PS

Two quotes about Kamala, on this historic day:

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Fischer King:

Kamala Harris is a trivial woman without any apparent intellectual interests or ideas, who never received a single vote to become the democrat nominee, and who has only won political races that were essentially fixed in the one-party state of California. She’s unworthy of the presidency.

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John Cook Bennett:

A Kamala win would be bad news NOT because she's so personally dangerous, but because it would demonstrate the permanent closure of the political system. If we can't stop her, we can't stop anything.

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https://x.com/extradeadjcb/status/1853154720136806598
https://x.com/FischerKing64/status/1852839162287980886

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COMMNENT: We are seeing influential pundits, albeit social-media people, say things like this a lot now. I take pride in having said the same (kinds of) things about 'Kamala' back from the start.

Not that the observations were hard to make. But a lot, a LOT, of low-info and hyped-up agitated people out there were swayed by the fake image of a fake woman, almost enough to get her over the top. A complete non-entity, non-American, made-up person with no vision of any kind of positive future. Nothing. Just fluff with dashes of manufactured feminist steam and multiculti magic-beans tossed liberally all around. The worst candidate in American history.

PS

A short essay by Jeremy Carl:

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THE ABSURDITY OF KAMALA AS U.S. PRESIDENT
November 4, 2024
Jeremy Carl, PhD

Sometimes it seems so absurd to even argue 'against' Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

There's nothing at all recognizably American about Harris, her background, or her vision of American society.

Her family were foreign far-left radicals on the fringes of our politics. She spent many of her formative years outside the country and the rest of it it the far-left environment of Berkeley and Oakland.

She made her career in radical and dysfunctional San Francisco.

She has no real accomplishments in life other than being a black(ish) woman who has consistently been promoted as an affirmative action hire, despite a complete lack of accomplishments.

She's not stupid, but her intelligence is totally unexceptional.

She never received a single vote. She was simply installed as the nominee by the oligarchy.

The fact that she could actually be President of the United States-- you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's only through the general collapse of society, our values, and our sense of ourselves as a country and a people that someone like Harris could rise to a position of authority.
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https://x.com/realJeremyCarl/status/1853601356093018406

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My thoughts on the meaning of the strange slowness in vote-counting in many U.S. states, and related phenomena like lax voter-ID requirements and late "mail-in ballots" and such (e.g., apparently a judge has now ordered Pennsylvania count even late-arriving ballots that are not even postmarked).

Is it bottom-up Third-Worldization? Or is it top-down System-party (D) management of its system?

See a few hundred words on the matter, somewhat California-focused because Steve Sailer framed it that way, here:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-cant-california-count-its-votes/comment/75575456

PS

From Peter Brimelow, about 24 hours before polling stations close:

"VDARE's D.C. consultant friend Patrick McDermott told us on eve of 2020 election that polls were underestimating Trump by 3 to 4 points. He was right. Now he says the underestimate is 1 1/2 to 2 points. Trump will win popular vote by that amount--and, he says, all swing states."

PS: Good morning, gentlemen...

Lernin' with Vermin episode 2. Presidential candidate Vermin Supreme and his campaign volunteers once again vote on what's for lunch - and once again (s)elect the Kentucky Lobster...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5kFiqkX1t0

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https://i.ibb.co/bL50L4Z/Diebold.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/HpCxJk0/Diebold.jpg
https://archive.epic.org/privacy/voting/tx/diebold.pdf

The second Diebold.jpg file is one of those hybrid files that am so fond of yet haven't made in a while. It's 902kb because it has that diebold.pdf file concatenated to the original (59kb) Diebold.jpg. Just change the file extension from .jpg to .pdf to read the document. (Not sure why I did that, other than to amuse myself and to see how long it takes for IMGBB to purge the file of the concatenated data. Anyway...)

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The paper trail is nice indeed, Achmed, but as you say, how often do they conduct a real audit? And if the poll workers themselves are dishonest, how does one ensure the integrity of the paper ballots? (Cheating with paper ballots has been around much longer than electronic voating. They're probably pretty good at it.)

https://i.ibb.co/8r96RwW/nothing-to-see-here.jpg

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So, I've been a little lazy on writing up part three of yesterday's comment (moar cat stories!). I abruptly ended yesterday's comment because Mrs. Smith and I went to town to run a few errands. And this morning, we're running to Dawsonville & Cumming for a few out of town errands including shopping for some steaks...

https://www.wilkesmeatmarketanddeli.com/

But I'll be back before too long. I may or may not go to work today. It depends on when we get back from Dawsonville/Cumming and whether or not my oil pressure sender arrives in the mail today. (And whether or not I feel like it when we get home.)

I hope you gentlemen have a great Monday!

Cheers! 🙂 ☮️

PS: Black women, well, let me just guess that they'll go 95% for Kameltoe. They don't even care that she's not really Black! If people think she is, that's who they should vote for. And, definitely, more free shit...

It's the White women that really piss me off - we'll see how many. The abortion issue should simply NOT be an issue of this campaign, period. I mean, Trump is no hard-core Christian pro-lifer. All the Dobbs decision did is rightly send the issue back to various States, where it belongs. If you care so very much that you can kill your baby at any time (I'm being harsh, as I do understand the points of those who would allow it in various cases), then get involved with State candidates.

The problem is the Lyin' Press. They've done a very nice job making abortion an issue, which should not even be in the top 100, much less top 10. The existential immigration issue should be #1 for anyone, with the ruined economy - something neither candidate can in any way just "fix" (see my previous comment re Ron Paul) being # 2. The other 98 are ones I could spell out, given the time.

But no, the problem is that these women have been fooled into voting on an issue that is NOT important and not even an issue in this race.

I brought this up because my brother brought this up. He lives in another State, but more importantly he watches some TV. He told me about these campaign ads targeting I'd say White women on this abortion non-issue.

You gotta give the ctrl-left credit for insidiousness, errr cleverness, I guess.

PS: Regarding your most recent post, Mr. Hai:

I don't think the meme about Walz was special enough to be the only post in months, but I figured, if I just put memes up, I'm not taking all that time. You can see here that I wouldn't mind getting back into this a bit. The Ron Paul thing is something else - I'd be somewhat black-pilled about it. He, even with 200 clones of himself in Congress - ain't gonna get us out of this hole. However, as he admitted at the bottom of one of his columns recently*, that trouble will occur, but we just need to make sure we understand WHY, meaning we can see the way forward, going in the right direction, not toward Communism.

I don't think he used the C-word, and I am not sure which column this was right now, but basically he said what I've been writing for a while. It's important for people to explain WTF just happened - by "just", I mean for the last 60 years, haha - so that we don't have the usual Commie crowd (going by "antifa", BLM, ADL, Soros group names, etc.) claiming that "It was zee Capitalism! We will show you a better way! You've never seen Communism like what we're gonna have! Forward, Comrades!".... like a nightmare that recurs every few decades somewhere around the world. See, there's a post in progress... Noooo!

Anyway, back on track here, I would pick your 4th item as the main cause for a loss, but then, I think, wasn't that the same thing with Øb☭ma? He won twice. Maybe Americans won't let something like that happen again, even black men this time. The women, hell... .what a stupid idea Amendment XIX was!

I'll write one more comment to explain that last sentence.


* Normally, after having his say, he gets all optimistic, saying we freedom-loving Americans (all 10% of us, which is the problem) should get together and solve all this, now that we know root of the problems. Believe me, Dr. Paul does, but we're not gonna fix it in our late-state demographic situation.

PS: Deportations will be THE most important policy for Trump to not reneg on, aside from closing the border itself. I notice that so many reports of violent crime by illegals tell us how many times the guy has been deported already - 2 through as many as 5 times! There's no point deporting anybody if he can just come right back in.

Ports-of-Entry would need to be improved - perhaps with a change in personnel. I don't think requiring the officers to have had families in the country for n-many years would go over well, but that's honestly something that you'd need, if you want to clamp down. Hell, I'll go through customs into Canada and see all Sihks and Africans, then I'll come back to America and see foreigners here too, the guys and gals that are there to keep out uninvited foreigners...

If anyone thinks the ctrl-left is shrill now, panties in wads about Puerto Rico jokes and all, he may want to sit down when any talk (even) of deportation plans happens. That's why I don't have so much confidence it'll happen, even if Trump - or better, his appointed "czar" for that - FOCUSES. Americans in general, not just the few patriotic pols that will try to run this thing, must get over being afraid of being called names. They will get called all of them, anything that can be translated from German from the decades of the 1930's and '40s.

