PS: Interesting take by Richard Spencer, Mr. Hail. Thanks. That doesn't leave much room for hope in preventing the next guy, errr, girl.

PS

-- Check or Egg for Robin the Transgender School-Shooter --

Quote from Richard B. Spencer:

___________

Robert/Robin Westman didn't become a school shooter BECAUSE he became a transsexual, or because he grew to regret it. He became a transsexual for the SAME reason he became a school shooter.

The psychopath has no core sense of self. Changing one's gender presentation, even changing one's genitals, is natural for an individual who murdered children to earn attention and sympathy. (His motive is clearly expressed in his weepy manifesto...).

People like Westman exist. There is no way to reform them. Containing the chaos and pain they bring into to the world is the best we can do.

(end quote)

__________

PS

-- on Sailer's thinking in 2020 vs 2000 etc --

Moderator wrote: "I don't think (Steve Sailer joining the 'Covid' Pro-Panic side in the spring of 2020) had to do with his wanting to go more mainstream. This was well before his book and newfound publicity. (Well, chicken or egg?)"

Whatever the explanation, I remember proposing that the same Steve Sailer, not a hypothetical Sailer but the real one, would've opposed the Panic if it'd formed up and demanded people to join its Virus-obsessed mob in 1990, or 2000, or even 2010.

There's no way to prove this. But I do have my own memories of reading Sailer in the 2000s that tend to make me think this is the case. I also notice a lot of other long-time readers make such comments as those. (Like Dennis Dale, a former trusted Sailer correspondent, who has been writing critical essays against Sailer's mainstreaming; and among other things Sailer's newfound lack of criticism of Israel, or its notorious Lobby, when it's most needed.)

For some of us, the Covid-Panic of 2020, especially in those critical weeks of March, April, May, and maybe beyond a ways, were a great-sorting mechanism. The Great Covid Sorting: (1.) those willing to tell absolute truth, even when those in positions of prestige and power are lying, and (2.) those NOT willing to tell absolute truth for any reason(s). There would be a lot of subtypes of each, but these can be visualized as the two umbrella-camps. Some in Camp-1 are even "right for the wrong reasons." (some Sailer commenters at the time said: this is a time when the 'tinfoil'-wackos are, weirdly but definitely, closer to truth than respected TV-appearing experts).

This was a hard realization. It's something even those on the Anti-Panic side have many reasons not to want to remember. A lot of good people were simply wrong, conned, and panicked. But here we are again, all getting along as if nothing had happened. The same does apply to Sailer. His lower readership today is, I think, caused in no small part by his pro-Covid-Panic stance at the time.

(In one sense it requires respect that Sailer didn't "sell out" to his own readership, which was I think around 40:40:20 --- 40% hardcore Anti-Panic; 40% Neutral but tending to lean skeptical but often obedient to the Pro-Panic side's demands, if lesening with time; 20% tending to not only obey but believing the Pro-Panic side's claims, along with Sailer himself. And with maybe, what, 5% truly fanatical Panickers, the names of whom I don't wish to now remember or bring up.)

The Covid-Panic was a giant with feet of clay, a sham, besides being a crime. It was a large-scale incident of worrying mass-delusion, mania, or psychosis. I think the 2000s-era Sailer would've been willing to join the Anti-Panic side early on. Dieter Kief, when he was still commenting, said he believed it had to do with Sailer's own cancer scare around his late thirties. A time when, absent health problems, a man still tends to think he's invincible and which Mr Kief believed shook Sailer in a way that resounded suddenly with the early-stage Corona-Panic in those terrible weeks of 2020 when civilization buckled under the weight of the monster.

PS: Oh, and about the name "Robin", I did mean to bring up Batman's sidekick on the old TV show. That was the early-mid 1960s, going along with the timeline. Were we to have found out he was a transexual from the bat cave in Transylvania, I would not have been the least bit surprised, even as a kid! ;-}

PS: I'm afraid I'm going to run out of time to comment much on this yet another tranny psycho mass shooting. I could put a post up and have you all just cut-and-paste comments from here, I dunno.

