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It turns out that even poor families with ancestral roots from south of the border don’t want unlimited immigration!
Who would have guessed . . . :)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-election-border-house-trump-7b3c5adae15344dcb54f36e25890d1e2Replies: @epebble
Babylon Bee says it best:
C’mon Nevada and Wisconsin, hurry up and certify so I can go to bed. And what the heck happened with Maine? Did they go out for a beer in the middle of counting?
This seems like a good time to revisit John Johnson’s claim that Trump should be taking campaign advice from that Master of campaign strategy himself, John Johnson. Here John Johnson explaining what he thinks voters were concerned with in this election, comedians!
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?Replies: @Manfred Arcane, @Manfred Arcane, @Brutusale, @notbe mk 2It would have helped the Democrats if they hadn’t chosen a totally insubstantial candidate and then auto-suggested themselves into believing that she was an all-conquering badass.
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days - on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn't think there was going to be any penalty for it.Replies: @JMcG, @Curle, @SF, @Jack D
This election has now settled the question of what kind of party the GOP needs to be. America's political realignment is settled. It is the party of the mostly white working and middle class, and of minorities who see themselves as Americans first. It is a party that is unabashedly masculine, anti-welfare, pro-law and order, and pro-border security. The GOP now has no excuse not to understand that it needs to follow through on its promises to defend America's cultural traditions and secure the border.
If the GOP follows through on its promises it can extend its political dominance and start picking up more support among many college educated people who have abandoned it.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Manfred Arcane, @Harry Baldwin
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I’m optimistic.
P.S. Add Tulsi.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
First they insult you.
Then they investigate you.
Then they impeach you.
Then they raid you.
Then they indict you.
Then they arrest you.
Then they try to kill you.
Then you win.
This is one of those big "eff around and find out" moments.
https://youtu.be/jtgYseMr1L0
The good news from this election is that the paranoia that the Deep State would pull out all stops to prevent Trump from being elected was not true.
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….
The issue is WASP culture its own Judaizing self. As long as it is the regnant culture, the reigning power culture, of any society, that society will feature a Deep State like what w have, it will act as we see.
You want to change this? Start by totally rejecting WASP culture for you and your house. Religiously, that means becoming either Latin Mass Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. And that means becoming deeply, thoroughly anti-Protestant because of the endless evils fruits inherent in that Judaizing revolution.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Not true YET.
My preferred answer is secession, splitting the country into the insane coastal cities and the normal rest of the country.
But for those who prefer a less radical solution, the answer to your question is another question.'
How did DeSantis transform Florida from a 50/50 state to a 56/43 state?
I think the answer is that DeSantis governed like actual populist conservative. DeSantis ignored the Covid hysteria and left FL mostly open. He cracked down on LGBT indoctrination of children. He bitch-slapped the woke-Disney Corporation and academics.
When a Republican governs like a conservative instead of Robert Lewis Dabney's "shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition" a la the Bushes, Romney, McCain, et al, then the state is transformed.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Mark G.
Definitely seems like the AP and traditional networks (sans Fox) are in the tank with delaying calling the election.
I mean not calling AK, when 75% of its vote is in and Trump has a 15% lead? And that state has been traditional red? I mean, they didn’t have a problem calling HI, very shortly after polls closed.
This is really truly something spectacular. I don’t like to get carried away but Americans have given a big thumbs down to Biden/Harris and Globo-homo.
Elon Musk is having a great day.
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
How do you know they haven’t?
Civil war usually does it. But the cost is high.
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1853999620860358696Replies: @Renard
Here was my prediction from October 28th, 2024.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/whats-going-to-happen-in-the-election/#comment-6833114
The numbers strongly pointed toward a Trump win. However, too many people, especially in the intelligentsia, overcomplicated everything because they tend to have strong opinions, both positive and negative, toward the man. Trump has a tendency to inspire both his detractors and supporters into a state of derangement, making them unable to evaluate Trump or anything tangentially related to the man.
My hope is that President Elect Trump’s next administration will be staffed with people who are actually loyal to this country. Hopefully, Trump learned his lesson back in 2020. Hopefully. We’ll see what happens, but I’m optimistic.
https://twitter.com/GlycineRapist/status/1854143030623617445Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Old Prude, @The Anti-Gnostic
The Guardian whining is already delightful:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/election-anxiety-is-consuming-me-alive
UK PM Kier Starmer has already congratulated Trump, as he knows he’ll have to deal with him.
If you’re miles from power, like the Liberal Ed Davey, you can be less restrained:
“This is a dark, dark day for people around the globe. The world’s largest economy and most powerful military will be led by a dangerous, destructive demagogue. The next president of the United States is a man who actively undermines the rule of law, human rights, international trade, climate action and global security.”
I like this:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/luke-crywalker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
Now, let’s see how much of it he accomplishes.Replies: @obwandiyag, @Houston 1992
Love to see it.Replies: @Mr. Anon
I mean not calling AK, when 75% of its vote is in and Trump has a 15% lead? And that state has been traditional red? I mean, they didn't have a problem calling HI, very shortly after polls closed.Replies: @Manfred Arcane
AP has called it now, with CNN acknowledging Trump won Wisconsin.
Three cheers for Israel:
Hip pip hooray!
Hip pip hooray!
Hip pip hooray!
For he’s america’s goy fellow for he’s america’s goy fellow for he’s america’s goy fellow…and so say all of us!
Hey, best wishes to every White goy in ‘Merica, may you stay low and never sign up.
To Marvin Kessler, Counter Currents and every other White sellout I hope you are forced to serve in the aftermath.
To all my White brethren: keep up the fight!
To everyone else (iSteve, BAP, Moldbug, every other internet jew):
Mickey Kaus sums it up:
It was outright treason, an attack on the livelihoods, communities, quality of life of tens of millions of Americans and an attack on the future of all Americans and "our posterity". It was a giant FU to the American nation.Replies: @Curle
Now Trump and the Republicans can get down to the business of screwing over their base, fighting for Israel, handing out green cards, and rewarding the hispanics because a few voted for Republicans.
If Republicans cared about votes, they could have easily kept the Reagan landslides of the early 80s rolling. Instead, they’ll continue to give away the store until there is nothing left to give away. In a generation or so, it won’t matter, as the political theater is just designed to distract from what is really going on and provide a less turbulent landing.
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
The ‘Deep State’ of the Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestant empire always have been at odds with the vast majority of people over which they rule. AWAYS! The difference now is that things have been driven so utterly insane by them that normal people who do not under any circumstances want to see that are having to see it.
The issue is WASP culture its own Judaizing self. As long as it is the regnant culture, the reigning power culture, of any society, that society will feature a Deep State like what w have, it will act as we see.
You want to change this? Start by totally rejecting WASP culture for you and your house. Religiously, that means becoming either Latin Mass Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. And that means becoming deeply, thoroughly anti-Protestant because of the endless evils fruits inherent in that Judaizing revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvwvvUfIrIReplies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Ministry Of Tongues
Congratulations to Hawaiian Federal Judge on becoming President without campaigning for even a single day. Nice work if you can get it.
It’s not over yet. Not by a long shot. All the votes haven’t been counted. We will challenge this obvious fraud and win. You will see. You traitors have not seen us fight yet. We will not until your whiteness and opprobrium has been defeated. Trump will not see the White House again. I guarantee it. The whole world hates him. We will win in the end. You people have no decency nor character. We’ve had it. There will be war over this. If you guys start some mess and try to expel immigrants we will go to war. Diverse America will destroy you. We willl not take this lying down. Trump the nazi did not win. It is mathematically impossible. The swing state votes will be overturned.
It ain’t over til the fat lady sings. Remember all the attempts in the 2016 election to threaten, bribe, and cajole electors to cast their vote for Hildebeast? And Jill Stein’s efforts to throw tight swing states to the Beast with recounts?
Will the Dems concede? Or will they do their damndest to steal a couple of states with outrageous mail-in vote chicanery and muck up state vote certifications by legal maneuvering, thereby whittling down the elector advantage to where they can further corrupt the elector process, pushing Trump below 270, thus throwing the vote to the House. Or claim Trump is an insurrectionist by their lawfare attacks against him, and not seat him. And remember, Kammy dearest is charged with certifying the election. So hang on to your hamhocks and keep your popcorn and your powder dry.
Or they’ll just kill him and JD.
I watched the coverage on CNN, because their election-night map guy, John King, is beyond superb at this. I have a fascination for those rare situations in which “the first tier” consists of a sole occupant. An example, to me, is Roger Ebert. After Bob Beamon’s long jump in the 1968 olympics, Beamon’s competitor, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, summed-up this kind of situation perfectly: “Next to him, we are all children.” When it comes to enduring an endless stream of political and institutional hit jobs, Trump is alone the first tier.
Good point. I used to have this weird habit, where if I was wondering about what is the best in a genre I don't know anything about, I'd ask some of the super-nerd experts in the field, and wait until a particular guess caught from them that weird sudden intake of breath that sounds like a sigh, a gasp and a cheer all at the same time. So, talking to comic book nerds...
ME: Who is the best comic book superhero? Batman?
NERDS: Great, but a little too formulaically obsessed with "darkness".
ME: Spider-Man?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little corny and a little too much of you-saw-it-coming.
ME: Silver Surfer?
NERDS: [GASP] Silver Surfer!!!
ME: Give me ten of your best Silver Surfer comic books, please.
ME: What is the best grown-up format comic book? Stray Bullets?
NERDS: Stray Bullets is awesome, but the Tarantino schtick starts to wear thin.
ME: How about THB?
NERDS: THB is awesome, but Paul Pope is just a little too in love with himself.
ME: Love and Rockets?
NERDS: [GASP]: LOVE AND ROCKETS!!!
ME: Then I guess give me some Love and Rockets.Replies: @duncsbaby
Very Caesar-like.
Let the anti-woke wrecking ball start to swing.
Speaking of whining, looks like that meme named “Luke Crywalker” is relevant again.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/luke-crywalker
If the Democratic Party didn’t try to game the system, it may have worked out better for them. I’m sure a not-insignificant number of Democrats didn’t like the way Kamala was anointed the candidate without an open process.
That the result was simply the educated and disabused well received opinion of the public in poll?
Our politics have been compromised since at least 1918. Do you even read?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDkmaNfBOtU
But that still leaves 67 million people who lined up to vote enthusiastically for that nobody. And most of them were not first-time-voting kids—who can be forgiven for making a dumb choice.
On the other hand, anyone over 35 who cast a ballot for Harris—especially after voting for and defending the senile crook she replaced—deserves no respect ever again. They’re docile zombies.Replies: @anonymous
in the course of tripping over their heels in trying to anoint the Rodham woman.Replies: @ScarletNumber
It ain’t over till the fat woman sings.
Do you really think this was an open expression of the people?
That the result was simply the educated and disabused well received opinion of the public in poll?
Our politics have been compromised since at least 1918. Do you even read?
Hilarious poor Steve mentions this iconic image by referring to the guy lucky to be in the right place at the right time to capture it.
The irony of pro abortion fanatics pouting and sputtering at the anti abortion crowd is lost on morons like fake white John Johnson.
https://archive.ph/jPEku/4b4ee917589409b81df28c5a31dfdbd060ebd9dc.jpg
Original URL:
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/HJMgLmMHodAmdsLAranvlzayH70=/0x0:3751x2110/1952x1098/media/img/mt/2024/07/AP24195803074590/original.jpgReplies: @BB753, @Paul Jolliffe
The female bodyguard ( chuckle!) knew which part of Don to protect! Seriously, who would hire a midget female bodyguard?
Come on—I’m glad Trump won, but that doesn’t prove him infallible. You hardly need to be to beat Kamala. I think JJ is probably right that the comedian was counterproductive. Of course, JJ is also a known Trump hater so some gentle ribbing is in order regardless.
Well, Lammy is a genius. 🤣
Indeed – a totally inorganic nominee who would have never survived a real primary that they gaslit themselves into believing would be carried into office first by “joy” and then by calling Trump a Nazi. She is truly the worst major party nominee I can recall, and Dems totally forgot there’s a reason she dropped out of the 2020 contest before a vote was cast with multiple white candidates polling better with the black base than this woman. And although generally I don’t think VP nominees matter much, there have to be a lot of Dem strategists looking at Walz and wondering how in the world he was the pick. He brought absolutely nothing to the table.
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days – on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn’t think there was going to be any penalty for it.
Allan Lichtman was wrong.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?539650-1/allan-lichtman-predicts-2024-presidential-election
I am glad DJT, with all his faults, won.
I am almost as glad that this seemingly endless campaign is finally over.
The Yiddistani’s view of a Trump win.
Dr. Jill Biden and her esteemed husband console Kamala Harris on the occasion of her honorable defeat:
If Trump puts Elon in as the head Government Efficiency, Elon should, in addition to cutting the size and scope of federal agencies, physically relocate them. Get them out of DC.
Move them to cities that voted for Trump. Places like Knoxville TN, Provo UT, Tulsa OK, or Ft. Wayne IN. Sioux Falls SD, Wichita KS, and Jefferson City MO could also probably use the economic boost.
Hire a bunch of locals to man the agencies whose current employees will surely resign rather than relocate to “flyover country.”
Looks like the pollsters missed. Again.
Seems it was the late 90s when polling was accurate enough that some were suggesting we could have elections by such statistical sampling. Then things diverged. Politics ruins everything.
1) Everybody has caller id on their phone and many/most do not answer unknown numbers.
2) Even if they do answer, many refuse to participate in a poll.
3) Those who do are reluctant to admit un-woke opinions which probably over samples Ds.
So polls stink, but they are catnip to the press.
Other than politics what's the purpose of political polling?
Obviously polling will be used politically, meaning there will be some chicanery, some bombast and just general chaos
Other than propaganda of one sort of the other there is no reason to poll at all
Real Clear Politics runs a polling summary that I checked out a few times. Their polling average had Trump clearly up in the swingers and a tied in the national vote:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
here's their no-toss-up map:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
-- Trump wins
(I more or less used this to offer my 297-241 Trump iSteve prediction, giving Harris one swinger--Michigan.)
here's the polls for the closest state:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
I'd call the CNN poll a clear "miss", but most of them more or less say "toss up"
Overall, these swing state results are off only 1-2 points. But they were good enough to predict a close Trump win.
The national popular vote was more of a miss. Trump did considerable better in some traditional "blue" states than before (ex. NJ) and so the polls were off a whole 3 points nationally. So of this may be a failure of the pollsters to be able to capture the lack of enthusiasm for Democrats going to vote for Harris?
But note: Trump did not breakthrough and win a single "leans Democrat" state. No breakthrough in Minnesota, or New Hampshire, or Maine, or Virginia.
Trump has the exact same map in 2016, just slightly larger margins in some states ... against an even more ridiculous Democrat candidate defending arguably the worst presidency in American history with an openly screw-you-America open border policy.Replies: @AnotherDad, @epebble, @notbe mk 2
“I have a fascination for those rare situations in which “the first tier” consists of a sole occupant.”
Good point. I used to have this weird habit, where if I was wondering about what is the best in a genre I don’t know anything about, I’d ask some of the super-nerd experts in the field, and wait until a particular guess caught from them that weird sudden intake of breath that sounds like a sigh, a gasp and a cheer all at the same time. So, talking to comic book nerds…
ME: Who is the best comic book superhero? Batman?
NERDS: Great, but a little too formulaically obsessed with “darkness”.
ME: Spider-Man?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little corny and a little too much of you-saw-it-coming.
ME: Silver Surfer?
NERDS: [GASP] Silver Surfer!!!
ME: Give me ten of your best Silver Surfer comic books, please.
ME: What is the best grown-up format comic book? Stray Bullets?
NERDS: Stray Bullets is awesome, but the Tarantino schtick starts to wear thin.
ME: How about THB?
NERDS: THB is awesome, but Paul Pope is just a little too in love with himself.
ME: Love and Rockets?
NERDS: [GASP]: LOVE AND ROCKETS!!!
ME: Then I guess give me some Love and Rockets.
Kamala didn’t even have the courage to go on Rogan, who is always a friendly interviewer
I wonder if photojournalists are a different breed, politically and temperamentally, than journo journalists.
You’ve been doing God’s work for years, Johnny. I hope you’re right!
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days - on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn't think there was going to be any penalty for it.Replies: @JMcG, @Curle, @SF, @Jack D
I think they thought they could steal it.
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
Jared Kushner?
The Left is composed of people who believe in social proof, that reality is what society, as opposed to lived experience, says it is. They fear Trump because he does not respect the dominance of social proof over lived experience. He represents an existential challenge to the social proof ‘matrix.’ What happens when the organs of social proof maintenance, DEI, anti-sexism, sociology, centralized media, MIC are confronted with decisions made by lived experience that downgrade the authority of the social proof matrix? When war in Ukraine is ended and nothing harmful happens, to Americans? When immigration is halted or reversed and wages improve? When DEI is defunded? When broadcasting licenses are issued by lotteries? When the administrative state embellishments to the Civil Rights Act are repealed by act of the president?
Now, let’s see how much of it he accomplishes.
Once there, always there. Welcome to the modern world of the last hundred years.
Hopefully , Tucker will be Press Secretary
Trump triumphed last night by a landslide,
with Harris left fanning her tanned hide.
Yes, Trump whupped her ass;
he was lawn mower, her grass.
When Tim Walz heard the news, a grown man cried.
Civil war postponed. They’re gonna do it for us.
https://twitter.com/_kruptos/status/1854132762917134683
The most iconic photo, the most iconic comeback in American political and presidential history.
Also, there can be no doubt now after last night’s returns that 2020 was stolen. The numbers in 2020 are so far off 2016 and 2024 that its clear they stole it, as if it was ever doubtful to those of us paying attention.
Godspeed, President Trump. Lay your enemies low and burn the Swamp to the ground.
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days - on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn't think there was going to be any penalty for it.Replies: @JMcG, @Curle, @SF, @Jack D
He was picked because all the smarter minds who might have been considered weren’t interested in running as VP for a likely loser. Tim Kaine only waited five years between elected offices after losing with Gore but how many want to take that chance?
Trump has simply outclassed all his political rivals. And enraged them to the point of assassination.
Very Caesar-like.
Trump beats Hollywood, wokes, anti-white racists & genderistas. I am waiting to see his real Ukraine policy (unlike his rambling blather that didn’t amount to anything). Globally- China. Regionally- Gaza & Lebanon.
Globally- we are NOT the 3rd world. Nor anti-white corporate elites. Nor post-national EU bureaucrats.
Musk- plus for freedom & American normalcy; big minus for actual support of Putin. Wobbly about Jewish role in the US.
RFK jr.- generally plus, minus- Covid bonkers conspiracy.
Democrats- ? Who thou actually art?
https://twitter.com/KalosKun/status/1854115686789902650
LOL
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
Lampposts?
Love to see it.
Was that in the aftermath of the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor?
This will never not be funny.
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
America!
Agreed. A lot can happen between now and inauguration day on Jan 20.
It’s kind of funny, if National Popular Vote Interstate Compact had been triggered, Trump might well have swept the Electoral College (all NPVIC are blue states).
If that’s true, Scarlet, then good for the ones who had enough self-respect to refuse to drink the Kool Aid.
But that still leaves 67 million people who lined up to vote enthusiastically for that nobody. And most of them were not first-time-voting kids—who can be forgiven for making a dumb choice.
On the other hand, anyone over 35 who cast a ballot for Harris—especially after voting for and defending the senile crook she replaced—deserves no respect ever again. They’re docile zombies.
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
P.S. Add Tulsi.
P.S. Add Tulsi.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Don’t get carried away…yet.
Love to see it.Replies: @Mr. Anon
Ben Bartee coined a great term to refer to people like that: Smugnorant
https://twitter.com/GlycineRapist/status/1854143030623617445Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Old Prude, @The Anti-Gnostic
Don’t insult the left. Marx, Engels & Lenin would never get excited about trannies, white supremacy, unconscious bias or 3rd world illegal invasion.
(freely adapted from Rider Haggard)
They still could try and pull some shenanigans between now and Jan 20th, but the Electoral Count Act of 2022, which Pence and Trump triggered the Democrats into passing, has made stopping Trump at this point virtually impossible. Harris can’t do anything but count the electoral votes in front of her in early January.
The first order of business for an incoming Trump administration should be to fire every single US Attorney. Every single one. And every other political appointee. And then stand up a new DoJ office in Antarctica for all the employees they can’t fire now. Pretty much just keep the support and administrative staff and get all new staff otherwise.
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
Yes. Though I might prefer the ‘Gandhi’ version.
First they insult you.
Then they investigate you.
Then they impeach you.
Then they raid you.
Then they indict you.
Then they arrest you.
Then they try to kill you.
Then you win.
I’ve been off the Trump train for over eight years, ever since “they all must go!” morphed into Pence’s Touchback Amnesty plan. But I voted for him because the Democrats were of course worse. He promised deportations this time too. We’ll see.
Kari Lake didn’t win in Arizona. A shame.
A masterly job by Vucci, emphasizing how the fake blood runs down Trump’s cheek instead of down his neck as gravity would dictate, proving Trump was douched with raspberry sauce whilst facedown under the SS scrum for 35 seconds.
Why did the Democratic Party skip the 3am election fortification this time? Weird.
It is possible though, that Governor Shapiro made sure that Harris couldn't win his state by dialing back the election fortification so that he can run for president in 2028.
In any case, remember, the plan for this election was lawfare to get Trump thrown off the ballot and/or convict him in court so that people wouldn't vote for a convicted felon. Election fortification was a backup plan, and it wasn't even the first backup plan.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
This actually flipped a moderate Democrat family member on to Team Trump. It became one of those what-else-are-they-lying-about moments.
20202019.Joe's cache was a fraction of what his party's PACs had on hand. Likewise, lowering the drinking age would cost a state only a small portion of its federal highway funds. But not one is willing to give even that up. And the Dems couldn't let go off Joe's money when they let go of Joe.
It's how they trap monkeys in Brazil. The creature could save its life by letting go of the treat. But it will not. Thus, it dies.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9jBgo7UipqY/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/11/1415712064025/a341f689-198a-4a24-9449-6bc60b36f4cf-1020x612.jpeg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e0d593548a7113183ed3f2cb93715247
https://twitter.com/GlycineRapist/status/1854143030623617445Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Old Prude, @The Anti-Gnostic
Grab Destiny by the p***y
LOL
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
Tulsi, Tulsi, Tulsi!
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
the Deep State would pull out all stops to prevent Trump from being elected was not true.
Not true YET.
https://twitter.com/GlycineRapist/status/1854143030623617445Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Old Prude, @The Anti-Gnostic
Insh’allah.
Yes, those photos of the attempted rub out of Trump were powerful.
In some ways this encapsulated the hatred the national media and official intelligentsia projected and Trump’s fierce and in-you-face response to that.
We get to enjoy, briefly, the meltdown of media pundits who worked tirelessly against Trump.
Has anyone checked the NY area airport departure lounges yet? Are they full of celebrities who in past months all claimed they would leave the country if El Trumpo was elected?
Surely the TV studios will all be empty and dark today. No one left…
Yer iconic photo: most such photos are fakes. The marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima; the Red Army troops at the Reichstag in Berlin, the heroic milky delivering through the Blitz – all fakes.
But your Trump one is the real McCoy. Remarkable.
Prediction: Harris is making an announcement of defeat late today because she’s trying to spend the day rounding up DNC support for her candidacy in 2028, and they’re balking. Harris is the sort of power-hungry witch who doesn’t give up easily, and she’s still young enough to run again.
What I remember most about this photograph is that a man died, and two others were grievously injured.
I thought the turning point of the campaign was when RFK Jr. dropped out and endorsed Trump. At the rally where he made a joint appearance with Trump right after that, he received a very enthusiastic response from the crowd. This continued at other rallies where, next to Trump himself, RFK Jr. continued to be the most popular speaker. His attacks on the corrupt elites running this country helped to give a more populist flavor to the Trump campaign, which drew in large numbers of working class voters and caused them to vote Trump.
You do realize that includes Peter Theil and Elon Musk, right? They paid a premium to help Trump, now they expect the dividends.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Bardon Kaldian
“Tim Kaine only waited five years between elected offices after losing with Gore…”
First of all, Tim Kaine was Hillary’s running mate. Gore’s was Joe Lieberman.
Second, Hillary was strongly favored to win in 2016, so Kaine wasn’t hitching his star to “a likely loser.”
Third, Josh Shapiro seemed interested in the second spot, but his obvious ambition, air of competence and independent base of support made Harris feel insecure. He’s not an underling, but a principal. A president can’t be intimidated by his (or her) vice president.
Thus, Tim Walz: someone to whom Harris could feel superior.
You are correct re: Kaine and Hillary. Kaine is distinguishable from Lieberman by taking a risk.
The point stands that running for VP can be a risk and not everyone wants to do it. Especially if they see themselves heading the ticket four years in the distance which is consistent with your observations about Shapiro. I think he faces a long term barrier in the form of Michigan Muslims but a lot can happen in four years.Replies: @Jack D
As far as experience goes, Trump/Pence was also upside-down. Kennedy/Johnson and Eisenhower/Nixon, too. But the top guy was strong in other ways.Replies: @Jack D
Love or hate Trump, that photo will likely enter the pantheon of most important American photos. His unwillingness to capitulate to show trials, impeachment, defamation, investigations and attempts at assassinations. It become a metaphor for how we got this far in the tumult of human history.
The likely loser reference was to Harris.
You are correct re: Kaine and Hillary. Kaine is distinguishable from Lieberman by taking a risk.
The point stands that running for VP can be a risk and not everyone wants to do it. Especially if they see themselves heading the ticket four years in the distance which is consistent with your observations about Shapiro. I think he faces a long term barrier in the form of Michigan Muslims but a lot can happen in four years.
A most iconic photo. As far as impact on the US, this is the 21st Century’s equivalent of the WW2 photo of soldiers raising the flag at Iwojima. Trump was down for the count, but he got back up and continued to fight.
It will remain one of THE iconic photos for the first half of the 21st Century.
Notable upside-down tickets were Dukakis/Bentsen, Gore/Lieberman, and Bush/Cheney. The last won twice, but was just lucky– facing the second, then a (then-) popular war.
As far as experience goes, Trump/Pence was also upside-down. Kennedy/Johnson and Eisenhower/Nixon, too. But the top guy was strong in other ways.
In a million years the Democrats never thought they would lose the popular vote to Trump. They probably thought they would never lose it to ANY Republican. The Democrats deserved this loss; it remains to be seen if they will be able to look in the mirror to regroup for 2028.
Get the lady in your life a Vucci bag.
Kamala Harris’ bid for a first term as President hangs by a thread, but she still has a path to victory. Hear me out.
She needs to declare that everyone was right about the 2020 presidential election, and that in fact Donald Trump won! Yes, he is the President! Joe Biden is boxing up his stuff in the Oval Office right now.
However, since the 22nd Amendment clearly states “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”, the result of the current election is invalid – he can’t be President for a third term.
And you’re hoping for a concession speech at 6:00.
4D Chess: Democrats Admit Trump Actually Won In 2020 And Is Now Unable To Serve Third Term
Here’s to short squat female secret service agents for making this possible.
A guy named Josh Shapiro is a tough sell. You know why.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/mike-vereb-resignation-sexual-harassment-shapiro-20230928.htmlReplies: @Jim Don Bob
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1853999620860358696Replies: @Renard
OMG right? Without Kamala some of us might have to work at 9 to 5 jobs like it was the 1950s and women had no rights!
Kill urself is definitely the way to go.
P.S. I’m offering half off on strychnine.
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
Stand by. It’s a long way to Inauguration Day.
The Trump team almost blew it by suing Kam for using Joe’s money. This was dismissed, but it’s a clear, textbook illustration of why they say, “When your opponent is committing suicide, don’t interfere.” Had the VP been forced to return that cash to donors and re-collect it, as any other Democrat would have had to do, her 2024 candidacy would have been as abortive as the one in
20202019.Joe’s cache was a fraction of what his party’s PACs had on hand. Likewise, lowering the drinking age would cost a state only a small portion of its federal highway funds. But not one is willing to give even that up. And the Dems couldn’t let go off Joe’s money when they let go of Joe.
It’s how they trap monkeys in Brazil. The creature could save its life by letting go of the treat. But it will not. Thus, it dies.
we’re going to Mars
“His attacks on the corrupt elites running this country”
You do realize that includes Peter Theil and Elon Musk, right? They paid a premium to help Trump, now they expect the dividends.
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days - on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn't think there was going to be any penalty for it.Replies: @JMcG, @Curle, @SF, @Jack D
Someone on the CNN panel, might have been David Axelrod, suggested the Democrats need another group like the centrist governors headed by Bill Clinton, to refocus the party away from culture war issues.
In some ways this encapsulated the hatred the national media and official intelligentsia projected and Trump's fierce and in-you-face response to that.
We get to enjoy, briefly, the meltdown of media pundits who worked tirelessly against Trump.
Has anyone checked the NY area airport departure lounges yet? Are they full of celebrities who in past months all claimed they would leave the country if El Trumpo was elected?
Surely the TV studios will all be empty and dark today. No one left...Replies: @anonymous
Trump campaigned on restoring Jewish power. Among celebrities and new media figures, there wasn’t the same depth of hatred this time around.
Trump won 3 elections in a row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHCsM2xD7c0Replies: @J.Ross
MICHIGAN IS RED FOR THE GOD-EMPEROR!
https://www.freep.com/elections/results/2024-11-05/michigan#local-results
Self-reflection does not seem to be a quality most of the professional left possesses these days - on immigration, DIE, and trans stuff the public is clearly on the other side and yet the Dems just kept pushing forward on all of it like they didn't think there was going to be any penalty for it.Replies: @JMcG, @Curle, @SF, @Jack D
You are missing the point – he was selected BECAUSE brought absolutely nothing to the table. Kamala interviewed Shapiro (who would have helped her in PA if nothing else) and she realized that he was much smarter than she is and viewed him as a threat.
Dems were also under the illusion that Walz as a midwestern white guy would be appealing to other white guys but most white guys found him to be a repulsive cuck.
Walz was supposed to serve the function that “Dads” do in TV commercials and sitcoms – to serve as the bumbling foil while the young powerful female of color shows her kick ass dominance. These people live in such a bubble that their frame of reference is popular entertainment and not reality.
Walz just showed how completely tone deaf Kamala and her advisors really are. They don’t live in the real America and have no idea what real Americans want. Not only are they clueless about working class whites but they are equally clueless about working class blacks and Latinos, esp. males.
