I think what you're saying is correct as far as normal women are concerned. But I'd like to focus on the 25% of women who are apparently beyond salvaging. Actually, I'm sure my estimate is way too high. It's probably more like 10%. But, I am also hearing a large number of women are on track to be single and childless at 40, so I don't know. My contention is that they don't respond to normal masculinity.

I overheard a couple on a date recently. The girl was in her 20s and fat. She was going on about how some play was "misogynistic". I got the impression it was a first date. I hope the guy runs away because it won't get better.

My concern is that a lot of these women are concentrated in careers like teaching. They have an outsized impact on the education of our children.

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Bardon Kaldian

Mrs. Prude's ravioli sound delicious, especially because of the home-grown tomatoes. Tomatoes are only good and tasty when grown either at home or nearby at an American farm.

We buy our tomatoes from a farm one mile up the road from us, when they are in season. All kinds, including our favorite, heirloom tomatoes.

That farm also grows many varieties of apples. My wife likes the sour varieties, so I buy them for her. They grow an unbelievable variety of peppers and onions and potatoes, and etc....

So, ya know, we are kind of blessed -- and that is why we fucking bought our house and why we fucking live here!

Oh, you say (and I love this) "Sad. So much effort and pretension."

Yeah. You don't know, because you feel some need to belittle MY PLEASURE.

It is MY PLEASURE to drive through the beautiful woods for twenty minutes to visit MY fishmonger. He knows me. He has nicknamed me "Sushi Man" because I buy so much sushi-grade fish from him -- and I KNOW what to do with it! (You don't.)

It is MY PLEASURE to, muh, put so much sad effort and "pretention" into the food I enjoy fucking making. It is MY PLEASURE to roll sushi! That's what you apparently don't understand: The pleasure is in the doing! It's like sex, young man! Doing it is the fun!

And there is no way you could enjoy sushi the way we do without doing what I do. Not that you care. One reason I make our own sushi is to make sure that the fish is wild and healthful. That's why I drive twenty minutes through the woods to a fishmonger I personally know. The fish you eat at a restaurant (in your case fried at some place like McDonald's) is most likely farmed -- i.e. grown in its own filth somewhere.) I go to the trouble of making sure our food is actually, ya know, "good."

Enjoy your Goombah pasta with tomato! Suck up the carbs, man!

Replies: @Old Prude

Yours is, I think, a very intelligent comment, Mr. SafeNow.

In particular: "True, I guess – – about the “rate” – – but the absolute number is, and will always be, a mere drop in the bucket."

Yes, indeed. All of the arrests and deportations are shows -- as in showbiz -- that are too small to amount to anything. You get that. It makes me wonder what really is going on.

If things continue this way, maybe some people will cheer, but nothing will change.

I like the rest of your comment too. I just doubt that anything like that will ever happen.

BTW, I made sushi rolls today. I do this sometimes. My wife requested it for our Friday, so I drove to our fishmonger in another town, "through woods for twenty minutes," and I bought sushi-grade, wild-caught Alaska salmon -- and frozen"Hamachi," which is a kind of yellowtail tuna used in sushi.

I prepared everything in the ways I know how to do, and I rolled those wonderful things, and we enjoyed them with wasabi, pickled ginger, avocado, all rolled up inside seaweed nori, dipped in soy sauce.

We are just now discussing what our Thanksgiving menu will be -- because YOU have encouraged us to think about it so early!

Replies: @Old Prude, @Jenner Ickham Errican

"If Whites viewed each other as allies there would be no Ukrainian refugees because we would not be using the Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia."

If the West had not supported Ukraine allowing the Russians to crush them this would have produced a lot of Ukrainian refugees (or at least want to be refugees).

Replies: @Mark G., @Old Prude

"You want to put Slavs and Celts in proximity"

Should my WASP ancestors here in America told the Irish Catholics fleeing the potato famine you aren't wanted here and need to go back? According to your way of thinking the answer is "yes".

That was not done, though. The only immigration restrictions were put on non-Whites. Here in Indianapolis the Italian, Irish and Slav ethnic neighborhoods were all by each other.

The different Whites need to think less in terms of their own ethnic or religious groups and focus on the flood of non-Whites trying to get into White countries. The purpose of my last comment was not to promote Ukrainian immigration but to highlight the differences between Somali Blacks and Whites like Ukrainians. A beautiful young White Ukrainian girl was recently stabbed by a Black here in America, with it becoming a major story.

If Whites viewed each other as allies there would be no Ukrainian refugees because we would not be using the Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia.

Replies: @James B. Shearer, @Mike Tre

Somalia might be the prime example of producing fake refugees. It was stupid of the Irish to let them in -- they just had to look at Sweden. Get rid of them as soon as possible.

Replies: @Mark G., @Mike Tre

To be fair, the 'belittling' and mockery were over his debate performance and not his achievements in the military. You can see his performance:

https://youtu.be/bEylDHV761Y?t=356

Obviously, he is not a well-trained orator. Just as Ross Perot had powerful arguments but weak in personal charisma.

Replies: @Old Prude

According to our sources in the police, the argument between the Somali and the Ukrainian boys may have started over food. The Ukrainian was frying eggs and bacon for breakfast, which outraged the Somali, who does not eat pork for religious reasons. The Somali attacked the Ukrainian with a kitchen knife, viciously slashing him and gouging out his eyes. The boy tried to fight back, but had multiple wounds on his arms, head, and chest,” Irish journalist Stephen Hand told Strana
 

Replies: @Dmon, @Pericles

Diversity-ideology had put those men in the USA.
 

