Archived link: https://archive.is/tmnJj

new innovations like AI cults

It’s true, but too wide a phenomenon to be ghettoized into that little word, “cult.”

Related (?): The latest essay doesn’t mention “UFOs” but we’ve seen that, too. Am I right in perceiving that UFO-believers entered the Trump coalition in or by the late 2010s?

Mr. A. E. Newman, of this comment-section and Peak Stupidity, reminded me lately that in 2019-20 the proprietor of this website was promoting the writings of a man, Metallicman. This man claimed to be pro-Trump, pro-China, pro-UFO, and anti-“Deep State” and living in exile in PRC-China.

Metallicman claimed he realized his native USA was evil after the U.S. Air Force subjected him to an alien abduction and brain-chip implants. He was glad to report that he had safely escaped to China. What I recall from his writings was he was supporting Trump and other anti-Deep State forces from abroad and had taken a Chinese wife. In 2020 he wrote how appalled and horrified he was that the U.S. Deep State had released an experimental coronavirus on innocent Chinese peasants in the interior. He was hopeful Trump could still win.

There have been people saying things like this for a long time, but never had they entered a mainstream political coalition. There was no “UFO abductees for Reagan” group.

Another name conspicuously absent here: Alex Jones. Also absent, any mention of the once-influential Q-Anon movement; and another big name in promotion of some of these ideas, Joe Rogan. Rogan himself emerged as a core member of the new Trump coalition.

As for Alex Jones. He gets sympathy for several reasonable reasons. But his ultimate impact over the 25 years of his public career is, I think, unfortunate.

In the 2000s, Alex Jones gained a following among a set of marginal(-feeling) and disgruntled people (often teenagers and the like) who were completely outside politics, more-or-less. He did so through his willingness to shock and a set of classic demagogic techniques. He promoted the idea that “elites” are Satan-worshippers. (He had the video-tape to prove it; trust him.)

That Alex Jones entered a near-mainstream position, by some point in the later 2010s, is a sign of, what? Yes, they say it’s largely a performance, that he’s playing a character. Still an important symbol of the politicization of these kinds of ideas or movements.

Great column!

Though Mr. Unz stripped out some of your headline space, I’m glad you’re still here, and I’m glad Taki’s “paywall” is so each to get through. It probably helped that I was reading it under a pyramid – my mind bended the HTML.

Your LA pyramid scheme story was hilarious, Steve. Regarding the 20-year (?) yoga pants trend, Los Angeles must be heaven if you can say that. Here, other than at the university, only 5-10% of the girls wearing yoga pants should be wearing yoga pants. We’ve got yoga pants but not the yoga, which is a problem. Peak Stupidity says Down with Yoga Pants!

Without the physical pyramids, pyramid schemes will be around forever. The internet makes them easier. Even without it, though, it’s easy to fall for this…

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I never even heard of current Continental favorites of younger rightists like Carl Schmitt until my 40s, Julius Evola until my 50s, and Mircea Eliade until my 60s

The theoretical-scholar of religion and myths Mircea Eliade is a favorite of the Right?

Since when? Why?

And, what’s behind Steve Sailer’s failure to come across, before 2019, the name of this leading theorist of comparative religion (Mircea Eliade, d.1986, Chicago)?

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On the day Dr Eliade died, in Washington the House of Representatives was taking its time debating the proposed Reagan Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants bill, it having been passed by the Senate a few months earlier. Five months after Dr Eliade’s death, the House passed the Reagan Amnesty by a vote of 238–173, and millions of illegals were legalized, millions more were brought in as legal chain-migrants, and millions more induced to come.

Votes on the Reagan Amnesty of 1986:
– Democrats: 161 Yea; 90 Nay; and 11 absent or abstained.
– Republicans: 77 Yea; 93 Nay; and 10 absent or abstained.

(Amazingly enough given his later record, John McCain voted Nay on the Reagan Amnesty. Newt Gingrich voted Yea, for the amnesty. Barbara Boxer and a number of left-wing Democrats voted Nay. The coalitions existed but they were far less clear in the 1980s, a lot more overlap in the center, as everyone likes to point out.)

What might scholar of religion Eliade have thought of the USA creating a kind of new religion worshipping Third World immigrants? (Wokeness.) He’ll have lived to have seen the earliest signs, in his later life (by the later 1970s, 1980s).

OK, slightly more seriously here, my wife, as politically MAGA as they get, is also into the supplements, “get rid of the bottled water!”*, and fruit drinks – her smoothies don’t have the 3/4” of sugar in the bottom of the cup though – just use bananas. I am pretty sure Telegram is a big part of the reason she is so into all this.

However, as you mentioned with your GrandDad, having health problems with no easy solutions is an impetus for New Agey health care. It’s HOLE-istice! She’s got some joint pain she has that’s got her searching for solutions. (Admirably, she will not take the Big Pharma drugs required, which in this case most assuredly do have long-term terrible side effects.)

Regarding your point on comparative religion, how does that comport with that Evangelical Christians, who don’t want any of that Hindu or Buddhist mumbo-jumbo but are now into some of the woo-woo things? Again, Instagram, etc., but yes, RFK, Jr. is a factor, not that he could possibly be worse than a usual GOPe Big Pharma shill. (I’d rather there be NO Feral HHS to begin with!)

There is the women’s woo-woo stuff, mostly health related, but the UFO sightings are more of a guy thing. I can tell you that there ARE so many UFOs around – they are called drones. In the age of drones, we have these Unidentified Flying Objects that could very well be up to no good. No, no little green men though. We only wish!:

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* Hell, I was fine with drinking from the sink my whole life before she got me hauling water from Target for years – my feeling for those who don’t live in Flint, Michigan or other “infected” areas is Do as the Romans did.

LOL?

On the side. I only came to Unz to see your blog. Where I found it at first by following a link from another news site. I am about to delete it from my bookmarks, though at times there are interesting things in the two headliner articles. The ones that most likely I would open often show up on Lew Rockwell and one or two other sites I visit regularly.

I’m also not so much for sports talk… I was on rifle team in high school, fenced (epee) in college and that was it. When I threw the grenade in Army training they said I threw like a girl. (I improved.)

Sorry I missed you at the Castle.

Godspeed,
John

References big five personality traits but RFK is the quack. Don’t you have a speaking engagement full of “handsome” Jews to slink off into?

A pro-Sailer commenter writing at Steve Sailer Dot Net (a URL, btw, that gets ghosted on X, per the Musk directive against Substack), is unimpressed with this column:

Paulus

I would call this [“The Right’s Weird New Age,” by Steve Sailer, Taki-Mag, Feb. 12, 2025,] a leading contender for most unfocused, unpersuasive, uninformative Steve Sailer essays ever.

How this list of 60 years of recreational beliefs connects to today’s conservatives is unclear. There are always some people that are intrigued by this stuff, some of which may be nonsense and some which has benefits (yoga, meditation, health food), and there’s not much else to say about it.

Oh well, everyone can have an off day.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-rights-weird-new-age/comment/92907914

The support for RFK Jr. within the Republican party probably comes more from libertarian influences rather than leftwing influences within the party. An important concept here is “regulatory capture”. This involves federal government regulatory agencies coming under the control of the industries they are regulating. They do this by giving political donations to politicians involved in approving the heads of these agencies. For example, the biggest opponents of RFK Jr. during his confirmation hearing were the largest receivers of big pharma donations.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/which-senators-are-owned-big-pharma-rfk-jrs-confirmation-hearings-are-showing-us

This is not something new. A book, Stop the FDA: Save your Health Freedom, came out in 1992. The cover has a quote on it by Milton Friedman: “Any increase in the FDA’s authority over anything is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health”. The first chapter is a speech by Republican senator Orrin Hatch explaining his Health Freedom Act of 1992, which protected the right of consumers to buy nutritional supplements. A main opponent of the supplement industry in this era was Democrat congressman Henry Waxman. This book contains an article by the conservative Paul Gigot from the Wall Street Journal critical of Waxman.

Also in the book is an article by the libertarians Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. They wrote a book in the eighties on life extension which took a critical look at the FDA and government funding of medical research. In that particular book they recommended books and articles related to this along with more general political books by Friedman, Mises, Hayek and Rand. Pearson and Shaw also wrote a standalone book on the FDA which also has a Milton Friedman quote on the cover: “This splendid book puts us even more in Durk Pearson’s and Sandy Shaw’s debt”.

I signed up for X a couple of weeks ago and am following a half dozen people, Sailer being the least mainstream. Alex Jones has been consistently all over my home page, more than anyone else save Elon and Steve Inman, but I’ve never started one of his videos. Still a few burps in the algorithm.

Evangelical Christians, who don’t want any of that Hindu or Buddhist mumbo-jumbo but are now into some of the woo-woo things

You may remember my commentary about the Republican National Convention, back there in July 2024, made in the hallowed digital halls of Peak Stupidity (dot com, for those taking notes).

(Adam Smith, as I recall, said he was particularly entertained by the Hulk Hogan — in-character! — prime-time pro-Trump speech.)

There was a lot that was strange, embarrassing, or what-we-expect-is-not-quite-what-we-get at RNC-2024. One among many was the inclusion of a non-Christian prayer by a Sikh big-wig(ess) in the California Republican Party, by name of Harmeet Dhillon.

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HARMEET DHILLON GIVES A BENEDICTION AT THE CLOSE OF NIGHT ONE OF THE RNC [2024]

I remember seeing this, and thinking it a little odd but not far out of line with what else had happened throughout the three-day show. There was significant pushback on “social media.” I think a lot of it was about many shots of audience people, presumably White-Christians, bowing along in prayer.

As usual, though, the Trump Show went on.

If you saw the inauguration, you know that a clown car arrived at the Capitol, out of which pro-Trump bodyguards escorted a person-of-color-of-honor, a shuck-and-jive, racist-cartoon-character-in-a-human-body Black preacher, to give a benediction to Trump. I found that, personally, more offensive as the primetime Sikh prayer.

This was the prayer/benediction I refer to, by Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, of Detroit (the second benediction speaker; the first being a Jewish rabbi):

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A Youtuber commenter says: “Felt like I was watching another Tyler Perry movie not the inauguration.”

(Leftists anti-Trump commentators, the next day or two, made fun of this cartoonish performance as way beneath the dignity of a president of a White republic, although naturally not in those terms; they generally avoided saying that the guy was Black at all; some said such things as he “walked out of a comedy movie.”)

The release of the assassination files should start an avalanche of weird discussion, even if it’s mostly complaints that they’re still holding some back, after we enter Capone’s cupboard and find it bare.

“One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo-woo, the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc. …”

So can Sailer be bothered to provide any examples for any of this? Because faith in RFK is about the only one that is real.

And while TUR has made a steering wheel wrenching veer into Chinaphilia the last couple years, can Ron Unz and his sycophants really be considered right wing?

As far as junk science, oh Steve-o my Steve-o, explain to me again the science behind the untested mRNA injections again! It’s as soothing as a bedtime story!

I mean, the rest of his list is just flippant exaggeration, right?

Indeed, Mr. Hail, that info you and others gave me about the RNC and now the Superbowl is a bit disgusting to me. I am ashamed of that lowbrow stuff, not that I’d ever watch any of it (been 15 years for the Superbowl and maybe 30 years re any RNC.)

However, if lots of of MAGA is lowbrow or new-agey as of late, so long as these are people that care about the future of America – which they DO – I don’t care. This reminds me of the Brit reporter that got in MTG’s face at some event last year.

Watch this, and ask yourself, readers, Jewish Space Lasers or not, who do you like here? No, who do you LUV?! [/Thorogood]

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You take your allies when and where you can find ’em, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” and etc.

There’s “lowbrow”…and then there’s M.T. Greene.

“And women in yoga pants are not the worst thing about the 21st century.”

Shhhh! I thought we all agreed to pretend that yoga pants, leggings, low cut tops, crop tops, swimsuits that only cover 1/2 the butt, way to short shorts, and women’s workout clothes are purely utilitarian articles of clothing that are completely uninteresting to men. Ixne on the ogayay!

My yoga pants tale of woe:

A couple of years ago I was stopped behind a school bus as it let off small children. One of the moms waiting to pick up the kids was standing outside the bus and leaning in, apparently to help her tot off the bus. I could see her only from the rear – but what a magnificent rear! Her yoga pants-clad rump was the absolute zenith of the Divine Rumpmaker’s art. Each perfect cheek was exquisitely outlined and with a delightful cleft in between. It was Paradise.

And then she turned around as the child got off, and to my horror I realized that my Hot Mom assumption had been very, very wrong. She was not a well-preserved youthful grandmother, which actually wouldn’t have been so bad. No, she was more like the small child’s older sister, no more than 13 or 14 years old. That’s whose rump I had been admiring.

Of course I tried to expunge the image from my mind, but pro tip, the harder you try not to think of an image, the more you do.

………..RFK Jr. junk science…………….

Yeah, people should stick to tried-and-true science. Like the idea that locking down the entire world and forcing people to wear masks and get shot up with some concoction that was rushed to market mostly untested is a sound idea. Or that a diet heavy in carbs is good for you. Or that food additives like Red Dye No. 2 or Diacetyl or silica powder or any of the hundreds of other non-food items that the FDA approves of to be put in food are perfectly safe.

The kind of science you know is real because the people who tell you to believe it wear white lab coats. And, after all, it is well known that a person wearing a white lab coat is incapable of saying anything other than God’s own truth.

Why was it that Steve’s readership plummeted over the last few years?……………..Oh yeah, that’s right………………… We noticed that the prime noticer stopped noticing so much.

Key to this is that the left has been detached from reality for years. They could easily win by trying to not be insane. They were artificially protected from their own failure by USAID and the Whole Society Initiative, and had they never accepted such weakening “protection,” they probably wouldn’t be in this bad of a state. Look at John Fetterman win over audiences by not being insane.

Ten days to stop the spread. Six feet distance.
Cling harder to that amulet, Steve, the failure is in your faith.

2025 Steve: The right is wierd.
2010 Steve: What about the thing where you go around starting wars, and you lose every single war you start, and you lose badly, and you even lost to the Houthis, could that be a factor here?

They do this by giving political donations to politicians involved in approving the heads of these agencies. For example, the biggest opponents of RFK Jr. during his confirmation hearing were the largest receivers of big pharma donations.

It works that way too, but that’s not the only way they do it. It also happens via the revolving door between government and industry. To give one example, during the COVID-regime, one of the most prominent go-to “experts” routinely interviewed by the media about the pandemic was Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He could be seen on CNN and FOX and was probably on all the broadcast networks as well. His affiliation was always – always – given as “Former FDA Commissioner”. However they never revealed his (then) current affiliation…..Pfeizer board member.

Moreover, the pharma industry literally gives money to the FDA. A significant fraction of the FDA’s budget for evaluating drugs, something like half, is paid to them by the very industry they regulate.

I’m not wild about the creeping foreign cultural influences in the Republican party, however I’m afraid some of this is inevitable given the demographic changes that have already been baked in to the country (against our will). The best we can do now is to stop that demographic change from getting any worse. The odd public Sikh prayer is something I can live with if it means that, 20 years hence, they’re not closing the Republican convention with a Santeria ritual.

That said, I like Harmeet Dhillon a lot. She has been a sincere and effective champion of genuine conservative causes.

I despise the Republican Party’s embrace of vulgar American low-culture: rappers, “Wrestlers”, porn actresses, etc. And this is largely the work of Donald Trump, who has always been at heart a vulgar charlatan. However, it is partly just a reflection of the wider culture. Over the last fifty years, and especially over the last twenty years, American culture has become exceptionally tawdry and disgusting. Everything is Wrestlemania now – full of chest-thumping bravado or overtly sexualized displays – loud, flashy, vulgar, idiotic – sports, music (so-called), movies, even the cooking channel. Those of us who remember the old America remember that it wasn’t always that way.

My wife is into much of the current new age stuff like crystals and speaking to the descended masters. It is a growing thing. There are crystal shops popping up all over the place, especially in college towns. My wife got into it because she visited a psychic in her youth and got hooked. Marianne Williamson, who was a presidential candidate incorporated a lot of new age stuff into her campaign.

Watch this, and ask yourself, readers, Jewish Space Lasers or not, who do you like here? No, who do you LUV?! [/Thorogood]

Speaking as a Space Laser American, I confess I always have had a soft spot for MTG despite (or perhaps because of) her general nuttiness.

Great column!

This is going to reveal my age but I remember the ‘70s with crystal clarity.
I’d say the 1960s were more closely associated with the Human Potential Movement
(whose epicenter was at Esalen, CA). The New Age Movement exploded in the
1970s. Surprisingly, the Cold War was one of the factors. Many people in the West
were convinced that countries such as Russia or Poland were less materialistic,
and therefore more open to phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance,
precognition, or remote viewing. Hence they could use their psychic abilities
to spy on us. No wonder the book “Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain” (1970)
became a mega-bestseller. In fact the book has a chapter on Pyramid Power.

But the guru of Pyramid Power was the boy genius Patrick Flanagan (1944-2019).
Credited with hundreds of inventions, he was primarily interested in immortality.
His firm, Source of Innergy, was headquartered in Sherman Oaks. I admit, as an
experiment I kept my razor blades under a small cardboard pyramid to see if they
stayed sharp longer. The results were inconclusive. Flanagan’s main claim to
fame, however, that is still very much with us, was the development of a supplement,
known as Megahydrate, which when added to water, turned ordinary water into
a healing agent, at least that’s what many people continue to claim.

