depends; but in general, the increase won’t necessarily match the tariff. For example, I drink a lot of imported wine.

But at least half the price (if not more) goes to distributors here in the US. For example, a decent but not great bottle of Argentine plonk might sell for $10.00 here. In Argentina, it sells for $2.00. Really.

So, to oversimplify, that 20% tariff would add $0.40 to cost of the bottle, not $2.00. Say $0.80. After all, the wine won’t still be $2.00 pier side in the US, even if it’s not yet $10.00. And if it’s more, I can certainly turn to Western US wine, which will force the importers to limit any increase as much as possible.

Obviously, cars and such would be a different matter; but I can buy a Mazda instead of that Toyota I’ve been thinking of — and in any case, I suspect our trading partners are going to come to terms with remarkable speed. Trump has merely turned the terms from ‘please let our goods in,’ to ‘what would be fair? Let’s decide.’

Figure a 5% increase, overall, in the end. Well, that’s okay. We’ll all be making more money as wages rise here in the US.

You, Colin Wright, and Buzz feel Palestinians (specifically and more so than other groups) possess fundamental or Constitutional rights…

Wrong with regard to me. Flat out wrong!

I never have said, and I never would say, that anyone has rights “specifically and more so than other groups”!

I don’t give a good God damn about Palestinians, and I don’t like you putting words into my fucking mouth!

My concern is about selective application of government powers on a limited number of people — ONLY AND SPECIFICALLY as service to one foreign country which happens to be Israel.

It is Israel that is being given preferential treatment “specifically and more so” than other groups!

GET IT RIGHT.

You and the others are lost in your specific glee at seeing a handful of foreigners deported, while you don’t seem to give a flying fuck about how or why it is happening and the extreme government strong-arm tactics on what is essentially just speech. What is happening is extreme and uncalled for and sets a dangerous precedent with regard to American freedoms — YOUR freedoms and mine.

Now I think I really am in a room full of the “lowbrow” MAGA retards they say Steve Sailer hates. Well, count me in with Steve then. Retards suck.

If Trump wanted to deport illegals he could send a couple of vans up and down the boulevard in Atlantic City. I’d bet the majority of people working at the lower end of the service industry are not here legally. But he’s fine driving down wages.

>Here is a Marginal Revolution discussion.
Corvinus would gape that discussion board in a debate
Trump set the price at $5,000,000 fairly recently

If all he’s writing right now is bad stuff about Trump and Vance, nah, he doesn’t sound too bright.

We’ve got an opportunity right now to fix some things, and these guys, flaws and all, are on our side. If it all goes back to the ctrl-left and Globalists without MAGA getting some real power, we’re as fooked as the UK and EU countries.

What is happening is extreme and uncalled for and is dangerous precedent with regard to American freedoms — YOUR freedom and mine.

Bullcrap. They’re not Americans.

You all are right that this whole thing is a Jewish controlled operation. They ARE picking specifically on Palestinians. Were there protests against Russia by Ukrainian students (are there any?), would they be singled out and sent home?*

I think most of us here understand that. However, the precedent that foreigners that cause trouble in America CAN be sent right on home is a good one. Honestly, all this free speech worry talk, with tons of it on this website, worries me for an entirely different reason. From here on, any foreigner who is here legally at least, no matter how much harm for the country it is that they are here, will claim all sorts of rights and judges will bar deportations.

Ron Unz & Co. don’t have too much concern about the Population Replacement Programme, which I know, this business is but an drop in a 55 G barrel. OTOH, he doesn’t interfere with what the writers are up to.

I don’t really think Trump should have started this – there are millions of other scams and purely illegal ways that people are here that deserve more attention. However, don’t get suckered, yourself, into defending people who really shouldn’t be here. They are not “adding value” to America.

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* BTW, I don’t agree with the holding of these people. Once visas are revoked, it’s fair for ICE, CPB, or whomever to come get them and deport them (along with millions of other LEGALLY arrived people who really ought not to be here).

“Give me a nationalist leader like George Washington.”

I agree. The first five presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were all great men and we were lucky we started off that way.

All the presidents after that were at least decent until you got up to Wilson. The beginning of the 20th century saw the rise of the Progressive movement. Starting with Wilson, the Democrat party became the political vehicle for the Progressive movement. The 1924 election was the lone exception when the old fashioned Jeffersonian Democrat John W. Davis was picked by his party to run against Calvin Coolidge. Imagine that, having two choices for president and they are both good.

