PS: Oh, and then there's China. You may need a big group of agents to work in the many Chinatowns for years to sort it out. Still, send them back - it's a bit more pricey, but you make China pay for it. Yes, that CAN be done. Trump is right about that. Why did he not do what was suggested by (of course) VDare writers, which was to tax Western Union (etc.) wired remittances, say 25% or so.

Or, the machine, or blank-faced Millenial broad at the counter, says "There will be a foreign exchange fee of 25%, exchange fee, see? Yeah that's the ticket."

PS: I like back-of-the-envelope math like that. Thanks, for the both of you.*

In 1863 (didn't look at Mr. Smith's link yet), the bounties could have been on cattle rustlers. Yes, that was big money, for some major amount of work. Now? You just put detainers or whatever legal term it is to make sure they get taken in. The program (not evil, so normal spelling) would involve some big temporary pens like the ones in Louisiana.

From there, sometimes via Miami, narrow-body planes can take 150 per shot down to Haiti, Salvador, Honduras, etc. For the Africans, you need widebodies, 300 or so per shot.

The numbers are not at all overwhelming. If you take 10,000 daily total illegal aliens, that's 3.6 million a year, meaning 2 things:

1) Within a decade, you've gotten rid of a majority. (This assumes you have a REAL border, of course, so they don't come back in significant numbers.)

2) After just a few months of this serious flow, you're gonna have lots of people sell what they've got, send the money home, and buy their own tickets.

For Africa, 3 widebody flights per day would take care of those illegal aliens in a year or so. It's the legal ones, bringing that famous 13% higher, that will stay.

If Trump does not (get convinced to) do something about the huge LEGAL influx, he hasn't solve the real problem. Of course, the criminal element is a problem of its own and will be taken care of, but it's not really THE problem, which is Population Replacement. I don't even know if those 10's of thousands of Haitian just in the one town, Springfield, Ohio, were legal - all they need is those parolee pieces of paper to make them - Trump is on to this scam, but there's a lot more to it.

Bring back VDare for all the details!

* I'll update with the name field next time in the dBase.

PS

(The $16,500 (2024-adjusted) "bounty" calculation, unsigned, is mine.)

PS

Re: Adam Smith's question on an 1863 $200 bounty (cash, no deductions, taxes, fees).

Maybe the best practical way to translate the value to the 2020s would be this this:

In the 1860s, a $60/month salary would be near the market average for a typical U.S. salaried employee. (Though most people being farmers, their income depended on selling their goods and therefore dependent on market-prices; no one hands a 'salary' to an independent farmer. Hired farmhands make low salaries which cannot be used for comparison because most or even all of their expenses are covered by the farmer, so they pocket it all.)

A $200 bounty-sum on that $60 salary-baseline would be equivalent to 3.33 months of salary. In 2024, a socioeconomic-equivalent monthly after-tax salary might be $5000/month. 3.33 x $5000 = $16,500. A 2024-equivalent estimate for the $200 bounty in 1863 could be $16,500.

Amazingly, that is near the sum ($15,000) being quoted by those who oppose the Trump Deportation Program.

PS: Good evening, everyone,

https://i.ibb.co/WPsm9fP/Peanut.jpg

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Thank you for your sympathy, Mr. Alarmist.
(It's been a while. I hope you and Mrs. Alarmist are doing well.)

Mrs. Smith is a bit sad, but otherwise doing alright. She also says it doesn't seem real yet. (Her brother was only a year and a half older than her so it's hitting her kinda hard. She's sad to see him go, but didn't want him to suffer. Sad but relieved.) Thanks again. 🙂

Oh, on a different note, the only two okra plants still alive, (and the ones I decided to let go to seed), are the two that the deer ate down to the nubbins this summer. They took a little while to recover, but when they did they came back strong. And they're about 14' tall. (crazy.)

Cheers!
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In other news...

Government increases surveillance after Mpox outbreak traced to White Dudes for Harris Campaign Event in Michigan.

(Or something like that.)(/sarc)
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In other, other news...

Does anyone know what $200 in 1863 would be worth today adjusted for inflation?

https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/bounties

I'm wondering if the tax cattle could save a few billion dollar bucks by reinstating a scalp bounty in lieu of mass deportation.

