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More fallout from George Floyd’s precedent that submitting to law enforcement is optional if you are having a bad day, from the NW News Network:

See ya! Washington police say drivers aren’t stopping for them; cite pursuit restrictions

NWNews | By Austin Jenkins
Published May 26, 2022 at 5:14 PM PDT

Since January of this year, more than 900 drivers have failed to stop for a Washington State Patrol trooper trying to pull them over. The patrol and other police agencies around the state say they’ve never seen such blatant disregard for their lights and sirens. The change in driver behavior comes after state lawmakers passed strict new rules on when police can engage in pursuits.

It was just before 6 p.m. on a Wednesday evening last month when a state trooper spotted a white BMW with California license plates passing on a double yellow line along Deschutes Parkway near Washington’s Capitol.

Recalling how calm and nice the drivers in Spokane were on my recent visit, this anecdote reminds me of England’s Locomotive Acts of 1865-1896:

In the United Kingdom, the Locomotive Acts was a policy requiring self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle’s approach.

In the interest of public safety, the state of Washington should legally mandate that all white BMWs with California license plates must be preceded by a man walking down the street waving a red flag and shouting to pedestrians, “Run for your lives! A white BMW from California is coming!”

Dashcam video from that evening shows the trooper trying to catch up to the speeding car.

But when the trooper closed the gap with the BMW near the edge of downtown Olympia and turned on his flashing lights, the car didn’t pull over. Instead, the driver took off.

The video, obtained through a public records request, shows the car weaving in and out of lanes, taking a hard right turn, running a stop sign and then a red light and narrowly missing cars before racing off in the direction it had come. The trooper did not give chase.

The Washington State Patrol (WSP) says drivers refusing to stop for troopers is an increasingly common occurrence. From January 1 to May 17 of this year, the agency logged 934 failure-to-yield incidents. While the patrol didn’t track this in the past, veteran troopers say there’s been a dramatic uptick in drivers fleeing traffic stops.

“Something’s changed. People are not stopping right now,” said Sgt. Darren Wright, a WSP spokesperson with 31 years on the job. “It’s happening three to five times a shift on some nights and then a couple times a week on day shift.”

It’s not just the State Patrol that’s noticing the trend. So are local police departments. The Puyallup Police Department logged 148 instances of drivers fleeing from officers from July 26, 2021 to May 18, 2022.

Asked if that represents a significant increase, Chief Scott Engle wrote in an email, “I could 1,000,000% say this is completely absolutely emphatically totally unusual.” …

Steve Strachan, the executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, said these are common stories he’s hearing from his members across the state.

“It used to be sort of unusual and notable to see someone flee or to see someone simply choose not to stop on a traffic stop. Now it’s becoming incredibly common,” Strachan said.

Strachan and others in law enforcement connect the increase in failures-to-yield to passage last year of House Bill 1054, a sweeping police tactics law that, among other things, barred high-speed pursuits except in very limited circumstances. The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other high-profile police killings — reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing.

 
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  1. reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing

    The more logical way to address racial disproportionality in policing is for racial minorities to stop breaking the law so much

    • Agree: Redneck farmer, Danindc
    • Replies: @SiNCERITY.net
    @ScarletNumber

    By our politically correct "anti-racist" gag orders, we must never point out that "minorities" are worse in any respect.

    #TrueSpeech about #HateFacts is not permissible in our society. This must be exposed and opposed and change.

    Total truthfulness (like @isteve, @PK, vdare, amren) must be REWARDED, not punished by excommunication from polite society.

    Sincerity dot net DEMANDS
    Intolerance of dishonesty, of omission, and
    full disclosure of the WHOLE TRUTH

    , @Mike Tre
    @ScarletNumber

    And the best way for an elephant to get to the rooftop of Trump Tower is to sprout wings and fly, but we both know that's not happening.

    , @Sean
    @ScarletNumber

    The greatest disparity of all is within the black group, where there are seventeen male felons for each female felon; vastly greater than the corresponding ratio within the white group. By my way of thinking, that indicates the cause is testosterone.

    Replies: @europeasant

  2. Anon[222] • Disclaimer says:

    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.

    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    • LOL: acementhead
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    Your wish is apparently our society's command.

    , @Wilkey
    @Anon


    We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive.
     
    You’re a f—-ing genius.

    In your world without traffic laws, will drivers go to jail when they run over kids playing in their front yards, or is that too much police state for you, too?

    In my county just last week there was a driver going well over the speed limit who ran a red light, collided with another truck, and then both vehicles crossed the median and collided with seven other vehicles traveling in the opposite direction. Fortunately only the idiot who ran the red light was killed.

    In your world should we have no police to arrest such a woman if she manages to run a few red lights without hitting anyone?

    Replies: @Anon

    , @bomag
    @Anon

    If we had a country with only Anglo-Saxons, this would work.

    , @Prester John
    @Anon

    Oh, it's a racket all right! Total bullshit. I drove for two years without a license 'till I got caught and was issued a citation for running a red light and driving without a license. When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him "because the state needs the money." Needless to say, he didn't like my answer.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    , @another fred
    @Anon

    You are going to really love it when they put a kill switch and governor in your car.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  3. The Puyallup Police Department logged 148 instances of drivers fleeing from officers

    Puh y’all up?

    At the risk of stating the obvious, they’re going to have to change their name.

    The Virginia State Police (and some other forces) have their own name problems:

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/traffic-stops-are-bad-because-they-discourage-black-criminals-from-carrying-guns-driving-badly-and-dealing-drugs/#comment-5294664 (#38)

  4. Our society is being MADE ungovernable .

    • Agree: Shel100
    • Replies: @Not you
    @tyrone

    Our society is being made ungovernable by the state.

    FIFY

    , @The Wild Geese Howard
    @tyrone

    Anarcho-tyranny is a feature, not a bug.

  5. Of course, the same law encourages hit and run accidents, not paying for current license tags, not bothering to keep a current license, or having car insurance. So once again, to pander to blacks, whites have to pay higher insurance premiums and a few more people get to die in car accidents.

    • Agree: Colin Wright
  6. Speaking as a brit here – shouldn’t you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?

    You know, like we give our cops truncheons and occasionally even Tasers to tilt the competition to them.

    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @michael droy

    The issue is not catching the fleeing driver. The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

    Replies: @duncsbaby

    , @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @michael droy


    Speaking as a brit here – shouldn’t you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?
     
    Those kinds of performance vehicles are generally not practical for 99% of what police do. IIRC, the Chester PA Police Department which patrols a section of 1-95 just South of Philadelphia proper used to have souped-up Mustangs for use in speed patrols.

    Police are on the horns of a dilemma - when they pursue perpetrators in cars, it can wind up in a high speed chase in which bystanders get maimed and killed. It seems like beginning maybe a decade ago or so the risk calculus about fleeing in a car changed, and more perpetrators were willing to risk flight. I suppose one can argue that the ability to track a fleeing car without chasing it is much better now. In 2022, it's not likely that those Duke boys would be able to get away with so much due to modern surveillance technology.

    I also have to imagine that municipal insurers have taken a position against car pursuits and limited coverage for harm to third parties arising from a pursuit. This may be driving a lot of these changes and the general public wouldn't necessarily know it.
    , @James N. Kennett
    @michael droy


    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.
     
    Hadn't heard about this escalation of the arms race. Thefts by riders on mopeds were greatly reduced when the police started to use their cars to knock over fleeing bikes. Now I suppose the thieves are one step ahead again.
  7. OT – Due to a lack of LA County Sheriffs and an abundance of vehicle part theft, the SoCal town I reside in hired a private security company to patrol the city from 10 pm – 6 am. Unarmed and with yellow lights always flashing, they drive up and down the residential streets.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @CW Acumen

    How well is that working?

    As things get scarcer and more expensive, we'll see more of this; if there are any honest people to hire for such.

  8. @ScarletNumber

    reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing
     
    The more logical way to address racial disproportionality in policing is for racial minorities to stop breaking the law so much

    Replies: @SiNCERITY.net, @Mike Tre, @Sean

    By our politically correct “anti-racist” gag orders, we must never point out that “minorities” are worse in any respect.

    #TrueSpeech about #HateFacts is not permissible in our society. This must be exposed and opposed and change.

    Total truthfulness (like @isteve, @PK, vdare, amren) must be REWARDED, not punished by excommunication from polite society.

    Sincerity dot net DEMANDS
    Intolerance of dishonesty, of omission, and
    full disclosure of the WHOLE TRUTH

  9. Lack of enforcement of traffic laws is likely to INCREASE the gap between white and black traffic violations

    Most whites in the US are law abiding without constant surveillance. Blacks, once they know they are NOT supervised, they will commit MORE misdemeanors or crime

    Don’t take my word, all statements would have to be verified using the scientific method, statistics, longitudinal observations.

    In a sound society, people with higher propensity for crime need stricter discipline. Gang menbers precise more surveillance than Christian religious outings.

    • Agree: bomag
    • Replies: @drainage641
    @SiNCERITY.net

    I don't agree. White criminals are smart enough not to break the law when the police are watching. Black criminals, on the other hand, will commit crime in front of the police.

    The high black arrest rate is not only because blacks are more likely to commit crimes, but also because blacks are more likely to be dumb while committing crimes.

  10. I’ve heard that Javelins, though duds against modern main battle tanks, effectively neutralize BMWs.

    • Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
    @James Speaks

    Hmm.

    Channeling my inner Reg Caesar here:

    https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/doppelganger-1973-amc-amx-javelin#&gid=1&pid=1

    vs.

    https://www.carvana.com/vehicle/2281819

  11. @ScarletNumber

    reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing
     
    The more logical way to address racial disproportionality in policing is for racial minorities to stop breaking the law so much

    Replies: @SiNCERITY.net, @Mike Tre, @Sean

    And the best way for an elephant to get to the rooftop of Trump Tower is to sprout wings and fly, but we both know that’s not happening.

    • LOL: ScarletNumber
  12. A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    • Agree: notsaying
    • Replies: @bomag
    @epebble


    A license plate...
     
    This, too, shall pass.

    _______________________________________________________________

    I suppose we'll eventually have a database that can identify every car via unique features other than a plate, so a dashcam/other video would be the enforcement mechanism.

    Which highlights the issue that better forensics and surveillance has improved policing to the point where, like fireman, more personnel have become superfluous; and the complaint of Blacks is that policing is now too good; too many of them are caught; so we have to dial it back.

    Replies: @EdwardM

    , @ic1000
    @epebble

    > A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender offending car.

    Then what happens? Rik Rok and Shaggy famously weighed in, a few years back.

    At most, one of those $40-and-no-points speed camera tickets by mail.

    Replies: @epebble

    , @John Johnson
    @epebble

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    You think this hasn't been tried?

    Blacks drive around with illegal tint all the time.

    They will claim it wasn't them because they let someone else borrow the car.

    , @guest007
    @epebble

    Who thinks that the license tag is legit, that the owner is driving the car, that the driver has a valid drivers license, that there is insurance on the car.

    Such lawlessness also encourage hit and run accidents because why not run. Such lawlessness encourage people to use stolen plates, to not register their car, and to not carry a drivers license or any form of ID. The worst case scenario for the driver is getting involved in an accident serious enough to render the car undrivable. Then the driver can just walk/run away from the accident.

    In the long run, the risk of death and bodily injury from driving will go up along with the cost of car insurance due to the increase in the number of uninsured motorist.

    , @rebel yell
    @epebble


    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender.
     
    But you still can't arrest him when you find him, because when he flees you can't chase him.
    If you send him a ticket or revoke his license, he can ignore you.
    Because you can't chase him.
    , @Anon215
    @epebble

    Mailing in a ticket to people who flee traffic stops doesn't even begin to address the real issue here. The whole point of traffic stops is to turn up weapons, drugs, drunk drivers, you name it. If this is going to be the new norm, then ghetto blacks will carry firearms in vehicles with impunity because they can simply drive away from traffic stops and get a ticket in the mail later.

    Replies: @Alden

    , @Kim
    @epebble

    So a warrant is issued based on the vehicle's number plate, the police attend the perp's home to make an arrest, but the perp jumps into his vehicle and drives off at high speed.

    Then what? Take another license plate photo?

    Replies: @Ben tillman

    , @Larz in carz
    @epebble

    That only works if the car has a license plate. Around here cars without license plates is common.

    , @Colin Wright
    @epebble

    'A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. '

    A photo of the license plate doesn't prove who was driving the car. You can't ticket the car.

    , @Don't Look at Me
    @epebble

    Do what the military did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow the offending driver with a drone. Cops can follow from a safe distance, out of visual range from the perp. When he stops and exits the vehicle, the police move in and make an arrest.

    Replies: @epebble

  13. Obviously, the cars are full of meth and fent to sell in Montana.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Carol


    Obviously, the cars are full of meth and fent to sell in Montana.
     
    Whites in Montana doing meth? Are they the root of this problem?
  14. Pretty soon every major metro area is going to need helicopter chase cams on duty 24/7, just like LA has had for years. It was pretty much LA’s greatest contribution to television.

    • Agree: Clyde
  15. “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police.”

    Martina Morris has a sociology degree from Chicago, teaches at the UW, and looks like a very strict man hating lesbian academic:

    https://soc.washington.edu/people/martina-morris

    “The prime sponsor of House Bill 1054, Democratic state Rep. Jesse Johnson, also opposed lowering the threshold for pursuits.

    “I just do not believe pursuits in a 21st century policing system are needed,” Johnson said ”

    Representative Johnson, the expert on 21st century science, is Vibrant:

    https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/johnson/

    The bill also requires that every fatal shooting by police be investigated by an Independent Investigation Team, to include “at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force.”
    The community representatives will of course be sociology grifters like Martina Morris.

    • Thanks: bomag
    • Replies: @EdwardM
    @rebel yell


    “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police.”
     
    There's something to this. We know that this wasn't the reason that the woke government enacted this law, but perhaps a cost-benefit analysis would have led to the same conclusion. Getting to the right outcome for the wrong reasons?

    On the other hand, ending the deterrent will probably tilt the CBA back in the other direction. The woke circle of life.
    , @ThreeCranes
    @rebel yell

    The people drafting this bill stipulate that the "Independent Investigation Team" is "to include 'at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force'" and in doing so tacitly admit that those two community representatives are biased and will act in a biased manner. Else why stipulate that they have ties to impacted communities? Why not stipulate that they be truly disinterested third parties, such as Korean immigrants?

    , @AndrewR
    @rebel yell

    Laws be racist n sheet, maing.

  16. They don’t get a license plate number and then send out a warrant? My guess is their tracking technology should be pretty good at this point. If red lights are run, then there’ll likely be video of the offender. This is better than high-speed chases, BTW. Just go to where the car is registered and issue the citation/arrest.

    At some point we won’t even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.

    • Replies: @Goddard
    @stillCARealist


    At some point we won’t even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.
     
    In China, cops don’t pull anybody over. Surveillance cameras take a picture, and the government sends you a bill. Refuse to pay and they revoke your license.

    Replies: @Hangnail Hans

    , @NOTA
    @stillCARealist

    That doesn't help when the car is stolen, and also
    loses a lot when the car is full of drugs or stolen goods that will be cleared out by the time the cops find the guy at home.

    , @Anon215
    @stillCARealist

    And what if the driver has a dead body in the trunk? Or an illegal firearm? What if he’s drinking and driving?

    Police need to be able to make stops.

    Replies: @Thea

  17. Is Washington state an outlier here, or it is in line with the rest of the nation? Isn’t Washington a recreational pot state? Isn’t its neighbor to the south even more lax on harder drugs? Isn’t the Pacific Northwest relatively whiter than most major U.S cities? Much to unpack here. Perhaps NASCAR has happened upon fresh recruiting ground …

    • Replies: @Hibernian
    @Russ

    Washington Stae has initiative and referendum and it could be put to good use in this situation.

  18. state trooper spotted a white BMW with California license plates passing on a double yellow line

    A clear case of White BMW Supremacy.

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Hypnotoad666


    In the interest of public safety, the state of Washington should legally mandate that all white BMWs with California license plates must be preceded by a man walking down the street waving a red flag and shouting to pedestrians
     
    The obvious solution is to have universal indicators on cars which will let law enforcement and other motorists know that such vehicles are being driven by People Whose Lives Matter. Then everyone (including cops) can pull over to the side, get out of their cars, and kneel by the side of the road until the Person of Privilege has passed.

    If indicators are too troublesome to implement, we can just supply them with Rolls & Bentleys, as part of reparations. Can everyone recognize those well enough? I think they have lighted logos now anyway, the better to cater to their new style of clientèle.

    Oh, I know what I'm channeling...

    https://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/8658/d89f731f1a3e4b7387358df23b26ba06.jpg

    , @International Jew
    @Hypnotoad666

    Ha. But if it had California plates, that might suggest the driver didn't do what he did out of any awareness of Oregon's new law.

  19. This is a secondary effect of Saint Floyd ( pray for us ). The Washington Democrats put in a law that limits how much police can chase a suspect.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/washington-state-police-pursuits-concern-law-enforcement/281-136ed41c-5550-4857-8eae-63aebbb7a1cd

    Logically, speed up and avoid a ticket.

  20. If only there had been some way to see this consequence coming….

    • LOL: Cool Daddy Jimbo
    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @NOTA

    So long as liberals/lefties/progressives are in the drivers' seat, there is never any way to foresee anything.

  21. XBardon Kaldlan [AKA "Bardon Kaldlan"] says:

    Black thug has a BMW,but he can’t afford healthcare! In white America.

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    Replies: @epebble, @John Johnson, @Art Deco, @Art Deco

  22. I’m going to start driving in blackface.

    • Agree: Adam Smith
    • LOL: Almost Missouri
  23. @NOTA
    If only there had been some way to see this consequence coming....

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    So long as liberals/lefties/progressives are in the drivers’ seat, there is never any way to foresee anything.

    • Agree: Mark G.
  24. It’s hard not to laugh when the Wokels get the government they vote for.

    It’s less funny when I get the government they vote for.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Bill Jones


    It’s hard not to laugh when the Wokels get the government they vote for.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/92/4a/06/924a06725d344fbd35555c0abb847ef2.jpg
  25. Anonymous[954] • Disclaimer says:

    Meanwhile, Disney World is magically transforming into a Third-World Shithole…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10858659/Disney-homelessness.html

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Anonymous

    Trying reading the article the next time instead of just the headline. The article is about homeless and those near being homeless in Kissimmee Florida.

  26. Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin’s recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old’s place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    • Replies: @Dorfbinf
    @Hypnotoad666

    Makes sense. POTUS is a zombie, so why not his arch enemy?.

    , @James N. Kennett
    @Hypnotoad666

    The source for the story is the Daily Star, which is not well-known for its reliability.

    , @J.Ross
    @Hypnotoad666

    Remember when Shoigu was dead? And then, even though he was dead, he was going to overthrow Putin?

    , @animalogic
    @Hypnotoad666

    "right - which one's Putin? "
    a moments silence... "I'm putin"...another moments silence - "no, I'm putin", and in a rush "I'M putin"
    "I'm Putin! " "I'm putin"
    & then of course "I'm Putin & so is my wife"

    , @PhysicistDave
    @Hypnotoad666

    Bernhard at Moon of Alabama has a good discussion of the Western media change of narrative on the Ukraine War and related issues.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

  27. Anonymous[204] • Disclaimer says:

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis

    Was George Floyd really “murdered”? Is it accurate to refer to an accident as “murder”?

    • Replies: @personfellowindividual
    @Anonymous

    Haven't you heard? Some Leftists are now claiming that he was SHOT. It's getting to the point where truth doesn't have a ghost of a chance against the Leftist Reality Distortion Field. They just have to say something, and it immediately becomes the narrative.

    , @AndrewR
    @Anonymous

    When you take power then you can lie with impunity too.

  28. Police prevented from giving chase. Won’t be long before homeowners won’t be allowed to defend their property, their persons.

    • Replies: @Macumazahn
    @ThreeCranes

    Well... Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Replies: @nokangaroos, @John Johnson, @Corn, @Anonymous

    , @Gordo
    @ThreeCranes


    Won’t be long before homeowners won’t be allowed to defend their property, their persons.
     
    Already the case here in th UK.
  29. Yet another example of overpaid, pampered government employees reaping the whirlwind they have sown with their decades long war on the American people. Cops have lost all moral authority with their double standards, cowardice, and attacks upon the American people.

    • Agree: Adam Smith
    • Disagree: Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
  30. White BMW car….. no indication of the driver’s color?

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Redneck farmer

    White BMW with Cal plates means what Steve calls “Men with Gold Chains” semi-white ethnicity. So Persian would be the best first guess, but Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, Assyrian, Lebanese. They come in Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Miscellaneous (Druze, Yazidi) varieties, but all like them their white pearlescent BMWs.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6rvauo/why_do_persians_drive_white_bmws/

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=gZyIhtN3PDI

    Replies: @Anon

    , @kaganovitch
    @Redneck farmer

    White BMW car….. no indication of the driver’s color?

    It has to be one of those autonomous driving cars we hear so much about.

  31. We had a teenager here drive 130 mph on the interstate a few days ago. The cops finally caught him in a residential area several miles from it.

  32. In the interest of public safety, the state of Washington should legally mandate that all white BMWs with California license plates must be preceded by a man walking down the street waving a red flag and shouting to pedestrians, “Run for your lives! A white BMW from California is coming!”

    For my Southern state, I’d like there to be a town crier shouting, “Run for your lives! A ‘relocator’ is coming with a BMW-load of his politics, pathologies, and money. He’ll soon be ‘based’ out of here!”

    • Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @bored

    Try being a westerner. We're absolutely swamped with these California bastards, just overrun. I'm in Arizona and you wouldn't believe how many California plates I see every time I go out. I'd gladly trade every one of our Californicators for twice the number of your damn yankees. Around here, the transplants from the rust belt and northeast at least mostly understand their position here, i.e., that they are refugees and not missionaries. Californians don't. They are the most blithely self-unaware pieces of shit that ever existed. Words cannot express how much we hate them.

