Liz Cheney's Secret Discussions with January 6th Witness Merit Investigation

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Galston: Higher Ed is in Trouble

So many of us have been saying this for a long time.

Dems: YOU CAN'T ABOLISH USPS IT'S IN THE CONSTITUTION; Also Dems: ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

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So, none of these are my points, but they're floating around:

   The Postal Clause (Article 1, section 8) gives Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads. But it doesn't mandate them.

   Consistency ad hominem: some Dems are freaking out about the idea of abolishing USPS...but also on the war path to eliminate the EC.

   You can't abolish USPS...it's in the Constitution!

   The EC, however...

   I don't have much of a view about the USPS, other than that the burden of proof is squarely on those who want to abolish it. I'm skeptical...but some things are going to have to go if we're going to avoid a debt catastrophe.

   As for eliminating the EC: hard no.

   The Democrats are now pushing all of the following: packing/expanding SCOTUS, term limits for justices, abolishing the EC, abolishing the filibuster.

   Not to mention: repealing the Second Amendment.

   And, IMO: repealing the First Amendment--or at least eviscerating it--isn't far behind.

   If they were to get their preferred outcomes, they'd have a clear road to unchecked, near-revolutionary change that would be tantamount to the destruction of the U.S.

   And this isn't yet to mention de facto open borders, unchecked DEI and the rest of the radioactive stew of contemporary progressivism.

   Rapid, poorly-considered change is a blueprint for disaster. Conservatives are just right about that point.

Post-Election Polling Suggests Reason for Harris Loss

I don't really understand this, honestly.

   The results seem inconsistent to me, and I'm not interested enough to try to disentangle the actual results from the authors' hypotheses about resolving the inconsistency.

   It's too easy to read one's own biases into such stuff. So, e.g., I'd be inclined to think, inter alia, that:

[1] Voters are concerned about "mis-/dis-information"...but many of them recognize that it's a bigger problem on the left than on the right.

[2] The Biden administration was actually counterproductive. Government would be more effective if it just didn't do so much harm.

   But, again, it's natural to reason thusly: I think party P believes and does the following dumb things: x, y, z. So P believing and doing x, y, z is why they lost.

   The Dems have gone crazy (IMO, as you know) and it's hard for me to believe that didn't play a significant role. In fact, I'm surprised and concerned that they didn't lose by more. My inclination is to think it's because they were running against Trump, who naturally and (to some extent) rationally repels many voters. I'd hope that e.g. DeSantis would have won in a real landslide...but honestly I'm not at all sure that would happen.

   Also Harris and Walz were just terrible candidates. Left to guess, I'd guess that the boys/girls/others in the Dem marketing department maybe realized early on that Harris was terrible, and decided to roll the dice on a "vibes" campaign. But I have no idea.

Dems Still Can't Admit Why They Lost: Elie Mystal & Isabella Weber at The Nation

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[warning! The Nation! LOL!]

Mystal is some combination of dumb and dogmatic, so reading anything he writes is just rubbernecking at a logical train wreck.

His explanation, which comes as a surprise to exactly no one, is: RACISM AND MISOGYNY!!!

Weber, who at least I don't know anything about, says, basically, Insufficient socialism! 

Which is roughly equivalent to saying Let's make our poors poorer because look how angrifyingly rich our riches are! Er...not exactly what she says. But you know what I mean.

Of course the losers never want to admit that their fundamental, guiding ideas caused them to lose.

And, even if they do--a little bit--it'll be because the voters are stupid and bad.

And, I mean, if the voters had voted in favor of Woketarian culticism, I'd be doing the same thing.

Now, just because party D believes that p, that doesn't mean that their belief that p was responsible for their loss.

However, I think it's pretty damn clear that the Orwellian lunacy behind which the Dems have been rallying for a decade played some role in their loss. And not a minor one, I'd add.

Now, if the Dems keep going down this insane road, and losing because of it, that's ok.

But they'll also win sometimes, probably.

And I'd rather have two sane political parties.

I'd rather have a sane alternative to the Republicans.

The nation must shake off the mind virus of political correctness/Woketarianism.

Even if the Dems remain dumb, better that they represent a dumb-but-not-insane alternative to the Pubs.

And, look, there are unsavory forces rising on the right. They're going to be a problem soon.

One of those problems is racism.

Only for so long can the powers that be ignore the real problems with so many American blacks--e.g. crime, violence, and underperformance both academically and economically. Non-black Americans did go many years ignoring these things...until the left began blaming them for those problems. Adopting the official dogma that whites are responsible for all the problems of blacks turned out, surprise, to be a falsehood too far.