I hope you all have a great evening!
Happy Saturday! 🙂 ☮️

PS

Re: VDare and its future in 2025?

I got/get the sense that VDare's dramatic act of closing itself down, in July 2024, with many harsh words for the New York attorney general, "Leticia James," was a long-game gambit betting on a decisive Trump-2024 win.

After such a Trump-2024 win, VDare's legal troubles would be over, was the gambit. And it would roar back to life in early 2025. A parade, featuring a giant float of a Steve Sailer, would be donated from leftover Peak Stupidity operating funds. A "VDare is Back" parade would triumphantly parade down the town streets of that town in West Virginia. Trump would then invite VDare to re-create the parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on July 4, 2025, as the early wave of deportations had come in under-budget.

If you do see VDare miraculously start up again, at about 12:01pm Eastern Standard Time, January 20th, 2025, then remember these little words of mine.

PS: This Rebecca Solnit is a real piece of work, Mr. Hail, and that's putting a good light on her. I had to LOL at "for a supremely qualified Black woman".

This is what Revelation has a lot to say about, lies, and liars like this. I've kept up with Trump for over 9 years now, and Kamela for just the last few months. I may be annoyed by a lot of Trump's antics, but it's obvious he's a decent person. It's obvious that Kamela is not a decent person. What does it take NOT to see this? How do you get like that, to where you can't?

PS: Just looked over this thread. Important typo of sorts in my comment of 6:48 this morning. Rather than "...as it's a big issue.", it should be "as *IF* it's a big issue."

PS: I was just about to write about the D primary after your writing before that. Yes, that winnowed her out, but then who was the "best" out of that deal? Zhou Bai Dien. The D squad is not sending their best either, but then that's a good thing, IMO. I don't want a competent destroyer of the country, like, say, Gavin Newscum*.

I understand Mr. Smith's point about the system. We'll see if this election ends up mattering - I think it will.

Some news I just read is that one prospective US Attorney General, one Mike Davis said that if that Leticia James (NY A/G) keeps up the lawfare, he will put her fat ass in prison. Those were his words. I thing this could be very good news for VDare. Can they just crank it all back up? (I would still work on getting all affairs out of New York anyway, in the meantime.) I'm gonna try to find out about this.


* Trump called him that name a handful of times during the Joe Rogan interview. I know that's kind of juvenile, but I like that.

PS

-- Why did U.S. voters re-elect a monster? --

An interesting reaction from writer Rebecca Solnit.

TLDR bullet-pointed summary:
- Whites are bad people and morally deficient;

- males writ large tend to be bad people and morally deficient;

- there is now a pernicious influence of Big Tech to manipulate these morally deficient groups to push them towards Fascism;

- the media's guardrails, to prevent Fascist takeover, have failed and it is uncertain how to strengthen them to prevent more gains by Fascism;

- A long winter of death and despair is coming: the 2020s are destined to be the worst decade since Auschwitz.

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OUR MISTAKE WAS TO THINK WE LIVED IN A BETTER COUNTRY THAN WE DO

by Rebecca Solnit
The Guardian

"Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves"

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. Our mistake was to see the joy, the extraordinary balance between idealism and pragmatism, the energy, the generosity, the coalition-building of the Kamala Harris campaign and think that it must triumph over the politics of lies and resentment. Our mistake was to think that racism and misogyny were not as bad as they are, whether it applied to who was willing to vote for a supremely qualified Black woman or who was willing to vote for an adjudicated rapist and convicted criminal who admires Hitler. Our mistake was to think we could row this boat across the acid lake before the acid dissolved it.

We knew what the problems were, and we wanted to fix them. The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the mainstream news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga

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(Rebecca Solnit, b.1961, a Jewish feminist writer whose formative years were mostly in the California San Francisco Bay Area. She has been an 'activist' since the late 1980s. An exemplar of one wing of the Blue-Elite coalition.)

PS: "It's being reported that the effeminate left-wing leader of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has ordered preparations for the possibility of anti-Trump refugees flowing north into Canada."

We're not sending our best!

Had to get that out there... back to your most recent comment.