Only two or three "outstate" counties in Michigan went for Walz. (And Harris. Almost forgot.) Marquette is the only one in the once-leftist UP. Leelenau, wedged between the lake and Grand Traverse Bay, is touristy. Mason (seat, Ludington, ferry terminal) must have been close, as the result differs on the two maps I checked.In Wisconsin, lakeside Door, Ashland, and Bayfield Counties went Dem. All have tourism economies. The latter two are probably also showing the Lake Superior leftism of old. Asland also has an Indian reservation. Menominee, always the most Democratic in the state, is an Indian reservation.Interestingly, white-collar Dane (seat: Madison) was way more D than blue-collar Milwaukee. Trump gains with earthy blacks were balanced by losses with fussy, prissy whites. Ann Arbor's Washtenaw shows the same effect in Michigan. No reservations are their own counties, so Washtenaw's 71% D leads the state, a good eight or nine points above #2 Wayne (Detroit). "College-educated" whites are an increasingly creepy bunch. I don't know of any tourist counties in Pa., other than Lancaster and whatever's in the Poconos. Those went Republican. Lancaster was helped by the Amish, who decided to vote this year. Evidently the Commonwealth's milk board bureaucrats cheesed them off. Whereas in Wisconsin, the increasing desperate Tammy Baldwin promised dairymen to outlaw calling oat, soy, almond, coconut, etc, derivatives "milks". As if we didn't know! Shades of the days when margarine had to be clear.
https://www.wisfarmer.com/gcdn/presto/2021/11/15/PWWF/37b271bc-edb6-4d82-b2d4-91721be868e0-butter_poster_WPR.jpg?width=438&height=600&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
*a red wall on Dave Leip's atlas; a color kudos goes Dave's way! Take a (michi)gander.
You are correct re: Kaine and Hillary. Kaine is distinguishable from Lieberman by taking a risk.
The point stands that running for VP can be a risk and not everyone wants to do it. Especially if they see themselves heading the ticket four years in the distance which is consistent with your observations about Shapiro. I think he faces a long term barrier in the form of Michigan Muslims but a lot can happen in four years.Replies: @Jack D
Running for VP is not really taking a risk. You don’t have to resign from the Senate to do it. Kaine did not resign and remains in the Senate (re-elected last night) and paid no real price. Neither did Lieberman. Kamala did not resign from the Senate until Jan 18, 2020 and probably Vance won’t resign until mid January either.
The bigger risk is that you will WIN and be forced to become VP, a job whose constitutional role mainly consists of waiting for the President to die and which is usually NOT a good path to being elected President. Until LBJ got lucky in Dallas, he considered becoming VP the worst decision of his life.
Garner should have stuck it out for 4½ more years. He'd be on my shot glass!
(Sadly, old Steve is portrayed only once thereon, so presumably Donald will so be on the next edition.)Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Ron Mexico
America dodged a bullet.
It buys us a little time, that is all. This is our last chance.
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
It might have helped if Kamala supporters and other YouTube exploiters weren’t working 24/7 to radicalize Tump supporters and especially independents.
This is one of those big “eff around and find out” moments.
You do realize that includes Peter Theil and Elon Musk, right? They paid a premium to help Trump, now they expect the dividends.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Bardon Kaldian
Musk has been embedded in the MIC since his PayPal days. His companies and attendant infrastructure have been used for the development of aerospace tech which probably include the advanced drones seen on USN footage called “Tic-Tacs.” Think of Musk as a modern era Howard Hughes whose own aerospace and other facilities were used as cover for domestic CIA activities in the 50s and 60s and utilized to develop Agency assets like the Glomar Explorer. Life loves its patterns: if Musk isn’t careful he’ll end up a recluse in a Las Vegas suite monitored by Mormon manservants responsible for his daily doses of candy. Are you wearing a sweater?
While those arguments usually apply to a VP, the situation is different with Vance. I think he’s being set up to carry on Trump’s legacy and will be given a bigger role than most VPS.
As far as experience goes, Trump/Pence was also upside-down. Kennedy/Johnson and Eisenhower/Nixon, too. But the top guy was strong in other ways.Replies: @Jack D
You are missing the point. Eisenhower was not intimidated by Nixon’s superior political experience nor were any of these other men. Trump himself was not threatened by Vance and his fancy intellectual credentials and reveled last night about what a great genius Elon Musk is. Because he is not insecure.
An insecure and not too bright blackish female is a different matter. Mediocrities often advance in bureaucracies by scheming to get rid of their more competent rivals and end up surrounding themselves with people who are even more mediocre than themselves.
BTW, someone said that the entire Democrat platform could be understood if you replaced the word “democracy” with “bureaucracy”, e.g. “Trump is a threat to our bureaucracy”, etc.
The Obama mafia which exists to serve the agenda of the IC has been grooming Kamala since 2004. They walk away from that mess still confident in their abilities.
Absolutely.
You do realize that includes Peter Theil and Elon Musk, right? They paid a premium to help Trump, now they expect the dividends.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Bardon Kaldian
It depends whether elites are perceived as nationalists or as globalists.
Evan Vucci’s photo was an omen of supernatural proportions, that superceded the previous omen of the second Kamala Harris being fast track to the VP slot on the exact same day that the first Kamala Harris passed away.
She stole his life energy.
But that life energy was placed back by God into a divine act that saved Trump by half an inch or less.
Quite simply the greatest photo of all time :
JD Vance at Trump’s victory speech was pitch perfect.
Is he just a clever opportunist? Is his embrace of populism insincere?
Heck if I know.
But I wouldn’t bet against his chances in 2028.
Kamala handed Pennsylvania to Trump. The only reason I can think of as to why Kamala kicked her own ass in that situation, when that state was hers to lose, was that she was running for the office of President while being a semi-inebriated feckless twat. That’s all I can honestly come up with.
It worked! Traditionally, the Amish fundamentally frown on that kind of thing.
For those of you who like witnessing the lamentations of the opposition:
Go read thebulwark.com for the next day or two to enjoy Trump’s most loyal haters, the Never Trump neo-liberals, gnash their teeth. Don’t forget to read their November 3rd and 4th entries to see exactly what they are beforehand to really understand even the dishonesty of their post-election observations. They even lie about what they *feel*.
Enjoy
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1854197700646023400
Like neocons/neolibs(?), these people have spent so long yelling into their self-referential echo chamber that lunatic absurdities have compounded upon themselves, creating a bizarre alternate reality.
The alcoholic proof of these tears is so high that it is easy to overdose. Don't give in to temptation! Quaff moderately, and you may not need conventional food again until after the inauguration.
Some choice examples below the fold.
Walz daughter:
https://twitter.com/onlymartian_/status/1854220989267407049
Redditors sterilizing themselves to spite Trump for not letting them kill their kids the Roe v. Wade way (I told you this is very high proof stuff):
https://twitter.com/fintech_shark/status/1854208448373674261
Turns out liberals hate immigrants after all!:
https://twitter.com/Tyler46610106/status/1854210308501372959
NSFW:
https://twitter.com/Cultist_Of_Mars/status/1854198321436352521Replies: @Almost Missouri
As with most recent elections, the cleavage wasn’t regional, but rural/urban, with suburbs acting more urban these days, at least on Election Day. I was interested in the rural exceptions; how “real America” are they? I know two “blue wall” states* from family ties, Michigan and Wisconsin, and perhaps you can help with the third.
Only two or three “outstate” counties in Michigan went for Walz. (And Harris. Almost forgot.) Marquette is the only one in the once-leftist UP. Leelenau, wedged between the lake and Grand Traverse Bay, is touristy. Mason (seat, Ludington, ferry terminal) must have been close, as the result differs on the two maps I checked.
In Wisconsin, lakeside Door, Ashland, and Bayfield Counties went Dem. All have tourism economies. The latter two are probably also showing the Lake Superior leftism of old. Asland also has an Indian reservation. Menominee, always the most Democratic in the state, is an Indian reservation.
Interestingly, white-collar Dane (seat: Madison) was way more D than blue-collar Milwaukee. Trump gains with earthy blacks were balanced by losses with fussy, prissy whites. Ann Arbor’s Washtenaw shows the same effect in Michigan. No reservations are their own counties, so Washtenaw’s 71% D leads the state, a good eight or nine points above #2 Wayne (Detroit). “College-educated” whites are an increasingly creepy bunch.
I don’t know of any tourist counties in Pa., other than Lancaster and whatever’s in the Poconos. Those went Republican. Lancaster was helped by the Amish, who decided to vote this year. Evidently the Commonwealth’s milk board bureaucrats cheesed them off. Whereas in Wisconsin, the increasing desperate Tammy Baldwin promised dairymen to outlaw calling oat, soy, almond, coconut, etc, derivatives “milks”. As if we didn’t know! Shades of the days when margarine had to be clear.
*a red wall on Dave Leip’s atlas; a color kudos goes Dave’s way! Take a (michi)gander.
We must hear, ASAP, that RFK Jr & Tulsi Gabbard will get the positions of responsibility that they have so richly earned.
https://i.etsystatic.com/46466062/r/il/42f149/6133766308/il_794xN.6133766308_db6j.jpgReplies: @Anonymous
I bet Donna Summer’s in Heaven singing of Vucci, along with Gucci, Pucci, and Fiorucci right now…
I am not missing any point; that was my point. Pretty clearly stated, I thought: Significant accomplishment in other walks of life goes a long way. Therefore, the lack of political experience of the top man was far less relevant. Thus the ticket doesn’t appear upside-down.
This verges on plagiarism.
You read too fast, and miss things. Sometimes obvious.
Note that a Google search thus far doesn't return this data. All that comes back are lamentations that there are no more bellwether counties because they were all wrong in 2020 so nothing to see here, I guess to hide the fact that all of a sudden this year they all got back to being right again.
There was a lot of suspicious bullshit in 2020 that had become clear from the past couple of days, but the fact that all but one of the traditional bellwethers were wrong and the difference was driven solely large quantities of overnight votes in big cities in swing states... that's what's called inductive reasoning and it was very persuasive to me that the election was stolen.
Trump’s last ad on Twitter was excellent:
So Steve, any plans on updating your view of the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election?
Strong agree to this part:
Another Texan, John Nance Garner, called the office not worth “a warm bucket of spit”, and quit after two terms. That sounds like euphemism, but the rhyming word actually is worth something, if you’ve ever gardened or worked on a farm.
Garner should have stuck it out for 4½ more years. He’d be on my shot glass!
(Sadly, old Steve is portrayed only once thereon, so presumably Donald will so be on the next edition.)
Johnson keeps latching onto one piece of fake news sensationalism and not researching any further. He made the same mistake with the Florida classified documents court case, telling us that Trump was going to be serving prison time even after that became legally impossible with the release of the report by Special Counsel Hur.
If Johnson had researched what the best polls said independents and undecided were actually concerned about, he would have found the following list starting with the top concern 1) inflation > 2) open borders and immigration > 3) economy > 4) abortion > 5) other/miscellaneous
The top two categories were the concern of just over half these groups, abortion never got higher than 10% for these groups. A woman who can’t stretch her income past the grocery bill is not going to be worried about whether or not someone else can get an abortion.
And as for Trump’s Madison Square Garden event, we now see that Trump’s internal polling told him the election was not close and that he already had the electoral votes he needed. He showed up in New York to help him win the popular vote, which he can now use to claim a stronger mandate to govern. Trump won an extra 20 percentage points of Latinos this election compared to 2020. He picked up about 11 points overall in New York compared to 2020, and the same for New Jersey.
Spreading the idea that something as meaningless as a joke by a comedian could lower Trump supporter turnout was just such an exercise. Johnson’s whole schtick is to ride the wave of unease that precedes elections and see if he can manipulate it.
The msm was busy, among other things, telling people that an Ann Selzer, a “very reliable” pollster in Iowa, had declared the day before the election that Trump had lost Iowa, 47-44%.
I called said poll highly dubious at the time, because of the language Selzer used “explaining” why the President was going to “lose”: She said that women were offended about abortion.
It was clear to me then, and I wrote this at my primary blog, that Selzer made Iowa women sound like NOW/DNC fundraisers, whereas outside of places like New York, most women don’t talk or think that way.
However, numerous MSM organs used the microphone to turn up the volume on Ann Selzer (remember that name!), and to make it sound as if she should be believed.
Not only was Selzer lying, but every MSM source who promoted her lies was also lying, in order to discourage Trump voters, and bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some readers here will recall the trusted MSM source (CBS’ Dan Rather) who lied, and told the public that polling places had closed in the entire state of Florida in 2000, when they were still open for another hour in the Panhandle, in order to help democrats to win the state, and thus the election.Replies: @Curle
Well, it’s 9.22 pm UK time, Kamala’s concession speech was due at 9 pm, camera still showing an empty stage… no sign of Taylor Swift or J-Lo…
Comments – “where’s Diddy?”
Both men are corporatists who use nationalism as cover. You really think they care about the financial plight of lower class whites?
This is not about class in a historical sense, but about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country, while others want to preserve it.Replies: @Corvinus
Now, let’s see how much of it he accomplishes.Replies: @obwandiyag, @Houston 1992
They will never end Ukraine, never halt immigration, never defund DEI (institutions are forever), never freely issue broadcast licenses, never alter Civil Rights regulations except to increase them.
Once there, always there. Welcome to the modern world of the last hundred years.
Daughter-in-law Lara turned out to be among the greatest nepo hires ever.
A “crass lounge act” who knew more about Puerto Rico than Agent Johnson ever would, or would bother to learn. The offending quip pertained to a very real logistical crisis on the island. Hinchcliffe’s error was in assuming his audience– which turned out to be the world– was up on the news. Truth is, nobody on the mainland knows a damned thing about the island. Except those, such as Hinchcliffe, who bother to visit.
(And who is Johnson to call others “crass”? 🎥🎥🎥)
There are valid reasons for visiting your opponent’s or your own “safe state” during a tight election. There were several nearby House districts up for grabs. (Reagan was criticized for a last-minute visit to Minnesota in 1984; for “running up the score”. But he needed every seat in Tip’s House he could get, and one was there.) Publicity and fundraising are other possible benefits.
Team Trump had another reason for visitng lost-cause California and New York: to eat into the other side’s vote totals there, and take the oh-so-holy “popular vote” away from them. This had no direct effect on the result, of course, but it has a profound indirect one. Had Harris/Walz run up the score in their own states, they could enter the recount/absentee/provisional lottery with confidence and a presumed moral authority.
But without the PV in their pocket, they’d look like petty, resentful thieves. The same desperation, the same flop sweat, carried over from regulation into overtime.
NB: had John Kerry “found” 120,000 votes in Ohio in 2004, he would have won that election. But, having lost the NPV, they didn’t even bother to
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.
Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-helped-save-america-conservatives-heap-praise-on-trumps-secret-weapon-in-pennsylvania
https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2024/11/07/work-ethic-dedication-and-persistence-the-legacy-of-scott-presler-n2403418
He has attracted the Eye of Sauron for his efforts.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/11/07/cnn-calls-scott-presler-social-media-cult-figure-n2403421Replies: @Reg Cæsar
-Ronald Reagan was also behind in women voters in 1980 and those numbers did not improve when 1984 came around leading to the Democrats thinking that the gender gap would be, as-you-say, "the secret sauce" of that election. The gender gap in 1984 lead to the first female VP nominee (oh ok the commies had female VP nominees before that but they don't really count).
In the end, the women voter gap chimera did not matter in either 1980, 1984, 2016, or 2024-strangely enough men tend to vote also and, equally strangely enough tend to vote for candidates that, at least, appear to have their interests in mind.
Bizarre thing that thing called democracy is which leads experts like John Johnson into thinking neglecting women, transgenders, and illegals leads to disastrous results.Replies: @Almost Missouri
I have been predicting massive fraud for a while, with murder, and WWIII as back up plans.
So, maybe I was wrong.
If so, why no fraud? Perhaps because the Biden administration succeeded quite well in flooding the country with illegals. Now they can consolidate those gains by frustrating whatever efforts are made to make them go back. That can be done in Congress, in the states, in the bureaucracy, and their NGO allies. Maybe they decided mass fraud wasn’t worth the risk to the long term goal of filling up America with third-worlders.
Why did the Democratic Party skip the 3am election fortification this time? Weird.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Precious, @Anon
Nah, vaxxing changes the way the blood flows. I would have thought you, of all people, would know that.
Huh?
NERDS: Great, but a little too dry/pedantic.
ME: Reg Caesar?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little too eclectic and wordplay centric.
ME: Another Dad?
NERDS: Awesome, but a little monominded on the minoritarianism thing.
ME: Germ Theory of Disease?
NERDS[SHRUG, HUH?] Germ Theory of Disease!
ME: Give me a Z packReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
Politics Oct 17, 2017 4:26 PM EST
HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the policy that was to be implemented starting early Wednesday. He found Trump’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.”
The judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said the new restrictions ignore a federal appeals court ruling that found President Donald Trump’s previous ban exceeds the scope of his authority. The latest version “plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the 9th Circuit has found antithetical to … the founding principles of this nation,” Watson wrote.
The Trump administration in September announced the restrictions affecting citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen and some Venezuelan government officials and their families.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-hawaii-blocks-latest-version-trumps-travel-ban
Yeah, that’s a real niche job. Walz filled it though.
Outstanding!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1853842945767592429Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
But your Trump one is the real McCoy. Remarkable.Replies: @Mike Tre
The Marines raising the US Flag at Iwo Jima is not a fake. There is actual video footage of the same event, which is very much less iconic to watch in real time.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-milkman-the-story-behind-blitz.htmlReplies: @Mark G.
Good point. I used to have this weird habit, where if I was wondering about what is the best in a genre I know little about, I’d ask some of the super-nerd experts in the field, and wait until a particular guess caught from them that weird take that sounds like a semi-quizzical eyebrow, shrug and huh? all at the same time. So, blogging expert/nerds
ME: Who is the best iSteve commenter, Art Deco?
NERDS: Great, but a little too dry/pedantic.
ME: Reg Caesar?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little too eclectic and wordplay centric.
ME: Another Dad?
NERDS: Awesome, but a little monominded on the minoritarianism thing.
ME: Germ Theory of Disease?
NERDS[SHRUG, HUH?] Germ Theory of Disease!
ME: Give me a Z pack
It will remain one of THE iconic photos for the first half of the 21st Century.Replies: @dearieme
Yeah, but the Iwo Jima one was fake. This one was real.
The Iwo Jima flag raising was real.
Here's the true story:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/iconic-world-war-ii-photo-staged-heroic-true-story
I don’t care about their psychoanalysis & have no illusion about their morals. Just- Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg… are globalists, they are into end the west & import the 3rd world, “we are the world” without borders. Musk is not. He knows from the South Africa experience.
This is not about class in a historical sense, but about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country, while others want to preserve it.
How convenient for you. I imagine you hold yourself to high moral standards, but my vague impression is that far as the people whom you support as leaders, that goes out the window.
"Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg… are globalists, they are into end the west & import the 3rd world, “we are the world” without borders."
I wasn't talking about these individuals. I was talking about Theil and Musk. You do realize that Trump also used illegal immigrants, right? And he outsourced his clothing line overseas as well.
"Musk is not. He knows from the South Africa experience."
Musk most likely is an illegal himself!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/
Do you really think he cares about the white working stiff? It is about class in a historical sense.
"about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country"
Right, like Musk.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-nlra-serious-threatReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
But that still leaves 67 million people who lined up to vote enthusiastically for that nobody. And most of them were not first-time-voting kids—who can be forgiven for making a dumb choice.
On the other hand, anyone over 35 who cast a ballot for Harris—especially after voting for and defending the senile crook she replaced—deserves no respect ever again. They’re docile zombies.Replies: @anonymous
Yeah, heard something really amazing on the 1st tee this morning in NorCal. An affluent white guy in his early ’70s goes, “I don’t think America is ready for a woman or a black person as President. I know, Obama, but …” Don’t know anything about his background, but it floors me how anyone who graduated school by 1970 is unbothered by Harris’ inability to speak coherently.
Seems it was the late 90s when polling was accurate enough that some were suggesting we could have elections by such statistical sampling. Then things diverged. Politics ruins everything.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Partic, @AnotherDad
Polling today is much harder than it was in the 80s.
1) Everybody has caller id on their phone and many/most do not answer unknown numbers.
2) Even if they do answer, many refuse to participate in a poll.
3) Those who do are reluctant to admit un-woke opinions which probably over samples Ds.
So polls stink, but they are catnip to the press.
Why did the Democratic Party skip the 3am election fortification this time? Weird.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Precious, @Anon
They didn’t skip it, they tried, just look at Wisconsin… but they just didn’t have enough. Republicans turned out in much larger numbers in early voting, and the Democrats didn’t have months and months of mail-in ballots to work with like they did when the country was locked down. The turnout was too great and when Pennsylvania was called for Trump there was no point in trying to cheat more in Michigan.
It is possible though, that Governor Shapiro made sure that Harris couldn’t win his state by dialing back the election fortification so that he can run for president in 2028.
In any case, remember, the plan for this election was lawfare to get Trump thrown off the ballot and/or convict him in court so that people wouldn’t vote for a convicted felon. Election fortification was a backup plan, and it wasn’t even the first backup plan.
Wisconsin was one of four states (the others being Minnesota, Hawaii, and [!] California) Theodore H White used as examples of exemplary clean voting processes. I think he was the one who said you couldn't pay any North Dakotan to vote twice-- that state doesn't register voters-- but that could have been Neal R Peirce, too.It was all "sewer socialism", anyway. Those things were already socialist in even the most conservative towns. They weren't out to municipalize Pabst, Schlitz, and Harley-Davidson.
*Don't know much about the honesty of the generic Pole, but my guess is they were the go-along type who happily helped Germans keep Milwaukee clean while equally happily helping the Irish, et al., keep Chicago dirty.
Garner should have stuck it out for 4½ more years. He'd be on my shot glass!
(Sadly, old Steve is portrayed only once thereon, so presumably Donald will so be on the next edition.)Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Ron Mexico
Garner used another 4 letter word instead of spit that shares three of spit’s letters.
Except a DNA sample. Anyone got Chelsea Clinton's? Justin Trudeau's? Ronan Farrow's?Replies: @J.Ross, @Almost Missouri
Trump has much work to do.
The problem going forward is this is a country founded by people with higher than average IQ’s, for people with a higher IQ than is enjoyed throughout most of the world, but especially third world peoples.
Through lack of a rational immigration plan, We’ve currently configured our population so that maintaining western civilization is being demanded of people with significantly lower IQ, who could not even conceive of that which they’re being asked to effectively maintain and grow.
If left alone, how will this unfortunate demographic blunder play out for the future?
Might not be able to reconfigure this. Looks like a tear-down.
Mass compassionate deportation is the way forward.
The very same people who were attacking trump as “pro-choice” for not wanting a national abortion ban and threatening not to vote for him are now claiming his election is a victory for the cause he did not embrace.
I’ve got a better idea. Get rid of college loans. Make employers pay for college loans for talented but poor. Bring back IQ based civil service exam. As an alternative to getting rid of college loans get rid of them for sociology and education. Bar premium pay for high school and below teachers with additional degrees.
Thank you, that was hilarious.
NERDS: Great, but a little too dry/pedantic.
ME: Reg Caesar?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little too eclectic and wordplay centric.
ME: Another Dad?
NERDS: Awesome, but a little monominded on the minoritarianism thing.
ME: Germ Theory of Disease?
NERDS[SHRUG, HUH?] Germ Theory of Disease!
ME: Give me a Z packReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
Agree, I think.
Now, let’s see how much of it he accomplishes.Replies: @obwandiyag, @Houston 1992
I agree , but his close advisors will consist of Muskrd, RFK et al versus Jared K
Hopefully , Tucker will be Press Secretary
When RFK Jr was still hoping to run as a Democrat, I listened to him being interviewed and thought, “I could vote for this guy for president.” He is intelligent, well-informed, and sincere, unlike most politicians. His endorsement of Trump meant a lot, as did Tulsi’s.
I’m going to steal that theory.
Here is the source:
NERDS: Great, but a little too dry/pedantic.
ME: Reg Caesar?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little too eclectic and wordplay centric.
ME: Another Dad?
NERDS: Awesome, but a little monominded on the minoritarianism thing.
ME: Germ Theory of Disease?
NERDS[SHRUG, HUH?] Germ Theory of Disease!
ME: Give me a Z packReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
No, they all give the richness of a tapestry.
Having said this, America is a country where the corporate, government and media elite are clearly at odds with the majority of the country, and that majority includes a wide range of age groups and ethnicities.
How do we resolve this? No idea….Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Kaiser Wilhelm, @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Jefferson Temple, @Wade Hampton
Your question: how do we resolve the divisions in the country?
My preferred answer is secession, splitting the country into the insane coastal cities and the normal rest of the country.
But for those who prefer a less radical solution, the answer to your question is another question.’
How did DeSantis transform Florida from a 50/50 state to a 56/43 state?
I think the answer is that DeSantis governed like actual populist conservative. DeSantis ignored the Covid hysteria and left FL mostly open. He cracked down on LGBT indoctrination of children. He bitch-slapped the woke-Disney Corporation and academics.
When a Republican governs like a conservative instead of Robert Lewis Dabney’s “shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition” a la the Bushes, Romney, McCain, et al, then the state is transformed.
Purge phantom voters from registration, eliminate fraud opportunities in ballot counting, and—hey presto!—it turns out that the decisive portion of the Dem 'coalition' hasn't actually gone through the formality of, you know, existing.
Dank Brandon is on a roll and he’s not happy.
So, this website won’t be shut down. Great news!!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1853842945767592429Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
That’s it exactly, and there are hopeful signs: putative Trump cabinet member RFK, Jr has recently said that whole departments of the FDA must go.
I always thought this was in interesting idea. The risk I would think is that you wind up adding a staunch blue voting block to red states that might turn them purple (or blue, as in Virginia). But maybe a single agency doesn’t have that much heft.
Is it just me, or has the Arizona vote count been frozen since this morning, at 65% tabulated? Are we talking hanging chads here, ancient retirees double dipping in the County Clerk & Recorder’s offices, or what?
I wonder if the the thought was “Hey, a half black cypher with little in the way of accomplishments worked before, let’s try it again!”.
We hadn’t heard from Tiny Duck in a while. It’s nice seeing him check in again and in fine form.
Some believe LBJ got lucky. Others think he made his own luck…
A few thing from Ace of Spades:
Kamala got fewer votes than FJB did in 2020 in every single county in the USA.
Some guy named Sean Davis said:
The issue is WASP culture its own Judaizing self. As long as it is the regnant culture, the reigning power culture, of any society, that society will feature a Deep State like what w have, it will act as we see.
You want to change this? Start by totally rejecting WASP culture for you and your house. Religiously, that means becoming either Latin Mass Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. And that means becoming deeply, thoroughly anti-Protestant because of the endless evils fruits inherent in that Judaizing revolution.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Really? How is being punched for Porc “Judaizing”? Doesn’t sound kosher.
For residential architecture in the US that would mean rejecting Colonial, Federalist, Georgian, Neoclassical, Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, shingle style, etc. Seems unnecessarily limiting.
A religious White person adopting Christianity is also Judaizing compared to being an Odinist or follower of Herne the Hunter. Recovered footage from Merrie Olde England, c. 1200 (colorized) :
It is like saying that Jews and Muslims have more in common because they both reject Christian Trinity.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
“Sorry to keep you waiting; complicated business, complicated…”
OT — Germananon updates the bizarre political situation there with better details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHCsM2xD7c0Replies: @J.Ross
Naw, there were 15 million extra die-hard Democrats who were too young to vote prior to 2020 but who all died of covid before they could vote in 2024. That’s why you see the number of Democrats holding roughly at 65 million except for 2020.
I wonder what happened to those twenty million never seen voter? Truly never seen, they 'voted' by mail, dozens of them showed up to Brandon's rallies and now they've vanished like they never existed at all...
So where are those extra Democrat voters? I'm guessing they were all volunteering in Haiti and wound up the guests of honor at BBQs.
Why did the Democratic Party skip the 3am election fortification this time? Weird.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Precious, @Anon
I can’t tell if you’re promoting or making fun of the retarded conspiracy theories.
I assume few here are as dim as JSOM and it is superfluous to mention this but blood from Trump's ear would of course run down Trump's face in exactly the same direction as raspberry sauce when he was prone, and once he stood up the blood wouldn't be running down his face at all, but rather down his neck, so what you see in the photograph can't possibly show what JSOM claims it does.
Go read thebulwark.com for the next day or two to enjoy Trump's most loyal haters, the Never Trump neo-liberals, gnash their teeth. Don't forget to read their November 3rd and 4th entries to see exactly what they are beforehand to really understand even the dishonesty of their post-election observations. They even lie about what they *feel*.
EnjoyReplies: @Almost Missouri
If, like me, you can derive actual sustenance from liberal tears, there is a rich vein of moisture here:
Like neocons/neolibs(?), these people have spent so long yelling into their self-referential echo chamber that lunatic absurdities have compounded upon themselves, creating a bizarre alternate reality.
The alcoholic proof of these tears is so high that it is easy to overdose. Don’t give in to temptation! Quaff moderately, and you may not need conventional food again until after the inauguration.
Some choice examples below the fold.
Walz daughter:
Redditors sterilizing themselves to spite Trump for not letting them kill their kids the Roe v. Wade way (I told you this is very high proof stuff):
Turns out liberals hate immigrants after all!:
NSFW:
https://twitter.com/DissidentMedia/status/1854134993443869051Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
It’s a start.
What about all the Latino supremacists who voted for the orange-clad garbageman?
Careful! Such threats are a danger to our democracy!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1853842945767592429Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
It was also a headline in the Babylon Bee Monday:
Democrats Warn That If Trump Is Elected It Will Be The End Of Bureaucracy As We Know It
Some of Wednesday’s:
is the best point and should be on top, and
•Both Candidates Just Glad They Don’t Have To Visit Pennsylvania Anymore
is just funny and has got to be right
“Election denialism for me, not for thee.”
Indeed. I predicted here back in January that Biden wouldn’t be the eventual nominee, and that the nominee would be selected after completely bypassing the Democratic Party’s voters. I’m still a little shocked that the hand-picked nominee turned out to be Harris. She was always awful. But I guess the Democrat’s were stuck with either selecting Harris, or incurring black voter wrath by abandoning their AA hire.
This election has now settled the question of what kind of party the GOP needs to be. America’s political realignment is settled. It is the party of the mostly white working and middle class, and of minorities who see themselves as Americans first. It is a party that is unabashedly masculine, anti-welfare, pro-law and order, and pro-border security. The GOP now has no excuse not to understand that it needs to follow through on its promises to defend America’s cultural traditions and secure the border.
If the GOP follows through on its promises it can extend its political dominance and start picking up more support among many college educated people who have abandoned it.
If anything, the Dems have shown again and again and again that they are NOT Americans, that they and all they stand for are deadly enemies of Americans; and you cannot make peace with your enemies without crushing them first. Heads must roll. If a couple of genuine armed terrorists can be proven to have snuck into the country due to the Mayorkas border policy, then it is not out of bounds to entertain capital treason charges against Mayorkas, Harris, and Biden for giving material aid and comfort to the enemy. Sounds medieval, but medieval should be on the menu all day long until the gangrene has been fully cleansed, and there is a *lot* of gangrene these days.
This is what I’ve been wondering about. Everyone seems to assume that Harris passed over Shapiro in favor of Walz, but I suspect that Kamala asked Shapiro and he turned her down. Kamala didn’t want to admit that Shapiro turned her down, and Shapiro didn’t want to tell people he had bypassed a chance to save the Democratic presidential campaign. As a bonus, Shapiro now gets to run in 2028 as the man who ‘should have been Kamala’s running mate.’ Of course if the economy is going great in four years he’ll have a tough race against JD Vance or Ron DeSantis.