    Replies: @bored

  33. Pixo says:
    @Redneck farmer
    White BMW car..... no indication of the driver's color?

    Replies: @Pixo, @kaganovitch

    White BMW with Cal plates means what Steve calls “Men with Gold Chains” semi-white ethnicity. So Persian would be the best first guess, but Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, Assyrian, Lebanese. They come in Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Miscellaneous (Druze, Yazidi) varieties, but all like them their white pearlescent BMWs.

    Why do Persians drive white BMWs?
    byu/Dats_Russia_4 inAskReddit

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=gZyIhtN3PDI

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Pixo

    I would have thought that white BMWs with heavy tinting are the preferred car of semi-skilled support-staff-level civil servants with a lot of seniority. You know, middle-aged black women. Or is that black Mercedeses?

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  34. @Hypnotoad666
    Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin's recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old's place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.
     

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    Replies: @Dorfbinf, @James N. Kennett, @J.Ross, @animalogic, @PhysicistDave

    Makes sense. POTUS is a zombie, so why not his arch enemy?.

  35. @Hypnotoad666
    Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin's recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old's place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.
     

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    Replies: @Dorfbinf, @James N. Kennett, @J.Ross, @animalogic, @PhysicistDave

    The source for the story is the Daily Star, which is not well-known for its reliability.

  36. More Bad Drivers Flooring It When Cops Try to Pull Them Over

    So are the cops going to compensate by really being d**ks to the people who do pull over. That would be in keeping with the whole anarcho-tyranny program.

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd…..

    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Mr. Anon


    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.
     
    George Floyd WAS murdered.

    By George Floyd.
    , @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon


    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.
     
    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  37. Over twenty years ago my local police department (half a continent away from Olympia) started a policy of not stopping black drivers for “minor” (however defined) traffic violations. I’m sure many departments have similar policies, kept secret, or at least low key.

    If I were a cop I’d try to never deal with them at all, and I’d certainly never help them.

  38. Anon[975] • Disclaimer says:

    this anecdote reminds me of England’s Locomotive Acts of 1865-1896

    This is sort of like:

    The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2010 …. the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued its final ruling …. It requires hybrids and electric vehicles travelling at less than 18.6 mph to emit warning sounds that pedestrians must be able to hear over background noises….

    Several anti-noise and electric car advocates have opposed the introduction of artificial sounds as warning for pedestrians, as they argue that the proposed system will only increase noise pollution. They also opposed U.S. pending legislation that would require generated warning sounds with no off switch for the driver.

    Robert S. Wall Emerson of Western Michigan University has argued that several high-end gasoline-powered luxury cars are already quieter than hybrids, and according to his most recent studies, hybrid SUVs were noisier than many internal-combustion vehicles. He concludes that pedestrian safety is not a hybrid issue but rather “a quiet car issue.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds#Japan

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

  39. @Redneck farmer
    White BMW car..... no indication of the driver's color?

    Replies: @Pixo, @kaganovitch

    White BMW car….. no indication of the driver’s color?

    It has to be one of those autonomous driving cars we hear so much about.

  40. @Hypnotoad666

    state trooper spotted a white BMW with California license plates passing on a double yellow line

     

    A clear case of White BMW Supremacy.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @International Jew

    In the interest of public safety, the state of Washington should legally mandate that all white BMWs with California license plates must be preceded by a man walking down the street waving a red flag and shouting to pedestrians

    The obvious solution is to have universal indicators on cars which will let law enforcement and other motorists know that such vehicles are being driven by People Whose Lives Matter. Then everyone (including cops) can pull over to the side, get out of their cars, and kneel by the side of the road until the Person of Privilege has passed.

    If indicators are too troublesome to implement, we can just supply them with Rolls & Bentleys, as part of reparations. Can everyone recognize those well enough? I think they have lighted logos now anyway, the better to cater to their new style of clientèle.

    Oh, I know what I’m channeling…

  41. It’s funny how this was all supposed to stop cops from being mean to minorities, but the effect has been the worst white people behavior I’ve ever seen in my life.

    I live in Washington state and it’s just pathetic here lately. Everyone thinks of Microsoft and Boeing when they think of this part of the US, but most people here are descended from loggers, fishermen, laborers and farmers. The last thing we need is a laissez faire attitude toward the law. I say this as someone who actually likes these people — a lot.

    Put some hands on the reins and they’re a force to be reckoned with. Slack off and you’ve got nothing but a pack of wild animals.

    • Replies: @Danindc
    @Bill P

    Huh? Every one of the drivers who fleed place was a black guy.

    , @Anonymous
    @Bill P

    When I first saw those videos of blacks looting CA stores while cops stood by watching my first reaction was shock. However it soon changed to why should blacks get all the good loot?

  42. @Bill P
    It's funny how this was all supposed to stop cops from being mean to minorities, but the effect has been the worst white people behavior I've ever seen in my life.

    I live in Washington state and it's just pathetic here lately. Everyone thinks of Microsoft and Boeing when they think of this part of the US, but most people here are descended from loggers, fishermen, laborers and farmers. The last thing we need is a laissez faire attitude toward the law. I say this as someone who actually likes these people -- a lot.

    Put some hands on the reins and they're a force to be reckoned with. Slack off and you've got nothing but a pack of wild animals.

    Replies: @Danindc, @Anonymous

    Huh? Every one of the drivers who fleed place was a black guy.

  43. Yes, number 62…out of who knows how many different nasty propensities being unleashed. And, I doubt that the berserk driver only disinhibited nastiness number 62. Probably he was holding 14, 33, and 58 in check but now let them have at it. Also, I think there is a synergistic effect among multiple nastinesses. There is a synergistic effect, a momentum effect, among positive behaviors, and I think it also works that way for nasty behaviors. Finally, through what psychologists call “mirroring,” a lot of decent people will become less decent.

    The Floyd effect elected Biden, and now The U.S. is at war with Russia, and if the world blows-up in a nuclear ash pile, that will be Floyd Effect Number Last-one.

  44. More fallout from George Floyd’s precedent that submitting to law enforcement is optional if you are having a bad day,

    It isn’t George Floyd’s precedent, it’s just a natural reaction. And we’re going to see a lot more of it.

    Remember GK Chesterton’s dictum that when you get rid of the big laws (i.e. the actual principles of good governance) you don’t get freedom, you get the small laws. Well, our ruling class has been neglecting the principles of good governance for a long time now, and all the while jamming more and more “small laws” down our throats with the glee of the petty tyrants that they are. Comply with this, comply with that, wear a mask, get your shot, eat the bugs, respect my pronouns, so on and so forth. People only have a finite reserve of patience. When you start demanding ridiculous things of them, they take it out on you in other ways. Authority loses its legitimacy when it is misused.

    It starts small. If you’re going to demand that I wear a mask in the store, don’t be surprised if I “forget” to scan a few items at the self-checkout. If you aren’t going to supply me with formula to feed my baby, I’m just going to walk out with a cartload of groceries and mug for the camera while I’m doing it. Go ahead, I dare you say something about it.

    And now we have the sick spectacle of children mindlessly slaughtered inside a school and the police doing nothing to protect them, but instead tackling and tasing the desperate parents who were attempting to save their children’s lives. That is the last straw. Anybody who “submits” to this kind of law enforcement is a frickin’ douchebag.

    Yeah, I’ve had my fill of bad days, and I’m not submitting anymore.

    • Agree: Old Prude
    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Intelligent Dasein


    If you’re going to demand that I wear a mask in the store, don’t be surprised if I “forget” to scan a few items at the self-checkout. If you aren’t going to supply me with formula to feed my baby, I’m just going to walk out with a cartload of groceries and mug for the camera while I’m doing it.
     
    Hmm. No comment.
    , @Old Prude
    @Intelligent Dasein

    I like the cut of your jib, I.D. Use reparatory shoplifting to even the score when automobile service department has screwed you. When hassled at the transfer station by petty tyrants, the proper response is to dump your trash on the entrance drive at night. Let the a-holes pick it up in the morning.

    Etc...

  45. I’ve been observing some harebrained driving in my relatively genteel area. It’s very noticeable now. Drivers are increasingly impatient and cantankerous, apparently, and are taking it out on the road and other drivers as cars tend to give some people a sense of invulnerability.

    You know something is going on when Indian (dot, not feather) moms are weaving in and out between other vehicles on the local highway. Yikes.

    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire that is America these days.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Twinkie


    It’s very noticeable now.
     
    Yes.

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-racial-reckoning-doesnt-seem-to-have-gotten-black-people-to-behave-better/#comment-5257730 (#83)
    , @Goddard
    @Twinkie


    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire …
     
    We’re not at the end of the Empire, but of the Republic. The Empire is just getting started.
    , @JohnnyWalker123
    @Twinkie

    Reminds me of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlH9RGLJqxE

    Replies: @Art Deco

  46. Anon[999] • Disclaimer says:

    Wouldn’t the cop or his drive recorder be able to get the plate number in 99 percent of cases? The driver could be relatively easily ticketed by mail and a separate warrant for fleeing a cop issued.

    I suspect that for stolen cars behavior hasn’t changed — the delta in the statistics are formerly law-abiding drivers.

    As a white person, I can’t imagine bothering to flee a cop. Odds are the outcome will be much worse. I wonder if these new scofflaws are mainly formerly law abiding blacks who have been brainwashed into thinking that there is a non-trivial chance of their being killed by the cop? I guess you could get that idea from the mainstream media, especially if you’re not that smart and don’t notice that long-numbers and statistics are missing from media reports. Add in a tendency for short time preference, impulsivity, lack of future orientation, high delay discounting, — all things associated with blacks ….

    • Replies: @Dorfbinf
    @Anon

    In some jurisdictions, you can just say "It wasn't me driving my car, it was someone else, and I don't have to say who". On my street, a "Man with gold chains" hit a parked car, and ran away. His passenger claimed to not know who the driver was and the cops had to swallow that crap.

  47. @Anon

    this anecdote reminds me of England’s Locomotive Acts of 1865-1896
     
    This is sort of like:

    The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2010 .... the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued its final ruling .... It requires hybrids and electric vehicles travelling at less than 18.6 mph to emit warning sounds that pedestrians must be able to hear over background noises....
     

    Several anti-noise and electric car advocates have opposed the introduction of artificial sounds as warning for pedestrians, as they argue that the proposed system will only increase noise pollution. They also opposed U.S. pending legislation that would require generated warning sounds with no off switch for the driver.

    Robert S. Wall Emerson of Western Michigan University has argued that several high-end gasoline-powered luxury cars are already quieter than hybrids, and according to his most recent studies, hybrid SUVs were noisier than many internal-combustion vehicles. He concludes that pedestrian safety is not a hybrid issue but rather "a quiet car issue."
     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds#Japan

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make “Marching Morons”-style vroom-vroom noises?

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Steve Sailer


    driving too silently for me to notice
     
    Steve, keep yo head on a swivel and don’t be caught lackin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eCzIzVYmm0
    , @PiltdownMan
    @Steve Sailer

    OT, but vroom-vroom noises make for good movie opening scenes. Even when the movie isn't about cars.

    https://youtu.be/cgJuVOrXv68

    And, of course, when it is.

    https://youtu.be/nE6aRLWwAEQ

    https://youtu.be/GkMOAoiGuGc

    Replies: @europeasant

    , @International Jew
    @Steve Sailer

    Or the beeping sound big trucks make when they're backing up. Electric cars with drivers inside freak me out when I'm walking through a parking lot; I never know if the engine is "on".

    , @mousey
    @Steve Sailer

    Hah, rarely do I encounter the Prius police being polite. They are easily offended and I think you are being a little sarcastic. I’m willing to bet there was some hand gestures and cackling going on too.

    , @Anonymous
    @Steve Sailer

    Isn't it the law that all electric cars since 2019 have to make vroom-vroom noises?
    And many of them opted in before that? In particular the past 10 years of Priuses?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds

  48. @ScarletNumber

    reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing
     
    The more logical way to address racial disproportionality in policing is for racial minorities to stop breaking the law so much

    Replies: @SiNCERITY.net, @Mike Tre, @Sean

    The greatest disparity of all is within the black group, where there are seventeen male felons for each female felon; vastly greater than the corresponding ratio within the white group. By my way of thinking, that indicates the cause is testosterone.

    • Agree: ScarletNumber
    • Replies: @europeasant
    @Sean

    "that indicates the cause is testosterone"

    You forgot to add, low impulse control and low IQ. Of course these are generalizations of the whole group.

    Replies: @Sean

  49. @Twinkie
    I’ve been observing some harebrained driving in my relatively genteel area. It’s very noticeable now. Drivers are increasingly impatient and cantankerous, apparently, and are taking it out on the road and other drivers as cars tend to give some people a sense of invulnerability.

    You know something is going on when Indian (dot, not feather) moms are weaving in and out between other vehicles on the local highway. Yikes.

    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire that is America these days.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Goddard, @JohnnyWalker123

  50. @Anon
    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.


    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Wilkey, @bomag, @Prester John, @another fred

    Your wish is apparently our society’s command.

  51. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

    driving too silently for me to notice

    Steve, keep yo head on a swivel and don’t be caught lackin

  52. 9,100 more driving fatalities in 2020 & 2021 combined than there would have been with 2019 fatality rates – more than that, actually, since miles driven were at down during those years.

    11,000 more murders in 2020 & 2021 combined than there would have been if murder rates had remained at 2019 levels.

    That’s 20,000 more people dead in the last two years thanks to St. George the Prophet of Floyd (Peace and Fentanyl Be Upon Him).

    That’s not even counting all the additional drug overdose deaths we have thanks to Democrats refusing to secure the border. Five times more people die of overdoses than are murdered each year – 108,000 in 2021 alone. Probably at least a third of those would not happen if the border were secured. And that number doesn’t even count all of the people who die of chronic illnesses caused by illicit drug use.

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Wilkey

    So, call the delta 50,000? But then, as mentioned upthread, we could even get WW3 out of the Floyd deal. Now imagine posing this question to a typical ditty amateur woke white chick: given Floyd's fate, are a few billion deaths justified? I'm betting she'll say absolutely yes. Unless maybe they're Africans.

  53. @Anon
    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.


    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Wilkey, @bomag, @Prester John, @another fred

    We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive.

    You’re a f—-ing genius.

    In your world without traffic laws, will drivers go to jail when they run over kids playing in their front yards, or is that too much police state for you, too?

    In my county just last week there was a driver going well over the speed limit who ran a red light, collided with another truck, and then both vehicles crossed the median and collided with seven other vehicles traveling in the opposite direction. Fortunately only the idiot who ran the red light was killed.

    In your world should we have no police to arrest such a woman if she manages to run a few red lights without hitting anyone?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Wilkey

    What kids? Nobody has any kids anymore. Look at the fertility rate and the age distribution. Less than 10% of the people in this country are kids, and the majority of those kids are of squatamalan and wakandan ancestry. Snap out of your delusional blue pilled fog of cuckery. Our women have failed to reproduce for decades. There is no justification for these laws and no excuse for poor situational awareness. Make masculinity visible again and stop worrying about the dead idiots on the road and the non-existent children.

    Replies: @Wilkey

  54. We know that in the case of homeless tolerance policies, other states exploited West Coast generosity. Are there cases of insterstate raiding to exploit the collapse of policing in the blue metropolis, like in the clearly planned raids on posh shops in Chicago? Are Cali drivers putting together sideshows in Washington?

  55. @Hypnotoad666
    Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin's recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old's place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.
     

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    Replies: @Dorfbinf, @James N. Kennett, @J.Ross, @animalogic, @PhysicistDave

    Remember when Shoigu was dead? And then, even though he was dead, he was going to overthrow Putin?

  56. Every car “knows” the speed limit. When the driver exceeds said limit, the car stops and a little flag pops up on the roof. The doors remain locked until police arrive.

    Plan B: Every car “knows” the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.

    This is not 5G. The tech is here now, and cheap. Just add political will.

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @Badger Down


    Plan B: Every car “knows” the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.
     
    So, you prefer Airbus to Boeing then?
    , @Adam Smith
    @Badger Down

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U

    , @HammerJack
    @Badger Down

    A rental truck I once drove had a speed governor like that. The rental agency hadn't bothered to inform me, of course. What a happy surprise when I tried to pass another vehicle on a two-lane highway.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @aNewBanner

  57. So… what were those California plates? I mean, didn’t the cops get the license number? How hard could it be to track the car down?

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Macumazahn

    A caption for the photo says the California plates were stolen. But I don't know if was true.

    It's pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Pat Hannagan, @Adam Smith

  58. @Badger Down
    Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver exceeds said limit, the car stops and a little flag pops up on the roof. The doors remain locked until police arrive.

    Plan B: Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.

    This is not 5G. The tech is here now, and cheap. Just add political will.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @Adam Smith, @HammerJack

    Plan B: Every car “knows” the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.

    So, you prefer Airbus to Boeing then?

    • LOL: PiltdownMan
  59. @Hypnotoad666

    state trooper spotted a white BMW with California license plates passing on a double yellow line

     

    A clear case of White BMW Supremacy.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @International Jew

    Ha. But if it had California plates, that might suggest the driver didn’t do what he did out of any awareness of Oregon’s new law.

  60. @ThreeCranes
    Police prevented from giving chase. Won't be long before homeowners won't be allowed to defend their property, their persons.

    Replies: @Macumazahn, @Gordo

    Well… Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    • Disagree: Wilkey
    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    @Macumazahn

    That´s an easy one ... hit anyone who hightails it with attempted murder
    and 10 years minimum; oops - the impack would be dissperate.

    Replies: @TWS

    , @John Johnson
    @Macumazahn

    Well… Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    You really think they are running over a lane change?

    They have drugs/guns in the car or a warrant.

    This is just another chapter in state endorsed race denial.

    Race Must Not Exist. The prisons have too many Blacks for liberal sensibilities so our genius politicians have come up with a solution: let some of them go.

    Don't drive a small car or motorcycle in an area where there is a lot of enhanced diversity. The state will shrug if you are hit by an uninsured driver and end up with all kinds of medical bills. Most people figure that out though when they get passed by a lime green charger with gold rims going 120.

    , @Corn
    @Macumazahn

    Yes

    , @Anonymous
    @Macumazahn


    Well… Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?
     
    Irrelevant, since driving away at a high rate of speed from a police officer is a felony. Allowing criminals to dictate when they will or will not have interaction with the police solicits widespread anarchy, where psychotic criminals decide what’s best for their community.

    Try keeping up with the plotline, dum dum.
  61. @Mr. Anon

    More Bad Drivers Flooring It When Cops Try to Pull Them Over
     
    So are the cops going to compensate by really being d**ks to the people who do pull over. That would be in keeping with the whole anarcho-tyranny program.

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd.....
     
    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Anonymous

    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.

    George Floyd WAS murdered.

    By George Floyd.

  62. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

    OT, but vroom-vroom noises make for good movie opening scenes. Even when the movie isn’t about cars.

    And, of course, when it is.

    • Replies: @europeasant
    @PiltdownMan

    I have all three movies. The car sounds are great. My own car is a 2001 modified Mustang Cobra with Magnaflow exhaust. AT three plus RPM it makes a very aggressive mellow sound. I heard that California has a law that fines drivers with loud exhausts.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

  63. a white BMW with California license plates

    Black Wheels Matter.

  64. @Bill Jones
    It's hard not to laugh when the Wokels get the government they vote for.

    It's less funny when I get the government they vote for.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    It’s hard not to laugh when the Wokels get the government they vote for.

  65. I gotta admit, police chases are one of my favorite youtube genres.

  66. Anonymous[377] • Disclaimer says:
    @Carol
    Obviously, the cars are full of meth and fent to sell in Montana.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Obviously, the cars are full of meth and fent to sell in Montana.

    Whites in Montana doing meth? Are they the root of this problem?

  67. @Intelligent Dasein

    More fallout from George Floyd’s precedent that submitting to law enforcement is optional if you are having a bad day,
     
    It isn't George Floyd's precedent, it's just a natural reaction. And we're going to see a lot more of it.

    Remember GK Chesterton's dictum that when you get rid of the big laws (i.e. the actual principles of good governance) you don't get freedom, you get the small laws. Well, our ruling class has been neglecting the principles of good governance for a long time now, and all the while jamming more and more "small laws" down our throats with the glee of the petty tyrants that they are. Comply with this, comply with that, wear a mask, get your shot, eat the bugs, respect my pronouns, so on and so forth. People only have a finite reserve of patience. When you start demanding ridiculous things of them, they take it out on you in other ways. Authority loses its legitimacy when it is misused.

    It starts small. If you're going to demand that I wear a mask in the store, don't be surprised if I "forget" to scan a few items at the self-checkout. If you aren't going to supply me with formula to feed my baby, I'm just going to walk out with a cartload of groceries and mug for the camera while I'm doing it. Go ahead, I dare you say something about it.

    And now we have the sick spectacle of children mindlessly slaughtered inside a school and the police doing nothing to protect them, but instead tackling and tasing the desperate parents who were attempting to save their children's lives. That is the last straw. Anybody who "submits" to this kind of law enforcement is a frickin' douchebag.

    Yeah, I've had my fill of bad days, and I'm not submitting anymore.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @Old Prude

    If you’re going to demand that I wear a mask in the store, don’t be surprised if I “forget” to scan a few items at the self-checkout. If you aren’t going to supply me with formula to feed my baby, I’m just going to walk out with a cartload of groceries and mug for the camera while I’m doing it.

    Hmm. No comment.

  68. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

    Or the beeping sound big trucks make when they’re backing up. Electric cars with drivers inside freak me out when I’m walking through a parking lot; I never know if the engine is “on”.

  69. @Wilkey
    9,100 more driving fatalities in 2020 & 2021 combined than there would have been with 2019 fatality rates - more than that, actually, since miles driven were at down during those years.

    11,000 more murders in 2020 & 2021 combined than there would have been if murder rates had remained at 2019 levels.

    That’s 20,000 more people dead in the last two years thanks to St. George the Prophet of Floyd (Peace and Fentanyl Be Upon Him).