PS: I didn't watch that one, Mr. Hail. I'm not a Joe Rogan viewer at all, except for a few short clips now and than + Trump. If I get bored I'll watch the Vance one.

Joe Rogan is just not that smart, IMO. He cannot discuss details of things like the election cheating - I think he'd get bored. I'd say the same with Trump for sure and I imagine with Mr. Fetterman. Maybe Rogan's audience would too, but these details are important... up until some court throws the cases out because... rule of men and bitches, not law.

Yes, it's too bad a middle-America guy can't vote like he's such, talking about Fetterman. I also remember VDare's stories about the guy Oz too. This was another lesser-of-two-evils election, as usual, especially before Fetterman recovered from whatever it was that knocked him for a loop. (Still, a brain-damaged D was still a D).

PS: You're right, Adam. I feel good that the paper ballots that were scanned go in to the box to be kept for an audit ... assuming nobody sets them on fire, of course. But, that's only if there were an audit, which would only happen if the results for the whole State were close AND there was no Black! bullying of White people wanting to ensure fairness, which has happened plenty of times. They can get very tribal at times ...

The hacking of the data itself, yeah, you are right that this is a weak point that should not be there. I don't even trust that crypto-currency block chain that has been touted and assumed for 15 years to be un-hackable, so why would I trust this - and you figured it out yourself. That the same software from big company is used means that a) They are at a level at which big Globalist types are paying attention and will try to "have their way" with and b) you hack one, and you've hacked them all.

My wife said that because Trump is allowed on Twitter now, as opposed to being banned in '20, there will be more videos spread of all manner of cheating scenarios. That's good, but will the Regime care? We'll see shortly...

PS

What is the reason Kamala loses?

- Picking Tim Walz (the only topic that proved worthy enough to push Peak Stupidity out of brief blog-tirement in September or October 2024)

- No Democratic primary, bad longterm image of being "crowned" by party elites and media

- Kamala is a terrible airhead, poor interview skills, and The Cackle.

- Kamala as a fraud, a fake, and not even an American in any but the shallowest of senses

- Not getting enough support from Black Males because of anti-female sexism by Black Males. (This narrative is out there).

- White-heterosexual males (i.e., the central problem-group in the USA and world-history), supporting and propping up Trump between mid-2015 and, to an extent, the present. A Black commentator named Stephen A. Smith, on NewsNation, in an attention-getting "town hall" hosted by Chris Cuomo, went on a rant. Siting next to him was Bill O'Reilly, out of whom Smith was trying to get a rise, but O'Reilly said that all races are baffled and outraged at the Biden Open Border policy.

PS

RE: Diebold voting-machines 2004 (?)

I listened to the most-recent Joe Rogan interview with John Fetterman. In the end, Fetterman is a likeable character but he is also beholden to the D-team coalition (and his emotional loyalties to his Brazilian wife's family and "we are all immigrants" narrative).

Fetterman does seem the more sympathetic character against his 2022 opponent in the attention-getting race for the Pennsylvania Senate seat, the opponent being "Doctor Oz." Oz was suspicious character of the classic con-man type. Fetterman himself said he and his team got great mileage out of doing a direct real-life-icization of the character Doctor Nick from The Simpsons of the 1990s, very directly parallel to Oz in many ways, to the point that old 'Simpsons' clips and actual footage of Oz mysteriously aligned (another case of The Simpsons predicting the future?).

Fetterman didn't press it (VDare did at the time), but Oz had also been an illegal immigrant (from Turkey) who wriggled his way into citizenship by some loophole, as so many have done. Fetterman is kind of a bozo who strangely seeks to project a bit of a 'deadbeat' image with his clothing styles and such. But Fetterman strikes people as actually an American. And it's true that he is, even if not the world's most-impressive American, he is an American. And it stands out in a comparison with the FoxNews-hyped Doctor Oz. (I have similar criticisms of Kamala, which in all the coming storm of commentary after she (probably) loses, not many will say so directly, but... She is not an American, or only very shallowly so, or only so in a technical sense.)

But in any case, when Joe Rogan brought up the voting irregularities and the strange feature of many states being either VERY lax with "voter identification" or requiring none at all, Rogan brought up the Diebold machines and Fetterman seemed unaware of the earlier claims that the R-team had operatives manipulate the Diebold machines to help G W Bush coast across the finish line.

When Joe Rogan launched the Diebold info at him, Fetterman was only prepared to bash Republicans for crazy conspiracies about irregularities in voting, but the Democrats had done it recently enough that Fetterman should be aware (he'd have been in his mid-thirties in 2004. I think there were Diebold-related conspiracies were from 2004.)

Fetterman is exactly the kind of guy who should be willing to say: "100%-verifiable paper ballots only," but wasn't willing to say so, which (naturally) is because the Democratic Party's leaders would punish him if he did.

Another strange thing about Fetterman in the interview was his stated commitments to Israel. Why would a Middle-America guy purporting to be a pro-union old-line Democrat type, why would a guy like him be so pro-Israel. That part doesn't make sense. In another way it makes perfect sense, if you apply an ethnopolitical analysis layer, which, IMO, is so necessary to understand U.S. politics at all.

After Trump himself leaves the stage, the ethnopolitical-coalition elements of the scene will remain and will continue. The only hope is that Blumpf actually carries out some deportations that inspire many more self-deportations and block others from trying to come in the first place, which buys more time. Fetterman, and a handful of others like him, have great power to endorse a pro-American line, but they are unwilling to do it fully.

PS: Greetings, Mr. Moderator!
Happy Sunday!

I'd never heard of this Tony Hinchcliffe feller before he showed up in our news feed the other morning, so I don't know anything about him let alone ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑓𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑔𝑜 (or not) in a more proper comedy setting. Even still, I get the impression that he was being reserved, which is understandable given the venue and circumstance.

Mrs. Smith and I really don't know much about that Travis Kelce guy either, except that the news tells us he is a sportsballer who is (allegedly) "dating" Taylor Swift. (Didn't take much reverse-engineering to appreciate that OJ joke. 🙂) It is kind of amusing that the media reacted like they did to (what I would consider) an otherwise unexciting and docile performance. Maybe he is pretty good when he's not warming up a crowd at a political rally? Perhaps I'll see him on netflix or youtube (or something) sometime?

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𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙-𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑑...

I do agree with you about mail-in ballots being ripe for fraud. I mean, there is a reason that most voting takes place (or should take place) in person on election day. And there are many valid reasons that mail-in ballots should be used most sparingly, if at all.

But... There are indeed other, easier, ways to commit election fraud.

I'm pretty sure I told you the story of my own experience with the Diebold GEMS (Global Election Management System) election software. Long story short, I downloaded 3 different versions of GEMS shortly after the George W. Bush selection in 2000/2001. I very quickly learned that electronic voating is criminally insecure. I do not trust it at all. Within minutes (no joke. no exaggeration. minutes.) I figured out several ways to "hack" a GEMS run election. I even wrote a simple auto-executable batch file that I put on a thumb drive to alter the voat count in an inconspicuous manner.

And I have no reason to believe that "modern" election software is any more secure or any less hackable than GEMS was 20 years ago. If I (a rather disinterested party with no real agenda) could so easily figure out how to "hack" the election software (so quickly and effortlessly) with a budget of zero dollars and for no other reason than to satisfy my own curiosity, just imagine what a ＜s＞highly＜/s＞ mildly motivated team of political operatives with a decent budget could accomplish.

As long as elections are conducted on electronic voating machines, and the regular (paper) ballots are fed into a computer for the final tally, it really doesn't matter to me whether or not mail-in voting is utilized.

And I guess, on a deeper level, my distrust of voating, elections, and democracy in general isn't really about the electronic or mail-in voating or the way the ballots are harvested and counted. I think it is a symptom of living in a low trust society. It is an indication that I do not trust the integrity of the people running the elections.

And this is without touching on the fact that I think universal suffrage is retarded. Even if the issues I have with the integrity of the election were somehow solved, without some way to filter out the morons and idiots democracy will forever remain a race to the bottom. (See Mr. Hail's comments about 𝐼𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦, 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑤-𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦, etc.)

So, yeah. Interesting times...

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(to be continued)
Later... 🙂 ☮️

PS: I just thought I'd add this voting story. One friend was about to leave town, in which case he couldn't vote. (Well, I mean, legally.) I knew he wanted to, so I told him a good place and basically got on him enough to get him to get off his ass and over there.