Kelly Bundy is distraught, horror queen Jamie Lee Curtis predicts horror, Bette Midler quotes Mencken (!).
Mia Farrow is a warhawk and Nancy Sinatra a fag hag. (Those two are still alive? Okay, they’re both younger than the President or the President-elect, but have been out of view for quite some time.)
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are civilized and gracious. (Cook more manly than that other Tim.)
And is that Zowie Bowie at the end? Is he American now? (Some of his stepmother’s fellow tribesmen in Minneapolis went MAGA.)
From Steve’s hometown paper:
Hollywood Reacts to Second Trump Presidency Win: “A Sign of Deep Nihilism”
Finding Comfort in Election Chaos: How ‘Sesame Street’ and Steve From ‘Blue’s Clues’ Are Providing That
In other cope dope, Georgetown is offering milk, cookies, and Legos to students upset at the vote. And across the land, University of Oregon to offer ‘election week therapy’ featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks. Quacktavious will be there.
Trump’s “popular vote” majority exceeds Jimmy Carter’s in 1976, by %, and approaches Samuel Tilden’s. Lucifer Everylove’s vote was limited to Utah, so it didn’t do much damage.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2024&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0
https://universe.byu.edu/who-is-lucifer-justin-case-everylove
Squirrels say Democrats can go f*ck themselves.
Bette Midler, 78, ridiculed as she deletes X account after vowing to drink 'drain cleaner' over Trump glory
This election has now settled the question of what kind of party the GOP needs to be. America's political realignment is settled. It is the party of the mostly white working and middle class, and of minorities who see themselves as Americans first. It is a party that is unabashedly masculine, anti-welfare, pro-law and order, and pro-border security. The GOP now has no excuse not to understand that it needs to follow through on its promises to defend America's cultural traditions and secure the border.
If the GOP follows through on its promises it can extend its political dominance and start picking up more support among many college educated people who have abandoned it.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Manfred Arcane, @Harry Baldwin
That is all a fine ideal, but the reality of the landscape I think might be much harsher: the very first priority of Trump/GOP has got to be cool, ruthless, serious-minded revenge. Brutal, merciless, unrelenting revenge. In the past years, the Dems have behaved utterly monstrously, and now they must be treated monstrously in return — none of this candy-ass reach-across-the-aisle, we’re-all-Americans twaddle. You don’t make deals with poison snakes.
If anything, the Dems have shown again and again and again that they are NOT Americans, that they and all they stand for are deadly enemies of Americans; and you cannot make peace with your enemies without crushing them first. Heads must roll. If a couple of genuine armed terrorists can be proven to have snuck into the country due to the Mayorkas border policy, then it is not out of bounds to entertain capital treason charges against Mayorkas, Harris, and Biden for giving material aid and comfort to the enemy. Sounds medieval, but medieval should be on the menu all day long until the gangrene has been fully cleansed, and there is a *lot* of gangrene these days.
Fed will raise interest rates to make sure the economy is not good in 2027-28
Seems it was the late 90s when polling was accurate enough that some were suggesting we could have elections by such statistical sampling. Then things diverged. Politics ruins everything.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Partic, @AnotherDad
“Politics Ruins Everything”
Other than politics what’s the purpose of political polling?
Obviously polling will be used politically, meaning there will be some chicanery, some bombast and just general chaos
Other than propaganda of one sort of the other there is no reason to poll at all
In the Nixon tapes, Haldeman observed to Nixon that “There are more anti-semites than there are Jews.”
Lamp posts, yes, but never ovens, amirite?
Audacious Epigone, if you are out there, you were wrong about Kamala, my friend.
But I also know you are very, very happy. See you around Del Ray! 😉
What we need now is a recession, followed by a quick and dramatic recovery in 2026.
Lampposts are traditional, ovens are arriviste. Are we not conservative?
But I appreciate the "we." ;)
I get there is a book tour going on but is Steve even alive, do we have proof of life?
Reasons for being cheerful
A reader looks forward with optimisim.
Steve Sailer
Nov 06, 2024
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/reasons-for-being-cheerfulReplies: @GeologyAnonMk2.2
Nothing short of amazing to recognize you’re watching history unfold right before your eyes.
I think, looking at the long bond markets behavior (monotonically inching up), expected behavior for a long time will be stagflation – if tariffs, real (not symbolic) deportation of illegals, prevention of new illegals coming in all are put in place. It may be slightly softened by tax cuts, but net effect will be zero as the long bond will shoot up quicker. Our current burn rate is $2 trillion budget deficits per year indefinitely.
Judge in Hawaii blocks latest version of Trump’s travel ban
Politics Oct 17, 2017 4:26 PM EST
HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the policy that was to be implemented starting early Wednesday. He found Trump’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.”
The judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said the new restrictions ignore a federal appeals court ruling that found President Donald Trump’s previous ban exceeds the scope of his authority. The latest version “plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the 9th Circuit has found antithetical to … the founding principles of this nation,” Watson wrote.
The Trump administration in September announced the restrictions affecting citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen and some Venezuelan government officials and their families.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-hawaii-blocks-latest-version-trumps-travel-ban
Hol’ up… you got a beef with Kags the mensch?
Good point. I used to have this weird habit, where if I was wondering about what is the best in a genre I don't know anything about, I'd ask some of the super-nerd experts in the field, and wait until a particular guess caught from them that weird sudden intake of breath that sounds like a sigh, a gasp and a cheer all at the same time. So, talking to comic book nerds...
ME: Who is the best comic book superhero? Batman?
NERDS: Great, but a little too formulaically obsessed with "darkness".
ME: Spider-Man?
NERDS: Again, very great, but a little corny and a little too much of you-saw-it-coming.
ME: Silver Surfer?
NERDS: [GASP] Silver Surfer!!!
ME: Give me ten of your best Silver Surfer comic books, please.
ME: What is the best grown-up format comic book? Stray Bullets?
NERDS: Stray Bullets is awesome, but the Tarantino schtick starts to wear thin.
ME: How about THB?
NERDS: THB is awesome, but Paul Pope is just a little too in love with himself.
ME: Love and Rockets?
NERDS: [GASP]: LOVE AND ROCKETS!!!
ME: Then I guess give me some Love and Rockets.Replies: @duncsbaby
Love and Rockets from 1982 – 1996 is beyond parallel. I thought of it as the punk-rock great American novel in comic book form. All ensuing volumes in the saga are just okay. I still buy ’em but I have no emotional investment in the characters and half the time have no clue just wtf is going on.
Great moments from the old answering machine days... I used to have a message from Beto on mine. And Jaime signed my T-shirt once! I hung out with the two of them all night once at Comic-Con down in SD, and they were super-cool. But I suspect the only reason they hung out with me was because nobody else knew what they looked like, and I did.
Penny Century, you're FIRED!
For the Xaime stories, almost all (maybe all) of the early characters are unappealing bastards who screw over their friends and relatives without compunction. A lot of them deserved a good beating or two. It felt good when they mostly retired, and as it turns out the new cast is a lot more interesting. Sorry Maggie! The stories are easier to follow and better told too, though less artsy. Unfortunately, there are lately signs of decline for his extraordinary drawings, but then he has to be in his sixties by now.
Beto has radicalized over the years and now seems to have taken the hate/look down on whitey route in the longer stories. And pushing the opposite of how nature works: around Fritz, everyone grows old and grotesque while she remains a ludicrous bombshell. Not to mention the, ahem, rest. Actually, while I get triggered from time to time, I kind of like it, at arm's length.
Well, I expected Trump to win and he pulled it off, though one never can tell.
Certainly, it is a much needed cultural stand against all the DIE bulls***, trans rights activism, immigration, etc. The idea of mass deportations that people are actually ok with indicates how much the Overton window has shifted in 20 years. Hopefully also TPTB are seeing that non-whites or a mixture of whites and non-whites is not effective prophylaxis against anti-Jewish sentiment or action.
I expect that the Ukraine war will likely be brought to some form of conclusion to stop the needless deaths. Which will much lower the likelihood of WWIII. I am not sure how things might be worked out with Israel and the various conflicts it has going on now.
I am concerned about the extent to which tariffs are featuring in Trump’s verbiage. He has discussed tariffs as high as 60-70%, enough to do away with the income tax, rather than the ~20% imposed which are more of a standard nature, and 10% overall (which would be more reasonable). Hopefully it is somewhat typical along the lines of building the wall, and making Mexico pay for it. And 450 miles of 1200 needed. (Maybe he was carefully doling out the gibs/term in preparation for a repeal of the 22nd amendment and a third term.)
I prompted an AI-driven summary, below. It does seem like trade wars heighten tensions, and my concern is the unintended consequences of a return to significantly higher tariffs in the world. It may also drive China to acts of desperation, and lead to depressed world economic conditions. It does seem like the historical evidence suggests that moderate, balanced tariff policies within a rules-based international trading system contribute to global stability and prosperity, while extreme protectionism often leads to economic decline and increased international tensions. (Not saying there has to be global free trade, there is likely something of a happy medium.)
And also seeing how the last administration played out, we were sold Bannon and got Kushner. So I guess we’ll see.
It is also hard to predict how the AI revolution/singularity/AGI is going to play out over the next administration. Its impact is really orthogonal to the Trump administration and may overshadow whatever is actually Trump’s doing (much like what COVID did for Biden).
Here’s a detailed, decade-by-decade analysis of US tariff history throughout the 20th century:
1900s
Average tariff rate: approximately 47%
Dingley Tariff Act of 1897 remained in effect
Protectionist policies continued from the late 19th century
Primary goal: protecting American manufacturing from European competition
1910s
Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
Significant reduction in tariff rates to average of 27%
First major tariff reduction since Civil War
Implementation of federal income tax reduced dependency on tariff revenue
WWI disrupted international trade patterns
1920s
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922
Raised rates back to about 40%
“Scientific tariff” concept introduced
Tariff Commission established to adjust rates
Republican-led protectionist policies
1930s
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
Highest tariff rates in US history (average 59%)
Contributed to deepening of Great Depression
Led to international retaliation
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 began reducing rates
1940s
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) established 1947
US took leadership role in promoting free trade
Average tariffs declined to around 25%
Post-WWII international cooperation
Bretton Woods system established
1950s
Further GATT rounds reduced tariffs
Average rates fell to about 15%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 preparation
Emphasis on rebuilding international trade
European economic recovery promoted
1960s
Kennedy Round of GATT (1964-1967)
Significant tariff reductions across industrial goods
Average rates dropped to about 12%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Increased focus on non-tariff barriers
1970s
Tokyo Round of GATT (1973-1979)
Further reduction in industrial tariffs
Average rates fell to about 8%
Oil crisis impacted trade patterns
Rise of non-tariff trade barriers
1980s
Trade and Tariff Act of 1984
Focus shifted to bilateral trade agreements
Average tariff rates stabilized around 5-6%
Rising concern about Japanese imports
Voluntary export restraints became common
1990s
NAFTA implemented (1994)
Uruguay Round of GATT completed (1994)
WTO established (1995)
Average tariff rates around 4-5%
Increased focus on regional trade agreements
Key Trends Over the Century
Overall dramatic decline in tariff rates (47% to ~5%)
Shift from protectionism to free trade advocacy
Movement from unilateral to multilateral trade agreements
Decreased reliance on tariffs for federal revenue
Increased importance of non-tariff trade measures
This transformation reflects the USA’s evolution from a developing industrial nation to the world’s leading economic power, and its changing role in global trade leadership.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1854289413246705695
Dank Brandon explains the election:
This election has now settled the question of what kind of party the GOP needs to be. America's political realignment is settled. It is the party of the mostly white working and middle class, and of minorities who see themselves as Americans first. It is a party that is unabashedly masculine, anti-welfare, pro-law and order, and pro-border security. The GOP now has no excuse not to understand that it needs to follow through on its promises to defend America's cultural traditions and secure the border.
If the GOP follows through on its promises it can extend its political dominance and start picking up more support among many college educated people who have abandoned it.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Manfred Arcane, @Harry Baldwin
The left may have thought that their black voters wouldn’t accept anyone but Harris, but as I’ve said all along, she really didn’t appeal much to that part of the base. Despite her inconsistent attempts at a blaccent, she came across as a drunken white Valley girl, and couldn’t believably fake the Authentically Black persona the way the equally deracine Obama could. Thus, the apathy, or, in some cases, outright rejection, by black voters.
Blaccent..... awesome 😆 🤣 😂
I once read a libertarian sci-fi/alternate history novel where the capital of the United States was in a barn in the Dakotas somewhere. That was the whole federal government. Congress came for a few days every two years, sat on rough wooden benches, debated and voted on a few issues, and went home. And it was glorious.
The rise of the professional politician negates that philosophy, since the elite never have to live under the yoke of the absurd laws they pass onto the rest of us.
80 years? Last I checked World War I was over a hundred years ago, and the US and UK were already pretty chummy for decades by that point.
I recall one of my college profs saying that a US war plan against the UK was mooted in the 1920s (presumably naval warfare), but I can't find any reference to it right now.
Anyway, the point is the post-WWII "special relationship" wasn't always what it is now. The 1902s US-UK relationship resembled the present China-US relationship in some ways: two rivals (one new and upsurgent, one old and sclerotic) warily eyeing each other up for future world hegemony, even as they know they are mutually interdependent in many ways.Replies: @Jack D, @Gandydancer
Impressive what AI can do – Donald Trump sings 50 Cent. Not quite perfect because Trump would be a bit more boombastic.
Also, one can make music even from the screams of disappointed voters – if indeed she’s old enough to vote :
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/129214
This election has now settled the question of what kind of party the GOP needs to be. America's political realignment is settled. It is the party of the mostly white working and middle class, and of minorities who see themselves as Americans first. It is a party that is unabashedly masculine, anti-welfare, pro-law and order, and pro-border security. The GOP now has no excuse not to understand that it needs to follow through on its promises to defend America's cultural traditions and secure the border.
If the GOP follows through on its promises it can extend its political dominance and start picking up more support among many college educated people who have abandoned it.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Manfred Arcane, @Harry Baldwin
Thanks. (I can’t use the “Thanks” button. I haven’t filled my quota of comments lately. Kind of a dumb rule.)
Mia Farrow is a warhawk and Nancy Sinatra a fag hag. (Those two are still alive? Okay, they're both younger than the President or the President-elect, but have been out of view for quite some time.)
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are civilized and gracious. (Cook more manly than that other Tim.)
And is that Zowie Bowie at the end? Is he American now? (Some of his stepmother's fellow tribesmen in Minneapolis went MAGA.)
From Steve's hometown paper:
Hollywood Reacts to Second Trump Presidency Win: “A Sign of Deep Nihilism”
Finding Comfort in Election Chaos: How ‘Sesame Street’ and Steve From ‘Blue’s Clues’ Are Providing That
In other cope dope, Georgetown is offering milk, cookies, and Legos to students upset at the vote. And across the land, University of Oregon to offer 'election week therapy' featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks. Quacktavious will be there.
Trump's "popular vote" majority exceeds Jimmy Carter's in 1976, by %, and approaches Samuel Tilden's. Lucifer Everylove's vote was limited to Utah, so it didn't do much damage.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2024&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0
https://universe.byu.edu/who-is-lucifer-justin-case-everyloveReplies: @Harry Baldwin, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
And across the land, University of Oregon to offer ‘election week therapy’ featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks.
Squirrels say Democrats can go f*ck themselves.
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1854197700646023400
Like neocons/neolibs(?), these people have spent so long yelling into their self-referential echo chamber that lunatic absurdities have compounded upon themselves, creating a bizarre alternate reality.
The alcoholic proof of these tears is so high that it is easy to overdose. Don't give in to temptation! Quaff moderately, and you may not need conventional food again until after the inauguration.
Some choice examples below the fold.
Walz daughter:
https://twitter.com/onlymartian_/status/1854220989267407049
Redditors sterilizing themselves to spite Trump for not letting them kill their kids the Roe v. Wade way (I told you this is very high proof stuff):
https://twitter.com/fintech_shark/status/1854208448373674261
Turns out liberals hate immigrants after all!:
https://twitter.com/Tyler46610106/status/1854210308501372959
NSFW:
https://twitter.com/Cultist_Of_Mars/status/1854198321436352521Replies: @Almost Missouri
180 Proof
https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1852043135850803505
Dream Team:
Stephen Miller
JD Vance
RFK Jr.
Elon Musk
Don Jr.
Ron Paul
Tucker Carlson?
I'm optimistic.Replies: @MGB, @TWS, @Almost Missouri, @Anon, @dearieme, @anonymous, @Prester John
Good choices but I would pick Rand over his dad who is 89 years old.
I have Burkean instincts, but I am now a popular nationalist and have been for some time.
But I appreciate the “we.” 😉
Voted Libertarian because the two-party system doesn’t work anymore. Nevertheless, am happy The Trumpster retired the silly sorority sister. If he does nothing else besides sending the illegals packing and “drill, baby, drill” his term will be a success. I say “term” because the Arrow of Time applies to him as much as it does to the rest of us pilgrims, so his choice of Vance as VP was good, though frankly I wish it had been DeSantis notwithstanding the animosity between them.
But unlike Kamala Harris, Trump knows how to pick his veeps, and his old school selection based on geography (Pence in 2016 & 2020, Vance this year) were key to his victory. Without Vance or another Upper Midwest running mate, Trump doesn’t win in 2016 or 2024. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan - he needed at least one of the three to win.Replies: @Gandydancer
Mia Farrow is a warhawk and Nancy Sinatra a fag hag. (Those two are still alive? Okay, they're both younger than the President or the President-elect, but have been out of view for quite some time.)
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are civilized and gracious. (Cook more manly than that other Tim.)
And is that Zowie Bowie at the end? Is he American now? (Some of his stepmother's fellow tribesmen in Minneapolis went MAGA.)
From Steve's hometown paper:
Hollywood Reacts to Second Trump Presidency Win: “A Sign of Deep Nihilism”
Finding Comfort in Election Chaos: How ‘Sesame Street’ and Steve From ‘Blue’s Clues’ Are Providing That
In other cope dope, Georgetown is offering milk, cookies, and Legos to students upset at the vote. And across the land, University of Oregon to offer 'election week therapy' featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks. Quacktavious will be there.
Trump's "popular vote" majority exceeds Jimmy Carter's in 1976, by %, and approaches Samuel Tilden's. Lucifer Everylove's vote was limited to Utah, so it didn't do much damage.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2024&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0
https://universe.byu.edu/who-is-lucifer-justin-case-everyloveReplies: @Harry Baldwin, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
This BS really annoys me. We really need to bring back the draft to put an end to this crap. It will help focus the little darling’s minds. I spent a lot of time thinking about the necessity of toughening up as a kid because war, and being drafted, was considered a very strong possibility. I’ll never forget the older couple three doors down who had a shrine to their dead (Vietnam) son in their home. Seeing these things wasn’t uncommon.
What a rightist Georgetown student ought to do is bring 100 of his friends and drink/eat/take as much milk, cookies, and Legos as possible. And say "Thank you very much for all this - we really are feeling terrible about Trump."
It's like the "gun buy backs" that certain jurisdictions do. You bring all sorts of non- or poorly-functioning zinc guns or even made-up guns that are useless and cost close to nothing and pocket the money they give you.
When leftists offer you free or arbitrage opportunities, never pass it up and instead take advantage of it 100-fold.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Of course not! As was discussed in the lockdown, ovens simply cannot process the material fast enough!
You’ll recall that in 2016 that same party screwed Bernie Sanders in somewhat the same fashion while
in the course of tripping over their heels in trying to anoint the Rodham woman.
Also note that VP Kamala Harris was jinxed by the death of Kamala the elephant on Nov. 2, 2024:
And the Puerto Rico joke, which we were solemnly told was a catastrophic gaffe, proved to be so offensive to the Puerto Ricans that they punished Trump and the Republicans by…electing a Republican governor.
You shouldn’t be.
What a rightist Georgetown student ought to do is bring 100 of his friends and drink/eat/take as much milk, cookies, and Legos as possible. And say “Thank you very much for all this – we really are feeling terrible about Trump.”
It’s like the “gun buy backs” that certain jurisdictions do. You bring all sorts of non- or poorly-functioning zinc guns or even made-up guns that are useless and cost close to nothing and pocket the money they give you.
When leftists offer you free or arbitrage opportunities, never pass it up and instead take advantage of it 100-fold.
Of course they eventually figured out what was happening and changed the rules, but they couldn't take back what they had already paid him.
Besides significant self-enrichment, he may have knocked a hole in the jurisdiction's budget. Certainly knocked a hole in its anti-gun appetite.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Big ovens with pesticide made things go pretty fast, I think.
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?Replies: @Manfred Arcane, @Manfred Arcane, @Brutusale, @notbe mk 2Perfectly put. I’d just add that, when JJ was lecturing us on what a terrible pick Vance was and how Tulsi Gabbard would have been a much better choice to solve Trump’s woman gap, I pointed out that it was white blue-collar men that Trump needed to galvanize more than anyone else, particularly in the Rust Belt, and that Vance was the perfect choice for appealing to that demographic. JJ dismissed this argument–but how did the Rust Belt wind up voting, again?
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?Replies: @Manfred Arcane, @Manfred Arcane, @Brutusale, @notbe mk 2Sorry, accidental double post, now removed.
Steve’s jealousy of Trump is the same as the little, inbred, malformed jew’s jealousy of the White Chad Jock.
They tried to cheat but failed. Trump deployed a massive army of lawyers in each state and they fought every irregularity — the threat of lawsuit was often enough — plus, the only states Kămălā Hærrıs “won” were states that don’t check ID:
100% OT, but the UK grooming trials rumble on. They didn’t want to prosecute, or even investigate, at the time, 20 years ago, because
a) that would be racist
b) it might have increased the British National Party vote – the only party who listened to the victims or their parents – only honourable exception being Anne Cryer, a local Labour MP.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calderdale-child-sex-abuse-grooming-b2642473.html
We did get one solo Brit as well. That sort of thing is a solitary vice for Brits, not something you share with brothers and cousins..
Simplicius quotes Brian “PedoFace” Stelter:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/press-panics-at-trumps-return.html
I read Simplicius (best source on the Ukraine catastrophe)
Niccolo Soldi (best satirist alive)
Ellis Items (headline roundup, suffers from TDS but often has one or two must-read links)
Best of Journalism (mixed bag but sometimes excellent)
Curtis Yarvin (second best satirist)
I try to listen to Hugh Hewitt, who is the best interviewer alive
Revolver
The Federalist
Breitbart
Larry Elder has been on fire lately
I almost never catch Joe Rogan because I simply do not have three hours to devote to anything
And Caravan to Midnight, which can be tedious or wierd but it sometimes has stuff like Michael Yan, or the guy they had on last week who had been involved with lawsuits against the federal government and had a lot of anecdotes about regulatory agencies
And Steve and /pol/, which can only be used by those who patiently and diligently filter through all the federal static (on any given day, /pol/ is almost all spam except for 3-6 legitimate threads. /pol/ is also unbeatable in the event of a foreign emergency like the Nicaraugua riots or the siege of German Hill.)
I saw that "we’ve lost this audience completely" thing too, and thought, "Hmm, they've finally noticed? For 'news' 'reporters', they are appallingly slow on the uptake of rather obvious facts."What are the lawsuits? I assume he is different from Michael Yon who was a self-embedded reporter with the US military in Iraq?What are these?Replies: @J.Ross
Lammy’s parents are from the former British Guiana, so it may be WWI doesn’t resonate in his family history as it will with many Brits of a certain age.
Yes, Love and Rockets IS the Great American Novel for punks. Well, just Xaime’s stuff, really. Beto’s work is just fine, but it’s not the GAN like Hoppers is.
Great moments from the old answering machine days… I used to have a message from Beto on mine. And Jaime signed my T-shirt once! I hung out with the two of them all night once at Comic-Con down in SD, and they were super-cool. But I suspect the only reason they hung out with me was because nobody else knew what they looked like, and I did.
Penny Century, you’re FIRED!
“Despite [Kumdumpster’s] inconsistent attempts at a blaccent, she came across as a drunken white Valley girl”
Blaccent….. awesome 😆 🤣 😂
So, maybe I was wrong.
If so, why no fraud? Perhaps because the Biden administration succeeded quite well in flooding the country with illegals. Now they can consolidate those gains by frustrating whatever efforts are made to make them go back. That can be done in Congress, in the states, in the bureaucracy, and their NGO allies. Maybe they decided mass fraud wasn't worth the risk to the long term goal of filling up America with third-worlders.Replies: @deep anonymous, @Almost Missouri
Another theory I have seen is that the Israel Lobby/Deep State are planning for war, and given the corrosive effect of DEI on the military, they decided to let Trump win. Who better than Trump to con White working class men into marching off to die for ZOG?
Certainly, it is a much needed cultural stand against all the DIE bulls***, trans rights activism, immigration, etc. The idea of mass deportations that people are actually ok with indicates how much the Overton window has shifted in 20 years. Hopefully also TPTB are seeing that non-whites or a mixture of whites and non-whites is not effective prophylaxis against anti-Jewish sentiment or action.
I expect that the Ukraine war will likely be brought to some form of conclusion to stop the needless deaths. Which will much lower the likelihood of WWIII. I am not sure how things might be worked out with Israel and the various conflicts it has going on now.
I am concerned about the extent to which tariffs are featuring in Trump's verbiage. He has discussed tariffs as high as 60-70%, enough to do away with the income tax, rather than the ~20% imposed which are more of a standard nature, and 10% overall (which would be more reasonable). Hopefully it is somewhat typical along the lines of building the wall, and making Mexico pay for it. And 450 miles of 1200 needed. (Maybe he was carefully doling out the gibs/term in preparation for a repeal of the 22nd amendment and a third term.)
I prompted an AI-driven summary, below. It does seem like trade wars heighten tensions, and my concern is the unintended consequences of a return to significantly higher tariffs in the world. It may also drive China to acts of desperation, and lead to depressed world economic conditions. It does seem like the historical evidence suggests that moderate, balanced tariff policies within a rules-based international trading system contribute to global stability and prosperity, while extreme protectionism often leads to economic decline and increased international tensions. (Not saying there has to be global free trade, there is likely something of a happy medium.)
And also seeing how the last administration played out, we were sold Bannon and got Kushner. So I guess we'll see.
It is also hard to predict how the AI revolution/singularity/AGI is going to play out over the next administration. Its impact is really orthogonal to the Trump administration and may overshadow whatever is actually Trump's doing (much like what COVID did for Biden).
Here's a detailed, decade-by-decade analysis of US tariff history throughout the 20th century:
1900s
Average tariff rate: approximately 47%
Dingley Tariff Act of 1897 remained in effect
Protectionist policies continued from the late 19th century
Primary goal: protecting American manufacturing from European competition
1910s
Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
Significant reduction in tariff rates to average of 27%
First major tariff reduction since Civil War
Implementation of federal income tax reduced dependency on tariff revenue
WWI disrupted international trade patterns
1920s
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922
Raised rates back to about 40%
"Scientific tariff" concept introduced
Tariff Commission established to adjust rates
Republican-led protectionist policies
1930s
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
Highest tariff rates in US history (average 59%)
Contributed to deepening of Great Depression
Led to international retaliation
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 began reducing rates
1940s
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) established 1947
US took leadership role in promoting free trade
Average tariffs declined to around 25%
Post-WWII international cooperation
Bretton Woods system established
1950s
Further GATT rounds reduced tariffs
Average rates fell to about 15%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 preparation
Emphasis on rebuilding international trade
European economic recovery promoted
1960s
Kennedy Round of GATT (1964-1967)
Significant tariff reductions across industrial goods
Average rates dropped to about 12%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Increased focus on non-tariff barriers
1970s
Tokyo Round of GATT (1973-1979)
Further reduction in industrial tariffs
Average rates fell to about 8%
Oil crisis impacted trade patterns
Rise of non-tariff trade barriers
1980s
Trade and Tariff Act of 1984
Focus shifted to bilateral trade agreements
Average tariff rates stabilized around 5-6%
Rising concern about Japanese imports
Voluntary export restraints became common
1990s
NAFTA implemented (1994)
Uruguay Round of GATT completed (1994)
WTO established (1995)
Average tariff rates around 4-5%
Increased focus on regional trade agreements
Key Trends Over the Century
Overall dramatic decline in tariff rates (47% to ~5%)
Shift from protectionism to free trade advocacy
Movement from unilateral to multilateral trade agreements
Decreased reliance on tariffs for federal revenue
Increased importance of non-tariff trade measures
This transformation reflects the USA's evolution from a developing industrial nation to the world's leading economic power, and its changing role in global trade leadership.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri
Everything you say and more: Johnson wasn’t and doesn’t engage in discourse intended to clarify important events he tries to manufacture distractions that detract from clarity and produce a social psychological reaction. Richard Baris calls it dooming and it’s an attempt to depress an opponent’s turnout by creating unease leading to apathy leading to failure to vote. When really successful, the opponent internalizes the fear you are spreading and spreads it themselves.
Spreading the idea that something as meaningless as a joke by a comedian could lower Trump supporter turnout was just such an exercise. Johnson’s whole schtick is to ride the wave of unease that precedes elections and see if he can manipulate it.
There is still time for the Ds to steal enough House seats to gain majority control. I would not be at all surprised if this happens. It’s their only real chance to hamstring DJT.
This is not about class in a historical sense, but about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country, while others want to preserve it.Replies: @Corvinus
“I don’t care about their psychoanalysis & have no illusion about their morals.”
How convenient for you. I imagine you hold yourself to high moral standards, but my vague impression is that far as the people whom you support as leaders, that goes out the window.
“Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg… are globalists, they are into end the west & import the 3rd world, “we are the world” without borders.”
I wasn’t talking about these individuals. I was talking about Theil and Musk. You do realize that Trump also used illegal immigrants, right? And he outsourced his clothing line overseas as well.
“Musk is not. He knows from the South Africa experience.”
Musk most likely is an illegal himself!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/
Do you really think he cares about the white working stiff? It is about class in a historical sense.
“about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country”
Right, like Musk.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-nlra-serious-threat
https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1854117067387027836Replies: @AnotherDad
Mickey, as usual, is intelligent and level headed but restrained and polite.
It was outright treason, an attack on the livelihoods, communities, quality of life of tens of millions of Americans and an attack on the future of all Americans and “our posterity”. It was a giant FU to the American nation.
How convenient for you. I imagine you hold yourself to high moral standards, but my vague impression is that far as the people whom you support as leaders, that goes out the window.
"Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg… are globalists, they are into end the west & import the 3rd world, “we are the world” without borders."
I wasn't talking about these individuals. I was talking about Theil and Musk. You do realize that Trump also used illegal immigrants, right? And he outsourced his clothing line overseas as well.
"Musk is not. He knows from the South Africa experience."
Musk most likely is an illegal himself!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/
Do you really think he cares about the white working stiff? It is about class in a historical sense.