The #10 Steve Sailer thread has some commenting on this (or one could go to ZeroHedge - I don't comment there - you have to sign up, but also people have written that a bunch of comments were trashed. It'd be nice if on the iSteve threads on TUR, someone could just say, OK, this is the new topic for today, or something.

On SteveSailer.net, I can see that the boss does not want people paying money to have to put up with "what do you think about this?" He wants to write something insightful each time. Hell, he accurately predicted this whole tranny business was coming, and he has his niche topic of the violent M-F trannies and the auto-gynophilia. However, when it comes to the preponderance of people on meds and/or being these young trannies, I think he won't write about it because it's too low-brow conspiratorial. Too Alex Jonesey, too. MTGey... etc.

PS: Mr. Hail, I almost missed your comment on Trump, the Chinese lady from DC(?) and the PanicFest.

Steve Sailer never explicitly admitted he was wrong, but he doesn't go doubling down about it. Trump feels the need to promote himself over getting work done (though he HAS gotten work done.) Believe it or not, I saw him admit he was wrong one time. That was on that 3-hour-long Joe Rogan, I wouldn't call it interview, just long BS conversation*. Trump admitted that he had indeed hired the wrong people to work for him in '17 and beyond.

No, I really don't like listening to his Reality-TV promotion clips.


* The main help that was for Trump was in showing he was not some dementia patient like Brandon. Trump could converse coherently, with his weaves all over the place, but he admitted that too, for 3 hours, with some campaign trip to go on right after the show!

PS: Mr. Hail, thanks for the cogent explanation of Steve Sailer's history as a blogger and his mellowing out. I can't blame him much, as this is his living, not a sidelight.

However, on the Kung Flu, I think he went along just because of the Gell-Mann Amnesia thing - he (admittedly for the most part) knew nothing about infectious diseases and epidemiology, so he figured he was being told the truth as best as they could figure it from those experts. That was a mistake. I don't think it had to do with his wanting to go more mainstream. This was well before his book and newfound publicity. (Well, chicken or egg?)

PS: Very interesting reading here. Thanks for all the thoughtful discussion! I will be having a late night working, so I probably can't respond till the morning.

PS: Good evening, Mr. Hail!

I uploaded images of the four pages of Robert Westman's "manifesto"...

https://i.ibb.co/PsqxcQnJ/Robert-Westman-Note-page-1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/whsYXbMm/Robert-Westman-Note-page-2.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/0pRRsMJN/Robert-Westman-Note-page-3.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Z6rqBjh3/Robert-Westman-Note-page-4.jpg

I'd be interested to know what he wrote (in Cyrillic/English/Russian? or whatever?) in the notebook from this video...

https://files.catbox.moe/sa4n84.mp4

I can't make any sense of it.

𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑝, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑦...

Yeah, this kid is all over the place. (Smells like an MKUltra style Glow OP to me.) The only thing missing from this story is the inevitable "he was on our radar" disclosure from the FBI.

https://i.ibb.co/JWsr0xqm/Say-The-Line.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/5hQJnbcN/Vicki-Weaver.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/prjzR8cs/Winter-of-Death.jpg
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4992487/president-biden-warns-unvaccinated-winter-severe-illness-death

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Horrific Shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis...

Jews Hit Hardest!

https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/robin-westman-mused-about-slaughtering-filthy-zionist-jews-in-sick-journal-before-deadly-catholic-school-shooting/

☮️

PS

From the alleged handwritten manifesto, signed "Robin M Westman":

"I am severely depressed,
and have been suicidal for years."

He decorated ammo clips with randomly selected political slogans. All over the map, as if randomly selected but with a mind towards flamboyant offensiveness with many extra doses of irony.

I do see signs, in the short manifesto, of the early-2020s Covid-Disruption period damaging this person's psyche, as I wrote in the earlier comment.

PS

-- Update on the latest Transgender shooter's timeline --

I got a date wrong on the Transgender-ification of the Minnesota school shooter of August 2025.

