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SafeNow,"...there are too many obstacles to any reversing or even slowing of the national unraveling. You write we are very far gone. I would write that we are not just very far gone, but irreversibly gone..."

I wish to dispel this notion. One of the MAIN reasons I wish to do this is I’m convinced that there is a concerted and paid astroturf campaign to start a civil war in the US so that we will be busy murdering each other, like in Ukraine, instead of crushing the deep state. The volume of people calling for civil war has reached a high crescendo, and I’ve seen certain personages that I KNOW are not such good fellows really pushing this.

Many people believe that we can't live with the others and separation, (separation will most assuredly lead to war I believe),is the only answer. MY beliefs are that they now control things, so they rule us. I say we control things and rule them just as ruthlessly as they rule us. We can do this in a few steps in a few years. Completely take control.

Part of this I have already commented here but I’ll cut and paste it to be coherent.

"...This is long but it's a step by step method of taking over the whole country which requires a bit of wordage.

It's a severe lack of imagination that portends that the only solution is to break up the US. Why not run ALL of it for our benefit?

The shape we are in didn't happen overnight, but there are a few points in history that made what we live in today what it is. Can we not change them? Yes we can, legally and fully within the boundaries of our Constitutional framework.

So what has happened and how did we get here?

The country was politically murdered.

The start was the ending of the Federal Senate being controlled by the States Senates. Elected Federal Senators. This was sold as Democracy but in reality removed control from the people and put it into the hands of whoever could come up with the most campaign funds. It also removed the Senators exclusive interest in their actual States and transfers it to whoever had the cash to put them in office and various other mobs of people.

The second was a Supreme Court ruling that said that all the States Senates must be elected by population instead of by regional representation. How this is unconstitutional for the States and not for the Federal government, the Courts didn't specify.

The third major blow was to stop most all requirements for voting which they continue to push even farther and farther today. Such that now they are saying illegal aliens should vote.

All of these together are directly responsible for emplacing ALL the power of the country in the major cities and stripping all power from the rural areas. The founders of our Constitution directly addressed this issue and were firmly against it.

Why issues two and three are not burning hot, jumping up and down blood curdling protesting blasphemy is beyond me. They are clearly unconstitutional power grabs of the greatest magnitude. Total dictatorial control by the large population centers and without these ruling what is going on in the US today would be very, very unlikely to be happening.

This is a huge, massive power grab that started after the civil war when the big population centers in the country defeated the more rural South, and it has only intensified over time. Over time the city centers have become more and more corrupt and since the lesser population regions have no power they can not stop it. Look at all the big cities where all the fraud goes on and then imagine that every single State had a regional Senator instead of one based on population in every State. Can you imagine that these regional Senators would allow all this corruption to go on in the cities voting and have all their rural residents votes nullified by these corrupt bastards. Hell no. There would be a huge massive investigation that would never end by the regional Senators until at least the most flagrant of the violations would stop.

So what do we do? We must nullify the illegal court decisions that caused this abortion of the cities controlling everything and we can do this in several ways.

The Republicans who had the Senate and House in the Federal government under Trump could have done this but they were too timid, corrupt or ignorant to do so. In fact the Legislature and the President can tell the Supreme court to kiss their ass. It’s built right into the Constitution that THEY decide WHAT the Supreme court can rule ON.

Here’s the relevant constitutional passages.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211204204701/https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii

“…In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make…”

“…with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make…”

The important part. The earlier part declares what powers they have but it ends with control of these functions by Congress. Congress could tell them to butt out of any stupid overbearing rulings. They could do that with lots of stuff they keep ramming down our throats. The courts could be stuck with only deciding water rights cases between States if they push too hard to twist the Constitution to death.

As soon as Congress nullifies this illegal ruling and changes it back to regional representation for all the States in the US in all the States then we will be in a position in the State legislatures to do whatever we damn well please. I can give a direct visual map of the present power of the US politically and how it will change if we nullify the illegal court decisions and put ion regional representation in the State Senates.

The State legislature map will change from this, the population control present map,

https://web.archive.org/web/20211104163922/https://www.270towin.com/uploads/2019_senate2.png

to this, the regional control county map.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210312123448/https://inthesetimes.com/imager/s3_us-east-2_amazonaws_com/itt-images/Bullington-win-rural-report-Edited_01c8ac7cc3b849e525e370bc51344120.jpg

I can also give very simple examples of how this would change various detrimental projects ongoing in the US.