‘The New American magazine puts out a yearly rating of Congressional representatives according to how closely their votes adhere to the Constitution. Last year Ilhan Omar got 19 out a hundred…’

I’m certainly not picking Ilhan Omar as a hill to die on. Israel aside, I doubt if I agree with her about much of anything. I merely see the accusations against her as unsubstantiated and motivated not by outrage at the the thought that a future congressmen might have lied once, but by an inability to defeat someone at the polls who is critical of Israel.

If they did manage to remove her from Congress, it would be a triumph for the Israel Lobby, not for the rule of the law. So I hope she stays. Someday, when Israel no longer exists, we can revisit the issue.

my one regret is we worked together on his hilarious Charles Laughton impersonation, but then somehow we couldn’t get it to air.

Ach, I would have paid to see that.

Trump set the price at $5,000,000 fairly recently

Obvs the value depends on whether you are buying or selling.

there won’t even be any way to check what’s real and what’s not.

I’m not so sure, at least in the realm of law. One of the things that distinguishes Law from, say, News, is that the Law has its own curated corpus of official documents, including precedent caselaw, which is after all, likely how the court determined the brief’s AI cases were fake.

In fact, if AI ever gets its reliability coefficients up, it may become much faster and easier to vet case law citations for accuracy and relevance by using it.

Luddite law clerks need not fear for their jobs yet, though. AI is still pretty sucky.

Well I hope you Trump supporters are proud of yourselves for backing a felon, former Hillary fundraiser and of course a WWE guest start.

That really sounds like someone who paid attention in Econ 101 if he even went.

This is the guy that you thought could start multiple trade wars and that it would *somehow* work out of the US economy.

China just passed a 34% tariff on all US imports.

Well that was fun.

If you still have a trump sticker on your car this is probably a good time to remove it.

No need to waste gas driving up and down anywhere. A beautiful rose garden EO mandating E-Verify will do the trick. That is one thing no one wants to utter. It is the emperor’s new clothes.

However, don’t get suckered, yourself, into defending people who really shouldn’t be here.

Again, flat out wrong!

I am not defending those people. I am defending our sovereignty and our limits on government. I am defending the essence of what we are. This operation is being carried out to please Israel, and that is one of the things that is wrong with it.

My words are not what you flippantly now call “free speech worry talk.” There are continuing moves to further limit OUR freedom to criticize Israel and things that Jewish people do. Israel and Jews are being elevated to special legal status — much as Blacks! and most non-whites and non-males have been. You and the MAGA retards on this site should at least understand that.

Whatever other issues you just inserted in your comment, say “Ron Unz & Co. don’t have too much concern about the Population Replacement Programme,” or “… any foreigner who is here legally at least, no matter how much harm for the country it is that they are here, will claim all sorts of rights and judges will bar deportations,” are deflections from the important issue, which is: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. You and the MAGA retards don’t know what you really are condoning.

Agreed up through (and past) here:

But … we still want better than dingbattery from our leaders. MTG would be a fine–at home baking cookies for her kids and posting on Facebook. But she lacks brains and rational judgement and should not be a “leader” in our movement, just cause she’s got spirit.

I agree with you on all the look-at-me women, as you say. As a matter of fact, the prettier they are, the less trust I have in them. (That’s too bad, because it’s not necessarily warranted). Yes, the Pam Bondies, that Luna lady and others that Gateway Pundit keeps in the limelight, Nancy Mace (not sure if she’s hot anyway) in SC, Nikki Haley (though politically rotten anyway) all of them, are suspect from the get-go. Do they value principles over being seen and liked (and LIKED) by millions? No. They can’t help it, but no.

Biig HOWEVER here, A.D.: MTG is the real deal. She’s in her late 40s so not hot by definition. You really should watch a video of her calling out the UniParty as all the Congressrats around her were voting for Ukraine money. I can’t find the interview right now by Tucker in which she explains very truthfully how all this works – the phone calls offering every-2-year campaign money in return for votes, etc. She surely ain’t no blonde bimbo.

That said, I don’t want her as President. We need hundreds of Reps and Senators with her politics and spirit, though.

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BTW, when I was looking for that Tucker clip on my own site, I did get to a post – MTG v AOC, Afterword: Women in politics – that goes right along with what you wrote. It’s a short post – I think you’ll like it.

Oh man, you missed a treat with that one: Phil Hartman in his best straight-man voice, calmly reading the bad reviews from the New York Times of Farley’s ludicrous performance of “Dog Boy,” and then Farley’s outraged responses to his critics. It doesn’t really get much funnier than that.

Well, we live in a fallen world, don’t we.

Well, there were a lot of Presidents in there during the 1800s, after the generations of the Founders, so I could see some argument about a few of them.