PS

-- How did Kamala get 48% of the total vote? --

"The mass media has had an influence on (even) me on this, as I tend to think of the "half the country" who supports this broad. It is indeed a lot more sane situation than that."

The U.S. party system is stable enough, and well-managed enough, and people are socialized into the system from birth, such as to give any bozo or bozoette an absolute rock-solid 40% and likely more like 45%. The same for the other side's candidate. The 10% or 15% in the middle, and 'turnout' for the two more-or-less stable coalitions, then "decide" the election. And as the D-party is the System-party, really the inner-Regime party (the R-party a loyal opposition), their default may be to have the advantage, say, 45%-40% these days (with the White share of vote down to 71%?). If an R candidate wins by 50%+, therefore, it must be considered a major win.

That is how the managed U.S. system works. The estimable and honorable Adam Smith, of Peak Stupidity, is the most anti-election of the regular commenters. His views reflect an awareness of the largely-managed nature of the U.S. system (but not entirely managed; the System-party and 'Regime' would have preferred Trump losses in 2016 and 2024, naturally).

If in a different system, a competitive multi-party system, a Kamala-like kandidate would just crash out, to zero, and be laughed off the stage. The U.S. has an imperfect version of a competitive multiparty-like system in the "primaries" (which themselves are still largely managed, as with the selection of Biden in early 2020 by internal party machinations). And when Kamala was in the field in those "primaries" in 2019, she flailed and faltered and failed fast, ending her campaign in shambles and shame by mid-late November 2019 (official drop-out, early December 2019).

The selection of Kamala, the worst major-party candidate in U.S history, and her 48% of the vote, is not a judgement against voters, or White voters (most of whom, in voting, are merely participating in a civic ritual akin to church attendance or watching the town Fourth of July parade, say). The real target of blame, or scorn, is the system that could allow for such a person to 'nearly' be elected U.S. president.

PS

-- U.S. refugees to Canada --

It's being reported that the effeminate left-wing leader of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has ordered preparations for the possibility of anti-Trump refugees flowing north into Canada.

"NDTV: Trump Tracker: Canada On 'High Alert', Braces For Migrants Fleeing US After Trump Win."

PS

-- White Dudes For Harris down in flames; lessons? --

Sorry for subjecting you, Mr. Moderator, to the "White Dudes For Harris" supporter Mr. Boogie's instant reaction-moment, twelve seconds though it was.

The Internet of the 2020s is chock-full of stupid short 'reaction' clips like that, often via TikTok now, which are usually mental-psychological versions of sugar-filled, chemical-laced snacks of the lowest order. But this one, the 12-second snippet of Mr. Boogie's election night 2024, feels to me like it encapsulates something important. There is a lot that is aesthetically perfect in the shot, that informs us something about our times, our politics, the state of the White Man (as it were), especially when contrasted with Mr. Boogie's own Kamala komments that were not at all favorable to Kamala.

Some among us could write hundreds of words on the matter. But as for me, now some days after the smoke has begun to clear, I remain in the mood to write to capture and highlight such little-noticed things: the dramatic squirrel appearance during the Kamala "defeat" speech feels like an even more-perfect symbol of 2024, somehow. It's hard to believe that a single pro-Trump squirrel, like Peanut, could have had this level of influence.

PS: Hello, Al Corrupt! That'd be killing 2 squirrels, OK, how about birds, with 1 stone. I like it.

Your ode to Mr. Peanut is touching, Mr. Hail. Your video of the crazy Boogie-Man, even for 12 seconds was much too much, in the words of MAGA-man. That guy is insane, which might explain why he was still in "White Dudes for Harris" when he knew she had nothing going for her (as he stated in your excerpt).

This Mr. Krauss, OTOH, doesn't sound insane but just so unaware. I gather... ooops, I was about to look him up and then noticed you'd written "Theoretical Physicist" AFTER I was going to remark... "he's a scientist of some sort". There you go. So, he's aware of all the stupidity within his field but totally unaware of the rest of it going on in the culture, economy, other areas of endeavor, whatever. It's like that Gell-Mann thing, but a very intense example.