Let's take gun control for one issue. In Virginia gun control almost passed leading to counties thinking of defecting to West Virginia. With a regional based Senate, these laws would have never even been brought up. No one would have wasted their time because they would have zero chance of being anything but laughed at.

In Washington State and Oregon when they were burning down the cities do you think that the people in eastern portions of those States would have stood for that? Not a chance, they would have blanketed their regional Senators with complaints such that the Governor, I expect, would have been told by the Senators that this disruption be brought to a halt or they would get rid of him and find someone who would.

The same goes for the massive, I mean massive, voting fraud in the cities. You think the people in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvanian, Georgia, Upper New York State etc., with regional based Senators would allow all their votes to be stolen by corrupt city officials. Hell no. No way. There would have been multiple ongoing and obsessive investigations and if the Attorney general refused to corporate, as they are now, they would have impeached them and shown them the door.

So you even think this anti-White "critical theory would be a thing with regional representation in the State Senates?

[even my browser is anti-White, it corrected anti-White to anti-white]

Not a chance, they would throw these bomb throwers out and possibly even disband the schools and issue cash credits for all students. If you wanted your children to hate themselves you could choose it for yourself. I expect there would not be as many people take this up as is supposed presently.

If we changed the rules for voting to be that you be informed by say having a high school diploma and actually paying some positive level of State taxes we could crush crime in a matter of a few years. Presently Black people are letting Blacks go who are coldly murdering White people in the streets just because they are Black. That would come to a screeching halt. Politicians who catered to BLM and rabid Blacks who incessantly hate Whites would soon find themselves pursuing another line of work because the mobs of Blacks to vote for them would dry up to nothing.

Changing just a few variables from the original conception of our country has brought us to ruin. We should change them back and then treat them like they have treated us and crush them completely.

In the 70's after Nixon was impeached, the ruling Democrats told one, I think it was, New Hampshire district that they felt there was fraud or they had some reason to suspect their elections. They would not seat their Representative. They made them revote three times until a Democrat was elected, then they seated their Representative. We could do the same. Force all States to have regional representation in their Senates by either direct land proportions or by the traditional county boundaries. If they refused, then don't seat their Representatives and carry on voting without them. What they can do to us, we can do to them.

If we had this sort of legislative power it would not take long at all before the country was run by us, instead of them..."

That’s the first part I've thought of other means to turbocharge the whole thing and make it much faster, and powerful.

Our Constitution, far from being the worn document people say it is, already has all the means we need to make things right. It says,

Voting.

Article I, Section 5, which provides “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members …”

So the House could say no one could vote under the age of 30, have to own a house and not be on welfare and not be an immigrant. Why should we let immigrants move in and tell us what to do? In one big swoop the whole entire electorate of the Democrats would disappear. Now maybe the courts would try to overrule but it would be blatantly illegal and in fact the Congress can rule on what subjects the courts can decide on. This would completely crush the left.

Here’s another one of my evil schemes.

Most of you have heard of “earmarks”. What about “un-earmarks”? If they can have an earmark then there should be no legal reason they can’t have an un-earmark,(this is so wicked). What to do with this? How about specifically by name and position picking out all these FBI agents that were interfering with elections, spying on people illegally, what about the Justice department officials that were working outside the law to entrap and illegally jail the people on Jan, 6, (there's lots we could include but I'll stop here).

Let Congress pass a law that no one in the US government shall spend one dime of taxpayers money to pay them anything, nor shall any contractors of any sort that receive taxpayers money shall do so either. And anyone who does, the responsible official shall pay all the funds personally and they in turn will be “un-earmarked” and not paid also.