"about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country"
Right, like Musk.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-nlra-serious-threatReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
OMG – he’ll never support my issues!!! You’ve established it right there! Kind of the inverse of why you know Hitler would never hurt a fly, he was kind to animals!!!
That’s the second time you’ve written this. Brits like you are something else. Your envy and resentment of us just eats you up, doesn’t it? Tough.
The Iwo Jima flag raising was real.
Here’s the true story:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/iconic-world-war-ii-photo-staged-heroic-true-story
It was outright treason, an attack on the livelihoods, communities, quality of life of tens of millions of Americans and an attack on the future of all Americans and "our posterity". It was a giant FU to the American nation.Replies: @Curle
C’mon, they knew they could count on their shaming clergy in the academy, media and elsewhere to keep you in check with racism panics, right? Heck, we’ve got our own little shaming pastor here at Unz, he goes by the name Corvy.
He’s our Hucci Cucci man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxrLOVwsEE&pp=ygUUaG9vY2hpZSBjb29jaGllIG1hbiA%3D
Democrats are still trying to steal the lower profile races which are close. Senate and House seats may slip away as ‘it might take a week or more to count the votes’.
Trump should have DeSantis promote and install the Florida system in as many states as possible.
Voter ID now.
stay vigilant. one day of euphoria max and then back to the battle against lying, cheating communists. they’re going to try to take anything they can get away with and that Elon wasn’t watching closely.
Honestly we once had a real version of that and I think that’s one of the things that made the country so great in the early years… citizens who became representatives for brief periods of time but who were also professionals in fields other than ‘professional politician.’ Such men would propose sensible legislation and vote reasonably, knowing they would soon relinquish their temporary positions and return to live under the very same laws they’d just passed. Ergo, you wouldn’t propose or try to pass something especially egregious since you’d only be hurting yourself once you’d left the seat of power and resumed a normal life.
The rise of the professional politician negates that philosophy, since the elite never have to live under the yoke of the absurd laws they pass onto the rest of us.
in the course of tripping over their heels in trying to anoint the Rodham woman.Replies: @ScarletNumber
I’m a Democrat, so I remember 2016 well. I can say without reservation that our last three presidential candidates got their nominations because of a corrupt process. I remember 2000 when I personally supported Bill Bradley, but Al Gore beat him fair and square. In 2004 no one put their thumb on the scale for John Kerry either.
Let’s not forget that a certain (suspiciously undisclosed) portion of that “10%” for whom abortion is a top issue make it so because they are against it.
You ain’t got wit the kool kids?
Reasons for being cheerful
A reader looks forward with optimisim.
Steve Sailer
Nov 06, 2024
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/reasons-for-being-cheerful
How convenient for you. I imagine you hold yourself to high moral standards, but my vague impression is that far as the people whom you support as leaders, that goes out the window.
"Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg… are globalists, they are into end the west & import the 3rd world, “we are the world” without borders."
I wasn't talking about these individuals. I was talking about Theil and Musk. You do realize that Trump also used illegal immigrants, right? And he outsourced his clothing line overseas as well.
"Musk is not. He knows from the South Africa experience."
Musk most likely is an illegal himself!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/
Do you really think he cares about the white working stiff? It is about class in a historical sense.
"about one type of corporate capitalists trying to completely subvert America as some kind of recognizable country"
Right, like Musk.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-nlra-serious-threatReplies: @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
You are not capable for a serious discussion.
This is just silly on your part.Replies: @Mr. Anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvwvvUfIrIReplies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Ministry Of Tongues
This accusation of Puritan/Calvinist mentality is one of those things that have something in it, but when you look closer at it, they turn out to be wrong.
It is like saying that Jews and Muslims have more in common because they both reject Christian Trinity.
Serious-minded Jews and Muslims do in fact think/believe that (viz they both believe that Christianity is a form of idolatry, which must therefore be eradicated: Muslims think through conquest/conversion, Jews pray for flat-out genocide), and history more than amply supports their view.
Jews often refer to Islam as the "broom of Judaism" because the Muslims are so often on the attack against Christians -- a non-stop war which Jews wholeheartedly endorse, at the same time that they whine and beg to live in and loot Christian lands that they despise so much.Replies: @Gandydancer
It is possible though, that Governor Shapiro made sure that Harris couldn't win his state by dialing back the election fortification so that he can run for president in 2028.
In any case, remember, the plan for this election was lawfare to get Trump thrown off the ballot and/or convict him in court so that people wouldn't vote for a convicted felon. Election fortification was a backup plan, and it wasn't even the first backup plan.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Republicans who accuse Democrats of “socialism” owe the real Socialists an apology. When that party controlled Milwaukee, elections were above-board. It was a German* thing.
The dirt of next-door Illinois just made Wisconsinites double down on the reformism.
Wisconsin was one of four states (the others being Minnesota, Hawaii, and [!] California) Theodore H White used as examples of exemplary clean voting processes. I think he was the one who said you couldn’t pay any North Dakotan to vote twice– that state doesn’t register voters– but that could have been Neal R Peirce, too.
It was all “sewer socialism”, anyway. Those things were already socialist in even the most conservative towns. They weren’t out to municipalize Pabst, Schlitz, and Harley-Davidson.
*Don’t know much about the honesty of the generic Pole, but my guess is they were the go-along type who happily helped Germans keep Milwaukee clean while equally happily helping the Irish, et al., keep Chicago dirty.
This may be even better than that amazing photo Steve shared 🥲
Maybe Teresa Heinz did a little.
The Trump administration needs to do a big celebration for the US in 2026, because it will be the 250th anniversary of this country. It would be a good way to rouse a wave of patriotic feeling and make it more normal in a time in which the left has tried to demonize being American, the flying of the US flag, and any other sign of patriotism.
When dems rouse their antifa pawns again, we know all we have to do is confront them in the face. They’ll run. They’ll give up, and cry out of their victimhood. Just like back in our last civil war. They never had the belly for confrontation.
This time, organize, and confront them. Make them keep turning inward.
Evil always consumes itself.
https://youtu.be/T5al0HmR4to
This doesn’t help, especially with the gynocracy that is the Democrat base.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/mike-vereb-resignation-sexual-harassment-shapiro-20230928.html
Dave McCormick unseats Bob Casey in Pennsylvania adding to GOP Senate majority.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3212202/bob-casey-dave-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-race-results/
If you really want to laugh a little, here is something:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/11/07/liberal-women-4b-sex-strike-over-trump-election-win/
Now, I have a simple question: Instead of working so hard (and in unorthodox fashion) for your ‘bodily autonomy’, why not just get your tubes tied and enjoy life to the fullest? Ladies -the world is not hurting for humans. Really, Really…. There are 8+ billion of us and we can use some respite.
For example?
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/mike-vereb-resignation-sexual-harassment-shapiro-20230928.htmlReplies: @Jim Don Bob
It would be great if this holds up, but I won’t hold my breath.
Dave McCormick unseats Bob Casey in Pennsylvania adding to GOP Senate majority.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3212202/bob-casey-dave-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-race-results/
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?Replies: @Manfred Arcane, @Manfred Arcane, @Brutusale, @notbe mk 2I don’t know about you, but I didn’t have a 6’4″ gay guy with hair halfway down his back as being the one to bring in Pennsylvania, particularly the Amish, on my betting card.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-helped-save-america-conservatives-heap-praise-on-trumps-secret-weapon-in-pennsylvania
https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2024/11/07/work-ethic-dedication-and-persistence-the-legacy-of-scott-presler-n2403418
He has attracted the Eye of Sauron for his efforts.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/11/07/cnn-calls-scott-presler-social-media-cult-figure-n2403421
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvislinktocarter.shtml
Military wife Beege Welborn recounted (10/25) how the Trumps listened to the right in-law this time around:Replies: @Curle
Writing submission for the Babylonbee.com?
Seems it was the late 90s when polling was accurate enough that some were suggesting we could have elections by such statistical sampling. Then things diverged. Politics ruins everything.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Partic, @AnotherDad
Some of them, clearly. But mostly of them only by a bit and within margin of error.
Real Clear Politics runs a polling summary that I checked out a few times. Their polling average had Trump clearly up in the swingers and a tied in the national vote:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
here’s their no-toss-up map:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
— Trump wins
(I more or less used this to offer my 297-241 Trump iSteve prediction, giving Harris one swinger–Michigan.)
here’s the polls for the closest state:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
I’d call the CNN poll a clear “miss”, but most of them more or less say “toss up”
Overall, these swing state results are off only 1-2 points. But they were good enough to predict a close Trump win.
The national popular vote was more of a miss. Trump did considerable better in some traditional “blue” states than before (ex. NJ) and so the polls were off a whole 3 points nationally. So of this may be a failure of the pollsters to be able to capture the lack of enthusiasm for Democrats going to vote for Harris?
But note: Trump did not breakthrough and win a single “leans Democrat” state. No breakthrough in Minnesota, or New Hampshire, or Maine, or Virginia.
Trump has the exact same map in 2016, just slightly larger margins in some states … against an even more ridiculous Democrat candidate defending arguably the worst presidency in American history with an openly screw-you-America open border policy.
But more importantly, I think he has created a new animal in MAGA. It is no longer slicing and dicing of various racial and ethnic groups. It seems closer to the 'old-world' pattern of economically hurting reclaiming their relevance from an economic system that treats them as redundant. That, if durable, can be transformative. Democrats tried to sell 'Democracy' but MAGA said, 'but does it buy groceries'?
C’mon, everyone! Let’s sing along!
🎼🎵🎶🎶🎵It’s a whole new woooooooooooorld 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/donald-trump-confirms-border-control-among-first-priorities-as-he-says-no-choice-but-to-carry-out-mass-deportations/
Contrarian perspective. https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1854584028919123985
Nice to hear from you again, Tiny Dick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvwvvUfIrIReplies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Ministry Of Tongues
Hwæt! By Woden, I come of Kentish men!
Real Clear Politics runs a polling summary that I checked out a few times. Their polling average had Trump clearly up in the swingers and a tied in the national vote:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
here's their no-toss-up map:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
-- Trump wins
(I more or less used this to offer my 297-241 Trump iSteve prediction, giving Harris one swinger--Michigan.)
here's the polls for the closest state:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
I'd call the CNN poll a clear "miss", but most of them more or less say "toss up"
Overall, these swing state results are off only 1-2 points. But they were good enough to predict a close Trump win.
The national popular vote was more of a miss. Trump did considerable better in some traditional "blue" states than before (ex. NJ) and so the polls were off a whole 3 points nationally. So of this may be a failure of the pollsters to be able to capture the lack of enthusiasm for Democrats going to vote for Harris?
But note: Trump did not breakthrough and win a single "leans Democrat" state. No breakthrough in Minnesota, or New Hampshire, or Maine, or Virginia.
Trump has the exact same map in 2016, just slightly larger margins in some states ... against an even more ridiculous Democrat candidate defending arguably the worst presidency in American history with an openly screw-you-America open border policy.Replies: @AnotherDad, @epebble, @notbe mk 2
Minor correction–evening beach walk with AnotherMom discussing the election, realized I’d said Trump had the same map as 2016 but actually he did not have Nevada in 2016. So that’s this Trump’s awesome electoral college breakthrough–Nevada.
Nevada was long controversial for another reason-- underpopulation. They didn't reach six figures until 1940. A "rotten borough", with two senators and three electors. Population has increased to over 35× in the past century.
Real Clear Politics runs a polling summary that I checked out a few times. Their polling average had Trump clearly up in the swingers and a tied in the national vote:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
here's their no-toss-up map:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
-- Trump wins
(I more or less used this to offer my 297-241 Trump iSteve prediction, giving Harris one swinger--Michigan.)
here's the polls for the closest state:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
I'd call the CNN poll a clear "miss", but most of them more or less say "toss up"
Overall, these swing state results are off only 1-2 points. But they were good enough to predict a close Trump win.
The national popular vote was more of a miss. Trump did considerable better in some traditional "blue" states than before (ex. NJ) and so the polls were off a whole 3 points nationally. So of this may be a failure of the pollsters to be able to capture the lack of enthusiasm for Democrats going to vote for Harris?
But note: Trump did not breakthrough and win a single "leans Democrat" state. No breakthrough in Minnesota, or New Hampshire, or Maine, or Virginia.
Trump has the exact same map in 2016, just slightly larger margins in some states ... against an even more ridiculous Democrat candidate defending arguably the worst presidency in American history with an openly screw-you-America open border policy.Replies: @AnotherDad, @epebble, @notbe mk 2
Even if the maps look the same (2016 and 2024), the margins and win are more convincing this time. Also, the popular vote win takes away ‘unpopular president’ stigma. Last time a Republican candidate, not in office, won the popular vote was in 1980. So, Trump has broken a 44-year-old record. That is no mean feat.
But more importantly, I think he has created a new animal in MAGA. It is no longer slicing and dicing of various racial and ethnic groups. It seems closer to the ‘old-world’ pattern of economically hurting reclaiming their relevance from an economic system that treats them as redundant. That, if durable, can be transformative. Democrats tried to sell ‘Democracy‘ but MAGA said, ‘but does it buy groceries‘?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-helped-save-america-conservatives-heap-praise-on-trumps-secret-weapon-in-pennsylvania
https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2024/11/07/work-ethic-dedication-and-persistence-the-legacy-of-scott-presler-n2403418
He has attracted the Eye of Sauron for his efforts.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/11/07/cnn-calls-scott-presler-social-media-cult-figure-n2403421Replies: @Reg Cæsar
With that name, Presler is also very likely related to Elvis and Jimmy Carter:
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvislinktocarter.shtml
Military wife Beege Welborn recounted (10/25) how the Trumps listened to the right in-law this time around:
https://twitter.com/DissidentMedia/status/1854134993443869051Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Who are these people? German Jews, 1933 to 1936, were more reasonable & dignified.
Median Dem voters, not so much.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvislinktocarter.shtml
Military wife Beege Welborn recounted (10/25) how the Trumps listened to the right in-law this time around:Replies: @Curle
Organized party caucus’ have been a disaster for decades. Always choosing candidates, at least at the House R operation, who wouldn’t give the Leader trouble. You can imagine what this got us when Ryan was in office.
? You probably used too many lols, agrees etc. The dumb rule is no more than 3 comments in a short time span.
No, the rule is that if you haven't posted at least five comments in the past 30 days, you can't use the button responses. I haven't commented here in a while.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
20/20 hindsight. It only became clear after the fact what “the best polls” were.
The msm was busy, among other things, telling people that an Ann Selzer, a “very reliable” pollster in Iowa, had declared the day before the election that Trump had lost Iowa, 47-44%.
I called said poll highly dubious at the time, because of the language Selzer used “explaining” why the President was going to “lose”: She said that women were offended about abortion.
It was clear to me then, and I wrote this at my primary blog, that Selzer made Iowa women sound like NOW/DNC fundraisers, whereas outside of places like New York, most women don’t talk or think that way.
However, numerous MSM organs used the microphone to turn up the volume on Ann Selzer (remember that name!), and to make it sound as if she should be believed.
Not only was Selzer lying, but every MSM source who promoted her lies was also lying, in order to discourage Trump voters, and bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some readers here will recall the trusted MSM source (CBS’ Dan Rather) who lied, and told the public that polling places had closed in the entire state of Florida in 2000, when they were still open for another hour in the Panhandle, in order to help democrats to win the state, and thus the election.
There’s something unseemly about one of our deciding swing states now being a “gaming” paradise. Not to mention an oasis of legal prostitution.
Nevada was long controversial for another reason– underpopulation. They didn’t reach six figures until 1940. A “rotten borough”, with two senators and three electors. Population has increased to over 35× in the past century.
Well- America is still the center of the world. Any reasonable & informed person can easily come to the conclusion that well beyond Anglosphere, or even Europe, that these elections were fascinating to most individuals who pay attention to what happens in the world at all levels. Even if China was democratic- nobody would care much. The same with India and Russia. The latest BRICS summit was a non event.
The US will perhaps sink in the next few decades, or later, but it is doubtless the leader of the world. In all areas of life. Good or bad.
Another good thing-at least for those with some common sense- is that these elections should be a funeral for the ZOG conspiracy theory. American Jews did not play a significant role in the Trump campaign, and most of them, judging from the stats, voted the same way as in 2016.
A caveat: common sense people.
https://projects.thecity.nyc/election-results-voter-turnout-Harris-Trump-map/?_gl=1*1k7ddhe*_ga*MTM0ODU5Njk4Mi4xNzMwOTg0MDkz*_ga_G0ZNNV3GTX*MTczMDk4NDA5Mi4xLjAuMTczMDk4NDEwMC4wLjAuMA..Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Mia Farrow is a warhawk and Nancy Sinatra a fag hag. (Those two are still alive? Okay, they're both younger than the President or the President-elect, but have been out of view for quite some time.)
Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are civilized and gracious. (Cook more manly than that other Tim.)
And is that Zowie Bowie at the end? Is he American now? (Some of his stepmother's fellow tribesmen in Minneapolis went MAGA.)
From Steve's hometown paper:
Hollywood Reacts to Second Trump Presidency Win: “A Sign of Deep Nihilism”
Finding Comfort in Election Chaos: How ‘Sesame Street’ and Steve From ‘Blue’s Clues’ Are Providing That
In other cope dope, Georgetown is offering milk, cookies, and Legos to students upset at the vote. And across the land, University of Oregon to offer 'election week therapy' featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks. Quacktavious will be there.
Trump's "popular vote" majority exceeds Jimmy Carter's in 1976, by %, and approaches Samuel Tilden's. Lucifer Everylove's vote was limited to Utah, so it didn't do much damage.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2024&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0
https://universe.byu.edu/who-is-lucifer-justin-case-everyloveReplies: @Harry Baldwin, @Curle, @Bardon Kaldian
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/bette-midler-donald-trump-x-account-drain-cleaner
Bette Midler, 78, ridiculed as she deletes X account after vowing to drink ‘drain cleaner’ over Trump glory
“Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to Fuck Things Up”
– Barrack Hussein Obama
Real Clear Politics runs a polling summary that I checked out a few times. Their polling average had Trump clearly up in the swingers and a tied in the national vote:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
here's their no-toss-up map:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/toss-up/electoral-college
-- Trump wins
(I more or less used this to offer my 297-241 Trump iSteve prediction, giving Harris one swinger--Michigan.)
here's the polls for the closest state:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsin/trump-vs-harris
I'd call the CNN poll a clear "miss", but most of them more or less say "toss up"
Overall, these swing state results are off only 1-2 points. But they were good enough to predict a close Trump win.
The national popular vote was more of a miss. Trump did considerable better in some traditional "blue" states than before (ex. NJ) and so the polls were off a whole 3 points nationally. So of this may be a failure of the pollsters to be able to capture the lack of enthusiasm for Democrats going to vote for Harris?
But note: Trump did not breakthrough and win a single "leans Democrat" state. No breakthrough in Minnesota, or New Hampshire, or Maine, or Virginia.
Trump has the exact same map in 2016, just slightly larger margins in some states ... against an even more ridiculous Democrat candidate defending arguably the worst presidency in American history with an openly screw-you-America open border policy.Replies: @AnotherDad, @epebble, @notbe mk 2
well yeah whatever-but the question is why the Dems feel comfortable fielding such ridiculous candidates; after all they were denying Joe was senile up to the point where it was more than obvious and then they thought fielding Kamila was a genius move.
In retrospect true enough, their candidate was even more ridiculous than in 2016 and 2020 (both of their candidates in those elections were deeply flawed) but reading the MSM you wouldn’t know it. The governing elite obviously made a huge mistake but being a governing elite means being insulated from criticism and being impervious to logical analysis (with of course J Johnson serving as their loyal mouthpiece).
•Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler
is the best point and should be on top, and
•Both Candidates Just Glad They Don’t Have To Visit Pennsylvania Anymore
is just funny and has got to be right
Garner should have stuck it out for 4½ more years. He'd be on my shot glass!
(Sadly, old Steve is portrayed only once thereon, so presumably Donald will so be on the next edition.)Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Ron Mexico
Cleveland’s nicknames, IIRC, were Big Steve and Uncle Jumbo.
What might serve as the opposite, the flip side, of this photo? I nominate this:
“Ass Crack, Alabama”– isn’t that the ravine in the Talladegas into which a government mule was once pushed?
And let’s not get into grown men who still go by “Rick”…
I alluded to that. Whether he did or not, “spit” still works better. Not good for anything.
Except a DNA sample. Anyone got Chelsea Clinton’s? Justin Trudeau’s? Ronan Farrow’s?
https://twitter.com/realmattforney/status/1854296040268333232Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
The msm was busy, among other things, telling people that an Ann Selzer, a “very reliable” pollster in Iowa, had declared the day before the election that Trump had lost Iowa, 47-44%.
I called said poll highly dubious at the time, because of the language Selzer used “explaining” why the President was going to “lose”: She said that women were offended about abortion.
It was clear to me then, and I wrote this at my primary blog, that Selzer made Iowa women sound like NOW/DNC fundraisers, whereas outside of places like New York, most women don’t talk or think that way.
However, numerous MSM organs used the microphone to turn up the volume on Ann Selzer (remember that name!), and to make it sound as if she should be believed.
Not only was Selzer lying, but every MSM source who promoted her lies was also lying, in order to discourage Trump voters, and bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some readers here will recall the trusted MSM source (CBS’ Dan Rather) who lied, and told the public that polling places had closed in the entire state of Florida in 2000, when they were still open for another hour in the Panhandle, in order to help democrats to win the state, and thus the election.Replies: @Curle
You need to read Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill about the lengths that NBC’s news division Execs went to cover for Harvey Weinstein. And the saintly (not) Tom Brokaw comes off as a bit of an enabler for some of the bad boys. Remember Matt Lauer?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51022071-catch-and-kill
In the meantime, the Pulitzer committee gave Satchel a Pulitzer for his contribution to the Me-Too Hoax.
Several years ago, we were listening to testimony from the “rape” trial of Harvey Weinstein, and one young woman testified that Weinstein had raped her, but that thereafter she’d had a consensual sexual relationship with him for six months.
The Boss said, no way could Weinstein be guilty of rape in her case, but the prosecutor got the jury to convict him of raping her.
This Brooke Nevils asserted that Matt Lauer gave it to her in the butt. She asserted that she was afraid to say no, because he would surely ruin her career. She then claimed that she continued having (consensual) sex with Lauer, but that it was purely “transactional.”
“Nevils says in the [Satchel Farrow] book that she had more sexual encounters with Lauer back in N.Y.C., telling Farrow, ‘It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship.’”
[So, was she a prostitute? That’s what “transactional” means.]
That was a routine, scripted assertion her dnc lawyer had told her to make. I recall at the time someone pointing out that in the career world, most “liberated” women find sleeping with powerful men an aphrodisiac.
I’ve got a Puerto Rican neighbor who’s a super. A few years ago, he said to me, re me-too, “How come, it’s never a super?”
And yet, the dnc lawyers always have their clients speaking of “fear.”
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Curle
Provo UT voted for Trump?
Let it through, Steve.
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1854546725815325118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1854546725815325118%7Ctwgr%5E4302e4816a6dfa06c21b447e9e5a902542bc5769%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.pjmedia.com%2Fposts%2F4934087
"Ass Crack, Alabama"-- isn't that the ravine in the Talladegas into which a government mule was once pushed?
And let's not get into grown men who still go by "Rick"...Replies: @J.Ross, @Manfred Arcane
Has Rick Wilson ever been right about anything? He’s one of these fake experts, rich, lives in a big house, goes on TV, has many opinions, but he doesn’t actually know anything and he’s never actually done anything. They were just discussing Jim Cramer on the financial radio infomercial and you know what they say, if Jim Cramer predicts sun, bring an umbrella.
It’s mostly girls, not guys/potential draftees, who go to these things.
Joe Biden voted for Trump
Someone made the insightful comment that because Kamala Harris has spent her entire political life running in the one-party state of leftist California, she has never developed any real campaign skills. She was always elevated to office by political patrons who ran her for completely safe and easy-win seats. She has never had to persuade anyone who wasn’t a left-wing Democrat to vote for her until this election, and she has not the slightest idea about how to win over someone who doesn’t share her mindset.
What are the odds two simultaneous, unrelated comments would both mention Ronan Farrow?
So you voted for the gay guy who favors open borders? Did you think that one through? I don’t care how libertarian the guy pretends to be, his overriding political preference will always bend gay, i.e., he’ll be shoving rainbow dogma down your throat whether you like it or not, preferably for him, not.
Democrats have lost their minds to the degree of blaming Hispanics and joking about having recent arrivals deported as punishment for voting incorrectly (which I hope every single recent arrival sees) — but then somebody asked that his beer be held:
Except a DNA sample. Anyone got Chelsea Clinton's? Justin Trudeau's? Ronan Farrow's?Replies: @J.Ross, @Almost Missouri
Tsiz?
I read through those earlier this year but I have to say I think the reverse.
For the Xaime stories, almost all (maybe all) of the early characters are unappealing bastards who screw over their friends and relatives without compunction. A lot of them deserved a good beating or two. It felt good when they mostly retired, and as it turns out the new cast is a lot more interesting. Sorry Maggie! The stories are easier to follow and better told too, though less artsy. Unfortunately, there are lately signs of decline for his extraordinary drawings, but then he has to be in his sixties by now.
Beto has radicalized over the years and now seems to have taken the hate/look down on whitey route in the longer stories. And pushing the opposite of how nature works: around Fritz, everyone grows old and grotesque while she remains a ludicrous bombshell. Not to mention the, ahem, rest. Actually, while I get triggered from time to time, I kind of like it, at arm’s length.
So, there was a group of Jews who lobbied and campaigned and argued to inject Muzzies into Europe. And there was another group of Jews, who were proud sports fans, and wanted everybody to know it. And the Halakhic irony here is, had they only kept the two groups separate …
Geert Wilders has expressed outrage and the [very, very good] Dutch emergency response police have been deployed.
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of “add it to the list:”
“taxi drivers”
https://instapundit.com/683139/
Governor Harris?
Six years after his "last press conference" in 1962, Nixon was elected president in what was (until this week) the greatest comeback in American political history. Whatever the future holds for Harris, the presidency isn't in the cards.
Moreover, if Harris runs for governor of California in 2026, she will be ignoring the lessons of her disastrous primary run for the Democratic nomination in 2020 -- in which her amply funded campaign was nearly broke by Thanksgiving 2019, forcing her out of the race even before Iowa -- and this week's election. Whatever she's serving, the dogs won't eat it.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Jim Don Bob
Hey, I beat the Babylon Bee!!
4D Chess: Democrats Admit Trump Actually Won In 2020 And Is Now Unable To Serve Third Term
So did the Babylon Bee!
Indeed.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-wins-influencer-election-1236055439/Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
https://archive.ph/jPEku/4b4ee917589409b81df28c5a31dfdbd060ebd9dc.jpg
Original URL:
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/HJMgLmMHodAmdsLAranvlzayH70=/0x0:3751x2110/1952x1098/media/img/mt/2024/07/AP24195803074590/original.jpgReplies: @BB753, @Paul Jolliffe
Donald Trump flipped several border counties in Texas (including Hidalgo County, home to one of Steve’s top ten content generating cities, McAllen).
It turns out that even poor families with ancestral roots from south of the border don’t want unlimited immigration!
Who would have guessed . . . 🙂
https://apnews.com/article/texas-election-border-house-trump-7b3c5adae15344dcb54f36e25890d1e2
Clallam County, Washington is not far from where I live. They broke their Bellwether record. The explanation seems to be, being a mostly White County (with a small Native American population), their women seem to have influence on turn towards Harris due to abortion issues (even though WA is pretty liberal), whereas in places where non-whites are in larger numbers, inflation beat out abortion.
Clallam County voted for losing presidential candidate for first time in 40 years
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/clallam-county-presidential-vote-kamala-harris-donald-trump/281-5312845d-673f-41f5-bb42-791d47f87b23
Another aspect of poor strategy by Harris campaign was focus on abortion in 'Blue Wall' states, which were vital for her winning. Those states already have liberal abortion policies and Dobbs hasn't affected them at all. And the states where Dobbs has an effect - Idaho, Texas, Florida etc., are all deep red and winning votes wouldn't help her anyway. Thus, it was a losing argument.
She acted as though she is campaigning for 330 million people instead of 50 states. Trump, focusing on inflation, was able to reach all 50 states in his messaging.Replies: @Almost Missouri
“Lammy’s parents are from the former British Guiana, so it may be WWI doesn’t resonate in his family history as it will with many Brits of a certain age.”
So, you know, maybe this whole “being British” thing doesn’t resonate with him either… because he and his family are NOT British; he’s just a black carpetbagger. Lammy should go home at once, to his proud, beautiful, native toilet bowl. But he won’t. But he’s proud of it. But he won’t go there. But he’s proud. But he’s not leaving.
You've just described every Mexican, Puerto Rican, (dot)Indian, and Chinaman ever.
“You are not capable for a serious discussion.”
This is just silly on your part.
It is like saying that Jews and Muslims have more in common because they both reject Christian Trinity.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“It is like saying that Jews and Muslims have more in common because they both reject Christian Trinity.”
Serious-minded Jews and Muslims do in fact think/believe that (viz they both believe that Christianity is a form of idolatry, which must therefore be eradicated: Muslims think through conquest/conversion, Jews pray for flat-out genocide), and history more than amply supports their view.
Jews often refer to Islam as the “broom of Judaism” because the Muslims are so often on the attack against Christians — a non-stop war which Jews wholeheartedly endorse, at the same time that they whine and beg to live in and loot Christian lands that they despise so much.
Yeah, LBJ made his own luck with a little help from some buddies.
Also, there can be no doubt now after last night's returns that 2020 was stolen. The numbers in 2020 are so far off 2016 and 2024 that its clear they stole it, as if it was ever doubtful to those of us paying attention.
Godspeed, President Trump. Lay your enemies low and burn the Swamp to the ground.Replies: @JR Ewing
Not only that, but it appears that Milwaukee didn’t get the memo this year that the steal had been called off (because it wasn’t close enough otherwise) and Milwaukee has been dumping extra ballots into their returns and showing disproportionate turnout rates compared to the rest of the state and the rest of the country. There are dozens of precincts with turnout percentages over 90% and some over 100%, which is being blamed on same-day registration but just goes to show that same-day registration is a scam intended to help facilitate fraud.
Thank you, I have been looking for this chart.
Note that a Google search thus far doesn’t return this data. All that comes back are lamentations that there are no more bellwether counties because they were all wrong in 2020 so nothing to see here, I guess to hide the fact that all of a sudden this year they all got back to being right again.
There was a lot of suspicious bullshit in 2020 that had become clear from the past couple of days, but the fact that all but one of the traditional bellwethers were wrong and the difference was driven solely large quantities of overnight votes in big cities in swing states… that’s what’s called inductive reasoning and it was very persuasive to me that the election was stolen.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1853865204855042187Replies: @Almost Missouri
Agree. We have finally reverse-engineered the Obama tactic of wrapping gay race communism in a inoffensive wrapper and repurposed it for good.