January 15, 2020

...is the correct date for when "Robert Paul Westman" (born June 2002) changed his name to "Robin Westman" in a court document approved by his mother, the ex-boy having declared himself a Transgender-female (M-to-F).

That name-change is six months before his 18th birthday.

FWIW, being January 2020 already, that's before the Covid-Panic got going. (The China lockdown of Wuhan/Hubei began Jan 20-21, 2020 and it took a few weeks in the West for the early Pro-Panic coalition to assemble and make their successful bid to seize power.)

It wouldn't have been an overnight realization, and the Transgenderization of this boy must be placed earlier, probably forming in the 2018-19 period. That's still of course in the long peak-Wokeness period. The Transgender Movement seemed at its most self-confident and dynamic then, but still had some cachet of rebellious-outsider status. It was a dangerously appealing thing to many-an unstable 16- and 17-year-old out there.

PS

-- On the Minnesota Transgender shooter's motivations --

It's a shame the Trans-shooter had the name "West Man."

The long history of Western-White Man(kind) is a lot better than what this "West Man."

A hyped-up, Wokeness-addicted, self-mutilating, Transgender, likely mentally ill. Born in the glorious new millennium during the height of the bizarre War on Terror of the 2000s. Expressed willingness to die and wanted to shoot White children before they could grow up to be Trans-denying oppressors.

Motivations:

-- Adam Smith suggests SSRIs, mentally altering medications.

-- 2010s-era Wokeness is an obvious candidate for seeding the ground. In June 2020, a high-point of Wokeness and a generalized anti-White "pogrom," the Trans-woman later known as Robin Westman turned 18.

-- Another suggestion I'd put forth is the Corona-Panic specifically, and how it shattered so many people in vulnerable ages like this one. Few pay any attention to the Panic anymore, but I often see, or think I see, little signs of its likely effects. Remember that this Trans-shooter lost parts of his age-17 year, all his age-18, all of his age-19 year, and some of his age-20 year, to the Panic. He was doing something, presumably, but probably not much normal or healthy that people in those ages should be doing. And the warped, Death-focused drumbeat of the Panickers of 2020 may have pushed him over an edge.

We can probably assume Robin Westman at ages 17-20 was a Panic-loyalist. "Card-carrying," as people might say, but in this case "mask-wearing." And, importantly, hating the idiots and selfish evil-doers out there who DENIED the Apocalypse Virus. His actual expressed ideology in his incoherent manifestos written around age 23, might just be random bits and pieces of ideological detritus he'd picked up, after the Corona-Panic helped break his mind.

The hatred of that period is easy to forget. Remember the "Winter of Death" speech, Dec 2021: Biden blamed White Americans for their evil, ignorant stupidity and blamed them directly for the Virus. He said they deserved to die, OF the Apocalypse Virus, because of their evil sins, and for slavery, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, of course. That "Winter of Death" speech was shocking and troubling as to be a worthwhile original-source document of the entire early-2020s period. The hatred of that period, anyway, can only have influenced this Trans-shooter's general misanthropy. Including that directed towards the area between his own two legs.

PS: Good evening, gentlemen...

“𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.” - Jacob Frey (Mayor of Minneapolis)

*

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑡𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠-𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟...

https://files.catbox.moe/1nvk8p.pdf

I found the other video (there were two) that Westman uploaded to youtube. (Since deleted.) It's a bit odd and features writing that appears to be some weird Cyrillic/English hybrid. (Runglish?)

https://files.catbox.moe/sa4n84.mp4

I wonder what sort of SSRI/GAHT cocktail Westman was on? ☮️

PS

-- On Sailer and Pinker --

RE: Steven Pinker & Steve Sailer ties.

I think 2004 was the first year I ever read Steve Sailer. Back then, he and Steven Pinker were on more of a regular-communication basis.

Those ties date, I think, back to the Human Biodiversity Mailing List group of the late 1990s into the early 2000s. Steve Sailer created and managed tat group. (Back then, it was a far-more-common way to communicate than the then-emerging concept of making regular changes to some standing website (blogging); the idea of instant-zapped updates, to something we now call "social media," was more a sci-fi future than anything. The key single cause of the Covid Panic of 2020 being these shifts in communication styles and wider digitalization of life.)