In the 1970s there was also an explosion of channeling, starting with the Seth
Material (1970), followed by A Course in Miracles (1976). Conversations with
God (multivolume starting in the 1990s) etc.

Maharishi was on the Merv Griffin Show in 1975, and the Transcendental
Meditation movement was born, which shows no sign of stopping. David Lynch,
until his recent death, was a major advocate of TM.

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As to the real gist of this column, I asked myself when America did NOT have any woo-woo, new-agey stuff going on. Via rectal extraction primarily, I came up with the 1930s through 1950s, a more serious era in America. When would y’all pick?

I watched the movie The Road to Wellville one time – as far as the alternative healthcare stuff goes. The movie was about John Kellogg and friends, over a century ago, I guess well before he was making Pop-Tarts and Froot Loops. They were into all sorts of wacky things, not all necessarily ineffective, IMO. Some of it you might have been better off not knowing about, though enemas are pretty HOLE-istic, you gotta admit. There were businessmen involved, likely Conservatives.

Age of Aquarius notwithstanding, the early 1990s might have been the time the term “New Age” came around to describe people and music. Past-life regression, sweat lodges, and Enya! What’s not to like? I was known to partake in some of this stuff myself. Who can say anything bad about Enya, not to mention New Age girls like Mary Moon? (“She’s a Unitarian… Mary Moon, Mary Moon… She don’t eat meat but she sure like da bone.” Great harmonies and fun video!)

“Sail away, sail away, sail away … with the Orinoco Flow..”

Some combination of glycine, collagen, and/or gelatin worth a try for joint pain.

a URL, btw, that gets ghosted on X, per the Musk directive against Substack

Thanks. I had missed that. Are there more reasons than the simple one given here?
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/elon-musk-goes-to-war-against-substack

Elon Musk has retaliated against Substack for the launch of its new feature called Notes, which he views as a competitive product to Twitter.

the 1930s through 1950s

The age of the height of the fame of Edgar Cayce, known as the Sleeping Prophet. At least the height of his fame during s own lifetime. Probably his actual fame peaked posthumously in the 1970s and 1980s (and it’s still pretty firm in 2025, for someone gone for eighty years).

Also active in this period was the great public lecturer and esotericist Manly Hall.

Manly Hall is interesting as an example of a classic 19th-century public speaker. One could captivate audiences and sway minds. He turned out large audiences. His speaking voice is of the classic type, the type 19th-century public speakers used in North America (from what we know from early Edison recordings).

I believe Manly Hall’s popularity continues in the present day. A group calling itself “the Manly Hall Society” continues to be quite active, as does his own group, the Philosophical Research Society (see: https://www.prs.org/manly-p-hall.html)

A recorded talk by Manly P. Hall on Atlantis:

In any case, Manly Hall was active throughout the 1930s-1950s, and beyond (died 1990, age 89). He got his start with a bit-hit theosophical treatise called The Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in 1928 while living in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California. This is about the same time as Steve’s grandfather arrived with family, per Sailer’s account.

Quote from the article:

My grandfather was a health food faddist who blamed his annoyances upon store-bought food (a not unreasonable perspective in the early 20th century), so he moved from Oak Park, Ill., to Altadena, Calif., in 1929 to put his children to work growing his health foods.

Altadena burned down last month.

The inclusion of RFK, Jr. in this litany of New Age folderol is gratuitous. He is a well-informed science guy and if he gets his hands on the data that the CDC has been hiding from the public (namely, the Vaccine Data Safety Link), the general public will also be well-informed (and furious).

People join coalitions and political parties willy nilly in the US. Most people don’t join a party, they just announce themselves to be a Democrat, or a Republican and are then part of a political coalition. Maybe they pull a party ballot in the primaries and then vote for a coalition candidate in the general election. Perhaps they don’t vote at all. They are all part of the social fabric.

Coalitions consist of leaders that accrue benefits because they obtain power from being the leader – these are the bosses. Some are in the coalition because they are thought leaders paid or otherwise, or true believer/idealists – they are the makers of the Kool-Aid.

The next crowd in coalitions are people and interest groups that join or try to influence politics because it is in their self interest. These people will both flip from one group to another as it suits their purposes. These are the opportunists – what’s in it for me. Amongst opportunists are powerful individuals or interest groups who actively donate and lobby, often to both sides and push for candidates, legislation and policies that are to their benefit.

Most of the above people are fairly intelligent, or at least informed. Let’s say top 25 percent.

Beyond that, most people lack the time, don’t seem bright enough, or don’t care to do the work necessary to unpack how things work (noticing). This seems to be 75 percent of the population. They are dimly aware of what is going on, and they don’t know what their self interest actually might be. These people are only motivated to join a coalition for two reasons: 1) the feed trough is empty or the well runs dry (it’s the economy stupid) and 2) when they see everybody run from one side of the ship to the other – they want to run with the crowd. This is sort of a lemming effect. People don’t want to stray from the sentiments of the herd because it’s dangerous, and of course everybody wants to be associated with the winning team – with the exception of Cub fans. Ahh, the madness of crowds!

I think this partially explains why things can tip suddenly. Grumpy old guys on Unz complain for years that things are amiss and can’t continue. Things continue and more and more people come to the other side of the deck as they start experiencing problems. The lemmings soon follow.

So 75% of a majority coalition – a broad tent coalition axiomatically will have to include a substantial number of the formerly apathetic, true fools, joiners and nutcases.

So the Trump coalition, like any majority coalition is not a collection of people with right wing beliefs and principles. It is a social phenomenon that accretes the power seeking, a few intellectuals/idealists, some relentlessly effective self-servers, and a writhing mass of useful idiots consisting of, well, idiots and the indifferent.

So forming a coalition means you need to get a core of ideologues, satisfy the demands of the powerful and mislead some of the self-interested who would not vote for you if they actually knew your actions were not going to help them. Meanwhile you have to provide enough bread and a good circus now and then so you can wrangle enough of the apathetic and the idiotic under the flaps of the tent.

Once you get the idiots in the tent, they start causing trouble.

As a connoisseur of the New Age- I’m afraid Steve is mostly wrong here.

Steve has wrongly attributed superficially newageish phenomena (vegetarianism, yoga talk…) to the old English internal squabbles of Chesterton, Shaw, Orwell & others.

Just- it is wrong. Let’s clear the ground.

B vitamins in general but B7 specifically – also known as biotin – is good for joint issues because it helps reduce inflammation.

Good natural sources of B vitamins are whole eggs and pork.

Certain types of joint pain, especially in the knees and ankles and lumbar, is often due to misaligned hips. So all the supplements in the world won’t fix it because until all those small unknown muscles around the hips are strengthened, the joint pain won’t go away.

If you or your wife have anterior pelvic tilt (most people do and it’s very easy to self diagnose, and it’s cause like most hips issues is from too much sitting) then it’s a good possibility that this is a contributor to lower joint pain.

Tons of good videos on how to strengthen hips muscles like the Glute Max and medius, hamstrings, adductors, abductors, TFL, IT bands, piriformis, and psoas. Hips flexors are often very tight and relatively strong compared to the rest of those muscles and they exert a tremendous amount of force downward on the front of the hip, while the erector spinae in the lower back are stronger than the glutes (often completely shut off due to sitting) and conversely create force on the rear hip, pulling it upward.

Sadly, many hip replacements could likely be avoided if active measures were taken by people to correct strength and mobility issues around the joint, but as usual our medical industry isn’t interested in non evasive and inexpensive solutions, compared to expensive treatments.

True.

Just, he is only one among American occultists who were present in the wider American culture from 1890-1900. to the New Age: Edgar Cayce, Elvis’ “god” Joseph Benner (The Impersonal Life), Max Heindel (Rosicrucian), followers of British occult society Golden Dawn & its notorious “beast” Aleister Crowley (Israel Regardie, L.R. Hubbard of Scientology), ..

When you look at it, there are essentially two sources: American New Thought & British-originated theosophy (H.P. Blavatsky, colonel Olcott, C.W. Leadbeater…) & theosophical offshoots like Steiner and Heindel.

Manly Hall was a curious eclectic who dabbled in everything, from Kabbalah to Masons, from Renaissance magic & Hermetism to spiritualism.

So can Sailer be bothered to provide any examples for any of this? Because faith in RFK is about the only one that is real.

Yeah, the “right wing” angle was just shoehorned in as an excuse to do some nostalgia talk about silly stuff from the 70’s. But whatever.

This is a light little article about yoga pants and pet rocks and whatnot. But I think Steve needs to be careful about his tendency to dismissiveness. He has this idea that anything talked about on the Joe Rogan show is “conspiracy theory,” silly “woo woo.” But he’s wrong.

The RFK thing is a perfect example. There is a very technical, high-IQ, discussion that has been going on for a long time through podcasts and other media about health, metabolism, and the political incentives of the medical industry. To dismiss it as “junk science” is “Old Man Yells at Clouds” territory.

Steve pokes fun at some rather trivial and harmless eccentricities enjoyed by generally harmless and inoffensive folk, eg, the type of people who believe that a razor blade does not dull if left under a home made paper ‘pyramid of power’. All fanciful and amusing stuff – Arthur Conan Doyle himself was taken by what seems to us a quite obvious photographic hoax involving cut out paper fairies – but in the greater scheme of things, these gentle and credulous folk are doing no harm.

However.

Those people stupid and evil enough to actually take Magic Dirt Theory seriously, (the generalized belief that third workers transplanted into western nations dumb enough to take them in, somehow through an unknown unscientific occult force become a population equivalent in behavioural and intellectual characteristics to the native European descended population), which is basically the entire western political class and their arch angel, The Economist magazine, are the real dangerous and evil mischief mongers to walk upon the earth. The evil that those bastards commit is incalculable.
Those are the people you should be gunning for – not the bedroom tarot card readers.

Rod Dreher writes a lot about UFOs from a Christian perspective. I find it a bit weird.

He’s on Substack too!

” This is the dawning of the age of A- Blairius, A-Blairius !!!! ”
“Mystic crystal revelations, Massive Uncontrolled Immigration ! ”

It’s apparently not just Substack. Elon is basically suppressing anything with self-promoting external links. The content creators on Twitter are not happy about it.

I can't stress enough how much the fact that @X now penalizes external links sucks. I don't know why I even bother sharing my posts here anymore, since the algorithm smothers any tweet with a link. Twitter used to be great to share my writing, but now it feels totally pointless.

— Philippe Lemoine (@phl43) February 11, 2025

On topic — 13:17 — Tulsi’s in. Remember when we were just going to have to give up on Pete Hegseth and find someone less controversial? If Tulsi made it, Kash and RFKj are probably going to be accepted. Stop giving credence to the grumblings of con artists who know they’ve been found out and are now putting everything into delaying actions. The federal judge subversion will be dealt with and the orders will go forward. This is like Hitler flooding the subway. The SS race back to Köln with truckloads of stolen fine art. Someone should do a Downfall edit with Karl von Schumer as der alter Mann.
“I want everyone to leave the room except for Podesta, Carvill, Soros, and Eisen.”
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/12/repub/tulsi-gabbard-confirmed-by-u-s-senate-as-director-of-national-intelligence/

https://www.relieffactor.com/

Left unmentioned in Steve’s account of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is the important part in the spread of woo played by the … spreading of legs. In the fern bars of 1978, a young man had to know what sign he was born under, and the significance of her sign for the potential of a happy ending to the evening.

I just read Hanania’s latest screed, theorizing that the spread of woke among young college males over the last 30 years is a mating strategy aimed at reducing upper class women’s anxiety about being traded in for a younger model when the man achieves success. In this light, I would have to say better young Right men adopt Woo-woo than woke, if they must answer the call of the wild.

Still a few burps in the algorithm.

It’s fine tuned not to give you what you want to see, but what will get you ‘riled up and “engaged.” For example, if you ever reply to someone who is saying something idiotic by saying “you are an idiot,” the algo will keep feeding you similar idiots because that’s what’s getting you to engage with the system.

Before World War II fruit juices were a pretty rare thing in England. The climate does not allow for growing citrus, and when I was a child I remember having canned orange juice and tomato juice which was pretty lousy tasting

Orwell, in the days he had a village shop close to the farm that became the model for Animal Farm lived quite close to Letchworth, just to the north of London, where there was a summer school for socialists.

Apparently he had seen some of the attendees on the bus and had formed an unfavorable opinion.

However most likely the people he saw were school teachers who were on their summer vacations, and perhaps if the weather was hot they were wearing shorts and sandals (which was the standard school uniform for children at the time.)

Orwell saw himself as a working man and was not particularly interested in health-oriented activities. He was a heavy smoker of hand-rolled unfiltered cigarettes, and of course he developed tuberculosis which eventually killed him before he was 50.

He no doubt saw drinking pints of beer as manly and drinking fruit juice as pansy.

Had Orwell been around today he would probably have described present day politicians as wearers of toupees pumped up with botox.

Eh, fast forward a few years and the rallying cry of Unzites will be “Prosa 123 didn’t commit suicide!”

Some people, especially those in the “left-wing cult of … atheism,” consider much of organized religion to be woo woo. Let us use the power of prayer to pray for the salvation of the lost souls of these people.

The owl is in his leafy temple; let all within the Grove be reverent before him.

Lift up your heads, O ye Trees, and be ye lift up, ye ever-living spires.
For behold, here is Bohemia’s Shrine and holy are the pillars of this house.
Weaving spiders, come not here!

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LOL, and for both you and Prester John: It’s like this for me. I like her spirit. She’s completely real and goes all out with her job, which is, after all, to help America. Rather than sit in that seat making comments that will get votes for 2 years hence and enjoying the cocktail parties, MTG is one of the few in there that cares and tries her utmost. I appreciate someone that gung ho in any kind of occupation or with life in general.

Does MTG believe in a few wacky ideas that are wrong? I guess so, based on the reporter’s question (I knew about nothing on it, but it was apparently something involving the Maui, Hawaii fires(?)). However, she tried to be nice there, and then at least put in the MAGA talking points, but the woman kept on pushing. “Go fuck yourself”, indeed!

I wish MTG was my CongressHottie! (No, it’s not that, really …)

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PS: LOL also at your reply to Prosa. I think “school bus” was code for “Lolita X-Press 727”. ;-}

She’s got some joint pain she has that’s got her searching for solutions.

Has she tried drinking borax water? ☮

Rod Dreher writes a lot about UFOs from a Christian perspective

From Steve-Sailer-dot-net:

The Anti-Gnostic

New Right esoterica has tended toward Orthodoxy and Catholicism–the +Benedict and +Kyril kind, not the +Francis kind.

Pete McCutchen

You forget the Orthodox woomeister Rod Dreher! He claims to be Orthodox, but he’s convinced that UFOs are really demons, and that the government is going to announce the existence of Higher Aliens to somehow get us to merge with AI and be subsumed by the occult. Seriously, I subscribe to him just for his hilarious flights of fancy.

Derek Leaberry

I read Dreher as well. He’s thought-provoking and usually right. But I skim his long UFO speculations. He’s a bit nutty and admits that he may be a little mentally imbalanced. Artificial intelligence is a new terror on Dreher’s horizon. And he believes men have flown in the past, citing a Yale professor who wrote a book about it.

Pete McCutchen

Oh man, those are the best part. Sometimes I do dramatic readings of his demon UFO stuff for my wife’s entertainment.

His little passive aggressive digs at his ex wife are a little less entertaining. I can’t wait for her tell-all book.

Derek Leaberry

Just today [Rod Dreher] writes about a two-hour therapy session that I’ve never heard of before. Good for him. I hope it works. But I don’t know anyone like Dreher.

The Anti-Gnostic

Rod had a major life event with his divorce from the mother of his children and probably has another two years before he’s fully processed that. But he also has a long history of contempt for his family members and publicly throwing them under the bus in his writings. I’ve read negative comments by people who’ve met him at public appearances.

He [doxxed] his kids private school teacher–at his ex-wife’s urging–for the kind of opinions held by most iSteve readers. It was a nasty bit of passive aggression at some perfectly decent schlep who probably makes 40K a year. Rod has issues.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-rights-weird-new-age/comment/92902357

RFK IS the “Old Man Yelling At Clouds.” He and his fans may well be high IQ compared to you, though.

Eric Blair, aka, George Orwell wasn’t a very bright guy most of his writing career. He only got it right with 1984, finally!

Before that, his Animal Farm got the whole concept of what is fundamentally wrong with Communism WRONG.

Then, earlier on, this young fool had joined up with “Republican”, aka Communist, forces himself in eastern Spain, as described in Homage to Catalonia. I mean, he went through all that madness in Barcelona without knowing that all involved were pawns of the various Soviet Communist factions back in Russia that were at odds with each other. He was lucky to make it back out of there alive… with his wife, whom he took to the war with him. Who brings his wife to a war?!

In the words of the great 1990s Guru sage Butthead, “What a dumbass!“

— — DREHER, ROD (2006). Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or at Least the Republican Party). New York: Crown Forum.

Rod Dreher’s 2006 book (his first book) seems to be yelling out for inclusion in this Sailer column and the half-pursued ideas behind it.

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ROD DREHER
– born, Feb. 1967, to a White-Protestant family; raised Methodist;
– converted to Roman Catholicism, 1993 (age 26);
– marries a White woman, 1997;
– converted to Orthodox Church, 2006 (age 39);
– late 2010s, becomes interested in Hungary and visited several times, ca.2019-2021;
– wife divorces him, 2022;
– “In 2022, following his separation from his wife, Dreher moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he lives in what he has described as a self-imposed ‘exile’.”

Thanks. I wish some of these guys were still over here too. That includes Bill Price, who ended a fun comment with:

Next thing you know you’re practicing tantric meditation, following Q-anon and furiously trading crypto from your goat farm.