    That’s not even counting all the additional drug overdose deaths we have thanks to Democrats refusing to secure the border. Five times more people die of overdoses than are murdered each year - 108,000 in 2021 alone. Probably at least a third of those would not happen if the border were secured. And that number doesn’t even count all of the people who die of chronic illnesses caused by illicit drug use.

    Replies: @HammerJack

    So, call the delta 50,000? But then, as mentioned upthread, we could even get WW3 out of the Floyd deal. Now imagine posing this question to a typical ditty amateur woke white chick: given Floyd’s fate, are a few billion deaths justified? I’m betting she’ll say absolutely yes. Unless maybe they’re Africans.

  70. @Badger Down
    Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver exceeds said limit, the car stops and a little flag pops up on the roof. The doors remain locked until police arrive.

    Plan B: Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.

    This is not 5G. The tech is here now, and cheap. Just add political will.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @Adam Smith, @HammerJack

  71. @Badger Down
    Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver exceeds said limit, the car stops and a little flag pops up on the roof. The doors remain locked until police arrive.

    Plan B: Every car "knows" the speed limit. When the driver floors the accelerator, the car moves at the speed limit; it cannot exceed the speed limit. The police need not arrive.

    This is not 5G. The tech is here now, and cheap. Just add political will.

    Replies: @Twinkie, @Adam Smith, @HammerJack

    A rental truck I once drove had a speed governor like that. The rental agency hadn’t bothered to inform me, of course. What a happy surprise when I tried to pass another vehicle on a two-lane highway.

    • Thanks: PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @HammerJack

    Yeesh.

    , @aNewBanner
    @HammerJack

    Some cars owned by government agencies have those devices as well. I drove one that was set based on PA speed limits - 55 mph. I was always the slowest car on the freeway.

  72. @Macumazahn
    So... what were those California plates? I mean, didn't the cops get the license number? How hard could it be to track the car down?

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    A caption for the photo says the California plates were stolen. But I don’t know if was true.

    It’s pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @Steve Sailer


    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?
     
    Well, I would wager that a fair percentage of license plate manufacturers have names that begin with “Ali.”
    , @Pat Hannagan
    @Steve Sailer

    It's so good to see you get loud and proud about your Jewish ancestry, Steve, sheeit you've got nothing to hide! As a matter of fact you should be telling us how to live!

    Can you tell us about those early years, Sailer, when you were struggling against the goyim and how you stood against them?

    That would be great if you could tell us how you were to remain unscathed in incognitio yet at the same time be a victim of lifetime racial abuse which you now take out against abos.

    I've always felt there was something shady about Sailer...

    , @Adam Smith
    @Steve Sailer


    It’s pretty easy to steal license plates, right?
     
    Depends how handy you are with a screwdriver...

    CALIFORNIA License Plate 2016 SUPERB QUALITY (RANDOM PLATE #)

    Might seem counterintuitive, but, you're better off running with no tag than a "government" tag that doesn't belong to the vehicle.


    “The right of a citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horsedrawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but a common right which he has under his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Under this constitutional guaranty one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another’s rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct.
     

    18 U.S. Code § 31. Definitions

    (6) Motor vehicle.—
    The term “motor vehicle” means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or cargo.

    (10) Used for commercial purposes .— The term “used for commercial purposes” means the carriage of persons or property for any fare, fee, rate, charge or other consideration, or directly or indirectly in connection with any business, or other undertaking intended for profit.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/31

     

  73. anonymous[133] • Disclaimer says:

    Steve, any thoughts on you and your “military genius” buddy Greg Cochran being completely wrong about the war as Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?

    I guess you boomers get all your information from the NYT. Well, the situation is so dire even they’re having to tell a little bit of truth now.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @anonymous


    Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?
     
    Citation needed.

    Replies: @anonymous, @PhysicistDave

  74. @tyrone
    Our society is being MADE ungovernable .

    Replies: @Not you, @The Wild Geese Howard

    Our society is being made ungovernable by the state.

    FIFY

  75. @HammerJack
    @Badger Down

    A rental truck I once drove had a speed governor like that. The rental agency hadn't bothered to inform me, of course. What a happy surprise when I tried to pass another vehicle on a two-lane highway.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @aNewBanner

    Yeesh.

    • Agree: ScarletNumber
  76. Anonymous[377] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mr. Anon

    More Bad Drivers Flooring It When Cops Try to Pull Them Over
     
    So are the cops going to compensate by really being d**ks to the people who do pull over. That would be in keeping with the whole anarcho-tyranny program.

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd.....
     
    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.

    Replies: @AceDeuce, @Anonymous

    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.

    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?

    • LOL: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Anonymous


    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?
     
    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.

    So I guess that's that then, huh?

    Replies: @Anonymous

  77. Anonymous[164] • Disclaimer says:
    @anonymous
    Steve, any thoughts on you and your "military genius" buddy Greg Cochran being completely wrong about the war as Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?

    I guess you boomers get all your information from the NYT. Well, the situation is so dire even they're having to tell a little bit of truth now.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?

    Citation needed.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Anonymous

    “You ask how the fighting is going,” said Oleksandr Kolesnikov, the commander of a company of soldiers fighting in the forest, interviewed on an ambulance gurney outside a military hospital in Kramatorsk. “There was a commander of the company. He was killed. There was another commander. He was killed. A third commander was wounded. I am the fourth.”

    , @PhysicistDave
    @Anonymous

    Anonymous[164] wrote to anonymous:



    [anon] Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces...
     
    [Anon] Citation needed.
     
    Here is a funny sequence of headlines from the Telegraph over the last few months.

    Doesn't prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    Dramatically.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @kaganovitch

  78. @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon


    Perpetuating the lie that George Floyd was murdered.
     
    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?

    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.

    So I guess that’s that then, huh?

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon



    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?
     
    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.
     
    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Mr. Anon

  79. @Macumazahn
    @ThreeCranes

    Well... Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Replies: @nokangaroos, @John Johnson, @Corn, @Anonymous

    That´s an easy one … hit anyone who hightails it with attempted murder
    and 10 years minimum; oops – the impack would be dissperate.

    • Replies: @TWS
    @nokangaroos

    Back when I was in the academy in the eighties the penalty for felony flight was five years.

    But it was never enforced. The instructor at the academy said, 'arrest the guy. Let the judge dismiss it.' Everyone including the judge knew you would be locking up far more minorities. Only had one vehicle pursuit with a white guy.

    Can't lock up more minorities can you?

  80. Anonymous[193] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mr. Anon
    @Anonymous


    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?
     
    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.

    So I guess that's that then, huh?

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?

    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.

    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    • Troll: AceDeuce
    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Anonymous

    Anonymous[193] wrote:


    But Chauvin was found guilty.
     
    A jury is not God.

    A jury can make mistakes, especially when subjected to extraordinary pressure.
    , @Mr. Anon
    @Anonymous


    But Chauvin was found guilty.
     
    So? (In italics too!)

    Is it your contention that courts are infallible?

  81. OT, in lighter news, a woman claims to have been “raped” in the Metaverse. Some of the details:

    One of the researchers, a young woman using an avatar with a female voice and appearance, claimed she was “raped” by a user, while others watched. The experience was described as “disorienting” and “confusing” by the researcher.

    “About an hour into using the platform, a SumOfUs researcher was led into a private room at a party where she was raped by a user who kept telling her to turn around so he could do it from behind while users outside the window could see – all while another user in the room watched and passed around a vodka bottle,” the report read.

    This does not appear to be a joke.

    And there are some posters here who claim the West has not gone completely insane?

  82. @Anon
    Wouldn't the cop or his drive recorder be able to get the plate number in 99 percent of cases? The driver could be relatively easily ticketed by mail and a separate warrant for fleeing a cop issued.

    I suspect that for stolen cars behavior hasn't changed -- the delta in the statistics are formerly law-abiding drivers.

    As a white person, I can't imagine bothering to flee a cop. Odds are the outcome will be much worse. I wonder if these new scofflaws are mainly formerly law abiding blacks who have been brainwashed into thinking that there is a non-trivial chance of their being killed by the cop? I guess you could get that idea from the mainstream media, especially if you're not that smart and don't notice that long-numbers and statistics are missing from media reports. Add in a tendency for short time preference, impulsivity, lack of future orientation, high delay discounting, -- all things associated with blacks ....

    Replies: @Dorfbinf

    In some jurisdictions, you can just say “It wasn’t me driving my car, it was someone else, and I don’t have to say who”. On my street, a “Man with gold chains” hit a parked car, and ran away. His passenger claimed to not know who the driver was and the cops had to swallow that crap.

  83. @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon



    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?
     
    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.
     
    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Mr. Anon

    Anonymous[193] wrote:

    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    A jury is not God.

    A jury can make mistakes, especially when subjected to extraordinary pressure.

  84. anonymous[133] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    @anonymous


    Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?
     
    Citation needed.

    Replies: @anonymous, @PhysicistDave

    “You ask how the fighting is going,” said Oleksandr Kolesnikov, the commander of a company of soldiers fighting in the forest, interviewed on an ambulance gurney outside a military hospital in Kramatorsk. “There was a commander of the company. He was killed. There was another commander. He was killed. A third commander was wounded. I am the fourth.”

  85. @Anonymous

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis
     
    Was George Floyd really “murdered”? Is it accurate to refer to an accident as “murder”?

    Replies: @personfellowindividual, @AndrewR

    Haven’t you heard? Some Leftists are now claiming that he was SHOT. It’s getting to the point where truth doesn’t have a ghost of a chance against the Leftist Reality Distortion Field. They just have to say something, and it immediately becomes the narrative.

  86. @Anonymous
    @anonymous


    Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces?
     
    Citation needed.

    Replies: @anonymous, @PhysicistDave

    Anonymous[164] wrote to anonymous:

    [anon] Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces…

    [Anon] Citation needed.

    Here is a funny sequence of headlines from the Telegraph over the last few months.

    Doesn’t prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    Dramatically.

    • Agree: Paul Mendez
    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @PhysicistDave

    Basically, as the old joke goes, the media is just getting around to telling people "Ukraine is on the roof and we can't get it down."


    A man is on vacation and his brother is taking care of his cat. The man calls his brother to check in and asks, "How is the cat?" The brother says, "The cat's dead." The man is distraught. He says, "You can't just tell me like that. You have to ease me into it. The first day, you tell me the cat's on the roof and you can't get her down. The second day, you tell me the cat fell and she's in a coma. Then on the third day you can tell me the cat died." The brother apologizes profusely. Then the man says, "It's ok. Don't worry about it. How's mom?" The brother responds, "Mom's on the roof and we can't get her down."
     

    Replies: @Sean

    , @kaganovitch
    @PhysicistDave

    Doesn’t prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    It's a bit like the Napolean headlines on his march to Paris

    — 9th March, the Anthropophagus has quitted his den

    — 10th, the Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan

    — 11th, the Tiger has arrived at Gap

    — 12th, the Monster slept at Grenoble

    — 13th, the Tyrant has passed through Lyons

    — 14th, the Usurper is directing his steps towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen en masse and surrounded him on all sides

    — 18th, Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital; he has been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pursuers

    — 19th, Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris

    — 20th, Napoleon will, tomorrow, be under our ramparts

    — 21st, the Emperor is at Fontainbleau

    — 22nd, His Imperial and Royal Majesty, yesterday evening, arrived at the Tuileries, amidst the joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects.

  87. @Hypnotoad666
    Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin's recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old's place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.
     

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    Replies: @Dorfbinf, @James N. Kennett, @J.Ross, @animalogic, @PhysicistDave

    “right – which one’s Putin? ”
    a moments silence… “I’m putin”…another moments silence – “no, I’m putin”, and in a rush “I’M putin”
    “I’m Putin! ” “I’m putin”
    & then of course “I’m Putin & so is my wife”

  88. @Anon
    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.


    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Wilkey, @bomag, @Prester John, @another fred

    If we had a country with only Anglo-Saxons, this would work.

  89. On my last trip to WA I enjoyed visiting Clarkston, which has the highest zip code in the lower 48.

  90. @CW Acumen
    OT - Due to a lack of LA County Sheriffs and an abundance of vehicle part theft, the SoCal town I reside in hired a private security company to patrol the city from 10 pm - 6 am. Unarmed and with yellow lights always flashing, they drive up and down the residential streets.

    Replies: @bomag

    How well is that working?

    As things get scarcer and more expensive, we’ll see more of this; if there are any honest people to hire for such.

  91. THX 1138 (9/10) Movie CLIP – Autojet Chase (1971) HD

    THX 1138 (10/10) Movie CLIP – The Sun (1971) HD

  92. Anonymous[954] • Disclaimer says:

    In California, in a democrat effort to reduce negro incarceration due to shoplifting, if your heist adds up to less than $950, the crime is only a ticket for the perp. So, gangs of acquisitive negroes have been regularly converging on assorted California stores and helping themselves.

    The event in the link below took place the other day at an upscale mall in Cerritos. Note after the breezy store heist, they wander back into the mall! That mall has been around for decades. Under all the economic strain, it will not last if this keeps up.

    Would you take your family to a mall featuring roving bands of feral negroes with no fear?

    https://www.tiktok.com/@jessleetv/video/7103010208934284586?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7103768073619326507

    • Replies: @Hangnail Hans
    @Anonymous


    Would you take your family to a mall featuring roving bands of feral negroes with no fear?
     
    Aren't all malls pretty much like that nowadays?

    And that $950 increment is just a guideline, a starting point. Do you think negroes will be prosecuted for ripping off $960? Or 1100?

    Is anyone claiming that mathematics isn't grievously racist at this point? I rest my case. Henceforth the limit shall be eleventy billion, in the name of restorative justice. So ordered.

    , @Jay Fink
    @Anonymous

    I'm not a fan of Islam, especially their obsession with female modesty. But I do admire them on crime. They would never put up with this level of theft.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  93. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    A license plate…

    This, too, shall pass.

    _______________________________________________________________

    I suppose we’ll eventually have a database that can identify every car via unique features other than a plate, so a dashcam/other video would be the enforcement mechanism.

    Which highlights the issue that better forensics and surveillance has improved policing to the point where, like fireman, more personnel have become superfluous; and the complaint of Blacks is that policing is now too good; too many of them are caught; so we have to dial it back.

    • Replies: @EdwardM
    @bomag

    I suspect we'll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a "black box" that streams all operating data to the government.

    Replies: @bomag, @Bill Jones

  94. @Hypnotoad666
    Off Topic: Our Deep State (sadly, MI6 is very much part of our Deep State), has determined that Pootin is so incredibly evil that he invaded Ukraine from beyond the grave. Zombie Hitler is even worse than real Hitler.

    Senior British intelligence officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may already be dead.

    MI6 posses claim Putin has been seriously ill and that if he was dead, The Kremlin would keep it under wraps for as long as possible to keep power. A source told the Daily Star that Putin's recent media appearances had probably been pre-recorded.

    And at public events like Moscow Victory Day, which took place earlier this month, a body double may have been used in the 69-year-old's place. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-dead-body-double-24093176.
     

    Naturally, our foreign policy brain trust is still going to insist on regime change until we can get a better body double in charge of Russia

    Replies: @Dorfbinf, @James N. Kennett, @J.Ross, @animalogic, @PhysicistDave

    Bernhard at Moon of Alabama has a good discussion of the Western media change of narrative on the Ukraine War and related issues.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @PhysicistDave

    The lower minions of the cabal have been getting high on their own supply for a while now. They’re fresh out of Hopium as reality grinds their Nazi’s down and Ursula Van der Loon comes up with a shiny new dose of Copium.
    The about turn on the Russian Oil Embargo is predicated on the geo-strategic necessity of preventing Russia selling Europe’s oil to others on the World market and making out like a bandit.

    It is her bounden duty to insulate the tyrant Putin from any Market Risk. Back in my derivatives desk days, we charged for hedges like that.

    The demons of Davos may, of course be proved correct. If they get their European population decimation times nine, the remaining 75 odd million may make it through the winter powered by unicorn farts and Punkah Wallah’s.

    The West is doomed. At its core it's simple.
    The men of Europe created societies where the average yeoman saw himself a sovereign and the rulers as tolerated/appointed/elected administrators tolerated to the degree to which they behave themselves. We live in countries heir to this view.
    The self selected barons of Davos see themselves a feudal Lords accountable to no-one.
    It is no accident that it is the White middle class targeted across all facets of society, they are the sole obstacles to the New Serfdom.

  95. @stillCARealist
    They don't get a license plate number and then send out a warrant? My guess is their tracking technology should be pretty good at this point. If red lights are run, then there'll likely be video of the offender. This is better than high-speed chases, BTW. Just go to where the car is registered and issue the citation/arrest.

    At some point we won't even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.

    Replies: @Goddard, @NOTA, @Anon215

    At some point we won’t even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.

    In China, cops don’t pull anybody over. Surveillance cameras take a picture, and the government sends you a bill. Refuse to pay and they revoke your license.

    • Replies: @Hangnail Hans
    @Goddard


    Refuse to pay and they revoke your license.
     
    Yeah well that's China, which 1] actually enforces its laws and 2] doesn't have 100 million africans and latinos who couldn't care less if they have a license in the first place.
  96. @Twinkie
    I’ve been observing some harebrained driving in my relatively genteel area. It’s very noticeable now. Drivers are increasingly impatient and cantankerous, apparently, and are taking it out on the road and other drivers as cars tend to give some people a sense of invulnerability.

    You know something is going on when Indian (dot, not feather) moms are weaving in and out between other vehicles on the local highway. Yikes.

    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire that is America these days.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Goddard, @JohnnyWalker123

    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire …

    We’re not at the end of the Empire, but of the Republic. The Empire is just getting started.

  97. • Replies: @Ben tillman
    @Bill Jones

    Major error in the first sentence of the article. It was not the Uvalde Police Department. It was the Uvalde County Independent School District police.

    , @Anonymous
    @Bill Jones


    Here’s a nice summary of the recent brouhaha with cops.
     
    It’s a bad summary thanks to a bad implied premise.

    No police officer is legally obligated to "save" anyone from a mass shooter. That’s already been settled in the courts.

    I really thought the Rodney King riots would have made this very clear. If one was too dense to get it, the antifa riots were yet another of many examples of cops considering, and deferring to the future of their own wife and kids, as opposed to citizens in duress due to maniacs with guns.

    I could be wrong, as I don’t know the area, but the student body of that school appears to be a lot of poor Mexicans. The mass shooter's parents and grandmother were poor, ignorant Latino trash.

    Again, if I were a white, Asian, or black police officer, I’m not going to be wading into that sad ethnic morass when the stakes are clearly my ass, if I have any say in it. It could also go beyond simple tribalism. It could be the fact that they’re all poor. A lot of middle-class cops of any ethnicity are not going to feel a passionate need to wade into that shitshow, especially when they know the perp is hunkered down and not on the move.

    Same equation works for the Rodney King riots. Most cops said amongst themselves, "I’m not going to be the cop killed in some South Central alley by some ignorant, pointless Jasper during the stupid Rodney King riots. I’m going home to my wife and kids tonight."

    It’s tribe, race, and class that generally determines who’s going to be a hero for whom.

    But get it in your head: a police officer is under NO legal obligation to save you in your dire time if need.

    Note how this situation brings us back to why semi-automatic weapons might rationally be considered "necessary."

    Maybe because when major shit starts flying, and a stupid mob is at your the door of your house or business, the police are under NO legal obligation to do anything to save you, or even help you.

    That will be up to you.
  98. @PhysicistDave
    @Hypnotoad666

    Bernhard at Moon of Alabama has a good discussion of the Western media change of narrative on the Ukraine War and related issues.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    The lower minions of the cabal have been getting high on their own supply for a while now. They’re fresh out of Hopium as reality grinds their Nazi’s down and Ursula Van der Loon comes up with a shiny new dose of Copium.
    The about turn on the Russian Oil Embargo is predicated on the geo-strategic necessity of preventing Russia selling Europe’s oil to others on the World market and making out like a bandit.

    It is her bounden duty to insulate the tyrant Putin from any Market Risk. Back in my derivatives desk days, we charged for hedges like that.

    The demons of Davos may, of course be proved correct. If they get their European population decimation times nine, the remaining 75 odd million may make it through the winter powered by unicorn farts and Punkah Wallah’s.

    The West is doomed. At its core it’s simple.
    The men of Europe created societies where the average yeoman saw himself a sovereign and the rulers as tolerated/appointed/elected administrators tolerated to the degree to which they behave themselves. We live in countries heir to this view.
    The self selected barons of Davos see themselves a feudal Lords accountable to no-one.
    It is no accident that it is the White middle class targeted across all facets of society, they are the sole obstacles to the New Serfdom.

  99. OT

    “I agreed to my sperm donor’s anonymity – now I see my daughter has a right to know who she is”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/31/my-daughter-no-legal-right-to-know-father-anonymous-donor-law

    Twenty-seven years ago I decided to have a baby on my own. I didn’t have a partner, but two different men offered to be the donor. I went to a leading fertility doctor, the late Prof Ian Craft, who had produced the first test-tube twins. He advised that research showed it was less emotionally complicated for a child to have an anonymous donor – research I have since been unable to locate.

    So that’s what I did. Aged nearly 45, I gave birth to a wonderful healthy daughter. At the time, anonymous donors were guaranteed anonymity for life. So by making that decision I gave up my child’s right to ever know who her father was. Now I see the ethical flaw in the arrangement. How could I have given up someone else’s right to know who they are?

    We really are in “I know I promised to love you at our wedding, and I did mean it at the time I said it” country here.

    Let’s hope Dad wasn’t this guy.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/31/uk-sperm-donor-genetic-condition-banned-contacting-children-fragile-x-syndrome

    “A man with an incurable genetic condition who advertised his sperm to lesbians on social media has been banned from contacting some of the children he fathered as a result.

    A family court judge took the unusual step of naming James MacDougall after finding he “took advantage of these young women’s vulnerability and their strong desire to have children”.

