PS: "Every week or two they trot out another of these people and the Regime-aligned media always depicts the defendant as "unapologetic Nazi at Nuremberg ranting in the open court, or about Hitler being right all along, and refusing to apologize.""

It's worse than just the Lyin' Press "coverage", Mr. Hail. I read on Gateway pundit that polls of potential jurors - going by voter rolls or something - in Washington, FS show that most of them are so down with the insurrection story that these people would never get a fair trial as judged by a jury of their peers there. They've got to have the venue change... or wait for Trump and, if he'd not gonna be proved a complete bullshitter again - a full pardon. Restitution would be in order. For some of the J6 Political Prisoners it's too late for that.

I can't find the GP story right now - lots of post and too many ads...

PS: " On that note, something interesting has just happened with the Texas' refusal to follow "federal" mandates to open the border, daring the Biden people to send in "federal troops" old-style to invade the state and disarm the Texas security-forces and state-military (strangely called a "national guard")."

That is the subject of the next post, awaiting some time this evening, as today will be very busy for me, as was yesterday. Of course, I don't have any new news, but I'll put together stuff I've read on VDare. Now, I did ask last summer or whenever it was whether this Texas v BP thing might become the biggest story in future American history (at least as far as the Americans taking back the country from the Potomac Regime).

It's all very encouraging, as much as the invasion is still going on. (Deportations are now a MUST.) I wondered about TX Gov. Abbott before - Tucker had a serious rant against him down there in Texas, and I agreed with Tucker. Another think I said, and maybe that's in Abbott's mind now, is that he could have a chance to be a hero and a part of history by taking a chance and not being a squish for the Regime. Did he see the light on this?

PS

RE: Ganderson and "Fee Bird"

One of those unintentional slips imbued with meaning. Maybe "Fee Bird" is appropriate to our time after all.

Someone should do a song "Caged Bird" in support of the two-thousand-some persons prosecuted for participating in one political protest three years ago, some receiving heavy prison sentences, --- and, in a nod to Steve Sailer's original question, almost all of whom are White (as far as I've seen).

Every week or two they trot out another of these people and the Regime-aligned media always depicts the defendant as "unapologetic Nazi at Nuremberg ranting in the open court, or about Hitler being right all along, and refusing to apologize."

PS

-- National anthems, national-definition and destiny, and the Texas Standoff of 2024 --

Good idea on the White National Anthem, Mr. Smith.

What is a hypothetical White National Anthem "for," a good question. Steve Sailer posed the question, characteristically, kind of as a joke, and personally may nt like the implications or directions, for alas Mr. Sailer is an old-fashioned patriot excited by the Battle of Midway and things.

But you can boost it to the higher level, as you do, and ask what the purpose of any national anthem is. There may be a tendency for them to be backward-looking, but the purpose of the nation is always past--present--future, which I tried to sketch out in my commentary on the "Proud to be an American / God Bless the U.S.A." song's original music-video.

I am confident that we will liberate ourselves one day, in some set of developments we may not quite envision yet.

On that note, something interesting has just happened with the Texas' refusal to follow "federal" mandates to open the border, daring the Biden people to send in "federal troops" old-style to invade the state and disarm the Texas security-forces and state-military (strangely called a "national guard").

DeSantis then showed again what he's about by immediately siding with Texas, inspiring twenty-some governors to declare support for Texas against the Washington Regime. This could get more serious, depending on what the Washington elite wants to do.

Who predicted that the e moderate and wheelchair-bound Texas governor Greg Abbot would do such a thing as this? It triggers visions of the future of the kind that serve, for me, as an indirect answer of what the future of such a national anthem would be.

PS: "I think it's appropriate because it is a song about a “government” that fucked over the citizens who trusted it in every way imaginable and at every turn. I don't know if most Americans realize that it isn't really a patriotic, pro-"government" song, but I'm choosing it anyway."

Mr. Smith, I noticed that most Americans didn't listen so carefully to the lyrics to get that it was not a pro-USA! song at all. As I say, when you have a good tune... People often just know the title verse.

I'll check out your videos.

