PS Mr .Hail and Mr. Moderator: I agree with you both 100%! Pointless to argue with my wife though.

My immigration policy would be “hockey players and their WAGS”. That’s all. Well, maybe I’d let their kids come- can’t be breaking up families!

Even if that got shot down, would it be so bad for the NHL to have a Euro- division, with teams In Stockholm (maybe 2!) Göteborg, Malmö, Helsinkii, Moscow, Prague, Munich, Berlin, etc?

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To Mr. Moderator on your forthcoming post on the eternal theme of "We welcome immigration, as long as it's done LEGALLY":

I am sure you agree with me that there is no way out without confronting and slaying the dragon I identified in the previous comment, which has been with us at least 25 years in full force and longer in less-hegemonic force, the force I call Immigrant Supremacism doctrine (strangely grated onto U.S. civic-nationalist identity; such that the phrase "American Dream" has long been transmogrified into "White-Western high-trust institutions enriching ambitious foreigners who show up and skate along on the system," though of course never never never phrased in that kind of honest a way).

There is no policy tweaking ("one neat trick") that will thread a needle and end Third Worldization.

See also this, on the fate of a certain U.S. House seat in Orange County, California (long the strongest White-Republican stronghold in the state), now occupied by Mrs Young Kim, a Korean immigrant --- I point specifically to the comments on her attitude towards immigration per se, in her own words here quoted:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/democrat-politicians-assume-democrat/comment/77683238

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...With conditions untenable for White Republicans in 2018, key players behind the scenes talked Ed Royce into retiring. A familiar process, as had plodded through much of the state over the previous thirty years or so, finally came for Orange County. The seat was likely to flip "D" in that wave election, and did. A Nonwhite candidate was needed if there was to be any hope.

Into the seat, after a two-year gap after the 2018 loss, comes someone without any meaningful roots in the USA before the 1980s.

Young-oak Kim, b.1962; emig. from South Korea, 1975; one or two years in Guam; and at least three or four years in Hawaii; and takes a degree at University of Southern California in 1985. she marries fellow-Korean in 1986. Between about the mid-1990s and the late 2010s, Young Kim had worked as "community liaison director of Asian affairs" for Ed Royce.

The whole thing feels symbolic of ethnopolitical 'arc' in California, ca. 1970s to present -- with the entire USA not far behind.

People in Big-Blue areas have long gotten cynically "used to" this process, seeing it as (somehow) natural. (Needless to say, nothing like it is evident in South Korea even now in its rich-developed state.) Why should it be natural? Much of the Trump base says: "No"; but other parts of the Trump base say: "Yes!"

Young Kim: "We are all FOR legal immigration. Someone like me, who immigrated LEGALLY, is what we should be advocating... We [Republicans] should NOT block legal immigrants or be perceived as an anti-immigration party." -- Young Kim, January 2022, when asked about the Biden "border" illegal-immigration problem, in a longform KQED public-radio interview. She added that she was proud to have introduced legislation to help "Dreamers."

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See also this, on the demographic tilt of Young Kim's district:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/democrat-politicians-assume-democrat/comment/77689418

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"our computer industry could not exist without Indians."

Professor Ricardo Duchesne of Canada has made a career for himself, over the past 20+ years, in defending "the uniqueness of Western civilization" (the title of his magnum opus from the early 2010s). I suppose he's been able to ddo so because of his personal origins in Puerto Rico.

I've been looking into Dr Duchesne's early work. He goes in the explicitly pro-Western direction after encountering arguments exactly like "the computer industry could not exist without Indians" (though larger-scale, less trivial, less tied to the present-day) in the 1990s and early 2000s. The argument was: Western successes are either historical accidents, unlevel-playing-field cases, or derived from the genius and unsung contributions of non-Westerners or the result of outright pillage by Western villains over x centuries, victimizing non-Westerners (unexplained is why the continent-striding pillagers known as the Mongols didn't invent the computer industry, but it's probably another Western conspiracy against all that is right and good).

The kind of argument that "the computer industry could not exist without Indians" is a classic of this Western-denigration school of thought and discourse that begins on the fringes in the 1980s, maybe, and that is mainstream by the early 2000s at latest. Mainstream, at least, among the agenda-setting, cosmopolitan, political-'Blue' elements. You'll also find it carrying some cachet throughout the 1990s already, but as a self-consciously oppositional force.

