Klinsmann has been consulting with the Chamber of Commerce apparently to solve his own labour shortage.

PS Doesn’t this overlook the fact that most of the greats of the game have been European?

I’d love to buy what you’re selling here, it has such a visceral appeal, scratches me right where my class hatred itches, but I can’t. The fact is that all the things that DSK was pushing for in his “swansong” aren’t revolutionary or a threat to the system, they are the system. EVERY one of the reforms suggested is already a major part of all Economies of the West, so how would they have been subversive to the ruling classes?

Like it or not, we need to live within our means, there is just no getting around it. Take Britain, all of their income tax taken goes into paying for their welfare system, there is already a MASSIVE amount of wealth distribution aimed from the productive to the unproductive sectors of our economies, if you really look at how much there is it’s enough to make a Marxist blush. It doesn’t create industrious a self reliant and industrious citizenry though, does it?

Isn’t the raise in interest rate logical? Tighten the money supply, increase the value?

Regarding the RCB, I understood that it was required to invest half of its profits into the treasury, can anyone with more knowledge on the subject confirm or deny this?

Finally, given what the West has cynically done in regards to oil price, couldn’t Russia begin to hint (and tentatively act) that they are heading towards a Gold future. Play the West at their own game. If enough hints were given and enough tentative moves in that direction were acted upon, maybe the West would take the bait and flood the gold market, leaving Russia free to gobble up more precious metal on the cheap.

Great article, very informative.

Let’s talk turkey, we all know that these Think Tanks are funded by companies that have a vested interest in permanent conflict. That’s a given and will never change.

We need money and our own think tanks because our ideas are popular when they are disseminated on mass.

So we need to ask ourselves the very cynical question: Who benefits from peace?

We need to find the people who do, approach them and ask them to fund our NGO’s and think tanks because it will benefit them financially.

Does anyone have any ideas on where to start on figuring out who benefits from peace (besides the whole world collectively, of course)?

As the atheists like to – somewhat smugly – say of their faith “It’s not a belief but a lack of one” I think we should say of capitalism the next time some buffoon criticizes it: capitalism is simply the lack of belief in the ability of central planning of an economy.

Nothing more. Not an assertion but a lack of faith in the collectivist God the other side prays to?

It will be interesting to see how they treat the ethnicity in the film. I get the feeling that there is a growing confidence among the new generation coming up in Hollywood – Judd Apatow and his troupe come to mind – when it comes to speaking plainly about their Jewishness.

Scorsese did a weird thing with WofWS in diminishing the Jewishness of Belfort while – to the point of caricature – exaggerating it in Hill’s character. That feels like his old Hollywood instincts kicking in to me.

It’s always interesting to note the way they treat it though, sometimes it can be just outright hilarious. The lead character in ‘Lord of War’ – though not based on a man I could identify as Jewish in real life – was turned into a crypto-Catholic Jewish convert. Is reverse Marrano a thing? Maybe some did do that to escape the Soviet Union but initially it just seemed a bizarre choice and extremely funny.

There’s a show called Happyish starring the exceptional Brit Steve Coogan as a melancholic ad-executive. Maybe ‘alienated’ is the better word. It’s written by a strongly identified Jewish man named Auslander (I think that’s his name!) and the wife is a ‘yenta’ complete with an overbearing and Shaoh-kvetching addicted mother but they, again, have followed that old Hollywood instinct to cast WASP but write him as Jewish.

Makes for frustrating watching because the outlook of Coogan’s character is very typically Jewish. Not that Coogan doesn’t share some of those traits and isn’t a very competent actor, but the effect is still jarring.

I think it’s time to just forget about the veneer. We know!!! It’s alright, you feel alienated and worry that if you just make it explicitly about you we might pogrom you or something but……

As our progressive friends are always saying, it’s 2015 for pity sake.

Yes, exactly! It’s this strange – well, perhaps not so strange once you think about it – double standard. I’ve also read about him talking about his ethnic resentment being a driving force in his career.