And now a lot of people--mostly men, I think--out there are basically fed up with it. And that anger is coming out in forms both reasonable and unreasonable.

The refusal of the left to even consider the possibility that blacks might be responsible for any of their problems, its overt antiwhite racism, and its insistence that whites are evil and at fault...well...too much. In the face of such lies, no everyone can perfectly calibrate their response.

Anyway.

A rational backlash against the madness of the left is in progress...but so is an irrational backlash against it.

UFOs Over NJ

What's going on?

I HAVE NO IDEA

Trump, the Once and Future President, Again Time's Man of the Year

Obviously.

Now, one can object that Presidents-elect are always the MoY...oh, so-rry...PoY...and that you don't have to be good (YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WAS MAN OF THE YEAR?????)...

Whatevs.

Trump is the MoY in spades.

SPADES

God, I hope he doesn't fuck things up...

Christian Sneider:: We are Living in a Comic Book: Our Villains are Growing More Theatrical as Our Heroes Are Shunned

Moonbats are fawning over Brian Thompson's murderer while vilifying Daniel Penny.

   See e.g. the truly loathsome Elizabeth Warren.

   Really, at this point, progressivism is flirting with becoming the Joker or Doctor Doom of political parties. Between fostering chaos, prosecuting and persecuting those who fight back, brainwashing and mutilating children, and attempting to destroy the social fabric...really...they're starting to need a super villain to personify them. How about Dr. Sinistre...Ph.D. in critical chaos theory...nonbinary, polymorphously perverse, pronouns eve/evil/evilself...

Ok, needs work.

But, really.

   Surely, at some point, even the most committed cultist has to at least entertain the thought that they've become the bad guys...

   The obvious adjunct to this theory is: Donald Trump, anti-hero...

Peter Skerry: Mr. Trump, Give Up On That Wall

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I'm no expert, obvs, but I suppose I'm given to understand that several different approaches will be necessary--fencing in some places and some version of E-Verify...probably others.

Belichick Confirmed to Carolina

WE'RE A FOOTBALL SCHOOL NOW, B*TCHES

Lord knows hoops has become unwatchable...

Trump: Canada, the 51st State

Aka North North Dakota.

Not even going to bother to link.

Somewhat funny.

Funnier only because the President-elect said it.

Bad judgment.

This is the kind of joke you have to pass up when you're President or near to it.

I'm kind of a humor consequentialist, and I'd be willing to bend the principle for a really funny joke.

This was only meh though.

OTOH, I guess you could say that somebody's got to slap some sense in the Canuks.

Though this really seems orthogonal...

You'd think there wouldn't by much farther down to go from electing Trudeau.

Now we've got: we're confiscating your guns...

...and sending them to Ukraine.

I dunno.

Maybe showing outright contempt for them at this point might do some good.

Obviously I'm not terribly serious about this.

WE'RE A FOOTBALL SCHOOL NOW BITCHES

Carolina hires Belichick

Daniel Penny and that Luigi Murderer Guy

Daniel Penny: saves people from a lunatic, persecuted for a year by racist moonbat Alvin Bragg.

That other guy: spineless shit who murders a man by shooting him in the back, then executing him.

Women on Twixxer: Ooh, that murderer is sooo dreaaaamy....

That's just gross.

I'm no judge of male beauty, but Penny looks like big, strapping dude who you'd think would be at least in the running as the object of such attitudes.

But what do I know?

Bill Belichick to Carolina?

Maybe.

Academia: If the Left Keeps Collapsing and the Right is Ascendant

Well, you know.

If the left keeps losing power and the right gains more influence...even if the former remains much more influential...academia's response will be to hit the rhetorical panic button, declaring, in effect, that it must be the spokesman for the left. No matter what happens, academia will spin it into a reason for "centering" or "foregrounding" (their stupid terms) leftist thought. 

   Or, y'know, it won't give any reason at all.

   Academia is the source of the mind virus, and its main vector of infection.

   Needless to say, I'm not in favor of suppressing leftist thought. But universities--especially public universities--at least have an obligation to make their bias known. There needs to be some reliable system of rating them for bias. Actually, I think Heterodox Academy has a system already.

   Universities--especially public ones--also have an obligation to maintain institutional neutrality with respect to controversial issues. But that's not going to happen at most schools now. So at least they need to make their biases known. Or somebody else needs to do it for them.

