I see what you did there.

What can be done during the second Trump term to prepare for national divorce after Trump?

Get all the good National divorce lawyers on retainer so the blue states get stuck with the ‘three tries to pass the bar’ tier.

Putting Precious on the stand was designed to go in Zim’s favor. There’s no way she could have looked anything but stupid. And she did.

This is just triple bank shot overthinking. There is no reason to suborn perjury in order to have your witness look stupid. You need only not put on the witness in the first place.

For now, that is. It isn’t over. The left is down, but not out. The election was still relatively close, it turned on just under 3 million votes out of over 150 million cast. About half the country kind of believes a bunch of twaddle that I consider to be anywhere from stupid to totally bats**t insane. About a quarter to a third of the country really believes it. That isn’t a recipe for the long term stability of this country.

Bingo. Well said Mr. Anon.

Should the President or Vice President resign or otherwise no longer be in office, the election will be certified by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, as in 1965, 1949, 1925, etc. At the moment, that is Patty Murray. But in the new Congress, beginning 3 Jan, that is “TBD”.

Will Chuck Grassley be given the position, following tradition? Kam is in office until the 20th, but may want to be spared the duty. Or not.

VP Sherman got out ofnit by dropping dead just before the election he and Taft got humiliated in.

Like the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tempore doesn’t have to be a member of the body. Elon, maybe?

Wokeness was a form of hysteria that finally went too far, like the Jacobins in the French Revolution, followed by a rejection of it. You saw more moderate liberals like Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Alex Berenson and Joe Rogan go over to the other side. After the election, the Democrats said they needed their own Joe Rogan and Rogan pointed out they already had him and lost him.

Trump will reduce immigration and curb the worst excesses of DEI. Where he will fail is in reducing inflation and balancing the budget. The economic situation is getting worse but is not quite bad enough the voters will accept big cuts in government spending. Trump has said he will not cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Defense budget. If you add interest payments, which are not going down, that is seventy percent of the federal budget off limits to cuts.

Voters will think they can keep kicking the can down the road a while longer when it comes to making the needed reforms. The situation will continue to deteriorate until things get so bad voters will put in someone like Milei in Argentina. Milei has reduced inflation and balanced the budget in his country. It is too early, though, to see if he will have a long term success there.

A handful of dedicated culture warriors took up the cause: Joe Rogan, Robby Starbuck, Elon Musk, etc. Robby Starbuck organized boycotts against woke businesses – especially businesses that primarily cater to square, flyover America. And I think Elon Musk really got pissed off when the tranny-insanity claimed his own son.

Just the fact that Trump won, and with a decisive majority, took the wind out of the sails of the Democratic Party. When Trump won, after all they tried to do to him, they just gave up.

For now, that is. It isn’t over. The left is down, but not out. The election was still relatively close, it turned on just under 3 million votes out of over 150 million cast. About half the country kind of believes a bunch of twaddle that I consider to be anywhere from stupid to totally bats**t insane. About a quarter to a third of the country really believes it. That isn’t a recipe for the long term stability of this country.

Nobody is saying he wasn’t smart. He was smart, but was he 90th percentile? dunno. Aren’t all of his transcripts still sealed? and who gives a shit anyway. High intelligence doesn’t automatically equal good, or truthful, or moral, or anything else considered a positive reflection of an individual.

Obama was a phony, pretending to be a descendant of negro slaves in the US, and pretending to be an authentic “keepin it real” negro, when in fact is was a dorky pansy on the down low. He could read a teleprompter, and was pretty embarrassing without it, as plenty of clips have shown over the years.

How anyone could consider his smug, contrived speaking style something easy to listen to is beyond me. I couldn’t stand to listen to him speak for more than 30 seconds.

Oh, and just about every word out of his mouth was a lie. So he had that going for him, which is nice.

Since the election?

Nope, since October 7th of last year.

Since the election, there seems to have begun a general cultural shift within institutions away from wokeness. The opposite happened the previous time Trump won in 2016.

Complex question and specifics vary.

But I see two big obvious factors:

1) The people rejected–sadly, very narrowly, despite how Trump hypes it–“woke” in the form of the vapid “black” woman candidate. The establishment–including the Parasite Party leaders– realizes they need to dial back the crazy a bit to keep from riling up the natives. Slow down. Boil the frog don’t make the frog leap out of the pot.

2) There were no doubt a lot of leaders and managers of various institutions–skewing heavily male–who were not crazy about the feminized woke hysterics, including pushing the “must have black!” but acquiesced during the Floydapalooza to avoid getting cancelled themselves. Even if broadly with the establishment program they would like to dial back the “must have black” and “pronouns!” and general feminine hysterics. Trump’s election gave them a chance to push back a bit.

But–my key point:
— “Woke” is just the feminized, midwit IQ, smart phone version of minoritarianism.

— Minoritarianism and particularly the immigration insanity which is killing the West, is not going away.

Merry Christmas to you Steve. Very best wishes to you and your family.

Likewise for my fellow iSteve commenters. I enjoy kicking it around and sparring with you folks all year long. I hope you are now enjoying your family, reveling in their love–as am I–during the holidays. Merry Christmas and best wishes for God’s blessings upon you and your loved ones for the coming year.

How come?

You answered your question before you asked it:

Well, it’s been a fun year for me.

For a lot of people. The “Joy” was hijacked!

pic.twitter.com/62KfWl0TgO

— EddieA (@Edweirdo75) December 21, 2024

Another is that women tend to be more compliant and diligent in education. Which shows up in grades. This obviously leads to the question of what exactly constitutes “better student”?

This.

