So that would be a resounding no. LOL

“This is like saying..”

No it isn’t. Are you able to actually present your position (whatever it is)? Because you are behaving like a child desperate for attention right now.

But why do Americans consume so many calories?
Overconsumption itself is evidence of metabolic disorder, mediated by hormonal imbalances.

Then why do Americans who move to Japan or South Korea (or most parts of Europe) consume far fewer calories daily? Do they suddenly lose “metabolic disorder, mediated by hormonal imbalances” overseas, only to regain it once coming home? Do we have some dietarily tragic dirt in America?

Wanna bet that Samoans on the same diet would still be fat?

If a Samoan consumed 2,800 calories a day and walked as much as an average Japanese daily, he would not be “fat.” It might be that he is very marginally heavier than a Japanese person (and that’s a maybe), but he wouldn’t look like this:

Incidentally, this picture is from a Korean TV program that delved into obesity in American Samoa: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/korean/en/podcast-episode/dateline-obesity-in-paradise/d0ced3ltz

For Tavita, losing weight has become a matter of life and death.

“I’m so worried for my life because I know I’m too heavy,” he tells reporter Sophie Morgan in this week’s Dateline. “I’m so worried because I really love my wife and my kids and my family.”

Tavita is from Apia, the capital of Samoa, where there is an obesity crisis.

A former taxi driver, he would drink two litres of sugary soft drinks each day and regularly eat mutton flaps, a cheap cut of fatty meat imported from New Zealand.

Poor eating habits are being passed on from generation to generation causing a multitude of related health problems. Many of these health issues are also prevalent in Australia – WHO data shows almost 70 per cent of Australian males are overweight and 58 per cent of females are. But in Samoa and American Samoa, these issues are amplified. [Boldface mine.]

2 liters of sugary drinks have something like 800 to 1000 calories.

I own a 2019 book by Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism. On the inside of the book jacket is the following quote from Donald Trump: “America will never be a socialist country”. It is not hard to find other quotes from Trump indicating opposition to big government socialism.

Most Americans dislike the term “socialism” and few people support it. But I didn’t write about socialism. What I wrote was:

You left out the fact that Trump ran as a big government popular nationalist and won.

You (or I, for that matter) might not agree, but the general electorate modestly favors left-of-center economic policies and right-of-center cultural positions.

Consistently, a majority or plurality of voters support big government economic programs/entitlements such as social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps/EBT, etc. Heck, voters consistent demand lower taxes for themselves all the while supporting higher tax rates for “the rich.”

Meanwhile, a majority or plurality of American voters evince right-of-center cultural positions – they oppose affirmative action/DEI, “trans rights,” illegal immigration, curtailment of religious freedom, etc.

Why do you think Trump wanted his name on the stimulus checks? The President is handing out free cash, dog!

Even you – a self-declared libertarian – approved the stimulus checks.

Note that this is not my preferred position – I am merely describing the actual tendencies of the American electorate.

Many conservative Whites are aware that demographic changes will eventually lead to a Hugo Chavez type of socialist who will expropriate the property of Whites and turn it over to non-Whites.

I actually worked in conservative politics for some years and no one – no conservative whites – ever talked this way. The main fear of white conservatives wasn’t economic (not “expropriation”) – it was and remains cultural – that America, with mass immigration, will be a very culturally alien place where Anglo-American civic and social norms are no longer upheld and, indeed, might not even be Anglophone.

Then there is the rather inconvenient fact that whites are not the largest per capita contributors to the public purse in America – Asians are. Asians have the highest mean income, the highest tax contribution, and the lowest entitlement usage in America (whites are the second highest per-capita net contributors). Hispanics are a wash or a slight negative contributors while blacks are the greatest consumers of the public purse. As of now, the greatest per capita economic “expropriation” by government is against Asians.

English translation: edited by. The only people who curate anything work in museums and art galleries.

I now speak some Millennial.

So the intellectuals at places like National Review who had supported all that were discredited. Trump, who they saw as clownish and lowbrow, was willing to abandon the uniparty consensus and that is why he won in 2016.

You left out the fact that Trump ran as a big government popular nationalist and won.

You (or I, for that matter) might not agree, but the general electorate modestly favors left-of-center economic policies and right-of-center cultural positions.

She makes Obama seem like a genius. The level of inanity is just astounding. I thought heard the dumbest senator/pol ever with Patty Murray (D-WA), but Kamala really takes the cake.

Well, it’s gone now.

There are things she is ditzy about

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If you go to YouTube, there are 12 installments of Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris curated by Washington Free Beacon. But I think the best piece by far is that from – of all places – the Daily Show!

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Veep was one of my favorite TV comedies ever (I worked on the Hill briefly and found the portrayals on the show on the money – sometimes painfully so) and when Kamala became the VP, I knew that Veep had become reality.

It’s bizarre that they’re trying to present Walz as a candidate who represents “joy.” He reminds me of Ed Asner’s crabby character in the movie “Up.”

That character had a reason to be crabby – the love of his life couldn’t have a baby and then she fell ill and died before he, not having fulfilled their joint dreams.

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What’s Walz’s excuse?

All that “joy” stuff is just Instagram-pretend. He and Harris are two of the phoniest political characters in America.

People are fat now, not because genes radically changed in a couple generations, but because people gulp down enormous quantities of food, including lots of sugar and fast carbs–that metabolize quickly jack up blood sugar and insulin response–but they don’t labor away in field or factory or really do much of anything at all to burn calories. The result is … fat.

It used to be said, before the rise of IT (and online pornography), that the two fastest ways of making money in America was 1) starting your own weight loss/diet program and 2) starting your own cult… in other words, the same thing.

Weight loss is simple – consume fewer calories and increase caloric expenditure. But the simplest things are the hardest things to do sometimes. People would rather continue to sit on their butts, stare at their mobile phones, eat lots of food, and demand some sort of a magic solution like a pill that somehow increases caloric consumption (which you can do – with amphetamine-like chemicals, it’s just that such things are terrible for your heart and doubly so for people who already have heart issues due to obesity) or some “amazing” diet… or something else that doesn’t require self-discipline.