In the 2000s, the ADL, SPLC, and others turned against Steve Sailer really strongly. It took a few years to fully expel him from polite society. Some, especially established old-timers, never really got on board, like Charles Murray. Murray never once did the "I do not know the man!" routine, the one the Apostles did when the SPLC and ADL of their day (ca. 30 AD) began looking to hunt down Jesus and crucify him.

I think Sailer and Pinker had a falling out around the mid-2000s. It may be impossible to disentangle that, whatever it was, from the larger ostracization of Sailer that had begun by then. Pinker wouldn't have cited Sailer any year after about 2004, I expect.

In a different world, Sailer would've been a major mainstream commentator-journalist throughout the past 25 years but that path was blocked. One reason we complain about Sailer's lack of vigorous fighting-spirit in recent years is, few men can stand being ostracized oppositionalists for nearly as long as Sailer did. Younger men can do it, and some like it (often not a good thing); Sailer after age 60 or so probably likes it a lot less.

(Let it be a life-principle to not compromise on principles as one ages. It may require actual conscious effort, because a lot of inertia exists towards "Let things slide" as life progresses. The opposite problem, naturally, also exists and those in the late-teens and early-20s are often far too hotheaded and willing to push things too far, implicitly even for self-entertainment.)

PS: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Mr. Hail. Mr. Moderator...

𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔?
https://files.catbox.moe/hrsz9a.mp4
https://i.ibb.co/v4QkNfDR/Israel-Must-Fall.jpg

Do you believe in God?
Written on the bullet... ☮️

PS: O/T to Mr. Hail:

I read your comments on SteveSailer.net about the various "noticing" books, all in most libraries NOT being Steve Sailer's book. I checked the local library. Yeah, it gives me a whole bunch of results, many without even having "noticing" in the title. Some must be the ones you listed.

Interestingly, when I searched for "Steve Sailer" I got a book by Steven Pinker (I know SS has mentioned him many times) called "The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2004". Whaaaa?

PS

(continued from the comment below.)

The Minnesota shooter chose his legal Trans-name to be Robin, when he declared himself Transgender. (Robert Paul Westman --> Robin Westman.)

The name "Robin" entered popularity in the 1920s, as a boy's name. By the late 1930s was increasingly being used as a girl's name and after a while as a (rare) unisex-name, it became primarily a girl's name. But it traceably started as a boy's name and was transformed into a girl's name through some unclear social process.

_____________

From the Social Security Names Database:

-- Boys: The name "Robin" enters popularity as a new-baby BOY's name in the mid-1920s, then peaks as a new-baby BOY's name between the late-1940s and late-1960s.

By the 1990s, it was quite uncommon for baby boys to be named Robin. "Robin" fell off the top-1000 names list entirely starting in year 2000.

.

-- Girls: The name "Robin" enters popularity as a new-baby GIRL's name in the mid-1930s (up to ten years after Robin-as-boy's-name popularity begins), then peaks as a new-baby GIRL's name between the mid-1940s and early-1990s.

"Robin" fell off the top-1000 names list entirely starting in year 2005, again after the boy's name did the same. But it returned to the top-1000 list for girls in 2018.

.

The crossover point for Robin-as-girls-name over Robin-as-boys-name may be year **1944**, or very near to it.

This is the crossover for the names "ranking" on the respective top-1000 lists (top-1000 boys names; top-1000 girls names), not for total individuals. The two may be the same year and cannot possibly be far apart.

Then, for those born starting in the mid-1950s, Robin as girl's name becomes considerably more common than as a boy's name and remained so thereafter, eventually causing a full-retreat of Robin as a boy's name. The name essentially disappears as a new-baby boy's name by the 1990s.

__________

It's reported that the Trans-shooter's mother was born in July 1958. This makes her I believe hte same school-year cohort as early Trans-movement identifier and critic Steve Sailer.