(Re: the Pacific NW)

Yeah, that’s all well and good until one of your goats eats your Bitcoin PW. “No, my password’s on my computer.” “Yeah? So?”

Upon reflection, that was wrong/inappropriate on many levels. Apologies.

New retrospective on the Corona-Panic, at its five-year mark:

“Why the COVID Deniers Won: Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath,” by David Frum, The Atlantic, Feb. 12, 2025 —- https://archive.is/N2Mx2

I’m not sure he thought the theory of communism was wrong at all.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

He just forgot about Original Sin, or whatever an evolutionary biologist would call the same thing.

“Right theory, wrong species” as E.O Wilson put it. Even Jews in Israel couldn’t pull it off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3eg3n11gvo

A computer engineer who lost £620m-worth of Bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried.

James Howells, from Newport, claimed his ex-girlfriend mistakenly chucked out a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.

He tried to sue the city council to get access to the site on Newport’s Docks Way, or get £495m in compensation, but his case was dismissed by a judge.

Newport council said it was making no further comment on the matter.

The authority is planning to close the tip in the 2025-26 financial year.

It has planning permission for a solar farm on the land, expected to power the council’s new bin lorries.

Mr Howells said: “The council planning on closing the landfill so soon is quite a surprise, especially since it claimed at the High Court that closing the landfill to allow me to search would have a huge detrimental impact on the people of Newport, whilst at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway.”

…the “right wing” angle was just shoehorned in as an excuse to do some nostalgia talk about silly stuff from the 70’s…

…yes, and that ageless passage from Orwell about nudists, sandal-wearers et al. Always good for a laugh.

…Steve needs to be careful about his tendency to dismissiveness…The RFK thing is a perfect example.

No kidding! When it comes to RFK Jr, all SS can do is…point and sputter. It’s painful. You’d think a guy who’s been so unfairly pilloried for so many years by the promoters of the conventional wisdom in his own little bailiwick of race realism might do a little…noticing…when it comes to Kennedy & the dunces who are all in confederacy against the guy.

But no. So disappointing.

I forgive you.

Emily Maitlis was so proud of helping Prince Andrew make a complete fool of himself that she made a TV program about the interview.

The Floyd Freakout made it painfully obvious that the Coronapocalypse was a scam.

Thugs ransacked entire cities with impunity. Meanwhile, the cops went around arresting grandmothers for disobeying draconian mask mandates.

Caravan to Midnight used to be a radio show about UFOs and crystals, but then, by the power of USAID, real news became both more interesting and less reported, so now they’re pretty much what Fox News should be.
Combo breaker: Podesta’s obsessed with UFOs and once had a long correspondence with a retired astronaut who says they’re real and he’s seen them.
So belief in UFOs is not necessarily predictive for politics.

He responded by denying the seriousness of the pandemic

Simple lie. Perspective tortured to Baghdad Bob levels. It is always a mistake to give ten seconds of attention to the disgusting and unaccomplished David Frum. Gotta give credit to the way he remembered Nancy Pelosi hugging a Chinese — oh, no, wait, he couldn’t be bothered to tell the truth for one second.

Dear Establishmentarians, please continue to get all your political advice from irreplaceable geniuses like David Frum. It sure has been workin’ out swell for you, hasn’t it?

Of course I tried to expunge the image from my mind

What for?

Hollywood helped the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) psyop of deflection in the 1950s wherein a whole slate of low budget flying saucer movies were made which were intended to spread psychological unease about the objectively real shiny objects dancing in the sky. More sinisterly, the UFO cults that sprouted from the New Age firmament of the late 1960s early 1970s included shadowy operatives taking advantage of soft-brained heirs and heiresses with culture kampf and intelligence connexions to spread the good news about our space brothers. Some of these cults in Europe and the US gotterdammerunged into mass suicide scenes. Similar to the Jim Jones Kool-Aid party, another behavioral modification program that produced dead bodies. So why all this establishment effort beginning in the late 1940s to pooh-pooh any serious analysis of the luminous objects in the sky that seemed to defy conventional aerodynamics? The MIC which really gained traction in the postwar period made a deal with the Borrmann Brotherhood affiliated SS bloodline families which began the war rich and ended it even richer. Besides banksterism and other financial skullduggeries the SS bloodline families controlled the technologies that produced the gravity-defying UFOs. Research into this tech revealed that anti-gravity was the elementary phase of this new propulsion system. The more current theories regarding the fate of this tech lies in the mysterium of quantum mechanics.

One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo-woo, the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc.

Huh? What you smoking?

The right has plenty of fruitcakes. But rightists aren’t the fruitcakes. On the whole they are the normies who have basic common sense and don’t like the insanity imposed on their nation.

And much of New Age is motivated by physical discomforts suffered by aging humans, which they like to blame on poisoning. Hitler blamed race poisons, others blame seed oils and microplastics.

Did Hitler blame getting old on “race poisons”? Social ills, yes. Getting old?

Microplastics? Could have something to do with colon cancer. Merits investigation.

The seed oil thing is definitely interesting. We’ve eaten seeds forever, but the large consumption of these fats in our diet–including processed foods, like my beloved crunchy tortilla chips, cooked in them–rather than our traditional saturated animal fats is relatively new. Do the methods of extraction make these oil more troublesome? Cooking with them at high temperatures? Could be. The reality here is we don’t yet have a full picture of all the metabolic action.

I must admit, though, that I like fruit-juice drinking.

However, this part we do know. Fruit juice is a sugar–fructose and sucrose–bomb. Huge gulps of sugar are not naturally part of the human diet. Not even in back, in Africa. Much less for temperate zone white people.

Metabolic syndrome and the basic problem with fast carbs–especially for ass-sitters (most of us now)–is well understood. It is the main driver of Americans–and increasingly other people around the world–being giant lard asses. If you’re going to eat fruit juice at least have it with the fruit–all the fiber and other stuff.

And women in yoga pants are not the worst thing about the 21st century.

On fit young women like my daughters–not their best look, but ok. On a whole lot of women who wear them–uh, no. (But yeah, it’s hardly the worst thing.)

Michael Crichton talks about going to parties with Lockheed engineers where everybody tried bending spoons with their minds like Uri Geller.

The keyword there is “party”. Lockheed engineers–99.99%–never believed you could bend spoons or that there was “pyramid power”. However, they lived in California. And if going to “pyramid power” party was how they might meet some silly girl and get laid … they’re there. Duh.

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Obviously, this is a “question the establishment” moment for the right.

Rightly, so considering their lies and nonsense and the abject debacle “the establishment” has cooked up over the past 60+–including secondary debacles like the “eat carbs”, “low fat diet” advice–but primarily pushing minoritarianism and “must have immigration!” lunacy.

Those boy teenagers are old enough to vote now. And are very right wing. But not Israel first right wingers. Every little bit , even Alex Jones helps.

How this list of 60 years of recreational beliefs connects to today’s conservatives is unclear.

I happen to think there is a connection, though Steve didn’t mention it. Quoting from my Substack comment:

One overlooked cause of the recent upsurge in rightwing woo is that about eight years ago, in response to Trump’s unexpected political victory, the social media platforms began purging rightwing political badthinkers. Prior to 2017, the online political right had existed in genial symbiosis with a number of more esoteric woo-ish accounts, though the political accounts were by far larger and more numerous. But after the political purges, all that remained was the woo (it was too esoteric for the censorship algorithms to notice and largely unparseable to human censors), so a lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise have paid attention to it before were suddenly left with little else to engage them online, and as a result, new cadres of politically rightwing esotericists were born.

Now that a measure of online free speech has been restored, the political horse is being reunited with its now-enlightened spiritual rider, shining sonnenrad-halo rotating about his head.

And ironically, this cycle was initiated by the Left’s effort to prevent specifically this result.

“lowbrow”… M.T. Greene.

She might be Mitochondrial Eve of the Cro-Magnons.

… And that’s a good thing!

MTG is a “you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall”-American and I appreciate her for that.

Probably not toupees but those hair transplant plugs. They really work.

Thank you thank you thank you. So few people know that the republicans were Soviet communist operatives who killed off all the moderate socialists in 1933 -35.*

One good thing the Soviet Russians did in that war. Put the Ellis Island Abraham Lincoln Brigade commie Jews in the front lines. To wear out Franco’s forces in the beginning of the battles. Standard tactic. Wear out the enemy killing the inexperienced front lines. Then, when the enemies tired send in the tougher experienced troops to win the battle

General Francisco Franco the greatest hero of the 20th century..

Agreed. She’d look good in fig leaves. “Those are some mighty Chondrias ya got there!”

when America did NOT have any woo-woo, new-agey stuff going on. … I came up with the 1930s through 1950s, a more serious era in America.

Personal anecdote: In my youth I worked on a dairy farm that produced raw milk before anyone had heard of “Raw Milk”. My mother, whose formative years were more or less exactly what you call the “serious era”, found out what I was doing and derided raw milk as “dangerous”, “backwards”, “unscientific”, etc., etc., all the serious-era establishment talking points.

So I skipped out on her place and went to my grandmother’s—my mother’s mother, whose formative years were prior to the 1930s—and regaled her with my farm stories. At “raw milk”, her eyes lit up.

“Oooooh, raw milk! When your mother was a little girl, I used to make special trips to the farmer’s market to get raw milk for her! I’m glad someone still makes it!”

So, haha, now I had the goods on my mother! My mother, the pro-establishment Mid-Century Modern straight-shooter had been weaned on and raised on raw milk, which she grew up to denounce as “unscientific” notwithstanding that she has enjoyed healthy and long life perhaps as a result of her own mother’s laborious procurement of raw milk for her! And now after her denouncements, her own children and grandchildren grew and thrived on the stuff. But she never bothered to connect cause and effect.

So yeah, that was a long way of saying that 1930s-1950s was indeed a sort of stasis moment in the ever-flowing space-time continuum of woo.

Hulk Hogan Appears At Dernald Blumph Rally, Struggles To Rip Shirt

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I guess that essay is Sailer’s contribution to the Living in Wonder moment, as proclaimed by Rod Dreher ( https://roddreher.substack.com/p/downloads-and-the-demonic ).

Peter Thiel has recently been talking about End Times, as in Armageddon and Anti-Christ, which is funny because he may the world’s leading candidate for the Anti-Christ, or he may be Saruman to the Anti-Christ’s Sauron. Only thing is we already know he’s the rainbow wizard, not the white wizard. Somebody should clue in Rod Dreher.

Other ways the moment is expressed: “the meaning crisis,” which is being blamed for ” Ortho bro” phenomenon of young men joining the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches, and “advent of the sacred”.

Maybe the point is that it’s not that the right is woo, but that everybody is woo. The Anglo-non-woo tradition is dying maybe too as the WASPs and the UK commit suicide*. Nowhere to run to, baby; nowhere to hide!

* I wanted to coin a new word here: dysgenicide. It’s a high-fallutin’ term for the Great Replacement, or Creolization as Melenchon would put it.

I doubt that Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever read any of the dialogues of Plato, or any of the plays of Shakespeare, or any of the Poetry of Pushkin…and yet, she speaks a lot of truth to a lot of power.

I can’t say anything about Evola or Eliade, but your judgment about Schmitt is simply wrong. Schmitt was very good at “noticing”, especially soberly noticing the unforeseen consequences of modern liberal and democratic ideas – and such noticing can always be used pro and contra. For example, Schmitt noticed that in a republic where (only) emergency allowed for suppressing the usual rules, the real sovereign would not be the people but those who decide if there is an emergency. An observation which was used pro dictatorship by the Nazis and against dictatorship after WW2 by the founding fathers of our West German constitution. Schmitt also was the first one to see that more moralizing would not lead to more peace, but to “ethical” wars between the “good men” and the “bad men” which could no more be finished by compromises, negotiations or treaties as in the 19th century. In summa, Schmitt was not so different from Steve Sailer.

Maybe Steve’s favorite part about women in yoga pants is seeing 7-14 year olds yearing crotch and booty hugging garments, mimicking their mothers and older relatives, in public, to school, and all about. Who knows? They’re everywhere these days. Not the worst thing, right Steve?

In case anyone cares about the link between social decay and indecent dress in women/girls, and can think a bit beyond “Hey, hot chicks and sex, this is epic!”, here’s a primer: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2013/08/immodest-dress.html

Any pictures of your daughters in yoga pants? Not the worst thing, girldad! Gotta handle some business later. Might put ’em on the old 4chan, too.

Rod Dreher! He claims to be Orthodox, but he’s convinced that UFOs are really demons

Because apparently I don’t have enough problems right now, I’m going to essay a defense of Rod Dreher—whom I’m not aware that I have ever read—or more specifically a defense of the proposition that “UFOs are really demons” or such like. And I am going to do this not on any religious basis (I’m not religious), but on a scientific basis (not on “The Science”, but just on plain old science).

Well now, at least you know what it feels like to write an inappropriate comment. LOL. I am very experienced at that!

I will add that Mr. 123’s little story is completely innocent, and that female humans do become “interesting” at a way too early age. It is incumbent upon our culture to protect them, in some part by shaming us males. This is all for the good.

And I agree with Steve that yoga pants are wonderful! I wrote in a comment here a few years ago that I think whoever invented then should receive a Nobel Prize. I also mentioned that I particularly enjoy viewing them while shopping at our local Trader Joe’s.

That’s what Jacques Vallee said.

Steve is just continuing his 5 year streak of disappointing us at almost every turn.

He’s embarrassed by Trump and repelled by how lowbrow the Republican Party has become under him. Okay, I get that. But my god, he HATES HATES HATES Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. I don’t get that at all. Kennedy’s been overbroad in his statements once or twice, but his sincerity and concern are palpable and I find incredibly refreshing his attack on regulatory capture by parasitic corporations and say all power to him.

OT — WINNING — NEW ATTITUDE FROM 2016 — PAM BONDI HAS CHARGED KATHY HOCHUL FOR VIOLATING IMMIGRATION LAWS — YOU’RE NEXT, JELLYBEAN PRICKSTER

🚨 #BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi has just announced she has CHARGED NY Gov. Kathy Hochul and Letitia James for failing to enforce immigration law pic.twitter.com/kDNZBwuz0V

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 12, 2025

[oh, nice source]
Here’s NewsWeek:
https://www.newsweek.com/bondi-ny-immigration-lawsuit-letitia-james-hochul-2030311

You forgot Chariots of the Gods (Erich von Däniken), which was printed in 1968 and caused a huge sensation, combining interest in the earnest engineering success of the Apollo program with mysticism, archaeology, ice ages, and yes pyramids. So basically, you can have both.

von Däniken wrote the book while working as a hotel manager in Davos, Switzerland. The publisher insisted that it be rewritten by Utz Utermann, who used the pseudonym of Wilhelm Roggersdorf. Utermann was a former editor of a Nazi Party newspaper and was a best-selling author in the Nazi era.

von Däniken was eventually imprisoned for “repeated and sustained” embezzlement, fraud, and forgery; his defense was that the credit institutions were at fault for failing adequately to research his references. Making good use of his time, like Nelson Mandela, Adolf Hitler and the Marquis de Sade he wrote his next bestseller in prison.

Okay, Alfred, you just shouted out against one of my favorite things, yoga pants!

Here, other than at the university, only 5-10% of the girls wearing yoga pants should be wearing yoga pants. We’ve got yoga pants but not the yoga, which is a problem. Peak Stupidity says Down with Yoga Pants!

Okay, maybe that is where you live. Too bad for you.

Months or years ago here, I commented that whoever invented yoga pants should receive a Nobel Prize. I wrote that because, where I live and have lived, the majority of women in yoga pants truly appear to be presenting their “assets” for MY perusal.

And I am grateful for that! I keep it all to myself, and it is not a problem for anybody.

I am sorry that the women in yoga pants where you live are so schlubby.

Too bad they don’t look like this:

Personal anecdote: In the 1030’s, my grandfather was one of the few physicians in a backward midwestern state county, and one of the duties that was expected of him was inspection of cows at dairy farms. My mom loved unpasteurized milk and he would give her the word if the sanitary conditions at a particular farm met his standard.

Otherwise, stick to Pasteurized milk.

Yet, generally speaking, in the English-speaking world, this sort of stuff has historically been associated with the left…

The health-food-and-vitamins part has always been around on the right, too. And not just with survivalists. I noticed this decades ago.

This was a multilevel marketing pyramid scheme that came pre-debunked.

There is a distinction between pyramid and Ponzi schemes, and between those and “multi-level marketing”. The last one is legal, but watch this:

Multi-Level Marketing Companies Are NOT Pyramid Schemes (They Are Worse)

Keep in mind that the lyrics for “Aquarius” weren’t written by some twentysomething hippie for a rock album, but for Broadway by two thirtysomething traditional theater gays.

The tune, the real draw, was the work of a bourgeois Scottish-Canadian Montrealer based on Staten Island. Who sired five children with the same woman. How square can you get?

Obviously, this is a “question the establishment” moment for the right.

Rightly, so considering their lies and nonsense

Exactly. This is it. That’s what’s happening, and that’s why it’s justified.

But Steve, as we’ve learned in the last five years, is a dyed-in-the-wool normie on any and every topic other than IQ, plus he HATES HATES HATES Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. So he can’t think or see straight on this subject and gives us a rambling tour through his past that’s meant to tarnish all of us today who hate the uni-party / media / establishment and are indulgent toward all those no matter how eccentric who will further the cause of delegitimizing them.

This is true: pyramid schemes work for the early adopters.

