“I hope none of the millions of Indians who assembled to see Trump’s motorcade has coronavirus.”

Steve Sailer, you are a world leader at noticing things.

I have some thoughts that may be worth spreading regarding public health. Steve, are you noticing what I am noticing?

I think there is a good theory that Coronavirus does not thrive in warm, humid conditions.

Think about it:
(1) No new cases in Singapore. Where it seemed like COVID-19 was on the loose and going exponential there, it instead stopped and there have been no deaths, and most have already recovered. Singapore is tropical.

(2) There seems to be no outbreak in Africa, where China has a massive presence and travel with China is open. Nothing has been reported in India with its subtropical climate. Is this simply due to lack of testing? If people were falling to pneumonia, it would be noticed, right?

(3) COVID-19 seems to affect mainly temperate places in winter.

(4) Cold and flu season is the cold winter months, where the air is dry. Cold, dry conditions seem to be optimum for cold and flu-type viral outbreaks.

This shows several things:

(1) Individuals, organizations and hospitals can probably achieve a lot of protection by humidifying indoors.

(2) Relief may be coming in late spring and summer

(3) COVID-19 may roar back next fall and winter after a summer lull

(4) Authorities would basically have the summer to get their act together and come up with a vaccine or cure fast before fall and winter brings it back.

Steve, how do your powers of noticing process this?

Kids are cruel to each other. Irrespective of race. They pick any perceived difference and magnify it. It’s called breaking balls. Blacks do it to each other, so do whites. Amy, get over it!

The Quds force was an Iranian paramilitary force that worked exclusively outside Iran. The definition of terrorism.

The pacers started at varying times, working in shifts. None ran the entire distance. The pace car was far enough ahead not to lower air resistance but it projected a lighted bar indicating where the runners should be at the desired pace. Of course Kipchoge still ran the thing. Quite an achievement. 4:34 miles 26 times in a few

Yes, both in lowering air resistance and psychologically.

Cryptome is another front. The Natsios family is CIA through and through. And John Young is a rather suspicious character himself.

Assange is a controlled opposition limited hangout psyop.

Real whistleblowers don’t get massive mainstream media coverage. And more often than not they get disappeared in short order.

Move on.

Brilliant.

No wonder they don’t teach logic in school anymore. Everyone (or most anyway) would think too much. The whole enterprise would collapse.

I submitted DNA to 23 and me. Photos of my maternal side great great grandmother showed fairly dark skin. I had assumed since she was a New Englander that there was a Native American ancestor nobody mention. Surprise! My DNA is 3% North African. I’m changing my racial identity as a result. Too late for any financial benefit unless I can tap the reparations honeypot.

Al Sharpton could not be reached for comment

That’s not who we are!

I took the 50 yard test in 1962 while in 7th grade. Don’t remember my time but I do remember a black girl named Renee ran 6-something, beating me and most of the boys.

Right. The question is should young people have less rights. As a 40 year old I kind of think so, heh.

19th century Britain? You have missed the point entirely.

This still keeps the oppressive system in place. It does not provide for the truly harmonious existence that we all lived for the better part of our existence on earth. The idea is not to have a society that forgives debts, the idea is to have a society that doesn’t conceive of debt at all. For that, we can learn from indigenous peoples. Robert Wolff’s book “Original Wisdom” provides fascinating insight into a sacred, harmonious way of life, one that most of humanity lost touch with a long, long time ago. “Basic Call to Consciousness” which includes “The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World” is also an important read.

Through this Kavanaugh confirmation process, Senators Feinstein, Schumer and Blumenthal led the charge against Kavanaugh.

The extremism of these folks beggars belief.

That Blumenthal should have anything to say on the topic of integrity is laughable.

Feinstein used dishonest tactics through the entire confirmation process and should be censured but won't be.

And Schumer… Look at his family member Amy Schumer… 300 Americans were arrested yesterday for protesting Kav, and she was one of them. That is a 1 in a million level of leftism.

This was too close. It took basically every single witness denying Christina Ford's totally made up story plus Lindsey Graham suddenly morphing into a based alpha (https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/05/graham-car-protesters-response/ and https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/05/graham-trump-liberals/) to get this done. I prefer better odds.

Thank God McCain is in the ground. As he neared the end the only animating principle in his life was his spite of Trump. Had he lived, there is no doubt he would have wrecked this too, probably testifying that he, too was raped by Brett Kavanaugh.

I’ve been in an absolute rage about not getting into Harvard in 1968 while all those legacy Kennedys were accepted. If I weren’t having these blackouts I’d remember so much more.

The role of the New York Times in spreading lies to foment race war over Michael Brown should not be overlooked.

That was probably the biggest red pill for me: the totally obvious narrative construction. That they continued to spread the lies after the evidence and the video of him committed armed robbery (the weapon being his gigantic self) was really dark and sinister.

Continuing with my general theme of recent comments.

Trump has constructed an elaborate trap. I am not talking about the moronic hope that sleepy Jeff Sessions will suddenly unleash 10,000 indictments of deep state. I am talking about how he is simply bringing success and economic growth that is carrying things to heights that will be unbelievably difficult (and probably impossible) to sustain by a culturally enriched America.

Trump has even Tweeted how if Democrats take power everything will fall apart.

Trump has been swimming valiantly upstream. Conservatism is hard in good times. But when the Great Decline comes, the scales will fall from many eyes.

Remember it was the Democratic cities that cracked down on crime after a couple of decades of extremely high crime.

I don't relish what is to come although on an intellectual basis it will gratifying.

Only afterwards will people See. Let us pray for based shitlord politicians of the future whose politics consists of twisting the rhetorical shiv to everlastingly compare all future times with the past glory that was the Trump era.

Crap.

What is the point of Trump again, I forget.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/12/illegal-immigration-soars-families-spot-holes/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/98-percent-of-families-who-illegally-entered-the-us-in-2017-are-still-here

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-mexico-border-apprehensions-spike-past-45-000-in-august

What a joke.