I thought this was the most obvious aspect here. A couple commenters have come up with these low ball–and in one case (high 400 SATs) just ridiculous–estimates for Obama’s scores and IQ.

A guy–i.e. a male–who is an indifferent HS student, but reasonably smart and does well on his SATs is a pretty standard deal. One of the SAT reworkings–i think 2005–which nuked the verbal analogies and changed the math from IQy problem solving to “did you learn HS algebra” was obviously designed to attack the “problem” that the SAT kept showing that a lot of boys were actually smarter (and better college prospects) than a lot of the “good girls” sitting still in class, dutifully complying with assignments, regurgitating the material and putting up good grades.

The most likely explanation for Obama’s academic and occupational career is that he’s a reasonably smart (not “very smart”) guy who tests reasonably well, is verbally facile enough to make the right sort of white people weak in the knees (“he’s articulate!”), but is kind of lazy–and for obvious racial identity reasons, comfortable with minoritarian platitudes to explain blacks’ problems.

How come?

We got tired of it? It went from debatable to absurd?

Consider gay marriage vs transgender lunacy.

Maybe the chiefs looked around and realize not very many of the Indians were following them any more.

After all, this has happened before. We pulled back from the Red Scare. Prohibition was abandoned. Something gets pushed too far, and…

I am just barely old enough that I did Fortran programs on punch cards

I couldn’t do three in a row without a mistake, so gave up on computing for fifteen or twenty years after. But I do remember the smell of those cards, similar to White Castle or other cheap burgers.

You want immigrants who have basic skills (they are proficient in English),

I don’t see the logic. As long as you are limiting the number of immigrants, why not give them to those with the best skills than basic skills? An Andy Grove or Elon Musk or Sergey Brin should be preferred over the next welder or auto mechanic or plumber, don’t you think?

The Usual Suspects threw you a bone in exchange for doing all you can to derail pro-white political activity?

Many pretty parties with many pretty wimmins!

I did that too and though it was enormously frustrating, it built up my tolerance to accepting failures in early design and hence the need to think about debugging right from the beginning. The much younger programmers have developed “run it and see” psychology. There is a general belief in engineering that those who learned to design using “Slide Rule” have better grasp of design than the ones who started using calculators right from school. That is because, in a Slide Rule, you only work with ‘mantissa’ (the fractional part of a logarithm) and calculate the exponent in your head. i.e. the Slide rule gives you the details, but you have to figure the order of magnitude of the computation. So, at every step, you have an understanding how big are the quantities you are dealing with, and it is hard to make off by a decimal point or two errors.

If you read this:
https://time.com/5043967/first-nuclear-chain-reaction/

it will make you shiver. Enrico Fermi controlled the first fission chain reaction with a Slide rule!

Trump’s first win, in 2016, surprised a lot of people. I think many people, especially people on the left, felt that his first win was something of a fluke. Clinton winning the popular vote reinforced this idea. So the left and neoliberals decided that the best way to respond to 2016 Trump was to resist him as much as possible, and to treat his administration as illegitimate. And, to a certain extent, this worked!

Biden won by a solid margin in 2020.

…But now, in 2024, Trump has come back to win a 2nd term. Massive comeback. His 2nd win is much more solid than his first, including how he won the popular vote this time. This 2024 win is a lot harder to consider a fluke. So I think many people of power and influence are in fact treating the 2024 Presidential election as a referendum on wokeness, which wasn’t the case in 2016.

Happy Hanukkah Steve.

a) a late-stage narcissist, maybe not quite “pathological” but well over in the deep end, extremely unrealistic about what his actual abilities actually are. Compounding this, he is pretty bright compared to an average white guy, but compared to an average black guy he is a supernatural god-like super-genius, just for being reasonably bright by white standards.

This is a far more sensible diagnosis than the Obama wasn’t smart line of attack. I agree he didn’t use his intelligence to achieve impressive goals but then again, how many Harvard guys do? Present company excepted.

Merry Christmas!

I chuckle as I remember prior years, where Twinkie would spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day over here endlessly advocating about how Koreans make the best Americans. This conflicted with his carefully constructed imaginary persona of being a fully-assimilated American Christian who married a white woman and had six children with her. Yeah, such a person is exactly who you would expect to come here on Dec 24-25 to keep building a favorable brand image for Koreans and other Asians, vs. spending time with his supposedly large Christian family.

Well, Rudolph, Frosty, and friends managed to turn Winterbolt into a tree in the end, which reminds me of each time Twinkie loses a debate :

Heh heh heh heh

Oh really? What’s changed at the University of California since the election? That’s the real barometer.

Dude, I already wrote about this. I’ll paste in this from a reply to Mark G. last week:

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Mr. Sailer here predicted the waning (at least) of Wokeness for a while now. I disagreed that’s it’s just a fad like pet rocks or these new military aircraft color-scheme new cars.

The election of Trump was the cause of the waning of the Wokeness. If it’d gone the other way, the Cultural Revolution 2.0 (which is what this is) would have only intensified. Wokeness would NOT have faded out. There are evil people behind it all, not just the idiots you see in tweets and on TV.

It’s not just the man, Trump, and his plans to at least clean out the BS within the Feral Gov’t that will be the change. It’s that Americans have shown that they have at least this one way of fighting back, voting successfully for someone not of the UniParty. What’s important is that the people – the brave Amy Wax types, but also millions of others in lower positions – can count on SOMEONE in power, if not “having their backs” if they resist, at least not being certain to railroad them, out of school, out of jobs, or into prison like Derek Chauvin and the Brunswick 3.

The Kier Starmers are not welcome here!