I should also add that Alarmist's point on the financial cost-benefit of illegal aliens, not taking into account the more important factor of the Population Replacement goal, is another good one. People have tried to account for the cost, but I think they miss many things - they usually just look at welfare, emergency room usage, massive increases in school budgets, etc. Even financially, there is more to the net drain than that. In comparison, $15,000 is Peanuts. (Ooops, sorry, guys.)

Mr. Smith, no, people have just dropped all this Constitutional requirement "nonsense". I would not be surprised if an illegal alien himself who's been one of those Valedictorians and been a big shot would run next time. (We should deport him first, of course!) Trump didn't bring up the situation with Kameltoe probably because of the 12-year ago deal with his bringing up the problems with Obama. It shouldn't have, because I still don't know, but being called a "Birther" was something he perhaps wisely decided to avoid. We're pretty far gone when you can't invoke the obvious easy-to-read Law of the Land.

PS: I don't know about the "dumbing down", Mr. Hail. Maybe we don't have the George Will and Bill Buckley erudite types who sound great on TV. We have your MTG's and Matt Gaetz's though, who sometimes come off wacky when they go a bit too far on the conspiracy theory stuff (they may very well be right on almost all of it, but they get off-track sometimes). However, rather that the Buckley's who can argue very well but want to stay in the system, MTG calls out the uniParty - on the floor of the Congress.

Perhaps you and Mr. Sailer mean on the level of the average voter. I too, can't stand the infotainment of things like that RNC convention, of which I may have watched 2 minutes at the most from youtube clips.) That's not a great look. I think the MAGA base is much more aware of how bad and quickly we are being screwed, demographically, economically, and in other ways.

There are indeed grifters, errr, influencers(?), on youtube who are only in it for the clicks and LIKES, and $$ that comes with that.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to make a point about the White-Christian Left's self-reflection or lack thereof. I don't care if they don't self-reflect at all about what happened on Tuesday - that's good for us, unless said self-reflection was going to change their stance. I meant that there are those who push all the destruction on the country because they WANT it. That they lost because they went too far with the D.I.E. stuff and Commie tax-unrealized-gains* stuff, so they should... back off on that policy? Oh, maybe for just a while to get the heat off, but they WANT IT. They'll wait out another 4-years until the UniParty is ready for it. The hope is that MAGA is not like the UniParty and will stop things cold and even reverse it.

(I'll get into Trump's wild and crazy talk about substitution tariffs for the income tax in that financial doom post. Hey, I wrote myself in a post that the US Gov't worked that way damn well for 1/2 its lifetime. The numbers, based on current spending, don't work out at all, though - something I'll also written.

"OK, well Musk, Paul, and Co. will make the cuts to make it work", you say. Ahhh, now that's the rub - most of the spending goes into our economy, much directly to individuals, and backing out of Socialism is difficult - a bug or a feature? In other words, there HAS to be much financial pain to get out of the whole toward a very nice and AMERICAN way, with small government paid for by tariffs and such. Is Trump ready to be called the next Herbert Hoover? (Not really for the same reasons, as Hoover, from what I've read, was closer to an FDR-lite.)

That was way off my point, which is that there are people of the ctrl-left that don't want to ask "what policies of ours do the people hate?". What they hate doesn't matter to these Commies.


* That's just pure confiscation. It explains too how the Income Tax was a really bad idea, in just one more way. You get into people's complicated finances rather than just those W-2 and 1099 forms, and then "well, they're just cheating us by never selling the property. Loopholes! We should be able to get that money that they're gonna make later RIGHT NOW. We need it to help the poor."

PS: I appreciate your run-down on the 4 categories of voters and non-voters, Mr. Hail. I know you went over this before, and I didn't comment than. Yeah, that only 67 million of all American adults (what, ~ 300 million of our now over 350 million people here) sounds a lot better, less than 25% of them voted for this waste of a human. "Oh, but some couldn't vote, cause illegal..." haha, doesn't mean too much to most of us, knowing what goes on.

Your taking the White adults, bringing it down to the mid teens in percentage, also makes a good point.

The mass media has had an influence on (even) me on this, as I tend to think of the "half the country" who supports this broad. It is indeed.a lot more sane situation than that.