    Mrs Justice Lieven said there was “a very specific benefit in him being named in the hope that women will look him up on the internet and see this judgment”.

    MacDougall, 37, has fragile-X syndrome, a genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning difficulties and cognitive impairment. The judge described him as “a complex person” who has been diagnosed as having learning difficulties and being on the autistic spectrum.

    The family court heard he placed an advert as a potential sperm donor on a social media page for lesbian women seeking donors. He claims to have ended up fathering 15 children as a result, all aged between nearly four and a few months old – some of whom he was applying to the court for parental responsibility for, or contact with.”

    Pre-1991 no official central record of donors was maintained. I know a guy who sold his sperm when he was a student. Clinics sensibly preferred tall Oxbridge types.

    • Replies: @Hangnail Hans
    @YetAnotherAnon

    She says "Now I see the ethical flaw in the arrangement."

    And this is where contract law now stands. If you change your mind about an agreement you signed, and you're sufficiently well-situated in the progressive stack, why such contracts are obviously just 'white male patriarchy' and no longer enforceable.

    See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  100. Anon[118] • Disclaimer says:
    @Wilkey
    @Anon


    We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive.
     
    You’re a f—-ing genius.

    In your world without traffic laws, will drivers go to jail when they run over kids playing in their front yards, or is that too much police state for you, too?

    In my county just last week there was a driver going well over the speed limit who ran a red light, collided with another truck, and then both vehicles crossed the median and collided with seven other vehicles traveling in the opposite direction. Fortunately only the idiot who ran the red light was killed.

    In your world should we have no police to arrest such a woman if she manages to run a few red lights without hitting anyone?

    Replies: @Anon

    What kids? Nobody has any kids anymore. Look at the fertility rate and the age distribution. Less than 10% of the people in this country are kids, and the majority of those kids are of squatamalan and wakandan ancestry. Snap out of your delusional blue pilled fog of cuckery. Our women have failed to reproduce for decades. There is no justification for these laws and no excuse for poor situational awareness. Make masculinity visible again and stop worrying about the dead idiots on the road and the non-existent children.

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @Anon

    Here ya go. Would you say these two boys were Wakandan, or Squatemalan?

    Incidentally, a very large percentage of people committing other crimes are picked up because of traffic violations. Ted Bundy’s first arrest and conviction? Because he fled from a cop. So it’s not just about keeping the roads themselves safe (which would be utterly impossible absent the highway patrol). It’s about keeping everywhere else safe, too.

    Replies: @Anon

  101. The Floyd effect is a result of the lockdowns

    Without the lockdowns we don’t have 900 protests and 500 riots across America…..The death of Floyd would have resulted in a single riot in Minneapolis , just like the Death of Gentle Giant Michael Brown resulted in a single riot in Ferguson. Without the lockdowns the Ferguson effect would have been observed in Minneapolis.

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.

    • Thanks: JohnnyWalker123
    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco


    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.
     
    I strongly agree. It provided a huge, ready pool of demonstrators. Idle hands.......
    , @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco


    Without the lockdowns we don’t have 900 protests and 500 riots across America…..The death of Floyd would have resulted in a single riot in Minneapolis , just like the Death of Gentle Giant Michael Brown resulted in a single riot in Ferguson. Without the lockdowns the Ferguson effect would have been observed in Minneapolis.

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.
     
    There was definitely pent-up anger and aggression caused by the lockdowns that was released all at once for Floydmas.

    But, at least in my anecdotal experience, young blacks generally did not observe the lockdown restrictions to begin with. The 'hood remained unchanged. The people who were frustrated by the lockdowns and who sublimated their anger at being isolated into political activity were probably the white gentrifiers and underemployed white suburban college educated.

    Steve recognized a pattern with the 2020 riots which rings true - a first night ensues with mainly local blacks looting and committing arson. By the second night, the organizational structure made up of professional rioters and serious hobbyists descends upon the scene. The second wave is when the neerdowell whites populated the riots. This happened before 2020, but in the summer of 2020 the riots seemed to attract many more of the white gentrifier/underemployed college types than previous riots. The lockdowns and frustration that they caused are no doubt the reason for the ready availability of excess "riot labor."
  102. Illegitimate president Joseph Biden has been allowed to publish a campaign speech in the Wall Street Journal opinion page. The op-ed comments, normally the most liberally administered, are for this selection turned off. He says nonsensical things which wouldn’t be so dumb twenty years ago, like promising to leave the Fed alone (it used to be conventional wisdom that the Fed knew what it was doing, and the worst thing a president could do was to try to interfere).

  103. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    > A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender offending car.

    Then what happens? Rik Rok and Shaggy famously weighed in, a few years back.

    At most, one of those $40-and-no-points speed camera tickets by mail.

    • Replies: @epebble
    @ic1000

    Out here, a red-light camera ticket is between $200 - $300. We have numerous electronic signs on highways that are activated to catch runaway vehicles. Once the car plate number and description are flashed, he would be caught quickly. Then, there is a powerful weapon the police can use: Since the Car sped away from them, they can say the car was in violation and use Civil Forfeiture to seize the vehicle. So, just catch the vehicle, take him to Seattle Greyhound station and give him a ticket to Sacramento or Oakland. Unless the owner of the car has reported it stolen or can give a clear and convincing alibi, he will have great difficulty getting the car back.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States

  104. Why can’t the police record the car’s tag and details and locate it later in a safer manner? The high speed chases where regularly causing injuries.

  105. @PhysicistDave
    @Anonymous

    Anonymous[164] wrote to anonymous:



    [anon] Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces...
     
    [Anon] Citation needed.
     
    Here is a funny sequence of headlines from the Telegraph over the last few months.

    Doesn't prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    Dramatically.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @kaganovitch

    Basically, as the old joke goes, the media is just getting around to telling people “Ukraine is on the roof and we can’t get it down.”

    A man is on vacation and his brother is taking care of his cat. The man calls his brother to check in and asks, “How is the cat?” The brother says, “The cat’s dead.” The man is distraught. He says, “You can’t just tell me like that. You have to ease me into it. The first day, you tell me the cat’s on the roof and you can’t get her down. The second day, you tell me the cat fell and she’s in a coma. Then on the third day you can tell me the cat died.” The brother apologizes profusely. Then the man says, “It’s ok. Don’t worry about it. How’s mom?” The brother responds, “Mom’s on the roof and we can’t get her down.”

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Hypnotoad666

    The West can create a 'global famine' excuse for an international armada of non combatant naval protection of cargo vessels staying in international waters while opening up the sea lane to Ukraine (Ukraine has roads so it can get its grain out if countries send trucks. There is $40 billion for arms but not trucks?). That sea power strategy will be a distraction from the preparations of the Ukrainian army for an offensive to push the Russians out. A long lasting absolute balanced stalemate is the least likely thing, given how different the armies are. One side or another is going to force the other back, and the longer this goes on the more likely it's Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West. It was the Ukrainian use of drones and Javelins in Donbass fighting in late 2001 that immediately preceded the invasion build up, so Russia is wary of Ukrainians with advanced arms; Russia is not going to waste time now so they can fight at a disadvantage in early 2023.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666

  106. Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    It’s this sort of instinctive sense of communal bonding that forms a people. That’s my belief. That’s one of the ethnic intricacies that underpin a White society.

    It’s the rock solid foundation of a civilisation. That we’re in this together, us vs them, solid citizen vs overarching anarcho-tyranny of the management state.

    I see less and less of it these days.

    It’s these sort of intrinsic courtesies that must derive from deep within the well of our primitive DNA that’s getting trampled, shred and disregarded.

    Like when the elevator doors open and the asians come rushing in, before you can even look up to step out.

    Like when the pajeets on your floor are offering to pay you in cases of beer for a thousand dollars worth of car park spaces.

    We keep moving further West to get away from this onrush of infidels, but the space to escape is rapidly running out.

    • Agree: Paul Mendez
    • Replies: @Ralph L
    @Pat Hannagan

    Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    I do, sometimes, but I haven't seen anyone else do so in years, so my warnings may be pointless. A state tried to penalize it by law last century and the law was overturned in court.

    Replies: @puttheforkdown

    , @Pat Hannagan
    @Pat Hannagan

    Where's the law!?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnHedUTJF9I

    It's about time we buried our love for democracy in a shallow grave, deep in the forest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-WjrY-zY50

  107. Arguably the greatest car chase movie of all time:

    • Replies: @Kim
    @Rohirrimborn

    No, the greatest car chase movie ever is "Gone in Sixty Seconds" (1974)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QUeIRc8vaA

  108. @tyrone
    Our society is being MADE ungovernable .

    Replies: @Not you, @The Wild Geese Howard

    Anarcho-tyranny is a feature, not a bug.

    • Agree: tyrone
  109. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    You think this hasn’t been tried?

    Blacks drive around with illegal tint all the time.

    They will claim it wasn’t them because they let someone else borrow the car.

  110. @michael droy
    Speaking as a brit here - shouldn't you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?

    You know, like we give our cops truncheons and occasionally even Tasers to tilt the competition to them.

    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.

    Replies: @guest007, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @James N. Kennett

    The issue is not catching the fleeing driver. The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

    • Replies: @duncsbaby
    @guest007


    The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

     

    Most people used to understand that this was the fault of the fleeing driver, not the cops.

    Replies: @guest007

  111. @Macumazahn
    @ThreeCranes

    Well... Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Replies: @nokangaroos, @John Johnson, @Corn, @Anonymous

    Well… Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    You really think they are running over a lane change?

    They have drugs/guns in the car or a warrant.

    This is just another chapter in state endorsed race denial.

    Race Must Not Exist. The prisons have too many Blacks for liberal sensibilities so our genius politicians have come up with a solution: let some of them go.

    Don’t drive a small car or motorcycle in an area where there is a lot of enhanced diversity. The state will shrug if you are hit by an uninsured driver and end up with all kinds of medical bills. Most people figure that out though when they get passed by a lime green charger with gold rims going 120.

  112. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    Who thinks that the license tag is legit, that the owner is driving the car, that the driver has a valid drivers license, that there is insurance on the car.

    Such lawlessness also encourage hit and run accidents because why not run. Such lawlessness encourage people to use stolen plates, to not register their car, and to not carry a drivers license or any form of ID. The worst case scenario for the driver is getting involved in an accident serious enough to render the car undrivable. Then the driver can just walk/run away from the accident.

    In the long run, the risk of death and bodily injury from driving will go up along with the cost of car insurance due to the increase in the number of uninsured motorist.

  113. @Pat Hannagan
    Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    It's this sort of instinctive sense of communal bonding that forms a people. That's my belief. That's one of the ethnic intricacies that underpin a White society.

    It's the rock solid foundation of a civilisation. That we're in this together, us vs them, solid citizen vs overarching anarcho-tyranny of the management state.

    I see less and less of it these days.

    It's these sort of intrinsic courtesies that must derive from deep within the well of our primitive DNA that's getting trampled, shred and disregarded.

    Like when the elevator doors open and the asians come rushing in, before you can even look up to step out.

    Like when the pajeets on your floor are offering to pay you in cases of beer for a thousand dollars worth of car park spaces.

    We keep moving further West to get away from this onrush of infidels, but the space to escape is rapidly running out.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eohHwsplvY

    Replies: @Ralph L, @Pat Hannagan

    Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    I do, sometimes, but I haven’t seen anyone else do so in years, so my warnings may be pointless. A state tried to penalize it by law last century and the law was overturned in court.

    • Replies: @puttheforkdown
    @Ralph L

    I do it when I can, but I think the typical beneficiary of my good Samaritan moment is a dazed immigrant who doesn't know what hit them. "Ah wah was dat..." then back to whatever those struggling populations think about while driving around in the grand United States!

  114. OT Hey, want to hear something really stupid, which has nothing to do with the Ukraine, black people, or illegitimate presidents? Saudi Arabia is working on a Saudi version of “The Office.”
    https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/saudi-arabian-edition-office-works-082319991.html

  115. “The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other high-profile police killings — reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing”

    There you go, “Disparate Impact” rearing itz ugly head again. Whenever certain minorities are concerned itz always disparate impact.

  116. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

    Hah, rarely do I encounter the Prius police being polite. They are easily offended and I think you are being a little sarcastic. I’m willing to bet there was some hand gestures and cackling going on too.

  117. @Pat Hannagan
    Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    It's this sort of instinctive sense of communal bonding that forms a people. That's my belief. That's one of the ethnic intricacies that underpin a White society.

    It's the rock solid foundation of a civilisation. That we're in this together, us vs them, solid citizen vs overarching anarcho-tyranny of the management state.

    I see less and less of it these days.

    It's these sort of intrinsic courtesies that must derive from deep within the well of our primitive DNA that's getting trampled, shred and disregarded.

    Like when the elevator doors open and the asians come rushing in, before you can even look up to step out.

    Like when the pajeets on your floor are offering to pay you in cases of beer for a thousand dollars worth of car park spaces.

    We keep moving further West to get away from this onrush of infidels, but the space to escape is rapidly running out.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eohHwsplvY

    Replies: @Ralph L, @Pat Hannagan

    Where’s the law!?

    It’s about time we buried our love for democracy in a shallow grave, deep in the forest.

  118. @Anon
    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.


    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Wilkey, @bomag, @Prester John, @another fred

    Oh, it’s a racket all right! Total bullshit. I drove for two years without a license ’till I got caught and was issued a citation for running a red light and driving without a license. When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him “because the state needs the money.” Needless to say, he didn’t like my answer.

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Prester John


    When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him “because the state needs the money.”
     
    Well, it's true. Someone's politically connected business NEEDS THE GOVERNMENT MONEY.

    In Chicago, I heard on the radio that some vehicle emissions facilities are going to be reopened after being shut down to to the WuFlu concerns.

    The facilities are run by private contractors.

    Whatever the rationale that existed for such facilities when the regulations were created: "You need to get the government to test your car so you can take it to a mechanic to adjust the engine until it meets our satisfaction" doesn't exist ANYMORE because cars have sensors and computers that run the engine properly.

    But the poor taxpayer is stuck paying the bills so that a useless business can collect and pocket your money.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

  119. Meanwhile, back in the real world:

  120. @Sean
    @ScarletNumber

    The greatest disparity of all is within the black group, where there are seventeen male felons for each female felon; vastly greater than the corresponding ratio within the white group. By my way of thinking, that indicates the cause is testosterone.

    Replies: @europeasant

    “that indicates the cause is testosterone”

    You forgot to add, low impulse control and low IQ. Of course these are generalizations of the whole group.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @europeasant

    One in 8 surpasses the white average, 1 in 50 is a millionaire. Forty odd years ago black Phds were mainly male, two for every black woman with a doctorate. Now that ratio has reversed. White culture has evolved to be permissive since the first cure for syphilis about 1910.

  121. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender.

    But you still can’t arrest him when you find him, because when he flees you can’t chase him.
    If you send him a ticket or revoke his license, he can ignore you.
    Because you can’t chase him.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  122. @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco
    The Floyd effect is a result of the lockdowns

    Without the lockdowns we don’t have 900 protests and 500 riots across America.....The death of Floyd would have resulted in a single riot in Minneapolis , just like the Death of Gentle Giant Michael Brown resulted in a single riot in Ferguson. Without the lockdowns the Ferguson effect would have been observed in Minneapolis.

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.

    I strongly agree. It provided a huge, ready pool of demonstrators. Idle hands…….

  123. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    Mailing in a ticket to people who flee traffic stops doesn’t even begin to address the real issue here. The whole point of traffic stops is to turn up weapons, drugs, drunk drivers, you name it. If this is going to be the new norm, then ghetto blacks will carry firearms in vehicles with impunity because they can simply drive away from traffic stops and get a ticket in the mail later.

    • Agree: Hangnail Hans
    • Replies: @Alden
    @Anon215

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  124. @stillCARealist
    They don't get a license plate number and then send out a warrant? My guess is their tracking technology should be pretty good at this point. If red lights are run, then there'll likely be video of the offender. This is better than high-speed chases, BTW. Just go to where the car is registered and issue the citation/arrest.

    At some point we won't even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.

    Replies: @Goddard, @NOTA, @Anon215

    That doesn’t help when the car is stolen, and also
    loses a lot when the car is full of drugs or stolen goods that will be cleared out by the time the cops find the guy at home.

    • Agree: Wilkey
  125. @stillCARealist
    They don't get a license plate number and then send out a warrant? My guess is their tracking technology should be pretty good at this point. If red lights are run, then there'll likely be video of the offender. This is better than high-speed chases, BTW. Just go to where the car is registered and issue the citation/arrest.

    At some point we won't even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.

    Replies: @Goddard, @NOTA, @Anon215

    And what if the driver has a dead body in the trunk? Or an illegal firearm? What if he’s drinking and driving?

    Police need to be able to make stops.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
    • Replies: @Thea
    @Anon215

    Or live child.

    Polly Klass was alive in the trunk when her murdered was pulled over ( sadly let go but a kid could make enough noise to be rescued)

  126. @Anonymous
    @Mr. Anon



    Didn’t the jury find Chauvin guilty of murder?
     
    Roy Bryant was found not guilty in the murder of Emmett Till.
     
    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Mr. Anon

    But Chauvin was found guilty.

    So? (In italics too!)

    Is it your contention that courts are infallible?

  127. @Anon
    @Wilkey

    What kids? Nobody has any kids anymore. Look at the fertility rate and the age distribution. Less than 10% of the people in this country are kids, and the majority of those kids are of squatamalan and wakandan ancestry. Snap out of your delusional blue pilled fog of cuckery. Our women have failed to reproduce for decades. There is no justification for these laws and no excuse for poor situational awareness. Make masculinity visible again and stop worrying about the dead idiots on the road and the non-existent children.

    Replies: @Wilkey

    Here ya go. Would you say these two boys were Wakandan, or Squatemalan?

    Incidentally, a very large percentage of people committing other crimes are picked up because of traffic violations. Ted Bundy’s first arrest and conviction? Because he fled from a cop. So it’s not just about keeping the roads themselves safe (which would be utterly impossible absent the highway patrol). It’s about keeping everywhere else safe, too.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Wilkey

    I don't care about your anecdotes.


    https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/457796/share-of-child-population-in-the-total-us-population.jpg


    We have got to become a country of masculine, aggressive men and small, quiet women. Strong, leading men who don't give a shit about serial killers, traffic accidents or any of these satistically irrelevant, feminine perspectives that continue to weigh our society down.

    It is not worth the hassle, inconvenience, humiliation, tax money, and rage, to hold our young men back even further, for the alleged "protection" of a demographic cohort, liberally defined as age 0-17, that is fast shrinking to less than 20% of the US population, and majority nonwhite. Our men, especially the real men, have been absolutely crushed and devastatated by the nanny state regulations. Entire lives have been put on the backburner and lost due to these femmyshit traffic laws, leading to broken families, extreme poverty, and collateral social casualties.

    There are no children. Stop holding back the majority of adult males who want to be masculine, in the name of the miniscule minority that are white children or serial killer victims. You want to destroy our men in the name of a handful of corpses. You must be submerged. I will vote Democrat and donate all of my spare cash to BLM if it will render your kind inert.

    When America is over 50% children, as third world societies are, then you can come up here talking about protecting kids. But if you want to be protecting kids you better be making sure that those kids are being produced on time, god dwmnit. Right now you're not even able to protect kids from women's anti-natalist behavior. This is not a traditional society so keep your proselytizing paternalistic BS to yourself, corky. Comprende?

  128. @michael droy
    Speaking as a brit here - shouldn't you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?

    You know, like we give our cops truncheons and occasionally even Tasers to tilt the competition to them.

    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.

    Replies: @guest007, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @James N. Kennett

    Speaking as a brit here – shouldn’t you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?

    Those kinds of performance vehicles are generally not practical for 99% of what police do. IIRC, the Chester PA Police Department which patrols a section of 1-95 just South of Philadelphia proper used to have souped-up Mustangs for use in speed patrols.

    Police are on the horns of a dilemma – when they pursue perpetrators in cars, it can wind up in a high speed chase in which bystanders get maimed and killed. It seems like beginning maybe a decade ago or so the risk calculus about fleeing in a car changed, and more perpetrators were willing to risk flight. I suppose one can argue that the ability to track a fleeing car without chasing it is much better now. In 2022, it’s not likely that those Duke boys would be able to get away with so much due to modern surveillance technology.

    I also have to imagine that municipal insurers have taken a position against car pursuits and limited coverage for harm to third parties arising from a pursuit. This may be driving a lot of these changes and the general public wouldn’t necessarily know it.

  129. @PiltdownMan
    @Steve Sailer

    OT, but vroom-vroom noises make for good movie opening scenes. Even when the movie isn't about cars.

    https://youtu.be/cgJuVOrXv68

    And, of course, when it is.

    https://youtu.be/nE6aRLWwAEQ

    https://youtu.be/GkMOAoiGuGc

    Replies: @europeasant

    I have all three movies. The car sounds are great. My own car is a 2001 modified Mustang Cobra with Magnaflow exhaust. AT three plus RPM it makes a very aggressive mellow sound. I heard that California has a law that fines drivers with loud exhausts.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @europeasant

    Loud exhausts are obnoxious. I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it.

    Replies: @europeasant

  130. @Steve Sailer
    @Macumazahn

    A caption for the photo says the California plates were stolen. But I don't know if was true.

    It's pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Pat Hannagan, @Adam Smith

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    Well, I would wager that a fair percentage of license plate manufacturers have names that begin with “Ali.”

  131. @rebel yell
    “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police."

    Martina Morris has a sociology degree from Chicago, teaches at the UW, and looks like a very strict man hating lesbian academic:

    https://soc.washington.edu/people/martina-morris

    "The prime sponsor of House Bill 1054, Democratic state Rep. Jesse Johnson, also opposed lowering the threshold for pursuits.

    “I just do not believe pursuits in a 21st century policing system are needed,” Johnson said "

    Representative Johnson, the expert on 21st century science, is Vibrant:

    https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/johnson/

    The bill also requires that every fatal shooting by police be investigated by an Independent Investigation Team, to include "at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force."
    The community representatives will of course be sociology grifters like Martina Morris.