PS: Mr. Ganderson, I made an assumption that this Daqing was in Canton. Man, not only is it in a colder place, but it's in a BITTER cold place. I've been in Liaoning in the winter, and it was brutal, This is 2 provinces north in the very end of Manchuria. I want noting to do with a place like that, and I'm sure an outdoor cat wouldn't make it. I take it that's where your DiIL is from?

Funny you mention "Call Me The Breeze" too. I have liked Skynyrd's version since I got "Gold & Platinum" long long ago. Someone on the iSteve threads stuck in or linked to the J.J. Cale original, and I like that just as much.

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=480

PS: Good afternoon, everyone!

Mr. Hail, I've been thinking about the White national anthem thing since you asked the other day (under post 2839). (I would have answered sooner, but I have been really busy with work, and I didn't have any good ideas anyway. Just songs I liked in general.)

As a side note, check out these two songs... (These are not White anthems. Just songs I like featuring the girl from my favorite shampoo commercial.) (Mr. Ganderson might like them too. Miss Trouw is no Susanna Hoff, but she is pretty easy on the eyes.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHWrNzCDNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6CTpN6UMKQ

I like your suggestion of Jason Aldean's Try That In A Small Town. (I think it would be funny if they played it after the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! anthem at the big sportsballfest. Appropriate even, as it was semi-banned by the jewish media last year for raycisms.) (Also interesting that the Lee Greenwood video was made up of entirely White people. A refreshing lack of dieversity! What a better place American was in 1984.)

But it got me thinking a bit... What is the point of this new White Anthem? (I've never been an anthem kind of guy.) What is the goal here? Are we trying to encourage more separation and divisiveness? Should I choose something with the intent to provoke a reaction? Seems that's the whole point of the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! anthem. (It certainly isn't to bring people together.)

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

And what would be an appropriate White anthem in 2024? I can think of plenty of songs that would have worked in the past, when America was a better, safer, Whiter, more optimistic place. But alas, that America is dying (dead?). I would think a proper White anthem should reflect that reality. Which is pretty depressing when I think about it. Anthems are supposed to be optimistic and uplifting. But White America has little reason to be optimistic about where this formerly prosperous nation is headed.

So with all that in mind, I would nominate Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

I think it's appropriate because it is a song about a “government” that fucked over the citizens who trusted it in every way imaginable and at every turn. I don't know if most Americans realize that it isn't really a patriotic, pro-"government" song, but I'm choosing it anyway. If my goal were simply to provoke anger in the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬! (and ignite a race riot) I would pick the Ice Cream Truck Song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1z6aUK13c

Which would be kinda childish, but still pretty funny.

Anyway... I'm off to work.

I hope you all have a great and wonderful day! ☮️

PS
Mr. Mod- it’s gotta be tough being an outdoor cat in Daqing. Winters there make the Twin Cities seem like Miami Beach.

PS

“Fee Bird” is the opposite of “Free Bird”. 😀

I really like LS’ * version of JJ Cale’s “They Call Me the Breeze”.

* too lazy to look up the correct spelling!

PS: "... the overall demographic-national situations, except that White-America now supports the burden of huge numbers of foreigners and has a powerful group of highly committed post-national and para-national elites, to a degree stronger than, certainly, PRC-China."

And, yes, Japan too.

That's why the most important caveat to be made as I discuss my opinion that declining population(s) are not a problem, per se, in the long term is: Assuming you don't go importing masses of people. That could also be put in terms of the huge population of Africa being KEPT in Africa.

PS: Thank you very much for the THREE plugs, Mr. Hail. I ended up backsliding and reading the thread, though at least not commenting. Yes, I have seen that live Skynyrd video before and put in a post called:

"Keep those face diapers on, Free Birds"

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1906

That was from May of '21. Back to the Oakland Lynyrd Skynyrd show in '77, what a great country that was back then! I do remember. I also remember hearing the guitar riff of Sweet Home Alabama for the first time. Yes, it came out of big speakers on an American muscle car.

