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    From the front page of the New York Times: On Capitol Hill, Democrats Panic About Biden but Do Nothing The president has yet to do what many Democrats said he must to show he is up to remaining in the race. But so far, they have thrown up their hands, doing nothing to nudge him...
  • @Mike Conrad
    November is still far away. He could have a stroke by then. Can you imagine if it's an October surprise?

    I'd wish a stroke on Donald too, except for the fact that the Republican bench is worthless. I need to read up on J.D. Vance.

    Okay, I read up. The Guardian despises him, so he definitely has that going for him.

    Replies: @epebble, @Bill Jones, @Aeronerauk

    “I’d wish a stroke on…”

    Just vile, I realize decency/decorum is out the window and our leaders are narcissistic machiavellian caricatures, but for your own soul man, don’t wish such ills on anybody. Save maybe those who have directly brought horror of some kind on you or your family.

    • Replies: @Mike Conrad
    @Aeronerauk

    This is speculative internet chat. I'm not actually sticking pins in kewpie dolls here. That would be serious. Don't be such a drama queen.

    Besides, my neighbor has had two strokes and is perfectly fine. So, as Mr Jones indicates above, we may need something a bit stronger. You should only know what I'm wishing on Netanyahu!

    , @Mike Conrad
    @Aeronerauk

    Never heard of you here, so I just looked up your very last post before this:


    As a rule bicyclists should be executed, especially if their zealotry has in anyway contributed to the conversion of drivable road to “bike lanes.”
     
    , @Jim Don Bob
    @Aeronerauk


    Just vile, I realize decency/decorum is out the window and our leaders are narcissistic machiavellian caricatures, but for your own soul man, don’t wish such ills on anybody. Save maybe those who have directly brought horror of some kind on you or your family.
     
    Agreed. But recently, John McWhorter, who I once thought a reasonable black guy, called for Trump's assassination.

    https://johnalucas6.substack.com/p/new-york-times-columnist-promotes
  • From a 2022 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report recounting 2017 data (i.e., during the Ferguson Effect, but not yet during the Floyd Effect): American Indians ("AIAN") are, by far, the worst drivers per mile and Asians are the best, dying about 1/8th as often per mile driven as American Indians. Hispanics are equal to...
  • As a rule bicyclists should be executed, especially if their zealotry has in anyway contributed to the conversion of drivable road to “bike lanes.”

    Wear your gay outfit at home and peddle on a unicycle in the back yard. Pavement is for automobiles, losers.

    • Thanks: Coemgen
    • Replies: @B. Moitessier
    @Aeronerauk

    Awesome example of the neanderthal cage driver.

    I started serious bike riding and racing back when the Tour de France got only a few minutes of coverage on Wide World of Sports, triathlons were just beginning to be held, and no one I rode with wore the colorful team rider Lycra or pointless hats that seemingly everyone wears now, however fat or out of shape they are.

    This kind of attitude was widespread - bikes belong on sidewalks or going in the opposite direction of traffic. Sorry, my friend, the law says otherwise. Bicycles have all of the rights and obligations of any vehicle allowed on the roads. You're the one breaking the law when you don't accord us our rights, though I freely admit there is a high percentage of adz hoe bike riders who have no business on the roads. I was never an assertive rider and rode the white line to try to stay out of everyone's way - more out of self-preservation than anything else.

    I am especially proud to say, since you brought it up, that when I was my university's bike club president I worked with urban planners and the city government to establish bike lanes through the city and in and around the downtown area that still exist today. There is a bridge to an island that has heavy concrete planters dividing the car lanes from the bike lanes.

    I went out to visit my mom in San Diego just before I got my degree and I brought my bike. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven with the way bikes were accepted there. It's just a matter of time. We'll survive you and your kind.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright

  • I'm up to 75,000 Twitter followers. Here's a nice profile of me in Compact magazine: Behind Steve Sailer’s Rise Helen Andrews Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. March 10, 2023 ... “I have this odd status as a sort of underground cult figure notorious for bizarrely sensible views based on careful...
  • I don’t get to read let alone comment as much as I used to but hopefully this will lead to more eyeballs and subsequently dollarbucks for the Sailer household. You deserve it Steve.

    • Agree: Vito Klein
  • There's a popular Latin phrase "De gustibus non est disputandum" that's taken to mean that there should be no arguing over matters of taste because it's all subjective. On the other hand, what if the point of an art form, such as architecture, is to enhance subjective feelings of well-being, such as making brides happier...
  • I’ve lived around Boston my whole life and only via twitter architecture did I realize that hideous parking garage was also city hall.

  • Racial differences in sports performance are often ascribed to culture -- e.g., there aren't that many black America's Cup yachtsmen for obvious reasons -- but there are some striking ones within sports, such as which positions different races tend to play in baseball. For example, there are lots of African-American centerfielders, the position that requires...
  • @Steven Carr
    Are there any black nhl goalies?

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Yes, numerous. Most notably Grant Fuhr, who anchored a lot of the high flying Oilers teams of the 1980s.

    These days there are fewer black goalies, purely I imagine because goalie has become so height dependent. If you’re under 6’2 you have to be so much better than your peers to go anywhere in hockey. Whereas a kid who’s 6’6 will be given every chance to succeed. Tall black kids play basketball.

    Grant Fuhr is 5’10 by the way.

    • Replies: @JohnnyUinta
    @Aeronerauk

    FYI - Fuhr is half black and half Canadian Indian(his birth parents).... but was raised by his adoptive white parents.

  • A friend says that Adam Sandler is a great guy who keeps half his high school senior class employed working on his many movies. So upscale audiences should appreciate when Sandler occasionally makes a film aimed at the upper third of audiences, such as his rom-coms The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates, and his...
  • I’ve heard the same thing about Sandler from his college buddy who appears in a lot of his films, so maybe a bit of a biased source. When Sandler was filming Grownups 2 I could not avoid the production at all; primary filming was done in my girlfriend’s hometown and I even came across THE SHAQ at my local grocery store. The only star people were meh on was Kevin James.

    I loved his movies as a kid but Uncut Gems was the first I enjoyed as an adult not dependent on nostalgia. Though I have to say his netflix mystery flick with Jennifer Aniston wasn’t too bad.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Aeronerauk

    I loved his movies as a kid but Uncut Gems was the first I enjoyed as an adult not dependent on nostalgia. Though I have to say his netflix mystery flick with Jennifer Aniston wasn’t too bad.

    I enjoyed Uncut Gems but then I can't stand his comedy. So his best movie by default.

    Could have done without the opening scene though.

  • From the New York Times-owned The Athletic: African Americans aren't very diverse in their interests. They really like the two sports they are really good at, and aren't all that interested in learning about all the other sports out there. The league, naturally, rushed to embrace its rare moment in the zeitgeist, sharing the video...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @Roadwarrior

    It's possible that a number of blacks who are not quite NFL material would make the NHL if they'd started playing ice hockey at age 6 like most NHL players.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    This wouldn’t be true to the extent many race realists would expect; longer legs offer less of a biomechanical advantage in ice skating. Acceleration in hockey is achieved initially by short, choppy strides. There are many fast black players, but none are really considered the fastest and almost all are biracial.

    The fastest (and best) player in the league currently is of Irish heritage.

    • Replies: @Prester John
    @Aeronerauk

    And arguably the second best is his German teammate.

    Replies: @Ganderson

  • I think my 1998 Infiniti I-30 with around 275,000 miles is about through. So, what should I get to replace it?
  • @Justice Duvall
    Buy whatever Toyota comfortably fits your body.

    They are affordable to buy and maintain, and they last forever.

    If you are feeling flush, buy a Lexus, which is a Toyota with fancier materials.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @Inquiring Mind, @Ron Mexico

    Agreed

    I purchased a brand new Rav4 last year and haven’t looked back. Though Steve is a bit taller than me so he may want something bigger. Toyota made the Camry very handsome looking about 10 years ago, and they finally did the same to the Rav4 with the 2019 redesign.

    The used car market (and new car too) is so inflated buying new made more sense given the peace of mind one gets with warranties.

    Unless you’re destitute or just know exactly what you want and have your mind set on it, buying new makes sense right now.

  • Personally, my own sense of taste and smell is like that of a child whose most sophisticated opinion is that while McDonalds fries taste better than Burger King fries, Burger King burgers taste better than McDonalds burgers. So, I only buy box wine at Costco. But there's endless evidence that other people aren't as deficient...
  • @Emil Nikola Richard
    If you can tell the difference between Burger King french fries and McDonalds french fries I am afraid that your test buds have gone insane.

    That is like comparing pig shit and dog shit. It does not amaze me that you drink box wine. 25.00 for a bottle of wine is what the bankers and politicians have done to the dollar.

    On the bright side your liver doesn't really want you drinking more than three or four bottles of wine per month any how.

    Replies: @Seminumerical, @Aeronerauk, @J.Ross

    absolutely bonkers comment. You’re either a snob or had your tastebuds burnt off in a childhood hot pocket accident.

  • From the New York Times news section: Quite a few professional athletes have been dying young lately. For instance, two recent NFL first round draft picks died in car crashes (and a third survived a 156 mph crash but killed a women he ran into). A U. of Kentucky basketball player who was headed tabbed...
  • @Corvinus
    @Aeronerauk

    “The restraint is only lethal if you’ve ingested fentanyl and require immediate medical intervention."

    Which results in prosecution.

    “In a vacuum, no, kneeling on someone’s shoulder blade is not a “lethal restraint”.

    It is for over 9 minutes by kneeling on someone’s neck.

    https://apnews.com/article/trials-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-racial-injustice-060f6e9e8b7079505a1b096a68311c2b

    Lt. Johnny Mercil, who has been in charge of teaching the use of force in the Minneapolis Police Department's training division, says former officer Derek Chauvin's use of his knee on George Floyd's neck is not a technique the police teach when instructing officers how to restrain people.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    No, that is simply incorrect. The Lt. is objecting to Chauvin’s technique, which I imagine may not be how it is taught in the department’s DT course.

    Again, kneeling on someone in that position is not going to kill them. If we were face to face, I would happily allow you to do the same to me. We could watch a couple Chappelle’s Show skits on my smartphone while you kneel and I lie prone.

    Nothing will happen to me because, again Corvy, I did not ingest any fentanyl.

    If your argument is that Chauvin was careless and should be prosecuted for negligence, I mean sure technically that’s true. But murder? The guy is a political prisoner.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Aeronerauk

    “Again, kneeling on someone in that position is not going to kill them. If we were face to face, I would happily allow you to do the same to me. We could watch a couple Chappelle’s Show skits on my smartphone while you kneel and I lie prone.”

    You are being an asshat here.

    —Once the person is cuffed, the threat level goes down all the way,” the lieutenant told jurors at Chauvin’s murder trial. “How can that person hurt you?” he asked, adding that “you getting injured is way down.” Keeping the person handcuffed and in a prone position “restricts their breathing,” he said. Asked by prosecutor Matthew Frank if he was ever trained to kneel on a person, Zimmerman said no. “Because if your knee is on someone’s neck — that could kill them,” the lieutenant said.—

    Look at the Minnesota law. It's was second degree unintentional murder. To prove this count, prosecutors had to show that Chauvin killed Floyd while committing or trying to commit a felony — in this case, third-degree assault. They didn't have to prove Chauvin intended to kill Floyd, only that he intended to apply unlawful force that caused bodily harm. Prosecutors called several medical experts who testified that Floyd died from a lack of oxygen because of the way he was restrained. A use of force expert also said it was unreasonable to hold Floyd in the prone position for 9 minutes, 29 seconds, handcuffed and face-down. So, yes, a person can die simply from that maneuver.

  • With all the money being poured into adding Diversity-Inclusion-Equity staffers since George Floyd's demise, today's teeming legions of DIE apparatchiks could do some real damage ... if they weren't so exhausted from all the emotional labor they must perform at all the DIE conferences they have to attend.
  • @Travis
    @AnotherDad

    Move to Maine and escape diversity tomorrow. Nothing is stopping white nationalists from moving to Maine to escape the encroaching diversity of their home states. Move to Maine and you will never see another Black person nor have to deal with a Black person , even when you go to Walmart or the DMV. Maine is already a white ethnostate within the US which can be a refuge for other like-minded whites who seek to escape from diversity.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @additionalMike, @Achmed E. Newman

    You haven’t been to Maine recently.

  • From the New York Times news section: Quite a few professional athletes have been dying young lately. For instance, two recent NFL first round draft picks died in car crashes (and a third survived a 156 mph crash but killed a women he ran into). A U. of Kentucky basketball player who was headed tabbed...
  • @Corvinus
    @Robert Dolan

    I never made the claims you stated. What is factual is that Officer Chauvin used a lethal restraint maneuver for 9 minutes that unquestionably was a factor in Floyd’s death.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    The restraint is only lethal if you’ve ingested fentanyl and require immediate medical intervention. In a vacuum, no, kneeling on someone’s shoulder blade is not a “lethal restraint.”

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Aeronerauk

    “The restraint is only lethal if you’ve ingested fentanyl and require immediate medical intervention."

    Which results in prosecution.

    “In a vacuum, no, kneeling on someone’s shoulder blade is not a “lethal restraint”.