    Replies: @EdwardM, @ThreeCranes, @AndrewR

    “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police.”

    There’s something to this. We know that this wasn’t the reason that the woke government enacted this law, but perhaps a cost-benefit analysis would have led to the same conclusion. Getting to the right outcome for the wrong reasons?

    On the other hand, ending the deterrent will probably tilt the CBA back in the other direction. The woke circle of life.

  132. @bomag
    @epebble


    A license plate...
     
    This, too, shall pass.

    _______________________________________________________________

    I suppose we'll eventually have a database that can identify every car via unique features other than a plate, so a dashcam/other video would be the enforcement mechanism.

    Which highlights the issue that better forensics and surveillance has improved policing to the point where, like fireman, more personnel have become superfluous; and the complaint of Blacks is that policing is now too good; too many of them are caught; so we have to dial it back.

    Replies: @EdwardM

    I suspect we’ll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a “black box” that streams all operating data to the government.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @EdwardM

    Indeed.

    And something else to be hacked by the bad guys.

    Acquaintance was telling me about Mexican crime gangs in Houston. One trick is a "burner car": cheap used car; nominally licensed to a rental patsy; used and abandoned after a robbery, etc.

    , @Bill Jones
    @EdwardM


    I suspect we’ll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a “black box” that streams all operating data to the government.
     
    It's in the works. As a nice little irony given the residence of Steve's malefactor, it's probably going to be California first.
    Like so much else of the evil in the world.
  133. @Steve Sailer
    @Macumazahn

    A caption for the photo says the California plates were stolen. But I don't know if was true.

    It's pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Pat Hannagan, @Adam Smith

    It’s so good to see you get loud and proud about your Jewish ancestry, Steve, sheeit you’ve got nothing to hide! As a matter of fact you should be telling us how to live!

    Can you tell us about those early years, Sailer, when you were struggling against the goyim and how you stood against them?

    That would be great if you could tell us how you were to remain unscathed in incognitio yet at the same time be a victim of lifetime racial abuse which you now take out against abos.

    I’ve always felt there was something shady about Sailer…

  134. @Hernan Pizzaro del Blanco
    The Floyd effect is a result of the lockdowns

    Without the lockdowns we don’t have 900 protests and 500 riots across America.....The death of Floyd would have resulted in a single riot in Minneapolis , just like the Death of Gentle Giant Michael Brown resulted in a single riot in Ferguson. Without the lockdowns the Ferguson effect would have been observed in Minneapolis.

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Without the lockdowns we don’t have 900 protests and 500 riots across America…..The death of Floyd would have resulted in a single riot in Minneapolis , just like the Death of Gentle Giant Michael Brown resulted in a single riot in Ferguson. Without the lockdowns the Ferguson effect would have been observed in Minneapolis.

    Shutting the schools, churches, and small businesses while banning all social activities (except BLM protests), resulted in massive social unrest, isolation and economic destruction. The Floyd effect is a direct result of the Clampdown.

    There was definitely pent-up anger and aggression caused by the lockdowns that was released all at once for Floydmas.

    But, at least in my anecdotal experience, young blacks generally did not observe the lockdown restrictions to begin with. The ‘hood remained unchanged. The people who were frustrated by the lockdowns and who sublimated their anger at being isolated into political activity were probably the white gentrifiers and underemployed white suburban college educated.

    Steve recognized a pattern with the 2020 riots which rings true – a first night ensues with mainly local blacks looting and committing arson. By the second night, the organizational structure made up of professional rioters and serious hobbyists descends upon the scene. The second wave is when the neerdowell whites populated the riots. This happened before 2020, but in the summer of 2020 the riots seemed to attract many more of the white gentrifier/underemployed college types than previous riots. The lockdowns and frustration that they caused are no doubt the reason for the ready availability of excess “riot labor.”

  135. OT but the interesting (though he dislikes Brits even more than Bragadocious) Croat/Canuck writer Niccolo Soldo (@fbfsubstack) has been suspended from Twutter for maybe the third time.

    In last weekends substack he mentioned that, following the Trudeau precedent of confiscating the anti-vax mandate truckers funds, Paypal are now doing the same with left-wing anti-war groups in the States.

    If you are a news junkie like all of us reading this are, it is rather important to familiarize yourself with the ideas and arguments of those opposed to (or really and really, really opposed to you) in order to understand the assumptions upon which they base their worldviews. It often serves to help tighten up your own arguments, and sometimes even works to change your mind on an issue or two (God forbid!).

    The American right is being very honest when they scream that they are the victims of censorship in media, both mainstream and social. This is undeniable. However, there are many on the right who are completely oblivious to the censorship that affects certain parts of the US left, particularly those who fall well outside of the Democrat Plantation, and are critical of US Government, especially its foreign policy.

    He quotes Matt Taibbi

    In the last week or so, the online payment platform PayPal without explanation suspended the accounts of a series of individual journalists and media outlets, including the well-known alt sites Consortium News and MintPress.

    This episode ups the ante again on the content moderation movement, toward the world hinted at in the response to the Canadian trucker protests, where having the wrong opinions can result in your money being frozen or seized. Going after cash is a big jump from simply deleting speech, with a much bigger chilling effect. This is especially true in the alternative media world, where money has long been notoriously tight, and the loss of a few thousand dollars here or there can have a major effect on a site, podcast, or paper.

    The experience of MintPress exemplifies the logistical Whac-a-Mole controversial publishers have to play now in order to survive as businesses. In addition to the PayPal ban — which hit MacLeod, Adley, and one other former Mint contributor, forcing the company to stop paying its writers via the platform — MintPress last month saw two of its fundraising campaigns on GoFundMe shut down. According to Adley, the outlet was able to receive about 90% of donations across a two-year campaign before they were abruptly cut off. At least GoFundMe didn’t try to keep “damages,” as several thousand dollars earmarked for MintPress were instead returned to donors.

    Adley believes the chief crime of MintPress is that it exists as an alternative to monolithic messaging surrounding issues like Ukraine. Moreover, she believes it’s in trouble with PayPal not for being false, but precisely for printing true uncomfortable things, like MacLeod’s NATO-to-TikTok story, or Dan Cohen’s recent piece about the 150-odd Western public relations firms working with Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry. Several of these MintPress pieces about Ukraine have gone viral in recent weeks.

  136. anonymous[215] • Disclaimer says:

    In my experience in NorCal, white BMW’s, especially 5-class, are driven by Russian speakers, not blacks.

  137. @Steve Sailer
    @Macumazahn

    A caption for the photo says the California plates were stolen. But I don't know if was true.

    It's pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Can you have Alibaba manufacture you a supply of fake license plates and stickers?

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Pat Hannagan, @Adam Smith

    It’s pretty easy to steal license plates, right?

    Depends how handy you are with a screwdriver…

    CALIFORNIA License Plate 2016 SUPERB QUALITY (RANDOM PLATE #)

    Might seem counterintuitive, but, you’re better off running with no tag than a “government” tag that doesn’t belong to the vehicle.

    [MORE]

    “The right of a citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horsedrawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but a common right which he has under his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Under this constitutional guaranty one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another’s rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct.

    18 U.S. Code § 31. Definitions

    (6) Motor vehicle.—
    The term “motor vehicle” means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or cargo.

    (10) Used for commercial purposes .— The term “used for commercial purposes” means the carriage of persons or property for any fare, fee, rate, charge or other consideration, or directly or indirectly in connection with any business, or other undertaking intended for profit.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/31

  138. Anon[118] • Disclaimer says:
    @Wilkey
    @Anon

    Here ya go. Would you say these two boys were Wakandan, or Squatemalan?

    Incidentally, a very large percentage of people committing other crimes are picked up because of traffic violations. Ted Bundy’s first arrest and conviction? Because he fled from a cop. So it’s not just about keeping the roads themselves safe (which would be utterly impossible absent the highway patrol). It’s about keeping everywhere else safe, too.

    Replies: @Anon

    I don’t care about your anecdotes.

    We have got to become a country of masculine, aggressive men and small, quiet women. Strong, leading men who don’t give a shit about serial killers, traffic accidents or any of these satistically irrelevant, feminine perspectives that continue to weigh our society down.

    It is not worth the hassle, inconvenience, humiliation, tax money, and rage, to hold our young men back even further, for the alleged “protection” of a demographic cohort, liberally defined as age 0-17, that is fast shrinking to less than 20% of the US population, and majority nonwhite. Our men, especially the real men, have been absolutely crushed and devastatated by the nanny state regulations. Entire lives have been put on the backburner and lost due to these femmyshit traffic laws, leading to broken families, extreme poverty, and collateral social casualties.

    There are no children. Stop holding back the majority of adult males who want to be masculine, in the name of the miniscule minority that are white children or serial killer victims. You want to destroy our men in the name of a handful of corpses. You must be submerged. I will vote Democrat and donate all of my spare cash to BLM if it will render your kind inert.

    When America is over 50% children, as third world societies are, then you can come up here talking about protecting kids. But if you want to be protecting kids you better be making sure that those kids are being produced on time, god dwmnit. Right now you’re not even able to protect kids from women’s anti-natalist behavior. This is not a traditional society so keep your proselytizing paternalistic BS to yourself, corky. Comprende?

    • Troll: kaganovitch, guest007
  139. Technology, like ONSTAR will enable police to stop a fleeing vehicle but then what? The hoodrats bail out and run. The problem is the negro race is so sketchy police stops soon morph into something far more serious than a traffic infraction. The underclass negro motorist who is lawfully in possession of the car he is driving and has the paper work to prove it is pretty rare. Even if the negro is the owner that’s just part one of the checklist the police have to go through. Is the insurance and registration current? Is the car on the boot list for unpaid parking violations? Is the drivers license current and valid. Any warrants for the driver or other occupants in the vehicle. Any drugs or stolen property in the vehicle. Negroes are so damn sketchy few can make it through a traffic stop without being arrested for something so they don’t even try anymore. Better just to flee, dump the car and let the real owner deal with reclaiming it after it is towed and impounded.

    • Agree: Hangnail Hans
  140. @Pixo
    @Redneck farmer

    White BMW with Cal plates means what Steve calls “Men with Gold Chains” semi-white ethnicity. So Persian would be the best first guess, but Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, Assyrian, Lebanese. They come in Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Miscellaneous (Druze, Yazidi) varieties, but all like them their white pearlescent BMWs.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6rvauo/why_do_persians_drive_white_bmws/

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=gZyIhtN3PDI

    Replies: @Anon

    I would have thought that white BMWs with heavy tinting are the preferred car of semi-skilled support-staff-level civil servants with a lot of seniority. You know, middle-aged black women. Or is that black Mercedeses?

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    The white BMWs roaring down Ventura Blvd. at 70 mph tend to be driven by Caucasians with Nixon-level five o'clock shadows.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  141. • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Flip

    The headline makes it sound like each teacher will have to add points to black students' scores, but it sounds more like elimination of that which has the most disparate impact (e.g., the most discerning ways to grade) and substitute random noise generating processes.

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That's where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Replies: @guest007, @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

  142. @HammerJack
    @Badger Down

    A rental truck I once drove had a speed governor like that. The rental agency hadn't bothered to inform me, of course. What a happy surprise when I tried to pass another vehicle on a two-lane highway.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @aNewBanner

    Some cars owned by government agencies have those devices as well. I drove one that was set based on PA speed limits – 55 mph. I was always the slowest car on the freeway.

  143. @Flip
    https://westcooknews.com/stories/626581140-oprf-to-implement-race-based-grading-system-in-2022-23-school-year

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    The headline makes it sound like each teacher will have to add points to black students’ scores, but it sounds more like elimination of that which has the most disparate impact (e.g., the most discerning ways to grade) and substitute random noise generating processes.

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Steve Sailer

    Any school that grades students using any structural system will have disparate impact since the smartest kids with the smartest parents will read the documents concerning the system and find the holes.

    A good example of parents gaming the system was when Texas went to a top 10% system for college admission. The tiger moms quickly figured out to have their children take physical education or any other non-AP/IB required class in the last semester so that the non-weighted grades will not impact their child's class ranking until after college admission letters go out. I also believe that the Texas requirement to have every school including privates rank their students gives many white and Asian parents a front row seat to affirmative action when the black daughter of two Nigerian parents who have advanced degrees who finished 20th gets into Duke, Washington University, Rice, or Emory but the white kids who finished above 20th do not.

    , @kaganovitch
    @Steve Sailer

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Dude that was a century ago. When did you start believing in 'magic dirt'?

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @guest007

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Steve Sailer


    That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.
     
    Are they still standing?

    “It takes a brave soul to buy one of Wright's houses,” says Chicago-based architect John Eifler.

    He should know: He’s renovated 23 of them.

    7 things Frank Lloyd Wright, a great American architect, got wrong about design

     

    Fallingwater should be called Fallingporch.


    https://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/1016/1016d_fallingwater4.jpg



    Taliesin is shown up by its nearby knock-off, The House on the Rock. You can walk the length of the Infinity Room without fear.


    https://www.ripleys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/House-on-Rock.jpg



    https://www.thehouseontherock.com/


    Wikipedia is wrong! There is no connection between Alex Jordan and Frank Lloyd Wright

    Everything You Need to Know About Visiting The House On The Rock In Wisconsin!
  144. @Anon
    @Pixo

    I would have thought that white BMWs with heavy tinting are the preferred car of semi-skilled support-staff-level civil servants with a lot of seniority. You know, middle-aged black women. Or is that black Mercedeses?

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    The white BMWs roaring down Ventura Blvd. at 70 mph tend to be driven by Caucasians with Nixon-level five o’clock shadows.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Steve Sailer


    The white BMWs roaring down Ventura Blvd. at 70 mph tend to be driven by Caucasians...
     
    Literally?


    https://wikitravel.org/upload/shared//thumb/a/a6/Caucasus_regions_map.png/450px-Caucasus_regions_map.png
  145. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    So a warrant is issued based on the vehicle’s number plate, the police attend the perp’s home to make an arrest, but the perp jumps into his vehicle and drives off at high speed.

    Then what? Take another license plate photo?

    • Replies: @Ben tillman
    @Kim

    Exactly.

  146. TWS says:
    @nokangaroos
    @Macumazahn

    That´s an easy one ... hit anyone who hightails it with attempted murder
    and 10 years minimum; oops - the impack would be dissperate.

    Replies: @TWS

    Back when I was in the academy in the eighties the penalty for felony flight was five years.

    But it was never enforced. The instructor at the academy said, ‘arrest the guy. Let the judge dismiss it.’ Everyone including the judge knew you would be locking up far more minorities. Only had one vehicle pursuit with a white guy.

    Can’t lock up more minorities can you?

  147. @ic1000
    @epebble

    > A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender offending car.

    Then what happens? Rik Rok and Shaggy famously weighed in, a few years back.

    At most, one of those $40-and-no-points speed camera tickets by mail.

    Replies: @epebble

    Out here, a red-light camera ticket is between $200 – $300. We have numerous electronic signs on highways that are activated to catch runaway vehicles. Once the car plate number and description are flashed, he would be caught quickly. Then, there is a powerful weapon the police can use: Since the Car sped away from them, they can say the car was in violation and use Civil Forfeiture to seize the vehicle. So, just catch the vehicle, take him to Seattle Greyhound station and give him a ticket to Sacramento or Oakland. Unless the owner of the car has reported it stolen or can give a clear and convincing alibi, he will have great difficulty getting the car back.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States

  148. @Macumazahn
    @ThreeCranes

    Well... Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Replies: @nokangaroos, @John Johnson, @Corn, @Anonymous

    Yes

  149. @Rohirrimborn
    Arguably the greatest car chase movie of all time:

    https://youtu.be/0P2VCMT8vAw

    Replies: @Kim

    No, the greatest car chase movie ever is “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (1974)

  150. @europeasant
    @PiltdownMan

    I have all three movies. The car sounds are great. My own car is a 2001 modified Mustang Cobra with Magnaflow exhaust. AT three plus RPM it makes a very aggressive mellow sound. I heard that California has a law that fines drivers with loud exhausts.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

    Loud exhausts are obnoxious. I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it.

    • Agree: Gordo
    • Replies: @europeasant
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    "I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it"

    Only if you break down the door. And then there might be some very, very loud noises with some projectiles of a 9mm size in concert with the noises. I could be liquored up substantially at this point and my judgement could be impaired. Not to mention the loud rock music coming from my high power amp and speakers further confusing my reasonable judgement. It is dangerous to break down doors in my neighborhood.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

  151. @Ralph L
    @Pat Hannagan

    Do people in America flash high beams to oncoming drivers warning of a speed trap?

    I do, sometimes, but I haven't seen anyone else do so in years, so my warnings may be pointless. A state tried to penalize it by law last century and the law was overturned in court.

    Replies: @puttheforkdown

    I do it when I can, but I think the typical beneficiary of my good Samaritan moment is a dazed immigrant who doesn’t know what hit them. “Ah wah was dat…” then back to whatever those struggling populations think about while driving around in the grand United States!

  152. I’m wondering if you don’t have the technology to snap a picture of the license plate and then have those with authentic plates arrested and booked later, with comparatively severe penalties prescribed in law for this sort of behavior. As for those with fake plates, stolen plates, or a stolen vehicle, you might attempt to identify them by looking at security camera footage from nearby establishments, if you have the manpower.

  153. @Prester John
    @Anon

    Oh, it's a racket all right! Total bullshit. I drove for two years without a license 'till I got caught and was issued a citation for running a red light and driving without a license. When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him "because the state needs the money." Needless to say, he didn't like my answer.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him “because the state needs the money.”

    Well, it’s true. Someone’s politically connected business NEEDS THE GOVERNMENT MONEY.

    In Chicago, I heard on the radio that some vehicle emissions facilities are going to be reopened after being shut down to to the WuFlu concerns.

    The facilities are run by private contractors.

    Whatever the rationale that existed for such facilities when the regulations were created: “You need to get the government to test your car so you can take it to a mechanic to adjust the engine until it meets our satisfaction” doesn’t exist ANYMORE because cars have sensors and computers that run the engine properly.

    But the poor taxpayer is stuck paying the bills so that a useless business can collect and pocket your money.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Joe Stalin

    The primary purpose of government in the West is the succoring of rent seekers.

  154. @Steve Sailer
    @Flip

    The headline makes it sound like each teacher will have to add points to black students' scores, but it sounds more like elimination of that which has the most disparate impact (e.g., the most discerning ways to grade) and substitute random noise generating processes.

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That's where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Replies: @guest007, @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

    Any school that grades students using any structural system will have disparate impact since the smartest kids with the smartest parents will read the documents concerning the system and find the holes.

    A good example of parents gaming the system was when Texas went to a top 10% system for college admission. The tiger moms quickly figured out to have their children take physical education or any other non-AP/IB required class in the last semester so that the non-weighted grades will not impact their child’s class ranking until after college admission letters go out. I also believe that the Texas requirement to have every school including privates rank their students gives many white and Asian parents a front row seat to affirmative action when the black daughter of two Nigerian parents who have advanced degrees who finished 20th gets into Duke, Washington University, Rice, or Emory but the white kids who finished above 20th do not.

  155. @Anon215
    @epebble

    Mailing in a ticket to people who flee traffic stops doesn't even begin to address the real issue here. The whole point of traffic stops is to turn up weapons, drugs, drunk drivers, you name it. If this is going to be the new norm, then ghetto blacks will carry firearms in vehicles with impunity because they can simply drive away from traffic stops and get a ticket in the mail later.

    Replies: @Alden

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Alden

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    It is also a lot harder to hide in a car.

    Just because there is a warrant doesn't mean the police can show up and search the home.

    All these doofus Nice Whites imagine Blacks getting pulled over for a tail light and then getting aggravated by the racism of the White police.

    They don't know how many stops lead to arrests over outstanding warrants. That is why they run. They don't want to go to jail. It isn't because they are trying to avoid a $100 traffic ticket.

    Replies: @Alden, @NOTA

  156. Steve, how’s your dog. I forget his name.

    • Agree: Hangnail Hans
    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @Alden


    Steve, how’s your dog. I forget his name.
     
    Steve's dog uses the pronouns she, her, and bitch.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  157. @Intelligent Dasein

    More fallout from George Floyd’s precedent that submitting to law enforcement is optional if you are having a bad day,
     
    It isn't George Floyd's precedent, it's just a natural reaction. And we're going to see a lot more of it.

    Remember GK Chesterton's dictum that when you get rid of the big laws (i.e. the actual principles of good governance) you don't get freedom, you get the small laws. Well, our ruling class has been neglecting the principles of good governance for a long time now, and all the while jamming more and more "small laws" down our throats with the glee of the petty tyrants that they are. Comply with this, comply with that, wear a mask, get your shot, eat the bugs, respect my pronouns, so on and so forth. People only have a finite reserve of patience. When you start demanding ridiculous things of them, they take it out on you in other ways. Authority loses its legitimacy when it is misused.

    It starts small. If you're going to demand that I wear a mask in the store, don't be surprised if I "forget" to scan a few items at the self-checkout. If you aren't going to supply me with formula to feed my baby, I'm just going to walk out with a cartload of groceries and mug for the camera while I'm doing it. Go ahead, I dare you say something about it.

    And now we have the sick spectacle of children mindlessly slaughtered inside a school and the police doing nothing to protect them, but instead tackling and tasing the desperate parents who were attempting to save their children's lives. That is the last straw. Anybody who "submits" to this kind of law enforcement is a frickin' douchebag.

    Yeah, I've had my fill of bad days, and I'm not submitting anymore.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @Old Prude

    I like the cut of your jib, I.D. Use reparatory shoplifting to even the score when automobile service department has screwed you. When hassled at the transfer station by petty tyrants, the proper response is to dump your trash on the entrance drive at night. Let the a-holes pick it up in the morning.

    Etc…

  158. @PhysicistDave
    @Anonymous

    Anonymous[164] wrote to anonymous:



    [anon] Russia is absolutely obliterating the Ukrainian forces...
     
    [Anon] Citation needed.
     