Back again to the White National Anthem post of Mr. Sailer's, as much as he is off the rails a lot, commenter JeSuisOmarMarteen said it pretty well when he noted that Americans (in general) have NO BUSINESS singing "land of the free, home of the brave" anymore after the way they behaved during the Kung Flu Panic.

PS: Mr. Ganderson, my Chinese source's information on the eating of pet-like animals in Canton is about a decade old. She had only eaten snake, but much more was on the menus.

I hope the Daqing people like their cats, including your son and DIL. Hopefully, they will have some other offspring for you (or maybe they do already.)

Mr. Blanc, yes, and I think that's mostly due to the hazards of cars. I try to teach them when they're young that the road is a bad place. I really think they get this if taught young, but then I've seen cat fights go on in the middle of the road. When they get into that thing, all bets are off. Still, there's so much more open space here for the outdoor cats.

One of ours lived for 12 years, and he was more of an outdoor than indoor. He died from kidney failure I think.

PS

"a love of traditional pets is growing in China"

Mr. Kief, writing some weeks ago at this website, said that there is something culturally and possibly (geo)politically or culturally important, or notable, or explanatory-of-bigger-things, about the trend towards miniature pets in wealthy East Asia in our time.

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"The people aren't having very many children of their own either, on average. Will China become a nation of cat ladies before what's left of America does?"

I think there's not a great deal of difference in the 'numbers' on fertility-rates of most of White-America and China and other places of wealthy Asia, the overall demographic-national situations, except that White-America now supports the burden of huge numbers of foreigners and has a powerful group of highly committed post-national and para-national elites, to a degree stronger than, certainly, PRC-China. (They would do well to be a bit more like that, their bullying of every neighbor they have, usually for petty reasons, is a bad 'look').

Japan actually went into demographic transition considerably earlier than White-America. It remains a bit of a bugbear for immigration-enthusiasts, who have been writing Japan's obituary for decades now, but the collapse of ethnic-cohesion there never quite comes to pass.

What I sought to explain in response to Mr. Kief's insight at the time, was the phenomenon of low-fertility and also of pets-replacing-children, is similar only on surface level. It is actually deceptively similar. The causes of the declines in fertility are different in some important ways. There is not necessarily any single, all-cause factor across all political-cultures that economists love to try to find.

(You can usually rely on important East-West differences in things, no matter what the matter at hand is; to paraphrase an old joke goes, if you don't see any difference at all in some matter, you may be "a 'sucker' at the poker table"...)

PS

-- White National Anthem updates --

note ---- I have transcribed the Honorable Mr. Moderator's endorsement of the song "Free Bird" as the White National Anthem:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-should-be-the-white-national-anthem-played-at-the-super-bowl/#comment-6381042

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For the benefit of those enjoying happy retirement from that comment-section, I will say that someone else mentioned "Fee Bird" far up-thread, with these words:

"Have a look at this video from 45 years ago and tell me our country is moving in the right direction."

The link is to the song played during a July 2, 1977 concert, with many shots of thee huge near-all-White crowd at Oakland, California, and with the stage draped with a huge 'Confederate flag':

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

PS Life expectancy isn’t great for outdoor cats in the US, either.

PS My son and his wife who live in Canton have three cats, one that that they adopted early in the pandemic madness; she was wandering around the streets of Daqing- they took her in to find she was pregnant. They found homes for all but three. Sadly one of them took leap off a 20th story balcony,

Year of the Cat and Every Picture Tells a Story are both great songs.

PS: At first I read "Bulldogi". Ha!

PS

In my old neighborhood in NYC, where the local deli, like nearly all, was run by Koreans, one of my older weird neighbors, who walked around with his little dog tucked in his arm, was chatting with the store clerk (who barely understood anything beyond basic English).

So he asks Korean guy, “Do Koreans like dogs?”

Silence and a look of confusion on Korean guy’s face.

So old guy asks again. “Do Koreans like dogs?”

More silence and confusion on the other side of the counter.

I, growing impatient and wanting to pay for my broccoli and go about my evening, finally chime in, “Koreans love dog. It’s often a part of one of their local dishes, called Bulgogi.”

Korean guy, face beaming, says, “Yes, Bulgogi very good!”

Old guy storms out.