He called me then with questions about 3 of the extra ballot questions. It should have been obvious, but, there he was on the phone. "Hey, they don't like people having the phones even ON in there." He asked me what to check, so I told him, but right after that "OH, gotta g..." Really quick. "I'm glad the guy didn't kick you out of there, but he should have.", I told him after he'd called me back from outside. They're pretty solid here, with the IDs and everything, but it's the mail-in business that's most ripe for fraud.

PS: Wow, bit by a copperhead, huh? I'm glad she made it. I had a cat that got bit on the face by a raccoon a long time ago. He had to do the whole lampshade routine, first and only time for that. I generally only bring these guys to the vet once a year.

You're treating the girl very well. Will she never go inside at all? Our is still on the nighttime (outside) schedule, but he'll probably change it up soon. It should be connected to the switchover to Standard Time, maybe? Speaking of that, sleep some more. I need to...

PS: I just remembered (read the comments yesterday) that you had a short review of the comedy act yourself, Mr. Smith. I liked the OJ joke even without knowing who Travis Kelce is. I sort of reverse-engineered the premise in my head, figuring he was another thug, I guess, perhaps having beaten up his wife or killed someone. Hey, sportsball, ya' know.... (Man, if I were blogging - got a great re-visit post on that, with quite a bit of sympathy for the sportsball watcher crowd even.)

Regarding the joke that came of the joke, as I think Mr. Hail was expounding on, I guess they just "pounced" or "seized"* on this one thing, thinking "Hell yeah! We got 'em now. The Hispanics are gonna be pissed." There's actually quite a bit more to the story of garbage in PR, and additionally, Puerto Ricans, other Hispanics, and LOT OF US, can take a joke.

Then, Trump, being very good at this, did seize that opportunity to note how Biden had added one more nasty insult to half of Americans, along with "Deplorables", "The Bitter Clingers" (to guns and the Bible), and the "Irredeemables" (now, who was that, again?). Then, after the McDonald's stunt went over pretty well**, he drove a garbage truck. He's a great showman - camaraderie with garbage men (gotta say, the work hard here), making Americans that much more adamant after the insult and unifying voters some more, and just being a likable guy. He's very good at this.

"Milquetoast" Yes, compared to his acts at the comedy clubs, I imagine it was.


* That is an Instapundit thing, noting that the Lyin' Press will always call out Conservatives for "pouncing" or "seizing" on the things the ctrl-left doles or say... usually because these things are evil or stupid.

** It really was a nice job of proving Kamala to be a liar like the Hildabeast, about anything or everything. If she'd lie about something small like that, I guess it's just innate. As I wrote before, if she had taken Micky D's up on their offer, she could have showed Trump up, proving she did remember how to do a batch of fries and run an ice cream machine - not so much to it, but it'd prove him wrong in the court of public opinion. More importantly, if ehe could have shut her mouth as best as is possible, she'd have shown herself as that regular middle-class girl who kept her lawn mowed ... or her Mom paid a Mexican to do it

PS: I just watched the whole Hinchcliffe "routine" - thank you, Adam. What I'd seen before was just 20 seconds or so of the guy making fun of ("roasting") a few celebrities, most of whom I had know idea who they were. I was supposed to, I guess, but either way, the remarks were pretty sharp and funny.

This whole thing - I had no idea he was up there that long (over 11 minutes, including the nasty rap music) - was not put together very well. I also think the crowd, as he admitted, was not the kind he was used to at the comedy clubs. They were hesitant to laugh about Puerto Rico, but I think they did like that one.

At 6 minutes in, this guy did a nice job on the warmongering aspect, or lack thereof, (better than the others, at least), of Trump's leadership. I think it was difficult for him to mix his Trump support talk with his humor.

Yes, I liked his open arms joke, too, Mr. Hail. To me, it was making fun of Trump even, as Trump comes up with these stupid remarks about stapling green cards to diplomas, or "big door in the wall" that just make guy like me lose all trust, not in his being honest, but in his not being a bullshitter. I lose trust that he'll focus and follow up. Trump would never make this joke, as he still wants EVERYBODY to like him. (OK, maybe not the few people that he's butthurt by any given day - watch the Joe Rogan interview (yeah, it's punishment for something you did), and you'll see what I mean.)

By concentrating on Hispanics and missing the latest 3 to 10 years, arguably, of the real trash, some quite violent, coming here from ALL over the world, he missed jokes I'm sure he could have come up with that pounded in to the crowd the evil we are experiencing. He did mention his Mom learning to eat the dogs and cats, but, again, poor job with jokes about the Haitians in middle/White America. I guess this guy would only go SO far.

PS: Mr. Moderator,

𝑖𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑅 𝑐𝑎𝑡...

She has that all figured out. Baby Girl has lived here her whole life, and she's a good little friend. I call her semi-feral because her mom was feral, and because she's an outside cat. (And because she is shy around new people.) But she (especially now that she's older) stays pretty close to the house. She used to disappear for a couple days at a time. I think she would go camping and explore the boundaries of her territory. (What is the natural range of a semi-feral Appalachian mountain cat?) Now she's around every morning for breakfast.

The only time Baby Girl has ever been to the vet was for her ovariohysterectomy when she was about nine months old. She has, fortunately, been healthy and hasn't needed veterinary care. We maybe should have taken her when she got bit by a copperhead, but we doctored her ourselves with amoxicillin and wound care. For a while we thought she might lose her tail, but then one day, about a month after she was injured, her tail started moving again. Today you wouldn't know there was ever a problem.

🙂 ☮️

PS: Good day, Messrs. Hail & Newman...

𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 59% 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝐶𝑃 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒...
Don't care. Still voating Hulk Hogan.*
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𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦.

Mr. Hail, after seeing so many outraged headlines in our morning news feed Mrs. Smith and I decided to watch Hinchcliffe's MSG rally set. We figured that it might be pretty good since it was causing so much ooking and eeking and other squealing noises from the bobbleheads in the media. (One of the headlines even accused him of auntie semitism.)

We enjoyed his show even though Hinchcliffe was only mildly funny, certainly not racist or anti-semitic, and honestly, we couldn't understand what the covfefe was all about. We laughed at some of his jokes and we laughed the most at the one about Travis Kelce being the next OJ Simpson. Overall, we thought his set was incredibly cautious and quite tame but that is understandable given he has to play to the room. Milquetoast would be a word I use to describe it.

Apparently, controversial does not mean what it used to mean.

🙂 ☮️

*Just kidding. :0)

PS

Trump down to 59% to win in the RCP betting-market average.

Three weeks gains in early-mid October peaked October 22nd, at 62% (though briefly again as high as 65% October 29th). From Oct 23rd thru this time of writing, it's been mostly down, and has hit "59% Trump to win" as of this time of writing.

But even 59% is still quite high given the regime/system's puffing up of Kamala that lasted all of August and September. The 59%-level is about the same as it was in the end of July, shortly after the anti-Biden coup and crowning of Kamala.

The entire Kamala campaign was always about whether they could successfully puff up a terrible nonentity and NOT have it fall apart too soon. All they'd need is 3 to 3.5 months (from mid-late July to election day). They were successful for about two months, but the success of the operation definitely wavered in the third month. Now only 3 days left and most ballots, I think, have already been cast in the strange-new way elections are "done," resembling a census info-collection operation more than ever.

PS

-- Tony Hinchliffe, insults to Puerto Rico, the fall of "Dems Are the Real Racists," and the multiculuralized Trump-2024 coalition --

I didn't think the Tony Hinchcliffe jokes were necessarily very funny. But it is a style of comedy going today. (When did the concept of an "insult comic" begin? Would we be better off without it?)

But the reaction to one or two throwaway joke-lines was itself something surreal or darkly comedic... The joke itself was of the kind comedians pitch countless times every day, including Kamala's people I am sure. The reaction by The Media was up there with the most deranged things they've come up with in the past ten years. A person inhabiting a stable reality and assuming that which surrounds him is also rooted in stable reality would assume that a team of swastika-armband-wearing thugs had been endorsed by Trump with a Trump variant of a Hitler salute, and they had begun an hour's worth of angry denunciation against Puerto Rico for being "garbage" and calling for race war against Puerto Ricans.

This is, anyway, in some distant parallel-reality as to be laughable in itself, a weird kind of comedy all its own. Except that these people control the system and the 'Megaphone' (a Sailerism from the early 2010s, I think). They just blare out the deranged pseudo-reality reading of things, and low-info idiots believe it.