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Hail, @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude

I would also strongly recommend Episode 4 of Tucker Carlson’s new 9/11 series
 

Replies: @Hail, @Mr. Anon, @Sam Hildebrand

Admiral Stockdale was mocked for the debate with Gore and Quayle. Think of that: A man who gave almost the entire measure of his life for America, and had not stain on his honor was belittled by the media, and by extension the American public.

That would have been unthinkable before [and is a permanent mark against country]. And that was, what, thirty-five years ago? Burn it all down.

Replies: @Old Prude, @Mike Tre, @epebble

Muslims having their own countries hasn't stopped them from coming to Europe and the US by the millions.

Replies: @Old Prude

The quality of Whites was higher then. The first five presidents they voted in were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison snd Monroe. The most recent five before the current one were Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton.
 

Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population).
 

Replies: @Hail, @Old Prude, @Mark G.

Clarke claims that ethnically pure countries are a part of the past in Europe and subsequent to that statement two European countries become more ethnically pure. Seems an open and shut case of erroneous visioning at least as far as the two named countries are concerned which by your quote were the subjects of the original statement. If he’s speaking to Europe as a whole and a larger trend and not those two countries specifically then you can claim he applied a general prediction to the instance where the targets of the comment bucked the trend. But, hard to say his statement as applied wasn’t wrong.

Replies: @Old Prude

Yeah.

I met a couple of people* many years ago who had frontal lobotomies.

A bottle-a-front-a-me is definitely better. I should know.

*One of those people sat next to me at a diner in Albuquerque when I was hitchhiking back to Colorado. He was goofy and he pointed to the scars on his head.

The other one was an old, Black! photographer** in Boulder who claimed to have known Marilyn Monroe. He told me he was at parties in her apartment in Manhattan and that she had a girlfriend there, as in bisexual. Was that true? IDK. Maybe he was operated on by the Kennedys, or the CIA, or the Mossad, or the Illuminati, or all of them because he knew too much. Or maybe he was just a crazy old Black! guy with a lobotomy.

** The funniest part was that somebody had referred me to him to get some head shots. (No, not as in Kennedy head shots, but the kind you use in show business.) What a show! He pulled out his vintage equipment there in his apartment, big lights, stands and screens, and he took some pictures while he told me his story. I still don't know who the fuck that guy was. The photos were so bad I never used them.

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

The arrogance of that statement is outrageous. Who is some American general to dictate to European countries what they will or will not be.

 

It was not about some grand plan for European countries as such.

Replies: @Pericles, @Curle, @Mr. Anon

Privacy was not a concept then. Imagine the townsfolk having a discussion on a new carriageway or aqueduct while getting rid of bodily wastes.
 

Replies: @Old Prude

She should visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima and see interesting sanitary practices like

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/xwaC7idwFW-M1CjCm7TInx9A6tw=/0x264:5128x3149/960x540/media/img/mt/2016/01/42_64089355/original.jpg

Privacy was not a concept then. Imagine the townsfolk having a discussion on a new carriageway or aqueduct while getting rid of bodily wastes.

When Martin Luther, the founder of Protestant Christianity, wanted to put to bed, forced Celibacy of Priests, he did it literally with quite a flourish. By public consummation of his marriage to Katharina von Bora. Yes, you read it right. The Father of Protestant Christianity had sex with his new wife publicly.

https://www.1517.org/articles/the-strange-wedding-of-martin-luther-and-katharina-von-bora

Replies: @Curle

The second picture reminds me of a story. In the factory the men’s bathroom had two large round communal sinks where multiple guys could wash the grime off their hands while bitching about management at the end of the shift.

For some reason the HR lady had to go in there, escorted by the Maintenance lead. When she saw the sinks she was horrified, thinking they were communal urinals. The Maintenance lead laughed an corrected her misperception.

Replies: @Almost Missouri, @epebble

I’ve never looked for or seen a water fountain

Looks like

https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/d3515dbd-93cb-4754-aadf-404dd288c5a8/svn/light-gray-elkay-drinking-fountains-ezsdl-64_600.jpg

Not

https://www.outdoorfountainpros.com/cdn/shop/products/Parisienne_Two_Tier_Outdoor_Water_Fountain.jpg

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Old Prude

"trying to find some great clips on youtube for you of The Office‘s Michael Scott and the stripper who had her nurse outfit on to collect the big check for the “Race for the Cure”… for Rabies."

Yeah, this is where it comes into the Kids, DON'T Try This At Home! category.

What I'm about to say is just from experience, it isn't a firm Dogmatic Opinion, just what always seemed to me like common sense....

Having known a lot of strippers and a few call-girls as good personal friends (both as personal friends and also, necessarily, as in that "Friend-Zone" thing), I can tell you a few things that might be useful.

The most important thing is, Do Not Ever get involved with any sort of sex worker from a needy, desperate chess position. You'd be asking to be shot in the head.

I used to hang out in strip clubs and chat with the dancers because I was going through a rough time and I just wanted some company that didn't have strings attached (my g.f. at the time very much wanted me to marry her, and there was this emotional land-mine where I did not want to become too emotionally dependent on her because I didn't want to feel Like I Owed Her Big-Time; so, strippers were fun company who definitely did NOT want to sleep with me or marry me.)

The mentally-healthy operating system was...

1. Behave in such a way that makes it clear you're not a dumb frat boy or a creep. Don't get handsy, and do NOT act like you have a crush and you want to date them.

2. Make it clear that you do in fact have money to spend, and that it is discretionary income that you're spending for fun, and you have a lot more of it, and you aren't drying out crumpled dollar bills from your laundry machine. Buy lunch for both of you, and tip the waitress well.

3. Be a clever conversationist. Weed out the girls who just want to complain about their drummer-bassist boyfriends, and find the girls who have weird, interesting life stories or are working on a law degree (and talk like that's really true).

