DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Tim Pool has a lot of fun with the latest California ‘you-can’t-make-this-shit-up’ story.

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I have to agree with him on the panoramic glass roofs. I’m sure it makes government satellite surveillance easier, but I can’t think of any other reason to have one.

Being relatively tall, my head is only a few centimeters away from the hot, burning glass radiating directly onto my middle aged balding scalp. In summer the interior side of the glass gets so hot that it hurts to touch.

Well, that’s what you get for being all hip & trendy.

The Other McCain.

No intelligent person would have predicted a long life for Mikquale Cooper, a/k/a “BloodHound Q50.” In all honesty, it was surprising that Cooper lived to be 22 years old before he got riddled with bullets early Sunday morning on the south side of Chicago. Cooper was a practitioner of what is known as “drill rap,” which involves urban gangsters bragging about their crimes and threatening to murder their rivals.

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A Democrat administration violating the law? Say it ain’t so!

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But you knew that.The Democrat Party has been moving Left non-stop for over 30 years. Polling by Pew Research from 1994 to 2017, showed a lurch to the Left for the median Democrat.

(Pew stopped issuing this poll in 2017 … my private suspicion is that the median Dem no longer fit on the graph)

But it’s now clear … Democrats ARE Socialists. It became obvious to me back in 2020. Biden won the Dem primary in 2020 by switching horses mid-stream. While he started out as a “moderate” Dem, those positions got no traction. So, after losing the first several primaries in embarrassing fashion, he basically co-opted Socialist Bernie Sanders’ positions. And with the public support of South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn, the new-version Biden won the 2020 Dem primary.

And it’s now official … in a newly released Quinnipiac University poll, 59% of registered Democrats say they support the Democratic Socialists of America.

‘WE HAVE TO WIPE (TRUMP) OUT:’ Tapper Ignores Gallego’s Wild Rhetoric

Poll: Democrats More Motivated to Stop Trump, GOP If motivation won elections the Woke would be in power.

Pardon brokers offer to “put pressure on the president” — at sky-high costs (Gabe Kaminsky/CBS News)  But THAT trick NEVER works.

ESPN’s Cruz Control (Natalie Korach/Status)  Funny how an alleged sports channel is always pushing the proglodyte agenda.

Jeffries’ Dems May Impeach Trump With House Win  *YAWN*

TDS Infects Washington Post Review of 14th Century Film ‘The Uprising’

Paid brokers tout ties to Trump’s orbit to lobby for presidential pardons (Lesley Stahl/CBS News)  Good luck with that.

The left puts out another smear campaign against Trump — spreading hate on 9/11 anniversary (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)  As they do.

How Republicans secretly got Fetterman for their convention (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  Secretly!

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin (ProPublica)  All it needs is a sly reference to Nick Fuentes or Alex Jones to be perfect.

Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto? (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)  The universal rule of thumb is that the correct answer to a question in a Narrative Media headline is “no”.

\\A centrist House Democrat may be replaced by ‘Trump before Donald Trump’ (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)  TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Trump, Vance open midterm campaign tour as GOP troubles deepen (Washington Post)

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

“Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  No mention of how Obama and Biden tried the same trick.

Illegal deportations spike under Trump’s ICE push (Politico)

It’s Not Just Trump Who’s Dumb About Economics–It’s the GOP Generally (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

States and Cities Sue Over Trump’s Policy to Restrict Green Cards (Madeleine Ngo/New York Times)

Morning Joe Fears For Freedom of Speech, Angry at Bush For Not Being Anti-Trump Activist

Donald Trump Jr.’s wife says Russian oligarch hosted post-wedding festivities as a “gift” (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)  Let’s user some scare-quotes, shall we?

States, Cities Sue to Block Trump Immigration Rule on Public Benefits  Because giving taxpayer money to foreigners (who will then vote for the Party of Free Stuff) is what Democrats are all about.

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. (Travis M. Andrews/Washington Post)  Four hours of Narrative in one place. What’s not to like?