If the info on the mother is right, the mother was 43 when her son, the boy (later M-to-F Transgender), was conceived around late 2001. She was near 44 when the baby was born. Reports say she was an volunteer and active at the church which the Trans shooter shot up this day.

Among that born-late-1950s generation -- the Trans-shooter's mother's age-range -- the name had become Robin quite distinctly female-dominant. Although still recognized as a unisex name, all the momentum was towards the female. It was also within easy living memory of many male Robins (and, as I say, baby-boy Robins indeed continued to be so-named at some rate even into the 1980s and 1990s, but tailing off fast).

The name Robin itself has easy, logical associations with the Male-to-Female Transgender concept. This shooter embraced the Trans Movement as the basis of his life-purpose in the early 2020s. He even released a list of his favorite bans, on which a pro-Trans band also cited as a formative influence on the Tennessee Christian school Trans shooter of about two years ago.

But, Robin. For some reason, the male-to-female name-change evolution happens over time with lots of names in the USA. And never the reverse: girls names never become boys names, that I know of. Homer Simpsons once observed something of the same:

__________

(from Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia," produced in 1996 and aired in February 1997)

-- John Waters: Homer, what have you got against gays?

-- Homer: You know! It's not usual. If there was a law, it would be against it.

-- Marge: Oh, Homer, please. You're embarrassing yourself.

-- Homer: No, I'm not, Marge. They're embarrassing me. They're embarrassing America. They turned the Navy into a floating joke. They ruined all our best names, like Bruce and Lance and Julian. Those were the toughest names we had. Now they're just—ugh.

-- John: Queer?

-- Homer: Yeah. And that's another thing. I resent you people using that word. That's our word for making fun of you! We need it! Well, I'm taking back our word...

___________

PS: "Trump himself PROPOSED, if re-elected, that he WOULD personally sponsor a Juneteenth holiday. He said it was to honor patriotic, pro-Trump Blacks; it would be a thank-you for ongoing historic Black support for Trump, he said. It would extend the Trump Platinum Plan for Black America. That was a cool few-hundred billion giveaway, tinpot-dictator-style, to favored constituencies, not unlike Venezuela. See also: Caudillo Theory of Trump(ism)."

That one really pissed me off, Mr. Hail. It may have lost him the election, even after the cheating. (Of course, they usually wait for all the votes FIRST.)

Yes, a cool few hundred BILLION is SERIOUS money too.

PS: "Early reports via social-media have it that the Minnesota school shooter who killed or injured about twenty this AM, August 27, 2025, was a white-male Transgender."

Trangenders have been mass murdering people greatly out of proportion to their population. Then too, that's the case for young people on various medications. Then, transgenders are likely on all sorts of meds too.

Will a trannifesto be forthcoming?

PS

-- Minnesota shooter Transgender --

Early reports via social-media have it that the Minnesota school shooter who killed or injured about twenty this AM, August 27, 2025, was a white-male Transgender.

Birth-name of shooter: Robert Paul Westman, born male (d.o.b. June 17, 2002; dead August 27, 2025, age 23.)

Circa 2020, began to discover that he was a woman trapped in a man's body (Transgender). Legally field for name change to ROBIN WESTMAN in 2021.

Lately angry about anti-Trans turn in US society. In his Youtube-uploaded Manifesto, vaguely alleged abuse by a Catholic priest. His family was connected with the church he/she/they shot up.

Transgender Mania, a dangerous ideology. Steve Sailer indirectly predicted cases like this, back when Robert Paul Westman (later Robin Westman, Transgender) was just a pre-teen boy.

PS

Cracker Barrel statement released:

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We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our “Old Timer” will remain.

At Cracker Barrel, it’s always been – and always will be – about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon.

(end quote, Cracker Barrel, 25 million hits on Twitter)

_________

PS

"(Steve Sailer) may want to distance himself from his stance during the PanicFest"

One man who doesn't want to distance himself is Trump, who again said his government's responses to the Panic and the Apocalypse Virus of 2020 was the best in the world and couldn't have been better, that Trump saved millions of lives.

This was during a bombastic, flattery-packed, 3.5-hour televised reality-tv Cabinet meeting.