4. The girls who have weird, interesting life stories can suss out that what you're saying is weird and interesting too, and now they want to know more -- not to make money off you, because fifteen minutes ago they made $400 off some drunk businessman and now they just want to hang out with you for sort of comic relief.

5. Make it clear that you do NOT want to date them, and that you fully understand that they would never date you, not if you were the last junkie on earth. You both just want to hang, talk about Melville, and make fun of the DJ.

6. By then it turns into a real friendship relationship and you start hanging out and meeting outside the club, with the clear understanding that it's never a "date," and never will be. The old saw applies that women don't date good-looking men, they date men who are being seen with other good-looking women. So insofar as that is a side benefit, that is it: you are out on the town with this hot chick you could never land in a bar, and she's turning all the right sorts of heads.

7. And now you have a new, interesting friend, who comes from a weird background that is unlike all your regular fast-track Ivy League type friends, who has a lot of funny things to say and share. Worth it just for itself, no sex involved.

All you have to do is, in the opening gambit, Do Not Be Needy. Play the Nimzo-Indian, not the lame French Opening.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Old Prude, @Mark G.

"About time, though it’s hard to think of another passing fad that will have done irreversible life-long damage to the people who embraced it. ..."

Lobotomies :

"The procedure was modified and championed by Walter Freeman, who performed the first lobotomy at a mental hospital in the United States in 1936. Its use increased dramatically from the early 1940s and into the 1950s; by 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the US and proportionally more in the United Kingdom.[5] ..."

...

"The purpose of the operation was to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders, and it was recognized that this was accomplished at the expense of a person's personality and intellect. British psychiatrist Maurice Partridge, who conducted a follow-up study of 300 patients, said the treatment achieved its effects by "reducing the complexity of psychic life". Following the operation, spontaneity, responsiveness, self-awareness, and self-control were reduced. Activity was replaced by inertia, and people were mostly left emotionally blunted and restricted in their intellectual range.[15]"

...

"Rosemary Kennedy, sister of US president John F. Kennedy, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 that left her incapacitated and institutionalized for the rest of her life.[164]"

Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Old Prude, @Achmed E. Newman

he manifestly does not deserve it.

He could have played GWB and converted Somalia and Yugoslav wars into multidecade multitrillion dollar debacles. He somehow intelligently stopped well before these interventionist wars destroyed the nation (USA).

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Almost Missouri

You contend you are as productive at 65 as you were at 55? If you are you are a rarity (in my experience).

Replies: @epebble, @Mark G., @Old Prude

Mr. Floyd, owning gold is about keeping one's wealth, period. You and others are discussing how one might spend it at some point. (If you can't ever, I agree, what's the point?) In the middle of a SHTF situation may not be a good time to do this. I agree with the Preppers - and I got into this about the same time as Old Prude, maybe 2 years later - about "Beans, bullets, band-aids", a bunch of other mantras, along with the most important "community, community, community". The latter is what Dmon is talking about in his comment about central-coastal California.

Yeah, recognizable silver rounds, Eagles in particular, .22LR (though one doesn't know about moisture - may have to test 'em), cans of Campbells Soup, what-have-you, could be temporary currencies. The gold is still where you left it... hopefully... you did pay cash right, or at least make it impossible for the Feral Gov't to do a Roosevelt 2.0 on you?

At some point, you or your family will be in some sane political situation again, unless this place turns Commie and/or non-White run. At that point, the value of your gold will still be recognized. Not only that, contrary to Dmon's point about red v blue*, if some area bans buying with gold, well, I'm pretty sure you could buy something good with a few oz anyway. Stupid leadership notwithstanding, the people are not all stupid.


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* We REALLY REALLY need to change the colors back to what makes sense. Could Trump get this done? It seems like his kind of thing, like "Gulf of America".

Replies: @Dmon, @Old Prude

Yes, the flood of immigrants coming in are largely illegal and being more aggressive in curtailing that would do a lot to improve the situation.

The big problem is having large numbers of immigrants coming because the assimilation process breaks down. This is especially the case with Non-Whites but was somewhat even true of Whites outside the original core WASP population of this country. They assimilated eventually but it took a immigration pause to completely do so.

We are unlikely to ever have high levels of European immigration again since Europe has such low birthrates. The main worry is high levels of non-European immigration. We have several large ethnic neighborhoods here in Indianapolis, mostly Hispanic but also a big one of Burmese refugees, where they primarily talk to each other in their native language, visit their ethnic stores and restaurants and have little contact with us Hoosiers. In a situation like that, the assimilation process breaks down.

Replies: @Old Prude

A big part of the challenge to assimilation is illegal immigration. Had illegal immigration been prevented (say by aggressive employment verification), many of the political problems of today could have been prevented. Inasmuch as public opinion is strongly anti-illegal immigration, it is still strongly pro-legal immigration.

Replies: @Mark G.

"My point was simply that the whole Feral budget looked balanced because the in-the-black SS budget was incorporated into the general one. That was a one time money-shifting fluke, not fiscal responsibility."

Was it more accurate or less accurate to include SS? Anyway I think it is pretty clear that the Clinton administration was the most fiscally responsible recent administration.

Replies: @deep anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @Achmed E. Newman, @Old Prude

"My point was simply that the whole Feral budget looked balanced because the in-the-black SS budget was incorporated into the general one. That was a one time money-shifting fluke, not fiscal responsibility."

Was it more accurate or less accurate to include SS? Anyway I think it is pretty clear that the Clinton administration was the most fiscally responsible recent administration.

Replies: @deep anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @Achmed E. Newman, @Old Prude

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.

I'm not sure that there is an answer for the average person. I feel the same way about gold as I do about my mother's obsession with antiques. It's great that she can find an immaculate Biedermeier sofa for $200 that she says is really worth thousands of dollars. But when push comes to shove, she'll never get thousands of dollars for the sofa, or any of the other gems she buys. At least she has beautiful house. I'm not sure what hoarding gold would do for me, especially now that it is a record highs.

