PS: Good afternoon,

Yes, Achmed, the $100 is the new $20 so I suppose that means the $20 is the new $5.(?) Soon on it's way to being the new $1. 🎶 Mister we could use a man like Andrew Jackson again🎶... Glad to hear Mrs. Newman is getting on board the cash is king wagon. It's worth any perceived slight inconvenience to preserve your privacy and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1g6X3XD18c


𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑐ℎ-𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑛.

Indeed, Mr. Hail. The AI ArtBots certainly do have their limitations. At this point they really aren't anything more than an interesting little toy. 𝐻𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑔𝑎-𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 is an interesting way to put it. Thanks. And thanks for the 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝐺𝑎𝑡𝑒 and 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 run down comment. As usual, you and I are in agreement.

About your sympathy for Brandon, well, you are not alone. I too generally dislike him for being a corrupt lifelong tax-eating bureaucrat, but at this point he is a victim of elder abuse. He should have retired (or been locked up for corruption/bribery) years ago.

Anyway, We had a brief wind storm yesterday that kinda mildly trashed out our garden, so I'm off to clean up the mess.

Cheers to a great weekend! ☮️

PS: Mr. Hail, thanks for your thoughts on the different "types" who are for replacing Bai Dien and those that want him to stay. Also, that Third Worldization discussion is interesting too. Yeah, definitely Trump would not have fit in in that civil political scene 40 years ago. You had people working calmly together on political strategy and tactics, no matter what their ideology.

It probably helped that there were no tweets then...

PS: Mr. Hail, about the interview with George Stephan ..., your words above differ from what I've seen. I'm pretty sure you're going by the talking heads, etc. you've read or heard from - were it your own watching of that debate, well, you know the guy's senile already, or is your comment on what the Lyin' Press is claiming? My view, though, is from The Gateway Pundit, which has way too much he said/she said, and worse, "watch the looks on their faces!" (There's still; decent stuff over there, but I ignore about 2/3 of the posts now.)

Anyway, yes, it's obvious that if Bai Dien can keep up appearances, no matter how contrived, the D's are perfectly fine with that. Perhaps they know, unlike Steve Sailer, that it doesn't matter what shape the President is in, he's not running the show. Yes, of course, he and his family are grasping, holding on to power, naturally. They have things at stake. It's possible the Deep State didn't see it ALL coming - likely they don't care who is the replacement, so long as he can be kept in line with their program.

This is why they hate Trump, BTW. They can't directly control him, and it's a lot of work to try to stop progress from the guy - he does have a lot of energy (sometimes directed against his goals, unfortunately).

So, as long as they don't get a Bernie or RFK, Jr... see, I detest both of those guys, ideology-wise, anyway, but I think the Deep State can't trust that they have either of those down with their program.

Fetterman was probably seen as a guy who would go along - a kid, a big kid, yes, - who rides into Congress on the short bus and is just happy to be up there saying "aye" or "nay" to get along. Problem is, he got better... I like how he seems to be his own man at this point.

BTW, yes, I do remember his opponent, at least from the iSteve posts about that race. That was a lose/lose for Pennsylvania. Ya got nobody but this partially brain-damaged dude and some foreigner... in all of Pennsylvania, seriously??

PS: Yes, Adam, Trump has never been concerned with the finances. Same with almost everyone but a few Congressmen*, nobody seems to care and does act like this money is just coming from some stash we have somewhere.

Yes, someone with a little bit of principled Conservatism in him could have have vetoed big spending bills just to make a statement. That wasn't the statement Trump wanted to make. Instead it was "look how much I'm doing for you people!" That's funny about the checks. We did get 2 checks over this period. I wouldn't have minded seeing his mug on the front - better a Tubby man than that Tubwoman they want to put on the twenty.

Whatever happened about that? I'm pleasantly surprised, in fact. The way it's going, the twenty will be the new one, so we'll have lots of them in our pockets - those still into cash. (Funny, my wife finally got onto that bandwagon. I didn't tell her anything to do directly about this, but stuff rubs off after a while. Then it's "I've been reading about ...." Me: "No shit."



* Even then, from an MTG or Matt Goetz, it's usually about where NOT to spend the money, i.e. in the Ukraine, rather then more generally, "we're going broke like this, rapidly".

PS

What did Biden mutter as he walked on stage?