I am not decided about “demons”, but it is a different story re UFOs.

I am convinced that UFOs exist. Simply, there is too much evidence, not just in the US, but in various parts of Europe, Japan, Iran, Soviet Union & Russia, China etc. etc. There are way too many stories about them playing with us like with children- a jet fires a missile at a UFO, it disappears & the missile strikes close to another military object some 50 minutes later. Confirmed stories from all parts of the world galore.

Except Africa, where there is nothing to be seen.

Also, one should dismiss most (all?) alien abductions stories as a form of mass psychosis. But encounters with objects possessing absolutely unimaginable types of flying characteristics- no.

It’s just as if they come from a higher dimensional space, adapt their dimensions to our 3-dimensional space & toy with us like with naughty children.

These guys can manipulate space & time & our notions from contemporary physics are laughably primitive.

Mr. iSailer:

You’re a numbers/stats guy, right? RFK, Jr. is “junk science”? You’re ignoring the numbers and world-wide reports to the contrary.

That other Steve of numbers, Kirsch (Ind.-MIT), has been crunching corona/vax-injury numbers for years, to the detriment of his eyesight, reportedly, as well as his and his wife’s social and professional lives.

The financial numbers guy, Ed Dowd, has also been busy assessing stats on the covid phenomenon.

There are at least two dozen other stats assessors/compilers who could readily be listed here, along with at least a hundred links, beginning with, but not limited to, comments from the deceased inventor of the PCR test, critiquing its misuse in infectious disease diagnosis, which would dispute the official corona narrative.

There are currently at least seventeen state attorneys-general preparing legal challenges to continued administration and advocacy of untested, mandated inoculations against the purported infectious agent described as coronavirus.

Also, there are numerous studies connecting vaccination generally with the statistical and historically unprecedented exponential rise of autism, and its near-absence in unvaccinated populations.

There is nothing politically partisan or agenda-driven about the resistance to, and backlash against, the push for injected substances. There are growing bodies of empirical and statistical evidence, and of dissenting, certified professionals, refuting the official claims of both a pandemic and its offered cure.

From the full article https://www.takimag.com/article/the-rights-weird-new-age/ :

“But my vague impression is that New Age stuff has come back into fashion in recent years, especially among young women.”

https://www.tiktok.com/@the444agency/video/7311839695346879776 “How to command the Universe to get what you want.” 36.3k likes. She got her pointy acrylic stick-on fingernail extensions.

A federal district court judge held machine guns are protected arms under 2A but this is a trap set by anti-gunners.

I get the point, but have to disagree. The sort of caution Mark advises would make sense if the Supreme Court were taking lots of gun cases and gradually developing its 2A jurisprudence. Instead, it's been a struggle to get them to take anything since Bruen (unless it's a… https://t.co/oyHLUcsn7M

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) February 13, 2025

Missouri Opponents to Gun Rights Laws Claim Measures 'Legalize Murder'https://t.co/PgoA7eCzKv

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) February 12, 2025

Maryland and Baltimore Governments Team Up With Everytown Law to Sue Glockhttps://t.co/bcCc496wMF

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) February 12, 2025

Trump is protecting the Second Amendment
Reversing orders cloaked in the rhetoric of crime prevention but aimed at impeding gun ownershiphttps://t.co/0XBJlLxglE#2a #DonaldTrump #guns #guncontrol

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) February 12, 2025

Republicans Look to Improve Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Acthttps://t.co/pacJXDFJip

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) February 12, 2025

Glucosamine + Omega 3 + l-ergothiomiene (however it is spelled) will do wonders for joint pain. Add red wine or co-Q10 and you have all the supplements you will ever need.
With minimal bread, walking in sunlight, and a lot of fresh fruit you should feel way better.
And quickly- arthritis was eating up my hands and feet, but it didn’t take a week of changes to feel much better.

New retrospective on the Corona-Panic, at its five-year mark:

“Why the COVID Deniers Won: Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath,” by David Frum, The Atlantic, Feb. 12, 2025 —- https://archive.is/N2Mx2

It’s always reassuring to discover David Frum is on the opposite side from me.

‘For it is evil things we shall be fighting…’

I don’t understand Steve’s aversion to woo-woo. His favorite English homosexual writers were quite conversant with woo-woo. Woo-woo can be considered the spice of life. It livens up stale material with its gossamer tendrils. You can pour woo-woo over a mess of scrambled eggs and wake up with an erection, just like you did in the good ol’ days. But it’s not the egg protein which bequeathed you the boner; it was the woo-woo.

I doubt that Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever read any of the dialogues of Plato, or any of the plays of Shakespeare, or any of the Poetry of Pushkin…and yet, she speaks a lot of truth to a lot of power.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is Sarah Palin on acid.

Let’s make her President. Wouldn’t you really want to see what would happen?

And that grin! Needs to be on Mount Rushmore, or at least the five dollar bill.

I might be one of Sailer’s examples. I’d consider myself hard right and though I respect Christianity I can’t abide its barbaric Abrahamic origins. For wisdom, I turn to the East.

Cross-posted at Steve’s blog:

lol. Steve, you can just say you don’t like RFK jr. No need to dance around it with these 5000 word essays relating it to a vague cultural shift unless you talk about COVID.

COVID caused a lot of formerly disparate thinkers to yoke together: those who mistrust Big Pharma are left (hippie woo-woos, crunchy environmentalists, anti-rich-folks, and anti-monopolists), center (autism questioners) and right (naturalists, supplement guys, the anti-fluoride latter day Birchers, and those distrusters of companies in bed with Big Government). Yet I did a Control-F of your essay and you didn’t mention “COVID” once.

RFK Jr. has thus gotten a lot of traction with those folks (including me) precisely due to COVID. Recall that it was RFK Jr. who was a guy going after St. Anthony Fauci in 2021, back when Fauci was untouchable in the mainstream, even writing a book about it: The Real Anthony Fauci.

https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci

And RFK isn’t some quack. He’s a successful trial lawyer who cleaned up many rivers in New York before switching to go after Big Pharma. He’s a mix of environmentalist, autism questioner, and supplement/naturalist guy (thus melding all three groups in one) , plus his Kennedy name and handsome physique mean he’s going to get attention.And he’s not against cutting edge medicines or techniques, he’s against the regulatory capture of the health industry and the generalized belief that because some vaccines are safe and effective therefore all are.

C’mon, Steve, let them through.

Metallicman claimed he realized his native USA was evil after the U.S. Air Force subjected him to an alien abduction and brain-chip implants.

He was glad to report that he had safely escaped to China.

Yeah, see, this can’t really happen. The Chinese wouldn’t normally let just any SANE man immigrate, even if he’s Chinese, much less this freakin’ guy.

What I recall from his writings was he was supporting Trump and other anti-Deep State forces from abroad and had taken a Chinese wife.

Much less a Chinese wife. “No more internet for you!” They don’t want that kind of trouble. “Get real job, or get OUT!”

I can see why Mr. Unz put a lot of trust in Metallicman. I mean, he IS on the internet and all … or WAS.

I don’t know this guy from Adam, so, let me ask: What was his deal with Hungary? Was his ex-wife Hungarian? Or, was it just about the Ghoulash… and repudiation of the Woke?

You’re misunderstanding RFK. His complaint is that the FDA isn’t regulating enough; Friedman’s was that it was regulating too much.

There is a very technical, high-IQ, discussion that has been going on for a long time through podcasts and other media about health

Because that’s how high-IQ people communicate, through podcasts.

Nancy Mace is giving her a run for her money:

RFK is absolutely correct about vaccines and food additives, and the CDC data backs him up 100%…only the innumerate think otherwise, which sadly is much of the American population, including iSteve it appears,,,

This CIA manual on how to disrupt a political cause (in this case, White identity) might be helpful. A lot of the commentary we see on this blog is also following these rules:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1889890877029716353/photo/1

Then, earlier on, this young fool had joined up with “Republican”, aka Communist, forces

IIRC, he hooked up with some militia group that considered themselves “anarchists.” They ended up fighting a civil war within the civil and got purged by the Stalinists. The jokes about why the anarchists couldn’t win a war write themselves.

“I don’t know this guy from Adam, so, let me ask: What was his deal with Hungary? Was his ex-wife Hungarian? Or, was it just about the Ghoulash… and repudiation of the Woke?”

I have a theory about Dreher. He claims to have been adopted and truly couldn’t be a bigger whack job if he tried. I think the UFOs he sees are the mother ship beckoning him to come back home (where he belongs cause it sure ain’t here). The demons he speaks of are metaphorical inner demons of his inner conflict. Dreher was dropped on Earth early in life so he could be socialized as an earthling. And, well, you see the result. He has never quite passed the muster as human yet he missed out on essential alien formation which makes him a misfit there too. As for the marriage, he seems to have alienated his wife by staying away from home for months at a time. He also had a habit of posting drunk from various pubs while having his arm around one buxom harlot or another. The wife understandably gave him an ultimatum to come home or else. He just wouldn’t live at home with his wife and not-yet-grown children for more than a few weeks at a time. Now, you might think it was due to his lust for life, but that would be wrong. I have it on good authority that around age 55 Dreher started developing the scales common to his actual breed. It had been thought the Earth’s atmosphere would keep his skin human-like. Alas, as so many unpleasant realities reveal themselves with time, some of Dreher’s alien genotype came to the fore. His seemingly foot-loose-and-fancy-free lifestyle was really a way to hide the scales from his family. He believes the truth would do more harm than his apparent abandonment of his family, however. Of course there is some concern that one or more of the children may eventually develop scales. Dreher has made certain that he or his best friend will tell the afflicted child (more likely a male) about his true origins in this eventuality. As for his affinity for Hungarians, who knows. The language is rather difficult so maybe reminds him of the alien tongue of his true people. Maybe he’s not in Hungary at all but visiting his home planet. It’s tragic, really, to be torn between two species. I hope it all works out for him.

At its own 21-hour mark since going live, this Taki-Mag article (“The Right’s Weird New Age“) is Sailer’s most-commented-on post of February 2025 so far. There are 120 comments and counting. Why so much activity for this one?

The way it’s going, it may be the most-commented-on post of the year 2025 so far: It is set to surpass the 127comments of “The 2025 Super Bowl: Sailer’s Perspective” (Jan. 30) soon ;and the 143 comments of “Deepseek” (Jan. 27); and the great Starbucks-homeless-and-Wokeness seven-year retrospective, “The Times They Are A-Changing” (Jan. 15, 131 comments).

Well, Orwell deserves a little more kindness than that. Granted some of his early stuff is kind of silly, but “The Road to Wigan Pier” is informative, interesting, and well-observed: long on peculiar details and short on annoying lectures. The whole bit about exactly how the miners wash up after work is alone worth the trouble.

“Down and Out in Paris and London” is sort of the book every young writer wishes they had written, or at least lived through and come out the other side with their talent intact and their reputation not ruined. As much fun as “On the Road” but more coherent, and essentially about the same thing: being young and stupid and romantically poor. Who wouldn’t want to relive those days. Even though at the time you thought it was torture.

“Animal Farm” and “Homage to Catalonia” if nothing else, make for a good long drunken evening’s argument over their pluses and minuses, and what those are, or are not, or maybe might be. Just because Orwell was stupid enough to fight in Spain doesn’t mean the book is stupid too: a book about a stupid guy can be educational in its way. One can object to Animal Farm in sophisticated ways, but something about it remains compelling and enduring in its mythic simplicity.

The fascinating part to me is, if you didn’t already know in advance that this joker would wind up writing the ineffable 1984, arguably THE novel of the 20th century… you probably wouldn’t have guessed it*. Goes to show what one great idea can do to a man. And that alone contains a tale.

* — can’t you just see Nadezhda Mandelstam in heaven, STILL seething to herself: Goddammit, *I’m* the one who really lived through all that, and Eric here winds up with all the credit! Grrr….

What was his deal with Hungary?… repudiation of the Woke?

I think that’s “the long and the short” of it. It predates his divorce by years.

(If I may be so bold, the Hungary interest also “gives the lie” a bit to Rod Dreher’s Orthodox-Christianity. Why not go to an Orthodox capital? Budapest is a historical enemy of the Orthodox Church and is widely resented by Romanians, for one.)

Word is Rod Dreher himself pulled strings to get Tucker Carlson in Hungary for the momentous interview with alleged-fascist Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary and Calvinist. (And not the last; a a widely-admired Sailer-commenter’s handle notwithstanding. Not the last Calvinist, that is).

The Tucker–Orban interview was August 2023, several months after Fox News life-banned Tucker Carlson, its top-rated host, from its airwaves. (A decision that looks a lot worse from Fox’s perspective, now approaching spring 2025, than it did in spring 2023.)

The Youtube-talker Paul Ramsey, a.k.a. Ramzpaul, also started spending large amounts of time in Hungary in the late 2010s, not sure if we can say he semi-emigrated or not.

One of my favorite writers, John Morgan, originally of Michigan, has also been located in Hungary for some time.

https://counter-currents.com/tag/john-morgan/

Because that’s how high-IQ people communicate, through podcasts.

Actually, yes. Podcasts are the modern intellectual salons. Of course there are a million crappy and dumb podcasts. But if you want to hear intelligent people trading intelligent ideas and good information, smart podcasts are where that happens.

Of course if you prefer written content, that’s fine. But if you think “official” and “high prestige” sources are telling you the truth, you’re not paying attention.

What I get out of my readings of Orwell is the man’s humanity.

This is particularly illustrated by one episode in his Spanish Civil War memoirs in which Orwell, in an opposing trench, has a Spanish nationalist soldier caught quite unawares, in his rifle sight. Of course, even in this ‘cold’ combat situation, a soldier is prevailed upon to ‘neutralize’ his adversary. Orwell had a clear and open target as one could possibly imagine – but he hesitated, inwardly he just could not perform the deed, take a human life. Orwell further elaborates that the enemy soldier was in a state of somewhat unprepared panic, and in his haste was half naked from the waist down, clutching a pair of trousers in his hand as he was faffing about. Orwell claimed that something about carrying the trousers – an all too human and familiar failing – strongly reminded him that the enemy was a man just like himself, and rendered killing him an impossibility on his conscience.

Those mask mandates were a dream come true for weakling loser-teacher’s-pet dorks everywhere. They finally had an excuse to scold happy, normal, well-adjusted people, even whole families. “Put that mask all the way on, or I will tell on you and get you escorted out of this building!” The wussy could then repeat all the points Rachel Maddow and Joy Behar told them to say when so bravely confronting a “denier”. The geek could preen around the aisle telling complete strangers how we were all in this together and to follow his example. It was the excuse the losers have waited their whole lifetime for: a chance to correct happy winning people at something……anything…….and in a tone of voice that would get them laughed to scorn about any other subject.

Those of us who opted for natural immunity have been proven right, have stronger immune systems, and won’t have to worry about any potential long term effects of fiddling with our RNA by injecting a gene therapy that was tested for a whopping three months (that had more deaths in the experimental group than the control group!).

Russia and China didn’t use mRNA vaccines. They seem fine.

RFK IS the “Old Man Yelling At Clouds.” He and his fans may well be high IQ compared to you, though.

Every retard that says “RFK is a crank” is exactly the same. They heard this is what “serious people” are supposed to think but they can neither explain his specific points or why they are specifically wrong.

Steve, as we’ve learned in the last five years, is a dyed-in-the-wool normie on any and every topic other than IQ

Moving the tree fort here to TUR may have accelerated that realization:

• adjacency to dissident authors who made it tougher for Mr. Sailer to avoid topics like Ukraine, COVID, and Gaza

• engagement (subject to Whim) with more broadly heterodox commenters who weren’t necessarily interested in HBD but increasingly joined the threads

Some of the wide-eyed, “Hey, Steve!” base that came along a decade ago left. Moving to Substack will help keep him insulated and likely restore the conformity of Mr. Sailer’s readership.

“You’re misunderstanding RFK.”

No, RFK is aware that Big Pharma and Big Agriculture have captured control of the FDA and are using that control to maximize their profits at the expense of the general public,
which goes along with much of the libertarian criticism of the FDA. This is why some libertarian types like him.

RFK wants to replace decisions by the FDA that have been made to maximize profits for big corporations with decisions based on science that is uncontaminated by manipulation to achieve the desired results that Big Pharma and Big Agriculture want to achieve. It is here where some libertarians would part with him. They would say he is too optimistic in believing this and other federal health agencies can ever be truly objective.

Some free market advocates would rather have private organizations providing health information. U.S. life expectancy increased by 15 years between 1865 and 1915 and during much of that time there was no FDA. Many businesses will try to provide safe products to develop a good reputation because that leads to increased profits. The court system could be used to deal with cases of fraud or harm to consumers. The government currently sometimes intervenes to stop this. For example, the government has given legal immunity to Big Pharma for their Covid vaccines along with other vaccines they are producing.

Someone please fire up the Alden signal.

Run don’t walk when you see this man enter the room:

The Maharshi Mahesh Yogi and TM appeared on the national consciousness a bit before the Merv Griffin show in the 70’s.
The Beatles hung out w/him in India along w/Mia Farrow’s sister in 1968 and it was a bit of a sensation. George was a fan but John and the others soon grew restless.

Steve is trolling us.

Yes, Maitlis is a nasty piece of work. Andrew must have been crackers to allow her to interview him.

Off topic, what about that Trump chappie eh?

The schadenfreude is delicious.

“Europe, be independent just like you always said you were ”

“Oh scheisse”

There are some very beautiful women in Hungary, judging by those who come to the UK. Perhaps its self-selection and all the pretty ones are here, but I doubt it.