Jeffries Refuses To Rule Out Trump Impeachment If Democrats Win House  Oh,  dude, that will be their first priority. It won’t go anywhere without control of the Senate, but it virtue-signals to their base without actually having to produce any results, a Democrat’s wet dream.

CNN to Biden: Forget Debt, Spend Out of COVID. CNN to Trump: You Can’t Grow Out of Debt

Mamdani, Letitia James sue to block Trump admin from refusing immigrants over welfare status (Anders Hagstrom/Fox News)  How can the Party of Free Stuff buy elections without giving taxpayer money to foreigners?

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Well, I’m glad SOMEBODY is.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Imtiaz Mohammad, the Republican nominee for Florida House District 103 following an uncontested primary, has undergone a striking political transformation. His history in Democratic and progressive politics, involvement with controversial Muslim groups, appearances at an institution linked to persons implicated in terrorism, and past statements disparaging America present a political résumé more aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) than the Republican Party.

Let’s pay more attention, people.

Babylon Bee.

Took ’em long enough….

ATQUE: Climate Activists Blame Global Warming For Zero Hurricanes Forming In Atlantic This Year

Not the Bee.

No, this isn’t satire.

Why do you ask?

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Because the ‘mayor’ is a Democrat and can’t be bothered.

Thirty-eight of the biggest names in American business just sent a memo to city hall, and it reads less like corporate lobbying and more like a performance review nobody asked for.

Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, Zillow, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, and the Seattle Mariners put their names on a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson demanding a public safety plan with a deadline, a budget, and monthly report cards. When Brad Smith and Brian Niccol start writing performance reviews for the mayor, you know the mayor’s own staff stopped writing them.

I have spent thirty years advising institutions on risk, and risk shows up first in the data nobody wants to read out loud. The coalition’s own numbers do the reading for them. A poll it commissioned in mid-August found just 34% of Seattle voters confident the city has an effective public safety plan. Every proposal the pollster tested cleared 75% support, and 90% of voters backed something as basic as foot and bicycle patrols in high-crime areas.

That is not a partisan split. That is a city agreeing with itself and watching its government do something else entirely.

Democrats aren’t about governing, any more than insurance companies are about paying claims. They’re about getting elected, oppressing the Heretics & Sinners, and dividing up the swag. Keeping people safe? Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

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What’s she gonna do, confess?

(Ever notice how many ‘black’ women do their damnedest to look anything other than African?)

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You can’t get more Democrat than that.

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Just remember: John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett decided that everyone born in America has the automatic right to be an American, even the small armies of Chinese anchor babies being born to foreign billionaires!

On the other hand, if I were a Chinese billionaire, I’d probably do the same thing.

I can fill you in on the motive.

China wants to rule the world. The U.S. has a stupid “birthright citizenship” rule that allows anyone to magically get American citizenship if they are born here. This incentivizes birth tourism to get access to citizenship.

Chinese billionaires have lots of money. Thanks to surrogacy, they can sire hundreds of “American” kids that will then work to help China in the decades to come.

And California is leading the way in this Chinese baby-factory business.

Think of it as evolution in action. Reality has a bad tendency to stick around even when you say LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU….

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If a college prioritizes non-whites over whites, you get a student body that looks like the Turd World.

Reality doesn’t go away if you ignore it.

NARRATIVE: Texas Republican Slammed for Racist Post About UT Football Fans (Joe Lovinger/Bloomberg)

MORE NARRATIVE: MAGA media back GOP nominee’s racist social media post complaining about nonwhite college students in Texas (Media Matters for America)

BALANCE: Texas man tries to tank GOP candidate by sharing his “racist” messages

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Abdul El-Sayed would like voters to know that he is not a socialist.

The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan made that clear during a July debate. “When it comes to the question of socialism, I’m not a socialist,” he said.

Fair enough.

But what a politician calls himself matters far less than what he wants to do.

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The Bank of England has spent more than £85,000 of research money to justify wiping Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner and Alan Turing off Britain’s banknotes and swapping them for hedgehogs, foxes and puffins.

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Hint: Yes.

It’s a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground. It’s the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII. Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.