   Ideally, states and alumni need to cut funds and donations to universities with leftist bias.

   Schools care about (a) reputation and (b) money. And the two are related.

   At any rate. When the cultural pendulum swings leftward, academia will ride the wave...in fact, it'll commonly have started the wave. When the culture swings rightward, it'll represent itself as the brave and lonely voice of dissent and the downtrodden.

   But the most important thing here: states need to take the money away.

The Nation: Biden Should Issue a Blanket Pardon of [Illegal Aliens]

Behold, the left.

This is the logical--in an attenuated sense of 'logic'--end of their views about borders and immigration.

In the end, they won't be satisfied so long as the USA still exists.

Trump Shreds Kristin Welker

I avoid videos with those X SHREDS Y titles...and we don't see the whole video here...but...yeah...Trump comes across very, very well in what we see here. He seems almost...dare I say?...statesmanlike at some points...:

🧵1/ Today President (-elect) Trump sat down with NBC's Kristen Welker for 1 hour 16 & minutes.

I've worked in TV and media and I've never seen anything like it.

It was a masterclass by Trump. Welker exposed herself as a complete idiot.

Here are a few insane moments👇 pic.twitter.com/JWcoD6VeQi

— Yitz Friedman (@friedman_yitz) December 9, 2024

Ukrainians Just Want the War to be Over, But Aren't Allowed to Say It

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Seems to me that the right has, once again, somehow managed to be righter than the left.

Some conservatives veered over into weirdly pro-Putiny territory for awhile.

And I absolutely sympathized with the pro-Ukrainian fervor on the left for awhile.

But when it became we should fight to the last Ukranian...that was too much.

It long ago became a meat grinder.

And Ukrainians themselves seem to have concluded it's not worth it.

I'm certainly no expert--not by a long shot.

But I get the feeling that, as is so often the case today, the experts don't know much more than the rest of us.

At any rate, I long ago started to think that Trump was right, and ending this ought to be priority 1.

There hasn't seemed to be much hope of Ukrainian victory for some time--though the blue team has seemed stubbornly resistant to admitting this.

I do think that, to some extent, conservatives just picked the side opposite the side that the blues picked...

So I don't think them being right on this one counts that much in their favor.

But, anyway, my fairly ignorant current view is that it would be good for this to just stop.

There'll be opportunities in the future to get the territory back for Ukraine.

If Putin hasn't learned a lesson from this, I'm not sure what would teach him.

Russia's losses have been staggering.

But, thing is, so have Ukraine's...

Joseph Feldblum and Sammy Feldblum: A Moronic, Politicized Response to Deresiewicz and Clune

My God this is stupid.

I'm going to try to resist the urge to go through this idiotic piece of shit paragraph-by-paragraph...but it ain't gonna be easy...

This is one of the many problems with cultists educated beyond the ordinary capacity of their intelligence--they can fight logorrheic delaying actions that provide excuses for those already passionately committed to not facing facts...even after the basic facts should be clear to everyone.

Their basic, fatuous argument is that Woketarianism really isn't to blame for the Democrats' recent drubbing, and academia isn't to blame for woketarianism...in fact...the politicization of academia is coming from the right! And the Dems lost because they didn't go far enough left!

Honestly, with something like this, it's rarely clear how much of it is attributable to the authors' slavish commitment to the Woketarian cult, and how much to them just being rather dim bulbs.

One of the most brainless bits is just another version of the x is political argument in its academia is political form. As is standard in such arguments all sorts of different relations are confused and conflated, so that any link to politics whatsoever--no matter how distant, no matter the relation, and no matter which directly the causal arrow (if any) might point--counts as an argument for x being political. Academia gets money from the government and the government is political! Academia has investments and investments are about money and money something something political! 'Academia' has vowels in it and so does 'political'!!!11111 SEE?????

Politicization is one of the biggest problems in play. The other one is the adoption of literary standards of "reasoning" that replace logic with, basically, free association...

And, of course, starting with one's conclusions and working backwards to accept whatever weak-ass reasons might be required to provide the illusion of support for them.

Americans Should Do Everything Legal to Make the Lives of Alvin Bragg, Dafna Yoran Miserable...Forever

Bragg and Yoran are (anti-white--not that the particular flavor matters much) racists who tried to put Daniel Penny in prison for fifteen years for defending the lives of innocent people from a violent lunatic.