That all said, I agree with “Loyalty” above that they will keep on coming at us.
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8 years ago, Trump didn’t care much about the wokeness, because it wasn’t so personal. He only takes action when things get personal for him.

Merry Christmas, Steve and commenters!

How come: Musk buying Twitter was the catalyst.

Institutions no longer believe they can change popular beliefs with media and government bullying. They’ve decided to shut up and join the enemy, since they cannot beat them.

Trump getting re-elected placated the alternative right and talk of national divorce has died down. However once the troubles in the Middle East are done with Jewish power will go back into action against the original European population. What can be done during the second Trump term to prepare for national divorce after Trump?

(taps the sign)

The judge in question is Katherine Rigby. Of course, not being a biologist, I have no idea if said judge is male or female.

Good one. But I’m thinking you could take a pretty good guess … even without the name.

In general there seems to be an inverse correlation between pot smoker and intelligence but the correlation is not perfect and BO is not the only outlier from the Punahou crowd. IIRC Steve Jobs was no stranger to the use of controlled substances.

What’s this all about? I just wondered if this judge was male or female.

The judge in question is Katherine Rigby. Of course, not being a biologist, I have no idea if said judge is male or female.

They’re not ‘better students’. They predominate in subjects which have weaker operational measures of competence.

That is one aspect of the situation.

Another is that women tend to be more compliant and diligent in education. Which shows up in grades. This obviously leads to the question of what exactly constitutes “better student”?

Still another is that education (I would argue this applies even more to primary and secondary school than college) seems to be trending over the preceding decades to increasingly value female strengths.

“But let’s give the kids an ‘effing break and stop this insane deluge. Let’s leave America for American kids.”

Whoops, too late.

Your only option now, for any Americans to get to live in something like “America,” is partition and secession. Sorry!

Illinois’s FOID card law is under attack in the 2A legal fight captioned Guns Save Life v. Raoul.

No, if you use a gun for home defense it needs to be stored loaded.

And the additional requirement for guns in safes to also be unloaded is the main reason why I oppose most safe storage laws. You guys can't help yourselves and stop at something arguably reasonable. https://t.co/Z6xC5Agwnn

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 24, 2024

The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on December 17th, 2024, regarding whether they carry concealed handguns. Not surprisingly, people in constitutional-carry states carry concealed handguns more frequently than people in right-to-carry… pic.twitter.com/PXr9Uft15y

— Crime Prevention Research Center (@CrimeResearch1) December 24, 2024

I am just barely old enough that I did Fortran programs on punch cards (just for fun). I actually learned programming on a live (APL) system but then in law school Columbia still had a computer center where you could submit your program on cards and then around an hour later you would pick up the output on the green an white accordion fold paper from the line printer. Usually the output was “ERROR IN LINE 62”. Then you would find the bad line of code and fix it and resubmit and 2 hours later it was ERROR IN LINE 82. None of this had anything to do with the law school curriculum.

We should demand that any potential legal immigrants build two houses first– one for themselves, and one for random Americans.

That would certainly keep the numbers down! And it makes a simple sense that is easy to market to the electorate.

Anyone in contact with Pierre Poilievre? Housing is the powder-keg issue up there already. And they have one-tenth the population density we do.

Read at your own peril, as the lawyers say, but I’ve got a post coming out on this, A.D. Some people just don’t know the numbers. I’m talking about a very educated guy, big Trump-47 supporter, who thinks that the LEGAL immigration push that Trump and Musk are touting is just no big deal. (I may have convinced him a little bit, because he’s not averse to learning.)

I have been pretty white-pilled about the words and actions out of Trump-47 and his people (shame about Matt Goetz though – he’d have been great as A/G). I ran out of pills a couple of days ago, when I read some crap from both Trump and Musk about their having no problem with lots of legal immigration. I’d though that Green Card stapling talk was just normal Trump BS. I don’t think so now.

Well, I won’t go on about the grad schools and job markets of yesteryear – that’ll all be in my post. Merry Christmas, Another Dad.

I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I never thought that I’d share a cell with a johnny named Tremaine…

I think they named his her victims. But not the judge, or even the judge’s sex. Is this for the latter’s protection?

As Tom Wolfe said, “Insulate, insulate!” And you know who has the power by who has the insulation.

“Has Steve Sailer weighed in on the advisability of Pres. Blumpf antagonizing Canada by threatening either to dismember it or swallow it whole (possibly minus Quebec)?”

Why would he? It’s not part of his narrative.

And in this latest post, he rightly castigates Democrats. However, Mr. Sailer is very selective when it comes to the rule of law and administrative fiat.

Donald Trump also seeks to bypass constitutional norms. He has called on Senate Republicans to forego confirmation hearings and recorded votes for his cabinet nominees. It won’t be the first nor last time.

I guess Mr. Sailer is too busy to NOTICE.

A “California judge” has ruled that prosecutors must refer to Tremaine Carroll, accused of raping fellow inmates in Chowchilla (not to be confused with Coachella), by feminine pronouns. I perused a number of stories about this, and not one names the judge, or even gets around to using a pronoun for that individual.

If God rained down sulfur and fire on America, I’d be hard pressed to quibble about it, even as I perished. Of course, I would have preferred more precision targeting. But hard to disagree that the punishment was unmerited.

A “California judge” has ruled that prosecutors must refer to Tremaine Carroll, accused of raping fellow inmates in Chowchilla (not to be confused with Coachella), by feminine pronouns. I perused a number of stories about this, and not one names the judge, or even gets around to using a pronoun for that individual.

What’s this all about? I just wondered if this judge was male or female.