Before we threw our first grenade in Army training, they made us throw a dummy grenade over a rope to be sure we could get the live grenade far enough from the fox hole.

Beyond the practice rope was a thick bramble of bushes. The trainees had to retrieve their dummy grenades, so it was best not to pitch it too far into the bramble. I threw like a girl trying to just get over the rope and short of the bushes. I missed and my grenade when under the rope. The cadre looked an me like a I was a total sissy. So I tried again.

Determined not to fail again and be permanently branded a sissy [and miss a chance to toss a live grenade] I pitched the dummy grenade like I was throwing from deep left to home. The thing sailed way over the rope and far far into the willy-wacks.

The cadre looked at me like I was a total ass-hole.

Not just recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(Byrne_book)

The Secret

Meanwhile, it appears pro-illegal alien factions are fighting amongst themselves…

Well in his Spanish Civil War associations Orwell was pro Trotsky and anti-Stalin. Doesn’t seem an important distinction now but it certainly was in the 1930s.Anyway one didn’t have to be of the hard left to be anti Franco in one’s attitude to the Spanish Civil War (thinking of Michael Portillo’s father)

I expect if Orwell had lived a bit longer, he would rejected socialism as a tenable possibility for human affairs. Remember during his life -as Christopher Hitchens said, -Orwell was conservative in everything except politics. I’d say that his politics was governed by his (correct) feeling that poor people and colonial subjects received a very raw deal .

I have a theory about Dreher. He claims to have been adopted and truly couldn’t be a bigger whack job if he tried.

You jest about the adopted part. Rod never claimed that.

What the hell happened to Q-Anon anyways? That one was always weird-a truly noble cause of putting Hillary Clinton and her minions in jail buuut believing that before that coup d’état happens Trump will drop hints here and there that only people in the know can understand for a year or two in advance.

I mean the whole idea of a coup d’état is for it to come out of the blue, leaving its opponents totally surprised and unable to mount a resistance-nobody, in their right mind would drop hints for a year or two in advance that we are going to put you in jail because the whole point is that we want you to be totally surprised when that happens. If we drop hints a year or two before the event you will be prepared and might actually plan a counter-coup to protect yourself.

So you are saying don’t audit the government bureaucrats? Got it.

She has a nice rack and is fighting the yas queens. Let her cook.

11/6/1986 — the date on which Reagan signed the amnesty bill–was the date on which the “illegals problem” began to metastasize to its current state.

Drones Spray ‘Self-Spreading’ COVID-19 Vaccine for ‘Large-Area Inoculation of Humans’ in ‘DEFUSE’ EcoHealth/DARPA Project
Was the COVID-19 pandemic a premeditated operation involving aerosolized bioweapons deployed on unsuspecting populations?
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/drones-to-spray-self-spreading-covid

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie Calls for FDA to Revoke Approval of COVID-19 Jabs ‘Immediately’
“FDA should immediately revoke approval of these shots,” says Kentucky representative.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/us-rep-thomas-massie-calls-for-fda

New Montana Bill Would Ban mRNA Shots in Animals: HB 418
Veterinary medicine practitioners “may not purposefully or knowingly prescribe or dispense any gene-based vaccines,” the bill reads.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/new-montana-bill-would-ban-mrna-shots

I am sorry that the women in yoga pants where you live are so schlubby.

Too bad they don’t look like this:

Buzz, that’s a stumpy broad with weird legs. Looks like all your attention is on the ass crack. OTOH, no doubt there are plenty of actual Lululemon hotties in Fairfield County.

I read Dreher’s “diary” which is free on-line. He started out Protestant, went RC, then switched to orthodoxy when the scandals hit Catholicism. He hated Trump but now is now kissing his ass. As to his move to Hungary it should be noted that he made many friends in Eastern Europe while he was writing “Live Not By Lies” so…dunno. His apparent fixation on demons and Little Green Men is a recent phenomenon. In short, he’s like a rubber ball and seems to bounce all over the place. Nevertheless, his “Benedictine Option” and the aforementioned “Live Not By Lies” are worth reading.

Anthony Bourdain credited Orwell with writing the best book about the travails of the restaurant worker (up to that time), Down and Out in Paris and London.

Gov. Palin is an experienced public executive and the worst complaint anyone had about her was that there were cost over-runs on a public works project in Wasilla, Alaska. MTG has at least worked in a family business. The last Democratic nominee who had a history in any kind of private enterprise other than a small time law practice was Jimmy Carter. The last who had held a public executive position was Bill Clinton.

Steve, let them all through, you musty moo moo (moo).

Yeah, the girlfriend takes measures when the creepers are around.

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What was his deal with Hungary? Was his ex-wife Hungarian?
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Julie Harris grew up in Dallas.
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I have a theory about Dreher. He claims to have been adopted and truly couldn’t be a bigger whack job if he tried.
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He doesn’t claim to have been adopted.
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One of his critics referred to him as ‘an emotions-based writer’ and he has a history of opinionated fusillades followed by course corrections later. He’s somewhat raw and has an admitted history with psychotropics, but no other indicia of being a problem to the larger society. He cannot stop running his mouth (or, more precisely, putting the issue of his mouth on the internet) and is somewhat emotionally neuralgic. He has alienated much of his family as well as quondam co-workers, and the smart money attributes that to what the young people call chronic over-sharing.
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To listen to him, you get a sense of what his salient problem is and what it always has been. For occult reasons, he simply is not masculine beyond a certain baseline. His sister functioned as both daughter and son to his mother and father. (His father appears to have been puzzled and dismayed by his shortcomings rather than angry with him and never stopped wanting him nearby).

Yes, Maitlis is a nasty piece of work. Andrew must have been crackers to allow her to interview him.
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She asked him polite questions and let him talk. Andrew’s problem was that he either did not have the receipts or the receipts told stories which would incriminate him. The man had a schedule of public appearances and he had a security detail. There should have been logs and pay stubs and court circulars and what not demonstrating where he was when during the period 1999-2001. He did not produce them. He also admitted that the technicians he hired could not prove that the famous photograph of him with Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts was faked. Instead, he told cock-and-bull stories about his daughter’s birthday celebration in 2001 and about his tendency to sweat (or not sweat).
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What’s interesting is that in no jurisdiction not run by idiots would Virginia Roberts Giuffre have a tort claim against him. In the jurisdictions in which they were present (by her own account), sexual relations between the two of them were legal at the time they occurred. It’s exceedingly poor form to canoodle with a woman of 17 when you are 40 and have a daughters aged 10 and 12, but it is neither illegal nor tortious except in clown world. Virginia Roberts was an employee of Jeffrey Epstein there of her own free will. She has a denuded sense of personal agency (quite common among women) and she’s been well-paid for it.
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Patrick Flanagan’s firm Source of Innergy was headquartered at
4315 Woodman Ave in Sherman Oaks, just north of Ventura Blvd. The building
still stands. Out of curiosity I visited the place in the mid-‘70s. The ground floor
looked like a car dealership showroom but inside were countless pyramids,
typically made of metal rods, of various sizes, some big enough to place over
your bed. The selling point was that they would improve the quality of your
sleep (or your meditation) and help you have Technicolor dreams. I now regret
I didn’t take a picture of the showroom. It would’ve been a perfect symbol of
the New Age craze that exploded in the 1970s.

The obsession with pyramid power was partly due to the runaway success of
the book “Chariots of the Gods?” (1968) by Erich von Däniken, which was
turned into a movie released in the U.S. in 1973.

In response to someone who mentioned the story of the Maharishi and the
Beatles. Purely accidentally I have two degrees of separation from Mia Farrow
(i.e. I knew someone who knew Mia) so I know the story well.

The MTG “Jewish Space Laser” charge is essentially a smear. She never used that phrase. If you google her name and “space laser”, you’ll come up with a vast number of hits which talk about it without every actually saying what she said (or rather, what she wrote on Twitter). Here at least is an article – still a smear – but that at least shows the tweet:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html

She mentioned some financial dealings between PG&E and some Rothschild subsidiary. Why is mentioning the Rothschild’s forbidden? The extended Rothschild family and their interests still have a lot of money and a lot of influence. It was perfectly okay for Democrats to invoke the Koch brothers and the money they gave to various Republican politicians (and, as far as I’m concerned – noticing that is perfectly fine too), so why are George Soros or Rothschild interests off-limits?

She also mentioned Solaren, an abortive Green New Deal v1.0 (under Obama) which was in tight with the Democratic party and proposed to build orbiting solar power stations that would beam energy back to earth (probably with microwaves, not lasers, but lasers may have been mentioned). That of course all came to nothing because it’s a crazy idea.

MTG is rather uncritical in her dot-connecting and she makes a common mistake made by the non-technical public in thinking that every press-release issued about some space thing is a thing that really happened when, more often, it is a thing that one or two people wish would happen but probably never will.

So – yes – MTG is sometimes wrong and perhaps too inclined to trust Alex Jones type sources, but still, she is more likely to be on my side (and sincerely so) than most Republican office-holders so I have no problem with her.

When they bring up Palin or MTG, half the time they’re talking about Trump, their major complaint about all of us — they’re talking about “cool.” No invite to the party. We didn’t measure up to their idea of cool. And what do they think is cool? Molesting children. Receiving another man’s penis in their rectum. Getting cheated on by their wife and knowing about it. Starting a war they have no idea how to fight and no plan to win. Embezzling money in a fake charity. Using bogus lawsuits to effect censorship. Making movies nobody wants to watch. Protecting and enabling violent criminals. Monkeypox.
We need to stop worrying about what malignant homosexual life failures think is cool.

In short, he’s like a rubber ball and seems to bounce all over the place.
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You’ve captured him precisely.

You’re the guy who sees a mentally ill homeless man ranting in the street and thinks “if only I could get him to start ranting about the Jews, he’d make a valuable ideological ally.”

Those people stupid and evil enough to actually take Magic Dirt Theory seriously, (the generalized belief that third workers transplanted into western nations dumb enough to take them in, somehow through an unknown unscientific occult force become a population equivalent in behavioural and intellectual characteristics to the native European descended population), which is basically the entire western political class and their arch angel, The Economist magazine, are the real dangerous and evil mischief mongers to walk upon the earth. The evil that those bastards commit is incalculable. Those are the people you should be gunning for – not the bedroom tarot card readers.

Great paragraph 294.

The effect of this stupidity dwarfs any crank woo-woo stuff by uncountable orders of magnitude.

But the key word here is *evil*. Sure, there’s a bunch of clueless people who have been pickled in this magic dirt stuff since birth and actually believe it. But they are not the drivers of anything, but lemming like followers.

The real driver here is all the people who simply hate “stale pale”, “boring”, “white bread” nations and seek to destroy them. These minoritarians and “must have immigration” zealots are not careless and allowing something destructive to happen out of biological ignorance, confusion and silliness. No, these people very intentionally seek to break and remake–i.e. to destroy–white nations/civilization. These minoritarians and immigration zealots are not really “stupid” but deeply, deeply evil–the most evil and destructive people in human history.

Our existing supply of lampposts may be insufficient.

What’s interesting is that in no jurisdiction not run by idiots would Virginia Roberts Giuffre have a tort claim against him.

Well said. And the tort claim against Trump by the old BPD loon was even crazier than this.

She has a denuded sense of personal agency (quite common among women) and she’s been well-paid for it.

We now have this bizarre combination of
— almost Victorian notions of female innocence and frailty–anything that happens to them the fault of men
and
— this grrl-power ideology of slut empowerment and women as awesome butt kicking cops, firemen, soldiers, CEOs and should be Presidents

If women want to the right to be essentially legal children, with men charged with the responsibility to look after them–fine. But then out the window with all this other complete nonsense, including the right for them to vote.

Thanks. I was keeping it simple with what had the biggest impact for me (I was doing most of what you recommend plus the following and it was not sufficient). I would add MSM (relatively cheap) and chondroitin (expensive) to the list for joints.

Well now, at least you know what it feels like to write an inappropriate comment. LOL. I am very experienced at that!

You’re always a good sport about it, though..

More here.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html

LOL

I had ASSumed that an interesting thing called perspective was at work here: A taller person, almost certainly male, shot a photograph from a high viewpoint, looking downward though a typically wide-angle lens on a smartphone.

Thus the distortion: The farther down you look, the more foreshortened things become.

I do, however, admit to focusing on what I find to be the most impressive part of the female anatomy:

[Rod Dreher] hated Trump but now is kissing his ass.

When and why did Rod Dreher turn pro-Trump?

Did you miss that this woman, Nancy Mace, two days ago gave a Cluster-B-extraordinaire histrionic speech accusing her ex-fiancee and his friends of running Kavanaugh-like mass rape gangs and sexual predation all across South Carolina?

She could be sued for slander if her wacko charges against these four men are false (and they certainly are false). Except that the White men who drafted the Constitution ensured that speech on the floor of Congress is protected from slander laws. She made these wacko allegations in the only place where no harm can come to her for lying.

It was classic Cluster-B borderline-personality-disorder rage, coming out of nowhere after someone (presumably her) undermined her relationship with the fiance.

Most women may feel resentment at a man with whom an engagement is broken. Only a destructive few would go for such crazy, attention-seeking, mega-escalation vendetta.

Not funny, haha! [/old Chinese professor] I do remember that, Adam, and it still pisses me off. Notice we never threatened anyone for TAKING the vax. I guess some of them hunted themselves down, you might say.

Oh, and for Mr. Hail, I read through your linked Atlantic article by this piece of work David Frum. I could find one big lie in each of his paragraphs till about halfway through! Then he mellowed out to appear fair and conciliatory. Thanks for the link anyway.

We now have this bizarre combination of almost Victorian notions of female innocence and frailty…

Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland excepted, as the “cowgirl” position for hanky-panky is the most popular one in those countries. Hmm, but, I would not go out of my way to evangelize against it, provided that a proper sense of proportion is maintained in terms of who handles the choreography. I will stop there, as this is not that kind of blog.

Well, Steve and Ron Unz totally believed the lies told by the NYTimes government and media that we’re all gonna get covid and die.

Sorry to [Disagree] and run, Mr. Turok, but I got busy till now. I read of some votes by this Nancy Mace that were full UniParty and non-MAGA. I’m sorry I can’t remember which right now. She’s better than some, but she’s no MTG by any means.

Until we get this country under control, we can’t vote in slates of women just based on good racks.

Th NYTimes, the Atlantic New Republic every newspaper in America every TV station everything in them is a complete fraud falsehood and lie.

Great minds think alike Achmed

So you prefer Kamala Harris and her Jew handlers as president??

LOL, my pot-scrubbing brother!

Personally, I never have found “cowgirl” to be so good. “Doggie” is the best, and many women agree…

Naturally, “missionary” is classically good, as always. I almost “need” to be on top. One wonders about the men in Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. This becomes even more interesting now in light of our president’s and secretary of defense’s very strong shoves to our European friends to put up more for their very own defense. (I mean, if they won’t even fuck their own women from the top, what kind of men are they?)

I never thought Virginia Roberts was all that hot. Ghislaine (sp?) Maxwell, Epstein’s GF/procurer was much more attractive even though older. Reports also talk about “girls” plural though VR is the only one ever pictured.

Epstein sure charmed a lot of people who were bright enough to have known better. IIRC, the FBI confiscated pictures and videos from Epstein’s NY townhouse. Maybe the de Luna babe will release those after his little black book, which is gonna be awesome.

Steve is trolling us.

Meaning? Purpose?

“His apparent fixation on demons and Little Green Men is a recent phenomenon.”

Dreher used to play troll between me and The American Conservative. I know much about him in a sort of involuntary fashion. The demon fixation started before he moved overseas though I don’t recall him writing about UFOs. He may have even insinuated that I was demon-possessed. The question then, as now, remains: does this otherwise intellectual male really believe demonic entities are going around doing evil or is this merely some populist sensationalism he uses to draw an audience? There is a third option here, mainly that, as children and clerics of an earlier era might do, Dreher labels anyone he doesn’t like as being possessed by demons. Possibly the guy lives on the margin between sanity and insanity except his thought-broadcasting has the kind of edge to it that would only be typical of an all-too-sane jerk who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. So, no thanks, I won’t be reading anything written by Rod Dreher. I consider it the fruit of a poisoned mind that will be harmful one way or another. Besides, the Benedict Option material has been covered by the Catholic church, American transcendentalists and British distributists. Dreher can easily be edited out of modern history.

Btw, wasn’t Dreher working somewhere related to the Eastern Orthodox church several months before he ended up in Hungary? Egypt or Syria? I believe he was fired for being a goofball.

Reply to this: oh come on, this is hilarious. Schumer as Downfall Hitler is perfect. He even has the same glasses.

Thanks for the reply, YAA – really nothing to argue here, but since you replied first, let me address a few others here. Keep in mind that those reviews (I got links there that explain so I wouldn’t have to write here) are from about 4 years ago, so I remember a lot.

Mr. Toad: Yeah, that Anarchist group was in Barcelona. He fought – pretty light as someone described here, though he did get shot in the throat – in the mountains for 4 months or so before he went to Barcelona. All that madness was in Barcelona after his time in an actual battlefield, so to speak.

SB: That’s the thing, though. Orwell had no idea at the time that all these groups were being supported by various Commie factions in the USSR. Lenin, Trotsky, whoever, he had no idea what was even going on.

Anonymous[168]: I agree with this. He also mentioned that he called the book an “homage” because he had a very good feeling about the people of Catalonia. His example was the time his apartment in Barcelona was ransacked by some enemy group looking to see if he was involved in anything. Well he had been, but they were so respectful of his wife, who was sleeping on the bed during this ransacking that they would not upset her by moving the mattress, etc., where IIRC he may have had a gun or two.