I might as well float an idea regarding white collar crime I’ve been nursing for a while. Surely the threat of execution would have a massive deterring affect on those particular crimes? Sure, at the other end of the socio-economic scale the crimes are committed out of impulse and driven by desperation. BUT for criminals like Belfort – who commit their crimes with much deliberation – surely the idea of the hang mans noose and not a book deal and a Hollywood movie deal could act as a deterrent?

I love that! Maybe he could hit a hole-in-one as the snooty WASP looked on infuriated by his brash swagger and natural talent. The WASP would have to cheat to win – corrupt lot don’t you know – and the rest writes itself.

You’re right but no matter what he looks like I’ve read that ethnic resentment was a contributing factor in his shenanigans. Although – truth be told – he looks pretty Jewish to me.

Yeah but from reading about Shalom Auslander and his other work it becomes clear – for me – that Coogan’s character is largely his alter ego.

Why does it have to be a ‘conspiracy’? Can’t it just be that there is perhaps a heightened sensitivity when it comes to dealing with ‘the Jew thing’ in Hollywood that seems – when compared with say Italians – to be enlarged?

I enjoyed it – The Revenant – but ‘the narrative’ throughout the thing was just a little too jarring for me and I couldn’t enjoy the story. Also, ultra-violence can be very hard to stomach.

Should have saved myself 20 bucks and just pirated Jeremiah Johnson.

There’s also a tacit admission that millions of Muslims are actually a threat to the European project in there.

Funny, I thought that’s what evil racists think?

This really fascinates me. Thanks, Jayman.

Speaking of obligate homosexuality in humans I realize that in the animal kingdom there is a wide range of same sex behaviour that has been observed but I’m wondering if the author or anyone else knows how prevalent or not it is in the animal kingdom to eschew mating like many human homosexuals do?

How about the Conservative Joint Emergency Wing?

🙂

This incident is just another reminder that the Majority American Population is under threat of violence if it dares to speak its mind in the public square and Rubio is happy with that situation. Hell, maybe its part of the Conservative platform these days.

Thanks for your support, Marco.

Slightly OT but Trump needs his own version of the Apollo program.

A Mars Mission proposal could be the key to really getting those extra Whites off the couch and into the booth come November.

What better way to ramp up the nostalgia than to hearken back to the days when America had the footsteps of All-American, fresh off the farm heroes touching the soil of our closest celestial neighbour?

Make America Great again by going to Mars.

#MakeMarsGreatAgain

Still think a major space exploration project could catapult White support of Trump past the 60 percent mark and be a spur for high tech industry. Revivify the high point of American nostalgia and engineering/exploratory brilliance.

A Mars Mission is the final piece of the puzzle.

Poor Ted with his 1200 horse power brain chewing on idioms for days like a dog chewing on a bone. Some of the Zodiac letters contain similarly idiosyncratic and odd uses of language.

Sla

Oh great, now we’re going to export the White Patriarchy to other solar systems.

– SJW

Not for nothing did the Communist slave societies place kids in control of their parents.

Say what?

Of course the – self appointed – Philosopher Kings would harness the true believers in the ‘Noble Lie’ from the attack dog caste. They’ve read Plato and go to symposiums. Duh!!! 🙂

I always put it down to limits on number of people outside of the EEC being allowed to train at European clubs. Russian kids couldn’t get the best development at the elite European clubs, so they didn’t get to fulfill their true potential.

Messi wouldn’t be Messi if he had stayed at Newell’s I don’t think. Maybe Javier Saviola, but not Messi.

http://faculty.csbsju.edu/uspp/crimpsych/cpsg-4.htm

More from the anti-racist mass murderer file:

He [Dahmer] also wanted to set the record straight that he was not a racist. He says that the reason for the majority of his victims being a minority was simple location. Where he lived there was high concentration of Black and Hispanic people. He stresses that is was a simple location thing, and that he hopes “I hope that can get cleared up.”