‘…See what I mean? Sure, I bet it’s all different this time around, because you really, really totally mean it this time. As for me, I’m thinking you need to start waving around a new cardboard sign, or at least get back on your meds.’

Ukraine supporters are boring. Russia supporters are as well; but Ukraine supporters are worse.

How Santa Claus Does It

Though you’ll find it a trifle unorth-
odox, Yuletide, when Christ was brought forth
in Jewry in Bethlehem,
finds him on methylam-
phetamine as he departs Polar North.

So, by your logic fathers can’t live with their biological daughters, because they also can rape them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

So, by your logic fathers can’t live with their biological daughters, because they also can rape them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

“If we’re to chuck either the docs or the lawyers … easy call.”

I used to think this too but after the way “our” healthcare system has performed in the past few decades, especially during the COVID abomination, I am no longer so sure. Healthcare in this country has become every bit as parasitic as the legal system.

It’s good news in a way, but of course the legitimacy vacuum will be filled in many ways, some more malign than others. Let us continue to Discredit the Institutions, and let us continue to fill the legitimacy void with the light of science, wisdom, HBD, and good cheer!’

Again, I ha’ ma doots.

We won’t get the light of science, etc. We’ll get the lady in the Walmart return line who thinks Angela Merkel was Hitler’s love child.

Everyone’s going to roll their own, and it’ll be a Tower of Babel out there. What we’ll get are loony religious cults, terrorism, general anarchy, and Hitler wannabes. The establishment has been discredited alright — but we’ve nothing to replace it with.

Again, happy to be proved wrong but…

But you have a Merry Christmas as well! Just stock up on ammunition and canned goods.

…Illegal immigration is the obvious one. GOP-c wants mass deportation, Dem-MIC wants mass amnesty. It’s not at all clear that the GOP-c will get what it wants, but I think it is clear that it does not want just a slower version of the Dem-MIC orthodoxy…

I’m pessimistic. I’m all for rounding up everyone who can’t produce evidence they’re here legally and put them in barbed wire pens pending an eventual court hearing or a plane ride home now — but is everyone else?

Wait’ll that Jewish-guided media sob machine and judicial activism gets going. All the poor deserving innocents…that nice Javier that helps Mrs McGurdy with the yard work…due process…blah blah blah.

Never mind that the Jews themselves created this situation. We’re going to get stuck with most of however many tens of millions of illegals got in.

I mean, I’ll be happy to be wrong, but…

BTW: my uncle went to Columbia with Obama – same major and year.

What was an average LSAT score for Columbia law school back in the day? Based on my familiarity with that program I’m guessing 97th percentile. Is your uncle surprised by Obama’s admission to Harvard? None of his classmates I know have ever expressed any such doubts and some have been adamant in the opposite direction. There’s a difference between ‘didn’t make an impression when I was around him’ and ‘getting into Harvard Law surprises me’.

I’ll disagree with EM on this issue. We should not be importing a professional-managerial class, but training one domestically.

You should have stopped there Art.

But this

IMO, annual issuance of settler’s visas should be somewhere between 250,000 and 400,000 people .

is frankly nuts. You’ve got all sorts of reasonable immigration procedures–if we needed people.

But the most obviously thing in the world is the US does not need any more foreign people. We had something like 160 million people when I was born in the 50s, and we are now more than twice that. (Probably 340m+ after the “Biden” Administration’s open border.)

Huge swathes of America are just “gone”. Growing up in the Midwest, I thought I might find California–the dramatic geography, the weather, the science+technology, the modernity–a great place to live. Now it’s full of Mexicans and Asians and houses there–especially in “neighborhoods with good schools”–cost a packet and the government is a thinly disguised protection-racket, “want California weather/scenery … it will cost you”.

Housing in coastal metros is essentially unaffordable to ordinary American young people starting out on their own. And this has crept inland to inland metros that have anything going for them. Decent jobs are scarce. The un-and semi-skilled labor market is flooded with Hispanic immigrants. And the AI and robotics revolutions are rushing down the tracks.

Sure if we’ve got some grad student who looks like a real stud in battery technology or robotics or thorium cycle, ok, we can offer them the chance to stay, provided overall good genes/health, and a “good fit”–not white or Christian hostile, willing to integrate and fully throw in with us, be an American and nothing else. Maybe we could profitably pick up 10 or 20 thousand of such demonstrated high-quality people a year. But that’s it. There is no way–none–that Americans benefit by importing hundreds of thousands of foreigners.

But let’s give the kids an ‘effing break and stop this insane deluge. Let’s leave America for American kids.

I don’t remember the part about Physicist Dave’s health, Mark, but I do remember that he was involved in a legal thing with his daughter and her college. He was not in too good a mood near the end of his time posting here. I sure hope he’s OK.

I’m seeing more and more bad news about “the jab”. My original reasons not to take it were that they’d made it mandatory, for one thing, along with that I was not one bit worried about becoming a serious Flu Manchu case (got the bug, but had to travel at that time – wore the stupid mask for 4 hours on a plane per requirements – too bad, so sad).

The more I’ve read and heard later, the more I was glad none in our immediate family took it. My wife got better slowly during the summer of ’20… she got better from her state of panic, that is. Now, she won’t even take a flu shot. Ha! (No admittance about being wrong or anything has been forthcoming – been 4 years now – females are exempt from that sort of thing… apparently…)

I’ve never been one to speed videos up, Ralph, but I appreciate your advice. I should have never gotten started on these 2. A few clips would have been good enough.