80 years ago, a Democratic operative from Boston informed James Michener that Republicans were far more likely to use absentee ballots. My, how that has changed. Likewise, "coupon clippers" used to mean well-heeled folk enjoying dividend disbursements; now it refers to humble, struggling housewives.Undocumented vote fraud, too. One has to snicker when they claim "Non-citizens cannot vote!" Of course not. That's why local operatives do the voting for them.
So, maybe I was wrong.
If so, why no fraud? Perhaps because the Biden administration succeeded quite well in flooding the country with illegals. Now they can consolidate those gains by frustrating whatever efforts are made to make them go back. That can be done in Congress, in the states, in the bureaucracy, and their NGO allies. Maybe they decided mass fraud wasn't worth the risk to the long term goal of filling up America with third-worlders.Replies: @deep anonymous, @Almost Missouri
There’s still fraud. We’re just back to the pre-2020 baseline fraud that everyone’s more or less used to.
The recission of mass lockdown and mass unauditable mail-in ballots and “ballot harvesting” (a process in no other developed country), along with (finally) better Republican vigilance has thrown Dems back from their 2020-era hyper-fraud to their 2016-era fraud level that wasn’t quite big enough to prevent the Trump upset.
Yeah, that’s a problem—a long-term problem, and by definition illegal, but unless they voted illegally, it’s not technically fraud.
It's sort of the difference between stealing a guy's wallet and having the guy declared infama and confiscating all his goods under color of authority.
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1854546725815325118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1854546725815325118%7Ctwgr%5E4302e4816a6dfa06c21b447e9e5a902542bc5769%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.pjmedia.com%2Fposts%2F4934087
"Ass Crack, Alabama"-- isn't that the ravine in the Talladegas into which a government mule was once pushed?
And let's not get into grown men who still go by "Rick"...Replies: @J.Ross, @Manfred Arcane
One of the most hilarious things about this whole election has been the way that the Democratic brain trust was so completely snookered by bloviating idiots like Wilson, Bill Kristol, and David French. Those and other idiots whose neocon True Conservative schtick was rejected by the Republican base back in 2016 became the Dems’ guide to understanding the Republican voters, which is kind of like turning to Northern carpetbaggers to explain the post-Reconstruction South. The neocon TruCons convinced Harris and company that there were big reservoirs of anti-Trump TruCons out there who would have preferred Nikki Haley and who treasured the Bush/Cheney legacy, leading to the bizarre spectacle of Kamala dragging Liz Cheney around the country with her, which didn’t move the needle at all with Republicans and turned off some of the Arabist and anti-war elements of the Democrat base. It shows how blinded everyone in the Establishment is by credentialism and DC incestuousness that Harris’ crew never even realized that Wilson and the other TruCons were imagining a Republican demographic that simply didn’t exist outside of their own pretentious little think tanks.
I can now append to my early comment that the Democrat's constituency doesn't really exist that their conception of the Republican constituency doesn't really exist either. The entire Democrat Media Complex is just a psyop.
InB4 the "ackshually" brigade: yes, there is a Democrat constituency, but it is not as big as it is presented and in an honest world wouldn't command the respect or electoral heft it does.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_96,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7bdbd69-ae32-45de-8348-8913f6966d53_256x256.png
https://twitter.com/physicsgeek/status/1854527918392656186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1854527918392656186%7Ctwgr%5Eb15f08b83482cc2bc55fb097b1186b583203578f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Famy-curtis%2F2024%2F11%2F07%2Fwatch-bulwark-crew-as-election-unfolds-n2403427
https://i.postimg.cc/SQnzr2CY/dfd5e017-85d2-4c95-8243-520c0d6a9234-499x900.webpReplies: @ScarletNumber, @SFG, @Almost Missouri, @Curle
This is objectively false, as she won New Hampshire and Rhode Island
https://i.postimg.cc/SQnzr2CY/dfd5e017-85d2-4c95-8243-520c0d6a9234-499x900.webpReplies: @ScarletNumber, @SFG, @Almost Missouri, @Curle
You have a big confounder as it’s become such a partisan issue those are likely to be Democrat states anyway.
And if they cheat so much, why couldn’t they cheat enough to overwhelm Trump this time? They were all convinced he was the second coming of Hitler.
I think he lost 2020 fair and square and won 2024 fair and square. In 2020, voters were angry at Trump over COVID; in 2024 they were angry at Biden (and thus Harris) over inflation.
Abortion was a big issue, but ultimately too many people were angry over prices going up.
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue - it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/11/24/resized_99261-nup_160987_0001_74-19051_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @George Taylor, @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar
My preferred answer is secession, splitting the country into the insane coastal cities and the normal rest of the country.
But for those who prefer a less radical solution, the answer to your question is another question.'
How did DeSantis transform Florida from a 50/50 state to a 56/43 state?
I think the answer is that DeSantis governed like actual populist conservative. DeSantis ignored the Covid hysteria and left FL mostly open. He cracked down on LGBT indoctrination of children. He bitch-slapped the woke-Disney Corporation and academics.
When a Republican governs like a conservative instead of Robert Lewis Dabney's "shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition" a la the Bushes, Romney, McCain, et al, then the state is transformed.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Mark G.
Don’t forget election straightening and voter-roll disinfecting. Some portion of the Dem side of that 50/50 past split (about 5 percentage points, apparently) wasn’t real. It just mysteriously appeared on the ballots each election night.
Purge phantom voters from registration, eliminate fraud opportunities in ballot counting, and—hey presto!—it turns out that the decisive portion of the Dem ‘coalition’ hasn’t actually gone through the formality of, you know, existing.
No one seems to have recognized a key person who is responsible for this moment in American history: Eric Topol.
Remember him? He was the medical researcher who saw to it that the results of the vaccine trials would not be released before the election in 2020. As Steve has argued, this very likely prevented the vote from being swung to Trump.
And now Trump has come into his second term with a powerful mandate, and what looks like a well organized plan (not exactly typical of the Trump of his first term) to take power and enforce his vision.
We should all be thankful for the unstinting efforts of Dr. Topol, who was so gloriously careless of what he wished for.
My preferred answer is secession, splitting the country into the insane coastal cities and the normal rest of the country.
But for those who prefer a less radical solution, the answer to your question is another question.'
How did DeSantis transform Florida from a 50/50 state to a 56/43 state?
I think the answer is that DeSantis governed like actual populist conservative. DeSantis ignored the Covid hysteria and left FL mostly open. He cracked down on LGBT indoctrination of children. He bitch-slapped the woke-Disney Corporation and academics.
When a Republican governs like a conservative instead of Robert Lewis Dabney's "shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition" a la the Bushes, Romney, McCain, et al, then the state is transformed.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Mark G.
“DeSantis ignored the Covid hysteria”
I think that is the answer to the question of why Republicans are doing so well in Florida now. The lockdowns caused a lot of economic destruction so by shortening them Florida came out of the epidemic better. Adjusted for age distribution, death rates in Florida were no higher than the national average.
Republicans have less of a tendency for heavy handed government economic interventionism. People have been moving from Democrat run Illinois over here to Republican run Indiana in recent years. It hurts a state to have a really large city. Even though a lot of Illinois is Republican, Chicago produces enough Democrat votes to tip the state Democrat. Indianapolis is not quite big enough for the same thing to happen here.
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of "add it to the list:"
"taxi drivers"Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Moshe Def, @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Gandydancer
Steve’s buddy jPod calls out Jennifer Rubin for the POS she is.
https://instapundit.com/683139/
You are correct. Getting illegals to vote illegally might be useful, but would face great backlash, particularly in states with vigilant authorities. On the other hand, having the political power to declare them legal citizens and thus voters would have great backlash, but would also reinforce their power to ignore (or crush) any backlash. I think the Democrats will work with intense will power to do the second. They still want a zerg rush at the border, but hey they work with what they’ve got.
It’s sort of the difference between stealing a guy’s wallet and having the guy declared infama and confiscating all his goods under color of authority.
It’s late stage collapsing-empire America starring the McKinsey managers. The only places that are not corrupt are the places opting for ethics against their will because multiple Trump lawyers are pointing a lawsuit at them. “Documented vote fraud” is BS because you now admit you are comparing some one-off thing about Lyndon Johnson switching coffee cans in the fifties to a completely unprecedented and completely undeniable effort aided by computers.
Watch Edge of Darkness. The key is it’s not one group, the main factions failed to gel or to persuade others. In 2020 with the Ukrainian bonanza in the balance a window was opened, a chance was given. Not infinite unity and infinite power regardless of outcome. They felt their Ukrainian prizes already in their hands, and all that stood in the way was a little propriety. Now they have squandered “their” Ukrainian prizes on their own watch plus they have erected a pile of completely preventable chosen corpses, and Israel is mired in a long, expensive, indecisive, and increasingly unpopular war.
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of "add it to the list:"
"taxi drivers"Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Moshe Def, @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Gandydancer
This is pretty awesome, but soccer is still gay.
This is just silly on your part.Replies: @Mr. Anon
No, commenter Bardon Kaldian is quite right. No discussion with you is serious because you are not serious. Every post you makes is a waste of pixels. You are a dissembling liar and an obtuse idiot, and just generally an annoying dips**t.
She probably really did win those, just like she probably really did win California.
Certainly, it is a much needed cultural stand against all the DIE bulls***, trans rights activism, immigration, etc. The idea of mass deportations that people are actually ok with indicates how much the Overton window has shifted in 20 years. Hopefully also TPTB are seeing that non-whites or a mixture of whites and non-whites is not effective prophylaxis against anti-Jewish sentiment or action.
I expect that the Ukraine war will likely be brought to some form of conclusion to stop the needless deaths. Which will much lower the likelihood of WWIII. I am not sure how things might be worked out with Israel and the various conflicts it has going on now.
I am concerned about the extent to which tariffs are featuring in Trump's verbiage. He has discussed tariffs as high as 60-70%, enough to do away with the income tax, rather than the ~20% imposed which are more of a standard nature, and 10% overall (which would be more reasonable). Hopefully it is somewhat typical along the lines of building the wall, and making Mexico pay for it. And 450 miles of 1200 needed. (Maybe he was carefully doling out the gibs/term in preparation for a repeal of the 22nd amendment and a third term.)
I prompted an AI-driven summary, below. It does seem like trade wars heighten tensions, and my concern is the unintended consequences of a return to significantly higher tariffs in the world. It may also drive China to acts of desperation, and lead to depressed world economic conditions. It does seem like the historical evidence suggests that moderate, balanced tariff policies within a rules-based international trading system contribute to global stability and prosperity, while extreme protectionism often leads to economic decline and increased international tensions. (Not saying there has to be global free trade, there is likely something of a happy medium.)
And also seeing how the last administration played out, we were sold Bannon and got Kushner. So I guess we'll see.
It is also hard to predict how the AI revolution/singularity/AGI is going to play out over the next administration. Its impact is really orthogonal to the Trump administration and may overshadow whatever is actually Trump's doing (much like what COVID did for Biden).
Here's a detailed, decade-by-decade analysis of US tariff history throughout the 20th century:
1900s
Average tariff rate: approximately 47%
Dingley Tariff Act of 1897 remained in effect
Protectionist policies continued from the late 19th century
Primary goal: protecting American manufacturing from European competition
1910s
Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
Significant reduction in tariff rates to average of 27%
First major tariff reduction since Civil War
Implementation of federal income tax reduced dependency on tariff revenue
WWI disrupted international trade patterns
1920s
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922
Raised rates back to about 40%
"Scientific tariff" concept introduced
Tariff Commission established to adjust rates
Republican-led protectionist policies
1930s
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
Highest tariff rates in US history (average 59%)
Contributed to deepening of Great Depression
Led to international retaliation
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 began reducing rates
1940s
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) established 1947
US took leadership role in promoting free trade
Average tariffs declined to around 25%
Post-WWII international cooperation
Bretton Woods system established
1950s
Further GATT rounds reduced tariffs
Average rates fell to about 15%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 preparation
Emphasis on rebuilding international trade
European economic recovery promoted
1960s
Kennedy Round of GATT (1964-1967)
Significant tariff reductions across industrial goods
Average rates dropped to about 12%
Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Increased focus on non-tariff barriers
1970s
Tokyo Round of GATT (1973-1979)
Further reduction in industrial tariffs
Average rates fell to about 8%
Oil crisis impacted trade patterns
Rise of non-tariff trade barriers
1980s
Trade and Tariff Act of 1984
Focus shifted to bilateral trade agreements
Average tariff rates stabilized around 5-6%
Rising concern about Japanese imports
Voluntary export restraints became common
1990s
NAFTA implemented (1994)
Uruguay Round of GATT completed (1994)
WTO established (1995)
Average tariff rates around 4-5%
Increased focus on regional trade agreements
Key Trends Over the Century
Overall dramatic decline in tariff rates (47% to ~5%)
Shift from protectionism to free trade advocacy
Movement from unilateral to multilateral trade agreements
Decreased reliance on tariffs for federal revenue
Increased importance of non-tariff trade measures
This transformation reflects the USA's evolution from a developing industrial nation to the world's leading economic power, and its changing role in global trade leadership.Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Almost Missouri
Thanks.
Arguably, the takeaway from that could be “Higher tariffs correlate with higher GDP growth, and lower tariffs with lower GDP growth.”
Looking the post-WWII epistability, GDP growth has been falling in near lockstep with tariffs.
If we added the 21st century, I suspect it would get even worse.
If we subtracted out the debt-subsidized GDP, I suspect it would get even worse than that.
If we subtracted out non-productive GDP, I suspect it would get even worse than that.
I don’t know if Trump is aware of all this or if he is just making the tariff argument out of economic nationalist instinct, but strong arguments are available for him.
I think it's more useful to look at GDP/capita, as birthrates have been falling with the tariffs.
https://www.visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2011/03/08/long-term-real-growth-in-us-gdp-per-capita-1871-2009
GDP/capita fits within a certain range, and no matter how productive a people is, there are limits. Increase the number of people, and if the country is not resource constrained, the productivity will increase.
Looking at inflation adjusted GDP/capita, the biggest regression was during the 1930s when tariffs were highest. It recovered during the post-war period.
Do you think complete elimination of the income tax and reverting to a purely tariff-based government income stream will be good policy? Do you think it can be accomplished without retaliatory tariffs being brought in by trading partners, and bailouts for affected industries? The lack of (relatively) free trade encourages everyone to basically do things their countries are not very good at. Overall this is not efficient.
A high tariff environment is older than the living memory of people nowadays, and the Great Depression is not the best example as to why we might want to go back to it.
On Rogan, Trump suggested a universal tariff of 10-20% on all imports entering the United States, and over 60% tariff specifically on goods from China. It's probably a good threat to get China to be less militaristic (re: island chains, Taiwan, etc), but in terms of a proper economic war vs China... I don't think it makes a lot of sense to leave them with few peaceful options of maintaining a semblance of what they have built up. (If we look at the policy instituted by the US to provoke war with Japan - this is a different age and we want to be careful about provoking a needless war with a nuclear-armed power, IMO.)
And I certainly understand why the existing 20% tariffs have been imposed - China has had a rise that has been abetted by US policy for decades, since Clinton at least. But the dose of cure should match the ailment. The existing tariffs are certainly having an impact.Replies: @Almost Missouri
While Nevada, in and of itself, is not very significant, it is indicative of substantial Hispanic inroads that Republican inc. ‘natural conservatives’ BS was always promising and never delivering.
What a rightist Georgetown student ought to do is bring 100 of his friends and drink/eat/take as much milk, cookies, and Legos as possible. And say "Thank you very much for all this - we really are feeling terrible about Trump."
It's like the "gun buy backs" that certain jurisdictions do. You bring all sorts of non- or poorly-functioning zinc guns or even made-up guns that are useless and cost close to nothing and pocket the money they give you.
When leftists offer you free or arbitrage opportunities, never pass it up and instead take advantage of it 100-fold.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Wasn’t there a gun buyback guy who was manufacturing ghost guns for well below the buy”back” price, then using (part of) the money to manufacture more ghost guns? It was like he had discovered a real-life “infinite money hack”.
Of course they eventually figured out what was happening and changed the rules, but they couldn’t take back what they had already paid him.
Besides significant self-enrichment, he may have knocked a hole in the jurisdiction’s budget. Certainly knocked a hole in its anti-gun appetite.
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6MfCvnxAuw
Perhaps Caesars, like endives and parsley, have regular and curly varieties?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9402T16af_UReplies: @TWS
Yeah, about time.
It turns out that even poor families with ancestral roots from south of the border don’t want unlimited immigration!
Who would have guessed . . . :)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-election-border-house-trump-7b3c5adae15344dcb54f36e25890d1e2Replies: @epebble
Not just immigration. The number one concern seems to have been inflation. Democrats argued ‘Democracy in Crisis’, many MAGA voters asked – ‘Does it buy groceries?
Clallam County, Washington is not far from where I live. They broke their Bellwether record. The explanation seems to be, being a mostly White County (with a small Native American population), their women seem to have influence on turn towards Harris due to abortion issues (even though WA is pretty liberal), whereas in places where non-whites are in larger numbers, inflation beat out abortion.
Clallam County voted for losing presidential candidate for first time in 40 years
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/clallam-county-presidential-vote-kamala-harris-donald-trump/281-5312845d-673f-41f5-bb42-791d47f87b23
Another aspect of poor strategy by Harris campaign was focus on abortion in ‘Blue Wall‘ states, which were vital for her winning. Those states already have liberal abortion policies and Dobbs hasn’t affected them at all. And the states where Dobbs has an effect – Idaho, Texas, Florida etc., are all deep red and winning votes wouldn’t help her anyway. Thus, it was a losing argument.
She acted as though she is campaigning for 330 million people instead of 50 states. Trump, focusing on inflation, was able to reach all 50 states in his messaging.
I suppose the 'logic' of it was that Repubs would pass some kind of counter-Roe abortion ban, even though the entire reasoning of Dobbs is that it's not a Federal power, so ironically Dobbs would prevent the Federal ban the Dems claim to fear. And also Trump kept saying he would veto a ban if it were on his desk.
But the advertising was so ruthlessly emotionally blackmailing, I wondered if it would work in spite of its obvious (to you and me) irrationality.
Apparently, it didn't. Or mostly didn't. Didn't enough, let's say.Replies: @epebble, @Mr. Anon
https://i.postimg.cc/SQnzr2CY/dfd5e017-85d2-4c95-8243-520c0d6a9234-499x900.webpReplies: @ScarletNumber, @SFG, @Almost Missouri, @Curle
It’s actually worse than that. In some, maybe all, of those grey-colored states they are positively forbidden to look at photo ID! I know it sounds crazy, but that’s just because it is.
When I went to vote in certain of those grey-colored states, I preemptively showed my photo ID hoping to establish a norm. The “poll watcher” or whatever you call the desk person, interposed his hand between his eyes and my ID.
“We’re not allowed to look at those,” he said defensively, probably in fear that a fellow poll watcher would see him “checking ID” and launch a Federal civil rights lawsuit against him.
The poll watcher [sic] is literally not allowed to watch the polls there!
People don’t understand how corrupt US elections are.
The Florida experience suggests that perhaps 10% of the Democrat’s electorate doesn’t actually exist. Trump may be correct that he’s always won the popular vote.
I’m calling bullshit on your story
https://twitter.com/jardinsecret888/status/1854564288397967846
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of "add it to the list:"
"taxi drivers"Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Moshe Def, @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Gandydancer
In the UK, you can recognise a town as being still in “Elder Days Before The Fall” if the taxi drivers are all white.
Hard not to notice this. Pretty huge discrepancy, for people to rationalize. A senile man who hid in his basement received nearly twenty million more votes than Obama? Yeah, that scans. Then suddenly with new more aggressive watching for fraud the totals go back to expected norms.
I wonder what happened to those twenty million never seen voter? Truly never seen, they ‘voted’ by mail, dozens of them showed up to Brandon’s rallies and now they’ve vanished like they never existed at all…
So where are those extra Democrat voters? I’m guessing they were all volunteering in Haiti and wound up the guests of honor at BBQs.
Two years from now, at a post-election press gaggle: “Just think how much you’re going to be missing. You won’t have Harris to kick around anymore because, [ladies and] gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
Six years after his “last press conference” in 1962, Nixon was elected president in what was (until this week) the greatest comeback in American political history. Whatever the future holds for Harris, the presidency isn’t in the cards.
Moreover, if Harris runs for governor of California in 2026, she will be ignoring the lessons of her disastrous primary run for the Democratic nomination in 2020 — in which her amply funded campaign was nearly broke by Thanksgiving 2019, forcing her out of the race even before Iowa — and this week’s election. Whatever she’s serving, the dogs won’t eat it.
Niccolo Soldi (best satirist alive)
Ellis Items (headline roundup, suffers from TDS but often has one or two must-read links)
Best of Journalism (mixed bag but sometimes excellent)
Curtis Yarvin (second best satirist)
I try to listen to Hugh Hewitt, who is the best interviewer alive
Revolver
The Federalist
Breitbart
Larry Elder has been on fire lately
I almost never catch Joe Rogan because I simply do not have three hours to devote to anything
And Caravan to Midnight, which can be tedious or wierd but it sometimes has stuff like Michael Yan, or the guy they had on last week who had been involved with lawsuits against the federal government and had a lot of anecdotes about regulatory agencies
And Steve and /pol/, which can only be used by those who patiently and diligently filter through all the federal static (on any given day, /pol/ is almost all spam except for 3-6 legitimate threads. /pol/ is also unbeatable in the event of a foreign emergency like the Nicaraugua riots or the siege of German Hill.)Replies: @Almost Missouri, @vinteuil
Thanks for the advice.
I saw that “we’ve lost this audience completely” thing too, and thought, “Hmm, they’ve finally noticed? For ‘news’ ‘reporters’, they are appallingly slow on the uptake of rather obvious facts.”
What are the lawsuits? I assume he is different from Michael Yon who was a self-embedded reporter with the US military in Iraq?
What are these?
I think it was coffee brandy.
Of course they eventually figured out what was happening and changed the rules, but they couldn't take back what they had already paid him.
Besides significant self-enrichment, he may have knocked a hole in the jurisdiction's budget. Certainly knocked a hole in its anti-gun appetite.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“It was like he had discovered a real-life “infinite money hack”.
Like this?
There was something of a cousin-quarrel between the US and UK in the 1920s: negotiating the Washington Naval Treaty, US failure to back the League of Nations, tariffs, something about Irish Home Rule, an extradition fight, maybe some other stuff.
I recall one of my college profs saying that a US war plan against the UK was mooted in the 1920s (presumably naval warfare), but I can’t find any reference to it right now.
Anyway, the point is the post-WWII “special relationship” wasn’t always what it is now. The 1902s US-UK relationship resembled the present China-US relationship in some ways: two rivals (one new and upsurgent, one old and sclerotic) warily eyeing each other up for future world hegemony, even as they know they are mutually interdependent in many ways.
The war and then Fabian socialism left Britain so impoverished (food rationing lasted until 1954) that it could no longer see itself as an equal competitor with the Yanks. De Gaulle had delusions of French greatness but the British were realistic enough to realize that junior partner to the US was their best bet.
This is nothing like China which sees itself as a rising power and is expansionist. Even pre-WWII Britain did not see itself that way nor did it dream of pushing the US out of the Pacific or anywhere else. And the cultural ties and common legal/political systems made the relationship much different.
The fact that they were allies and that they had invasion plans on the shelf was not incompatible. To this day the US and its allies spy on each other. If you are a military planner your job is to make plans so if the unlikely happens you don't seem totally unprepared.
The analogy to China is highly imperfect. Britain was always a small island nation and maritime power punching above its weight while China is a land power and of equal size and greater population than the US - they are really apples and oranges. Japan is a closer Asian analogue to Britain.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Six years after his "last press conference" in 1962, Nixon was elected president in what was (until this week) the greatest comeback in American political history. Whatever the future holds for Harris, the presidency isn't in the cards.
Moreover, if Harris runs for governor of California in 2026, she will be ignoring the lessons of her disastrous primary run for the Democratic nomination in 2020 -- in which her amply funded campaign was nearly broke by Thanksgiving 2019, forcing her out of the race even before Iowa -- and this week's election. Whatever she's serving, the dogs won't eat it.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Jim Don Bob
Fortunately, she is entirely without convictions/principles, hence like that Groucho Marx line “I have my principles! Well, if you don’t like them I have others.”
Obama could at least fill his role without cackling maniacally and sounding drunk. The black actors who play "doctors" on TV commercials look dignified like Obama and give good line readings and don't come off as empty headed wine aunts. Obama was smart enough that he could inhabit his role and go off script and improvise his lines if necessary and he had better script writers. Kamala's script writers were awful and if you took away the teleprompter she was even worse. A completely failed marketing campaign. Somewhere there is a museum devoted to marketing flops and they should put Kamala on the shelf next to the Edsel and New Coke.
Some Dems are now questioning the odd data point that Trump's vote total is nearly the same as in 2020, but theirs dropped by some 11-13 million. Guess what-- we're thinking the same thing!
Nuyoricans, Flortoricans, etc, heard Hinchcliffe's joke and thought, "Finally! Someone's gonna take care of Abuela's growing backlog of trash!"
Unlike in Canada, residents of our territories have no vote in federal elections. Fun fact: Justin's dad once won the popular vote in Northwest Territories. But he lost both seats. To different parties. Was it the Expos or the Reds who were screwed out of a trip to the Series one year because the season was "split"?
This is written from the point of view of a wokish leftist (he describes himself as a “computational social scientist”) who is trying to figure out how Donald Trump succeeds, but still interesting, especially for science fiction fans:
Abortion was NOT a big issue except among a handful of insane coastal liberal women. It makes no sense because most of them are not having sex anyway and to extent that they are, they are IUDed up the kazoo.
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue – it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.
You mean, waste hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars listening to a scheming fraudulent Jew who has no idea what he's talking about or what your own best interest is?
Sounds like American politics to me.
-- Patrick Ruffini in the AtlanticReplies: @Curle, @Hrw-500
The new median Dem voter.
Yes, much dignity among German Jews.
Median Dem voters, not so much.
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue - it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/11/24/resized_99261-nup_160987_0001_74-19051_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @George Taylor, @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar
“This is not a political issue – it is something for Freud to analyze.”
You mean, waste hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars listening to a scheming fraudulent Jew who has no idea what he’s talking about or what your own best interest is?
Sounds like American politics to me.
Obama already fulfilled the “empty vessel into which we can pour our hopes and dreams” role and his magic cannot be repeated. Empty vessel is one thing and crackpot is another.
Obama could at least fill his role without cackling maniacally and sounding drunk. The black actors who play “doctors” on TV commercials look dignified like Obama and give good line readings and don’t come off as empty headed wine aunts. Obama was smart enough that he could inhabit his role and go off script and improvise his lines if necessary and he had better script writers. Kamala’s script writers were awful and if you took away the teleprompter she was even worse. A completely failed marketing campaign. Somewhere there is a museum devoted to marketing flops and they should put Kamala on the shelf next to the Edsel and New Coke.
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue - it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/11/24/resized_99261-nup_160987_0001_74-19051_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @George Taylor, @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar
And the White beta boy SIMPs with the futile hope that maybe, just maybe by parroting these women they might get laid.
If anything, men, not women, were the vanguard of this movement.
I recall one of my college profs saying that a US war plan against the UK was mooted in the 1920s (presumably naval warfare), but I can't find any reference to it right now.
Anyway, the point is the post-WWII "special relationship" wasn't always what it is now. The 1902s US-UK relationship resembled the present China-US relationship in some ways: two rivals (one new and upsurgent, one old and sclerotic) warily eyeing each other up for future world hegemony, even as they know they are mutually interdependent in many ways.Replies: @Jack D, @Gandydancer
Even post WWII, there was friction in that the US was anti-colonial while the British (at least some of them, Churchill included) wanted to keep their empire.
The war and then Fabian socialism left Britain so impoverished (food rationing lasted until 1954) that it could no longer see itself as an equal competitor with the Yanks. De Gaulle had delusions of French greatness but the British were realistic enough to realize that junior partner to the US was their best bet.
This is nothing like China which sees itself as a rising power and is expansionist. Even pre-WWII Britain did not see itself that way nor did it dream of pushing the US out of the Pacific or anywhere else. And the cultural ties and common legal/political systems made the relationship much different.
The fact that they were allies and that they had invasion plans on the shelf was not incompatible. To this day the US and its allies spy on each other. If you are a military planner your job is to make plans so if the unlikely happens you don’t seem totally unprepared.
The analogy to China is highly imperfect. Britain was always a small island nation and maritime power punching above its weight while China is a land power and of equal size and greater population than the US – they are really apples and oranges. Japan is a closer Asian analogue to Britain.
Except a DNA sample. Anyone got Chelsea Clinton's? Justin Trudeau's? Ronan Farrow's?Replies: @J.Ross, @Almost Missouri
A certain rightwing activist [sic] was tasked with this, but then … stuff happened.
Six years after his "last press conference" in 1962, Nixon was elected president in what was (until this week) the greatest comeback in American political history. Whatever the future holds for Harris, the presidency isn't in the cards.
Moreover, if Harris runs for governor of California in 2026, she will be ignoring the lessons of her disastrous primary run for the Democratic nomination in 2020 -- in which her amply funded campaign was nearly broke by Thanksgiving 2019, forcing her out of the race even before Iowa -- and this week's election. Whatever she's serving, the dogs won't eat it.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Jim Don Bob
KH raised a bi$$ion dollars in her 100 day campaign and ended $20 million in debt. Some are blaming her staffers and consultants, and it is true some of her ads were terrible (“I eat carbertors for breakfast”), but there is zero evidence that she ever took any advice about how to do better.
A real scandal is brewing in the post election purging by Dems over the huge waste of money.
Who to blame?
Factoids so far say that Dems raised/spent over #1.1 billion and are supposedly $ 20 million in debt with many unhappy creditors.
"Somebody, get Hollywood on the line, quick!"
Of course they are still searching for the vicitms of this failure to blame. Mirrors are in short supply...
What is fun to contemplate is the major media mavens (everyone but Fox and a handful of others) who are wondering now, why nobody followed their Narrative party line? What, nobody believed us?
They will fruitlessly scoure editorial desks and newsrooms to find a non-Woke, non leftist, non Demorcrat, non progressive staffer to ask about this monumental failure.
After a week or so some honcho will be informed that there are no such staffers on their payroll.
None, Zip, Nada.
So in their bubble shaped Hall of Mirrors, they will still be clueless.
What will be telling is whether or not we see any actual Trump supporters/conservatives/libertarians who have been publicly active, being hired as writers or journalist, reporters and columnists. Or as radio/TV/Internet commentators?
Or will they resort to the usual practice of finding some Liz Cheney "house conservatives", who still pine for George Bush (a/k/a Peggy Noonan of the WSJ) as fake new voices?
Don't hold your breath.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Moshe Def
Was it just me, or was Kamala’s speech not bad at all?
As someone said in the YT comments:
“That moment when her concession speech is better than all her speeches combined”
Nothing in her career / Became her like the leaving it.