History is a collection of myths, dictated by who holds power in each age.

So I presume you’re a Holocaust denier?

GK’s interpretation of Trump’s rise sounds like a good basis for the script of Caddyshack 3.

Is Brooks Jr discussing Spinoza with his Palestinian cousins during his time with the IDF?

Surely if Pandaemonium has a concert hall this is pretty close to how it looks.

The Caddyshack reference is appropriate. Donald Trump’s campaign can be compared to Dangerfield’s entrance into the WASP’s last cultural space. Reverse the ethnicity, obviously. 🙂

@eggheadshadhisnumber

God, I wish I could have been there, seeing two dozen fists and boot-tips bouncing the stupid bastard all over the pavement while he mewled for help. A salient moment in history, unrecorded.

You need a faith that contains redemption and forgiveness. You’re spiritually sick. Try Sobran’s religion, it can help someone like you.

Interesting as usual but why include the picture of Jay Leno?

Making it about race plays into the hands of the .01%.

I don’t agree. It seems that, when it comes to race, there is one form of ethnocentrism that truly upsets the elite and that is European ethnic or racial unity which I think if nurtured by a responsible , racially conscious White elite could be a powerful counterbalance to the rootless Internationalist ambitions of the class you describe.

NW Europeans seem to have a nearly unique gift for ordered liberty. We need to be preserved.

You are aware that the European affinity for liberty is exactly why leftism has been allowed to grow and cause all its problems?

I am!

But, like with many human traits, this quality of NW Europeans is the cause of many things. I’m convinced that, among other consequences, it’s a powerful driving force in our excellence when it comes to scientific discovery. It’s also an inborn trait so it’s not going anywhere.

Guided by the kind of elite — namely a responsible and racially conscious one — I prescribe for our future I’ve no doubt that its benefits could be harnessed and its deficits, like the ones you have pointed out, could be tempered.

Recently the football team I support in Australia signed an identical twin whose brother we had, many years earlier, also pursued.

Whenever I see implicit confirmation of HBD truth that goes unnoticed by others I think of Sailer and smile.

You left out twins who span the sport and entertainment worlds.

Christian and Gareth Bale are clearly at least fraternal twins. For some reason they deny it. 🙂

I would and I’d say that The Talented Mr Ripley is also a great example of the genre. I love when actors get meta.

Yeah, he gets away.

In fact, long before the more recent version with Malkovich as Ripley, there was a really good adaption of the sequel by the German director Wim Wenders called The American Friend.

Worth a watch if you get a chance.

I know that distresses you guys but the only problem people are white Christians

Do you mean the ‘problem’ of them building such great societies that all of the Earth’s garbage just has to try to live with them?

The headline made me laugh because I opened it expecting to read about sports betting in the NFL — “to punt”, here in the antipodes, meaning to place a bet.

Divided by a common language, indeed. 🙂

ymous

Since Aussies are big on early 20th century British slang, I’m surprised that that particular usage never transferred.

It actually did and is in common usage to this day.

So you’re saying that Africans just aren’t motivated to do well on these tests and that’s why they score lower? If so why do tests given to even College populations – who, presumably, are motivated to do well on a cognitive test – test similarly low on IQ (Rushton recorded this).

Why if the disparity is merely due to different motivation does the same indifference Africans show towards cognitive testing seem to apply equally to their diligence in building a functional civilization?

Could their lack of motivation be a reflection of a general indolence that could be correlated with intelligence? Isn’t a component of the psychological make-up of driven people a certain anxiety and dissatisfaction with the world?

Also, how does one train a population of a a billion people to ‘give a damn’?

Finally, have you seen the documentary Empire of Dust? I was watching it the other day and it struck me that this lack of interest applies to things much broader than just cognitive testing. We’re dealing with something much deeper.

No don’t you get it, Phil? Those numbers are just constructs by Europeans to show their superiority using THEIR number system, hence it’s clearly biased!