I guess if you are a Google billionaire, the world looks to you like progress. Confirmation bias after all. Your whole life experience is floating upwards higher than your work ever merits.

To whom much is given, much is expected.

Will Google please pay enough taxes to plug our budget deficit and also hire all the poor Africans in Africa? You know, to give back?

The Google video released today confirmed what I believe. These fuckers are too pozzed to ever be reasoned with.

Only the cold weight of civilizational decline will get their attention. Their religion, which they all seem to believe, is the arc of history bends toward butterflies and unicorns.

If I am right and the Trump era proves to be the all-time civilizational peak, it will almost be worth it for these turds to lose their religion of eternal progress.

“Doesn’t anyone want to win a Pulitzer prize?”

They obviously value their lives over the prospects of winning a Pulitzer.

This also shows why virtually all of the mainstream alleged “investigative reporters” are themselves deep state. If Sy Hersh, Bob Woodward, and their ilk are honestly so interested in uncovering nefarious activities in and around the government apparatus, why not go here? Even a cursory examination shows how much there is to run with.

Sid —

Right. To watch all the video of McCain railing against Obamacare was really amazing. The force and power of his demand that it be repealed… The man was truly a sociopath.

Obama was similar in the way he spoke in defense of traditional marriage on the campaign trail in 2008.

Regarding Nike…

My nine year old daughter has a pair of pretty baby blue Nikes. I had her try them on this morning to see if the need replacing. Unfortunately there is plenty of room still in the toes. I am not going to burn my daughter's shoes but I just tossed a Nike T-shirt in the trash.

Will be interesting to see where this leads. Will SJWs pick up the slack? It may come down to how long memories are. I boycotted General Mills cereal for my family when they did something SJW (I don't even remember the details) and that brand is gone forever for our house. Starbucks is gone forever. I will still not buy Nikes 20 years from now. Will SJWs prop up Nike in 20 years? I expect that negative PR for one side outweighs positive PR for another side.

The mainstream left is intellectually worthless. They almost uniformly embrace the biggest warmonger in history. Antiwar was supposed to be, you know, their thing.

They are intellectually worthless groupthinkers who's only useful output is carbon, which helps plants grow.

that quote is Shakespeare, btw

My conservative but occasionally cuckish boomer friend yesterday, telling me how he came across the McCain motorcade yesterday, with all its pomp:

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

Oof! I would expect that from a cynical shitlord but not from a polite churchgoing grandpa. I cheered his shiv.

I fear Mitt Romney is gearing up to be the next John McCain. He is elitist, has scorn for the GOP base, is mainly good for shooting at his own side and unfortunately in good health.

No matter. Trump has delivered enough good to wind up the biggest political punch to the establishment in world history.

That punch is this:

Those who are to come after cannot sustain the heights that have been attained. And delivering the goods (rising prosperity and life expectancy and income and GDP etc.) will become the left's problem and they will have nothing but failure to deliver. The RESISTANCE(tm) now has to find a way to prove Trump isn't great by making things even better. But how can they possibly do that? The task would be difficult as it is from a rational government. But the left today reflexively favors the dumbest, the ugliest, the least capable, the most mentally ill, the most economically worthless to rule over us.

On another note:

Trump has awesomely flipped the script in South Africa with just a few words. Trump points out that things aren't going well in the rainbow nation. The global elite rise up in unison to… say there is no problem in South Africa and that racist Trump is clinging on to the worst conspiracy theories. Now Trump can move on to the next thing and not give another thought to South Africa for a while while the global elite desperately tries to shore up South Africa to prove Trump wrong. Now it's their gigantic problem. Teresa May and the UK have taken responsibility for South Africa now. I mean she went there and danced and reported everything is A-ok. Everyone is watching intently. Your move, global elite.

Look, he just found the knife under a bench. It wasn’t his. He wanted the Transit cops to stop him from entering BART without paying, but they didn’t. And the knife sort of went off in his hand while he was holding it. If we had common sense knife laws, none of this would have happened.

I watched a White House press briefing with Sarah Sanders. One hundred percent of the 'questions' were gotcha attempt attacks on the Trump, every question. And all questions are practically the same and almost uniformly unrelated to any issues that people care about.

Most questions were 'Russia, Russia, Russia' and Sarah Sanders said, 'I would direct you to outside counsel' about thirty times. It seemed 2/3 of the reporters in the room banged their thick skulls on the same wall. And then time was over.

These people are so uninteresting. So unoriginal. Such clones of each other.

To think, Obama had scarcely a single hostile question. I don't know why Trump doesn't open up the WH press room equally to conservative and liberal press.

On the day that the media bashes Trump on 8/16 the Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning Trump's attacks on the press.

There was not a single word that related to the Press's extreme bias against the conservatives.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-unanimously-passes-resolution-declaring-the-press-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-people/

It really does seem to be cucks all the way down. No exceptions.

Meanwhile AP, CNN, NYT, Politico, NBC the WaPo and BuzzFeed — basically the entire mainstream media, sued for the names and addresses of the Manafort Trial Jurors. What the F.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/17/co-conspiring-media-coalition-sue-for-names-addresses-of-manafort-trial-jurors-judge-ellis-refuses-no-verdict-reached/

Actually it is a good thing Kobach recused himself. He now gets a clean win.

Not asking him to change everything. Merely asking him to speak out on the two most important issues of our time.

It’s not “all truth.” It’s “these are the two most important things to concentrate on. It all flows from 911 and Israel.”

Any one with half a brain who has given even a cursory look into the events of 911 knows that the official story is a lie, that the operation required incredible planning and resources which only intel agencies are capable of.

Yet Assange mocks people for daring to look into it. Please. His whole persona doesn’t pass the smell test, as the original commenter here alluded to quite well.