Germ Theory and Brutusale: I have not read those other books and other writings. I will take your words for this, that he did a good job. This is probably my problem, having an ingrained attitude that any “important” writer that I’m supposed to know about wrote only good books. Yet I was told Homage to Catalonia and Animal House were good books. No. They were written by a guy who had no clue what was going on around him and was a sucker for Socialism* and a guy who tried to illustrate the flaws of Communism but illustrated the WRONG point.** See my reviews for more but examples below the MORE tag.

Yeah, he had every right to be a fool and write books about it. I’ve had enough hearing that people can learn something from these books (at least the following 2):

“Most women may feel resentment at a man with whom an engagement is broken. Only a destructive few would go for such crazy, attention-seeking, mega-escalation vendetta.”

Isn’t this what’s behind the concept of revenge porn which may statistically be more of a male than female pursuit since women end relationships more often than men? I have been a victim of revenge porn both pre- and post- internet versions and maybe should sue the purveyor(s) of the more recent attacks. Of course no one on this blog would ever stoop to such measures, now would they?

Anyway, I was wondering if Mace was bringing too much of her personal life into her politics but haven’t listened to her speech. I dismissed it as being squeamish about the subject matter. Mace seems intelligent and capable though her stances on a few issues might keep me from voting for her if she ran for president. As far as the ex-fiance, she broke the engagement so it would be unusual to get revenge as the one who ended the relationship. I would infer that she had had the man investigated and found out these things. It is dubious in the sense that most men don’t do the things this guy and his associates are said to have done, but it’s not outside the range of possibility (see Jeffrey Epstein). I guess the proof will be any future convictions related to Mace’s assertions. If not, then it was some kind of stunt.

What was [Rod Dreher’s] deal with Hungary? Was his ex-wife Hungarian?

Julie Harris grew up in Dallas.

I choose to trust the Experts on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreher_(surname).

We learn that there were Drehers active in that unfortunate state of bygone memory called the Austrian Empire. Somebody cranked out the idea to rebrand as the “Austro-Hungarian Empire.” Were these dynamic Drehers poking around all corners of the empire? Probably excluding Serbia (“Serbien muss Sterbien!”) but certainly including the fair Hungarian lands.

We learn, from the Experts, that there was a certain Anton Eugen Georg Dreher (1810-1863), an Austrian beer-tycoon of enough renown to be honored with a Wikipedia entry — but never of enough value to Vienna to be awarded a “von.” The Prussians might have done it for a first-rate “beer-baron.” (The Austrian reluctance to von-ify people might connect with their laggard-behavior all thru the 19th century.)

In 1862, we learn that Herr Anton E. G. Dreher, the beer tycoon, staged a hostile takeover/purchase of a Hungarian brewery called “Brauerei Steinbruch” in Budapest.

The Dreher beer-dynasty of Olde Austria, and its frolickings in Olde Hungary, probably doesn’t explain why right-wing Rod Dreher toyed seriously with the idea of emigration to Hungary in the late 2010s (and, iin 2022, crossed the Rubicon — which, in this case, is the Danube). But you never know. Is it less plausible than demonic UFO abductions?

“He doesn’t claim to have been adopted.”

I’m not imagining this. Dreher wrote something about being adopted on his old blog at The American Conservative. I could have scrambled the referent but not the statement itself. Also, I’m not the one who asked if his ex was Hungarian. Maybe I forgot to put quotes around what I was responding to. Oops, I’ve officially plagiarized. I knew the wife was from Texas. In fact I’ve occasionally wondered how it is that Dreher could have spent his formative years only a few hours away from where I grew up and in the same age cohort, yet be so opposite from most of us. This may, however, have something to do with the Frenchie ways of Louisiana. Texas is just better, always has been.

If / when Steve finally stops posting here, I wonder if there’s some other place on Unz.com where we regular readers and commenters could plan on going to hang out and keep commenting? Staying on Unz would give the benefit of his free speech umbrella and his wonderful commenting system.

There are at least a couple dozen of you I’ve enjoyed learning so much from over the years. It would be a shame if it all melted away once Steve’s drip-feed of posts dries up for good. Who knows if it would work out, but now might be the time to at least point in a direction where we’d all try to head when things draw to a close here.

OT — Was it another diversity hire?

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— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) February 13, 2025

Thanks for the info, Mr. Bumperstickers,

Here’s a link to an EcoHealth Alliance proposal titled Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses. Interesting stuff.

Cheers! ☮

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/what-rod-dreher-sees-in-viktor-orban

What Rod Dreher Sees in Viktor Orbán
For Dreher and other conservatives, Hungary has become a dark mirror for the American culture wars.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
September 13, 2021

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hungary-new-yorker-rod-dreher-viktor-orban-conservatism/
https://archive.is/oOIII

‘Why Hungary?’ The New Yorker Asked Me
‘Because the future will belong either to George Soros or Viktor Orban,’ I said
Rod Dreher
Sep 14, 2021

From “Somewhere in America, II“:

Somewhere in Pennsylvania, a man reads conspiracy content on TikTok. His annual income is less than $30,000, yet he voted enthusiastically for Donald Trump.

Socialists would say he lacks “class consciousness,” that Ayn Randian economics, religion, nationalism, or “racial resentment” has bamboozled him into identifying with his “class enemies.” They’d be wrong. He’s got plenty of class consciousness and used to vote for the Democrats. He stopped voting in 2016, became an RFK supporter in 2023, and switched to Trump after RFK dropped out.

Marx never foresaw that socialists would encounter class-conscious workers who accuse them of being shills for the bourgeoisie. It’s not enough to say the rich are exploiting the workers, you’ve gotta believe they’re running Satanic pedophile rings…

(By Alexander Turok, February 2025.)

I forgot to add the archived link to The New Yorker piece: https://archive.is/7XD8S

The Senate today confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services by a vote of 52-48. All the Democrats plus one Republican, Mitch McConnell, voted against him. Well, thanks to Rand Paul, Kentucky has at least one good Senator.

Dunno about the abductions. His great-grandfather was born in East Feliciana Parish, La. in 1873. It appears his great-great-great grandfather was born in South Carolina in 1795 and decamped to Louisiana some time before 1830. If that fellow had the gift of bilocation, maybe he was brewing beer in the Hapsburg lands in 1860.

A perceptive article! However, we all have our blind spots:

1.) On a recurring basis in your articles, you ask a rhetorical question about why people don’t like eugenics. Because eugenics led to compulsory sterilization laws, to Nazi genocide, to horrific human rights abuses in Third World campaigns against overpopulation. You write about William Shockley as though you don’t know that he was a nasty person and horribly inept as an advocate for his own views, with stunts like proposing to pay for the sterilization of people with IQs under 100. Basically, everyone else knows the history of eugenics between Francis Galton and now, whereas you seem baffled as to why it has a bad name.

2.) You have occasionally dabbled with the idea that somatotypes are a thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos), which is weird.

Winning. There is reason to hope for the future now.

What hole in Hell is hot enough for Mitch McConnell?

Or, if Dante has it right, cold enough?

the entire thing is predicated on a single person. the world’s richest man going 200% all in against the far left. without him, none of this is happening, and Joe Biden is slipping comfortably into his second no-show term.

by the way, without some EXTREMELY serious productive work over the next 2 to 3 years, a Democrat wins the national election in 2028 and we’re right back to where we started.

you can easily handicap JD Vance by -10 points right off the bat in 2028, who has zero of the charisma, national fame, charm, broad appeal, or credibility of Trump. he loses handily to any reasonably competent Democrat.

don’t kid yourself. even the 2024 election was close. Trump won some of the swing states by 1 or 2. that’s after a herculean effort by one of the most famous and charismatic Americans who ever lived. Vance loses all those close state races. nobody is inspired by JD Vance. nobody risks their own ass for JD Vance. nobody is trying to assassinate JD Vance. he’s no big threat to the establishment. JD Vance does not turn out low propensity voters. without some very big changes, Democrats pick up lots of states next time around. they have all the systemic advantages still.

get shot up with some concoction that was rushed to market mostly untested is a sound idea.

That’s right! And I know memories are short, but the man who was president of the United States at the time claimed that this was his greatest achievement.

The fascinating part to me is, if you didn’t already know in advance that this joker would wind up writing the ineffable 1984, arguably THE novel of the 20th century… you probably wouldn’t have guessed it*. Goes to show what one great idea can do to a man. And that alone contains a tale.

Actually if you read Orwell’s journalism and essays over many years you will find most of the themes that were eventually incorporated in Nineteen Eighty-Four were developed much earlier.

Even his autobiography about his school days, Such, Such Were The Joys presages much of the novel he wrote when he was dying.

Misdirection alert.

The article isn’t really bemused or alarmed by the weird right but by the awakening right that understands the power of Zionists and is wary of Neocons. One that doesn’t easily fall for the same old GOP narrative.
It tries to discredit these people as New Age cranks.

Weird ideas always existed on the right. Libertarian fanatics, Evangelical Scofield Zionists, Paleo-dieticians, Catholic medievalists, Crunchy Cons, Log Cabin Republicans, and so on.

The major difference is that American Conservatism, especially following the purging of the Paleocons, never questioned the Neocon party line.

The younger conservatives, weird or not, raised on the internet, are likely to be far more aware of who has the power and how it really works.

This article seeks to defend that power and is triggered by people who notice the reality of power. So, based on fringe examples, it paints the new right as ‘weird’ instead of acknowledging it has a straighter dope on what’s really going on.

Pete Buttigieg said JD Vance was weird 🧐

Also Pete Buttigieg 👇🤣 pic.twitter.com/aZFYUCVPCS

— 🇺🇸Kelli Kay🇺🇸 (@KelliKayK) July 29, 2024

Mark Smith has a new 2A law review article out in Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/the-third-rails-of-second-amendment-jurisprudence-guidance-on-deriving-historical-principles-post-bruen-mark-w-smith/

This is so badass.

Our soon to be DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ladies and gentleman.

“Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping.”

Tulsi can sling some fuggin lead. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/epAsh0TYCI

— 17AbsoluteRedux76 (@RealAbs1776) February 12, 2025

"The Second Circuit did not conclude that historical tradition supports prohibiting an applicant from obtaining a pistol license merely because his cohabitant cannot possess firearms…" https://t.co/1xp6g2RKZW

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LEGAL ALERT: Maine federal judge issues preliminary injunction against the state's 72-hour firearm waiting period. https://t.co/8ULd2bjphS pic.twitter.com/XWc06hAemJ

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) February 13, 2025

Bill Seeks to End Financial Industry's Discrimination Toward Gun Companieshttps://t.co/hmgtO1MvIS

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USAID funds are being funneled to Control Arms—the group behind the UN Arms Trade Treaty and Mexico’s lawsuit against US gun makers.

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Well, thanks to Rand Paul, Kentucky has at least one good Senator.

Though Rand’s street fighting skills leave a wee bit to be desired.

Another yoga pants story:

In 2013 customers began complaining that the seats of some styles of yoga pants made by athleisure company Lululemon would become nearly transparent when the wearers bent over. Company management decided that any customer seeking a refund would have to prove that her pants were indeed transparent. She would have to go to one of the company’s stores. change into the pants, and then bend over with a store employee looking at her rear end. It would be up to the employee to decide whether the pants were sufficiently transparent to merit a refund.

As one might imagine, this was exceedingly unpopular with both customers and employees, and the company was forced to issue a general recall.

Vril, Thul and Theosophy bro.
What could go wrong?

I don’t believe I said anything about bureaucrats or audits.

Steve. Steeeve. People are watching. This is in public. There is now a second prosa yoga pants story. Steeeeeeve.

If spirit cooking USAID globohomo child molesting human traffickers feel they need to have you physically attacked, that makes a purple heart look like a lottery ticket or an aging Yugo in need of an oil change or devotion to Current Celebrity Big Thing or a Frederick Forsyth novel or a capehero movie. But the thing that displaces a bronze star is when they feel like they need your wife to die of cancer.

What the hell, I thought I had read it all, I’ve never heard about that book, I actually learned something from JM.

“if you read Orwell’s journalism and essays over many years you will find most of the themes that were eventually incorporated in Nineteen Eighty-Four were developed much earlier.”

That is simply in retrospect: anyone can spot something in the rear-view mirror. You find four wheels and some auto parts in a scrap yard, maybe you think, Hmm a clever chap might get this to work — you don’t expect to see a Maserati.

The pre-occupation with political language (hardly a new thing) that one sees in the rather-meek-really-doesn’t-go-nearly-as-far-as-it-might “Politics and the English Language” has next to nothing to do with the conceptual thunderbolt that is newspeak and its satellite concepts. The actual storyline of 1984 is really quite trite in comparison with the conceptual apparatus.

There were plenty of dystopian-future political novels before Orwell (does Zamyatin ring a bell? R.U.R.?). But we now find Huxley sort of quaint (even though in many ways he was more correct) whereas we still find Orwell terrifying. Or, if you’re a leftist, helpfully instructive.

“Our existing supply of lampposts may be insufficient.”

Easy way to check. What is 2% of 350 million?

We can probably get one of those fake-genius Indian immigrants that our Best Friends Forever are betting the future on, to do a quick calculation.

“satisfy the demands of the powerful and mislead some of the self-interested who would not vote for you if they actually knew your actions were not going to help them.”
Is this what DOGE is doing?

“he loses handily to any reasonably competent Democrat.” Does one exist?

With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go?

Left vs Right. Tried and true elite “let’s you and him have a fight”, setup.

One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo-woo…>

There’s something wrong with the so-called “right” from the author’s perspective.

He wants to attack their so-called “right” status as not being truly “right”.

” the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc. “ Chinese.

China.

In other words, all the old craziness satirized by Umberto Eco in Foucault’s Pendulum, plus some new innovations like AI cults and God knows what else.

Umberto Eco in Foucault’s Pendulum!

Big brain “true Right!” vs left brain faux right which is actually wrong right!

Umberto! Eco!

Doesn’t Vox Day name check him every second post?!

Vox Day, as everyone knows has Mensa level IQ. To reference Umberto Eco means this is some big brain stuff!

G. K. Chesterton supposedly said.. supposedly? Didn’t you have the time to verify the quote before your essay deadline? Or are you undermining your own quote?

The current right-wing coalition between tech bros and chuds opens up all sorts of possibilities, both highbrow and lowbrow.

Current.

“right-wing” – in the author’s world left vs right are distinctions that only matter in terms of his own pursuit. tech bros vs chuds = false dichotomies, whose side are you on?

Left vs right doesn’t matter, there’s only one truth. The author’s ethnocentric pursuit.

And much of New Age is motivated by physical discomforts suffered by aging humans, which they like to blame on poisoning. Hitler blamed race poisons, others blame seed oils and microplastics.

Hitler.

Anything outside of Sailer’s ethnocentric pursuit is the equivalent of Hitler and everyone knows Nazis should be exterminated.

This is the big-brained HBD philosopher behind the “new-right”.

It goes on and is probably some Vanguard moment for the new-Trump “right”, where “right” means White men dying for kikes, and this Sailer Ilya Ehrenburg subterfuge will be brought to the open once we’re all brought low and without any recourse to laugh openly in our faces for having being duped again, Project Esther style.

When you read between the lines of a standard Sailer post and realise he’s the pacifist, of this new Trumpian expediency…

osama bin laden was an enemy of my enemy. how did that turn out?

Secretary Kennedy is not going to shut down welfare programs originating from HHS, in fact he may request increases, so the progressives can stop wailing like the little children they are.

With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go?

It’s as if the left and right were really two truly opposing cultural sides based in a sort of racial glue, the way Sailer puts it, it’s like left vs right were some sort of socio-economic determinant eternal fight.

Instead it’s a superficial misdirection of all your energies into a deadend. A cul-de-sac.

The truth is: your best interests are served by staying loyal to family and family and friends and marrying into external cousin groups.

Marrying into and reproducing into race.

I have a higher opinion of J.D. Vance than you do. I agree with you, though, the 2024 election was closer than it should have been considering what an unlikable candidate Kamala was. If he runs in 2028, Vance may have a tough time winning.

The biggest threat to his future success may be the return of inflation. The Fed can’t raise interest rates because interest payments will be too high on the massive federal debt. High interest rates might also pop the stock market bubble and crash the economy. This is not the eighties when a Volcker raised interest rates to kill off inflation without serious consequences.

The situation we are in is not primarily Trump’s fault since our high federal debt was created over decades but he will be blamed when inflation goes up. Inflation will cause prices to rise faster than wages and unhappy voters may vote Democrat in 2028. That Democrat will likely then make things even worse.

opinion of J.D. Vance

What we don’t know on Vance relates to what people call “executive ability.” How effective would Vance be?

I say “would be” and not “is” because he has never been in such a position, that I know of. A commentator (or gadfly) and an executive are different species.

There is, can be, danger in liking a commentator so much that people place in an executive position he ought not be in.

If those still reading this far deep in this thread permit me a poetic metaphor: The commentator inhabits the sunny climes of mid-afternoon. The executive lives or dies in, by, the cold morning chill. —–

Executive ability. Get stuff done, inspire others, have organizational acumen, entrust good people with responsibility and power, shape group vision, have moral clarity and moral commitment. A lot of it is not seen in the light of day at all, and not much for for the sunshine patriot. How does Vance do on these fronts?

It’s astounding that Queen predicted your 2025 fans

“the entire thing is predicated on a single person. the world’s richest man going 200% all in against the far left. without him, none of this is happening, and Joe Biden is slipping comfortably into his second no-show term.”

