I have no idea what you are talking about.

Ahem… that is exactly my point.

Screencap it dude, let’s talk in a week.

Oh look, a crashing stock market with no bottom in sight. Those indomitable 23yo nyt journalists, who can stop them now.

OT: Yesterday, I opined that Trump is starting to feel done.

Was derided.

Whaddya guys say today?

Wow, DJIA futures down 1230 atm.

An oil war breaking out too.

737 Max will never fly

Plague stalking the land.

Trump wandering around in pajamas, he seems in decline and in a game he doesn’t understand

This kind of stuff is why novel diseases do so much more damage, it isn’t just the deaths piling up. There is no template.

Lotta loss of Mandate of Heaven stuff guys.

In the late 70s Marines on ops in various NATO countries would routinely be asked by locals if it were true that all US Marines were convicted murderers.

Very common, it was a Soviet propaganda thing.

I’m not ascribing motive to events whereas you are.

Simply,, polling as an industry massively failed before, full stop.

They can fail for a lot of other reasons too, not just direct bias as you contend.

So I’d agree, consciously shilling for Trump is probably unlikely, but other things. It is a system that failed catastrophically before and nothing in it has been remediated.

Many possible points of failure.

Trump’s numbers on this are good.

Hillary’s “numbers” were good, quite so, actually, on the morning of Election Day 2016.

Trump is finished, starting to feel like, doesn’t it?

Seems like his age may be catching up with him.

He’s got to turn it around quick if he wishes to retain a following rather than being the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century.

Or what the image of Hoover got to be, to be fair to Hoover.

Even if spring does abate it as he hopes, he’s already taken some deep damage.

Maybe a sincere bipartiisan plea to the nation might help along with a dedication to that on his part.

The obesity epidemic in USA will cause the mortality rate there to be less correlated with age than in Chinese/East Asian early experience.

Also for those comparing mortality rates to flu, etc.

Novel diseases introduced into naive populations have greater societal effects per death than customary diseases.

It is a basic of epidemiology. Novel diseases severely stress institutions as the leaders don’t have experience with the threat, which becomes obvious to the populace, who lose faith in their leaders, who then become less effective . . .

This pattern is becoming evident in the spread of coronavirus.

At least 33 Diamond Princess cases remain in ICU and the course of the other cases are not all complete.

A significant fraction of the cases identified in SK are 20 something women members of the religious sect at the center of the outbreak.

This demographic bulge is currently skewing the death rate down among SK cases.

Ok, for the first time since forever, I’m thinking Trump isn’t going to be a two termer.

And Bernie isn’t going to be prez either.

Now think, McFly, think, if you wanted to run one person in America who could win the election against Trump or really, anyone else, not necessarily a pol, who would you pick?

Have my own idea, but would rather hear commenters ideas cold w/out my own. We will get to that eventually.

When was Tucker’s epiphany? What caused it?

The 2008 campaign cycle. He got interested in the Ron Paul/Liberty Campaign rhetoric about the welfare/warfare state.

He was the only mainstream journalist wondering why all these people were saying these things rather than immediately dismissing it all as lunatic fringe.

That, and Gravel on the left, were the first rumblings of the the anti-establishment tussle going on now.

Anyhow, that is where Tucker first started questioning, at least to himself, GOPe stuff.

I would love to know.

You’re welcome.

Would the world be better off if the Cold War had never ended?

The answer to that is a very resounding no. The world was horribly warped, killing fields, captive populations/nations, a nuclear arms race that had taken on a life of its own.

And the legacy lives on, we are going to be cleaning up nuclear sites like Hanford for decades to come, seems like.

George H W Bush saw a lot of events in his life. In his 92 SOTU, he said:

“But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the cold war.”

Now, remember this guy was a Naval Aviator in WWII, saw VE and VJ days, among other events.

FWIW, GHWB doesn’t yet get the credit he deserves for keeping the end of the Cold War peaceful other than Romania. The only downside is generally he wanted to avoid victory dances, be respectful of Russian feelings, so the narrative about how the Soviet Union collapsed, inevitable, like a season changing took root rather than, yeah, they got beat fair and square and by Reagan’s doing.

Poles (those under the age of 80) have disappeared as an identifiable ethnic group in the US

I think you’re right about the Poles, although nearly all Ellis Island east/southern European ethnicities have disappeared as well, except maybe a few Italians and Greeks trying to keep the old days alive.

Elizabeth Warren’s maternal relatives look like they’d fit right in on Duck Dynasty.

It seems to me that the real issue here is not that there is one crazy or extremely unpleasant and self-indulgent woman writing nonsense, but that one of the most-respected newspapers in the country finds her outburst worth publishing. That is, her venomous discharge is very much in keeping with the spirit of the times, and that fact is, alas, significant and even alarming.

That is a more interesting interpretation, but I guess it doesn’t get as many comments/clicks as the same old misogynistic snark. Disappointingly often, but certainly not always, iSteve is like a hack comic in the Catskills, pushing the same unoriginal, overused material over and over, keep you guys going until the next fundraiser.

You gotta understand, he’s farming you guys.

And soylent green is people…..