Replies: @J.Ross, @Old Prude, @Achmed E. Newman

Historically speaking (meaning, over millennia, as consistent as breathing air) people traded their labor for a bit of day to day currency, to take care of, like, food, but over time they gradually acquired bullion, trading it only for capital like farmland or a shop. So you "sell" gold, but only in a once in a lifetime transaction enabling class mobility ("bought the farm"), and only for something that will yield more money and security. Several major historical events are actually about this in the center but it gets omitted. For example, the "intolerable acts" sparking the American Revolution were intolerable because their fees could only be paid in buillion -- it wasn't a matter of being expensive, it was a matter of kneecapping colonial wealth building. Similarly, the Opium Wars weren't humiliating to Chinese because of drug addiction (have you read Chinese poets talking about getting blasted on wine?) but because the British (hey, there they are again) wanted to be paid for their opium from China's silver bullion reserves, directly impacting sovereign wealth and possibly pushing the middle kingdom into debt.

Replies: @OilcanFloyd

1. pre-1965 law had to go, as was the case with white Australia policy. No such openly racialist policy can exist in a democratic Western country with a mixed population. The US is atypical because it has ditched Anglo-Saxonism, while other democratic countries may have preferences- for instance, India for Hindus- but these are not racial. For Israel, it is not racial because they imported a bunch of coloreds who are supposedly "Jewish"- it is ethno-nationalist. The English speaking world made a mess by abandoning ethno-nationalism, not by ditching racism.

2. Jewish activists are, as I said, detrimental re immigration. And, I repeat: they are marginal.

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Almost Missouri

Here's my recollection, D.A., which is somewhat different. President Reagan had made a deal (deal?! Haha!) with the D's who overwhelmed the House his whole 8 years in office, that they would bring down domestic spending to match the big increases in the military spending to bankrupt the USSR and win the Cold War. The latter worked, but the D's reneged on the former.

Reagan threw up his hands and was advised "deficits don't matter."

However, the fiscal situation of the country WAS discussed at least right up through the mid-1990's. The R's pushed back against the un-elected Hildabeast's attempt at Government Health Care, and that along with other Clinton ideas got a strong R showing in the '94 Congress (starting in '95 the way it works). Led by New Gingrich with his "Contract with America", these guys sounded very promising. They dropped it all, and by sometime in '95, '96, I don't remember so much discussion about fiscal responsibility from then on.*

Of course, the practical result is that no one in the USG gives a shit about controlling runaway spending anymore.
 

Replies: @James B. Shearer, @Old Prude, @Moshe Def

"My personal sort of thematic obsession, running all the way from Bergman’s “Persona” and “Smiles” through Apocalypse Now and Disney’s “Frozen” is the thematic conception of the regular down-home person who is somehow forced to confront a celestial, enchanted person, a person with an other-worldly nature: and what the consequences are."

When you think about it, the real backbone of the Gospels is the idea of this simple-minded naive fisherman schmuck named Simon Peter who through no fault of his own, is forced to deal with the charismatic, wild-eyed, fanatical rabbi Yeshua the Nazarene who goes around telling everyone he is God. And if you believe the stories, he does stuff like walk on water, cast out demons, raise the dead, and get cosmically transfigured on mountain-tops, which, shall we say, Our Hero Simon Peter, the actual hero of the story, finds rather compelling but also just downright crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EKbEP2L32M&list=RDcNzH19D6s_I&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqUchQZa1o&list=RDfoqUchQZa1o&start_radio=1

Replies: @Old Prude

I mentioned here previously that I knew the first drummer from Saturday Night Live.

He worked at Trader Joe's next door to my office building. I often just walked over there and bought whatever food I wanted to eat for lunch, so I became friends with this guy who had seen better days.

He married a young woman who also worked at that store, and the two of them invited my young wife and me to dinner at their home -- a nice house that his father had bought for him.

He had a signed Andy Warhol in his kitchen. It was a soup can, of course.

He also tried to sell me his Porsche.

Guys with show-biz stories and backgrounds are a dime a dozen.

Replies: @Old Prude, @Curle

They would do things like make posts as if they were small town Americans just sharing their opinions. That is fraud.
 

Using an anonymous name to express your opinions is not fraud. It is no different than the use of a pen name.

Employing an office building of full-time online trolls pretending to be citizens of different country in order to flip an election is fraud.

You are really trying hard to rationalize Putin's interference in our elections.

Prigozhin admitted to doing it and Trump agreed with the FBI's findings.

So you are really alone on this one.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Mr. Anon

High agreement level here, Mr. Missouri - I prefer "When the music stops", BTW.

Now, in case readers here have short memories or bad search fu, I will say that we at Peak Stupidity (that is, me, myself, and I) have been writing about this on these threads and on the blog for years. I started writing on the latter with some primers - all of it with the Global Financial Stupidity (it's not just US) starting in early '17.

As for these threads, you all may recall that as I brought the subject of impending financial pain coming, the former host, Mr. Sailer, and quite a few commenters all blew this off as nonsense. I especially recall AnotherDad* blowing off this worry, but other commenters, well, I've forgotten who they were and don't really care to search it all up.

So, my comment above in regards to Trump's handling of Federal financial matters is out of place for me. However, that's where we stand now. The public has a terrible political memory, so whoever is in power gets the blame. It'll be epic - along the lines of Old Prude's comment, I wish I could know the exactly quarter-year, at least - to see the public blame it all on a President Gavin Newsome.