PS: I got very busy yesterday, so where to start? Firstly, thanks for all the comments under the last 3 posts guys!

Regarding the $15,000 deportations. Just as with the (what could easily have been only) $5 Billion dollar ballpark-figure serious 1,900 mile border barrier, the ctrl-left will bring up the money, as it's a big issue. Then they, well both sides, will talk about another Trillion $ here and there like it's nothing. Balderdash! That's just one tactic of the opposition, BSing people who can't do estimations and even more people who can't, nay, won't! do arithmetic.

Adam Smith kindly did the quick arithmetic - the quickest says simply $15 Billion deports a million, so go from there. Yes, your Ukraine example is a good one, Mr. Hail. Let's see, we could spend the money to help prop up a war 5,000 miles away that does NOTHING to help Americans or we could make a real dent, 1/2 to 1/3, say in sending home those who have broken into the country over the last few decades. (Personally, and unfortunately, I think the Trump admin. will go for the hard-core criminals, but then slack off as opposition builds.)

That said, well, written, I'm sure the $15,000 is highly inflated. Only 10% of that or less could cover the transportation. I imagine they are accounting for the cost to find and apprehend these people. Sure, on a one-off basis, with time spend by a couple of agents over days to do this, it's expensive. They'll be a major economy of scale to where the system can process these people for 25%, maybe even 10%, of that number.

Then, if the program gets serious - get as much as pulled over by the Highway Patrol for 10 mph over, and, no US citizenship, you're headed to jail to wait for the process - people will leave on their own. There'll be people ACTUALLY living in the shadows, but nobody wants to live under worrisome conditions like that. As the song say (though written with a different meaning from what I read) "I'm gonna walk before they make me run."

PS

Some good news for fans and sympathizers of Peanut the pro-Trump squirrel (r.i.p.):

During the Kamala concession speech (coming almost 24 hours after the close of voting), a curious scene unfolded. During a climactic moment, there it was. Seen darting across the stage. In all its miniature grace and dignity --- a squirrel. Pausing, as if for the cameras. A squirrel.

"Yes, you people can kill me. But the spirit, it lives on. The spirit of Peanut The Squirrel will triumph over the Kamalas of the world, by the Grace of the God of men and squirrels alike, brothers, we shall defeat them."

Kamala killed Peanut the Squirrel. The squirrel's mischievous and conspicuous presence at the defeated Kamala's speech is a classic "laughs-best-who-laughs-last moment."

Rumor has it that some among those present at the Kamala Koncession were able to hear, rustling in the wind, a few more words, faintly, and in a chip-chirpy voice, from somewhere out of the ether. Just after Kamala konceded, the initiated were able to hear it: "I am Peanut, and I approve this message."

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Mr. Smith, I suggest combining the two things… deport illegals to Ukraine!

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To paraphrase Conan the Warrior, driving the invaders before us and hearing the lamentations of their women would be worth $15k a head... not to mention, $15k a pop is a lot cheaper than the recurring costs (direct and externalities) of keeping them in the USA.

Trump needs to be liked, so it is unlikely he really has the resolve, but it made good boob bait for us bubbas who cling to our hope of a better America. I don’t need great, better, cleaner, safer, politer, and nicer would be just fine.

My condolences to your Mrs. and you, Mr. Smith.

✝️

PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail!

https://i.ibb.co/Nn4HRk6/Deportation-2024.jpg

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 $200,000,000,000 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑈𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟?

13.3(333333) million. (Give or take a few.) But I don't think the cost of mass deportation is the largest obstacle. (There's always plenty of money for war or to bail out the banks or whatever and they can always conjure some more out of the aether with the magic money printer.) I think political will is the largest hurdle/problem to overcome.

Mass deportation would involve rounding up, interning, transporting and deporting many millions of people. Does Trump have the resolve to follow through with such a plan? (I doubt it.) And if he does, I imagine that we can look forward to more than a few videos of Mexican ladies and their children crying on the TV. How many American's are ready to steel their hearts and prepare themselves for such an onslaught of mass deportation atrocity propaganda? I suppose we may find out.(?)

𝐷𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑣𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒? 𝐼𝑓 𝑠𝑜, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠?

