So ‘patriots’ are going to do an end-run around Gobohomo and anarcho-tyranny by… (drum roll)… going to a Fed Web page and writing some comments in a dropdown box?

OK. Got it, Derb. [Sometimes it’s so tiresome you can’t even work up enough N R G to laugh.]

I was considering a long sarcastic laugh here, but I have too much respect for Mr. Derbyshire to do that.

However, seriously, you’ve got an exclamation point even, on your headline, like this is some great new revelation on how Mr. Smith can write to Washington and make things better like a good citizen. Sheeeitt, writing emails or old-fashioned letters to Congressmen makes no difference, and they supposedly work for us. Except for a very few Matt Gaetz’s and the like, they work for the donors, and those who work for the latter rather than for us overwhelm the Gaetz’s in number.

Now, we are to think that these website comments will change the minds of (highly AA-comprised) members of the Feral Bureaucracy? Hell, they don’t work for us at all, not even legally!* Those “regulators” work for the President, that is, the Administrative Branch, and do what the Administration wants done.

In very small areas, say new FAA safety rules, occasionally a big campaign of comments by an invested party – say G/A pilots – may change rulings, granted. However, those rulings have nothing to do with big things like the direction of the country, which is purposefully toward ruination of traditional, middle-class, White-male-run society. That goal will not be changed by comments on the regulator’s websites.

I am glad you enjoyed the gathering, Mr. Derbyshire. However, your post here reads like something that is more appropriate for 1950s America, well, the 1950s with websites.

The whole swamp must be drained, and voting and old-fashioned appeals to logic, reason and the law will not take care of this. Most of your fellow VDare writers have come around to something I realized more than 6 years ago: America has been the ultimate prize for the Communists, and they’ve been working hard on this country for along time. History is rhyming from a century back. – See Commies crawling out of the woodwork… it’s about that time. That Peak Stupidity post is from 4 days past 6 years back.

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* See, there’s where you need an exclamation point.

Agreed. I submitted my long rant before I saw your comment here. I can’t figure out “N R G” though.

It can’t hurt to fight regulations….but, as a lawyer, I think that this lawless Administration doesn’t care at all about “your stinking regulations”…They will do whatever they want, and maybe you win a court battle two years later when the damage is already done….

It’s the stuff that is in gasoline. And nuclear reactors. Regulated by the federal Department of N R G, with goals like working for ‘climate justice’ and of course N R G justice.

https://www.energy.gov/

NRG = Energy

Duh! Thanks, Blake and XYZ. It seems like it would take less energy to just type “energy” due to all that effort to reach SHIFT of CAPS LOCK. ;-}

Mr. Derbyshire’s increasingly desperate, having to come up with something to write about other than the latest mayhem in the Middle East.

Two pieces back, the headline even began: “Notwithstanding Gaza, …”

The next one characterized as a “Muslim protest” a rally in England against Israel’s indiscriminate destruction of Palestinian homes and people.

He’s making a good point. The regime uses legal complexity to mask its actions. Political dissidents are often too lazy or inept to dig into these systems, myself included. We need a much better understanding of immigration and banking law going forward.

Here is an American story I think about a lot. It came to mind today, although it occurred nearly a century after July 4, 1776.

A great sadness befell Ulysses S. Grant when he set eyes upon Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Though the two men had… pic.twitter.com/uzbUStuyfc

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) July 5, 2023

Here is an American story I think about a lot. It came to mind today, although it occurred nearly a century after July 4, 1776.

A great sadness befell Ulysses S. Grant when he set eyes upon Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Though the two men had commanded opposing armies of the North and South, their lives had been intertwined by their service in the Mexican-American War. Both had participated in General Winfield Scott’s march from Veracruz to Mexico City before fate cast them in leading roles in the Civil War.

Grant met Lee that day to discuss the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia—the Confederacy’s most powerful force. But Grant seemed reluctant to address the matter, instead talking about their shared experience in Mexico until Lee steered the conversation toward the terms of surrender.

Lee accepted Grant’s proposal, which allowed Confederate officers to keep their sidearms, horses, and personal baggage. Lee remarked that it would “do much toward conciliating our people” and help heal the wounds that had ripped apart the country.

The terms were recorded in a document handwritten by Grant’s adjutant, Ely S. Parker, a man of the Seneca tribe.

Upon realizing Parker’s tribal roots, Lee extended his hand to him and said, “I am glad to see one real American here.”