This has to be one of the most insane things I’ve ever read. So you’re saying that despite the masses of evidence from the psychometric field and the complete dearth of cognitive/civilizational achievements today and historically for sub-Saharan Africans and the apparent low-IQ as measured by IQ tests is now meaningless to you because…….. scrabble?

I’ll admit this article fascinated me and, like someone else already stated, I think it demands a good hereditarian explanation but to suddenly throw out years of data and the simple reality of the world around you because of one anomalous fact is madness.

utu,

I have a feeling like if I am talking to a wall.

(1) My “g” values are irrevelant to a question of whether “g” is a valid concept or not. To get “g” values I would have to pay to be tested, and I do not care. I can estimate my “g” using free tests online, but they are of limited value – I presume my values are in range 125-140, but that does not mean “g” are this inprecise, only that the online tests are imprecise because to get precise results I would have to get oficial tests under control of trained testers, and I do not care – especially since those tests are quite expensive.

Once again, the value of my height is irrevelant to the question whether height is a real concept.
In a discussion whether Poles are on average taller from Chinese, would you keep asking questions what my height is? If I would say that my height is between 180cm and 181cm, and I can’t give you exact value in mm (and for valid reasons: as you know, men’s height fluctuates slightly over a day) – would you now glibly say that at best I have surrogate for height and therefore Poles are not taller than Chinese? And even if my height would be 150cm and lower from average Chinese, would that be really relevant to the question of average differences between Chinese and Poles?

The question of the value of my income is irrevelant to the existence of concept of income. Do you understand this? If yes, why you keep asking the irrevelant questions? Not to mention that asking stranger about personal income is extremely rude and creepy (for the record, i have income much above Polish average).

(2) If you don’t know the basics of “what the “g” values are” then what are you doing here? If you have even basic understanding of “g”, you would know that we standarize “g” values into several different scales (Catell, Stanford, Wechsler…). The fact that those are in part effect of standarization that is, a question of agreement does not mean values do not measure anything.

(3) Let’s say that “g” in fact is a rough estimation, resulting of forcing of several unrelated concepts into one scale. You still have the following:
(a) somehow, those unrelated concept all seem co correlate with the same things
(b) over more than 100 years no one got better concept (with one exception, there is one theory which however is unpopular), and theories designed to prove “g” wrong (Thurons, Gardner’s) all in the end showed “g” exist
(c) you still have “g” correlating with a bunch of outcomes and physical properties of brain.

DO you understand that? The question whether “g” is a “reification” is totally irrevelant, as whatever “g” is, it still correlates with a real things in real world, is a good predictor of personal outcomes, there is no better predictor than “g”, and therefore, “g” is a useful concept.

(4) While you have imprecise and imperfect measures of “g”, they all correlate (meaning, they are within a strict range when measured by professionalists). As I wrote, measurements of blood pressure are not perfect and you can get different values of blood pressure, but still “blood pressure” is a valid and useful concept. Moreover, measured “g” values correlate with outcomes, meaning that more precise measurements of “g” can only increase the correlation.

really, go and read some primer on “g”. Or Jensen’s book.

Let me reiterate the example with personal income, so you would finally understand how absurd your objections are.

Anthropologists from distant star comes to earth and decides to investigate humans. They have no idea about our culture, the concept of money is totally strange to them. They start to investigate males only, they measure how often they buy food – while those aliens have no concept of money, they can notice that quality of food is different, and they measure it in their own imperfect way. After a while, while alien notices that people buying better food, on average – though not always – also have better quality clothes, have larger houses, more often go on vacation and so on. So they postulate that maybe there is some hidden variable and call that “income”.

Now, in reality male expanses are result of his and his wife’s incomes plus the wealth they inherited/amassed; so “income” variable created by alien anthropologist must be imperfect. Moreover, since aliens have no concept of money, they would simply standarize “income” into some ranges in say normal distribution, which would mean that a man X with income “115” has higher “income” than man Z with income “105”, and a man Y with income “125” has higher income by X, but it would not mean the difference between X and Y is the same as between X and Z.

