That is a ludicrous prediction. Why would an American wish to go to China?

There is an endless array of reasons against it, but just to hit a few of the most obvious:

– it’s crowded (1.5B)
– it’s dirty (self-explanatory)
– it’s Communist

In short, it’s full of the filthy anti-liberty Chinese and their disgusting culinary and personal habits (eating any kind of garbage they can catch/find, spitting in the street, spewing endless amounts of pollution into the land, sky, and sea, not flossing or brushing), and all of the evils of any communist regime coupled with all the detriments of an overpopulation crisis that has everyone jammed up against each other all pushing and shoving and living on top of each other. The entire country is like one gigantic slovenly multi-story outhouse full of people who have never had a good idea about government in thousands of years.

Not to mention, you do realize they hate us, right? It’s literally the seventh circle of hell for a Westerner.

That’s just because Orange County has white infrastructure and schools. If it were under the control of the browns and yellows it would be just as crappy as the places they came from (Mexico and Asia)

Give it 10 years, then report back. It won’t be long.

Everyone fathoms it. But we should ban foreign ownership of all real property, because that creates undue and dangerous foreign influence over this nation and society.

We should also expel all foreigners who are not here on vital business missions.

Trump completely failed, as Derb pointed out very astutely, to include in his administration, people who correctly perceive what nations require to survive. Which is nationalist policies that reduce or eliminate foreign influence, whether that is in the form of pandemic illnesses, entangling alliances, persons, trade, or military threats.

Because he failed we face extinction as a nation in the very near term (next 4 years).

Townhall, the formerly conservative outlet.

Subscribing to Bolshevik agitprop has long been a RINO favorite past time.

Blatantly participating in this hoax would be reprehensible conduct for anyone calling themselves a journalist. Luckily, Marina Medvin is not a journalist being an attorney and pundit, but still, the basic idea of upholding your reputation in general, and particularly with regards to punditry and lawyering, must rely on consistency, accuracy, or both.

It is forgivable to be wrong through the commission of an honest error or oversight, but not consistently, and it is okay to be consistent as long as you are not wrong all of the time. However, it is unforgivable to spread propaganda or rely on uncorroborated anecdotal evidence and pass it off as a historical fact. You would think an attorney, who is trained in the pursuit of truth and fact, would be more credulous. Thus leaving the disturbing possibility that this was no honest error but rather an intentional attempt to sow disinformation to enforce a specific narrative.

Even people who are rarely proven right still manage to hold onto jobs as commentators (I call this the Lemon Law), because their employers are ideologically driven to promote a consistent left-wing agenda and narrative, and people who soldier on despite being chronically mistaken are viewed as defenders of the faith rather than merely incompetent.

That also seems unlikely to be the case here given the prior editorial leanings of Townhall – unless Townhall is a sort of “controlled opposition” organization or Deep State honeypot (also a disturbing possibility).

It *used* to be, once upon a time, that guest contributors were invited in by editors to pen opinions, despite ideological adversity and standards not rising to the level of the byline, out of the desire to have a little “diversity of thought” in the opinion pages and thus give credence to the idea of being “fair and balanced”, “moderate”, or “tolerant”. Such opportunities are usually dictated by the current appetite of the publisher for public approval or political influence.

With the publication of this sensationalist piece, however, it is hard to imagine what itch Townhall was looking to scratch. Cozying up to AIPAC is hardly a winning strategy for anyone, let alone people who aspire to hold or defend a conservative position in the US, given the fact that 90% of American Jews just voted to elect a racist, identitarian crook with dementia.

But employing this emotive lexicon and labelling all sorts of things as “hatred” or “hateful” is in itself disgingenous.

If you have a real dictionary, look up “hate”. You will learn that it merely means “to feel an intense aversion to”. So what’s the big deal? It is a word that the commies have imbued with a special sort of pejorative power which is completely out of context for what it actually means.

What other emotions have been demonized to the extent that “hate” has?

None.

And what does that tell us? That it’s been concocted to produce psychological effects. It is a prime example of the psychological warfare campaign of global communism. This is something we have been warned against for many decades, for example by George Orwell’s books, that the hijacking of the language was a pre-requisite to brainwashing. And we see it in the abuse and excitation around common innocuous terms like “hate”.

Hate essentially means “do not like”. In fact the #2 meaning is “to dislike exceedingly”.

That’s all. “I hate thieves”. ” I hate broccoli”. All fine, right?

So why the hate towards “hate”?

It has gotten to the point where objecting to invaders (illegal aliens) is deemed “hateful”, or noticing that some are rapists or murderers. These are just facts, what the inestimable Steve Sailer has deemed “hate facts”.

In fact, any criticism of any “protected class” (arbitrary constructions of “identity”) is now categorized as “hateful” or “hatred”. This is insane – but this is what the Left has done. All “social media” platforms now rely on this entirely false definition of “hate”. And they have revealed it very clearly by explaining the definition “speech that attacks others on the basis of [arbitrary characteristics” or “religious belief, national origin, immigration status”

So by meshing things that are innate (possibly) characteristics with things that are not and are under the voluntarily control of the target themselves because they involve belief and behavior, they conflate being an illegal alien invader with say, biological sex.

correction: We see the results of what he is (talking about) everyday in our “free” Zion MSM. War is always in the air to defend Israel’s interests.

Here’s the ultimate WMD that destroys nations without any explosions or shooting- demons. Yes, spiritual entities that cause degenerate & destructive behavior in the host (AKA sin). Why do you think (((they))) are so small in number yet have bewitched the entire world? Because (((they))) have mastered the summoning of demons through the Kabbalah & Talmud. Through Hollyweird, the satanic music industry, debt slavery system promoting consumerism & the rest of (((their))) control system, they help demons invade the souls of youth throughout the world but especially the West. In worldly terms they have won, but Jesus Christ, true Son of the Most High ELOHIM, is coming back to free his loyal children from this yoke of spiritual slavery. I pray that you and your family are seeking CHRIST in these last days- no weapon formed against us can prosper under CHRIST’s blood.

Of particular interest, and something that deserves to be subjected to investigation and confirmation is the claim that the “Six millions” is required for the fulfilment of Talmudic prophecy.