    It is for over 9 minutes by kneeling on someone’s neck.

    https://apnews.com/article/trials-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-racial-injustice-060f6e9e8b7079505a1b096a68311c2b

    Lt. Johnny Mercil, who has been in charge of teaching the use of force in the Minneapolis Police Department's training division, says former officer Derek Chauvin's use of his knee on George Floyd's neck is not a technique the police teach when instructing officers how to restrain people.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

  • @epebble
    @Jack D

    why would you respect anonymous random dudes instead?

    Because Math is Hard. Really, multivariate statistics, sampling theory, Bayesian inference rules etc., are all beyond the grasp of most people. So, a convenient anecdote or two that reinforces one's prejudices and fears is very comforting. If you want to be philosophical about it, that is the Origin of Faith. Otherwise, how can one explain a billion people turning towards a meteorite five times a day, taking a dip in a river or consuming a piece of dry bread and fermented grape juice to bring solace to their souls?

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Here it is, the most cringeworthy comment on iSteve I’ve seen in months.

    Next time you tip your fedora as hard as this, please try to remember there are about a billion “believers” on this planet more intelligent than you are. Please stop embarrassing myself and other atheists with garbage comments like this.

    Thanks!

  • Smallish suburban lot.
  • @Undisclosed
    @Sean

    It never ceases to amaze me that people scoop up dog shit. Or for that matter that people who mask and hide indoors swap spit and mucus and fleas with canines.

    I understand of course the emotional benefits of owning your own very very dumb best friend who is dependent upon you and therefore worships you as a god. Dogs are definitely leas of a disappointment than children and warmer than candy crush. Plus you get to expend your selflessness on a being that volubly appreciates it instead of on a human who may not return the favor. Plus it's harder to make a faux pas with your bitch and it's harder for her to go to the press to accuse you of it.

    It just seems like something is wrong with us as humans if we are purchasing dogs and handling their shit. Steve deserves human company and relationships. Undoubtedly there are children whom he can enjoy being kind to but, for all their shit and teeth and eternal utter uselessness, dogs are more of a sure thing.

    That's one of the downsides of living in such a rich world.

    The fact that we must stoop to owning dogs for company ought to be a pretty big wakeup call to us that society as it currently stands is wildly unhealthy.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Pat Kittle

    What the hell are you talking about? People have owned dogs for millenia.

    Your fixation on fecal matters is also disturbing. Obviously you shouldn’t own a dog, or maybe even go outside.

    They have nice facilities for people like you.

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @Aeronerauk


    Your fixation on fecal matters is also disturbing. Obviously you shouldn’t own a dog, or maybe even go outside.
     
    Or have kids. Babies also produce a lot of fecal matter that you need to dispose.
  • Via Marginal Revolution, here's a story about a young lady who has always had a knack for remembering and recognizing faces. Some Australian scientists led by David White were studying people who get a knock on the head and lose the ability to recognize faces. Then they decided to look at the other other end...
  • @Buzz Mohawk
    My browser doesn't like the consent form, but FWIW, the older I get, the more I see people who look like other people I've know throughout life. I'm pretty sure this is the result of just having seen pretty much the whole gamut of faces by now.

    What do you folks call it? Phenotype?

    Another curious thing only a weirdo like me would think about: Notice how we pretty much just use the face as the unique identifier of a person. Without the face or head, people would just be bodies of more or less the same size, some fatter, taller, whatever, but indistinguishable. We are heads on bodies that support the heads.

    Our identities are in our heads. Hmm... think about that in all it's iterations for a moment...

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @OilcanFloyd, @Harry Baldwin

    Yes, phenotypes. Just recently a professional hockey player who’s face is nearly indistinguishable from my own came to prominence and no young player who sees me in my helmet and visor fails to inform me of the similarity.

    And I went my whole life telling people “no one looks like me.” Ooops.

    • Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
    @Aeronerauk

    LOL thanks. That's actually pretty cool. Best of luck to you on the ice.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Aeronerauk

    It could be a lot worse. At least your parents didn't name you Michael Bolton... or did they?

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    , @Anon
    @Aeronerauk


    Just recently a professional hockey player who’s face is nearly indistinguishable from my own came to prominence
     
    Lucky you if it’s the Caps Tom Wilson


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/54/10/6d54105599016363b0e3a2ea74a00bd6.jpg
    https://cdn.nhlpa.com/img/assets/players/headshots/450x450/33947.jpg

     

    or Boomer Esiason‘s son-in-law Matt Martin (or is it a young Brad Pitt?)


    https://s3951.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Matt-Martin-Islanders.jpg
    https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/photos/matt-martin-2014-52.jpg

     

    Both Wilson and Martin are 6’4”, tough guys, and skilled players.

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Mike Tre, @Ganderson

    , @Ganderson
    @Aeronerauk

    Anyone who saw me play, except perhaps someone from the darkest Amazon living in a tribe as yet untouched by civilization, would not confuse me with any pro hockey player. Of course the jungle dweller wouldn’t know what hockey was…

    Unfortunately for me, I resemble Stephen King. I’ve been asked for my autograph 3 times.

    One time was on the Broadway bus at 96th St. in NYC at 7 am. I asked the high school aged girl who requested the autograph “ If I were Stephen King you think I’d be riding the bus this early in the morning; or indeed at any time?” Point made.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

    , @Ganderson
    @Aeronerauk

    Oh, and which player?

    I’m told my slap shot resembles former Red Wing/Bruin/ North Star Reid Larson’s- that is if Reid had broken both his arms….

    The highlight of my hockey career was, when playing pickup one night with Reid as my D partner, the other team scored: Larson turned to me and said, “My fault”. Nice of him to say….

    Replies: @Ganderson

  • When I saw this, I had no idea what incident this tweet is referring to. Nowadays, I hear the #Frontlash before even hearing what trouble some Muslims have gotten themselves up to ... It's like a Norm Macdonald one-liner:
  • @Anon
    @Jimbo

    I got the joke and it's fucking dumb. It hinges on the idea that Muslims are able to kill a significant share of the US population. They aren't and they haven't. That's it. The entire joke is based around a stupid false premise.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Edmund

    No, you didn’t get the joke and clearly have some kind of developmental disorder.

    • Agree: Wade Hampton
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Aeronerauk

    The individual you're responding to clearly did "get the joke", and it's obvious that you yourself are butthurt that you didn't comprehend the gist of his comment the first time you read it. He's right. MacDonald's jokes are fruitless and reek of controlled opposition, and I therefore fervently hate him and hope he gets cancelled.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @J.Ross, @Alrenous

  • From Yahoo News and The Conversation: Professor Sturm-und-Drang looks like a 1970s pop singer, which is okay by me. On the other hand, the name "Circe Sturm" sounds like a Warning Label. Wed, December 15, 2021, 5:28 AM·6 min read The Native American population in the U.S. grew by a staggering 86.5% between 2010 and...
  • @Achmed E. Newman

    White Americans, often with the encouragement of the counterculture and later New Age movements, began to seek new meanings in Indigenous cultures.
     
    White people who try to live like it's 1950 outside ARE the counter-culture now! I mean, take the TV... please. You'll hardly see a White person participating in modern American society on it.

    Therefore, I am looking forward to 10 years from now, during the turbulent 30's, when all kinds of people start wearing shirts and ties to college, let xir hair grow long, start carrying around briefcases, go to alternative restaurants where you sit in booths and eat meat and potatoes, legally change xir names to ones like John Smith or Harold Jones, and move out to the country and build single-family houses with central heating and air, and there'll be some newfangled kind of music with songs like:

    White-adjacent people,
    White-adjacent pride,
    so proud to live,
    so proud to die!

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Joe Stalin

    Paul Revere and the Raiders are one of those bands I feel like I should like/listen to a lot more than I do.

    I can’t stand Indian Reservation but Kicks is an all-time tune.

    • Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo
    @Aeronerauk

    I never knew that. Thanks. Check out the groovy dancing chicks in the link:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8G4clUJBY

  • I enjoyed Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson's eight hour documentary Get Back on the Disney + streaming service reconstructed from the 60 hours of footage shot during the January 1969 recording sessions of the Beatles' Let It Be album (which was their last album released, but their second to last recorded: they came back...
  • @Ponydaemmerung
    @theMann

    Boomers were the first generation, as far as I know, to continue to listen to teenage music (what Tom Lehrer called "rock n' roll and other children's records") into adulthood and old age.

    I listened to the Beatles when I was 15. By the time I was seventeen, I was working on listening to all of Beethoven's symphonies. At one time, that would have been the normal course of events.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Wow, I bet MENSA was knocking your door down to join.

  • @JMcG
    @Anon

    How did the guy who wrote 80% of the Beatles music go on to write Wonderful Christmastime? Oh how I hate that song.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Raydio’s “You Can’t Change That” is a far superior late 70s/early 80s warblecore song. Wonderful Christmastime is almost up there with that horrific Mariah Carey song every mall/grocery store has on 24/7.

    • Agree: JMcG
  • From CNN: Also, from the New York Post:
  • @Mike Tre
    @JohnnyWalker123

    "This case has nothing to do with race...I support the BLM movement..."

    His cucking to BLM won't save him, if it's fear that motivated him to say that. If he is being sincere, then his efforts were all in vain.

    Unfortunate.

    Replies: @Paperback Writer, @Aeronerauk

    You’re being dramatic, all this tells me is that Rittenhouse is a blue pill conservative. Which means absolutely nothing the media has claimed about him is true.

    At 18 he’s hardly cemented his personal beliefs.

  • In this recent CDC report, the black line is total drug overdose deaths. The big inflection point upward is during the lockdown months of April and May 2020. May's deaths were around 12% higher than March's deaths, which is huge. The brown line that contributes most of the recent rise are our old friend "synthetic...
  • @J.Ross
    OT Crashing Terry MacAuliffe just got caught sending fake public racists (complete with unlit tiki torches and token black white supremacist) to pose in front of a Glenn Youngkin campaign bus.
    Potentially iStevey: Back in the early to mid 90s Terry Mac was the political genius who could do no wrong. In his current bid for gubernatorial re-election he can't catch a break, often as a direct result of his own actions, as seen in the softball interview he angrily stormed out of. Interestingly, the main thing Terry was doing back then, to the fury of the progressive fringe of the Democrat party, was to convince big players like Bill Clinton to try "acting like a Republican" (his exact words) and avoid the hippie dippy stuff. Terry is currently in trouble largely because he has since then gone full hippie dippy.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @guest007

    He’s still going to win.

    Probably.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Aeronerauk

    Sure, because of cheating, but in two more weeks, once we've flattened the curve, uhhh, all your dreams will come true.

    , @Barnard
    @Aeronerauk

    I can't wait for the election night reports of a leaky urinal in Fairfax county to result in all vote counting to be suspended for the night, only for it to suddenly resume at 3 AM with enough votes to put McAuliffe over the top. A GOP establishment stooge like Youngkin will just accept it and move on to his next cushy job.

    Replies: @Polistra

  • From Politico: First Covid raised the murder rate. Now it’s changing the politics of crime. Violent crime spiked across the country during the pandemic, forcing a reckoning in cities like Atlanta. By MAYA KING 10/28/2021 04:30 AM EDT ATLANTA — Volkan Topalli had just purchased two bags of potting soil at a Buckhead Home Depot...
  • I believe ol’ Volkan was in the area acquiring crack. Judging from the interview, he smokes it quite vociferously.

    • Replies: @Mustapha Mond
    @Aeronerauk

    "I believe ol’ Volkan was in the area acquiring crack. Judging from the interview, he smokes it quite vociferously."

    Vociferously: "In a loud or forceful manner".

    The word I suspect you actually wanted was, "incessantly", i.e., endlessly, without interruption.

    I made the substitution in my mind when I read your post originally; thanks for the "LOL" it gave me.

    Yeah, it's pretty nuts getting your lower arm half blown off, and then making semi-excuses for the violence as if it were natural and to be expected. Which apparently it is now in this country, sad to say.....

  • A problem facing the Chinese Communist Party is the question: What is Communism good for? Increasingly, Xi Jinping's answer appears to be that Communism is good for keeping the foreign devils from degenerating our culture. From the Wall Street Journal:
  • @Anonymous
    OT.

    1970s British prog rockers 'Genesis' have, apparently, launched what they call their 'farewell tour'. Interesting enough in its own right, but the real shocker is the physical state of onetime Genesis singer/drummer Phil Collins who looks like a very aged, wizened, infirm old man, who is physically incapable of even holding a drumstick, and has to remain seated throughout the performance. His son, bless him, has taken over Genesis drumming.

    Perhaps it's not too much of a stretch to say that Phil Collins *was* the Spirit of the Eighties, not only having the iconic 'In the Air Tonight' featured heavily in the defining TV show of the era, 'Miami Vice' but actually acting in it too.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    I saw Phil solo several years ago and he apologized for his physical state (back troubles.) He still sounds like himself, which isn’t overly impressive considering his range but the show was very good.

    Given his wealth those back issues must be serious if he’s reduced to using a cane in his 60s.

  • The comedian has died at 61 of cancer.
  • I can’t say I’m shocked, his appearance over the last few years is certainly explained by his illness. And being in the chorus of people continually urging Norm to do “more” (tv, movies, etc,) I feel a little guilty about it now. But his illness definitely lines up with his reduced work, sans that quickly cancelled Netflix talk show.

    RIP to a true legend.