“I am Cornholio ! I’m looking for some Tee-Pee for my bunghole.”

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/biden-town-hall-00.jpg

Trump makes a good Butthead to round out the pair.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/d1eb10edf29ecbfe407523e45d104e9b/30529163596d699e-a6/s1280x1920/b4f314b73e64b4722c0aef896790c63f4d0fb4dd.jpg

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PS

@ Adam Smith:

(continued from the "Sailer: Trust But Verify" thread, PS Numer-3044)

Your stymied artistic efforts over the past day or two show us one interesting thing: "AI" art-tools absolutely cannot produce effective political cartoons. (For one thing, they'd have to be subtly topical in a way these huge plagiarism-based mega-entities cannot quite handle.)

Any cartoonist or sketch-man worth half his salt could come up with something good on the Sailer cartoon.

The Ben Garrison style. I envision a caricatured Steve Sailer shown in center-frame, with a gaggle of angry hacks off to his left. The hacks shout: "YOU ARE A RACIST, AND A BAD PERSON!" at him off to one side. Sailer himself, in turn, looks to his right at shouts at a group of stunned people "YOU ARE DUPES FOR DUMB CONSPIRACIES!" The cartoon would have to show Sailer with two faces with different evident reactions; many political cartoons do this.

Here is any example of the kind of image I mean:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/chronicles-magazine-cover-may-2024.png

Chronicles Magazine produced this image for a recent issue in which Steve Sailer wrote an essay. The theme of the lead essays was "Anti-White Racism," so we see a variously-raced and -gendered crowd of a dozen hooting and hollering and pointing their fingers and a captive White boy.

PS

-- Reactions to the Dump Biden movement and "DementiaGate" at one-week mark --

He came out with a good interview without major slip-ups. They're still trying to knock out Biden,, but despite all kinds of political obituaries already being written, it's far from a settled thing.

"Here's the deal" with Biden: Biden is a bit of a scammer, and always has been. He's not very smart. He's not necessarily very principled. He has some good political instincts, but they are of that worst sort of old-style, machine-boss politics type. This is to say that doing well at politics is not the same as doing well at governing. It may actually be bad for governing.

The whole thing may be moot because presidential staffs seem to run things entirely now, anyway. Could Biden (or any individual in the U.S. presidency) literally be "Weekend at Bernie'd" for four full years, with no great difference? The whole thing raises some questions about where power lies. It's a shame that Steve Sailer is not asking these questions and instead wants to bash Deep State believers.

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Moderator wrote: "it's pretty obvious that (Biden) had his brain stuffed with a number of very rigid talking points"

It's probably true that a younger version of him could have kept these memorized "talking points" straight. That's why these hyenas demanding his head are so histrionic. They want someone who can memorize talking-points.

To state it that clearly is to reveal the whole thing is a giant dog-and-pony show. We shouldn't WANT "the guy who is better at delivering talking points" to be the head of the executive branch of the government. That's just showmanship. It didn't used to be this way. It doesn't need to be. But that's the system now. It's all so media-choreographized, so 'fake.'

The big attack-line against the palace-coup plotters of the D-team is they don't care about competency, nor integrity. They care about media image, and votes.

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This whole Biden "DementiaGate" affair of the past week has brought to my mind a lot of the classic criticisms of democracy.

Democracy has a tendency to evolve entities that are principle-less, semi-criminal, that attract narcissists and sycophants as well as manipulative and deranged people, and that conspire against the public good. These entities we call "political parties." Sometimes single-figure Big Man demagogues also come out of such systems (Trump is a classic one, a Latin-American "caudillo" transposed onto gringo North America).

The Democratic Party cares more about winning elections than about stewarding the country. In fact, it seems to have a philosophy based around hostility to the country. If so, why does it want to even focus so much on elections for positions nominally 'governing' the (hated) country? It all feels a little strange.

The way this political party has evolved, in our time, they've put the torch to the old idea of the "loyal opposition," of doing what's right for the good of the country. It's instead magnified all that's bad about democracy, about machine-politics, about the perverse incentives in mass-democracy, especially under the sway of strange social-movements like Wokeness.

The huge number of Third World influences, so critical to the D-team voting coalition now, are =more apparent than ever. They began to be so really by the late 2010s, I think the 2018 election really ushering them in, in a way that's held steady or magnified (not lessened, as with Steve Sailer's floated idea that Wokeness has peaked). They will only get louder.

