I think the producers would have preferred the price to be lower so that demand would be higher and they can make larger income (slightly smaller profit per pound but many more pounds sold).

In theory, but that’s not what is happening. Which producers are trying to lower prices?

This is unstable unless you have some way of limiting production. Is there such a mechanism?

Of course it’s unstable. That’s why it’s such a problem.

One thing I worry about is that younger Whites will form a leftist political alliance with non-White immigrants rather than a conservative and anti-immigration political alliance with older Whites. This has appeared to be the case with Mamdani in New York. He received the votes of over two thirds of voters under 30 and more than half for those under 45. He also received three fourths of votes among immigrants who have been in the country less ten years. His opponent was supported by older, wealthier and Whiter people born in this country.

Older Whites need to show concern for younger Whites and not just support policies that benefit only themselves.

What they see is that ten percent of the population owns ninety percent of stocks and forty five percent of real estate and engage in fifty percent of all consumer spending in this country while they have large unpaid student loans, due to the current high cost of college, and can’t make enough to buy a house or pay their living expenses.

And when they figure out that their “competition” from abroad has no student loans or massive debts, and doesn’t have to play by any rules, they’ll truly understand how much they have been screwed.

There is a reason why certain groups of foreigners are better off financially than college educated Americans, and it’s largely not brains and hard work. When your own government rigs the system to favor foreigners at all levels, and then opens the door to them, what does anyone expect to happen? That should be considered treason, and the foreigners should be sent home along with their families, no matter how long they have been here, or what legal status they have been given. That would be justice and rule of law.

Socialists are going to use this increasing inequality of wealth to gain power if we do not fix this problem and instead just come up with arguments like inflation is in athlete and entertainer pay.

Standard of living and quality of life have been going down for a large chunk of Americans for decades, and credit card debt and long-term finance games do not replace real prosperity.

I was visiting my hometown 10 years ago and saw a job I used to have advertised in the paper, and the pay was roughly the same. I then looked at the rent on my former apartment, and it had more that doubled. Tuition at the local college tripled. Just about everything I could think of was more expensive. I think the prices for shoes, clothing, and some other items at the lower end were somewhat steady, but the quality was much lower. People do those comparisons all the time. There is no way on earth that I could make the same amount of money go as far as I did when I was younger. The meaning of inflation is as rigged as the meaning of treason or genocide.

If elite leftists weren’t so stupid about race, immigration, culture, and a host of other issues, they would politicslly own the country by now. Unfortunately, they are just the other side of the stupid/treason coin, and both sides are likely on the same team, anyway.

I agree except for one thing. I don’t consider Jonathan Pollard an American, and that he once was regarded as one (by traitors and other fifth-columnist Jews) is the scandal. But I can’t say that Pollard was a traitor. His only loyalty is to his fellow Jews. He and his kind should never have been here in the first place. And the most urgent issue facing White Americans today is to free ourselves from the Zionist yoke. Huckabee, OTOH, is a vile traitor. As is Trump. And as are unfortunately the overwhelming majority of the turds who occupy nominal positions of power and influence in America today.

In the long run, beef is fundamentally an expensive food. Only way it remains affordable is if wages grow faster than beef price inflation.

My point is that prices overall are right where the providers and producers want them, which is high, and I don’t expect to see that change for any reason.

What that’s called is, part of how I gradually have come to the realization that I was on the wrong side all along, and that my side triumphed all too fully.

Do you mean the side that you cheered for triumphed? Otherwise, if you are feeling bad about making out like a bandit, I’m willing to take some of your ill-gotten gains of your hands. 😀

Some political and economic systems are better than others at producing wealth, organizing labor, distributing wealth, maintaining order and harmony….but I still don’t expect to be helped much by politicians, economists, academics, the wealthy, or the elites of any sort. No ideology is coming to my rescue. I’m like most people in that I am playing the game as intended, which is marginalized, with my eyes blindfolded and my hands tied behind my back, and I’m not sure if I should or shouldn’t take comfort in the fact that the system seems to be poorly managed and unstable.

Having a meeting at the U.S. embassy for this purpose was unnecessary but not scandalous. It was a purely social call

The fact that Huckabee is buddy-buddy with an Israel First traitor is precisely what is scandalous. Birds of a feather. . .

In other words, it takes the same number of labor-hours to buy beef now as it did then, so the beef price itself is not so much the issue.

That might be true for certain types of ground beef, but it’s definitely not the case for steaks, roasts, ribs, stir fry/fajita beef, etc. Those cuts have sky-rocketed.

Rebuilding the beef herd takes time.

Will prices come back down to where they were once the beef herd is rebuilt? I have my doubts that prices on anything will come back down, even if it would be justified.

The first time I went to Europe, I noticed how much Europeans paid for everything, and commented to a friend that our corporations would love for us to pay so much more than we did then for everything. I think we are there now.

But far worse than the Bills of Attainder (after all Trump betrayed his supporters, so f–k him) will be the permanent seizure of power by the left.

If the Left takes power again, they probably will go all or nothing. I just don’t think they will win if they push things over the edge. I’m not even sure they will win elections. As bad as Trump and the Republican alternatives are, the offerings of the Democrats will probably be worse.

I agree with “f_k Trump.” My guess is that he hated most of his base as much as the Dems ever did. He did nothing for them.

All on trains though.