Here is a thought for you guys.

I think it is safe to say that the majority of the commenters here do not agree with Diversity Is Our Strength, think of the diversity push in America going back to whenever is awful, etc.

But at the same time, you guys tend to celebrate the centuries-long war against consanguinity in Medieval Europe as having engendered a civil, high-trust society that lead to blah blah blah Enlightenment blah blah blah Industrial Revolution blah blah blah Pleasantville…..

Do you think that this all went down with the then highly tribal peoples of Europe. I’m sure there were plenty of bitter clingers amongst the Gauls or Hottengoths or whoever, the deplorables of the era.

There was a reason that this campaign had to be so extreme – 6th degree banned, all that – and for so long.

Obviously, anti-consanguinity wasn’t too popular with the hoi polloi.

Anyhow, the anti-diversity crowd is just an updated version of barely civilized Celts or whoever who still want to be marrying their cousins in face of a longer term civilizational trend, one you guys tend to celebrate as part of your tribal greatness.

You guys here seem to love Monty Python (wow, what a tell…), you all know the bit about “What Have The Romans Done For Us?”, update that to “What Has The Civilization That Brought Us Diversity Done For Us”, and include pretty much everything around you.

You guys are seriously delusional if you think Trump and the America he envisions is in any way anti-diversity.

Bald men are repulsive. Nothing more pathetic than some hairless dork who thinks he looks ‘cool’ — in his mind, he’s Michael Jordan or Patrick Stewart. To everyone else, he’s the eyesore in accounting.

Now that is some serious Lookism. You really shouldn’t think like this.

Thank you, Doctor. In years of therapy costing thousands of dollars, nobody ever told me that. Now I can be proud that Dad was a bad boy and Mom loved me best.

Good.

And now be able to move on to more productive things with your time here on this earth.

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

Lowland Male Gorilla inter-Tribal Warfare

That actually sounds like a way cool calvinball kind of topic.

Maybe someone could sell the warring tribes various armaments and maybe some booze too. That could liven things up a bit, although I’m sure they don’t need much help.

There is so much interesting real stuff in this world.

Like, with Lowland Male Gorilla inter-Tribal Warfare out there, who needs professional sports or Netflix, for that matter?

Why isn’t this a reality show?

I have no idea whether autogynephilia exists, apparently it is a fringe theory supported by some professor in Canada?

That is a crack-pottery indicator, but everyone here takes it as an article of faith that autogynephilia exists, is a real syndrome so I’ll argue it in the belief context of the commenters here.

By the logic of autogynephilia, I’d guess that autogynephiliacs were in the more physically attractive category as their male selves and probably to a significant degree.

Women thought they were hotties when they were young.

To the degree that they were conservative, I’d guess that is to the degree of whether and how much physical attractiveness correlates to conservativism.

Which is an entirely different question.

The primal issue is whether they had been rather physically attractive to women in their lives as men.

Figure it out from there, ok? It is your fringe theory, not mine.

Basically, the whole mental health system is in a mess and needs a major overhaul.

Ironically, the one area that is apparently a real illness and can be extremely debility,, schizophrenia, incites yawns from the psychiatric establishment. And the medications, all merely palliative, are positively medieval in their side effects.

Because schizophrenics are considered “hopeless”, etc, and just not sexy, the dial hasn’t moved on them in decades since we cut all of them loose to sleep on sidewalks rather than providing basic, humanitarian care in state hoslpitals, once called asylums for a reason, and a very positive complementary one.

Psychiatry’s approach to schizophrenia alone discredits the entire enterprise to me.

One of Mom’s favorite lines was, “You’re Just Like Your Father!”

Mother’s who say this, in a negative way, reveal a couple of things:

1) They really love their hubby, or feel very intensely about him, who has a high likelihood of being a classic bad boy type one way or another.

2) The son they direct this to is the one they feel the strongest about, i.e., love the most. It is a paradox, since it is pretty unpleasant getting this treatment, but life is what it is.

Anyhow, one of the benefits of growing up with, uhh, erratic parents, assuming one doesn’t then waste their life moping about their awful childhood, is that you get good at dealing with unstable people on the unavoidable occasions that one must do so.

You guys are making the mistake of arguing with an idiot.

First of all, is you accept her premise that her outburst is in some way representative of some women rather than she is just a random individual who seems rather unpleasant and abusive to her partner.

There are plenty of people of both sexes like that but you guys just feed the troll by then unleashing all your hostility to women, all the generalizing here.

FWIW, people have a tendency to segue into these codependent schemes, she probably didn’t unleash like that on first date.

Anyhow, it isn’t a male/female thing, just a hinged/unhinged people thing.

As to the point, people live up to your expectations, if you tolerate bad behavior, you get more of it, it is all revealed preference. The fact that she and her husband have managed 50 years, phd, nice life, grandchildren, etc, indicates that the relationship is likely what both have wanted in life.

Wouldn’t be my ideal, but different strokes for every kind of bird in the forest.

The real mystery to me is how she can be so petulant and lacking in self control at age 70, male or female. Plenty of guys with similar problems, not a gender-specific trait.