They will happily shout from the rooftops that black people have a mean IQ of 85, but if you point out that different humans have different metabolisms, they will put their fingers in their ears and shout CALORIES IN, CALORIES OUT!

What are you talking about? Just like the races have different mean IQ’s, there are mean obesity differences among races:

But metabolism differences – though they exist – are not large and have not been found to be the main drivers of obesity, which are dietary intake and caloric expenditure differences over time. Note, by the way, that even if your “natural” metabolism rate is low, you can increase it with exercise (e.g. by building muscle).

Do you really think the non-obese, the Koreans and the Japanese are controlling their inputs and outputs very precisely?

No precise control of inputs and outputs is necessary.

Every single American I know who moved to Japan or South Korea lost weight. Often significantly. Every. Single. One. (Including Americans who are ethnic Asians.)

And then ALL of those who came back to the U.S gained back the weight (and then some for most of them). ALL of them. Do you think they went through selective hormonal disorders only when in the U.S.?

The answer is pretty darn simple. You don’t eat huge portions of food and then sit on your bottom driving your own car everywhere in East Asia. The portions are small and you walk everywhere or ride the public transport, which requires you to walk to the bus, train or subway stations.

In 1961, Americans consumed about 2,800 calories per day. Now they consume over 3,600 calories per day. You wrote that “even a 30 Cal daily mismatch makes for 1 kg [2.2 lbs] of weight gain per year.” By your math, at 800 calories extra per year, we are talking 26.7 kg (58.7 lbs) of weight again a year. And that’s not even factoring the output – Americans do far less manual labor, play outside or walk outside than in previous decades.

In contrast, the Japanese consume fewer than 2,800 calories per day (yes, fewer than what Americans consumed in 1961). Is it any wonder that they have the lowest obesity in the developed world?

The problem is there was no obesity prior to about 1950, maybe even 1960. Granted, there were probably quite a few less hormonal disorders as well, but it’s been found that so many of the synthetic materials we are in contact with everyday have estrogenic effects on the body, and that is bad for both sexes. But here’s what both come down to:

People had to work harder to survive, and were able to eat less food to do it. This is the caloric intake/expend rule in its simplest form.

Kids used to play out side all day. Now they play video games or stare at their phone. Men worked on their feet. Women used to wash clothes by hand, cook all their meals from scratch, keep up with their kids, scrub floors and walls, work in the garden, and walk to the grocery store.

Now, we subsidize people to sit at home, eat processed food and stare at screens.

to me, claiming that obesity is “genetic” is just a crutch for people to not have to admit that they make poor lifestyle choices. No, you’re fat, and it’s your own fault.

Exactly right, but Americans do not want to hear that 85 year old grandpa is not going to get a hip replacement.

In Canada, you have to wait weeks, if not months, to get an MRI or see a specialist. There is one medical blogger (Sally Satel?) whose mother died of cancer while waiting to see a specialist.

It’s not even a secret that affluent Canadians who need “elective” medical care come to the U.S.

The original article was published in 1991 and thus would only have data from 1990 and before.

Himmelstein and Woolhandler published a series of articles over the years regarding this subject:

Himmelstein DU, Woolhandler S. Cost without benefit. Administrative waste in U.S. health care. N Engl J Med. 1986;314:441-5.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. The deteriorating administrative efficiency of the U.S. health care system. N Engl J Med. 1991;324:1253-8.

Himmelstein DU, Lewontin JP, Woolhandler S. Who administers? Who cares? Medical administrative and clinical employment in the United States and Canada. Am J Public Health. 1996;86:172-8.

Woolhandler S, Campbell T, Himmelstein DU. Costs of health care administration in the United States and Canada. N Engl J Med.2003;349:768-75.

Himmelstein DU, Jun M, Busse R, et al. A comparison of hospital administrative costs in eight nations: US costs exceed all others by far. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014;33:1586-94.

And the latest was: Himmelstein DU, Campbell T, Woolhandler, S. Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, Ann Intern Med. 2020 (Annals.org).

If one looks at the last statistics abstract from 2012, one would see in the table labeled Hospitals—Summary Characteristics: 1990 to 2009 that employment went from 4 million to 5 million. Thus the massive growth in administrators could not have occurred.

Can you cite exactly for me where you found it?

Note that hospital employment has increased despite the fact the number of hospitals has declined significantly since 1975. Concomitantly, the number of hospital beds has declined at even a greater rate. What does that tell you?

Note that when calculating healthcare “administration” costs, Himmelstein includes: insurers’ overhead and administrative costs in hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies and hospices, and physicians offices, so I would expect employment in administration would reflect such areas, not just hospital staff.

https://investingdoc.com/the-growth-of-administrators-in-health-care/

The author of this missive has odd objections. For example, he writes:

This graph has two red flags.

First: Data is represented as percent growth in jobs. Not the actual number of people employed.

This is not a red flag at all. The graph is meant to show cumulative increases by percentage over the years. It’s not a graph showing the number of employees.

Second: Anytime a graph shows a 3,000% change in one direction, I can’t help but ask myself if things may seem too good to be true. (If an investor claims to always beat the market, you should be seeing red flags too.)

This is an non-sequitur. There are all kinds of things that have increased by 3,000% over a 40-year period.

Were there initially 50,000 health care administrators in 1970 compared to the 328,020 active physicians (a ratio of 6.5 doctors to every 1 administrator)? IF that was the case, then a 3,000 % increase would equal about 2,000,000 administrators in medicine by the year 2009.

And?

The odd thing is that the author of this “critique” acknowledges that the growth of the administration in medicine has been very large.

In any case, in the latest Himmelstein (2020) study, it is concluded:

Total Costs of Health Care Administration
Health care administrative costs in the United States in 2017 totaled $812.0 billion, $2497 per capita ($2696 per insured person), or 34.2% of total spending in the categories for which data are available. The comparable estimates for Canada are $551 per capita ($593, assuming U.S. wage rates in doctors’ offices), or 17.0% of expenditures. The difference amounts to over $1900 per capita (or over $2100 per insured person), equivalent to more than $600 billion in excess administrative spending in the United States.