Apologies to Macbeth I.iv
It's almost as if this whole business of calling Trump a fascist was all just a bunch of kayfabe for the rubes and was not really sincerely meant at all. Hey, majority of Americans, we didn't really mean to call you fascist supporters.....Replies: @Mr. Anon
The war and then Fabian socialism left Britain so impoverished (food rationing lasted until 1954) that it could no longer see itself as an equal competitor with the Yanks. De Gaulle had delusions of French greatness but the British were realistic enough to realize that junior partner to the US was their best bet.
This is nothing like China which sees itself as a rising power and is expansionist. Even pre-WWII Britain did not see itself that way nor did it dream of pushing the US out of the Pacific or anywhere else. And the cultural ties and common legal/political systems made the relationship much different.
The fact that they were allies and that they had invasion plans on the shelf was not incompatible. To this day the US and its allies spy on each other. If you are a military planner your job is to make plans so if the unlikely happens you don't seem totally unprepared.
The analogy to China is highly imperfect. Britain was always a small island nation and maritime power punching above its weight while China is a land power and of equal size and greater population than the US - they are really apples and oranges. Japan is a closer Asian analogue to Britain.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Agree.
I think you misunderstand. China now has the US role, while the US has the former UK role.
Which country is China expanding into?
I was discussing geopolitics rather than cultural ties, but as it happens, Asians are the fastest growing major demographic group in the US, so the cultural ties are coming up fast…
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue - it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/11/24/resized_99261-nup_160987_0001_74-19051_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @George Taylor, @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar
“Since 2016, educated white voters have shifted left but every other group has shifted right. That was only enough for a near win for Trump in 2020, but this time it was enough for a popular majority in the country.”
— Patrick Ruffini in the Atlantic
I’ve written to my Alma Mater suggesting that sociology be removed as a credentialed program of study because: unreliable claims. Didn’t get a reply.
Also vlogger Actual Justice Warrior vlogged about why Latinos switched to Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-hCmhGgIk
His vlog is also mirrored on Rumble and Odysee in case if Youtube remove it.
https://rumble.com/v5myxre-why-latinos-switched-to-trump.html
https://odysee.com/@actualjusticewarrior:2/why-latinos-switched-to-trump:7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90BL4uVIag
Also, one can make music even from the screams of disappointed voters - if indeed she's old enough to vote :
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/129214Replies: @Anonymous
Odd how it combines Trump’s timbre and 50’s accent/slurred delivery.
https://twitter.com/realmattforney/status/1854296040268333232Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
Webb Hubbell has four kids by (I assume) his wife. Do any of them have that lower lip?
“Which country is China expanding into?”
Canada, I think, if Vancouver house prices are any guide.
They have some sort of irrational fear of becoming [their own?] mothers. Perhaps motherhood implies aging and adult responsibility and ultimately death, which is enormously frightening. As long as abortion is available, you have a backup so that you can remain Peter Pan forever. (Even though Peter is a boy, it was a theatrical tradition to have him played by a (flat chested) adult woman.) This is not a political issue - it is something for Freud to analyze.
The fact that it is a psychological ailment explains why this small segment is absolutely hysterical about this issue. Anyone normal, even faced with the need for abortion in a state where it is prohibited, would just get abortion pills mailed to them or drive/fly (in an airplane, not Peter Pan style) to the nearest state where it is available.
https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/11/24/resized_99261-nup_160987_0001_74-19051_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d
The real Mary Martin was in fact a mother, the mother of actor Larry Hagman.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @George Taylor, @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar
The new White House Chief of Staff will be the daughter of Pat Summerall.
Republicans are back in the saddle, codified by the angry teeming masses, energized by remembrance and reverence for their history, one most iconic iconic act being the freeing of the slaves from democrats clutches. thanks a national bloodletting of dems never before seen.
When dems rouse their antifa pawns again, we know all we have to do is confront them in the face. They’ll run. They’ll give up, and cry out of their victimhood. Just like back in our last civil war. They never had the belly for confrontation.
This time, organize, and confront them. Make them keep turning inward.
Evil always consumes itself.
-- Patrick Ruffini in the AtlanticReplies: @Curle, @Hrw-500
The word ‘educated’ is too loosely applied. Possessing a credential of some sort and graduating from HS is a better characterization.
I’ve written to my Alma Mater suggesting that sociology be removed as a credentialed program of study because: unreliable claims. Didn’t get a reply.
When?
As someone said in the YT comments:
"That moment when her concession speech is better than all her speeches combined" Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
“That moment when her concession speech is better than all her speeches combined”
Nothing in her career / Became her like the leaving it.
Apologies to Macbeth I.iv
Median Dem voters, not so much.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
I was writing about 1933-1936 period. Felix Hausdorff, Emil Ludwig, Edmund Husserl, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, ..were titanic figures, both creatively & morally, in comparison with these clowns.
The US will perhaps sink in the next few decades, or later, but it is doubtless the leader of the world. In all areas of life. Good or bad.
Another good thing-at least for those with some common sense- is that these elections should be a funeral for the ZOG conspiracy theory. American Jews did not play a significant role in the Trump campaign, and most of them, judging from the stats, voted the same way as in 2016.
A caveat: common sense people.Replies: @prosa123, @Anonymous
American Jews did not play a significant role in the Trump campaign, and most of them, judging from the stats, voted the same way as in 2016.
This map of votes by New York City’s electoral districts show that the Orthodox and Hasidic Jews went overwhelmingly for Trump. The red patch in northern Brooklyn across from lower Manhattan are the Satmars in South Williamsburgh, the smaller patch south of it are the Lubavitches in Crown Heights, and the much larger red expanse in southern Brooklyn are the Bobovers in Borough Park (together with non-Hasidic Orthodox, Chinese, some remaining white ethnics, and even some Arabs). In the extreme southeast you can see the Orthodox enclave in Far Rockaway.
https://projects.thecity.nyc/election-results-voter-turnout-Harris-Trump-map/?_gl=1*1k7ddhe*_ga*MTM0ODU5Njk4Mi4xNzMwOTg0MDkz*_ga_G0ZNNV3GTX*MTczMDk4NDA5Mi4xLjAuMTczMDk4NDEwMC4wLjAuMA..
Interesting.
The death of the the first Kamala Harris (an entertainment wrestler) was an omen that fast-tracked the second Kamala Harris to the big time. But then the death of Kamala the elephant, that too in a DC zoo (not some zoo in another country, or even another part of the US) was an omen that also indicated God finally had enough of this Kamala Harris’ desire to be the god-queen.
And it was specifically an elephant (the GOP symbol), not some giraffe or hippo or something.
So her entire run at the top was bookended by two extremely timely omens that were too precise to be just coincidences.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/squirrel-spotted-onstage-before-kamala-harris-concession-speech-and-internet-thinks-it-s-the-ghost-of-p-nut/ar-AA1tGh9Q
Omens, signs and portents...Replies: @Thomm
Niccolo Soldi (best satirist alive)
Ellis Items (headline roundup, suffers from TDS but often has one or two must-read links)
Best of Journalism (mixed bag but sometimes excellent)
Curtis Yarvin (second best satirist)
I try to listen to Hugh Hewitt, who is the best interviewer alive
Revolver
The Federalist
Breitbart
Larry Elder has been on fire lately
I almost never catch Joe Rogan because I simply do not have three hours to devote to anything
And Caravan to Midnight, which can be tedious or wierd but it sometimes has stuff like Michael Yan, or the guy they had on last week who had been involved with lawsuits against the federal government and had a lot of anecdotes about regulatory agencies
And Steve and /pol/, which can only be used by those who patiently and diligently filter through all the federal static (on any given day, /pol/ is almost all spam except for 3-6 legitimate threads. /pol/ is also unbeatable in the event of a foreign emergency like the Nicaraugua riots or the siege of German Hill.)Replies: @Almost Missouri, @vinteuil
That’s so sad.
https://twitter.com/topic_flow/status/1854926267725853110
Musk very much has the ear of Trump right now so it is worthwhile understanding where he is coming from. Until recently I underestimated Musk but my view of him is changing. He still may not be able to deliver on all the things that he is promising, but his is not a con artist in the vein of DeLorean, he is the real thing. Buying Twitter seemed like a stupid move but just in the last few days Tesla stock has moved up enough to pay for it all.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @J.Ross, @vinteuil
I hope all of these votes were cast on the mainland. (Or on Long Island.) In actual states. In which these boricuas were resident. Last thing we need is evidence of fake Trump votes.
Some Dems are now questioning the odd data point that Trump’s vote total is nearly the same as in 2020, but theirs dropped by some 11-13 million. Guess what– we’re thinking the same thing!
Nuyoricans, Flortoricans, etc, heard Hinchcliffe’s joke and thought, “Finally! Someone’s gonna take care of Abuela’s growing backlog of trash!”
Unlike in Canada, residents of our territories have no vote in federal elections. Fun fact: Justin’s dad once won the popular vote in Northwest Territories. But he lost both seats. To different parties. Was it the Expos or the Reds who were screwed out of a trip to the Series one year because the season was “split”?
” Lammy should go home at once, to his proud, beautiful, native toilet bowl. But he won’t. But he’s proud of it. But he won’t go there. But he’s proud. But he’s not leaving. ”
You’ve just described every Mexican, Puerto Rican, (dot)Indian, and Chinaman ever.
Good points.
A real scandal is brewing in the post election purging by Dems over the huge waste of money.
Who to blame?
Factoids so far say that Dems raised/spent over #1.1 billion and are supposedly $ 20 million in debt with many unhappy creditors.
“Somebody, get Hollywood on the line, quick!”
Of course they are still searching for the vicitms of this failure to blame. Mirrors are in short supply…
What is fun to contemplate is the major media mavens (everyone but Fox and a handful of others) who are wondering now, why nobody followed their Narrative party line? What, nobody believed us?
They will fruitlessly scoure editorial desks and newsrooms to find a non-Woke, non leftist, non Demorcrat, non progressive staffer to ask about this monumental failure.
After a week or so some honcho will be informed that there are no such staffers on their payroll.
None, Zip, Nada.
So in their bubble shaped Hall of Mirrors, they will still be clueless.
What will be telling is whether or not we see any actual Trump supporters/conservatives/libertarians who have been publicly active, being hired as writers or journalist, reporters and columnists. Or as radio/TV/Internet commentators?
Or will they resort to the usual practice of finding some Liz Cheney “house conservatives”, who still pine for George Bush (a/k/a Peggy Noonan of the WSJ) as fake new voices?
Don’t hold your breath.
George Clooney is criticised for demanding Joe Biden quit ahead of Donald Trump's election victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxn08lPAhFgReplies: @muggles
Great observation.
I can now append to my early comment that the Democrat’s constituency doesn’t really exist that their conception of the Republican constituency doesn’t really exist either. The entire Democrat Media Complex is just a psyop.
InB4 the “ackshually” brigade: yes, there is a Democrat constituency, but it is not as big as it is presented and in an honest world wouldn’t command the respect or electoral heft it does.
Ah, so that’s how you got the title of Single Most Reasonable iSteve Commenter. Okay, okay….
Cdan has this to say about Joe and Jill:
And this about Melania who was notably absent from the victory picture:
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2024/11/four-four-friday-hangers-on.html
Remember him? He was the medical researcher who saw to it that the results of the vaccine trials would not be released before the election in 2020. As Steve has argued, this very likely prevented the vote from being swung to Trump.
And now Trump has come into his second term with a powerful mandate, and what looks like a well organized plan (not exactly typical of the Trump of his first term) to take power and enforce his vision.
We should all be thankful for the unstinting efforts of Dr. Topol, who was so gloriously careless of what he wished for.Replies: @ScarletNumber
A real scandal is brewing in the post election purging by Dems over the huge waste of money.
Who to blame?
Factoids so far say that Dems raised/spent over #1.1 billion and are supposedly $ 20 million in debt with many unhappy creditors.
"Somebody, get Hollywood on the line, quick!"
Of course they are still searching for the vicitms of this failure to blame. Mirrors are in short supply...
What is fun to contemplate is the major media mavens (everyone but Fox and a handful of others) who are wondering now, why nobody followed their Narrative party line? What, nobody believed us?
They will fruitlessly scoure editorial desks and newsrooms to find a non-Woke, non leftist, non Demorcrat, non progressive staffer to ask about this monumental failure.
After a week or so some honcho will be informed that there are no such staffers on their payroll.
None, Zip, Nada.
So in their bubble shaped Hall of Mirrors, they will still be clueless.
What will be telling is whether or not we see any actual Trump supporters/conservatives/libertarians who have been publicly active, being hired as writers or journalist, reporters and columnists. Or as radio/TV/Internet commentators?
Or will they resort to the usual practice of finding some Liz Cheney "house conservatives", who still pine for George Bush (a/k/a Peggy Noonan of the WSJ) as fake new voices?
Don't hold your breath.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Moshe Def
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14050809/George-Clooney-joe-biden-quit-donald-trump-election-president.html
George Clooney is criticised for demanding Joe Biden quit ahead of Donald Trump’s election victory
"The First Woman President" and all.
This seems like a crackpot Dem idea but my sources suggest die-hards have discussed it.
There is no indication that Joe wants to leave early. Nor is there any chance that La Kamala even if quickly "elevated" could do much.
Congress isn't in session and even federal courts would be reluctant to permit much change by any kind of presto-chango fiat. Unless Joe Biden actually did pass away suddenly.
While the Dems are still blaming others for their failures, I'm still waiting for the post-Summer of George BLM organizational nonprofit tax returns to be filed. So far nothing I've heard about it other than a fixer DC law firm being hired. These returns are normally due annually. And are publicly available.
Of course most of those "donations" seem to have vanished. The Biden regime didn't seem to be in a hurry to find out what happened to this money. Maybe on the Hunter Biden Slow Track to IRS investigation.
(But don't count on this for your own IRS tax problems...)Replies: @RadicalCenter
It’s true that Liz Cheney is not widely loved by anybody (except maybe her children – you have to give her credit for bearing 5 children. Actually bearing them, not adopting some Africans or hiring a surrogate).
BUT, if you look at swing state math (even now if Harris could have swung 1 -3 % of the voters in the 3 “Blue Wall” states of PA, Mich. and Wisc. she would have won – it was much more of a close run thing than people realize), it was not crazy to think that there were persuadable college educated white Republican voters in suburban districts, esp. females who are biologically programmed to go along with social signals. If these women got the idea that all the cool soccer moms are voting D then they might have gone along as well. Cheney was intended to give that impression and give these females “permission” to vote for Kamala even if they were lifelong Republicans.
The entire election is about persuading a few hundred thousand swing voters in a few swing states to change their votes. Everyone else is already locked in and doesn’t matter. CA is not going red no matter what and Oklahoma is not going blue.
Clallam County, Washington is not far from where I live. They broke their Bellwether record. The explanation seems to be, being a mostly White County (with a small Native American population), their women seem to have influence on turn towards Harris due to abortion issues (even though WA is pretty liberal), whereas in places where non-whites are in larger numbers, inflation beat out abortion.
Clallam County voted for losing presidential candidate for first time in 40 years
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/clallam-county-presidential-vote-kamala-harris-donald-trump/281-5312845d-673f-41f5-bb42-791d47f87b23
Another aspect of poor strategy by Harris campaign was focus on abortion in 'Blue Wall' states, which were vital for her winning. Those states already have liberal abortion policies and Dobbs hasn't affected them at all. And the states where Dobbs has an effect - Idaho, Texas, Florida etc., are all deep red and winning votes wouldn't help her anyway. Thus, it was a losing argument.
She acted as though she is campaigning for 330 million people instead of 50 states. Trump, focusing on inflation, was able to reach all 50 states in his messaging.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Y’know, that’s a good point. I was just in a ‘Blue Wall’ state and the advertising was wall-to-wall “Help, before they let my fetus live!!!”
I suppose the ‘logic’ of it was that Repubs would pass some kind of counter-Roe abortion ban, even though the entire reasoning of Dobbs is that it’s not a Federal power, so ironically Dobbs would prevent the Federal ban the Dems claim to fear. And also Trump kept saying he would veto a ban if it were on his desk.
But the advertising was so ruthlessly emotionally blackmailing, I wondered if it would work in spite of its obvious (to you and me) irrationality.
Apparently, it didn’t. Or mostly didn’t. Didn’t enough, let’s say.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/24/west-coast-governors-promise-to-defend-abortion-rights/
Trump campaign, on the other hand, was so miserly that they didn't send a campaign pamphlet to be included in the printed handbook that Oregon's Secretary of State sends to all registered voters, along with ballots, as a sort of 'official' campaign material. Oregon charges $15,000 per candidate for printing this handbook page. Trump campaign was so certain of not winning in Oregon that they decided to save $15,000 by foregoing this. It raised some conspiracy theories that the Democratic government has done something to keep Trump off ballot. (He was on ballot).
That’s a good summing up by that guy. It will be very, very interesting to see how deep the introspection and house-cleaning is allowed to go by the Democratic party and media powers that be, whether they leave it at “Latinos are sexist, nothing more could be done” (even though then went for Hillary by 30 points), or publicly look deeper into the rot of a thoroughly Wall Street/donor-controlled party apparatus that rigorously excludes a left-populism focusing on wealth inequality more than identity politics (yes, such a thing exists) which could cut through to the public and counter the right’s populism. Harris was polling best at the beginning when she was talking about taking on corporate greed-flation, but then pulled way back on that, clearly after concerns were raised by her Wall Street connections, and it was all downhill from there (granted, likely for other reasons as well).
It is astounding – the Democrats have truly become the party of Wall Street, war, and censorship. The Republicans under Trump have begun to shed their historic image (and reality) as being the party of the rich, old, white, stick-up-his-ass, warmonger and are building a working-class multi-racial coalition.
And yes, just a moment ago as I was fixing my salad I was thinking of that legendary quote Obama supposedly said a decade ago, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” What an epic betrayal of the interests of his party, purely out of greed to remain in power, by not declaring a couple years ago that he would be standing down, leaving plenty of time for them to pick the best successor. Good thing for us though.
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of "add it to the list:"
"taxi drivers"Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Moshe Def, @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Gandydancer
Are the Maccabees’ colors blue and yellow, or is there some kind of Ukraine angle here?
If you have 20 minutes, here is a boiled down version of the Rogan-Musk podcast:
Musk very much has the ear of Trump right now so it is worthwhile understanding where he is coming from. Until recently I underestimated Musk but my view of him is changing. He still may not be able to deliver on all the things that he is promising, but his is not a con artist in the vein of DeLorean, he is the real thing. Buying Twitter seemed like a stupid move but just in the last few days Tesla stock has moved up enough to pay for it all.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1854339192794251529
From Doug Emhoff to Bill Clinton to Phil Harvey to Hugh Hefner to Friedrich Engels, plenty of men take the same position without being “simps”. They have their own reasons.
If anything, men, not women, were the vanguard of this movement.
l was just reading a discursive essay by Cathy Young about the intersection of pregnancy and law as it pertains to men, whose interests and viewpoint are rarely considered. This was balanced and fair and quite interesting. There was a link to an earlier, similar piece by her, so I clicked on that, too.
While that was also worth reading, where it appeared was horrifying– Kristol’s The Bulwark. The less said about that, the better. At least when it comes to elections and candidates. There is an entertaining tweet going around with a montage of the main writers’ expressions as they vlogged on Election Night. One of them is Mona Charen– I’d forgotten she existed. If you’re hungry for some Schadenfreude… see below.
Is that the Mayflower on its masthead?
In other words, it’s like the aircraft armor already being in the right place. She was always going to win California, even if California had voter ID. She should by all signs have “won” Michigan, but did not, most likely thanks to voter ID.
Don’t know but they probably would be blue and yellow. Those colors are as proprietarily Jewish as white and blue. There’s an ultra right wing Israeli soccer club that uses black and yellow. No need for a Ukrainian connection, but sure, there could be. Salient fact is they started it and are now talking about “Hitler.”
Them Jews, always starting "it" .....just like on 10/7.Replies: @J.Ross
https://projects.thecity.nyc/election-results-voter-turnout-Harris-Trump-map/?_gl=1*1k7ddhe*_ga*MTM0ODU5Njk4Mi4xNzMwOTg0MDkz*_ga_G0ZNNV3GTX*MTczMDk4NDA5Mi4xLjAuMTczMDk4NDEwMC4wLjAuMA..Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“This map of votes by New York City’s electoral districts show that the Orthodox and Hasidic Jews went overwhelmingly for Trump.”
Meh, window dressing. Plausible deniability. Nobody paying attention really cares who or what Jews actually vote for — there aren’t enough of them to matter anyway. What *does* matter — and, alas, fatally so — is who or what Jews fund, bribe for, threaten for, extort for, blackmail for, start wars for; and what in-kind services are provided to the preferred candidates and causes by overwhelming Jewish ownership of media, finance, courts, and government. And that is all, near-unanimously, blistering hot venomous racist anti-white genocidal hatred.
https://twitter.com/topic_flow/status/1854926267725853110
Musk very much has the ear of Trump right now so it is worthwhile understanding where he is coming from. Until recently I underestimated Musk but my view of him is changing. He still may not be able to deliver on all the things that he is promising, but his is not a con artist in the vein of DeLorean, he is the real thing. Buying Twitter seemed like a stupid move but just in the last few days Tesla stock has moved up enough to pay for it all.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @J.Ross, @vinteuil
Stupid only if one’s prime motivation in life is amoral shekel accumulation. That’s not Musk. Look at the alarm and befuddlement and on the faces of Faber and Sorkin in the first two clips:
Evers may be the most dangerous of the four, simply because he's so boring. The others get your guard up.
iSteve: Please explain Biden’s 81 million votes?
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1854476510612131913Replies: @Manfred Arcane
2016 2020 2024
Trump 62,984,828 74,223,975 74,312,688
Democrat 65,853,514 81,283,501 70,383,093
Trump mainly preserved his MAGA base while Harris greatly underperformed Biden by 10 million votes. These are mostly low propensity independent (non-partisan) voters who were not sufficiently excited by Harris as a candidate or her manifesto. If MAGA doesn't deliver and Democrats select a charismatic candidate who promises results, they can probably win in 2028. The million-dollar question is, with no Trump on the ticket, can MAGA preserve the 75 million coalition or increase it or fritter it away like the Republican party did in 2016.Replies: @Corvinus
And what about his photo, Steve? True, he looks brave. But might he be braver who looks different and does the same thing? Before me is a book put out by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation called Choosing Courage that is all about heroes who have had their bravery so proudly recognized. I guess what I notice is that none of them look like Pat Tillman. Indeed, what it says up front is that all of them insist they are “average.”
Oh, wait… this post is about the photo by Vucci. I was thinking about the post about the photo of Vucci. Darn it, Steve! Why did you make me notice all those heroes are just average!?!
But seriously—when a guy who looks brave is brave, I guess it makes us think some people are just born brave. One time I saw innate bravery in a two-year-old named Brendan—and I will never forget what I saw. I would never forget what I saw anyways, but I will doubly remember it, because what he did so perfectly fulfilled what his mom was always saying about him, that “He has his father’s guts.”
But being brave can get you into trouble. When little Brendan showed me what true blue courage looks like, his father was incarcerated for being unreasonably brave.
Much bravery is vain, wicked, evil, out for lucre or fame. I once knew a combat vet who was quite imposing in his person but who could not handle going out to the bar because of ptsd. As I was wondering why some guys get ptsd and some don’t, I heard a song being sung about how “It wasn’t worth it.” The strength to be drawn from sacrificial love was not there for him. I don’t know why, I don’t know if he didn’t love his country or if he hated his commander, but whatever was missing, the love was not there. That’s my theory: the heart can overcome just about anything; but what substance have you got without it? If you weren’t born brave, better not go to war for the wrong reason. That might be double self-deception.
One time I got a character into trouble by the idea that “courage is a virtue.” That’s a strong line, but it’s rather like liquid courage. Christ did not say, there is no greater bravery than this, to lay down one’s life for a friend. What the heroes always say in Choosing Courage is that the people they put their lives on the line for they loved like brothers. That makes me think that brotherly love is all about self-sacrifice.
But back to our “average” heroes. If pride cometh before the fall, those are the guys who would be left standing. May every one of them find the One True Faith before time runs out.
? You probably used too many lols, agrees etc. The dumb rule is no more than 3 comments in a short time span.
No, the rule is that if you haven’t posted at least five comments in the past 30 days, you can’t use the button responses. I haven’t commented here in a while.
https://twitter.com/topic_flow/status/1854926267725853110
Musk very much has the ear of Trump right now so it is worthwhile understanding where he is coming from. Until recently I underestimated Musk but my view of him is changing. He still may not be able to deliver on all the things that he is promising, but his is not a con artist in the vein of DeLorean, he is the real thing. Buying Twitter seemed like a stupid move but just in the last few days Tesla stock has moved up enough to pay for it all.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @J.Ross, @vinteuil
Also, Musk has demonstrated the appeal of responsible stewardship over rigid censorship: following the election there has been a tremendous influx of new sign-ups to X, mooting the late cancel campaign.
- Dollar jumps against Gold
- Germany's Left-coalition government collapses
Irrespective of what one thinks about these trends, it's remarkable how much the Office of the President still matters, even in places very far from DC.
I suppose the 'logic' of it was that Repubs would pass some kind of counter-Roe abortion ban, even though the entire reasoning of Dobbs is that it's not a Federal power, so ironically Dobbs would prevent the Federal ban the Dems claim to fear. And also Trump kept saying he would veto a ban if it were on his desk.
But the advertising was so ruthlessly emotionally blackmailing, I wondered if it would work in spite of its obvious (to you and me) irrationality.
Apparently, it didn't. Or mostly didn't. Didn't enough, let's say.Replies: @epebble, @Mr. Anon
Harris campaign was like a man with hammer, who sees nails everywhere. Here in deep Blue Oregon, she was advertising her campaign about preserving ‘Reproductive Rights’. We have such a liberal regime that the previous governor (Kate Brown), after Dobbs, set up abortion services clinic in Ontario, OR just a little distance from Idaho state line to welcome Idahoans who have been impacted by Idaho’s prohibition on abortions, post Dobbs. Even those of us in Oregon, while being sympathetic to the plight of Idahoans, were unpleasantly surprised to see public funds being used for this good neighborliness.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/24/west-coast-governors-promise-to-defend-abortion-rights/
Trump campaign, on the other hand, was so miserly that they didn’t send a campaign pamphlet to be included in the printed handbook that Oregon’s Secretary of State sends to all registered voters, along with ballots, as a sort of ‘official’ campaign material. Oregon charges $15,000 per candidate for printing this handbook page. Trump campaign was so certain of not winning in Oregon that they decided to save $15,000 by foregoing this. It raised some conspiracy theories that the Democratic government has done something to keep Trump off ballot. (He was on ballot).
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1854990509355475074
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1854986257979375670Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Wisconsin Republicans sent out one of those megapostcards, this one featuring three scary faces– Govs. Pritzker, Whitmer, and Walz. The intent was to vote in a more GOP legislature, to keep their own governor from repeating the policies of the neighboring states.
Evers may be the most dangerous of the four, simply because he’s so boring. The others get your guard up.
Election fraud is to Steve as steroids were to Bill James. Epicycles of epicycles to avoid the obvious.
Actually, the term “blue shift” was coined by Edward Foley to refer specifically to those early-morning surges which favor Democrats, because they are far more likely to use provisional ballots. And mail-ins, etc. Michael Whatley, Lara Trump, and Scott Presler were on the case this time around, and it paid off. We can do everything they do, the legal stuff anyway.
80 years ago, a Democratic operative from Boston informed James Michener that Republicans were far more likely to use absentee ballots. My, how that has changed. Likewise, “coupon clippers” used to mean well-heeled folk enjoying dividend disbursements; now it refers to humble, struggling housewives.
Undocumented vote fraud, too. One has to snicker when they claim “Non-citizens cannot vote!” Of course not. That’s why local operatives do the voting for them.
I have no problem believing that Joe Biden got more votes than Donald Trump. I have a hard time believing that Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama (given his status as the Anointed One).
Of course, its highly unlikely that the future billion-dollar Joe Biden Presidential Library will emphasize his huge gosh darn, awe-inspiring surge in popularity in 2020 instead it will just have a simple, non-interactive, non-virtual reality plastic board saying Joe was elected president in 2020 leading to 4 years of gosh darn, awe-inspiring policies until Kamila kinda screwed it up four years later.
Equally of course when countries we don't like have elections we don't like, they, for the next forty years will point to the 2020 election but that won't matter because the US holier-than-thou attitude to other countries elections is invulnerable to criticism (just the other day, the US pointed out to some kind of irregularities in the recent Georgia (the country not the state) elections.
Duh, if all Israeli clubs used blue and white how would you tell them apart? Tonight the blue and whites play the blue and whites….
Them Jews, always starting “it” …..just like on 10/7.
As someone said in the YT comments:
"That moment when her concession speech is better than all her speeches combined" Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
Have you heard Biden’s speech? He hardly even sounded senile.
It’s almost as if this whole business of calling Trump a fascist was all just a bunch of kayfabe for the rubes and was not really sincerely meant at all. Hey, majority of Americans, we didn’t really mean to call you fascist supporters…..
Steve
You may remember saying that Obama could not possibly be the grey eminence behind Biden and Harris. I was somewhat ahead of the media in noticing Obama’s power, but they’re caught up with me and in vastly more detail. See: https://www.wnd.com/2024/11/does-harris-defeat-end-the-wizard-of-ozs-career/
Some things are both so large and so improbable that they are difficult to see.
Right now, I see that Trump has done the equivalent of taking over a termite infested house. Good, he took it over, maybe he will clear up the infestation, but . . . if the termites have eaten out the house’s primary structural framework, then the new owner is in trouble. At the least, the huse will have to be torn down and rebuilt, a long and expensive/difficult project.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/whole-society-american-politics
I suppose the 'logic' of it was that Repubs would pass some kind of counter-Roe abortion ban, even though the entire reasoning of Dobbs is that it's not a Federal power, so ironically Dobbs would prevent the Federal ban the Dems claim to fear. And also Trump kept saying he would veto a ban if it were on his desk.
But the advertising was so ruthlessly emotionally blackmailing, I wondered if it would work in spite of its obvious (to you and me) irrationality.
Apparently, it didn't. Or mostly didn't. Didn't enough, let's say.Replies: @epebble, @Mr. Anon
That’s a good point. If Lindsey Graham (the most worthless Republican Senator) succeeded in pushing through a national abortion ban and Trump signed it (which he says he wouldn’t do, and I believe him, at least on this), some enterprising Democrat lawyer could use Dobbs and the 10th amendment to argue against any such ban to the Supreme Court: it’s not a federal matter – it’s up to the states.
It's almost as if this whole business of calling Trump a fascist was all just a bunch of kayfabe for the rubes and was not really sincerely meant at all. Hey, majority of Americans, we didn't really mean to call you fascist supporters.....Replies: @Mr. Anon
I would not be surprised if Biden, in his occasional intervals of clarity, was sabotaging the Democrats and the Harris campaign as an FU to all of them for pushing him aside. I don’t think that Biden hates Trump even half as much as he despises Harris.