However, your mention of a more intelligent and civil ’24 Presidential election brought me back to that post of mine. Yes, 2 good choices hasn’t been seen since – I wanted to note that there was the 3rd choice, one Robert La Follette out of Wisconsin (of which he won the 13 electoral votes). He was a proto-Commie. From that post:

La Follette was pretty strong as 3rd party candidates go, getting more electoral votes – that support from his Wisconsin home*** – than Ross Perot did in 1992 – he got none. However, Mr. Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote as opposed to La Follette’s 16.6%. The eminently reasonable John Davis got the lowest percentage of popular votes by any D candidate in history. The South went solid for Davis (did they think we was kin to Jeff Davis?), and New York City went for Coolidge. It was a different New York City… you understand…

Just look and read about these guys, even the proto-Commie guy there. They were intelligent men. Principles of governance were being discussed, rather than, by necessity now, how quickly America is to be destroyed. None of the 3 of them had dementia or were bombastic egotistical bullshitters. What a country! What a difference a century makes!

Try looking up data instead of depending on outdated memes.

First bing brings up 2020 SAT data:
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-percentile-ranks-gender-race-ethnicity.pdf

Girls do not catch/outpoint boys in
verbal
— catch at top (though boys ahead 95-94 %tile at 650ish)
— pass until 550–57-58 %tile

overall
— catch and pass 900, 24-25 %tile

math
— catch 350, 5th %tile
— pass never

And this is after the College Board dumbed down the test in 2005. Made it less IQy, eliminating verbal analogies and turning the math section from problem solving to “did you learn HS algebra” in order to be “fairer” to women and minorities.

Furthermore–as I’ve pointed out a few times–girls are basically mature–young women–when they take the SAT at 16-17, the boys are still … boys, with a few years of brain development yet to go to become men. I got a good roll of the genetic dice and did well–99%tile–on both sections of the SAT, but I was still a few years from being full developed mentally. I’d say I was not into my full adult mental power until around 20 doing my undergrad mathematical physics and from their own out it was mostly learning more stuff and getting wiser about the world but the baseline mental capability was pretty steady–until the slow old age decline of the last 10 or 15.

Men are–on average–smarter than women. And particular so in anything mathematical or spatial–thingy. Precisely the mental capability that correlates with productive endeavor.

The educational disaster due to
— male nature–girls have always been more compliant and willing to do the “sit still and behave” thing–
— the extreme feminization and enstupification of schools and universities
— career prospects and “what’s the point”
with more and more stuff feminized, lots of b.s. jobs created for the girls with BAs–government, etc. but even in nominal engineering and industrial companies–and the most male (engineering and science) career tracks the most subject to H-1B immigration attack; and the demotivating, declining quality/attractiveness/marriageability of young women and ability to achieve, or even see a clear path to “marriage and family” success

But the fact remains. Men do basically at the critical work our civilization actual depends upon–farming, energy production, power, engineering, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, invention. So this whole “you go grrl!” thing is a path to nowhere, even if the fertility disaster wasn’t a glaring logical rebuke.

If the far right and the far left suddenly find themselves in total agreement over something like “free speech for illegal aliens” or “moral high ground” or other BS concepts, chances are that they are BOTH using these concepts not as a shield but as a sword to go after some mutual enemy, which in this case is Israel and the Joos. Otherwise what are the chances that they would agree about ANYTHING?

One needs to keep up with the latest data. females have higher, on average, SAT/ACT scores than males (the bottom end is just as important as the top end). Girls have higher verbal scores. There is a small and closing gap on the SAT math portion at the very highest end.

Disagree with “the bottom end is just as important as the top end.” I am assuming you meant something more like “the rest of the range is just as important as the top end.” That is more arguably true (and the reason I gave my caveat). Nonetheless, when it comes to the best work, the top end does matter very much.

One problem with having conversations like this now is the 1995 SAT recentering seriously compromised the SAT as a vehicle for looking at the top end. Two workarounds are looking at pre-1995 data and looking at the age 13 SAT data from the SMPY.

This paper is the best reference I know of for pre-1995 SAT sex differences. Starting on page 14. In particular, see Table 1.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/j.2333-8504.2002.tb01871.x

There for verbal we see a male advantage of 10 points for average and median scores. Also a 4 point larger SD.
For math we see for males 50 points higher mean, 43 point higher median, and 10 point higher SD.

Do you know of any comparable references for the current SAT?

Regarding the SMPY there is a relevant discussion here:
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/tilting-at-sex-differences

In particular, note that reducing the discussion to M and V ignores the area with the largest sex difference: spatial ability.