Israel and 911 are the litmus tests. Assange fails miserably on both.

Well I've made my predictions quite clear.

I think that actual economic crisis is coming and that will go on without end. This is another way of saying that I am calling the world-historical top.

Germany and Japan have fertility rates of 1.5 and America is basically similar. Sub-Saharan Africa is at 5 and 6. And with a much younger population to boot, the population shift is something like a factor of 10 in 50 years and a factor of 100 in a century.

This is an HBD blog historically and we understand that demographics swamps everything. Global average IQ must collapse. Blacks and Hispanics basically accumulate little wealth and they are numerically taking over.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/28/black-and-hispanic-families-are-making-more-money-but-they-still-lag-far-behind-whites/?utm_term=.e8f6c6e5b83e

Global average IQ is dropping sharply.

In the face of this, world economies *must* be shattered.

And the open borders crowd is ushering it forth by flooding into the developed world people who are not merely not economically beneficial but who are drains on first world wealth.

Moronic Libertarian economists think open borders will be pro-growth by plugging third worlders into the global economy. They are wrong, because third worlders quickly drain the national budgets of their host countries, killing the goose that lays golden eggs.

When GDPs start moving backwards for HBD reasons, you are facing a recession many hundreds of years long. I am privileged and honored to clearly see this before everyone else.

Trump is delivering 4% growth. With what is to come, Trump will be the GOAT (or at least the Trump era will be). And the darkly comical thing is that the establishment has gone all out to hate him will have hundreds of years of decline during which to regret hating on him.

It seems an outlandish prediction but I checked the math twice.

It should be stricken from the lexicon because it simply makes no sense. The word “Semite” refers to:

“a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs” or “a descendant of these peoples.”

So how did “anti-Semitism” come to refer only to anti-Jewish sentiment?

Further, the only group mentioned above that most would equate with modern Jews is the Hebrews, and their relation is rather dubious.

A “bottom line” would be that most people who identify as Jewish are not Semitic while most Arabs are. Simplistic, but largely true.

Note too, that while the definition I gave above is from Merriam Webster, if you “Google” it the first result Google returns is this:

“a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.”

There’s probably more to Linh’s story than we are aware. His whole persona doesn’t pass the smell test.

“..citing the Establishment’s need to create a vent pipe for a different subset of gullible Americans.”

The same outlet Linh provides. Interesting.

Chuck, in the same Allman’s vein: “There’s nobody left to run with anymore.”

And, in the midst of our silly, superficial, mass-consumerist society, it pays to remember that “you can’t take it with you when you’re gone.”

I believe UPenn , like Harvard and Oxford, is a hotbed for spooks. MIT – where Chomsky spent many years – is as well.

“It’s not like Third Worlders deserve (or are even capable of) affluence.”

One needn’t be a died in the wool bleeding heart to see how sick a statement this is. It’s also grossly ignorant. The “third world” is the way it is because of “first world” deception and brutality. And one needn’t be a died in the wool “leftist” to understand that. Even a cursory study of indigenous populations is quite illustrative, if one is willing to abandon preconceived notions and actually learn something.

AE —

Noted. I will pray for Kobach and donate to his campaign.

I think support for restrictionism will rise when wages go down. I note that even in Trump's strong economy, wages are barely keeping up with inflation and we all know why.

In a weaker economy, wages start heading down and keep heading down in America over the very long term. If we can hardly get wage growth now, this shows that the downdrafts (dysgenia, mass third world migration, workplace convergence) are severe.

The difficulty squeezing blood from a stone goes with my claim that we are very near to The Top. As secular decline becomes gradually more apparent to more people, restrictionists will go from selling winter jackets in summer to selling winter jackets into the teeth of a blizzard. A thousand year blizzard.

Conditions will worsen but at least more will see. The left will be particularly hit by high demand for social welfare, for which funds will not exist.

I expect even Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will come around in the fullness of time. The problems will grow and borders are the only reasonable solution. The alternative solution of overthrowing feminism, restoring Christianity, and raising first world fertility dramatically is a little bit harder, wouldn't you say?

Absent one of these two solutions, civilization literally falls. Between here and there smart people who are not complete lunatics will have no choice but to see. I don't know if it will be too late, but I want to stay healthy long enough to witness when it all becomes clear (to the horror of those who didn't already SEE).

But Steve, The National Geographic told me that race is just a social construct. Scientists have proved it.

To be clear, I dont regard Trump as a success because there is no wall and he hasnt achieved on the national question. However, wealth, gdp unemployment etc are the reaching what i believe will be historical peaks. They are the measure that the world uses, and when those measures go long term bad the howls will be deafening.

Circling back to the headline of this post, Ocasio Cortez's qualifications are nil. Kamala Harris praises Ocasio Cortez abundantly.

Neither has any executive experience to speak of. Neither could ever build anything of consequence themselves. Ocasio Cortez's experience consists of mixing drinks.

The Democrat party is becoming fully converged, to use Vox's concept. They cannot run our gargantuan economy and the reason is that social justice advancement *displaces* advancement by competence.

I got an oil change and tire rotation today at Jiffy Lube. There was, oddly enough, a young lady working on my car. Everyone else was a guy. I drove off and the car was smoking and the smell of burning filled my nose. Circled back. Turns out she spilled oil all over the engine and way overfilled it. She had one job. A dude came around and drained the oil and started over and cleaned off the engine and fixed her work. She also stripped a lug nut so it would no longer even screw on, and I had to track down a replacement. In 20 years of car ownership, I have never had a lug nut stripped. She must have misaligned it and started torquing away.

This was no big deal, but it made me think. That the left would put people with no evidence of competency in charge of America is insane. They are simply not a viable party any more.

Trump was already riding pretty near the top, but the total convergence of the left and the global IQ decline simultaneously with his reign seals his glory forever.