I thought this was already settled? Didn’t someone obtain the LSAT scores of the two ‘Blacks’ that went from Columbia > Harvard in his class and then deduced that Obama was the 167 LSAT? That’s a 120+ IQ. 110 IQ is like a 155 LSAT.

Obama was a first year in 1989 which means he took the LSAT before 1991 so the number you show is definitely wrong. From 1945 until 1981, LSAT scores were based on a 200 to 800-point scale. From 1981 until 1991, scoring switched to a 48-point scale. From 1991 onward, the scale ranged from 120 to 180, as it stands today.

My recollection is that Obama’s score was thought to be the higher score and it was in the 97/98th percentile for the year he took it.

No one with Gaetz’s sensibility should feel obliged to apologize for having the wiring bequested by evolution. The vice lies in failing to disapprove and reject the wiring; certainly the vice is in acting upon the wiring.

Well said SafeNow.

Men and women are not the same. Nor are their sexual impulses mirror images.

Women–the scarce reproductive resource–are naturally attracted to “best” man available–status, money, athletic prowess, looks … the best possible impregnator, protector and provider.

Men–with sperm easy to produce and fun to share–are naturally attracted to signs of fertility. That means some things about her figure, but also youth (peak biological fertility is sometime in the early-mid twenties and is basically over by 40).

One of the dumb and annoying aspects of the feminist age is this attempt to demand that men are supposed to accept the female attractiveness paradigm as their own–not care about their figure (or lack thereof), youth/fertility and find the boss girl CEO or lawyer chick “attractive”. (Sorry gals, but we guys have zero issues handling growing, inventing, designing, building, producing, fixing, protecting on our own. We do all that stuff just fine–better than women do. That’s not what we need women for.)

The West–as with all civilized societies–had approved cultural practices–marriage–and social sanctions in place to check and channel the impulses of both sexes toward healthy reproduction of people and society. (Just as burdensome to men as women.) If women have a problem with male attention, they could consider the old order and making themselves available for marriage and family when they are actually young, attractive and fertile.

Each immigrant should be required to pay not only for his own health insurance, but for that of at least one citizen he competes with.

If there are two pressing issues, tie them together. Same with voting and firearms rights.

Completely unrelated items are thrown into “continuing resolutions” and other budget bills. But immigration and healthcare, and voting and general trustworthiness, are hardly unrelated.

Besides residence in America (let alone citizenship) is probably worth at least half a million bucks by now– Randall Burns of Vdare estimated it as half that back in the Bush years. So why do we give it away for free?

AD, you surprise me. You’ve obviously put a lot of thought into these very helpful measures – but why?

Is there a single one of them that stands any serious chance of getting past the gatekeepers?

You never struck me as a pie-in-the-sky guy.

Aged 13 I thought (some of) the 14 year olds in my class were exquisite.

Thanks res. Bringing it to the table as per usual.

One of the things the Republicans should do everytime they are in power is force the data to the surface. And not just the public stuff–like crime data and public school data.

Make the colleges publish *everything*. Every application, grades, test scores, sex, claimed QWERTY status, religion, race and ethnicity–not just Hispanic, but full suite including all the white ones, including Jewish. And then everyone admitted. And then professors and administrators and workers. All in a nice easy to read table format and downloadable to excel for analysis and nice graphical summary format.

Same for our giganticorps.

We are forced to live under the minoritarian raj, lets hold these elite institutions feet to the fire. Shine the light in let’s see what creepy crawlies are slithering around.

Age 17. I didn’t mean to insinuate attraction to children.

O/T. The Gaetz report is out…Young girls. Someone needs to say this. I doubt the full Gaetz report did so. Roger Ebert said it, in a review, something like this: Men are wired such that the eyes admire a young woman, and the eyes’ message then proceeds directly down to the genitals, avoiding the higher thought centers. It is the job of the higher thought centers to then reject, and disapprove of, and not act upon, the arrival, down below, of the wiring’s message. So wrote Ebert.

No one with Gaetz’s sensibility should feel obliged to apologize for having the wiring bequested by evolution. The vice lies in failing to disapprove and reject the wiring; certainly the vice is in acting upon the wiring. Too often pundits have been saying, Oh my, what a nasty man Gaetz is for having that wiring. Such pundits have hold of the wrong end of the stick (does anyone besides me still use that expression?).

I have to admit, that is a good question.

This is worth repeating.

Nah, it wasn’t even worth saying the first time. It’s like that bon mot from Maslow “Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.”

Why would you relish the thought of punishing those who are against genocide? Whose side are you on?

No one really knows why Latinos live so long but they do, despite the fact that they spend like 10 cents on their health care system (which it turns out doesn’t really do shit in the US, just wastes trillions of $ – you can get some cutting edge cancer treatment that cost $1M and it increases the mean survival by 6 months.

LOL. The lawyer telling us that it’s the health care system that sucks up $$$ and doesn’t do shit.

US life expectancy had gone up about 10 years (pre-covid) during my life. Americans definitely live in cleaner environments and do less dangerous work than before. (My dad–a P&G engineer–went a solid decade and half longer than his dad, who worked in a feed mill–dusty–after he gave up farming in the late 30s.) But Americans–overall–sure aren’t getting better exercise or eating great diets. Some of the increase is just prosperity, a cleaner environment (inc. less smoking). But a big difference is simply that the chances of getting knocked out by cancer, heart attack, stroke at any age has dropped substantially.

In contrast, lawyers … oh, yeah our lawyer state, the kritarchy has been absolutely great for America!