And yet, income does exist (unknown to aliens). The “income” variable would correlate, though imperfectly, with a bunch of other variables. Moreover, after calculating “income”, an alien could (imperfectly) predict outcomes of a given man on a bunch of other variables.

Imagine now that UTU argues that “income” does not exist, because measurements available to anthropologists are imperfect; that “income” is just reification of concept created by aliens; that “eating food” has no relation to “buying clothes”, so postulating “income” variable tying those to variables is absurd; that because “income” does not explain all variation of “eating food” (meaning in “eating food” there is also specific variable involved in addition to “income”) it means “income” is invalid.

All those arguments would be, of course, absurd, as we know that personal income DOES exist and in fact can be perfectly measured – only that alien anthropologists have no idea how. Yet those are exactly the same arguments you are using here.

As a frequent commenter through Disqus I am proud of Trump representing us.

I hope on Tuesday night he can shout “First”

All Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie seem to be good for these days is being invited on Bill Maher’s show to laugh like good little Sambo’s at whatever the left decides is worthy of scorn.

Well you did it, Steve. You effectively changed the course of world history with your internet blog.

Who was the gentleman that asked him this good questions?

I believe it was the admirable Tom Sunic.

Weren’t they revolutionaries from the second they stepped off the boat?

Jews and their defenders never seem to take responsibility for their choices. They’re like women in that way.

From the link:

But the company never planned to move the entire plant, only one of its production lines.

From you:

a hoax

I see — so where in his tweet did Trump explicitly take credit for Ford’s decision? — am I supposed to believe that Ford’s decision not to move jobs to Mexico is 100% unrelated to Trump’s election victory? — apparently you and the WaPo both like to split wordhairs, eg ‘plant’ vs ‘production line’ — their agenda is the same as it ever was: to make themselves look foolish trying to discredit Trump — no idea what yours is — lastly, your definition of “hoax” is unique.

Hey Dan,

The first time I heard the audio I was convinced it was Sunic but have listened a few more times and I think you’re right.

Kudos to whoever it was.

Since a group of right wing Jews has influenced my waking up to how bad the Left is, I can’t understand why the knee jerk anti-Semites can’t take a more nuanced view.

I take your point and I wanted to ask you, in relation to that point, how many of those right-wing Jews are actually pro-White? Or, at the very least, how many of them would support the idea of the historical populations of the West maintaining their ethnic dominance? How many of them would denounce White people practicing the same ethnocentrism and identity politics that the Jews themselves aggressively pursue?

In my experience it’s literally one in a million — Jews that support White identity — although I’m sure you’d find at least a plurality of the anti-semitic set that has no problem with and in fact supports Israel as a Jewish ethno-state.

Which is more nuanced?

In my mind if that’s what the fight boiled down to — it doesn’t, FWIW — then I wouldn’t laugh, I’d cry.

Two groups of minorities skilled at crypsis with historical grudges against the majority?

Sad!

@ Lot

“It was first used as a rough equivalent of paleoconservative, but in the six months it was appropriated, with heavy MSM support, by Spencer and other fringe neo-Nazi types.”

Spencer is not a fringe ‘neo-Nazi’. If he is, then so is Sailer. Stop throwing around epithets designed by the SPLC.

Also, Bannon didn’t use it in the ‘normal way’. That’s absurd. Breitbart basically serves up Neoconservatism/libertarianism. It isn’t alternative in any way. The Alt-Right is a White identity movement. Nothing else.

Young Stalin didn’t have a great haircut he just had a fantastic head of hair.

Remember when George Costanza is trying to get the bald treatment from China and the endorsement of it is “Looka like Stalin!”