Tough noogies, SJWs.

I said
"Households in the United States have a net worth presently of $99 trillion, which is rather more than the Federal debt of $20 trillion."

Here is the link.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/03/08/stock-market-lifts-u-s-household-wealth-98-7-trillion/407768002/

Trump wins history. I am sad that the Trumpian peak seems unsustainable in the long run, but then, if Trump gets the all time high score, that is pretty awesome right there.

"The USA is already collectively insolvent, and a debt dollar is just a promise to print more Monopoly money in the future."

That depends how you count it. The Federal government has a massively negative net financial position but households, businesses and state governments have a substantially positive net financial position.

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

Households in the United States have a net worth presently of $99 trillion, which is rather more than the Federal debt of $20 trillion.

Trump is just hitting it out of the park and prosperity and wealth are just outstanding. The only way from here is down. Democrats are screwed, because they cannot deliver improvement over Trump.

I have said it before and my stance remains: I think Trump is delivering the peak of *all of human history* in the way that we most commonly measure, which is wealth.

There is a wave that is cresting right now. It is bigger than Trump. It is a 1500 year wave that began when world prosperity bottomed around 500 AD after the fall of Rome and has been rising ever since. Trump is surfing the crest quite nicely but the greatness of the age of Trump will only be properly understood in retrospect.

The left cannot build the tower higher. They cannot do it. And worse for them, Trump has all the knobs optimized pretty well. 3% or 4% GDP growth may not seem like a lot, but sailing into the teeth of declining global IQ, that is tremendous.

It is now up to history. History will unfold, the tide will go out, and in retrospect people will see the glory that was now.

The greatest laugh on the 2018 SJWs is that history will show that they threw a nonstop tantrum through the greatest golden age of all time.

No constituency against socialist economics? What about GNON, the only vote that matters? GNON stands over us ready to smash us on the skull if we break His law, with a bat that never breaks and arms that never tire.

The clear losers in the "Starve the beast" strategy are the socialists in this country. Too bad, morons. Socialism and open borders are mutually exclusive and you went with open borders. (Didn't the unions know that you have to limit membership in the club to keep pay and benefits high?) A diverse, 'culturally enriched' country can still prosper with Dickensian capitalism a la Hong Kong. But the door is shut on Scandinavian-style social welfare.

Sorry, Bernie-ites, If leftists were honest back in the day, you could have had the nice things you wanted. But leftists aren't honest and so you weren't told the truth. Now your dream is gone. (Obama was president for eight years, but he couldn't increase social spending that much and certainly nothing like what he promised.)

I think Trump got a head start on the gimme battle with the tax cuts. Now there are big deficits. If Democrats want to hand out more gimmes they will have to raise taxes strongly, which would instantly harm the stock market and the job market.

This is not an accident. Cutting taxes, creating deficits, and making increased government spending impossible is the strategy, begun with Reagan in the 1980 presidential debates.

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

In terms of my own sensibility, I'd much prefer a balanced budget, but unfortunately that is just leaving us to be robbed. Instead when the gimmes crack open the federal til at some point in the future, they will find it empty. Attempts at massive spending would bring a bond crisis.

It may seem cucky to praise Reagan but in deficit spending I suspect he was right.

I think it serves as both a jobs program and as a way to keep the populace constantly on edge, which produces fear and uncertainty, which helps drive mass consumerism, which leads to anomie, which leads to depression and drug addiction. The masses buy their products, then the masses buy their drugs, both legal and illegal.

As to the jobs program, it makes sense, given that the manufacturing base is offshored and there’s nothing to equal the 90’s tech boom on the horizon.

It reminds me of what they’ve done to the “health” professions, where there might be 3 or 4 different people in a doctor’s office or hospital doing tasks that one competent nurse did years ago. They go to these one or two year technical schools (which are “make work” endeavors themselves) and come away with any number of various certificates, such as “medical assistant.”

It all falls under the umbrella of “Allied Health Professions,” and the whole enterprise is exceedingly superficial. It’s just a prepackaged, almost instant “career” for them (that’s what it’s sold to them as) and as a result most of the people I’ve dealt with in this arena over the years lack a certain “depth” that used to be commonplace in health care. In fact, I’d say they all do. The only people who have that depth and integrity are the middle-aged or older caregivers.

But hey, they have a job. Such is America in 2018.

Exactly. We didn’t have long school days at the height of our power and prestige. Rather than “looking forward” or trying to keep up with the Joneses (the Joneses, in this case, being a handful of Asian countries), why not look back to when things were really balanced.

I, for one, am in favor of reinstituting half-day Kindergarten with mandatory nap-time. It will all flow from there.

Badly, school and school cramming interferes with creativity and free thought. Which is where Americans have clobbered East Asia for centuries.

The uber-wealthy’s family foundations are first and foremost tax shelters. All of their wealth is put under the umbrella of the foundation and they’re required to spend a certain amount on philanthropic endeavors, an amount that is much less than they would otherwise be taxed. It only works financially if one’s wealth is beyond a certain threshold. I forget the number. But it doesn’t make sense for someone who has just a few million dollars.

Secondarily, they serve as a form of social control. If it’s a direct initiative, such as this one, then the money is freely given hand in hand with the program that Gates and his ilk want implemented – the program that they themselves have written.

Otherwise, an existing nonprofit or other entity can appeal to Gates for money through a highly competitive process which may result in a small sum coming their way – with an incredible number of strings attached on how the money is to be spent.

The organizations end up spending inordinate amounts of time and energy just trying to secure some funds – the overwhelming majority who apply don’t get any money – and even more time and energy is wasted documenting how the money is spent and attempting to prove to Gates et al that their money is being spent the way they want it spent and achieving the results they want.

Proofs must be shown quarterly to yearly – a ridiculously short time horizon to effectively implement anything worthwhile, and eerily similar to the inane short-term time horizons that have plagued Wall Street over the past 30+ years.