    Here is a funny sequence of headlines from the Telegraph over the last few months.

    Doesn't prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    Dramatically.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @kaganovitch

    Doesn’t prove that Russia is winning, of course, but it is one more example among those many of us have posted showing that the Western media narrative has shifted.

    It’s a bit like the Napolean headlines on his march to Paris

    — 9th March, the Anthropophagus has quitted his den

    — 10th, the Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan

    — 11th, the Tiger has arrived at Gap

    — 12th, the Monster slept at Grenoble

    — 13th, the Tyrant has passed through Lyons

    — 14th, the Usurper is directing his steps towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen en masse and surrounded him on all sides

    — 18th, Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital; he has been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pursuers

    — 19th, Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris

    — 20th, Napoleon will, tomorrow, be under our ramparts

    — 21st, the Emperor is at Fontainbleau

    — 22nd, His Imperial and Royal Majesty, yesterday evening, arrived at the Tuileries, amidst the joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects.

  159. @europeasant
    @Sean

    "that indicates the cause is testosterone"

    You forgot to add, low impulse control and low IQ. Of course these are generalizations of the whole group.

    Replies: @Sean

    One in 8 surpasses the white average, 1 in 50 is a millionaire. Forty odd years ago black Phds were mainly male, two for every black woman with a doctorate. Now that ratio has reversed. White culture has evolved to be permissive since the first cure for syphilis about 1910.

  160. @bored
    In the interest of public safety, the state of Washington should legally mandate that all white BMWs with California license plates must be preceded by a man walking down the street waving a red flag and shouting to pedestrians, “Run for your lives! A white BMW from California is coming!”

    For my Southern state, I'd like there to be a town crier shouting, "Run for your lives! A 'relocator' is coming with a BMW-load of his politics, pathologies, and money. He'll soon be 'based' out of here!"

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    Try being a westerner. We’re absolutely swamped with these California bastards, just overrun. I’m in Arizona and you wouldn’t believe how many California plates I see every time I go out. I’d gladly trade every one of our Californicators for twice the number of your damn yankees. Around here, the transplants from the rust belt and northeast at least mostly understand their position here, i.e., that they are refugees and not missionaries. Californians don’t. They are the most blithely self-unaware pieces of shit that ever existed. Words cannot express how much we hate them.

    • Replies: @bored
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    They started buying up tons of property sight unseen during the early Wuflu panic here. Between them and Blackrock, it's pretty bad.

  161. Steve doesn’t want to talk about the shuttleheads even though they cause all the problems.

  162. One in 8 surpasses the white average, 1 in 50 is a millionaire. Forty odd years ago black Phds were mainly male, two for every black woman with a doctorate. Now that ratio has reversed.

    But what type of PhD? Actual PhDs or an extra few years of White Guiltology and Wakanda Sciences? Most doctorates are a feely-good way to rack up debt and self-loathing if you are White. Blacks with these PhDs learn about how there actually isn’t a 6 figure dream job waiting for them in government.

  163. @Anonymous
    In California, in a democrat effort to reduce negro incarceration due to shoplifting, if your heist adds up to less than $950, the crime is only a ticket for the perp. So, gangs of acquisitive negroes have been regularly converging on assorted California stores and helping themselves.

    The event in the link below took place the other day at an upscale mall in Cerritos. Note after the breezy store heist, they wander back into the mall! That mall has been around for decades. Under all the economic strain, it will not last if this keeps up.

    Would you take your family to a mall featuring roving bands of feral negroes with no fear?

    https://www.tiktok.com/@jessleetv/video/7103010208934284586?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7103768073619326507

    Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @Jay Fink

    Would you take your family to a mall featuring roving bands of feral negroes with no fear?

    Aren’t all malls pretty much like that nowadays?

    And that $950 increment is just a guideline, a starting point. Do you think negroes will be prosecuted for ripping off $960? Or 1100?

    Is anyone claiming that mathematics isn’t grievously racist at this point? I rest my case. Henceforth the limit shall be eleventy billion, in the name of restorative justice. So ordered.

  164. @Goddard
    @stillCARealist


    At some point we won’t even need the police to pull cars over. Just send the ticket.
     
    In China, cops don’t pull anybody over. Surveillance cameras take a picture, and the government sends you a bill. Refuse to pay and they revoke your license.

    Replies: @Hangnail Hans

    Refuse to pay and they revoke your license.

    Yeah well that’s China, which 1] actually enforces its laws and 2] doesn’t have 100 million africans and latinos who couldn’t care less if they have a license in the first place.

    • Agree: Charon
  165. @YetAnotherAnon
    OT

    "I agreed to my sperm donor’s anonymity - now I see my daughter has a right to know who she is"

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/31/my-daughter-no-legal-right-to-know-father-anonymous-donor-law


    Twenty-seven years ago I decided to have a baby on my own. I didn’t have a partner, but two different men offered to be the donor. I went to a leading fertility doctor, the late Prof Ian Craft, who had produced the first test-tube twins. He advised that research showed it was less emotionally complicated for a child to have an anonymous donor – research I have since been unable to locate.

    So that’s what I did. Aged nearly 45, I gave birth to a wonderful healthy daughter. At the time, anonymous donors were guaranteed anonymity for life. So by making that decision I gave up my child’s right to ever know who her father was. Now I see the ethical flaw in the arrangement. How could I have given up someone else’s right to know who they are?
     

    We really are in "I know I promised to love you at our wedding, and I did mean it at the time I said it" country here.

    Let's hope Dad wasn't this guy.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/31/uk-sperm-donor-genetic-condition-banned-contacting-children-fragile-x-syndrome


    "A man with an incurable genetic condition who advertised his sperm to lesbians on social media has been banned from contacting some of the children he fathered as a result.

    A family court judge took the unusual step of naming James MacDougall after finding he “took advantage of these young women’s vulnerability and their strong desire to have children”.

    Mrs Justice Lieven said there was “a very specific benefit in him being named in the hope that women will look him up on the internet and see this judgment”.

    MacDougall, 37, has fragile-X syndrome, a genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning difficulties and cognitive impairment. The judge described him as “a complex person” who has been diagnosed as having learning difficulties and being on the autistic spectrum.

    The family court heard he placed an advert as a potential sperm donor on a social media page for lesbian women seeking donors. He claims to have ended up fathering 15 children as a result, all aged between nearly four and a few months old – some of whom he was applying to the court for parental responsibility for, or contact with."
     

    Pre-1991 no official central record of donors was maintained. I know a guy who sold his sperm when he was a student. Clinics sensibly preferred tall Oxbridge types.

    Replies: @Hangnail Hans

    She says “Now I see the ethical flaw in the arrangement.”

    And this is where contract law now stands. If you change your mind about an agreement you signed, and you’re sufficiently well-situated in the progressive stack, why such contracts are obviously just ‘white male patriarchy’ and no longer enforceable.

    See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Hangnail Hans

    "See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs"

    I can be a bit more forgiving about student loans. In the UK they are "sold" with the encouragement of the teachers - who all have degrees themselves - and the universities, who send representatives out to speak to gullible sixth formers with zero life experience, often selling the university on its social life rather than academic standing.

    I know a nice girl, pretty and personable but not an academic whizz, who's working in a "distribution centre" i.e. warehouse, after three years of International History and Politics at a second-tier university (former "polytechnic"). I think she was hoping to end up working for an NGO and being interviewed on TV about the latest disaster. She'll owe about £60,000 plus interest.

    I work in financial services, and if we sold our products the way the universities sell theirs, we'd be the subject of non-stop investigations and prosecutions.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Hangnail Hans

  166. Sean says:
    @Hypnotoad666
    @PhysicistDave

    Basically, as the old joke goes, the media is just getting around to telling people "Ukraine is on the roof and we can't get it down."


    A man is on vacation and his brother is taking care of his cat. The man calls his brother to check in and asks, "How is the cat?" The brother says, "The cat's dead." The man is distraught. He says, "You can't just tell me like that. You have to ease me into it. The first day, you tell me the cat's on the roof and you can't get her down. The second day, you tell me the cat fell and she's in a coma. Then on the third day you can tell me the cat died." The brother apologizes profusely. Then the man says, "It's ok. Don't worry about it. How's mom?" The brother responds, "Mom's on the roof and we can't get her down."
     

    Replies: @Sean

    The West can create a ‘global famine’ excuse for an international armada of non combatant naval protection of cargo vessels staying in international waters while opening up the sea lane to Ukraine (Ukraine has roads so it can get its grain out if countries send trucks. There is $40 billion for arms but not trucks?). That sea power strategy will be a distraction from the preparations of the Ukrainian army for an offensive to push the Russians out. A long lasting absolute balanced stalemate is the least likely thing, given how different the armies are. One side or another is going to force the other back, and the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West. It was the Ukrainian use of drones and Javelins in Donbass fighting in late 2001 that immediately preceded the invasion build up, so Russia is wary of Ukrainians with advanced arms; Russia is not going to waste time now so they can fight at a disadvantage in early 2023.

    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @Sean


    the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West.
     
    Scott Ritter was pushing that theory a few weeks ago -- i.e., that time is on the side of the Ukrainians. But I think he's been proven wrong. The cavalry is not coming for Zelensky. The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it's already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    In any event, we don't have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I'm afraid Ukraine is toast.

    People think its been a stalemate because the battle lines haven't moved much recently. But that's because they are fighting in a Maginot Line of trenches that Ukraine built over the last 8 years. Holding these trenchworks has been a death trap for the Ukrainians, however, because of Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority. Russia has been perfectly satisfied just patiently blasting its way through. (Imagine if the French were holding Verdun with no artillery of their own). But once they've worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Sean

  167. Somebody who tries to outrun a police car that has told them to stop is almost certainly already a criminal.

    No responsible or sane person would take the risk of speeding and running red lights to avoid arrest, because the consequences would be so great.

    Washington State is not particularly highly populated with African Americans.

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have. An arrest could mean loss of your driver’s license, and loss of your driver’s license could mean loss of your job, and loss of your job could mean loss of your home or bankruptcy which could lead to divorce. So most people who have skin in the game try to stay out of trouble.

    Those who flee from attempted arrests clearly have no reputation to lose.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have.

    No, that keeps 30% on the straight and narrow. Another 65% is kept on the straight and narrow by having no interest in doing anything predatory or deceitful.

    , @John Johnson
    @Jonathan Mason

    Washington State is not particularly highly populated with African Americans.

    There are enough in Washington and Oregon to where the liberals fret over the prisons being "disproportionately affected". Practically all shootings in Oregon are committed by Blacks in a small area that is north of Portland. The area itself actually isn't that ghetto. Mostly apartment buildings near an industrial area and race track.

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have.

    Genes for self-control are also a factor. They keep people from road raging or smacking the girlfriend out of anger.

    These genes are not distributed evenly but discussing such realities is extremely taboo in our secular "science based" society.

  168. @Jonathan Mason
    Somebody who tries to outrun a police car that has told them to stop is almost certainly already a criminal.

    No responsible or sane person would take the risk of speeding and running red lights to avoid arrest, because the consequences would be so great.

    Washington State is not particularly highly populated with African Americans.

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have. An arrest could mean loss of your driver's license, and loss of your driver's license could mean loss of your job, and loss of your job could mean loss of your home or bankruptcy which could lead to divorce. So most people who have skin in the game try to stay out of trouble.

    Those who flee from attempted arrests clearly have no reputation to lose.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @John Johnson

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have.

    No, that keeps 30% on the straight and narrow. Another 65% is kept on the straight and narrow by having no interest in doing anything predatory or deceitful.

  169. Anonymous[163] • Disclaimer says:
    @Bill P
    It's funny how this was all supposed to stop cops from being mean to minorities, but the effect has been the worst white people behavior I've ever seen in my life.

    I live in Washington state and it's just pathetic here lately. Everyone thinks of Microsoft and Boeing when they think of this part of the US, but most people here are descended from loggers, fishermen, laborers and farmers. The last thing we need is a laissez faire attitude toward the law. I say this as someone who actually likes these people -- a lot.

    Put some hands on the reins and they're a force to be reckoned with. Slack off and you've got nothing but a pack of wild animals.

    Replies: @Danindc, @Anonymous

    When I first saw those videos of blacks looting CA stores while cops stood by watching my first reaction was shock. However it soon changed to why should blacks get all the good loot?

  170. @XBardon Kaldlan
    Black thug has a BMW,but he can't afford healthcare! In white America.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    • Replies: @epebble
    @Jonathan Mason

    Did he talk to an attorney? Why can't he declare bankruptcy and discharge his debts?


    Homestead Exemption Under Florida Law
    Real or personal property including mobile or modular home to unlimited value; cannot exceed half acre in municipality or 160 acres elsewhere; spouse or child of deceased owner may claim homestead exemption (husband & wife may double)


    Amount Joint amount:
    no dollar limit no dollar limit

    State Description
    FL May file homestead declaration

    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.01
    FL

    Property held as tenancy by the entirety may be exempt against debts owed by only one spouse

    Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Hill, 197 F.3d 1135 (11th Cir Fla. 1999)
    FL

    Real or personal property including mobile or modular home to unlimited value; cannot exceed half acre in municipality or 160 acres elsewhere; spouse or child of deceased owner may claim homestead exemption (husband & wife may double)

    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.01
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.02
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.03
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.05
    Fla. Const. Art.10, � 4
    In re Colwell, 196 F.3d 1225 (11th Cir. 1999)
    NOTE: Residency Requirement Caps Maximum Homestead at $189,050 if you've recently moved to a State that allows more than that
    Under the 2005 bankruptcy law, you must be have lived in the state for at least 40 months (3 years + 4 months) before you can claim any homestead protection greater than $189,050. (If your state's exemption offers less than this amount, the law is irrelevant to you.) .

    IF you are moving to another state, OR you moved to Florida within in the last two years, click here.

     

    https://www.legalconsumer.com/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-law.php?ST=FL
    , @John Johnson
    @Jonathan Mason

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    Well this is what happens in a country when the working population accepts a two party system where one party gets on their knees to fellate billionaires while the other obsesses over how to turn Bantu into Swedes through government programs.

    F-k all of them. We are surrounded by reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn't work or that evolution didn't provide a magical exemption for humans.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar

    , @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care. The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which appears on the bills of uninsured parties. (What's curious to me about your tale is that we went through the cancer treatment mangle in 2007 and 2008 and the sticker prices we were not charged amounted to about 1/5 th of what you say your friend owes).

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Jonathan Mason

    , @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    What they can seldom afford to do is pay out of pocket for dialysis, nursing home care, assisted living, or cancer treatment. Annual revenue flowing to medical care and 'social assistance' amounts to $20,000 per household per year, but the actual consumption for an individual household is characterized by large and unpredictable spikes.

  171. @ThreeCranes
    Police prevented from giving chase. Won't be long before homeowners won't be allowed to defend their property, their persons.

    Replies: @Macumazahn, @Gordo

    Won’t be long before homeowners won’t be allowed to defend their property, their persons.

    Already the case here in th UK.

  172. Anon[131] • Disclaimer says:

    OT: All those fires at food processors. Are the owners being hit with rising costs and thinking that torching their business for the insurance money is a nice way of retiring with a large sum of cash? I have grown suspicious of the motives of the owners. Rising interest rates along with an economic recession is a lousy time to be in business.

  173. @Alden
    Steve, how’s your dog. I forget his name.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason

    Steve, how’s your dog. I forget his name.

    Steve’s dog uses the pronouns she, her, and bitch.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Jonathan Mason


    Steve’s dog uses the pronouns she, her, and bitch.
     
    Steve likely uses Attagirl! Good girl!
  174. @Hangnail Hans
    @YetAnotherAnon

    She says "Now I see the ethical flaw in the arrangement."

    And this is where contract law now stands. If you change your mind about an agreement you signed, and you're sufficiently well-situated in the progressive stack, why such contracts are obviously just 'white male patriarchy' and no longer enforceable.

    See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs”

    I can be a bit more forgiving about student loans. In the UK they are “sold” with the encouragement of the teachers – who all have degrees themselves – and the universities, who send representatives out to speak to gullible sixth formers with zero life experience, often selling the university on its social life rather than academic standing.

    I know a nice girl, pretty and personable but not an academic whizz, who’s working in a “distribution centre” i.e. warehouse, after three years of International History and Politics at a second-tier university (former “polytechnic”). I think she was hoping to end up working for an NGO and being interviewed on TV about the latest disaster. She’ll owe about £60,000 plus interest.

    I work in financial services, and if we sold our products the way the universities sell theirs, we’d be the subject of non-stop investigations and prosecutions.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Same or worse in the US, which is why I favor total loan forgiveness despite long paid loans.

    , @Hangnail Hans
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Lots of loans and other financial products are sold under marginal pretenses. What do you say to people who worked two jobs and lived doubled up in crappy rental housing for decades to pay off their loans? FU? What about people who didn't go to college? Why should they be taxed to pay for others' irresponsibility?

    Why don't we pay off people's car loans too? None of this is different from mortgage cramdowns: the houses had lost value! BFD!

    Biden's just paid off another half million student loan accounts yesterday. Where does he get the authority? Where is that money coming from?

    Replies: @rebel yell

  175. @Jonathan Mason
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    Replies: @epebble, @John Johnson, @Art Deco, @Art Deco

    Did he talk to an attorney? Why can’t he declare bankruptcy and discharge his debts?

    Homestead Exemption Under Florida Law
    Real or personal property including mobile or modular home to unlimited value; cannot exceed half acre in municipality or 160 acres elsewhere; spouse or child of deceased owner may claim homestead exemption (husband & wife may double)

    Amount Joint amount:
    no dollar limit no dollar limit

    State Description
    FL May file homestead declaration

    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.01
    FL

    Property held as tenancy by the entirety may be exempt against debts owed by only one spouse

    Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Hill, 197 F.3d 1135 (11th Cir Fla. 1999)
    FL

    Real or personal property including mobile or modular home to unlimited value; cannot exceed half acre in municipality or 160 acres elsewhere; spouse or child of deceased owner may claim homestead exemption (husband & wife may double)

    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.01
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.02
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.03
    Fla. Stat. Ann. § 222.05
    Fla. Const. Art.10, � 4
    In re Colwell, 196 F.3d 1225 (11th Cir. 1999)
    NOTE: Residency Requirement Caps Maximum Homestead at $189,050 if you’ve recently moved to a State that allows more than that
    Under the 2005 bankruptcy law, you must be have lived in the state for at least 40 months (3 years + 4 months) before you can claim any homestead protection greater than $189,050. (If your state’s exemption offers less than this amount, the law is irrelevant to you.) .

    IF you are moving to another state, OR you moved to Florida within in the last two years, click here.

    https://www.legalconsumer.com/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-law.php?ST=FL

  176. Anonymous[405] • Disclaimer says:
    @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I was walking through a parking lot once and I heard a polite small honk behind me. I turned and noticed that there were two Priuses stuck behind me driving too silently for me to notice.

    Blind people have a problem with electric cars. Do seeing eye dogs deal well with electric cars?

    Maybe we need electric cars to make "Marching Morons"-style vroom-vroom noises?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @PiltdownMan, @International Jew, @mousey, @Anonymous

    Isn’t it the law that all electric cars since 2019 have to make vroom-vroom noises?
    And many of them opted in before that? In particular the past 10 years of Priuses?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds

  177. Sailer (House) Rules in Charleston?

  178. More fallout from George Floyd’s precedent…

    By Austin Jenkins

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿!!

    Please pardon the onomasturbationication:

    Floyd, Floyd, Floyd,
    which means “the son of Lloyd”
    was never meant,
    by all intent,
    to refer to any ‘Groid.

  179. @Steve Sailer
    @Flip

    The headline makes it sound like each teacher will have to add points to black students' scores, but it sounds more like elimination of that which has the most disparate impact (e.g., the most discerning ways to grade) and substitute random noise generating processes.

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That's where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Replies: @guest007, @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Dude that was a century ago. When did you start believing in ‘magic dirt’?

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @kaganovitch

    Dem Oak Parkers is so smart they voted to retain on themselves a HANDGUN BAN to show how morally superior they were to the unwashed.


    Oak Park voters endorsed their suburb`s handgun ban Tuesday despite a pitched effort by ban opponents who had appealed to residents` concerns about personal liberty and increasing crime.

    With 81 of 83 precincts reporting on an advisory referendum calling for repeal of the ban, unofficial counts showed 7,758 votes to retain the ban and 6,115 to overturn it.

    The Oak Park advisory referendum on the handgun measure marked the first time in the nation that voters had been asked to repeal such a ban, and the National Rifle Association and the National Coalition to Ban Handguns had worked vigorously to woo Oak Park voters.

    The vote culminated nearly two months of emotional debate in the community of 54,887, which borders Chicago`s high-crime West Side. The Oak Park Village Board approved the handgun ban by a one-vote margin in April, 1984, after the shooting death of Oak Park attorney James Piszczor in a Daley Center courtroom. The ban, which prohibits possession of handguns in the village, took effect in October, 1984.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-11-06-8503160490-story.html
     

    Replies: @Charon

    , @guest007
    @kaganovitch

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_to_Me

    https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/america-to-me/38818

    That more conservatives did not use this documentary to learn how to counter progressives demonstrates the laziness of most conservatives.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @drainage641

  180. @Jonathan Mason
    @Alden


    Steve, how’s your dog. I forget his name.
     
    Steve's dog uses the pronouns she, her, and bitch.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Steve’s dog uses the pronouns she, her, and bitch.

    Steve likely uses Attagirl! Good girl!

  181. @Alden
    @Anon215

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    It is also a lot harder to hide in a car.

    Just because there is a warrant doesn’t mean the police can show up and search the home.

    All these doofus Nice Whites imagine Blacks getting pulled over for a tail light and then getting aggravated by the racism of the White police.