Now this is a beautiful thing. Right now they can say,”well we can’t do anything because we would have to shut down the whole FBI” but with un-earmarks they can confine it to the most odious. This takes away the excuse Congressmen have that they are powerless to do anything. And here’s the REAL KICKER. These people follow orders because they will be protected and suffer no consequences. But if they were fired and had no prospect for employment in any of the things they were used to, when they were told to, ”just follow orders”, they would say, ”hell no, I don’t want to be "un-earmarked”. It’s a beautiful thing. There’s also precedent. The Democrats have been doing this sort of thing a lot. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

And think of the irritation. Every vote on anything, you have a pack of 20 or 30 Congressmen that un-earmark these evil bastards that are tormenting us. These un-earmarks could be tacked onto bills coming out of committees that we control, so we would be ramming things down their throats, just like they do to us. Let them shut down the government to protect their evil ass FBI criminals who are breaking the law. Let them shut down the government to protect their evil ass minions that are stealing votes. Let them defend these criminals.

This could also be used at the State level. Any prosecutor that continuously lets criminals go that kill others could be un-earmarked. The same goes for people doing nothing about illegal elections. When they knowingly violate State election laws and then refuse to convict or do anything about it, un-earmark! Maybe they can't be immediately punished, because they are State, but all these people want to move up to the more lucrative Federal level. It would influence them, mightily.

With these few steps we could take over the entire country in a few years using only those tools and traditions we inherited from the founders, who were really, really smart fellows.

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-- Twitter research, cont. --

Good research there by Adam Smith. Thank you.

Another new Twitter feature I notice is the forced-sign-in screen (tweet content not visible) if clicking in from a Google search. That may because those times I am landing on disfavored accounts such as the ones on the Adam Smith sample-list (including my own!).

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Here is another sample of how Twitter works as of 2023:

Inductivist, the longtime social-science, race, politics, and HBD blogger who posted a few items of quick research usually from the General Social Survey polling database, was life-banned a few weeks ago. But that is not the interesting part of the story. what came next is the interesting part.

After an absence of about a month, the Inductivist returned with a new account, which had a blue-checkmark. The old account had no blue-checkmark. He had paid for the new blue-checkmark, as has been possible for some time. This was, I say again, an entirely fresh account, his old one abandoned to the digital graveyard along with all its accumulated demerits. All of a sudden, this fresh Inductivist account with blue-checkmark status has him with, apparently, more than 10x the engagement he was getting before even with far fewer followers, which means per-capita engagement is much higher still. His old account was suppressed, the new one un-suppressed and boosted (via blue-checkmark status)!

PS: Good afternoon, everyone,

A little late to the party but, first off...

Happy 2700th post, Mr. Moderator!

Next, I agree with Mr. Hail's assessment of the Trump situation. It's not a serious movement. It is all based on “sending a message to hostile elites” and “burn it down” with absolutely no concern or vision for what might come of such destruction. As you say, Mr. Hail, this is not befitting of White-Western Man. I've also heard more pundits casually throw around the idea of another civil war over the next (most important!) election (ever!). I do not think this is advisable. The TeeVee sends a powerful message to the unwashed masses and it is most irresponsible of the pundit class to do this. If they keep this up they might ignite some serious political violence. (Which might be what they are trying to do‽)

Anyway... Thanks for your summary!

And Finally... A few observations about the twitter bot...

Some Twitter accounts that I 𝐜𝐚𝐧 view without logging in:

https://twitter.com/DieterKief
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/RonPaul
https://twitter.com/dpinsen
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer
https://twitter.com/charlesmurray
https://twitter.com/GhostGCom
https://twitter.com/VDAREJamesK
https://twitter.com/AntiWhiteWatch1
https://twitter.com/BlueSlots
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania
https://twitter.com/eugyppius1
https://twitter.com/RealRossU
https://twitter.com/WhitePeoplePres
https://twitter.com/DetachWestern
https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern
https://twitter.com/cwt_news
https://twitter.com/MattAgorist
https://twitter.com/ZOG_Hunter
https://twitter.com/davidicke
https://twitter.com/HealthRanger
https://twitter.com/wayotworld
https://twitter.com/goddeketal
https://twitter.com/BIPOCracism
https://twitter.com/ReneVanderVyver
https://twitter.com/IQRaceStudies
https://twitter.com/TheFlatEartherr
https://twitter.com/DiedSuddenly_
https://twitter.com/makeeuropasnow
https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle
https://twitter.com/PiperSnaps
(I'm sure there are many more.)
(In fact it seems I can view 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 accounts without logging in.)