(As usual they took turns praising the greatness of Trump in between minor mentions of what they're doing; a kind of useless spectacle, the whole thing.)

Trump opened the Cabinet meeting by simply rambling for 30 mins+, then out of nowhere brought forward a Chinese-origin girl aged about 24, who said she had been robbed a year or two earlier and that she thanks God for Trump who saved her life by increasing policing. He then played off her a while, and got the lackeys (the entire Cabinet) to clap like suited seals for this girl.

It was, as I say, quite a reality-tv moment and Trump at his worst (for me). I see more signs than ever of megalomania, but also intense consolidation over power (often around people like Steven Miller, and a range of other similar people many of the "Hofjude" type of old, of which I'd place Steve Witkoff among others as a very-good 21st-century personification, and sundry flatterers of the King).

But on the Covid-Panic Question, Steve Sailer may be silent in the mid-2020s, but Trump often goes directly to: "Trump was right and saved millions of lives; it was a flawless, perfect Panic; and Trump was right all along. When the next Panic comes, trust Trump." (Yes, he has begun more to speak in the third-person. See above on Megalomania.)

PS

RE: "federal holidays"

A new approach may be needed: move away from the concept of "federal holidays." Instead promote, if possible in this age, local identities and state control over most holidays (no state would fail to observe the big ones, anwyay: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, July 4). The tradition lingered on into the late-20th century but is but became far, far overshadowed by the announcement of so-called "federal holidays."

The controversy over the MLK "Federal Holiday" in the 1980s was probably a turning-point in centralization of the concept of holidays, although another big one was the consolidation of the February birthdays of Washington and Lincoln into a used-car-dealership-centered composite known as Presidents Day (controversy remains on where, or whether, to put the apostrophe). The consolidation of Presidents Day it seems dates to a 1971 act of Congress, and undermined state-based holidays honoring either Washington or Lincoln and/or others on one or two days in February.

Of course Robert E Lee birthday should NOT be a holiday in Vermont, nor in Oregon, nor California, etc. It however could/should be a holiday, in certain other states (I can think of 11 good candidates). Under the peak-years of the aggressive-Wokeness dispensation, it was simply unthinkable to empower such a holiday (remember that they planned to tear down and incinerate the Lee statue at Charlottesville Virginia, causing the Aug 2017 rally so-often cited as proof of the intense villainy of Whites and the need for Wokeness). It still seems highly unlikely in 2025 for a Lee holiday to be empowered in some states more than symbolically/nominally.

Trump is definitely not the one to push any such thing as giving states back control over "holidays." He is all about centralizing authority and control, under himself. Short-sighted, un-American?

Let me remind anyone reading that in 2020, Trump himself PROPOSED, if re-elected, that he WOULD personally sponsor a Juneteenth holiday. He said it was to honor patriotic, pro-Trump Blacks; it would be a thank-you for ongoing historic Black support for Trump, he said. It would extend the Trump Platinum Plan for Black America. That was a cool few-hundred billion giveaway, tinpot-dictator-style, to favored constituencies, not unlike Venezuela. See also: Caudillo Theory of Trump(ism).

PS: Yep, I saw that, Adam... same day as my post coming out. We can't seem to keep up!

PS: "Robert E. Lee, who did far more to bring the US together after the War of Northern Aggression than Mr. King did a century later." I like it, Alarmist, and good way to put it.

His birthday is still a holiday of sorts in Alabama and Mississippi, but it's celebrated the same day as MLK, so students, for example, will only hear it one way, depending on the stupidity or courage of their teachers.

PS: " It was more of a push-back/backlash against a primitive "justice" system where right and wrong and "guilty" or "not guilty" are corrupted and politicized. I don't think that Kenosha prosecutors will try that stunt again, though, should similar circumstances come up in the future. They got spanked."

Agreed, Jim, and I hope not also. I think it's a matter of how much pressure and dirty tactics, like directly speaking of harming jurors were they to vote "wrong". In this case, no black peoplw ere involved, and they are purely tribal. They didn't come out to intiimdate in order to support these 3 White dudes. (Their families, for 2 of them.)