So, the elite have hollowed out the public sector through years of propaganda about government inefficiency only to subsequently set up their own incredibly inefficient system of nonprofits and other entities. The difference, of course, is that they control them.

Oh yes, it also serves as wonderful publicity. Heartfelt philanthropists indeed. There’s no self-interest there, just as there’s no self-interest in development schemes in Africa.

I didn’t know Jewish bankers were a race. I have come to realize they’re above criticism, at least in “respectable” forums…where nothing of value is ever really uttered.

This is tongue-in-cheek, right? If not, Linh might simply say, “I rest my case.”

“You are at your worst when you are making sweeping generalizations.”

Aren’t we all.

And no “Introduction” by a wordy academic or other “prominent” figure giving his or her take on the tome. I love original editions.

A retired spook I read from time to time once commented that rap is the perfect psyop in that it gets people to celebrate their own inanity. He didn’t have any firsthand information that it is in fact a psychological operation, but given how easily the rigid hierarchical structures we live under are manipulated, it wouldn’t be at all surprising.

Speaking of little-boy-molesting priests, SJW Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (Cardinal!) has been Harvey Weinsteined, but not before helping to install the Marxist Pope. I know so many great Catholic families.

The lesson here is that votes should be apportioned based on number of children. Trump gets five votes, Hillary Clinton gets one, etc. Why should a cat lady be able to cancel out my vote? George W. Bush and his SJW wife gets 2 votes and the Duggars get 20. Faithful Catholics get a bunch of votes while priests and other buggers get zero. Perfect plan?

I had the odd experience of hanging out with a group of Jewish Trump supporters in Silver Spring, MD a week ago. The occasion was a birthday of one of my daughter's friends. About 6 Jewish Orthodox families and us, who are in no way Jewish. The acquaintance between us and the host is that both of our families homeschool and have done play dates.

I heard from my wife that the host was a Trump supporter so I got to talking privately and pretty soon several other of the other dads were joining in. At least two had been to Trump rallies. It soon became apparent that they were pretty based, including on the National Question.

One pointed out (unprompted by me) that antisemitism in Europe is an *imported* phenomenon. One guy praised Sebastian Kurz. That tells me that they get it.

This was sort of a white pill. The point is, that among Jewish people there are the Orthodox and then there is everyone else.

BTW, Trump won in Israel in 2016.
https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Exclusive-Trump-beats-Clinton-in-Israeli-absentee-voter-exit-poll-471561

Unfortunately, Orthodox Jews are not very influential or numerous compared with their secular kinsmen.

I just bought a Harvard T shirt at Bradley Field in Connecticut. Heavily discounted compared to a Big Ten school. Now I know why.

"It happened by accident." Sure it did. They must think everyone is as ignorant as they are. My advice for white people, don't go to court there and if you're summoned, skip town and lay low….for the rest of your life.

So many facts, so eloquently stated.

But not ONE suggestion as to how to remedy the situation.

Is it game over ?

We Americans are waiting for you, the so called ISLAM
We will kill you before you were born

Came over and make OUR DAY

I think the centrists are sensitive to external conditions.

At this point, I cannot for the life of me see how it is possible for Democrats to deliver any improvement in any aspect of American life. All policy points bring decline. This is because they have become purely reactive against every improvement conservatives ask for.

Arguably, the one they could try to offer is universal healthcare, I suppose, but only 9% of the population lack health coverage and all of the poor and old have it. Obamacare expanded the Medicaid rolls already, and there is limited scope for improvement. If Trump legalizes pot then what does the left do, legalize heroin?

In an age of massive deficits, there is no money for additional social spending. Things like free college cannot be paid for.

The new left in America wants increased crime, increased taxes, increased invasion, especially of the world's worst people, and war with Russia, and seek to destroy men, whites, religion and want to use SJW principles to destroy every corporation.

Even if some weakly enlightened leftist understood that it is better to import immigrants from smart countries than dull ones, those aren't the ones being offered, to but it mildly.

Can you think of any policy the Democrats have that would make things better and not blow up the deficit?

Trump has managed to get the Democrats to oppose every good and productive government policy possible. He managed to squeeze blood from a stone, getting several percentage points of growth from an economy facing huge structural headwinds through deregulation and tax cuts. And now he wants to legalize pot.

What improvement to the American people do Democrats have to offer? I am completely at a loss.

snorlax said…

"Counterpoint, the first and third-most suicide-prone white countries are devoutly-Catholic, right-wing Lithuania and Poland."

I have been to Lithuania a long time ago, and I didn't get a sense of devout religiosity. Wikipedia says this about Lithuana:

"According to the 2010 Eurobarometer Poll,[3] 47% of Lithuanian citizens responded that "they believe there is a God" — which is less than half.

I don't know what is up with Poland. But you have to look at a finer granularity than that. What are the beliefs of individuals who kill themselves, versus individuals who don't. Some countries are crappier than others, and Eastern Europe has far less opportunity than Western Europe.

For example, blacks have a far lower suicide rate in America than whites, but two black countries have a higher suicide rate than any white country.

Looking at whole countries has way too many confounders. Looking at individuals, the trend of religiosity being protective is overwhelming.

OT, I was curious about what recent studies say about suicide and the results blew my mind:

The effect of religiosity in protecting against suicidality is massive.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482518/

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/5/413/171404

This effect is starker when you consider that every suicide is the tip of a massive iceberg of depression.

(1) Simply put, the most important cure to depression / suicidality is religiosity. (2) The second most important cure? See (1), above.

With rejection of faith at its core, the left is a literal suicide cult, depressed and desiring to take society down with them.

“My opinions may or may not be correct, but at least they have remained consistent over time.”

Fascinating. Ron finds more honor in maintaining a consistent position – right or wrong – than in admitting a mistake and acting to correct it. He is unaware of the same tendencies in himself that he condemns in, say, a militarist who refuses to see the folly of the Iraq debacle.