Musk had nothing to do with Biden’s disastrous debate performance which doomed him.

2024 was NOT close
The Democrats are fake and gay
And, that is all being dismantled

To me, it looks like something determined.

Kissinger said: Poor Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world.

One could say:

Poor United States. Too powerful and prosperous to fall precipitously, too “diverse” & divided to remain as prosperous and powerful as before.

That’s right! And I know memories are short, but the man who was president of the United States at the time claimed that this was his greatest achievement.

I’m not forgetting. Nor am I forgetting The Donald’s complicity in the COVID regime. He is currently complaining about all those lazy government employees who have been working from home ever since COVID. People need to remember that it was Trump who sent them home in the first place.

OT —

It’s all in the links, Buzz. I guarantee you, my pictures are better than yours.

Let me guess how you know about all this. You were the #1 Claims Adjuster on the Go Team?

I share everyone’s frustrations with Mitch “Glitch” McConnell, but we should remember that he momentarily (and inexplicably) found his spine in 2016 and saved America from being saddled with devious gauleiter Merrick Garland as a Supreme Court Justice, opening the way for today’s 6-3 conservative-ish majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination#Response_to_the_nomination…

Note the HAZMAT suits, that was back when everything was nuclear war imagery at all times.

customers began complaining that the seats of some styles of yoga pants made by athleisure company Lululemon would become nearly transparent when the wearers bent over.

The thing about this is, if you are wearing yoga pants, what modesty did you think you were still protecting? Now bystanders not only know the precise shape of your ass, but they also know the brand of your underwear?

It’s like whores saying, “I may be a whore, but I’m not a slut!” Okay, whatever, but at this point we’re just haggling over price.

Benedict Arnold was a loyal American (and a good soldier and administrator) before he decided he just had to have more and better candlesticks.

Why can’t I comment on your blog anymore.

Not a ‘guy’.

Mr. Anon, I didn’t forget most of that, and I especially remember his touting the vax. Lots of people whose opinions I trust say that Trump makes decisions based on the last few people he’s talked to. Last time around he had hired (more bad decision-making, but I don’t want to get into some recursive thing here…) people of the Swamp and the UniParty to “help” him make decisions.

I think he’s doing SO MUCH better this time due to that he’s not surrounded with people like that. The confirmation of RFK, Jr. whatever anyone thinks of his ideas, is proof that Trump will not let himself get surrounded with the wrong people anymore.

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PS: During that 3-hour long Joe Rogan interview I OCD’d all the way through, Trump did show the self-awareness to have seen this problem. He told Rogan that he made a mistake (yes, he did!) in picking his underlings. He also told Rogan that he didn’t like many of RFK Jr.’s ideas (the man is a Climate Calamitist™, for cryin’ out loud!), but he only wanted him for the healthcare ideas.

I don’t understand how your comment follows from mine, Alden.

My question was two specific things: (1.) When did influential conservative pundit Rod Dreher switch from an anti-Trump posture to a pro-Trump posture? and (2.) same question replacing “when” with “why.” It is a question about Rod Dreher; it is not about Trump, nor Kamala, nor Lord Gilgamesh of Babylon circa 2500 BC, nor anyone else.

I am curious about Rod Dreher and his evolving views.

“He doesn’t claim to have been adopted.”

I’m not imagining this. Dreher wrote something about being adopted on his old blog at The American Conservative. I could have scrambled the referent but not the statement itself.

Rod Dreher was not adopted.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lost-causes-rod-dreher-new-yorker-benedict-option-south/

Lost Causes And Stand-Taking Down South
The New Yorker profiles me and the story of my family
Rod Dreher
Apr 24, 2017

Today the New Yorker published a long profile of me by Joshua Rothman. It’s really good, in the sense of being dead accurate, warts and all. And it’s very well written. I’m quite pleased with it, though there are parts that made me grimace a wee bit — parts that are not Rothman’s fault, but my own: he has captured me well. I’ll drop a couple of passages below.

I illustrate this post with a screen grab from the website. I don’t think it’s quite kosher (and maybe not legal) to flat-out grab the photo, a portrait done in the Starhill Cemetery by the great Maude Schuyler Clay. We spent an entire Sunday afternoon gallivanting around St. Francisville and environs, taking shots in different places. When I saw the one the magazine’s photo editor decided to use, my first thought was, “Oh, too bad!”, because I doubt it’s the most flattering of the bunch. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it’s exactly the right one. After staring at it a few seconds, I thought, “My God, it’s the face of my father.” I showed it to my wife and kids, and they agreed. We have all seen that look on Daddy’s face: the eyes looking suspiciously in the distance, the tension in his jaw, when confronted with things that vex him. Neither Maude nor the photo editor at the magazine knew him, obviously, but boy, have they captured my dad, and my dad inside me — and so has Josh Rothman.

Great minds think alike Achmed.

Agreed and commas are for Boomer pussies. ;-}

George Orwell was a Genius but he was depressed as his books.

“The NYTimes, the Atlantic New Republic every newspaper in America every TV station everything in them is a complete fraud falsehood and lie.”

Yes. Oh and they all have something else in common also, what could it be? Hmm I’m having trouble remembering, but I’m sure it’ll come to me….

OT — On the one hand, Aspirant Yankee: We Wuz looks like capegarbage’s last gasp, a surprising and genuine success making money from its first weekend. Maybe it’s fun, maybe Steve will review it. On the other hand Harrison Ford has repeatedly and hilariously dissed it, calling it stupid, saying his role required him to not care about his role, and most recently promising to punch the face of anyone who brought it up.
A Hollywood reporter in the Hollywood Reporter claimed:

Reshoots are a part of making any movie like this with a big budget. But this isn’t Marvel’s first rodeo. Entire sequences we shot won’t make it into the film, and that’s very expensive. I’m not going to say the director was not equipped to handle that production. Basically, dealing with A-list egos was the issue. It was mainly just Harrison Ford. So that was a little disappointing. At the end of the day, it was the most tense Marvel shoot I’ve ever worked on. Everyone kind of felt their buttholes tightening a little bit. It’s like, Ugh.

Anonymous intuited:

reshoots because of the election results

A different anonymous further intuited:

They unironically got the call from Isreal saying they need to keep the Israeli hero out of it and Trump bad isn’t acceptable for the next few years

But the best (fpbp) was the anonymous who scored trips of the king in his post ID number (No.208626777) and informed with regret:

It’s amazing how you can tell this was written by a woman.

When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do?
– John Maynard Keynes

I guess all of the devoted commenters here, their friends, and family, would be well advised to contribute to this new website intended to assist illegal alien criminals evade ICE encounters.

In your free time, if you think you see an ICE raid, real or especially imagined, even if you must employ your own photoshop skills or AI photo manipulation techniques, post it to this website early and very very often. Posting imagined raids, especially at Home Depot parking lots and illegal alien taco stands in Southern California, is a great step in generating useful content for this site to keep our illegal aliens jumping!

Let’s all help a fat lesbian Mexican bulldyke out!

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 🚨

TikTok user (celestiedabestie) has created a site that gives updated ICE information all throughout America

This gives their exact locations and details of spottings so illegal immigrants can avoid ICE officers and deportations

This is a very in depth… pic.twitter.com/xHVH0bnmWr

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 14, 2025

OT — IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN.
https://www.flyingmag.com/2-navy-pilots-rescued-after-e-a-18-growler-crashes-into-san-diego-bay/

Rod Dreher… was fired [by the Eastern Orthodox Church?] for being a goofball.

More info on this requested.

____________

(NOTE: total times the word “Sailer” appears in this 232-comment thread up to this writing: 54. Total times “Dreher” appears, incl. this comment: 58; plus a 59th, “Blog-Rod Dreher,” still listed on the iSteve sidebar, a remnant of times long past.)

RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads

Is my MD an RFK, jr adjacent for pushing me to become a purist in terms of getting processed foods, carbs and sugar out of my diet? Advice I mostly followed and that produced results. If RFK was pushing that earlier than others why not recognize his foresight?

What the hell happened to Q-Anon

Ezra Cohen-Watnick is the name of man said to have authored the “Q” missives, largely responsible for creating and/or firming up the Q-mythology in its crucial development stages. His identity was revealed around 2020.

Ezra Cohen-Watnick himself, once this came out, I recall having affirmed it (bragged, gloated and the dummies who fell for it) but soon was seen coyly denying it.

Some were not convinced it was Cohen-Watnick (and possibly his inner circle). From the article “Trumpism and ‘Q-Anon’,” by Steven Woodbridge, Oct. 2024:

In a nutshell, ‘Q-Anon’ is a classic form of conspiracy theory, which has translated its ideas into practice and turned into what is arguably a near-religious movement, gaining many zealous ‘believers’ in the process. It first emerged in 2017 and has continuously evolved, focusing on different topics and adopting elements of other conspiracy theories.

Starting in October, 2017, ‘Q’ sent out lots of cryptic messages called ‘Q drops’. These often referred to ‘the Great Awakening’ that was about to happen. The actual creators of ‘Q-Anon’ were possibly a father and son team, although nobody really knows for certain (a number of names have also been put forward about a single individual who probably created ‘Q-Anon’). In the minds of its supporters, however, the anonymous figure ‘Q’ was supposedly a high-ranking intelligence officer, with access to classified inside information on a secret ‘global cabal’ that was operating behind the scenes and manipulating U.S. and general politics, via the ‘deep state’.

Donald Trump has been portrayed by ‘Q-Anon’ supporters as one of the only people who is prepared to heroically stand up to these ‘dark forces’. He has certainly made use of the idea of the ‘deep state’ as the supposed real source of power in America, and this more than meets many of the claims of the ‘Q-Anon’ movement.

As the journalist Will Pavia has noted: ‘Q-Anon conspiracists claim that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles who traffic and abuse children. Mr. Trump is cast as a heroic figure who was recruited by military generals to fight the cabal and finally crack its dominance of politics and the media establishment’ (Pavia, reporting from New York for The Times, January, 2021).

Trump and ‘Q’

Significantly, in January, 2018, a ‘Q drop’ had claimed that the ‘Q community’ was secretly backed by President Trump, and this idea became firmly embedded in ‘Q’ conspiracy theory. And Trump has, frankly, done very little to dampen down such ideas. In August, 2020, when Trump was asked directly about his opinion of the ‘Q’ movement, he said he knew very little about it, but acknowledged that ‘they like me very much’. Tellingly, in October, 2020, in an NBC interview, Trump refused to denounce ‘Q-Anon’.

https://historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/conspiracy-theory-in-politics-trumpism-and-q-anon/

Actually you can read it here if you want. It is still a pretty good read.

https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/e_joys

we should remember that [Mitch McConell] momentarily (and inexplicably) found his spine in 2016 and saved America from being saddled with devious gauleiter Merrick Garland as a Supreme Court Justice

Well, yes – there’s that.

For some reason, it reminds me of this:

Once upon a time there was a peasant woman and a very wicked woman she was. And she died and did not leave a single good deed behind. The devils caught her and plunged her into the lake of fire. So her guardian angel stood and wondered what good deed of hers he could remember to tell to God; ‘She once pulled up an onion in her garden,’ said he, ‘and gave it to a beggar woman.’ And God answered: ‘You take that onion then, hold it out to her in the lake, and let her take hold and be pulled out. And if you can pull her out of the lake, let her come to Paradise, but if the onion breaks, then the woman must stay where she is.’ The angel ran to the woman and held out the onion to her. ‘Come,’ said he, ‘catch hold and I’ll pull you out.’ He began cautiously pulling her out. He had just pulled her right out, when the other sinners in the lake, seeing how she was being drawn out, began catching hold of her so as to be pulled out with her. But she was a very wicked woman and she began kicking them. ‘I’m to be pulled out, not you. It’s my onion, not yours.’ As soon as she said that, the onion broke. And the woman fell into the lake and she is burning there to this day. So the angel wept and went away.

Read the book Salt, Sugar, and Fat by Moss. It opens with food industry executives confronting company heads because the food industry executives feel like they’ve gone too far and should be less poisonous. They lose.
Moss is the same guy who investigated some bad meat and established that globalized slaughterhouses were deliberately shuffling supply, obscuring sources, so no downstream problem would be traced to one slaughterhouse.

Quickly buried at sea, in accordance with muslim custom.

I had ASSumed that an interesting thing called perspective was at work here:

The farther down you look, the more foreshortened things become.

Assfixiation noted, but “foreshortened” doesn’t explain what my lying eyes see: Her legs are short, with bowed-out calves with no definition, and partial cankles. She’s trying to compensate for her stumpy pegs with cheesy heels, but it doesn’t help: It’s Secaucus or West Babylon rather than Fairfield. NTTAWWT. 🙂

Cue: “How Did You Know?” by MYNT feat. Kim Sozzi

Musk had nothing to do with Biden’s disastrous debate performance which doomed him.

I think you are overvaluing the impact of the debate. Biden’s certain loss was due to Team Biden’s decisions over the prior 4 years. The debate fiasco was just the media and Obama getting wise.

As usual, you talk nonsense.

The right is getting into real (n0t fake) environmentalism and worker’s rights (as opposed to billionaires’ rights, which they seem to be beginning to realize was a dumb thing they used to believe in).

And those are very good and very important things to be getting into.

Although Orwell was just a lumpen tourist, his “Down and Out in London and Paris” is harrowing, moving, astounding, frightening, and seems to be totally true-to-life. Middle-class people need a good and regular sousing in how horrible working-class life really is.

For instance, a large contingent of them has been anti-nuclear power ever since Fukushima.

OT — Another tranny school shooter — this one was intercepted in time, thus proving it’s a woman.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/indiana-teen-arrested-allegedly-plotting-mass-shooting/story?id=118806958

BREAKING: Ashley St. Clair has just announced that she had a child with Elon Musk 5 months ago.

Congrats you two! pic.twitter.com/wUUMNALM8X

— aka (@akafaceUS) February 15, 2025

(Elon Musk would impregnate Ashley St. Clair roughly one month after this tweet) pic.twitter.com/pa42sgvcAv

— Roll with Reagan ✝️🍷 (@NeoReaganism) February 15, 2025

The US Supreme Court relisted Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v. RI while the US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, took an interesting step concerning suppressors.

William Kirk discusses the rescheduling of Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island, two huge Second Amendment cases that have been sitting on the front porch of SCOTUS for months now.

Federal prosecutors are in the news today.

William Kirk discusses a ruling out of the US District Court for the State of Maine, which has found that the state’s mandatory 72 waiting period is without historical support and is therefore unconstitutional.

https://t.co/fVEPX8KsqM pic.twitter.com/rGg1rOXlP8

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) February 14, 2025

🤣🤍THIS MAN IS A LEGEND!!! 👇👇 https://t.co/XlCHX7Xoiu

— Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) February 14, 2025

That seems pretty revealing compared to the norm which is more like this:

Where do you think the Democrats are hiding their money??

By their money I mean the laundered tax payers money!!!

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) February 13, 2025

There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding about what DOGE is actually doing in the US.

DOGE isn’t just cutting silly programmes. It’s about embedding operatives in govt positions, mapping financial networks & en masse dismantling of bureaucratic patronage systems. https://t.co/xatWtT8tPh

— Tom Jones (@93vintagejones) February 13, 2025

The Soviet Union's propaganda around athletics and fitness wasn't very dissimilar from fascist regimes. And no, I don't mean that this means the USSR was "fascist". It's just common sense. It's a good thing to be propagandized about. https://t.co/kzAggpqkWr pic.twitter.com/JYEoP7rn4s

— 𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 ΜΑΝΙΧΑΙΟΣ (@LFriszt) February 14, 2025

I agree.

“Rod Dreher was not adopted.”

There were weird goings on with Dreher’s blog at TAC. I got the impression he allowed others to write under his name; either way, the statement was written on one of those blog entries from long ago. This may have something to do with why he was banished to substack. It isn’t all that important. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to roast Dreher and his penchant for getting too far into personal matters unrelated to journalism. The guy has zero respect for personal boundaries.

It boils down to genocidalists vs anti-genocidalists.

Sailer is in the genocidalist camp and the true reason for his hostility toward RFK Jr. is likely the man’s rejection of the official narrative that the Palestinian Sirhan killed his father. More than seed oils and skepticism about Covid-19 boosts, RFK Jr’s revisionist views on the assassination is what’s triggering.

Even though Sailer and RFK Jr. are both supportive of the Zionist project of elimination, RFK’s rejection of the assassination narrative threatens Sailer’s pitch to the Jews, which is thus:

Palestinians are all terrorists like Sirhan Sirhan, therefore must be eliminated.

The unspoken deal is the American Right fully supports genocide against the Palestinians in exchange for Jews either leaning more rightward or being less hostile to white interests.

But such a deal is threatened if RFK and others believe the Palestinian Terrorist wasn’t the killer in 68.

Despite RFK’s pro-Zionist position — as everyone has to be pro-Zionist to make it in American politics — , people on both the left and right who are either hostile to Zionism or have revisionist views on the JFK and RFK assassinations, with possible Israeli connection, welcome RFK Jr. as a welcome shake up to an establishment that is utterly corrupt and deceitful.

But Sailer can’t tolerate RFK because the deal he favors — conservatives support for genocide carried out by Zionists in exchange for Jews being less hostile — rests on Sirhan Sirhan as the face of Arab-Muslim barbarism. In other words, all Arabs or Muslims are terrorists and deserve what’s coming to them, therefore American conservatism supports genocide, and Jews show gratitude by donating more to GOP.

“More info on this requested.”