You guys discredit yourselves when you engage in the reflexive misogyny grossly on display in this thread.

Try to keep it classy, ok? I thought another gripe of the commenters here was the increasing coarseness of American discourse, but right away, you guys go full invective in a manner no different in intensity and disconnection from reality than your opponents.

Two sides of the same coin, IMO.

What’s interesting about the Browns is that they appear to be pretty normal people.

Isn’t that the scary part?

Anybody seen Whiskey?

Video Link

Clearly, there is an ideological/political/religious or similar tension between her and at least the parents, if not the rest of the family.

Yeah, when asked in hearings if she told her parents what she was going to do, she said, “Definitely not”.

Father gave a terse comment something like, “Every father should love his daughter”. He doesn’t seem believe the charges or at least isn’t supportive of her publicly airing them at a minimum.

There is a possibility of a black swan event from his quarter.

Let’s look at this. Father is got to be mid to late 70s, and lifelong GOPe type almost undoubtedly. I’m guessing his daughter has been a handful, and this latest is just breaking his heart (again!).

And he probably is something of old school rectitude, at least by todays standards. And now his daughter is plunging the entire nation into chaos and recriminations. And either his mother or his wife’s mother just died, assuming that is true.

I’m thinking at some point, this old dude might decide to do what he thinks is the right thing, somehow reel his daughter in and apologize for all the trouble she has caused. I’m guessing it would be hardly the first time he has bailed her out and is just sitting in front of the tube now shaking his head.

Can you imagine being him? What would you do in the situation, especially being at an advanced age? Probably freeze in the headlights for a while in horror for starters. After that?

You know all his lifelong Bethesda/Burning Tree pals are giving him the fisheye at the club these days. That has to be super uncomfortable. Guys from his era/class, the Club is a centerpiece of their lives.

My bet is he decided he would get involved if it looked like Kavanaugh’s confirmation is truly toast and nothing else could save it.

He is likely glad that things are looking up for Kav at the moment so he may not have to go through some ordeal himself.

$1.6 million per year is not a vast sum for one of the software giants of the age.

Bad news is you’re fired. Good news is you’re getting a raise.

If Kavanaugh doesn’t make it, Trump should nominate Creepy Porn Lawyer (CPL).

Let’s just embrace it and go full Reality Politics henceforth. Everyone does loves the guy. Notice nobody mentioned Ronan Farrow in hearing but CPL got a number of mentions.

Frankly, I’d love having the guy on the court and he’s obviously a sharp guy.

One thing about a striver like Kavanaugh – he probably would have been very careful to avoid getting in trouble with the law.

Yeah, “the drinking age was still 18 in DC”, even though he was 17 and lived in Maryland, not DC, is right up there with Bill Clinton’s, “I didn’t inhale”.

Ok guys, I’m going to explain why anonguy is, once again, the most prescient commenter here before I disappear again for a while.

My initial comment was Kav, the true blue GOPe candidate, was running into trouble from the flying monkeys, and the GOPe was being routed in their usual fashion, they don’t even retreat, never even enter the fray in the first place, like that cop standing safely outside the Parkland HS, declining even to engage.

So Trump, while not planning it this way, sees the opportunity as a final Flight 93 event for GOPe, in that, if you can’t get this guy confirmed, you guys are totally weak and on indisputable public display.

Gives the show a little prod, says it would be a disgrace for a fine candidate, but generally stays disengaged.

And the GOPe dithers, Kav bombs the interview, casts himself as a weepy and creepy 40yo virgin, only throwing gas on the fire. I kind of thought that was unrecoverable without a miracle.

But we got one because, finally and uncharacteristically, one of the GOPe has stood up, called BS on the whole deal, and just by this, rallied the troops, the tide is turning, looks like Kav is going to make it, at least to a full floor vote.

With no help from Trump, who basically was signalling the GOPe that he just makes it look easy surviving these kinds of allegations, you guys show me how easy it is, big powerful GOPe.

So I was right that this was a gut test, and looks like R’s might actually rise to the occasion because mandarin crybaby Kav, unlike Clarence, cannot fight for himself, that interview made that clear.

FWIW, I’d still rather see someone other than Kav, a pure swamp critter, on SCOTUS but I suppose he will do. I think there is considerable risk of him seeking redemption by swerving left rather than this process turning him into Thomas. He’s just not a Thomas or Alito or Scalia.

None of this was particularly insightful, although I was certainly on the front end of that narrative curve, started seeing this theme elsewhere in a lot places shortly thereafter.

But go back to my initial comment on this subject, and at the end I added a tangential comment about Lindsay Graham, what’s up with the guy, he’s been showing some fire in his belly lately.

And guess what, he is the GOPe guy who finally raised the flag of full resistance, rallied the troops.

Just another bit of anonguy magic in case none of you guys noticed. And bravo to Lindsay Graham. My guess is that the posthumous vindictiveness of McCain was a factor for him, offended his South Carolina sense of grace and refinement, etc.

I’d advise every Trumpista to now oppose the Kavanaugh nomination.

If he ascends to the SC, for the rest of his career he will be beholden to others for his own moral purity, which is a really uncool situation.