And many people still pretend to not understand why public transportation is often the transport of last resort.

You’re close but not exactly.

The redaction spooks are not yet capable of reading every adversary’s mind and they do not know what seemingly innocuous-to-them piece will be the missing jigsaw puzzle piece for some Sherlock out here in the peanut gallery.

This process was covered concisely in the Hal Puthoff Joe Rogan show where he explained inadvertently why there ain’t ever going to be any UFO flying saucer disclosure. We know the chinks and the russians have pieces. We know they don’t have them all. We have no way of knowing that a piece that we let out might happen to be a piece that allows them to finish the puzzle.

THE secret is Israel is inside the government’s underwear. This is obvious to you and I but obviously it is not obvious to enough people. Every additional scrap that can be pried loose will make it a little more obvious to a little more people and before you know it Kaboom! Crash! critical mass.

Lying is a lot of work because there is a down field chain reaction of more lies that must be created to cover up the previous lies and at some point it will always stop working.

The thing is, has always been: What is the guarantee that those “files” will be everything?

There is no guarantee. In fact, there is every likelihood that those “files” will have been culled and swept clean of anything not wanted to be revealed! How innocent do we have to be to have gone on for months demanding “the files?!”

It’s silly. Whatever is “released” cannot be determined to be everything.

One time, years ago, I was transferred from one office to another, and my replacements were instructed to come to my office and gather my…files! Well, I could have thrown out any files I wanted to, but there was no reason. My point is: How can we expect that “the files” are complete? It’s silly.

Furthermore, does anyone here seriously think that any clandestine or shady or criminal operation of any kind would have kept, muh “files” of its activity? Hell no! This “Epstein Files” nonsense is, quite possibly, bullshit itself.

Ever hear of a “limited hangout?” Look it up.

Whatever. There is no way that bozo Epstein made all that fucking money in any honest way. There is no way he was teaching technical subjects, and rubbing elbows with highly technical people, just on his accomplishments alone — because he had no accomplishments!

To repeat: Do not expect anything from the “Epstein Files.” You may very well be being led down a rabbit hole that goes nowhere.

Man, that’s a good comment, Floyd.

Ever since this stupid argument began, with all its examples and philosophies, I have wanted to say just this:

Do you think American Citizens should not vote in private?

As in, do you think that American Citizens should not vote anonymously?

Think about it. We all vote privately. No one is supposed to know how you or I vote.

That is the equivalent of anonymity, and it has been part of the bedrock of our American, muh, “democracy.”

Do those of you who propose ending online anonymity also want to end anonymous voting? Do you want my every vote to be accompanied by my fucking name?

Well, then, fuck you. You are either idiots or evil or both. Fuck you.

Anonymity goes all the way back to founders like Ben Franklin, who wrote under pseudonyms.

Rather than being a bug, anonymity is a feature. It allows us to freely express ourselves. Any attempt to end it is, very clearly, an attempt to end our ability to freely express ourselves. Full stop.

I just enjoyed a fresh loaf of graham bread baked by my wife, hot out of her oven! (Yes, that’s sexy.) We drank Tokaj wine from her ancestral homeland. With this, we ate her meatballs of ground, organic chicken breasts and ground pork tenderloin. This all was after we watched a hilarious podcast by Ian Carroll.

Have any of you even ever had graham bread, or fresh meatballs made with organic chicken breasts and pork tenderloin?

We are working on our Thanksgiving menu…

Pseudonyms have a long history in the US so one may wonder at the demands being made.

Some people like their privacy, which is reason enough for online anonymity. Otherwise, I seriously doubt that anyone who posts on this thread would care what my real name is.

Pseudonyms have a long history in the US so one may wonder at the demands being made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudonyms_used_in_the_American_Constitutional_debates

The debate about online anonymity is silly. Posting under a pseudonym is the online equivalent of giving an opinion in confidence or talking off the record. Besides, the speech codes that we live under are the problem, not the fact that many people don’t want the hassle of dealing with the idiots and enforcers who embrace and enforce the codes.

When a good chunk of the nation has incredibly stupid opinions and irrational, or even violent, emotional responses to the subjects of race, crime, immigration, ethnic politics, Israel, history, and many other topics, that make discussion impossible, most people don’t discuss the topics in the open.

If you think you can discuss anything with anyone without consequences, just go to a street corner in any black community and talk honestly about race, or to a Jewish neighborhood and try to discuss the holocaust, Israel, or Jewish issues from the view of an outsider, and see what happens. Just having differing views on hispanic crime or influence is a bridge too far for some. The push to end anonymous speech is mostly about shutting down free speech and punishing certain opinions.

All true, but another reason for the large increases in more recent times is Federal safety and fuel economy regulations, which prevent the entry of cheap, versatile, and durable vehicles into the US market, e.g., the Toyota HiLux pickup.

Motorcycles shouldn’t be legal at all if crash safety is an issue.

If they allow BYD and other Chinese EVs, it is game over for U.S. auto industry.

I’m all for protecting U.S. industries, as long as what they produce is worth buying, they work in the best intetests of the nation, and the corporations stay out of social politics. Why not? We spent the last 60 years exporting capital and technology to China to build the industries that now sell everything to us. Where would they be without our assistance and monetary aid? The U.S. government and corporations pretty much protected Chinese industries at the expense of U.S. industries. That may not fall under the legal definition of treason, but what else is it?