Some Twitter accounts that I 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 view without logging in:

https://twitter.com/Hail__To_You/
https://twitter.com/AdamSmith30533
https://twitter.com/NetheriteSpart1
https://twitter.com/Ford1903192088
https://twitter.com/daily_stoopid
https://twitter.com/AntiSemLyrics
https://twitter.com/Kindgir95806461
https://twitter.com/Midnight1121
https://twitter.com/Ice_Blue_Jay
https://twitter.com/DespicableMeme1
https://twitter.com/klaralundfsse
https://twitter.com/MGMTHEMAN
https://twitter.com/Dogecoin_Empair
https://twitter.com/HootMn
https://twitter.com/vaxxmyocarditis
https://twitter.com/massfpsy
https://twitter.com/islandgirl611
https://twitter.com/Sheepdog219
https://twitter.com/JustACohencdnce
https://twitter.com/buglover_based
https://twitter.com/Blymythy
https://twitter.com/GusanoTheWorm
https://twitter.com/Dixie_Delite
https://twitter.com/Neraith
https://twitter.com/OWillme
https://twitter.com/Whisperofsepte1
https://twitter.com/nina_antol85940
(Again, I'm sure there are many more, but this list is/seems smaller.)

While looking at this limited sample I find some inconsistencies with the algorithm. While it seems that having a small number of followers increases the likelihood of having to login to view the account, this is not always the case. There are also some accounts that I assumed I would have to login to view, but was surprised to learn that I didn't have to. White advocacy accounts seem more likely to require login, but not always. Anti-jewish accounts appear more likely to require an account to view, but what about ZOG_Hunter? I would have thought “racist” accounts would not be viewable without an account, but then I find that the IQraceStudies, charlesmurray and AntiWhiteWatch1 accounts (among others) disprove my hypothesis. (I’m not saying they are “racist”, just saying they might get flagged as “racist” by the Twitter bot.) Vaccine “misinformation” accounts seem to lack consistency. (see BlueSlots vs. vaxxmyocarditis.) Not sure what to make of it all, but thank you for pointing this out to me.

Happy Sunday! (everyone)

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PS: "There is no way that Trump would step aside to play elder-statesman for a successor to lead the movement; even if wheelchair-bound and breathing with an oxygen tank, Trump will always make it all about himself. Therefore he is not a true leader in the best sense of the word."

I agree with the first part. If his ego would NOT get in the way, which, as say, if not possible, then he would be a great leader of a MOVEMENT. No, not the Presidency, where you've got to pick the right people, keep pushing ahead and follow through (like Ron DeSantis does) and get stuff done!

He's no good at that, obviously. What he's great at is leading massive crowds to do whatever, donate money, write more tweets, but, as Ken Cuccinelli said in a video I put up here a couple of months back, Trump could get the people to man the voting booths, (I say also) recall judges, whatever. He's great when he's running his mouth. That can do a lot of good, but it does not suffice for a President.

PS: Thanks for the additional elucidation what's going on, and changing, with twitter right now. I am familiar with most of the concepts, but I have absolutely no experience other than reading a few, watching a few, and going to the site only due to a link as from Dieter Kief or to watch a video that I'm very interested in.

I will gather your comments together appropriately for a couple of posts then, Mr. Hail.

Finally, regarding Trump. I have been surprised occasionally about some good moves that he DID make as President. I've written on this - will have to paste in links later - regarding his collection of various under-the-radar moves on immigration that really brought numbers (both legal and illegal) down significantly in '19-'20 especially. The problem is that, their not being coded into any law or visible, Bai Dien could reverse it all on Day 1. OTOH, what good would having it all in the law explicitly do, when the other side plays by their own rules only.

However, Trump not just let us down on many policies but he did stupid things like touting the $500,000,000,000 "Platinum Plan" with more of our money to be give to blacks. Just stupid stuff.

I slowly got disgusted with the man after 3 years, but unlike Ann Coulter, I do appreciate what he has done.

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Ron DeSantis is in the single digits after the debate. - He did not connect to the audience. - See also Iowa State Fair.

https://twitter.com/Inductivist00/status/1695107745391993323?s=20

Ann Coulter is making a living as a syndicated journalist - - and she goes here and there with the flow.- This is only natural, so to speak.

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The problem with most support for Trump:

Support for Trump is reactive and not based in a positive vision.