There's a 1967 11 minute live version, but to get in that true mesmerized state from these vocals, Ray Manzerik's keyboards, and the whole gang, it's better to just listen... all the problems will be lost...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9IeyzMgtE


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* ... now writing somewhat frequently on the stevesailer.net site. I wish he would write here, as he's a common-sense guy with a lot of good commenting.

Replies: @Old Prude, @Mark G.

Bill Clinton was a frequent flyer and doesn't seem like the kind of person to hold back at outdated issues of morality. More precisely, we know he isn't.

What about Obama? He doesn't seem like the kind of person to bang women with much enthusiasm. Though he did have at least one non-black girlfriend, I seem to recall. Ah yes, Beardina. She had to go for strategic reasons. Anyway, the Obama kompromat, if any, had to be handled by someone else. Nobody even tries to, er, tar Obama with this.

As mentioned, Trump has a different type so that seems unlikely. Though Epstein's benefactor Wexner owned Victoria's Secret, so who knows? Then again, Trump had the Miss Universe contest for a number of years (2006-2015 wikipedia tells me), which might have served equally well to provide contacts with the first-rate. As I recall (from an article) Trump was the only one in the Epstein vicinity who cooperated with the police in the first investigation and was fully cleared and even praised.

Replies: @Old Prude

talking about debt crisis has become taboo topic.
 

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mark G., @Old Prude, @Almost Missouri

talking about debt crisis has become taboo topic.
 

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mark G., @Old Prude, @Almost Missouri

The ADL hates White people more than they care about their own people. They probably lack the self-awareness to understand that.

At a time when they should have been building goodwill with Whites, they did the opposite.

Replies: @Old Prude

This completely misses the main point, which is that the man was lynched.
 

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @OilcanFloyd

You’re suggesting we should look the other way on Russia interfering in our elections? Looking the other way on fraud?

 

One of what guys? Someone who repeats the Russian acknowledgment about interfering in the election? Does that bother you? Would you prefer a media source that keeps away Russian statements that make you emotional?

Did you have a receipt for how much they spent? How would you know the extent of it? Is that something Putin said?

Russian clowncon apologists then:
IT ISNT TRUE. MSM LIEZ. PUTIN IS GUD GUY HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT. I SAW HIM ON TEEVEE IN CHURCH. YOU CAN TRUST WHAT HE SAYS.

Russian clown apologists now:
OK THEY INTERFERED BUT THEY ONLY SPENT A HUNDRED GRAND. YOU CAN TRUST WHAT HE SAYS.

Reagan would switch parties if he could see modern clowncons like yourself defending a Russian dictator who oversaw a program that interfered in our election.

Replies: @J.Ross, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Mr. Anon

Well that will never happen.
 

I’ve had White tradcons get upset that I wasn’t interested in a game. It actually bothered them that I would not be taking part. I knew White tradcons that were taking part in a $1200 fantasy football bowl. But that wasn’t gambling to them cause…um…they spend endless hours playing a game of trade Blacks. That makes it somehow different and not gambling. Playing trade Blacks and spending half their waking hours talking about how they totally snagged DeMarcus from that idiot Shawn in accounting.
 

Replies: @William Badwhite

Nobel Lit prize winner
 

László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian … with ‘Jewish roots’
 

it’s known as the Not Thomas Pynchon Prize
 

One wonders what the purpose of the whole thing is
 

The markets however don't think so. A late surge of betting-money has gone to the already-favorite Sudan people. (Also, lots of people lost their Trump-bet nerve:)

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Implied %-chance to win Nobel Peace Prize 2025, Polymarket betting-market:

- 37%: Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms
- 9% Yulia Navalnaya
- 9% Doctors Without Borders
- 8% International Court of Justice
- 4% Donald Trump
- 3% Mediterranean Sea Rescue organizations
- 3% UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)
- 2% Greta
- 2% António Guterres
- 2% María Corina Machado
- a number of others had gotten serious levels of bets but have sunk down to 1% or less.

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The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in about14 hours.

Replies: @Hail

Greetings, Mr. Hail!

Forbes 100: 35 of Top 100 U.S. Billionaires Are Jewish...

 

Replies: @Hail, @The Germ Theory of Disease

U.S. Industry will never recover because all the clever white boys are easing into retirement.
 

Replies: @Old Prude

John seems to be arguing that the fact that Germany did well after the high inflation of the twenties means we do not need to worry about high inflation.

Not exclusively that event and I have never said that high inflation is not a worry.

The point was more that Germany has all kinds of currency changes and yet they remain the economic leader of Europe. That was true before the wars.

Germany not only had insanely high record inflation after WW1 but were bombed to smithereens in WW2.

Eastern Germany was completely removed from their economy and yet their Western economy still rebounded within 10 years to become a European leader and the Deutsche Mark was a reserve currency.

They later dropped the DM for the Euro and yet their economy didn't go into a tailspin.

But I'm supposed to be concerned with a less than 1 percentage point move per year away from the dollar as a reserve currency even though it was lower in the 1990s.

Right.

Well I'm not buying it. The "dollar is doom" bloggers were wrong over Putin's 4d chess. Skepticism should be the normal position on this one. The rapture didn't happen so those of us that were skeptical should be the default. You need to convince the skeptics of your dollar doom scenario, rapture scenario or end of the world.

Replies: @Mark G.

The dollar is losing value though. To an extent that’s probably a good thing, if you want to rebuild exports and bring manufacturing home.

A separate discussion with a variety of causes.

My worry is that Trump has 3.5 years, but destroying US industry was a forty year project. And the US of say 1973 (when I worked a summer manufacturing job and was stunned by how good US machine tools were) is not the same in 2025 after fifty years of immigration. Turning round the tanker would be a huge job even for an absolute ruler.

There is talk of the Feds bailing out soy farmers which is the result of his Chinese tariffs.

So far it looks like his tariffs will be more of a cost than a net gain.