    • Replies: @Jokah Macpherson
    @Aeronerauk

    He had aged a ton in appearance over the last 10 years. It was pretty noticeable. But just as funny as ever.

  • Judging from some of the comments, gym bros lost us Afghanistan. Ok? As a gym bro I don’t feel like we’re in charge of the military. The girly men who do run our armed forces are in shape, but gym bros? Hardly.

  • iSteve commenter Patrick McNally speculates: Obama was extremely WASP by upbringing (e.g., his highly-competent grandfather's brother was named Dr. Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham) and probably was subject to less Jewish influence than most Presidents since George H.W. Bush or JFK or Ike. Because of this the 8 years which Obama spent in office were largely...
  • @Paperback Writer

    But what is even more important is the way that this affected the psyche of most ordinary Jews across the USA, and even around the world.
     
    I'm always amused at the unique insights ISteve commenters have into the psyche of "ordinary Jews."

    The fact is that most "ordinary Jews' adore Obama. Michelle makes a good living speaking at liberal synagogues. How does that square with Mr. McNally's theory?

    (Hint: I know a few JINSA types. They're about as representative of most "ordinary Jews" as any fringe group is of other groups.)

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @El Dato, @Patrick McNally, @Old Prude, @Louis Renault

    That was the point of his comment, they adore Obama despite his opposition to Netanyahu and the Neocons. Their adulation has nothing to do with his policies and everything to do with civil rights nostalgia.

    Instead they HATE HATE HATE (as Whiskey would say) conservative whites who support them partially because of civil rights nostalgia. And of course because every white person is a potential Nazi.

  • Update: Dr. Jones explains his paper on his blog here. From Evolution and Human Behavior:
  • @JohnnyWalker123
    https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1417117928399544323

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @AnotherDad, @Paperback Writer

    One of the gayest looking players I’ve ever seen so no surprise here. Also, this is gonna get him, not a roster spot but definitely a trump card if it comes down to him and a few other players for a roster spot.

  • A pattern has been emerging in July, during what is becoming the fifth wave of the covid pandemic in the U.S., in which some states with relatively low vaccination rates have seen a take-off in their numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The correlation between a state's cases per 100,000 and the % not fully...
  • “Granted, I realize that several of my most strident commenters are 22-year-old Nietzschean ubermensches with 56″ chests and 31″ waists who are utterly invulnerable to covid due to their being all-around immortal in general”

    I’m 32 Steve but thanks, perfect description otherwise (though I wear a size 32 waist because my ass is huge from years of ice hockey.)

    Joking (I mean, only partially) aside why am I obligated to vaccinate? If it’s because i’ll infect the vulnerable… uh aren’t they vaccinated?

  • I have been myopic (near-sighted) since 3rd grade and presbyopic (far-sighted) since c. age 53. And now I have cataracts slowly developing. Which kind of new lenses should I have installed in my eyes? Monofocal: optimal distance vision and better for glare from headlights at night. Would need reading glasses. Multifocal: wouldn't need classes at...
  • I had LASIK performed 5 years ago for near sightedness and it’s been fine. What was interesting was the poor doctor who, I don’t know if it’s legally required or not, has to talk to everyone he performs the procedure on. He talked to me for 5 minutes, but not really. His eyes were vacant and if I had gotten up and left it seemed like he would’ve continued his spiel to the wall behind me until he was finished.

    I would’ve been more irritated but I think those guys perform them like an assembly line. It’s a brief procedure, so they probably do a dozen possibly more a day.

  • As we all know, the life of the African-American is a grim one as they cower in terror from the police. Systemic racism keeps them from ever having any fun, they can never even smile from the horrifying words of "The Talk" resounding in their heads, as can be seen in this video of what...
  • @Gary in Gramercy
    "Along with sideshow activity, the violence overtook all of our resources." Damn that violence!

    Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong (with a name like "LeRonne," you just know he's no Captain McCluskey): he is the very model of a modern negro bureaucrat. Apologies to G&S, and to John Derbyshire, who recently wrote a delightful song-length parody about Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Thoroughly Modern Milley.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Rob

    Yes, that was a delightful segment of radio derb.

  • Today, men who announce that, sure, they've fathered a whole passel of kids while pursuing a career in the Navy SEALs or in computer chip design or in libertarian economics or in making a fortune from shootig rockets into outer space or whatever, but they always knew they were a girl on the inside, are...
  • @R.G. Camara
    I believe one reason so many tranny males try to force their "I'm a female" nonsense on people is that they not only get off on fantasizing as a female, they also get off on violently bullying other people into saying it.

    Many of these men were hyper-obsessed with dominating masculine athletic activities, so much so they abused cutting edge, little -understood drugs of their time. This addiction to dominance and their latent sexual fetish were heightened/warped by the 'roids and combined them.

    The behavior of many m-to-f trannies fits in with the kind of psycho bullying one might see in a high school drama portraying the jocks as out of control. They get off on making people so fearful they literally say lies---that's now part of their fetish.

    I'm reminded of Gene Hackman's bullying sheriff character in Unforgiven, who is unlettered, and when reading a book mispronounces "Duke" as "Duck." When the greenhorn East Coast writer corrects him that's it's "Duke", Hackman shoots him a deadly look and replies, "Duck I says." After that, despite the fact that both know it's pronounced "Duke", they say "Duck", and Hackman has proved his power: he has made the greenhorn say something he knows isn't true, only because Hackman is a bully and wants him to do it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS8IPEulMp4

    It's all very communistic. Stalin used to get off on changing the official state propaganda each week, all to see his underlings jump and pretend they were always at war with East Asia. Or, as Darymple put it, the purpose of communist propaganda isn't to get the people to believe it, its to force them to repeat something they know isn't true ---and so demoralize them by making them part of the lie.

    Replies: @Craig Nelsen, @Aeronerauk, @Mike Tre

    While there may be some element of this with the very top echelon of trannies, the vast majority simply do not fit that description. Most are quiet, meek boys who do not participate in sports. Many are borderline if not outright autistics.

    An acquaintance of mine recently “came out” as trans. He’s cantankerous, argumentive online, but more passively sarcastic in real life. Not a girly girl. Before he painted his nails and put on a dress no one would have accused him of being a mans man either.

    I imagine this phenomena is more a result of unlimited, depraved pornography and media encouragement than any one particular personality type being susceptible.

    • Agree: Red Pill Angel
  • From the New York Times news section: Or maybe most sports, other than figure skating, water ballet, and a few others, developed as tests of heteronormative standards of masculinity? That would also explain why there are so many more lesbians in most sports than there are gay males. I pointed this out 27 years ago...
  • Slyvester and his collaborator Patrick Cowley were two of the earlier victims of AIDS. Jermaine Stewart is another, though he went much later. A lot of secondary acts from the 70s/80s, guys who charted but could never fill an arena by themselves, were hit by AIDS. Maybe reaching the upper echelon is easier with a heterosexual brain?

    My uncle died of AIDS in the early 90s. His life was tragic, and I’m saddened I was never able to get to know him let alone help. His introduction to the homosexual lifestyle began when he was, not shockingly, an altar boy. My father has never forgiven the church.

    The variety of factors others have listed here ensures male sports remain heterosexual dominant and female sports homosexual dominant. Male homosexual athletes who progress to the pros are probably unusually gifted/genetically blessed. Otherwise, the motivation to grind through and put the work in dries up quickly.

  • From KPTV in Portland: And from the New York Post:
  • @Wade Hampton

    My theory is that the only likely to have any beneficial effect is telling blacks that they should be ashamed of their bad behavior and they must knock it off. But that’s unthinkable these days.
     
    Perhaps you meant something like the following:

    My theory is that the only propaganda likely to have any beneficial effect
     
    Billboards will have zero impact on black behavior. Two policy changes are the only things that will have any beneficial effect:

    --Stop subsidizing illegitimacy.
    --Stringent law enforcement in the ghetto.

    Of course, neither of these things are likely to be done.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Yeah I can’t imagine why, 60+ years after desegregation, anyone could think something other than those two things would make a dent in black misbehavior.

    A billboard with an ambulance chasing attorney advertising his services would help more blacks.

  • As I've been pointing out for quite a few years, the United States is undergoing a revival of superstition and witch-hunting in the name of Anti-Racism. Millions of modern Americans are deeply concerned that a vast secret coterie of White Supremacist Terrorists are signaling to each other on your favorite TV shows. For example, from...
  • My wife is acquaintances with this guy’s wife, and he’s apparently a Trump guy. Wears a Make America Great Again hat etc. Pretty unapologetic about it too.

    I think that was well known by the witch hunters before he threw up a “white supremacist” gang sign.

    • Agree: Servant of Gla'aki
    • Thanks: Polemos, baythoven
    • Replies: @Alden
    @Aeronerauk

    ADL always does a through investigation before they attack. If ADL found a Jewish gr grandma he would have been left alone.

  • Many have wondered who is the large black man who, after the late Columbus teen Ma'Khia Bryant knocks down a young woman, comes over and kicks the prone woman in the head, almost hitting Officer Nick Reardon whit his impressive follow-through? A blog by Uncle Turtleboy has delved into the depths of social media to...
  • @Alden
    @Aeronerauk

    Better scramble the fetus brains and throw it in the trash than it grows up and harms one of my grown fetuses in any way. If you had any grown up fetuses you’d understand

    I really can’t understand childless White men such as the catholic clergy and backwoods bible thumpers obsession with black women aborting future criminals parasites and affirmative action beneficiaries.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Blah blah blah my vagina. Ok, you had an abortion as a youngster and it haunts you. Not a rare occurrence and i’m not judging you. Sterilization is a nice option for women who want countless loads dumped in them, it’s even reversible these days.

    Also, I am a proud parent 🙂

  • @Alden
    @Jonathan Mason

    I really try not to be a bitch. But the incredible naïveté about black sex life of the average White man forces me to be a bitch . You’re an immigrant so your naïveté and ignorance are excusable.

    Blacks really really really really don’t approve of contraception. After 60 65?? years black women still believe the birth control pill will kill them. IUDs are ummm gross. As for black men, They would have to buy rubbers, keep them around and put them on. That requires a little thought and planning. Black men hate rubbers anyway. Many just refuse to use them. Many black men think rubbers cause impotence. Really.

    Then there’s the black Christian churches. Like some of the dam fool idiot MEN OF UNZ many black preachers have convinced their congregations abortion and birth control are

    1 A terrible sin and against the Bible.
    2. A plot by evil Whitey

    Black and Hispanic women are the majority of aborters. Black women don’t think about birth control till they’re already a couple months pregnant.

    Black men just plain hate rubbers.

    You’re English no? Must be familiar with the saying “ There’s nowt so queer as folk” people are crazy, stupid and destructive of themselves and the societies in which they live.

    Dogooder White women have urged contraception on black women for decades

    Time for dogooder White men to do their part and urge contraception on black men. Form a tax exempt social justice non profit to teach contraception to black men. Hire a commission grant writer to hustle con and grift all that government money Give yourself a CEO title and a 200K a year salary. Give the spouse 150K a year as black transgender out reach director.

    And try, just try, to convince black men to use contraception

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Aeronerauk

    “black preachers have convinced their congregations abortion [is:]

    1 A terrible sin and against the Bible.”

    Well they’re right about the first part, though I’m not sure the writers of the good book had considered the moral implications of scrambling a fetus’ brains and throwing it in the trash.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Aeronerauk

    Better scramble the fetus brains and throw it in the trash than it grows up and harms one of my grown fetuses in any way. If you had any grown up fetuses you’d understand

    I really can’t understand childless White men such as the catholic clergy and backwoods bible thumpers obsession with black women aborting future criminals parasites and affirmative action beneficiaries.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

  • @black sea
    "She's just a kid!" is going to become the new "Hands up, don't shoot!"

    Replies: @Kronos, @James J O'Meara, @Buck Ransom

    I’m sure only fans will get it, but every time I hear Knife Girl referred to as “she’s just a kid!” I hear the MST3k guys shouting “He’s just a just a child!” when murderous “teenager in his thirties” Tom Pace appears in “The Girl in Gold Boots”.

    • LOL: Aeronerauk
  • The right to humiliate high school girl track athletes who want a fair chance at winning a running race has become one of the touchstones of modern liberalism, but why should this crucial freedom be restricted merely to the two-legged?
  • @Red Pill Angel
    Hi There said: Sailer says it’s not “fair” to let biological males identifying as females play in girl sports, because they have biological advantages. Sports is loaded with biological advantages, some people are taller or have longer legs. Arguably that isn’t “fair” either.

    You lifted that argument directly from that Rachel McKinnon bicycling jackass, who is observably neither a male nor female athlete, just a big fat man. Ok, then, if it's fair to allow the boys who like to wear dresses to compete against girls, why not other boys? Let all the boys compete against all the girls on the field, all the boys will win, and that will be fair.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    I gotta believe Hi There, in addition to being a reference to “Big Time” by Peter Gabriel, is trolling.

  • From the New York Times news section on Saturday: It’s More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood The fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, highlights the different standards that young Black girls are held to. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta April 24, 2021, 2:30 p.m. ET “Ma’Khia Bryant was...
  • I saw someone who just reacted and didn’t take a lay of the land in terms of what was happening, didn’t ask questions, didn’t try to interrupt the fight

    This whole situation reminds me of Dirty Harry (2:11) and The Naked Gun

    • LOL: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @ScarletNumber

    In today's Clown-World World, it's hard to imagine that the answer to the question "Who should we get to play the mayor of San Francisco?" would be: John Vernon.