Yes. Unfortunately, he did. At least two, maybe three. Mrs. Smith and I both suspect that the covid jab led to the (turbo) cancer. Timing is right, and it's probably not a coincidence. We never mentioned it to him though. We figured that there was no point in doing so. We have our suspicions, but we will never (truly) know for sure.

We encouraged him at the time not to take it, but his wife is a hardcore vaxxer. He took the shot to keep peace in the house. I know he had a bad reaction to at least one of the shots, and after the last jab he was done. He didn't take any after that, but (we suspect) the damage was already done.

Thanks for the in depth (s)election coverage. I didn't know who "won" until I was reading through the comments under the previous post yesterday evening. I'm glad Kamala the horrible didn't win if for no other reason than the precedent that could be (would be) (may be) set by having an anchorbaby as president (s)elect. She is not a natural born citizen, and therefore not eligible to the office, not that anyone really seems to care about such things these days. I haven't heard a peep out of anyone concerning her anchorbaby status or her ineligibility because her parents were not citizens at the time of her birth. I suppose there might be a few people who voted for Trump or someone else for that reason alone, but I kind of doubt it.

Anyway... I'm going to go read the rest of the comments and I'll catch you guys later.

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

PS

-- Whither diversity initiatives? --

Theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, a New York Jew by origin (b.1954), has called Trump "a nut, a liar, and a crook." But now he says he looks forward to a revival of science under Trump 2025-29.

After the Trump-2024 election was announced even by NBC and CNN and others, Dr Krauss said it was "sad news for the world." Then, a few hours later, the morning after the election, Krauss reconsiders a little, writing:

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Looking on the bright side... Elon Musk and co. can replace heads of U.S. science agencies, who have wasted enormous sums and manpower on divisive, dysfunctional, and misplaced diversity initiatives, to return nation’s focus to supporting science and innovation.
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(similar in spirit to the Sailer correspondent top-twelve list.)

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-- "White Dudes For Harris" backer on why Kamala lost --

A popular Youtube streamer named @Boogie2988, who was a supporter of the White Dudes For Harris group, in election-night frustration gave this appraisal of why Kamala came up short:

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(quote from Boogie2988)

Kamala had no personality. She had no policies. The only thing she could run on was: "I'm not Trump." That's it! That was the entire goddamn campaign!

I watched all of these different content-creators, The Daily Show -- I watched all this political s**t every day. The only thing they did was s***-talk Trump. Not a single goddamn time did I see John Oliver, or The Daily Show, or any of these f****ng programs tell me ONE GOOD THING about Kamala.

How the f*** do you win the presidency, without ONE good goddamn thing about you? You can't! It's as simple as that.

Next time, Democrats, put up an actual candidate!

It should have been Bernie...

(end quote from Boogie2988)

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The above was the man's measured commentary, sometime in the 1am hour EST of election-night, I think. It was delivered on his group live-stream on Youtube, maybe a half hour after the early returns were enough to convince him and his fellow White Dudes For Harris supporters that Trump would win with almost-total certainty.

Around late in the 12am hour or early in the 1am hour, the same man (Boogie2988) was seen doing this on his Youtube live-stream:

https://x.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1854033822167236784
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTCcssocy2Q

PLEASE WATCH THE ABOVE CLIP, a twelve-second clip showing the moment that he, and his White Dudes For Harris election-trackers, realized "the game was up" and that Trump was going to win.

PS

-- on Elite Left's lack of self-reflection --

re: Arclight's comments.

It's a shame, to me, that the whole Trump-MAGA movement is so heavy with con-men and self-promoters. (I see Vivek this way and cannot 'unsee' it; a quintessential case of a sleek self-promoter conning and sweet-talking his way to success, exploiting the Based Brown Guy market-demand). So full of Internet trolls, and people who tend to rail against "elites" without having any specific people or even ideas or policies in mind when they do so.

In other words, the Sailer criticism that Trump "dumbed down the Republican Party" is valid and correct, and even many of even the histrionic-type criticism's of the Left against Trump and co. are correct or partly correct. There is a human capital problem with these people which is a real problem, and of course was the problem in winter 2016-17 when "staffing" questions were raised, and throughout the four years of Trump First Term.