More on sex differences here. Looking at IQ tests. Most notable to me is the discussion of different age trajectories.
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/sex-differences-again/

Lastly, to look at the real top end for math let’s try something like the IMO.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/gender-gaps-at-the-math-olympiad-where-are-the-girls/2015/07

Here are the 2024 IMO teams sorted by # females per country team.
https://www.imo-official.org/results_year.aspx?column=females&order=desc

The performance gap is even larger than the participation gap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad#Gender_gap_and_the_launch_of_European_Girls’_Mathematical_Olympiad

Unfortunately the IMO hall of fame page appears to be broken right now. That seems the best place to get sex based results.
https://www.imo-official.org/hall.aspx

Some data showing top end math sex differences at age 5.
https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/gender-differences-in-extreme-mathematical-ability

This is not ability based, but provides an interesting look at sex differences in preferences, choices, and outcomes in the SMPY.
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/11/gender-differences-in-preferences.html

Compare that to boys being held back much more than girls, falling way behind in middle class, dropping out of high school much more often than girls, that the top 10% of a high school class is usually more than 70% female, that 75% of valedictorians are female. Females are much more likely to go to college, much more likely to complete college, much more likely to attend graduate school. Remember, law school, medical school, dental school, pharmacy school are all majority female. And the MBA programs are majority female with many of the top programs still being around 50% male.

In your litany of female superiority, which are not well explained by what I called “feminization of schooling”? In particular (IMO).
– Being held back, falling behind, and dropping out are all symptoms of disengagement. Well explained by an environment I think suits girls better than boys.
– Top 10% and valedictorian are both grades based metrics. Grades typically have a significant subjective component.
– Presence in education beyond HS is more a matter of desire than ability these days. And many men have realized non-college (or non-postgrad) careers are better than the MORE education alternatives.

I would also add your litany itself provides excellent evidence for “feminization of schooling.” (i.e. MORE females) Can you imagine the cries of “sexism” and “misogyny” if those ratios were reversed? Well, we don’t have to imagine it. We lived through it.

Try looking up data instead of depending on outdated memes.

If you are going to be like that at least give LINKS to your data.

P.S. Is anyone else here amused by me being called out for not looking up data? Hopefully the references above are sufficient response to THAT. If not, follow that first James Thompson link and search for my comments there.

CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Interest Rate for 10 Year Treasury (^TNX) is already 3.949

That is what matters. Every 0.1% drop shaves 36 billion from interest payments from federal budget.

Trump is pushing hard:

President Donald Trump says Fed Chair Powell should cut interest rates and ‘stop playing politics’

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-jerome-powell.html

Trade war is just a ruse. The real goal is lower rate.

I wonder if those visas include the tax obligations of being a US citizen? If so, seems like an ingenious double dip to me.

If Gulag for expressing disagreeable opinions is what is needed to stem the tide of disapproval, may be those advocating for that have to look into the mirror a little harder. If anything, those disagreeable opinions get more sunshine and disapproval may increase. That is not a winning strategy.

Trade war is just a ruse. The real goal is lower rate.

LOL some pretty creative damage control. Funny I don’t remember Trump saying that the real goal is a lower rate at any time. I do remember him saying Canada should have tariffs over Fentanyl even though his own government admitted that the vast majority comes from Mexico.

Having a lower rate isn’t going to matter if you cut economic growth.

Wells Fargo cut its US 2025 gross domestic product growth target to 1% from the 2.5% previously forecast on account of a weak start to the year and the aggressive tariff increases.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-04-04/us-jobs-report-for-march-and-market-reaction-to-powell-speech?srnd=homepage-americas

So cutting interest while having to borrow more to make up lost revenue.

What a difference a day makes.

Hopefully more Republicans will get a clue and realize that allowing reality TV star to start multiple trade wars isn’t such a good idea.

Howard University is 67% black and and is 72% female. It also has a six year graduation rate of less than 60% for male students.

https://collegeresults.org/?a_ipeds=131520

“chances are that they are BOTH using these concepts not as a shield but as a sword to go after some mutual enemy, which in this case is Israel and the Joos.”

Ah go on, now git along with ye, you despicable blood-spattered Nose.

Shouldn’t you be busy butchering Arab babies?

As if the “JOOOOOOOOOOS” had any sort of political enemies here in bought-and-paid-for J ZUSA. Keep dreaming, Joo.

Would it be in an archive (proprietary to SNL) somewhere? Any chance of something like that which never aired surfacing?

From https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-sat-score-full-statistics/

Average SAT Score by Gender
Men have consistently outscored women in the SAT since 2017. However, women have scored higher on the ERW section every year. Men scored higher on the math section.