Arguments like this, while still possible to hear in the 1970s and 1980s, would've more often than not been laughed out the door before the 1990s in a respectable mainstream. By some time in the 2000s, maybe, these doctrines became accepted widely enough as to be a consensus which is hardly seen questioned (until the first orange-haired presidential candidate blundered on stage and started blaspheming). An Immigrant Supremacism doctrine had entered into things.

Right-thinking people, Big-Blue area people, have long KNOWN that they're supposed to think, supposed to say, supposed to signal that they think: i.e., there is no positive uniqueness to Western civilization at all; Western achievements (such as inventing and developing computing) are weird aberrations caused by one coincidence or another -- and sometimes, cases of villainous Whites stealing the genius or labor of others. But generally, it's historical accident when we do it; and t's a case of inherent genius when they do it (Indians supposedly being effective in the computer industry).

How are we to get out of the immigration(ist) pyramid scheme with such a strange albatross of an ideology as this?

PS: "My lovely wife told me the other night that our computer industry could not exist without Indians."

Well, fancy you, Mr. G, with a wife 40 years younger... errr, I mean, if she doesn't recall a time when Americans did all of this work without needing the Indians. Or, I suppose, she's not a geek of any sort and wasn't ever involved in the software industry.

I can remember even as late as 2000 that companies - the one in question is very well known right now - had Americans, and said Americans could get another job some other place in the country any time with no sweat.

Anyway, I talk to people all the time who just seem to not know that there was a previous era, even 20-30 years into the immivasion, when American industry and businesses of all sorts did pretty darn well with White Americans working there almost solely.

It's like the rant I just saw from AOC about the Congressional bathroom proposals, you know, men go into the men's rooms and women... pretty simple. She asked angrily who would be the ones to check people's private parts, or else how was this to be implemented? Uhhhh, remember 2010? Like that.

PS: Mr. Smith, on Valentines Day years ago, this old truck's enslaved cylinder ALMOST left me dead in the water at a stop light. Somehow I did a George Thorogood and became a gear jammer, enough to drive home in, (musta been) 2nd. Then we walked to the restaurant for the Valentines dinner, seeing as I was pretty down on vehicles at that point - only the old truck.

However, I can't say that I couldn't have seen it coming. It got harder and harder to get into the 1st 2 gears, as I recall.

It is hard to get good parts, yes. This enslaved cylinder has been in there a pretty long while though, and I just need to top off by an oz or two. (Didn't get to it... manana, amigos.)

Now, if the master cylinder goes away, I guess I'll be singing something about Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care ...

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Mr..Moderator, Like most of us here I view legal immigration as a huge problem.
I ‘d guess , though , that many Americans do not see it that way. My lovely wife told me the other night that our computer industry could not exist without Indians.

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Addition, Mr. Smith, bacon grease is excellent for popping popcorn; although you have to make sure the grease.doesn’t get too hot or the popcorn gets tough. Always use white popcorn. I also use it to rub on chicken when I put it on the rotisserie . Makes the chicken Scan very, very crispy and good.

I keep a coffee can full of bacon grease in the fridge; comes in very handy.

PS: enslaved cylinder 🙂

I had to change out my enslaved cylinder a couple years back. It was the third time I had to change it. I tried to find a higher quality one that might last longer, but apparently there is no such thing. I should probably keep an extra around for the next time it happens as it will usually leave the car dead in the water.

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Greetings, Mr. Alarmist!

(Sorry about the slow reply. I had a busy weekend binge watching custom car repair shows on netflix with the lovely Mrs. Smith.)

Indeed. Bacon grease, like bacon, is truly a gift from God. (If he made anything tastier, he kept it for himself.) And apparently, bacon grease is not as unhealthy as some people would have us believe. Bacon grease has slightly less cholesterol than butter and only 2 more milligrams of saturated fat. It has the same number of calories as the canola oil (which people really shouldn't eat because it is more properly suited as fuel in an oil motor like the OM616 or OM617), but more saturated fat and sodium. Bacon fat is high in oleic acid, which is thought to reduce inflammation and cholesterol levels and choline, a nutrient that's important for brain health, memory, and muscle control and helps ward off dementia/Alzheimer's.

Most importantly, it tastes great. It is essential for collard greens. Butter and/or olive oil just don't work in this case, as important as they are.

But yeah. That's about all I have to say about bacon grease.

I haven't read this post yet, and I'm going to do that soon, but it is a beautiful day here and I've a few things to do outside before it gets dark.

So, I'll catch you gentlemen later. I hope you all are enjoying your afternoon, evening, morning or whatever time it might be.

