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    From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Class and Family by Steve Sailer June 28, 2023 One of the more fascinating scholarly oeuvres of the 21st century is economic historian Gregory Clark’s planned trilogy of books with bad Hemingway puns for titles. In 2007 came Clark’s speculations on the causes of the Industrial Revolution, A...
  • @Anon
    I am going to argue with your notion that famous American writers are not likely to be related to each other.

    For example, the writers in the list below are all blood kin:

    John Greenleaf Whittier
    Herman Melville
    O. Henry
    T. S. Eliot
    Tennessee Williams
    and Ezra Pound

    They are all descendants of Tristram Coffin of Nantucket and his wife Dionis Stevens. I think the problem is that people have not bothered to search American family trees enough to locate the relationships.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Miles Mathis, as to looking at public records for familial connections.

    Once seen, can’t be unseen. http://mileswmathis.com/titan.pdf

    Once we thought that IQ (merit) was sufficient, then we find that wealth/power/prestige over centuries is family name.

    Realizing that it’s not country-by-country, but across the West (and farther) leads to understanding that society is arranged differently than we assume. (It has local or national variants, only; the background to each is what’s congruent).

    What’s tested as social control in English-speaking countries is a form of proof. Differs. But the end is clearly the same.

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    • Replies: @NotAnonymousHere
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    Miles Mathis, as to looking at public records for familial connections.

    Once seen, can’t be unseen. http://mileswmathis.com/titan.pdf
     
    You do know that Miles Mathis is the most batshit crazy insane person not currently strapped to an FBI handtruck and locked in a cage right? He argues that pi equals 4 and tries to do optics science with a bicycle seat. No lie. Peruse his website, it's a wild ride. Come for the insanity, stay for his obsession with painting little girls. He's also some kind of Olympic ballet medalist.

    Seriously, check it out. It's great fun.
  • The wackiest thing in history has just unfolded. 12:50 AM EST So, a few hours ago, I was pretty sure the Russian state was going to utterly collapse, and that the Ukraine would seize Russian territory. It now appears, by some fantastic twist, that this is actually not going to happen. I have zero idea...
  • https://voxday.net/2023/06/25/debacle-in-rostov/

    And,

    >Putin sir they have offered me $7 billion for a coup

    >do a coup then.

    ›yes sir

    >Putin sir our troops have reached Moskva and they have paid the $7 billion

    >excellent. You may keep $1 billion, now turn around and go back

    ›yes sir on my way

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  • Why don't they just come out and say, "White people aren't dying because they ride with the ghost of Hitler?" [Roads Are 'Designed' to Kill Minorities, Says Transportation Secretary, Townhall.com, April 17, 2023]: Speaking with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Buttigieg declared "we've got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America" before making...
  • Northwestern European stock is pretty much the go-to for race car drivers. Pilots.

    Driving on roads means deductions via principle. A bit of creativity where understanding that chaotic moments exist and how to deal with them. Logic which precedes actions.

    Todays roads and cars are better than in 1993, and worlds better than in 1963.

    So long as all is normal, women & minorities get by when on familiar routes & roads. No matter how bad they are in reality, and no matter their level of selfishness (indistinguishable from stupidity at highway speeds).

    Smartphone GPS put millions of them on longer journeys where before they weren’t found. Map reading is past the ability of nearly all. School instruction and magic dirt aren’t a fix where emotions rule.

    Running lights, changing lanes at intersections ahead of a stop, crossing solid white lines, ignoring construction zone guidance . . . the list doesn’t end.

    Cell phone use as cited is media fig leaf for problem of stupid. Congenital, or tolerated.

    That our own justify their adaptation (game theory?) is no excuse for acting the same. Tail-gating, failure to merge properly, cutting off braking distance of others is commonest. It’s lower in the upper Midwest, but that’s about it. Worst in Mexican and Negro Southland.

    Race and sex aren’t hard to determine from actions at the wheel. Best be aware of where you are (of whom it is comprises majority on that road at that time). If it’s not a crowd you wish to have live next door, expect incipient problems.

    Maritime, aviation and roads all share the same fundamental premise that cooperation is keystone of governing law. One isn’t ever exempt from responsibility. Two vehicles present mean both must act by ROW.

    Someone passing you slowly on Interstate REQUIRES you to slow to keep the pass to its shortest duration and distance. I do it all day. It’s no burden and changes travel time not at all.

    Maintaining separation distance from all others is what matters. Braking distances equivalent to a full stop as the minimum (what is that in your vehicle at 70-mph?)

    Women and minorities as grown children both expect to be able to blame others. “Fault” isn’t a relevant guide to one’s actions.

    When American roads were American men only (war veterans) it was much easier for each to understand the other. The role of traffic police was definitions translated into actions for NEXT time. Women went about the city for some shopping and the poor weren’t found at much distance from home either.

    Those unsuited by birth for high speeds need to have 45-mph governors and bans from highways. They cannot prove competence for when it matters.

    Those who are capable are today stupefied. The average distance they’ll use to cut in front of my big truck traveling 68-mph is 70-ft +/-. Verified by radar. A 78,000-lb rig needs in excess of 700-ft to come to a stop at just 60-mph. This is therefore illegal. (Is it a better outcome for the truck driver you are dead as a result of your actions, or so seriously injured as to be barely living therever after? Ask an ambulance chaser).

    The tailgater on your ass can kiss it. By law he shouldn’t be there at all. ESPECIALLY during your pass.

    Today it’s a given none can pass correctly on even the simplest, easiest road and in ideal conditions. (Should be 200’ to re-enter travel lane and still accelerating away; more than 7-lane stripes is minimum). If passing means speeding, best get to it. Or don’t pass as faster doesn’t confer any ROW.

    The tribal can’t deal with our roads is correct. They cause damage far out of proportion to their mere presence (direct subsidy versus damages from road incidents via taxation & insurance increases). They’ll claim ignorance (born of their venality) every time.

    I know I’m in Mexico when a five lane expressway jams for no reason with only a wreck on the shoulder or far outer lane. Or that with an exit-only lane they’ll run up it to “merge” where there’s neither room nor safety in so doing. Will speed up if being passed. These actions cause problems up to and including serious accidents. And can be predicted based solely on population demographics.

    I know I’m on a road of the stupid when well ahead of us is one of their jam-ups and all the other vehicles are hurrying to get up there soonest.

    Baby Daddy’s (divorce no different; no father) don’t care about imparting what is risk and how to mitigate.

    The evidence — nationwide — is quite clear.

    If the very high level of road maintenance now effective slows to a crawl (devalued dollar) expect this to become mayhem.

    The millions of imported soldiers will feel right at home. Cover, for yet more depredations.

    Get yourself in order.

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    • Thanks: AnalogMan
  • From a faraway European perspective, it may sound odd to reminisce about the tragic history of the post-bellum South. College books in the US and EU still portray the South in an anecdotal, quasi–Wild West manner, the North being depicted as the eternal beacon of humanity and progress and the South as a territory of...
  • The South died it’s last when Eisenhower sent in armed troops to force Americans to accept sub-human Negroes in taxpayer-funded schools.

    The IQ requirement to graduate high school had been dropping since the war was over, this accelerated it badly. To the point where a “college graduate” today hasn’t acquired the academic rigor or mastery in language a 1945 high school graduate had. The South shared this, but it was hurt the worst.

    Black politicians and quota-hires debased the idea of merit for its own sake, and they’re practically immune to removal. There is no “South” as was once understood re The Southern Agrarians (theater of its own via manifesto; inorganic).

    Good manners and thoughtfulness are far more evident on The Great Plains and in areas where post-LBJ “immigration” hasn’t ruined older ways. (Get off your duff and see for yourself. Take an extended drive across the country and back again. Stay out of the bubble erected by plastic cards).

    Southerners are — or can be — like-able. Humor in a situation they’re forte. In music also. But there’s not much about the South where a value-added economy would flourish. A few who are rich & connected and the vast majority wage slaves without hope of advancement isn’t a viable civilizational alternative.

    Military service excels . . . but it was to become double & triple-dippers in the Federal & State systems to achieve some modicum of independence where actual skill sufficed in tbe North (manufacturing). Other niches — LE/EMT, healthcare, public power, oil & gas, marine — are subsidized hide-outs, but require some skill level commensurate. Barriers to entry with limited slots.

    Otherwise it’s retailing and distribution of goods to populations heavily dependent on transfer payments (welfare, social security, retirement accounts). The South can’t pay its way out of a wet paper bag past bulk commodity & timber.

    We may extol personal virtues (if found), but we can’t overlook the destruction via feminism and family law where education for its own sake was never strong.

    There’s stark difference in driving through Alabama versus Wisconsin in the appearance of city neighborhoods (smaller cities or towns) and rural properties. Climate (or race) ain’t enough of an explanation.

    Cavalier versus Roundhead still a better explanation of any idea of southern uniqueness. Geography still the trump card over the settled populations using Civil War boundaries.

    The rot has left no area untouched. Would “southern”mores” be beneficial? So, too, would Puritan. The latter the more so as technological invention and innovation is historically more strongly associated.

    Subversion wasn’t limited to any one American expression of ethos. All were subsumed. Maybe the South will be more quickly energized by collapse than others, but we’d want some historical ideas by which to make the comparisons against areas richer (by far) in better farmland, mineral resources, and educated populace not saddled by a high percentage of low-IQ, violent minorities before a form of clarity could be established.

    Maybe the editor and contributors are to be praised for holding aloft a flag of salvation.

    Maybe.

    The drive to push a newer narrative (blinders) is the likeliest reason of making a claim on that which was not ever firmly established in the first place.

    If these be English verities, then Liverpool is not excepted. Nor Calgary and Auckland. Perth, and the new York.

    Too narrow a pressing to extract too weak a tincture.

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    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    The South died it’s last when Eisenhower sent in armed troops to force Americans to accept sub-human Negroes in taxpayer-funded schools.
     
    Sub-humans who accounted for as much as half their states' inflated representation in Congress. As well as state legislatures, which is one of the reasons the western counties of Virginia checked out of the Commonwealth, and other mountain men as far south as Alabama and Georgia sided with the Blue. Lots of Tennessee boys in Nashville's National Cemetery, where Rebs were excluded.


    This threw the 1800 election, as well as a few others, and hastened the Indian Removal Act-- i.e., replacing red men with black. So much for "republican form of government"!
    , @P. Cleburne
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    You believe the "South" couldn't survive on its own because of limited resources?
    We'll find out shortly.

    Imagine the "north" without access to Southern ports...Oil, natural gas...

    Replies: @RadicalCenter, @RadicalCenter

    , @Twodees Partain
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Too narrow a pressing to extract too weak a tincture.

    Talk about mixing metaphors...

    , @Shamu
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    What a lot of wandering drivel. Here is the fact that matters most: what we have come to know as the 'Civil War' set the entire nation for everything that is awful we see today. Did that happen just because that made 'The Union' sacred, which guaranteed that the Union then would be able to play despot against any state thereafter? Did the long-term evil fruits also come because the intellectual and moral forces behind the sacred Union were descendants of New England Puritans? Almost certainly.

  • Cul-de-sacs are especially useful in the Waze/Google Maps Era when GPS systems send through traffic willy-nilly down random side streets in wild creative routes that drivers wouldn't have discovered on their own. Today, for example, on my way back from UCLA, Google Maps sent me down bizarrely narrow streets in the Bel Air and the...
  • Route planning is fairly simple: Biggest road for longest stretch.

    Urban freeway is 35-mph average. Streets are 15-mph.

    Take the freeway to the shortest off-freeway street to destination. Longer distance doesn’t equate to longer time.

    Can also look at it as limited versus non-limited access. The latter imposes not only time constraints, but entails higher risks. (There are no accidents).

    “Saving time”, is a fools errand. Doesn’t happen.

    Leave earlier.

    As a truck driver the CB is still king of route diversion strategy. The only reason to keep WAZE or G-Maps in tap is to avoid where the sheep will flock.

    Pen, notepad and radio. Phone for sat pic.
    Dedicated GPS device (GARMIN). State maps and city directories. Motor Carrier Road Atlas.

    Big truck routes (that Atlas) denominate routes with wider lanes, shoulders, better signage & lighting. Commercial traffic. Understanding HOW that interfaces with freeways solves most all conundrums.

    Drive your normal routes at least 5-mph UNDER the upper posted limit. Be painstaking in observing spirit and letter of law. (Imagine it’s raining). RECORD that time and use it as reference. NOT the times you made all the lights.

    Use MILES not clock time. The constant, not the variable.

    The hurry, hurry shit is a huge problem the unfit bring with them from turd world. They are overmatched by driving cars. Not capable. This pressure of lane-changing, ignoring markings and disregard for others makes everyone’s day worse as tensions increase. Incites bad behaviors all around.

    There’s a zen to getting through. And it isn’t by using tertiary routes. Use first or second level roads exclusively.

    That zen is akin to a glide.

    If I can do it in a 78,000-lb 70’ big truck on city streets, so can you in your personal vehicle.

  • Greil Marcus, b. 1944, is one of the three or so most famous rock critics of all time along with Lester Bangs and whoever you choose as the third. He's probably best known for his phrase about Bob Dylan's fascination with "the old, weird America." Marcus is a very bright guy, although some times his...
  • My fathers only brother went down in that storm aboard USS Spence. Just turned 20, and aboard maybe three months.

    For the next fifty years until she died my father sent a bouquet of roses to his mother on that date. He kept a faded snapshot of his brother atop his dresser. Not framed, just frayed.

    In retirement he interviewed and collected oral histories of WWII vets.. I believe the greatest number by any individual. The captain of the Spence among them.

    Honor demands we discover and then do our duty. It is the hallmark of being a man, a Christian, and an American.

