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For those interested, here are my two most recent articles:
- Trump vs. Harvard in an Political Wrestling Match
The Unz Review • April 21, 2025 • 6,700 Words - American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part I – The Man
The Unz Review • April 28, 2025 • 12,700 Words
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With regard to Harvard, it seems more like a Prestige Factory than an institution that actually makes the world a better place. They haven’t had anywhere near the scientific and engineering breakthroughs of MIT or Caltech.
I’m sure it happens, but you don’t hear much about it for all the money and human assets they soak up. Educate me on what they’ve done that is commensurate with their status and wealth.
Full information on anal bleaching to help you make an informed choice.
Trump 2026 space budget would cancel NASA rocket, lunar station
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget proposal seeks to axe key parts of NASA’s moon program with a $6 billion cut for the space agency’s 2026 budget, but provides a boost to the Mars-focused agenda pushed by billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
The outline of Trump’s proposed 2026 budget, released on Friday, would cancel NASA’s over-budget Space Launch System (SLS), a gigantic rocket built by Boeing and Northrop Grumman, and its Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew capsule after their third mission in 2027 under the agency’s Artemis program.
Cutting 24% of NASA’s current $24.8 billion budget, the proposal threatens to cancel major science programs affecting thousands of researchers worldwide. It would upend active contracts defended for years in Washington by an array of established NASA contractors and overturn missions and programs in which U.S. allies play key roles, such as the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan.
Nearly all parts of NASA face deep cuts except for its human exploration portfolio, in which the administration proposed a $1 billion boost for “Mars-focused programs.” This portends a major revision to the Artemis effort that leans toward SpaceX CEO Musk’s vision to send humans to the Red Planet.
A White House budget summary called SLS and Orion “grossly expensive” that have far exceeded their budgets. Critics called the cuts, including a 47% cut to NASA’s science budget, “a historic step backward” for the country’s space efforts.
The Artemis program, spawned by Trump’s first administration, aims to return humans to the moon before Chinese astronauts get there in 2030. Seeing the lunar surface as a testbed for later Mars missions, Artemis has grown into a multibillion-dollar effort on the frontline of an emerging global space race, involving dozens of private companies and countries.
Trump’s new administration has fixated on getting humans to Mars, the long-sought destination for Musk, the president’s outgoing adviser who spent $250 million on Trump’s campaign to return to the White House.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket, a multi-purpose behemoth at the center of Musk’s Mars vision, is contracted to land NASA astronauts on the moon in 2027 as one of several vehicles involved in the program, such as the SLS and Orion duo that work together to get astronauts off Earth.
“The Budget phases out the grossly expensive and delayed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights,” the budget summary said, noting SLS’s per-launch pricetag of $4 billion. The rocket’s development cost of roughly $23 billion since 2010 is “140 percent over budget,” it added.
“The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with more cost-effective commercial systems that would support more ambitious subsequent lunar missions,” the summary added.
“This proposed cut would represent a historic step backward for American leadership in space science, exploration, and innovation,” the Planetary Society, a space policy organization founded by famed scientist Bill Nye, said, referring to Trump’s overall budget reduction.
The budget plan mentioned a parallel moon and Mars mission agenda, appearing to balance intense pressure from Congress and the space industry to keep the moon program with calls from Musk’s circle to prioritize a Mars program.
Trump’s nominee for NASA explained similar ideas during his confirmation hearing last month. Jared Isaacman, a billionaire private astronaut and SpaceX customer, was expected to receive a Senate vote later this month to become NASA administrator.
MULTI BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACTS AT STAKE
Lockheed Martin is contracted to build Orion crew capsules to Artemis 8, representing at least $4 billion that face potential termination.
The company is currently building the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 4, Kirk Shireman, Lockheed’s vice president of human space exploration, told Reuters on Thursday before the budget plan announcement.
“We are working to even accelerate our work production for Artemis 3, 4, 5 and beyond, and NASA has been working with us and encouraging us to continue doing that,” Shireman said.
The budget would cancel the Gateway station, a research station and transfer point between spacecraft launching from Earth and landers descending to the moon’s surface. Gateway was designed to orbit near the moon and due for initial deployment in Artemis 4.
Northrop Grumman has a $935 million NASA contract to provide a Gateway module that was delivered last month by subcontractor Thales Alenia Space. Northrop has taken roughly $100 million in charges on the program, securities filings show.
It was unclear what lunar missions Trump’s NASA is planning after Artemis 3, though they likely would favor rockets built by SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which is also building a moon lander due to be used on later Artemis missions.
Last year, NASA and Japan signed an agreement to include Japanese astronauts on a future Artemis moon mission, a significant step in the U.S.-Japan alliance that would put the first Asian astronaut on another celestial body.
NASA said Gateway components already built can be repurposed for other missions and that “international partners will be invited to join these renewed efforts.”
(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by William Maclean and David Gregorio)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/trump-2026-space-budget-would-cancel-nasa-rocket-lunar-station/ar-AA1E4pUt
They’ve been curing cancer for half a century at least. They’re bound to get it right one of these days.
Shiloh has raised almost 400k now.
A friend of mine asks the iSteve commenters to explain why the following idea could or could not work, legally:
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I’ve had this idea since Trump’s first term to deal with anti-constitutional lawfare (e.g. Boasberg, Friedman, many others) that attempts to usurp executive powers at the hands of a few black-robed unelected “judges”. The problem’s gotten so ridiculous now that I’m compelled to find some way to get this seemingly obvious idea out there. It seems so simple and obvious to me, but in all this time (7 or 8 years now), I’ve not seen ONE person online, in the media, or in government mention it. That makes me think there must be some technical or legal reason that it’s not even being mentioned.
There are two versions of the strategy. The first might be called “reactive” and is considerably simpler. The second might be called “proactive” and would require more planning and thinking, even before an Executive Order is issued. The “reactive” version assumes that one can bring a complaint or case to a federal “district” court, even though a fairly similar complaint has already been brought (and possibly ruled on) in another district.
Reactive: Once a lame injunction or ruling has been dictated in a leftwing activist judge-shopped district, you get a plaintiff(s) to bring a similar complaint to a “conservative or constitutional” judge in a different district. Hopefully, a ruling is then soon made which runs counter to the first ruling. At that point, the prez can safely say “We’ve got one judge that says “A”, and another that says “B”, and they conflict with each other severely. The only reasonable thing to do is to keep the order in place until one or both rulings are possibly appealed to the Supremes.”
Proactive: Before the latest EO is signed, people in or near the administration brainstorm and try to predict the most likely case or complaint that a crazy leftwing group and lawyer might use to defeat said EO in court. Find some plaintiff(s) to bring that complaint/case to a conservative or originalist judge (reverse judge shopping, as it were!). Hopefully said complaint will be quickly struck down. At that point, if the ACLU (or other anti-American activist group) brings a similar case elsewhere – and it results in the inevitable injunction or “temporary blocking” of the EO – you’re back in the situation of saying “hey, we’ve got two judges saying two totally contradictory things on this, so we’re forced to just keep the EO in effect until an appeal is made and ruled on.”
Note, the main reason to go with the “proactive” version is if it’s somehow illegal or “against process” to bring a complaint to a district judge if a “similar” complaint has already been brought (and possibly ruled on) in a different district. I apologize for my lack of legal process knowledge and language. I’m just hoping some legally knowledgeable people out there might explain why some version of this strategy has not been implemented. BTW, it would also work for a Democratic administration, but they don’t seem to have this judicial activist issue hitting them in the face every week or two (probably because there are so many leftwing activist Federal judges that only care about party and politics).
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She may need it for lawyers and tattoo (not anal) bleaching.
I am hoping the Chinese land a woman and an African on to moon first, just so I can be spared the endless ululating if a Girl Boss and a descendant of a formerly enslaved person ride the white man’s rocket to the lunar surface.
If the rest of Harvard shares the ethical standards of its Medical School then a good kicking is the least it deserves.
I’d appreciate if these were posts were attribute to the Editor rather than to me.
Grammar? Day drinking?
The Chinese will land a Chinaman (or woman*) on the moon in their own rockets, which, after all, were invented long before Goddard and Von Braun, as sketched out on some lotus leaves way back during the Ming Dynasty… along with the invention of vases.
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* The Chinese version of Feminism has different roots from that of Western Feminism. Rather than having been purposely pushed upon society by Communists in the cause of destruction of a free society, in China, Feminism was implemented during the rule of Communists themselves out of stupidity. Apparently, Feminism made clothing selection easier and human cogs would be more interchangeable… plus inexpensive “Rice Bowl Cosmetology”.
If I were a black dude, I’d be kinda-sorta wary about this whole send-a-black-man to the moon thing, not a cheerleader. I mean, it just invites way too many of Those Thoughts….