Trump himself is part of this Third Worldization, strangely from both sides of the thing. His whole political career of course is thanks to anti-Third World passions by U.S. Whites. But Trump himself is, as I've already said, a classic Third World-'type' politician. If you follow the politics of any such country, you see them. Even if you don't follow Third World politics but instead just know some Third Worlders and see how they approach the world, and thinking about the world, and moral principles, it's easy to guess.

Someone had a meme on Twitter that Biden's DEI policy has failed and has been discredited, but Trump and his kushners and everyone he'll bring in, THEY will really implement a true-blue multiracialized DEI, but they'll do it LEGALLY and patriotically, so don't worry about it you white idiots out there.

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MSNBC is mostly neutral on Biden, and he has his defenders there.

CNN is mostly joining the calls to replace Biden.

An observation I've made before, but every D-team-associated Jewish commentator who pops his or her head up, there is only one position: Replace Biden. As for Christians, they are characteristically neutral and noncommittal. Many are under the sway of the leading ethnopolitical element in U.S. politics, but you see no white-hot passion and bloodlust to kill Biden (politically speaking) from such people.

This is a good lesson in what Jews do: they are highly, highly politicized people and in every organization or milieu they look to either take positions of influence or to become leading agitators whose voices drown out the modest middle.

This Dump Biden palace-coup attempt on the D-team is interesting in part because there are both clearly-'scripted' and also 'unscripted'-seeming elements to it. You rarely see this kind of political opening, if that's what it is. We actually have Biden to thank for this, for refusing (so far) to resign. Finally we see something besides lockstep-ness from these people, and it's interesting, like stepping out into a fresh cool breeze after being cooped up in some hot room for hours.

This is the long Fourth of July weekend, of course, so there was not supposed to be any scheduled live programming on these Blue Team agenda-setting cable-news-talk networks. But after ABC announced it would air the Biden interview, the channels called in everyone they could. They had hours of running coverage, pushing their anodyne prerecorded weekend-specials about forest-fires or whatever-the-heck off the air.

It appears that Biden's most loyal elected man in all the U.S. government is: John Fetterman. What an interesting twist of fate!

Fetterman is delivering impassioned pro-Biden appeals and anti-anti-Biden diatribes. MSNBC apparently found him holed up in a man-cave somewhere, in a several-sizes-too-big sweatshirt, and asked if he'd changed his views on Biden: he let them have it; Biden must stay, changing him is a bad idea; what happened to loyalty? Loyalty, when it matters, carries an honor of its own.

Fetterman is no eloquent man. He also looks like a overgrown gargoyle, dresses like he's always doing his laundry, and some combination of these things always makes him look like "the dumb guy in the room," but it seems to me he is not. A few weeks or months ago he heroically slammed his party for border chaos and called for a Trump Wall and for pro-Open-Borders people to be defrocked and kicked to the curb, to protect the White Working Man (okay, he didn't add the word 'White'; but the rest is true).

John Fetterman's role as pro-Biden stalwart at this, the time when it really matters, carries a certain dignity. We cannot say of the leading and shrillest (and mainly Jewish) BIDEN MUST GO hyenas of the past week. We also can't say it of the R-team's bozo candidate against Fetterman back in 2022, "Doctor Oz," the used-car salesman of Turkish origin. Doctor Oz, at one time an illegal-immigrant in the USA (as discovered by VDare but ignored by the mainstream press; as Fox News was giving him millions in free publicity and openly campaigning for him. Doctor Oz, the illegal immigrant, talked his way into his tv-career and said a bunch of things R-teamers wanted to hear in 2022. A perfect Republican for the 2020s? Just like that subliterate Black football player they put on the ballot.

To summarize one thread of my comments here, it's in time of crisis that you really see people's character. With this Dump Biden movement being an entirely elite-run affair (there was no 'grassroots' Dump Biden movement that went anywhere, except for hardcore pro-Palestinian people who urged a Biden boycott unless and until he stopped support for Israel; a similar movement probably lost the UK Labour Party a few percent of the vote recently, but in the excitement not many people noticed).