When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their navy to decay into irrelevance. Twenty years ago, they had nearly 50 active fighting vessels and today they are down to 22 vessels. Britain’s GDP per capita is currently lower than the state of Alabama. And, they keep importing thousands upon thousands of third world migrants, with the vast majority relying on taxpayer funded subsidies.

When given a choice between funding the British military or funding more immigrants, the government has chosen to fund more immigrants. Britain has increased welfare spending by 16% in the past 5 years alone.

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Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The New Neo.

Seems there are two extremes right now on the subject of the Clancy case, at least in terms of the bulk of online discussion. I don’t fit into either camp – not those who say Clancy is some sort of heroic persecuted figure (or that her husband did it), nor those who say she’s nothing but a vicious killer who wanted her kids dead and came up with the excuse of mental illness for her own evil actions.

Modern-day jurors have a tendency to discuss trials and deliberations publicly, and a number of Clancy case jurors have come out with a lot to say, post-trial. Their decision came down, as I figured it would, to the idea of reasonable doubt, held by eleven jurors who would have put Clancy in a mental hospital for an undetermined amount of time rather than in prison for life.

I’ve written before about the fact that Massachusetts law supports that verdict (whether you think it’s a good law or not, and personally I do not) and how unusual that law is.

Power Line.

It’s been evident for a while that the Trump administration is investigating legal issues in the matter of Ilhan Omar. President Trump garbled the facts when talking about her case a while back. Vice President Vance has suggested that she is under criminal investigation. White House border czar Tom Homan has also referred to an “ongoing criminal investigation.”

Omar is under investigation, but I don’t think any one of these statements is entirely accurate. I don’t know what it’s all about, but I know something about it. This past January I was interviewed by two federal agents regarding my own work on the Omar case. I have covered the case on Power Line over the past ten years, beginning with “Ilhan Omar: Her back pages.” Most recently, I looked back in “Ten years on the curious case.”

Last week Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made news with the comment that “Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary.” The linked New York Post story by Victor Nava cites the City Journal column I wrote about “The curious case of Ilhan Omar” in early September 2016, before Omar had even been elected to the lowly office for which she was running at the time. Nava doesn’t mention the New York Post column I wrote about Omar a year ago.

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Statistics compiled by the Institute for Family Studies revealed that there were 30.4 million single men aged 18 to 39 in 2025 in the U.S., amounting to almost 10 million more bachelors than there were in 2000 (20.7 million). The Institute for Family Studies further estimated that there were 15 million more single men than husbands in this age group in 2025. In 2000, there was only a 2.6 million difference.

This rise in male singleness has translated to fewer married men. Over the last 25 years, the number of wedded men has plunged from 18.1 million to 15.4 million, a 15% drop.

Experts say the sinking numbers are extremely troubling for the future prospects of the country in a host of ways. Sociologists like Institute for Family Studies fellow Brad Wilcox point out that single men are “more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” adding that “it’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited and unhappy young men.” Data shows that unhappiness is rising among single men, from 16% in 1980 to 23% in 2020. Comparatively, the rate of unhappiness among married men has stayed steady, hovering between 8%-7% over the same time span.

Over 50% of American marriages end in divorce, and 80% of divorces are initiated by the wife.

Men don’t want to get married and face the prospect that the wife might dump them, take half their money and their kids, and pretty much destroy their lives.  An entirely rational decision.

Marriage is the only ‘contract’ where one party is paid to leave.

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It is a gift of Anglosphere culture that we can have obfuscatory rhetoric in any size or shape we want. Perhaps because of the wealth of options, it is not so strange that the first example that comes to my mind is from a 1978 novel titled The Empty Copper Sea. A Florida businessman disappears, presumed drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, but there is some evidence he made it across the water and is now living under a new identity. There is also some evidence that he had been selling assets and emptying bank accounts. I won’t spoil the story by revealing how he is found, or where, or in what physical or financial condition, but I do want to mention his attorney. This man is as genuinely ignorant as everyone else in their seaside town, but he feels that his client, dead or alive, still has interests to be defended. The advocate cannot agree with the idea that money was stolen, or even hidden. On the contrary, he suggests the man was fixing to turn his failing businesses around, as he had often done before, and to that end had simply “enhanced his cash position.”