It’s time to strip just about everyone who came here after 1965 of their citizenship/legal status, and deport almost every one of them. We should do the same for everyone who pushed for immigration and demographic change. Is that going to happen? Probably not. But if that doesn’t happen, the nation is lost. People making intellectual arguments and splitting hairs are wasting time. You either win, or you don’t.

Isn’t that the very model of a (artificially induced, to be sure) housing shortage?

It would be if there were a shortage of houses.

The Gordian Knot solution is end the Fed. The Fed is really just mechanism to extract value from the productive economy to connected bankers. Currency inflation is the by-product of that scam. Ending the Fed would end much but not all inflation. It would also make the Federal government weaker, but not everyone minds that.

I guess what you are talking about is the difference between free enterprise and capitalism. If so, I would also prefer free enterprise, as long as it stayed in the area of business and economics.

When you mentioned the fed, it’s just a reminder that the system is rigged, and spreads the rot throughout the economy. How did our system fail so badly to allow that cabal to take over?

But it is by no means universal. For example, see this listing….

That house needs lots of work. It might double in price if the repairs were made.

Well, don’t get me wrong- I do acknowledge that he has done a lot of good.

My concern however, is if he doesn’t make some very serious strides to remove the cultural rot inside our government, then at best he’ll be just a 4 year reprieve on a system that is going to complete Hell!

Maybe taking on The Global Elite is too big a hurdle, but he can’t even clean out, or frankly, dismantle the corrupt FBI? And “somebody” in the CIA, State Department, USAID, etc., is STILL running a color revolution in this country!

Perhaps I’m evil, or too pragmatic, or just rash, but if I were him, there’s about 1,000 people that would have been disappeared by now. And probably another 10,000 or 100,000 that would be put on notice that they are next!

I mean, holy shit, he isn’t even getting his pound of flesh for the assassination attempts and the lawfare inflicted upon him and his family? Or for the stolen election? Or for the George Floyd and COVID PsyOps launched to hobble his presidency and conceal the election theft? Not even for the Russiagate hoax, whereby they used the entire government and media to label him as a traitor and a Putin puppet?

I don’t get it! I’d take that shit very personally, and I’d have people killed! Burned alive, skinned alive, crucified!

But nope, he’s just rambling on about tariffs, and supporting Israel… it’s surreal.

I have no idea if the modern BLS is full of useless, non-caring, non-thoughtful D.I.E. hires at this point.

Kind of a tangent, but I think there is WAAAAY more of this than we know!

Everyday another story comes out of some DEI hire, usually a black woman, (and fat, and mouthy, full of black-itude) embezzling, misusing funds, paying/hiring her family and friends, awarding them contracts, “living large on the government coffers”… or when it isn’t that, they are the Chief of Police, or a School Superintendent, or part of some USAID NGO, making ignorant, and I mean really dumb, low IQ statements about some incident, whereby their 80 IQ shines through like a spotlight.

They’re just really stupid, ignorant, no-account morons that were put in “positions”, but they really don’t do any work, can’t manage anything, and are just high paid functionaries with no role except to get paid, and be a loud black woman.

Gavin McGuinnes does a periodic segment about it, on Compound Censored.

There is no telling how deep this particular rot goes, but unlike in the past, when they were just the shitty employees at the DMV, they are now Fire Chiefs, or executives at government agencies, NGO’s, or in some made-up DEI position in every government agency.

There’s a reason why blacks are suddenly showing up on cruises, or at Disney, or cutting donuts in the street in $70,000 cars: Money! They now have money from their bullshit DEI “jobs”.

And they are destroying, everything they have been injected in to.

Prices can change for legitimate supply/demand reasons. That is what is supposed to happen: something scarce becomes costlier to discourage use. Or conversely, something abundant can become cheap thereby encouraging use and perhaps substitution for something dear.

Housing prices in my area almost doubled in a three year period, and this is not due to a housing shortage. Rents also had a steep increase at the same time. This is partially due to large corporations buying up homes in the area to turn them into rentals. What is that considered? Why are many cars now more expensive than a starter home thirty years ago? How about education? Why has that gone through the roof?

Splitting hairs on the definition of inflation seems like a way of downplaying what people are experiencing, especially when prices have risen on just about everything.

Trump is really blowing it!

He had/has, a once in a lifetime chance to actually do something to fix this screwed-up country, and he is squandering it minute by minute.

1- Subservience to Israel, and their jew activists in the US, are splitting this country in yet another giant fissure. It’s become so blatantly obvious, and “in your face” that at least half of the Left hates Israel, and at least half of the Right wants to be done having them dictate so much US policy that it’s hard to keep track of it all. Those two halves equal a plurality. THAT’S a MANDATE!

2- For a so-called “Peace President”, he is advocating waaay too much war. Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Yemen… and he hasn’t helped end the Ukraine war at all; Quite the opposite. Moreover, this country is awash in domestic troubles, and that needs to be his focus, not all this never-ending international bullshit.

3- The economy is NOT doing well, and he hasn’t done anything to change that. The cost of living is still sky high, the housing market is a ridiculous joke. Sure, the stock market is soaring, but that doesn’t help most Americans, at all. His spasmodic tariff policy hasn’t helped anyone that makes less than $10 million a year, and I don’t know if it helped them either. Prices are NOT down, for anything.