As for "first time Commies", I meant guys who agreed with the destructive political goals of antifa but were not yet hooked in to the program of violence. (There were a number of things planned out, hence those deposited stacks of bricks we heard about... I don't know all the details.)

I appreciate your extra info on how these riots and the destructions was apportioned among 1) actually peaceful protesters, 2) The antifa black shirts, and 3) BLM looters, just in it to get on, errr a, TV.

"Some claim that the mental cases were sought out by Antifa organizers." That'd really be something if that were the case. What kind of serious opposition organizations purposely recruit nutcases, at least who has in history? "It might just work."

PS: Good afternoon, Friends!

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Biggest conservative victory in the last 30 years! ☮️

PS: I second the motion from the gentleman from Florida...

Robert E. Lee day shall be a federal holiday celebrated on January 19.

Cheers! ☮️

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Mr. Hail’s hypothetical begs for an Alexandrian “Gordian Knot” solution (cut them both), but if I really had to keep one, it would be the January observance that can also be attributed to remembrance of Robert E. Lee, who did far more to bring the US together after the War of Northern Aggression than Mr. King did a century later.

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PS -
Hey, Achmed. Thanks for the response to my comment.

Wow, I'd forgotten that Chauvin had been convicted after Kyle was acquitted. You're right - with that in mind, it wasn't really a corner that was turned with Kyle's verdict. It was more of a push-back/backlash against a primitive "justice" system where right and wrong and "guilty" or "not guilty" are corrupted and politicized. I don't think that Kenosha prosecutors will try that stunt again, though, should similar circumstances come up in the future. They got spanked.

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"Then again, I can't believe first-time Commies, just joined up with the antifa because they heard racism is bad and stuff, would have acted like this."

Not sure I agree with this, but this requires some context about Antifa. My impression is that the "first time Commies" of that time were mostly part of the large crowds who marched, attended speeches and chanted about poor George, and were differentiated from Antifa. When the summer of Floyd first kicked off, I can remember news footage of the peaceful leftists yelling angrily at Antifa rioters, looters and arsonists as they destroyed things.

There were probably many exceptions to this, but I believe that most or much of Antifa was made up of violent anarchist types who weren't connected much to the "vigil holders." They may not have been hardened experienced activists, but Antifa's ranks were filled with the mentally unstable. Some claim that the mental cases were sought out by Antifa organizers. I don't believe the people who chased and attacked Kyle were all that unique among Antifa rioters, but maybe wouldn't have been typical of general protestors.

My favorite gun personality and pundit, Massad Ayoob, said that a friend of his in law enforcement at the time described the crowd dynamics during the protests of 2020 and '21 this way: The large crowds of people who came to chant and protest (i.e. first time commies) was the ocean in which the sharks of Antifa swam.

At first glance it could be hard to distinguish the two groups from each other - and it sort of looked like violence was being perpetrated by huge crowds - but after a while it became apparent who was carrying out the violence.

PS: Hello Jim (1234). "We got to see newscasts (biased as they were) about the disturbed criminal histories of three random antifa swine. (One of them had no record, but admitted in court that he'd pointed his pistol at Kyle even when Kyle showed himself not to be a threat.)"

Yeah, I didn't write anything much about the background of these 3 guys, even though I read some again as I searched for a few detail for this post. You, that is, WE, conservative patriots, couldn't have wished for any worse human beings if there were going to be 2 killed and one injured by "one of ours" that day. If the guys had been just first-time Commies, swept into the fray, the trial may have gone differently. (Though, I know no details about the trial.) There would have been more sympathy perhaps for the antifa. Now, as you say, the masks were stripped off, and we got to see, on video, what I can only imagine is the worst of them. We got satisfaction from seeing this nice job of self-defense, and the end of 2 of these guys.

Then again, I can't believe first-time Commies, just joined up with the antifa because they heard racism is bad and stuff, would have acted like this.

"The verdict also helped turn the corner on ideology/politically based selective prosecution by local authorities. That might be it's most important contribution. But how long will that result last?"

