What an interesting summary of Russia’s current situation.

A country that is falling behind all of its cohorts, more and more, year after year, is somehow schooling and threatening the west with their new style of society in the manliest way. Putin, as we know, is a very powerful and manly leader.

It’s hard to make the Soviet Union look good, but Putin’s really making them look pretty good. The Soviets actually built up that country, in their own awful way. Putin is a leach, and there’s been little progress under his leadership. At best he has brought forth a partial, flawed and unstable restoration of the Soviet system. Which was a system that really did have a lot of flaws in the first place.

But Putin is smart about one thing, having a big military CAN get you a seat at the table with the big boys. But Russia really can’t afford that seat in the long run, and it can afford it even less than the Soviet Union could. The State of California alone has twice the GDP of Russia.

Just a reminder, invading Ukraine some more will NOT make anything in Russia better, even if it makes Vlad feel better. Here’s another observation: China will not turn out to be a strategic partner to Russia, they never have been and never will be.

You just never know how these kinds of dictatorships will end. What does happen after the big man retires? Who gets all of his money and real estate? No one knows. It’s never pretty. Democracy doesn’t always select the right people (see Trump (unless you’re Vlad – well played!)), but that’s actually not the key point.

The key is that in a democracy, on a periodic basis, rid can yourself of a leader who is not working out (Trump again). If only the Russians could do so.

Russia got there first.

Thanks for showing us the way!

As far as rural areas getting more conservative, this is very predictable, as you don’t need to look any farther than the fact that these areas are not growing very fast or are shrinking, and they are getting older. Old people have a time-proven affinity for “conservatism”. And those areas can’t really get any whiter in any case. The old folks are easily sold on the idea that the old ways are the best and that the youngun’s are getting a little out of hand and let’s face it, older Americans are just more racist than younger ones. I know I am generalizing, there are plenty of racist young Americans, I can see that! It’s a natural fit for Conservative politics.

But anyhow, then when the people in the rural areas see their children grow up and move away to the big City and start doing the bad things, this makes them even more upset. Then they do things like vote for Trump who promises to punish the bad people in the big City, so their children will stop dating those undesirable types, but then Trump and the other people they vote for mostly just give favors to the billionaires and then they all plot to cut the medicare and social security that the rural voters in the depleted countryside are disproportionately depending upon. See how this works? No one is helping them, they are in complete despair.

It makes total sense if you DON’T over-think it a little too much about it. Because Mexicans.

We can talk about the Africans some other time – we did bring them over here against their will, so that’s a bird of a different feather.

Cheer up!

VDARE articles are being sent out to workers from deep within the DOJ.

Your years of silent toil will be rewarded soon, I predict. Trump has done it again!

The sunlight will reveal your views fully, it’s bound to be a positive development for America.

That book cover art is fantastic.

That is all.

A lot of you folks are going to be very lost once Trump departs the scene. There is no natural successor to this act of his.

The fact that Trump is such an incompetent must be even more concerning to you all; he’s not going to get much of anything done anyway. The GOP got him to sign that crap tax bill and that’s really the only substantial thing he’s managed to date – good work, double the deficit again! And he’s also spent a lot to time making the Israelis and Saudi’s happy – not the best ideas, I’m sure most of you here would agree.

Even that stupid wall money: If it does get appropriated it’ll never be anything like Trump says, he’ll be long gone by the time anything gets built. He hasn’t even spent the border money Congress already gave him, and he doesn’t care because too busy golfing and watching Fox News. If anyone notices he’ll just fire someone and then what.

After Trump? The godly Pence? Good times. The GOP will act like none of the ever happened, you can be sure.

Oh Pat, calm down.

In this shameful Romney post, Mitt basically signed off on “all the good things” Trump has done and made clear that he’s ready for more good Republican stuff like tax cuts and entitlement cuts.

All he was saying is that he wishes Trump were just a little more polite about it. And those cuss words are just not proper either. Mitt would never behave so poorly!

–>Don’t worry about the Middle East Wars, someone will promise to buy a few fighter plans from Northrop and Trump will back peddle on most of the promised withdrawal. He will, of course, claim the opposite has occurred, which is his right since he is a nut job. Sadly Trump’s trying to draw down is maybe one of the few things Trump has tried to do recently that seems reasonably correct. But Trump is a guy who is mostly wrong, and even when he does the right thing it comes out wrong because he’s incompetent.

“as opposed to one that conducts a purely transactional foreign policy based on the needs of the moment or the whims of a president.”
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–>Case in point: Netanyahu making deals with the Saudi’s to cut up the Middle East and to start more shitty little Middle East Wars to keep the spotlight off of the ethnic cleansing they’re busy with.

Nothing weird or transactional, move right along America. Standing up for the values we hold dear, don’t you know.

These maps always look exactly like the “Slave State / Free State” division that existed right before the Civil War.

–>That war that we fought over slavery.

Average SAT scores of Harvard admits by race:

Asian: 1534
White: 1490
Hispanic: 1436
Native American/Native Hawaiian: 1424
Black: 1408

But no, Asians are not discriminated against.

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So this means Harvard should be required (or forced) to enroll only Asians right?

Yes? Of Course Yes! Those SAT scores clearly prove Asians are smarter (and must have the best genes), they should get all of the slots that haven’t already been purchased by people like Jared Kushner’s father.

Sidebar: They must be stopped, they are going to replace us. We must seal the borders before they take my country away from me.

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–>Or maybe Harvard has a clear and obvious reason to want a variety of people on campus. Notice I used the word “Variety” not “Diversity” – they are totally different things.