“Okay we proved it, we sent a brotha to the moon. So… when are we sending the rest?”
“Well, first we sent a dog into space, then a monkey. Guess a negro would do no harm.”
And so on.
I didn’t think that there were uniform state laws on autonomous vehicles. Hence the Dallas-Houston route? As I recall there were some proposals for additional training for drivers of self driving cars, others suggesting that no license would required at all for ‘operating’ the vehicle.
The quality of have comments have really decline in the absence of whimming.
80,000 lb driverless trucks traveling 70 mph on busy interstates, I find that terrifying. But probably not quite as terrifying as this:
By the way, all this talk by the Usual Suspects that social media algorithms are a problem and need to be controlled, either by direct government intervention or something pretty close, needs to be refuted. They whinge that algorithms drive “too much conflict” or “bad ideas”.
They haven’t cared about media filth for the last 50 years. Suddenly they’re worried? No, this is just an attempt at Thought Control.
They make white people feel bad. Although they did allow an eccentric fellow to present this very informative, if over-the-top presentation on the evils of circumcision. He was fired from his position as an assistance professor (or whatever) for it shortly after, and the original upload to yt was taken down.
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Hey, you said White people didn’t want advocates for them. You implied Jared Taylor was trying to be an Al Sharpton (too déclassé!). Yet, his tweets are going viral.
A typical tweet from him has 12,000 likes in just a day. Meanwhile, yours typical get 100 to 300 likes. What’s up? It’s as if Whites are human like everybody else.
Waiting for the iSteve cease and desist letter to Unz.
I said this several years ago, during the President’s first term. He must pull an Andy Jackson, and buck the seditious conspiracy seeking, yet again, to undo his election. Otherwise, his presidency is over.
Andrew Jackson: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
I’m very disappointed in my old VDARE colleague.
Steve no doubt regrets that this ragtag
ménage includes that Brobdingnag-brag-
prone misuse of sperm
who denotes himself Germ
Theory, ex-(he says) SNL gag-fag.
No offense, Germ. I just go where the rhymes take me.
This entire Artemis boondoggle (which, after cancelling all the contracts) would have wasted nearly $100 billion, all to one up China from having their moment of pride. Why an American woman and colored man have to win against a Chinese person was never clear. This project had zero scientific or technical value at astronomical cost. This is a clear win for Trump.
Wow, you’re back (briefly)! And this is the best you can do?
Unless, of course, your post is a fake, i.e. someone is impersonating you. Can’t rule that out.
Mr. Sailer, you had to have the vague impression when you left this fine opinion webzine for the greener (money) pastures of Substack, Mr. Unz, the shrewd (Jewish) businessman, would milk the remnants of your blog for all it’s worth. Hence, his lame insistence on these Open Threads to promote his own articles. Seems to me you and him need to have another conversation, rather than you weakly protest, regarding your legacy.
And since you’ve sadly departed, Achmed and Hail run roughshod here by promoting their own websites, Greta Handel still bitterly complains like an old scold about your alleged heavy handed whimming, and Loyalty… and MikeTre excitedly demand white racial fealty.
So, anything else on your mind?
What would be funny is if they had a chimp out with a black American astronaut in space like they had at the South Africa Antarctica station.
Well, Nick, my friend and I both know about that history, and I guess we both have no problem with action like that from Trump. He (my friend) has been wondering for a long time why those on the right still trying to play by the rules don’t try the tactic he suggests.
Expecting Trump to have a planned out long-term strategy is perhaps too much to ask. One way or another, he must get past all this – it’s part of what distracted him last time around.
“Self-Driving” trucks are a really bad idea. ☮️
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You would make a fine addition if SS makes clear he has vacated his spot here… we miss the old VDARE and doesn’t appear they are going to exit their silence for quite awhile…
On the other hand, the NY AG appears to be on the ropes from the fraud mortgage paperwork, and even the NRA has elected new leadership to do battle with the gun controllers again.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/04/28/reform-minded-board-members-sweep-nra-officer-elections-n1228450
Once again milady Ann Althouse bringz da noize in her own subtle style…
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/05/interpretation-of-mozart-or.html
Marvel as she patiently sits, seemingly approvingly, listening to the latest round of arrant Jewish bullshit, which never ever, ever stops.
Then we get the famous Cruel Neutrality of a law professor who is not an ideologue…
ANN:
“For the annals of Things I Asked Grok: 1. What’s the expression that’s something like “He played you like a fiddle”? 2. Given that, what do you think of the op-ed title “We Should Play the Constitution Like a Piano”? 3. Why doesn’t it have a bad connotation, like you are outrageously manipulating the Constitution? 4. What if we could amend Mozart’s K. 467 concerto? 5. Why didn’t Mozart write instructions for how to amend his works?”
Man, I love this lady. Had breakfast with her once. She’s even better in person.
“Reactive: ..”
The Supreme Court is aware that there is a problem with district court judges blocking things with nation wide injunctions. They haven’t really figured out what to do about it but they are aware that there is a problem. They have shown some willingness to stay the injunctions in egregious cases.
“Proactive: ..”
I believe setting up fake cases to obtain a desired ruling is considered unethical at best. Which is not to say it doesn’t happen but you don’t want to get caught doing it. Which requires a certain ability to keep your mouth shut. Which the Trump administration doesn’t seem to be good at.
In general a large part of Trump’s legal problems seem self inflicted. He finds it hard to hire good lawyers because of his reputation for not paying his bills and for not listening to what his lawyers tell him. He seems to have no ability to pick his battles so he gets into stupid fights about unimportant things that accomplish nothing but annoy judges who would otherwise be on his side.
“I’m very disappointed in my old VDARE colleague.”
It’s more like jealousy on your part. You’re wallowing and he is whimming, I mean, winning, on his Substack.
I said this several years ago, during the President’s first term. He must pull an Andy Jackson, and buck the seditious conspiracy seeking, yet again, to undo his election. Otherwise, his presidency is over.”
Trump lost in 2020. He and his team admitted it.
Furthermore, his presidency would be over if he pulled this stunt. As I correctly stated before to Curle—
Well, their nutrition department gave us gems like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_J._Stare
“Hey, you said White people didn’t want advocates for them.”
No, he implied that whites can advocate for whatever position they like, but it’s a fools errand to believe that whites will end up publicly demanding Jim Crow again.
“You implied Jared Taylor was trying to be an Al Sharpton (too déclassé!). Yet, his tweets are going viral.”
Among a small subgroup of people.
“What’s up? It’s as if Whites are human like everybody else.”
He didn’t say differently.
My guess would be the medical school is better than average for ethical standards at Harvard. Which is less than encouraging. Do you have any good stories regarding them?
“Man, I love this lady. Had breakfast with her once. She’s even better in person.”
Wow, yet another amazing made up story.
From working in an ER on the West Coast, to being an integral member of the SNL brain trust, to now recalling your breakfast with Outhouse, you have indeed had a long and fulfilling (fake) life.
I still think your best story** is when you claimed the cops broke into your house without a warrant, forced you to submit to a blood test, ramshackled your domicile, then left when realizing it was the wrong house. Rather than hire a lawyer and inform Fox News of this egregious abuse of police power, you simply let it go. No big deal.
It s no wonder why Buzz is enraged with jealousy and seeks to curb stomp you—his own wonderful stories pale in comparison. But as (Bruce) Jenner said earlier, no need for two brothers to punch down on one another.
Can’t we all just get along?
**Alden once claimed she read hundreds of thousands of books in her lifetime. That’s not far fetched, right?
Yes. 30 ton vaccines hurtling down the highway. What could go wrong?
Musk’s Martian dreams now harnessed to the American covert space program developed by Wernher von Braun and affiliated Mittelwerk physicists in the 1950s working on anti-gravity propulsion. This is Musk’s reward for supporting Trump. I’m okay with it if Musk agrees to no censorship or blackouts on any audio/visual feed coming from the Red Planet. I want to see those ghostly ruins.
Steve you have to come back. If not you full-time then please allow Hari, your Filipino manservant aka Comments Commissar to return to his former post in order to regulate your former Joint. It’s degenerated into cliques and upperclass foodies making me envious with the details of their fancy lives. Corvinus is running roughshod over everybody except for me.
Sounds like some Somalian decided he’s got a shot at winning the ghetto lottery.
Also, notice how that story repeatedly refers to the woman as “blonde”. She’s a blonde woman. Case closed. Guilty!
The Somalian family is claiming that the thieving kid in question has autism. Isn’t it interesting how just about every other kid now is autistic? Even a kid from Somalia.
Why are you getting a gold box when you aren’t even here anymore?
I’d appreciate if your posts were attribute to thee rather than to we.
This isn’t your place anymore.
GOOD BYE
Maybe rephrase the title bar as Zombie ISteve’s lost boys or some similar identity dilution, BAN Sailer (Mr. Unz eventually banned that other twit Karlin) and be done.