He will be genuflecting for the rest of his life.

Is this really what you guys want?

Man, I’m totally digging this thread.

The most likely outcome now looks to be that Kavanaugh is not confirmed and then a few weeks later evidence comes to light that the women made it all up and the psychotherapist was in on it. No one will be punished. Hannity will have a lot more material and Trump will appoint a harder case next time.

That is my thought. Generally, the interview was a complete fail and specifically, the virgin thing, yuck yuck yuck.

Creepy, actually made the accusations possibly more believable to some people, he was some frustrated loser, not even a Havenaugh.

He made his bed, though. He is used to relying upon some patron to save him, just a mandarin, and it wasn’t there. Clarence Thomas showed a lot more steel under fire, Kavanaugh could have used a dose of high dudgeon, but we just got whimpering.

GOPe does not take care of its own, as we are seeing, and who’d want to with the likes of Kavanaugh? But more relevant to you and me, if they won’t even take care of their own, why would they take care of anyone else?

I would also agree that guys that are the least successful with women under normal circumstances are much more likely to be creepy towards them when under the influence of alcohol. Just anecdotal evidence from my own personal observations, but a very consistent correlation in that limited view.

You guys are kidding yourself if you think after confirmation he will be an Alito, Scalia, or Thomas. No way, he will seek redemption by evolving to a John Roberts, so unless that is what you want, be happy he fails his upcoming Senate vote, which probably will happen just for point of pride for the R’s.

And it gives Trump a reason to nominate someone more of his camp than the GOPe, which has met its Waterloo here. And ironically, Ted Cruz gets razzed out of restaurant, how is that individualistic libertarianism working out for you, Ted, Brett?

Sheep getting picked off one by one.

Also, looks like Avenatti may have gotten trolled by 4chan.

Told you guys, saying he was a virgin was a pretty stupid thing to do:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6206705/Yale-classmate-says-Kavanaugh-contradicted-virgin-claim-college-conversation.html

Not only does it open him up to all sorts of things, but it innoculates him against sympathy. Events earlier this year showed incels will get no respect or sympathy.

Geez, he’s just spiralling in…..

You guys should be glad Kavanaugh is going down and get on with it.

Kavanaugh has been revealed as the dull swamp critter he is. He doesn’t even seem interesting to talk to, which I’m thinking should probably be a necessary part of a Supreme Court Justice’s makeup.

Kavanaugh seems as uninteresting as, well, I can imagine. Some random middle-aged dude in mom jeans mowing the lawn down the street with a job in some glass box.

Anyhow it is clear he has no independent survival skills, he’s failing his trial by ordeal here. Maybe he’ll pull something off here, reality politics ya know, but things aren’t looking good for Kavanaugh.

Oh, and notice that youthful indiscretions is no longer a defense whereas it was for the early boomers for decades. When did that get repealed?

He’s (sort of) belatedly learning the importance of manliness, loyalty, courage et al just like the rest of the GOPe

The playing fields of Eton, Georgetown Prep’s aren’t, it seems.

Kavanaugh is going down because he is a weak man who is outer directed by the institutions he serves, a careerist at heart, and has never had to fight for himself in life.

He is a weakling,, only he can save himself and it may be too late now, that 40yo virgin thing, maybe right up there with the Dukakis tank ride.

Thanks for your kind words.

Ok, I just watched the Kavanaugh tv thing with his wife.

Actually, only the first few minutes, I couldn’t stand it, it was so painful.

Kavanaugh is a wimp, mewling and puling about how he only wants a fair hearing, what a kind person he is, etc.

I’m starting to think he may be toast. Trump definitely watching, thinking, hey, if he can’t handle this pressure, how is he going to do on the court, don’t want to appoint another John Roberts.

Me, it won’t bother me to see him go down – he doesn’t dare give himself a full-throated defense, why will anyone else.

Really, lots better candidates, this guy is no Alito, Scalia, or Thomas, not a stalwart.

Ok, I’m coming out of retirement for this one.

Trump is making a power play, a final rout of the eGOP NeverTrumpers.

Kavanaugh is their guy, c’mon, no truer/bluer member of the pre-Trump Republican establishment. Trump gives them their man, and now they can’t get him confirmed. Hapless, impotent, and if they won’t stand up for this guy, who will they stand up for?

Not you or me, that is for sure.

Kavanaugh is a dime a dozen mandarin type, albeit an excellent blue ribbon specimen, but ultimately an unremarkable guy. Trump could care one way or the other, his message to NeverTrumpers is you guys are utterly useless, here is your final humiliation.

It will be interesting to see whether eGOP makes any attempt to save this guy – where are the Bushes, the Romneys, the Cruzes, etc, etc etc.

Hiding from Ronan Farrow, it seems.

Very public humiliation of some of the Trump opposition.

And how much Trump will step in, will he save Kavanaugh or let him sink as a lesson.

BTW, Lindsay Graham has been changing his tune the past months, is much more aligned with Trump. Does anyone else notice this?

Dude, you’re killing it with your comments, best on iSteve, although res gives you a run for it on occasion.