    If I lived in San Francisco, and John Vernon was on the ballot..............I'd vote for him. Frisco could do a lot worse. And has.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber, @anon

    , @william munny
    @ScarletNumber

    I didn't realize for years that the Mayor in the Naked Gun later became Tony Soprano's mom.

    Replies: @ScarletNumber

  • Here's the most read "news" story in the Washington Post right now, another example of upside-down article construction in which the facts are withheld until long after most readers have moved on: Those outraged by the body camera footage included Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli, and Jose Feliciano. as it became the latest in a string...
  • @Desiderius
    @The Last Real Calvinist

    There’s dissension in the ranks. Only NBC ran the propaganda while CBS and ABC played it straight, and evidently even Don Lemon isn’t on board this one.

    Replies: @Yancey Ward, @Aeronerauk

    Yes, the usual suspects on my social media aren’t howling at all about this one. Releasing the bodycam video so quickly has taken a lot (but not all ofc) wind out of the narrative’s sails.

  • From today's White House press briefing:
  • @onetwothree
    @Hateful Hornytoad

    You are out of your damn mind hitting any kind of right-wing site from work. I wouldn't even dare use controlled opposition websites like foxnews.

    ...

    As for the officer in question, he was out of his own damn mind. If you get a call and it's a bunch of EBT-fattened idiot blacks trying to kill each other, just keep on driving to the nearest Dunkin'. Come back later to secure the murder scene.

    Replies: @Paleo Liberal, @Achmed E. Newman

    Is it possible that Mr. Hornytoad is not as cowed as you are? I have looked at VDare, Unz, whatever I want on common work computers. Now, if they bring up that you should be doing work instead, that’s another story – it should be the same for all non-work-related stuff. Stopping anything but work-related internet viewing is a pretty tall order in this day and age anyway.

    Kudos to Mr. Hornytoad for not being a wuss in this respect.

    I agree with your 2nd paragraph, OneTwoThree.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @Grahamsno(G64)
    @Achmed E. Newman

    There's a poster on UNZ who confessed to getting fired for viewing UNZ on his work computer. I won't mention his name but the threat is real, I wouldn't be so cavalier about the hazards of wrongview websites at work. But then there's the possibility that they wanted to get rid of him and used this as an excuse.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  • From the New York Times news section: Note that the NYT didn't have the body camera footage when they posted this article. I do, and I analyze it below. My brief impression was that Mayor Ginther handled it pretty well, unlike many other politicians recently, emphasizing keep calm and wait for the facts. He didn't...

  • One can see that the girl in pink thinking she is going to be stabbed has lifted her leg and is half on the car with Ma’Khia Bryant right on top of her. Note that this is taken from farther away and so earlier that the frame in the post imediately before the cop started shooting (he hit her four times). Let us examine certain facts.

    1) This girl had the knife and was menacing people before the cop arrives

    2) No one was even slightly injured with a knife in the incident.

    3) The appearance of the cop did nothing to calm the girl with the knife down, if anything it seemed to have coincided with her behaving much more threateningly, but she didn’t hurt anyone in the many minutes before the cop arrived or the 40 seconds after he did. No one got a scratch from the knife, surely we would have heard if this were not so.

    Watching it several times in super slo-mo, it looks like a great shoot that stopped a likely murder with maybe 0.3 seconds to spare before the big knife plunged home, like a scene in a 1950s Western TV show in which the sheriff shoots the bandit just as the bad guy attempts to kill the schoolmarm.

    Yes, those were shows with actors pretending and having no real intent to injure anyone. There is not a single confirmed example of an actual Western movie or TV style quick draw gunfight or duel ever happening in the old West. Entertainment shows what is cinematic. Similarly, use of a knife onscreen has a great deal of swinging side to side. To plunge a knife home you lunge and extend your arm straight at the intended target. Not swing it (what people there say she was doing) or wind it up behind behind your back like Max Baer preparing to throw a haymaker.

    I think Ms Bryant was overwhelmed with her emotions and threatening people with a deadly weapon, but if she had wanted to kill that girl she’d be dead. The whole thing is very tragic, but people have unrealistic expectations of what the police can do in a situation with someone acting like Ms Bryant was. I don’t think the shooting was a very bad one, but neither was it particularly good. Moral: just as it is inadvisable to go to the doctor unless you are truly ill, because a series of unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatments and tests can be set in motion, don’t call the cops on someone and expect psychiatric social workers to turn up.

    • Troll: Aeronerauk
  • Are obsolete concepts like "the state must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" now considered racist?
  • @Feryl
    @Anonymous

    See: Charles Manson and Tex Watson. After you graduate high school, you realize that socially dominant smaller guys can eventually learn how to control people. Also, Chauvin had a history of taking liberties, but he did it mostly to presumably awful people so what the heck.

    Chauvin should've taken the knee off earlier, and he could've done this more easily if they worked as a team better. But the other three were content to just stay out of Chauvin's way.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    lmao Charles Manson and Tex Watson. What are you smoking?

  • anon[347] • Disclaimer says:
    @Corvinus
    @D. K.

    Criminologists viewing the tape said the knee restraint not only put dangerous pressure on the back of the neck, but that Floyd was kept lying on his stomach for too long. Both positions — the knee on the neck and lying face down — run the risk of cutting off someone’s oxygen supply.

    It would be accurate to say that his death was “caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine, and fentanyl intoxication”. It would NOT be accurate for anyone to say the questionable police tactic played a limited or no role in the death, and thus warranted criminal charges. Whether it be murder or manslaughter is up to the discretion of the prosecuting attorneys, and for a jury to decide.

    Of course, if you want to volunteer being in Floyd's position for 9 minutes, be our guest.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @anon, @Negrolphin Pool, @D. K., @Aeronerauk

    Of course, if you want to volunteer being in Floyd’s position for 9 minutes, be our guest.

    I will do that, no problem, at the end of 9:29 I’ll get right back up, too.

    Of course this only applies provided you volunteer to have the same dose of Fentanyl and meth in your blood that was circulating in Floyd’s bloodstream. 11 ng/mL of Fentanyl, just for a start.

    Deal?

    • LOL: Aeronerauk
  • @Corvinus
    @D. K.

    Criminologists viewing the tape said the knee restraint not only put dangerous pressure on the back of the neck, but that Floyd was kept lying on his stomach for too long. Both positions — the knee on the neck and lying face down — run the risk of cutting off someone’s oxygen supply.

    It would be accurate to say that his death was “caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine, and fentanyl intoxication”. It would NOT be accurate for anyone to say the questionable police tactic played a limited or no role in the death, and thus warranted criminal charges. Whether it be murder or manslaughter is up to the discretion of the prosecuting attorneys, and for a jury to decide.

    Of course, if you want to volunteer being in Floyd's position for 9 minutes, be our guest.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @anon, @Negrolphin Pool, @D. K., @Aeronerauk

    “Of course, if you want to volunteer being in Floyd’s position for 9 minutes, be our guest.”

    Gladly, nothing will happen. What do I get?

  • @Whiskey
    Its not cycling down. Already Minneapolis is experiencing riots and looting. As are other cities. The cops are all on total donut patrol. Maxine Waters and AOC are demanding total de-policing and more to come:

    A. Reparations forever, aka a White Tax.
    B. Changing the medical system, firing all White doctors and nurses.
    C. Firing all White policemen.

    NYC, as I predicted, is doomed. It will resemble Escape from New York and the Road Warrior.

    Expect probing attacks into White suburbs and police flee. With help from a mobilized National Guard to disarm victims and allow more looting and burning.

    The amp is turned up to 11 and can't be turned off or down. Its just going to go on and on and on.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Not hating, I enjoy your comments actually. But man I love skimming the comments, reading a random line of text and immediately recognizing “oh that’s Whiskey.” You comment/commented on Heartiste’s blog correct?

  • @Dr. Robert Morgan
    How many white men did this scumbag help the system railroad into prison in his long career as a cop? Now he knows how it feels.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @ThreeCranes, @Aeronerauk

    Probably none.

  • Pure self preservation by the jury. They would have been doxed/fired/excommunicated from society if they found in favor of Chauvin.

  • In general, yes.

    But specifically, I don’t think there’s a reasonable doubt that Chauvin’s actions and choices were a big contributing factor in Floyd’s death in custody.

    • Agree: Jonathan Mason, Corvinus
    • LOL: Wade Hampton
    • Troll: JimDandy, TWS
    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @Discordiax

    Don't be ridic.

    , @Tusk
    @Discordiax

    Policing Black bodies is inherently violent so of course Chauvin was guilty of genociding Floyd by restraining him.

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Joseph Doaks

    , @tyrone
    @Discordiax

    George Floyd 's actions and choices were a VERY big factor in his death (not murder!).

    Replies: @ThreeCranes, @Discordiax

    , @D. K.
    @Discordiax

    How, exactly, are you certain that the slight officer's one knee on the large criminal's thick neck, which was strategically placed so as to cut off neither his breathing nor his blood flow, and which caused no physical damage, external or internal, that could be detected at autopsy-- which found that he died of heart failure, not from either strangulation or asphyxiation-- nonetheless caused the overdosed felon's death, "beyond a reasonable doubt [and to a moral certainty]?"

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Feryl, @Corvinus, @JimmyBee

    , @Wilkey
    @Discordiax

    For manslaughter? Perhaps. For murder? Hell no.

    If there's one thing I haven't missed about the 80s it's the crime rates. But they're about to start roaring back. Thanks to Biden's AFFH plans, they'll be coming to a neighborhood near you. There will be no white flight from them this time.

    , @vinteuil
    @Discordiax


    I don’t think there’s a reasonable doubt that Chauvin’s actions and choices were a big contributing factor in Floyd’s death in custody.
     
    Really? Seriously? Not even a "reasonable doubt?"

    You're absolutely certain that Floyd would have lived were it not for Chauvin's knee on his shoulder?

    Replies: @AndrewR

    , @Mike Tre
    @Discordiax

    If you're serious, then I don't trust you with manually inflating party balloons.

    , @Jus' Sayin'...
    @Discordiax


    ... I don’t think there’s a reasonable doubt that Chauvin’s actions and choices were a big contributing factor in Floyd’s death in custody.
     
    I think that you don't have a clue what the legal concepts "reasonable doubt" and "contributing factor" entail.
    , @AndrewR
    @Discordiax

    Lol you have incurred the wrath of the mindless racists of unz.com

    , @Wade Hampton
    @Discordiax

    Chauvins actions contributed. That and Floyd hooping fentanyl. But mostly Floyd hooping fentanyl.

    , @AnotherDad
    @Discordiax


    But specifically, I don’t think there’s a reasonable doubt that Chauvin’s actions and choices were a big contributing factor in Floyd’s death in custody.
     
    That is frankly ridiculous.

    Just like i don't know the reverse.

    Floyd set this table and is completely responsible for his own death, in any meaningful sense of the word "responsible".

    Whether another cop--not trained in the MDPs knee kneeling technique--would have subdued and restrained Floyd in a different manner and that would have been sufficient for Floyd to survive is simply unknown and probably unknowable. (Strikes me the main hope for Floyd was getting narcan quicker and that failure was some sort of bureaucratic dispatch foul up.)

    But the main point remains: Floyd is not entitled to "best medically appropriate" subduing and restraining when he resists arrests. Chauvin isn't his nurse or an EMT.

    Chauvin's job when Floyd resists is to subdue and restrain him according to MPD protocols. That he seems to have done. And he sure as hell seemed to think he was doing it.

    If people have a problem with the neck kneel ... take that up with the MPD brass and ultimately the Democratic, Antifa loving mayor Jacob Frey.

    Replies: @utu, @Twinkie, @CMC

    , @Negrolphin Pool
    @Discordiax

    If you actually paid attention to the arguments and still concluded that. You're a moron.

    , @anon
    @Discordiax

    Agreed.

    Steve himself, on more than one occasion, has pined for the old days where cops would administer some extra-judicial beatings in the service of crime reduction. Where is the But Muh Constitution!!! principled objection in those circumstances?

    Fair or not, this trial was a referendum on cops' depraved indifference toward human life. Chauvin didn't have to leave the knee on the neck for 10 minutes. He apparently just didn't give a shit if the guy died because he had calculated he'd face no legal ramifications.

    If it takes an instance or two of not letting cops off on technicalities to get the police unions to budge, then so be it. Got to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

    Replies: @anon, @Joseph Doaks

    , @Ben tillman
    @Discordiax

    His actions’ being a big contributing factor doesn’t amount to a crime. He can cause the death without any mens rea. No mens rea means no crime.

    Replies: @Sean

    , @BillyD
    @Discordiax

    Fentanyl level 11mg/ml, 3mg/ml usually fatal.
    Floyd's lousy health, combined with the amount of fentanyl, caused him to die under the stress of resisting arrest. Enough reasonable cause for me.

  • The Democrats used to nominate for President guys like Mondale and Humphrey in part because Minnesota was likely the best-run state in the Union. Times have changed...
  • @Jack D
    @El Dato

    The jury heard. The verdict is going to be read soon. Such a quick verdict does not bode well for Chauvin. His lawyer sucked. The fix was in. I predict that he will get 10 years.