Not necessarily. He might face awkward questions about why he supported it during his first administration. He can’t blame it all on Biden, though I’m sure he will try. And a lot of Congressmen (and women) from deep red states may have other ideas about canceling these programs.
I can’t dispute that SLS is a costly white elephant. But to spend that much money on it and then, after only three launches, say okay – we’re done with that – looks bad. Especially when you’re also splashing the Space Station, which was only completed about fifteen years ago at a cost of over $ 100 billion.
Trump doesn’t have a space budget. Russell Vought and Elon Musk have one. Vought wants to gut NASA, and Musk wants to drape the remaining carcass over SpaceX. Trump could not care less about space. I’m sure he’d be cool with Artemis if NASA were just to put a big “T” on all the rockets and paint them gold.
SLS is even more embarrassing than that article indicates. It states that the program started in 2011. It actually started in 2006 as Ares V during the administration of Bush the Younger. Then the Obama administration tried to end it (one of the few good things they did) and it was revived by Congress as SLS – the Space Launch System (or, according to some wags, the Senate Launch System).
Musk hasn’t addressed the problems presented by Martian gravity, which is approximately 38% that of Earth’s. What that means is: If we colonize Mars, which is his stated goal, then anyone who is born, lives, grows up, or just lives an extended time on Mars will never be able to survive on Earth.
He is proposing, whether he knows it or not, a breed of Martians who will be adapted to 0.38 of Earth’s gravity. No one even knows what that will be like, but we can imagine long, tall, weak, beings whose hearts could never even pump enough blood up their weak bodies on Earth. That might be okay, if Martian colonists, especially their children and descendants, never, ever wish to visit or live on Earth or do anything back here.
I’m all for big rockets that can take people to Mars, but that is perhaps because I am an old mountain climber who thinks that it is cool to go places, with great effort, just because they are there. Also, I agree that there is no point to wasting money and effort to send Americans back to the Moon more than half a century after my country indisputably proved to the entire world that it could do it and did it. There is really no reason to send people back there to do any exploring that machines, robots, etc. can now do cheaply.
Clearly, Trump is listening to Musk, and that is a good thing, but Musk’s Martian dreams are kind of crazy. I actually like Elon even more for that — and for the fact that he was weird enough to bed Claire Bouchet and give her three children.
Not under the 1798 Aliens Act, anyway, but how about Trump uses his alleged negotiating skills to get Congress to put a new bipartisan immigration bill made for the modern age into force?
The guy isn’t white. He is a Jew. Do you think he was railroaded?
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/8/11/appeals-court-rejects-clopper-suit/
—Even if he was fully clothed whenever he spoke (his naked dance with an inflatable doll had no accompanying dialogue), and even if his performance was arguably unfairly characterized as both a “rant” and “anti-Semitic,” an anti-circumcision activist-turned-playwright could not successfully sue a campus newspaper for libel, he recently learned the hard way.
On Aug. 1, a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns’ 2020 dismissal of the claims of Eric Clopper, a former employee in Harvard University’s Language Resource Center, against the Harvard Crimson stemming from its coverage of the one-night-only performance of his provocative play, “Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story,” on May 1, 2018.—
Take Your Daughter to Work Day at SpaceX
Per comments I read elsewhere, Mr. Anon, the Somalians have a penchant, if I may, for autism. IOW, they are gaming the system by comparing their kids to the Rainman’s brother, just like they gamed the system for COVID money and all else. I guess they assimilated after all, learning a lot from the Hebrew Aid Society and nice Minnesota Lutheran lady handlers, dont’cha know?
Oh, you betcha’! Collecting money from the American taxpayers to be virtuous or victim… but no, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t … stay …here….
This young lady Shiloh Hendricks, daughter and maybe even granddaughter of the nice Minnesotans who are the root cause of this shit, is one tough and brave individual. I will give her support via a blog post, if nothing else.
It’s a nice way of saying he’s really dim, or about average for a Somali.
As I looked at the playground equipment in that viral video, a memory came back to me from years ago. My son had some small thing stolen from him off a bench at the playground – I think just candy, from an even-younger black girl, with the girl’s little brother eyeing his stuff too.
I had to give him the abbreviated version of Derbyshire’s The Talk, cause he was about 4 y/o. “You gotta keep an eye on ‘them’”.
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“My son had some small thing stolen from him off a bench at the playground – I think just candy, from an even-younger black girl, with the girl’s little brother eyeing his stuff too.”
LOL. You’re not going to get far trying to compete with Germ in the “made up story” category.
More probable is the kid was white who “eye balled the stuff”, but you have to come across here as being all gangster and sh—-.
“I had to give him the abbreviated version of Derbyshire’s The Talk, cause he was about 4 y/o. “You gotta keep an eye on ‘them’”.
Ineffective parental strategy. Why sanitize it? I say scare ‘em straight young. You p—- out. When I had my “talk” about them darkies with my sons (about the same age as your ruffians) I said they were n—- who all deserved to be shot by the police.
Worked like a charm.
It’s almost as if you get more of what you subsidize…
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for Children With Autism
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Exactly. Autism mostly just means low IQ, in which Somali’s tend to excel at.
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My main complaint about Trump, to date is simple.
Where are the camps?
Every shit-lib bar none swore blind they’d be rotting in camps.
I want camps.
“but we can imagine long, tall, weak, beings whose hearts could never even pump enough blood up their weak bodies on Earth.”
Soooo… sort of like me, IOW. Would that rilly be so bad?
Good to hear you sound OK. How’s the salmon treatin’ ya?
So the story they’re going with is that there’s no increase. just increased awareness?
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File this under “Repairing the World”:
Yes, I expect that a lot of the Autism thing is just a grift.
And yet you persist in the made-up story that you are an actual human being, rather than just a bot.
You are clearly nothing but an NPC.
Come and laugh callously with me at those freaking losers babbling about “Our Democracy.”
https://archive.is/QPJ7G
Negresses call it “crazy money” fo dey keedz. Da mo ‘crazy’ keedz, da mo crazy money. You see the problem.
Remind me again… which button on the desk opens up the secret piranha tank?
Glad the inner fascist is coming out.
Besides, you’d be put in a camp first as an elitist financial officer who works in NYC.
Great picture of a single smart fit woman raising two kids who dumped your cheating ass.
Greetings, Bill,
That’s not the way I read it. Looks to me like they’re saying that changing the eligibility requirements has led to a sharp increase in children receiving SSI payments for autism.
I’m not really sure how much of the rise in “autism” rates is because there are truly more kids with autism or how much of this rise is because parents get SSI checks if their kid is diagnosed with autism.(?) Or, perhaps it is a fad (or a status symbol?) in some circles to have a kid diagnosed with autism. (Or some other special needs status.)
I know there was a time when it was quite fashionable for children to be diagnosed add/adhd. I’ve heard of parents being pressured by the school system to get their kid on adderall. I even know one parent personally who was very highly pressured by the local school system to get his daughter an adhd diagnoses and a prescription for adderall. (The school bureaucrats threatened to get state social workers involved if he didn’t.)
In this case the parent did take her to the doctor, get the diagnoses and the proper paperwork for the school and he even filled the prescription. However, he never fed the drugs (in this case Adderall) to his daughter. A short time later, the teacher (who was the cause of this problem) remarked how much better behaved his child was now that she was taking her medicine. (A drug she has never taken.)
I don’t know why the local school is pressuring parents to drug their children. I don’t know if it is the extra funding the school gets for “special needs” kids (diagnosed with adhd) or if this is just some sort of cult like behavior among the teachers or what. But it’s real. This story (sort of) resolved itself when he (sort of) capitulated to their demands. I wonder how many other parents/children the school has done this to.
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I’m so sick of people misusing the word fascist. Fascism only comes from the axis regions of central Europe. If it’s not bottled in Germany or Italy it’s called sparkling corporatism.
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Ugh… That’s a cartoon.
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awkward questions
1. U.S. treasury had $-20 trillion in 2017. Now it has $-36 trillion (and by most accounts, increasing by more than $-1 trillion per year for next couple of decades). Good reason to delete all discretionary spending.
(Secret reason: in 2017, he was hoping there will be another man on moon during his reign, crowning his greatness. Now, it is certainly not going to happen before 2029. Why waste money on something that doesn’t bring glory?)
2. Cancelling projects midway after spending billions is not new to U.S. Congress. They cancelled the superconducting supercollider after spending billions digging tunnels in Texas. A moon landing project was previously cancelled after spending many billions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
I’m not misusing it at all. Bill Jones supports putting American citizens, young and old, especially whites, into camps merely because he opposes their line of thinking. Political and intellectual dissent is thus actively suppressed. That is fascism.