Cheers! ☮️

PS: I get Howie Carr's definition of not guilty, Mr. Ganderson, but only because you explained all this to me a few years back. (Of course, I'd get it if I listened to (watched?) him - sounds like he's a great guy.)

I've got more to write, but then I spent lots of time hanging out today - just the most BEAUTIFUL weather imaginable!

We're gonna shoot as many .22LR rounds as we feel like, until darkness stops us. At some point, I need to top up the clutch fluid in the truck with just a little DOT 3. I'm not positive, but it might be losing a little bit of fluid from the enslaved cylinder.

(Yes, I did peruse Steve Sailer's latest post. Why do you ask?)

OK, well, the Marlins ain't gonna shoot by themselves... I guess if you're Nancy Pelosi, you might think otherwise.

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-- Bondi v Zimmerman, echoing into the 2020s --

Mr. Ganderson, I will raise your "Pam Bondi is not guilty" with a "George Zimmerman is not guilty."

It was an interesting decision in July 2013, that a jury would find George Zimmerman "not guilty." (The trial lasted from June 24 to the dramatic July 13 "not guilty" verdict, temporarily giving hope that the system was not totally gone and justice still possible.)

Q. By what point over the following years would the same trial, involving the same types of jurors and everyone, have definitely turned out a "George Zimmerman is guilty" verdict?

A. IMO, maybe already by mid-2015, "trial plus two years." But certainly "likely" by mid-2017?

The George Zimmerman trial is another data-point on how the 2010s tilted so strongly against reasonableness and normality. The fact that the trial happened at all -- due to the maneuverings of Pam Bondi, some say -- was a sign not all was "right" in 2012-13.

From wiki article "The Trial of George Zimmerman" on the jury selection process in mid-June 2013:

"In Florida, juries consist of six people; 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, where the death penalty is applicable... All six of the jurors were female, while two of the alternate jurors were male and two female. Five of the jurors were white; one was of mixed black and Mestizo ancestry. All of the alternates were white, and of those, one of the male alternates was said to have been white Hispanic."

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And as regards Pam Bondi, she is, in the formulation of the great Howie Carr; NOT GUILTY.

I should explain. Howie is a local New England radio host; he’s not one of us but probably as close as a major media figure gets.

Whenever there’s a prominent court case involving a female defendant, he always asked the question “is she guilty? Or not guilty? “. I leave it y’all to figure out what that means.

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“…I don’t know who put it there…”

RIP Phil. You added to the sum of human happiness. Bobby is still going strong at 77; I always had the idea that he had fewer bad habits than the rest of the gang.

As for Gaetz, I like the fact that his enemies are my enemies, but, and this is probably not fair of me , there seems to be a lot of behavior that while not illegal, seems kind of skeevy. I kind of feel the same way about Pete Hegseth, even though he’s o fellow Gopher Stater from the town where we had our cabin when I was a kid.

PS: "I'm no expert on who has what authority in the U.S. government, but if somehow Trump was able to declare an end to "birthright citizenship" for illegals and/or noncitizen parents of children, would it be Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of enforcing it? What would she do? The woman who wanted to crucify George Zimmerman? Enough said."

No I don't think Miss Bondi would do a good job of avoiding her emotional concerns about "those poor children" and "he was a valedictorian!" and so forth, not even thinking of her virtue signaling wrong-headed work against Mr. Zimmerman. Of course, we'd never be able to pull it retroactively - not really retroactive, as in unConsitutional, because, there never was a law to overturn retro. anyway, just various rulings. If you were to, putting citizenship of those whose parents came in illegally years ago, you'd REALLY put the scare in anyone thinking they are going to drop a bug-out baby. It'd put a complete end to it. However, if you can go from here, and future bug-out babies would get no SSN, passport, whatever, that'd be an important step. You'd need to somehow make sure the ctrl-left wouldn't be able to reverse it all 4 years from Jan.

As I will write in the post I quit in the middle of yesterday, the LEGAL immigration level is no minor part of our problem. All aspects must be addressed, and Steven Miller is very aware of all these aspects, or at least most. (Maybe he doesn't know about a few of the many visa scams, I dunno.)

Ann Coulter wrote a good post proving (to herself, but not me as much, just because I'm not so legal minded) that the court decisions supposedly allowing Birthright Citizenship are wrong.