The better joke was when he said "I welcome immigrants with open arms" and made motions as to say "Stop! Go back!" This joke showed me that Tony Hinchcliffe really understands the system and is mocking the old "Dems Are the Real Racists" you'd hear frequently in the 2000s and 2010s, and which you actually still here today. To be honest, Trump himself has some of those tendencies. That is why he's lost a large portion of his white support and gained nonwhites. When the emotionalism surrounding things is removed, Trump looks a lot like a caudillo politician with a personality-cult, whose bravado specifically appeals to many sorts of nonwhites. Kamala is just terrible and unappealing despite being the system candidate and does not motivate nonwhites in the way the D-party usually had, and Trump has been able to poach a fair portion of them. But this same action turns Whites against him, or demotivates them to vote for him. This is what Steve Sailer meant, in part, by Trump having "dumbed down the Republican Party."

The U.S. White vote, baseline, with approximate percentages:

1- R voters (33%), always vote
2- D voters (22%), always vote
3- Swing voters (10%), usually vote
4- Nonvoters (35%), either never vote or seldom vote; often unregistered and disengaged; often cynical, including the now-famous Deaths of Despair cohorts.

Many elections tend to be decided on which way category 3 goes: If breaking 70/30 for one guy, it tends to be enough the result. (Whites are traditionally the only "swing voters.")

Trump's original coalition re-balanced the White vote, losing some and gaining some:

Trump's losses among Whites
- He lost some White supporters from category "1" (reliable, respectable conservative voters), and
- galvanized many from "2" against him (especially the Jewish core-element of 2) (the anti-Trump extremists and Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers);

but...

Trump's gains among Whites
- He tilted category "3" in his favor in many key states; and
- and gained or activated many from category "4" who otherwise were totally disengaged.

Both types of gain by Trump in 2016 were part of the Sailer Strategy, preached throughout the 2000s and early 2010s by Steve Sailer but not picked up much until Trump-2015.

In new Trump coalition, we see the result of his appeal(s) to nonwhites in his relatively weak position within the White vote. In practice, he has lost on net from "4," and to a limited extent from "3." Whites, from especially category 4, and the disgruntled highly-political elements of category 1 (probably including many Peak Stupidity readers), these were exactly the types that the Trump Revolution of 2015-17 or so activated, for the first time certainly in my life. That is the reason they can never forgive him.

PS: Hey Achmed, have you watched this?

Tony Hinchcliffe (full set):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjCvRdjzxM

🙂 ☮️

PS: Because I had (mostly) wasted 3 hours on the Joe Rogan/Trump interview, I didn't watch that Madison Square Garden fun. I heard about the Puerto Rico joke from my wife. However, getting the full story out of her in one shot is like, well, there's a very old Archie Bunker ("All in the Family") episode with Edith explaining the deal with the cling peaches in the parking lot... like that.

Anyway, so I first thought Trump said that, but I know that he's not really that funny. Sure, the juvenile "Go home to Mommy" stuff at the rallies (to the hecklers) still makes me laugh, but he's not THAT kind of funny. I finally got it straight that it was another guy, and I gotta, say, I did pretty well recreating the beginning of the joke from the punchline alone (now, I've seen it). Hell, yeah, it's funny! I mean people may make jokes about West Virginia or Wyoming, or God forbid, California, and nobody gets their panties in wads about it.

I might have started a little earlier with the plastic bags and shit floating down the Yangtze River, but it was good, and the unexpectedness of it was what made that funny. Pissing off Puerto Ricans?? Should we really have to worry about that? Anyone in this country who doesn't have a sense of humor should just GTFO right now.

Then, there was Zhou Bai Dien and his garbage statement. Now way, apostrophe or not, did he refer to just the one guy, the comedian. Then Trump does his garbage truck stunt, haha! He's a real showman, I gotta give him that!

PS: I checked out your 4 pictures of the abode, for, well, if she's not YOUR cat, she really ought to consider herself to be. Ours went to the Vet - normally just a once a year thing, in a carrier that we had to pour him out of! He's amazingly "clingy". Doc says there's nothing wrong with his breathing, so I'm grateful. He may be morphing to a daytime schedule now anyway, as he doesn't like the cold so much.

Nice job, and I appreciate all the DIY suggestions, Adam.

PS: I hate to say that, as nice as it is otherwise, Mr. Smith's portion of Lumpkin Country puts ours to shame, politically. The people with the Harris signs - 1 out of 4 houses in our section - are those who are well-off enough to not have to care how everyone else fares under the increased Anarcho-Tyranny and Communism to come... at least that's what they think.

One of the houses has people so proud, that they have there '20 election sign back up (maybe it's been there for 4 years?) to add to their new one. "Have you no shame, Sir, Madam, people?!" There is but one Trump sign in the whole neighborhood - call it 500 houses or more maybe. That one is not ours either. I had plans for a really fun one, but the printer made it into too big a hassle.

My wife did put a Trump sticker on her vehicle, though I warned her. Thankfully, the vehicle has enough scratches from, call it wear & tear, already that one little hissy fit won't make too much of a difference. I have one from the Dead store - yes, there are those - that says "Make America Grateful Again". That'll go on one of the vehicles along with the "steal your face" red/blue skeleton head with the lightning bolt.

The lady in that store was not your typical skinny hippie chick. I doubt she likes Trump, but I was a customer, and I noted to her that "Hey, Tucker is a Dead Head, did you know?" I had to add "Carlson, Tucker Carlson". She either pretended she'd never heard of him or she really hasn't.

PS: Good afternoon, everyone...

Mr. Hail,

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑒𝑡𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒?

So, I did a super scientific experiment on my way to work yesterday. I counted all the campaign signs. All 13 of 'em. 13 signs on 10 different properties. (Three houses along my five mile journey to work had two campaign signs in the yard.) And all thirteen campaign signs were Trump signs.

Drumph 10 > •Kamala 0

For whatever that's worth.(?)

Happy Friday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: Greetings, Mr. Moderator!

I hope you're doing well...

About a week ago I wrote a nice long comment to you addressing a few things you mentioned in the comments here (no, I didn't make the fat black EBT statue picture), and then I closed all my tabs before I mashed the Submit button.

Mostly, the comment was about semi-feral mountain cat houses. You see, last year I had to re-do Baby Girl's kitty house because the plastic sheeting was getting old and a little cracked. (The plastic sheeting was, I'd guess, about 8 years old.) I used this opportunity to give her a nice upgrade not only for her shelter, but also for her heater.

I started with a roll of this...
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-48-in-x-125-ft-Double-Reflective-Insulation-Radiant-Barrier-48X125DBLRFL/319738988

I insulated her house with 3 or 4 layers (I forget which) of the reflective insulation and topped it off with a nice, heavy duty, 12mil tarp. Her house is essentially a half quonset hut under the front porch. The floor is covered with 4 or 5 bags of cedar chips with a tarp over the top. There's some outdoor cushions and plenty of blankets, pillows and such for her to stay cozy. With the new insulation and the new heater her house stayed a comfy 70+ degrees, even when the temperature approached zero during our cold spell last winter.

Here are a few pictures of her house...
https://i.ibb.co/Hg9SCrS/Exterior.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/X8Xfn5m/Interior.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/LkCPhj7/Heater.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/XLSwNSb/Thermometer.jpg

As you may (or may not) have noticed, there is a simple mechanical thermostat on the "ceiling" of her house controlling one "circuit" of her heater. (There is a switch to provide something like a high/low function.) The other "circuit" is controlled by a thermocube outside her house...

https://www.amazon.com/Farm-Innovators-TC-3-Thermostatically-Controlled/dp/B0006U2HD2

The thermocube turns on at 35° and stays on until the temperature reaches 45°. This is to help keep her temperature more consistent when it gets cold.

Her heater is made of three 150w infrared heat emitters inside little cages (to make sure she doesn't knock a blanket into the emitters potentially causing a fire) all on a simple 2x4 frame (to make it sturdy) with some plywood on top. This time of year I just run the one emitter at night. (I leave it unplugged during the day and I'll plug it in sometime after dark.) As winter approaches I'll plug in the thermocube circuit and when it gets really cold I'll click the switch on the heater which will activate the third emitter. (The third emitter might be overkill, but whatever. I wanted to know her house would stay warm even on the coldest nights.)

As you can see in the photos we have an indoor/outdoor thermometer here in the office so we can keep an eye on the temperature in her house. This let's me know that the heat emitters are working like they should and that they haven't burned out.

That's about it. Our little semi-feral (that's why she's so shy around strangers) mountain cat stays nice and comfy in her kitty house. (Unfortunately, her house does not have air conditioning. Yet?)