Apparently, you tacitly endorse his patently unconstitutional action.
“Ugh… That’s a cartoon.”
Thanks, Greta Handel.
“I’m not really sure how much of the rise in “autism” rates is because there are truly more kids with autism or how much of this rise is because parents get SSI checks if their kid is diagnosed with autism.(?) Or, perhaps it is a fad (or a status symbol?) in some circles to have a kid diagnosed with autism. (Or some other special needs status.)”
No, trust me, it is real (at least among white people that is) and you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy.
A child very close to my family was behaving weirdly and withdrawn as an infant, and the parents finally figured out to get the baby’s hearing checked, because maybe he was just not hearing learning cues right. Turned out he *did* have a hearing problem, but it was not deafness it was easily corrected. But then he *still* kept behaving oddly — I used to watch this three-year-old sit silently and motionlessly, staring at a windowsill for hours, nothing could distract him, and then suddenly he’d jump on the computer and play Tickle Me Elmo video games for hours, expertly.
So they diagnosed him as “on the spectrum”, as they say.
His grade-school years were torture, he had constant bizarre emotional outbursts, and eventually he required a personal “teacher’s aide” to calm him down every five minutes just so he could stay in class.
But by junior high he seemed to age out of it: he became sociable, became an expert musician and graphic arts designer, then a video-game designer, then a wit and raconteur, and now he is a freshman at a top university. Miracles do happen. But mostly, alert early intervention is what happens.
But none of this applies to fake-autist negroes.
Indeed, we wouldn’t want to make liars out of those shit-libs … wait …
That sounds like Ronald Reagan after reading a bunch of Steve Sailer posts. ;-}
It’s almost as if Ronald Reagan knew what he was talking about. (Lots of anti-Reagan people on here, because they don’t know the whole story.)
There are quite a few people, I think, who would be willing to take a one-way trip to Mars. We could start with them and figure out the whole travel back and forth thing later.
The teachers are brainwashed into believing that behavior problems are an illness that can be cured with a pill. It is a large mass of committee stupidity. The parents are 50-50 but even the ones who do not agree that it is factual comply because it is less work and less trouble to go along with the teachers and school managers.
Steve, how about doing a ‘guest’ post here on occasion, you know, for old times sake?
Sailer come back
Video Link
Blacks on the moon are still far too close for comfort. At a minimum, Alpha Centauri.
Something sounds vaguely familiar about this.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B
“Shiloh has raised almost 400k now.”
No comparison to Trump the grifter. If this was Biden doing this same thing, you’d be seething.
—Trump announced this week that the top 220 buyers of his $Trump (strump, as in strumpet) meme coin between now and mid-May will be invited to an exclusive dinner on May 22 (“a night to remember”) at his golf club outside Washington, D.C. The Washington Post and other outlets have reported that in the days since the announcement, “buyers have poured tens of millions of dollars” into the coin; further, that the holders of 27 crypto wallets have acquired at least 100,000 coins apiece, “stakes worth about a million dollars each.” Holders of crypto wallets are anonymous, if they want to be, so the identities of these people (or businesses or countries or sovereign wealth funds or whatever they might be) are unknown and will presumably remain so until the big dinner or, who knows, maybe for all time.—
LOL, he’s making way too much money at his other gig. Besides, my vague impression is that Mr. Unz stiffed Mr. Sailer, hence his departure.
Space projects have much more visibility than particle accelerators. The public at large doesn’t care too much about space. It cares nothing at all about particle physics. I doubt that a majority of the American public even knew that the Government was building the SSC.
No, it wasn’t. You’re talking about Constellation. It wasn’t cancelled. It was just renamed. All it succeeded in developing was parts of a big rocket, which continued as SLS, which is the basis of what is now Artemis. Constellation had only a token, mostly unfunded lander development component.
Oh, I agree. I would almost count myself among them, but I don’t think my wife would feel the same.
That is the same picture I am painting: That is exactly what Musk is working toward. There is no plan for what comes next.
All I can tell you is that it will be a one-way ticket — generationally. What that means is, Nobody who grows up or develops for any length of time on Mars will ever be able to “come back” and do anything on Earth.
Now, perhaps that is okay, in a historical sense, to wit: My ancestors came to this continent on sailing ships over the past 375 years or so. They never had any plans to go back to Europe. However, I periodically go “back to Europe” with my European wife. I can do that because Europe has the same gravity as America.
Nobody born and reared on Mars will ever be able to go to Earth, the planet of their ancestors, without enormous difficulty as very heavy people when they get there.
Imagine: I weigh around 180 pounds (about 81-82 kilos.) If I were a Martian and I wanted to visit Earth, the planet of my ancestors, or to marry a woman from that planet Earth, I would weigh there on Earth about 473 pounds (214-215 kilos.)
I can hardly imagine what it would feel like to weigh 473 pounds, but that would be like the experience of anyone whose ancestors colonized Mars. There is no way back unless you want to spend your time on Earth feeling like an extreme fatty. Martians will be permanent Martians.
There will be no figuring out the whole traveling back and forth thing later.*
*That is, of course, unless there happens some unforeseen discovery or technological/medical development that makes all of this possible. To expect that is like jumping off a cliff and expecting someone to catch you on the way down. Martian colonization is a one-way plan that will literally give birth to a new breed of humans who will never be able to function on Earth.
That might be okay. That’s just what it will be, and I don’t see anybody, not even Musk, addressing this simple fact.
What if it’s bolsheviks shoving people into camps? Is that still fascism, a**hat?
Nobody gives a flying turd what you think, dipstick. You have the political sophistication of a freshman polysci major at Chino State. You’re an idiot.
So is Corvinus.
“U.S. Treasury had $-20 trillion in 2017. Now it has $-36 trillion.”
According to David Stockman, the latest ten year CBO projections are $65 trillion collected over the next ten years in taxes and $94 trillion in spending, therefore adding $29 trillion to the national debt. This will make the national debt $65 trillion in 2036. In 2036 the Social Security trust fund will run out, leaving the program insolvent and only able to pay 83% of benefits. A year later Medicare becomes insolvent too.
A disproportionate percentage of taxes in this country are paid by Whites but our immigration and welfare policies of the last sixty years and the large mostly White Boomer generation retiring is leading to Whites becoming a minority of the workforce in this country. The tax base will just not be there in the future for any kind of expensive space program, a huge military, or current levels of welfare spending. We will likely default on our huge national debt, either directly or indirectly by inflating the debt away.
Well, “it’s getting to be Pillow O’Clock, dude.”
I’m just waiting for that fat, Black! nurse to smother me. I hope she does it with her enormous ass. I am an ass man, after all.
The teachers are brainwashed into believing that behavior problems are an illness that can be cured with a pill. It is a large mass of committee stupidity.
Some are brainwashed and some really think that boys should be drugged into submission for the good of the system. Drugged children make their jobs easier and the bitterness of the liberal White woman cannot be underestimated. They view race/gender as “unfair” and there are actually a lot of racial realist liberal White women that basically support grinding down White boys for the arc of the universe. It’s a myth that they are all idealists. Some of them harbor very dark thoughts about trying equalize everything or even just getting their revenge against the blue eyed devil. They absolutely hate that race is real and it really does keep them up at night.
The parents are 50-50 but even the ones who do not agree that it is factual comply because it is less work and less trouble to go along with the teachers and school managers.
A lot of them are blue collar families that believe whatever a teacher or therapist tells them. They don’t think it is their place to ask questions. They trust authority figures on such matters. A teacher or admin can collude with a medical professional and browbeat a parent into accepting anything. The social contract is certainly broken.
I’m not really sure how much of the rise in “autism” rates is because there are truly more kids with autism or how much of this rise is because parents get SSI checks if their kid is diagnosed with autism.(?) Or, perhaps it is a fad (or a status symbol?) in some circles to have a kid diagnosed with autism. (Or some other special needs status.)
Autism rates actually correlate with income
https://news.wisc.edu/autism-prevalence-and-socioeconomic-status-whats-the-connection/
Meaning the poor are less likely to have autistic children.
If you doubt the well documented increase in autism then go talk to a pre-school teacher.
It went from being something you read about on the internet to an autistic kid in every class. Pre-school teachers can talk for hours on the subject.
Or, perhaps it is a fad (or a status symbol?) in some circles to have a kid diagnosed with autism. (Or some other special needs status.)
Definitely not.
It’s not simply a personality type. Some of these kids really have a hard time adapting and the schools don’t know what to do. Some are quiet and can do the work while others scream and can’t sit still. You have to see these cases in person. It certainly isn’t bad parenting. They normally have siblings that are fine. You wouldn’t suggest it is a fad if you saw what these parents go through.
It’s probably something in the environment. Some herbicide or pesticide that causes in-utero changes in the right conditions.