    They don’t know how many stops lead to arrests over outstanding warrants. That is why they run. They don’t want to go to jail. It isn’t because they are trying to avoid a $100 traffic ticket.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @John Johnson

    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    Sometimes baby momma or auntie someone will call and let a dispatcher know if her piece of trash is staying the night. Sometimes an informer sick and tired of being beat up or just for revenge for whatever makes the call.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @NOTA
    @John Johnson

    You don't run from the cops when you're worried about gettin a speeding ticket. But if you're driving a stolen car, or you have an outstanding arrest warrant, or you've got a bunch of drugs or stolen goods or an illegal gun in the car, well, the extra trouble you can get in for running is less than the extra trouble you can get in for those things, so....

  182. @Anonymous
    Meanwhile, Disney World is magically transforming into a Third-World Shithole…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10858659/Disney-homelessness.html

    https://live.staticflickr.com/5052/5535165863_e968761b8f.jpg

    Replies: @guest007

    Trying reading the article the next time instead of just the headline. The article is about homeless and those near being homeless in Kissimmee Florida.

  183. @Jonathan Mason
    Somebody who tries to outrun a police car that has told them to stop is almost certainly already a criminal.

    No responsible or sane person would take the risk of speeding and running red lights to avoid arrest, because the consequences would be so great.

    Washington State is not particularly highly populated with African Americans.

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have. An arrest could mean loss of your driver's license, and loss of your driver's license could mean loss of your job, and loss of your job could mean loss of your home or bankruptcy which could lead to divorce. So most people who have skin in the game try to stay out of trouble.

    Those who flee from attempted arrests clearly have no reputation to lose.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @John Johnson

    Washington State is not particularly highly populated with African Americans.

    There are enough in Washington and Oregon to where the liberals fret over the prisons being “disproportionately affected”. Practically all shootings in Oregon are committed by Blacks in a small area that is north of Portland. The area itself actually isn’t that ghetto. Mostly apartment buildings near an industrial area and race track.

    The thing that keeps most people on the straight and narrow is the fact that they want to keep what they have.

    Genes for self-control are also a factor. They keep people from road raging or smacking the girlfriend out of anger.

    These genes are not distributed evenly but discussing such realities is extremely taboo in our secular “science based” society.

  184. @kaganovitch
    @Steve Sailer

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Dude that was a century ago. When did you start believing in 'magic dirt'?

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @guest007

    Dem Oak Parkers is so smart they voted to retain on themselves a HANDGUN BAN to show how morally superior they were to the unwashed.

    Oak Park voters endorsed their suburb`s handgun ban Tuesday despite a pitched effort by ban opponents who had appealed to residents` concerns about personal liberty and increasing crime.

    With 81 of 83 precincts reporting on an advisory referendum calling for repeal of the ban, unofficial counts showed 7,758 votes to retain the ban and 6,115 to overturn it.

    The Oak Park advisory referendum on the handgun measure marked the first time in the nation that voters had been asked to repeal such a ban, and the National Rifle Association and the National Coalition to Ban Handguns had worked vigorously to woo Oak Park voters.

    The vote culminated nearly two months of emotional debate in the community of 54,887, which borders Chicago`s high-crime West Side. The Oak Park Village Board approved the handgun ban by a one-vote margin in April, 1984, after the shooting death of Oak Park attorney James Piszczor in a Daley Center courtroom. The ban, which prohibits possession of handguns in the village, took effect in October, 1984.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-11-06-8503160490-story.html

    • Replies: @Charon
    @Joe Stalin

    Yet another law ready-made for enforcement against white people, and no one else.

  185. @EdwardM
    @bomag

    I suspect we'll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a "black box" that streams all operating data to the government.

    Replies: @bomag, @Bill Jones

    Indeed.

    And something else to be hacked by the bad guys.

    Acquaintance was telling me about Mexican crime gangs in Houston. One trick is a “burner car”: cheap used car; nominally licensed to a rental patsy; used and abandoned after a robbery, etc.

  186. @Jonathan Mason
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    Replies: @epebble, @John Johnson, @Art Deco, @Art Deco

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    Well this is what happens in a country when the working population accepts a two party system where one party gets on their knees to fellate billionaires while the other obsesses over how to turn Bantu into Swedes through government programs.

    F-k all of them. We are surrounded by reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work or that evolution didn’t provide a magical exemption for humans.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @John Johnson

    would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work

    Yeah, let's make the VA model universal. We'll all be better off.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @John Johnson


    reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work
     
    That depends on who works it:

    In Singapore, primary care is provided through an island-wide network of outpatient polyclinics and clinics run by private general practitioners (GPs). There are currently 23 polyclinics and about 1,800 GP clinics.


    There are about 1,800 GP clinics, which meet about 80% of the total primary care demand.
     

    ...or that evolution didn’t provide a magical exemption for humans.

     

    Which other species have public health care? Bees? Ants?

    Replies: @John Johnson

  187. @kaganovitch
    @Steve Sailer

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Dude that was a century ago. When did you start believing in 'magic dirt'?

    Replies: @Joe Stalin, @guest007

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_to_Me

    https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/america-to-me/38818

    That more conservatives did not use this documentary to learn how to counter progressives demonstrates the laziness of most conservatives.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @guest007

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    I'm sure there is; why should O.P. be any different. I was just busting Steve's chops. Why would you prove it by using Hemingway, who was born 120 years ago? It's like the 'redlining' of scholastic achievement.

    Replies: @SafeNow

    , @drainage641
    @guest007

    Ghetto schools sometimes have special programs for roughly the top 5% of white students in the school district. There rarely are middle of the pack white students (let alone "bad" white students) at those schools. I'm not disagreeing with you that median white students outperform median black students. But using those ghetto schools is basically comparing the top 5% of white students to the median black ghetto student, which is a little deceptive.

    Replies: @guest007

  188. @Steve Sailer
    @Flip

    The headline makes it sound like each teacher will have to add points to black students' scores, but it sounds more like elimination of that which has the most disparate impact (e.g., the most discerning ways to grade) and substitute random noise generating processes.

    Oak Park white kids are pretty smart (e.g., Hemingway). That's where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Replies: @guest007, @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

    That’s where my dad was born in 1917 on a street full of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

    Are they still standing?

    “It takes a brave soul to buy one of Wright’s houses,” says Chicago-based architect John Eifler.

    He should know: He’s renovated 23 of them.

    7 things Frank Lloyd Wright, a great American architect, got wrong about design

    Fallingwater should be called Fallingporch.

    Taliesin is shown up by its nearby knock-off, The House on the Rock. You can walk the length of the Infinity Room without fear.

    https://www.thehouseontherock.com/

    Wikipedia is wrong! There is no connection between Alex Jordan and Frank Lloyd Wright

    Everything You Need to Know About Visiting The House On The Rock In Wisconsin!

  189. Anonymous[954] • Disclaimer says:
    @Macumazahn
    @ThreeCranes

    Well... Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Replies: @nokangaroos, @John Johnson, @Corn, @Anonymous

    Well… Is it really worth the risk to life and property inherent in two (or more) cars flying down residential streets at freeway speeds, in order to issue a citation for improper lane usage?

    Irrelevant, since driving away at a high rate of speed from a police officer is a felony. Allowing criminals to dictate when they will or will not have interaction with the police solicits widespread anarchy, where psychotic criminals decide what’s best for their community.

    Try keeping up with the plotline, dum dum.

  190. Grey Goose Effect

    • Replies: @Barnard
    @Charles Pewitt

    Do you think they still let Nancy drive? I would be shocked if she does.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  191. @Jonathan Mason
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    Replies: @epebble, @John Johnson, @Art Deco, @Art Deco

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care. The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which appears on the bills of uninsured parties. (What’s curious to me about your tale is that we went through the cancer treatment mangle in 2007 and 2008 and the sticker prices we were not charged amounted to about 1/5 th of what you say your friend owes).

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Art Deco

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care.

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which

    We already have a system where monopolies determine prices.

    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    In some states there is only one private insurance provider.

    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Meanwhile the poor get Medicaid and don't have to worry about any of this. The middle class bends over and takes it as usual. Republicans call it Freedumb. Yea Freedumb to get f-ked in the ass by amoral companies.

    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    What’s curious to me about your tale

    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical. No one is making up stories.

    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    , @Jonathan Mason
    @Art Deco

    The story about my friend's wife is obviously a bit more complex than one can describe in a few lines, but it included accepting surgeries which my friend in retrospect realized were a waste of money. At one point in the process my friend had to quit his job so that his wife would qualify for Medicaid after the bills went over the maximum that the insurance would cover. Anyway he did end up with vast bills and a lien on his house. He is 69 years of age and still working, or was when I last spoke to him about 3 months ago, and is earning about $22.50 per hour, so very unlikely to be able to pay off this debt.

  192. @Jonathan Mason
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    A friend of mine ended up owing $1.5 million after his wife died of cancer. When he dies, they will take his house, so he can never sell it. He realizes now that he should have divorced his wife as soon as she developed the cancer.

    Florida law provides for this, as you can divorce your spouse at any time for no valid reason at all

    Always consult an attorney if somebody in your family becomes seriously ill.

    Replies: @epebble, @John Johnson, @Art Deco, @Art Deco

    Nobody can really afford health care in the United States.

    What they can seldom afford to do is pay out of pocket for dialysis, nursing home care, assisted living, or cancer treatment. Annual revenue flowing to medical care and ‘social assistance’ amounts to $20,000 per household per year, but the actual consumption for an individual household is characterized by large and unpredictable spikes.

  193. @John Johnson
    @Jonathan Mason

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    Well this is what happens in a country when the working population accepts a two party system where one party gets on their knees to fellate billionaires while the other obsesses over how to turn Bantu into Swedes through government programs.

    F-k all of them. We are surrounded by reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn't work or that evolution didn't provide a magical exemption for humans.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar

    would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work

    Yeah, let’s make the VA model universal. We’ll all be better off.

    • Agree: Alden, Jonathan Mason
  194. @rebel yell
    “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police."

    Martina Morris has a sociology degree from Chicago, teaches at the UW, and looks like a very strict man hating lesbian academic:

    https://soc.washington.edu/people/martina-morris

    "The prime sponsor of House Bill 1054, Democratic state Rep. Jesse Johnson, also opposed lowering the threshold for pursuits.

    “I just do not believe pursuits in a 21st century policing system are needed,” Johnson said "

    Representative Johnson, the expert on 21st century science, is Vibrant:

    https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/johnson/

    The bill also requires that every fatal shooting by police be investigated by an Independent Investigation Team, to include "at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force."
    The community representatives will of course be sociology grifters like Martina Morris.

    Replies: @EdwardM, @ThreeCranes, @AndrewR

    The people drafting this bill stipulate that the “Independent Investigation Team” is “to include ‘at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force’” and in doing so tacitly admit that those two community representatives are biased and will act in a biased manner. Else why stipulate that they have ties to impacted communities? Why not stipulate that they be truly disinterested third parties, such as Korean immigrants?

  195. @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @bored

    Try being a westerner. We're absolutely swamped with these California bastards, just overrun. I'm in Arizona and you wouldn't believe how many California plates I see every time I go out. I'd gladly trade every one of our Californicators for twice the number of your damn yankees. Around here, the transplants from the rust belt and northeast at least mostly understand their position here, i.e., that they are refugees and not missionaries. Californians don't. They are the most blithely self-unaware pieces of shit that ever existed. Words cannot express how much we hate them.

    Replies: @bored

    They started buying up tons of property sight unseen during the early Wuflu panic here. Between them and Blackrock, it’s pretty bad.

  196. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    The white BMWs roaring down Ventura Blvd. at 70 mph tend to be driven by Caucasians with Nixon-level five o'clock shadows.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    The white BMWs roaring down Ventura Blvd. at 70 mph tend to be driven by Caucasians…

    Literally?

  197. @Kim
    @epebble

    So a warrant is issued based on the vehicle's number plate, the police attend the perp's home to make an arrest, but the perp jumps into his vehicle and drives off at high speed.

    Then what? Take another license plate photo?

    Replies: @Ben tillman

    Exactly.

  198. @guest007
    @kaganovitch

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_to_Me

    https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/america-to-me/38818

    That more conservatives did not use this documentary to learn how to counter progressives demonstrates the laziness of most conservatives.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @drainage641

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    I’m sure there is; why should O.P. be any different. I was just busting Steve’s chops. Why would you prove it by using Hemingway, who was born 120 years ago? It’s like the ‘redlining’ of scholastic achievement.

    • Replies: @SafeNow
    @kaganovitch

    I read (Jared) that there are about 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and in every single one of the 13,000, the order of academic achievement is: 1) Asian, 2) White 3) Hispanic. 4) Black.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @puttheforkdown

  199. @Bill Jones
    Here's a nice summary of the recent brouhaha with cops.

    Fleeing from them is probably advisable.

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/28/documents-reveal-uvalde-police-violated-protocols-in-shocking-ways-made-egregious-decision-to-stand-down-n571382

    Replies: @Ben tillman, @Anonymous

    Major error in the first sentence of the article. It was not the Uvalde Police Department. It was the Uvalde County Independent School District police.

  200. @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care. The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which appears on the bills of uninsured parties. (What's curious to me about your tale is that we went through the cancer treatment mangle in 2007 and 2008 and the sticker prices we were not charged amounted to about 1/5 th of what you say your friend owes).

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Jonathan Mason

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care.

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which

    We already have a system where monopolies determine prices.

    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    In some states there is only one private insurance provider.

    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Meanwhile the poor get Medicaid and don’t have to worry about any of this. The middle class bends over and takes it as usual. Republicans call it Freedumb. Yea Freedumb to get f-ked in the ass by amoral companies.

    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    What’s curious to me about your tale

    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical. No one is making up stories.

    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    • Agree: ThreeCranes
    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @John Johnson

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    No, I mean propensity.


    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    No, you won't, because if you have one hospital, that's a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.


    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Where? I've had ordinary employer's insurance and two-digit co-pays.



    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    And you can travel south of the border if the queues are too long.



    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn't mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy. (IIRC, the study in question listed a median of $18,000 in medical debts for bankrupts who had them). Student loans and mortgages will dwarf that.


    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    You're a Dunning-Kruger exemplar.

    Replies: @John Johnson

  201. Perhaps it was a spectral reappearance of Hunter S. Thompson, complete with another rented White Whale?

    Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One:

    Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him … and then he will start apologizing, begging for mercy.

    This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to do – when you’re running along about 100 or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your tail – what you want to do then is accelerate. Never pull over with the first siren-howl. Mash it down and make the bastard chase you at speeds up to 120 all the way to the next exit. He will follow. But he won’t know what to make of your blinker-signal that says you’re about to turn right.

    This is to let him know you’re looking for a proper place to pull off and talk … keep signaling and hope for an off-ramp, one of those uphill side-loops with a sign saying “Max Speed 25” … and the trick, at this point, is to suddenly leave the freeway and take him into the chute at no less than 100 miles an hour.

    He will lock his brakes about the same time you lock yours, but it will take him a moment to realize that he’s about to make a 180-degree turn at this speed … but you will be ready for it, braced for the Gs and the fast heel-toe work, and with any luck at all you will have come to a complete stop off the road at the top of the turn and be standing beside your automobile by the time he catches up.

    He will not be reasonable at first … but no matter. Let him calm down. He will want the first word. Let him have it. His brain will be in a turmoil: he may begin jabbering, or even pull his gun. Let him unwind; keep smiling. The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle – while he lost control of everything.

    It helps to have a police/press badge in your wallet when he calms down enough to ask for your license. I had one of these – but I also had a can of Budweiser in my hand. Until that moment, I was unaware that I was holding it. I had felt totally on top of the situation … but when I looked down and saw that little red/silver evidence-bomb in my hand, I knew I was fucked. ….

  202. @Charles Pewitt
    Grey Goose Effect

    https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1530996282227146752?s=20&t=_KQPUJw8bBtUf4z7itAjMg

    Replies: @Barnard

    Do you think they still let Nancy drive? I would be shocked if she does.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Barnard

    If I was an octogenarian Speaker of the House, I'd expect to be driven everywhere.

    Replies: @guest007, @AndrewR

  203. @EdwardM
    @bomag

    I suspect we'll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a "black box" that streams all operating data to the government.

    Replies: @bomag, @Bill Jones

    I suspect we’ll skip that step and just mandate that all cars have a “black box” that streams all operating data to the government.

    It’s in the works. As a nice little irony given the residence of Steve’s malefactor, it’s probably going to be California first.
    Like so much else of the evil in the world.

  204. @kaganovitch
    @guest007

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    I'm sure there is; why should O.P. be any different. I was just busting Steve's chops. Why would you prove it by using Hemingway, who was born 120 years ago? It's like the 'redlining' of scholastic achievement.

    Replies: @SafeNow

    I read (Jared) that there are about 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and in every single one of the 13,000, the order of academic achievement is: 1) Asian, 2) White 3) Hispanic. 4) Black.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @SafeNow

    On that note:

    OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year

    https://westcooknews.com/stories/626581140-oprf-to-implement-race-based-grading-system-in-2022-23-school-year

    , @puttheforkdown
    @SafeNow

    Must be why Asians invented everything. Academic achievement!

  205. @Anon
    This is good and a return to our Anglo-Saxon heritage.


    The Anglos who founded this country NEVER intended for us to have drivers licenses, road police or any of this continental European femmyshit. There was no drivers licensing or road policing in the early 20th century.

    This is the biggest and most useless racket ever and a constant annoyance. America was never supposed to be a police state like Europe or Asia. All the licensing and regulation has been a huge impediment to our growth and a constant source of humiliation and annoyance. We do not need licenses to drive automobiles and we do not need traffic laws to drive. If retards get killed because they have no situational awareness, SO BE IT. THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY AND MANY OF THEM ARE STUPID & ANNOYING. BRING BACK DEATH AND MAYHEM.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Wilkey, @bomag, @Prester John, @another fred

    You are going to really love it when they put a kill switch and governor in your car.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @another fred

    "You are going to really love it when they put a kill switch and governor in your car."

    As long as they shoot it to bits once you're safely out!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwR1-aRTyyM

  206. @SiNCERITY.net
    Lack of enforcement of traffic laws is likely to INCREASE the gap between white and black traffic violations

    Most whites in the US are law abiding without constant surveillance. Blacks, once they know they are NOT supervised, they will commit MORE misdemeanors or crime

    Don't take my word, all statements would have to be verified using the scientific method, statistics, longitudinal observations.

    In a sound society, people with higher propensity for crime need stricter discipline. Gang menbers precise more surveillance than Christian religious outings.

    Replies: @drainage641

    I don’t agree. White criminals are smart enough not to break the law when the police are watching. Black criminals, on the other hand, will commit crime in front of the police.

    The high black arrest rate is not only because blacks are more likely to commit crimes, but also because blacks are more likely to be dumb while committing crimes.

  207. @James Speaks
    I've heard that Javelins, though duds against modern main battle tanks, effectively neutralize BMWs.

    Replies: @Paul Jolliffe

  208. @guest007
    @kaganovitch

    There is an entire documentary about the wide achievement gap between white/Asian versus black students at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_to_Me

    https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/america-to-me/38818

    That more conservatives did not use this documentary to learn how to counter progressives demonstrates the laziness of most conservatives.

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @drainage641

    Ghetto schools sometimes have special programs for roughly the top 5% of white students in the school district. There rarely are middle of the pack white students (let alone “bad” white students) at those schools. I’m not disagreeing with you that median white students outperform median black students. But using those ghetto schools is basically comparing the top 5% of white students to the median black ghetto student, which is a little deceptive.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @drainage641

    Before writing about any school, one can easily look up the racial/ethnic breakdown of a school at websites such as Niche. Oak Park and River Forest High school is 57% white, 18% black, and 13% Hispanic. As the documentary makes clear, there are classes and extracurriculars that have mainly black or Hispanic participants, and there are classes and extracurriculars for the college bound white students.

    Also, the school is only 18% free lunch, so the school is about as far away from ghetto as any public high school can be these days.

    https://www.niche.com/k12/oak-park--and--river-forest-high-school-oak-park-il/students/

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  209. @John Johnson
    @Art Deco

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care.

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which

    We already have a system where monopolies determine prices.

    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    In some states there is only one private insurance provider.

    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Meanwhile the poor get Medicaid and don't have to worry about any of this. The middle class bends over and takes it as usual. Republicans call it Freedumb. Yea Freedumb to get f-ked in the ass by amoral companies.

    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    What’s curious to me about your tale

    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical. No one is making up stories.

    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    No, I mean propensity.

    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    No, you won’t, because if you have one hospital, that’s a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.

    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Where? I’ve had ordinary employer’s insurance and two-digit co-pays.

    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    And you can travel south of the border if the queues are too long.

    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn’t mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy. (IIRC, the study in question listed a median of $18,000 in medical debts for bankrupts who had them). Student loans and mortgages will dwarf that.

    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    You’re a Dunning-Kruger exemplar.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Art Deco

    No, you won’t, because if you have one hospital, that’s a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.

    That doesn't make any sense nor does it matter if they are part of a network.

    You enter the doors and they set the price. It isn't like buying a hamburger where you can go up the street. This is why the free market continues to fail when it comes to health care. The prices are set by monopoly providers.


    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

     

    Where? I’ve had ordinary employer’s insurance and two-digit co-pays

    Alaska and Wyoming for starters. They only have two insurance providers on the ACA which is a duopoly.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn’t mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy.

    I really don't care about what Warren has to say. I study these issues on my own and make my own decisions.

    France didn't have a single medical bankruptcy last year. The US has around half a million a year and most are cited from a single medical issue. But you think that number is exaggerated? You would be fine with half that? Just 250k per year?

    Replies: @Art Deco

  210. @Sean
    @Hypnotoad666

    The West can create a 'global famine' excuse for an international armada of non combatant naval protection of cargo vessels staying in international waters while opening up the sea lane to Ukraine (Ukraine has roads so it can get its grain out if countries send trucks. There is $40 billion for arms but not trucks?). That sea power strategy will be a distraction from the preparations of the Ukrainian army for an offensive to push the Russians out. A long lasting absolute balanced stalemate is the least likely thing, given how different the armies are. One side or another is going to force the other back, and the longer this goes on the more likely it's Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West. It was the Ukrainian use of drones and Javelins in Donbass fighting in late 2001 that immediately preceded the invasion build up, so Russia is wary of Ukrainians with advanced arms; Russia is not going to waste time now so they can fight at a disadvantage in early 2023.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666

    the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West.

