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Re: Noblesse Oblige

Noblesse oblige was a mark of the old US elite. Steve Sailer often remarks on this. The new elite has MUCH less of that.

Trump isn't even in the running, because he doesn't think about others except insofar as they can serve him (his ego).

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"Recriminations Column: Netanyahu Grabbed Trump By The P*ssy"
by Ann Coulter | 36 hours after the 2026 election

https://anncoulter.com/2026/11/05/recriminations-column-netanyahu-grabbed-trump-by-the-pssy/

PS: On the question of what makes a good statesman...

Noblesse oblige vs. Lèse-majesté

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PS: Hello, again...

1) 𝐸𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟
2) 𝐹𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔/𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
3) 𝑃𝑢𝑡 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡
4) 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙

1, 3, & 4 are caused by the same underlying problem.
#2 is related to and largely caused by the same problem.


𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 "𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦" 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦...
https://i.ibb.co/yn9P8fFQ/Race-Demographics-of-Voting-is-Destiny.jpg

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PS

The 2026 election and its discussion has got me wondering:

-- What is a good statesman? --

First here are some thoughts on what a "bad" statesman would be:

A man finds himself in a leadership position. He proceeds to try to ram things through on his own whims (and/or to enrich close associated and family members); taunt the other side; make everything a joke; take all credit and no responsibility. Meanwhile, his overall program is unclear. And he regularly does wild experiments or adventures because he gets bored or thinks he can get away with it.

Such a person is not a (good) leader, not a statesman at all. He is more like an overgrown teenager playing a videogame. Though such a person may have some apparent successes in the short-run, he is not actually doing statesmanship. (Not everyone holding political office is a statesman.) The same tends to go for building a cult of personality around yourself as a common political leader. That is not what real leadership is. You're not great by calling yourself great. (To borrow the old advice given to writers, "Show, don't tell.")

Real leadership is so difficult because it involves an elaborate, long, dreary, tough process of the construction of stable system that outlasts oneself to an important degree. It's a political equivalent to that old standby "Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics." No one really wants to study logistics because it seems boring and is certainly unsexy. But it's what wins. (The men of the West have traditionally been the best in the world at building systems, whereas even high-IQ peoples elsewhere are too narrowly self-interested and have a hard time trusting each other or cooperating.)

Now for what is a good (or "real") leader. A man finds himself in an authority position but is prudent, picks his battles, keeps people on his side, does coalition-building while staying principled and true to longer vision.

A real leader treats his charge as "duty" in the highest sense, duty to help the political entity he is entrusted to lead. He takes ip, and does not discard until retirement from office, a sacred trust similar to an organization's treasurer regards organizational finances. (A good/ethical treasurer, when wearing the "treasurer cap," no longer thinks of himself as a man named so-and-so, born in such-and-such place, married to so-and-so, but rather as a different spiritual entity when dealing with organization finances. Touching on matters of organizational financing, he is now a parallel person, one who has a fanatical devotion to serving the organization's interests. The new entity embodies the same physical body as the man, but is separate.)

A good (real) leader doesn't arbitrarily betray his own supporters casually. A good leader knows the importance of nuts-and-bolts matters (logistics) over flashy, high-profile fights. Trump doesn't seem to understand any of this on statesmanship. But that's because he's not a statesman. He is an entertainer.

Ron DeSantis down in Florida, however, did create the kind of system I'm getting at. DeSantis' system, built up over 8 years, is so impressive and well-rooted that it withstood the 2026 wave.

(I have hardly ever even visited Florida, but took a strong interest in its politics starting in 2020 due to DeSantis, who proved himself, to his eternal credit, a true leader during Panic Pandemic. To me, DeSantis-2024 would've been a better deal than the Trump Clown Show returning for another few seasons of the Reality TV Presidency Show.)

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BTW, a coda on Florida -----

The taint of general Republican politics spares no one:

The Florida governor inheriting DeSantis' system is Byron Donalds, a Black Fox-News talker (with a white wife and three half-white children) who is without real qualification. A pleasant-sounding, soundbite-giving Black version of Vivek Ramaswamy, in the sense of a guy who found an avenue to "talk" himself far above his true ability by filling the Based Brown Guy role, by giving Fox News all the soundbites they want. (A utility player, but one who'd be unremarkable in our system if white.)

The USA has serious problems that we shouldn't assume a better version of politics would easily solve (as shown by DeSantis' skillfully created system being inherited by B+ student Byron Donalds). That was the entire argument, all along, for Trump as "wrecking ball." I once believed the logic and went with it, but now disagree with it. (A wrecking ball can make things worse, in some cases.)