No, it’s that the solution is unmitigated cruelty toward the population to be controlled and eliminated. Most people do think it through.
Pretty good.
You know, when we were growing up, my own brother tried to kill me on several occasions.
As a treat, let me explain to everyone how you disarm a crazy drunk teenager with a baseball bat.
First: you let him take the first swing — keep in mind that he is not Bruce Lee, he is a crazy drunk teenager, so, not at his best.
You duck the first swing and then before he knows what’s going on, you sort of reach in under him and grab the bat by its stem, give a good hard twist and it pops out of his hands, et voila! now *you* have the bat. I taught myself this slick move, the hard way.
The last time my brother tried to kill me he did it rather differently: I wound up getting stomped by a gang of local drug dealers, buuuuut… he felt so bad about it later (and my father, erm, *helped* him to feel bad about it), that it got him sober.
He’s been sober 30+ years as I write, and is now the rock of our extended family.
And you wonder why I favor the “mysterious” in art.
The same could be said about the whole tranny thing. Plenty of teachers could talk for hours about gender identity and how little Johnny actually identifies as little Sally.
And yet it’s all bullsh*t.
Just because teachers believe something doesn’t make it true.
Welcome to *my* life…..
Garcon! Bit more coffee twice, ovah heah, s’il te plait. Arigato.
I asked ChatGPT to explain autism, because I was truly curious. Turns out I have been autistic all these years.
Like the panic about mold, this has been part of life on earth forever, until someone decided to make a story about it. Now mold remediation and Autism Awareness Day are part of our lives on which we waste money and/or time.
the Social Security trust fund will run out
You mean all those IOUs. Congress spent the post-’82 surplus FICA tax. Lock Box, my ass.
Youths, students, teenagers, lunchtime rowdies, birdwatchers, and now baby-faced suspects.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/boy-15-beaten-by-crew-of-baby-faced-suspects-on-mta-bus-cops/?utm_medium=social
“You know, when we were growing up, my own brother tried to kill me on several occasions. As a treat, let me explain to everyone how you disarm a crazy drunk teenager with a baseball bat.”
Awesome! Two made up stories for the price of one! Can’t wait for what you have in the offing…
…joggers, gentle giants, aspiring rap artists, aspiring scientists, autists…
I think Shiloh could look at that crime stopper photo and give a terse summary description of the suspects…
Just out of my perverse sense of curiosity…
what is the part of what I said, or of anything I say for that matter, which convinces you that it isn’t or couldn’t be true?
Not that I actually care or need to justify anything — it is after all the internet, it’s a kind of permanent open-mic night…. and yet, between our two selves, only one of us actually knows what is true and what is not. So, explain yourself before you call another man a liar.
Dude.
Probably the increase in the diagnosis of autism is that the diagnostic criteria have been changed and made much wider.
The second reason is that many children who used to be diagnosed as mentally subnormal are diagnosed as autistic
Third reason, maybe, is that a lot of children in suburbia are not well socialized from an early age due to working mother’s etc.
The same could be said about the whole tranny thing. Plenty of teachers could talk for hours about gender identity and how little Johnny actually identifies as little Sally.
Autism is not a state of confusion.
The symptoms appear at ages 2-3:
They can actually detect it by measuring gait at age 2:
https://www.deakin.edu.au/research/research-news-and-publications/articles/researchers-develop-gait-test-for-early-autism
Yes that means they can detect it through movement.
You should get off the internet and volunteer at your local school if you think this is something people made up or exaggerate. You can find plenty of rural Christian families where one kid is autistic but not the siblings.
Eventually they will determine the cause and I bet it will be some chemical that our libertarian cult would tell us to live with.
No inside stories but I’ve seen some nasty things that are public information. This, for example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033062021000670#bb0145
I prefer the phrase “making up stories to keep the unz commentariat entertained” rather than liar. That’s your muse. And, as Mr. Sailer once quipped, pics or it never happened. That would make up one giant photo album!
You’re our Sam Beckett. Just don’t call me Al.
Educate yourself. May God cleanse your soul of ignorance.
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/christian-living/how-the-autistic-community-guided-our-christian-parenting/amp/
Here’s a British piece on the same problem: the costs imposed not because of the obviously handicapped but because of spending on vague and perhaps non-existent conditions.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/04/we-shouldnt-increase-spending-on-children-with-special-educational-needs-we-should-cut-it/
“That is fascism.” I was going to say That is Bolshevism but of course the Bolsheviks would just have shot them out of hand.
Bring back Bolshevism!
Wut cha cummin back fer?
Well, my idea was that Mars colonization would be one-way until we got that figured out. I.e., there would be no generations raised on Mars until we got the problems you refer to figured out.
The real issue with gravity, I suspect, will be less the issue of pure strength (we could likely be mitigated through various exercise regimens and stress inducing) than the issue of unknown physiological effects, especially in development. Although there may be rodent experiments on the ISS that I am unaware of, I think we have no idea about gravity’s impact on embryos or early life tissue formation, and how that may impact things like nutrition. For example (just speculating), maybe without Earth gravity, bone formation would require less calcium, and the “excess” calcium in a normal diet would end up in places we don’t want it, doing things we don’t want it to do.
Anyway, just as AI can detect the race of a patient from a chest x-ray in some way we can’t understand, I suspect AI will be able to contribute a lot to solving these kinds of problems even before we experience them. I read a criticism of Musk’s Mars plans that essentially amounted to “his timeline is too fast” and then discovered the AI2027 working group soon after that predicting that our timelines are all too long. Maybe Musk is really just that much smarter than many of his critics. That would explain why his politics got more like ours!!! ; D
No one cares what you “prefer”. You called another man a liar in the public square when he was talking about his family.
Now stand up like a man and say to me in public, You are a liar. Say that.
If you would like this to become more serious, it can.
Now stand up and say it. Say in public that I am a liar.
Say it.
When you walk into the SNL writers room at 30 Rock, where is the piano?
Is it on your right, or your left? What sort of a piano is it? Is it a baby grand, an upright, a spinet, a grand? I doubt it has changed much since me and George Harrison played it.
How many seats are there at the writers re-write table? How big is the room?
Stand your sorry ass up right NOW, and answer the f#cking questions. You called a man a liar, now stand up in public and prove it.
DO it, m#thaf#cka.
Thanks! Perhaps worth noting that a villain of the piece is Walter Willett who is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also holds a position as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. That bolded name is the nutritionist I mentioned earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Willett
Willett’s Wikipedia has a section on the Katherine Flegal controversy.
From the paper you linked I think I would blame the School of Public Health more than the Medical School.
I found the discussion following this statement an interesting look at some of the tactics used: “Some criticisms employed a rhetorical approach known as “paltering,” defined as the active use of truthful statements with the intent to deceive.”
“You called another man a liar in the public square when he was talking about his family.”
OK, you’re a liar, if that makes you feel better about yourself.
See, you getting all upset like a little girl only makes it worse for you.
Still, I enjoy your made up stories.
“If you would like this to become more serious, it can.”
It’s an online opinion webzine. How more serious can it get?
More on paltering. From Harvard Business School ; )
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/why-one-must-not-palter-when-negotiating
Underlying paper.
Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/paltering.pdf
Steve’s hometown in the news,
but not in a good way.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1917690330155012166
That’s a lot of assumption to pull out of one’s ass. But then the enthusiastic “vague impression” has always been your forte.
But why stop there? As long as you’re improvising give us a lurid tale of espionage, murder and gratuitous sex. I’m already casting the film version.
“That’s a lot of assumption to pull out of one’s ass. “
Not at all. He has a book out. Paid appearances. Substack is a money machine for the one who NOTICES.
“But why stop there? As long as you’re improvising give us a lurid tale of espionage, murder and gratuitous sex. I’m already casting the film version.”
That’s Germ Theory”s wheelhouse.
What, like mercury or something? Where would they get that? Even residential thermostats and home thermometers and oral thermometers don’t have mercury in them anymore so… I mean, they put mercury preservatives in vacc…. oh, never mind. Please don’t call me names!
Well deserved snark over with, I agree for the most part with the commenters above. I don’t claim there’s no such thing as autism. ADHD, formerly ADS, ADD, whatever is one that I’m not sure is any real medical problem.
Schools are highly majority women run, and women teach in almost all classrooms now. They are not happy putting up with boys with the amount of energy they have and not good at dealing with it. It’s easier to make up a syndrome and drug ’em. Parents go along for reasons described by others.
For this ADHD business and autism, “diagnoses” of these “disorders” result in $$, for the schools, maybe for the parents, and the latter can use these as crutches for getting breaks on standardized test, etc. (Your kid gets a higher score than he would have due to this scam, and then he is a victim, helpful for the college applications. Two birds!)
It’s an online opinion webzine. How more serious can it get?