That is a truly heartfelt apology. I think Pope Francis is truly a great and honorable man than a politician/administrator (as most religious heads are). It is a shame that many in the hierarchy speak ill of him.

If Germany and Japan had been real allies and cooperated in attacking the Soviet Union … that would have a different kettle of fish.

Reminds that the Battle of Khalkhin Gol is one of the most important battles of WWII that few people know about. (Decisive defeat of Japan by the Red Army, 1939, Mongolian border, that cooled Japan’s plan to invade and take Siberia et al.)

Mr. Sailer, there is someone commenting at Tyler Cowen’s blog under your name and using the n-word. I assume that’s not actually you. You might want to alert the site owner about the impersonation.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/08/europeans-deserve-to-be-as-cool-as-americans.html#comments

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I’m from America so maybe a little biased, but Europe will never be as cool as America. Why? Because we have all the niggers, and they are what makes America great.

Try a different browser.

Why do you think so? He came closer in 2020 in Wisconsin than in Michigan or Pennsylvania.

With WI, it’s always the last ten thousand votes the GOP seem unable to muster.

Plus look at the actual polls now. Harris does the best in WI out of the three.

Vance and Eastern Europeans don’t get along – he really hurts the ticket in PA – home to 104,000 Ukrainians and a similar number of Lithuanians, most of whom are traditional Republican voters, many (if not most) of whom will not vote for the Republican ticket for the first time in their lives.

Vance adds little electorally to Trump (nor is he a good campaigner – his senate campaign underperformed other Republicans in his state). I suspect he was supposed to be a Trumpian successor-in-waiting, picked when the Trump campaign was pretty buoyant about defeating Biden handily.

Now that the opponents are Harris/Walz, I bet the campaign wished it had picked someone like Glenn Youngkin instead.

OK, your opinion is that Ono is the best Judoka of all time.

You really have exceptionally poor reading comprehension, don’t you?

I never wrote such a thing. Go back, take a remedial reading course, and read my comments again.

How exactly counts that is actually part of patient care such as pharmacist, medical lab personnel, x-ray techs, nurses and who is doing nothing but carrying a clip board.

Whether they carry a clip board or a stethoscope, those are all clinicians, not administrators. People in administration are those who engage in non-clinical work such as patient intake, regulatory compliance or billing, for example.

The source of the graph is stated clearly underneath the graph. Look up Himmelstein and Woolhandler.

And for the international comparisons: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1264127/per-capita-health-administrative-costs-by-country/

Already by 1999, the Himmelstein study found that 30+% of healthcare costs in the U.S. were administrative (other studies put the figure at 25+%). It’s only grown since as compliance and billing costs have risen dramatically.

I think a large part of administrative costs are 1) pass the potato/bill to someone else and 2) compliance with guvmint regulations.

One advantage of true universal health care is that reason 1 might go away.

“Might” is right. Of course, we know for certain – under “true universal health care” – reason 2 will grow even more massively.

Remember “low cost, high quality, wide access,” optimization? “True universal health care” may or may not result in low cost, but it’s almost certain that quality will decline and access will be limited. All countries with large scale government-funded healthcare ration care.

She’s cute, but no cuter than tens of thousands of other girls peddling their lives on-line. Do that many young women really avidly click through her pics and then click on ads?–“Oh I love that bikini, if I get it my butt will look just like hers!”

I guess the answer is … yes they do. It’s a weird world.

Social media is destructive, but it’s been an utter calamity for young women.

Except staying thin is not as easy as it sounds. It’s not like dressing pretty or acting in a ladylike way.

All those – staying trim or being ladylike – require proper inculcation and self-discipline.

But American society – with its love of driving everywhere and not walking and eating lots of junk food – does make it hard for ordinary people to do it.

There is no magic solution to obesity. It’s simply input vs. output and the excess becomes fat. All the various diets and compositions of food are marginal in effect. Eating less and moving more. That’s the secret behind the Japanese and the South Koreans being the least obese people in the developed world (people go on about how “processed food” is the real culprit in the West, well, Japanese and Korean diets are heavy in processed food as well).

I myself scared off a vicious-looking mid-size dog who was barking at me, by walking briskly towards her and shouting a kiai at her.

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By the way, it’s hilarious that people think that they can shoot (bows or air rifles) at the Olympic level. “It’s just standing still and pulling the trigger. How hard can that be?”

LOL.

The Mayor of Nagasaki, however, did not invite representatives of Israel and Russia “in order to have a peaceful ceremony” free of international political acrimony and was swiftly condemned and boycotted by Western governments.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/nagasaki-mayor-defends-israel-snub-at-atomic-bomb-memorial/

C’mon, of course the Brits won, or else they would have had their country invaded and occupied by foreigners.

Nothing says total British victory like these men being heads of the government:

Yeah, Nordic women are overrated. If you’re looking for blond, slim, feminine women, you’ll find them across the Baltic Sea, in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine or Russia and Belarus

Years ago, my wife and I watched a short documentary about mail order brides from Russia. One of the women running a dating agency for foreign men and Russian women was a Russian expat living in the U.S. When asked what made Russian women so attractive compared to American or British women, she responded with something like:

“Actually young American and British girls are just as pretty as Russian girls. The difference is that Russian girls as they grow up put much more into appearance than American and British girls. They stay thin and they never leave the house unless they are wearing full makeup, hair done, and wearing a dress. Even to run to the grocery store. Now that I’ve been living in America, I sometimes find – to my horror – that I throw on sweat pants in a hurry, no makeup or hair done, and drive to the grocery store. I don’t look as good as I used to in Russia.”

And this was years ago. Today, the obesity, the tattoos, and general lack of grooming and putting on a pretty (forget about elegant) appearance have gotten much worse in the U.S. It’s not that Russian women (or Swedish ones) are genetically more attractive due to “low mutational load” or some such pseudo-scientific nonsense. It’s because the rest of the world has gotten richer and the women in some of those country have stayed (still) feminine while women in the West, especially the Anglosphere, are increasingly infected with a bizarre ideology that valorizes ugliness and lack of femininity.