Those who sell their souls for earthly power often realize, sometimes quite early, that the Devil hates those who serve him no less than others, that he destines them for the same miserable end he would fain visit upon everyone; and this is the mark of their damnation, that knowing things to be so, they embrace all his pomps and empty promises nonetheless.

Dude, this is so good I had to come out of comment retirement to give you an attaboy.

Only thing I can say is I hope you have a wider audience for your output. iSteve is a fun place and all but at heart a bunch of carping dead-enders whose world ended decades ago and isn’t coming back any more than the South is going to.

In case you guys didn’t notice it, nobody really has yet, so no harm, no foul, Trump in his SOTU utterly rejected the propositional nation notion in his talk of America being a product of its people, whoever they may be at various points in history.

He used the relatively unknown lady liberty on the top of the Capitol Dome instead of the Statue of Liberty to keep things clean and uniting. I say Stephen Miller had a yuuge hand in this part of the speech and it was a truly inspired approach.

So, Trump got elected, has turned around much in America already, has the swamp creatures on the run, and all the good people of America are on the verge of a spiritual and moral rebirth.

These are all things I predicted very early on when none seemed likely.

My work here is done, its been real guys….

Oh yeah, one more, for your own sakes, please ditch the WN stuff, it has no more place in the emerging America than does the things you guys detest from the left.

Au revoir.

Something else is driving the obesity stats. I see fat people everywhere I go, so I know they’re not lying. But it’s something new that isn’t being identified in the usual “sugar, carbs, fat, junk food, fast food, sodapop, restaurant portions, video games, TV, sedentary” boogeymen. All that was present in the past and people stayed thinner

I agree with this, there is a lot more to it than just cheap calories and lack of exercise opportuinies. We had candy, elevators, cars, tv to veg out in front of, on and on.

The current obesity trend in the US really got underway in the very early 90s, like so many other current trends, right after the Cold War ended.

I recall from Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy book that by declaring to an adversary that you wouldn’t take advantage of a situation, you are in fact diplomatically signaling that you could take advantage of the situation.

You have to have someone else tell you this?

I predicted he’d cuck. Men with daughters generally do.

I’m genuinely curious as to your reasoning behind this.

Compare WW1 to WW2, that’ll tell you something.

The Soviet Union, the only Bolsheviks in WWII, was also the only major power in WWII that *didn’t* have organized destruction of the civilian population of its opponents as a significant, ongoing strategic goal/practice.

Does that tell you something?

Did it ever occur to you WN guys that Rob Reiner is trolling the hell out of you?

You guys always lose and you don’t even get the joke.

Oh, and that JPod character Steve? You know he is trolling the hell out of your commentariat like Tiny Duck does. You guys need each other, it is yin/yang, the two of you entwined in fate.

Keep up the reality show, it is fun.

if the western powers had stomped the bolsheviks before they murdered millions of white christians in concentration camps there would never have been a nazi party

Remember, the supposedly enlightened western “christian” nations, among other things, sent millions of their citizens to pointless deaths in trench warfare well before bolshevism and nazism.

In the name of God and country in an entirely elective war.

If the white christian leadership of the Edwardian era hadn’t been so murderous and exploitative of their own citizens, there wouldn’t have been any bolshevism either.

It was a blood-soaked era, thankfully, we seem past it for the time being having managed to get through the end of the Cold War without one last big hurrah of widespread murder and mayhem.

WTF kind of swimming pools are you familiar with?

Regulation ones?

Olympic size pools measure: 50 metres long, 25 metres wide, and a minimum of 2 metres deep. (25m x 50m x 2m = 2,500m3; 1L = 0.001m3 so 2,500 x 1000 = 2,500,000L)
660,430 gallons of water.

I think this is the first time on record that a shutdown happened when one party controlled the White House, Senate and House.

One party in name only these days.

What do you have against the first amendment?

Agree.

The last presidential election demonstrated that the utility of big money in campaigns just ain’t what it used to be. Just ask Jeb.

Speak of the devil….

http://beta.latimes.com/la-me-ln-santa-ana-riverbed-homeless-20180122-htmlstory.html

Atlanta Airport has a homeless population:

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/security-alert-renews-concerns-over-airport-homeless-population

There does seem to be an increase in homeless in recent years in general, not just in California.

More Boomer Me-Generation-ism. How about, instead, you give some of your wealth to a White Millenial couple so they can have kids and she can stay at home and be Mom for them?

The unemployment rate is the lowest since 1973. You don’t have any excuses.

Other than elephants and rhinos which are under heavy poaching pressure, most large animal species in Africa are at their highest numbers in at least a century.

This would be good news if true. Do you have any citations?

Not too many people are capable of handling such heavy calibers, at least without many years of shooting experience.

Trying to “handle”, or even anticipate, the recoil of a firearm is one of the most common ways people miss and is a complete noob move.

Yeah, it is unexpected, but hippos are crazy dangerous animals. You’re not safe on the ground or the water from them. I guess climb a tree if one is after you.

Steve, I saw this and thought, hmm, how is this showing up on google maps/street view.

My understanding is that this is the Santa Ana river bike trail.