Also it has been corroborated that the entire estimated population of Jews in Europe prior to the war was about six million. So a death figure of six million would imply the eradication of all Jews in Europe, which of course leaves no “survivors”. Furthermore, Germany did not manage to round up all Jews in Europe but rather only in Germany and in the countries that it occupied extensively (mostly Poland, Austria, and Hungary)

The contemporaneous population estimates and lack of conclusive primary evidence backing up the claim of six million dead Jews combine to reveal the number as simple wish-fulfilment rather than any serious attempt to tally up actual dead.

I agree with your assessment of “Jewish hypochondria” – although it’s clearly not a phenomenon that is exclusively Jewish, affecting some 5-9% of the general population, it does appear anecdotally at least to be disproportionately present in the Jewish cohort.

This has ascended to a memetic level to the point it is simultaneously accepted as an anecdotal truth, and dismissed as yet another “anti-Semitic canard”. Despite being one of the pillars of neuroticism that drives the Jewish mind to creative and artistic heights normies can only envy, it also seems to have an effect similar to TDS – of stripping any pretense of rationality from otherwise (sometimes) reasonable people.

The true Jewish church of the last two centuries is the cult of psychoanalysis and its prophet is Sigmund Freud. If Freud had Davidian bloodlines, he’d be anointed as the Messiah himself.

I wondered if there have ever been any studies looking at this – god knows Jews study everything else about themselves in an exhausting fashion (perhaps narcissism is another personality peccadillo that has a lumpy ethnic distribution as well).

Predictably a quick search yielded no positive results; after wading through the usual three pages of results indicting the mere question as hateful and anti-Semitic, and noting that the Nazis also wondered if Jews were more likely to be mentally ill (and so how DARE YOU ASK, Sir!), one finds only that there is “no evidence of” such an association, surprise surprise – but furthermore that there is evidence of “epigenetic” factors that might produce any actual disproportionate afflictions in the Jewish community. This theory of “inherited trauma” appears to have come on the scene relatively recently – it is the conjecture that negative experiences can change the very DNA of the descendants of those victims and survivors. Oddly enough this mechanism seems to have spared the majority of the 8B humans on the planet, currently afflicting only African Americans (Slavery) and Jews (the Holocaust). Long live the Holocaust and Slavery – they shall be with us always, and creating debts that can never be paid off.

So that was a fun trip down the propaganda rabbit-hole but leads us no closer to truth, as these things never do.

But yes, we can thank this phenomenon, real, imaginary, or merely convenient, for the angst-driven brilliance of Woody Allen, as well as Philip Roth, Neil Simon, Nora Ephron, J.D. Salinger, Arthur Miller, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, and Judy Blume. (and surely many others)

TLDR: There’s no such thing as “Jewish” hypochondria – that would be meshuggeneh!

I have a conspiracy theory. It was just a virus from a bat that managed to infect humans. There is plenty of precedent. Diseases have come from birds and swine and other creatures.

The only problem with that is there no evidence of any animal “reservoir” of ChinaVirus, no “pandemic” occurring in the wildlife population – bats or no. Given the relatively rare interactions of bats and humans, the fact that no HIV-like viral segments were ever isolated from bats, and the very infrequent incidence of cross-species infection in general (let alone ones not living and existing in daily close proximity), this really is a conspiracy theory – requiring far too many variables not in evidence to be workable.

Meanwhile the plentiful evidence of a PRC bioweapons lab doing coronavirus research requires no novel variables whatsoever.

Both you and Ron should apply Occam’s Razor.

Mr. Unz, you seem skeptical of the lab origin hypothesis. Yet all the circumstantial evidence points to just that. We’re still waiting for the virologists to sort it out and find better proof, but among other difficulties they have the Upton Sinclair problem (“It’s difficult to make a man understand something, when his career depends upon him not understanding it.”) China’s draconian first responses to the outbreak, cover-ups, their threatening and apparent disappearing of evidence and personnel, as well as continued refusal for international inspection of the Wuhan lab, alone prove something.

I don’t know who “Jonathan Cook” is, nor what his credentials are, but anyone who thinks that capitalism can be best described as “the right of western nations to invade and plunder” or that “extreme weather events” (which are not increasing in either frequency or severity), is a first-class dunce.

Rejected heat is the main feature of both combustive and fissile electrical power generation with the most thermally efficient plant being NG-fired combined-cycle technology, gets up to ~60%.

Thermodynamically the most efficient form of electrical power generation is hydroelectric.

Solar and wind turbine which are the perennial favorites of both the Berkeley/Birkenstock generation as well as the imbecilic undereducated/over-indoctrinated Prog Green New Dealers, are extremely inefficient compared to hydro, and still significantly inefficient compared to fossil fuels.

Wind is 2-3x the efficiency of solar, but still doesn’t crack 25%; diesel, coal, and NG are all many times as efficient as solar.

We are never going to “transition” to a “renewable energies” economy, not at these population levels, anyway. Maybe at global pop = 1% of today’s level, it could be feasible. Certainly not at the levels of any population in the modern (1500AD onwards) era though.

No, that’s merely a statement that scientists track an increase in atmospheric CO2 to human activities. The climate scare hysteria is something else entirely.

There’s an interesting article at earthsky.com dated 02/02/2020 where scientists studying sand-particle-sized micrometeorites deduce atmospheric CO2 levels at 25-50 percent 2.7 billion years ago and note that temperatures were not elevated and that terrain was glaciated. They ponder the lack of greenhouse warming and speculate that a reduced atmospheric nitrogen concentration resulting in lowered atmospheric pressure as the reason why. Of course, there are too many unknowns and unknowables.

No one can explain even recent climate changes nor determine global conditions connected to them, such as the Little Ice Age or the Medieval Warming Period nor explain the phenomenally rapid melting of the ice caps and desertification of the Sahara. The current “ten years to net zero CO2 or we’re baked in earth’s oven” is nonsense. To obliterate the economy in pursuit of unreliable energy strategies is ignorant and to do so at the expense of important environmental concerns is unforgivable.

Fortunately, there are technologies that will revolutionize energy production on this planet. Go to
e-catworld.com, ecat.com, aureon.ca to learn how far along this is. Whether human ingenuity and scientific breakthroughs will prevail over human greed, power-seeking, fear, and ignorance is the “$60,000 question.”

Not a single mention of China restricting internal travel from Wuhan while allowing international travel. Dishonest. Sad to see Ron join the Orange Man Bad crowd.