   I am, of course, not advocating anything illegal. But, within the bounds of the law, we should make it a project to make Bragg's and Yoran's lives miserable to the very end--assuming, of course, they don't sincerely recant their insane views and try to make amends to Penny. However, barring that, I'd be happy for them to never have another moment's peace.

   Yes, this is the strategy of insane woketarian cancel culture...but a big difference is: they're wrong and we're right. They want to destroy people's lives for minor deviations from their insane dogmas. Bragg and Yoran are racist woketarian cultusts trying to ruin the life of an innocent--even heroic--man...and destroy the United States to boot.

   We should probably add BLM loon Hawk Newsome and Lysenkoist medical examiner Cynthia Harris to the list.

   You may notice a certain injudicious zealotry in this post...

   My patience the Cult--however little I may have had before--has run out.

Daniel Penny Acquitted on All Charges

Actual justice trumps "social" "justice"...this time...

Leftists Cheer for the Murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Health Care

Ghouls.

If the product weren't a winning proposition, people probably wouldn't buy it.

My insurance has been beneficial, I believe, though I've never done a cost-benefit analysis...not that I could.

Maybe that makes me unobjective.

I certainly understand that being denied lifesaving medical care for JQ would make me lose my mind.

The left generally seems to think that resources are unlimited.

They need to take an economics class.

Also, they've generally become vicious as hell.

Worse than the right?

I don't know.

Does that matter?

UNC 91 - MSU 94 / UNC 79 - Bama 94 / UNC 68 - Tech 65

North Carolina is not a good basketball team this year.

No front court to speak of, for one thing.

But also, apparently, no plan.

Just a lot of standing around looking confused.

Victory Against the Politically Correct / Orwellian / Woketarian Left

So...this is basically all I've been thinking about, talking about and writing about for, what, a decade now?

   I've gotten sore at friends of mine who have been casually asserting for five or six years that it was collapsing. As I pointed out to them--it wasn't.

   But people did start to slowly wake up and speak up. One turning-point seems to have been COVID and parents seeing the abject insanity their kids were being taught. Students for Fair Admissions was another. The re-election of Trump seems to have been another. And Elon buying and fixing Twixxer.

   Finally, I'm optimistic.

   The insane house of cards seems to be collapsing.

   Except that's a bad analogy.

   Political correctness / woketarianism / Orwellian totalitarianism...there's still no great name for this phenomenon. PC or neo-PC (conveniently 'NPC's, another nickname for them) remains the best to my mind. Or my other weak effort, the postpostmodern mishmash. 'Prope-Marxism' might not be terrible.

   Never mind.

   It's not a house of cards. It's an insane, cultish, political quasi-religion that aims to subvert and destroy Western civilization, liberalism, capitalism, and the United States. It's honed its skills over decades at least, it's captured huge swaths of the intelligentsia and schools and academia, and it's deeply dug-in. It's captured almost all our institutions and one major political party. The media is its propaganda arm. This institutional capture extends even to the military.

   As I've said many times: I do not expect to win one big, sweeping victory against it.

   Even if we start winning big--as I expect us to do--it won't be the end.

   It'll be more like the ongoing battle against evil than like a Battle of the Black Gate.

   I'd be happy to be wrong.

   The Court's decision in Skrmetti will be big. I'm worried about Roberts and Gorsuch. But I haven't been following it that closely.

   Anyway. It's been a good year or so for the good guys. Obviously all the standard predictions apply: there'll probably be setbacks. Even if we keep winning, people will get distracted--but the Cult won't. It's already looking for ways to hide and new angles of attack, you can be sure. The right is also crazy, so it'll go too far--guaranteed. Which will be bad in itself, and which will help the NPCs.

   There are already cracks in the alliance. James Lindsay--always a sort of dicey force for good--has spun off into his own little world nattering about 'the woke right'--an idea that doesn't make no sense, but which I consider an error. We went through this bad in the day with the term 'political correctness of the right.'

   Anyway. This is an even less-well-thought-out post than most.

   But I'm feeling much better about all this these days.

[Well, one sort of sour note--of course! I've long said three things in this context re: transanity:

[1] There will be a "reckoning," especially when twenty-something girls start snapping out of this to find that they have ruined their bodies--many will be infertile, many have had their breasts cut off. The Cult mutilated them. The wave of lawsuits has already begun.

[2] But many of them--and their parents (mostly: mothers) will constitute a hard core of resistance that will likely never go away. For many of them--and their mothers--it will be easier to hold onto the lie than it will be to admit that they mutilated themselves or their children. What will happen with the intellectual tip of this spear, radical feminists and "queer" theorists, I do not know.