For anyone looking to build a cat house I would recommend the reflective insulation as it is easy to work with and it worked really well. The heat emitter bulbs and thermostats have also worked very well to provide a safe source of heat for our little carnivore.

Happy Thursday! 🙂 ☮️

PS

A reply on Finis Germania:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/on-the-metapolitics-of-israel-and-jewish-ideological-power-relations-with-the-west-dennis-dale-on-blood-libel-mythology-and-israels-wars/#comment-52059

(the power of Peak Stupidity goes on!)

PS: Greetings,Mr. Hail!

I uploaded 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 for you...

Finis Germania (17.5mb .pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/yv2htsrk

(And here's a smaller version that appears to be the same thing...)

Finis Germania (3.9mb .pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/4xteeuh7

I'll keep an eye out for an English version, because it does look interesting, but it doesn't look like I'll find one anytime soon. (Who knows?)

Happy Thursday! 🙂 ☮️

PS

Thanks, Mr. Smith; I'll give a try to the link to the Finis Germania book (mentioned at HailToYou.wordpress.com by a mystery-writer I strongly suspect to be Dieter Kief, not least because he's mentioned that book before several times).

PS

Trump betting-market momentum may have stalled.

It's now at 63% Trump to win (per RCP, RealClearPolitics).

This is: +1% above what it was 3 days ago (62%),
but it's -1% from what it was yesterday (64%).

'Kamala' was ahead of Trump in the RCP betting-odds average for most of the time between August 8th and October 5th. But eventually she ran out of steam, and her de-steaming deceleration proceeded beginning in mid-September and has not slowed down in week-on-week terms as of this the last day of October.

The market really believes someone as terrible as Kamala surely, surely cannot win, cannot actually be (at least nominal) United States President: IOW, the market is became relatively more confident than the polls that Trump will win.

PS: Good morning, everyone!

I hope you're all having a great and wonderful Thursday...
(Thursday already?? What happened to Wednesday?)

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑒𝑡𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒?

Mr. Hail, I can honestly say that I have not noticed any lawn signs this selection cycle. Not a one.(?)

As you know, I'm a bit of a hermit, and I don't get out much, but I have been to work, and back and forth to town a bunch of times recently and I really haven't seen any lawn signs.

I'm sure there must be some Trump signs out there, as this is Trump country. And it would be a bit odd to see a Kamala sign here in Whiteopia, Lumpkinville, USA. But seriously... There should be a few out there(?) I would think.

I'll make a point to look when I'm out today.
Surely there must be some.(?)

Have I transcended the selection charade nonsense to the point that my brain subconsciously blocks out campaign signs? Have all the locals simply given up on yard signs? Am I just not paying attention? What's going on here?

Anyway... 39 comments. Looks like I have some catching up to do...

Speaking of. I enjoyed your last hailtoyou blog post. I' didn't leave a comment, mostly because I agree and don't really have anything constructive to add and also because I've been a little busy. (I did pepper the comments with a bunch of thumbs up and a few thumbs down and I clicked the 5 stars at the top a couple times.)

I do have a copy of 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 that I can upload and for you if you're interested in such a thing. But, the only copies I can find are in German. (Perhaps Dieter might like a copy?)

(You can find some links here...)
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Finis+Germania

Or just let me know and I'll upload my copy (17.5mb .pdf) and get you a link.

So yeah... It's time for breakfast. Cheers! 🙂 ☮️

PS

What's your feeling from the ratio or frequency etc of lawn signs and the like?

PS

Buzz Aldrin, who turns 95 on inauguration-day 2025, today endorses Trump for President.

Reason given for endorsing Trump: Kamala and co. have no vision of any kind of positive future, no commitment to any kind of excellence whatsoever. A backward, and backwardizing, Third-Worldizing force. (His wording is politer than mine.)

Of course, he's right.

---

Announcement by press-release:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/brigadier-general-buzz-aldrin-endorses-donald-j-trump-for-president-of-the-united-states-302291636.html

PS: That's good to see, Mr. Hail. My wife and I voted together yesterday. The crowd in there was mixed. However, an hour later, while I was hanging out with friends, I saw a big black girl with one of the "I Voted" stickers they hand out on her. That'd depressing. "That cancels out my one." Still ahead by one, though.

(Oh, sure, there's a 2% chance she voted for Trump...)

PS: Yeah, I've seen through Season 4, including "Aura Lee", on DVDs from the library, Mr. Anon. My favorite may be hard to come up with, but I really liked the 2-part episode with Ritchie Brockelman - I looked it up: "The House on Wilis Avenue" - the end of Season 4. I was about to write a post on that, but it's been over a year - still got a whole bunch of images saved.

Thanks for the tip about bitchute having the episodes.

PS

Current RCP betting-market odds:

64% Trump win election

PS: Remembering your post on The Rockford Files (In Pursuit of Carol Thorne), I've been mining a trove of old RF episodes on Bit Chute. I remember watching it as a kid. Upon watching the series now, 50 years later, they hold up remarkably well. Good writing, excellent characterizations, beautiful 70s women, great production values - lots of location shooting and - Damn! - Southern California looked great in 1974.

I highly recommend Season 1, Episode 14: Aura Lee, Farewell.

PS: Yes, the 15 minutes or so about the mixed martial arts talk was as boring or more, if that's possible, than a Steve Sailer interlude about golf course architecture would have been when he talked to Tucker. He didn't, of course, bringing up a point I'll get to in a minute.

He did this to ingratiate himself with Joe Rogan a bit, I suppose, but I think part of this was that Trump was big in the entertainment world. He does know lots of these fighters - no bullshitter was he, trying to fake that he cared, as the Kameltoe would have done with some other subject. It sounds like Trump was involved in the TV production or maybe support of these fights, as he had lots of memories about this stuff. I guess in 3 hours, an ultra-long meet-and-greet, that's not out of place.

Now, that's me coming from a standpoint of neither caring about this UFC business nor anything about Trump's or anyone else's TV business either. I know it sounds like bragging - I guess it is for me - but I've been off TV for over a quarter of a century. I'm sure that goes back toward the beginning of Trump's "The Apprentice", but I do remember some commercials I saw somewhere with Trump saying "Ya fired" in that NYC accent numerous times. It's a real pity that he didn't transfer this practice to real life in '17 through '20!

Oh, yeah, Rogan as an interviewer: He's not very good. I understand Trump goes on an around and around - they both called it "weaving" here, and Trump is quite aware he does this. However, Rogan kept talking over him, when Trump was just getting started. Compared to Tucker Carlson, who lets the interviewee go on for 10, 15 minutes at a time (!) before saying a thing, Joe Rogan sucks on this. Additionally, he doesn't know enough to ask good questions.

I get the idea of that first question, but it was very close to one of those women "reporters"' "how did it feel?" questions. Rogan seems to have very little knowledge of any details of what's going on in America. I suppose he's usually a good listener, or why would he be the #1 podcaster? He sure wasn't this time, though, with Donald Trump, who might have been asked very pointed questions so he could give some solid promises, well, some reasonably solid BS if nothing else.

Freaking waste of my time!

PS: Firstly, to clear up possible confusion from my reply to Tiny Dancer, I did watch the whole 3 hours (minus a minute and a half, I think). My 1 hr 20 min part was an example of how I had to really encourage myself by touching the screen to see the timer and doing the arithmetic once in a while. It was tedious! OK, 75% of it was tedious. I had to watch it in shifts, 4 of them, as I recall. I do get obsessive about finishing, unless it's something that totally disgusts me.

For example if - I know he's not on that bandwagon thankfully - Trump had said something in line with the Climate Calamity™ hoax, I'd have just quit right then an there. Most of the time, with way too much information out there for one lifetime, I take any excuse to say, "OK, this guy/gal is full of it. I'm out!" Click.

Back to the transcription, Mr. Hail, yes, I've agreed with you on this before. Even without the other points you make here, just on time saving alone, it's usually better to read the transcript - I'm talking about 1/5 to 1/8 the time of viewing. For example, as much as listening to John Derbyshire (his particular English accent doesn't prove a problem for me) on his weekly "Radio Derb"* is not something I'd dread, with his 25 point IQ point or at least HBK - HighBrow Knowledge point spread over Trump and Rogan (together!), I still would just read it in 5 to 8 minutes.

I didn't find a transcript right away for this one. Additionally, after 3 hours you do get a pretty good feel for who the guy is, or both of them actually, but I don't care about Joe Rogan. However feeeelings don't have to do with policy. Real solid policy ideas weren't discussed at all, hardly.