I’ve been fortuitously healthy–never been in the hospital, since going home with but finally outside my mom back in the 50s. But likely some more serious stuff will start going wrong in the next decade or so, and I’ll be happy to have the docs and their diagnostic and treatment whizzy-whiz on tap so I can push on a couple more decades.

If we’re to chuck either the docs or the lawyers … easy call.

Hungnam – Dec. 24, 1950 – American Dunkirk.

There is little discernable indication either one of them hates anyone above and beyond what is the norm for partisan Democrats. Mooch has been known to blame outside forces for what made her childhood neighborhood unlivable, but that’s a banal evasion of the sort which is the norm among human beings (especially partisan Democrats). Mooch is interested in decorative arts, not public policy or social conflict.

It was plainly obvious to me at the time.
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Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one.

https://unherd.com/2024/12/when-i-met-luigi-mangione/

When I met Luigi Mangione
He misunderstood human agency
Gurwinder Bhogal
December 24, 2024

https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-riddle-of-luigi-mangione

Thanks, kaganovitch (and Jim Don Bob)! One more comment after this one and I get button ability back ; )

The basic analysis of law school racial demographics should be fairly straightforward to do with that dataset (modulo the US nonresidents fudge). Here is how I see doing it.
– Download the annual “JD Enrollment and Ethnicity” data spreadsheets for all schools from
https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/requiredDisclosure
– Create lists of law schools to examine as groups (e.g. public, private, top). One thing I am unsure about is what to use for unique ids. They use names and I don’t see any alternatives.
– Identify the data fields of interest.
– Slice and dice the data in various ways.

This document gives more detail on the spreadsheet contents.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/aba-standard-509-data-guide.pdf

This is a helpful compilation and includes the 2023 U.S. News ranks.
2022 vs. 2021 Law School Median and Class Size Tracker

Another helpful compilation.
https://7sage.com/top-law-school-admissions/

One thing there which I found interesting. Yale Law shows an 89% yield and Harvard Law shows a 71% yield. Not many applying to both?

Putting Precious on the stand was designed to go in Zim’s favor. There’s no way she could have looked anything but stupid. And she did.

Not many degrees or white color jobs back then. A law degree is just what you got if you were so situated.

But Jim Don Bob is really speaking to the so-called ‘Administrative State’, and while other countries may have less lawyers they can be even worse in this regard. Not sure if the Administrative State is a bug of over-thinking, hyper-conscientious smart humans trying to work together or something tied to our stage of civilization/development. Regardless, it is certainly slowing us down with little or no benefit. Most law jobs shouldn’t exist, but to be fair the problem goes far beyond lawyers.

“If the Deep State really wanted Obama to attend Harvard Law School, they would have offered him a huge scholarship like Northwestern Law School did.”

Don’t be fooled here. The Deep State thought better. They planned it out so he wouldn’t get that incentive to attend. Makes for a better narrative. It was all part of the Deep State’s master plan.

Just like how it, at the behest of the Jews, decided behind the scenes that Trump would win the presidency in 2024. The Deep State stole the election in 2020, because reasons, but since he is more willing to aid Israel, it decided to bring him back.

At least that’s what I read somewhere on this fine opinion webzine.

Interesting ideas. Thanks.

Can you elaborate on what Obama was offered from each? Note this.
https://hls.harvard.edu/sfs/prospective-and-admitted-students/policy-overview

HLS does not award “merit” or “full-ride” scholarships (which typically are not need-based) because doing so would decrease the resources available for need-based aid, and significantly increase the debt burden of every financially needy student.

Contrast this.
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/admissions/tuitionaid/

Northwestern Pritzker Law awards scholarships to JD students on a combined basis of financial need and merit.

All forms of financial aid for the JD Program, including scholarships, are awarded through an application process separate from the application for admission.

I thought this was already settled? Didn’t someone obtain the LSAT scores of the two ‘Blacks’ that went from Columbia > Harvard in his class and then deduced that Obama was the 167 LSAT? That’s a 120+ IQ. 110 IQ is like a 155 LSAT. The issue is a 167 shouldn’t have gone to Harvard. Per the thread, a 167 should have gone to Michigan or Fordham and been a successful Lawyer at a mid-size firm driving a new mid-size German luxury sedan. But that’s it. It’s not that Obama isn’t smart. He’s smart enough. The issue is that he is not exceptional, and yet progressives deitize him because he’s ‘Black’ (but ironically not ADOS) and speaks in a soothing NPR manner.

Bush was smart but not exceptional and ridiculed for it. And then we got Biden, who was even less intelligent than Bush even making the comparison when Biden was in his prime.

BTW: my uncle went to Columbia with Obama – same major and year. Obama was not memorable and definitely not exceptional; he described him as quiet, uninvolved, detached and seemingly frequently absent (though he can’t confirm the last point).

This is worth repeating.

My vague impression is Mr. Sailer is only concerned about the rule of law and the meritocracy when it suits his narrative. Clearly, he NOTICES the major problems associated with the Trump transition team and thehr nominees in these two areas, but why stir up a hornet’s nest on his part.

“And yet in 2023, blacks made up 7.8 percent of the first-years at the top 19 law schools rather than the 1 percent or so they’d make up at the top half-dozen law schools without DEI racial preferences.”

As I suspected, he didn’t give the full picture in your latest Taki’s article. From the source he listed.

—The enrollment pattern at other top law schools was mixed, according to the ABA data. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law saw decrease in both incoming Black (from 25 to 20) and Hispanic (from 30 to 28) law students. Yale University saw a decrease (from 33 to 27) in entering Hispanic students, but a small increase (from 23 to 25) in Black first-year J.D. students. At the University of North Carolina, Black first-year students decreased to only nine this year, from 13 last year, while Hispanic students showed a steeper decline, from 21 in 2023 to 13 in 2024. At Stanford University, for example, the number of Black first-year students almost doubled, from 12 last year to 23 in 2024; entering Hispanic law students increased from 26 to 31, year-over-year.