PS

I agree that the Trump-I and Trump-II administrations have done certain good things (in addition to the bad things). "It's not that bad on all fronts; it could be worse": These were not the bargain we made with Trump in the 2010s.

He's gone way overboard in stupid directions and has had a mixed record on the important things. (The ultimate test is if the absolute-total U.S. resident-population declines under his watch or not; not slows down under the Biden rate; we actually need a net decline of up to several million a year, if they were serious.)

And more, even the good things the Trump team(s) have done fail an important test of statesmanship: Bequeathing stability and continuity.

If you build, maintain, and improve a system that can outlive your own (especially with Trump-like, one-man charismatic leadership), then you've done well. Trump fails really terribly on this front. It's because he is so deeply flawed (extreme narcissistic personality disorder).

It means: Most of the Trump-admin policies and initiatives can be, will be, reversed. Plus, the way he does things is often so antagonistic and tawdry and ridiculous as to dig in deep resentments, resentments that will lead to even more reversals.

You didn't see these kinds of resentments against presidents so much in the past. (Then again, people weren't so hyper-politicized back in the pre-digital age. "President George H.W. Bush today said he has directed the relevant authorities to amend the national import tariff on automobiles by 5%, starting..." YAWN.)

The so-called Vibe Shift talked about in 2024, associated with Trump but debatable whether CAUSED by him or not (unarguably, he was a symbol near the center of it). Stable systems do not, cannot, rely on "vibe shifts."

A vibe shift is like an informal, ambiguous, spoken contract. When circumstances get tough and one party thinks better of it, it's gone and there's nothing you can do about it. A new wind blows in, and a vibe shift fades away. Trump's policies are far too often based in vibe-shift thinking.

That combined with the weakness of his moral center. I would not be surprised if the man tries an amnesty deal with the huge Democratic-majority Congress in 2027 or 2028.

PS: Good morning, again, Gentlemen!

I haven't read the new comments yet.
I got a little lost playing with photoshop.

https://i.ibb.co/bj3nXt9s/2026-Election-Results.gif


(There are three of these because I'm not sure which one I prefer.)

https://i.ibb.co/5hK3fkwZ/2026-Election-Results-1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/JwzdwgTB/2026-Election-Results-2.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/WWJBB5L3/2026-Election-Results-3.jpg

Happy Thursday! ☮️

PS: Finally, the last one I'll write for now. For many years, people have been warning other people, I guess, that Texas was already "purple" and would turn "blue". With that long-term immigration, I'd say especially the legal sort*, what did anyone expect would reverse this.

For these last 2 years, the efforts by Trump have been against illegal immigration more visibly, but his people also worked hard to lower legal immigration greatly. However, these people are here. Indians from 20 years ago may have kids that are voting there in Texas. (New Jersey, a lost cause anyway, has a lot, as does Georgia.).

Can you reverse these voting patterns? The Sailer Strategy could still hold on, but not if the guy who tells you this election is about him has pissed off so many people that would otherwise vote for him.


* Some people may have finally woke up after seeing that viral tweet of the "Texans" at the football game.

PS: Ahaaa, I hadn't reloaded, so I see Mr. Smith has welcomed you back too.

Anyway, Mr. Hail, I read your links to the people on substack - at some point I had no idea where I was within whose site - it's like that I guess.

Regarding your Iran post, A-G generally has some good things to say. I agree that Trump thought this was some other 3rd World country he could bomb and threaten. It's Israel's with, I would say, to not just destroy the nukes that might be there, but to destroy the general workings of Iranian society. It's possible that they, and NeoCons here too, do think "If they become a democracy, then that's different!" This sounds so familiar to 25 years ago.

I really never thought that Trump would actually do this.

PS: Mr. Hail, sorry, I would have given more numbers, but I meant to tell you that I have a post planned about this. It's race, which includes new demography, as in Texas, but also immigrants from left-wing States that can't help themselves from being stupid.

PS: Re South Carolina. I see from looking back that you read my posts about what I didn't like and could see happening about Trump's stupid "appointment" of Darline Graham.

Yes, in the Deep South States, politics has been black & White. That didn't change for the most part, but my question is about new residents out of the northeast, California, wherever, mostly in the Charleston area, which is a mess due to the huge influx of people. (I mean on the roads and beaches.)