Turns out, not single bit of evidence of a single homeless encampment for the entire trail in google maps.

I thought, wow, and then I checked other public areas that I know have homeless encampments, again, zippo.

So I guess google scrubs this for some reason. Perfectly ok to show my house, how and a where I live, but apparently not the homes of “homeless” people. I don’t even understand the logic, though.

I never understood the appeal of O’Reilly. He made my skin crawl every time I saw him, the few times I could bear it. I really felt he was an evil, sociopathic man.

But Southerners aren’t particularly bright or well organized

The near election of a clown like Roy Moore supports this, although that he ultimately didn’t win is a sign of some small progress on this front.

Tucker was the only mainstream journalist that displayed the slightest interest in or fairness towards the Ron Paul/Liberty movement in 2007-2008 rather than dismissing them all as loons.

Sure, Ron Paul was a deeply flawed candidate, esp. with the Lew Rockwell cohort and such, but he and his ideas had been around forever. Tucker perceived that at least some of the popularity Paul & his ideas were getting was indication of growing political alienation that couldn’t find expression elsewhere.

Whether one agreed with Paul or not, it was a phenomena worth examining with an open mind, i.e., why is this happening, which Tucker did rather than going full Pravda slander mode like the rest of the MSM did.

Another tell that things are going in a positive direction will be when Americans stop dressing in gunny sacks like they do now.

Sick of winning yet?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-pay-38-billion-in-repatriation-tax-plans-new-u-s-campus-1516215419

Money quote:

Mr. Cook touted the plans as building on Apple’s support for the U.S. economy. “We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country and the people who help make our success possible,” he said in a statement.

2018 is going to rock. Don’t sweat the midterms.

As far as I can tell, there’s not much evidence that Southern Jews were more or less white supremacist than other Southern whites. They just seem to have had about the same political views as their gentile peers of similar class next door.

The Jewish people I knew growing up and being a young adult in the Deep South seemed pretty much the same as anyone else. Their Judaism wasn’t a defining trait at all, more like some innocuous trait like being left handed. Never even occurred to anyone that it should be anything of deal.

I’m surprised nobody has brought up Driving Miss Daisy as an example of some typical southern jewish people.

And, BTW, if there was a belief about jews having horns back then, you can bet it would have made its way into that movie some way or another.

Jack. Honey.

You know that there are people here who actually grew up in the south. And who had relatives growing up in the south at the time. Don’t you think that some of them would probably have heard from these relatives that they grew up believing this weird thing, if very many of them actually did?

I was going to make this point. When I was growing up in the Deep South, there were plenty of people around from that time. I never heard anything like this and I heard a lot of old south superstitions still rattling around then, both black and white ones.

I’m not defensive at all about the South either, I would never live there again, plenty of valid reasons to paint them as ignorant/backwards, but a belief that Jews have horns is not one of them.

I vote that your mother got put on, didn’t realize it, and prefers to remember it as some piece of exoticism in a far off land.

Or show us some literature, footnotes, etc, that demonstrate that this was a common belief then. If it is common, it would get mentioned somewhere in memoirs, literature, etc.

BTW, I don’t at all doubt your mother’s tale, that somebody asked her this. It just doesn’t signify anything. Lots of people get asked lots of stupid questions.

Maybe they were kidding her and she didn’t get the joke?

But even if sincere, one question from one idiot is pretty scant evidence from which to make any generalizations about the people of a region.

Falling off your dirtbike onto dirt seems like a better idea than falling off your dirtbike onto pavement.

Generally what causes injuries in a motorcycle accident isn’t what stops your vertical momentum, i.e. the ground, but what stops your far greater forward momentum, things like guard rails, light posts, or in the case of dirt bikes, trees, rocks, etc.

In honor of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, Andy Samberg and had pals had a cartoon celebrating it as a modern black urban Woodstock. No mention of violence, brazen boasting of weed. Pretty sure Flaherty described it descending into exactly what you expect him to describe and the Atlanta authorities had to shut it down.

The same Atlanta authorities shut down the Ramblin’ Raft Race some years earlier which had also become a mass display of debauchery & mayhem and was as white as the driven snow.

This was during the stadium rock era, which events were primarily debauchery and mayhem and almost uniformly white.

And let’s not even get into Euro football hooliganism, which caused some deadly serious mayhem on a regular basis during its heyday.

It isn’t like white people are angels in this regard.

Bannon with his treachery proved the wisdom of Trump having family beside him.

Exactly. People go on about Ivanka being stupid, etc, but Trump can have people bringing him binders full of smart people all day.

What he gets out of Ivanka is absolute loyalty, something scarce on the ground for Trump in Washington.

Remember, Trump is a very stable genius who went from NYC developer to reality tv star & pioneer, to getting himself elected president on his first foray into politics.

I wonder how decadent our already decadent society would be if AIDS hadn’t put the brakes on and slowed things down in the ‘80s?

It is kind of forgotten now, but by the time AIDS came around, herpes had been causing a panic since about 1980 and had already shut down, or seriously dampened, glorification of the one night stand, etc. Nobody ever even talks about herpes anymore but for a few years there, it was like leprosy.