I think this is a key to understanding the White-Christian-origin Left's lack of self-reflection. They get locked into seeing the Trump movement as purely and totally a product of the con-men types that have attached themselves to it, and that agitates their minds and clouds their thinking too much to reflect on why MAGA had such an appeal.

It's been a great frustration ever since 2016, that the anti-Trump elite refuses to evaluate why Trump won. As Hillary said: "I can't believe I'm not ahead by fifty points!"

Another reason for lack of self-reflection is that doing so tends to be a White-Western thing, and important elements of the Left coalition are not of that ethnocultural-intellectual tradition at all, but are more like vendetta-pursuing Middle-Easterners for whom ends always justify means, and who are addicted to undermining host-societies, or, more charitably put, advancing their own intersts at the host-society's expense.

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Mr. Smith, on the saw new of your brother-in-law's "turbo cancer": Did he take the Covid vaccine? If so, how many injections?

PS

"The R and D coalition voters cane be subdivided into"

CORRECTION: should be (1a.) and (1b.) and (2a.) and (2b.), respectively.

(1a.) (Always-D voters) remained, because of the inertia of the political-party system. (1b.) (Swing voters voting D) was at minimal levels.

(2a.) (Always-R voters) remained as usual, and (2b.) was present in some force.

PS

"This election mattered in that, were this vapid, Communist-inspired, D.I.E. broad to have taken the Presidency, I'd have had real disgust for the people of those who supported and voted for her"

You quote some percentages but it's worth remembering there are always four classes of adult citizen w.r.t. these elections:

(1.) D-coalition candidate voters (who cast votes)


(2.) R-coalition candidate voters (who cast votes)

(3.) Oddball third-party voters (generally, civic-ritual participators knowing full well they have no influence; a particular kind of "protest voters")

(4.) Nonvoters.

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The R and D coalition voters cane be subdivided into:

-- (1a.) and (2a.): People who unreflectively vote for the party they've always voted for, all the time (1a., being always-D voters); they do it out of personal-identity, family-tradition, local identity, social-peer pressure, and civic ritual; much in the way people support Local Sports Team without thinking too much about it.

-- (1b.) and (2b.): "Swing voters" who shift between categories (1.), (2.), and (4.).

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The thing is, whatever Kamala's final "popular vote" total will be among Whites of European-Christian origin (40m? 45m max?), it's a thin coalition of (1a.) voters and really very few others. She had no enthusiastic supporters, that I can see.

A lot of the outer parts of "potential D voters" in 2024 fall into either (4.) (Nonvoters), or (2b.) (R-voting "swing voters").

In other words, "voted for her" and "supported her" are not the same thing, because the (1a.) category is dominated by always-D voters who are always-D for any number of personal reasons (someone in his seventies in 2024 may still think of the D party as that which it was, or felt like, in the 1960s-1980s, say). In a Trump election case, it's also that a lot were voting against Trump. I don't know that ANY-one voted affirmatively "for Kamala," which is being touted as a reason she lost.

Quoting percentages can be deceiving, especially because of the high number of Nonvoters.

White adult citizens in 2024: 150m?
- R voters: 58m?
- D voters: 41m? (heavy on the civic-ritual always-D voters)
- Third-party voters: 1m?
- Nonvotes: 50m?

(These are 'ballpark' numbers in all cases, for one thing because final vote-totals are weeks away due to slowness of counting in many states.)

The 41m of these Whites (ca. 27% of all White adult citizens) are more concentrated in certain areas and social milieus, and outside those areas and milieus it'll often be down closer to a 1-in-6 range who cast a vote for her.

PS

Re: deportations

Some media, possible CNN, has been circulating the figure that deporting one immigrant in 2025 may cost $15,000 (inflation-adjusted), when all is said and done. This, they say, obviously proves that deportations of millions is something financially impossible and so should not be attempted.

I say: How many could be sent back for the $200,000,000,000 in direct aid to Ukraine so far?

PS: Thanks, Achmed,

We knew this was coming, and we weren't surprised. Over the weekend the hospice workers estimated that he had just a few days left. Mrs. Smith had a flight booked for next week to go see him, but it looks like there is no point in taking that trip now.