    I’m told that this great error — the worst ever non-combat loss of life by the US Navy — was spur to develop post-war the planetary weather forecasting & monitoring ability of which any American ought to be proud.

    I hope that last is true. I’m grateful as one who travels constantly that sophisticated weather tools are today available to sailors, pilots and the land-bound sojourners.

    Memory of those among ours who died in earlier conflicts has faded. But if I make it another twenty years, my un-met uncle will have been walking with one of his on this Earth for a century past his demise.

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  • From the Daily Mail: When I was a kid around 1970, I avidly read the Guinness Book of World Records, which sets the historical baseline for me for a lot of items. Back then, the longest running Broadway play was somewhat less that 8 years: Fiddler on the Roof had run for 7.8 years, Life...
  • Anyone like Sinatra?

    His 1950s comeback (and in going forward) was a success partly from mining old Broadway for great songs

    When you’ve Nelson Riddle as arranger, it’s golden

    WHERE, OR WHEN?

    Ray Heatherton, vocal. (Hart & Rodgers, 1937; “Babes in Arms)

    Sinatra (with long time accompanist, Bill Miller)

    Or, with Ella.

    ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
    Original (Jerome Kern, “Very Warm for May”)

    With Riddle

    To re-create the original beauty in different lighting is nearly the same feat as creation itself.
    (Behold, make all things new).

    As with all else post-1963 comes the deluge of planned mediocrity

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    • Thanks: Meretricious
  • Vin Scully, the radio announcer for Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games for 67 seasons from 1950-2016, has died at age 94. Scully was also a great television announcer who knew when to stop talking. Compare Jack Buck's appropriately loquacious radio call of Kirk Gibson's homer in the first game of the 1988 World...
  • @slumber_j

    Scully was working for 67 years for the Dodgers, for crying out loud, in addition to doing network games.
     
    It occurred to me when I learned of his death last night that Vin Scully called games for most of the history of Major League Baseball until now. He did Dodgers games for I think eight years when they were still in Brooklyn.

    Anyway, he really was great to listen to: that voice of his!

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Voice, and the intelligence behind it, is the whole thing.

    In the beginning was The Word.

    Said over the millennia a man’s dying thought was the sound of his mothers voice.

    And, as architecture and music are what distinguish Western Man against the teeming hordes, it’s the walk from the spoken to the sung, from the prosaic to the poetic, which marks the great speaker or singer.

    The Orator Whom The Enemy rightly fears more than any other.

    Each word matters. Thus, the spaces around it.

    Music occurs from between the notes. Word choice is no different when the effect is to sway. To keep a steady course. To underline.

    Scully was a fine actor. Kept your attention on what never mattered and never will (while Rome burned).

    • Replies: @slumber_j
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    Scully was a fine actor. Kept your attention on what never mattered and never will (while Rome burned).
     
    That's entertainment. Is there really no room for it in your view? Is that what you mean?

    Maybe I misconstrue what you say, but anyway and as you say he really was very good at it.
  • Helen Dell, “Take me out to the ballgame”
    Stadium Organist

  • I think my 1998 Infiniti I-30 with around 275,000 miles is about through. So, what should I get to replace it?
  • @Jack D
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    What you want in a fleet car for a police force or a taxi fleet is not what you want in a car that you drive for yourself (at least it's not what I want). I really don't care if a set of brake pads is $50 instead of $20 because I am going to replace them once every 4 years so saving $7/yr means nothing.

    Anyway, at least where I live, even the police have stopped buying fleet sedans - they drive SUVs like everyone else. After next year the Charger/300 will be gone and there will be zero dinosaur type fleet sedans left. You sound like the kind of guy who is still mourning the death of the Ford Panther platform. Good riddance I say. These cars were ok going straight on a smooth freeway but for anything else their ancient design really showed (poorly).

    If you really want to carry 6 (or 7) ppl with luggage, nothing beats a minivan, which Steve already has. I don't think that there are any 6 passenger sedans left. Is there any sedan that still has a front bench seat? Internet says no - the last one was the 2013 Impala.

    Replies: @Houston 1992, @SteeringWheelHolder

    Except a minivan has no trunk in which to store anything, has an overly large interior difficult to cool or heat, and gets poor fuel economy.

    SUVs are wannabes. Wanna be something. Zero storage space. Center of Gravity too high. No room under hood with engines too complicated.

    A 2012 Crown Vic would be a good choice but the parts supply dried up. Took Ford forever to fix the problems it had from the outset.

    Guess you’d better do some price comparisons on parts. Foreign-sourced is never cheaper.

    Because you aren’t smart about cars, their utility, or their expense it really shines the light thru your paper arguments about what doesn’t matter somehow having meaning.

    A guy with a 24-yr old car ain’t too worried about what you propose as being significant. 2022 cars aren’t better than what was around in 2002. They’re newer. That’s it. Otherwise, they cost more to own & operate and they offer no offsetting advantages.

    4-whl disc brakes and fully independent suspension with rack & pinion steering. The buck stopped there.

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    • Replies: @Jack D
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    A 2012 Crown Vic would be a good choice
     
    LOL. If you wanted to look totally out of place in Southern California, I can't think of anything better than a 2012 Crown Vic.

    There is a running gag in Get Shorty where John Travolta, who is trying to break into Hollywood, gets stuck at the airport rental counter with a dustbuster shaped Oldsmobile minivan (the least cool possible car after a Crown Vic) which gets him all sorts of dirty looks from the Hollywood types but Travolta is so cool that he convinces people that this minivan is actually cool.

    I had the same thing happen to me at LAX except instead of a mini van I got stuck with a Mercury Marquis ( a Crown Vic but with even more tacky upholstery and chrome) at the Hertz counter. We don't care what kind of car you reserved. This is the only car we have left, take it or leave it.

    Unlike Travolta, I didn't convince anyone on the movie lot that a Marquis was a cool car. (I actually did go on the Warner Brothers lot - a story for another day.) I'll give you one thing - that car has a trunk that is bigger than some NY studio apartments. The bomb sniffing dog jumped right into the trunk to search it.

  • @Jack D
    @John Johnson

    Chrysler has been making the 300 more or less unchanged for 17 years now so they have worked out most of the wrinkles and it is fairly reliable. (BTW, never buy a car in its 1st model year - you are the beta tester). OTOH, it's extremely outdated. In the time that the 300 has been out, Toyota has gone thru 4 generations of the ES300 series, each one markedly improved and updated from the previous generation. Cars nowadays are heavily electronic. Think of what a cell phone from 2005 is like vs. one today.

    https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/gamespot/images/2005/hardware/features/cesphones/632151-cesphone_002.jpg

    The 300 is the automotive equivalent of a flip phone.


    I agree that you should stay away from German cars but the reliability of some Japanese cars (Toyota esp.) is untouchable.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @SteeringWheelHolder

    You’ve made the argument by what you mistakenly regard as disadvantage as have a few others. Old design American-made fleet car is the one for reliably low-cost transportation.

    It’s a very good-driving car.

    Compared to others being mentioned it’s even better on rural Interstate and I see examples by numbers out of proportion to its sales. The why of that is easy: it meets the criteria established sixty years ago by CALDOT participants in an ideal police sedan. 120” WB, 4,000-lbs, and is equipped with 4-whl Disc brakes and fully independent suspension. Not too big or small. It sits in the sweet spot.

    Cars of every type peaked circa 2006 for price, performance and quality. (Pickups also).

    Again, I’d use 2012 Charger SXT as comparative. 4K weight, 120” WB, 4-door, trunk and Fleet Spec available.

    Go and drive one, Steve. The bubble boys who never mentally leave a major metro aren’t your friends for the day you DO need to travel. A sedan has virtues no minivan or pickup ever will.

    AVOID popular cars or designs. Popularity isn’t a sign of superiority. Far from it. Size, center of gravity, design, etc, mean more.

    Avoid foreign as it’s no guarantee of anything. Parts that take longer to wear out just cost a lot more when they do. And have to be shipped from overseas.

    You won’t have as much into it as some of these other suggestions, it can can be fixed anywhere by anyone, and it’s “old design” doesn’t give up anything. These are advantages.

    You have a shop or shops you already trust. That’s the other angle. Trying to skip maintenance intervals of time & miles just works against one. DIY can go a long ways on the minor stuff. I taught myself, so could you if you don’t already. Mental work needs the physical offset in problem solving.

    HQ tires if you’re running 12-15k year as nothing else adds as much. (HQ seats, too). The RF tire thing is just sloppy driving. (Stop it).

    The best car is the one that always starts and runs. Can carry 5-6 people plus their luggage safely and economically.

    Only a sedan meets the mark.

    (And a thanks for your services a car has had to help make possible).

    Good luck.

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    • Replies: @Jack D
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    What you want in a fleet car for a police force or a taxi fleet is not what you want in a car that you drive for yourself (at least it's not what I want). I really don't care if a set of brake pads is $50 instead of $20 because I am going to replace them once every 4 years so saving $7/yr means nothing.

    Anyway, at least where I live, even the police have stopped buying fleet sedans - they drive SUVs like everyone else. After next year the Charger/300 will be gone and there will be zero dinosaur type fleet sedans left. You sound like the kind of guy who is still mourning the death of the Ford Panther platform. Good riddance I say. These cars were ok going straight on a smooth freeway but for anything else their ancient design really showed (poorly).

    If you really want to carry 6 (or 7) ppl with luggage, nothing beats a minivan, which Steve already has. I don't think that there are any 6 passenger sedans left. Is there any sedan that still has a front bench seat? Internet says no - the last one was the 2013 Impala.

    Replies: @Houston 1992, @SteeringWheelHolder

    , @Esso
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    Only a sedan meets the mark.
     
    But our host is a lanky old dog owner. Noone really likes SUVs but they have a high seating and there is a good market for dog cages for eg. CR-V.

    I agree with others that one should avoid German/European brands for SUVs. Volvo is not horrible, with the exception of the early 00's SUV models. Honda CR-V is made in England.
  • Looks like 2012 Charger SXT is where I’d start.

  • “Fleet car” is the usual for fewest surprises and can be fixed anywhere.

    Dodge Charger. Mercedes design. Built since 2005.

    Maybe a Taurus or Impala.

    Buick or Lexus might be nicer, but . . . ?

    I’m 6’2” and 190#. Those are as small as I’d go.
    Premium power seats worth retrofitting from higher end optioned models. Father/son project.

    Otherwise an F150 V8.

    One is best off he likes it every time he gets into it.
    .

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    Dodge Charger. Mercedes design. Built since 2005.
     
    Chrysler 300 is on the same chassis. I wouldn't touch either one with a 10 foot pole, even putting aside image issues.

    One of the reasons the Mercedes-Chrysler merger failed is that Mercedes was very hesitant to give Chrysler their technology because they were afraid people would buy cheaper Dodges instead of expensive Mercedes. For the 300/Charger, they gave Chrysler some of the tech from their PREVIOUS generation E-class. So this is now 25 year old technology. Nor did they give them the whole package - the engine is still Chrysler (not that Chrysler makes bad engines). They gave them bits and pieces - the suspension, the transmission, etc. Again, previous generation designs even then. Chrysler doesn't have the $ to update the car (they are about to discontinue it anyway) so it is outdated in many ways.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @John Johnson

  • From a study of 15 years of Officer Involved Shootings by the Dallas Police Department. To simplify things, these are only one-on-one incidents: one cop firing at one suspect. No information was recorded on if any of those 65% missed shots happened to hit somebody walking the dog in the background. Other variables. “Virtually all...
  • @dearieme
    @Buzz Mohawk

    My father was a tank commander in The War. While he was teaching me to shoot a rifle he commented on how inaccurate pistol fire is - even in practice when the shooter is under no stress.

    Many British tank men preferred to carry a Sten gun rather than a pistol. It wasn't very accurate either but was better at making Germans duck and hide, which is what you want as a tank man bailing out.

    His orders were clear - no tank crew were to fight as amateur infantrymen, they were to get back and get a new tank.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @SteeringWheelHolder

    Plus that handguns simply don’t deliver enough energy. They are minimal. Symbolic over Actual.

    The M1 Carbine was designed and issued to tank crews, truck drivers and others in WWII for this reason. Light, handy, and deadly out to 75-yards.

    All sides had amphetamines available for use. While not in constant supply (same for alcohol), mind & body altering chemicals PAST the dangers of adrenaline in a 19-yr old trained opponent prove out efficacy. Handguns had no real place past acting as a comfort.

    A famous (accurate) quip about handguns is that their purpose is to enable one to fight his way back to his rifle.

    The attendant quip is that, “there are surpassingly few problems in this world a .30-Cal rifle can’t solve”. (.35-caliber has a magical superiority, but it’s simply too much for men to fire repeatedly).

    (.30-cal type — 7.62 x 51 NATO — is weight-heavy & unwieldy in its military configuration. Not easily used for policing due to mistakes among civilians. Once it’s off the leash there’s no turning back. Reserved for SWAT snipers).

    A 12-gauge shotgun is the real thing. A Police Model Remington 870 or Ithaca 37 pump-action with 00-buckshot is unmatched to 25-yards. With slugs, even farther. The classic “riot gun”.

    A semi-auto 12-ga FN SLP Police Model can get off (8) rounds in under one second. The USMC-spec Benelli M4 is the state-of-the-set weapon of choice for close-in devastation.

    An AR-15 has the same problem as pistols. Wounds, but doesn’t always STOP the bad guy as the round simply hasn’t one-shot-stop guarantee without careful placement.

    And, as with all centerfire cartridge arms it has far more range than is necessary. (Keep rifle in trunk).

    A lever-action in .32-Winchester Special would be a better all around choice. 200-yard plus hunting rifle able to put down large animals. A prison work detail overseen with 12-ga riot guns & Winchesters among mounted guards is an ideal for ease of use and effectiveness both close & far.