Parker replied, with grace, “We are all Americans.”

Parker’s most prized possession, which he wore often, was a large silver peace medal presented by President George Washington to Parker’s great-great-uncle Red Jacket in 1792. It featured an engraving depicting Washington shaking Red Jacket’s hand. Although most of the Seneca had been allies of the British during the Revolutionary War, Red Jacket fought on the American side during the War of 1812, claiming British and Canadian scalps at the Battle of Chippawa.

I think about this story a lot because a defining feature of what it means to be American is a constant overcoming, not only of external threats and frontiers but ourselves and conciliation with neighbors.

Well, maybe, but whites and American Indians were both of warrior cultures with some sense of honor. Jews who took over the US have no such mentality. It’s their way or the highway, and the ONLY choice for goyim is total submission to Zion.

In some alternate multiverse, one in which JFK was not murdered, the Derb’s suggestion is routinely used, and regulatory mechanisms are thereby affected. (This is but a subset; everything else is also fine in that non-JFK-murder multiverse.) But in THIS multiverse, influencing regulations requires being a donor-with-lobbyist, or sometimes an entertainer or sports star.

I was considering a long sarcastic laugh here, but I have too much respect for Mr. Derbyshire to do that.

Time passed VDare and its cohorts by long ago. I enjoy many of the articles, and lots of the information and coverage, but these people never understood what they were facing. My guess is that they would rather mix and mingle with their ideological enemies than with the people they claim to represent, which makes them pretty much useless for what they claim to be.

It’s also funny that VDare would choose speakers like Steve Sailer. No offense to him, but he’s no advocate for whites or traditional America, and he’d likely censor anything that needs to be said.

We need a much better understanding of immigration and banking law going forward.

Yes. That’s definitely the thing we need in order pull ourselves out of this mess. Round Robin discussions on how to use immigration law to our advantage. Legalism–guaranteed to turn the tide. And let’s face it, ever since the revolution that’s what the Communists have always used to confound us.

It’s like that legal scholar Lenin said, “In order to better understand the dialectical historical process as it relates to our demand for social change, we must have a much better understanding of the laws determining bourgeoisie ownership of the means of production…”

Um…wait a minute. That’s not it. That’s not what he said. Now, what was it? Oh yeah, he said that in order to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.

Memo to the Vdare crowd: It’s like Hunter Thompson quipped–in a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king. Likewise, in a world of anarcho-tyranny, the law is useless as a means to change anything. And its corollary, in a world of stolen elections, voting harder just ain’t going to turn it around.

Since the federal government is to the Jews as a student council is to a school administration, I fail to see the point in complaining to them.

I think Sailer does like the America he grew up in during the sixties and seventies. I am about his age and feel the same way. That America is pretty much gone now. Older conservatives like Sailer, Derbyshire and me don’t really feel comfortable with turning the Republican party into a party where the leaders are white racialists who rant all the time about how the Jews control everything, though. That reminds us too much of a certain dead German dictator. We would be happy going back to someone like Coolidge or even Eisenhower but not nineteen thirties Germany.

Older conservatives like Sailer, Derbyshire and me don’t really feel comfortable with turning the Republican party into a party where the leaders are white racialists who rant all the time about how the Jews control everything,

Nobody says Jews control everything, but if you completely refuse to admit who is attacking you, you really are hopeless. Jews are a major problem, and they display their influence relentlessly. They have outsized power and nobody challenges them. Why is that? Should we all just sit around pretending that it’s Evangelicals and liberal soccer moms who are destroying the nation and much of the world?

I guess it’s possible that the Jewish elites are just puppets of the MIC, Big Business, and whatever other shadowy groups and organizations may be pulling levers behind the scenes, but I wouldn’t know that, and my guess is that you wouldn’t either. I do know which group is behind much of the destructive activism in the nation and ties us to Israel and aggressive and destructive foreign policy. That’s obvious, and pointing it out isn’t ranting.

The real problem is RISCISM or race-is-social-construct-ism.

Are we to believe that blacks are just whites with black skin?

Be race-ist. Oppose riscism.

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— Devon Stack (@Black_Pilled) October 18, 2023

I have worked for the MIC for four decades so I do know a lot about it. The Jews certainly push for getting us involved in things like the Ukrainian/Russian or Israeli/Palestinian conflicts but a lot of the impetus for that comes from the MIC and their desire for high incomes and bigger profits. I read the comment sections here all the time so please do not try to gaslight me by claiming there are not commenters here who suffer from an extreme Jew fixation.