Which means we were better off with him sucking his thumb than dicking around with the economy.

His red hat cult supporters said that the tariffs were needed to bring back manufacturing. They never explained why manufacturing would come back if those same Chinese companies can move to nearby Asian nations with lower tariffs. There was also no explanation of why they wouldn't simply wait four years instead of spending billions to move their infrastructure to the US.

I wouldn't be against trying to move back some manufacturing but he is completely going at it wrong. You don't start a trade war with half the globe. His tariffs against Canada made zero sense and he never fully explained him. His ass kissing supporters never did either.

Turning round the tanker would be a huge job even for an absolute ruler.

Well how about not expanding the debt? Is that a huge job? Is that too much to ask? Clinton balanced the budget so why can't a Republican?

Trump is expanding both the debt and military spending.

Under Biden our Republicans said it was irresponsible to raise the cap.

Under Trump: ON THE DOUBLE SIRRR!!!!!! (fellatio sound effects)

It just shows that most US conservatives are full of shit and will drop their principles to suck off a spoiled brat billionaire. All he has to do is talk all manly (hur hur) and own them libs with some quips. Sure he is expanding the debt but did you hear his joke about Rosie O'Donnel? THEM LIBS R GUNNA BE PISSED!!!!

Replies: @Mark G., @Old Prude

He responded with sneering comments and anagrams. For whatever reason, that is "cool" with most of the Boomer Fags who post here.

Replies: @Old Prude

No matter what ACTUALLY happens with the numbers, you gotta know where Trump’s heart is in this matter – anti-invasion and pro-White.
 

This was The Donald last year, during the campaign:

Trump departs from anti-immigrant rhetoric with green card proposal

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-departs-from-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-with-green-card-proposal/7665692.html
 

He's also calling for the US to reoccupy the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. Here's an opinion piece in The Hill in support of this ludicrous idea:

Why reclaiming an Afghan air base is in America’s national interest

https://thehill.com/opinion/5530611-reclaim-bagram-air-base/
 

Trump says we need Bagram to counter China (imagine it being said like Trump says it).

I think it is really intended for a future war against Iran.

Trump is not to be trusted. If he occasionally does something in our interest, great, but don't imagine that his heart is in it.

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

(Several of the commenters here, and many more of the non-commenting readers of this Sailer-blog discussion, were active at the Z-Man site. Intelligent Dasein spent a lot of time there...)
 

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Achmed E. Newman, @res, @Jenner Ickham Errican

The blog and other commentary by the writer known as The Z-Man (r.i.p.) gives some useful insights into Greater Baltimore, especially paired up with race data. It tells a localized version of the Great Replacement.

The Z-Man, a.k.a. Chris Zander (1966-2025), was a native of that general region of Maryland, had extensive family ties there, and lived there most of his life, and I believe in Baltimore City for much of his core-adult working-years. I understand he also, at times, had work ties that brought him into regular contact with the immediate Washington D.C. metropolitan area.

(The Census counts the two together in its widest economic-regional measure known as Combined Statistical Areas, indicating overlapping economic ties between the two. Obviously-enough so, in the era of the Interstate Highway system and the full normalization of long-commuting by car, an artifact of the Race problem above anything else.)

Decline -- as from the proverbial "closing of the factory," or any other such cause -- is a process which can be recovered from, to varying degrees. The risk, in a multi-racial society full of Net Takers, is when depressed places create depressed prices and a retreat of public-spiritedness, which by turns attract and encourage the proliferation of elements whose norms are bound to keep prices down (and not in a good way), further incentivizing low-human-capital arrivals. After a few rounds of this, the new people have tended to lock in new norms, in which White families definitely cannot thrive, in which Whites often cannot even function healthily (in many cases) and become mired slowly in psycho-spiritual malaise.

This process has long since spilled beyond the borders of places like Baltimore City and other "inner cities." (Trump's references to "inner cities" is largely an anachronism, and showing of his age; his points-of-reference are decades old; he's soon to turn 80.)

Baltimore County, surrounding Baltimore City, has been undergoing a considerable Race Replacement:

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[Baltimore County, Maryland]

White non-Hispanic (% of total)
- 1980: 586,204 (89.4%)
- 1990: 582,397 (84.1%)
- 2000: 553,890 (73.4%)
- 2010: 504,556 (62.7%)
- 2020: 443,263 (51.9%)

Black (incl. "Black Hispanics" before 2000)
- 1980: 53,955
- 1990: 85,451
- 2000: 150,456
- 2010: 206,913
- 2020: 252,724

Others
- 1980: 15,456
- 1990: 24,286
- 2000: 49,946
- 2010: 93,560
- 2020: 158,548

Ratio of White:Black
- 1980: ca. 1100:100 (11:1) counting only Black Non-Hispanics
- 1990: ca. 700:100 (7:1) counting only Black non-Hispanics
- 2000: 368:100 (4:1)
- 2010: 244:100 (2:1)
- 2020: 175:100 (under 2:1).

(For comparison: Baltimore City's longer-term decline extends some decades beyond this 1980-to-2020 window but the overall pattern is the same. As of 1980, Baltimore City still had 342,000 Whites vs. 430,000 Blacks. The 2020 Census counted a paltry 157,000 Whites, 336,000 Blacks, and 93,000 Others. Whites holding on at 27%, down from 85%-White in 1920.)

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Some time in the early 2020s, the (once-White) Baltimore County slipped into White-minority status. That's forty-five or fifty years after the same happened in Baltimore City before it.

(And, by some point around the mid- or late-2010s, "Baltimore City+County" tipped over into Black > White status. Spiritually speaking, the tip-over point will need to be dated earlier, maybe something ten or even twenty years earlier. That's kind of a longer and harder story to tell than this one using Census data.)