    An arresting officer with a handgun — backed by a pair of men with a .32-Special Winchester lever-action & a 12-ga riot gun — only has one ending for non-compliance. (Potential accomplices suitably accounted also, thusly).

    A handgun is mainly a signal to comply when by itself.

    “Well, punk, . . . ?” The Dirty Harry movie quote sums it up: it’s about whether LUCK will get him past the officer without much if any injury. It’s not the handgun, it’s the man who is wielding it.

    A 12-gauge won’t involve any “luck” as to outcome.

    .

    • Thanks: Almost Missouri
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    An AR-15 has the same problem as pistols. Wounds, but doesn’t always STOP the bad guy as the round simply hasn’t one-shot-stop guarantee without careful placement.

    I call BS.

    I've never heard of a police engagement where someone took a 556 round to the chest and kept fighting. It has more energy than a 44 magnum and they can use defense rounds.

    Complaints about 556 are at longer ranges (300+ yards).

    A lever-action in .32-Winchester Special

    32 Winchester special? If they really wanted a 30 caliber then they would use 300 Blackout, not an esoteric lever action round.

    An arresting officer with a handgun — backed by a pair of men with a .32-Special Winchester lever-action & a 12-ga riot gun — only has one ending for non-compliance. (Potential accomplices suitably accounted also, thusly).

    You have been watching too many Westerns. They took away shotguns because of cops like the ones that emptied their magazines in the negro that was well passed dead. Using a deer hunting round would blow right through someone and into the next room.

    A 12-gauge won’t involve any “luck” as to outcome.

    Yes and that is the problem. They screw up with a shotgun and you are out of luck. That includes partners. They also don't trust police to gauge range correctly for the spread and use to the correct rounds. WHOOPS I put in the buckshot instead of the less lethal.

    Urban cops didn't grow up with shotguns. You can't have them panicking and shooting at a suspect from 30 or 40 yards. WHOOPS forgot about the spread. I sure as hell wouldn't want some AA cop following me around with a 12 gauge. WHOOPS there goes your leg.

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

    Ever wore a mask?

    Took The Jab?

    (Moral Cowardice).

    But, WHO CARES ABOUT YOU?

    It’s that you allowed strangers to harm your family —every one of these is a harm — they who depended upon you.

    For that, you’ll answer.

    .

  • @Jack D
    @Hypnotoad666

    If I say that bananas cause young healthy athletes to keel over and die, the burden of proof is on me to prove that this is statistically true (with the understanding that anecdote is not the singular of data).

    The way this whole "vax kills athletes" thing got going was from unfounded rumors that got repeated and magnified and transmitted around the world. Show me a controlled study that the vax kills vaccinated athletes (at a higher rate than unvaccinated) and then I'll believe you (or at least give your study careful consideration). Somehow, our scientific establishment is supposed to meet this impossibly high standard of proof (because you don't trust them) but some random guy on the internet types something about athletes and vaccines or taking flea medicine for covid and him you trust instead ? I understand that people no longer have any respect for our authorities but why would you respect anonymous random dudes instead?

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder, @Hypnotoad666, @epebble

    — Try all-cause mortality for working age adults

    — Or the “normalizing” of Sudden Adult Death (like SIDS, vaccine-caused).

    — The number of airline pilot deaths went from 6-12 to over 100 in one year.

    Infertility (last ten months) and mental health degradation are others, as are the severity & rate of highway wrecks. (Keep going).

    Who are the 2,000 recently caught in Spain with forged vaxx cards? Top dogs, including pharma.

    Why is the White House and the CDC not required to have the jab?

    Why has the Gov re-defined “vaccine” to a meaningless statement.

    Plus, there’s this thing called The Replication Crisis in science of which you’ve no doubt heard. (You’re on your own).

    You demand answers when it’s the questions which matter.

    It took guys with a room temperature IQ about two weeks to see the hoax. April Fools Day of 2020.

    Where are all the corpses? The street bums should have been wiped out. How is YOUR town handling the massive numbers?

    CV-19 was cooked up to get you to take The Death Jab. The Hot Shot.

    And you did.

    DENIAL is the first stage.

  • Or something ...
  • In the old days there was an assumed Division Of Responsibility.

    Man brings home the bacon.

    Woman keeps the house clean and children presentable.

    With female liberation leading to gender bending leading to the end of gender these assumptions are verboten leading to chaos.

    The presumption now is that both “partners” are equally responsible for all aspects of their joint lives, regardless of their biological proclivities and interests.

    The complaint in the tweet is that “managing” her husband sucks. She would prefer he clean the home in accordance with her wishes without her having to ask him to or even to tell him how.

    She doesn’t *want* to manage him. She wants him to roomba.

    And in an equal partnership of, say, identical twins, this makes some sense.

    She is likely however leaving out the fact that men don’t care that much if their house is clean or furnished or fashionable. And they certainly don’t tend to care about these things commensurate with how much tedium is required to ensure them. In general, women are better at and enjoy more the dull work of Gathering/laundry and men prefer he excitement of Hunting/selling.

    The problem with The Public Sphere is that the traditional fights that normal heterosexual couples have are now WRIT LARGE and presented to the reading public as though they were pronouncements by People Who Know True And Proper Morality.

    But what can you do? Ever since we left our metaphorical Eden we have all become schizos, relying on an ever evolving patchwork that fixes last year’s problems by creating next year’s.

    Other than decreasing infant mortality and thus generating ever more humans we aren’t progressing at all, just, century after century, running on a treadmill with ever-evolving scenery.

    The best we can do is fix the problems we have today to the best of our ability and teach the young to teach their young certain truths we discovered along the wasy that will help them fix their own problems.

    It’s why the written teachings of Moses, Jesus, Buddha and Jefferson are so valuable. They keep humanity tethered to wisdom brilliantly exposited some centuries or millennia ago. That wisdom may be ignored or misinterpreted or seemingly irrelevant or indecipherable but it’s there, in black on white letters and so long as they do not vanish from the Earth, these texts save humanity from destroying itself in a fit of confident exhuberance.

    Bless these fine men and those who enshrined their wisdom.

    • Thanks: SteeringWheelHolder
  • I'm recuperating from my first of two cataract eye surgeries this summer. The first went smoothly. I want to thank everybody who contributed to to make this possible. Steve
  • I can imagine there is somewhere a poetic phrase which describes the inner light reflective of the sharpened external. Here’s hoping you soon find the words which heal the whole of the man.

  • According to Mark Meadows’ aide, Donald Trump demanded that the Secret Service take him to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Testifying before the Liz Cheney committee, Cassidy Hutchinson said Trump was in the truck and told the SS: “I’m the fucking President! Take me up to the Capitol, now!” The SS told him that...
  • @Rich
    @Anonymous

    US military recruitment is 23% below its needs, 40% for the Army. Recently the pentagon lowered its requirements for enlistment, no longer requiring recruits to have a hs diploma or ged. Last time this happened was post-Vietnam War when crime was rampant in the ranks. Whites are no longer signing up.

    Replies: @Realist, @lavoisier, @Diversity Heretic, @SteeringWheelHolder, @Gordo

    Dot.Mil is delighted to use illegal aliens and ESPECIALLY “refugees”
    from countries where CIA-training was widespread. Vetted.

    MILLIONS of shitskin male candidates.
    THOUSANDS already with guerrilla skills.
    ALL with an implicit promise of riches given.

    In the meantime an income plus housing, food & transportation provided by you during a transformation of the NCO cadre.

    Millions of firearms with ammo already stashed nationwide for the irregulars. Similarly subsidized. Physical networks already existent.

    Your real estate to be cleared of you. Just you. Your possessions, your young wives, daughters & small male children soon the rightful property of the heroes who scourged the toxicity of Whiteness from America.

    And then the world.

    All images of pre-1964 America altered or disappeared. Movies & TV newly colorized.

    It ain’t rocket science much less paranoia to make these connections. It couldn’t be more obvious as it’s long been the most massive invasion in history. All across the West.

    What follows? Take your pick of what can’t ever matter to you. Except as gallows-humor:

    — Deadly plague stalks the war-stricken land, the Alien Space Invaders demand human sacrifice to meet an unquenchable hunger every Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner as more of their kind arrives and they fence off increasingly huge planetary enclaves.

    In return, they sorta prop up keeping the lights burning and a minimum going against the hold-out White Terrorists. Promises of Med Beds. Nesara & Gesara. Brave patriots in the hinterlands. Prester John. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

    And deny The Good News of the imminent arrival of the Galactic Federation to restore Wakanda. The rightful kangz of this solar system. New Q.

    Stories being tested now. Today. Emotional algorithms assigned to the like-minded, zip codes to keep the ball rolling between opponents till far fewer than 500-million remain.

    Use bitters sparingly.

    Or wake up, you aren’t here by accident. A choice, freely made.

    “This generation shall not pass away . . . . “

    .

  • The American media is throwing a hissy-fit after two “Americans” (one of them is a Korean for some reason) have been captured while working as mercenaries in the Ukraine. Previously, two British mercenaries were sentenced to death by the Russians, and that will almost certainly happen to the Americans. This is totally in line with...
  • @TKK
    @Franz

    If you take a drive through NC and SC, little mill towns like Biscoe and Clover and larger ones like High Point, have MASSIVE EMPTY textile mills.

    500,000 square feet buildings sit abandoned.

    These mills powered entire towns. Now, they are empty. People have flea markets in the parking lot from time to time, but mostly they sit there, like hulking giants from a movie.

    And just when you thought it could not get spookier, guess who know owns the town- the grocery store, the old general store, the small businesses.

    Mexicans.

    It is astonishing. I can't believe it happened. Entire towns that were lock stock and barrel Scot and Irish working class - people who went to Church and mowed their yards and waved when you drove by- are now ran by the sons and daughters of Oaxaca.

    Don't tell me there was not a Plan.

    Replies: @Robert Dolan, @SteeringWheelHolder

    Every business you see where foreigners own successful businesses (and they’re stupid by comparison, remember) it’s obvious they aren’t paying the same overhead. Every cost of doing business has been lowered for them.

    This is BEFORE laundering money from the home country or local organized crime.

    These are NETWORKS or chains across this nation by ethnicity where once war gets hot the problems of logistic supply already exists on paper. And in the day-to-day gritty reality of blue collar work the soldiers are growing in number and in the ability to navigate the physical & conceptual maps of “America”.

    The prize is YOUR property and women. Assumption. They needn’t OWN it per se, only to have dispossessed you of it. They’ll rent from whatever financial giant has the title taken from rebels (you).

    Best you have that — or live where — it’s worth dying over as your motivator. As it’s not suburbia, nor is it areas of low-rainfall or where transfer payments support the populace.

    “The United States” as a viable entity is north of the Ohio River out west to Chicago and inside a circle includes lower Canada around the Great Lakes back to the upper East Coast.

    Once that’s split off de jure from the rest, it’s game over.

    The West Coast is Hawaii, Guam & Wake Island.

    The IH5 Coastal Strip isn’t self-sufficient and the USN surface fleet is a joke. There’s but one refined products pipeline from Texas thru the Mexican border Gadsden Purchase. (There’s not a Chief of Naval Operations the past fifty years shouldn’t be dug up, tried and hanged along with those living; the Army & Marines & Air Force not exempted. This was not by accident).

    Hadrian’s Wall is US-83. Wyoming coal and Texas oil have to be sold somewhere. And the locals don’t own that nor the railroads or pipelines.

    The areas of solely industrial-scale farming out from Chicago were lost politically long ago. (But nearness will prevail over who takes the grain).

    Gonzalo Lira found himself in contempt of Americans who do nothing in re the Kaliningrad provocation. Yes . . . we sense what’s coming here will mean more than if the Rooskies nuked Wilmington, NC & Charleston, SC things get that far gone (Clyde & Portsmouth in UK).

    The American military & equipment abandoned overseas should that occur likely prevents an American Caesar arising to force a quick ending. (Hood & Bliss a long ways from Knox).

    For what other reason are things the way we find them? (Pull the rug out from under to topple weak structures).

    “The USA” is a sideshow to obtaining supremacy over Siberia and then the Arctic. (MacKinder, updated).

    The invading armies are already present.
    About 100-million. (Europe has its own).

    .

    • Thanks: TKK
  • @Adûnâi
    @Alrenous

    > "Aside from the gay thing, you can basically ignore DC whenever you want."

    Last time I checked, America abolished race segregation in schools in 1954. Sure, you could home-school, but that's a good way to grow anti-social retards. So yeah, good luck "ignoring DC" when your children have to endure working in the same room as Congoids - listening to their music 24/7, imbibing their African language, and likely getting mugged and/or raped by them.

    Regarding the article - as Strelkov posits, he gives a 90% chance that the mercs will get exchanged, the way "Tayra" has been (allegedly, a child-killing kidney-stealing female surgeon). And more Westerners will go on safari to kill "Slavic savages." Russia is dying of Christian mercy. The Russian troops are at their starting positions 4 months into the commencement of open hostilies, it's over. The Aryan race is a rotting carcass.

    Replies: @Alrenous, @Anon, @Angharad

    Homeschooling has long been proven to produce smarter and far better socialized children.

    It’s time to Homeschool your children or grandchildren

    • Agree: SteeringWheelHolder
  • @Kim
    @TG

    Yes. Anglin also says that

    "A Third world country simply doesn't have the resources to micromanage peoples' individual lives"

    Yet

    Exhibit A: North Korea micromanages through totalitarian violence.

    Exhibit B: Indonesian riding his motorbike through rural farmland caught by police camera and automatically ticketed for not wearing a helmet. This is a national road surveillance system.