4- The Deep State is undeterred, and he hasn’t arrested anybody! Not for the various treasons, the covid sham, the covid vaccine sham, the 2020 election sham, the lawfare war against the Right, nobody! WTF is he waiting for?

5- Election Integrity? Still a shitshow!

6- He really blew it out his ass on the Epstein thing, which I’m sure is related to point #1 about Israel and the fucking jews!

7- He hasn’t cleaned out the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the State Department, USAID, or the giant DC swamp! He’s doing exactly what he did first term, i.e. “Now they all work for me, so it’ll be just fine”.

8- Deportation numbers are soft! Sure, there’s a lot of “shock and awe”, but the numbers are a drop in the bucket! Make it illegal to sell to them, rent to them, hire them, or provide them services- They’ll deport themselves. At this rate, he won’t even un-do the Biden Flood, much less solve the illegal immigration problem.

9- Crime is still rampant in every big blue city! Why isn’t he federalizing police forces, arresting Mayors, Police Chiefs, corrupt DA’s, Governors for defying federal law? Everyone knows that most violent crime is blacks and third world immigrants, so fucking do something about it! Arrest a few State Governors, City Mayors, and pro-criminal DA’s, and you’ll see some results!

10- Stop talking, and start acting! We saw this in his first term too- All the high profile tweets, statements, bloviating blowhard bullshit, eventually wears on the public, and they get sick of him. He needs to STFU, and start DOING some shit, not talking about it.

11- Why have we all been hearing about all the shit George Soros, and now his son Alex, have been doing for DECADES, and yet, nobody ever does shit about it? Go arrest their fucking asses, perp walk them, and put them in Epstein’s exact cell!

12- Stop talking shit to every country on the planet, and either do something to work with them, or ignore them! Feuding with half the planet is just stupid and counter-productive. That includes China!

13- Stop bragging about all these bullshit figures about “investments in America by foreign countries and foreign leaders”!! That is all a bunch of bullshit! And why do we need foreign investment? Aren’t we the richest, most powerful country on the planet? Either bring back manufacturing, or STFU!

14- Pam Bondi sucks, so does Kash Patel! They bitched out, just admit it! Covering up for Epstein, or all the crimes that happened in the past 10 years? Charlie Kirk assassination? It’s just Biden that can talk, it isn’t any real changes!

Seriously, if he isn’t going to face the jew problem, then nothing else fucking matters.

He’s a failure!

A better reason to promote something like the salt approach is because it is MUCH more cost effective than picking up the pieces after a cardiovascular event.

I agree. This topic just hits home, since my wife is a Finn, and her family and friends constantly complain about the system. Some like it, but I have seen how it works and how it has changed over the years. All I can say is don’t get deathly ill, and make sure that you save for elder care, just like everywhere else.

In any case, here is some data on improvements in cardiovascular risk factors in Finland over time.

I would be surprised if there is a trend towards less heart disease among Finns over the last several decades, but it’s possible. I have visited many time since the 90s, and the lifestyle has certainly changed, but I’ not sure that it’s all for the better. Finns seem more sedentary, and the diet has changed for the worse with more processed foods and fast foods. I even noticed last summer that there is a trend of American-style all-you-can-eat buffets and restaurant portions are much bigger. It used to be a treat to go to a traditional smorgasbord. Smoking and drinking alcohol are still issues, and illegal drug use is a problem that was unheard of when my wife was younger. Obese people, who were once rare, are fairly common now.

Finns are smart and innovative people, but I tend to not trust much of what they put out for international consumption. YLE is about as free and honest as Pravda or the NYT. Hopefully, their scientific and medical journals are better.

Inflation has been a problem for decades. For a while, cheaply made goods selling for low prices made people look the other way, but housing, education, food, medical care, transportation, and other essentials were rising in price. The difference now is that everything is expensive, and the quality of most consumer goods is low, while the economy is really in crisis for most people.

Finland encouraging the use of special salt products to counter cardiovascular disease (especially high blood pressure).

I just saw this and admit that I haven’t followed the thread, but the Finnish healthcare system isn’t all that great. Finns generally have a healthier diet and lifestyle, with much less stress, but I don’t think their system for public health is anything to brag about. Lots of Finns now use the private system. If alternative medicine is promoted, it’s likely because they are also at the point where government healthcare is becoming unsustainable.

Finland is a nice country for now, but I tend to take the good news with half a grain of salt. A nation with high rates of alcoholism and suicides is not the happiest nation on earth…..

The decision on who is inside the conservative tent, whether it is Nick Fuentes or Mark Levin or anyone else, has to be made by Republican politicians.

Republican politicians have been screwing their base on that issue since forever, and on a variety of other issues, too.

I would think the smart strategy would be for donors to tell groups like ADL and the SPLC to end the anti-White programs, tell everyone they know to stop attacking White people and White culture and to build bridges with Whites before they all turn their backs on Israel. It’s untenable to push the anti-White agenda and to save Israel at the same time.

Jewish power and institutions are the problem, more than Israel. A portion of the Jewish community opposes the policies of Israel, yet it is still toxic for America, which means White America.

The situation is too far along for a truce or peaceful resolution, and most of us can only watch the nation fall apart. At this point, all you can do is try to be honest about the sides, causes, possible outcomes, and your place in it all. I hope my side wins, but the problem will not go away long-term unless the other side is completely destroyed and removed, and the other side is not just Jews.