I looked at the following site -

https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/south-carolina-results/

- because it was the Governor's race I was interested in comparing the Senate loss to. If you look further down to the races of people of voting age, you can see that Alan Wilson (son of Congressman Joe Wilson - remember "You lie!" in Congress?) barely won that. I will see if I can get previous Governor's elections there to compare to.

One can see that most people voted straight ticket. black = blue and White = red. That could be an easy tidbit for anyone who SOMEHOW doesn't know how things work - "Black & Blue or Red & White" I just don't think too many White people that came out to vote would have left Darline blank yet voted for Mr. Wilson and the others - State House, etc. They'd have stayed home and not bothered to vote for Darline, the Governor, anybody.

That heavy-handed push by Trump pissed a lot of people off. First, as much as some worship the guy and figure Trump knows best, others would find it an encroachment on South Carolina's business. Then others also know that someone much better in the long run could have replaced NeoCon Lindsey Graham. (Maybe not, when I think of that Norman front-running, but I said my piece for Mark Lynch in those older posts.)

So, now what? Not enough people cared, and SC, of all States, has put not just another grannie in the US Senate but one of the pretty hard left. Will she last only 6 years? That's long enough anyway to do lots of damage.

PS: OK, first re your 1104 comment, and again, welcome back!:

Trump is an annoying individual in a lot of ways. You may not have been commenting during your break, but I wrote that it's not even his ego, but his completely shameless immodesty that bugs me the most. Back in June, I wrote a post All the President's Stupidity in which I ranted about some of this.

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3550

His "Caudillo" style IS a thing, as you've written about. I was surprised that even Glenn Reynolds, the (original blooger) Instapundit wrote this plainly about what's part of the disaster on Tuesday:

"IT’S A GRIM DAY FOR THE NATION, BUT THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN. Trump has delivered a lot of results, but a lot of people just can’t stand him. He’s the reverse-Obama, who won on style points while delivering failure."

I don't agree with you that he's done nothing. The anti-D.I.E. business and pro-White (S. Africa being my main example) policies are great to see, but on Job #1, well, see my post coming later on today (if not, tomorrow).

I'm also surprised that J.D. Vance said what he did. He listed 4 things, and you've probably seen that tweet. Just the short 4 things ("He" here is a pollster, for what that's worth):

"He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel"

Yes, people likely stayed home, but what I wonder is how many Americans cared more about the principle and the future, rather than just "Hey, whoever they want to bomb, but don't make it to where it cost me $90 to fill up my truck." Not many Americans are dying or getting maimed, so a lot of people may not even thing of that... but grocery prices and gas/diesel, yeah, gotta change things around. Oh, they'll be changed around alright!

Back to my first point, and Instapundit's, did Trump just get people so annoyed at him that they didn't care what he was doing on immigration? I've kept up and been pleased with that, BUT, knowing that this stupid move to wage war would lose him so much support.

PS: Good morning, everyone...

Terima kasih, Encik Alarmist.

And... Welcome back Mr. Hail. Just the other day I was thinking... It's been too long. I hope you've been well.

Cheers! ☮️

PS

The Sailer commenter "Boulevardier" on the 2026 election:

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All politics comes down to is making sure the people who show up for you feel rewarded for it, and clearly a lot do not feel that way about the last 2 years.

That’s not to say Trump and his administration haven’t done some positive things, but it appears they failed to cement any of the new voters he picked up. In other words, the party has committed total political malpractice, including Trump himself. (...)

Iran was an insane blunder and I was against it from the start - Mrs. Boulevardier maintains Trump would not have acted absent some pressing need, but I have seen no evidence of that, only that he got buffaloed by Netanyahu and people in his Administration that thought it would be a walkover like Venezuela. Yes, it’s stupid that gas prices correlate so tightly with presidential approval, but it’s a known political landmine the Administration didn’t have to jump on top of.

The primary upside is the spell around Trump is broken, and there is space for others to step forward. Hopefully they do.

https://substack.com/profile/12437207-boulevardier/note/c-378638340

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-- "It's race, stupid" --

Several people looking at the exit polls by race and the overall results are saying some version of this:

While there is some role for the things you're hearing chattered about in the news, -- gas prices, inflation, "the economy" (a vague term; forever attached to the word "stupid" thanks to James Carville ca.1992); Trump corruption, Third Worldization of politics caused by Trump and his people; stupid foreign policy; self-puppetization to Israel, AIPAC; Epstein; and even the Iran War itself, -- IF you look at the data on who voted, it's something else that rears its head: The familiar "race demographics of voting is destiny" story.