A squirrel crossed Kamala’s just before her concession speech.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/squirrel-spotted-onstage-before-kamala-harris-concession-speech-and-internet-thinks-it-s-the-ghost-of-p-nut/ar-AA1tGh9Q
Omens, signs and portents…
ii) Kamala the elephant, that too in the DC zoo (not some zoo anywhere else in the world, mind you), passing away just 3 days before the end of the aforementioned second Kamala Harris' drubbing............clearly were omens. Hulk Hogan battled both the first and second Kamala Harrises. Talk about transcending time and space. https://youtu.be/BQnFsVjdjs8Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Despite US population growth in the future, it might be the 2020 turnout will only be surpassed in the 2068 or 2072 election leading future political scientists and historians to wonder what made Joe Biden made so gosh darn, awe-inspiring in 2020.
Of course, its highly unlikely that the future billion-dollar Joe Biden Presidential Library will emphasize his huge gosh darn, awe-inspiring surge in popularity in 2020 instead it will just have a simple, non-interactive, non-virtual reality plastic board saying Joe was elected president in 2020 leading to 4 years of gosh darn, awe-inspiring policies until Kamila kinda screwed it up four years later.
Equally of course when countries we don’t like have elections we don’t like, they, for the next forty years will point to the 2020 election but that won’t matter because the US holier-than-thou attitude to other countries elections is invulnerable to criticism (just the other day, the US pointed out to some kind of irregularities in the recent Georgia (the country not the state) elections.
Hey what happened to John Johnson anyways? Usually he is so stupidly articulate about everything.
– Dollar jumps against Euro
– Dollar jumps against Gold
– Germany’s Left-coalition government collapses
Irrespective of what one thinks about these trends, it’s remarkable how much the Office of the President still matters, even in places very far from DC.
No, the rule is that if you haven't posted at least five comments in the past 30 days, you can't use the button responses. I haven't commented here in a while.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Weird rule.
So are you naive or complicit?
He’s in a top neocon crisis board meeting. Trying to figure out what to do next after the elections.
I want him to show up and explain (1) why Trump still got a majority of white women despite the supposed millstone of Vance; (2) why Puerto Rico elected a Republican governor after the supposed debacle of Trashgate; and (3) why it was a strategic mistake to campaign in NY and other safe blue states when it appears that campaigning helped a lot to win Trump the popular vote. Instead, he’ll hide for a while and then reemerge to burnish his Internet Genius credentials again.
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1854476510612131913Replies: @Manfred Arcane
I think the simplest explanation is that the loosening of election rules due to the supposed Covid threat–specifically, the automatic mailing of absentee ballots to every single registered voter–allowed the Democrats to “mobilize” their low propensity voters like never before, by essentially filling out their ballots for them and delivering them. It was essentially ballot harvesting on a mammoth scale, fraudulent in essence but given a fig leaf of legality by courts in the ignore-all-norms spirit of the pandemic era. The Covid hysteria also provided a fig leaf for the poll watcher ejections (oops, sorry, too many people in the room!), but any chicanery that went on after those ejections pales beside the original baseline chicanery of the vote harvest. This year, we were back to mail ballots only going out upon request, which meant Democrat volunteers just couldn’t fill out and round upmillions of ballots. Without that massive margin of cheat, regular, traditional American election cheating wasn’t enough to carry the day.
https://i.postimg.cc/SQnzr2CY/dfd5e017-85d2-4c95-8243-520c0d6a9234-499x900.webpReplies: @ScarletNumber, @SFG, @Almost Missouri, @Curle
This is SUCH an important point. Thank you for highlighting it.
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Eric Holder and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, plus local election efforts.
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We're used to dismissing all lawyers as Democrats (and their main guild is explicitly leftist), but Republican lawyers exist, as well as ethical lawyers who are willing to work for Republicans, but up to now nobody picked up the phone for some reason.
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Late add, it should also be remembered that Trump did have good lawyers who tried to fight in 2020: they were disbarred, which makes these efforts all the braver.
January 20, 2025
A real scandal is brewing in the post election purging by Dems over the huge waste of money.
Who to blame?
Factoids so far say that Dems raised/spent over #1.1 billion and are supposedly $ 20 million in debt with many unhappy creditors.
"Somebody, get Hollywood on the line, quick!"
Of course they are still searching for the vicitms of this failure to blame. Mirrors are in short supply...
What is fun to contemplate is the major media mavens (everyone but Fox and a handful of others) who are wondering now, why nobody followed their Narrative party line? What, nobody believed us?
They will fruitlessly scoure editorial desks and newsrooms to find a non-Woke, non leftist, non Demorcrat, non progressive staffer to ask about this monumental failure.
After a week or so some honcho will be informed that there are no such staffers on their payroll.
None, Zip, Nada.
So in their bubble shaped Hall of Mirrors, they will still be clueless.
What will be telling is whether or not we see any actual Trump supporters/conservatives/libertarians who have been publicly active, being hired as writers or journalist, reporters and columnists. Or as radio/TV/Internet commentators?
Or will they resort to the usual practice of finding some Liz Cheney "house conservatives", who still pine for George Bush (a/k/a Peggy Noonan of the WSJ) as fake new voices?
Don't hold your breath.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Moshe Def
They seemingly hired a bunch of people that couldn’t even make the cut at woke Disney/Marvel, etc. Just ridiculous stuff. And, 4chan/pol/ jokes about pissing in an ocean of piss, but they did it at such volume, that they made it overflow. And, all of these people live in a world of free money grift to begin with.
Per capita
George Clooney is criticised for demanding Joe Biden quit ahead of Donald Trump's election victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxn08lPAhFgReplies: @muggles
There is also the supposed plot being discussed in the wilds of the Internet that Joe B should now resign and let Kamala be President for a couple of months.
“The First Woman President” and all.
This seems like a crackpot Dem idea but my sources suggest die-hards have discussed it.
There is no indication that Joe wants to leave early. Nor is there any chance that La Kamala even if quickly “elevated” could do much.
Congress isn’t in session and even federal courts would be reluctant to permit much change by any kind of presto-chango fiat. Unless Joe Biden actually did pass away suddenly.
While the Dems are still blaming others for their failures, I’m still waiting for the post-Summer of George BLM organizational nonprofit tax returns to be filed. So far nothing I’ve heard about it other than a fixer DC law firm being hired. These returns are normally due annually. And are publicly available.
Of course most of those “donations” seem to have vanished. The Biden regime didn’t seem to be in a hurry to find out what happened to this money. Maybe on the Hunter Biden Slow Track to IRS investigation.
(But don’t count on this for your own IRS tax problems…)
If you go by the count at this instant (with 95% of votes counted),
2016 2020 2024
Trump 62,984,828 74,223,975 74,312,688
Democrat 65,853,514 81,283,501 70,383,093
Trump mainly preserved his MAGA base while Harris greatly underperformed Biden by 10 million votes. These are mostly low propensity independent (non-partisan) voters who were not sufficiently excited by Harris as a candidate or her manifesto. If MAGA doesn’t deliver and Democrats select a charismatic candidate who promises results, they can probably win in 2028. The million-dollar question is, with no Trump on the ticket, can MAGA preserve the 75 million coalition or increase it or fritter it away like the Republican party did in 2016.
—But while the internet has democratized content creation, this new influencer-driven media climate comes with significant downsides. Because they view themselves primarily as entertainers, many content creators fail to adhere to traditional journalistic ethics or don’t disclose partnerships that present a conflict of interest. Influencers can also face pressure from the social media platforms they operate on to sensationalize content in order to perform well in algorithmically driven feeds.
Federal regulators have also failed to adapt to the new media world. During this year’s election cycle, campaigns and political action committees poured millions of dollars into social media agencies that partner with creators but received almost no regulatory oversight. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonprofit legal and public policy institute, urged the FEC to update its rules to ensure more transparency around how candidates pay influencers last year. “Voters deserve to know who is seeking to influence them,” the Brennan Center wrote in their letter to the FEC. —Replies: @epebble
Them Jews, always starting "it" .....just like on 10/7.Replies: @J.Ross
No, the most Jewish answer is to invoke Noah and explain that “all the colors are ours.”
Yes, and equally important, and equally underreported (really, unreported) is the gigantic uncontested litigation and gerrymandering effort led by Obama’s attorney general, which was the norm (and explains a lot) until Lara Trump shoved Romney Wormtongue McDaniel aside and played Galadriel.
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Eric Holder and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, plus local election efforts.
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We’re used to dismissing all lawyers as Democrats (and their main guild is explicitly leftist), but Republican lawyers exist, as well as ethical lawyers who are willing to work for Republicans, but up to now nobody picked up the phone for some reason.
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Late add, it should also be remembered that Trump did have good lawyers who tried to fight in 2020: they were disbarred, which makes these efforts all the braver.
This but also, consider that unsellable motile loser candidates like John Kerry or Kămălā Hærrıs could count on almost all of Barack Hussein Obama’s “inspired” 2008 turnout: “inspiration” is apparently good for four million people. So, Oklahoma.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/squirrel-spotted-onstage-before-kamala-harris-concession-speech-and-internet-thinks-it-s-the-ghost-of-p-nut/ar-AA1tGh9Q
Omens, signs and portents...Replies: @Thomm
It could be. Peanut was the butterfly of a butterfly effect. Egon Spengler coached PNut about what to do.
The two bookends of her time in the spotlight :
i) The first Kamala Harris passing away on the exact day of the second Kamala Harris’ appointment to the VP slot on the ticket.
ii) Kamala the elephant, that too in the DC zoo (not some zoo anywhere else in the world, mind you), passing away just 3 days before the end of the aforementioned second Kamala Harris’ drubbing.
………..clearly were omens.
Hulk Hogan battled both the first and second Kamala Harrises. Talk about transcending time and space.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/biden-drops-out/#comment-6673409 (#152)Replies: @Thomm
The term is poll worker or election worker or election judge. A poll watcher is a partisan who is not allowed to interact with voters.
do the Colorado electoral votes have to go to Trump? remember Democrats deliberately changed state law a few years ago so that the Colorado EC votes go to the national popular vote winner, in some kind of public rebuke to Republicans under the premise that Rs would never win the popular vote again, so it was safe to grandstand this way.
i wouldn’t put anything past Democrats. they’ll try to back out of their own law that they passed on purpose. “Oh, we didn’t mean that, it was just a joke.”
people think i was exaggerating about how far downhill Colorado has gone under the California invasion. no i was not. some of the most aggressive, strident leftists and annoying upper class shitlib people bailed on California so that they could set up a beachhead in some other state, then ruin it as fast and hard as they could.
not even New York or California Democrats have called for any law like this.
In the Blue Machine town where I grew up, it was widely known that the Printers’ Union ran off thousands of extra ballots and handed them to a Democrat bagman, who deployed them as needed in the ‘election’.
In 2020 that system not only went national, it got defacto official sanction, the “fig leaf” as you call it.
A lot of onlookers are just too bourgeois to see how elections really work.
Well, elections in genteel New England villages probably don’t work like that, so how would people from there know?
If the GOP is serious about honest elections, it has to treat high-density conurbations the way the US occupiers treated voting in Iraq: assume low-trust norms, use low-tech verification, expect corruption anyway.
Yeah, they sort of work more like this.....
https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
“Well, elections in genteel New England villages probably don’t work like that”
Yeah, they sort of work more like this…..
https://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
You may remember saying that Obama could not possibly be the grey eminence behind Biden and Harris. I was somewhat ahead of the media in noticing Obama's power, but they're caught up with me and in vastly more detail. See: https://www.wnd.com/2024/11/does-harris-defeat-end-the-wizard-of-ozs-career/
Some things are both so large and so improbable that they are difficult to see.
Right now, I see that Trump has done the equivalent of taking over a termite infested house. Good, he took it over, maybe he will clear up the infestation, but . . . if the termites have eaten out the house's primary structural framework, then the new owner is in trouble. At the least, the huse will have to be torn down and rebuilt, a long and expensive/difficult project.Replies: @J.Ross
The key is in something I linked earlier, the “whole-society initiative,” which started in the second Obama term and continues up until Trump rips it up. It’s literally the conspiracy “theory” about Obama continuing to rule through his appointees and elite friends.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/whole-society-american-politics
https://twitter.com/topic_flow/status/1854926267725853110
Musk very much has the ear of Trump right now so it is worthwhile understanding where he is coming from. Until recently I underestimated Musk but my view of him is changing. He still may not be able to deliver on all the things that he is promising, but his is not a con artist in the vein of DeLorean, he is the real thing. Buying Twitter seemed like a stupid move but just in the last few days Tesla stock has moved up enough to pay for it all.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @J.Ross, @vinteuil
Great summary – arguably better to listen to than the original three hours.
No problem.
I think it’s more useful to look at GDP/capita, as birthrates have been falling with the tariffs.
https://www.visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2011/03/08/long-term-real-growth-in-us-gdp-per-capita-1871-2009
GDP/capita fits within a certain range, and no matter how productive a people is, there are limits. Increase the number of people, and if the country is not resource constrained, the productivity will increase.
Looking at inflation adjusted GDP/capita, the biggest regression was during the 1930s when tariffs were highest. It recovered during the post-war period.
Do you think complete elimination of the income tax and reverting to a purely tariff-based government income stream will be good policy? Do you think it can be accomplished without retaliatory tariffs being brought in by trading partners, and bailouts for affected industries? The lack of (relatively) free trade encourages everyone to basically do things their countries are not very good at. Overall this is not efficient.
A high tariff environment is older than the living memory of people nowadays, and the Great Depression is not the best example as to why we might want to go back to it.
On Rogan, Trump suggested a universal tariff of 10-20% on all imports entering the United States, and over 60% tariff specifically on goods from China. It’s probably a good threat to get China to be less militaristic (re: island chains, Taiwan, etc), but in terms of a proper economic war vs China… I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to leave them with few peaceful options of maintaining a semblance of what they have built up. (If we look at the policy instituted by the US to provoke war with Japan – this is a different age and we want to be careful about provoking a needless war with a nuclear-armed power, IMO.)
And I certainly understand why the existing 20% tariffs have been imposed – China has had a rise that has been abetted by US policy for decades, since Clinton at least. But the dose of cure should match the ailment. The existing tariffs are certainly having an impact.
Statistics prior to the world wars going back to the US founding are perhaps suspect, but from what I can see, those earlier GDP growth rates, national and per capita, were no worse and possibly much better in those high-tariff times than our modern performance, and that was without the epic debt and dubious productiveness of modern GDP.I don't know. That's obviously an epic policy question, but just going by the data we have here, it doesn't look like swapping tariffs for income taxes has accomplished much, and may have been in aggregate harmful. But given that that was the overarching policy of every First World country since WWII, backing out of it would be an epochal economic, political, and societal shift.No, raising tariffs almost inevitably means counter-tariffs. But note that irrespective of tariff levels, many countries, notably China, do not have free trade in their currency. Their foreign exchange rate is kept at an artificially low level (typically a peg maintained by a currency board). This functions as a kind of negative tariff projected out onto their trade partners, so their trade partners may be entirely justified in wanting to offset that with apparently unequal tariffs. Probably China et al. understand the macro-picture and conceive of tariffs and exchange rates as a complementary package. US policy makers should too.I'm not sure this is a problem, since tariffs tend to engender spare capacity (see below).Yes, but I'm not sure that is necessarily such a bad thing. "Efficient" also means "fragile", perhaps even "brittle". To push a system out to its maximum efficiency means that a failure in any one part cannot be equally replaced, with potentially catastrophic consequences. To take a small example, many countries suddenly noticed in early 2020 that production of all of their medical supplies and equipment had been outsourced to a few plants in China in the name of "efficiency". And indeed it was efficient ... until the massive unexpected demand spike showed that having some spare capacity throughout the economy might not be such a bad thing after all.
Any given tariff translates implicitly to some level of global spare capacity. How much spare capacity should there be? I don't know. That's what we have politics and trade negotiations to decide, however imperfectly. The First World's Establishment wishing to rule this question out of the reach of politics is one of things driving the populist upsurgence in the West. The Establishment could tamp down on populist grievance and get a more prudent capacity/efficiency balance by allowing politics to address this question, i.e., kill two birds with one stone, but they seem to have gotten rigor mortis clinging to the status quo so they can't relax enough even for a win-win.
I saw that "we’ve lost this audience completely" thing too, and thought, "Hmm, they've finally noticed? For 'news' 'reporters', they are appallingly slow on the uptake of rather obvious facts."What are the lawsuits? I assume he is different from Michael Yon who was a self-embedded reporter with the US military in Iraq?What are these?Replies: @J.Ross
Don’t have good links but those last items were events unfolding on /pol/ in real time and reported in the news later (thus, anonymous foreigners could give their uncensored version first). German Hill is a Brazilian favela; back when Brazil got the Olympics or the World Cup, authorities decided it was a problem, and there was a huge combined arms operation cleaning it up. Every Brazilian outfit was represented, including the special jungle survivor unit that goes into the Amazon and wears red boots. All sorts of exotic ordnance, including a working Madsen gun. And the loot! The local drug lord had an original oil painting of Justin Bieber. The Nicaraguan riots were an unprecedented uprising against Dan Ortega, brutally repressed by establishment-enabled thugs.
https://files.catbox.moe/75hwy9.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/wseh59.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/wofcyv.mp4
I’ve been hearing a rumor that Shapiro made the Democrats run a clean election in Pennsylvania because he wanted Harris to lose so he could run in 2028. Considering he turned down being her veep, it’s plain he was skeptical of her ability to pull off a win.
I like DeSantis. I liked him better than Trump. To be honest, I never thought Trump stood a chance until possibly May or June of this year, because I don’t buy his “stolen election” nonsense (despite voting for him in 2016 & 2020), and I thought more Americans were turned off by it than actually were. They may have been but, like me, they were even more turned off by the inflation and anarchotyrrany of the last four years.
But unlike Kamala Harris, Trump knows how to pick his veeps, and his old school selection based on geography (Pence in 2016 & 2020, Vance this year) were key to his victory. Without Vance or another Upper Midwest running mate, Trump doesn’t win in 2016 or 2024. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan – he needed at least one of the three to win.
https://twitter.com/opensrcdefense/status/1854203264566178227
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1854151133385613690
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1854198757245784247Replies: @Father Coughlin
Thanks for the analysis (((Konstantin Kisin)))
It’s Je Suis Omar Mateen, so my guess is in favor of his being a retarded conspiracist.
I assume few here are as dim as JSOM and it is superfluous to mention this but blood from Trump’s ear would of course run down Trump’s face in exactly the same direction as raspberry sauce when he was prone, and once he stood up the blood wouldn’t be running down his face at all, but rather down his neck, so what you see in the photograph can’t possibly show what JSOM claims it does.
But unlike Kamala Harris, Trump knows how to pick his veeps, and his old school selection based on geography (Pence in 2016 & 2020, Vance this year) were key to his victory. Without Vance or another Upper Midwest running mate, Trump doesn’t win in 2016 or 2024. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan - he needed at least one of the three to win.Replies: @Gandydancer
If Trump knew how to pick Veeps in 2016 he wouldn’t have picked Pence, who gave him nothing electorally (except screwing over Trump’s base by convincing Trump to sign on to Touchback Amnesty as an acceptable implementation of “They All Must Go!”, which made me dubious I shouldn’t be voting for Cruz) and was predictably a disaster later. And that Vance was a help in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan because of geography rather than other factors is not in evidence.
You know this (that he was offered veep and turned it down) how?
Btw, get a handle. We should be able to distinguish your posts for that of the (presumably) many other Anons to get some idea of your retardation level..
ii) Kamala the elephant, that too in the DC zoo (not some zoo anywhere else in the world, mind you), passing away just 3 days before the end of the aforementioned second Kamala Harris' drubbing............clearly were omens. Hulk Hogan battled both the first and second Kamala Harrises. Talk about transcending time and space. https://youtu.be/BQnFsVjdjs8Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
My assessment on July 21 was, of course, correct:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/biden-drops-out/#comment-6673409 (#152)
Thanks for the tip, but Satchel Farrow has no credibility in this household. That’s the guy who naturally has brown hair and eyes, but who colors his hair blonde and wears blue contact lenses, so as to look just like his mother when she was young, who lies about who his father is, and who retails his mother’s blood libels against his real father.
In the meantime, the Pulitzer committee gave Satchel a Pulitzer for his contribution to the Me-Too Hoax.
Several years ago, we were listening to testimony from the “rape” trial of Harvey Weinstein, and one young woman testified that Weinstein had raped her, but that thereafter she’d had a consensual sexual relationship with him for six months.
The Boss said, no way could Weinstein be guilty of rape in her case, but the prosecutor got the jury to convict him of raping her.
This Brooke Nevils asserted that Matt Lauer gave it to her in the butt. She asserted that she was afraid to say no, because he would surely ruin her career. She then claimed that she continued having (consensual) sex with Lauer, but that it was purely “transactional.”
“Nevils says in the [Satchel Farrow] book that she had more sexual encounters with Lauer back in N.Y.C., telling Farrow, ‘It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship.’”
[So, was she a prostitute? That’s what “transactional” means.]
That was a routine, scripted assertion her dnc lawyer had told her to make. I recall at the time someone pointing out that in the career world, most “liberated” women find sleeping with powerful men an aphrodisiac.
I’ve got a Puerto Rican neighbor who’s a super. A few years ago, he said to me, re me-too, “How come, it’s never a super?”
And yet, the dnc lawyers always have their clients speaking of “fear.”
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/
Man, imagine if Bryant Gumbell was a rapist.
"And ya know, if you do try to tell anybody, okay, they're not going to believe you."
Serious-minded Jews and Muslims do in fact think/believe that (viz they both believe that Christianity is a form of idolatry, which must therefore be eradicated: Muslims think through conquest/conversion, Jews pray for flat-out genocide), and history more than amply supports their view.
Jews often refer to Islam as the "broom of Judaism" because the Muslims are so often on the attack against Christians -- a non-stop war which Jews wholeheartedly endorse, at the same time that they whine and beg to live in and loot Christian lands that they despise so much.Replies: @Gandydancer
duckduckgo: “No results found for ‘broom of Judaism’”.
So I looked on Google, which found some, but the one I clicked on turned out to be an anti-Semite like you, not a Jew. He pointed to some rabbi who had apparently said it twice a few years ago. Context missing.
But the duckduckgo result anyway disproves “often”.
Though maybe that’s b/c duckduckgo doesn’t have access to the minutes of the meetings of the Council of the Elders of Zion.
cooklook.Clever move by the Ever Trumpers.Recognize that men vote, too. His secret sauce. You want fries with that?Replies: @Manfred Arcane, @Manfred Arcane, @Brutusale, @notbe mk 2“Trump’s numbers have been poor with women and independents for years. What did Trump do? –JJ”
-Ronald Reagan was also behind in women voters in 1980 and those numbers did not improve when 1984 came around leading to the Democrats thinking that the gender gap would be, as-you-say, “the secret sauce” of that election. The gender gap in 1984 lead to the first female VP nominee (oh ok the commies had female VP nominees before that but they don’t really count).
In the end, the women voter gap chimera did not matter in either 1980, 1984, 2016, or 2024-strangely enough men tend to vote also and, equally strangely enough tend to vote for candidates that, at least, appear to have their interests in mind.
Bizarre thing that thing called democracy is which leads experts like John Johnson into thinking neglecting women, transgenders, and illegals leads to disastrous results.
—Someone or other (maybe Mark Steyn?)
I was tempted to add that the future gender gap might go many ways, but I think it more likely that in a two-party system it will still go two ways, but the two ways will be the two traditional genders given at birth vs. the polymorphous rainbow genders.
It was, however, the SECOND flag raising on Mt. Surabachi. Other than that I’m not sure of the degree to which it was posed. With the flag being that size it was pre-planned. The first flag was a lot smaller, and unofficial, I believe. Just because it happened and was filmed doesn’t mean it wasn’t posed.
On the Reichstag flag raising,,, was that fake? I know they had to retouch it to remove the extra, looted, wristwatches on the wrist of the soldier who did it.
I’d never heard of a famous photo of milk delivery during the Blitz. But I found this:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-milkman-the-story-behind-blitz.html
Follow-up to this: as an example, right now, Spain was hit by massive flooding, the government’s response sucked (blame circulating for having cut a national emergency response unit just in time; the army has a response unit, but wokishly enouugh, it’s deployed overseas), now Spaniards are rioting. The government may be replaced. A wag on 4chan: “Mexico should send them aid.”
LOL. One of my college friends was from the UK – one English parent, one parent from Jamaica (iirc). He waxed on and on about how racist the UK was, how much he hated it, read books by Afro-Carib authors, etc. So I asked him if he had actually ever been to Jamaica. “Are you crazy? Crime is terrible there. I don’t want to be killed.” It wasn’t in a drunk or lighthearted moment. He was dead serious. Thst’s one of the eye-opening moments people have on a lot of Caribbean cruises. They dock at port cities in Jamaica or the Bahamas or wherever and the first thing they tell you is to be back before dark. Some people warn you not to go into town at all.
-- Patrick Ruffini in the AtlanticReplies: @Curle, @Hrw-500
To be more precise, it’s the silent majority. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/the-silent-majority/
Also vlogger Actual Justice Warrior vlogged about why Latinos switched to Trump.
His vlog is also mirrored on Rumble and Odysee in case if Youtube remove it.
https://rumble.com/v5myxre-why-latinos-switched-to-trump.html
https://odysee.com/@actualjusticewarrior:2/why-latinos-switched-to-trump:7
That’s one of the eye-opening moments people have on a lot of Caribbean cruises. They dock at port cities in Jamaica or the Bahamas or wherever and the first thing they tell you is to be back before dark.
More likely, passengers have to be back on the ship before dark because the ships sail away before dark.
The US will perhaps sink in the next few decades, or later, but it is doubtless the leader of the world. In all areas of life. Good or bad.
Another good thing-at least for those with some common sense- is that these elections should be a funeral for the ZOG conspiracy theory. American Jews did not play a significant role in the Trump campaign, and most of them, judging from the stats, voted the same way as in 2016.
A caveat: common sense people.Replies: @prosa123, @Anonymous
“Common sense” should tell us that the rich Jews who put Trump out of power in 2020 now put him back, because he’s the only candidate unconditionally supportive of what Israel is doing in the Middle East.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/biden-drops-out/#comment-6673409 (#152)Replies: @Thomm
The problem is, in the contemporary MAGApowers, the other half of the original Megapowers is no more. The Macho Man Randy Savage actually had a full stars and stripes outfit :
It supposedly cost $10,000 in 1993.
Imagine the Macho Man giving a speech at the MSG event. Ooooh Yeahh!! Dig it!!
This is how Trump won. Not policy. It’s about “being a bro”.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-wins-influencer-election-1236055439/
2016 2020 2024
Trump 62,984,828 74,223,975 74,312,688
Democrat 65,853,514 81,283,501 70,383,093
Trump mainly preserved his MAGA base while Harris greatly underperformed Biden by 10 million votes. These are mostly low propensity independent (non-partisan) voters who were not sufficiently excited by Harris as a candidate or her manifesto. If MAGA doesn't deliver and Democrats select a charismatic candidate who promises results, they can probably win in 2028. The million-dollar question is, with no Trump on the ticket, can MAGA preserve the 75 million coalition or increase it or fritter it away like the Republican party did in 2016.Replies: @Corvinus
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-wins-influencer-election-1236055439/
—But while the internet has democratized content creation, this new influencer-driven media climate comes with significant downsides. Because they view themselves primarily as entertainers, many content creators fail to adhere to traditional journalistic ethics or don’t disclose partnerships that present a conflict of interest. Influencers can also face pressure from the social media platforms they operate on to sensationalize content in order to perform well in algorithmically driven feeds.
Federal regulators have also failed to adapt to the new media world. During this year’s election cycle, campaigns and political action committees poured millions of dollars into social media agencies that partner with creators but received almost no regulatory oversight. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonprofit legal and public policy institute, urged the FEC to update its rules to ensure more transparency around how candidates pay influencers last year. “Voters deserve to know who is seeking to influence them,” the Brennan Center wrote in their letter to the FEC. —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqZh9UEM2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Gc1if-FRsReplies: @James B. Shearer, @Corvinus
—But while the internet has democratized content creation, this new influencer-driven media climate comes with significant downsides. Because they view themselves primarily as entertainers, many content creators fail to adhere to traditional journalistic ethics or don’t disclose partnerships that present a conflict of interest. Influencers can also face pressure from the social media platforms they operate on to sensationalize content in order to perform well in algorithmically driven feeds.
Federal regulators have also failed to adapt to the new media world. During this year’s election cycle, campaigns and political action committees poured millions of dollars into social media agencies that partner with creators but received almost no regulatory oversight. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonprofit legal and public policy institute, urged the FEC to update its rules to ensure more transparency around how candidates pay influencers last year. “Voters deserve to know who is seeking to influence them,” the Brennan Center wrote in their letter to the FEC. —Replies: @epebble
Look, after a major electoral upset, everybody wants to read tea leaves and come to their pet conclusions. I am not fluent in the ‘influencer’ talk, but what is plainly visible to anyone is that he was constantly harping on grocery bills, inflation, price of milk and eggs etc., at every campaign event. He was campaigning on the bottommost rung of the Maslow’s pyramid. Once people agree with that, anyone campaigning on upper rungs of pyramid has smaller cross section. This is not an innovative strategy on his part. It worked for Carter against Ford in 1976 and again for Reagan against Carter in 1980.
Trump was the betting favorite.
Legitimate conclusions, mind you.
“he was constantly harping on grocery bills, inflation, price of milk and eggs etc., at every campaign event”
Sure, empty calorie rhetoric. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to not just get the rate of inflation down, but to make prices plunge by deporting millions of undocumented people and unleashing fossil fuel production. However, broad-based price declines ate not as simple as made it out to be.
Corporations have been open that people are largely hanging with them on price increases over the past couple of years, which has allowed them to raise them even more. Cost of business, right? There is not much consumers can do about it, and it is unclear the extent corporate greed is in play.
Think Trump will take on price gouging and monopolistic practices?Replies: @epebble
“They dock at port cities in Jamaica or the Bahamas or wherever and the first thing they tell you is to be back before dark.”
In the meantime, the Pulitzer committee gave Satchel a Pulitzer for his contribution to the Me-Too Hoax.
Several years ago, we were listening to testimony from the “rape” trial of Harvey Weinstein, and one young woman testified that Weinstein had raped her, but that thereafter she’d had a consensual sexual relationship with him for six months.
The Boss said, no way could Weinstein be guilty of rape in her case, but the prosecutor got the jury to convict him of raping her.
This Brooke Nevils asserted that Matt Lauer gave it to her in the butt. She asserted that she was afraid to say no, because he would surely ruin her career. She then claimed that she continued having (consensual) sex with Lauer, but that it was purely “transactional.”
“Nevils says in the [Satchel Farrow] book that she had more sexual encounters with Lauer back in N.Y.C., telling Farrow, ‘It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship.’”
[So, was she a prostitute? That’s what “transactional” means.]
That was a routine, scripted assertion her dnc lawyer had told her to make. I recall at the time someone pointing out that in the career world, most “liberated” women find sleeping with powerful men an aphrodisiac.