One of finest of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Read The Whole Series.

Come to think of it, I’ve read quite a few stories like this – I think they had titles like The Story, or maybe The Novel, or was it The Book – but while John Grisham is a talented author, I think John D. MacDonald was better at this. What I really want to discuss, however, are the two ways we can say something in English: Germanic and Latinate. Harsher words like “stolen” and “hidden” are Germanic; gentler words like “enhanced” and “position” are Latinate. What I really want to pursue is how other cultures manage this – if indeed they do at all. What about cultures that are largely or completely Latinate? Or ones that aren’t at all? In those, what do you do when you want to sound like a pompous jerk?

The reason English is everybody’s second language is exactly this overwhelming flexibility. (Plus Britain and America.)

It may be that riders of mass transit in Guatemala City and Mexico City say with a straight face – there being no other way to do it – that they’re using movilidad integrada. And it may be that the school system in Slovenia still says it’s dealing with Gypsy students using fleksibilna diferenciacija. I can believe education bureaucrats everywhere embrace such lingo. But what do people in, oh, Asia do?

I’m sure you’re going to tell us….

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Thus matching the number of children murdered in cold blood by Lindsay Clancy.

Compare and contrast the proglodyte reactions.

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My, what a surprise.

Rather ironic, since the NYC is owned and run by Jews.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been much in the news lately. Their candidates have won some Democratic Party primaries, and a few have even been elected to local offices.

According to the DSA website, it rejects authoritarian forms of socialism. Yet the same website celebrates the career of Fidel Castro, the brutal communist dictator who converted Cuba from a prosperous and rather mild dictatorship into a poverty-stricken concentration camp. If you know nothing more about DSA other than its celebration of Castro’s career, that may be sufficient.

Consistent with the celebration of Castro is that the DSA’s website features sound bites from the writings of Karl Marx and from past communist propaganda campaigns. Examples include “World to win” (from Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto), “international struggle,” “socialist solidarity,” “working class,” and so forth.

‘Democratic Socialist’ is an oxymoron, like ‘Democratis Fascist’.

The Foundry.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the debate over ESG–which stands for environmental, social, and governance investing–is that the term has no set definition.

Although the term “ESG” has general outlines and a basic connotation, the particulars are ephemeral. It can mean one thing one day to one investor, company, or ratings agency, and something completely different the next day or to the next individual or organization.

For example, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently released a list of more than 100 companies that applied under the EU’s new regulatory framework to be considered ESG ratings agencies.

Each of these ratings services has its own proprietary assessment variables and formulas and, as a result, its own proprietary definition of ESG–meaning that the term has more than 100 technically different meanings, even among those who are closest to the process and most heavily involved in its harmonization.

It’s been more than three years since BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told the Aspen Ideas Festival that he quit using the term “ESG,” yet his firm’s iShares family of ETFs is still by far the most dominant ESG firm in the world, managing roughly a third of global ESG investments.

ESG means nothing … and everything. It means whatever the user of the term wants it to mean at any given moment.

Much like ‘diversity’ … or ‘patriarchy’ or ‘supremacist’ or ‘misogyny’ or any of the other proglodyte smear-words.

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Last week the Canadian MP Dean Allison convened an independent enquiry on Parliament Hill in Ottawa into the adverse effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines”. On the second day (September 9) of the Allison Enquiry an American obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. James Thorp, gave testimony.

After testifying, Dr. Thorp was interviewed by RAIR Foundation. He discussed the revelations found in the recently released diary and emails of Anthony Fauci, which showed that Dr. Fauci and other top medical officials were aware of the clinical results showing that the vax could harm pregnant women, yet they continued to push for expectant mothers to get “vaccinated”, saying that the mRNA shots were safe. Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) said otherwise: the vax could harm the developing fetus and cause miscarriages. Speaking out in public about this fact was what got Dr. Thorp in trouble.

Like Dr. Charles Hoffe (see yesterday’s report), Dr. Thorp was punished by the medical establishment, and was fired by his employer.