Everything is financialized and the elites are supranational. End of story. Enjoy the little things.

The idea that mass immigration is good for the rich is total rubbish. Brazil's population is similar to America's (200 million vs 300 million) but America has 100 times as many millionaires (like 10 million vs 100K). These are rough numbers but the point is made. Having bringing huge numbers of poor into a country hurts the pocketbooks of everyone. It isn't good for anyone except Marxist demagogues.

216 —

We part company and I will explain exactly where. On the one hand, the march of technology has been very strong.

On the other hand there is a massive reduction in worldwide human capital going on. Are you familiar with Steve Sailer's "The most important chart in the world"?

These opposite trends are pulling in opposite directions and one of them will win. It takes brilliant people to move the technology ball forward and we are getting less and less of those. Actually the brilliant share is crashing, far more dramatically in the world than in America.

If the fertility of the various African countries is 6x that of Korea (the lowest fertility country on Earth and maker of my incredible smartphone), then you would be talking about a 36-fold relative shift in two generations. Technology has to race ahead very fast indeed to overcome *that* headwind.

That is not to say that the left can't have political victories. But I don't see how they win history at this point.

I think GNON has the left's back against the wall, all over the world, politically, and Trump has tightened the screws.

To clarify, I do not believe the left is capable of delivering much progress anymore and most of Democrat policies are inimical to quality of life for everyone in the developed world.

(1) Immigration is obviously bad for any rich country at this point. You don't even need identity to make this argument. Raw budgetary numbers are enough. Even the budgetary argument for mass immigration is now breaking down. The problem is, there are not enough smart people being created in the world, generally whether in Norway or in Korea.

Take Germany for instance. The argument had been made that since Germany has a low birth rate, you need mass migration to replace the workforce. Well now several years of budgets have come in and migration has punched a large hole in the budget. George Soros, alarmed at Italian populism, is now saying that the EU should pay Italy for all the migrants it has gotten. Gee George, why would Italians need to be paid if migrants are this amazing asset that will save us all?

It is becoming increasingly apparent that migration blows up budgets rather than helps them.

(2) The left wants to raise taxes. I don't think they can do that to the extent necessary.

Progress is core of leftist religious belief after all, and Trump has delivered in droves.

If a leftist comes in next and quality of life moves backward in a number of measures (and it seems almost impossible to avoid this) then leftism doesn't look good to any sane person.

Trump tightens the screws by selling the present, telling America how things are the greatest that they have ever been and he is right on many measures.

If Democrats take over, almost anything they want to do will bring decline. And if I am right that the decline is systemic then the Trumpian peak will stand for the ages.

Is there any conceivable outcome where a President Kamala Harris can deliver more good than bad? She would be Nero to Trump's Claudius.

We will be able to troll leftists for the remainder of our Earthly lives with this brutal summation:

"The Trumpian Peak will stand for all time."

(I am terrified by the magnitude of what I just wrote.)

Dagnabit, AE, I try to tell myself, NAJALT, but then you keep feeding me the data.

We'll see how Mnuchin does on trade but so far it hasn't been promising. Between him and Gary Cohn the America First trade agenda seems to be stuck.

Based Victor Orban is very based, responding to accusations of anti-Semitism toward George Soros:

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/2018-05-18_10-12-42.jpg?itok=s2_aUF5U

Read the letter where he clearly explains how he must defend against the anti-Semitism George Soros brings to Europe even though he gets to no thanks. He signs it, 'with diminishing hope, Victor Orban'

George Soros, destroyer of Jews. Victor Orban as Oscar Schindler. That is a powerful red pill, aimed at the heart of the Cathedral, because it actually has truth.

In Austria, Sebastian Kurz responds similarly.

The accusation of anti-Semitism is a powerful gun used to destroy people. Let it be correctly aimed at the insane open-borders cabal who are the ones genuinely making Europe unsafe for the Jews.

The retarded Nazi larpers could never engage in this kind of Jujitsu. In fact they do the opposite, bringing the establishment power down on their heads even though they pose zero threat to Jews.

I may be too pessimistic about things like future GDP for the simple reason that technology is amazing.

I was at the post office today. The USPS sorts all its mail automatically. The human capital requirement is low because machines can read literally every kind of horrible handwriting and sort everything rapidly and automatically.

I asked, do people read the ones with bad handwriting? No, machines figure out everything. This frees up a huge amount of human capital.

Technology is continuing its march and machines continue to be able to do more and more of every job.

The thing about technology is that it builds on itself. If a worker at an Amazon warehouse is replaced by a robot, that robot keeps churning out GDP at a tremendous rate along with all the other robots.

Peak GDP would assume that the workers are declining but when the workers are robots, that isn't the case.

In 1988, a black man on the street outside the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan offered to help me find a taxi to my hotel. I believed him and he stole $20 from me. If I’d listened to my crap detector instead of being a rube from a blue state I’d have told him to get lost.

I am in favor of dissolution because smaller units generally represent their populations much better and this way at least some states might resemble heritage America. But there are at least a couple of big challenges:

(1) Isn't the divide somewhat a rural / urban divide? How would that work? Even my state of Maryland is a red state in the panhandle and Eastern Shore.

(2) Dissolution probably isn't GDP-maximizing and GDP is front and center for the powers that be (and also for the regular public to the extent that electorates have little patience for hardship or recession).

(3) See how our deep state tries to destroy the duly elected Trump who was elected normally and then consider what they would do to someone leading a the movement of secession. Secession, which I favor, actually IS treason from the POV of FedGov. They wouldn't have to even act conspiratorially. They could simply arrest the leaders of a secession movement using the laws on our books. Catalonia voted independence in 2017 and then Spain simply arrested all the leaders. Trump got only 4% in DC — they protect the status quo here.