Despite it all, places where the dam broke and Democrats broke through were generally tightly correlated with share of Nonwhite vote. It was Mississippi (the Blackest state) and South Carolina (asterisk: Darline); and it was not much-whiter Arkansas or Montana or Nebraska. Most of the flyover states don't have much to work with in these terms.

Race-voting is not the whole story, because it's also tied to the abandonment of the Trump coalition by key parts of it. But it's the basic story that turned a swing-D election towards a surge-D. In 36 hours post-election, I haven't heard it mentioned: Blacks 10:1 for D, Other Nonwhites over 70:30 for D. Maybe Steve Sailer will get to it. This broke the dam in Texas, and other places.

It's the meta-story that people were seeing on the horizon by the early 2000s. The same basic observation also produced the Sailer Strategy as a counter-strategy to the USA's basic ethnopolitical dilemma, a slow-burn situation that would Californianize the country within x amount of time. With a quarter-century under the bridge, it came to pass in this election. It was bound to do so, sooner or later. Trump's terrible two years, 2025-26, induced it more quickly and more forcefully.

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Was Trump "worth it"? My answer is No.

Will the Census Bureau find an absolute decline in the US population during these two years, 2025-26, when Trump has been in control and is supposedly deporting many, inducing self-deportations of many more, and blocking new illegal arrivals? These things combined SHOULD show at least some modest absolute population DECREASE, given the low birth-rate.

The Census Bureau estimates don't show any decrease, just a slow-down:

U.S. resident population, Census Bureau estimate (re-evaluated and re-pegged each year based on rolling surveys and data)
- July 1, 2021 estimate: 331,900,000
- July 1, 2022 estimate: 333,300,000
- July 1, 2023 estimate: 336,800,000
- July 1, 2024 estimate: 340,100,000
- July 1, 2025 estimate: 341,780,000
- July 1, 2026 estimate: 342,600,000

If these numbers are right, there has either been minimal NET effect of the Trump deportations above baseline (maybe he has somehow brought in many more Vivek-like legal immigrants, to offset the supposed millions who've left). The slow-down in the net-change rate may have happened anyway, even under (shudder) a Kamala presidency! And certainly under a Regular Republican presidency.

Why are there 2.5 million more people in the US today than the day Trump took office?

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The Anti-Gnostic on the election:

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We are in a cold civil war and the Democrats have an army and the Republicans have a label. (...)

“Iran” was not governance. It was an arbitrary ill-conceived decision by a geriatric Trump enamored with his fellow silverback Benjamin Netanyahu. Hegseth went to war with the army he had, expensive fireworks, because it's not World War Two and Americans will no longer feed money and their white sons (we're running out of them) into the maw.

This brings up another point. Americans, and I'm actually talking about a subset of middle aged and elderly white Americans, remain fixated on this “head of the snake” image of their enemies. Kill the Iranian leadership and the Iranians will find their inner American, like my Persian neighbors! Iran is not a snake; it is a cohesive sovereign of 91 million people with decent IQs and a Machiavellian Talented Tenth, full of fathers and grandfathers who fought with mobs and rifles to install an archaic Ayatollah. Irreligious Americans will never understand this.

Iran was not the only facet of this election but it was a big one.

https://substack.com/@antignostic/note/c-378531574

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From Sailer commenter Bill_P (now on Substack):

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Bill Price

Absolute fucking wipeout. This is the end of boomer neocon bullshit -- or it better be.

Everyone who shilled for the Iran War should be banished from polite society from here on out.

Trump will end his career in disgrace. Nobody's fault but his own.

https://substack.com/@wfprice/note/c-378194277

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Re: South Carolina

I don't think there is a unique story there. We saw the same wave against Trump everywhere, almost without exception.

In most situations even of this magnitude, South Carolina would've held the seat for any Republican.

Updated vote totals:

(South Carolina U.S. Senate seat, 2026)
- 1,042,000 votes: Annie Andrews (D, liberal white woman).
- 951,000 votes: Darline Graham (R, Trumpian nepotism).
- 24,000 votes: Kasie Whitener (Libertarian, white woman).
- 23,000 votes: Others
Total Votes Cast: 2,004,000 votes (99% reporting)

Trump's forcing of Darline onto South Carolina, and onto the U.S. Senate, was so offensive and ridiculous that it may have pushed some R-inclined people to decline to vote and some to switch. But that was a push only accelerating someone already falling down. Trump's shove of South Carolina in mid-2026 with the Darline thing may have caused a worse injury, but the body-politics was already falling down due to all the other Trump things going on (Iran war the easiest to identify).