    Replies: @anon, @Alfa158, @Paperback Writer, @Paperback Writer, @Getaclue

    The jurors know the reality. If he was acquitted they would have been hunted down like animals.
    Innocent or guilty, and I think his behavior was wrong, Chauvin had the same chance of acquittal as Nikolai Bukharin.
    The only question now is whether there will be celebratory rioting.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @Alfa158

    They were almost certainly going to convict because anyone who was actually open to the possibility that Chauvin was innocent would likely have tried to avoid jury duty in this case. I know I, for one, would have tried to get out of it. As a consequence, the jury was almost certainly composed of at least a segment if not a unity of people who were there just because they wanted to convict, regardkess of the trial.

    , @tyrone
    @Alfa158

    OOPS! ......I think you meant to say "hunted down BY animals".

    , @captflee
    @Alfa158

    I was just telling my son that Mikhail Nikolayevich is tonight smiling mordantly in the overcrowded, reeking of beets and tobacco, Soviet Socialist Republic of Hell.

  • From WQOW:
  • @Aeronerauk
    @ATBOTL

    "A handcuffed man cannot escape or threaten multiple armed police."

    That's actually not true.

    Replies: @Spud Boy

    ““A handcuffed man cannot escape or threaten multiple armed police.”

    That’s actually not true.”

    OK, then zip tie his legs together, and then zip tie the leg zip tie to the handcuffs behind his back. Where’s he going to go when hog tied like that?

    • LOL: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @vhrm
    @Spud Boy


    OK, then zip tie his legs together, and then zip tie the leg zip tie to the handcuffs behind his back. Where’s he going to go when hog tied like that?
     
    Chauvin and the others considered doing just that when discussing getting a hobble.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/explainer-decision-hobble-issue-chauvin-trial-76911886

  • @Blodgie
    @Aeronerauk

    The only way the midwit was able to make that money was by getting Democrats elected who agreed to the outrageous union demands.

    Are you OK with that trade off?

    The cops are.

    Wake up, bootlicker.

    Replies: @bomag, @Aeronerauk, @Buycotter

    Bootlicker? That yoga must be paying off.

    But anyway you’re not completely off base to associate strong unions with shitty democrat politicians getting elected. Here’s an easy solution: Republicans should support unions that benefit their voters.

    Pretty sure cops individually vote republican even in spite of the latter’s anti union policies.

    • Replies: @Blodgie
    @Aeronerauk

    But cops union dues have been used to elect Dems for decades.

    They got in bed with the left and thought it would work out.

    Now the left has turned on the cops and I have no sympathy for them.

  • @Blodgie
    We DO know that Chauvin has a tiny brain, that much is certain.

    He should do ten years for creating the optics that he did.

    How could anyone in his job have less situational awareness?

    Thanks a lot Derek, you fucking Normandale food preparation dropout!

    Yet this union dunce had TWO houses thanks to the police keeping Democrats elected in cities like MPLS.

    Asshole.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Reg Cæsar

    “Yet this union dunce had TWO houses thanks to the police keeping Democrats elected in cities like MPLS.” Well there it is, that’s also fueling a lot of cop hate from the other side. HOW DARE THIS BLUE COLLAR JOB PAY WELL?!

    • Replies: @Blodgie
    @Aeronerauk

    The only way the midwit was able to make that money was by getting Democrats elected who agreed to the outrageous union demands.

    Are you OK with that trade off?

    The cops are.

    Wake up, bootlicker.

    Replies: @bomag, @Aeronerauk, @Buycotter

  • @ATBOTL
    After Floyd went unconscious would have been a good time to do was take his knee off his neck, better yet before he went unconscious. A handcuffed man cannot escape or threaten multiple armed police and we have to stop treating garden variety criminals like Hannibal Lecter. That will stop most of these kinds of incidents before they start. Without excessive police control tactics, this would be just another overdose out of something like 50,000 a year.

    Whether Chauvin's actions contributed to Floyd's death or not, it was foolish to do what he did with people watching and filming. Even if no one was watching, he should have shown more care with a person in custody. If the left didn't racialize the issue, most commenters here would see what happened in a more nuanced way. The left's radicalizing the issue has distracted from legitimate issues of police brutality and abuse of authority that affect all Americans.

    Replies: @bucky, @Aeronerauk, @James Braxton, @Houston 1992, @Forbes

    “A handcuffed man cannot escape or threaten multiple armed police.”

    That’s actually not true.

    • Agree: Redneck farmer
    • Replies: @Spud Boy
    @Aeronerauk

    "“A handcuffed man cannot escape or threaten multiple armed police.”

    That’s actually not true."

    OK, then zip tie his legs together, and then zip tie the leg zip tie to the handcuffs behind his back. Where's he going to go when hog tied like that?

    Replies: @vhrm

  • The New York Times news section has a pretty good explanation of the last second of the life of 13-year-old gang-banger "Lil Homicide" Toledo: A Chase and a Fatal Split-Second Decision: How an Officer Killed Adam Toledo In just under one second, the 13-year-old from Chicago appeared to toss away a handgun and turn with...
  • @Chris Mallory
    It shows a government employee shooting an unarmed male because the government employee never learned the most basic of rules, YOU DO NOT SHOOT UNTIL YOU ID YOUR TARGET AND WHAT IS BEHIND IT. The cop did not make sure the male was armed and a threat before he fired his weapon. His finger should not have even been on the trigger. Bad shoot all the way around.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Mike1, @NickG

    The idiocy of statements like this are just so much higher because you fancy yourself a gun safety expert. The cop KNEW the kid was armed and his finger should not have been on the trigger?!

    You identify what is behind an armed suspect before deciding to fire?

    This is not a gun range or your uncle’s farm you simpering fool. This was a real life chase with real guns in an alley.

    • Thanks: Johann Ricke
    • LOL: Aeronerauk
  • @3g4me
    @AnotherDad

    @1 AnotherDad: But that's Sailer's raison d'etre - endlessly parsing Jevvish hypocrisy, Asian triumphalism, black dysfunction. And whatever would his commentariat do, who never, ever move on from tediously parsing others' dysfunction while proudly trumpeting their own ethnic/racial origins (Jack D, Twinkie, Physicist Dave, etc.). Oh, and hawking their favorite boomer songs/band/movies. That's really all Sailer and his commenters do, day after day, year after year, world without end.

    Replies: @Muggles, @wren, @Johann Ricke, @Aeronerauk

    So?

  • From the Daily Mail news section: Presumably, Deandre has been packed away to a psychiatric hospital by his parents to help avoid prison for his various crimes that provoked St. Pentland's defensive actions. So, Sgt. Pentland is a figure of hate for tens of millions because he said Deandre didn't belong in
  • @restless94110
    I'm probably getting this reversed, but when you lay your hands on a person that's battery automatically and when you get all up in someone's face that's assault automatically.

    The Sgt. did spot the guy that should not have been there, and the guy was mentally ill and had committed crimes, but there was a different way to handle it than he chose.

    He let his emotions run away with him, and it blew up in his face. It's too bad, but it's not surprising that the vid went viral and a mob showed up, and he also get charged. It also won't be that surprising if his military career is ended.

    He was emotional and not in control of himself and that is a liability in a military man. Hope he learns from this. Anger, yelling and pushing? Nope. That's weak. And you set yourself up for this kind of aftermath.

    Replies: @Spud Boy, @Cloudbuster, @Anonymous, @EdwardM, @GeneralRipper

    No, it’s the current culture that’s weak and sick. Men need to be able to display anger and physical aggression. Pentland was righteously angry and did Deandre no harm.

    Not very long ago law enforcement refrained from involving itself in minor fistfights, no less a little shoving.

    The modern urge to feminize men and bar them from any displays of physical aggression goes against men’s nature, and against healthy social outlets for male aggression.

    Every time one man lays hands on another is not a case for the police.

    There a lot of men out there who would be much better men for having been punched in the nose a couple times.

    • Replies: @restless94110
    @Cloudbuster

    I fervently disagree. Anger is weakness.

    No. Men need to show control and leadership. Getting into a screaming match/pissing contest/chest butting thing is NOT strong.

    It is weak. That is NOT the way to go.

    And yes: current laws prohibit laying hands on another. It's against the law, mate. Period.

    Replies: @Cloudbuster

  • Along those lines, from the Washington Post news section: Obviously, he just attacked some random black youth because he hates all blacks. The confrontation from earlier this week near Columbia, S.C., sparked a public outcry, and protesters crowded Wednesday on the sidewalk outside the home of the soldier, 42-year-old Jonathan Pentland, who is White. The...
  • anon[297] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @raga10

    You have no idea what Mr. Pentland said to the guy before the video started. Did you read nothing about what happened. Mr. Pentland had his wife and neighbors around telling him that this was the guy who had molested the woman and so forth. I'm guessing the 1st question out of Mr. Pentland's mouth before anything shown on video was "what are you up to?" or "what are you doing here?"

    "Are you OK?" Seriously. This is not kindergarten, Raga - this is real life. The guy was obviously NOT OK, as he was hanging out in front of the man's house videoing with his phone. My words would have been "hey, what the hell are you doing here?"

    It's bad enough what the TV news people do with the video they take. It doesn't seem to be any better when your average neighborhood assholes decide they want to tell a story. (Just as with the news people, the videographer was not there for the start of this confrontation.)

    Next time you're prone to believing everything you see on TV, remember this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A

    Replies: @raga10, @anon

    My words would have been “hey, what the hell are you doing here?”

    Poor choice. Too high up the rhetoric continuum. Close to beginning the force continuum. Not good.

    Perhaps a better choice would be: start with your own phone recording as you walk up, and begin with a friendly smile and “Hey, how ya doin’?” then “Haven’t I seen you here before?”. Words you are prepared to repeat on a witness stand.

    Even better if one of your neighbors is off to one side also running vid. More angles in case things get physical. This young man may have been looking for trouble, may have been on meds, may have been something else. He has a rather flat affect about him, but mirroring it back would not be such a good idea, not initially anyway.

    raga10 is just playing around at this point, nothing serious going on there, merely trolling. It’s a waste of time to engage with that one.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @raga10
    @anon


    raga10 is just playing around at this point, nothing serious going on there, merely trolling.
     
    Not in this case, I am actually trying to make an honest point: what I see here is not heroism but a case of too much aggression and not enough compassion.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anon

  • @raga10
    @Patrick McNally


    He doesn’t have to have seen someone before in order to have heard that a stranger was causing trouble.
     
    Absolutely right. But if he decides this individual is the same "stranger causing trouble" purely because they are of the same race, that would be.... ?

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @anonymous, @Patrick McNally, @TontoBubbaGoldstein, @Bill

    A reasonable assumption?

  • I asked last night if there would be a riot in Chicago after the release of body camera video showing a cop shooting junior gangbanger Adam "Lil' Homicide" Toledo about a second after he'd sneakily ditched the gun he'd been holding. From WGN TV in Chicago: Adam Toledo shooting: Protests call for justice after release...
  • @Aeronerauk
    Not surprising given the victim's race. The usual suspects are apparently still whinging all the same of course. Their refusal to acknowledge the split second decision the officer was forced to make is frustrating but preferable to wanton destruction of course.

    As someone with some police training I don't think I would have shot little Homicide. However I also never worked patrol anywhere half as dangerous as Chicago, not counting a brief emergency shift in a similarly "diverse" city.

    Replies: @JimDandy

    Once I saw the gun come out, I probably would have shot him. Some would say that means I shouldn’t be a cop. In that case, who should be a cop? I guess the answer is: A person who is willing to die in order to save the life of an armed criminal who has already demonstrated that he really doesn’t want to be arrested.

    I think there is a long-range plan to federalize local policing. I also think we are going to see a much different police force in coming years–lots more trans and lesbian cops and more black and hispanic cops with heavier gang affiliations. Basically, the BLM and Antifa rioters of today are the cops of tomorrow.

    Speaking of which, I was quick to weigh in yesterday and say that BLM would not riot over the justified shooting of Lil Homicide. However, Chicago’s Logan Square is a hispanic neighborhood that is also filled with woke hipsters and other Antifa-adjacents. I think some glass will shatter there tonight.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @scrivener3
    @JimDandy

    and when our new federals shoot someone by fear accident or malice there will be no news reports about the injustice of it all. the victim will be tarred in the media, the federal's name undisclosed and the matter ended

    quite simply the will be no more police misconduct no matter what the federal police do

  • Along those lines, from the Washington Post news section: Obviously, he just attacked some random black youth because he hates all blacks. The confrontation from earlier this week near Columbia, S.C., sparked a public outcry, and protesters crowded Wednesday on the sidewalk outside the home of the soldier, 42-year-old Jonathan Pentland, who is White. The...
  • @Jonathan Mason
    I wasn't going to comment on this, but I did see the video, and it did strike me that the young black guy looks like he was mentally ill and probably on medication too, judging by his flat affect.

    The correct thing to do, if he was doing something wrong in the neighborhood, would have been to call the local cops and explain to them what the guy was doing wrong, or that he was behaving strangely, rather than to confront the guy in the manner shown in the video.

    The cops could then decide whether the person had committed an offense or needed to be taken to a mental health evaluation Center. This latter is a formal power that the police have in most jurisdictions that individuals do not have.