PS: "Separated at birth: Matt Gaetz and John Mayer…" Yeah, there's a good resemblance. HBD only goes so far I guess, when I think of the political differences. Then again, I'm just assuming, as 95% of entertainers seem to lean one way. Just because he played with the Dead... I don't know about know, but the full original GD were pretty much apolitical, as long as you didn't ban the good drugs.

From an interview on KFOG (San Fran.): "What influence does drugs have on the Grateful Dead's music?"

"What?"

"What influence does drugs have on the Grateful Dead's music?"

"What?? His lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out."

I heard this myself.

Also, Mr. Ganderson, R.I.P., Phil Lesh. It's just a box of rain, after all.

PS: "By "giving women their own house," I take him to mean a body like a separate branch of Congress. This excerpt is from a hypothetical, Constitution-restructuring proposal.

It's clear that women functioning within the same systems as males, in systems created and once-normed to male attitudes and abilities, and evolved that way over centuries and longer, has created a lot of bad outcomes."

Yeah, I don't think I'd want that either. Better for "their house" to be their actual houses where they do the women stuff that keeps them a lot happier. You've got your exceptions, like MTG, but it's really not been worth it to let the country get feminized just for a few exceptions.

PS: From Mr. Hail:

"Gaetz has apparently stated that he will not take up his seat in the incoming Congress." I saw a 2 minute video from him after I wrote this. That is indeed confusing, not unless he somehow well knows he will be appointed to Senate or have some other position guaranteed.

"People are now speculating heavily on what Gaetz will do next, himself. The whole thing is very strange: He ran for a seat he has no intention of taking, or has no interest in holding? It doesn't make sense, in a way."

I don't know if that was his intention. Something may have changed for him since Nov. 5th, including, of course, that Trump picked him for A/G. I doubt he was in on this, and I really doubt it was all some kind of feint. I figure, they both, Trump and Gaetz, realized from what various Senator's positions are that they didn't have the votes. Possibly running for the seat was nearly automatic for him, the 8th time. He said on the video "Eight is enough", but THIS next one would have been his 8th.

"If that was his aim, in the event of a Trump victory, why would he resign his House seat before he had the deal in hand?". Well, unless it was to help get someone else good into that seat, with the hopes he'd be established to be then elected in a special election for the '25 session were Gaetz in place at the DOJ, I don't know either.

Are they pretty clever, or is this playing it by ear?

"Another conspiracy theory on X, popping up before the Pam Bondi nomination, was that some placeholder, call him Bozo The Clown, would be appointed and confirmed U.S. attorney general, and that Matt Gaetz would be appointed assistant. Attorney General Bozo the Clown would then resign, giving the job to Gaetz."

See, now that one, to me, is a very generic tactic that could work in any of the Departments of the Gov't. Why hasn't this been done more already? I would think the ctrl-left probably has. I suppose the new "acting director" must still be confirmed by the Senate by some deadline, but I think this is more a great idea than a conspiracy theory. The guy doesn't need to be Bozo. In fact his name could be Rubio. You've gotten him out of that Senate seat, replacing a usual UniParty pro-invasion (in reality, no matter what he spouts) guy with someone much better. The question is how to get him to pick some undersecretary (Assistant to the Regional Secretary) that ARE on our side. Can Trump appoint, or at least strongly suggest some good underlings at State? If he could, then, yes, you just have a disagreement with Rubio, who wants to spend more time with his family... or something.

Then, the good guy becomes Acting Director for as long as he can hold out. The Senate might get impatient at Trump's new prospective appointments, one after another, but so what? In the meantime ...

The decoy thing, yeah, it sounds too far-fetched, IMO.

PS. Separated at birth: Matt Gaetz and John Mayer…

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From the entry: "Ann Coulter's attitude about hiring women for political positions. I don't see in them a thing called integrity. I don't see it in many men either, but you're gonna need a man to have it."

I quote Curt Doolittle, a political philosopher who has led a think-tank called the Natural Law Institute for much of the past decade:

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"...(A)s Machiavelli, the Romans, and the Spartans warned us, inclusion of women in politics, like universal enfranchisement, simply poisons the well of responsibility upon which all civilizations depend for their persistence.

As such the only solution to the inclusion of women -- given the pervasively demonstrated female instinct for irresponsibility for her own thoughts, emotions, expressions, her equation of dislike with falsehood, and her approval with truth, her prioritization of emotions over outcomes, her obsessive fantasizing, magical thinking, hyper attention seeking, hyper-consumption seeking, hyper-gamy seeking, by extraction from others (namely men) rather than her own making or voluntary exchanges, and to obtain her impulsivity by undermining, manipulation, seductions, false promises, and social construction -- requires the equal suppression of all those behaviors such as to cause her behavior in social, economic, and political matters to be as reciprocal, meritocratic, and free of fraud as that we demand of men in exchange for their political participation.