What would have to happen first is for a fiscal calamity to break DC, but I don't know how likely that is. We've gradually devalued our debts in the past.

I think there is at least hope for future Republican victories because I expect future economic decline and then people will want to change parties.

All of the Blacks represented by each of the stones in the lynching memorial had raped and / or killed a white person, with rape as the criminal’s common starting focus and murder also being common.

The murders often occurred in brutal fashion, and sometimes entire families were victimized as a means of gaining access to the rape victim. Back then, locks and doors were primitive when locks were used at all. If someone wanted to rush in a house, kill a husband, and rape a wife; doing so was pretty much a matter of will and timing for surprise. One could safely rape women on isolated roads, where they had to walk to get anywhere. A slit of the throat assured no witness.

Extra-judicial murder (lynching) was a an (ineffective) attempt at of deterring that behavior further, in the high frequency violent crime Black group, in a post Civil War and post slavery common environment that had Northern and Black criminal empathetic judges often preventing effective prosecution of Black criminals. In addition, not even effective prosecution, and not even lynching, slowed the rape rate down. These people were animals off of the chain.

Read The Negro: the Southerner’s Problem by Thomas Nelson Page for details.

The book is not imbalanced. It merely documents the political reality of lynching, and tries to suggest alternative solutions for both Black / White co-survival that would leave Whites and Blacks unmolested.

This “monument”, and each stone within it, is a documentation of Black group fervor for White woman sex at any cost. This is a core inter-racial drive that continues today. Each stone documents a monster. Keep that in mind when looking at it. One day it will be torn down, and those who facilitated the political environment of its construction will be brought to justice.

AE —

Watching how the unbelievable brazenness of the deep state in its conspiracies against Trump, and watching how strong the forces are to suppress uncomfortable thought, something occurred to me which I want to bring up here.

What if the Flynn effect is a conspiracy to present a narrative that isn't true?

I always thought the Flynn effect was strange and just a really pleasant narrative. As you know Bruce Charleton (Charleton Teaching blog) hasn't agreed with it.

I was watching a documentary about the creation of the Boston subway and the adoption of electric power starting around 120 years ago. The photos and footage from the era seem to show a people who look more civilized and advanced than ours (at least superficially in terms of dress and faces) and the subway worked really well. The Flynn effect is supposed to tell us that these people were borderline imbeciles?

Can the Flynn effect be a conspiracy of some loud confidence men who brashly argue the total certainty of the data? I can certainly see how people could believe they are acting in the common good by hiding that. They are wrong but I can see how they could think that.

'the chosen ones, to quote Sid "come across as above average in intelligence today, but not terrifyingly brilliant the way they did 100 years ago".'

Jewish leadership in the golden age of physics of about 1900 to 1940 or was extraordinary and certainly much greater than today. We are not in a scientific golden age today. In physics, decades have been wasted on string theory which is just math games that predicts nothing. In the social sciences, nothing is allowed into the canon of established knowledge unless it is empirically false.

The bright spot in science today is probably DNA but progress there is hindered by a desperation to know as little as possible that might be uncomfortable.

"Hence I think it is more than possible that AShk. Jews the beginning of XX century had higher average IQ than people claiming to be Jews (Ashkenazi) now."

Possible.

Another thing is this:
I think an error that just about everyone makes is to assume a simple normal distribution when it comes to populations and IQ, extrapolatable all the way up to genius. But there are specific genes involved; either you have them or you don't. There may be some gene that is very useful for high brain function in that population which could make for a barbell-type distribution. The folks who have that gene are non-continuously better than those without.

Consider physical strength in the example of bully whippets (a subset of the whippet dog breed with a single genetic difference — do a google image search on bully whippet to see the point). If you assumed whippet size were a normal distribution, you would be wrong. Surely many genetic differences account for whippet size but one genetic difference is really important.

I don't know the answer to the JQ, but I suspect the normal distribution isn't followed.

For our elites their secular religion is their fervent belief in Progress.

If you want to break to souls our secular elite, hit at their belief in Progress. This is their substitute for religion and it is a false God that can be smashed on the rock like any other idol.

Maybe its good that Hans Rosling has written about how great things were way back now, so that we can use the same statistics going forward.

The elites worked to wreck the religion of the poles. Well they are about to have their Religion (Progress) wrecked. Buckle up.

AE,

The most charitable interpretation is that Bill Gates has the power to pull down the scary curve of The Most Important Chart In The World and getting labeled a racist would wreck his ability to help solve it. I hope that is the case.

Bill Gates gushed about this book by Swedish POS Hans Rosling
https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814

Hans Rosling's job seems to be to soothe everyone by spouting off ways that the world has gotten better in the past while ignoring the biggest issue of all.

It would be extremely useful if someone on the alt right wrote:

Factfulness II: Ten Reasons Why Things Are Worse Than You Think

Dropping HBD truth on the heads of the world. The name is very important as a counter to Rosling and if Rosling's estate sued, all the better because of the Streisand effect.

Interesting:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/07/top-reading-recs-from-buffett-munger-and-gates.html

Buffett, Munger and Gates all are reading stuff to try to convince themselves that the world is getting better. Which it is in a number of ways.

Buffett and Munger have a combined age of 181 so they aren't going to be around all that much longer. Before they go, will someone please ask them about Steve Sailer's THE MOST IMPORTANT CHART IN THE WORLD?

The present and coming demographic shift toward the least productive people in the world would seem like a relevant question, no? I mean it seems like perhaps the most relevant question related to human progress, no?

There is more truth in this deplorable corner of the blogosphere than there is from the world's leading lights. I suspect that Buffett knows a lot more than he lets on since Planned Parenthood has always been his charity of choice. Bill Gates probably knows too. But as Gregory Cochran notes, "you have to state important facts every so often, or nobody knows them anymore".