    As a person holding a responsible supervisory job such as a drill sergeant, you would imagine that he would know the right thing to do, but jobs like drill sergeant might possibly attract the kind of people who enjoy bullying younger men, don't you think.

    So was the enraged homeowner acting in a racist fashion? Probably so. However pushing somebody in this manner without causing grievous bodily harm is probably not a felony, and I don't see why he should lose his job. Actually he was probably demonstrating the qualities that make him good in his job, but in an inappropriate context.

    Replies: @gent, @anonymous, @Aeronerauk, @Buck Ransom, @Robert Dolan, @Getaclue, @ic1000

    What the hell are you talking about? He was “probably” acting racist? How do you prove that? He told a weirdo to leave the neighborhood. Is doing anything to blacks racist?

    Some of you need to get a hold of yourselves. White people really don’t like to think about much less confront blacks. Do you think army dweeb is living in 1950 and hasn’t read the news in 10 years?

    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Aeronerauk


    Is doing anything to blacks racist?
     
    Yes.

    It's already bad enough that the Sgt. wasn't kneeling, let alone forgetting to keep his vulgar white gaze directed at the ground where it belongs when in The Presence.
  • So let me get this straight: there were two reports made about behaviour of this black dude on the 8th and 10th of April, which is why our Drill Sergeant told him to bugger off when he saw him on the (public) street sometime around the 15th?

    Well, that would make perfect sense… except I’d expect those reports were lodged with local cops not with the Army so in fact he had no idea; he simply didn’t like a black guy walking through his neighbourhood.

    So yeah, it is a case of racism, plain and simple – it’s just that like a broken clock that is right twice a day, he happened to be right.

    • Replies: @Dnought
    @raga10

    Yeah, because they no way word about a perv sticking his hand down women's pants and trying to steal babies would have made it's way around the neighborhood, especially in a gated community.

    How do you know the female victim wasn't this guy's wife?

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @Elli
    @raga10


    Well, that would make perfect sense… except I’d expect those reports were lodged with local cops not with the Army so in fact he had no idea; he simply didn’t like a black guy walking through his neighbourhood.

     

    Do you think maybe the sergeant's wife and neighbors were talking about the black guy who groped a woman and grabbed a baby?

    Replies: @raga10

    , @Deadite
    @raga10

    I too am completely oblivious to what happens in my neighborhood!!!!

    Neighbors never gossip or ask tough guys for help, well, like it states clearly in the article.

    But I’m just a dumb white hick who thinks people should behave themselves. Like not assault women.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

    , @JimDandy
    @raga10

    What are you talking about?

    Well, that would make perfect sense… except I’d expect those reports were lodged with local cops not with the Army so in fact he had no idea;

    The man who is in the Army lives in that neighborhood. It didn't occur to you that he might have heard about such behavior going on in his neighborhood... from his neighbors?

    he simply didn’t like a black guy walking through his neighbourhood.

    Ahhh... "neighbourhood". I see. You're not from these parts are you, Pilgrim?

    Replies: @raga10

    , @Colin Wright
    @raga10

    '...So yeah, it is a case of racism, plain and simple...'

    That's desperate. Maybe, instead, you could have the intellectual courage to face up to what's happening.

    Start with that.

    , @El Dato
    @raga10


    he simply didn’t like a black guy walking through his neighbourhood
     
    You say this as if there were something wrong with that.
    , @GeneralRipper
    @raga10

    TROLL.

    , @TontoBubbaGoldstein
    @raga10

    ... he simply didn’t like a black guy walking through his neighbourhood.

    Living in Columbia SC must have been as stressful for him as a long tailed cat navigating a room full of occupied rocking chairs.

    , @jamie b.
    @raga10


    The Sheriff’s department has confirmed that the black man “approached several neighbors in a threatening manner and the confrontation escalated after a neighbor asked Pentland to intervene.”
     
    https://bigleaguepolitics.com/white-army-soldier-charged-with-assault-for-confronting-black-man-accused-of-threatening-neighbors/
    , @TWS
    @raga10

    I guess you missed the part about the neighbors asking for his help. If there were fewer trolls that info wouldn't even be needed. Who doesn't talk to their neighbors about a child snatching rapist? Your neighbors I guess. Why wouldn't they trust that you would help them with child snatching rapists? Do your neighbors talk to you at all or just call the police when you walk by the park?

  • This story is simply terrifying.

    God help my little grandkids.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk, Bubba
  • In Chicago, video was released today showing a police shooting: The cops detected 8 shots being fired and chased after two Mexican-Americans: a 21 year old and a 13 year old. The younger one tossed his gun behind a fence then raised his hands -- and got shot dead by a cop. At least I...
  • @MEH 0910

    “A family member of the suspected shooter reached out to authorities warning about the suspect’s potential for violence, according to three law enforcement sources briefed on the matter.”

    I mean was it an uncle or aunt? If it’s my kid I’m taking the guns myself, or getting shot and killed instead of innocent strangers. I will always feel responsibility for the actions of my children, good or bad. How do the families of these murderers live with themselves?

    Rhetorical, they probably get along just fine.

  • I asked last night if there would be a riot in Chicago after the release of body camera video showing a cop shooting junior gangbanger Adam "Lil' Homicide" Toledo about a second after he'd sneakily ditched the gun he'd been holding. From WGN TV in Chicago: Adam Toledo shooting: Protests call for justice after release...
  • Not surprising given the victim’s race. The usual suspects are apparently still whinging all the same of course. Their refusal to acknowledge the split second decision the officer was forced to make is frustrating but preferable to wanton destruction of course.

    As someone with some police training I don’t think I would have shot little Homicide. However I also never worked patrol anywhere half as dangerous as Chicago, not counting a brief emergency shift in a similarly “diverse” city.

    • Replies: @JimDandy
    @Aeronerauk

    Once I saw the gun come out, I probably would have shot him. Some would say that means I shouldn't be a cop. In that case, who should be a cop? I guess the answer is: A person who is willing to die in order to save the life of an armed criminal who has already demonstrated that he really doesn't want to be arrested.

    I think there is a long-range plan to federalize local policing. I also think we are going to see a much different police force in coming years--lots more trans and lesbian cops and more black and hispanic cops with heavier gang affiliations. Basically, the BLM and Antifa rioters of today are the cops of tomorrow.

    Speaking of which, I was quick to weigh in yesterday and say that BLM would not riot over the justified shooting of Lil Homicide. However, Chicago's Logan Square is a hispanic neighborhood that is also filled with woke hipsters and other Antifa-adjacents. I think some glass will shatter there tonight.

    Replies: @scrivener3

  • In Chicago, video was released today showing a police shooting: The cops detected 8 shots being fired and chased after two Mexican-Americans: a 21 year old and a 13 year old. The younger one tossed his gun behind a fence then raised his hands -- and got shot dead by a cop. At least I...
  • @Peter Akuleyev
    Meanwhile cops shot and killed a 16 year old white boy in his own driveway two days ago.

    https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/16-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-by-state-trooper-had-airsoft-gun

    Yes, the kid had an airsoft gun but police in the US are definitely trigger happy and poorly trained compared to police here in Europe.

    Unfortunately no one is likely to riot for a smart white kid who was the "Alex Keaton" of his family.

    Replies: @Jack D, @Bragadocious, @JimDandy

    After he dropped the gun (which BTW was indistinguishable from a real gun, especially in the heat of the moment) he pulled out his very non-replica knife. The kid must have been having a mental health crisis and perhaps was trying to commit suicide by cop.

    This is sad but no reason to riot regardless of race. No amount of training would have caused the cop to react differently – if someone points what appears to be a gun at them, the police can and should shoot them in self defense. People who are suicidal take advantage of this.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @Jack D

    Sounds like a mental health problem.

    It is unfortunate that in these cases eulogies published by the families are often taken up by the press.

    Family eulogies obviously don't say that the concerned person was a habitual criminal or mentally ill, but dwell on the brighter side from a family point of view based on memories of that person as a child.

    However it is easy for the general public to get a misleading point of view, just like Obama who thought that Trayvon could have looked like the son he never had.

    If a person's photo looks like us or somebody we know, then we do naturally tend to take a sympathetic point of view and identify with their family.

    This is actually how most British people feel about the Duke of Edinburgh. He may have been an evil c***, but he was the nation's grandfather figure.

    Replies: @Cowboy Shaw, @Desiderius

    , @Desiderius
    @Jack D

    Riots have nothing to do with reason.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  • From the Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Daunte Wright had a warrant out for his arrest for attempted aggravated robbery charges after 'choking and holding a woman at gunpoint for $820 in 2019,' court papers reveal By MARTIN GOULD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and RUTH STYLES IN BROOKLYN CENTER, MINNESOTA, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 16:40 EDT, 13 April 2021 Daunte...
  • @Hi There
    That's worth reporting. Daunte Wright wasn't a saint. The cops still shouldn't have executed him for fleeing arrest.

    Replies: @No Recent Commenting History, @J.Ross, @Aeronerauk

    Executed him? Oh please.

    I get cops aren’t everyone’s favorite but can we acknowledge that mistakes happen? Costly, avoidable mistakes, but this asshole wasn’t executed.

    Seriously bad shit happens to good people. This isn’t one of those cases.

    • Replies: @Hi There
    @Aeronerauk


    I get cops aren’t everyone’s favorite but can we acknowledge that mistakes happen? Costly, avoidable mistakes, but this asshole wasn’t executed.
     
    Duante Wright wasn't executed? He was killed wasn't he? I'm not a language lawyer.

    I completely agree that it was a mistake. The cop used her lethal gun instead of a less lethal taser by accident.

    The cop was supposed to execute a forceful arrest and it was her job to use force. I'm sympathetic with the cop and with Daunte Wright. Daunte Wright committed wrongs, but nothing so terible as to deserve the death penalty.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  • Tucker Carlson delivers a very clear statement of the facts on his Fox News show: Tucker Carlson: The truth about demographic change and why Democrats want it Native-born Americans of every race and class are being systematically disenfranchised. We need to start talking about it By Tucker Carlson | Fox News Last week, we said...
  • @Currahee
    @Moses

    "Race matters."
    Yes it does; but Tucker can't say that because he would be instantly vaporized.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Yes, and for the life of me I cannot understand why commenters here keep trashing Tucker for not bringing up the JQ or inherent black criminality/anti social behavior. Might as well demand he talk about the brain volume of each race.

    Yeah, he’s real cowardly for trying to inch the Overton Window near single handily. Meanwhile the real heroes comment anonymously on an obscure blog. Give me a break.

  • Of all the mass shootings of the last half dozen years, why are those four specified? Because the killers were white and the victims were black (Charleston), Jewish (Pittsburgh), Latino (El Paso), and 3/4ths Asian (Atlanta). On the other hand, whites are not marginalized so any mass shootings of whites, such as the mass murder...
  • @Thomasina
    @AndrewR

    You don't know that CTE led Chris Benoit to kill his family. No one knows for sure. Did CTE cause O.J. Simpson to murder his wife?

    "Autopsy results showed that Benoit's body contained ten times the normal level of steroid testosterone despite passing a WWE steroid test 3 months earlier.

    The autopsy also revealed that his heart was three times larger than it should have been; he could have possibly died within the next ten months regardless."

    Was he depressed? Was he past his prime and angry about this? Was his wife talking about leaving him? Did he have money problems? Was it the ten-times-the-normal-level-of-steroid-testosterone flowing through his body?

    Did the guy who killed the doctor and his family feel like his life was over? Was he depressed about this? He had high hopes and dreams, but he never made it. For some people, they're looking for someone to blame. Did he feel the doctor botched a surgery? I notice he didn't kill his own family.

    Let's get the facts before we start making excuses for this guy. Too many excuses going around.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Aeronerauk

    “Was he past his prime and angry about this?”

    No, Benoit was still a phenomenal pro wrestler getting ample TV time. As for his heart and testosterone levels, I really doubt that played into him murdering his kid. Athletes hearts are often bigger, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Benoit had taken ‘roids willy nilly (without proper precautions.)

    Benoit’s behavior was clearly that of a mad man and not at all consistent with his past. From what his coworkers and friends have said, he was already reclusive and kept to himself. This aided hiding his psychotic breakdown well enough to prevent notice/action from others.

  • From the New York Times news section: After all, Americans these days are so gaunt-looking. Here's a list of synonyms for how skinny Americans are in 2021: thin scrawny scraggly bony angular rawboned hollow-cheeked gaunt as thin as a rake skin-and-bones sticklike size-zero emaciated skeletal pinched undernourished underfed slim lean slender rangy lanky spindly gangly...
  • @Nodwink
    Maybe they should start a racist blog, and then e-beg their way to a decent meal. A definite lack of entrepreneurial spirit.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Boomthorkell, @Aeronerauk, @Lot, @ScarletNumber

    Don’t you mean a “rathisth blog,” nancy boy?

    • Replies: @Nodwink
    @Aeronerauk

    If this post upset you, then you can chill by downloading "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" by Lil Nas X.

    ENJOY!

  • From Wikipedia: As iSteve commenter duncsbaby suggests, Romero's online photos could serve as a one-man training database to teach an artificial intelligence system how to recognize Gay Face:
  • @anonymous
    So the point is that he is a gay man and looks gay?

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Aeronerauk, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Anonymous, @Alfa158, @Desiderius, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre, @Jacob Blaustein, @Hippopotamusdrome, @J.Ross

    Yes.