Compare the Darline coronaiton-election vote totals with:

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The 2024 presidential vote in South Carolina:

- 1,028,452 votes: Kamala
- 1,483,747 votes: Trump
- 36,000 votes: Others

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The last midterm election when the seat was up (2014):

- 480,933 votes: Brad Hutto (D)
- 672,942 votes: Lindsey Graham (R)
- 85,000 votes: Others

(Clearly 2026 is much higher turnout; no one cared that much in 2014.)

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What I see, at a glance, is backing for this theory of the election:

D voters in 2024 came out in 2026 at about the same rate, but R voters stayed home (mentioned in my earlier comment).

Look at Kamala-2024 vs. AnnieAndrews-2026 (about the same!); and then look at Trump-2024 vs. Darline-2026 (decline of 36%!).

This may be especially bad in South Carolina because of Trump's coronation of Darline turning even more people away. But the same basic story may hold in most places. I expect you'll see 2026 D vote totals similar to Kamala-2024 in places and significant drops from Trump-2024 on R vote totals in 2026.

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This election vindicates the anti-Trump views that I've had basically all of the 2020s decade, but which I deepened in 2025 when I began to see what he was doing.

The Iran War, blundered into in early 2026 and unresolved, is said to have been the single key to the loss. (These idiots might re-start the Iran war very soon; but now that they were whipped so bad they may shy off that.)

The Iran war and all other of their similarly bad calls were predictable, based on what he and his clown-car team were up to all along in this second term. The way I phrased it at the time, the man was a Third World-style, "caudillo" leader, a profound narcissist, incompetent, foolish, led along by Israel's agents, and corrupt.

The exit polls suggest White voters split nearly evenly, only a narrow edge for Republicans. Nonwhites of all types went back to their usual huge-supermajorities for the D-team.

It's not clear to me how much of it was normal white R-voters staying home (disgusting with Trump) and how many of the non-R, non-D voters (swing voters or usual Nonwvoters) swung to the Democrats. (Someone reading the early analysis found a picture that looked like "Everyone who voted D in 2024 showed up, but huge numbers who voted R in 2024 stayed home.")

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If we are writing Trump political obituaries:

There are two reasons someone like DJT and his clown-car cronies could ever get close to power in a White-Western country.

-- Reason One: the USA has been undergoing a Third-Worldization process throughout the lifetimes of anyone under whatever age (many decades now, slowly, late-starting, and by fits and starts in some places, but by the 2010s an 2020s very wide and deep).

This undermining of our standards is what allowed the opening for corrupt, lazy, self-dealing con-men to emerge to the fore, around the banner of the Conman-in-Chief. MAGA evolved into this by some point in the 2020s (the kiss-of-death being the coronation of someone like Vivek Ramaswamy; ironically, originally promoted as a Based Brown Guy talking-head by Tucker Carlson in 2020), but most of us had a hard time fully admitting it. And it had real elements of that all along, back to 2015-16. Sad!

The irony is that immigration was the main driver of Third Worldization (directly but also indirectly; too complicated a tangent to explain for now). And in comes Big-Talker Trump stumbling onto the issue (which he unlikely ever truly cared about or had the attention span and moral will to really deal with). But DJT's own political career was only enabled by that immigration-driven Third Worldization. It means, if you think about it, he had a symbiotic relationship with Third Worldization. In grand retrospect, DJT couldn't have solved it, because he needed it.

-- Reason Two: How bad the other guys had been.

The "permanent Regime" that accumulated in the latter decades of the 20th century, had become over-arrogant itself by the 2000s and 2010s. It evolved into a real class-resentment-like thing. People who believe in classes simply assign to their own class the highest moral virtue and villainy or moral inferiority to the other class(es) in the system. The new broad elite in the US had instinctual and near-total Regime support. They constituted the Regime, so it's like saying "Yeah, I'm loyal to my family".

For various reasons they started going along with everything ideologically that was simmering and cooking in the US in the late-20th century. They came to embrace what Sailer has been chronicling for so long: an anti-white, anti-male politics that we came to call Wokeness. They drifted far into this and beyond the point of rationality, but the system still chugged on. How to course correct? No one knew, because "they" controlled the system. It was like asking how the East Bloc could reform in the Perestroika times. A tough order. When DJT blundered on the scene, people saw it as a miracle, deliverance from the eight of decades of all this muck.