I don’t think you understand the visceral hatred (((they))) have for ordinary Whites. They hate us and want us dead, it’s pretty simple.

That’s terrible news! I wish him well.

New Yorkers may or may not have short memories, but when a plurality of your electorate wasn’t even here twelve years ago, their memories don’t matter.

Along with their benefactors, a plurality of that electorate needs to be deported, no matter what legal status and rights were given to them.

people responded to the election of a new mayor on a strong anti-billionaire platform as if we didn’t see a campaign with these exact same themes win twelve years ago.

New Yorkers may or may not have short memories, but when a plurality of your electorate wasn’t even here twelve years ago, their memories don’t matter.

“I really wonder how many people don’t know and how many know but don’t care, that when the number of competent White men gets below a certain value, for ANY portion of the real economy, things will go to hell in a hurry.”

You didn’t account for the people who know but realize that there is nothing they can do about it except prepare for the worst.

Your Ron Pauls, your Harry Browne’s (going way back), your Lew Rockwells, your Murray Rothbards, and your Vin Suprynowiczes, all the serious Libertarians, were not for open borders. They are all and have all been, for smaller government. That IS THE solution for most of our ills.

I’ve always liked the men you mentioned above, but I have my reservations about their views on immigration. I am certain that I have heard both Ron Paul and Harry Browne say that they support the free flow of labor, which is something that I can’t support. I don’t recall if either connected labor to citizenship, but I believe that a guest worker is just that, and should be shipped off back home as soon as his contract is over, and with nothing but his belongings and earnings.

The Libertarians were never going to be a match for the PTB when they refused to stand up for Americans. A nation is more than ideology and economics, which is why the Libertarians got absolutely nowhere with a pissed off electorate. As ridiculous as Donald Trump is, at least he knew what he needed to say to manipulate people into voting for him. I’m not sure that it was honesty standing in the way of Libertarian candidates.

According to the Anglish to English translator, the last three paragraphs of your post are 81% derived from words that are of Germanic origin.

https://bark-fa.github.io/Anglish-Translator/

I imagine that the cure for poor reading skills in this country might be to revert to Anglish.

If you want this country to head in a Libertarian direction, and Libertarians were too few even 50 years ago, is it wise to invite in people that neither want anything to do with nor have even HEARD OF your Libertarian ideals?

Libertarians seemed to be gaining traction in the 90s and early 2000s with Harry Browne, Ron Paul, and Lew Rockwell types, but their immigration stances and the tendency to attract the tie-died crowds and Randians doomed them, in my opinion. The very early Tea Party demonstrations had potential, but a movement has to stand for more than money, taxes, and ideology. Nobody wanted/wants to represent actual Americans, which really means white Americans, so here we are. We live in a nation where the elites have no attachment to the core population, no accountability to anyone, and a largely inferior and hostile replacement population on the ground.

Unless something is done to restore traditional demographics without exploding the population, the very best that can be hoped for is a steep decline in standards across the board. Who really believes that that is all we’ll face, since we are already there this early in the game?

Steve’s message and Trump’s came out at exactly the point where La Raza (the people) and the Black grifters (Trayvon Martin’s crowd) were going full street action…

Nothing that any strategist said would have changed anyone’s political opinion at that point. Trump supporters were being attacked in the streets, and policemen were killed by BLM and Antifa. This along the sorry candidates that Trump faced gave him more votes in three different elections. All he had to do was not screw up too badly.

Normies don’t like street movements and Conservative Rs, at least those in the South, were enraged to see grifting Blacks, radical Jews and foreigners tearing down monuments to their dead said monuments being toppled with Paul Ryan’s moral approval manifested in Ryan scolding Trump for defending the statue defenders.

BLM marched through my town, and were completely ignored. They didn’t stage a second march. The local community websites were full of anti-BLM messages.

Every country on earth has military men who follow orders. That’s great but it has little to do with moral and social courage.

I have mixed feelings about the military. Every nation needs a military, but I don’t like what our military has become. I grew up around combat vets from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and none of them talked much about what they experienced. One committed suicide, and my aunts and uncles said he never came to terms with what he experienced in war, and was in frequent pain from the wounds that earned him two Purple Hearts. These men were drafted and came from a simpler time. None of them supported our later wars, and the ones who gave an opinion, told me to stay away from the military, which I did.

I don’t have nearly as much sympathy for the post-Vietnam vets who often join for the benefits and travel, knowing that they are unlikely to face real combat against an equal or superior foe. They grew up with a freer media, and often the internet, and should understand that they aren’t fighting for the best interests of America. These people shouldn’t be naive, and have to understand that they are merely in a pact with the elites who have hired them to do their fighting. If they don’t understand their purpose, I fear that they sould not be given training or weapons.

The touchy veteran is a funny thing. They walk around puffed up claiming the most exalted social status because they have “done their part”. We all owe them something.

But every honest veteran tells a different story. Bob Whitaker (who worked with CIA among other things) put it this way with regard to most people, veteran and non-veteran, submitting to social pressure:

All my life I have listened to Veterans talk about what heroes they are.

Veterans are cowed by the same thing that cowers everyone else: We all know it’s true, so why doesn’t somebody ELSE go out and SAY so?