    Check the photo and the rural landscape. Such a place in the Third world has an extensive, national network of automatic ticketing surveillance cameras!

    https://otomotif.kompas.com/read/2022/06/22/070200015/viral-foto-pengendara-motor-tanpa-helm-kena-etle-di-persawahan

    Replies: @James Scott, @Adûnâi

    You really should read the whole article. Anglin did not say there is no plan he said they failed. The US oligarchs have ripped off the whole world. Why would China let them become a 5th column or even give them safe haven? Their loot is going to be worthless. Anglin is correct and you are delusional. They are losing and the ones at the top know it. They are shifting around trying to take down Russia on a path to China. They know the elite are always replaced and most of their real wealth is anchored down somewhere. Developed land cannot be taken with you and that is where their true wealth lies. They have to win or they lose everything. Again the jew mob had a plan. It failed and now they are shifting around looking for a way to keep what they have stolen. It looks like they are going to try to turn whites into minorities and then hide behind the non whites and try to own everything while the rest of us are peasants. Its not going to work. They cannot control the non whites if they don’t have free stuff to give them. Scarcity is coming. Anglin noted that its going to be rough. You ignored it and spouted Autistic madness.

    • Agree: SteeringWheelHolder
    • Replies: @Kim
    @James Scott

    I am aware that he thinks that this Plan has failed, but he can't honestly make any such claim until he specifies what that Plan might be. He does not.

    In contrast, I do specify what I believe the Plan to be and according to my specification it appears to be moving along pretty well.

    As to China giving the Western oligarchs safe haven, I did not specify that they would, although it certainly would cost China nothing to do so.

    What I did specify is that the people at the top are true believers. They believe (indeed, know for a fact) that the age of cheap oil is over, that resource depeletion is rampant, that global consumption levels cannot be allowed to continue to rise, and humanity must, one way or another retrench. So they have a sincere - although tyrannical - Plan to save the world, and it is in fact a very good one from an emergency point of view and might give modernity, in Asia, another 150-200 years.

    So let's see:

    1. Shut down the West and reduce its consumption to a tiny portion of its current level

    2. Continue to build a hydrocarbon-based society in China

    3. Use North America as a source of resources for Asia

    Looks to me like exactly what is happening.

    Replies: @Backward, @Munga Bulga, @Swaytonious

  •   Tom Stoppard's 2006 play Rock 'n Roll is a rather austere work about early 1960s Pink Floyd of the Syd Barrett era rather than the Dark Side of the Moon or Comfortably Numb eras and the Czech dissident band Plastic People of the Universe. It really only ignites at the end of the first...
  • @Steve Sailer
    @Jay Fink

    I suspect thinking about money and management tends to get in the way of songwriting for successful rock musicians. When they are young and poor, they focus on the music, but once they are successful and realize they are getting ripped off, they have to think more about business, lawsuits, power struggles and so forth, which isn't great for creativity.

    E.g., it took McCartney all the way until 2019 to fully regain control of the Lennon-McCartney catalog. That's a lot of meetings with lawyers and bankers.

    John Fogerty was a hit machine for a few years, but then lawsuits and the like came to dominate his time.

    One striking thing about the music business is how even brothers tend to wind up at each other's throats. E.g., the Everly Brothers wound up hating each other.

    I suspect Broadway songwriting had some sort of structural arrangements that let songwriters work together or apart more amicably and professionally, whereas rock songwriting partnerships were more all-consuming, burned brighter for shorter periods, and more likely to all end in tears.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico, @S Johnson, @Anon, @SteeringWheelHolder

    “https://youtu.be/Q495KZzlhnc”

    The teen hit once the adults decided might be something there. Layers revealed.

    The foreign language is the rejection of our 1,000-year development of choral & orchestral music. From sacred to profane, from orchestral to band. Voice & Instrument capable of any of it.
    The heart of the First Amendment, rejected.

    No intercession today by even a touch of grace whereby electricity becomes master versus servant. The true post-war story.

    We are:

    Heartbeat
    Control of breath
    Timing

    — Harry gets closer to the actual music in his interpretation than did the original.

    Armstrong and Sinatra had the same ability, and Nelson Riddle turned the table around to make all things new. 1958 is not 1938, boys.

    On what instrument were you instructed? Are you tenor, baritone or bass? The steps to sociability aren’t accidental. Call them waltz or rhumba. An intercessional or a march. The Open Door. Take your grandmother around the floor and she might at that moment know which girl for you to court.

    Vistas are what are beyond that door.

    Neal Hefti (with Riddle) is where the power of music went. It’s the sound of advertising of great institutions. The real background of the 1960s and into today. (You don’t hear it, do you?).

    Neal Hefti:

    “https://youtu.be/BE8Lbjm3rq4”

    “https://youtu.be/JILWmj4Dzog”

    Nelson Riddle:

    The last great moment before 11/1963.

    “https://watch?v=AcJoY4xFXNk”

    The original liner notes state best what was this accomplishment. It’s far, far removed from whence it got its treacly start.

    But y’all keep debating what’s on the approved list of subjects. ((PBS or Rolling Stone)). Believe that there are “genres” or “generations” . . and it is our instruments & ways at stake. Y’all are arguing what’s the least offensive insult in your embrace of Clown World.

    “https://youtu.be/9a0FYE_rj1w”

    Recorded several times over thirty years.
    Not ever the same. But ever new.

    .

  • 'Latinos' is out, 'Latinx' is in at UC San Diego in nod to evolving gender and sexuality terms The real moral outrage should be this: Why use 'Latino' or 'Latinx'(or Latin-whatever) to designate so many people of Mexico, Central America, and South America who are NOT of Latin identity, history, or heritage? Latin-whatever is an...
  • They’re all Beaners if they’re in this country.

    Include the street-shitters in that, for fun.

    But it’s handier to call any and all, “Mexicans”.

    • Agree: Trinity
  • From the mayor of New Orleans: This new statue is some kind of combination of Afro pick and black power fist.
  • @Muggles
    Those 'fro picks are very dangerous.

    Used as a weapon and a grooming aid!

    Has anyone ever seen a Jewish male using one? Or as a weapon?

    You have to give Blacks! credit for seeing the potential...

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Jewish guys with Afros a 70’s thang. Maybe even Sailer.

    The comb was a long-handle wire cake-cutter back then.

    Usually called a rake. Stuck in back jeans pocket

    • Replies: @Veteran Aryan
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    Usually called a rake. Stuck in back jeans pocket
     
    Um... no. Placed in the knap. Note the angle. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/man-with-an-afro-in-beige-suit-with-hair-pick-in-hair-picture-id578204323
  • The American establishment believes that everyone on earth is as braindead as fat, vaxed, drug-addled, porn-addicted, negro-worshiping, homosexual Americans. They think they can just keep declaring themselves to be the center of morality in the universe, keep declaring that something is true simply because they said it. Meanwhile, everyone in the world who isn’t a...
  • @American Citizen
    I grew up in the 70's and 80's. We were told that the Russkies were just like us, except for their evil government. All we had to do was get them some blue jeans, McDonalds and Rock N Roll to turn their whole nation into Reagan Republicans. As for China, they were a joke, an overpopulated country that couldn't make cheap plastic toys correctly. America was superior to both combined, and Europe was an obedient puppy dog (with a few pee-pee incidents, but overall well under our thumb).

    Boy, how times have changed.

    Replies: @Rahan, @SteeringWheelHolder, @Anon

    Should have taken up reading. TV was garbage then as well.

    I found it a telling question in any debate at a bar to ask for a show of library cards. That shut down the shit pronto. (Merit of argument, not feelings).

    The “alternative explanations” weren’t any different in 1975. It was that the depth of depravity wasn’t well imagined. One could find it, but it seemed a step too far when easier to understand motivations were available.

    Guarantee you that no one wanted to entertain that. You weren’t part of the insider club maybe knew it, they’d step on you if you persisted (enough “too much LSD” stories about previously smart guys now droolers. Or, “suicide”).

    Many bad actors, sure. But not ALL bad actors. (Just couldn’t figure who those were). That’s the real difference between then and now.

    One got batted around depending on the persuasiveness of arguments as incomes crumbled, wives destroyed families, and criminality became “understood” to be rife at all levels. (“All institutions corrupt” came later).

    Ronnie Raygun was there to pacify the slobs while cannibalization of a moribund present was being disassembled for a defunct future. No investment in this country or it’s peoples well-being since WWII accomplished the aims of those who’d driven that. Just the squeeze of the last profits as leveraged buyouts & bankruptcy was in play. Americans no longer “necessary”.

    1989 was a great deal different than 1972 one looked at his future prospects.

    The Fog of War.

  • Because our daily lives are mainly concerned with mundane matters in a world that seems relatively stable and prosperous — even poor people are not starving in the West and have basic amenities — , most of us lack awareness of what an extraordinary period in history we are a part of. It is both...
  • @Anonymous
    This is exceedingly long, although few can dispute Jung-Freud's brilliance. Another writer useful for for those interested in an critical, unapproved) look at Jewish power is Andrew Hamilton. Those interested might peruse his series of essays on counter currents, he's much more concise, if also much more black-pilled.

    https://counter-currents.com/2014/04/racial-dominance/
    https://counter-currents.com/2014/05/empathy-without-sympathy/

    As the title of the first essay above points out, Jews are "racially dominant" over gentile, European whites. This is due in part to their intense solidarity, longer-term focus, and uncanny ability to analyze and manipulate other people. It's undisputable their rise to power is also partly due to admirable traits that whites have failed to cultivate.

    I think at least a moderate form of white nationalism or liberationism is justifiable. How best to do this is another matter. Whites who wish to avoid becoming a Palestinian-like minority in their countries must learn to play identity politics. They'd be wise to at least try to network with like-mindec whites an mimick the Jews' long-term horizon and solidarity.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Criminal organizations focus on their profit alone. Nothing admirable about those traits. Destruction is easy. No vision is required. The essay author does not do justice to motive or what is creativity on the part of humans versus sub-humans. A parasite is never a man. He can’t afford it even if he could embody it. “Too clever by half”, has always differentiated the starting points.

  • @Anonymous
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    There are plenty of homos that have made major contributions to society. Alan Turing is one example, with his career notably cut short. There are also plenty of right-wing gays, such as Renaud Camus, the originator of the concept of the "Great Replacement."

    The most degenerate scenes of pride parades and exhibitionist "homomania," powered by the current transgender-industrial complex, are a peculiar expression of jewish power, following the extreme focus on sexual revolution during the 20th century. They don't give an accurate depiction of how homosexuals would behave if tolerated in, say, a homogenous ethnostate. Incidentally, the lgbtq+ movement has largely marginalized gays as it focuses now on transgenderism and other deviants.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder, @Wokechoke

    Turing is Schlomos deep state Hollywood hero. Bad choice. “Code-breaking” is explained by Canaris using backdoor comms. Bankers and the Vatican more fodder to that ease of acquisition. Hess, an interpreter. (Who or what actually “won”?)

    The mentally-ill are unfit for polite society. The accurate definition and the requisite response are again inbound. If that doesn’t seem obvious, start over.

  • @James J. O'Meara

    A sane society knows that homosexuality is deviant and gross but also acknowledges that homos tend to have certain talents in creativity and insight. Also, it’s irrefutable that homos are born that way, and therefore, cannot be blamed for being homo. So, homos should be tolerated, and their contributions to society should be appreciated. It turns out homos do have a key role to play in civilization, especially in arts and design. But in their pride and vanity, bitchy homos demand more. They demand that the homo minority be empowered at the expense of society as a whole.
     
    Jung-Freud, you magnificent bastard, you read my book! No wonder you write 16k articles as well.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Will it matter, aesthetic erudition or not, the homo disappears? Who would miss them? The vanishingly small group of “contributors” comes at a high cost.

    The Pendulum has great momentum this time around.

    The arts & the sciences cannot be said to have been improved this past 130-years given that money alone was made king.

    War, only, the focus of faith.

    .

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    There are plenty of homos that have made major contributions to society. Alan Turing is one example, with his career notably cut short. There are also plenty of right-wing gays, such as Renaud Camus, the originator of the concept of the "Great Replacement."

    The most degenerate scenes of pride parades and exhibitionist "homomania," powered by the current transgender-industrial complex, are a peculiar expression of jewish power, following the extreme focus on sexual revolution during the 20th century. They don't give an accurate depiction of how homosexuals would behave if tolerated in, say, a homogenous ethnostate. Incidentally, the lgbtq+ movement has largely marginalized gays as it focuses now on transgenderism and other deviants.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder, @Wokechoke

  • @Anonymous
    Fascinating article. It's clear anyone who care about the fate of the west must discuss the hidden rulers, and can't depend on the current elites to be amenable to this.

    I don't think all or most Jews are to blame, or that the Jewish style of rule is entirely evil, but its clear there's a dark side to Judaism that's never discussed, along with a hidden animus towards white, european people.

    https://scarsvale.net/

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder, @Swaytonious

    They wore out their welcome. The expectation of a payoff directly or indirectly is fundamental.

    The ingratitude is staggering.

    Good Negroes with relatives the same. One won’t be free of their bad actors, ever.

  • @James of Africa
    People want short articles so they can get to commenting. Saying that hurts me more than you guys. PDF the mu'fkr so you can read it at leisure. There's always something to comment about tomorrow.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Yes, there’s an expectation an article on this site won’t be this long. Not that it’s a problem so much as one might want to see chapter headings. Better editing, as has also been noted.

    In turn, in writing it there’s the impression of having grasped the horns of a bull one must maintain his hold till it ends. No choice. (Quite a ride).

    Don’t re-write, JF, just give us the places VISUALLY where we catch our mental breath.

