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I have a thought: Maybe we don’t need all ‘the world’s smartest people’ to come to America.

Why should they come to the U.S. just to get discriminated against in favor of ‘people of color’ who aren’t as smart?

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The worm has started to turn. This could get very ugly.

Read it. And watch the video.

There seems to be a gradual awakening that the President isn’t the mindless yokel as the DemLegHump Media are constantly painting him.

The Other McCain tells you all about it.

Nobody wants to live in Massachusetts. which has the lowest total fertility rates (1.54 average lifetime births per woman) in the United States. The total fertility rate in Tennessee is 1.82, almost 20% higher than Massachusetts. This has political consequences, as Massachusetts has watched its number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives decline significantly in the past several decades. When John Kennedy was elected President in 1960, Massachusetts was the 10th most populous U.S. state, and had 14 seats in the House. Today, Massachusetts is the 14th most populous state and has only nine seats in the House, the same as Tennessee, which ranks 17th in population. Because the Massachusetts delegation is all-Democrat, the feeble birth rate in the state is a factor in the declining fortunes of the Democrat Party. Massachusetts is aborting itself into political irrelevance, but doesn’t seem to understand this.

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Pass the popcorn.

https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2018/06/07

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Federalism? Jeebus, where did this redneck rube come from?

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Mueller? Mueller who?

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I’d consider it if the place weren’t full of communists like Bernie Sanders.

The  best way to ‘boost the local economy’ is to stop being communists. That works every time it’s tried; look at Eastern Europe.

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It’s certainly her gift to the gene pool.

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Hey! Science!

(Tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.)

One of the questions I’m often asked by people who acknowledge that Trump has done some pretty awesome things during his time in office is the fact that they just can’t get over the obvious fact that he keeps saying what they regard as, and which I freely admit to being,  ‘stupid things’.

The categories of ‘stupid shit Trump says’ range from inaccurate statements (invariably characterized by his critics as LIES! without considering the primary predicate of a lie, which is an intention to deceive) to infelicitous (e.g. anything that can easily be distorted and taken out of context by his critics) to The Truth That Dare Not Say Its Name (things that everybody knows to be true but which cannot actually be said in public without tremendous amounts of blowback from people who are fundamentally invested in said true thing actually being, or being considered, not true).

Scott Adams, in his Periscope sessions, is constantly pointing out that people are missing the essential ‘persuasion’ part of the picture: Controlling The Conversation.

Once these things are said, the Chattering Class are physically unable to ignore them, any more than a dog is able to resist chasing something running away from it. While they are chattering about these things, which are of no importance, they aren’t talking about what they would prefer to be talking about, which is their agenda. (And they do have an agenda, trust me.) The reason that these things are of no importance is that any connection between what Trump says and what Trump does is, at best, accidental.

Since the mid-1960s, that section of the information economy known at the Mainstream Media have had a lock on what Americans (and, by extension, people around the world) hear being ‘talked about’ — the major TV and radio networks, the big-city newspapers, the informational and opinion publications popular with Those Who Matter (at least in their own minds), and certain publications (like Scientific American and Popular Science and National Geographic) that one wouldn’t ordinarily think had any connection with politics but that have been taken over by Social Justice Warriors and turned into Voices of the Crust because Social Justice Warriors cannot tolerate the existence of any publication (or organization, such as the Boy Scouts) that hasn’t been roped into the Progressive Chorus.

‘Yeah, but how can he stand to say all of these stupid things? Even a second’s thought would reveal how stupid they are.’ The whole point is that Trump doesn’t give them that second’s thought. True or false, wise or foolish, helpful or unhelpful, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that they take control of the public discourse. While the sharks are fighting over the bucket of fish guts you’ve thrown in the water, they aren’t chewing on you or on the thing you’re pulling out of the water, which is worth a lot more to you than a bunch of fish guts. And the sharks can’t avoid attacking the fish guts because that’s their shark nature, which they cannot control. Watch it in action. Any time tha the Chattering Class get into some part of their agenda rather that what Trump wants them to be talking about, he will toss another grenade into the stream just to watch the dead fish from CNN and MSNBC float to the surface. He’s been doing it for at least three years now; my wonder is not that he’s doing it but that more people haven’t caught on to it.

I don’t even claim that this is a deliberate choice on Trump’s part. For all I know, it might be, but I think that he’s been doing this for so long, and been so successful at it, that it’s an entirely unconscious process on his part. He doesn’t have to think about how to Control The Conversation any more than Serena Williams needs to think about how to return a serve — there it is WHAP there it goes….

There is a method to this apparent madness, a very successful one. So unclench the stomach, pass the popcorn, and enjoy the show.

True dat.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Steve Sailer reviews the new book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.

The energetic science journalist Carl Zimmer might seem well-endowed by ancestry to broker a moderate compromise between the warring tribes on the subject of heredity. In She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, he reports that his DNA test shows he is 43 percent Ashkenazi through his father, former Republican congressman Dick Zimmer, while his mother, a Goodspeed, is largely from pre–Ellis Island stock.

Zimmer has come up with a double track solution to meet popular demand for vilification of the old scientists while still making sense of the history. Thus, Zimmer starts off in the Gouldian vein with lots on how evil and wrong were the old Protestants like Linnaeus and Galton. He brings in Gould’s pals Richard Lewontin, Leon Kamin, and Steven Rose to set everybody straight.

But, hundreds of pages later, Zimmer goes back to admit that Linnaeus and Galton and the like had made huge innovations. And, by the way, he concedes: You know that IQ testing stuff? Well, it’s basically good science.

Read it.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wish that money had been better spent.

I really love the term ‘lawyer foyer’.