Conservatism at its best is a philosophy that values freedom and limited government. In the case of the military that means avoiding foreign entanglements and just using the military for defensive purposes. I have met a lot of soldiers over the years. I like them and do not want them sent overseas to die in wars that have nothing to do with the defense of this country.

Fantastic! This story really choked me up, but I’ll be damned if it didn’t make my day. If ever there was a greater American than Robert E. Lee, I don’t know who the hell it is. Many thanks.

My only concern over intra-Semitic tribal disputes is that the USG insists on involving my country in them.

I have worked for the MIC for four decades so I do know a lot about it. The Jews certainly push for getting us involved in things like the Ukrainian/Russian or Israeli/Palestinian conflicts but a lot of the impetus for that comes from the MIC and their desire for high incomes and bigger profits.

I grew up around people who worked for the MIC, and I know that lots of money is involved. Lockheed keeps my hometown afloat. However, it’s no great secret that the MIC doesn’t produce for everyone with cash. I remember cases where deals were scotched due to resistance from the friends of Israel. I think one was over AWACs for Saudi Arabia, and another was for fighter planes for some other perceived enemy if Israel. My guess is that you know no more about the inside state than the people I knew who worked for decades in the same industry.

I read the comment sections here all the time so please do not try to gaslight me by claiming there are not commenters here who suffer from an extreme Jew fixation.

I’ve yet to come across anyone who blames Jews for everything. Lots of people are very harsh on organized Jewry, Jewish institutions, and Israel, and rightly so. Others make excuses or take a pass on the obvious. The detractors carry far more weight on the issue.

Nobody gaslight you. But dragging Hitler into the argument and making assumptions about the mental and emotional states of people who are msking valid points about Jews is far from reasonable and balanced.

A-G, though he may not have made it clear in the posts Unz Review readers have gone through, Mr. Derbyshire has written the same thing. For Greta especially, see Radio Derb: Another Orwell Moment, Israel Pessimism, Demography And Despair, And Trump’s Muslim Ban, Etc. on VDare. (I searched, and that one is not on this site – maybe only 1/3 of his stuff I read on VDare ends up under his section of this site.)

Here’s the part in question:

All that said, those are foreign places there, dropping bombs on each other’s mother. I’m an American. My very strong preference is that my country, the U.S.A., stay out of the fight.

Uncle Sam spent four years and a ton of money training my son to be a paratrooper. Junior’s a civilian now, but I assume he’s on some kind of reserve list. If the U.S.A. were in existential peril he’d be called up, and I’d be proud to see him go off to fight. Heck, I’d enlist myself if the recruiting officer judged my withered old hide to be worth the expense of a uniform and a rifle.

Still I very much do not want Americans maimed or killed because two tribes four thousand miles away have claims on each other’s land: not if the tribes are Jews and Arabs, not if they’re two varieties of Eastern Slav, not if they’re island Chinese and mainland Chinese. Sort it out yourselves, guys.

Peak Stupidity most definitely agrees.

I enjoy many of the articles, and lots of the information and coverage, but some of these people never understood what they were facing.

FIFY (IMO). I think many of them do know what’s really got to be done, but writing some of that the truth about it won’t work for a website like VDare. As it is, they’ve got the Commie black NY A/G on their ass via lawfare full-time, as per this note that stays up top on the site.

Whadda’ do, say what should really be done about this lady, the evil doxxers that Jason Keesler writes about, etc.? You can’t do that.

My guess is that they would rather mix and mingle with their ideological enemies than with the people they claim to represent, which makes them pretty much useless for what they claim to be.

I disaagree, Mr. Floyd. They’d like to mix and mingle with their idealogical friends, as in living a normal life. That’s hard to do if you start writing about what REALLY needs to be done. Leave it to readers’ imaginations.

Who but an Uncle Sam bootlicker would still take pride in his “paratrooper” son’s 21st Century military enlistment?

Who but a cowardly apologist would characterize in passing as a “Muslim protest” the recent rally in England against Israel’s indiscriminate destruction of Palestinian homes and people, and have not – AFAIK – another word to say about it?

Before according Mr. Derbyshire respect, search my archive for “ululating” and compare his 2002 cheerleading for the war on Afghanistan with his chickenshit effort in 2021 to spread the guilt on all Americans.