  • “Democracy” is a spook. I am philosophically anti-intellectual, but some of these concepts, you really do just need to understand. I am not a post-Hegelian individualist anarchist, but the Max Stirner spooks meme is useful in basic discourse. Spooks are useful and necessary abstract concepts needed to structure a human social order. Even the most...
  • @Alrenous
    @James J. O'Meara

    Plato on the Athenian original:


    The enormously wealthy people in a declining oligarchy will probably lend out money to the poor at exorbitant rates of interest. The debtors will spend and spend; they will be encouraged to borrow and borrow.

    In such a democratic state, everyone is more or less equally free of any responsibility to anyone else, including service to the state. No one is obliged to give orders; no one is obliged to take orders; no justice can be respected or meted out.

    Although the son may not even respect money, he will probably not respect anything else; he will become shiftless, kind of a reed in the wind, unable to control his desires, which will probably fluctuate wildly. Lacking any ability to discern differences in appetite, he will probably live solely for the moment, and he will be rudderless. His will be a life without order.

    democracy is greedy for absolute freedom; it recognizes no authority whatever, neither familial nor militaristic nor academic.
     

    He should know, what with having lived there. P.S. Hard to blame the Jews for the state of Athens in 400 BC. Easy to blame Protagoras, by contrast. So easy e.g. Wikipedia has to go out of its way to disavow the connection.

    I believe Plato incorrectly/unjustifiably made a distinction between democracy and tyranny.


    Then the great beast will elect a popular and violent leader to do something, and he will start killing people, and he will become feared and extremely powerful. And he will become fearful, require bodyguards, build a private army, and tax the citizenry to fund his standing army. He will trust no one, certainly not men of reason or compassion. He will surround himself with criminals, and he will finally do criminal acts against the very democrats who elected him. The tyrant will despotically rule his unhappy and fearful state.

    The democrat is desirous of all things and treats all, good and bad, equally; if his son, the tyrannical man, falls into bad company — and he will — then he will be governed entirely by the bad and the desire for the bad. He will be driven by lust, and his lust will drive him completely out of control. He will eventually become something like a wild beast, his lust will become bestial, and he will do terrible things to get what he wants. No longer able to discern right from wrong, good from bad, he will turn against every man and will earn and deserve every man’s hatred and scorn. His life will be miserable.
     

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    The Babylonian Captivity is easy to mark as judaisms intro to formalized depravity. Baal worship. Pre-dates them (and their specious claim of antiquity).

    No reason at all, then, that the philosopher isn’t speaking of the same.

    What’s a name, after all?
    Does shit not stink as foully?

    (“Name-stealer’s”’is a worthy topic.)

    .

    • Replies: @Alrenous
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    So Jews are so powerful they can make someone believe what they want them to believe from thousands of miles away, without social contact?

    Amazing.

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara

  • Introduction China has the world’s longest high-speed rail (HSR) network with some 38,000 kilometers in operation, [1] which comprises nearly 70% of all the world’s high-speed lines [2] and more than three times that of the entire European Union. [3] China has more than 2,500 high-speed trains in operation, more than all the rest of...
  • Investment in the USA culminates — ends— at VJ Day.

    The Interstate Highway System and some other exceptions don’t change this.

    Removal of trade tariffs ends full employment. Social engineering results in the cities being ethnically-cleansed. (Interstates to city centers ruined most of them; should have bypassed altogether).

    JFK murder the shock still at work. Cold War over in 1964 and “theater” (TV) used to incredible distraction.

    Border opened to an invader population not needed for any conceivable good; dull-witted & criminal, dependent on welfare.

    [MORE]

    Destruction of the dollar (relative soundness) was the rest.

    Started downhill, this snowball has tbe momentum to continue awhile.

    If the use of pivotal dates has the appearance of congruity, then believe it worth tracing and one WILL find consistency.

    Culturally, there’s before/after at 1964.

    Economically, there’s VJ Day as to national investment as before after.

    The planet conquered, the “conquerors” need abasement.

    Great ideas (of those that were) are pre-1964. Only need to look at military weapons systems brought online past the early 1970s that had their pro-genesis later. The latter ones (doctrine & systems) are a disgrace. Military is hollow and ripe for complete defeat.

    Not any of this is coincidence once dates used as a handy marker. It becomes glaringly obvious even if not perfect as a starting point. Just drive the USA. Rural towns abandoned at WWI. Nothing new since. The architectural record is clear.

    Rail system freight miles peaked at 1944.

    Want a great hunting rifle? Buy a PRE-1964 Winchester (see ads). Want to see Detroit innovate? Look to advances made up to same date. “Quality” in tbe overarching sense destroyed. The Japs are collectors of early to mid-20th century American manufacture. Stops 1963. Hmmm. (Pride, fled.)

    General aviation — a real promise for those who’ve not had experience — was trashed in the 1970s. To grow a business on this continent needs this component arm. Suppliers and customers. Airlines are no substitute. A highly personal use of time. (IRS did the other dirty work against small business; a wholly political creature).

    We trained TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PILOTS in the war and abandoned that investment altogether. And the decline in rural populations as cities denuded wealth creation via state legislatures is also “coincidence” (nothing organic about it as this country is MADE to be spread out. Well-populated on a per-county basis as it once was).

    Americans aren’t Chinese ants. Those who are without Western Man’s virtues need their futures met elsewhere. We’ve not the space restrictions of Chinese, Japanese or European river dwellers who can’t afford farmland sacrifice. We have latitude, here.

    High-speed rail isn’t the panacea for what ails us. DOD identifies 50,000-miles of track as being national security priority. That should have been electrified with nuke plants to run it. (Didn’t happen is just cohencidence, right?)

    Passenger service an outgrowth where MAYBE it makes sense.

    “The USA” is islands of metro: SMSA according to Census Bureau (see a map for understanding). Connecting THOSE an idea. But air service Houston to Chicago will always be superior (and without the rail investment).

    Inter-urban trains to connect metros across their selves make sense. No at-grade, etc. We used to have them. A farm wife could go to the big city with some other women and be back the same day. (Farmers ship produce to city, etc).

    One can’t help but admire the Chinese achievement. A nation of similar, like-minded citizens can absorb the strains.

    Movement from cities to outlying areas not yet fully underway in the USA. That’s when the battle for the cities can begin to be planned in earnest. Suburbs are expendable and city center geography is usually terrain-oriented (sea or river port), so the shape will be recognizable even if much of the rest is someday new.

    Rail has to follow terrain. Has natural junctions thereby. Same as with waterways. The great interior ports (St Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, Pittsburgh) were essentially abandoned to rot. Their revival can’t be artificial.

    Those cities are the story of the USA. Rail & water junctions. Highways an expensive profit-seeking overlay to bulk commodity movement. (Inland container ports piggybacked; see maps).

    Passenger movement is not — and never will be — sufficient cause for a network like that of China or Europe. Soon as China loses the remnant of family ties to distant provinces, it’s network and efficiency will contract. “Metro to Metro”.

    In those areas of the USA (and Canada) of high population density the high-speed passenger rail model makes sense. But it’s pretty much only the Bos-Wash Corridor jammed against the coast by the Appalachians.

    The West Coast is too isolated from the rest of the country to matter much. Seattle to San Diego will always be better by air. It’s a tax-receipt and IP artifice otherwise.

    If not for the US Navy needing the refined product pipeline from Texas snaking thru Gadsden Purchase to San Diego to protect the “real” western border: Hawaii, Wake & Guam, California is otherwise just a scenic staging area with no future as it has no rain. Like Japan it’s dependent on outside supply. Desalinating water to support its current reality would be past foolish. (But a money-losing passenger service Denver to San Francisco would be nevertheless appropriate).

    One MUST understand the Average Annual Rainfall Map of North America. WHERE are the great rivers? It’s not rocket science afterwards.

    Thus, it’s the Great Lakes and north of the Ohio River eastward thence to the B-W Corridor to accommodate The Wealth of the USA: farming, manufacturing and most of the coal. Plenty of pipelines from colonial areas (Texas) that must sell or they die.

    That area alone (The Midwest) on a “national” scale fits freight & passenger service upgraded to efficient movement as decried by critics. (See USA Electrical Grid Interconnection Map: that identified as “RFC” is the whole tamale. The “USA”. The rest is attendant).

    The degradation of the FREIGHT rail system otherwise isn’t directly applicable. (Container train lines are in fine shape, thank you. Come out west to view the ones running 80-mph and are 2.5-miles long. Wait another half-hour to see another. And, again).

    JH Kunstler has it dead to rights that the post-war resource expenditure — greatest in history — to enrich the few at the expense of the commonwealth (Sprawl) will be the pain that can’t be borne by the current system.

    It’s shoddily constructed . . and that couldn’t be more obvious. Speaks volumes once seen for what it is.

  • This is the final Part 8 of a series titled 'Propaganda and the Media', the first 7 parts of which were published earlier, and available here: [1] The entire series will now be combined into an eBook in .pdf format, available on bluemoonofshanghai.com (in the books section). This is primarily an article about lies, about...
  • Distinguishing between good & bad Jews has to be in Christian terms (or, host population) as Jews themselves make allowances for any transgression against outsiders to their group. (That individual is to them often the good, or great, Jew: Meyer Lansky a fine example; Jonathan Pollard, another).

    It’s not about sin, much less evil in their view, it’s only updates in a contract re-negotiation. (Those without godly DNA can hardly be expected to understand The Chosen to put their kindest spin upon it).

    One “is” or remains a Jew solely in expectation of a payoff in this world. There’s literally no other reason to be or remain Jewish (leaving aside genetic predisposition arguments). It’s the reason for being. (Dominion).

    Fulfill YHVH contract requirements. After that, difficulties in going forward are aided by the All Power. (The goyim are the burden of being in this world until conquered).

    Who are these “good Jews” in history? Famous converts? Saul of Tarsus first & last? Seems instead we’ve conversos who proceed to undermine what ostensibly they cherished. (Societal contributions are but icing on a poisoned cake. Please have some cake).

    If the OT is their World Conquest plan, then the Protocols are but recent field orders. (Wouldn’t matter if extra-sourced if otherwise accurate).

    Jews don’t appear much different than others. Not in the sense where friendship or accord dominates relations across boundaries. As, when it’s nut-cutting time, we choose our ken where misunderstandings are least. Seems only right & proper even if sad in individual cases.

    But parasites don’t get to choose to go their own way. They’re not free, nor independent. As constituted, it’s an impossibility. Whatever, Whomever, made that choice for them they are bound in chains. “Gratitude” is a sneer, as the weak Jew is shoved aside by the strong Jew and his followers. (Murder of thousands of weak — grateful — Jews seems the pattern. Despising Palestinians part of this).

    Is your Holiest Day or days the commemoration of slaughter? Of having been found out, and only miraculously — unfairly— saved from well-earned justice by your hosts?

    That’s an antagonism can’t be rectified.

    One wishes these idiot-savants had a redeeming aesthetic or other qualities could be channeled apropo. Not engineer, nor soldier, nor artist are they of sufficient quality as a group.

    The argument that they are a people created and thrust forward to hide the depredations of the true bad actors in the far background makes more sense. The Name-Stealers. The Phoenicians of old. Khazars. Wrought havoc wherever found. Under whatever name. The foot soldiers of the Apocalypse.

    Believe their innocence (“depraved & deprived”, thx Lenny) when they voluntarily rid themselves of wealth and powers and depart from us. A test expected of anyone propelled by honor.

    Can a Jew possess honor? (Is there any other question which matters?) Honor doesn’t distinguish among men.

    That door to Humility is open.

    Interpreting the works of other societies isn’t needed, Jew, it’s the interpretation of your own — to us — that needs to be laid bare. There’s a start, so add to it. Else you’ll remain the target as you were designed.

    On your head, be it.

    .

  • Here’s an astonishing fact: the White mathematician Claude Shannon (1916–2001) contributed more to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) than all Blacks who have ever lived. But then so did the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920). And the Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (1882–1935), which is even more astonishing. Jews have always been a tiny minority...
  • Funny as hell article. Nothing new on offer? This became a dinner course beautifully presented. Neither too much nor too little. There’s appetite all the way to the end.

    I hope you other readers will link this to your friends. We “know” the lies, but here’s the necessary form of magic in telling the tale.

    Whom it is enables these types at the particular institution is the thing to be taken away. Names.
    Think globally, act locally.

  • On May 10, 2022, the CDC issued a new report on gun homicides and gun suicides in 2020. Not in 2021, which ended over 4 months ago, but in 2020, which ended over 16 months ago. Still, 2020 was an important year, so I pulled up the CDC's Wonder database and graphed the number of...
  • @Spud Boy
    "...For example, policies that enhance economic and household stability (e.g., temporary assistance to families, child care subsidies, tax credits, housing assistance, and livable wages) can reduce family poverty and other risk factors for homicide..."

    Yeah, let's double down on stupid by paying women to birth the next generation of criminals.

    How about this idea: Every woman who gives birth must reveal the name of the father, who's identity will be verified by DNA testing. If said father doesn't want to hang around and raise his kid, he will be placed in a forced labor camp which will pay for supporting the little bastard.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Have to go farther.

    — No more welfare. Period. No more classification of discrimination or disadvantage.

    — Eliminate bastardy by criminalizing it. Prison for both parties, and forced adoption overseas.

    And revert to automatic death penalty for use of a firearm in a crime. No appeal.

    Will take care of itself.

    But no one now nor in the future will care they murder each other

    • Replies: @Alden
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Exactly what countries do you have in mind to adopt black bastards with 80 IQs and a long line of criminal ancestors?

  • From my new book review in Taki's Magazine: This Sporting Life Steve Sailer May 11, 2022 Say you have an athletic child in middle school: Specializing in which sport in high school would make it most likely for your son or daughter to earn a college scholarship? The new self-help book from data scientist Seth...
  • What’s wrong with these “men” they want daughters to be pseudo-boys, and sons to be as stupid and conformist as the day is long?

    Practical skills are what matter. Including oration or nursing or what-have-you appropriate to the sex.