Good points. Scientists recently were “surprised” to learn that there are multiple states of water (the liquid phase). Skeptics of the theory , which is not new at all, used to make hyperbolic claims such as “the hydrogen bond angle cannot be changed”, which sounds great in theory, but unfortunately for the people making these claims, they had not done any of the work to actually prove this statement.

And in fact, they made these claims, with zero evidence other than the only water they had ever observed had a very narrow range of bond angles. The fact that it wasn’t always the same should have been the first clue they were wrong. If it can’t be changed, it would only ever measure one value. They also ignored that someone had actually patented a device to modify these angles. Because SCIENCE!

The mere fact you can observe different angles in different specimens or across different measurements is proof that a statement that it can’t be changed is false.

So I don’t wish to say the EmDrive does or does not work. But to say it does NOT work or CANNOT work requires proof. Not just assertions.

Thank you for this kind of interview KB.

Imagine being prosecuted for the acknowledgement that your nation committed war crimes, and that the prosecution was not pursued by your nation, but by the nation whose people were the victims of these war crimes.

In our totally corrupted and controlled world we must not only accept every last detail of the Holocaust narrative, we must accept that no matter what was done to the German people, no matter how heinous and barbaric, was moral and justified.

Acknowledging war crimes against Germany raises a lot of questions that the Jews do not want asked.

Hence the prosecution of this woman of conscience.

All good points you’ve raised. Not to mention the extensive propaganda efforts by the Allies before the war even began (which continued not just during the war but also intensified after the war), and by the “pre-signalling” of the “six million” long before Hitler and the Nazis came to power, plus allusions to this number in Talmudic/Kabbalah prophecy – ie, the “Holocaust as Religious Wish Fulfilment”

There are also oddities such as alleged Krema being virtually entirely “reconstructed” by the “Allies” after the war, and including truly ludicrous attempts at bolstering tales of Jews being trapped in these “gas chambers”, for example the post-war concrete poured walls complete with “scratch marks” (to lead one to speculate that frantic and dying Jews clawed desperately at the walls and scratched these grooves into the walls trying to “climb” to “fresh air). This despite the fact that human fingernails are far too soft to make any impression on concrete – the only thing that would happen is that the fingernail itself would become sanded or pulverized into powder by such friction and possibly, briefly leave some organic residue (powdered keratin) which would slough off rapidly and certainly would not leave any trace after even months let alone up to the present day. The entire idea is laughable. And yet hundreds of thousands of people have been paraded through these reconstructed buildings, and nobody is saying boo. Nobody dares to say “What the hell are these marks supposed to be? Who put these here? When was this done?” People just sheepishly and blindly accept this insanely bizarre fakery without even a challenge. Out of fear of being blasted as a “Nazi”.

Its amateurish and idiotic “mistakes” like these that prove that what is presented to the public as historical artifacts is in fact, at least in certain verifiable instances, nothing but a huge hoax. And if one piece of evidence is fake, why can’t most or all of them be fake?

Fake coerced testimony obtained by torture and threats at Nuremberg – that should all be discarded as unreliably tainted as well, as it would be in any civilized society with a modern justice system. The rule of law does not permit the use of torture to obtain confessions. Even evidence obtained without proper procedure or stored without a proper chain of custody to prevent tampering is tossed out. This is our justice system – and yet all of that was out the window at Nuremberg.

Allowing the “victims” of the alleged offenses to serve as investigators, prosecutors and even judges is a massive conflict of interest that also would never be allowed in a civilized society. All of these norms discarded in order to conduct these show trials.

So much has been written about the idiocy of letting an aggrieved Jew with an ethnic quarrel be involved in any way in the foreign policy towards the very nation that is the source of his animosity towards a superpower that we want to have a peaceful co-existence with.

He and his twin unAmerican brother could not possibly be worse candidates for the jobs they have or less qualified for the influence they wielded in doing them.

At the least, whoever created and allowed this situation showed the same lack of judgment as allowing Joe Biden the ownership of the foreign policy and the oversight of a specific issue that directly affected his closest living family member. Ignoring this colossal conflict-of-interest is inexcusable given the multiple redundant offices within government agencies that have oversight and the mandate to prevent them.

It is weird why we don’t hear of the evil perpetrated by the other side, only the nazis did this, and the nasty nazies did that! Only after watching ‘the greatest story never told’ did I comprehend how the media and its lackeys have created and decided who was evil, bad, horrible, (nazis), and who was wonderful, glorious and great, (US, UK, etc). After searching and finding out some truth, I am coming to the conclusion that we fought the wrong side, and defeated the wrong people. Not saying that the nazis ( National Socialism, and Zionists, thus NA-ZIs, Don’t pretend that you did not know that! Just look at the present “ZIs’ in Palestine, and their behavior.

The Bolshevik regime was predominantly Jewish from its inception. The Central Committee, which exercised supreme power, consisted of nine Jews and three Russians (Lenin was counted among the Russians, although his maternal grandfather, born Srul [Israel], was Jewish). Among the names of 556 high officials of the Bolshevik state officially published in 1918–1919, 458 were identifiable as Jews, according to Robert Wilton.

It is often forgotten that in 1933, when Hitler came to power, the Soviets had just committed genocidal massacres followed by organized famine in Ukraine, at the gates of Germany, killing nearly eight million people, or one-third of the population. This crime against humanity, carried out by a predominantly Jewish NKVD, would never be mentioned in the Nuremberg trials, and still today is hardly ever discussed.

Joachim Prinz, a Zionist ideologist of German Jewry, who became president of the American Jewish Congress (1958–1966), writes in his book Wir Juden (“We the Jews”) published in Berlin in 1934: “We want assimilation to be replaced by a new law: the declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and the Jewish race. A state built upon the principle of the purity of nation and race can only be honored and respected by a Jew who declares his belonging to his own kind. […] For only he who honors his own breed and his own blood can have an attitude of honor towards the national will of other nations.”

So the Germans learned from the Jews about race and separation! Truth is stranger than fiction!

I don’t think it is true that KJ is closed to non-Jews in the ways you enumerated.

That would be completely illegal.

But you’re correct that it is a parasitic lifestyle and one which should not be tolerated. The government should not be subsidizing private individuals and their personal choices to have more kids than they can support.

