We dont disagree. There is an entire class of people like her, stupid, smug, poorly educated, who are our “elite”.. And she is too poorly educated (whatever her credential) to ever advance understanding. She has no understanding.

Andrea Mitchell is a moron, but I do not blame her for this. I blame George W. Bush. Does anyone not remember his administration’s weeping over the failure of Afghanistan to allow girls to go to school, or providing democratic rights? The idea we were “liberating” Afghanistan meant failure from the first minute. Bush.

I know more than my share of D.C. Jews — liberal Democrat and Neocon alike, and even a few Orthodox Trump Jews — and Patrick McNally’s comments strikes me as complete bunk.

All feared a shooting war with Iran; none wished for it. Nearly all approved of Trump’s tough diplomacy far more than Obama’s appeasement diplomacy, even the never-Trump types who hated him for all the other reasons. The more Zionistical and Neocon of them hate Obama for hanging Israel out to dry on more forgettable stuff, like West Bank settlements and conflict with Hamas. Nobody I’ve spoken with blames Obama for failing to invade Iraq.

As for this hate-whitey woke nonsense, the Neocon Never-Trump types are scared sick of it but have rendered themselves politically homeless and say nothing publicly out of fear. The old Boomer habitual-Democrat types have been deluded enough by NYTimes propaganda to think that all the crazy CRT lunacy that is au courant today is no different that the anodyne corporate “sensitivity training” they sat through in the 1980s (‘Don’t yell ethnic slurs at your fellow worker and be on your way!’). Their habitual-Democrat kids are cynically alert to wokeness and seem dimly aware of how insane and dangerous it is, but have also swallowed enough campus propaganda to view the alternate (i.e. join the Republicans in upholding the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. — judge by character, not color) as anathema. There are some uber-liberals among D.C. Jews who are down with wokeness and hate-Whitey race-baiting, but those folks also hated Netanyahu and many frankly also seemed to hate Israel as a whole to some extent or another.

I spend too much time around D.C. Jews.

But the fact remains that the quoted comment is conspiracy-theory grade looney and wrong.

I was # 6 out of 7 kids. No one paid attention to me. What stimulation did I have? I followed my brother around. I’m not weeping. I managed to get into the Ivies (upper Ivy not lesser). I call BS.

Canada has already been invaded and conquered by the Davos crowd, with the possible exception of Quebec (need to see how that plays out). Invasion by a military is quite expensive and counter productive. You destroy the property. They own it now. Why destroy it?

Too bad. I always thought that Canada was the only good source of immigrants for the US. A giant, cold, pre-USA. Well there goes that.

Wars are not fought like Operation Barbarossa any longer. The days of mass armies and huge tank blitzkriegs are over. The future is robotics, AI, missiles, and cyberwar. In this the Israelis excel. The only issue for Israel is how far they want to go. Of course, if the Western liberal order collapses (as I believe the Muslims wish) then nothing will restrain the Israelis – who become less liberal and more nationalistic by the day. The parties at existential risk are the Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians. They cannot see it because they are in an Islamic dreamland. They are already in a state of near economic and environmental collapse. 30 years ago had someone said Israels GDP per capita will be 4 X higher and the Syria, Iraq, Lebanon etc will be waterless, in civil war, near collapsed economically, everyone would have laughed. But all the trends point one way. I have heard stories of Israel’s doom for decades.

Moral: learn a trade.

Every tradesman in NYC now is Latino.

Well that is pretty cool. Polish Scots. I learn something new every day.

I was thinking the Poles in Ireland should change their names and from then on no one would notice them. They look similar enough, are Catholic, have bitter memories for a larger neighbor. If the Irish won’t have children, the Poles might be a good source. All in all I like the Eastern European migration to the UK and Ireland. The level of the waitresses has gone way up. These girls are nice looking.

If the Subcontinent laborers decided to revolt against their Arab Masters in Qatar, how long would Qatar last? Fat and incapable of any physical activity, I guess the Qatari have mercenaries to take care of this sort of thing but a true revolt? In any event, should they ever revolt I can just hear the State Dept. issuing its mindless statement about the “legitimate” government of Qatar – the 5% of the population that wandered in under the British. Of course if such a revolt had Indian or Pakistani backing (I do not know the origin of the slave class), and those governments moved quickly, so long Qatar.

Don and Doña Jeb! want stronger peasants (and bulls) so he may show them off to the other patróns.

Ireland is in no way destroyed. It is quite wealthy, uncrowded, with a higher GDP per capita than the United States. Its infrastructure is excellent. It lives off US companies establishing an EU HQ due to its 12.5 % tax rate, which is a very effective way to attract capital. Most of the immigrants I have run across there have been Poles who are (nominally at least) Catholic and fit in very well. Ireland is far more prosperous than it was 25 years ago and I have been regularly traveling there for 25 years. Now Ireland may be annoying with its Left Wing Wokeness, and all that goes with it, but it is by no means destroyed and whatever wokeness it pursues is absolutely being voted in by its population. The Woke Left (which is extremely anti-Zionist btw) does well there – look at the political parties and their positions. The only people who believe Ireland is “destroyed” are people who have never been or think The Quiet Man was not only reality, but the ideal of the Irish forever.