Now, to be fair, it’s the same with men. When I go to certain parts of Europe or East Asia, I note that men are generally not obese and try dress in a stylish manner. Contrast to the U.S. where – even in affluent areas – men dress and act like slobs. Of course, the difference is that, traditionally in the sexual market, men’s status was judged on their career success and women by their beauty, so men have always been less “into looks” than women. But still, when you look at the photographs and video footages from the 1950’s and 60’s America (or even the 1980’s), the collapse in standards of appearance is shocking. Priests shouldn’t have to repeatedly admonish their parishioners, “Please let’s dress our ‘Sunday best’ for the Lord. Please let us not come to Mass in t-shirts or shorts.”

So you’re an advocate for height classes now?

You do realize that 5’11” and 290 lbs and 6’8” 311 lbs have physique differences, right?

There is a reason why the heaviest (no weight limit) weight classes in Judo for both men and women are the least athletic and competitive of the divisions. They are filled with extremely blubbery looking “whales” who clearly move the worst of all the competitive Judoka across the weight classes.

Yamashita was one of the greats, to be sure, having gone undefeated in 200+ matches and never having lost to a non-Japanese player ever. But he fought in a different period with very different rulesets than Teddy Riner, so comparisons are not just difficult, they are useless.

That said, if we ignored all the competition rulesets, and just made them hold standard grips on each other and saw who threw whom, I’d speculate that it’d likely be Yamashita throwing Riner. As I mentioned before, many French players, and Teddy Riner in particular, rely greatly on “negative Judo” via defensive gripping and playing Shido (penalty) games, something that is occasionally described as “Europeanization of Judo.”

Never in his life has Riner ever thrown someone like this, despite fighting smaller competitors:

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Shohei Ono has lost only ten matches in his entire (senior) career. I think he lost one match in the last 8-9 years of his career. And something like 65% of his matches were won with Ippon (total victory). He is is far the most dominant Judo athlete of the last ten years or so. Don’t take my word for it, listen to Travis Stevens, the Olympic silver medalist in Judo and one of the best in the world in his day.

Has there been a similar admission anytime by a Muslim Mullah or a Catholic priest?

Nothing by a Mullah or a Rabbi.

But have you been napping on the Popes?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/pope-francis/pope-francis-apologizes-catholic-priest-sex-abuse-scandal-sorrow-shame-n902121

I went through a brief socialist phase as a young man (yes, I was reading Bertrand Russell) and, being curious about where rubber met the road in leftist political causes, tried to experience it firsthand by volunteering for various causes.

And, yes, there were pretty girls in those causes. 😉

But, in all seriousness, Planned Parenthood was a wake up call, an experience I shall not forget to my dying days

LOL. Now you are in charge of topic control around here?

So, is the topic of the role of Jews in pornography also off-limits due to “antisemitism”?

People have a vast sense of entitlement. And a rather narrow focus. They’ll bitch about the drug they “need”–that did not exist five years ago–costing a packet and think because they “need” it, it should be free (or at cost of production or something). You can always settle for the next best thing that has been around for a while and off patent and much cheaper. No one is “screwing” you, the drug you “need” did not exist until someone did the lab work, testing, approval and production. If they hadn’t done that work, the drug would simply not exist, not be available for you at all at any price.

This entitlement mentality is omnipresent, but is particularly pronounced in healthcare for obvious reasons. In short, people demand that it should be 1) high quality, 2) low cost, and 3) easily and widely available and accessible.

As you are aware, this is not possible in the real world. As you wrote, this requires a trade off.

That said, both in drug development and healthcare in general, the American consumer pays an enormously inflated premium for the massive administrative state that has risen:

The U.S. per capita spending in “administration” in healthcare is more than 13 times that in Sweden and more than 9 times than in the UK, and 5 times more that in Canada, for example. Switzerland is generally considered to have healthcare costs that are similar or only slightly lower than those of the U.S. – in other words, it’s often described as the country with the second highest cost of healthcare in the world – and unsurprisingly it has the second highest per capita administrative cost in healthcare in the world after the U.S.

No matter how much we try to optimize among quality, cost, and access of actual healthcare provision, we will always have extremely expensive overall healthcare (and drugs) costs unless the administrative costs are dramatically reduced.

They both have to go back. 😉

I’m referring to AnotherDad‘s stated fondness for 16-year-old girls.

I enjoyed seeing the Dutch women on the track.

Aren’t they too old for you?

I make allowances for the athletically fit.

However, I’ve always thought it a little unfair that this tremendous success so completely overshadowed a different Hollywood film released that same year that dealt with a similar theme. I’ve seen The Thirteenth Floor a couple of times, and although I’d hardly rank it alongside its far better known rival, I thought the plot included some interesting ideas and felt it might have gotten far more attention under other circumstances.

There is a scene in that film that struck a chord with me. It’s when the protagonist reached the edge of the town.

I had a similar, real life experience. Some decades ago, I lived in a small, Midwestern town for a few years and, one day, decided on a whim to drive on a town road to see where it led. It ended abruptly with a corn field – it was literally the edge of the town. So I drove the opposite way and then it also ended with a corn field. I smiled and muttered something like, “I am a rat in a corn maze (that’d be a maize maze, I guess). There is no escape.”

If yo liked The Thirteenth Floor, you might also enjoy a similar film that was released a year earlier in 1998 called Dark City.

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The Matrix didn’t arise out of nothingness all of sudden. There was a series of films like these in those years. I think there was a rising consciousness among people that the tremendous growth of information technology was making the willful divorce between object reality and perception not only possible, but more pervasive and salient.

Alas, modern Swedish women tend to be on the fat side and to display masculine features. And I’m talking about the natives. 1984 was 40 years ago, Steve. The world has changed, not for the better.

It might be worth quoting myself here about the Swedes: https://www.unz.com/isteve/swedish-mothers-vs-italian-mothers/#comment-6282727

There is a weird fetish about Swedish women in this country. I think much of it is due to clever marketing (like “The Swedish Bikini Team,” which wasn’t Swedish at all, but an American beer marketing campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Bikini_Team ).