In 2024, men scored higher than women in total score by 11 points.
Men score roughly 20 points higher than women in the math section each year. Women continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields, such as engineering and computer science.
The scores of people who reported their gender as “Another/No Response” have significantly increased over time. In 2022, they were the highest scoring group by gender for the first time and were again in 2023 and 2024.

And it is amazing that you consider healthcare and education as not a core part of civilization.

All the SAT did was recenter the score since the SAT test is mean to show where a student stands for everyone else. The SAT does not care about helping MIT or Cal Tech of determining who they should admit since both schools are so tiny compared to public universities.

Claiming that men are smarter because they dominated at the top 1% level while that gap is shrinking but ignoring that men are much more likely to have the lowest scores never makes any sense. The SAT is much more important to determining who gets to major in engineering at UMich, UT-Austin, Georgia Tech than who fills the 12oo freshmen in MITs freshman class.

Yes, if they are U.S. residents. If they remain non-residents and use the Trump card for easy entry and residence/business, then no. That being said, the demand for those Trump cards will likely be in single digits (or even zero).

Interestingly, the Trump card has a picture of Trump and calls itself Trump card. ‘United States of America’ is mentioned at the top in small types, more as an afterthought. Altogether, it has the appearance of a high roller casino card from one the Las Vegas resorts.

https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1907601684978618426

LOL I am not obligated to answer any stupid questions you decide to dream up in order to help shape your false premises.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder if these foreigners understand the serious downsides to US citizenship.

I looked at the Forbes article more closely.

While Gold Card holders will have the right to apply for citizenship, the program’s design appears to cater to individuals who might not fully integrate into American society. Mr. Lutnick has acknowledged that most buyers will likely avoid it to sidestep U.S. taxation, creating a scenario where wealthy individuals can enjoy the benefits of U.S. residency without fully participating in its civic responsibilities.

Regarding demand.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the sale of 1,000 Gold Cards this week, raising $5 billion in a single day.

P.S. I suspect the demographics of the buyers would be interesting.

“Wrong with regard to me. Flat out wrong!

I never have said, and I never would say, that anyone has rights “specifically and more so than other groups”!

I don’t give a good God damn about Palestinians, and I don’t like you putting words into my fucking mouth!”

If you say so, Buzz. The implications are all over your words.

“It is Israel that is being given preferential treatment “specifically and more so” than other groups!”

OMFG, no shit, Sherlock. No one has denied this.

“My concern is about selective application of government powers on a limited number of people — ONLY AND SPECIFICALLY as service to one foreign country which happens to be Israel.”

You’re naive to think this only applies to Israel. Before 10/7/23, you don’t think there is a whole pecking order in regards to what people from what countries get to move to the head of the line of get a lot more leeway when it comes to their actions in the states?

“It is Israel that is being given preferential treatment “specifically and more so” than other groups!

GET IT RIGHT.”

I am right. White Americans first, Buzz. All foreign invaders out. It’s pretty simple.

“You and the others are lost in your specific glee at seeing a handful of foreigners deported, ”

Putting words in mouths, Buzz? Not having any sympathy for an obvious trolling agitating POS who gets deported isn’t the same as glee.

“while you don’t seem to give a flying fuck about how or why it is happening and the extreme government strong-arm tactics on what is essentially just speech.”

More words in mouths, Buzz. YOU don’t give a flying fuck that he never should have been hear to begin with. Are you too old and weak to swim any further upstream than “muh free speech?” Here’s some news for you: Untold 1,000’s of white men have lost their jobs or worse for exercising their supposed right to free speech. Why don’t you play for your own team?

” What is happening is extreme and uncalled for and sets a dangerous precedent with regard to American freedoms — YOUR freedoms and mine.”

See my previous comment.

“Now I think I really am in a room full of the “lowbrow” MAGA retards they say Steve Sailer hates. Well, count me in with Steve then. Retards suck. ”

Hey Doctor, heal thyself.

• Thanks and
• Agree
and
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cnn-hears-about-ferguson-and-floyd-effects-for-first-tie/#comment-6819597

a book by Alfred Eckes (Opening America’s Market) on the history of tariffs in America

I’ve today put up the Alfred Eckes chapter on the Smoot-Hawley controversy, in easy-accessible form. Even the laziest, lowest-initiative people can read it, if hand-delivered to them like this:

“Alfred Eckes’ study on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 and its long-lasting civic mythology”

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/alfred-eckes-study-on-the-smoot-hawley-tariff-of-1930-and-its-long-lasting-civic-mythology/