One year of data does not allow many firm conclusions about the impact the Supreme Court’s decision may have on the racial composition of law students. Further complicating the picture is that the ABA changed its reporting categories this year. Last year, non-U.S. residents were placed in their own category, while this year they are included in the different racial and ethnic categories.

At the moment, 1519 black students per year go to the schools listed, but this is in no way evenly distributed across schools. Of that 1519, 42% go to these schools:
1. Georgetown University: 170
2. Columbia University: 149
3. Harvard University: 138
4. New York University: 111
5. Virginia, University of: 79

However, this is slightly skewed by school size, when compared to the ratio of black students to the total number of students, these schools are on top:
1. Columbia University 10.57%
2. Northwestern University 10.51%
3. Georgia, University of 10.19%
4. Vanderbilt University 10.16%
5. Yale University 9.85%—

And as I suspected, he left out important context in that same article.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/09/17/analysis-could-yale-face-post-affirmative-action-lawsuits/

—Direct consideration of race as a criterion for admission would violate the Supreme Court’s ruling, but Deborah Hellman, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that the court was not clear enough about exactly what constitutes consideration of race.

In the Court’s majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that universities could consider an applicant’s discussion of race “so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university.”

The fact that Yale maintained levels of diversity while other universities saw large changes “is traceable to the ambiguity in the court’s opinion in the first instance about what is permitted and what is not permitted,” Hellman said.

Since the ruling does not rule out the consideration of a student’s lived experiences, which may include their race-related experiences, it is “not at all clear” which admissions practices remain legal. Universities therefore may have interpreted the court’s ruling in different ways, Hellman said, so she’s “unsurprised that there’s variation” between universities.

Several lawyers told the News that Yale may face lawsuits not because the University has broken the law but instead because there are litigious groups intent on minimizing the importance of diversity in college admissions.

“Even if a university is fully complying with the law, they may be vulnerable to lawsuits if they have high levels of racial diversity in their student body simply because the groups that challenged affirmative action have said that they will bring these types of suits,” Pauline Kim, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote to the News.—

Netflix just released a show/movie about how negress postal workers won WWII by sorting mail.

No really, that’s the show.

Despite your red herring, the fact remains you and JackD share more than in common than you care to admit.

Then I guess THEY should not have been there.

Legacies and spawn of legacies tend to do well. This received wisdom that people of accomplishment are prone to siring retards is one of those methinks though dost internet meme too much.

If the recent-immigrant Brits who built these schools knew that there were Micks attending, they’d be turning over in their graves.

Maybe with some validity? Just sayin’.

Racial/ethnic purity carries a lot of juice, even if it engenders clamoring for average man, lest someone do too well.

I’m currently hanging with a group that insists N-S America be turned back to the Hunkpapa Sioux et al, in the name of purity. How can one disagree with that?

Dan Buettner wrote a book, The Blue Zones, which focused on areas of the world with lots of long lived people. There is a chapter on Costa Rica in the book. Other Blue Zones discussed were Sardinia, Okinawa, and a community of Seventh Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California.

Could be the Sardinians live a long time thanks to eating casu marzu. Bon apetit!

I would settle for “loser pays” which is the standard in the rest of the world, but the trial lawyers’ association, IIRC, is one of the largest contributors to Democrats.

A judge in Delaware recently ruled against Musk’s pay package based on a complaint by one shareholder. The lawyers who represented him want $345 million for their troubles.