I first visited Scandinavia in the early 1990’s (had a female Swedish friend – not a girlfriend, just a friend – and I went to visit her and her family). Even though the Swedish GDP per capita at the time had nearly doubled in the preceding decade, I recall not being impressed by it – much of Sweden looked surprisingly grey and drab (and after I visited it, Sweden fell into a deep recession, from which it took some years to recover). Things have changed since then, of course, and Sweden is much richer and even the architecture is more vibrant looking now (although, unfortunately, so is the population – more VibrantTM).

And, yes, I did see attractive young women in Sweden (my friend was quite pretty as well), but college age females were pretty attractive in many other places too. They didn’t look especially more attractive than Americans and other Europeans of similar age and background in those days. From what I could tell back then (and since), older Swedish women looked a lot like older American and other European counterparts – for example, this was (is) probably typical:

In general, I found them much less elegant than Italian women I saw when I visited that country. Even though, aesthetically I prefer the blonde, blue-eyed look, Italian women were, on average, more fashionable and, dare I say, sexier than Swedish women. They oozed a certain femininity that the Swedish women seemed not to display.

The most physically attractive concentration of women I ever saw was at a Russian bar in Brighton Beach in the 1980’s – it was full of exquisite-looking young Eastern European women. Alas, my friends and I were promptly thrown out in short order (we were underaged).

So no answer to the fact that 14 out of 14 nanny screwers were not Jewish and Catholics were prevalent.

This is just sad. If you like making up your own questions and answers, you don’t have to do it public.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is Jewish? Who knew?

This sounds a lot like, “But white people commit crimes too! In fact, they are the majority of the criminals in this country! So associating blacks with criminality is totally racist!”

Generally speak, black men will shtup anything on two legs

Generalizing about blacks, TRUTH! Generalizing about Jews? Why you dirty, dirty antisemite!

Let’s get back to what I wrote, shall we?

Say, do you ever note that males from two ethno-racial groups, in particular, in this country seem to be disproportionately involved in these kinds of sexual shenanigans (apparently from the inability to control animal instincts), including all these “me too” incidents – blacks and the ethnic group to which Doug Emhoff belongs?

I wasn’t referring specifically and narrowly to dalliances with a nanny. I was referring to sexual transgressions in general. You clearly recognize that black (or as you frequently and archaically call them “negro”) men disproportionately tend to be involved in such behaviors. You also, in the past, have repeated leftist talking points about the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, despite those talking points being grossly distorted. But an observation about Jewish men seem to send you into a tizzy. Let’s see what this one dirty antisemite, “Rabbi Daniel Brenner” wrote about it: https://jweekly.com/2018/01/24/tough-jewish-men-admit-metoo-us/

Like a lot of other Jewish men, I have been quietly keeping a scorecard of the number of Jewish men in the #MeToo headlines.

Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffman, Jeffrey Tambor, Mark Halperin, Leon Wieseltier, James Toback, Israel Horowitz, Al Franken, James Levine, Jeremy Piven, Woody Allen, Brett Ratner, Michael Oreskes, Bruce Weber — all have been accused in one way or another of sexual assault or harassment, primarily in the workplace. Let’s not forget that Anthony Weiner is currently in a cell in a federal penitentiary in Massachusetts for sending obscene material to a minor, and Rabbi Barry Freundel will be spending the next five years behind bars for videotaping women as they prepared for a ritual bath. The list is even longer, and as the list has grown, so has the quiet shame that many Jewish men are feeling.

When Larry David opened his latest monologue on “Saturday Night Live” by joking about the “very disturbing pattern” of Jewish men among the accused, he was slammed by the Anti-Defamation League for being both “offensive” and “insensitive” and got an earful from the Twitter-verse. When Mark Oppenheimer wrote in Tablet magazine that Weinstein is a “deeply Jewish kind of pervert,” he had to follow up quickly with a public apology for implying that there was a unique type of Jewish sexual perversion.

And let’s take a look at what this other dirty antisemite “Mark Oppenheimer” wrote:

The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein
The disgraced film producer is a character straight out of Philip Roth, playing out his revenge fantasies on the Goyim

Better than perhaps any other author, Roth captured the particular anxiety of the Jewish American man in the twentieth century, finally coming into power but, having not grown up with it, unsure of what he’s supposed to do now. All those years craving unattainable Gentiles, but never before the means to entice them.

Harvey is cut from the same cloth. Growing up in Queens, he fantasized of fame and fortune, and, once he got them, he struggled to maintain them by building himself into a larger-than-life figure. He yelled at employees like he was a studio boss from the 1920s—the only thing missing was a riding crop. He ran Oscars campaigns like they used to in Old Hollywood. And he harassed women not necessarily to use them as instruments of his pleasure, but to use them as instruments of his power.

It goes without saying that nearly every one of these women—Rose McGowan, Ambra Batillana, Laura Madden, Ashley Judd, etc.—was a Gentile, all the better to feed Weinstein’s revenge-tinged fantasy of having risen above his outer-borough, bridge-and-tunnel Semitic origins.

I guess these authors are self-loathing Jews who need to grovel and seek forgiveness for their self-hate:

Editor’s note: Since its publication, an apology has been issued about this piece.

Yesterday I published a piece on Harvey Weinstein that many found offensive. The analysis I offered was hasty and ill-considered, especially in light of the even graver accusations that were published by the New Yorker this morning. I take this as a lesson in the importance of knowing as much as one can about a given story, and in taking the time to think and feel things completely through before opining. I apologize for not doing so in this case.

Olympic boxers wear headgear and the matches are for only 3 or 4 rounds totaling 8 or 9 minutes so I think the risk of brain damage is less than for professional boxing. I can’t say it is zero but logically it should be a lot less.

Brain damage is cumulative and much of it comes from training (especially hard sparring), not the actual matches. And in that context, the efficacy of headgear in reducing brain injury is unclear (headgear is effective in preventing cuts and external damage to the head).

doesn’t the Church simply recognize that the communicant has excommunicated himself, through his actions?

Yes. Hence “automatically.”

The way US colleges train such a large number of other countries’ Olympians using college football revenue

Do you actually have citations for:

1. “US colleges train such a large number of other countries’ Olympians…” and
2. They do so “using college football revenue”?