I’ve got a Puerto Rican neighbor who’s a super. A few years ago, he said to me, re me-too, “How come, it’s never a super?”
And yet, the dnc lawyers always have their clients speaking of “fear.”
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Curle
Incipient autogynephile?
-Ronald Reagan was also behind in women voters in 1980 and those numbers did not improve when 1984 came around leading to the Democrats thinking that the gender gap would be, as-you-say, "the secret sauce" of that election. The gender gap in 1984 lead to the first female VP nominee (oh ok the commies had female VP nominees before that but they don't really count).
In the end, the women voter gap chimera did not matter in either 1980, 1984, 2016, or 2024-strangely enough men tend to vote also and, equally strangely enough tend to vote for candidates that, at least, appear to have their interests in mind.
Bizarre thing that thing called democracy is which leads experts like John Johnson into thinking neglecting women, transgenders, and illegals leads to disastrous results.Replies: @Almost Missouri
“The gender gap goes both ways.”
—Someone or other (maybe Mark Steyn?)
I was tempted to add that the future gender gap might go many ways, but I think it more likely that in a two-party system it will still go two ways, but the two ways will be the two traditional genders given at birth vs. the polymorphous rainbow genders.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-wins-influencer-election-1236055439/Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Are you against bros?
I haven’t heard that autogynephilia is a gay thing, but he might have a fetish for sex with straight men.
Yeah LBJ was proactive ’bout making his own luck-it largely meant blowin’ somebody’s head off Texas style…and that didn’t start with Jack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqZh9UEM2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Gc1if-FRsReplies: @James B. Shearer, @Corvinus
“Look, after a major electoral upset, …”
Trump was the betting favorite.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-milkman-the-story-behind-blitz.htmlReplies: @Mark G.
My grandfather was on Iwo Jima but my mother never knew it until after she was an adult. He almost never talked about it and may have been trying to block it out of his memory. It must have been a horrifying experience being in the middle of all that death and destruction in WW II.
Yes there are frequent stories in the British press about elderly Jamaicans retiring back to the old country with their British pensions and getting killed by criminals, often in horrible ways (tortured to reveal location of hidden money they are believed to have)
In the meantime, the Pulitzer committee gave Satchel a Pulitzer for his contribution to the Me-Too Hoax.
Several years ago, we were listening to testimony from the “rape” trial of Harvey Weinstein, and one young woman testified that Weinstein had raped her, but that thereafter she’d had a consensual sexual relationship with him for six months.
The Boss said, no way could Weinstein be guilty of rape in her case, but the prosecutor got the jury to convict him of raping her.
This Brooke Nevils asserted that Matt Lauer gave it to her in the butt. She asserted that she was afraid to say no, because he would surely ruin her career. She then claimed that she continued having (consensual) sex with Lauer, but that it was purely “transactional.”
“Nevils says in the [Satchel Farrow] book that she had more sexual encounters with Lauer back in N.Y.C., telling Farrow, ‘It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship.’”
[So, was she a prostitute? That’s what “transactional” means.]
That was a routine, scripted assertion her dnc lawyer had told her to make. I recall at the time someone pointing out that in the career world, most “liberated” women find sleeping with powerful men an aphrodisiac.
I’ve got a Puerto Rican neighbor who’s a super. A few years ago, he said to me, re me-too, “How come, it’s never a super?”
And yet, the dnc lawyers always have their clients speaking of “fear.”
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Curle
>Matt Lauer
Man, imagine if Bryant Gumbell was a rapist.
“And ya know, if you do try to tell anybody, okay, they’re not going to believe you.”
I think it's more useful to look at GDP/capita, as birthrates have been falling with the tariffs.
https://www.visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2011/03/08/long-term-real-growth-in-us-gdp-per-capita-1871-2009
GDP/capita fits within a certain range, and no matter how productive a people is, there are limits. Increase the number of people, and if the country is not resource constrained, the productivity will increase.
Looking at inflation adjusted GDP/capita, the biggest regression was during the 1930s when tariffs were highest. It recovered during the post-war period.
Do you think complete elimination of the income tax and reverting to a purely tariff-based government income stream will be good policy? Do you think it can be accomplished without retaliatory tariffs being brought in by trading partners, and bailouts for affected industries? The lack of (relatively) free trade encourages everyone to basically do things their countries are not very good at. Overall this is not efficient.
A high tariff environment is older than the living memory of people nowadays, and the Great Depression is not the best example as to why we might want to go back to it.
On Rogan, Trump suggested a universal tariff of 10-20% on all imports entering the United States, and over 60% tariff specifically on goods from China. It's probably a good threat to get China to be less militaristic (re: island chains, Taiwan, etc), but in terms of a proper economic war vs China... I don't think it makes a lot of sense to leave them with few peaceful options of maintaining a semblance of what they have built up. (If we look at the policy instituted by the US to provoke war with Japan - this is a different age and we want to be careful about provoking a needless war with a nuclear-armed power, IMO.)
And I certainly understand why the existing 20% tariffs have been imposed - China has had a rise that has been abetted by US policy for decades, since Clinton at least. But the dose of cure should match the ailment. The existing tariffs are certainly having an impact.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Okay, but since WWII, tariffs have fallen massively, while GDP per capita growth has been basically static, so massively cutting tariffs in exchange for no GDP per capita growth improvement again looks like a poor argument for tariff-cutting. And that is before accounting for the massive debt-subsidization of post-war GDP growth, which implies that the “static” growth is actually masking a worse picture.
Statistics prior to the world wars going back to the US founding are perhaps suspect, but from what I can see, those earlier GDP growth rates, national and per capita, were no worse and possibly much better in those high-tariff times than our modern performance, and that was without the epic debt and dubious productiveness of modern GDP.
I don’t know. That’s obviously an epic policy question, but just going by the data we have here, it doesn’t look like swapping tariffs for income taxes has accomplished much, and may have been in aggregate harmful. But given that that was the overarching policy of every First World country since WWII, backing out of it would be an epochal economic, political, and societal shift.
No, raising tariffs almost inevitably means counter-tariffs. But note that irrespective of tariff levels, many countries, notably China, do not have free trade in their currency. Their foreign exchange rate is kept at an artificially low level (typically a peg maintained by a currency board). This functions as a kind of negative tariff projected out onto their trade partners, so their trade partners may be entirely justified in wanting to offset that with apparently unequal tariffs. Probably China et al. understand the macro-picture and conceive of tariffs and exchange rates as a complementary package. US policy makers should too.
I’m not sure this is a problem, since tariffs tend to engender spare capacity (see below).
Yes, but I’m not sure that is necessarily such a bad thing. “Efficient” also means “fragile”, perhaps even “brittle”. To push a system out to its maximum efficiency means that a failure in any one part cannot be equally replaced, with potentially catastrophic consequences. To take a small example, many countries suddenly noticed in early 2020 that production of all of their medical supplies and equipment had been outsourced to a few plants in China in the name of “efficiency”. And indeed it was efficient … until the massive unexpected demand spike showed that having some spare capacity throughout the economy might not be such a bad thing after all.
Any given tariff translates implicitly to some level of global spare capacity. How much spare capacity should there be? I don’t know. That’s what we have politics and trade negotiations to decide, however imperfectly. The First World’s Establishment wishing to rule this question out of the reach of politics is one of things driving the populist upsurgence in the West. The Establishment could tamp down on populist grievance and get a more prudent capacity/efficiency balance by allowing politics to address this question, i.e., kill two birds with one stone, but they seem to have gotten rigor mortis clinging to the status quo so they can’t relax enough even for a win-win.
I’m against those bros who repeatedly lie on social media, cheat on their wives, who employ a cadre of lawyers to get out of legal matters, and who are convicted felons. You?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqZh9UEM2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Gc1if-FRsReplies: @James B. Shearer, @Corvinus
“Look, after a major electoral upset, everybody wants to read tea leaves and come to their pet conclusions”
Legitimate conclusions, mind you.
“he was constantly harping on grocery bills, inflation, price of milk and eggs etc., at every campaign event”
Sure, empty calorie rhetoric. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to not just get the rate of inflation down, but to make prices plunge by deporting millions of undocumented people and unleashing fossil fuel production. However, broad-based price declines ate not as simple as made it out to be.
Corporations have been open that people are largely hanging with them on price increases over the past couple of years, which has allowed them to raise them even more. Cost of business, right? There is not much consumers can do about it, and it is unclear the extent corporate greed is in play.
Think Trump will take on price gouging and monopolistic practices?
Answer the question. Are you against “bros” in general? You originally seemed to be complaining about Trump being a “bro”.
Beyond that, are you upset about the People’s choice for President? It appears you don’t respect Our Democracy. 🙁
"Beyond that, are you upset about the People’s choice for President? It appears you don’t respect Our Democracy."
Not in the least. As you said, the people have spoken. Ultimately, Harris lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins. In the five states that were both presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Trump won all five, yet Senate Republicans lost four races. And the House is still up for grabs.
No massive voter fraud in 2024 or in 2020. Just American citizens choosing their preferred candidates.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Once again, I did answer the question. I was specific in the type of bros I am not a fan of. How about you–are you a fan of those bros who repeatedly lie on social media, cheat on their wives, who employ a cadre of lawyers to get out of legal matters, and who are convicted felons?
“Beyond that, are you upset about the People’s choice for President? It appears you don’t respect Our Democracy.”
Not in the least. As you said, the people have spoken. Ultimately, Harris lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins. In the five states that were both presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Trump won all five, yet Senate Republicans lost four races. And the House is still up for grabs.
No massive voter fraud in 2024 or in 2020. Just American citizens choosing their preferred candidates.
"Beyond that, are you upset about the People’s choice for President? It appears you don’t respect Our Democracy."
Not in the least. As you said, the people have spoken. Ultimately, Harris lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins. In the five states that were both presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Trump won all five, yet Senate Republicans lost four races. And the House is still up for grabs.
No massive voter fraud in 2024 or in 2020. Just American citizens choosing their preferred candidates.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Do you have anyone specific in mind? Name names and I’ll tell you if I’m a fan or not.
Legitimate conclusions, mind you.
“he was constantly harping on grocery bills, inflation, price of milk and eggs etc., at every campaign event”
Sure, empty calorie rhetoric. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to not just get the rate of inflation down, but to make prices plunge by deporting millions of undocumented people and unleashing fossil fuel production. However, broad-based price declines ate not as simple as made it out to be.
Corporations have been open that people are largely hanging with them on price increases over the past couple of years, which has allowed them to raise them even more. Cost of business, right? There is not much consumers can do about it, and it is unclear the extent corporate greed is in play.
Think Trump will take on price gouging and monopolistic practices?Replies: @epebble
No, but he mentioned those concerns of his likely voters and made promises. Harris didn’t even mention them. She wasted half of her communication bandwidth on abortion which is many rungs above in Maslow’s pyramid. I heard a Democratic party expert comment that if only she had uttered the phrase ‘the Rent is too damn high” and I will do something to help bring it down, it might have made a difference. Instead, she talked about $25,000 down payment assistance that many of the target audience she missed can’t use because they are renters.
Do something? Hmph, like what, exactly? Like turn right around and deport the 20 million criminal shitstains she just jammed into the country by pure diktat to begin with, simply to spite and harm whitey? Can you imagine the (((press))) ever asking her: 'Hey High Priestess of Color -- what do you think suddenly adding 20 million illegal paupers to the housing demand-pool was going to do to the price of housing? What did they teach you at prestigious Ta-Genius Negro Ta-University 'bout all dat sheeit?'
Can you imagine Kammy ever suddenly offering mass asylum to 5 million actual-rent-paying white South Africans -- people experiencing real live easily documented mass persecution, including habituated torture? Nope, waive in more pointless Haitians instead (which of course will *not* ameliorate the condition of the native shitstains back in their home toilet bowl either, all it will do is hex and vex whitey, mission accomplished).Replies: @epebble
"The First Woman President" and all.
This seems like a crackpot Dem idea but my sources suggest die-hards have discussed it.
There is no indication that Joe wants to leave early. Nor is there any chance that La Kamala even if quickly "elevated" could do much.
Congress isn't in session and even federal courts would be reluctant to permit much change by any kind of presto-chango fiat. Unless Joe Biden actually did pass away suddenly.
While the Dems are still blaming others for their failures, I'm still waiting for the post-Summer of George BLM organizational nonprofit tax returns to be filed. So far nothing I've heard about it other than a fixer DC law firm being hired. These returns are normally due annually. And are publicly available.
Of course most of those "donations" seem to have vanished. The Biden regime didn't seem to be in a hurry to find out what happened to this money. Maybe on the Hunter Biden Slow Track to IRS investigation.
(But don't count on this for your own IRS tax problems...)Replies: @RadicalCenter
The courts have zero authority to prevent a president from resigning whenever he feels like it, nor do they have authority to prevent the VP from becoming president immediately thereafter,
Reasons for being cheerful
A reader looks forward with optimisim.
Steve Sailer
Nov 06, 2024
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/reasons-for-being-cheerfulReplies: @GeologyAnonMk2.2
I had not, and was ignorant. Thank you
“if only she had uttered the phrase ‘the Rent is too damn high” and I will do something to help bring it down,”
Do something? Hmph, like what, exactly? Like turn right around and deport the 20 million criminal shitstains she just jammed into the country by pure diktat to begin with, simply to spite and harm whitey? Can you imagine the (((press))) ever asking her: ‘Hey High Priestess of Color — what do you think suddenly adding 20 million illegal paupers to the housing demand-pool was going to do to the price of housing? What did they teach you at prestigious Ta-Genius Negro Ta-University ’bout all dat sheeit?’
Can you imagine Kammy ever suddenly offering mass asylum to 5 million actual-rent-paying white South Africans — people experiencing real live easily documented mass persecution, including habituated torture? Nope, waive in more pointless Haitians instead (which of course will *not* ameliorate the condition of the native shitstains back in their home toilet bowl either, all it will do is hex and vex whitey, mission accomplished).
Learn from her opponent. When he realized an opening can be made in the service workers, he quickly proposed to exempt tips from taxes. That was immediately appreciated by the service sector workers, and he pulled a good slice of them to his side. Then he found he is a bit weaker in the elderly section due to their apprehension with his criminal case entanglement and he quickly proffered no taxes on social security benefits. If Harris wanted to, she could have, instead of the $25,000 down payment assistance lead balloon, offered a $10,000 per year tax credit to renters and say that she will equalize the renters to homeowner's mortgage and property tax deduction advantage. That would have given her a boost in the service economy voters.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
In the meantime, the Pulitzer committee gave Satchel a Pulitzer for his contribution to the Me-Too Hoax.
Several years ago, we were listening to testimony from the “rape” trial of Harvey Weinstein, and one young woman testified that Weinstein had raped her, but that thereafter she’d had a consensual sexual relationship with him for six months.
The Boss said, no way could Weinstein be guilty of rape in her case, but the prosecutor got the jury to convict him of raping her.
This Brooke Nevils asserted that Matt Lauer gave it to her in the butt. She asserted that she was afraid to say no, because he would surely ruin her career. She then claimed that she continued having (consensual) sex with Lauer, but that it was purely “transactional.”
“Nevils says in the [Satchel Farrow] book that she had more sexual encounters with Lauer back in N.Y.C., telling Farrow, ‘It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship.’”
[So, was she a prostitute? That’s what “transactional” means.]
That was a routine, scripted assertion her dnc lawyer had told her to make. I recall at the time someone pointing out that in the career world, most “liberated” women find sleeping with powerful men an aphrodisiac.
I’ve got a Puerto Rican neighbor who’s a super. A few years ago, he said to me, re me-too, “How come, it’s never a super?”
And yet, the dnc lawyers always have their clients speaking of “fear.”
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @J.Ross, @Curle
To discredit the Farrow book you describe one of the victims and not even the victims who were at the center of the narrative. In other words, you’ve evaded the central, if unstated, point of the book which is that the Tribe went to great lengths to protect one of their own, Harvey Weinstein, in a way no Gentile could ever expect for the crimes he committed.
This has nothing to do with the Tribe. It has to do with being a member of the Club - the club of the Leftist Elites. If you are member in good standing of the Club, the Club will protect you regardless of your religion. If you stray from the Party Line, they have all sorts of kompromat to use against you, again regardless of your religion. Or maybe at some point the heat is too much and they have to throw you under the bus. Sorry, Harvey, nothing personal, it's just business.
This is not unlike the situation that exists in Russia. Again, there is no cabal of Jews (or antisemites for that matter) running the Club. The god that the Club worships is money and power and it doesn't really care about your religion either way.
We don't live in the Middle East. We don't have religious wars in the old sense. Politics has replaced religion. The Men of Unz are living in the past.
Even in the case of Weinstein, many of his accusers fit the same pattern. They alleged that he had "raped" them and then admitted that they had consensual relationships with him later on. In any sane society, this would preclude any charge of rape.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Curle
“Harris didn’t even mention them”.
Yes, she did.
“I heard a Democratic party expert comment that if only she had uttered the phrase ‘the Rent is too damn high” and I will do something to help bring it down, it might have made a difference.”
She did do that. You’re better than this. This commercial was in major markets, and she made this part of her campaign stump speeches.
Again, you really think Trump is going to tackle price gouging monopolistic practices? Was this part of his message? My vague impression is that it is not, and I cannot recall any commercials that focused on it.
If this is true, why is Weinstein in prison while Bill Clinton walks free?
This has nothing to do with the Tribe. It has to do with being a member of the Club – the club of the Leftist Elites. If you are member in good standing of the Club, the Club will protect you regardless of your religion. If you stray from the Party Line, they have all sorts of kompromat to use against you, again regardless of your religion. Or maybe at some point the heat is too much and they have to throw you under the bus. Sorry, Harvey, nothing personal, it’s just business.
This is not unlike the situation that exists in Russia. Again, there is no cabal of Jews (or antisemites for that matter) running the Club. The god that the Club worships is money and power and it doesn’t really care about your religion either way.
We don’t live in the Middle East. We don’t have religious wars in the old sense. Politics has replaced religion. The Men of Unz are living in the past.
Even in the case of Weinstein, many of his accusers fit the same pattern. They alleged that he had “raped” them and then admitted that they had consensual relationships with him later on. In any sane society, this would preclude any charge of rape.
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/
This has nothing to do with the Tribe. It has to do with being a member of the Club - the club of the Leftist Elites. If you are member in good standing of the Club, the Club will protect you regardless of your religion. If you stray from the Party Line, they have all sorts of kompromat to use against you, again regardless of your religion. Or maybe at some point the heat is too much and they have to throw you under the bus. Sorry, Harvey, nothing personal, it's just business.
This is not unlike the situation that exists in Russia. Again, there is no cabal of Jews (or antisemites for that matter) running the Club. The god that the Club worships is money and power and it doesn't really care about your religion either way.
We don't live in the Middle East. We don't have religious wars in the old sense. Politics has replaced religion. The Men of Unz are living in the past.
Even in the case of Weinstein, many of his accusers fit the same pattern. They alleged that he had "raped" them and then admitted that they had consensual relationships with him later on. In any sane society, this would preclude any charge of rape.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Curle
Exhibit A: The woman who said Lauer anally raped her (she’d had 6 shots of vodka and went to his room twice) went on to have consensual sex with him but said it was just “transactional” and not a real relationship. She also got a 7 figure settlement from NBC.
https://people.com/tv/everything-to-know-brooke-nevils-matt-lauer-rape-accuser/
The Tribe, according to Andrew Anglin, whom apparently Ron Unz supports, allegedly said no to the Democrats supposed effort to rig the 2024 Election. His reason? They support Trump’s Israel policy. So the Dems capitulated.
That has all the excitement of a community college instructor laboring on ‘Real estate economics’ class. Compare that to Harris starting her campaign with: “I know all you renters are hurting. I am going to give you, a $10,000 per year Rental Tax Credit to level the playing field with Mortgage and property tax deduction that the homeowners now enjoy”. You think she can lose with this policy? This would beat Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” any day of the week.
We’re not talking about HOW she presented her message. We are talking about she DID IN FACT talk about high rent—which you insisted to the contrary—and her plan to reduce it, I imagine this campaign ad Did Trump go into policy detail on this matter? Or was it just a talking point on his part to get votes? Is he even going to address this problem? I hope he does. But then again, it’s real estate, and his track record in this area is to maximize profit at the expense of the little guy.
Again, you’re better than this.
This has nothing to do with the Tribe. It has to do with being a member of the Club - the club of the Leftist Elites. If you are member in good standing of the Club, the Club will protect you regardless of your religion. If you stray from the Party Line, they have all sorts of kompromat to use against you, again regardless of your religion. Or maybe at some point the heat is too much and they have to throw you under the bus. Sorry, Harvey, nothing personal, it's just business.
This is not unlike the situation that exists in Russia. Again, there is no cabal of Jews (or antisemites for that matter) running the Club. The god that the Club worships is money and power and it doesn't really care about your religion either way.
We don't live in the Middle East. We don't have religious wars in the old sense. Politics has replaced religion. The Men of Unz are living in the past.
Even in the case of Weinstein, many of his accusers fit the same pattern. They alleged that he had "raped" them and then admitted that they had consensual relationships with him later on. In any sane society, this would preclude any charge of rape.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Curle
If you’d read the book you’d know. The biggest reason is that the belief that Jews run 100% of the media is not true. Ninety-eight percent, maybe. But, it was a couple of gentiles who took the story that was being buried at their Jewish run employer to a distinctly gentile run magazine that outed him. The others who had the story, compromised in one way or the other by Jews in high positions, buried it.
Reminds me that no newspaper except for Murdoch’s New York Post wanted to run the Hunter laptop story.
Do something? Hmph, like what, exactly? Like turn right around and deport the 20 million criminal shitstains she just jammed into the country by pure diktat to begin with, simply to spite and harm whitey? Can you imagine the (((press))) ever asking her: 'Hey High Priestess of Color -- what do you think suddenly adding 20 million illegal paupers to the housing demand-pool was going to do to the price of housing? What did they teach you at prestigious Ta-Genius Negro Ta-University 'bout all dat sheeit?'
Can you imagine Kammy ever suddenly offering mass asylum to 5 million actual-rent-paying white South Africans -- people experiencing real live easily documented mass persecution, including habituated torture? Nope, waive in more pointless Haitians instead (which of course will *not* ameliorate the condition of the native shitstains back in their home toilet bowl either, all it will do is hex and vex whitey, mission accomplished).Replies: @epebble
like what, exactly?
Learn from her opponent. When he realized an opening can be made in the service workers, he quickly proposed to exempt tips from taxes. That was immediately appreciated by the service sector workers, and he pulled a good slice of them to his side. Then he found he is a bit weaker in the elderly section due to their apprehension with his criminal case entanglement and he quickly proffered no taxes on social security benefits. If Harris wanted to, she could have, instead of the $25,000 down payment assistance lead balloon, offered a $10,000 per year tax credit to renters and say that she will equalize the renters to homeowner’s mortgage and property tax deduction advantage. That would have given her a boost in the service economy voters.
Learn from her opponent. When he realized an opening can be made in the service workers, he quickly proposed to exempt tips from taxes. That was immediately appreciated by the service sector workers, and he pulled a good slice of them to his side. Then he found he is a bit weaker in the elderly section due to their apprehension with his criminal case entanglement and he quickly proffered no taxes on social security benefits. If Harris wanted to, she could have, instead of the $25,000 down payment assistance lead balloon, offered a $10,000 per year tax credit to renters and say that she will equalize the renters to homeowner's mortgage and property tax deduction advantage. That would have given her a boost in the service economy voters.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“Learn from her opponent. When he realized an opening can be made in the service workers, he quickly proposed to exempt tips from taxes.”
Well that is certainly clever retail micro-politics, but back up here on deck it’s just giving Advil to a stage 4 cancer patient. Toys and games. Trump’s clever little Amish ploy in Pennsylvania helped him hang on to a key state by neutralizing the 3 A.M. Imaginary Negro Vote in Philadelphia, but it was still just a parlor stunt, and had nothing to do with his broad message. The broad message, the essential platform, of the Harris campaign was, Kill Whitey and Take All His Stuff: We Finally Gots Da Numbers. And she couldn’t quite really say that out loud in public, hence the back-flips and the word salad.
Besides, the idea that a woman who fully backed the Jewish play of Kill the Goyim By Drowning Them in Immigrant Shitstains would then turn around and complain that “the rent is too damn high!” cannot understand — forget about economics, she can’t even understand basic plumbing. In the end it doesn’t matter, because unless Trump has a Mountains of Skulls presidency, which he won’t, the demographic math is locked in on Kammy’s side, and Kill Whitey and Take All His Stuff is coming soon to an Ape City near you.
His health situation doesn’t sound good.
Pat Buchanan stopped writing his column back in early 2023.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/buchanan-retires-his-pen/
It’s deeply unfortunate that he never got the opportunity to be president. I feel like if he had won the Republican primary in 1992 (or even 1996 or 2000), America would be a RADICALLY different country today. The other Anglo nations and Europe would be quite different too.
Unfortunately, during the 90s, Buchanan was sabotaged by various wheeler-dealer types in the Republican party, particularly those with links to the Chamber of Commerce wing of the party. Yet more than any other group, it was the Jewish “Neocon” intellectuals & oligarchs who really did everything to push back against Buchanan. By the Bush-Cheney era of the 2000s, Buchan & Buchananism had basically been totally purged from the party.
For decades, the Jews really have had a seething hatred of Pat Buchanan. People like William Kristol, David Frum, and Jonah Goldberg did everything possible to banish Buchanan from public view.
Here are 2 important columns that Goldberg wrote against Buchanan.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2002/02/killing-whitey-jonah-goldberg/
https://www.nationalreview.com/1999/09/what-about-pat-jonah-goldberg/
Another column from National Review. This column helped make Buchanan into “persona non-grata” in the conservative movement.
https://www.nationalreview.com/1999/10/conservatism-patrick-buchanan/
David Frum later wrote a column that helped make all Paleoconservative thought into heresy – until Trump came along.
https://davidfrum.com/article/unpatriotic-conservatives
Buchanan wrote many good books, but his best 3 were “A Republic, Not an Empire,” “The Great Betrayal,” and “The Death of the West.”
“The Death of the West,” which I read back in 2002, really “Red Pilled” me about immigration and various other issues. It was at that point that I began to read Steve Sailer, Vdare, American Renaissance, and various other politically incorrect sites.
I can tell you this. For decades, Buchanan, in exquisite detail, has eloquently laid out the case again foreign intervention, free trade & deindustrialization, and mass immigration. His ideas went on to influence various “Paleo-Conservatives” (Steve Sailer, Peter Brimelow, Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, Ann Coulter, etc.), who then went on to influence people like Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Tucker Carlson.
What’s the old saying? “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
I hope he lives longer, but who knows? Regardless, we were very lucky to have him in the discourse.
See below for intros of his best books. When you read intros, it’s remarkable to see how well Bat Buchanan has understood these issue for so many decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Republic,_Not_an_Empire
https://archive.org/details/greatbetrayalhow00buch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_West
How many waiters/waitresses earn enough to pay income tax, and if your total income IS enough to have to pay income tax on the tip part why shouldn’t you pay tax on it?
I hate tipping and would tax the shit out of it to discourage the practice. Safeway(Albertsons) sold me on paying a monthly fee that was supposed to include free shipping, then after a while added a sneak “tip” (for a delivery not even performed yet) added after they told you what they were going to charge. Now I know to zero it out, but they got me once. I do add 15% or so to restaurant tabs, but I don’t like it.
Dumb idea. Didn’t Harris me-too it?
This photo is THE image of 2024, period.
Perhaps it is also THE image of the first half of the 2020’s decade as well.
The idea is dumb on the merits, but politically powerful as it signals to the service worker sector that GOP is not (just) rich people’s party who give tax cuts to capital gains and carried interest loophole. Trump invented this in Nevada, and it might have helped him. He also invented no tax on Social Security to cater to seniors. Most likely, the Congress will ignore these promises, and Trump won’t fight for them since he has no reelection to worry about.
Right, in the moment, the hotel worker and meemaw get all warm with glee. "Trump, he's our guy". But as you correctly stated, Trump won't fight for those promises. So those who voted for him believing he will champion the working class will be left holding the bag. Besides, he is too busy planning his grift. Remember how the Trump Organization overcharged the Secret Service for stays at Trump-owned properties by agents protecting him? You ain't seen nothing yet.
And just wait until Project 2025 kicks into gear!
“The idea is dumb on the merits, but politically powerful…”
Right, in the moment, the hotel worker and meemaw get all warm with glee. “Trump, he’s our guy”. But as you correctly stated, Trump won’t fight for those promises. So those who voted for him believing he will champion the working class will be left holding the bag. Besides, he is too busy planning his grift. Remember how the Trump Organization overcharged the Secret Service for stays at Trump-owned properties by agents protecting him? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
And just wait until Project 2025 kicks into gear!
I had a look-in on Adam Carolla’s vidcast after he appeared on Triggernometry (or maybe… it’s coming back to me… it was the first half of when Kisin and Francis(?) appeared on his program) and he told essentially the same story (it… and the whole program… went on way too long), but he attributed it to a dim poll worker. A supervisor stepped in and said the worker could take the id, just couldn’t ask for it. Which is crazy enough even under rules that say poll workers can’t demand id. Tell the truth… Is that where you got this story?
What are the odds of any of this happening the same way in an alternate Amsterdam without the Camp of the Saints?
Also, interesting Euro variant of "add it to the list:"
"taxi drivers"Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Moshe Def, @YetAnotherAnon, @Almost Missouri, @Gandydancer
Of course the “it was touched off by the Israeli soccer fans” story has been soundly debunked.
And the “very, very good” Dutch emergency response police? Not so much.
Care to double down?
Sailer said on a different thread (the one headlined with a graph showing a CA H. of Representatives candidate — Michelle (something? — currently getting Al Frankened) that the 2024 Dem turnout will end up near 2020s. I’m not convinced, but there’s that.
I recall one of my college profs saying that a US war plan against the UK was mooted in the 1920s (presumably naval warfare), but I can't find any reference to it right now.
Anyway, the point is the post-WWII "special relationship" wasn't always what it is now. The 1902s US-UK relationship resembled the present China-US relationship in some ways: two rivals (one new and upsurgent, one old and sclerotic) warily eyeing each other up for future world hegemony, even as they know they are mutually interdependent in many ways.Replies: @Jack D, @Gandydancer
They both wanted(US)/badly needed(UK) to save money and it was a joint project in which they secured the top spots in the 5/5/3/… allocation, not a quarrel that I recall. Yes, they were fencing a bit over what they could retain, but it wasn’t serious. It was Japan (the …/3/…) pulling out that put the kibosh on it iirc, well before Hitler’s Germany (a 0 in covered ships under Versailles, iirc) said (admitted) that it wouldn’t abide by it….
I’d bet we had Color plans for Canada and Mexico, too. But War Plan Orange (Japan) was the only serious one. (Well, maybe Black — defense of the Canal Zone — had a bit of reality, but not much.)
I don’t think the Brits had any illusions of future hegemony in the 1920s. They owed us a lot of money after WW1.