ALL CAPS SERIOUS
I’m fine with Steve making a little money and getting his share of respectability, or whatever it is that motivates him, but I think the charge that Unz “stiffed” him should be based on more than assumption. We do know Ron insulted him by inferring his take on the Nordstream bombing was frankly stupid.
That Unz did that publicly suggests he found, like a lot of readers, Steve’s takes on Covid and Ukraine infuriatingly dull. It isn’t that he’s taken the side of lockdowns and vaccines, it’s that he mischaracterized all other options as “let ‘er rip”. Remember that? The Ukraine war was similarly dumbed-down to “Putin you started it” (not quite true, but) ergo let ‘er rip lunatic neocons arming Ukranian nazis (though Steve wouldn’t even go so far as to examine our role and acknowledge the argument implicit in his glib analysis and say that outright).
I’ve always said he could have just left these issues alone–and that would have been far superior to his contribution to the debates, such as they were.
But I do want a dramatization of the beef. We’ll cast younger Hollywood versions of the two principals. I see it as a Quinn-Martin satire. “Noticing and Murder in the Valley”. Okay, the title needs work.
How does Ron feel about being played by Andrew Garfield?
They’re not all medical school people, but there seems to be an awful lot of fraud and plagiarism at Harvard.
Francesca Gino
Claudine Gay
Dana Farber Institute Harvard Med researchers × 4
Khaled Shah
The hits just keep on coming.
In the true spirit of ISteve it should be reconceived as a Gansta rap beef between rival West Coast OG “Straight out of Brentwood”factions. Maybe Easy E could be cast as the Steve character?
“but I think the charge that Unz “stiffed” him should be based on more than assumption.”
It’s not. Remember, Ron is Jewish. I’ve been repeatedly told we can’t trust them.
“We do know Ron insulted him by inferring his take on the Nordstream bombing was frankly stupid.”
There you go.
“That Unz did that publicly suggests he found, like a lot of readers, Steve’s takes on Covid and Ukraine infuriatingly dull.”
No, he was generally spot on with those takes. Insightful and honest.
“It isn’t that he’s taken the side of lockdowns and vaccines,”
No, he took the side of public health.
“it’s that he mischaracterized all other options as “let ‘er rip”.
In your opinion.
“The Ukraine war was similarly dumbed-down to “Putin you started it” (not quite true, but)”
But he did.
“ergo let ‘er rip lunatic neocons arming Ukranian nazis”
How are those Jews in power in Ukraine “Nazis”?
“I’ve always said he could have just left these issues alone”
Then he’s not doing his job of NOTICING.
Yours is a well-thought-out opinion, and I understand it.
However, I have real-life experience of what it is like to go from one environment to another. It is no joke.
And I am just talking about altitude.
It is all well and good to talk here about using exercise to counteract the effect of living for extended periods with far less gravity. That has been done since the US Space Station. It is another thing to actually live, with your body, for an extended period in fractional gravity and the to come back.
Have you watched what is it like for any astronaut to return to Earth gravity after an extended time without that gravity? Typically, he has to be assisted into a couch, and he has to recover. And he isn’t even someone who grew up on Mars at 0.38 G.
No, this is not as simple as you may think it is, but I very much respect you, and Musk, and anyone who even considers this challenge.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
BTW: Am I making sure enough here not to be an asshole, not to embarrass myself? I hope so.
Here is an entry from My Future diary that was found among my papers. This was written after Trump’s successful destruction of World trade and his addition to Mount Rushmore. Due to the successful trade policy all other nations now have a trade embargo on the United States.
—
August 10, 2028
Ration Book 3, Page 12: No eggs, no aspirin, no damn clue
The line outside the pharmacy this morning stretched all the way to the old Starbucks, which is now a Church of the Eternal Discount. The man behind me said his wife was “having one of her spells” and needed Midol. The woman in front of me said she just wanted iodine in case the Cubans or Canadians finally dropped a dirty bomb. I said I was there for aspirin. All three of us left with lollipops and a pamphlet about mental resilience.
Back home, the Wi-Fi worked for eight glorious minutes. Long enough to read that Blinken’s been indicted again—this time for “irregularly attending international meetings without appropriate MAGA authorization.” That phrase is now officially part of the legal code, apparently. Section 45-B. Subsection Glory.
We ran out of cooking oil, so my wife tried to fry potatoes in old bacon grease and a splash of cough syrup. It did something. The girls didn’t complain. They just asked if they could trade in more TikTok ration minutes to watch old episodes of The Pioneer Woman for survival tips. I said no—we’re already down to 12 minutes per household per week, and I need them for news. Or what passes for it.
They say Patriot Points will be doubled next week if you report a neighbor hoarding foreign condiments. I thought about turning in Bill next door—he’s got Heinz ketchup from Canada, no less. But he lets me charge my phone off his car battery when the power’s down, so I let it slide.
Later, while fiddling with the ham radio, I picked up a broadcast from Vermont. Some kind of underground jazz station. Real saxophones, not AI-simulated. I sat there with my eyes closed, pretending I was back in 2006. Gas was cheap. Eggs were real. We thought the biggest threat was gluten.
God bless America, or at least what’s left of it.
— J.M., American Patriot, Former Notary Public, Registered Owner of One Functional Can Opener
Turns out there may be especial reasons for the Somali kids…
https://twitter.com/Sultanknish/status/1867267654748106993
(By the way, since Twitter links in these open threads just appear as text URLs, is it really necessary to put them below ‘MORE’ tags? Aren’t the real bandwidth culprits images and video links?)
OK smugsby. Gave you a fair chance to back off.
You declined. We’ll be in touch.
Note the plural.
See ya!
(cheerfully hums “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard”)
Ron “stiffed him” slander defended with silly and irrelevant reference to “antisemitism”.
Counter-argument that Steve was offended, not ripped off, acknowledged, thank you.
If posting Faulty Towers clips and accepting conventional media characterizations fully and uncritically are now “insightful and honest” here, please lead me back the portal to reality. I’m a little scared.
“let ‘er rip” is a quote of Steve engaging in the fallacy of mischaracterization with the usual smirk.
Putin “started” the Ukraine war after years of bombardment and us openly setting up Ukraine as a hostile nation on his borders. Present calls to dismember Russia reveal the original western goal.
I’m sorry you’ve never heard of Azov and that they hold considerable influence in Ukraine–enough to have gotten away with threatening Zelensky’s life when he proposed a local ceasefire. I encourage you to learn more about them.
“That respectable and sane clientele you ordered, Mr Sailer.”
Just teasing Corv.
I see what you did there.
Other causes include defense against being called ‘racist’, pity, professional one-upmanship, and profit. And there’s now an entrenched autism ‘industry’ that is a taxpayer-funded self-licking ice cream cone.
• Cringe
https://twitter.com/treblewoe/status/1918680260570148871
“That Unz did that publicly suggests he found, like a lot of readers, Steve’s takes on Covid and Ukraine increasingly dull.”
I once saw Ron Unz discussing Steve with former frequent Steve commenter PhysicistDave in a comment thread elsewhere on this website. Ron found Steve’s views on Ukraine and Covid somewhat inexplicable. PD suggested to Ron this was just Steve becoming more cautious about challenging the establishment in his old age.
As an aging Boomer myself, I can somewhat understand this. Revolutions are usually started by young men. As people become old, they start to focus on establishing financial security so they can be comfortable in their retirement years. They also just don’t have the energy they once did to rock the boat or challenge those in power.
Ron also told PD that Steve’s readership here had been declining, with the remaining readers being mostly aging Boomers, while the younger Andrew Anglin was gaining readers and had ten times the readership of Steve. With its focus on challenging establishment views, Ron’s website was just no longer the right place for Steve to be at.
Yes. As a boomer myself, I have to acknowledge the powerful pull of apathy and convention. No one wants the fight for the world to come at the end of his life, when nature’s course is to relax and consolidate.
Just, the world doesn’t care about our age. And evil forces depend mightily on age’s fear of change. But Steve is also concerned for his legacy. When engaged in such an existential fight as ours, we must be cruel in our indifference to such concerns. Sorry Steve, and sorry that you, perhaps, rue your own role in our radicalization. But things have gone too far and there’s no amount of reason and decency that’s going to stop them.
As for me, I have the benefit of not having status or a legacy. This is freedom and I, unironically, like it. Getting old sucks. Peace and calm may naturally go well with it, but I feel enlivened by this fight. I feel privileged to be witness to history, even the horror of now. But one has to acknowledge that what is happening is horror. Anything else is unforgivable.
One need not rage against the dying of the light when he has the dying of the right to contend with. What are we saving ourselves for? Let’s go out swinging.
You really should not try your hand at this sort of thing.