Buffett/Munger/Gates think its a problem that people with pessimistic views make their views known, which led, alas, to Trump. Or at least, that's how they talk.

I feel pretty sure that Trump and his Deplorables have instead planted a flag in history which will show that we *knew* all the way back in 2016, of the biggest issue of the third millennium. We the Trump voters of 2016 will be proved by history to be the greatest intellectuals.

Sailer has referred often to Americanism. That, to me, is the optimum answer.

Mass migration is manifestly bad for American blacks.

My thoughts:

I actually believe that Kanye West's words are even more important for white SJWs to hear.

This puts a severe crack in their misbegotten sense of moral superiority. The fact that blacks are seen as pets rather than people with agency comes through clearly in Kanye's plantation comments.

Perhaps one of the scariest things I have seen in the last couple of years is how white SJWs have become so religiously convinced that they are willing to openly defy the law and all common sense in their fervor. I really believe Comey thinks his criminality was not really criminal because it was in the service of the holy cause.

I am guessing a lot of the defiance of the law and common sense is Democrats sense that they are serving a higher purpose of fighting Nazis, racism, etc., the worst evils. This sort of thing should hopefully give doubts to a lot of people at least.

AE wrote,

"The implicit condescension in the "I f*cking love science!" society wide virtue signal is grating. When it comes to biological differences between human populations and between men and women, they're as anti-science as it gets."

Right. This is an extreme understatement because this particular anti-science foolishness is at the core of what it means to be human.

That is, those two aspects, human population differences and truth of sex/gender/reproduction are central to making sense of the world you live and taking reasonable action far more than knowing about electrons or the temperature of the Earth's core.

If one thinks gender is not biological or human population differences are a social construct, you fail intellectually at the most fundamental level. You are more benighted than a European peasant living during the dark ages. All of the knowledge of minor scientific trivia cannot make up for this failure.

Speaking of billionaires, where the F is the help for all those like General Flynn who got caught up in Mueller's investigations?

Where is the legal financial support for the people who helped Trump during the campaign? They are all being harmed financially.

Trump has a bunch of billionaires and decamillionaires in his cabinet. Here are just the billionaires?

Todd Ricketts: $5.3 billion (deputy commerce secretary)
Betsy DeVos: $5 billion
Peter Thiel: $2.5 billion
Wilbur Ross: $2 billion
Linda McMahon: $1.5 billion

How is it that none of these people or others will help legally support those being wrecked financially by the Mueller probe? Here is another one being wrecked.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/trump-russia-probe-michael-caputo-witness-faces-financial-ruin/

"That doesn't bode well for these other big tech companies." should read

"That doesn't bode well for those who would hope to out compete these other big tech companies."

And more, the tech megacompanies buy any upstart competitor. The biggest upstarts in recent years, instagram and YouTube, are owned by Facebook and Google respectively.

"Disagree with Dan. The biggest leverage against these tech vampire squids is other tech vampire squids who want to eat their lunch."

One would hope that this is a competitive market, but that is completely false. Tech defenders talk about how dynamic tech is, but the reality is that tech companies are the most monopolistic in the marketplace.

If you look at what the dominant tech companies were ten years ago, it was Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and to a lesser extent Twitter. Have any names changed at all?

They are network monopolies. Gab for example tried to be an alternative to twitter, but twitter is where all the users are. If you are on gab, you aren't in the main conversation. With Google racking up juicier revenues than have ever been seen in history, one would think that everyone would line up to steal market share from them but this is almost impossible. Since Google has the userbase, all the advertisers go there, all the revenues go there and so on.

Microsoft has not been particularly innovative in a long time, but their thirty-plus–year-old operating system monopoly makes them the second most valuable company in the world right now, passing Amazon which has been far more innovative and is itself a kind of network monopoly. The Microsoft monopoly has been unassailable in spite of outsize profits all these years. In the 10,000 person organization where I work the market share of Windows is 100.00%, afaik. That doesn't bode well for these other big tech companies.

Who will go anti-trust against these companies? Republicans? Ha. And the Dems are no doubt pleased with all the censorship. What does the Green party think?

Great job by Ted Cruz. The biggest leverage against these tech vampire squid is calling them out publicly. Legal solutions are unavailable when the legal power structure is so hateful of its own civilization.

I am in agreement that it is essential that American Jews realize that white culture is not their enemy. It is clear to me that low IQ people are not capable of carrying the financial debt burden that has been placed upon future American generations. This seems likely to break the system sooner or later. The ultimate destination of these SJWs, something like Wakanda, does not exist.

I am with Sid.

Leftist rage with Russia is related to World War G (Sailer's term). The left was perfectly fine with Russia right up until the moment he crossed them with his law saying you can't propagandize homosexuality to kids. You could not make this stuff up it would be so unbelievable.

In relation to world war G, reason #4542 why neverTrumpers are morons is that they think Pence will be fine if Trump is impeached. Pence makes the left even madder than Trump does because G.

I’ve always wanted to wake up in the middle of the night to gunfire. Sign me up!

"And if the people don't turn their guns against a government that bans them, and instead hide them, it would be as if they had just turned them in anyways."

I disagree. Guns are still valuable even without the government approval. Hidden guns no doubt protect many of South African whites now that their government has abandoned them.

Also, as I have said before, the lack of big problems lets the left dabble with our rights and the good times give them cover.

If the economy craters, if the bond market fails, or if unemployment gets out of control then the erosion of our rights kind of goes on the back burner in my view, because things revert to fire-fighting mode for the government.

From the New Yorker article: a law passed in 1968 hasn’t performed as promised for 50 years. Then Obama tweaks a few regulations and it’s miraculously effective, but then Trumphitler reverses them and it’s back to Mississippi in the 1950s. Perfectly reasonable interpretation,

Where the f are the Republicans in Congress as a coup is attempted on their leader. How can a party be this stupid?

Jeff Sessions, f you