    It’s an interesting phenomenon that gay men are (sometime) identifiable based on nothing but their face.

    First time to the blog?

  • From my new book review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @3g4me
    @slumber_j

    @74 slumber_j: "Yeah, but not having a smartphone isn’t really an option if you want to be a normal kid these days. Like, it just isn’t."

    What a wonderful parent you are! Somewhat grudgingly capitulating to having your children be brainwashed wokesters so that they're 'popular' in their public indoctrination centers. Excellent odds you're a cuckservative and churchian, too. You're part of the 40% of Whites who will go extinct, and good riddance to you.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @Aeronerauk

    What a vile comment. Do you even have children?

  • From the Detroit Free Press: For an emotional support dog, Clark Kent Martinez sure seems to need a lot of support. If you can't trust an Ob
  • Odd that these hate crimes only seem to empower and enrich the alleged victim instead of, you know, intimidating them.

    When it’s either never solved or Ms. Martinez is revealed to have hired two Nigerian bodybuilders to steal her welcome mat, I’m sure the white students of Wayne St. will be grateful a powerful discussion about white privilege and segregation graced their lives regardless of this incident’s validity.

  • Black Trump fanatics are out of control. First they are beating up elderly Asians, now they are dognapping Lady Gaga's French bulldogs as retribution for Gaga singing at Biden's inauguration. From the Daily Mail: French bulldogs are for people like Lady Gaga who aren't quite committed enough to buy English bulldogs. They want to go...
  • Yeah I don’t care what some humorless school marms in this comment section think, French Bulldogs rule. Great personalities and cute as anything.

    Now would I shoot a flamboyantly gay man 4 times in the chest to acquire one? Probably not. Then again, nobody thought I’d try to lynch a gay actor in subzero temperatures for a Subway sandwich either.

  • @Jack D
    @Anonymous


    singer of questionable talents
     
    I agree with most of what you said, but really, Lady Gaga, whatever you may think of her politics or personal life, is a very talented musician.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Sean

    I agree wholeheartedly. Gaga reminds me a bit of Nina Hagen, not only in talent but uh, looks as well.

    Though for all her weirdness Gaga never uglied herself up to Hagen standards. The latter’s voice was also opera quality. Gaga isn’t at that level but I’ve never met someone who could seriously call her untalented.

    Channeling Phil Hartman’s Frank Sinatra: “Bob Goulet, that’s no talent.”

  • The dognappers are surely the same two Nigerian fellows who attempted to lynch Juicy Smollet over his subway sandwich at three o clock in the morning.

  • As an opinion journalist, I am used to being the subject of individual opinions about me: everybody's got one! But I do value more significant and scientific opinions such as the 2019 Intelligence paper, a survey of human intelligence experts who found me to be by far the most accurate media source on their academic...
  • I haven’t been commenting lately but I feel the need today. That article is absolutely horrendous, and reminded me that the last time I looked at your Wikipedia article the great awokening was in its infancy. So naturally the “RACIST” libel was limited to one sentence in a very brief and dry about section.

    Now I wouldn’t be surprised if next week the magnanimous and unbiased editors snuck in the $PLC SAY HE RACIST before your name can even be read.

  • @Matt Buckalew
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Does anyone here fuck other than me? That girl isn’t pretty enough to make my high school’s cheerleading squad unless her mom coached it.

    Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Aeronerauk

    >doubt

  • From ScreenRant: Counting down from #15 to #1: The Thing The Great Escape First Blood My Dinner With Andre 12 Angry Men No Escape All Is Lost The Enemy Below The Lord Of The Flies Sleuth Glengarry Glen Ross Outpost Master And Commander: The
  • @Achmed E. Newman
    I had no idea the thing was gay.

    I tried reading Moby Dick for the first time last week, ...
     
    I tried reading the Cliff Notes for Moby Dick for the first time during my junior year in high school. TLDR.

    Replies: @SFG, @El Dato, @Old Prude, @Mikeja, @MEH 0910, @syonredux

    I think I get it now. The list is a countdown. Therefore, the top two that Steve refers to are on the bottom of the list. I think Steve is saying that Billy Budd and Lawrence of Arabia are fairly gay.

    I kept thinking it didn’t make any sense for Steve to call The Thing gay.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
  • The Thing was gay? That’s new.

    • Replies: @James J. O'Meara
    @Aeronerauk

    "The Thing," huh huh, huh huh.

  • In the Washington Post's Entertainment Perspective section, their movie critic explains that while she knew all along that white male Christians were bad, it's about time for Hollywood to finally make TV shows and movies in which white male Christians are the bad guys. Why didn't anybody ever think of that before?!? Down at the...
  • @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Peter Akuleyev


    Starship Troopers is a film about Nazis, but satirical.
     
    Yes. Showing Nazis as good-looking, technologically advanced killers of horrible aliens, who do so while maintaining a humorous gung-ho esprit de corps, is a satire on Nazism.

    Steve Sailer – December 13, 2018 at 7:28 am GMT

    Verhoeven grew up on old Nazi movies and they have a lot of influence on him, which he plays off as satire.
     
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/barack-obama-as-an-example/#comment-2694419

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Peter Akuleyev

    “Yes. Showing Nazis as good-looking, technologically advanced killers of horrible aliens, who do so while maintaining a humorous gung-ho esprit de corps, is a satire on Nazism.”

    Yes. Try reading a review of it by someone who understands satire.

    And at the risk of sounding pro nazi, “good looking” and “technologically advanced” sounds about right.

  • @Harry Baldwin
    @Peter Akuleyev

    There's a Steven Seagal, movie, Marked for Death (1990) in which Seagal is up against vicious Jamaican drug dealers. It struck me as quite risqué that all the bad guys Seagal was beating up and killing were black. I'd never seen anything like that before. Even in Death Wish (1974), which was controversial at the time, Bronson killed an unrealistically multiracial assortment of muggers. The fact that some were black was enough to upset liberal critics.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Joe Stalin, @David In TN, @Peter Akuleyev

    To Seagal’s credit the Jamaican gang and its leader are portrayed as cunning and in the process of replacing the white mafia’s hold on the drug trade. Their portrayal is pretty flattering if you ignore the criminal element… and also any time one of the Jamaicans decide to fight Seagal.

    Great memories of watching this and other early Seagal flicks with my father.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Aeronerauk

    . Their portrayal is pretty flattering if you ignore the criminal element…

    There's a couple of clever moments in the plot line. A key plot element is heard in the crummy audio of this vid clip, along with Jimmy Cliff's band.

    Some may find the visual pretty interesting also.

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

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @Aeronerauk

    Before Seagal turned into a fat joke he was quite a plausible action hero. The fight choreography in his early movies is great.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Chris Mallory

  • Lenin and Trotsky launched their regime in 1917 by publishing the embarrassing correspondence of the Czarist Foreign Office bargaining with its Entente allies in 1914 for who gets what in the Great War. What crown jewels should Trump declassify on his way out the door?
  • Pipe dream. Trump will all but assure prison time for himself if he does anything like that. There’s no point in fantasizing about it

  • From Kathy Shaidle's last Facebook update: Kathy Shaidle 1964 - 2021 Following a tedious rendezvous with ovarian cancer, Kathy Shaidle has died, wishing she'd spent more time at the office. Her tombstone reads: GET OFF MY LAWN! She is relieved she won’t have to update her LinkedIn profile, shave her legs, or hear “Creep” by...
  • @Johnny Smoggins
    A genuinely funny person as shown by her auto obituary. If she hadn't been right wing she'd be a writer for late night comedy like her (completely unfunny) fellow Canadian Samantha Bee.

    Valhalla awaits her gladly.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Buffalo Joe

    Just terrible, RIP Kathy. 2021 has been horrendous for free thought.

  • From NPR, more coverage of a long-time iSteve topic: white people getting upset that blacks don't win all the Grammy Awards. Did you know that Stevie Wonder has never even been nominated for a Grammy? What? He won all the time when I was a kid? Why was I not informed? He hopes to expand...
  • @Billy Shears
    @James Speaks

    Such a great song that was incredibly only the 32nd top song of the year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1969

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Incredible that, as a man in my early 30s, I recognize and can hear in my head almost every song on that list.

    More incredibly the Temptations’ mediocre “Can’t Get Next To You” and Tommy Roe’s “Dizzy” were top ten.

    OT: Would it be so bad if “classic rock” stations played a little less Nirvana and maybe one or two hits from the 60s? Did Boomers stop listening to FM radio? My father has his SiriusXM tuned exclusively to the 50s/60s.

    Is listening to FM radio a sign you’re lower class/poor?

    • Replies: @obwandiyag
    @Aeronerauk

    Listening to FM is a sign you want to hear something new once in a while. Those streaming stations are just feedback loops, playing the same shit over and over. I remember once, working in a record warehouse. Thousands and thousands of records. There was a record player connected to the sound system. We took turns picking records to play on it. Me, I wandered around trying to find the most obscure stuff I could. I was, for instance, the acknowledged discoverer of the Shaggs. The rest of them, every single one--they just picked the same albums as they had in their collection at home.

    , @Polistra
    @Aeronerauk

    You object to the Temptations and give "The Archies" a pass???

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  • Update: Here's my new Taki's Magazine column on why the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine wasn't announced before the election. From StatNews: Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper NOVEMBER 9, 2020 ... The first analysis was to occur after 32 volunteers —...
  • @Jonathan Mason
    @Buffalo Joe

    I voted for Trump too because I did not like Hillary. I voted for Obama for the same reason. But it was a massive mistake to vote for Trump who appeared to be running to the left of Hillary, or at least as a kind of independent, and then appeared on Twitter to tell several lies every single day, and failed to demonstrate any kind of international leadership.

    I don't mind Harris though. she seems to have a sense of humor, and there are a lot of photographs of her laughing her head off. Also of the four principals representing the two parties, she seems like the one who is most likely to learn on the job. I would take her over Hillary any day, in any sense of the word take.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Aeronerauk, @Joseph Doaks

    Ah yes so all you care about is decorum. I’m happy for you that Biden (Harris) won so you don’t have to comically tug at your collar when foreigners ask you about Trump.

    Trump was never going to be “our guy” but his minuscule accomplishments are better than whatever the incoming administration has planned for us.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Aeronerauk

    Biden didn't win.

  • For the reference, see here.
  • @Alexander Turok
    @Bragadocious

    How many Trump ballots are similarly marked? Lots of people only care about the Presidency because it's all about a personality cult.

    I voted only down-ballot, didn't vote for Senile Joe or Dumb Prole President. Was my ballot fake?

    Replies: @anon, @Aeronerauk, @Abolish_public_education

    Well you sure showed him Alex.

  • Political donations to candidates over a certain low amount ($35?) are public record. From Bloomberg: This graph leaves out the vertical scale, but it runs from "over 97%" at the top to "almost 70%" at the bottom: i.e., there is about an order of magnitude more political diversity within the NYPD and US Marines --...
  • @Twinkie
    @Anonymous


    So basically dweebs vs. psychopaths
     
    I guess we know which one you are, Dweeb.

    at a hearing for an American military deserter seeking asylum in Canada
     
    Right...

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Anonymous, @JohnnyWalker123

    He’s the same anon turd that foams at the mouth whenever the police are mentioned.

    I don’t think police are any more psychopathic than other professions. It’s just that, well, a psychopath with a badge and gun is more apt to do visible damage than a psychopath in a cubicle.

  • From Vice: Spotify CEO Defends Keeping Transphobic Joe Rogan Podcasts Online Multiple sources inside Spotify described an all-hands meeting in which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed the company’s handling of the controversial podcaster. By Joseph Cox By Emanuel Maiberg September 16, 2020, 11:15am In a Spotify all-hands company meeting on Wednesday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek...
  • @Bardon Kaldian
    Good grief....

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/taiwan-same-sex-army-wedding-intl-hnk/index.html

    Same sex couples marry in mass military wedding -- a first for Taiwan's armed forces

    https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201030130622-taiwan-same-sex-army-wedding-01-exlarge-169.jpg

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @YetAnotherAnon, @Aeronerauk

    China is going to steamroll them.

  • Maybe Antifa tore down Abraham Lincoln's statue for Columbus Day due to the speech Lincoln delivered at the White House to 14 Indian chiefs about how Indians should stop hunting and raiding and settle down to farming liked we pale-faced people do. “You have all spoken of the strange sights you see here, among your...
  • I always preferred Julian to Sean. His voice sounded more like his Dad too.

    Though it’s not surprising Sean is at least capable of questioning the mob. “How? He was raised by Yoko Ono?” Was he though? I imagine most of Sean’s upbringing consisting of nannies and others helping him while his mother, off in another room, tripped her head off “for art.”

  • From The Hill: Here's Regeneron's 9/29 press release on the results of the first 275 patients in their clinical trial. As far as I understand it (not far), their antibody cocktail is like a synthetic version of the old practice of infusing new patients with blood plasma from recovered patients (which, unfortunately, hasn't tested well...
  • @AndrewR
    @Richard S

    Learning history can be very illuminating, but the way Sailer wrote that line would undoubtedly make anyone who isn't familiar with Sailer think that he was an adult in 1963 or at least close to it. No amount of studying can replace lived experience, and you should never imply that you have memories and experience which you don't actually have.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk

    Who reading that comment would be unfamiliar with Steve? Why don’t you reach a little further, snarkpuss.