It was certainly where talk first started about “safe sex”, previous to which sex was considered safe, fun healthy, no consequence, all that sexual revolution stuff.

I was a young guy in those years and it was very common for guys a little bit older to be wistfully remembering pre-herpes days, telling guys my age how we missed out on the big party.

This is a really good reply. The one place where I disagree is on giving women credit for not being shallow.

Maybe one-dimensional would have been a more neutral term.

A good example is Patty Ramsey and her daughter JonBenet.

There are few things that have creeped me out as much as the Ramsey family.

What are you guys’ theories on whodunnit?

One of Ansari’s mistakes was bundling her into the taxi (using a code name for the girl which made it sound like this was a regularly established routine) so quickly once it became clear that the sex part of the evening was over.

And even worse choosing a code name that sounds like the stage name for a stripper or a hooker.

I’ll give you guys a couple more thoughts on ol’ Aziz here.

First, if he had actually chilled and slowed down, *before* she told him to, probably it would have worked out ok. But he got all greedy and focused on t&a like some 13yo looking at porn. Let her work for it a bit as well, it is part of the romantic dance.

Second, how on earth could he have thought everything was ok and consensual with a women who gets naked with you, does various and sundry, but goes home without doing the deed?

Everyone is saying she got naked with him so he had every right, etc etc, but are missing the point that she went home without closing the deal. That should have told him that he seriously fumbled at the one yard line.

I’d also wager that if he had noticed this and preemptively texted her, hey, sorry about last night, got carried away, kind of, well, been a gentleman, this story would have never come to light.

But he treated her like a piece of shit while preening as a feminist, and a trolly little one to boot, a situational alpha if there ever was one, and she called him out.

More power to her and he’s getting everything he deserves. I’m going to guess he was an avid student of PUA and took all that stuff about being a shitlord to heart.

(it goes a way to explaining why HR is universally female now).

Having guys in charge of hiring women tends to yield suboptimal outcomes.

Which also explains why the restaurant industry is the #1 source of sexual harassment complaints to the federal government.

1) Many restaurants, certainly non chain ones, don’t have HR departments and usually guys run the place.

2) Much of the hiring is of young, relatively unskilled waitresses.

Anyone who has worked in food service would agree with this, it is amazingly blatant.

Think of it like the Wason selection task. To test (A) If a guy is good looking then (B) women find him attractive, we have to look at instances of A and check the B result (or look at instances of not B and check the A result). There are millions of examples all over the internet of good looking guys who can’t get female attraction to save their lives. So all the examples of A and B prove nothing since there’s also plenty of examples of A and not B.

I know lots of guys like that, tall, good-looking, accomplished, who do far worse with women than one would expect.

It really does show that women, to their credit, are not as shallow as men in their criteria for romantic partners.

One way to gauge the fundamental attractiveness of a guy is how popular was he with the ladies in his teens/early 20s before he had any accomplishments under his belt.

Even James Franco has admitted that he was a loserboy in HS, which is no surprise just looking at him, and has since been enjoying the new found female attention that fame had given him.

Life is very unfair, especially in sexual matters.

Have you ever seen Affleck’s screeching? He’s not in control.

Affleck is beta to the bone just by looking at the dude. If that isn’t convincing enough, review his history with J-Lo.

I guess when a woman comes back to your apartment on the first date, it’s easy for a man to overlook these “physical cues” that she wasn’t interested.

Isn’t that the biggest “physical cue” of all–one that Ansari thought he had read correctly?

That is just a cue that she is ready to consider further cues, and he then totally whiffed, getting needy, treating her like a piece of meat, etc.

This picture is all you need to know about the guy, who I hadn’t heard of until this story broke:

Every woman’s dream guy? Even the small stuff, like how he is holding the glass, is pathetic.

I told you guys that the Star Wars franchise was going down around the time TLJ was released.

I was mocked, as I have been in the past for various other predictions that have been accurate.

Anyhow, I told you guys so.

Remember the other one I made around the same time, that w/in 10 years, there won’t be a single public high school with a football program in the U.S.

Maybe something football-like, with nerfballs or whatever to prevent CTE.

Hopefully Pinker is in a position where he can’t be Watsoned.

Or Weinsteined.

Ms. Winfrey, what would have us do about Pakistan. Do you know anything about Pakistan’s role in that region?
Ms. Winfrey, how do you feel about late term abortion?
Ms. Winfrey, do you support the police?
Ms. Winfrey, we can’t just give everyone a new car. How would you pay for your proposed programs?
Ms. Winfrey, you used to claim to have kept cockroaches as pets. What the hell was that about?
Ms. Winfrey, do you believe in the institution of marriage? If so, why haven’t you married this Steadman guy yet?
Ms. Winfrey, you’ve said old white people “just have to die.” Can you elaborate?

Please.

Look, you just aren’t getting it. All of Trump’s opponents also thought that winning an election was entirely a checklist thing with a dash of charisma/wit for close calls.

Trump didn’t play that game, either immediately deflected in a different direction or provided intelligent counter fire that shuts down the questions. The canonical instance of this was the abortion question, he just cut to the chase, do all you who think it is a crime think the woman should be punished.