To do so requires restoration of the common law to regulate women's behavior as equally as we have regulated men's. And to include women into the franchise by giving them their own house, given their uncontrollable predilection for advocating and facilitating the responsibility in women as well as men, that the men of the west have spent five millennia gradually expanding, such that the privileges women have are those that men have produced by such disciplined means over those millennia." (end quote from Curt Doolittle.)

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By "giving women their own house," I take him to mean a body like a separate branch of Congress. This excerpt is from a hypothetical, Constitution-restructuring proposal.

It's clear that women functioning within the same systems as males, in systems created and once-normed to male attitudes and abilities, and evolved that way over centuries and longer, has created a lot of bad outcomes.

It's a rare woman who is willing to say so (Ann Coulter and Heather MacDonald are two who do say so) --- and in our feminist-normed society now it's even rarer for a man to say it. The trajectory of Pam Bondi's career as attorney general, I'm afraid to say, is sadly predictable.

I'm no expert on who has what authority in the U.S. government, but if somehow Trump was able to declare an end to "birthright citizenship" for illegals and/or noncitizen parents of children, would it be Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of enforcing it? What would she do? The woman who wanted to crucify George Zimmerman? Enough said.

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Gaetz has apparently stated that he will not take up his seat in the incoming Congress.

People are now speculating heavily on what Gaetz will do next, himself. The whole thing is very strange: He ran for a seat he has no intention of taking, or has no interest in holding? It doesn't make sense, in a way.

Some are saying he most likely wants a key role on Fox News, or the like. Others say he wants the open U.S. Senate seat for Florida to be vacated starting January 20th by Marco Rubio, as you suggest. If that was his aim, in the event of a Trump victory, why would he resign his House seat before he had the deal in hand?

Another conspiracy theory on X, popping up before the Pam Bondi nomination, was that some placeholder, call him Bozo The Clown, would be appointed and confirmed U.S. attorney general, and that Matt Gaetz would be appointed assistant. Attorney General Bozo the Clown would then resign, giving the job to Gaetz.

This kind of theory verges into the absurd, such as theories about how Trump can serve a third term starting January 20, 2029, by having to decoys elected president and vice president, the Republican-majority House appointing Trump Speaker of the House (the position does not require one to be a House member, or, apparently, even a U.S. citizen or even a human being, by letter of the law.)

If the Trump-2029 frontmen are elected, sworn in January 20, 2029, at 12:00 noon, the one could resign at 12:01pm and the other at 12:02pm, making Trump president again at 12:03pm, he having been elected "Speaker of the House" and third in line to succession, a few weeks earlier. There are other variants of this theory too, but it all fades into increasingly implausible fantasy.

PS: I think Gaetz is the kind of guy that WOULD chase these enemies to the ends of the earth, or, the country, at least. That's what the Regime is worried about. The Deep State may have thought it had him with the scandal, so he'd do their bidding. He won't. That story that I only caught a little bit about from his interview with Tucker Carlson, if true, had a lot of intrigue.

I asked on your site, how facetious you were being about Dave Ramsey. Is he a solid guy or a huckster? (Heard the name but haven't seen any videos or writing from him.)

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Gaetz is a fine example of the aphorism, “When you’re taking a lot of flack, you’re probably over the target.” It’s a shame he didn’t give it a go, because when “rightists” win, they try to let bygones be bygones, but when “leftists” win, they chase their enemies to the ends of the Earth, even if they too are leftist, to wit Stalin & Trotskt and Castro sending Comrade Che to Peru to meet his demise. They will haunt Gaetz until the bitter end.

Sorry, Mr. Mod, that your comment didn’t make it. Are you for or against ?

Mr. Smith, definitely with bacon grease. I taught Mrs. Alarmist (European and trained at the Le Cordon Bleu) the virtues of bacon fat, but it wasn’t much of a stretch, as it was already in her repertoire. I tell her that bacon renderings are fat from God, therefore good. I had a doctor shriek in horror when she heard that expression. Speaking of pumpkin pie, we just turned a couple Hokkaido pumpkins into pies for our Thanksgiving guests.

Thanks, Mr. Hail, for the publicité.

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