One thing about making a review is that, yes, a transcript would help immensely. No way would I go through this again to point out times and catch the spots for which I want to make important points. However, if I'd done it the first time, it's like real work, stopping and making notes, something that's not my kind of fun.

I'll continue this ...


* Does he still do them, with the demise, or hopefully hiatus, of VDare? I'll check his site some time on this. www.johnderbyshire.com

PS

The Joe Rogan interview, and actually all the Joe Rogan interviews, are a great example of why text is superior to video in terms of what thinking people want, or seek to 'get,' informationally.

Text, at least when thought-through and written by and for literate people, has an information-density and (should) involve directly stated points without embellishment or showboating or whatever kind of social dance a paid of individuals gets up to when sitting down together to gab it out. I wonder if someone went through the 180 minutes of "content" of the Rogan-Trump interview and identified specific points of any substance, and summarized them and then edited to tighten the writing, how many words it could summarized into? There is also a further point about the spiritual superiority of reading to listening or viewing video. We have seen by now the direction that video-content goes, and its name is TikTok.

At times in the interview, Trump was clearly aiming to charm Rogan by steering the topic towards "UFC." It is like, maybe, a summertime picnic gathering with distant relatives one otherwise sees or hears little of. Everyone wants to be on good terms so safe topics are sought. There is little substance or point.

Some political-strategists out there, or commentators, might see the UFC talk (and the whole Rogan interview) as a good strategy for "the election." But those people are all thinking in terms of "appeal to idiots." It is very cynical. It springs us directly into the realm of the classic criticisms of mass-democracy. That applies, actually, to most election coverage and electioneering, appeals made to a narrow middle of low-info, clueless people.

PS: "... reading *here*...", geeze! Even that goodbye post has some typos that I haven't fixed yet. We all need an editor here.

Mr. Hail, I read through your latest post and the comments (7 or 8 when I last read). I'm not sure I'll get into that, but Mr. Dale definitely has some good points.

I hope the bettors and Mr. Silver are right with their numbers. I don't expect Trump to save the country. However, a ZeroHedge commenter said he was (one way or the other, can't remember) the "kick the can" or "can down the road" candidate. He can forestall the destruction for a while, and buy us some time to prep for what's coming.

Back to that 3 hour deal with Rogan, I was surprised that actually admitted to being mistaken for a few seconds. As he talked about his picks for his advisors and dept. heads in '17-'20, he agreed that he'd picked some wrong. His reasoning was very much as I'd thought and written before. In my words: "I have to delegate work, like any leader of a big organization. I'll get the best, and since I don't know this business well, let me get insiders who've been here a long time within the Beltway to help. Yeah, sure, I'll get swamp creatures to... uhhh, help me drain the swamp."

PS: That was very nice of you to write that, Tiny Dancer. I couldn't image people looked forward to reading hear, just because I'd never thought about it like that. Getting back started is very tempting, but...

For example, I watched the whole damn Joe Rogan interview, really a conversation, with Trump. I don't recommend it. Rogan really just doesn't know much about a lot of stuff, and Trump showed his big ego and TV-worldview enough to piss me off. However, I am like that, 1 hour and 20 minutes, just 1 hour and 38 more to go! I would do a review of this talk if I were continuing.

Tucker did a really nice job in his 9 minute talk at Madison Square Garden. For commenter G. Anderson, he even mentioned the Dead! It's been noted that Kameltoe and the Hildabeast equating appearing at MSG with being Nazis, cause, you know, that big rally back in '39 that we all remember (?), means that I guess The Dead were Nazis, because they played there*. I just looked up a show from '90 with a pretty good "Jack Straw from Wichita" and then "Bertha".

The Nazis put some people in big graves, but then the Dead sang about "digging for him a shallow grave and laying his body down... " Nazi's indeed, Shannon. My old buddy, you're blogging much too slowwww... owww...

Then, Phil just died a couple of days ago. It's just a box of rain. I don't know who put it there. Believe it if you need it,... written for his dying father long ago.


* Well, it would make thousands of great musicians over the years the same. It's a big, important venue. Hmmn, is this where Led Zeppelin filmed their live footage in "The Song Remains the Same"? I'm pretty sure. Yes, I wrote about that pretty recently:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3049

"Led Zeppelin Long Distance Dedication" is the name of the post.

PS

-- Election predictions --

The "Real Clear Politics" betting-markets tracker now has Trump at a 62% chance to win the election.

The betting-market most leaning towards Trump (of the six RealClearPolitics uses in its average) is Polymarket, which gives Trump a 66.5% chance to win.

A two-to-one against the worst candidate in U.S. history may not be such a great achievement. I mean, the woman is very, very bad. A grab-bag of a lot of pathologies of our time. The true "Idiocracy" candidate (as Peak Stupidity supporter Adam Smith wrote).

The "538" poll-tracking site, which claims to be based on an independent algorithm and not on betting-markets, gives Trump a 54% chance to win as of today.

Nate Silver (the expelled founder of 538)'s model has been moving towards Trump by around a point every day or two for some time. The Nate Silver model still today shows only around 55%. But he has expressed his 'gut' feeling that Trump will likely win the election by winning all or nearly all the "swing states," except for the late-arriving mail-in votes.

PS-I admit to being slightly confused by seeing a post, even though, I was thrilled after having checked back once - at least since your “last” post b/c I was so sad not to get your take on all the craziness that won’t quit. It’s really the comments, though that are the confusing part-GuessI’ll be looking around to help me figure what’s what there there.
The ‘tardles took me a minute but then I got a grin just “seeing” you back again:) Still, sad about no music links tho. Sorry to whine. I’ll take just memes anytime 🙏

PS

For those interested, some commentary springing from the Dennis Dale essay that was so thought-provoking for me:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/on-the-metapolitics-of-israel-and-jewish-ideological-power-relations-with-the-west-dennis-dale-on-blood-libel-mythology-and-israels-wars/

PS: About Mickie-D's, yeah, I thought that was a hell of a good stunt. Trump is foremost a good showman. It was pretty smart though too, if the point was to demonstrate that Kameltoe is a plain liar. If she'd pull up some fake employment stint just to make a point, like the Hildabeast, she'd lie about anything, even the weather.

McDonalds asked Kamaltoe if she wanted to to the same. She could have showed up Trump by running that soft-serve ice cream machine and doing whatever else she'd (claimed to had) done very adeptly, saying, "see, this is what I learned 40 years ago at my middle-class job, back when we kept our lawns mowed ..."

No, that she didn't take McDonalds up on it shows that she'd probably be lost in there and, yeah, she lied.

Yes, plenty of posts on this presented themselves in my mind.

Harridan/Walz, haha. Thanks. I'd thought of something regarding the Population Replacement Programme (sounds even more sinister with the Brit spelling). They may be sending illegals to YOUR town next, whenever they want to Haitian your demise.

PS: Yeah, "repulsed" is a good word to describe how I feel about her. Mr. Smith has a good point that this is more of that humiliation of the population, the point of many efforts made by Totalitarians. They want to make you put up with and live with absolute stupidity just to rub it in, who's the boss.

The page below (I don't vouch for the site, just got to this page) has a short video:

https://conservativeus.com/kamalas-strange-behavior-at-rally-sparks-questions-is-she-drunk-or-just-acting-weird-video/

Is she drunk? You'd think her handlers could control any drinking and people would smell it on her, but then, that's sure what this looks like to me. The ONLY way I'd ever talk like that, without the hand movements, and regarding different subjects, is if I'd just downed a couple, three beers .. on an empty stomach... maybe a 6 pack.

The cute blond lady at Kameltoe's 5 O'clock looks kind of miffed by this behavior at the end of it.

PS: Mr. Hail, it'd be a shame if someone got that substack url and put up something really stupid instea... wait... My friend had told me when I paid my money for www.peakstupidity.com that I was pretty lucky to find that one open. (I sat on it for 2 years before I got started even, but then both the hosting and the domain name registration were a LOT cheaper back 10 years ago, from GoDaddy, that is.)

I wonder if it's free to grab the substack one from that outfit, as don't they just get a cut of what the subscribers pay monthly (or yearly or whatever)? Maybe there's a flat fee too or a 1-time initial fee.

As with the twitter handle that someone has (as per Peter Brimelow confusing it with this site), I wouldn't want "the brand" to be destroyed, haha.

PS

Some are now saying that Trump's McDonalds 'stunt' may have won him the election.

The several assassination attempts failed to do it,
but an hour working at McDonalds may have done it.
Trump "dons" the McDonalds apron and wins.