The Vets have an excuse: “I’m NOT a coward, look at how I fought in whatever war the authorities sent me into.”

…

A truly brave person is one who is willing to go up against a rule which is so terrifying it is not even stated

Every country on earth has military men who follow orders. That’s great but it has little to do with moral and social courage. Over the last 50 years we lost our borders, we were invaded by 40 million immigrants, had forced integration that sent 100 million White people fleeing, we wasted lives and money on stupid wars, and we didn’t gain any territory. I don’t blame any veteran for that, but it is tiresome to coddle them as they strut around like Big Dogs who we need to “thank for our freedoms”.

I’m a little afraid to go near the new trans-women military people. Besides, at least half our military jobs are make-work social projects anyway.

The real problem with military/veteran worship is that it makes conservatives feel like as long as we have those instiutions, we are okay! Well, that’ not enough.

If God chose Jews as his special humans why didn’t He make them drop-dead gorgeous both inside and out?

God surely didn’t do that.

I had a Cockney-Irish friend who was broke in Israel way back in the 70’s, he ended up washing dishes in a Jewish restaurant in Eilat where all the Jews (both the restaurant owners and the clientele) were so insulting…

I’ve always thought that Europeans are far more likely to be anti-Israel than Americans because so many Europeans worked and volunteered in Israel. Lots walked away with negative attitudes towards Israel and Jews. And the Jews just thought that water pipes, tractors, and farm equipment was constantly broken because the unsupervised goys were too dumb to figure out how to do the jobs or use the equipment. Definitely infinitely more valuable.

That was one ‘niche’ that Steve Sailer dug into (his personal motto at the time being “Live Not By Lies”), in or by the early 2000s. His worldwide fame today is a result.

Steve was decades late in making immigration his niche. Anti-immigrationists were voicing their views across the West since forever, since there have always been weasels pushing for cheap labor or ignorant voters. Sailer stands out because he is the type who doesn’t base his “anti-immigration” stance on protecting old-stock populations, culture, or traditions. He’s essentially approved by big business and our overlords, which is why he’s still sscribbling. Nothing risked in hoping for lots gained.

Trump used the Sailer Strategy to win in 2016 but lost in 2020, according to the blogger Audacious Epigone, because he switched to a Karl Rove strategy of trying to pick up non-White voters.

More than anything else, Trump ran against a corrupt and inept establishment. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, the other clowns running as Republicans, the Deep State, etc. got Trump elected. Otherwise, Trump promised everything to everybody. Trump ran as an outsider who promised to destroy the establishment that a majority of the electorate hates. Most of what he campaigned on was staged bullshit that was meant to appeal to groups of voters. If anything, P.T. Barnum was his strategist.

Another clueless conservative who has no idea as to how many rural White Christians use food stamps.

My guess is that you’d be surprised at how many rural white Christians (that’s an odd way of naming them) in the rural South don’t use SNAP, or at how much more otherwise. Money is consumed by non-whites in the region. If you’ve spent much time in the rural South, you’d know that even small towns have public housing, and you rarely see whites living in public housing. Practically no benefits or set asides are directed specifically at whites, rural or otherwise.

Another clueless conservative who has no idea as to how many rural White Christians use food stamps.

I live in the rural South. I also didn’t mention race, though there is a clear difference between whites and blacks in the rural South that even meth can’t erase completely.

Allegedly, SNAP outage affects 40 million, in a nation of 325 million = 12%.

I would bet that a higher percentage of k-12 students are special education cases. Add our prisoners, ex-cons and homeless drug-addicts, and the future looks bright. Could a nation be better managed?

Ok germ since you’re our resident arts and letters guy, please explain why Sydney Sweeney is getting all this “ink” (publicity). Obviously I’ve never seen any movies she’s been in because I’m a social hermit, but I don’t think she’s all that pretty, only thing I see is she has big tatatas.

Tattoos are for prison criminal gangs to display affiliation. Also a signal to normies.

30 years ago, tramp stamps, ankle and shoulder butterflies were supposed to be sexy and daring. The crazy tattoos today are camouflage and mimicry for normies and nerds in a rapidly coarsening society.

Don’t know specifically how well kibbutzim farm these days but Israeli agriculture in general is quite successful under less than ideal growing conditions.

My impression is that the kibbutzim is more of a sentimental institution to Israelis, and is more useful militarily than agriculturally or industrially, unless something has changed. My impression is that moshavim or some private farms would be more important to Israeli agriculture. Either way, I wouldn’t think that Israeli agriculture is in the same class as the Dutch or Americans.

Cut them some slack, man, they’ve got a lot on their plate. They’re far too busy being better, smarter, holier, and infinitely (literally) more valuable than you.

I guess that’s meant as an insult. Either way, there isn’t much uber or mensch about most Israrlis or Jews.

I think that apples to apples Israeli Ashkenazim are not significantly duller than American Ashkenazim.

Most of the Jews that I knew in Israel were Ashkenazim of the kibbutz variety. They were nothing special at all, and they were pretty lazy. They don’t make good farmers, workers, or apparently soldiers, no matter how the Sabras are talked up.

The Golden Age of Jewish civilization came and went with the Phoenician Empire — a maritime civilization from about 3200 BC to 300 BC.

When were the Phoenicians followers of Judaism? Why don’t the Lebanese or even the Palestinians get to claim the Phoenicians?