Support for Trump is about "burning things down."

Support for Trump is not really based on firm policy preferences. Because if it were based in firm, morally-committed policy preferences or vision, his own supporters would turn on him as a bungler, as a bit of a buffoon who got outmaneuvered easily and basically didn't follow through on promises, as someone who -- despite certain talents at self-promotion and entertainment (following from years in reality-TV) -- just didn't get it done.

The whole Trump movement, as I see it now, is entirely based on "Sending a message to hostile elites," but it's as if what comes out on the other side doesn't matter at all. A great core of support is based in personality-cult that originally cared about issues in a morally-serious way, and had visions of White Revival in the 2015-16-17 period, but then eventually was whittled down to a pale imitation; the ideals are gone but the personality remains. This is a BAD development, for me.

I will actually go further still: I have come to think that the Trump movement as we know it in recent years is parasitical on a beleaguered White-Western base-population, galvanizing peoples into a loser's mentality (no positive vision, "burn it down," whatever that means, as the end-goal) -- which is not befitting of White-Western Man. He and the many conmen around him have been "using" the good people who support him for several years.

A true leader would step aside and work hard to keep the momentum going, build the wall, deport the migrants and refugees, end the Diversity Visa, end H1b entirely, enforce E-Verify to stop illegals from working easily, end "birthright" citizenship, work towards bolstering White-family formation and preventing White-fertility decline (these latter two would have to be implicit goals in current discourse, but they are perfectly morally legitimate).

There is no way that Trump would step aside to play elder-statesman for a successor to lead the movement; even if wheelchair-bound and breathing with an oxygen tank, Trump will always make it all about himself. Therefore he is not a true leader in the best sense of the word.

I am with Mr. Anon on this (who is one of the most hardline anti-Trump commenters who reads here).

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(See also comment by me titled "On Trolls" in Peak Stupidity entry #2484, Dec. 2022, for brief remarks on some of the Sailer blog regulars. I cannot locate the other comment(s) constituting a review of the Sailer-commentariat as of mid-2023, but remember that Reg C.'s name was included.)

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"that's a very good point on the "Sound of Freedom" movement and female psychology. How about that comment as a post here? How about the 2 others from a few weeks back?"

Feel free. The two others from a few weeks back, something about appraising what the Steve Sailer commentariat was like as of mid-2023, I can't remember where they are after a computer crash I lost the tabs. I recall wanting to edit them but forgot bout it and now can't locate them.

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Mr. Moderator writes: "I just don't see anyone on the Left being bright enough to think in this manner," referring to a conspiracy-theory whereby they want to do "indictments" to ensure outraged voters re-nominate Trump.

I think I heard this conspiracy-theory from Ann Coulter and possibly others associated with her sphere of thinking.

From about late 2018 onward, Ann Coulter has been one of the most consistent anti-Trump people on the Right. Even she has shown sympathy for him against the media and the "indictments."

PS

-- Twitter changes discussion --

In year 2023, there have been major changes to how Twitter works that seem to come every month or so, sometimes announced, sometimes unannounced. It's hard to know what the status is.

One definite change is: You can no longer view people's latest tweets; if you want to keep up with them that way, you can't. Twitter is a lot more closed-access than before in a variety of ways, but that's a pretty big one.

Try going to Twitter.com/DieterKief

What you will see is NOT recent tweets (as at Peak Stupidity, where you'd get recent posts in chronological order starting with most recent), but a random-seeming list of some of what an unseen Holy Algorithm thinks are the account's "greatest hits" over the past x time-period. The dates jump all around. None are very recent. You will NOT see the most recent tweets, and there is actually no way to do so without signing in (or creating an account).

(The above can be particularly brutal for accounts that are already corralled into a containment-zone. For grey-listed accounts, now you can't even go to the main profile for updates. The person is just invisible to almost the whole world!)

Also try it on Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump.

Trump's "final" tweet was, famously, "For those asking: No, I will not be going to the inauguration," time-stamped the morning of January 8th, 2021. He was life-banned from Twitter for treason I think that very evening. (Big Tech barons have the holy and inviolable right to make such pronouncements, under our Regime.)