Because variety is a wonderful thing, like ice cream flavors, while diversity is an insidious communist plot to steal the white man’s things.

“Whatever one thinks of the experiment itself, the uniformity with which it was embraced by academia, corporate America and the media seems to raise legitimate suspicions that it was somehow centrally coordinated. By whom?”

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Richard Nixon was the modern father of Affirmative Action I hate to tell you. Nixon’s blueprint is the one that was mostly adopted by the various institutions.

One of the really attractive things about affirmative action is that it doesn’t cost the government anything. Instead of spending money to help people who are down in the hole, you can point to affirmative action and say that you did something. No need to fix those crap schools. No need to figure out how to help drive full employment, etc. In that sense, it’s quite logical that a Republican would cook it up.

–>It’s a lot cheaper than giving them that 40 acres and a mule.

The side fact that it riles up a lot of racist resentment is just another political bonus.

Can the president invoke the Patriot act?, close the border, marshal law from Brownsville to San Diego, no federal judges. The army corps of engineers could then build a wall

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No need for any of that.

I think we should start building the wall immediately as soon as Mexico sends us the money, just as Donald Trump told us they would during the campaign before we all voted for him.

Only Trump is smart enough to make these things happen. But if only the Deep State weren’t in the way, blocking that money from Mexico! Trump should issue an Executive Order and clear this all up.

This is a wild article.

It starts with Trump needs to start doing Democrat things to neutralize the Democrats. He couldn’t get the GOP things done when he had the House and the Senate. Just the tax cut to blow up the deficit again. But never mind, let’s do some Democrat things.

–>He’s going to go full triangulation political genius and do health care reform and take on the drug companies with the Democrats? Because how many Republicans will go along with that? 1, 2, none?

Then with his brilliant grasp of the law and his staff of hard-working, super-disciplined, experienced and highly loyal men and women, he will issue a series of brilliant executive orders re-writing the constitution in a snap.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of any of this!

“It is becoming a Third World Homosexual country.

What can be done about this is unclear.

Suggestions?”

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Move to Russia?

Freedom of association is a basic human right and if White folk don’t want to live with, do business with or go to school with blacks, that should be their right, and is their right based on the Constitution.

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That’s why we have 50 states. I believe Idaho is the one many of you have chosen.

And I’m confident that you won’t be hiring any immigrants to plant the fields and bring in the crops.

Am I Right?

Yeah, and that whole slavery thing. If we’d just not enslaved all those negroes in the south and fought a civil war to keep the negroes in chains. Sherman would never have needed to burn Atlanta down, that’s for sure.

And then if we’d just not spent that next 100 years keeping the negroes down through various laws and methods, rendering them more or less as slaves without all the trappings.

You are really on the mark here, if we had been color-blind from the beginning, we could have avoided a LOT of trouble.

And I suspect that giving women the right to vote right from the start would have been helpful as well. The ladies are not so gung ho on the whole “wars of conquest” business – a real plus in my book. I always find it telling that the black men were given the legal right to vote before women were (even though black men were kept from voting in so many creative ways right up until the 1960’s).

–>My wife always told me that this country would elect a black man before it would elect a woman, and she turned out to be right.

pluses and minuses to both systems.

A 51% Majority take all system will over time lead to a 2-party duopoly arrangement. 51% of the vote gives you 100% of the power and the ability to govern decisively.

Proportional Representation tends to lead to lots of smaller parties and shifting alliances. It seems to give more voices to more groups, but it’s more unstable. Majorities are constantly shifting as the various parties jockey for power. Fringe parties can have a big effect and the consequence is that lots of little factions will form to advance themselves. It can lead to an indecisive government.

I’m not saying one is better than the other. But it helps to point out that the issues are baked into the fabric of our electoral system. It’s not because of some petty corruption or human failing that we have a de facto 2-party system – it’s the election rules themselves that make it the likely outcome.

“Hapless GOP Not Adjusting to Race-Based Politics”

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That really made me snort the coffee through my nose, thanks a lot!

–>Let me just share with you comments from a good ole boy, Lee Atwater, in 2006, about GOP use of race in politics:

Atwater: Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger”. By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

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Indeed the GOP does need to adjust it “methods” when dealing with Race. Because the Nixon/Atwater/Reagan/Trump/Southern model is finally running out of gas.

Fighting for their life since the beginning? Funny, I think that’s how the Palestinians have felt ever since the Israelis started ethnic cleansing Palestine.

Palestine: –>You know that “Land without People for a People without a Land”. Arabs being not people in this formulation.

How Challenging Carlos Slim Is Helping Mexico Tame Inflation (And Why It May Not Last)
Billionaire Carlos Slim’s pain is consumers’ gain
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"I've been writing about the need for more micronutrient fortification to boost Third World IQ scores for over eight years, but practically nobody else will touch the subject because the topic of low average IQ scores in much of the Third World is off-limits."

So why not say, "You know what would be beneficial for overall health? Micronutrient Fortification!"

Thus making things more palatable for certain currents of the mainstream. I'm fairly sure there are correlations between I.Q. and health, so you're basically saying the same thing.

A little sugar to help the iodine go down.

Sometimes it's just best to do what you can to help other people, rather trying to convert people to the "truth."

Good point. The "dead white girl" effect, that liberals like to talk about, only applies when the person who made them dead looks like Scott Peterson or Joran van der Sloot.

Van der Sloot always makes me think of Rick von Sloneker. But, allusions to recent iSteve posts aside, your point is well taken.