Having observed this thing off-and-on since the dam broke one week ago, I have to say I now find myself in a form of sympathy for Biden, despite disliking him. The D-team 'Regime' people trying to get rid of him, I dislike more. And anyway they are the Doctor Frankenstein and he is the monster. But if Dr Frankenstein tries by devious means and for malicious purposes to kill the monster, a good man will tend to drift into sympathy for the monster. Am I alone in that?

PS: Good evening, Achmed,

Oh Yes. The Brandon Regime is also spending like a drunken sailor. (As have so many regimes before that.) I didn't intend to imply otherwise. Unfortunately, many Trump supporters seem to forget (or deny) just how much Trump's reckless spending has contributed to the devaluation of the currency.

In all fairness to Trump, much (maybe all?) of the reckless spending that he signed off on was a truly bi-partisan thing. Had he tried to veto the spending legislation congress likely would have overrode him. (And if he had unsuccessfully tried to veto the spending, then he would bear no responsibility for the inflation.) But that's, obviously, not what happened.

As I remember it, Trump was quite enthusiastic about his reckless spending. If he could have sent out paper stimmy checks with his photo on them (instead of direct deposit) I think he would have. I knew of people who thought "Trump is giving us free money" as if it was coming from some government savings account or something. I have a feeling that if they reinstall him the debt will keep climbing during his second term.


Thanks. I like that second dark brandon image too. I ran a bunch of them this afternoon, and I thought those two were the best.

AI art is a little like instagram selfies. For every one good piece worth posting there are like a hundred that are not as good and therefore don't make the cut. Here's an example...

https://i.ibb.co/0tSzxqY/Kamala.png

Happy Saturday! ☮️

PS: I like the 2nd AI .png a lot, Adam. Thanks for the effort. I checked out that page. These guys are behind for Bai Dien, as, wait, let me check that debt clock again, it stops for no man - OK, there's another $1.8 Trillion been added since their $33.1 Trillion last September (wow!). That means $6.6 T for Bai Dien. They must have used a different starting date than I (I understand they used inauguration day, which makes sense), but then they have the very same number for Trump I had, amazingly.

So, 2 drunken sailors in my opinion. From that page:

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Of the 45 Presidents, only 14 of them have overseen a decrease in debt. Calvin Coolidge was the last President to do so, leaving office in 1929, 15 Presidencies ago.

Andrew Jackson is the President who decreased National Debt the most, nearly eradicating it completely between 1829 - 1837 by reducing the total by -99.42%
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Yep, and I want to write about the election 10o years ago that Silent Cal Coolidge won in a post to come soon.

PS: Good evening, Robert, Achmed,

Dark Brandon, eh?
https://i.ibb.co/LZr0j51/Dark-Brandon-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/DKmccp1/Dark-Brandon-2.png

https://www.self.inc/info/us-debt-by-president/

In fairness to Brandon, Trump did spend like a drunken sailor.

Happy Weekend! ☮️

PS: Hello, Robert. At this point, I would not be happy if Trump got taken out of the race somehow. Even jail wouldn't do it, so that's not the worry, but something else.

A half year or a year ago would have given a DeSantis (who, from what I've seen and read sucks at campaigning - rallying crowds, that is) or an even better Tucker Carlson a chance to get his stuff together. At this point, with no Trump, the GOP would be in total disarray, as the D's are probably only temporarily (unfortunately).

So, I hope at least Trump is a candidate, but I don't care if he runs against Big Mike, the greasy-haired California surf-and-tax dude*, Hillary, Jillary, or old stalwart race hustling fag Maobama is on the other side. Did I leave anyone out?

BTW, you've got me checking into the summer campaigns for President 1 century ago. It was, to say the least, quite a different crowd... 1923, '24... it was a different time, you understand ...

In case people don't get that reference - in Wed. post about Steve Sailer, I used this too, from the hilarious Ken Burns parody video, "The Old Negro Space Program". (It's at the bottom of this post - unfortunately the serious video being written about there is gone from youtube.)

Apollo 12 Lunar landing footage from > 48 years back

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=546


* Does he surf? I think neither Charley nor Gavin surf.

PS: I really didn't (and still don't) want a repeat of the 2020 candidates, so a few months ago (denial is not just a river in Egypt) I began predicting that neither the Don nor Joey would be allowed to run. It looks like I was wrong though. Where's those lone gunmen when you need them? Can anything else fix this? I need to go and buy a lot of cheap gin.