Sailer wrote:

And, I’d say, that hypocrisy is a good thing. Hypocrisy is better than stupidity when you are in charge of important functions.

Nah. Let’s force the ruling elite to eat the stew they have cooked. Good and hard.

My slogan: “Defund the universities!”

After all, we all know that the serious faculty, especially in the STEM subjects, is going to surreptitiously try to continue to employ merit as a criterion of admission. Only way to stop them is to defund them.

Seriously, back in the early 1980s, I shared an office for a year with the fellow who is credited with inventing TTL logic, Jim Buie. Jim told me that, when he started in engineering after getting his degree on the GI Bill (he had been a military aviator in WW II), most of the engineers did not have college degrees but had learned their trade on the job.

That is actually more feasible today than it was then, now that we have edX, Coursera, etc. And I speak from some personal experience here: when I started work in engineering, I had a Ph.D. in physics, no degree in engineering, but found it fairly easy to rapidly get beyond most of the engineers. (But didn’t I owe that to the classes I had taken in physics? No, I was basically self-taught. Physics and math profs in the US at the time were pedagogical disasters.)

Only slightly off-topic is my earlier comment on the bizarre persecution to which my daughter is being subjected by UCLA. As that comment notes, she is being told that a woman who is assaulted at UCLA has no right at all to defend herself, even in the most restrained manner (my daughter tried to hold the assailant’s sleeves to stop the attack, but my daughter is therefore being accused of assault!). Obviously, UCLA is breaking a huge number of state and federal laws in insisting upon this, but as my earlier comment notes, we need to break this in the national media.

Any suggestions as to which media outlets are worth contacting would be appreciated — Right, Left, or whoever might help.

Thanks.

Extravert movies are basically made for dumb sociopaths. That’s the level on which they function. The entire content of these movies is superficial, which dumb people enjoy because…no thinking required! The popularity of such films in the “black community” perfectly mirrors the average IQ scores of this cohort.

The interesting thing is that the most creative genre (SF) is also scored as the least conscientious, which I suspect is probably a mischaracterization – a type error.

These movies are mostly morality plays at some level, so I’d suggest that the scoring of this trait is actually measuring something else, like conformity to authority, or as the new psychobabble might term it “Oppositional Defiance Disorder”.

The reason this has been erroneously typed is likely that the authors assumed – defiance of established “muh authoriteh” should be equivalent to low conscientiousness. In fact it is not and it is not a forgivable error to make as these are standardized sociological trait descriptions and there isn’t an excuse for getting it wrong, since the authors clearly acknowledge they knew the definition (its in the quote).

Specifically, the definition of conscientiousness is a scrupulous adherence to “right conduct” (not the same thing as submission to authority or the law), and is marked by high future time preference and highly organized behaviors. This is in stark contrast to the opposite profile – the one typically associated with the “house party” or “Medea” franchise of “black movies”. Movies made by blacks, for blacks, or about blacks are generally either celebrating mayhem, promoting debauchery and criminality, or airing some racial grievance dressed up as a film plot, with plenty of opportunities for black protagonists (or white ones) to shame some BadWhite for BadThink.

This seems like a thinly disguised attempt to promote the anti-social dimensions of low (black) culture and denigrate the high (white) one.

The Graduate is a very subversive film that typifies the hostility of Hollywood Jewry towards WASP culture.

You’re not alone in being entranced – it was an innovative film and certainly captivated the public when it released, but I doubt that many people back then, aside from academics, film students, and the occasional free thinker, could have articulated very eloquently how it functioned subversively.

I mean the more down-to-earth ones that just seem to be about serial killers, like Heathers (1989), the German movie Funny Games (1997)

At least among people who have bothered to formulate an opinion on this question at all, I suspect you are one of the very few people who would characterize HEATHERS and FUNNY GAMES as being part of the same genre. FUNNY GAMES is typically regarded as a horror film. No one regards HEATHERS as a horror film.

Meryl is certainly overrated – I don’t know if I would go so far as to call her a mediocre talent as in my opinion, some of her work is quite memorable.

But her singing – oh my – have you heard her sing? She’s fantastic.

Best LIVING American actor, or best WORKING American actor?

I would nominate a fairly small group for consideration of best working actors.

Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
Matt Damon
Matthew McConaughey
Leonardo DiCaprio
Christopher Walken

If its best LIVING, the list has to expand to include guys like

Harrison Ford
Jack Nicholson
Gene Hackman
Sean Penn
Daniel Day-Lewis*
DeNiro
Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Mel Gibson

*not American but we can claim him!

The list of the latter shrinks every year, of course. Within the next five years, that list above will probably be cut by half.

I think the reason Lynch has chosen to include what you might perceive as elements of the occult, is precisely because of the diminishment of the supernatural in Western religions – that it has vanished from society’s institutions and daily lives, but not from our imagination or consciousness, where it still wields a lot of power.

If you think about the social power of religion – what is it actually a tool for? To inculcate a standard morality in the population, to propagate those values that ultimately produce a stable and compliant population.

In the Western religious tradition, man has this “personal relationship with God”, but this is very much a form of self-deception. Sure, some of it is pushed by the churches, and the messages consist of a kind of “fear porn” – Western churches focus on what you (and the rest of humanity) have done that is wrong, an offense to God, and how that can be mitigated – pass the collection plate, brethren!)

It’s an odd racket because it relies both on this external element that is developed through a sense of impending doom or grave personal and global spiritual (and physical) peril but can only really be imposed internally. There isn’t any Torquemada overseeing a band of church secret police and inquisitors, nobody is going to force a confession, and you won’t be subjected to trial by fire.

Most of this is achieved via direct exposition (the Fall of mankind, God’s wrath, the deliverance and Covenant, and in the sequel the persecution of Jesus to permit the salvation of the sinful, and the Redemption of all faithful through Judgment Day and rapture) and enforced through parable and allegory. All of the stories of sinners being smited (smitten?) and turned into pillars of salt and other such creative punishments from above. But it really is about creating a sense of guilt and repentance and striving that is a sort of Mobius strip of offenses and responsibility and consequences, which pushes people to fixate on maintaining an invisible ledger of good/bad so that they will not be denied a pleasant afterlife. It’s an interesting phenomenon because absent this internal element, the external one lacks any power whatsoever. Western Churches push the idea of an all-knowing God that is constantly surveilling all and knows not just what you did, but what you THOUGHT about doing. This is why salvation through works isn’t the basis of Western religion, but rather, salvation through faith, through God’s grace.