You know you want one.

Difference between Nazi and Communist is when you say how horrible Nazis have been, they don’t say “Well, real Nazism has never been tried.” – Frank J. Fleming

Sorry, kid — even when you’re older, golf is still stupid and sushi is still bait.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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“They laughed when I sat down to play….”

To quote Doonesbury character B.D. : “The President is smarter than you think.”

Been there — done that.

Rob Henderson testifies.

Last year, a fellow student told me I was a victim. Yale is the only place where someone has said this to me. I responded that if someone had told me I was a victim when I was a kid, I would never have made it to the Air Force, where I served for eight years, or to Yale. I would have given up. When I was 10, a teacher told me that if I applied myself, I could alter my future. This advice changed my life. From my response, my fellow student inferred that I was not as progressive as him. As our conversation unfolded, he asked, “What does it actually mean to be a conservative?”

For me, the answer is that people who came before us weren’t stupid. They were stunted in many ways. But not in every way. Older people have insights worthy of our attention.

Yale is full of victims these days, hugely entitled ones. But every now and then you run across somebody like Rob.

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The Crust takes care of its own.

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But you have to understand that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first year in office.

Just bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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Classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson’s extended essay and memoir, Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, has aged well since it’s publication in 2003, when it was met with significant criticism from both the Left and the economic-libertarian Right, who, according to Hanson, accused him of being a racist, nativist, and isolationist. Its grave concerns, related to immigration policy in the United States, have proven to be prescient, and its prescriptions are as salutary now as the day the book was published.

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Along the way, vote for proglodyte politicians to continue destroying our culture.

The idea he comes up with is called “Laborize,” a company that would hire itself out to one organization to unionize a rival — it would, say, contract with Uber to unionize Lyft — and therefore ruin the competitive advantage that comes from denying health care, steady wages and other benefits of unionization. It is a clever ploy that cuts to the heart of what makes Silicon Valley a very pure example of capitalism: the fact that it screws over, or tries to automate into the digital ether, a vast proportion of the American work force, in order to enrich, artificially and enormously, a small proportion of investors and owners, whose companies are — more often than not — profoundly unprofitable.

A better grasp of economics and the destructive effects of collectivism and government interference than anybody at Google, Facebook, or Twitter has ever exhibited. I like him already.

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Don’t those idiots know that Trump is in Putin’s back pocket? Don’t they watch the news?

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Trump’s net worth dipped to $2.8 billion, down from $2.9 billion in 2017, according to a Bloomberg estimate of the president’s May 16 financial disclosures. That’s the lowest Bloomberg has seen the former real estate mogul’s wealth since 2015.

Contrast with how Obama and Bill Clinton are raking it in.

Freeberg waxes delightfully dyspeptic.

Yes it’s fun watching liberal heads explode in the Trump era, as it seems they’re losing ground on every front, but things always move in cycles and I see one battleground where things are going the wrong way: This talk about “privilege.” It used to be fringe-kooky racist stuff, as in, “white people need to learn their place and check their privilege.” And then it was radical-feminist sexist stuff. “Men have to check their privilege.” It’s quickly becoming mainstream. I’m hearing it from all directions lately. Such is the power of guilt…and, the allure of not-shutting-up. “Oh, I find these arguments completely convincing that I’m white and suburban and don’t know anything about anything and need to shut up…I shall have to prattle away about that endlessly to show how enlightened I am.”

And, by the way, have you seen my Tesla?

Who has these “You’re privileged and I’m not” bragging rights? Fact is — among those who can read these words, no one has ’em! If you were born, or were able to migrate to, the United States anytime in the last hundred years, you are privileged.

Joe Bob Briggs lets it all hang out.

Question: How can you tell the difference between Elon Musk and an ordinary Tesla owner?

Answer: Elon Musk will eventually stop talking about his Tesla.

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In February, oil output hit 10.2 million barrels per day and gas production hit 87.6 billion cubic feet per day. The fact that US oil and gas companies are producing such prodigious quantities of energy — and by doing so, are saving consumers billions of dollars per year — should be headline news.

If it were, it would be shrieks of horror.

How big is that addition? Over the past decade, merely the increase — I repeat, just the increase — in US oil and gas production is equal to seven times the total energy production of every wind turbine and solar project in the United States.

The horror! The horror!

The Trump Agenda is to do things that make his critics’ heads explode.

Think about it. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

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Researchers of group differences have pointed out until they are blue in the face that believing in equal rights is not contingent on believing all people are born with the same abilities and that merely by discussing the causes of group differences in mean IQ they are not intending to question the moral basis for sexual or racial equality. You can believe that there are between-group IQ differences – you can even believe that these differences are 80% heritable – and still remain committed to equal rights….

But anti-hereditarians seem to have extraordinary difficulty grasping this point – it is as if they want their opponents to be making this false inference even though, by imagining this sin, they are unconsciously committing it themselves. If you argue that any research into group differences is ‘dangerous’ because it threatens to undermine the basis for equal rights, you are implicitly accepting the twisted logic of the racist’s argument, namely, that if people aren’t equal in their capabilities, then we would be justified in denying some groups their civil rights. It is this inference that is racist, not any claim about group differences, whether true or not, and it is not one that most intelligence researchers are guilty of. No doubt some hereditarians are racists, but then the beliefs of some cultural determinists are pretty toxic too, such as Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao and Pol Pot.

These are points that cannot be too often repeated, and are areas in which proglodytes are subject to massive cognitive dissonance.

Hey, let’s all  just move to Switzerland.

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Trump keeps muffing his part in the Narrative. Somebody get that guy a clue.

Lookin’ forward to the day….