Medical practitioners were well aware of what would happen to them if they spoke up about the compelling evidence that the vax was harmful to pregnant women, so most of them complied and remained silent. Dr. Thorp was one of the few who had the sand to risk his career by telling the truth.

Welcome to the Canadian Soviet Socialist Republic. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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If you’re a black man, a lone black man; and nine white women tell you what to do; you better listen up. Don’t give them no smack. Don’t tell them, “I’m still not gonna sign.” And you just better get over those three dead kids. Cuz those nine white women will tell you what the law says and what reasonable doubt is. They’ll tell you what you can and cannot get over. And you’ll do as your told on the Democratic White Women Plantation.

Quillette.

Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.

A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the paper’s arts and culture correspondent amused me before it made me short-tempered. “British Museum,” the headline announced, “hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry.” The subhead: “Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum” (emphasis mine, and a phrase that the great writer, Barbara Pym, would surely have enjoyed). Is there a global “Register of Interest in Museum”? Known to whom? Is the problem that Thiel’s degree of interest in the British Museum is uncertain or insufficient? Would the privileged visit have caused less concern had Thiel been a registered Museum donor?

Something isn’t bad just because Hitler liked it—else vegetarians would be compelled by their own principles to commit suicide.

New York Post.

The new threat election officials fear: Trump’s federal government (Washington Post)

NC candidate who is “running to restore human decency” says Trump voters belong in Nazi ovens

Months after mocking Trump for his focus on Greenland, media reports on China’s first Arctic shipping route

The Fix Was Almost In ??? It’s only September, and America just barely averted … (David French/New York Times)  David French, the Left’s favorite pseudo-conservative, does what he does best.

Republican Rep. Lawler dodges pledge of allegiance to Trump: ‘I pledge my allegiance to my constituents’ (Sophie Sonnenfeld/ABC News)  And his pocketbook, don’t forget that.

New York Times Pushes Page One Editorial: Trump ‘Wielding Power’ to ‘Stifle Speech’  No Democrat needs to do that, because the Narrative Media and socialist mobs do it for them.

Democratic voters driven more by opposition to Trump than party platform in fight for the House, poll finds (Jalen Beckford/Politico)

For Trump, a Golf Trip to Ireland Tees Up a Reunification Controversy (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)  The Usual Suspects make a mountain out of a molehill. Every Irish person would welcome re-unification, if it could be done peacefully.

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Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science.

They were mistaken.

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How about that Climate Change Emergency, eh?

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Nobody can hate like the Left.

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Anything to help the Chinese win, since the Chinese are socialists, just like the Democrats.

Treason in the U.S. is defined as levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

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Why wasn’t this page found?

We asked some leading economists.

Stagflation info
The cost of pages rose drastically, while the page production rate slowed down.
General economics
There was no market for it.
Liquidity traps
We injected some extra money into the technology team but there was little or no interest so they simply kept it, thus failing to stimulate the page economy.
Pareto inefficiency
There exists another page that will make everyone better off without making anyone worse off.
Supply and demand info
Demand increased and a shortage occurred.
Classical economics
There is no such page. We are not going to interfere.
Keynesian economics
Aggregate demand for this page did not necessarily equal the productive capacity of the website.
Malthusianism info
Unchecked, exponential page growth outstripped the pixel supply. There was a catastrophe, and now the population is at a lower, more sustainable level.
Neo-Malthusianism info
To avoid unchecked, exponential page growth outstripping the pixel supply and leading to an inevitable catastrophe, we prevented this page from being conceived.
Marxism info
The failure of this page to load is a consequence of the inherent contradictions in the capitalist mode of production.
Laissez Faire Capitalism
We know this page is needed, but we can’t force anyone to make it.
Monetarism info
The government has limited the number of pages in circulation.
Efficient Markets Hypothesis info
If you had paid enough for the page, it would have appeared.
Moral Hazard info
Showing you this page would only encourage you to want more pages.
Tragedy of the Commons info
Everyone wanted to view this page, but no-one was willing to maintain it.
Game theory info
By not viewing this page you help everyone else get better pages.
Mercantilism info
The page is hosted by a foreign web server and is therefore banned to ensure the supremacy of our own software.
Trickle-down
High taxes on content publishers prevented them hiring the person who would have written this page.
Speculative bubble
The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it’s all now ending in tears.
Socialism
If you were to get the page you wanted you might get a better page than someone else, which would be unfair. This way at least everyone gets the same.
Behavioural economics info
The influence of psychological factors caused you to act in a manner that would not be expected of a purely rational actor.
Theory of the second best info
The best outcome was unachievable, so you have arrived here instead.