More than one in a million. Romney got 30% of the Jewish vote and Trump 20%

Wait, did I miss something or did either of those candidates run pro-White campaigns? Also, the ludicrous thing about your point is both of those candidates were explicitly and almost shamefully pro-Jewish in their stances and you cite this as evidence that the good Jews are on our side? Don’t make me laugh.

If I had to guess I’d say ‘right-wing Jews’ are usually OK with generic white people and terrified of white nationalists.

I agree. They’re utter hypocrites.

The Breitbart crowd actually practices a sort of soft white identity politics.

Soft White — they don’t actually — and hard Jewish. Who, Whom?

Soft-pedaling racial appeals gives you just enough deniability to moderate whites to get elected to major offices.

Would only matter if the people doing the soft-peddling thought like Kevin MacDonald. Not much good for me if the people doing the selling actually think like Netanyahu, is there?

If your theory was true then surely we’d see some sign of intellectual achievement in history before the arrival of the malign influence of ‘Saved By the Bell’, no?

Do we find this?

Maybe. In fact that’s the stated reason the Brits kept it secret for so long. To prevent another ‘Stab in the back’ narrative from developing.

Oh yeah. They would send them to African leaders with the promise that they’d be communicating privately.

Wish Albion was that perfidious today. Theresa May will probably be issuing an official apology soon.

America doesn’t need a new underclass it needs a new elite.

Trust me Bill that isn’t an anti-Semitic remark in any way. 🙂

What changed?

Demographics?

Can anyone credibly claim that a taxonomy grounded in the humoral theory of Antiquity—remember the red blood, black bile, yellow bile, and white phlegm that the ancients believed determined our health and temperaments?—is a useful tool for analyzing genetic diversity at the start of the 21st century?

So abandon any attempt to correct the error because of historical errors/misunderstandings?

Boy the sciences have a lot of culling to do.

For example, Conley and colleagues used polygenic scores to find that genes began to play a greater role in the height and body mass index of Americans over the 20th century, while their significance decreased in educational outcomes and occurrence of heart disease.

Does the last part possibly indicate much more about the trends in education in the 20th century than it says about genes?

Anybody else think of Simon Baron-Cohen when reading that list?

“I strongly suspect that active participation in white nationalist circles is a cover for feelings of personal inferiority.”

I hate pathetic psychologizing — it’s an actual crutch for weak fools. However, by Roosh’s own logic, what exactly does participation in the ‘manosphere’ say about him?

Stones and glass and all.

They’re one step closer to getting that lush Ukrainian lebensraum another German leader once coveted though so it’s not all Ramadan for Germany.

Come off what? I wasn’t having a go at anyone except the people sponsoring illegal coups in Ukraine to bring it into the EU. How on Earth did you get ‘visceral hatred’ from my original comment? Calm down.

I got England, France and Germany as matches but even Iran was a closer match than to my own country Australia. I mean our team is full of mostly Croats by ancestry but something seems off.

“what the heck are you doing?”

Feeling alienated due to the inherent racism in Sweden and responding to the lack of community centers in our neighbourhood, PM. Duh!

Question is: What are you gonna do about it before it happens again? (Maybe happens again of course this isn’t a threat or anything.)

@ Big Bill

Fear not the Swedes are all over that problem and have devised a cunning solution: More migrants!

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=https://www.magasinetparagraf.se/nyheter/kronikor/52513-okad-invandring-kan-stoppa-branderna/&prev=search

“Paul, you are the world’s biggest fruit. What are you?”

“Humbled.”

Genius.

She was channeling her inner Mencken in a way that’s ironic which probably escapes her.

Poor Adelstein. It must be really frustrating trying to push mass immigration when you can’t do the whole crypto thing. Thankfully, for now, the Japanese aren’t falling for it. If Adelstein has a Japanese wife I’m very concerned though.

Camille Paglia is always praising the various Housewives series as being quite pro-female. I’ve never seen them but her contention is that they show women in their arch, social form and they’re honest therefore they’re fundamentally feminist.