It would have been an interesting Peak Stupidity entry. But we'll just have to imagine the contents. Hulk Hogan proposed "Trumponamia 2024". Now we have "Trumpacdonalds 2024."

For the non-fans of the Trump-works-at-McDonalds stunt, you have Harridan/Walz 2024, slogan: "You KNOW what you did wrong; and no, I'm not telling you, because you should KNOW; and yes, you do deserve to be punished. I'm 'Kamala' and I'M SPEAKING NO. WILL YOU LET ME FINISH, PLEASE? THANK YOU. Now, yes: I'm Kamala and I approve this message."

PS

There is an interesting discussion going on the Dennis Dale comments between a commenter named Alex, proprietor the good Mr. Dale, and another individual. but I won't say any more. Check it if you have time.

Thanks as always to all who may see this, and, Mr. Smith, may the fortunes favor the poll-watchers in your state of Georgia (now Guidestone-less) in two weeks' time.

PS: Moar seriously though...

Thank you, Mr. Hail, for pointing me towards Dennis Dale's blog. Pretty sure I wouldn't have found it without you. And, yeah. I agree. Kamala is just horrible. I'm a bit surprised that they didn't find someone more palatable than Brown Hillary to be the Turd Sandwich of this selection cycle. Maybe someone who didn't have to drop out of the primary so early because she is so hideously unlikable.(?)

Nominating Kamala reminds me (in a way) of the Dalrymple quote about the purpose of communist propaganda being to humiliate and the less it corresponded to reality the better. It's pretty wild to me that they are forcing such an obviously unlikable creature down the voaters collective throat. I guess it's a symptom of being incredibly out of touch or having an amazing level of hubris, or an example of hostile elites shitting on people just because they can, or something. Not really sure what, but it's pretty crazy to see.

As you say, Kamala really is like an 𝐼𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦 character. An actual 'dumb' person and a screeching harpy to boot. In a way, she does encapsulate what 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦™ has become. And it is not pretty.

(Anyway...) Thanks again. Happy Sunday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: Good evening, Gentlemen...

It's nice to see Blumph serving the little people...

https://i.ibb.co/n3D2RkC/Blumph1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/PC9MsYw/Blumph2.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/MkPpkRn/Mc-Donald-s-Shrimp-and-Noodles.jpg

Sort of like Jesus did. ☮️

PS

Re: listening to 'Kamala' is like listening to angry ex-wife.

I don't know how more people aren't absolutely repulsed by her whole demeanor. Even at her best, she is just a terrible candidate. Is she the worst major-party candidate in U.S. history? The least qualified, the least classically-American in some ways, most off-putting, the most cynical, the most opportunistic.

There were multiple examples per minute (!) of female-manipulation tactics and instincts, in the 20-some-minute-long Fox News interview. Someone also suggested watching with the sound off and seeing what reaction you get, and that it's actually even worse than even her nails-on-chalkboard voice being on.

Since women have not traditionally been in high political races, the worst of their traits have not often been seen. But Kamala delivers there. Not too many people have cast Kamala this way until recently: as another example of the fruits of the feminization of institutions.

If you believe the Biden Family biography released this or last year by Miranda Devine, this interesting Australian reporter for the New York Post, Joe Biden loathed Kamala all along. He has almost-always consistently played the part of someone who likes her and has confidence in her, but many signs in the past few weeks suggest otherwise. She did, alas, have some kind of hand in the palace-coup that got rid of Biden.

By the way, what traditional palace coup anywhere in space or time, has ever produced a new figure atop the heap anything like Kamala? A browbeating woman who scowls at you for KNOWING what you did wrong and you should be VERY SORRY and APOLOGIZE and admit you were wrong and praise her greatness and transfer available resources for her consumption, it's all the ordained way of the universe (this is the solipsism again reacted with other traits).

PS

(clarification: I am not suggesting anythingl ike Peak Stupidity "relocate" to Substack. I mean, rather, to point out that the classic Peak Stupidity brand is unclaimed on Substack. Any bozo or bozo-ette can dash in and grab it. What if some diehard fan out there transposed the contents of the Peak Stupidity Book Club set up shop there?)

PS

Thanks, Adam.

I give my hearty endorsement to Dennis Dale's blog. And for those who like big-and-shiny platforms, it's now also fully mirrored (or cross-posted) to "Substack."

Speaking of which...

____________

https://peakstupidity.substack.com/

NOT FOUND.

The page you are attempting to access is not found.

If you want to claim this URL you can start a Substack today:

(Start a Substack)
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PS: 🙂 ☮️

The novelist Howard Jacobson has argued that too much press coverage of dead Palestinian children is a new form of “blood libel” against Jews.

https://archive.ph/qS2vr

PS: 🙂 ☮️

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/dennis-dale-on-steve-sailer-the-perils-of-success/

PS: 🙂 ☮️

PS: Mr. Haile I read Dennis Dale's article - very interesting - and took a look at his site. I wrote something wrong in my overview of Steve Sailer's book "Noticing". There IS one unz.com commenter mentioned, with a short quote from Dennis Dale. I can tell you where in the book only later - I don't have any of my copies on me right now.

Back to Kamala, I read a ZeroHedge comment/crack about the Fox News Baier interview saying that it was "like talking to my ex-wife", explaining the "-ex" part of it. How can anyone in the country really want to put up with someone like this as someone in his (or her, too) life, much less on the TV every day as "Madame President"?!

Did any of you watch clips of, or the whole of, the 18 minute(?) Trump talk at that Press Dinner - can't remember the name of it just now? Holy crap - he not only came up with some serious zingers, no holds barred, but then he came out and flat-out told them that he was angry and he didn't really like being there for the jokes. The phrase "this shit" was used, IIRC.

I really like Trump when he's like that. It's a real shame he comes up with some really stupid policy suggestions. People are worried that the wars will start with him as President, just as with the Kameltoe. I don't think so. I hope that talk is more BS out of him.

PS

Thanks for the replies and encouragement.

If there is any interest by anyone who may be reading this in Israel's wars and what they mean for us, let me gently recommend Dennis Dale's latest essay:

https://dennisdale.com/2024/10/12/israel-slaughtering-children-jews-hardest-hit/

PS: I've been reading ZeroHedge lately, unfortunately. (Just "unfortunately" because it's backsliding of a sort. The comments go on and one, but there are some real gems in there! It's a different gang from the iSteve set but a pretty fun bunch often. I don't write in, same as 12 years back when I used to real ALL the articles there.

Anyway, ZH had a post that had clips of most of the "good" parts of that Fox News interview. Thanks, Adam, for the whole thing. I think I watched 60-75% just from the various clips around.

You reminding me that our cat takes refuge under the house, but I think the insulation hanging down in the crawl space is not good for him. I was thinking of making him an outdoor house even if it's just cardboard with blankets, to keep him from staying around the insulation. Of course, he can come in if he wants - he's been on a sleeping binge since the cold weather started.

PS: Here's hoping Mr. Hail can use that material here, with some addition, if necessary, in a post on the Hail to You blog. I keep looking ... I'd be sure to comment over there if you did.

Anyway, you have a point that Kameltoe is indeed vapidly stupid. There's no b brain, errr, there, there. Timmah was fun to make as a meme, especially due to this guy's style and affectations, which look moronic to me, but, yeah, I'm sure the guy can think better than Kameltoe. That all his thinking and planning, to the point of my wondering if he knew he was a CCP asset, rather than it being inadvertent, is, as you would agree, the problem.

I agree that his being a MidWestern White man means that he should be considered more eligible for high office than some foreigner-born, foreign-raised* skank. I could see, though, that he could cause even greater destruction of what remains of America than the skank. She will do her puppet-masters' bidding but without the brains to make it convincing.


* I consider Berzerkely, California as foreign territory. We should require visas...

PS: Good morning, gentlemen. Adam, that replacement statute, you know, the one celebrating the discovery of a new grocery store isle (sic), please don't tell me that's real, somewhere, even if not in the spot in Richmond. Did AI make that for you? I did LOL, literally. LLOL.

PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail!

Stupider. (Lulz)

https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/1844560311358992580

I don't really have anything to add to your comments, because I pretty well agree. Kamala and Walz are horrible. As are most the critters presented to the proles for their voting enjoyment, Drumph included.

Here's that Kamala Fox interview in case anyone would like to watch it. (I haven't. Kamala makes my skin crawl. She's just awful.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk

I'm just writing in to say hello. Good to see you, I hope you're doing well.