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Leaders of the governing pro-independence parties in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for independence referendums….

Uh, thats ‘referenda‘, chaps….

L.A. Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The company pulled the car over after detecting a “violation of our terms of service involving a firearm,” the spokesperson said. The company alerted emergency services and “cooperated fully” with San Francisco police.

Proglodytes will start to embrace AI when it starts enforcing Woke ideology—as here.

This wasn’t the first time Waymo has tattled on alleged troublemakers. In July, Waymo contacted the San Mateo Police Department after two teens were found drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns in the back of a car, authorities said at the time.

The Guardian, Pravda of Progressivism in Britain and around the world.

I think one can comfortably assume that Naomi Klein is not a Person of Poverty. Note the weasel-word in the theme: ‘Extreme wealth’. I suspect that, to Naomi Klein (as to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth ‘Professor Umbrage’ Warren), extreme wealth is anyone richer than Naomi Klein.

Of course, ‘supremacist’ is a Bad Word only with respect to people who are Heretics and Sinners. Ideological supremacists like the Left are perfectly admirable.

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Everyone knows there’s cultural knowledge in elite circles. How to get your kid into a good college. How to pass a consulting or finance or Google interview.

There’s just as much cultural knowledge to being in the bottom two quintiles. I see it written about much less.

My first car was a Datsun PL510, a previous owner of which had glued fake fur to the roof such that you appeared to be riding in an inside-out wolfhound. And the door panels had been reupholstered in red plus that had since sun-faded to a nice peach color. And the shotgun-seat door didn’t open from the outside.

Cost me $1,000 of my own money. Did me all five years of graduate school. Don’t dare return to Indiana because the friends I left it with never changed the registration and eventually it was impounded for traffic and parking tickets. (I know they’re still looking for me….)

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

The reason why Japanese people don’t use something like this is that the language contains an obscene amount of homophones, and kanji allow one to nail down the precise meaning without having to depend on vague contextual clues or tedious periphrasis.

(English is just the opposite—it has an excess of what one might call ‘heterophones’, words that mean pretty much the same thing but look and sound entirely different. Of course, if you try to use different heterophones to express different nuances of meaning it brings out the Humpty-Dumpty My Way Or The Highway linguistic hatermongers.)

The Foundry.

Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke?

Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial “dog whistles.”

Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.” Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “Senate Republicans condemn David Duke, the KKK and his racism.”

When Duke later announced a Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said: “David Duke & his hateful bigotry have no place in the Republican Party & the RNC will never support his candidacy under any circumstance.”

Now consider the Democratic Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, “America deserved 9/11.” He called Israel “the Jewish ISIS” and declared Hamas “1,000 times better than Israel.” Piker warned that if American Jews continue to show, as Piker put it, to be “singularly invested in Israel,” eventually someone would “take action” against them.

Unlike Duke in 2016, Piker is not a politically marginal figure with little influence. The Anti-Defamation League estimates he has over 11 million combined followers. He has interviewed or appeared online with Democrats Sen. Bernie Sanders; Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar; New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani; Rep. Ro Khanna; and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Zach Goldberg’s most famous graph depicts the strange phenomenon whereby every racial group in America likes themselves, except for White liberals, who like other groups more than they like Whites.

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Has it always been this way? No. White liberal self-derogation is a recent phenomenon, timed after the so-called ‘Great Awokening’ that came with Obama’s re-election and fomenting of race relations.

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Stroke your Inner Climate Change Hand-Wringer.