These 2026 elections prove that "Not Being The Other Guy" is no basis for anything. You actually have to be GOOD, have a moral center, be morally serious, NOT be corrupt, not attract and empower lowlives like the Vivek Ramaswamys of the world. You have to have basic, ethnopolitical loyalty to your own country and its people and their future (not your own family's fortune and the fortunes of a distant country with powerful lobbyists and control of Hollywood, etc.).

Examined closely, Trump has, has had, NONE of these traits. All he had was his B-S'ing act and the many mistakes and overreaches of the other side.

The second Trump term has been a disaster. Even if not always so on every front, the overall legacy will be quite bad, I think.

A con-artist can con his way to brief successes, but not long-term successes. The duty of a political leader, a statesman, is to leave things at least as good as he found them, on course for stability in the foreseeable future. Trump's clown show has left us worse off and will set us up for being worse off in the 2030s than would've been true if the two Trump terms had been Mitt Romney or whoever.

I am not sure, whether I am rooting for impeachment and removal, or resignation, or what.

PS

Hi Mr. Smith… looked at first like Turkish, but Malay fits.

🕉

PS: Greetings,

Mr. Alarmist... Indonesian or Malay, if I had to guess. But you are better at these sorts of things than I am and I really don't know.

Also... Thank you for your history lesson on usury under post 3640. I was planning on responding last week, but after I shared those links for the cheap summer windshield washer fluid I realized I still wasn't firing on all cylinders that night, so I abided by the six o'clock rule.

𝑃𝑀𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 “𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦” 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦.

I was thinking about this sort of thing as I was doing chores that afternoon. I'm often guilty of romanticizing PMs/sound money and I generally forget that many average Americans in the 17 & 1800s were paid in various paper currencies of the day. Often many working Americans were paid in company scrip while being indebted to the company store. You also mentioned the very lucrative practice of foreclosing on debtors as a means of taking the property and assets of many average people and the fact that many were placed in bondage. Sound money did little to nothing to prevent this sort of exploitation. (Anyway...) Many thanks, for your concise comment. (Cheers!)


𝐻𝑎, 𝑖𝑡'𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 1-2 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑡𝑢𝑏.

Maybe that's his way of asking for a bath? (Probably not.)
(They do love their new spots.)

I'm pretty good at bathing cats, but I have never attempted more than one at a time. These cats must have been bathed together this way as kittens. (Some of these cats look like litter mates and I'd image they were all raised as kittens together. I can't even imagine putting them together in the drying box if they were not. And forget it about the tub.)

But who knows. Maybe cats are different in Malaysia?

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PS: Yes, that was very cathartic, Adam. First comment showing: "I've been a cat owner all my life and I've never had a cat behave this calm when given a bath...........ever!"

Ha, it'll never happen with our cat, but for some strange reason his newest 1-2 week spot is the bathtub.

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Teşekkürler, Bay Smith.

¿ Turkish AI ?

PS: Good morning, Gentlemen,

I have to share this, because this is next level...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqvrvnSKJzk

(A moment of zen?)

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PS: Because I have a special interest, I'm gonna look into the deal in S. Carolina. Can this win by the ridiculously left Polk Salad Annie be chalked up to a big mass of Yankees bringing their politics with them?

I will look at the various counties and see if that makes sense. I know that R Alan Wilson won the Governor election, so it's not like Texas... yet! That it went this way might make it easier to speculate on who is responsible, besides Trump that is.

PS: Yeah, sure, tell that to the voters of S. Carolina - Darline was on the ballot only due to Trump's having arranged that, and a vote for her was basically a vote for Trump.

Now he's gonna come up with excuses. Is it possible he doesn't know what caused this? We'd have been in a much better place had he not waged the war.

My best guess at illegals is 40-50 million, but I have been pretty pleased with Trump's work against the PRP. I'll have 7 graphs up here sometime... but, ALL of this is likely to be stymied with legislation now, along with the judges that won't be replaced now. Long term, this election loss was a big blow.

I saw your comment about Dallas (Irving/Los Colinas) and laid down an Agree. However, if it'd been possible to keep and even ramp up the work Trump & Co. HAVE been doing, for say 5-10 years, we'd have cleaned up a lot of this.

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The utter chutzpah of America’s second Israeli President to utter that he wasn’t on the ballot days after he told people to vote like he was on the ballot.

I meant to comment to you on UR that it is one thing to stop the massive flow of illegals, but another thing altogether to start dealing with the 70m to 100m who are already in. Then there are the so-called legals, like H1b types. I can tell you that Dallas is flooded with them. For all we know, illegal voting (both by legals and illegals) might have been what flipped Texas.

A republic, if we can keep it.

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