However, since nobody is actually preaching “Our God is an angry God” anymore and even seminal religious figures like Cotton Mather are today scorned by the very denominations they once led , it became popular to substitute a plethora of self-flagellating beliefs..kind of like putting yourself on trial every day.

It truly is a fascinating psycho-pathology.

And as Americans have gradually shed their Puritanical superstitions, become more rational and secular and less fundamental, I think that fear of the unknown, that possibility of some divine watchman, or otherwordly threat (of temptation, of punishment, of eternal damnation, etc) has taken on an even more powerfully memetic quality.

It used to be that people would frankly admit to being cursed or hexxed or whatever it was, and this was not considered to be aberrant behaviour. The idea of being beset by witches or demons wasn’t seen as ludicrous or histrionic or delusional – rather it was generally accepted that this was as real a phenomenon and as genuine of a concern as, say, Indian attacks (which were certainly real and physically deadly). Indians couldn’t send your soul to Hell like sinning could, but they could easily kill you and run off with your scalp, after defiling your body. On the other hand, this would surely put you in the grace of God, if you’d been a properly observant Christian and a good person who didn’t sin. People got comfort from that. The idea of salvation through faith was augmented by a healthy sense of personal fear.

The official message was – forget your body, its your spirit that is in danger.

But a modern secular society sends the opposite message – focus on your physical being and let your body experience all the pleasure you can order up on Tinder or cram up your nose – don’t worry about going to hell, there is no God and in any case what’s the problem, “love is love”, “right to choose”, etc and so forth.

Lynch’s take on the darkness within man is very much a throwback to history and allows us the luxury to flirt cinematically with our abandoned supernatural identity. And he has mastered the ability to deploy all the standard archetypes in his depiction of this constant struggle for the balance and destiny of the soul. “What does the ledger say? Lookin up, you say? Well, how bout NOW?! ”

Can we all agree to give the title to Robert Duvall?

I have nothing against him but I hate the Godfather films (and just about everything from the genre) and the rest of his stuff I’ve seen I thought was mediocre (not him but the picture itself).

Real downer. Ellen Page was a very pretty girl, and I can’t imagine the psychological trauma that was inflicted to bring about this outcome.

Meh. I guess if you are attracted to moody lesbians, she’s the bee’s knees.

It is unfortunate she is not getting any effective mental health therapy for her condition. The real downer is that in the most advanced healthcare system on the planet, that patients are encouraged in their delusions and actively aided in harming themselves via mutilation and chemical castration.

It is disgusting. The Hippocratic Oath is dead and this is a cruel society to allow and facilitate this.

AE, I love you, but you really gotta vet your comments next time before broadcasting this absolute shit:

The Nazis were the biggest, most destructive losers in history. They achieved the absolute opposite of everything they set out to achieve. Communism brought to the heart of Europe. Independent Jewish state. Old Mitteleuropa, killed for good. Divided, impotent Germany, with tens of millions of people dead and lands that had been German for over 1000 years lost forever. Why the hell would you want to imitate that, from a purely practical perspective as much as a moral one?

I’ll just break it down piece by piece:

Communism brought to the heart of Europe.

Define “heart of Europe”. Communism existed mainly in Eastern Europe and Slavic/Hungarian speaking central Europe. These areas were historically multithnic fringe campsites, and the origins of the Slavs and Hungarians, the newest ethnic groups in Europe, are obscure at best. Communism existed in Russia before the Third Reich, so it would be a hasty assumption that its spread wasn’t inevitable. In any case, there is nothing wrong with Communism.

For me, the heart of modern Europe lies in southwestern Europe, Greece and western Germanic countries. Only eastern Germany was ever communist, and they’re actually just Germanicized Slavs. Slavs had not done much throughout their short history in Europe besides camping and cooking in cast iron pots. Virtually all of their impressive achievements took place under Communism.

Independent Jewish state.

The Nazis were Zionists. An independent Jewish state was an objective of theirs.

Old Mitteleuropa, killed for good

How “Old” was it? You could literally go back in time 2500 years and say the same thing for every 500 year increment of your journey. “Mitteleuropa” is a cute word for multi-kulti and rapid linguistic/demographic replacement.

Divided, impotent Germany, with tens of millions of people dead and lands that had been German for over 1000 years lost forever.

Actually it was more like 8 million, tops. Looks like we can add histrionic to your expanding list of mental deficiencies.

Anyway, here’s an excellent article for US and European readers about the Nazi army:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1985/05/05/their-wehrmacht-was-better-than-our-army/0b2cfe73-68f4-4bc3-a62d-7626f6382dbd/

I’m well aware of the conservation postulates.

However, I fail to see the relevance of your comment. Merely stating it should be obvious that it cannot work, is not an argument. Do you have any evidence or proof that it does not work? That would be more compelling.

Experiments demonstrated thrust was produced when the drive was operating, so perhaps the case is that a simplified characterization of the device and its action is missing some details. Perhaps what appears to be a violation of conservation laws is in fact due to erroneous assumptions about the system itself, and/or the nature of the drive action.

I’m a Ph.D. scientist who graduated from (at the time) the top university in the world. I say this not to brag, but to bring some aurthority to my comments, below:

1. Global Climate Change (GCC) is real and it is probably caused by humans.

2. Virtually everything proposed to fight GCC it is bull shizt and should be ignored.

The reason is because everything proposed treats SYMPTOMS instead of the CAUSE. The cause of climate change is too many people on earth. Our 8 billion humans release ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases while simultaneously destroying ecosystems that would normally cleanse the atmosphere.

Want to stop GCW? Then reduce human population. Fewer humans would produce fewer gases and allow healther ecosystems that would absorb more greenhouse gases.

If you buy a Tesla, recycle, or turn down your thermostat, you are a FRIGGIN IDIOT, because these activities do nothing to attck the cause, and are actually counter-productive, because they distract you from acually solving the problem.

GCC is just 1 of maybe 1,000 environmental problems (loss of farmland, pesticide pollution, species extinction, ocean dead zones, rain forest burning, over fishing, lead contamination, radiation, etc., etc.). Lowering human population woud not only reduce GCC, but reduce all the other 1,000 environmental problems, as well.