It’s been a long time since anyone called me Mr.!

As it is, they’ve got the Commie black NY A/G on their ass via lawfare full-time, as per this note that stays up top on the site.

I might agree with you, but VDare has been around since the 1990s, well before wokeness and the type of lawfare you mention.

They’d like to mix and mingle with their idealogical friends, as in living a normal life.

I don’t know them, so you may be right. Maybe I’ve mistaken them for WFB/NR types.

That’s hard to do if you start writing about what REALLY needs to be done. Leave it to readers’ imaginations.

“The racial and cultural identity of America is legitimate and defensible: Diversity per se is not strength, but a vulnerability. It is a luxury that we can only afford as long as we preserve our breadwinner, the American people. ”

It’s a good thing that I came to my senses years ago and stopped imagining that VDare represents people like me. Doing do has saved me some money.

I’m kind of wondering why you read John Derbyshire’s columns and articles then, Miss Handel. I did used to write back to Fred Reed, including after he became a ranting anti-American moron, but that was only to get hits to my site. He got a lot of reads, I could tell.

One of the reasons I’m still here is to help others consider whether they’re being misled by professional yapsters who are no threat to the Establishment. If you disagree with my arguments, address them, and maybe we’ll both learn something.

You might also consider whether playing Dingleberry to the likes of John Derbyshire is a good way “to get hits to [your] site.”

I don’t see so many arguments from you. All I read is your trying to point out contradictions from previous 20 y/o writing – same as you did with Michelle Malkin, IIRC. People do change their opinions over the decades. Here, I pointed out that Mr. Derbyshire recently wrote that he would like the US to stay out of any of these Middle East conflicts. I think that’s a great idea. How about you?

You might also consider whether playing Dingleberry to the likes of John Derbyshire is a good way “to get hits to [your] site.”

I was writing about Fred Reed on this, not Mr. Derbyshire. Secondly, this was one of the very few times I’ve strongly disagreed with this writer, as I see his thinking here being very old-school, something that might have applied in the 1980s, at the latest. OTOH, John Derbyshire is a very bright guy and has lots to write about. Your 1st comment here on this thread contained:

Mr. Derbyshire’s increasingly desperate, having to come up with something to write about other than the latest mayhem in the Middle East.

Bull! The guy could come up with something new every week, and he does. I especially like his monthly diaries.

You’re a drag, Greta. That’s probably the best term I’ve got for you.

Of course you’re asking this of a population that’s too cowardly to run on the sidewalk, in case someone is offended. “It’s called a sidewalk!” There’s kinda an argument for not biking past pedestrians….but we’re talking about pedestrian’ing except faster….

I’m perfectly certain because I did my homework at school and got that exactly line: “It’s called homework.” LOL.

People do not have time for that. The priority is the big project of Bird Names for Birds, removing Ornthologists names from avian species. That will show them. These are the priorities of North American youths, destroying statues, renaming buildings, renaming birds. It is all that they are capable of. How much money will be spent on all of these renaming projects is yet to be determined. How many committees will be formed for all of these projects, how many people will be on the committees is yet to be determined. They are just not capable of doing anything that requires any high level of intellectual functioning.

Radio Derb: Regulation—Boring, But Important, Two Cheers For Mr. Speaker, And Midwit Metaphysics, Etc.

https://vdare.com/radio-derb/regulation-boring-but-important-two-cheers-for-mr-speaker-and-midwit-metaphysics-etc

https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2023-10-27.html

https://vdare.com/radio-derb/regulation-boring-but-important-two-cheers-for-mr-speaker-and-midwit-metaphysics-etc

The Rolling Stones, Cher, the Beatles, … Yeah, yeah. If we’re talking about later-20th-century pop music, though, I’m going to unmask myself as an unapologetic Bee Gees fan.

Barry, Robin, and Maurice were as good as it gets; I’ll brook no argument.

Ep 28 – The Midnight Special | August 10, 1973

Video LinkNov 3, 2023

Hosted by The Bee Gees, with special guest appearance by The Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, and Gerry and The Pacemakers.
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Ep 37 – The Midnight Special Episode | October 12, 1973

Video Link
Jan 5, 2024

Hosted by The Bee Gees, with special guest appearance by Chuck Berry, Apple and Appleberry, King Crimson, Barbara Mason, Lee Michaels, and Wolfman Jack.
#TheMidnightSpecial #music #1970s