Not so long ago, a lot of communities in Baltimore County were effectively 100%-White. St the 'macro,' county level, the place was near 90% White and only 8% Black in 1980; lots of those Blacks will have been concentrated in a few places, and so many neighborhoods or large areas could be assumed to have trivial numbers of Blacks, many in the <1% range.

Many localities in Baltimore County within the living memory of someone like the Z-Man, or the parents of the current-day youth, would've been at John Derbyshire-allowed levels of racial diversity. (Mr Derb has counseled the need for a self-confident White supermajority, but, here in (post)modern times, with added allowances for "dashes of spice in the soup." I believe that was his phrasing. A bit of a self-serving caveat, the cynic or racialist might say.)

Baltimore County gets a lot less attention than the equivalents of the counties immediately adjacent to Washington D.C. because so many media people live in, or are tied to and exposed to, Washington and nearby Baltimore is often something of an afterthought for this opinion-shaping class.

As for the Z-Man, the pessimism he showed during his blogging career in the 2010s and early 2020s, up to the time of his untimely death before reaching his 60th birthday, is symbolic. The numbers do show a rapid decline in the fortunes of Whites in Greater Baltimore (the %-White within Baltimore City has likewise continued to drop, never stabilizing, always dropping).

Remembering that the Z-Man was born in 1966, he'll have observed these changes first-hand his lifetime. Place after place that had been huge-White-supermajority communities in his memory, quietly tipping over into Black-heavy places, and some into the shabby status of "places that any Whites with means will tend to leave." The Z-Man referred to the Baltimore City, where he lived, as "Lagos," without affection.

(Several of the commenters here, and many more of the non-commenting readers of this Sailer-blog discussion, were active at the Z-Man site. Intelligent Dasein spent a lot of time there. John Derbyshire probably isn't reading these comments, but he himself became a kind of partner of the Z-Man's operation, hosting his Radio Derb there. VDare and AmRen gave him speaking slots, and so on.)

The Z-Man has been eulogized widely, as often happens with unexpected deaths at relatively young ages. If word came out that Pat Buchanan died today, it would be sad and nostalgic for some who remember him when he was active. But he has been fully retired and out of writing and speaking for years, and he is nearing 90. The Z-Man was still in his 50s.

A tragic irony to the story of the Z-Man was he finally left Baltimore, or "Lagos," around early 2024. I'm not sure where he went first, but eventually he wound up settling in a place in West Virginia, not far from the VDare Castle. I understand Peter Brimelow helped run Z-Man's funeral.

If the Z-Man had lived to 2030, he'd be among the "missing Whites" that Census-2030 data would pick up. He'd have been counted there in 2020, but gone in 2030. The story of quite a few not just in Baltimore City but also (maybe surprisingly, to some unfamiliar with the area) also once-White Baltimore County. Few of those leaving Baltimore City/County over the years will have become "racialist bloggers" or anything of the sort, like the Z-Man did. But very assuredly the motivation to leave for so many of them has been the same as Z-Man's was to leave "Lagos"-Baltimore.

Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @deep anonymous

You can always support pro-White causes. There are pundits out there struggling who are on our side.

Replies: @Old Prude

Our own eight children* are a mess. And none have procreated.

Since that seems to be an anomalous data set, would you be able to tell their household incomes? A range is OK.

He’s a hedge fund millionaire with two highly accomplished children. I don’t know what the lesson of all this is

An obvious answer seems to be, people who are better off can afford to have (multiple) children nowadays.

Replies: @John Johnson, @Old Prude

The Chichijima incident (also known as the Ogasawara incident) occurred in late 1944. Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands, and cannibalized five of them.

Nine American pilots escaped from their planes after being shot down flying over Chichijima, a tiny island 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Tokyo, in September 1944. Eight of the airmen, Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James “Jimmy” Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., Marvell “Marve” Mershon, Floyd Hall, Warren Earl Vaughn, and Warren Hindenlang were captured and eventually executed. The ninth, and only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, also a 20-year-old pilot.
 

Now imagine if "bone spurs" Trump had gone through the same ordeal as Bush went through. Hell, you'd never hear the end of it. Another thing about George H.W. Bush: When Bush went to war during Desert Storm it was over in a few days, and the Oil Sheiks footed the entire bill.

Replies: @Old Prude

Our own eight children* are a mess. And none have procreated.

Since that seems to be an anomalous data set, would you be able to tell their household incomes? A range is OK.

He’s a hedge fund millionaire with two highly accomplished children. I don’t know what the lesson of all this is

An obvious answer seems to be, people who are better off can afford to have (multiple) children nowadays.

Replies: @John Johnson, @Old Prude

I meant to say my mother waits it in vain to be a Great Grandmother.

Also, my stepson is a generation older than my nieces and nephews. It's possible the degradation of society has been so quick as ruin the prospects for the younger generations.

Replies: @Almost Missouri

Attempt generally means forming the specific intent to commit a crime and taking a substantial step in preparation to do so. Here is an explanation:

Attempt: An Overview of Federal Criminal Law

In this case federal law applies because the defendant traveled across state lines in committing the offense. Although I disagree with the sentencing judge's rationale, I agree that the defendant's change of heart justified a significant downward departure from the Guidelines.

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

It's definitely something to throw in his face. Does he want to lose the mid-terms? Would that make his job easier or harder?

Replies: @deep anonymous, @YetAnotherAnon

I took a first date to a Diane Fossey exhibit. Yeah, that's how romantic I am.

Some guy I don't know was at the exhibit who worked with her. We chatted a bit. There were photographs of gorillas on the wall, and other stuff I don't remember.