  • anonymous[285] • Disclaimer says:
    @Thomas
    @Anonymous


    Anyway so we have Trump’s quick video address before leaving for the hospital and also video of him strolling normally to the chopper etc. So there is solid proof that he was not extremely sick as of this afternoon.
     
    According to WaPo (FWIW), the decision was made in the White House for Trump to make that walk before his condition might have deteriorated enough for it to be an optics problem.

    A progression from (as far as we know) first symptoms to diagnosis to respiratory issues and hospitalization all within 24 hours is ominous. Trump is a notorious germophobe, so I can't see him choosing to go to a hospital readily as a matter of preference. OTOH, maybe he is neurotically preoccupied and overreacting now that he is sick. I would expect that if his condition is bad, they'll do everything they can to keep it under wraps as long as possible, and will probably fail at that.

    Personally, I think Trump's his lack of moral leadership on this pandemic has been unconscionable. He refused to set any example by his own actions, even refusing to wear a mask out of vanity. And his constant "Power of Positive Thinking" minimizing of the situation and its seriousness has been disastrous. Beyond anything he's had to do with the government's objective response, he could've done a lot just by setting a better example. Part of the reason the U.S. appears to have done such a poor job managing this crisis is a significant proportion of the public doesn't think it's real or serious. And they don't think so because their President hasn't acted like it's serious.

    This is chickens coming home to roost.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Redneck farmer, @DextersLabRat, @The Real World, @Dave Pinsen, @anonymous, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @astrolabe, @Old Prude, @tyrone, @Authenticjazzman, @Old and Grumpy, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Cloudbuster, @Noticer 2069, @Anon7

    According to WaPo (FWIW), the decision was made in the White House for Trump to make that walk before his condition might have deteriorated enough for it to be an optics problem.

    The WaPo hates his guts, and they lie their asses off. Anyone unaware of that is a fucking moron.

    Hi, moron.

    Personally, I think Trump’s his lack of moral leadership on this pandemic has been unconscionable. He refused to set any example by his own actions, even refusing to wear a mask out of vanity. And his constant “Power of Positive Thinking” minimizing of the situation and its seriousness has been disastrous.

    Uh… he’s the President. He’s not your doctor, and he’s not your dad, you servile twit. He never spoke of “the Power of Positive Thinking” related to COVID, nor did he imply it, so why are you mentioning it, or putting it in quotes to obfuscate the fact that he never did, you lackluster homo?

    COVID has been a fluid situation, and experts do not agree on a number of aspects of the virus, as well as useful remedies, you brainless wonder.

    I keep reminding you slack-jawed left-wing goobs that Trump is just the President. He’s not a fucking King. He does not run your fucking world, by design, by the authors for the Constitution! He’s not allowed to run your wretched life for you! It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

    That’s something most of you aimless floating turds will never grasp.

    • Agree: TTSSYF
    • Thanks: GeneralRipper, Coemgen
    • LOL: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @anonymous
    @anonymous


    Uh… he’s the President. He’s not your doctor, and he’s not your dad, you servile twit. He never spoke of “the Power of Positive Thinking” related to COVID, nor did he imply it, so why are you mentioning it, or putting it in quotes to obfuscate the fact that he never did, you lackluster homo?
     
    This is a place for intelligent discussion. Scram.

    Replies: @TTSSYF

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @anonymous

    I don't know how I missed this earlier, but EXCELLENT COMMENT, #285! It's nice to see another real Constitutionalist among the few of us in the unz comments sections.

    Now, pick a handle. C'mon, man!

  • anonymous[252] • Disclaimer says:
    @John Johnson
    @Twinkie

    Both Trump and Biden get sick/incapacitated?

    Pence vs. Harris, who wins?


    Pence would beat Biden or Trump. In fact he would have better numbers than Trump.

    I'll probably turn off the media for a while. I won't be able to stand the inevitable crass and tasteless cheering from the left.

    Replies: @anonymous

    I’ll probably turn off the media for a while. I won’t be able to stand the inevitable crass and tasteless cheering from the left.

    Yes, the same sentiments I had when far-right scum were rejoicing the massacre in Christchurch.

    I remember the utter lowlifes here who were virtually orgasming with glee; “I can’t wait to see the video,” they came!

    May the Almighty One will a pox on all such soulless vermin, including the orange tub-o-swinefat tRumpelthinskin.

    • Troll: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @fnn
    @anonymous

    IIRC, his fans were mainly Hindus and Chinese.

  • My impression is that the first debate of a 3-debate series isn't very decisive. In my opinion, Mondale won the first debate in 1984, Kerry in 2004, Romney in 2012, and Hillary in 2016, but all lost the election. Bush beat a sighing Gore in 2000's first debate but didn't maintain momentum and won by...
  • @Kent Nationalist
    Are there drugs you can give senile people which will temporarily boost their performance?

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @TWS, @Harry Baldwin, @Buck Ransom, @Intelligent Dasein, @JMcG, @Marat, @Paul Mendez, @Hippopotamusdrome

    Everybody is getting this backwards. For several months, Sleepy Joe’s handlers have been giving him drugs which very effectively mimic early-onset Alzheimer’s. Those drugs have been withdrawn today, and this evening the world will see a veritable Chesterton onstage in Cleveland.

    • LOL: Aeronerauk
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Buck Ransom

    Yeah, it will be G.K. Chesterton debating G.B. Shaw tonight.

    Replies: @Lot, @adreadline

  • @Buzz Mohawk
    My mother's ancestors were brought over to America on sailing ships to work as indentured servants (White slaves) before Sub-Saharan Africans were. I can trace them back that far.

    When I finally went to my mother's little home town in Georgia to bury her ashes, a cousin I had never met showed me where our mothers had grown up. It was an empty patch of land next to railroad tracks.

    My father told me that when he met my mother's father there in that town, her father was sharpening saws in a tool shed, working for a lumber company. I have a photograph of my mother and her siblings playing, and her mother standing, right there in their yard with a boxcar and the railroad tracks behind them.

    They had nothing, and they were White.

    They didn't even have any fellow ethnics to help them start "little" shops in New York City.

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @AnotherDad

    Great comment.

    My paternal grandfather, missing several fingers working underage in a factory and orphaned at 6 years old, just oozed privilege. So did his brother, who was blown up in the pacific theater during WWII at 18 years old.

    My own father working 70hrs a week and almost certainly shortening his own life in the process- pure privilege! Myself personally, wow being white rules!

    • Agree: polistra
  • From CNN, a report on the Kenosha Kase validating my surmise back in August that it was the usual type of domestic dispute that gets more than a few ex-boyfriends shot by the cops each year (but when they are white, nobody cares): Lawyer says cop shot Jacob Blake after hearing a mother's desperate plea:...
  • I explained the problem to a friend recently thusly.

    If a cop, in a thirty year career, has one or two incidents per year that are potentially violent, and can result in a 99% chance of ending with no harm to the cop, then the cop over the course of his career has about a fifty-ish to seventy-ish percent chance of finishing his career without having been seriuosly injured, maimed or worse.

    That’s not good enough odds, so cops are going to do those things necessary to get that probability up to 99.9 or 99.99%. That helps illuminate these incidents where a “minor” incident goes sideways, and “excessive” force is used.

    Further, the general public, especially blacks, can’t comprehend this calculus, so when they see an incident where the cop has a 90 or 95% chance of coming out OK, they thinks that’s a perfectly fine margin of safety.

    This disconnect cause all manner of grieve in our society.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
  • @The Germ Theory of Disease
    1. He had been tased twice, and nevertheless was still "negotiating" his potential release (viz, violently resisting arrest), as if this were a game show. These people are children.

    2. He had fled police custody, and was reaching into the car for an unknown object. This is not a guessing game. "Well, I don't know, he could be reaching for a gun, or for his pet therapy bunny rabbit. Guess we'll just have to wait til he turns around and find out!"

    3. When you violently resist arrest, you implicitly forfeit your entitlement to various safety protocols and procedures, and new ones suddenly apply. "In Soviet Union, cards cheat at YOU!"

    4. Training protocols vary by department, but many police officers are trained to either fully empty their weapons when they open fire, or else to continue firing until the situation is one hundred per cent, beyond question, "resolved." That is why Amadou Diallo was shot 42 times by multiple officers each exercising indidual judgment w/r/t to training -- not Because Slabery. The guy in Kenosha had just resisted not one, but two, tasings. Who knew what else he was capable of?

    5. Work it all out down at the station house, once everything is calmer and clearer. Do not antagonize or threaten the wary, nervous man with the drawn gun and civic power.

    6. Stop. Being. Excitable. Retards.

    Replies: @Alfa158, @Mr McKenna, @anon, @Inquiring Mind

    Here’s what happened to two cops after an excitable suspect who refused to allow himself to be placed under arrest was able to reach into his vehicle without getting shot seven times.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/harrowing-video-shows-roadside-gun-battle-between-pennsylvania-police-man-pulled-over-for-traffic-stop

    Officer Sheskey has to be thinking that as bad as his present situation is, he could have ended up with worse things than legal troubles.

    • Agree: Aeronerauk
  • This is actually not an implausible model. But why? I can definitely see high density states like New Jersey being more pro-cat. But what's the secondary effect with the climate? For example, out on the Great Plains, why are there more dogs than cats in KS, OK, and TX, but more cats than dogs in...
  • @Abe
    Let me preface this by saying I am not really a pet person (before PetSmart singularly infuriated me with a BLM solidarity email this summer they regularly infuriated me with promotional emails referring to my pets as “fur babies”- anyone who calls their animals “fur babies” or themselves a “fur parent” I want to meet with IRL immediately to punch in the face).

    So with that off my chest, I have to say do yourself a favor and get a cat-dog AKA puppy-cat. These are one of several breeds of cats who, while unremarkably catlike in most respects, come with anomalously dog-like personalities. The clean, modern form-factor of a cat with none of that pesky psychotic cat-like behavior!

    We acquired a Siberian forest cat recently as a hand-me-down from a friend who didn’t want it anymore (a real steal, as I subsequently found it cost $1000) and even before I learned about this puppy-cat miracle we could tell he was something special (for example, back before COVID shut down the schools we noticed he’d wait every day at the front door for the kids to come home). So like I said, do yourself a favor...

    Replies: @Aeronerauk, @Anonymouse, @3g4me

    I didn’t realize there was a name for cats like this, or that they could be bred that way!

    My childhood cat, really, all of my adolescence the damn thing was several years older than me and lived into my college years, was agreeable like this. A stray, so he definitely wasn’t bred that way, he nonetheless actually enjoyed the company of people. Never scratched or hissed unless you really messed with him.

    On the topic of Dog people Vs Cat people, pieces of shit and genuine saints own both. Doesn’t seem like an accurate metric.

  • From the New York Times news section: Michael Brown was unarmed only because he didn't quite manage to steal the policeman's gun. In other words, it appealed to bad people. And it was ultimately mimicked by other right-wing influencers, including the far-right conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson, whose videos include “
  • @Chris Mallory
    This isn't about Taylor. It is about out of control cops who have been waging war upon the American people for decades. When these government thugs fired their weapons they were shooting at someone who was not armed and was not a threat. All three of them should be facing charges.

    No illegal items were found in Taylor's apartment. One independent witness said the cops "announced". All other witnesses said they didn't. But that doesn't matter. There was no reason to kick a door open in the middle of the night. If you kick a door open in the night, then you better expect to be shot, because that will be the reaction of any man. Only a criminal kicks open a door while the residents are sleeping. These cops should have knocked on the door before dark and then stood outside the door until it was opened. Anything else belongs in North Korea or Iran, not the United States of America.

    Steve, your comments about the body in the trunk were disgusting. Do you have any evidence Taylor knew what was going to happen? Did the cops arrest her? Did the cops have any evidence she had any knowledge about the murder?

    Cops are trained liars. Cops lie as a part of doing their jobs. Trusting the word of a cop about anything makes you a fool.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @anon, @polistra, @Bragadocious, @DextersLabRat, @Anonymous, @JMcG, @AnotherDad, @Puremania, @Possumman, @Anonymousse, @FPD72

    So what did you go to jail for?

    • Agree: Redneck farmer
    • LOL: Aeronerauk
  • Reading Ibram X. Kendi (Ta-Nehisi Coates' best-selling successor at The Atlantic) is like reading Stalin, except without the dictator's wit and irony.
  • @PiltdownMan

    Reading Ibram X. Kendi (Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-selling successor at The Atlantic) is like reading Stalin, except without the dictator’s wit and irony.
     
    I like Stalin's hair more.

    https://i.imgur.com/LVpxOcv.jpg?2

    https://i.imgur.com/OR29BeP.jpg?1

    Replies: @BenKenobi, @J.Ross, @James O'Meara, @Charles St. Charles

    • Replies: @Abe
    @Charles St. Charles

    That’s not nice! I’ve never seen him speak or read his writings beyond the snippets chosen by Steve for our delectation, but given the goofy guilelessness of what I’ve seen of his “thought” so far plus the lack of any real malice or ill-will in his face I’m finding it very hard to dislike the guy. Plus he reminds me of the black member of COLOR ME BAD- “To the heart tick-tock get up stop stop!”

    Replies: @Charles St. Charles