This one went our way, but around the same time, the Brunswick/Glynn County 3, one of them just taken video, got first prosecutor-shopped and then railroaded very badly. Then there was Derik Chavin, sentenced about 1/2 year after Kyle got acquitted, to 20 years or something, and he's already gotten stabbed 20 times in prison (in one attack). Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal is to me, a good thing, of course, but almost a stroke of luck... at least for the early '20s. It's no longer the early '20s and Trump Matters.

PS: "No Covid-Panic, no Rittenhouse, no lots of things. Steve Sailer consistently fails to notice this."

Yes, I do know that he has not linked this up. He puts his timeline for the Black! murder and car wreck fatality jump at the time of the Floyd "Racial Reckoning" and says the Kung Flu was not the factor.

He may want to distance himself from his stance during the PanicFest, but I think that's his honest opinion. I say, without the whole PanicFest and Totalitarianism and major other societal changes - almost everyone at home, etc. "free" money, and all, perhaps people were in a state that May 25th and the whole summer that they wouldn't have been in otherwise.

I guess you've written about this connection in more detail closer to that time. Do you have certain posts you could link us to that spell this out, Mr. Hail?

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The Rittenhouse verdict was a corner that had to be turned. The powers that be tried to make saints out of violent Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown (and less violent - yet very criminal - George Floyd) but there was no way that Joe Rosen-bum, who did a dozen years in the joint for molesting little kids, was gonna be elevated and sanctified by pop-cult America (as mindless and corrupt as it is.)

The case finally took the black mask off of antifa, who had been anonymous and nondescript up to that point. We got to see newscasts (biased as they were) about the disturbed criminal histories of three random antifa swine. (One of them had no record, but admitted in court that he'd pointed his pistol at Kyle even when Kyle showed himself not to be a threat.)

The leftist psychological manipulation/mechanism was apparent to everyone: Even if you rape children (or have a criminal history of domestic abuse) societal and moral redemption are achievable through radical social justice activism. You can still be seen by the world as a good person. All you have to do is torch some buildings and cars, then you can go home and, I don't know, rape more kids or something. It's the perfect moral path of the amoral and immoral.

The verdict also helped turn the corner on ideology/politically based selective prosecution by local authorities. That might be it's most important contribution. But how long will that result last?
-Jim

PS: I did notice, Mr. Smith. Thanks for noting that. It only comes around ever 1,111 days. That's a lot of writing though, now that the posts seem to average 3-5 times longer than when I started.

PS: Tough choice, Mr. Hail, on the fake holidays to get rid of. Juneteenf is kind of vague, so perhaps in non-woke schools the kids could be taught that it's just a period of days off in June, for fun, you know. I don't know. We've got to do something about all of this.

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There were many events big and small from that strange period of mania in and around the year 2020, that never should've happened and that feel like something made up. A second-rate movie script that no one would believe if they saw it on paper in 1990, or 2000, or 2010, or possibly even 2019!

Let me remind us all that the particular over-the-top mania of 2020 was triggered by the Covid Mania and Hysteria.

No Covid-Panic, no Rittenhouse, no lots of things. Steve Sailer consistently fails to notice this.

PS: Happy 3333! ☮️

PS

"The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse" (2021), with lyrics and some annotated notes on the main characters:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/11/22/the-ballad-of-kyle-rittenhouse-2021/

PS

If you could eliminate with MLK Day in January or JUNETEENF Day in June, and could only remove one, which would it be?

Juneteenth was only celebrated for the first time with any kind of national profile at all in 2020, and made a "federal holiday" in 2021.

A big reason holidays matter is for children's school calendars, as many families make plans around those off-days specifically, and, for another reasons, most holidays sort of are for children anyway, or for family, which really means for children. All holidays tend to end up as civics-lessons for kids. Juneteenth (or Juneteenf, as they pronounce it) is particularly bad because it delegitimizes America from the start, a more overt anti-White holiday that puts Blacks as more important to American identity than Whites. But it's off school-year calendars by merit of being embedded within summer vacation already.