Elon Musk unbanned Trump some time ago, by executive order, but Trump had kept with Truth Social and hadn't tweeted at all until yesterday, when he released his "mugshot" with a message saying "ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Vote Trump 2024!" But if an un-signed-in user tried to go to @realDonaldTrump, the person would at best see a random assortment of tweets. Here are the top two I see when I do this:

12am hour, Oct. 2, 2020:
"Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!"

11pm hour, Oct 2, 2020:
"Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!"

He made hundreds of tweets after that, but they aren't visible to the un-signed-in user.

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Among other big changes:

-- the complete elimination of Search capabilities for non-signed-in users.

-- it is confirmed that those who pay for a verified badge get automatic boost to how many people ever see their tweets.

-- a change I can attest to is the further suppression of outside links in many cases, especially to "rival" sites like Facebook and Wordpress.

-- As for inability to see even direct-link (non-embedded) tweets, I think it may apply to big accounts at certain high-traffic periods. There is a degree of guess-work going on to all these changes which is a little off-putting.

-- There is a lot more shoving tweets it thinks you should see from people you don't even follow. These are kind of like the teacher's pets of New Twitter, who are amplified big-time. I forget now who some of these have been over the past months, in my recollection, except that one of the biggest of all was: Richard Hanania. I didn't follow him but for months his tweets would appear at the top of my "feed." It was too much, and it was enough to get some people suspicious that something wasn't on the level, as everyone else was seeing it, too. I don't have a satisfactory explanation for why Richard Hanania was so promoted by Twitter for so long.

One of these people like this I notice now is, for some reason, David Pinsen, the longtime Steve Sailer commenter. I think he dodges the Algorithm's filters by his mix of politics with sports and things, and also infusing a degree of outrage that the Holy Algorithm likes a lot.

Another case of this is the anti-Covid-Panicker known as Eugyppius, a German academic who spent many years in the USA. This man was, in the 2010s, basically an obscure commenter (I think he had comments at the Steve Sailer blog), but he shot to becoming a minor celebrity in 2020, by threading the right needle through the Holy Algorithm's briar-patch, somehow. He was able to get visibility despite being among us Covid Deniers, and he tweeted intensively at the time without suppression. He ended up with a loyal audience in the tens of thousands, which was all through Twitter. (He later founded a Substack blog.) Most other anti-Panic voices were suppressed to one degree or another. At some point, even Eugyppius was suppressed to a degree (as was ineivtable), but in the critical period he was one of the only voices being heard that said "No!" to the Panic that anyone was actually seeing on Twitter.

PS: Finally, Mr. Hail, that's a very good point on the "Sound of Freedom" movement and female psychology. How about that comment as a post here? How about the 2 others from a few weeks back?

PS: A number of VDare writers call the left "Communists" now. From that post of mine, though, before most did:

"Well, I've got more back-up now for my use of the term from a somewhat unlikely, but trustworthy source. That'd be the editor and chief (and editor-in-chief, I guess) of VDare.com, Mr. Peter Brimelow. This is from yesterday - a story the Lyin' Press and actions by the $500 million in assets Southern Poverty Law Center to stop donations to the VDare organization - Roll Over Taliban! Another Donor-Advised Fund Falls To Communists. Yep, that is Mr. Brimelow's title above Mr. Brimelow's writing. From part of his own response to one Tyler O'Neil of Fox News:
It’s just part of the slow-motion communist coup that’s going on in America. These people will put us in Gulags if they can.
I've respected Peter Brimelow for almost 20 years. I've met the guy. He's an erudite, civil individual. He's no crazy firebrand street preacher. (Just look at this old 1985 TV show with him and a Congressman on PBS TV, and remember that people usually mellow out a bit with age. Usually.)

If even Peter Brimelow calls these people Communists, then Peak Stupidity will call them no other. Are we just old Boomers looking for Commies under the bed? No, we don't have to look there anymore. They are in government, in the universities, in Big-Ed, in the Lyin' Press, and even in corporate boardrooms."

PS: Mr. Hail, re Twitter, now X. I was able to see Mr. Kief's tweets fine without signing in. I've never signed in, because I've never signed up. I have not run into the problem you discuss, but then, I'm not on the twitter site very much - only when I really want to see something there. On the UR for example, I'd rather watch the videos embedded there and not actually get to the twitter site page, per se. However, sometimes it doesn't work that way (25% or so), but I don't know why.