    And, if they’ve the appetite, those children can be taught hard and fast their cultural ignorance is appalling. And that they can remedy that. “College” abandoned it far more than a century ago.

    This whole thread is “credentialism”.

    Women don’t belong in college and fewer than 10% of Americans do. The minorities never had a place.

    “College” is just a way of delaying adulthood. (Griggs vs Duke Power). And since that’s on the plate, let’s skewer them folks even harder.

    .

    • Thanks: XBardon Kaldlan
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    What’s wrong with these “men” they want daughters to be pseudo-boys?

    Chris Rock calls it "keeping your daughter off the [stripper] pole."

    , @Bill Jones
    @SteeringWheelHolder


    “College” is just a way of delaying adulthood.
     
    In Victorian England your son was sent to a University to handle the awkward transition to adulthood. The "Year Abroad" served the same purpose Any mishaps were conducted in a relatively tightly controlled environment and could be handled discretely without word getting back to the peasants. They recognized that maturation is achieved in the early 20's with with Trusts etc usually settling on the beneficiary at age 25 or so.
    The modern fad of both driving down the age of legal maturity and simultaneously socially infantalizing is doing kids no good at all.

    Replies: @prosa123

    , @guest007
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Women actually make better college students than men. More likely to enroll, more likely to finish, More likely to graduate with honors.

    When one realizes that medical school students are 50% female, that pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology graduate students are all 80% or more female, then one realizes that to many men have surrendered in the credentialism race. Of course, the surrender relfex is probably something many males learned playing a sport with much better opponents.

  • Numbers out this morning put inflation at an alleged 8.3%, and the whole media is claiming that this is “at a 40-year high.” It’s not actually at a 40-year high. It’s the highest inflation ever. When they claim it is merely a 40-year high, this makes people think “oh well, at least at some point...
  • Don’t pop the bubble and everything explodes.

    Who cares what year born?

    That’s you who lose, tough shit. Maybe the ones like you will finally get off their stinkin’ asses.

  • Driving around rural and small town America, Christian talk and Country Music fill the airwaves. In my entire record collection, I have maybe two bona fide Country albums, a greatest hits collection of Hank Williams and one by Dolly Parton. My interest in Williams was by way of Rock Music as he was a key...
  • Unmoored, friend. Trying to explain something by virtue of relations to other (also unmoored) won’t work.

    “Country/Western” was the relation between sacred & profane keeping alive the yearning for a better place, but politely trying to avoid conflicting definitions. Texas Methodists and renegade Baptists at the German Singing Society dance hall (Lutherans or Catholics) all needed a little elbow room. Romantic love was the stand-in, but there’s not ever NOT acknowledgement of life being difficult.

    Might be more useful to trace what recordings were big since the 1920s and why. It wasn’t all rural. Move to the big city and be confronted with the non-Protestant “immigrants” (versus having been pioneers) was enough of a shock. Music crosses boundaries fairly well and “genre” is a Jew-thing (targeted marketing).

    That’s the wrong stepping-off point.

    “Country” may as well be that what’s east of the Mississippi, and “Western” that what’s from there to California. The former is inner-directed in appeal, the latter is outward-looking. Mother Maybelle ain’t really danceable, but Bob Wills (Texas Playboys) could, “take an old song, and make it swing” such that Jimmy Rodgers crosses the gap.

    As always, it’s instrumentation and arrangements. Violin (fiddle) and piano are basics, but not easy to record faithfully until the late 1950s. One has an ear for how they sound (familiarity) or not. Excitation of spirit in the lower key public (profane, versus sacred) is at heart. How “we” feel, and not the cult of performer (comes later). It’s an interlude outside time. As we’ll have to get back up, still exhausted, and carry on.

    Look to standards which thrived under new arrangements. “Under the Double Eagle” (the Austro-Hungarian Imperial March) is a case-in-point.

    1). By a military band
    2). By a symphony orchestra (Erich Kunzel at Cincinnati)
    3). By a Western Swing band (Milton Brown)
    4) By the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

    Gaiety. Being carefree. A swirl of familiar faces and strangers deemed welcome. Wills and the Playboys had a few of the greatest-selling recordings of the WWII era. “Something borrowed, something blue”, as Negro or Mexican influences to be heard.

    1). Franz Liszt, Liebestraum, by your favored pianist
    2). Wills straight big band version.

    “America” freed instruments to reach the potentials of their voice.

    But as with so-called popular music the post-1964 immanence of electricity as master versus servant (bound fatally to television) changes influences from immediate to what Hollywood says.

    The period of Merle Haggard and then the last gasp (Willie Nelson in mid-1970s) is the tail-end. Hank Williams gets a revival about that time which carrys over to his addled sons. (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, etc., among them).

    Merle’s performance at Austin City Limits in 1978 is to the point of where old & new part ways.

    There are outliers past that (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band circa 1986 in, “Will the Circle be Unbroken”; Ricky Skaggs vocal), but the trend has long been towards teenage girls driving the market. The boys sorta follow along (same ones revere George Strait along with Jimmy Buffet).

    Voices and performance that bridge the gap have been led by Emmylou Harris since the 1970s. There’s not greater talent at work (as with Sinatra). Her collaborations with Dolly & Linda Ronstadt are an open door for anyone (“To Know Him”; or, solo, “Save the Last Dance). Girls have their own. This lady provides that voice. She has no male counterpart.

    — After the band packs up and the dancers depart, the doors get locked and the remnant congregation fire up guitar, banjo, piano or what’s at hand. Gospel and hymns become a backbone till daybreak as they’re what was earlier missing. American patriotic songs we learned in school, sang at church. Wyoming or West Virginia.

    No spark left untended till the fire is well and truly out. We know Whom it is we owe.

    .

    • Thanks: CelestiaQuesta
    • Replies: @Greta Handel
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    You’ve outlined a good, provocative essay.

    Has any columnist here known so little about so much - and shown as tin an ear for music - as Jung-Freud?

  • From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Chuck Klosterman on his book tour for his pop cultural history of The Nineties (which I reviewed at Taki's Magazine). Maybe ... One obvious change between 1965 and 1980 is men'
  • @Ganderson
    @Paperback Writer

    The technical quality of the recordings has a lot to do with it. I was in high school in the late 60s and early 70s, and when we did listen to old time music, for example Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw, or Bob Wills for that matter, it was on crappy scratchy old records. Today’s kids listening to stuff from the 1960s hears pretty clean recordings.

    In my opinion the pop music of the 30s and 40s is among the best ever recorded. I don’t know to what extent anyone is going back and trying to clean up those recordings, but it would be a wonderful project to do. As the world falls down around us, at least I could listen to a nice version of Begin the Beguine.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Not only cleaned up to CD typical remaster quality, but sometimes beyond. (Bear Family and Bob Wills, for example). Wav. and Flac. files just point out one should ditch TV sound system and step back to older definitions of High Fidelity (Klipsch Cornwalls will change your life).

    The composing was powerful in the era. Sinatra going back and reviving something nearly forgotten from a Broadway show once he was back on his feet at Capitol past 1953 had a salutary effect. The same song might have been recorded a half-dozen times over twenty years, yet, in the right hands, was always new. The song arrangers for singers — Riddle, May, etc — and those for instrumentalists found beauty at the core sometimes not heard originally. A new recording could literally make an old song brand-new.

    Dance. Social dance, for couples. Where one can “see” it (swing) one is on the American path. No one else ever does it so well.

    Theme (and mood) was in play, exploratory, circa 1960. So much so that to this day the sounds are still those used to bolster institutional advertising (when impressions matter most), and next to nothing in Hollywood has ever replaced it (John Williams is derivative).

    One can “hear” every important influence of TV & Radio advertising (as well as show themes) of the next fifteen years in the Sinatra/Riddle, “Swinging Session” if he cares to listen for it.

    History (time) stopped at Dealey Plaza.
    Music is where that’s most evident.

    .

    • Replies: @Ganderson
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Thanks for that. Right now I’m listening to a Bill Evans mix courtesy of Alexa- I know she’s spying on me, but at least I get some good “chunes”, as Roger Daltrey would put it.
    I’m a melody guy, and I love those swing era songs. Of course I also love the Grateful Dead, mainly for their, especially Garcia’s, gift for melody.

  • @Paperback Writer
    Someone tell me why people are still buying music from the 60s (which was SIXTY years ago!) while no one from the sixties was buying music from the naughts, 60 years before the 60s.

    *****

    Comic relief:

    https://archive.is/PHacd

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    Radio helped create a market for recordings.

    Identifying an era isn’t minor details of hair length, etc (though the lighting coloration thing is funny), it’s in attitudes towards others. Who is my brother, my sister? “We”, not isolatory “Me”.

    The dividing line then is 11/22. Beatlemania a couple of months later is no more organic than Civil Rights legislation. TV-driven.

    New definitions of self to others. To society at large. Enemy-driven.

    Since 1964 there’s no real differences. Once authority of fathers destroyed by Vietnam, and divorce incentivized, society going DOWNHILL a given. Gonna mark the curb-hits as cultural markers? Have at it.

    11/22 marked a point where the dial got turned up. There’s no anodyne save throwing out all since then as none of it works. None of it is inspiring. Crap is crap.

    Hell, it’s not even music. Not if one has an appreciation of the 500-years which precede it. Right down to the last minutes of the era with Nelson Riddle collaborating with Oscar Peterson (“My Prince Will Come”), or Neal Hefti composing for Basie or Harry James.

    Once electricity is made a requirement, “music” had a new and terrifically-narrow definition. It’s distortion. That which drives apart. DISCO FOR ALL!!

    Ever heard anyone say, “my” music with no irony intended?

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  • My view on videogames is much like Maude's reaction to Harold's penchant for visiting auto scrapyard for fun in the film HAROLD AND MAUDE. What's the attraction? On occasion, I check youtube on the best videogames of the year, and despite advance in graphics and the like, they seem the same old same old, mostly...
  • TV + Rock & Roll are joined at the hip. The same sugared dog turd giving the same worthless carb high.

    Video games (and movies) are no different except one is yet farther removed from reality.

    And what is reality?

    Language is pretty much that which describes work. Notation. When hands and brain are joined to form MIND. Reality is in understanding this join.

    Reality doesn’t ever require electricity. (False god).

    To be denied access to electrical service (any sort) is now seen as being cut off from civilization.

    To be denied entrance to any facility which itself is electrified. To any area or region served.

    Yet civilization has never required such to be operative.

    Reality is easily manipulated once even a step away from the continued creation of Mind as that knowledge our hands give our brain to change what is, to what’s possible, is severed.

    Make electricity the mediator — fool the brain, ultimately the self — and all “experience” telescopes inwards on itself down into nothing(ness).

    This essay may as well be subtitled, The Accelerating Call for a Right to be Entertained. (Be the rat pushing the cocaine reward bar).

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    • Replies: @Mr Anatta
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    'And what is reality?.'

    Reality is the completely false belief in existence,because all physicality in this dream realm is merely a vibration that is very clearly seen to hold no 'real' substance once the veil that masks the illusion of physicality and self is removed and the 'game' (or level in the greater game perhaps) is to eventually come to this spiritual understanding and then find a way to permanently escape the game,or the level in the game(Nibbana) and not keep on and on and on reincarnating back into it(Samsara).

    And there is a way but Mr know it all Google won't be telling you how.

  • Yesterday, I bought a used treadmill from a man in Valley Glen. But when I got to his house, it turned out to be an enormous object in a small room down a narrow corridor. As I may have mentioned, although I have okay 2-D mental visualizations skills, I'm terrible at 3-D problems, such as...
  • Someone who has avoided DOING, believing TALKING is adequate representation.

    Most men genuinely good at what they DO had fathers and family show them the ropes (literally).

    Early familiarity overcomes this non-problem. Have to wake up the brain (hands). No hands = no mind.

    To BE in the world is to move through it successfully. To cripple a man (literal definition) is to take that away, whole or in part.

    Use of hands is primary (literally, the fingers). As it’s not the object to be moved that’s the problem, but how the body will manipulate itself in moving it.

    We are today plagued by “drivers” under the impression that video car games or online instruction were adequate preparation to the time & distance triangulation problems of roads.

    Mass, is always missing.

    So long as all other drivers follow rules, they get by.

    When a wall jumps out at one as he’s moving the object — it’s because he’s too far ahead of the dance — feet entangle and some damage might occur (and worse, in a car).

    Graceful movement = No Wasted Motion.
    Dance, or driving, or as a furniture-mover.

    Great actors, dancers or singers inhabit the moment as can no other. Alone, unaccompanied and no electricity involved. This attribute is the heart of the thing.

    Not spatial geometry as the furniture-moving problem, then. That’s post-hoc description (which isn’t representation).

    Analysis isn’t action. It’s tail-chasing. Zeno’s Paradox, revived.

    The world isn’t numbers. And cannot be so represented. (A great lie).

    “Universe” has a flow. Real jobs have to align themselves thusly. The higher the risk, the greater the need. (The leap of faith).

    In those moments — outside of Time (an artifice) — one comes fully to Self.

    One thinks he can excuse himself from reality — not “thinking” in a true sense — but when the house is on fire and OBJECTS impose exit barriers then the choice of submission to cowardice or to take action will still remain.

    Banging walls wasn’t ever the problem.

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  • Back on January 12, 2022, I counted up 2021 traffic deaths in 30 states and found that their residents died 17% more on the roads in 2021 than in 2019 (before covid and the racial reckoning), or 20% more per million miles driven. Now the government has gotten around to issuing an official report finding...
  • @Anon
    I am an engineer and follow design trends pretty closely. There might be an alternative explanation for the increase in car fatalities.

    Does your data give the raw number of car crashes and the number of car crashes normalized to the population (to account for population increases)? If the number of reported fatal car crashes increases proportionally to the number of car crashes, then I think your analysis holds.