Most developed countries have lavishly state-funded (and often state-directed) Olympic athlete development programs. While some athletes might train in the U.S., because that might be where the best coaches or competition might be for their specific sports (e.g. swimming or tennis), this is not the case for many other Olympic sports.

For example, Judo is traditionally the Olympic sport with the greatest number of participating countries. And internationally competitive Judo athletes often train in places such as Japan, France, and South Korea, and not the U.S. which is quite weak in the sport (the U.S. has had only one female gold medalist in Judo – Kayla Harrison who did it twice – but never a male gold medalist). For example, Canada’s recently crowned Olympic Judo gold medalist (its first in history) Christa Deguchi was raised and trained in Japan and then switched representation to Canada a few years ago (her father is a Canadian citizen) – she still lives and trains in Japan.

If Judo is too “exotic,” we can use the example of wrestling. Olympic wrestling has freestyle and Greco-Roman while the dominant form of wrestling in the U.S. is “American folk style” that no other country has. No foreign wrestlers train in the U.S. to compete at the Olympics (Russia and Japan are powerhouses – countries in Eurasian “wrestling belt” running from the Caucasus through Iran and Central Asia also do well). U.S. usually does well internationally, but the American male wrestlers fared relatively poorly this year, winning no gold medal in the sport for the first time in over half a century.

If wrestling is too “fringe,” how about baseball, supposedly America’s pastime? Although it’s not at the 2024 Olympics, it was present up and until the 2008 and then was revived for the 2020 (2021) Tokyo Games. In the last six Olympics where there was baseball, the U.S. won gold only once in 2000, while Cuba won three times while Japan and South Korea also won once each. Although all three countries (eventually) send some of their athletes to play professionally in the U.S., they have native baseball programs that train these athletes. These athletes are – almost exclusively – developed in their own countries’ national programs, not by American colleges subsidized by college football programs.

So your opinion is that Yahusiro Yamashita would have beaten Teddy Riner?

Stop making up things I didn’t write. I don’t play “Babe Ruth would have beaten Hank Aaron” type of speculations, because they are idiotic.

Yamashita was 5’11” (and about 290 lbs in his prime). Teddy Riner is 6’8″ (and 311 lbs).

In the last ten years or so, the consensus best Judoka has been Shohei Ono, not Teddy Riner. Ono’s division – U73 kg – was absolutely stacked with some of the best Judoka of the period and Ono dominated them all.

As I mentioned before, Riner fought in the least competitive division and always fought those who were considerably smaller than he.

If a Korean ever wins a Taekwondo medal again, I will give him full credit.*

What a strange thing to write. South Korea won the most gold medals in Tae Kwon Do at the Paris Olympics as did Japan in Judo.

where a third of the population holds a black belt

Each country is highly limited in the number of athletes it can field for the Olympics in both sports. For example, the 2-time world champion in the men’s U66 kg division in Judo, Joshiro Maruyama, didn’t get to compete at the Olympics, because Japan could only field ONE athlete per division and the spot went to Hifumi Abe who won gold at the Tokyo Games and again at the Paris Games just now.

I almost had to kick one 130 lb. guy’s azz in Kyung Ju 25 years ago

Almost?

Was this you?

I realize abortion is a scary word for Catholics

Abortion is not “a scary word for Catholics.” That is some sort of a projection on your part.

What abortion is an evil practice of extinction of a young human life, usually for the convenience of the woman involved and the financial benefit of the “doctor” performing it. The Church – quite appropriately – automatically excommunicates any Catholic getting it, performing it, facilitating it or helping it.

And I was a pro-lifer long before I was a Catholic, a position that was derived from my firsthand experience working as a volunteer for an abortion clinic.

To me the hilarious thing about these nanny-shtupping incidents (see also Arnold) is that the nanny in question is not usually some lithe gorgeous young thing that even a saint might be tempted to shtup like you might imagine. They are short and fat and quite plain. I do wonder whether these men actually pursued these women or whether it was vice versa and they just didn’t have the character to say no when a freebie was offered. Of course, “free” is never free.

Some people are very animal-like. It’s not about beauty or attraction for them. It’s just lust.

Say, do you ever note that males from two ethno-racial groups, in particular, in this country seem to be disproportionately involved in these kinds of sexual shenanigans (apparently from the inability to control animal instincts), including all these “me too” incidents – blacks and the ethnic group to which Doug Emhoff belongs?

Thanks.

their proposed First Gentleman cheated on his first wife with his young child’s teacher, got her pregnant, and then the baby was aborted.

There is a chance that the woman gave birth to a girl named Brook, and that “did not keep the baby” means she subsequently gave Brook up for adoption.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13703933/Kamala-Harris-Doug-Emhoff-cheated-nanny-Najen-Nayler.html

Biden’s granddaughter Natalie was featured prominently on Hunter Biden’s laptop with highly inappropriate bikini photos, as well as other scarily suggestive photos she was sending him when he was still running around loose. Also on the laptop were emails of Hunter complaining about his dead brother’s wife not allowing Natalie (she was about 10 at the time) to visit him for a weekend alone, even though it was on recommendation by her therapist. A professional therapist advised Natalie’s mother that allowing Natalie to be alone with Hunter under any circumstances would be an extremely bad idea.

It’s amazing that no news organization has delved into this, as well as Biden harassing his own daughter to allow him to take showers with her when she was 12 years old. It got so bad, she had to take showers at 1:00 am to ensure he was already asleep, so wouldn’t jump into the shower with her.

Any reporter can find the pictures on Hunter’s laptop. Any reporter can read Biden’s daughter’s diary. And probably most have, yet… radio silence.

Now imagine that Trump or Trump Jr. was like this. And imagine the media firestorm.

What is the relevance to Election 2024?

That the “First Gentleman” the MSM and the Establishment are pushing is a sleazy dirtbag who does not take responsibility for the bastard child he fathered. And that’s the man that their president-to-be chose to marry.

And if your retort is that Trump’s life is full of sleazy episodes, well, then, at the least, the left’s claim to moral superiority doesn’t exactly hold up, does it?