Thank you for the information on the "grey listing" and blacklisting. I am glad that Mr. Smith out of Great White upstate Georgia is back on. That Heidi is a piece of (something other than work), but just as much are the people in government and other agencies that use $PLC and ADL information - the HATE experts!

Finally, about that PeakStupidity twitter account. The one I saw one time was someone else. I don't have any account for PS. The reason I saw that one was that Peter Brimelow wrote some tweet, which I must have seen on VDare, as I don't "follow" anyone, praising my post here:

"OK, Some (V)Dare Call it Communism"

https://www,peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2009

In that post, I praised Peter Brimelow for using that term for the antifa and ctrl-left in general. He'd seen that and gave Peak Stupidity a shout-out, but then his link to that guy's Peak Stupidity-handle tweet was incorrect.

PS: "It almost makes me believe in the conspiracy-theory, which some have half-seriously pushed, that "the Left" wants Trump to be the candidate so is soaking-up a bright bulb in the ways it can to attract the potential-Trump-voter White-Middle-America mosquitos to their doom."

Mr. Hail, I just don't see anyone on the Left being bright enough to think in this manner. In fact, they really don't have a reason to fear the policies of even a Trump II, IMO, as he didn't get so much done last time, and I don't think he learned that much. He's an egotistical piece of work(?) However, they DO fear what Trump SAYS, as they worry about who will take his words to heart, and those words (and his heart) are in the right place. They don't want any of that.

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-- Sound of Freedom popularity, another theory --


Another thought to the latest "Sound of Freedom" movie discussion (Peak Stupidity entries #2688 and #2698), and the "mystery" of its popularity.

The following I don't think either the Peak Stupidity writing-team, nor the editors, nor the editor-in-chief (while in absentia at an undisclosed location in the Sinosphere), thought of, or at least thought to make a point of:

The idea of "Won't someone think of the children!" sells to women.

Women can rather quickly get non-rational about it when it comes to anything about children and their safety, and will do something that goes beyond "virtue signaling," though that may be part of it. They latch onto something with an emotional frenzy that puts them outside the bounds of what most men can really understand. (Not that that's evolutionarily a bad thing.)

(I think a version of this also happened with the crazy anti-Kavanaugh movement of fall 2018, in which millions believed the sober judge with a spotless record had actually been a cruel and thuggish leader of a notorious gang-rape that terrorized girls across suburban Maryland for years in the 1980s. Nothing about any of it made sense or was based in anything related to provable fact, but for weeks the stupid controversy raged.)

When someone successfully pushes an issue related to children (or often women-as-special-victims generally), for any reason, and when women are in a position of power to influence events, you can bet that children-related "panics" will result some of the time, in a way that we males have much less power to make happen for any given issue or controversy.

Of course this was exactly one of the big explanations for the Panic of 2020. It may also be a partial explanation for the Child-Trafficking issue of the past few years, and for the success of Sound of Freedom. I am not sure how that related to the QAnon theory which I elaborated on in an essay-length comment here in #2698. But the kind of women I am thinking of are NOT QAnon'ers.

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-- Twitter points, developments, thoughts --

Mr. Kief, you should be aware that after recent changes, people without a Twitter account or not signed in to Twitter usually cannot see tweets now. They are sent to a "Sign in to 'X' now to access this tweet and more."

It is useful to copy-paste the contents of Tweets to make sure they gets seen. (This has always been true anyway, because so many Tweets end up disappearing when an account gets banned or for other reasons.)

In other Twitter news, the appeal to Elon Musk to un-ban @AdamSmith30533 was a success.

In still other Twitter news, the @StupidityPeak account (tweeted to on several occasions (?) by Peter Brimelow) is still in grey-mode, observing radio-silence.

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A Twitter reflection: I have had a Twitter account for almost eight years. But most weeks (and certainly most days) in that period, I have not signed in once. I have never had it installed on my phone except once or twice briefly for specific communication purposes with people I needed to contact and had no other method, promptly deleted afterwards.