    However if the number of reported fatal car crashes increases by a rate higher than the increase in the number of car crashes, that means the crashes themselves are becoming more deadly.

    Why might that be?

    Compare the curb weight of cars made in the 1980s and the curb weight of cars made today. The weight of modern cars is much, much lower. Ie there is much less metal surrounding the driver today than there used to be. This is a consequence of two things: firstly fuel efficiency requirements and efforts to drive down costs to hide currency debasement. Internal combustion engines are already operating at or near their Carnot efficiency, so there is not much improvement to be had there, but each gallon of fuel pushes the car a little farther if the car is lighter. I. 2007 and again in 2011 the USG mandated huger fuel efficiency standards.

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    Your data ABOUT cars is way, way off.

    1). They’ve NEVER been heavier than they are today. A Jeep Wrangler of today is as heavy or heavier than a luxurious Chrysler New Yorker of fifty years ago (it in turn was both longer & wider than a Chevrolet Suburban of today).

    2). The ability of smaller MUCH BETTER BUILT engines & transmissions with sophisticated computer programming don’t waste a drop of gasoline by comparison to 1972. (Radial tires, gas-charged shock absorbers, serious aerodynamic work, etc, also play significant roles).

    3). Composite materials (un-lovingly known as “plastic”) is used for weight-reduction, cost-cutting, and to ALLOW the cars farthest exterior surfaces from the passenger compartment to crumple and “give” in absorbing a blow. Air bags (but mainly 3-point belts) HOLD the body in the designated “safe zone” (on bottom cushion and against seat back) to reduce high-speed twisting or torsional wracking that seriously injured or killed thousands in decades past.

    Todays cars are ugly as hell. A bunch of Asian insects in appearance, all of them. But they’re more reliable, last longer, burn less fuel, and are safer in a wreck.

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    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    But because they weigh so much, you don't want to be a pedestrian hit by one. A pedestrian would be better off in 1979 being hit by an 1800 pound Corolla.

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  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • @Thea
    Jim Morrison’s father was an admiral. He was instrumental in the Vietnam war. But he was later the one to Investigate the USS Liberty but McCain put a stop to it on behalf of Israel.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder, @J.Ross

    And Jim faked his death as have many others once Cabal has no more need of the created persona.

    Like father, like son. (Watch the video of The Admiral on his son and tell me you’d come across anywhere near as unaffected by a sons early death after watching his deterioration beforehand).

    The Doors pushed the drug-taking harder than anyone else. Quite a successful operation. Helped get leaders Beatles & Stones over the finish line.

    (You’ve been played).

    .

  • @Clyde
    @AceDeuce


    Sam Cooke- live album recorded at the Harlem Square Club in Miami in 1963 is probably the greatest live album in popular music history
     
    Never heard of it, but I am listening on youtube now. Thanks!
    This album has a Wikipedia entry.

    Replies: @SteeringWheelHolder

    Would be Judy Garlands’ 1961 Carnegie Hall album. She does more in the two first songs than anyone else (save Sinatra) could offer after hours of sameness.

    Sam Cooke— nice voice notwithstanding — is otherwise a footnote. A few hits, but not the interpretive chops of others.

    Ella Fitzgeralds’ 1962, “Live in Berlin”, is another surpassing example.

    Nat “King” Cole had dozens of great recordings. (The above are the Great Four).

    A singer is but one instrumentalist among the many others present. The Arranger highlights the strengths present. It’s much, much more than a singer with a backing track.

    Globohomo was pushing Negro “artistry” hard from a decade or more before. Luckily, some were quite good (Bill Basie, for example) even if not the best. Louis was the golden key.

    That one isn’t familiar with the material sung on those albums, or the artists, is from a converged life of TV & radio. The post-1963 world. Passivity in the face of mediocrity. Can’t separate one from the other.

    Those live renditions (The American Songbook) usually had many, many interpretations (recordings & performances) by others going back 5, 10, 15 or more years in one’s life. Superlatives were up for examination. Merit.

    “A matter of taste?” (Ha). Believe you then in “genre” and other shell games? Boomers? Seniors? Stakeholders? Run the divisive terms.

    It was our instruments developed over hundreds of years and musical arranging which drew from European “serious” (and not so serious) sources. Instruments emphasized in free-er play, and natural (versus highly trained) singing which was the American Sound.

    No one did it — or does it — so well as we.

    The musical road from home to church to school to radio to movies or Broadway admitted next to no “genre” as one heard all the others as if a faceted gem.

    Merit is real.

    Sam maybe a nice guy with a nice voice. But that’s all.

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    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Sam Cooke had a background in the old tradition of higher quality songwriting from before the rock and soul era. That's why his lightweight pop efforts like It's Saturday Night are more skillful than his successors' songs.

    Otis Redding's death in a plane crash was a big loss: he appears to have been a stable, smart man who could have had a long career and might have been a dominant figure for the next half decade or so. The guys who died of drugs, yeah, maybe they could have cleaned themselves up _and_ kept their creativity, but as Mickey Kaus notes, usually the triumphant end of the biopic when the hero gets sober is also when he stopped writing his best songs. But a plane crash death like Otis Redding's is different.

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  • “Lefty”, isn’t to the point.

    It’s, “you can’t tell me what to do” (sons, and Vietnam; daughters, and The Pill). The entire point of TV and throne attendant (“new music”).

    Can’t separate shit “music” (it isn’t) from TV. Find one and you’ll find the other. Conjoined.

    DIVORCE is the final straw (incentivizing women to destroy their families; no exclusion should be allowed save for violence which hospitalizes family members).

    Baby Daddy’s (all of them once divorce finalized) can’t do what needs doing. And never can a Baby Momma. No other person will ever harm her offspring the way she has though they suffer persecution, war and worse the next 70-years.

    “Born in wedlock” no longer matters once divorce occurs. Those childrens lives can’t be recovered.

    We used to shuffle bastard children off to nunneries or the army. Sell them overseas. Get some use from what they could never be: Adults.

    TV normed it. “Happy noise” confirms it’s all about me me me. (What flavor dog turd not relevant).

    Every where one looks he now expects incompetence. Two generations of divorce was the last act of the play: Removed from the land, enslaved by fake money, disassembly of Christianity, and final destruction of The Center (Hearth, and family).

    Knighthood for British pop stars is recognition for their role in this accomplishment.

    One’s genuinely stupid he thinks post-1964 isn’t anything but destructive. (No exceptions). It’s just barely within memory that better world preceding this (kill off the over 50).

    The conjoined stupids seem happy a social credit system (Death Jab Papers) will relieve them of ANY attempt at maturity. It’s but the last nail in the coffin.

    History stopped 11/22/63.
    The jailers locked the doors.

    How much longer will you lie to yourselves?

    Honor demands what Duty obligates.
    Suffer no lies in your presence.
    Clarity awaits you.

    .

  • The Omicron wave is dying out rapidly in the big cities where it got started in December. Rural areas will continue to have busy hospitals for awhile longer. But most hospitalizations have been pretty mild and short duration. In two weeks, new covid cases nationally fell from 423,000 on Saturday, January 15 to 192,000 on...
  • Re-name the flu. Took all of two weeks to figure that out.

    Never worn a mask and never will.
    Never submitted to a test and never will.

    Travel the USA 27-days/month.

    Old (Steve’s age) and health not the best.

    Have learned that ANY injection is a bad idea. That hospitals exist to kill those over 50. And that all of this is to force my cowardly nation into accepting whatever keeps their life charade going.

    The man who loses his wife to The Death Jab, sees his grandson crippled by myocarditis, and his 401k evaporate soon enough. . . will be looking for whom to blame. WHAT has he to lose, then?

    THE serious health issue of this country is the decreasing life expectancy of American men. (White males the only productive group, the rest are parasites). Suicide and drug overdose rates ought to be evidence enough that this is a war.

    The only ones who wish to play by rules.

    The only ones therefore penalized.

    Law & institutions look the other way with shitskins who are thus given larger and larger unearned shares in every venue.

    Those incensed American men await the phrasing — the words which form a key — to unlock their shackles. TIME is the enemy’s ally. REMEMBRANCE is what he seeks to kill. CREATION was Gods gift to Western Man, and none else possess it as does he.

    Only you can do this work. Permission won’t be granted.

    Haven’t yet thrown out the TV? Afraid wifey would divorce you? Plan your next trip in tbe new RV to stop at grandparent & great-grandparent gravesites to have a lengthy public piss. Make actual the contempt.

    None of you could create or uncreate yourself. Better men than you have died for less than what is afoot. But you allow strangers to mask your wife and children for lies so obvious the terminally-stupid can see through them.

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    • Thanks: Je Suis Omar Mateen
  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Here's the top of the table with the biggest two year increases in car crash deaths: Read the whole table and whole essay there. Americans appear to be getting themselves killed per mile driven about 20% more in
  • Been crossing the USA by vehicle for sixty years. The alien population making things worse starts growing noticeable (bad behavior; stupid or selfish indistinguishable) by the middle 1990s, and a substantial percentage of minority drivers in any given region (exacerbated by FAR higher car reliability for those too inept to maintain vehicles) makes those regions places where one MUST be aware of differing racial propensities.

    Jackson, MS is not Tucson, AZ is not Greenwich, CT. (Income is only part-explanation).

    The last five years things have gotten worse at an INCREASED rate. A few months can be telling. Those of us who drive for a living have to be sensitive to small changes as much rides on awareness.

    WHATS NEW FOR 2021? A refusal to dim high beams became universal (who cares what whitey wants?). Reckless disregard in lane-changes and using the shoulder to pass also brcame universal (nation-wide).

    Add these to the now universal (game theory) tail-gating and use of the passing lane as a travel lane THEN Vaxxidents . . . and incredibly bad habits (hello, divorce; baby-daddies didn’t teach co-operation much less risk assessment) are biting everyone in the ass as NEW accident types are occurring (loss of control type not previously seen).

    Highways are now The Perfect Storm where the factors are lining up against what’s occurred over primarily the past thirty years. (Margins cut to the bone). The better cars, the better roads aren’t protection in a nation with a declining IQ where instant cognition problems have been introduced by The Death Jab.

    My several conversations with State Highway Patrol and Sheriffs officers confirms the hunch accordingly. (Statistics don’t explain all; data base faults).

    I run 10-12,000 miles/month. “Safe operation” is pretty much Vehicle Separation Space. Look for fish school behavior, and fall away from it as it forms. Groups crowding both lanes of an Interstate WILL dissipate. Allow it to do so. Never be trapped ahead, behind, and beside. Expect, too, to be passed (turd worlders think driving a game; they’re 12-yr olds) and that they’ll slow ahead of you. And that others will join them. (They’ll speed to join any crowd up ahead. So fall away. 10-mph till they’re a quarter-mile ahead.

    Adapt to circumstance.

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    • Thanks: JMcG
  • The semi-official Governors Highway Safety Association released a report last month on traffic fatalities per 100,000 from 2015-2019 (thus leaving out the big increase in the black death rate that began in June 2020): Whites appear to now be worse drivers than Hispanics, which is interesting. I can recall Thomas Sowell remarking many decades ago...
  • Mexicans cause accidents where others suffer. As bad as Negroes at times (who tend to be closer to home; fewer miles).

    The impossibility of space-time problem-solving. Magic dirt won’t fix it. Rules don’t constrain those who don’t care, either. And they don’t. Along with not reporting accidents.

    The “stat” is a non-starter. I’ve got about a million miles the past decade says otherwise.

    As for Americans, yes, skill development went south. Women don’t much care, and FAR too many boys have no father (post-divorce = baby daddy). Skill at the wheel seems only an aside when all vehicles are pretty much high HP appliances.

    The pleasure of driving is lost when the illegals and their progeny wedge themselves into every opening. Run down a lane that’s closing to force themselves into the lanes that aren’t. Etcetera. It’s a long list of CONTINUAL bad actions which depend for success on others understanding principles, obeying rules and respecting physics.

    Others appear to follow suit in too many instances where their elders did not. Game theory? The effects of low IQ — with no irony —hastens the race to the bottom.

    That roads and cars have substantially improved the last fifty years cannot be discounted. Nor the explosive metro sprawl all over the country. Wouldn’t take many changes (visual) to render today’s driver near-helpless (signage, and most especially, REFLECTIVE markings). GPS can’t cure it.

    The difference in innate skills would become — again — far more apparent. The tech overlay is deceiving.

  • The car crash death rate has been trending upward along with the murder rate during recent years. 2020 was exceptionally unsafe per mile driven. One question I have had is whether any recent auto safety innovations have inadvertently led to getting more people killed. Headlights have been getting brighter, but are they now tending to...
  • Hasn’t it been quoted here that while many are gunshot each year that the vast improvements in emergency medical care have reduced the rate of death since 1960? Same is true for cars (all light duty passenger vehicles). LED lamps are a great improvement. Don’t require 13.8V for full illumination (wiring ages and lumens fall) and hit full brightness instantly. Not the problem except where LED installed in non-LED housings.

    My 1971 Chrysler sedan — longer and wider than today’s Chevrolet Suburban — is outweighed by any Ford F-150 or Jeep Wrangler. Vehicles once FAR lighter, as much 1,000-lbs back in the day to accentuate their performance.. All that extra weight isn’t for creature-comfort or road performance-enhancement. It’s mandated safety-hazard construction.

    The replacement population is TERRIBLE behind the wheel. Congenital difficulty that can’t be trained away re time, distance & mass perceptions. In short, another tragic failure of Magic Dirt. Isn’t there at least one TV commercial about, “accident forgiveness”? Expectation of wrecks every so often.

    I’d guess nearly every commenter here lives In the Bubble: major metro region doing his appointed rounds. Means, “little understanding of nation-wide phenomena where — when in minority-majority areas far apart as well as of different composition — exhibit the same driver-caused mass hazard almost but not perfectly unique.