[3] This will probably all repeat itself some day when medical technology improves. As I've said many times, if you could flip a switch or take a pill and genuinely, perfectly change your sex, probably no one but the religious right would object. But that's not realistic. I expect this will never be completely squashed. Once the medical technology is sort of there, they'll keep trying to improve it. Especially the true believers. I'd guess it will slowly get a lot better--but reversibility will remain more difficult. They'll keep mutilating adults until it's not clearly mutilation anymore...then they'll come for the kids again...

Well, anyway.

On that cheery note...]

Pearl Harbor Day + 83

Jesus Christ.

83 years.

Hard to believe.

Don't Forget Robert Hoogland, the Canadian Man Jailed for Calling His Daughter His Daughter

Speaking truth about "gender" is thoughtcrime, bigots.

The Progressive Left Tries to Save Woketarianism in the Face of Electoral Whuppin'

They're just pathetic at this point.

Hegseth's Colleagues: Booze Story is "Horseshit"

That's my guess, FWIW.

Clifton Duncan on the Hysterical Meltdown of the Bluegeoisie

The Bluegeoisie can never come back to the center.

Everyone is now fully aware of how contemptuous, how bereft of common sense, how dishonest and incompetent they are. It won't work.

They can never build "their own Joe Rogan." The notion is ridiculous--not just because it…

— Clifton Duncan (@cliftonaduncan) December 4, 2024

Robby Soave on The Hill on Kash Patel

I'm torn on Kash...but he sure does seem to have a high upside.

I don't like precipitous change (like turning the Hoover building into a museum of the deep state...)...and I'm not qualified to assess he suggestion about sending all its 7k denizens out into the country to catch crooks...but...in general...I like the way he's thinking,

   Counterpoint: Bill Barr says he's extremely unqualified for the job.

   So, in general, I'm with Robbie on this one. Though his new trial sidekick raises good points too (and some bad ones):

And as for this "woke right" nonsense: there's no such thing. The right's got its own problems...though several of them are the same basic problems the left has. Anyway. Woke right is not a helpful concept, IMO. Though I certainly agree that we don't want to just switch the FBI from being a tool of the left to being a tool of the right...

Daniel Penny Hung Jury?

He's innocent.

I hope the sane people on the jury hold the line.

USA: Lit

Canada Bans More Models of "Assault Rifles"

Canada is a slightly wimpier/leftier USA without the First and Second Amendments.

The State is transing their kids, cramming in third-world immigrants, putting them in jail for wrongspeak, and taking their guns.

They'd be better off as the 51st state, honestly.

KBJ is an Idiot

My God she has no business being one of the Supremes.

U.S. v Skrmetti: Transanity at SCOTUS

I do think (FWIW) that there is some merit to the central argument of Bostock, as I said at the time. I predicted it might be the argument. I mean, the conclusion was kooky...but the argument isn't insane. So the ruling didn't surprise me much. Though I don't remember predicting that Gorsuch would go for it. I'm sorry he did...but he may be right. He's a legal expert and I'm not.

   Unfortunately, however, I also thought it would cause this general kind of problem down the line.

   Just as transanity is in retreat, losing this case would be a serious blow. Or so it seems.

   But, of course, rooting for conclusions is not such a great thing to do. I rail against other people for getting mad about rulings without knowing or understanding the arguments.

   However, the counterargument seems overwhelmingly obvious. The relevant kind of equality isn't sex-blind: different kinds of medical care are appropriate for males and females. To say "well, we give testosterone to boys sometimes, so we have to give it to girls, too" is rather like saying "well, we cut off people's legs if they have cancer or get into horrible car wrecks...so I guess we've got to cut off this kid's legs, too, if he asks for it..."

   Ruling that employers must be sex-indifferent to clothing is very different than arguing that doctors must be sex-indifferent in providing medical care...

   Whether/how this sort of thing shows up in the law, I do not know.

Migrant Caravan Racing to U.S. Border to Arrive Ahead of Trump's Inauguration

This tells you much of what you need to know about the respective border policies of Biden and Trump.

Biden, of course, has been trying to move toward rationality in the eleventh hour...but, well, fuck him to be honest. I'd like to say he's not fooling anybody...but we know that about 30-40% of our countrymen want to be fooled by the Dems...and that's almost all it takes.

Eli Lake: The Real Hunter Biden Scandal

yes

The Bidens were engaged in influence peddling, Hunter has been preemptively pardoned, and Trump was impeached for investigating.