All Western nation have declining populations except for immigration. Ending massive immigration of low-consumption Third-Worlders into high-consumption Western nations is a 1st step.

A physician who only treated symptoms instead of attacking the underlying cause of illness (for example, not using an effective antibioic to treat a lethal infection), would have his medical license revoked. The politicians who propose carbon-credit schemes and other usless, expensive,, distracting measures should likewise be kicked out.

Cute Ellen Page, Lynda Carter or petals from a rose. All things must pass.

But I think we otherwise agree; its only in a heteronormative society that her disease condition can even be acknowledged. So yes if we had that she would have gotten help.

Using, displaying, and referencing genitalia to sexually dominate or intimidate others: Men

Using, displaying, and referencing genitalia to make money, manipulate others, and gain political power: Women.

I have to weigh in on this Rockford/Rosie grudge match (which Rockford is clearly winning, ironically, despite Rosie getting in a few good licks on occasion).

The reality is that the biological sexes are complementary, so all arguments about artificial asexual reproduction aside, both males and females are vital to the species simply from a continuity standpoint, and as far as nuture of young of both sexes and being the progenitor of gender roles, normal socialization, and personal values, both indispensable. This well-borne out from looking at the rates of homosexuality in the offspring of homosexual adoption as well as rates of dysfunction in single parent families. Children require a nuclear family with both bio dad and mom present to thrive, in general. There is of course, a range of exceptions where children may thrive without this, or where they are even better off without this, but this is to be expected and does not diminish the validity of the general case.

As far as economic utility and the critical work of invention/innovation, construction, defense, and agression, its clear that there are few things women can do, or tasks that they can perform that men cannot, but the reverse is simply not true.

This is very anecdotal, of course, but backed up by employment data if you really care to delve into it: women don’t do dangerous, dirty, or physically extreme work. If they do, they generally are inferior to men in terms of the performance of that work.

I can personally say I’ve never seen a female on a scaffold, roofing a house, hanging drywall. I’ve never gotten a female plumber, electrician, or exterminator. Never gotten a lady tow truck operator, or seen a female garbage person riding the back of a truck (despite there being no law or regulation that prohibited that during the era when that’s how garbage was picked up).

I did fly on a plane recently captained by a woman – it was fine and she performed a flawless landing. Had female doctors, seen female EMTs. Most radiologist techs, most nurses, most phlebotomists are female, as are most intake staff. Most K-12 teachers are female. Most librarians are female as are most licensed therapists. There are perhaps hundreds of examples of similar jobs dominated by women.

Women appear to focus on the “best” jobs available , which tend to be professional or white-colar in nature, high-paying, low-stress, well-esteemed, involve little or no physical effort or hazard, and demand vociferously that they should be equally (and even disproportionately – as they often are) represented in all of these desirable fields.

But oddly, for some reason, this position is not applied to the dirty, dangerous, tough work that is still done, nearly exclusively, by men.

I’ll just leave you with that.

Drag racing was the first thing that came to my mind as well, but it’s actually a somewhat superfluous example. When it comes to getting in a car and pressing the pedal of a car for a quarter mile, yes they can do that, and their generally lighter weight (probably 30 to 40 pounds less than men, on avg.) would be a distinct advantage in a sport where weight is everything. I’m not minimizing the ability to control a 1500-3000 hp vehicle in a straight line, but many early top fuel greats like Tommy Ivo and Don Garlits also wrenched on – and even built and designed – their own cars. Could girls do that as well as boys? I kinda doubt it. What I’m saying is that the prominence of the sport was built by people like Garlits, Bill Jenkins and Dick Landy.

Shirley Muldowney and other prominent girl racers were married to – or girlfriends of – already established or experienced racers who were in the “wrench on your own car” tradition. Not surprisingly, these guys wrenched on the girls cars as their careers took off. Garlits was the epitome of the one man jack and master of all trades. I doubt any girl could ever achieve at that level. BTW, from what I gather, he was/is also an exceptionally decent person.

Can we talk about the Jews orchestrating all of this? Everyone knows even if they will not admit it pubicly, that anything complex is far beyond the capabilities of blacks in general to conceive of or manage. There is some “brain” behind the operation and its clearly Semitic in origin – that’s where the money comes from (messrs Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Soros, etc).

And it stands to reason that the plotting, the scheming, was centrally orchestrated. Doesn’t anyone realize that the left hired 500 “election lawyers” at least six months before the election? Why do you think that was? Why do you think they ran “war games” simulating different dry run scenarios – one for if they lost (riot, try to start a civil war), and if they won (don’t concede on Election Night, because we need time to rig the votes in “swing states”).

All Jews. Not blacks.

How best to sum up this screed?

“Geriatric Trust Fund Baby goes Full Retard”?
“Globalist shills celebrate the devil they know and like the best”?
“The long-haulers of TDS”?

Vote for your favorite.

Only someone capable of doing the right thing actually has the chance.

Biden has never proven himself able to do the right thing.

But he has proven that given the opportunity to do the wrong thing, he will hop aboard and make the most of that opportunity.

I slammed on the brakes on suffering through this bucket of trip in the second paragraph when Margolis vomited out, “Trump had so much against him – his shocking denial of the deadly Covid epidemic…”. Anybody who has actually bought-in and/or promotes the lie of Covid is either a gullible moron, a compromised stooge, and/or a lying sack of shit. F*ck you, Margolis.

Ladies & Gentlemen, meet Eric Margolis, Deep State Propagandist, half-Jew and half-Wit.

Sad to see Eric Margolis stoop to such an embarrassing Trump bash. I thought you were a professional.

I disagree, he has a grandiose and somewhat narcissistic personality, as nearly all politicians and celebrities do; most however have their constant need for approval and approbation under a modicum of control.

Trump is not a politician and was never really a professional celebrity despite his stint as the host and star of his own reality television project, therefore he has never learned, like Crooked Hillary, how to play the game and develop “both a public and a private position”.