I then took my date to a jazz bar. (I had met her at the El Chapultepec jazz bar in Denver, which is now gone.) She told me that her father was the engineer who led the development of the wide-body jet, the 747 at Boeing. Joe Sutter. He was the guy who went to Juan Tripp of Pan Am at the Chrysler Building to sell him of the idea of a fat fuselage and get a contract for enough giant jets to support the whole Boeing plan. Her dad was part of the beginning of big jets. In fact he practically invented them.

Now here's the fun part:

At the jazz bar, in a basement on Pearl Street, she produced a sheaf of papers with lists of sperm donors. She explained to me that she was considering having a child with high-quality sperm. She pointed to her favorite choice: An Olympic kayaker with a degree from Harvard.

I did not ask her out again, but I remember the Diane Fossey exhibit.

People are weird.

Okay, so, that was about 34 years ago. As I have jokingly written here before, from experience, the "decline," as seen through American women of child-bearing age, has been "long and hard." It's not new. Every fucking subject here is old to me -- and funny.

Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Achmed E. Newman, @Old Prude

I and my four siblings were raised in a trailer park, apartments and rented houses. All went to college, three with advanced degrees and all married. So far so good. Our own eight children* are a mess. And none have procreated.

My mother waits in vain to be a grandmother. I am thinking of writing a will to leave all my worldly goods, per capita, to the children of my nieces and nephews. Maybe that will provide incentive. It will at least get the slackers thinking more about making babies.

*I have no offspring. My excuse is I married a woman fifteen years my senior. She raised one son while a single mother. He’s a hedge fund millionaire with two highly accomplished children. I don’t know what the lesson of all this is, or where we go from here.

Replies: @Old Prude, @Almost Missouri, @epebble, @Corvinus, @Mike Tre, @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality

I know several (white, Gen-X) women who more or less did this, some with one husband/father-of-her-children, some with multiple. One of the latter said this was her actual plan from the start, but that may have been post hoc rationalization. She was also from a European country with a generous welfare state and non-diverse population, so she didn't have to worry about paying the rent while she procreated and was able to get the father of her final children to marry her and live a kinda normal family life, get a post-secondary degree and a professional job.

The other multi-maters were American and didn't plan it that way, it just happened to them: basically got pregnant at ~20 with a low-commitment mate. Yet they were young and attractive enough to move on to higher-commitment mates and continuing to procreate. Continued commitment and family life varied. Given the weaker US welfare state, they relied more on their mates and family for material support. They didn't manage to get much, if any, post-secondary education or more than low-paid work.

It's a little early to say how their kids have all turned out, but the results so far aren't distinguished. No great achievers, but no real disasters either. A couple of early procreators. Some "bare branches". Some TBD.

These families all involved multiple fathers, and eventual marriage but not to the first father. No mulattoes or other mixed raced crossings. Middle class backgrounds, but in non-"Super Zip" locations: more downwardly mobile geographically.

Of the white, Gen-X women who did this with one husband+father, AFAIK they were all youthful sweethearts who married early and stayed that way. Some did get post-secondary education, some didn't. Some went on to professional work, some didn't. The kids are generally turning out pretty well. Higher incomes, more marriage, more stability, less dysfunction than the multi-father group.

All of the above women had 3-5 kids. I would describe them all as above average appearance in their prime, and indeed they've all aged remarkably well despite their high birthrates, possibly because they started breeding in their prime, or maybe just "good genes". Some were churchgoing, some were not. Middle class backgrounds, but none from especially blessed zip codes AFAIK.

I can think of a bunch of edge cases too, but their patterns are less clear or consistent, so harder to summarize.

Replies: @Old Prude

A perfectly rational female life strategy would be to get married and have kids at 20. Have a career (if you want one) at about 30 when they are off to school. Then start doing all that self-actualizing, or whatever, at 40 while you are still young (ish). Perhaps with some grandkids to play with by 50.

Nobody seems to deliberately go with this plan. But every once in a while you meet someone who backed into it by getting knocked up in High School or something. And it often works out pretty well.

Replies: @Mark G., @The Germ Theory of Disease, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @epebble, @Almost Missouri, @Corvinus

Sending in the military is a new rule, and a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He may be able to make the case for it if they are there to protect federal buildings and other assets. Then there is the fact that the National Guard ought not to be his to mobilize. It’s supposed to be mobilized at the discretion of the governor, except in wartime. Are we fomally at war with Memphis? And will you be cool with President Newsome mobilizing the Texas National Guard to seize guns in Lubbock?
 

Replies: @Mr. Anon

Despite the strategic failures from the outset like the Strategic Hamlet Program wherein thoughtless and arrogant CIA/State Department WASPs presumed the intensely tribal Vietnamese would want to live in a fortified village with others not of their tribe. Similar to what the WASPs aka enthusiastic Zionists are doing now in Europe and the United States.

You'll be happy to know however that even as the KMT opium trade was drying up the Lansky organization -- a very successful Zionist espionage/crime operation -- was provided another opium flow from the Golden Triangle courtesy of the CIA/State Department war in Vietnam.

Replies: @John Johnson

Disagree. I don’t need to go into the details, but start with tight, black leather…

Replies: @Mr. Anon

Our pro-Russian bloggers made similar proclamations when the invasion started.
 

They did not claim that gold would gain against the dollar and other currencies. They said the dollar would be dropped by the world as an exchange currency thanks to Putin's invasion and 4d chess with his oil sales. This was supposed to cause devaluation of the dollar against other currencies as in paper not gold. There were many "end of the dollar" blog posts here.

It didn't happen and the Euro vs Dollar is back to where it was in 2021.
https://www.exchange-rates.org/converter/usd-eur

Maybe next year. Keep those "end of the dollar" t-shirts ready.

Replies: @Mark G., @Almost Missouri

We won that one also – Petraeus bribed our enemies in 2007 – 2008.