China is an odd example here.

The U.S. is an odd example of a world power that gave away its industrial base and technology.

Re the intelligence (not IQ) of Jews… in my experience, Jewish intelligence tends to split into two halves: the math/science/crime/fraud/finance Jews are often genuinely quite brilliant…

I don’t buy the claim that the average iq for Jews is 115 compared to 100 for whites. For a long time the claim was was 103, which is possible. Either way, my experience with Jews is that American Jews are sharper than Israeli Jews, but neither group is something that the West needs at all. I met lots of dull Jews in Israel.

There has never been a great Jewish civilization, which says all you need to know about Jews.

Outside of defects and criminals, a succussful society need a full range of temperaments and abilities to function and get things done. IQ worshipers don’t get this fact.

None of it would matter (I can’t make a similar set of comparisons about say Armenians) if they would just sit quietly in their seat on the bus and enjoy the trip, instead of constantly grabbing the wheel and crashing into people and things.

I’ve stated many times that I don’t think that anybody would care if Jews gained power in America if they ran the nation well and weren’t trying to destroy everything and enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. They could have sat atop of the lone super power and had immense wealth and privilege for generations, and nobody would have cared if the nation were managed well. They chose to do otherwise. We’ll see what happens.

I continue my liking of Steve. But here he is naive.

Why naive?

With all the harm that Jews have done with their influence, Sailer still worships them. What an ass kissing weasel! Let’s all beg the Jews to change their minds and save us. And how damn smart Jews they if their main goal is self-preservation and their schemes are as likely to harm Jews as any other group. Destroying the U.S., Europe, and likely Israel all at the same time in decades, while making themselves hated everywhere else is a real triple bankshot. I really envy their intelligence.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and the whole rotten establishment got Donald Trump elected. I don’t think that Steve Sailer had much to do with anything.

“A Whiter electorate elects better presidents”

I have voted for the same president the majority of Whites who went out and voted picked: Trump, Romney, McCain, Bush Jr., Dole, Bush Sr., and Reagan. Some won and some did not but if they had all won it would not have made much difference.

I have heard before about how things were getting better when Republicans got control of the government but the improvement was always temporary. The high government spending and infationary policies of Trump will lead to prices rising faster than wages and people getting poorer. This will lead to a leftist getting into power who will undo anything good that Trump did.

Saying that I advocate retreating to a cabin in the woods is just setting up a strawman. I specifically said I was not advocating ceasing all political activity. Being old means I should be more, not less, interested in politics. To make a comparison, if the country is like a car heading for a cliff then if I can slow the speed of the car from 60 mph to 30 mph I might die before we get to the cliff. If you young people slow the speed of the car it is still going over the cliff before you die. You may want to risk jumping out of the car or violently taking control of the car from the driver instead.

I think you understate the malevolent intent of the proponents of the 1965 Act. I recall an article on the late VDare, linked to a video depicting a sinister apparatchik/federal demographer and proponent of the Act, Norbert Schlei (surprisingly, not a Jew as far as I could determine), who clearly knew that the radical change in the law would cause sweeping demographic change in the US.

There is a basic legal principle which states that an actor may be presumed to intend the foreseeable consequences of his acts. I submit that is the case here.

You also neglect the tireless advocacy of Jewish pressure groups that agitated for the 1965 Act and did so relentlessly for decades, and you understate the enormous concentrated wealth and power (legal and media, for starters) they possessed even then. (Jews, for example, led the charge to abolish restrictive covenants in real estate deeds and to forcefully integrate the public schools, policies that predictably led to the annihilation of all White ethnic neighborhoods in the major cities.) The simple truth is that Jews as a group do better when embedded in “diverse” societies than when trying to embed in an overwhelmingly White society, where the hostile subgroup sticks out like a sore thumb.

Have you ever heard of Barbara Spectre? General Wesley Clarke (half-Jewish)? Practically the entire elite in the UK, who engineered the deliberate Third-Worlding of Britain? All of them and many more have insisted that all White countries must be forced to adopt what they euphemistically call “multiculturalism.” Apparently you think it is all a coincidence. I regard it as a cohencidence.

No doubt there were substantial numbers of White useful idiots and some White traitors (e.g., Tony Blair, Bill Clinton) who signed on to the program of White racial destruction through demographic war. But I think your notion that Jews have no agency in this matter is ridiculous.

“Then, in 1965 no one really thought that masses of non-whites would come to the US, aided by lunacies of Counter-cultural 60s.”

No. It was consciously planned, but a lot of foolish Whites unwittingly went along and condemned their posterity to a hopeless, dysgenic, Mad Max future hell.

Anyone have any thoughts about a deal with Argentina to bring in more beef? I think Currdog knows something about the cattle/beef industry.

https://www.zerohedge.com/food/trump-worked-magic-beef-deal-likely-argentina-cattle-futures-surge-most-1978

Historically speaking, my grandfather paid for his first house in cash, and he was by no means wealthy. The house is still standing across from a small university.

I’m trying to understand how investing in gold would help the average person. I tend to stay out of the stock market because there are too many variables that I can’t know with any business or commodity. I just bought another house after renting for a few years, but I have no other debts, and my mortgage payment on a much nicer house in a much nicer area is about the same as the monthly rent on the house owned by the national corporate slum lord that bought up many homes in my area. I do okay, but I don’t know how to get everyone’s hands out of my pockets and beat inflation. And I’m not sure that gold is the answer.