    I’ve no problem telling you race & gender without seeing the driver in most instances. Add to this AGGRESSIVENESS and more bets fall flat, but two-three generations of divorce (boys without fathers the result; loss of institutional memory per family the context) have left the vast majority of drivers WHILE ON THE HIGHWAYS far from town without the common-sense training once encountered.

    They all can get away with bumper car pack formations due to instant LED brake lamp brightness.

    Much easier to walk away from a wreck that once would have been crippling or fatal, AND disregard for time-distance limits CONTINUALLY, otherwise.

    “Vehicle Space” the final arbiter for analysis. The born-incapable pay that no attention and think themselves clever they jam in between you and the car ahead. They’ve ruined the orderly flow of traffic. Everywhere. Have a look-see of videos from those other countries.

    Since the ethnic-cleansing of the cities we built since the 1960s, every adult is forced into a car to meet basic needs. Today’s cars are far safer in construction, need less maintenance & repairs plus tires FAR better than before (this used to ALSO kept the stupids off the highways as they could not do such work themselves) made even used cars reliable enough to travel great distances.

    There’s a C-store with fuel at every corner. Day AND night. Station owners used to close and go home. Hell, AMERICA used to go home. Not anymore. Who are the MANY thousands on-road past 2100? Who the HELL are the MILLIONS on-road in the middle of a work day 150-miles from any major metro? Who pays them to be out-of-work, but on the Interstates.

    The stupids also cannot map read. Gun-to-head, it won’t happen. “Smart phone” navigation changed that.

    Emissions-regulations — not necessary past circa 2006 rule set — causes private vehicles to be exorbitantly expensive without compensatory benefit (except to make Big Bro controlled “electric” viable).

    Building cars like Army tanks is to keep the born-parasites functional. Your cost of vehicle insurance — as with medical — is to underwrite their ascendancy. And, that construction NOT necessary for those with even a wrinkling of intelligence and to wear three-point belts.

    “Distracted driving” is secondary, not primary. The stress of CONSTANT guesses about how traffic is working near them makes watching the phone a NEEDED relief: Attach self to next bumper and look at FB. They’ll also exit the highway 3-4/times in a long trip of 3-400 miles then pass me at least three times, BUT at a 10-mph variance where I’m already cruising in the mid-60/mph range. Death-defying driving, make no mistake of what you see. (Ever run 99-mph and had to guess about actions of others to time your maneuvers?)

    Anyone here REALLY think government or bed-fellow private insurers have an interest in truth? If they did we’d have cars locked to a 40-mph governor with inability to travel limited access roadways for those millions. Many reasons since 1965 none of them have a claim on this country. It once was we had nice roads. Nation-wide. Again, they’re why we can’t have nice things any more. AND dangerous-as-hell behind the wheel.

  • As part of my campaign to raise awareness about lethal trends in the number of violent deaths in my country, let's move on from reporting on 2020's murder boom to 2020's car crash fatality boom: From a National Safety Council press release: Interestingly, when graphed on an annual basis with 2000 set to be 100,...
  • @jsinton
    I've seen a lot of "rage" driving in my area. People who are driving like they are crazy-angry. People driving too close to my bumper even though I drive over the speed limit. People passing on curves and double lines. People driving like they are late to work all the time.

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    Correct.

    The ONLY period in which driving was significantly reduced was the first two weeks, and barely that.

    Yes, traffic has thinned, but that’s only due to office workers not commuting.

    The rest are driving in an even worse manner than before. Live in their cars. Travel without apparent purpose. Heater-skelter. One can’t import 100-million below average IQ “citizens” without consequences. Road safety, vehicle safety and improved emergency care have limits.

    Having made my first road trips to both coasts out of Texas in the Kennedy years I’ve a life-long set of memories to work from. Full-time travel most of the past quarter-century.

    City to City circa 1970 didn’t involve much suburban sprawl. The Interstates were working as designed. (Should have been required to BYPASS cities; another subject).

    By 1980 the stresses were apparent and have never really ceased. By 2000 it was obvious that population numbers were lies.

    I recall the day in 1967 we officially hit a population of 200-million.

    Those believing we are at 320-million or so are kidding themselves. I’d wager past 400-million already. 2021 and 1970 don’t correlate as well with traffic density as if we used other comparatives as the norm.

    The comments above are from bubble-dwellers. There is a larger picture not being seen. Car versus plane, etc, isn’t close to covering it. Nor are longer commutes, etc.

    See the map MEGA-REGIONS OF THE USA and comprehend that the limits shown DO NOT explain the high traffic density outside them. Even within them.

    Once upon a time there was a rush hour morning and evening. By the late 1970s wee were seeing men go into business for themselves as contractors, traveling farther than usual.

    Otherwise, rural Interstates were some trucks and some locals at mid-day. Long distance was regional salesmen and a few truckers. Except warm weather holidays or the densest coastal Interstates, traffic died down to a minimal level. Higher both morning and evening, but maybe not much more.

    75-miles from city centers is a general daily delivery limit. Today, it’s where you’ll see highest Interstate speed limits come down. D/FW is 100-miles wide E-W in these terms.

    What changed was those rural-most areas now featuring a constant traffic flow of cars. Same very bad drivers ill-equipped in every sense as in the major metro regions.

    Some one can break out fatalities by race & region the focus will get somewhere.

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  • Traffic deaths need to be filtered same as crime: by race. Then, “where”?

    As deaths by gunshots declined due to improved medical care; so, too, deaths in traffic accidents due to improved roads and greatly improved car safety structure since 1960. (Then, emergency medical care).

    Drunk driving is probably higher. “Desperation” probably fuels fatalism. Lack of funds means worse maintenance re tires (steering/braking/handling).

    I drive an average of thirty-one (31) states per year. Year-round, as a truck driver. Race correlates to driving habits much more than one might assume. Without seeing the driver — making bad choices at the wheel — I can usually predict both race & sex.

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    Skills have declined in general. “Caution”. To do with situational awareness and being responsive. “Knowing” (acting) what to do is worst among the poorest, best among the richest (zip code). Several generations of divorce cut off otherwise capable men from risk assessment such that they’re now blind to it. (Fathers lost authority vis-a-vis TV & Vietnam draft).

    Enstupidation means they are unwilling to be corrected.
    (Call an American every name in the book. Only at stupidity will he disagree).

    Selfishness drives car use style. Desperation makes it worse. Never had good habits = zero room for error.

    Traits seen on the highway as aberrations 25-years ago (versus practice the thirty-years previous) are indicative of immigrant incompetents (no exceptions). WWII was won by cooperation. Men drivers (nearly all) carried this over into highway practice up to around 1990.

    Metro areas grew worst fastest with suburban sprawl after our being ethnically-cleansed from our cities and wives forced to find full-time work to cover massive debt load. Then, “immigrants”.

    9-5 and “closed weekends” (or Sunday) meant life had a rhythm. A pace. What outlier women or foreigner bad habits (lack of awareness and compensatory behavior) wasn’t critical. But those two groups now outnumber the skilled (call it good habits) such that deductive reasoning per road rule principles has all but disappeared.

    Without race & region (metro vs rural, first) there’s no way to get a handle on WHY a rising death rate.

    From my personal perspective, I assume the bad habits borne of contempt for fellow drivers (never acquiring good habits) coupled to social indices (all-encompassing pressures) are adequate explanation.

    What lacks any explanation is the sheer number of cars on the road 150-miles from any major metro during workday hours. 20-million unemployed? Many more under-employed? This nationwide phenomenon DIDN’T EXIST 25+ (and more) years ago. From 1100 thru 2300 hours. This is several millions of cars, daily.

    Capture that in cross-section by race and one will have uncovered “economic” (or political) activity heretofore hidden. Networks. Cars ain’t cheap and running them is the same. (Explain the explosion of chain hotels built 2-3 at a time even in locations where demand would appear nearly non-existent). $150-$200 day overhead.

    What you know about your bubble (the 90% of the same places you go 90% of the time; per DHS) doesn’t track auto use (or, fatality) type & rates thereof. You can’t take yourself as normative. That went out with Uncle Ronnie.

    “Smart phones” explain Obama era and later changes, but the roots are deeper. (Inability to navigate without GPS). “Flocking” is what to look for. Pack-formation as anodyne to high speed travel anxiety.

    Genuinely bad weather (Texas absorbing a war blow) takes down the facade. Should’ve heard the CB that week. And knew how to dissect what you heard.

    “Stress” is adequate surface answer to ones own risk-assessment. “Stress” as among those without reasoning skills. Congenitally-incapable, or never taught (contempt) equals similar outcomes.

    Expect that the rate will rise. A crisis that won’t go to waste. WAZE is worthless except to predict what stupids will be doing. Worthless as your phone, when it matters.

    CITIZEN BAND (for those willing to hear & speak).


    http://www.k0bg.com.

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    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Steering Wheel Holder, very nice comment.

    , @Danindc
    @SteeringWheelHolder

    Driving the DC and Baltimore beltways whenever I see a group of motorcycle riders popping wheelies WHILE going 90 mph I can also predict race and sex. I’ve never once been wrong.

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  • @Steve Sailer
    @R.G. Camara

    Bob Hope was extremely meta.

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    Climb aboard and fasten seat belt.

    YouTube of Carson 6 May 1969 (Mullis Partners)

    Hope, Martin & Gobel segment starting 14:00

    An audience not raised on TV.

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    @SteeringWheelHolder

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

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  • It's not easy putting together a Democratic Convention, especially when you don't have a balloon drop. Still, this guy ... My guess is that Joe Biden didn't much listen to "For What It's Worth" when it was on the kids' radio stations in 1967. Remember, Joe, who was born in 1942, is not a Baby...
  • The Frankie Valli hit had legs. I can’t remember anyone in my 1970s high school who wouldn’t have known it. “Catchy”, isn’t half of it.

    But why not let the adults have a crack at it?

    Harry James had a fantastic ear and one can imagine him and another sketching this out on a cocktail napkin.

    Dance transcends words. See yourself out on the floor with her.

    Dynamic Range, blows the post-1963 kiddie music out of the water (as said in another Unz article). The fatal connection is with TV. Cut out both.

    From the Phase 4 album ( vids by Chuck Pardue)
    “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”.

  • It’s happening so fast few dare speak out, because no one has the words to accurately articulate the scope of the devastation. The acts of pure anti-white animosity. Manifest Destiny has been supplanted. The rule of Black-Run America (BRA) is washing away the civilization our ancestors built out of the wilderness on this continent.[Kit Carson,...
  • The natural opponents to trashing statues would have been the American Legion, the VFW, etc.

    R.E. Lee is the finest American of whom we know. Cradle to Grave, make your comparisons. Personal, and Professional.

    Did those groups or ones similar (along with your church) “apologize” as Americans for freeing Negroes from slavery? As it was never then nor now that of which they were capable.

    News that the local AL or VFW was en route to the city park would have sparked hundreds if not thousands to join them.

    Has your church congregation fired the cowardly pastor for locking the doors at Easter? Effectively tarred & feathered the deacons & elders?

    How many of you have thrown out the Living Room Jew? Silent King of your house it’s screen on or off, content irrelevant. Always has last word, as you are never husband much less father.

    Have your wives publicly renounced the world of men? Resigned jobs and taken seriously the task of making home the center of life?

    Why else were you here? Love created us, and through us creates those whom we love and who love us in return.

    Husband and his wife create that which is unique. No man may step between those. No one may hinder or correct your wife. Her sphere is by your guarantee.

    This is your stumbling block: no woman is your equal as she cannot defend herself, much less the vote. As it is naught but violence in check pending the outcome.

    “Reasoned doubts”, at the ready? Ha!

    I think you are the cowards in masks to be seen nationwide. Worn according to authority not present and of proof not in evidence.

    Your acquiescence is such that — to the inevitability of your extinction — you are already in agreement.

    Dignity wears no mask. Honor, demands dignity.

    The party is over. No real property left at death that the family prospers or as evidence of a good life lived, but debt to that you (we) should never have allowed.

    What is it you have to lose? Money? That you never owned in the first place? Why is that a loss compared to what’s gone?

    Hatred of your grandparents & grandchildren is the mirror of your inaction. Expect, then, that your children will denounce you.

    Lukewarm, are you.

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    @steeringwheelholder

    I agree with some of your statements.,
    I’d like to think there’s still some hope though.
    I often thank feminism sarcastically for this phenomenon you wrote of.
    At one time women and men were able to create a marriage-based relationship that was many things. It was a business partnership. I remember my grandmother giving me the specific talk when I was a young girl.
    Together husband and wife could create wealth with their sweat equity. The man had an enviable home he was proud to defend. It was inherently his duty to protect it and to keep his wife and children safe and worry-free because they looked to him as the absolute authority.
    With feminism, we’ve emasculated men by showing them consistently that they are not the authority. Loyalty is something that is optional in marriages today. Women undermine their partners. People have lofty ideas of what marriage is: it’s a promise to work together for a better future. It not rose petals and champagne every day!
    Don’t get me wrong, it greatly helps if both partners work to stay in shape and try to look their best. (I suspect feminism’s position is they can get away with giving up on exercise, nutrition and all grooming and punish women who don’t!)
    Loyalty above all, however, brings the social and financial wealth. They can demonize the patriarchy as much as they want, but it is truly what builds generational wealth they hate so much.
    Anyone out there bitching that they didn’t have a father that left them anything is free to start today. Be that father that leaves something for your kid.

    Keep in mind the current events are meant to demoralize and humiliate. It is having its intended effect.
    OTOH the numbers on gun sales are encouraging.

    Paul, I hope you’re doing well and enjoying some summer activities! You need it. Same to everybody else.