She looks normal bodied, pretty, heterosexual, like the woman above. Therefore no attention shall be paid to her here, whatever her background. Maybe if she dyed her hair green and purple and tattooed herself or called herself a man. Our media really does worship the freakish, the ugly, the stupid, the confused, the unwholesome. And we wonder why fertility falls.

Had NBC concentrated on highlighting her, and her story, instead of the the freakish looking weight lifters, soccer players, shot putters, and hobbits, they might have done better in the ratings.

The PM of Israel has 4 children and his wife (according to The internet) married him at age 22 and is a pastry chef, although I suspect she is more intelligent than our own “Dr.” Jill. But yes, married at 22, you can have 4.

The Left does indeed accuse Israel of Fascism, apartheid, and genocide, racism. But with Hungary, the accusations are against Orban although he was elected. Hungary I think is still ok – only Orban is “bad”. Why?

Israel, like Hungary and Poland, simply does not care what anyone thinks about its demographics and hyper restrictive immigration policies. That is Step # 1: Ignore Davos, the Media, the Elite, the University. Plenty of the Left Wing calls Israel fascist. But Step # 2 is the babies. Israel is successful. Three children in a crowded, educated, industrial country is superb. You have to want the children and sacrifice to get them. South Korea does not. The West does not. That is a problem of morale. Orban gets it. He is working on it.

Israeli definitely have not fully absorbed Western norms. Contempt? Maybe. Here are two interesting examples I found in a quick Google search.

A member of their Parliament flat out, openly, blames the recent Covid outbreak on a gay pride parade, whereas in the US, as our host reminded us, no one will dare draw any conclusions about a Covid outbreak in Providence RI.

And a current government minister just stated that
“I think the integration of women into combat field units is a mistake,” ….adding that “the IDF’s role is to defeat the enemy and not to advance social agendas.”

These things may not even be stated in the US any longer, much less agreed upon.

OK. Worth checking. It is all on line

https://www.btl.gov.il/English%20Homepage/Benefits/Children/Pages/Rates%20of%20child%20allowance.aspx

The Israelis pay about $40 per child per month until the age of 18. If that is all it takes to raise our American birthrate, I am all for it.

Singapore has large payments for births, and has barely moved the needle, if at all. https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Strong-and-Stable-Families/Supporting-Families/Pages/Baby-Bonus-Scheme.aspx#CDA

The rates head ever downwards.

As far as I can tell there have bern instances where industrialized, educated, countries have indeed managed to significantly raise birth rates. The US and western Europe after WW2, Nazi Germany before the WW2, Romania under Communism (temporary) and Israel in the last 20 years. Maybe there are others.

The Israeli stats show all segments of their Jewish population increasing their birth rate, including the extremely secular and very highly educated ex-Soviet Jews. The ultra-orthodox rate has slightly decreased. Moreover if births should decline with wealth, the US defense aid should make things move in the other direction, although as it is used for military equipment, I doubt it has much effect. I am thinking of the constant pressure of war. Births rise after wars and the Israelis are always under this pressure. Of course there is no way to prove this. But it is odd that their birth rate increases with increased crowding, increased wealth and increased education.

Israel is a very crowded country, more crowded today than 25 years ago, and their birthrate increased during that time. Their standard of living significantly improved as well (if measured by gdp per capita). An increasing birthrate went together with increased wealth, increased crowding and – increased education for females. Additionally, they have a very low suicide rate, about a quarter of South Korea’s. I myself do not believe in miracles, even in the Holy Land. So there is another explanation somewhere.

The world will collapse but New Zealand will be safe as before?

NZ would be doomed.

In a truly collapsed world, Chinese and Indonesian and Malaysian “sea peoples” would make quick and very savage work of the place. Do you think NZ could defend themselves? Do you think the billionaire class in their bunkers could survive that? The Polynesians reached NZ in canoes, do you think the post collapse Chinese or Indonesians just might be able to make it? Their PM would welcome the invaders with a peace chant and a hijab. They like everyone rely on the Pax Americana while holding the US in contempt. They would succumb and very rapidly. The only places that will survive a true collapse of the Western liberal order are those that will be able to defend themselves. On top of that you need all the tech of modern civilization. But without the first? Nothing. And NZ does not have the first.

We need to get them to copy the Soviet style. You cannot really call the Soviet Stalinist images “photographs”. They all have a cartoonish look. Unlike today’s computer generated imagery, you take one look and you know the whole thing is a fraud. Nobody pretended it was history, they were meant to be icons. I wouldn’t mind their photoshopping if it was Soviet style.

Cheer up. There will be effective drug cocktails. Sooner or later they will hit the right combination. A drug cocktail that prevents serious illness and leaves you immune is enough. This will happen.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-existing-drugs-fight-coronavirus-with-almost-100-success-in-jerusalem-lab/amp/