Damn you, you know Easy left us years ago. Excuse me while I pour one out. This is interesting, but I don’t think the Disney-like brownification is necessary. No, I want a wild, sprawling half-crazy fictionalization involving Mossad, Hasbaran troll farms, lunatic troons and all manner of current craziness; a film that makes Oliver Stone’s JFK looked reserved.
“Counter-argument that Steve was offended, not ripped off, acknowledged, thank you.”
Never said that.
“If posting Faulty Towers clips and accepting conventional media characterizations fully and uncritically are now “insightful and honest” here”
Strawman on your part.
“let ‘er rip” is a quote of Steve engaging in the fallacy of mischaracterization with the usual smirk.”
Then why are you commenting here, especially if he is no longer in control of this blog?
“Putin “started” the Ukraine war after years of bombardment and us openly setting up Ukraine as a hostile nation on his borders”
In your opinion.
“I’m sorry you’ve never heard of Azov”
I’ve heard of them. They are not Jewish. They are pro white, like you.
“Let’s go out swinging.“
At who exactly?
And, by the same token, there are now “gender researchers” who claim that young children, even perhaps toddlers, are expressing a gender preference different than thier “birth gender” (what we used to call simply “sex”)
And I know of conservative Mormon families who have succumbed to the tranny delusion – who now think their son is a girl and have become super liberal. as a result.
I’m not saying there is no such thing as autism. There probably is. But with the corrupted state of medical science, it has become difficult to gauge the extent of it. ADHD may be real too, but it’s hard to say as it was used to wage war on young boys by trying to get them to stop being young boys.
And I suspect a lot of these 1st World problems are the result of environmental chemical exposure, as you say. And I’m not one of those libertarians you mentioned.
I’m sorry, if medical science wanted to be trusted and respected they should not have done the whole COVID thing. With that, they blew up their claim on my trust and respect. Permanently. I’m not forgetting it. Ever.
It is unsurprising that a people who live by theft and piracy in their own country turn to welfare fraud when transplanted to ours. Such a wonderful addition to the rich tapestry of “Our Democracy” (OD). And, thanks again, George H.W. Bush, for that wonderful gift. The gift that keeps on taking.
And, by the same token, there are now “gender researchers” who claim that young children, even perhaps toddlers, are expressing a gender preference different than thier “birth gender” (what we used to call simply “sex”)
No I don’t see how that is by the same token.
Autism is a learning disability and I can cite a dozen studies on autism in children.
Go ahead and cite the equivalent for sex changes in children under 5.
I’m sorry, if medical science wanted to be trusted and respected they should not have done the whole COVID thing.
Unlike you I have worked with children and differences from autism are more apparent than race. Those differences are obvious even if you haven’t read about autism. It isn’t the imagination of liberals or some exaggerated condition. Autistic children follow certain patterns and they can be extreme.
I don’t take the position that gender should be changed in youth and in fact that is not the mainstream position of the medical establishment. In fact the vast majority of Democrats agree:
https://thepostmillennial.com/67-of-democrats-think-sex-change-surgery-hormones-should-only-be-available-to-adults
You’re buying too much into hype and conflating different issues.
Try turning off your Fox and working with kids. Autism is not made up or a state of confusion from modernism. You can get on youtube and watch how these kids interact with their parents. It’s not something they are making up when the patterns are consistent at age 2 or 3.
Eventually the cause will be determined and you better be ready for the possibility that it is some chemical in the food supply.
Part of the answer to your friend’s question is the nature of law. If you file a suit for an injunction or restraining order and the judge declines to give it to you (the desired outcome of the strategy), that doesn’t mean that the non-enjoined thing is expressly endorsed, it’s just a legal nullity—nothing happened legally. Meanwhile your adversary files in another court and gets the injunction or restraining order, that ruling actually does mean something. The fact that ‘your’ judge didn’t give it doesn’t invalidate that ‘their’ judge did.
So, obviously there’s a sort of tragedy of the commons problem inherent in the legal system where the most corrupt judge can issue a binding injunction that the most virtuous judge’s decision not to issue does not mitigate. Is that a tragedy of the commons or a race to the bottom? Or are those overlapping categories? Whatever, you get the idea.
Maybe there’s a way to jiu-jitsu this so the tragedy of the commons works for the Trump administration rather than against it. But it is difficult if the status quo is not your way, which it isn’t right now.
This does raise a related question of jurisdiction, which I don’t understand why it hasn’t been used more. For example, if a commie judge in Hawaii ‘invalidates’ a Trump EO, like the ‘Muslim ban’ EO, then why not say, “Okay, terrorists can now temporarily immigrate to Hawaii, but not to the other 49 states! Enjoy your jurisdiction, Hawaii!”?
I understand that the District Court judge in the “Muslim ban” case (who I think was actually in Washington State) said his judgment was “nationwide”, but I don’t understand how he had that power and wasn’t challenged on it. Trump ultimately withdrew his EO and rewrote it, so the matter was never litigated out completely.
Judge shopping is supposed to be illegal. Nevertheless, it is obviously done a lot, especially by the Democrat-Legal Industrial Complex, and I’m not aware of anyone ever being prosecuted for it. If a Republican ever did it, though, with the effectiveness that the Democrats do, I expect it would suddenly become the Legal Crisis Of Our Time, accompanied by editorials in the New York Times about the “sacred integrity of legal process” [sic]. The obvious double standard would simply be Megaphonically ignored, as usual.
That said, one of Trump’s virtues is that he ignores many (one-way) taboos (that only applied to Republicans), so why doesn’t he do this? Well maybe he would if the right person makes the suggestion in the right way!
While judge-shopping (arranging a particular judge to hear a particular case) is illegal, forum-shopping (choosing a favorable jurisdiction to file your case) is not. The Trump administration has already been using forum-shopping (e.g., for their lame-o deport-the-antisemites cases).
Perhaps some resistance to the ‘proactive’ strategy is, “why help make the adversaries’ case for them?”, even if it is for the purpose of poison-pilling it? Besides being a lot of work, it might backfire.
Twitter changed their default behavior when linked about a month ago. At the time they did that their cookie planting and history sniffing they did at everybody was egregious and just horrible for latency of linking pages.
They should be presumed guilty and banished behind more in perpetuity if you ask me.
Not in the very recent past. No.
Thimerosal is the mercury-bearing compound in question. It was put in multi-dose vaccine containers as an anti-fungal agent, since the bottles stay open for a while between doses. According to the CDC, it hasn’t been used in the usual pediatric vaccines since 2001. I have no opinion on whether it causes Autism or not. Thimerosal is still used in some flu vaccines, and they do push those on kids now (which itself is probably stupid).
This notion that nobody should ever get the flu, ever, is ludicrous. When you are young, getting the flu usually isn’t a big deal, and it confers much better immunity than any vaccine does. I sometimes wonder if this anti-flu jihad isn’t being driven by business interests who want to drive down sickness-related absenteeism. Sick days are another reason why employers will push for AI and robotics – to get rid of all those icky, sickly, gold-bricking carbon-units we used to call workers.
Steve straddles the line betwixt Establishment Boomer and heretic. His thoughts on Ukraine/mRNA shot are obviously EB whilst his views on culture and cognition as it pertains to race is certainly heretical to the corporatist white EB set. Far too many EBs were/are Reaganauts and fratboy fans of Ayn Rand. So that has put Steve in an interesting space throughout his career. A lot of Steve’s EB readers are literalist, materialist which can be dull to non-EBs. His Subshack probably pays better than Unz (I really don’t know anything about Subshacks). He’s a professional writer. All pros have to calculate to a certain degree whilst maintaining the voice and ideas that drove them to pursue such a difficult vocation.
Don’t invite the cuckoo into your nest. He will only soil it.
Yes you did. “Well there you go.”
Strawman: quoting an opponents words out of context.
Steve posted the FT clip to reinforce his contention that Putin’s invasion meant he must accept the fait accompli of Ukraine in Nato and all it entails, while negating everything we or Ukraine did up to that point.
Please show me the part of Steve’s analysis of Covid that deviated significantly from mainstream media coverage.
Shall I define “Strawman” for you again?
I confess to having no clue what your meaning is here. Please, someone who speaks Corvese interpret for me. Is Barbara Billingsly on the plane?
Now you’re stealing your rejoinders directly from the Dude. Nice marmot.
Do you smoke a lot of weed? Because I hear it’s bad for short term memory. You’re the one who suggested we aren’t arming nazis in Ukraine because Zelensky and the neocons are Jewish.
Really? You don’t really think I’m afraid to say “the Jews”, do you? Yes, the Jews are our adversaries. Our struggle is with them, ultimately. I hope we find a peaceful solution. Not everyone is a chickenshit coward, my anonymous friend.
Okay Corv, you win. On sheer, blind-rage bullheaded persistence. Your characterization in the film is hereby upgraded from Hasbaran Troll to Mossad Man of Mystery. But the sexual encounter with the Thai ladyboy stays in. It’s central to the story.