House Investigation Supports the Lab-Leak Hypothesis

What a fucking surprise.

Jurors Begin Deliberating in Alvin Bragg's Racist Prosecution of Daniel Penny

Utter madness.

Antiwhite racism is out of control.

Sohrab Ahmari: Smearing Pete Hegseth

How dumb I am

and/or

How good the MSM is at this stuff:

Even after all these years of relentless lies, when I first heard about the anti-Hegseth stories, I thought Oh, great...another unforced error...

  Showing that (a) I'd at some level / to some degree accepted the Gaetz accusations and (d) ditto the Hegseth ones.

   I'm still just stupid credulous about the media. I still think that e.g. the NYT is unlikely to just make up outrageous accusations.

   When we know that's exactly what they do.

   Now, I'm willing to believe such accusations.

   I'm in no way a dogmatic Trump partisan.

   I'm already skeptical about a lot of his proposed nominees.

   But I've got to get it through my head that, with respect to Trump and his penumbra: the MSM saying that p is basically no evidence that p is true.

   At most, it might be a reason to look into whether p.

   The rape accusation against Hegseth was a good example. The accusation falls apart with about two minutes of investigation...but that's not the way it was represented in the MSM...

   They are the propaganda arm of the Democrat party.

   I've got to keep that firmly in mind.

Turley: Biden Cloaks His Legacy in Infamy with Hunter Pardon

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I sort of thought this was D.C. bullshit business as usual until I found out that Hunter got a blanket pardon that covers everything--even stuff as-yet undiscovered--across a 10-year period.

Thus Joe is also protecting himself, helping insure that the Biden family influence-peddling operation is never investigated.

Twixxer is absolutely awash in lefties cheering this on, incidentally.

Joe Pardons His Son/Partner-in-Crime

...to the surprise of absolutely no one.

Is this more of an outrage than your standard outrageous Presidential pardon?

Not sure.

Eli Lake: Gabbard Sometimes "Weak and Credulous," But No "Russian Asset"

Seems reasonable.

The Great Shoe0nHead From Way Back in 2017: Watching Buzzfeed-Tier Videos and Drinking

 

Carolina 30 - State 35

I don't usually post football scores, but (a) that was Mack's last game, (b) it was a good one.

Congratulations, State, you f***ers...

Breitbart: Starmer: UK Has Been the Subject of an "Open Borders Experiment" Imposed by Design

So we've been right all along.

The responsible parties deserve prison--or exile.

Something else the right is right about: demography is destiny.

[Oh and another thing the right is right about: the Great Replacement is real.

As I've said before: they've been giddily discussing it for years...though they call it "The Browning of America." (Though above we're speaking of the UK.)  Biden has admitted that he wants it to happen.

They won't be satisfied until whites are a minority in their own nations to the same extent they are globally. 

Equity!

And achieving that will make us even more of a global minority...and thus we'll have to be reduced to even more of a minority in their home countries...

The vanguard of the left makes it very clear that they want to eliminate whites. The almost could not be clearer about it. The more centrist left doesn't even realize what its own agendas really are, nor who is setting them.

Even when progressives do glimpse these facts, they basically judge that it's better for their civilization and race to die off than to be accused of racism...as anyone who acknowledges any of these facts surely will be...]

David Zimmerman on Kash Patel and Christopher Wray

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I know people who are psyched about Patel. And the little I know about him I like. But, cautious by nature about such things, it would seem to me that Wray (a Trump appointee) is one of the guys I'd rather keep in place.

I'm ok with putting Patel somewhere...just not sure FBI is the place...nor about unproven appointments in so many places.

Fred Bauer: How the Left Doomed Itself

Seems reasonable, but involves some inside baseball stuff I don't have a good grip on.

Are "Liberals" Rushing for Vasectomies After Trump's Win?

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[1] I doubt it.

[2] The numbers are allegedly from Planned Parenthood. Consider the source.

[3] They're really progressives...but I probably make too much of that largely terminological point.

[4] The left is so cultish that it wouldn't actually astonish me if there were some truth somewhere in this.

WhatIfAltHist: The Anthropology of the Left

This video is pretty damn interesting IMO:

Researcher Refuses to Publish Own Study on Puberty Blockers...b/c It Showed No Psychological Benefit

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In the words of the excellent J.K. Rowling:

'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.' pic.twitter.com/hS4CcswkXg

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 23, 2024

RPj: The Politicization of the American University

Agreed