They were but then The Balfour Declaration happened and for some reason they changed their tune.

I don’t have any actual data but from a life time of watching Soccer it seems that the best left footers are distributed at the extremes of ability to strike the ball with pace, dip and swerve much like Blacks are when it comes to height.

Players like Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, Chilavert, Messi and many others come to mind. They, among others, are some of the best strikers of the ball I’ve ever seen.

I think on average there is not much of a difference but for whatever reason when you find so many left footers among the elite ball strikers.

Looks very similar to a graph that charts the frequency of reported UFO sightings.

Indeed.

I’ve never found Sasha Baron Cohen very funny and when I realized his ‘comedy’ was just an extended and rather bitter form of ethnic warfare I realized why.

(Caddyshack is basically the same thing but I give it a pass because it is pretty funny.)

Well she may say she’s for the free speech of comedians but she openly supported the sacking of the SNL comedian Shane Gillis a little while ago for saying some rather tame things about Asians on a podcast before he was ever hired for SNL.

As others have pointed out it’s kind of a ‘Free speech for me, but not for White gentiles’ situation.

We call that ‘scoreboard pressure’ here in Australia and obviously it’s a massive factor.

“And while not an official – certainly with great i fluence over the third world – the singer Bob Marley. Used to speak out against the hegemon and drops dead with cancer in his 30’s – first collapsing in NYC while jogging. Strange.”

He ‘dropped dead’ because of cancer in his foot that his bloody religion wouldn’t allow proper treatment of. Not everything is some US plot. Get a grip.

Has there ever been another age where scientists have been so annoyed by the accuracy of their tools that they sought to confound them out of some moral obligation?

They seem to have adopted the Jean Valjean three strike rule in this case. It’s a shame he killed the priest before he could be gifted his silver but I’m sure if they let him out again he’ll find some chimney-sweep to rob, finally have a change of heart and end up a successful yet benevolent industrialist in some rural French town.

I’ll add a white pill even though I generally agree with your statement. Richards who is kyle’s attorney did well in cross examination of the Daily Caller journalist who was the closest witness to the shooting and the witness himself was very strong when faced with the DA’s questions. A few things were established beyond doubt: Kyle had previously interacted peacefully with protesters and offered medical assistance and that Rosenbaum without any doubt for the witness had chased the defendant, screamed an expletive and ‘lunged’ for his weapon. The DA tried his best to create some ambivalence to the situation but McGinnis stayed strong.

That right there is self-defense. I think he’s going to be OK.

I do wonder about the reckless weapons handling charge,

Me too and like you say it’s been charged that McGinnis the witness whose testimony Rittenhouse’s defense relies on was the one endangered. I’ll have to say as well from what I could see he was a little less strong on that area yesterday. The DA played footage or testimony where McGinnis had claimed to be ‘menaced’ by Rittenhouse and his friends and their weapons. He clarified that ‘menaced’ wasn’t the correct term and that generally it was just the presence of weapons in a volatile situation that he found intimidating but he sort of waffled a bit when the DA was establishing whether in the shooting of Rosenbaum he was at risk and openly admitted he checked himself for bullet wounds.

One of the funniest parts was the DA’s attempt to ask him how he knew what Rosenbaum’s intentions were to which he replied ‘Well he shouted F*** you and lunged for his gun’. Very quick, very funny.

Like you said though if the conclusion in the first incident with Rosenbaum for the jury is justifiable self-defense then that has massive ramifications for the following shootings. I can’t see how you could decide that Rittenhouse was justified in the first and not the later ones. They’re also all on camera and very clear unlike the Rosenbaum incident which wasn’t well captured on video.

All my opinions rely on us living in a functioning society with a working legal system though so I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Finally! Just what the doctor ordered in a top down hierarchical institution that relies on people following the orders of those above them. 4 ‘diverse’ privates arguing with each other through interpreters about the best way according to their own uniquely diverse perspective to capture that hill.

What could go wrong?