I’ll disagree with EM on this issue. We should not be importing a professional-managerial class, but training one domestically. You want immigrants who have basic skills (they are proficient in English), obey the law, work for a living, and are willing and able to learn to navigate the social matrix in which they have placed themselves without calling in lawyers.
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IMO, annual issuance of settler’s visas should be somewhere between 250,000 and 400,000 people . Aspirants are in a queue ordered according to the date you passed all the qualifying screens.
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In order to get a spot in the queue, you should have to pass a cursory background check, a physical, and a proficiency test in English (written and oral). You get married, you and your wife have a common spot in the queue halfway between the date you were married and the date you entered the queue. You have children, your common spot in the queue is adjusted rearward with each child.
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If one of the children reaches age 21 while you’re waiting, he’s assigned a spot of his own in the queue just behind the common spot and will be henceforth assessed separately.
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You arrive at the head of the queue, an assessment of your family’s conduct and characteristics is undertaken (looking for criminal activity by any family member or for medical problems in family members not previously examined) and a delay is imposed if anything salient is discovered, knocking the lot of you back in the queue a number of places. Again, any children you have over 21 are assessed separately from the rest of the family.
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If you’re not knocked back, everyone in the family over the age of 14 has to pass the English proficiency test if they have not done so in the last four years. You’re parked at the gate until this task is completed.
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Single adults from problem countries are not offered spots in the queue. Married couples with children can win a spot and older and established married couples (both over 40, married at least seven years) can win a spot. If you’ve been cleaved off because you’ve reached 21, you have to get married and have children before you can enter, and your spot in the queue is adjusted rearward with your marriage and each child. About 25 countries would be classified as ‘problem countries’.
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It’s important that the matrix of reception be properly ordered.
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(1) Access to common provision for immigrants should be a function of their work credit – i.e. the number of quarters of f/t employment they’ve logged in the country or that their husband, father, or mother has logged on their behalf.
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(2) There should be public sector positions, occupational licenses, and security clearances which are closed to immigrants; not the whole lot, but important segments.
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(3) Bar for petty misdemeanors, aliens should be placed in preventive detention if accused of a crime; if their case is not processed or they’re acquitted or their eventual sentence is less than time served, they can be indemnified.
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(4) Aliens are not offered parole. They serve a clipped sentence and then are deported upon release and their right of domicile is suspended for a term of years. They can return if they’ve been abroad for that term and can pass a background check, &c. The terms should be long – 60 years for a mid-grade felony, 15 to 20 years for a low-grade felony, 5 years for a high misdemeanor, 2 years for a petty misdemeanor, four months for a submisdemeanor violation.
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(5) To be eligible for naturalization, you should have spent the majority of your natural life in the United States as a palpable resident living within the law. The median lapse of time between entry and eligibility would be in excess of twenty years.
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(6) Recruitment and promotion in public sector positions should be regulated by examinations. Ditto private natural monopolies. Collective bargaining agreements should be debarred from allocating benefits by ascribed traits. Certain activities in workplaces which map to common crimes (e.g. extortion or harassment) should be deemed tortious. Otherwise, catch-as-catch can in the labor market.
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(7) As a rule, the custom of producers should not be dictated by law. Exceptions: public agencies, government corporations, natural monopolies, providers of medical services, and (in certain contingencies) providers of services for travelers. Otherwise, freedom of contract and association prevail.
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Temporary residents should be limited to accredited employees of foreign governments (and their dependents); authentic refugees (and their dependents), of which there are few; and students, teachers, and their dependents. The stock of temporary residents should be limited to about 0.5% of the total population and the extant stock should regulate the ration of educational visas distributed each year. (Schools wishing to recruit students or faculty from abroad should have to purchase visas in multiple price auctions).
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The civic status of someone born in the U.S. should be that of his mother unless he is of legitimate birth and his father has a preferred status, in which case the father’s status is controlling. Only a citizen can beget a citizen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/world/europe/romania-election-russia.html
https://archive.is/gMNVO

A Canceled Vote in Romania Hands Russia a Propaganda Coup
Many in the West have applauded the annulling of the first round of the presidential election, won by a Moscow-friendly candidate, but even his critics say it raises troubling questions about Romanian democracy.
Dec. 23, 2024

[…]
The paucity of solid evidence pointing to Moscow, said Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian political scientist who has studied and warned against Russia election meddling for years, suggested that the Romanian court’s decision “appears to have been motivated by the dissatisfaction that the ‘wrong’ candidate emerged victorious in the first round.”

That suspicion puts Romania in a small group of countries, mostly developing nations in Latin America, Africa and Asia, that have aborted elections in midstream.

Election results have rarely been nullified before in Europe, except in countries occupied by the Red Army after World War II like Hungary, where voters rejected communist candidates for Parliament in a 1945 election but then had their choice invalidated when many of the victors were arrested. (Communists in Romania avoided the “wrong” side winning their country’s first postwar election in 1946: they arrested their opponents before the vote.)

Ron Paul has probably discussed most of the topics you listed in his columns reprinted here at the Unz Review over the years. When he ran in the Republican primaries in 2008 and 2012, I voted for him both times. Sadly, McCain and Romney got the nomination instead.

In addition to my interest in limited government conservatism, I also have an interest in HBD topics. Libertarian types, with the exception of Charles Murray, and websites tend not to show an interest in that.
So I come here to read Sailer, Derbyshire and Taylor. They are good when it comes to discussing that.

Yawn. The green room for the quarterfinals of the Lackawanna Valley County High School Debate Clubs Annual “Yack-A-Wanna” Showdown is three doors down, on your left. There’s a candy machine, a cheese-and-crackers hospitality table, a water fountain, and an all-genders bathroom. Curtain will be in 45 minutes.

Best of luck!

The boy wonder’s standard twee gap year included a visit to Pakistan – at a time when getting is was a project, and getting back out without getting your head sawed off was extremely difficult – and coursing and blood sports with falcons with national bigwigs. His first job was at BIC, a CIA proprietary. During his pissant state senator days NSA surveilled his comms at the ECI level, by Tice’s first-hand account.

So let’s cut the shit.

Well, this is rare and unusual to be sure, but…

WHOOOSH!!

A bit of caution here is that the boundaries and stratification of the legal profession vary from country to country. Some countries have multiple legal professions. In Britain you have solicitors and you have barristers and their functions differ. In Japan, legal services are usually provided by people who would be called ‘paralegals’ in the United States.
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What’s disconcerting to me is that in this country you have massive law firms of a sort they manage to do without in other (affluent) countries. I’d be pleased to have a body of federal and state regulation that would inhibit the formation of such firms and compel firms like Jones, Day to break up into pieces.

“his is the longest Steve has gone without posting anything!”

It’s Christmas, and he has several channels rather than a single blog.

… aside from hating white people.

I think he got that from his wife. Barry would have been perfectly happy existing as a near honkey and settling down to an upper-middle class life in Chicago.

This has no reality outside the breezy space between your ears. Anyone interested can look at Jerilyn Merritt’s commentaries at the time.

Interesting. It was plainly obvious to me at the time. The prosecutors first comments to the jury were a joke that asked basically, “How the fuck did you idiots end up here?” And it went downhill from there.

How many of those lawyers went to an accredited law school?

One thing we can all agree on is that each and every one of them were anti-semites who hated and reviled jews like humans hate rats.

They wanted the USA to be free from all the ancient evils of jewery in the old land.

at least we can agree 0n these historical facts.