He’s never been trained or coached by a bevy of PR flacks, agents, image consultants, therapists, or anyone else in a position of influence. He’s never had a boss. Nobody has ever given him a performance review or forced him to change any aspects of his personal style of operating – not his communications, or his wardrobe, and clearly not his hairstyle. There’s no oversight or management of The Donald, except by Donald Trump himself. He even chose his own nickname. Unlike George Costanza in his quest to become known as T-Bone, Trump has always provided his own title card, his own cold open, his own byline, and his own on-stage introductions. If it weren’t customary for “Hail to the Chief” to be played before he enters the room, I would fully expect Trump to instead shout out, like Don Pardo, his own name and then leap energetically out from behind a curtain, waving and grinning and then say “It’s great to be here, hosting the Trump Show for the 3074’th time.”

And much like Dwight Schrute, Trump has become not just the Regional Manager, but also the Assistant Regional Manager, as well as Assistant to the Assistant Regional Manager.

Not to mention, his blunt demeanor was the main feature of the show’s premise; the TV Trump is not a persona – that was the real Trump. Unlike most “reality TV” shows which are carefully manufactured dramatic plays and soap operas, “The Apprentice” was simply Trump being Trump and the bewildered participants reacting to his not-unexpected outbursts and rambling stream-of-consciousness commentary on the issue of the moment. If you’ve ever wondered “Who writes his stuff?”, the answer, Nobody, should have been painfully obvious the minute he first logged into the @POTUS Twitter account and out came COVFEFE. In fact, he doesn’t even write it. It just materializes out of the aether, direct from his brain. He clearly puts no planning or editing into the Tweet process whatsoever. Typos? Run-on sentences? Dangling clauses? No problem, SEND.

BTW doing or thinking one thing and saying another is basically the playbook for pathological liars, which again, is another character trait of most politicians. Trump is clearly Not a pathological liar and always says nearly exactly what he is thinking with little or no filter. However, he often has trouble following through, which should not be mistaken for deception. It’s more just he has forgotten about it, has moved onto something else, or has realized the thing he wanted to do and was super enthusiastic about doing, isn’t actually feasible or is just vastly more complex than he thought it would or could be. Remember how he was genuinely confounded at how Byzantinely constructed the federal bureaucracy actually is and how so much of it can be arbitrarily simply shut down by any pissant Federal judge with a personal agenda? That’s not a pathological thing – that’s just him not having any idea at what he was really up against when it came to trying to actually exercise the powers of his Office. What he really needed was someone to tell him, “Hey, you know all those powers vested in the Executive? Well, it turns out the “fine print” is an asterisk that says “Unless a single Judge or Congress disagrees”.

I can’t fault Trump for any of his failures – we knew who he was. We failed too, in not realizing how deep the Rot of the Deep State really was (all the way to the top, and all the way down to the bottom, and also, rotten all the way through the core)

I’ll refrain from ad hominems but:
1) Trump has been less subservient to Israel’s right than his predecessors. Importantly, he’s started no new wars.
2) COVID isn’t any more deadly than the flu. Most people recover under age 77 recover.
3) Trump’s language is not racist. Nor are his policies.

Whenever I see a contributor here on UnzReview talking about White people being ‘racist,’ red flags immediately go up.
In the United States politicians are elected who are filled with contempt for Whites and they face zero consequences. Americans universities have courses in ‘Whiteness studies.’
Blacks and other non-Whites have a multitude of race-based special interest groups, while Whites are not allowed to because it would be ‘racist.’ I can go online and watch videos of blacks attacking Whites and the mainstream media won’t come within thousand miles of acknowledging it. the Democratic Party had embraced anti-whiteness, though Republicans have too, just not overtly. We have ‘critical race theory’ now- teaching Whites they are evil and non-Whites they are victims.
And then we have the author of this article, accusing Trump of anti-black, anti-Hispanic racism.
Blah blah blah. I’m done with White people who Aren’t’ racist. You need to get your head out of your ass Eric.

Every time one of these over-educated whiny Turd Worlders is given a platform to speak, they demonstrate very clearly why it is that “their people” have never produced anything useful or contributed much to the progress of human civilization; it isn’t bad luck or location (no such thing really), but rather must be a lack of intellect; the ability to think critically, and more importantly, independently, and thus creatively. Do none of these people ever have an original thought?

The use of certain herbs and plants aside, primitive people had no real STEM. Some American civilizations fared better at maths, and used that knowledge to make surprisingly accurate astronomical observations, around which they constructed both edifices and their religious myths and rituals.

However, that’s as innovative as it got. Nobody seems to ever have taken any serious or rigorous approach to fundamental sciences beyond the aforementioned astronomy. And I would characterize the efforts of “indigenous peoples” in botany to be limited entirely to function, derived completely from direct experimentation (ie, eat this and see if you die, or if you get better). They could harvest materials from the natural environment and observe some of their properties, but deriving information about these found substances was based on simply tasting/using/applying them.

So their “science” is really nothing more than simple trial and error. And per the latter, they made no effort to actually understand what was going on at a fundamental level. They had no concept of drug action, which is to be expected there wasn’t any understanding of the molecule or atom. I suppose you could call what they did with plant pharmacology a form of “macro-botany” that never extended to horticulture or any form of chemistry. So they were able to use substances found in situ that could be used as medicines or poisons, whichever application being needed at the time.

However, merely recognizing the toxicity or therapeutic value of something, only via trial and error, is no way to make any real progress. Once you’ve licked every tree frog, or dipped your arrows in all the exudae you can find leaking from flowering or resinous plants, there’s simply nowhere to go with that. There’s no “shoulders of giants” to stand on, to build any further knowledge.

You can cut out a bunch of hearts from human sacrifice victims, but even direct knowledge of the heart as an anatomical object confers no useful knowledge in understanding it as an organ, beyond the very rudimentary concept of it as a pump of the blood, whose secrets they never unravelled.

There is no medical specialty for “non-consensual removal of heart” – and that can never lead to any greater knowledge. There’s no medicine, no information, no useful applications for heart removal, no matter how much you hone the process of incising the torso , or of tunneling up through the abdominal cavity. You create zero value through human sacrifices, and one could argue that such actions, unless taken with regards to some kind of very sophisticated “culling” program, to weed out the physically and intellectually defective, for instance, serve no productive purpose whatsoever.

TLDR: uppity non-Westerners bashing Western culture ironically lack the ability to create/mimic what we have made; thus they seek to destroy or diminish it. It is the result of an intense racial enmity that revolves around envy, jealousy and greed.