Everything is good here. Got a little chilly last night, ~35°. So I had to turn on the propane and get Baby Girl's (my cat) heater going in her house. But we have some nice weather coming up with highs in the upper 70's and maybe even the low 80's. Time to pick the last of my beans and get my poppy seeds in the ground. (Poppies germinate when the soil temp is about 58°)

Oh, and that hurricane that came through missed us. I was planning on a direct(ish) hit from the spaghetti noodle forecast, but Helene moved east so other than 11 inches of rain and a few downed tree branches and a mess of leaves we were completely unscathed. Hit parts of North Carolina pretty hard though. (But I'm sure you knew that.)

So yeah. That's about it. For now.

I hope you have a great Thursday, Mr. Hail! 🙂 ☮️

PS

Kamala-Fox interview

"There isn't a man alive who doesn't know this feeling..."

(Kamala scowls, hectors, browbeats, nags, yells at man over perceived slights--"you KNOW what you did wrong").

https://x.com/vortmax79/status/1846727695473803281

PS

-- Walz vs Kamala: Who is the lesser? --

Tim Walz is not stupid. But he is some kind of compulsive liar. He has certain demagogic qualities, which we all-too-easily accept in political figures today. But the strange compulsive lying is a bit too much for a White-European. It's a strange personality defect that I don't know how to explain, and it's bad. But it doesn't mean he is stupid s such.

Walz is a profoundly uninspiring and mediocre-seeming figure. But Kamala is worse. And I believe Kamala is stupider. I am not sure who would score higher on some IQ-like test, but I do believe Kamala is "stupider." If that makes sense. She is an empty vessel, a dud, driven by nothing but that which is called 'ambition.' She has no ideas, she doesn't think. These are signs of stupidity as I would identify it.

What I wrote about Kamala, a few weeks ago sometime back in the Peak Stupidity active-era, is that she is a solipsistic narcissist. Only through the 'lens' of understanding her as a malignant female solipsist with narcissistic tendencies, do we understand her at all. Now, after two or three months of exposure, the average idiot out there sees through the smokescreen. Kamala is an empty-vessel, we hear people saying. She is an actual 'dumb' person.

Kamala believes that all she has to do to "win elections" and attain the right to rule is mouth some incantation-like stock phrases or canned lines, and people will annoint her (alongside her husband, a man who believes his ethnic-group to be chosen by God as always-superior to others and the right to murder tens thousands of rivals with no consequences). People will fall in line because they have to: she is too great for them not to. In historical times when queens existed with real power, women of exactly this type were very dangerous, and often undermined their husband (king)'s regimes through silly scheming. They are unmoored, in some way, from reality. It's not about ideas or systems or other such boring 'men' stuff. "It's all about her." That's the solipsism.

I think Kamala has long ago deceived herself that she is some kind of great figure, and has curated her life towards that end. Her solipsism here, in the age of feminism and pro-Nonwhite preferences at a 'systemic' level, has weaponized this in her. She doesn't believe ideas mean anything; she herself matters and her emotions matter and everything else is just some stupid show to appease mean old white males, appease them with magical incantations with a set of phrases she can learn and mirroring.

The solipsism reacts with narcissism and such cartoonishly bad and inept figures get catapulted forward, occasionally, due to political conditions.

Solipsism plus narcissism plus anti-White-Male political-conditions together form a noxious cloud of mediocrity and cringeworthy terribleness, which seeps out into the general population. Average Stupidity levels rise to unacceptable heights. And Kamala really is the stupidest yet. Truly a kind of "Idiocracy" figure, in a way more frightening and outrageous than the Hulk Hogan performance at the RNC that Adam Smith mocked in July of this year.

Kamala is stupid, ridiculous (in the literal sense), embarrassing, delusional, and a solipsistic-narcissist (which is to say, a species of dangerous liar) -- all at once. Tim Walz, he deserves many of the same labels but usually to lesser degrees. His forms of lying are strange but often sort of goofball-type lies or the kinds of petty lies found by a certain type of "bad acquaintance" one occasionally meets in life, a deadbeat. Tim Walz is a high-functioning deadbeat.

Compared to Walz, Kamala's deception is much more pervasive and alarming, because everything about her is a fraud. I don't think Kamala is firmly connected to reality in terms one wants any politician to be (even a local one), as I wrote about in the "solipsistic-narcissist" essay. The exact ways she is not connected to a politically-relevant reality can be identified psychologically, I think, in that they derive in great part from forms of female mental-processing (especially the solipsism, and the cruel manipulation tendency at which she sometimes shows some skill). It is a real embarrassment that Kamala ever rose to a position to be "running for president" at all, or even had any position of importance in any serious institution, in a legal career.

I would defend Walz, though, on still another level. For all his faults, at least he is a White-European with a number of generations of nativity in the USA. I'm not saying that absolves him or somehow means that White-Christians should support him for that reason. No, I'm not saying that. But I do want to highlight it to say that Kamala cannot claim the same at all, on any branch of her family. This is another reason she shouldn't be running. She is not an American in any true or meaningful sense. That she believes herself entitled, apparently, to the job of "President of the United States," is another sign, to me, of her delusion. A sign of the solipsistic tendency. She doesn't understand that she is not fit to be "President of the United States," because she does not think like a normal mentally-healthy man.

Men spend their adult lives basically overlooking and forgiving these sort of things, at small scales, in women and children. But at the highest political levels, it's just ridiculous and offensive and outrageous that it's happening, that she has (they say) a 45% chance of becoming "President of the United States." I think most mainstream centrist, center-right, and right-wing opinion now sees her more-or-less as I identified her in my "Kamala Harris as solipsistic-narcissist" essay from August 2024.

So what is Kamala: an empty vessel who talks exclusively in "filler"-phrases, a habit she thinks is a-okay she believes she can just say anything and the White-centrist idiot masses, especially women, will swing her way and she will be crowned queen by the media and the Regime.

Kamala: she believes in nothing but her own chosenness (see again, solipsistic-narcissism).

Tim Walz lies and demagogues, but he actually has some sort of ideas and some form of grounding. Even if they are wrong ideas, even if he is a "knucklehead" and has many strange quirks. Even despite it all, Walz actually has some kind of serious thinking going on. He doesn't just float around using canned 'filler' phrases. That's what Kamala does.

Any healthy system would have vigorous and robust mechanisms to identify, exclude, and neutralize people like this, even down to the level of say PTA boards if possible. Because people like this, if they by whatever method percolate up, are just terrible for everyone and everything. Even outside of any official power, people like this can and do even wreak havoc in friend groups, or church groups, or among groups of co-workers, and the like.

Someone commenting on Kamala once wrote that she makes him sick whenever he sees or hears her, because Kamala reminds him exactly of a manipulative ex-girlfriend or ex-fiancee or ex-wife (I can't remember) that was highly skilled at manipulation of others, and always brought chaos and destruction to somehow get herself plopped on top to suit her own psychological needs. A psychological tormentor.

No one would put up with Kamala-type manipulation and fluff from a male. Any such male would be "run out of town" quick, just laughed at for the most part. Definitely not promoted up any ladder. But Kamala, she has skated by doing such things for many years. A bumbling figure like Tim Walz could never get away with this. As unimpressive as Waz looks in some ways, that there is something more 'to' Walz, is already hinted at just because he is a White-Male within this system, which means despite the petty lies and all, people demanded some level of competence from him, rather than indulging fantasy-world solipsistic games from a narcissistic "Kamala."

PS: Happy Columbus Day to you too, Achmed!

Yeah, 5150 is pretty cool. A little tricky (and fun!) to play, but not too hard by Van Halen standards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U530D4fC8I

(Somewhat on topic.) Did you hear about the new statue that Richmond commissioned to replace the Columbus statue that was removed from Byrd Park a few years ago?

Check it out...
https://i.ibb.co/LktHtG1/New-Statue.jpg

Happy Sunday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: Happy Columbus Day, Adam, tomorrow in reality - 532 years since he first sailed the ocean blue. The "official" holiday is on Monday, I am told.

We are doing well. Thank you for that Van Halen song that I'd never heard before - I liked it first time around. Nobody can play like Eddie.

oops, hadn't checked out the other vid yet.

PS: 3130?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8Ncoenewg

And somewhat off topic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator! (And Friends!)

Happy October 10th. (Damn how the time flies.) Hope you and the Newman family doing well. Typing this on my new(ish) laptop (Lenovo T490) and the font must be a little different or something because the lettering looks, well, a little different than I'm used to.

I don't know much about Tim Walz, but I've heard that his wife loves the smell of burning tires. (Weird.)

And yes. Your son is right. 'tardles all the way down...

🙂 ☮️