“some unforeseen discovery or technological/medical development that makes all of this possible”
I guess robotic suits could help with the lack of muscle for things like walking around. But how long would a heart used to pumping blood in low gravity last in a high-gravity environment? How long would we last on Jupiter,* with gravity 2.36 x that of earth?
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planet_table_ratio.html
* assuming we could find something solid to stand on at the “surface” of a gas giant.
I think they may have gotten some bad info, and are confusing Mars with this place.
That’s because you are obtuse.
Oh boy…….studies!. Studies find…………….. The magic incantation of the NPR liberal.
No, the medical establishment – medical societies, university medical departments, etc. – very much have bought into this nonsense. Again, you are being obtuse.
What? Do you own a lemonade stand? Worked with children? What does that mean? Are you a teacher?
I don’t get information from FOX. I watch it occasionally to see what the current establishment fake-conservative narrative is.
Perhaps working with children has made you dumb. Maybe you should talk to adults more.
“Steve posted the FT clip to reinforce his contention that Putin’s invasion meant he must accept the fait accompli of Ukraine in Nato and all it entails”
OK
“while negating everything we or Ukraine did up to that point.”
No, he included it in his analysis.
The bottom line is that Putin invaded a sovereign nation which has the liberty to make its own decisions in foreign affairs.
“Please show me the part of Steve’s analysis of Covid that deviated significantly from mainstream media coverage.”
Never said otherwise. Thanks for the strawman.
“You’re the one who suggested we aren’t arming nazis in Ukraine”
We are arming freedom fighters, with a small group who are Neo Nazis—who are not Jewish as you implied.
“because Zelensky and the neocons are Jewish”
So? They seek freedom for themselves and their posterity.
“Yes, the Jews are our adversaries.”
No, they are YOUR adversaries.
“Our struggle is with them, ultimately.”
YOUR struggle, not mine.
“I hope we find a peaceful solution.”
What do you propose?
“Not everyone is a chickenshit coward, my anonymous friend.”
LOL, you’re not going to pull a St. Brievik or a Pinochet. Just stop.
“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”–Ronald Reagan
I haven’t been keeping a close eye, but it looks like Anglin doesn’t get nearly as many comments as Steve did. Maybe the yout aren’t chatty. Does he post more often?
What’s happened here? Other than the obvious.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/cincinnati-police-fatally-shoot-teen-father-kills-officer
And now here it is, with no reason and no explanation whatever… the greatest, best-est pop song in the world. And NOBODY can figure out why. Ask Bono (I did): he will agree, but he will have NO basis for formulating WHY this is the Best Pop Song of All Time. Nobody can explain it — not even Lou himself.
30 years going, and I STILL can’t figure it out.
What do the Canadians have against Ecuador?
Agree. Although Perfect Day gives it a run (or serves well as b-side).
Eh, my original casting idea was Nipsey Hu$$le as Mr. Unz but even I knew Nipsey has departed this vale of tears.
“While judge-shopping (arranging a particular judge to hear a particular case) is illegal, forum-shopping (choosing a favorable jurisdiction to file your case) is not. …”
In many cases this is a distinction without a difference as filing in some forums means you will very likely get a particular judge. I found a letter from the liberal Brennan Center for Justice complaining about this and suggesting changes to make it harder to pick a judge. Some quotes from the letter appear below. BTW the fact that this is a liberal organization complaining about the current system and suggesting changes should be a hint that it hasn’t just been liberals abusing the current system.
“…The Proposal details one potential approach for the Committee’s consideration: if a plaintiff seeks injunctive relief that would extend beyond a judicial district, the case would be randomly assigned to any judge within the district, regardless of the division in which the case was filed. …”
“…This is especially important where parties seek broad injunctive relief that will affect numerous others not before the court. Currently, there are a number of divisions in the country where, pursuant to local rules, all cases filed in the counties of a division are assigned to a small handful of judges, and often a single judge. …”
“This judge-shopping has damaged public confidence in the fairness of the judicial system, at a time when the judiciary is already under intense scrutiny. A new Federal Rule of Civil Procedure is needed to ensure uniform minimum standards for random case assignment. …”
“it looks like Anglin doesn’t get nearly as many comments as Steve did”
I had the same thought you did when I read Ron Unz saying Steve’s readership was declining and Anglin’s was growing and had surpassed Steve. It could be partly due to what you said, Anglin’s younger readers are less chatty.
I read Steve every day for years. It eventually occurred to me he was possibly trying to drive his comment count up by putting frequent commenters on automatic approval, thereby encouraging them to comment even more. Many of these commenters were also of the type that would generate a lot of comments in response, also increasing the total comment count.
Hi John Johnson (from Wisconsin ?),
You might find the post from Cremieux Recueil interesting. He argues that autism is not increasing but an artifact and also due to false reporting. He does not say that autism does not exist and is not a terrible thing to have in some cases, but that there is little or no increase. Worth reading:
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-deal-with-autism-rates
Yeah, Perfect Day makes an, as it were, perfect complement.
I asked David Bowie about “Satellite” years later when I was babysitting him for NYC insurance purposes, he had after all produced it. And he sort of looked down sheepishly at the table and smiled in his trademark Bowie way, and said “Well you know, Lou is just sort of… Lou.”
That is David by the way, doing all the outrageous backing vocals at the end.
Occam’s razor: Because it actually sucks?
C’mon, man. Iggy Pop has better pop songs. Get a hit off this:
Perhaps, but the difference I was referring to is that if, say, you are suing a pharmaceutical maker who has customers in all fifty states, you can choose a court in any state (“forum shopping”), but if your case is already in a specific jurisdiction with many judges but somehow Judge Boasberg keeps hearing your cases while there are a dozen other judges there (“judge shopping”), then it’s starting to look like the judicial dice are loaded. The former is done by everyone who can. The latter happens very frequently in Dem-sponsored anti-Trump cases, but without any penalty I’ve seen. AFAICT, they do this by arranging ahead of time that a certain judge will be on duty for weekend emergencies and then file the suit just after close of business on Friday, so that judge gets the call, who then installs himself as the arbiter of that line of litigation. Technically legal perhaps, but still pretty obvious gaming of the system. The Brennan Center letter has some other wheezes that I didn’t know about, like the “single-judge jurisdiction”. Perhaps that’s what the Trump admin was doing with the deportation case where they took the guy from NJ to Louisiana.
As a lawyer, maybe you can explain why the suit doesn’t have to be filed in the jurisdiction where the plaintiff (or defendant) is? That would seem like an obvious restriction that would cut off a large source of judge-gaming.
Autism is definitely real, and you know a truly autistic child when you see one. They have all sorts of sensory issues, as well as social problems. Some have talents, but are unable to make use of them or put them into any useful context. I wouldn’t necessarily say that autism is a learning disorder as much as I would say that autistics have a different way of learning or expressing what they know. A lot depends on the level of intelligence, since dumb people can be autistic also.
The problem with autism and learning disorders is that there is a push to have as many children labeled learning disabled as possible, in order to shove them into special programs, which makes money for parents, schools, psychologists, therapists, pediatricians, big pharma and alternative medicines, lawyers,……. Having children tagged with a learning disability is a way to excuse or shift blame for the “learning gap.”
No problems!
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Steve straddles the line betwixt Establishment Boomer and heretic. His thoughts on Ukraine/mRNA shot are obviously EB whilst his views on culture and cognition as it pertains to race is certainly heretical to the corporatist white EB set.
Supporting recommending vaccines is more of the doctor’s position than the establishment boomer.
Doctor support is well past 95% while conservative boomers are split.
Thus it is more accurate to say that he supports the common position of the physician.
That position however outraged many of his readers as they expected total conformity with the crowds.
Alt-right likes to snicker at mindless liberal conformity in the MSM and then will rage when one of their beloved bloggers steps outside of accepted viewpoints.
Most posters here really don’t support free speech and in fact hold diversity of opinion with disdain.
Their support for alternative media is really a facade. What they really want is a changing of the guard.
They want a different gang in charge of the channels.
“As a lawyer, maybe you can explain why the suit doesn’t have to be filed in the jurisdiction where the plaintiff (or defendant) is? That would seem like an obvious restriction that would cut off a large source of judge-gaming.”
First to be clear I am not a lawyer and just have a layman’s knowledge of the law.
That said there are jurisdictional requirements but they aren’t too hard to satisfy when it comes to suits challenging federal actions that apply nationwide. You just have to establish some connection to the federal district involved. See this for example:
“… Federal laws and regulations often apply to people in many areas of the country, sometimes nationwide, while state laws and regulations often apply statewide. Entities such as nonprofit organizations with members in many geographic locations may be able to establish jurisdiction and proper venue in any judicial district where one or more members affected by a challenged action reside. ..”