Buy and hold gold.

But what do you do with gold? I guess you could barter with gold, but that can be iffy, and you can’t do that in a store. Otherwise, you have to sell gold, but that is probably not in your favor if times get really tough. I think the predators probably have that covered, just like housing and everything else. You practically have to be a lawyer and a finance expert to make a major purchase today, and add in mechanic, plumber, electrician or carpenter if you are buying a car or house. It looks to me like everything is rigged.

If what I have read is correct, it is a Soros group that was caught funding smuggling groups from Africa and the mideast into Europe. That looks like a plot to me. As much as I despise Christian groups that push immigration, they could sort of claim a humanitarian goal, unlike many Jewish activists who outright voice hatred of whites and their joy at an upcoming white minority. These are the same type of people who were Bolsheviks or ANC supporters, which is a lot different that a bleeding heart church lady.

What BK said certainly is not true in the United States. In The Culture of Critique, MacDonald painstakingly chronicled the decisive Jewish influence in effecting the massive change in the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965, which led to the demographic destruction of the country.

What are the logistical hurdles to ramping up mass immigration 10 times from what it was under Biden? If and when the Dems get back in power, they are going to go wild. Zohran Mamdani and AOC are the future. They are going to do all they can to make sure nothing like Trump ever happens again.

Biden let in something like 5 to 10 million legally (not necessarily naturalized but allowed permanent status). In addition, he allowed in at least 10 million illegals. AI tells me there were about 100 million visitors to America in the Biden years. It would seem a pretty easy goal for the Dems to double that – and let them stay (we’d be talking about real 3rd worlders).

There have been noises about increasing America’s population to about 1 billion by end of the century, but clearly they will accelerate this time frame. Adding 200 or 300 million people seems like a possible goal in the space of a decade.

The ADL and SPLC will happily invite millions of Muslims into America to beat up Jews and burn synagogues if it allows them to tar white folks as racist.

“German Americans at one time had great pride in being German,”

Yes until their local folk-culture was destroyed in a fake frenzy over a nonsensical war fever whipped up by…. um, you guys, for your own non-American interests. Read your Kurt Vonnegut. It’s funnier and more accurate than that dick-head Philip Roth.

“just like the Irish and the Italians still do.”

Oh get over yourself. Irish and Italian and Greek Americans are not weirdo ethnic fanatics, they just fly their old-timey flags outside of local restaurants and bars in their neighborhoods, it’s not a big deal. They don’t spend billions bribing and manipulating entire governments to swing matters in favor of blood-soaked blood-sucking foreign regimes with alien agendas who spy on our people and sell them out 24/7 and create deliberate chaos for their own purposes. I can’t recall an American world war which was started in reaction to the British over-kill when James Connolly and his buds took over the Dublin GPO for about half an hour.

Part of the problem is that any president who tried to implement better policies would not be reelected because the short-term pain and dislocations would make him massively unpopular. It’s another form of the tragedy of the commons.

We will quite possibly have an anti-White leftist president after 2028. The bad fiscal and economic policies of Trump may lead to a crisis followed by the Republicans losing in 2028 just as the bad fiscal and economic policies of George W. Bush led to the 2008 crisis followed by the anti-White leftist Obama gaining power.

“Whatever our political differences, it is sad what happened to some of your family members during the Holocaust.”

Yeah well maybe it was, but so the f#ck what? My grandfather died of tuberculosis coughing his lungs out in a filthy squat in a Yorkville tenement in 1939 leaving my mom fatherless as an infant, was that somehow less sad because he wasn’t wearing a tiny hat at the time? Jack D would say so, and his blood-soaked holy books would support the inference. I used to work on Nevada Indian reservations, where people had great-grandfathers who were slaughtered by US Army troops, was that somehow less sad because the soldiers were wearing different arm-bands?

I have Hungarian relatives who were tortured and murdered by the Jew thug Bela Kun, and Irish relatives who were tortured and murdered by guys with Downton Abbey accents, can somebody explain to me why Anne Frank’s death was more tragic or more horrible?

All I can suss out of this, is that Jewish deaths are sadder because racist Jews consider their lives to be more valuable than some stupid goy day-laborer, despite the fact that it was the goy’s ancestors who built and created everything that made this civilization worth living in, and not the Jew swindler’s-list guy, but somehow we are supposed to weep extra jumbo-sized weepy tears for the deaths of Jews that happened during the largest war in history, largely instigated by Jews, in which tens of millions of people perished, but the only ones whose deaths mattered were the guys wearing weird pajamas whose relatives took over all the publishing houses and university chairs.

W.T. feckin’ F. ?

You guys have to stop this silly game. It won’t work and it’s not necessary. You guys are there because you’ve won the place through war. It’s yours as long as you can hold it. The Crusaders held it for almost a hundred years, maybe you guys will last longer.

The problem with that statement is they rely on others to pay for their “wars,” supply them with arms all out of proportion to the people that they do fight, fight those that they can’t handle or engage, provide diplomatic cover and propaganda, and pretend that nothing is happening at the same time. And we do all of this while claiming that they are the victims of the people they attack, all while the rest of the world is supposedly pledged to oppose wars of conquest and aggression, not to mention genocide.