Well, you see, it’s only a hazy memory so I was putting it out there in case one of YOU could firm up the details. Here are the clues:

– Dreher had some gig overseas that was related to the Orthodox church.

– It was shortly before he was hired by the Hungarians. Ha, I don’t even remember what he does in Hungary.

Nations are there to be destroyed. Say God’s of Copybook Headings. Hiw many nations did White Americans spare in the lust to conquer from the sea to the sea. Moon
It is for the nations to defend themselves., if they can.

Is this what DOGE is doing?

If you want to know about DOGE, go read the media and watch Trump’s press conferences. I do not have first hand knowledge of, nor am I making any representations about DOGE.

My comment is about politics in general, and describes what I believe politicians do to build broad based coalitions in order to get elected, and why as they build them, there are inevitably some wack-jobs that self identify as part of these groups.

“I think you are overvaluing the impact of the debate. Biden’s certain loss was due to Team Biden’s decisions over the prior 4 years. The debate fiasco was just the media and Obama getting wise.”

I think Biden’s worst problem was that he was old and impaired as the debate showed. In any case Musk wasn’t a factor.

You should be able to comment. There was a change last year in WordPress commenting that causes some problems for some.

Try this link to see if commenting works:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/the-persistence-of-high-trust-in-europe-west-of-the-hajnal-line-and-the-future-of-western-uniqueness-in-the-21st-century/?replytocom=52140#respond

“MAGA Influencer” Ashley St. Clair impregnated by Elon Musk 5 months ago

The world is getting very weird.
And not the good kind; not the WEIRD kind.

And, for those wild speculators out there you inhabit some other parts of this website: Yes, Ashley St. Clair is Jewish. She is adamant about her pro-Israel views and on the need for MAGA to be pro-Israel. For the normal-thinkers out there who would scoff at the idea that an “influencer” named “Ashley St. Clair” would be Jewish, you lose this one.

(It’s still unknown what her real/birth name is, as far as I know, despite her being trotted out by media including Piers Morgan to be pro-Trump loudmouthed talkers who shout at skeptics.)

Will the Elon Musk — “Ashley St. Clair” baby be eligible for dual citizenship?

The world is getting very weird.

Elon Musk is definitely weird. He has a distinctly Central Asian look to him. I wonder if he is descended from Genghis Khan; he seems intent on replicating Khan’s fecundity.

Thanks, but who’s “JELLYBEAN PRICKSTER”? Criminal general Letitia James?

Mr. Stalin, I know you have the best of intentions, but I don’t have time for watching videos. You should post an executive summary of each. The headlines are of no help whatsoever. Ron Unz just added an AI summary feature. Maybe you should do something similar.

(you may notice you don’t get many comments to your posts. It’s not because they aren’t interesting, but because no one has time to watch the videos, so you are kind of wasting your time the way you do this)

Saying MTG is Sarah Palin on acid, is a compliment to both women. Before there was Trump Derangement Syndrome, there was Palin Derangement Syndrome. She was the only reason I voted for McCain. I bet she smells good.

White men losing, and DEI winning.
“Sam Wilson” gap-toothedly grinning.
Woke MCU brimming
With non-whites and wimming,
And, in his grave, Jack Kirby spinning.#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld https://t.co/L0w8z8ntkM

— the one they call Desanex (@oneDesanex) February 13, 2025

That would be the Commie Illinois Governor Pritzker. I had to look it up, Nick – couldn’t remember anything but that he is a huge Commie prick.

I’m not any kind of medical or scientific person. But I know the 2020 to 2023 seasonal flu was nothing more than standard seasonal flu. Just as I knew George Floyd was an average black criminal who died of a self induced illegal drug overdose.

How? Because the NYTimes and the rest of the MSM claimed covid was a new deadly disease. And we’re all gonna die. And Floyd was an innocent martyr accused of a very minor counterfeiting offense. Who was viciously murdered by an evil White police officer.

Whatever is in the MSM the opposite is true.

Remember; both Steve and Ron Unz fell for the covid hoax lies no different from Rachel Maddow and the rest.

They all hate farmers.

Aside from the standard negroes replacing whites as our heros theme (see also Iron man and Thor, who was replaced twice, once by a negress and second by a jewess) as well as the final boss is always an evil white man theme, the writers are just unabashed cowards.

The backdrop of this flick is that the US is on the brink of a military conflict (over a giant dead space alien laying in the ocean) with…. well who would be the obvious enemy of the US? It’s baffling! So we’ll just go with our old tried and true nemesis.. Japan!

I couldn’t wait to not see it.

doge.gov is the official site

It’s wonderful that Steve can see through RFK jr s lifetime of non profit grifting and hustling. Such as closing down a sorely needed pipeline in the northwest. Every time you complain about the high price of gas be happy your hero RFK jr saved Mother Earth from destruction by the gas pipeline.

RFK jr’slatest non profit grift is bringing back diphtheria polio pertussis measles mumps chicken pox maybe even smallpox

I just might be the only baby boomer who never fell for the Kennedy myth.

If you love affirmative action ( March 6 1961) and USAID another agency created by the baby boomer’s hero messiah John Kennedy you will follow anyone sur named Kennedy.

Old French proverb. Don’t listen to what he says but watch what he does. Affirmative action and USAID

Or for your hero JFK what his Hollywood style public relations people wrote about one of the most anti White presidents ever.

I reset my WP password with success, attempted to reply to the comment you added referring to me, and still get sent to the page that says comment could not be posted.

OT — IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN.

Nah. Military aviation crashes routinely. The pilots are younger, always learning new equipment and procedures and most of all doing military training–the emphasis on a military mission, not safety–all the time. (A few months ago the Navy shot down one of its own F18s in the Red Sea.)

What happened in DC last month was different: We–those of us not up to speed–found out that the military insists on running training flights for their “we are big shots” flights down a corridor through very busy airspace right next to a very busy major commercial airport, and that ATC procedures allow such traffic to be vectored through the last mile of an airliner’s final approach at low altitude with a “do you see that guy? please don’t hit him!” level of control. An ATC that is woefully understaffed and under-competent because of the Obama Administration blowing up the well-functioning aptitude screen and imposing a “diversity!” mandate that never produced sufficient competent candidates. And that our super-competent imperial super-state has been just fine with this ridiculous state of affairs resulting in this inevitable CF.

Very different kettle of fish. Military training and operations will–routinely–result in crashes. But we don’t expect them to be crashing into our civilization aircraft, anymore than we expect tank training to be running over cars on our freeways.

Nations are there to be destroyed. Say God’s of Copybook Headings. Hiw many nations did White Americans spare in the lust to conquer from the sea to the sea. Moon
It is for the nations to defend themselves., if they can.

It’s good that you are “out” now Mactoul.

Answering your minoritarian nonsense in just a few comments I pushed your anti-nationalist line from the bogus “imperialism is peaceful diversity of rainbows and happy trees” to your much more emotionally honest “you whimpy nationalists deserve to have your nations ripped from you”.

It is for the nations to defend themselves., if they can

On this we agree. Any nation that wants to survive, wants a future for its posterity, needs to fight. It’s long past time for whites, Westerners, all civilized peoples, to stop the Mr. Nice Guy routine. All of us should unabashedly root out and round up our nation’s enemies–mostly minoritarian anti-nationalists like you–and expel or exterminate them. No quarter in a fight for survival.

Agreed completely on the ATC staffing problem (the Kung Flu having still been a factor). You need to put your money where your mouth is, AnotherDad. I say that the tower (guy) was not at fault here. You said he was. Let’s wait for the final NTSB report, and put $100 bucks on it beforehand.

Ron Unz or Steve Sailer could handle the money. I trust these guys with that sort of thing.

Not sure about the “deal”; maybe.

As for the face of Arab-Muslim barbarism, there is no shortage.

I agree with your reply to Mr. Ross in that these training accidents are, unfortunately, nothing new or unusual.

The Lyin’ Press likes to get on a roll with any stories like this, an example being Boeing. Yes, there’s a big story there, with D.I.E. involved there too (the only part they couldn’t talk about – till Trump!). However, goodness, when a 737 tire blew up in the Delta maintenance shop in Atlanta – it was all “Boeing!” Uh, no, Boeing doesn’t even make tires. The tire should have been deflated before any work was done. (2 guys got killed, and one got injured.)

Also, redditters knew:

It appears that Ashley St. Clair aka sexlaptop cam girl heavily filters most of her photos so that they look nothing like her real life self. This is not surprising because everything from her appearance t her recently adopted "political views" are fake
byu/CatLovingPrincess inElonMuskFanGossipBlog

Academic_Ninja_9242
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10mo ago

also, pregnant!

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CatLovingPrincess

10mo ago

yep with Elon’s kid no doubt

BREAKING: Ashley St. Clair has just announced that she had a child with Elon Musk 5 months ago.

Thanks Johnny.

I credit Musk with being a refreshingly “old school” big man. Yeah, I’d like to see traditional Western norms, with eugenic incentives–but our “elites” blew all those up decades ago.

Compare Musk to sad sack old line WASP stock Bill Gates–three kids, with the daughters doing whatever, the younger one insta-whoring with a black boyfriend. Or Bezos who pitches over the tedious good-white wife … to end up with his friend’s wife, a 50-something Latina plasticized whore. Whom apparently he is fixing to marry–i.e. inevitably donate her a few billions. (Bezos apparently has no close guy friends willing to smack some sense into him.) Or Zuckerberg with three kids from the smart Chinese wife whom he literally pedestalizes.

Compared to those guys Musk is like Genghis Khan. Musk actually acts like he’s the richest guy in the world and what are those riches for if not to spread his seed? No old plastic retreads for him. He finds young fertile women and–knocks them up! Employs their equipment as nature intended. (I think he’s into the teens now–who knows–and certainly not done.) He is openly a eugenicist with a “my seed is the best seed” attitude.

In a 1000 years, the world is either likely dominated by the Chinese who have exterminated other inferior races … or most people alive–perhaps outside of some tight endogamous religious communities–will be a descendants of Elon.

>giant dead space alien floating in the ocean

Rest of the world: Gosh, they do exist. I wonder what we’ll discover —

Japan: It is the Second Impact! We must conceal Lilith and locate the First Children! Unfold absolute terror fields! Begin construction of the geo-front!

Rest of the world: You have to what in the what?

Japan: This means that Evangelion is real! Many will die!

Rest of the world: You don’t know that.

Japan: Nothing good comes from ocean giants. Except whales. Whales are delicious.

The Western civilizational model breaks down, and potentially quickly, if it morphs into whatever this Elon Musk-ism is.

The entire family-formation structure is undermined by the normalization of this behavior across the board. I see nothing refreshing in it. Not for the White-West.

I changed a setting or two. — Try leaving a comment using the “email address as unique identifier” option, just like it works here at Unz (any unique email address, real or fake).

You should see three options:

Leave a comment.

[Wordpress] [Facebook] [Email]

See if the third one works.

If every White person had twelve kids like Elon Musk, it would just create a different set of problems than our current problem of too low White birthrates combined with too high immigration from non-White countries.

High IQ NE Asian countries have the same low birthrate problem we do. So far, they have resisted calls for more immigration better than White countries have but the pressure is there. John Derbyshire has called for a Arctic Alliance where Whites and NE Asians all come together to resist high immigration from African, Hindu, Muslim and Hispanic countries to the South.

When the Soviet Union collapsed and China moved away from Marxism starting with Deng, it was a mistake for the United States to continue to view those two countries as the biggest threats to us. We should have focused on restricting immigration and instituting policies that would have encouraged a slightly higher native White birthrate in order to avoid a rapidly shrinking population. Trump appears to be trying to normalize relations with Russia, a good thing. He also just suggested that America, Russia and China all get together and cut military spending in each country, another good thing.

You need to put your money where your mouth is, AnotherDad. I say that the tower (guy) was not at fault here. You said he was. Let’s wait for the final NTSB report, and put $100 bucks on it beforehand.

As I said, I do think the NTSB will do more than just indict the helicopter pilot and her trainer. I do think this is an ATC failure as well. I do not claim to know whether that failure is simply personal–the controller–or whether the controller was “just following orders” and executed standard procedures for DCA by the book.

What I do claim is that the ATC that actually occurred was grotesquely inadequate. Giving an airliner landing clearance on 33 and a helicopter cleared to fly perpendicularly right through its final approach at low altitude with essentially “do you see that guy?” instruction.

And I do not think that scenario is equivalent to either your Hudson river hedge fund helicopter nor your SeaTac general aviation bozo like me on || runway scenario. In this case, the helicopter pilot(s) were perhaps unfamiliar with landings on 33 and certainly seem to have misidentified the aircraft they were supposed to watch out for. And in this setup–very unlike your scenarios–after that misidentification you’re basically tossing darts. Eventually someone hits the bullseye.

ATC can not protect against every possible instance of non-commercial pilots flouting ATC direction and/or their piloting duties. But the safety of commercial aviation is not supposed to depend on non-commercial pilots having to “get it right”.

So yes, I will take the bet that NTSB also blames ATC–either controller or the FAAs ATC procedures for DCA. And I think that they will also question the purpose, necessity and frequency of these pompous prick flights as well.

Switching wives when their ovaries burn out,
how many kids could Elon churn out?
The press conference rug rat,
a spoiled little smug brat,
would make me misdoubt how they turn out.#ashleystclair

— the one they call Desanex (@oneDesanex) February 15, 2025

Comic Book Movies: a crap mythology* for a crap country.

*And, at root, a synthetic and foreign mythology.

Without having read iSteve’s Taki column or the 200+ comments above, I post my objection here to the idea that Trump’s new GOP initiatives are “weird.”

What was weird was the Obama-Biden neo-Marxist identity politics mixed in with crass funding of anyone or group who happily went along with that. Sponsoring and cheering Woke policies which were increasingly authoritarian, and government sponsored. Recall the now found evidence of the government leaning hard on social media to deplatform, defund, debank critics of their COVID policies and other things.

Also “weird” was the passive “go along to get along” GOP “leadership” of the McCains and Romneys and Liz Chaney sell outs. No hint of traditional GOP/conservative politics there. Mitch McConnellism.

What Trump is now attempting to do, with Musk and others, is full on modern adult libertarianism in politics. Anti “deep Statism” is libertarianism. Also, non-interventionist foreign policy instead of war cheerleading. Trump is now all about ending conflicts.

Yes, tariffs aren’t libertarian, but these new ones are merely bargaining chips to inflict brief pain in order to trade away for better relationships. The Art of the Deal. “Tariffs Not Tanks.”

With Trump, a populist salesman, we see what Ron Paul would have liked to have done if elected.

So MAGA is largely modern, rational libertarianism in a different wrapper. This will soon be recognized by the Legacy Media and Official Intelligentsia. (They will of course, scream bloody murder about this, “danger, danger, danger!”)

Both RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard were highly praised in libertarian outlets (most) years ago as outliers from the Establishment, both Dem and GOP.

What is ‘weird’ is that unlike other Presidents, Trump is now doing what he promised. He currently has the political clout to do it. Elon is a great asset as well.

Obviously, the road ahead will be bumpy. Let’s stay weird….

The Western civilizational model breaks down, and potentially quickly, if it morphs into whatever this Elon Musk-ism is.

The entire family-formation structure is undermined by the normalization of this behavior across the board. I see nothing refreshing in it. Not for the White-West.

Agreed. But Musk didn’t create the mess in the West.

White Western Christian civilizational mores were blown up long ago as “white bread” and “oppressive”. (They might as well have been jello salad.)

Our elites think the first and best use of a smart woman is schmoozing clients at Dewey Cheatem and Howe. Or if not quite as smart then writing tsk-tsk narrative compliant “journalism” or pushing papers in the bureaucracy or social working dysfunction black baby mamas. And eugenic fertility? What are you some kind of Nazi? They aren’t against blowing the population through the roof with immigration. They are just against heritage Western white people having smart babies …. the horror!

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Musk is an African. You let Africans into your country, you gotta expect African behavior.

that ATC procedures allow such traffic to be vectored through the last mile of an airliner’s final approach at low altitude with a “do you see that guy? please don’t hit him!” level of control.

In this case the pilot in charge of maintaining distance was wearing military authorized ‘goggles’ with certain hum dinger features that distorted distances. Guess what military protocol has been repealed since the crash? Hint: you can’t wear this type of goggle when estimating distances anymore. The problem’s been solved and corrected and upcoming reports will finger the now changed protocol not controllers. This I was told by an retired ATC. Too bad there had to be such a loss of life.

Trump appears to be trying to normalize relations with Russia, a good thing. He also just suggested that America, Russia and China all get together and cut military spending in each country, another good thing.

He does indeed appear to be normalizing relations with Russia, which he intended to do during his first term, but was hemmed in by the “Russia, Russia, Russia” campaign waged by the Democrats (aided by his own disastrous cabinet picks).

If he could pull off de-escalating the World’s recent military buildup that would be good. I suspect Russia would be amenable, coming off a war that has exacted a high price in lives and treasure them and yielded them little gain. China, however, would be a different matter. They seem to be spoiling for a fight, and it’s hard to get people to stop fighting until the fight has been beaten out of them.

On the other hand, Trump seems perfectly willing to be led by the nose into a war in the middle-east in support of some kind of greater-Israel agenda.

That’s nice, too. I only picked photos that I could quickly from the internet. I still think my basic point is valid: Yoga pants are great, and it is obvious why they are! Even your photo shows why. Steve is right!

(And I do enjoy the luxury of living in a particular geographic/demographic location where the benefits of yoga pants are on full display! Lucky me!)