And considering all sorts of withering MSM attacks on Vance as “weird,” digging up his private texts and whatnot, this lack of coverage of the dirt on the left exposes yet more hypocrisy of the MSM.

Kamala is doing exactly what Biden did for the 2020 campaign – what someone called a basement campaign.

Both are prone to awkward gaffes and have no upside to doing interviews. But that’s okay, that just means the GOP can keep running old footage like the “Have you been to the border?” bit or the “Be woke” bit.

Democrats act like Biden’s dementia was some big new discovery (“We’ve been lied to!”), but he was already manifesting it prior to the 2020 election, which culminated with him introducing his granddaughter as his deceased son and then “correcting” the mistake by confusing her with her cousin.

No, it was there already and the press just “nothing to do see here” the whole thing.

As others have pointed out, the press is now on full-court press to throw the election to Kamala. Witness the New York Times’ brief coverage of the scandalous revelation about Kamala’s husband Doug Emhoff. It reported of Emhoff confessing to an “old” affair (he didn’t confess, he was exposed), for which he allegedly “paid the price” and quickly transitioned to how his ex-wife thinks Kamala is just great!

What the NYT leaves out is that Emhoff impregnated a much younger elementary school teacher of one of his children and then the woman in question “did not keep the baby.” In other words, the mainstream press is desperately trying to “nothing to see here” the fact that their proposed First Gentleman cheated on his first wife with his young child’s teacher, got her pregnant, and then the baby was aborted. Classy, huh?

I see NO resemblance to anything regarding Teddy Riner to “affirmative action”… except of course the obvious.

The affirmative action mentality comment was directed at you, not Teddy Riner. Do you need me to explain further?

Oleksander Usyk is 220 lbs. and he has defeated Derick Chisora, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury who are all 25-40 lbs. heaver than he is. And this is in a COMBAT sport.

In boxing (and striking in general), speed matters a great deal (again, this is not to say that size does not matter – it obviously does, but speed advantage is crucial in striking where the weight differential is not great).

Judo is a grappling sport where strength and size matter a great deal (perhaps even more so than wrestling, because Judo has much greater gripping component and is a higher body friction sport).

Teddy Riner is a transcendent athlete who is able to utilize his god given size to his advantage. That’s why he’s the most rewarded (and arguably the best) judoka ever.

He is not “transcendent” (whatever you think that means) and is not the best Judoka ever. You are only saying this, because he is black.

He is one of the winningest Judoka ever, but he fights in the least competitive division in Judo (100+ kg), against opponents who are always smaller. From a technical stand point, he’s not even in the top 10 best. Not even close.

Utilizing skill and energy transfer against superior opponents is… kind of the whole point of judo, isn’t it?

That’s a perfect affirmative action sentiment – everyone else should fight a bigger opponent (me) to prove his skills, but I get to fight only smaller opponents. And then if I win thusly, I am the greatest!

Combat sports have weight classes and sex-segregated matches for good reasons.

This is not to say that you cannot overcome size with skill, but in that scenario (often found in real life conflicts), the skill disparity has to be large, something that doesn’t happen much, if at all, in elite athletic contests.

Is that as dull as it sounds?

Yes. While undoubtedly effective at winning matches, it is boring as heck to watch and it is completely counterproductive to fostering Judo as an effective martial art.

The natural texture of black women’s hair is that of a Brillo pad.

Have you been going around and feeling the texture of black women’s hair?

I agree. Pandering to Blacks with things like the Platinum Plan did not work for Trump in 2020. The following writer advocates the Sailer Strategy:

This is what is known as a false choice, because there is a range of political options between “pandering to blacks” and an explicitly white-ist political platform.

Mr. Sailer is correct that if the Democratic Party turned into “the” black party, it would lose – all the time. But the corollary to that is that if the GOP turned into “the” white party, it would lose – because about 30-40% of whites would never support an explicitly racialist party and having 65% of the whites arrayed against all other voters is a losing proposition in the long run.

The trick here is to turn the GOP into a populist-normie-ist party that stands against the likes of Wokism, sexual deviancy, affirmative action, etc. and pursues implicitly pro-white and majoritarian policies while picking up coalition partners/allies among Hispanics and Asian (and some blacks) especially among men who are repelled by all the abnormalities the left pushes.

In many states, including mine, rape is the only crime that is punishable by the death penalty. It just happens to be imposed on the wrong individual. “White suburbanites” should ponder this.

Remember the old joke about libertarians? You know, the secret sin theory of politics.

Folks can check my math, but I do not think Trump needs Nevada.

That’s rather beside the point. If he carries the rest of the sunbelt battleground states (AZ, NC, GA), he will likely carry NV as well. The current polling certainly indicates so. The only one of the four getting “close” again is GA.

Again, if Trump wins ONE of the three blue wall states – MI, WI, and PA, he will likely win. WI is the toughest of the three for Trump, so either MI or PA will do. Now that Josh Shapiro is NOT the VP candidate and Biden is not on the ballot, PA should be more gettable.

Mr. Sailer wrote:

Americans tend to like black Americans and want to do nice things for them….

In response, you wrote:

I don’t think that’s true at all. Most Americans don’t hate black Americans, but doing nice things for them and fawning over them is largely forced, because everyone knows that it’s expected from above, and nobody really knows what to do with blacks. Nobody likes affirmative action and gimmes for blacks when they are on the receiving end or view themselves as paying for it.

I do think that many white Americans – especially on the left – want to do nice things for blacks, but “tend to like black Americans” is completely wrong and is contradicted by real life, revealed preferences such as intermarriage and housing patterns. Nice educated white liberals might want a nice educated black liberal as a token, emblematic friend, but he/she certainly stays the heck away from most blacks.

Mr. Sailer misses some trends in this article, because of his own particular priors. For example, he writes:

In his vague way, Trump appears to sense that one issue that might unite the white, black, and red historic nations of America is opposition to ceding rule of the United States to an Obama-Kamala-style global elite ruling class…

This is more of Mr. Sailer’s wishful thinking than is reflective of reality. All statistical indicators are that, far from a nativist white, black, and red alliance, the broad political trends seem to indicate a white-Hispanic working class political coalition emerging versus the high-low coalition of elites (largely white/Jewish/South Asian) and blacks.