3 months on firewood seems a bit short if you're going to burn it in your fireplace. It's probably fine for campfire wood. There's lots of factors in how long it takes firewood to season. (Type of wood, how wet it is, how it's stored, relative humidity while it is seasoning, you get the idea.) Some hardwoods take almost a year to properly season for the fireplace. You could always test some in an outside fire to see how it burns before you take it inside.

Thanks again, Achmed.

And Happy Thursday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: "My go to for all the latest breaking news." Haha, how's that been working out for you?

I am sorry to hear about your brother-in-law, Adam. I'm looking forward to some fires myself, both outdoors and in the fireplace. Got plenty of wood lately - what does it need, 3 months, maybe, to dry out?

PS: Good morning, Gentlemen,

𝑇𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 0.5 𝑘𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡...

Wowsers! That's like a pound of medicine.

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𝐴𝑛𝑑... ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝐴𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ! 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙... 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒?

https://i.ibb.co/3vmf9Rz/Giant-Asteroid.jpg

Well, I was going to write about this under the last post, but it seems like it might as well go here...

I meant to write in a bit, and I've enjoyed reading all the comments (35 under the last post!) but honestly, I paid no attention to the selection. I didn't even know the outcome until I checked in with PeakStupidity yesterday around 5pm. (My go to for all the latest breaking news.)

Truth is, Tuesday morning we learned that Mrs. Smith's brother died from the bladder cancer that he was diagnosed with about 6 months ago. Once the cancer took hold and went systemic he went downhill really fast.

So instead of paying any attention to the selection, Mrs. Smith and I bought a bottle of bourbon to celebrate his life, and mourn his passing. (Which was rather ambitious of us as we have not had a drop of adult beverage in more than a month. Rolling back the odometer so to say.) A couple drinks in I decided that a nice huge fire was in order. I mean, what good is a celebration of life without a nice huge fire?

Long story short, we drank too much bourbon and stayed up way too late. (We didn't go to bed until sometime after 5am.) By the end of the night we were singing along with some songs on the youtube. We were also a bit wobbly.

I'm pretty sure the fire burned well into yesterday. There might even be hot coals out there right now if I stir the ashes around.(?) And yesterday, well, I didn't really do anything. Just recovered from the night before. And I went to bed somewhat early.

I probably have some memes around here that would be apropos under the last post, but we are headed out to Gainesville here shortly, so they'll have to wait for now.

Anyway... Good to see you posting again, Achmed.
And it's nice to see everyone's comments.

Cheers to another beautiful Thursday. 🙂 ☮️

PS: What color is the pill you just took, Alarmist? Did you ask your doctor if it was right for you? ;-}

Yeah, see, that the stuff that I see too, but can we beat back the Globalism as Americans with some powerful like-minded people on our side? (I forgot to mention Tucker in this post.)

Yeah, "Ten Years Gone" Thanks. We should probably also listen to "When the Levy Breaks" Are people gonna weep and moan? I think so...

Your scenario is not out of the question at all.

PS

“... and what should never be. Isn't that a Led Zeppelin song? Well, almost - my chronic lyricosis is flaring up again.”

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16 June 2025 will mark the tenth anniversary of Mr. Trump’s famous ride down the escalator, so maybe “Ten Years Gone” would be more fitting, certainly in the broader context of your post.

The future:

Ukraine falls in 2025.

Its default on its debt triggers guarantees given by the UK and several European countries, causing financial crisis in all of them.

This triggers financial crash in US (Chinese are hurt too), while Mr. Putin enjoys his popcorn.

Bad Orange Man has health crisis and/or dies.

Vance and his oligarch surveillance-industry buddies are thrust into control.

UST establishes digital currency, requires all Americans to maintain accounts and transact only in that currency with approved providers of such accounts. (The Fed could easily be eliminated in this scenario, hence I do not call it a CBDC... the bankers are a problem, not a solution).

No US election in 2028 due to widespread civil unrest.

US breaks up by 2030.

Mr. Putin dies blisfully in his sleep in 2039 as the best leader Russia had since Catherine the Great. Mr. Xi follows him a few years later.