Sometimes I have had months-long absences from Twitter entirely. Whenever I go back, I do it as a social experiment and the results are predictable: Twitter and other social-media are harmful to everything and everyone they touch, and if on the lookout for it when you make first contact after a while, it's just glaringly there. Some of the power Big Tech has is a result of a kind of psychological fraud: humans are engaging with things the way we are "wired" to do, but these social-media behemoths are presenting something novel but that looks like something natural. It doesn't look like those acres of human bodies being parasitized by wires and cords in pods in that Matrix scene, even though it IS that.

It was easier to justify staying away after my grey-listing, wherein I noticed hits of any tweet or reply I do get about one-fifth of their former reach, and I began getting new followers at a rate of less than one-tenth before, and a lot of followers were also in high-chance-of-ban territory (like @AdamSmith30533, for one). A lot of others have reported the same. Black-lists and various tiers of grey-lists have been a very central part of Twitter since the mid-2010s.

I don't know why Wordpress, Google, Twitter, and others all suppress me. Well, I do know the outlines of it. For one, on the late 2010s I was put on a list compiled by people like Heidi Beirich (an anti-racism commissar with the SPLC; a fatter and less telegenic version of Robin DiANgelo who believes in Eternal White Guilt as sacred principle to guide all things). At one point they released a mega-list of tens of thousands of harmful racist alt-right right-wing Twitter accounts, which people could press a button to auto-block. That list, and many others like it, were probably fed back into these systems which achieved the comprehensive grey-listing effect in all kinds of subtle ways,

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For me it is really unfortunate seeing people "turning back to Trump," including such people as Paul Kersey.

It almost makes me believe in the conspiracy-theory, which some have half-seriously pushed, that "the Left" wants Trump to be the candidate so is soaking-up a bright bulb in the ways it can to attract the potential-Trump-voter White-Middle-America mosquitos to their doom.

PS: Thanks for your tweets, Dieter. I'd vote for him even if he is in jail at the time. That'd make it even more obvious to people what kind of regime we are dealing with.

Bill, I still think MUCH more of Ron DeSantis. In the primary, I'll vote for him, yes, I know, for what good this all does. However, the way Trump is dominating the news, and I think he probably enjoys this stuff as an entertainer, DeSantis doesn't seem to have a chance right now.

Good point, Mr. Blanc. The GOP makes their rules as far as who is nominee.

PS: I haven't given up hope yet, SafeNow, but, no I don't yearn to be a dungeon dweller either. BTW, I learned Morse Code 20-odd years ago in order to take the then-required 5 words/min test, but I could have done the 13 wpm test, as I listened to it first. A month later, I didn't know half the letters anymore.

Thanks for that video and on your OWN channel, Adam. I also appreciate the transcription of the 2 minutes of Mr. Dershowitz's remarks. He's not a very wise man, IMO, but he's got some real principles. I respect that. Unfortunately, his opinion won't sway some black lady in Georgia that has done this to further her career.

PS “Remote work”. Good one. Question: Regardless of what the polls say, what are the chances that the nabobs of the Repub Party would let Mr Trump be their candidate for pres? They want to continue to eat lunch in that town again. And have the donor class keep writing the checks.

PS I'm with you. Vote for Trump to express disgust with the present regime.

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That young girl DA never lernt from Uncle Remus, and she went ahead and threw Brer Trump into rhe briar patch.

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The impressively knowlegeable Robert Barnes at The Duran about the Supreme Court with a way out - in the tweet I give the time-stamp

https://twitter.com/DieterKief/status/1694099579162034593?s=20

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Here is a pollster who agrees: Trump rises - also over Biden in not before seen ways

https://twitter.com/DieterKief/status/1694789808160207358?s=20

PS: Good evening, everyone,

This is some real third world banana republic type stuff...
https://i.ibb.co/KsycwRV/Banana-Republic.jpg

And here's Alan Dershowitz on Trump’s Georgia indictments...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy8HYEdSTTs

Cheers! ☮

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I am in accord with your thoughts about Trump and DeSantis. But there are too many obstacles to any reversing or even slowing of the national unraveling. You write we are very far gone. I would write that we are not just very far gone, but irreversibly gone. The country has reached s Graham Greene “point of no return.” I would specify some of the “obstacles,” but I am not keen on dungeons. Hey, the dungeon actually wouldn’t be that bad if we were in adjacent solitary cells and we could devise a good tapping code, but I was not a prisoner in Vietnam and I have no expertise in this.