Mr. Sailer also seems to miss the sexual dimension to the above political coalitions. Increasingly, males of all races – even blacks – especially those of the working class segment are trending toward a coalition with working class white males. Recently, commenter Elmer T. Jones wrote a very insightful and humorous comment, in which he described Kamala Harris as “the Stock Photo DEI Candidate.” He went on to write, “You’ve seen her on every corporate web page under the “Careers” tab. She’s leading teams, giving presentations, programming space vehicles.” (https://www.unz.com/isteve/governor-of-isteve-content-generator-mississippi-gets-veep-nod/#comment-6699067)

There is a reason why the stock photo DEI is almost always a black woman. It’s because “women of color” are often the biggest beneficiaries of DEI employment. Black women tend to have higher educational attainment rate than black men and, being women, are more ideally suited to nebulous, talky fields such as “human resources” and the like that contain a large fraction of DEI hires. There is even some statistical evidence that affirmative action benefits black (and even more Hispanic) women at the expense of black men: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/08/the-long-run-impacts-of-banning-affirmative-action-in-us-higher-education.html

Results suggest that banning affirmative action results in a decline in URM women’s college degree completion, earnings, and employment relative to non-Hispanic White women, driven largely by impacts on Hispanic women. Thus, affirmative action bans resulted in an increase in racial/ethnic disparities in both college degree completion and earnings among women. Effects on URM men are more ambiguous and indicate significant heterogeneity across states, with some estimates pointing to a possible positive impact on labor market outcomes of Black men.

Mr. Sailer is correct, of course, to point out that black elites are more admixed than the black masses. But this is not unusual. I’d posit – based on housing, educational, income, and intermarriage data – that white elites are also more admixed (probably with Asians) than the majority of ordinary whites. Indeed, this is true of all race/ethnicities in the U.S. (in other words, upscale Asians are more admixed than ordinary Asians and upscale Hispanics are likewise). See the median income data by marriage types below:

And this has been the case for millennia globally. During the heydays of the Roman Empire, for example, the genetics of the city of Rome was shifted toward the Levant, likely suggesting that the long distance trade encouraged migration of merchants, ambitious aspirants and the like from the Levant to the imperial capital that led to admixtures, which later disappeared as the empire and long distance trade collapsed (the city’s population was replenished still later from the countryside).

You can see the same phenomenon at work with, say, JD Vance, who – once he rose to the hallowed halls of power, aka Yale Law School, from Appalachia, romanced and married Usha Chilukuri, a daughter of South Asian immigrants and forming a “power couple.”

PA matters a lot to Kamala and Shapiro can help her there. But he will be unhelpful for MI, which she also needs.

Kamala has to sweep WI, MI, and PA to win (I’m assuming Trump wins AZ, NV, NC, GA).

That makes it sound like Trump has to pull off a miracle to win, whether Shapiro is on the ticket or not.

He’ll likely carry the sunbelt battleground states, so he only has to win one of the three blue wall states of WI, MI, and PA. Wouldn’t take a miracle.

With Biden out of the way, PA is in some ways easier unless Kamala picks Shapiro. But if she picks Shapiro, she might alienate the Muslim voters and MI and make the latter easier for Trump (who is leading there by a small margin already).

The big question is, how long with Kamala’s press-pushed honeymoon last? It will likely sustain through the convention, but will it decline afterwards?

The general global consensus is gold medals then if tied silver medals and then if tied bronze medals.

Australia, by the way, is a huge beneficiary of there being many medals available for swimming.

You left out subcon Indians.

They do terribly in many (most?) sports. Indians tend to have “skinny fat” bodies and exceedingly high rates of heart problems. Part of it is environmental, lifestyle and dietary, but there is a genetic component as well.

None of that is good for athletics.

That’s a fantastic video with non-stop woke-pushing with that weird, uncomfortable laughter.

Run that non-stop, end the commercial with Trump with his fist up shouting “fight, fight, fight,” with blood on his face.

Even with Kelly, AZ is probably out of reach for Kamala.

However, with Shapiro on the ticket, she has an even shot of getting PA.

Assuming that Trump carries all the sunbelt “battleground” states (AZ, NV, NC, GA), he only has to win one of the three “blue wall” states – WI, MI, PA. WI will probably go Kamala’s way, so Trump has to win either MI or PA.

If Kamala picks Shapiro and wins PA, Trump has to win MI.

White – 71.4%
Black – 18.6%
Hispanic – 1.1%
Asian – 8.9%

So, whites are the most numerous (makes sense given the population distribution), blacks and Asians punch above their weight. And, as usual, Hispanics punch way below their weight in athletics.

As of 08/05/2024, the international medal count ranking is:

1. US
2. China
3. France
4. Australia
5. Great Britain
6. South Korea
7. Japan
8. Italy
9. Netherlands
10. Germany

the greatest Judoka of all time

Teddy Riner might be one of the winningest Judoka of all time, but he is not the greatest. He benefits from being 6’8″ and 300+ lbs. Every single opponent he fights is smaller than he (he fights 100 kg+ division which has no weight limit).

The best Judoka of recent years has been Shohei Ono, who fought in the most competitive division in men’s judo – U73 kg. This is an opinion shared by many, likely most, high level Judoka, including Jimmy Pedro and Travis Stevens (the former is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and world champion as well as coach to Kayla Harrison, Ronda Rousey, Marti Malloy, and Travis Stevens, all Olympic medalists).

you should send your sons to Paris for a rather costly, yet valuable, seminar…

The French style of Judo is widely reviled for being “negative Judo.” It relies extensively on defensive gripping to forestall attacks and gamesmanship to induce shido (penalty) on the opponents. The French are not known for being the best throwers. The Japanese are without peer in throws like Uchi Mata and Sode Tsurikomi Goshi. The Koreans are the best at Seoi Nage and Tai Otoshi. The Georgians and the Mongolians excel in “body Judo” (big pickups and suplex-type throws).