I don’t have anything against China, but there appear to be many authors AND commenters on this site that are “rah, rah China”. Why is that?

If you have nothing against China, then you have not been paying attention.

-Massive theft of IP and national security secrets
-mass immigration to the US
-#1 contributor to the global overpopulation crisis that threatens us all
-subversion of our society at all levels
-economic warfare
-shitty low-quality, often toxic and dangerous products flooded into the US

You are aware of none of these offenses? These stretch back decades. Nothing new.

As for the presence of so many China shills, I’d guess that you are seeing an influence operation. Perhaps by China itself, perhaps by people acting on its behalf, or by those who have a financial or personal interest, and perhaps simply by globalists (and done for the purpose of advancing the globalist ideology).

Or, some confluence of more than one of these factors – this is something we have seen repeatedly exposed, by the elites. Whether they are academics, businesspeople, politicians (or all three). And we now have a President-elect owned by China, whose son has secured for him (10% for the big guy) billions of dollars of corrupt investment pipeline and millions of dollars in hard cash, that has been created by selling influence. No nation has been more obvious and overt in this caper than the PRC.

So yeah, I’d say there is nothing to NOT hold against China, and let me just state that there is no reason at all for our cultures or nations to have any exchange or intercourse whatsoever. What’s the point? We do not “need” China – but they clearly need us. They have demonstrated that need through decades of conniving, thieving, exploitative actions – and what in the hell has China EVER done for the US? How has the existence of China, or its people, ever benefitted the people of the US?

Answer that question intelligently and with integrity, with no dissembling, fallacious appeals to tradition, etc, or flowery rhetoric, lofty equivocations, platitudes, or other irrational nonsense, and we can have a serious conversation about the facts of this issue.

But China is a menace to the world, and the sooner people wake up to that the sooner we can take action that can insulate us from them, and isolate them so that their evil machinations and influences are contained to their own territory.

Guys like you use the word “populist” as though it were the plague, rather than the actual voice of the people.

I hope he does it. I want to see all the coup plotters, liars, and vote-stealers lined up and shot.

And I want the mechanisms in place to deport all the foreign nationals, seizing their assets on the way out the door, too. Their ill-gotten gains from exploiting our nation and its people must be recaptured. Reparations, if you will. We should also cancel the national debts owed to foreign banks.

Take your unwanted people, your worthless debts, and scram should be the message.

The JCPOA was not the right thing, and never can be the right thing. Paying or trusting or enriching in any fashion the fanatical fundie regime in charge of Iran, the most prolific state sponsor of terror on the planet? Are you freaking kidding us right now??

Clearly you are not a qualified arbiter of “the right thing”.

As for the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists”, who in the hell are they to opine on the geopolitical situation? What the heck do they know about international friction? They are for the most part a collection of Warmers and academics with no expertise or background in any field relevant to the threat of nuclear conflict. Gee, is a specific nation likely to use its nuclear weapons in an aggressive first-strike scenario, I know, let me ask a chemist! What. The. Hell. ?

BTW had Trump not cancelled the Iran deal and had not intimidated the PRK they’d probably already have a nuke.

Since when does speaking a different dialect endow you with a brand new “ethnic identity”?
Why, in the wonderful world of woke make-believe, of course!

Nobody talks about the “diverse” English peoples of the Sceptered Isle, with its many dozens of regional dialects, that sometimes occupy the same COUNTY.

How come linguistic diversity in white populations is never cited? Whites get no special super identity points for being diverse speakers despite the fact that we also have just as many tribal/clan/regional “backgrounds” as brown and yellow “Asians”.

You must be confusing me with someone else. I think I’ve always used some variation of “Sebastian” here, although I only got more fastidious about signing in very recently, I’ve commented here for some years.

I am not in any way a “Jew supremacist”. My chief complaint with Jews is their fondness for Marxist ideology and the hypocrisy inherent in their meddling in the affairs of the Western nations they inhabit.

They can do whatever they like in their own land….but in our lands they are always a huge pain in the ass and have caused endless troubles for us.

I’ve had Nig Fatigue for decades, and have entered the terminal Exhaustion phase.

One of the worst is all the kikes promoting race-mixing. Every TV commercial is some big buck with a white or Asian woman. Its disgusting. Miscegenation is a polite term for it, but I consider it bestiality, since blacks are basically just a sub-species. We’re Homo sapiens sapiens, but they’re something else. I don’t know what exactly they ought to be called, but its akin to the difference between dogs and wolves. Try living with three wolves in your house, see how long you last.

They might look similar, they might be able to interbreed, they may even have a common ancestor. But they’re definitely not the same creature. Blacks and humans have exactly the same relationship.

What’s wrong with Asian porn? Not all Asians are Turd World imbeciles. Only some.

And at least there are Asians other humans find attractive whereas blacks are basically The Missing Link, some sort of subhuman, evolutionary dead end, just like the hundreds of other hominid ancestors that didn’t make it (which blacks wouldn’t if whites hadn’t interfered and gifted them with Modernity)

President Trump recently emphasized agriculture faces unique circumstances that warrant a different approach to enforcement practices. Agriculture is inherently labor intensive . . . .

Unfortunately, domestic workers do not apply for farm jobs, despite aggressive hiring efforts.

Oh bo0-hoo, the poor Farm Bureau Federation (ie agribusiness cartel that has made fortunes from employing wetback invaders for decades) can’t find enough “domestic workers” because they don’t want to pay market rates. Well too goddamn bad. If you have to pay $30/hour to get Americans (aka “domestic workers”) to apply for farm jobs, then that’s just the cost of doing business. Pass it on to the consumer….so a head of lettuce will be $2.50 instead of 2.25. Who cares?

Labor is the smallest part of the costs of fruits and vegetables. Its miniscule compared to the cost of say, transportation.

The IAEA, in its most recent report analysis confirmed that not only was Iran not being forthcoming and cooperative regarding its activities (since the IAEA had confirmed radioactive materials at sites which were not disclosed to be processing any), but that they had enriched the stockpile to 60% which is double what is needed for energy production and research, and furthermore that if they were to use the capabilities at the Fordow processing plant, they could produce enough weapons grade material for at least 4 warheads in just 3-4 days.

If they had already built the rest of a weapon it could be rapidly machined and put into the final assembly within just weeks.