Ended all checklists. It is what some – it is just one item in the toolbox – natural, gifted leaders can do rather than figure out how to be the best mandarin/courtier possible.

Anyhow, Oprah will have her bag of tricks, she is a formidable individual.

So, would it be more likely to find blown-off-course Polynesian artifacts in Antarctica than South America?

One of the problems of finding evidence for these types of crossings is that a lot of it is underwater. The oceans have been rising since the last ice age so lots of stuff is underwater now that wasn’t 6000+ years ago.

Currently the oldest archaeological find in the Americas I’ve heard of is Monte Verde, at the southern tip of Chile on the other side of the world from Beringia. It was originally conservatively dated at about 10,000BC, with the team the worked on it ranging in it’s estimates between 10,000BC for the conservatives and 24,000BC for the kooks off the record. Then it started marching slowly back to 14,000BC and Wiki says it’s now considered to be at least 16,000BC. I don’t think they have any genetic data on who the occupants were but they know there were people living in yurts and hunting mammoth in the south of South America way back into the ice age.

Another alternative is it was just an ultimately unsuccessful isolate. Perhaps some people blown off somewhere to an unknown shore. Maybe they prospered for some generations, as a genetic isolate with no other humans nearby. Any number of things could have done them in, climate change, disease, maybe some flaw in their very limited gene pools.

So kind of a more enduring but ultimately unsuccessful Swiss Family Robinson scenario.

Wouldn’t be surprised if there were many types of these events in human history, whether by land or sea.

As a test, I’ll describe how to stop amnesty. Let’s see what happens.

Trump won’t push amnesty if his proxies and top defenders won’t help him with it. If eg @AndreBauerSC tells his handler “I support Trump on everything, but I can’t defend him on amnesty because it’ll end my career” that will work its way up to Trump. When enough Trump proxies do that and Trump can’t find helpers to push amnesty, Trump will realize he has to give it up. If enough people tell @AndreBauerSC that unless he sincerely opposes amnesty it will be held against him, then he’ll get the message. Likewise with Trump’s other proxies: Jon Fredericks, Mike Shields, Ed Martin, etc. They have to see anything other than sincerely opposing amnesty as career suicide. The great thing about that is it can be done with just enough people sending tweets. Who’s willing to help with that?

Nothing is going to happen.

Wouldn’t your proposal be more consonant with the audience at /pol than unz.com?

Fred Reed is a boomer idiot who thinks his Gringo King LARP is somehow applicable to immigration policy in the US.

An incredibly overrated writer.

Agree 100%. He wrote one or two interesting columns years back. Given his overall record, he’s a one man equivalent of the thousand monkeys at typewriters occasionally getting lucky and churning out Shakespeare.

He hasn’t the slightest bit of self-awareness.

He kind of gives it up by occasionally illustrating his columns with some young, attractive Mexican girl.

No different than creepy old farangs hanging out in Thailand, except that he is completely dishonest about his motivations and tries to drape them in virtue.

I’m guessing Viagra (or other ED drugs) have played a large part in who Fred Reed has become in his senescence.

or thinking autistic quoting of numbers is going to overwhelm the rhetorical juggernaut the Left deploys.

What kind of rhetoric should we be using?

Rhetoric with at least some slight, tenuous connection to reality would be a good start.

Regrets if that sounds snippy to you, but you did ask.

Thank goodness America doesn’t need to fix our military by spending our own money on our own defense.

The U.S. is throwing down $12 billion or so per aircraft carrier, that isn’t enough?

Hawaii does this haole fee ID thing also for some beach parks.

Hawaii has had a two-tier pricing system for a long time, kama’aina discounts is what they are generally called. All sorts of businesses, but particularly tourist ones, have them and they can be quite substantial.

It was assimilating the 12 million or so Prussian and otherwise ethnic German (Baltic, Romanian, Hungarian, etc) refugees from Central and Eastern Europe. People don’t get how huge this was. They could have easily become a permanent troublemaking underclass-just about the last thing West Germany in the 1950s needed. The social tensions in places like postwar Bavaria between the expelled and the locals were very visible after the war. Different dialect, often different religion, different personality type, different politics, etc. The refugees were destitute and in competition for resources-and invariably would have been easy prey for extremists had they not been integrated into and given a stake in mainstream West German society, and quick.

Not to mention all the East Germans pouring into West Germany until the Berlin Wall shut it all down.

The West Germans, overloaded with these displaced persons, passed something roughly called the law of equalization of burdens that was designed to make this whole thing a team play for the West German nation rather than putting the onus/poverty/hardships completely upon the refugees. One hears very little about this subject, how the West Germans successfully integrated all these highly diverse “Germans”, many of whose ancestors hadn’t lived in Germany proper, e.g. Volga Germans, for centuries, but it is an interesting topic.

A lot of spooky Teutonic imagery is actually normal European stuff that everyone else grew out of and autistic Krauts retained.

Honestly, you should check google before spewing hipshots.

Lots of countries currently use this marching step, including european ones.

You could look it up, even….