    Scott Ritter was pushing that theory a few weeks ago — i.e., that time is on the side of the Ukrainians. But I think he’s been proven wrong. The cavalry is not coming for Zelensky. The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it’s already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    People think its been a stalemate because the battle lines haven’t moved much recently. But that’s because they are fighting in a Maginot Line of trenches that Ukraine built over the last 8 years. Holding these trenchworks has been a death trap for the Ukrainians, however, because of Russia’s overwhelming artillery superiority. Russia has been perfectly satisfied just patiently blasting its way through. (Imagine if the French were holding Verdun with no artillery of their own). But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    • Agree: Paul Mendez, nokangaroos
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    I'm not convinced this is true and why should we assume that Russia has unlimited stock of artillery shells? They weren't able to provide enough rifles for their initial wave of conscripts.

    The latest report is that Russia is running out of battlefield commanders.

    The war could go either way. If Putin dies they will end the war.

    We aren't even to the lowest point of the Russian economic collapse. They are still running on imports.

    Once the magic American and German machines break down their inflation will get even worse.

    Putin didn't bother looking at import/export data before starting this war. Just as he didn't bother reading about NLAWs. He didn't even have a backup plan for the credit cards. His plan was to take Kiev and then negotiate away any sanctions.

    But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    So they level these towns in the name of liberation and then what? Send in troops to keep them?

    That would favor Ukraine. The Russian troops are demoralized and in a foreign country that hates them. Ukrainians have the drone advantage which favors troop combat.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Rooster15, @Joe Stalin

    , @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Hypnotoad666


    And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over.
     
    This, a million times.

    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the '40s style, "Arsenal of Democracy," still exists.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666

    , @Sean
    @Hypnotoad666


    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells).
     
    It is not just the US who are supplying Ukraine, the EU is a billion people. Britain's NLAWs were deadly. Their Brimstone "can be launched towards a defined target area and will then [radar] locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds' at up to seven miles away". There is a French artillery shell that separated into two automatic tank hunting munitions. Now Ukraine is using the Nato calibers it can use all their best equipment making advancing across open country after a breakthrough virtual mechanized suicide.

    The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it’s already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).
     
    Indicative of America's rekatively unlimited financial resources is that money to pay for what the US is giving Ukraine is not coming out of the existing military budget, it is being voted in addition to the US army's resources The Copperhead guided artillery shells are no longer made but Excalibur rounds are; they land within metres of a laser illuminated point, and a month ago was announced there are now such illuminators for even small drones. The aid for Ukraine is a gift from US taxpayers to US business. The industrial capacity is there and you can bet every defence contractor (not just in the US) is rubbing their hands.


    World war two, or rather the German tank drives in the earlier stages of it, are always re the model, but 'neck or nought' to the nth degree was a criminal risk that happened to pay off for the Germans in France alone, rather than any great formula for a repeatable blitz. Indeed the Russian procedure after the withdrawal from around Kiev seems to have gone to the opposite extreme by deliberately violating the principle to seize and retain the initiative by following up successes; they are moving so slow I think it is deliberate, and wonder whether the snail speed advance is a deliberate ploy to get the Ukrainians to stand and fight while the casualties mount from Russian artillery fire. Russia’s plan could be to use its fatalism against Ukraine . Zelensky agreed to mass surrender with Azov, he wants to be reelected above all. Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine's forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia's. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

  211. Anon[960] • Disclaimer says:

    Uh-huh. And next, they will say that they need a stop switch in every car, under police control. I’m starting to get their range. It’s just like saying that no one can have a gun, because black people kill each other with them. Bob is a criminal, so Ted has to go to prison.

  212. I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back toward normal policing but it’s just not happening.

    This will lead to a cycle where 1) no willingness to arrest blacks, 2) blacks realize there are no consequences and behave worse, 3) racism against blacks becomes worse because of terrible behavior, 4) censorship and thought control must be ramped up to prevent people from noticing.

    • Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo
    @gregor

    "I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back toward normal policing but it’s just not happening.

    This will lead to a cycle where 1) no willingness to arrest blacks, 2) blacks realize there are no consequences and behave worse, 3) racism against blacks becomes worse because of terrible behavior, 4) censorship and thought control must be ramped up to prevent people from noticing."

    You would think, but I saw an absolutely astounding headline yesterday, from a mainstream new outlet no less. "Over a Dozen Mass Shootings on Memorial Day Weekend." That's right. Someone had the temerity to call run-of-the-mill black-on-black shootouts "mass shootings."

    Imagine that! Maybe the media is simply realizing that people simply LOVE to read about mass shootings. Maybe someone has realized that ignoring black crime hasn't made it go away. Whatever the case it seems like a step in the right direction.

  213. @John Johnson
    @Jonathan Mason

    The best the working population can hope for is to be able to afford to carry some kind of semi-insurance that gives you a shot at avoiding bankruptcy if you get seriously sick or injured.

    Well this is what happens in a country when the working population accepts a two party system where one party gets on their knees to fellate billionaires while the other obsesses over how to turn Bantu into Swedes through government programs.

    F-k all of them. We are surrounded by reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn't work or that evolution didn't provide a magical exemption for humans.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar

    reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work

    That depends on who works it:

    In Singapore, primary care is provided through an island-wide network of outpatient polyclinics and clinics run by private general practitioners (GPs). There are currently 23 polyclinics and about 1,800 GP clinics.

    There are about 1,800 GP clinics, which meet about 80% of the total primary care demand.

    …or that evolution didn’t provide a magical exemption for humans.

    Which other species have public health care? Bees? Ants?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Reg Cæsar

    The vast majority of Asian (yes capitalist) use a public system.

    Singapore has a mixed system that covers everyone regardless of ability to pay and the premiums are heavily subsidized. Switzerland is similar.

    I would happily take that system over the "Free market" madness that is the US system where you can get stuck with 100k in bills even if you have insurance.

    Don't bother with these lame-o AM conservative talk show arguments where half-truths are told because the callers are screened.

    Most conservatives would call the Singapore system "socialist" if you told them that everyone is covered by government mandate.

    Conservatism is a lousy religion where one must kneel to billionaires with the hope that they might do more than pee on your face. Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

  214. @Art Deco
    @John Johnson

    Propensity? I think you mean ability.

    No, I mean propensity.


    If you have one hospital in the area then that is the price you are paying.

    No, you won't, because if you have one hospital, that's a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.


    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Where? I've had ordinary employer's insurance and two-digit co-pays.



    Makes more sense to copy the Canadian system which is to have a national insurance company that covers everyone.

    And you can travel south of the border if the queues are too long.



    Are you mad? Half of all bankruptcies are medical.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn't mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy. (IIRC, the study in question listed a median of $18,000 in medical debts for bankrupts who had them). Student loans and mortgages will dwarf that.


    Conservatives need to drop the defense of private health care. The rest of the world thinks our system is stupid and they are right.

    You're a Dunning-Kruger exemplar.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    No, you won’t, because if you have one hospital, that’s a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.

    That doesn’t make any sense nor does it matter if they are part of a network.

    You enter the doors and they set the price. It isn’t like buying a hamburger where you can go up the street. This is why the free market continues to fail when it comes to health care. The prices are set by monopoly providers.

    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

    Where? I’ve had ordinary employer’s insurance and two-digit co-pays

    Alaska and Wyoming for starters. They only have two insurance providers on the ACA which is a duopoly.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn’t mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy.

    I really don’t care about what Warren has to say. I study these issues on my own and make my own decisions.

    France didn’t have a single medical bankruptcy last year. The US has around half a million a year and most are cited from a single medical issue. But you think that number is exaggerated? You would be fine with half that? Just 250k per year?

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @John Johnson

    That doesn’t make any sense nor does it matter if they are part of a network.

    Of course it makes sense. Small community hospitals perform a smaller range of services than metropolitan hospitals. If you live in a small community, you can use one or another for that range of services.


    I study these issues on my own and make my own decisions.

    You were recycling a meme that she's promoted and that depends on a garbled understanding of what the study actually said.


    The US has around half a million a year and most are cited from a single medical issue.

    Again, this is a false statement. The total number filed in a typical year, personal and business is about 780,000.

  215. @Hypnotoad666
    @Sean


    the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West.
     
    Scott Ritter was pushing that theory a few weeks ago -- i.e., that time is on the side of the Ukrainians. But I think he's been proven wrong. The cavalry is not coming for Zelensky. The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it's already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    In any event, we don't have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I'm afraid Ukraine is toast.

    People think its been a stalemate because the battle lines haven't moved much recently. But that's because they are fighting in a Maginot Line of trenches that Ukraine built over the last 8 years. Holding these trenchworks has been a death trap for the Ukrainians, however, because of Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority. Russia has been perfectly satisfied just patiently blasting its way through. (Imagine if the French were holding Verdun with no artillery of their own). But once they've worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Sean

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    I’m not convinced this is true and why should we assume that Russia has unlimited stock of artillery shells? They weren’t able to provide enough rifles for their initial wave of conscripts.

    The latest report is that Russia is running out of battlefield commanders.

    The war could go either way. If Putin dies they will end the war.

    We aren’t even to the lowest point of the Russian economic collapse. They are still running on imports.

    Once the magic American and German machines break down their inflation will get even worse.

    Putin didn’t bother looking at import/export data before starting this war. Just as he didn’t bother reading about NLAWs. He didn’t even have a backup plan for the credit cards. His plan was to take Kiev and then negotiate away any sanctions.

    But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    So they level these towns in the name of liberation and then what? Send in troops to keep them?

    That would favor Ukraine. The Russian troops are demoralized and in a foreign country that hates them. Ukrainians have the drone advantage which favors troop combat.

    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @John Johnson

    Time will tell, of course. But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren't true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won't be collapsing. They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices. Sanctions against importing Western goods are effectively just a form of protectionism that incentivizes Russian companies to make stuff domestically. As a result, their trade surplus has exploded. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russias-jan-april-current-account-surplus-more-than-triples-96-bln-2022-05-16/ They have more U.S. Dollars and Euros than they know what to do with.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don't buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.

    Replies: @anonymous, @John Johnson

    , @Rooster15
    @John Johnson

    There’s only a finite number of Ukrainian soldiers; at some point there’s no one left to fight. Just like previous wars in which Russia is involved, they have the overwhelming numbers that their adversaries don’t. When the Russians establish new battle lines, it’s very difficult to retake positions with smaller and smaller numbers of soldiers. It’s a war of attrition at this point, Russia has direct supply lines, and no one’s coming to support the Ukrainian soldiers.

    , @Joe Stalin
    @John Johnson

    https://twitter.com/AnitaAnandMP/status/1531622885768437765?cxt=HHwWioCxwcq5tcEqAAAA

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

  216. @Reg Cæsar
    @John Johnson


    reality denying Whites that would rather stab their eyes than admit that private health care doesn’t work
     
    That depends on who works it:

    In Singapore, primary care is provided through an island-wide network of outpatient polyclinics and clinics run by private general practitioners (GPs). There are currently 23 polyclinics and about 1,800 GP clinics.


    There are about 1,800 GP clinics, which meet about 80% of the total primary care demand.
     

    ...or that evolution didn’t provide a magical exemption for humans.

     

    Which other species have public health care? Bees? Ants?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    The vast majority of Asian (yes capitalist) use a public system.

    Singapore has a mixed system that covers everyone regardless of ability to pay and the premiums are heavily subsidized. Switzerland is similar.

    I would happily take that system over the “Free market” madness that is the US system where you can get stuck with 100k in bills even if you have insurance.

    Don’t bother with these lame-o AM conservative talk show arguments where half-truths are told because the callers are screened.

    Most conservatives would call the Singapore system “socialist” if you told them that everyone is covered by government mandate.

    Conservatism is a lousy religion where one must kneel to billionaires with the hope that they might do more than pee on your face. Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @John Johnson

    Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Ayn Rand specifically was against open borders for Israel?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @John Johnson

    If the state can run the hospitals, it can run the churches as well-- and does, in places like Norway. And China. No need to separate body and soul.

    Likewise, the case against one is the same as the case against the other-- the state has no business in the intimate details of our lives.

    They don't call it the Nanny State for nothing:

    https://tobacco-img.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/antismoking/graphic-pack-warning/singapore/singapore_1-300x225.jpg

    https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/news_uploads/2021-08-04_Cigarette-Packaging-UC-San-Diego_450px.jpg

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11/01/02/5638824-0-image-a-83_1541040335048.jpg

    https://static.dw.com/image/17144571_101.jpg

  217. @Anonymous
    In California, in a democrat effort to reduce negro incarceration due to shoplifting, if your heist adds up to less than $950, the crime is only a ticket for the perp. So, gangs of acquisitive negroes have been regularly converging on assorted California stores and helping themselves.

    The event in the link below took place the other day at an upscale mall in Cerritos. Note after the breezy store heist, they wander back into the mall! That mall has been around for decades. Under all the economic strain, it will not last if this keeps up.

    Would you take your family to a mall featuring roving bands of feral negroes with no fear?

    https://www.tiktok.com/@jessleetv/video/7103010208934284586?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7103768073619326507

    Replies: @Hangnail Hans, @Jay Fink

    I’m not a fan of Islam, especially their obsession with female modesty. But I do admire them on crime. They would never put up with this level of theft.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Jay Fink

    In practice, Islamic justice is often a worst case iteration of the Asiatic dichotomy: superficial perfection, but whatever you want behind closed doors. Divine right monarchy doesn't often track with objectivity.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  218. anon[329] • Disclaimer says:

    An NFL cornerback died yesterday in Dallas after getting into an accident while speeding in his white Mercedes:

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/us/jeff-gladney-nfl-arizona-cardinals-death/index.html

    Jeff Gladney, a cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals, died in a car crash Monday morning in Dallas, according to the team’s official website.

    Gladney, 25, was one of two people that authorities had said were killed in the crash that happened around 2:30 a.m., the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Tuesday.

    The crash involved two vehicles, according to a news release from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department. A preliminary investigation found that a white vehicle was speeding and clipped a second vehicle from behind.

    The white vehicle then lost control and hit a freeway pier beam, killing the man and woman inside, the release said. The second vehicle was also occupied by a man and woman, who were not injured.

  219. Cars without license plates are what’s happening here.

  220. @John Johnson
    @Reg Cæsar

    The vast majority of Asian (yes capitalist) use a public system.

    Singapore has a mixed system that covers everyone regardless of ability to pay and the premiums are heavily subsidized. Switzerland is similar.

    I would happily take that system over the "Free market" madness that is the US system where you can get stuck with 100k in bills even if you have insurance.

    Don't bother with these lame-o AM conservative talk show arguments where half-truths are told because the callers are screened.

    Most conservatives would call the Singapore system "socialist" if you told them that everyone is covered by government mandate.

    Conservatism is a lousy religion where one must kneel to billionaires with the hope that they might do more than pee on your face. Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

    Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Ayn Rand specifically was against open borders for Israel?

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @kaganovitch


    Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

     

    Ayn Rand specifically was against open borders for Israel?

    Yes she called Arabs savages and said that Israel should kick them off the land.
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/murray-n-rothbard/ayn-rands-monstrous-views-on-the-middle-east/

    All her proclamations about individualism ended at the Israeli border it seems.

    The libertarians don't include any of this in their pamphlets for obvious reasons.

  221. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    That only works if the car has a license plate. Around here cars without license plates is common.

  222. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    ‘A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. ‘

    A photo of the license plate doesn’t prove who was driving the car. You can’t ticket the car.

  223. @SafeNow
    @kaganovitch

    I read (Jared) that there are about 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and in every single one of the 13,000, the order of academic achievement is: 1) Asian, 2) White 3) Hispanic. 4) Black.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @puttheforkdown

  224. @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    I'm not convinced this is true and why should we assume that Russia has unlimited stock of artillery shells? They weren't able to provide enough rifles for their initial wave of conscripts.

    The latest report is that Russia is running out of battlefield commanders.

    The war could go either way. If Putin dies they will end the war.

    We aren't even to the lowest point of the Russian economic collapse. They are still running on imports.

    Once the magic American and German machines break down their inflation will get even worse.

    Putin didn't bother looking at import/export data before starting this war. Just as he didn't bother reading about NLAWs. He didn't even have a backup plan for the credit cards. His plan was to take Kiev and then negotiate away any sanctions.

    But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    So they level these towns in the name of liberation and then what? Send in troops to keep them?

    That would favor Ukraine. The Russian troops are demoralized and in a foreign country that hates them. Ukrainians have the drone advantage which favors troop combat.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Rooster15, @Joe Stalin

    Time will tell, of course. But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren’t true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won’t be collapsing. They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices. Sanctions against importing Western goods are effectively just a form of protectionism that incentivizes Russian companies to make stuff domestically. As a result, their trade surplus has exploded. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russias-jan-april-current-account-surplus-more-than-triples-96-bln-2022-05-16/ They have more U.S. Dollars and Euros than they know what to do with.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don’t buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Hypnotoad666


    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don’t buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.
     
    That's not an encouraging parallel, for either side. The Civil War was extremely costly for the victors. Washington thought it would be a replay of the Mexican war: there would be a swift march on Richmond, a big victorious battle outside the city, and the U.S. would overthrow the government and do as it pleased with the defeated country. Instead it found itself in a years-long bloody meat-grinder war with huge casualties.

    The Russians had a similar plan in this war, which has gone wrong in a similar way, and for similar reasons: though Ukrainians won't like the description, this is essentially a Russian civil war. Both sides have similar weapons, similar training, and a similar culture/mentality. A war like this will always be hard and bloody.

    This is a good article that warns us not to mock the Russians too much for their failures, because they're trying to do something very difficult, which would also greatly challenge any western army placed in the same circumstances:

    https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-we-do-better-hubris-and-validation-in-ukraine/

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    , @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren’t true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won’t be collapsing.

    20% inflation is not shrugging off sanctions.

    They can't keep this up. It isn't the 80s where they can rely on their own manufacturing.

    They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices.

    It doesn't matter because they are dependent on the West for heavy machinery and technology. We already went through this with Venezuela. They thought oil profits would save them but learned that you can't just source everything from somewhere else. It as if they bought into the mythos of globalism without doing their homework. Venezuela learned the hard way that most medicine comes from a handful of US and German companies.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    According to intelligence reports the war isn't popular in his inner circle and he is sick which is the better explanation for the invasion. He wants to live out some Tsar conquering fantasy while he can.

    The same intelligence agencies predicted the war while Putin's defenders at Unz dismissed it all as US/UK propaganda. Putin claimed an invasion would never happen and that it was just a training exercise.

    I take all government reports with a degree of skepticism but it looks as if the West has a mole inside the Kremlin. I'm not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

  225. @Russ
    Is Washington state an outlier here, or it is in line with the rest of the nation? Isn't Washington a recreational pot state? Isn't its neighbor to the south even more lax on harder drugs? Isn't the Pacific Northwest relatively whiter than most major U.S cities? Much to unpack here. Perhaps NASCAR has happened upon fresh recruiting ground ...

    Replies: @Hibernian

    Washington Stae has initiative and referendum and it could be put to good use in this situation.

  226. @John Johnson
    @Art Deco

    No, you won’t, because if you have one hospital, that’s a small community hospital which will be nestled in a larger sphere of influence with several metropolitan hospitals. Even a third tier city like Syracuse has several large hospitals.

    That doesn't make any sense nor does it matter if they are part of a network.

    You enter the doors and they set the price. It isn't like buying a hamburger where you can go up the street. This is why the free market continues to fail when it comes to health care. The prices are set by monopoly providers.


    So you can get squeezed between two monopolies that agree to stick you with endless co-pays. And that is if you are blessed to be insured.

     

    Where? I’ve had ordinary employer’s insurance and two-digit co-pays

    Alaska and Wyoming for starters. They only have two insurance providers on the ACA which is a duopoly.

    Even Elizabeth Liawatha Warren said that. Many people who declare bankruptcy have medical debts. That doesn’t mean the medical debts were the most decisive element in their bankruptcy.

    I really don't care about what Warren has to say. I study these issues on my own and make my own decisions.

    France didn't have a single medical bankruptcy last year. The US has around half a million a year and most are cited from a single medical issue. But you think that number is exaggerated? You would be fine with half that? Just 250k per year?

    Replies: @Art Deco

    That doesn’t make any sense nor does it matter if they are part of a network.

    Of course it makes sense. Small community hospitals perform a smaller range of services than metropolitan hospitals. If you live in a small community, you can use one or another for that range of services.

    I study these issues on my own and make my own decisions.

    You were recycling a meme that she’s promoted and that depends on a garbled understanding of what the study actually said.

    The US has around half a million a year and most are cited from a single medical issue.

    Again, this is a false statement. The total number filed in a typical year, personal and business is about 780,000.

  227. @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    I'm not convinced this is true and why should we assume that Russia has unlimited stock of artillery shells? They weren't able to provide enough rifles for their initial wave of conscripts.

    The latest report is that Russia is running out of battlefield commanders.

    The war could go either way. If Putin dies they will end the war.

    We aren't even to the lowest point of the Russian economic collapse. They are still running on imports.

    Once the magic American and German machines break down their inflation will get even worse.

    Putin didn't bother looking at import/export data before starting this war. Just as he didn't bother reading about NLAWs. He didn't even have a backup plan for the credit cards. His plan was to take Kiev and then negotiate away any sanctions.

    But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    So they level these towns in the name of liberation and then what? Send in troops to keep them?

    That would favor Ukraine. The Russian troops are demoralized and in a foreign country that hates them. Ukrainians have the drone advantage which favors troop combat.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Rooster15, @Joe Stalin

    There’s only a finite number of Ukrainian soldiers; at some point there’s no one left to fight. Just like previous wars in which Russia is involved, they have the overwhelming numbers that their adversaries don’t. When the Russians establish new battle lines, it’s very difficult to retake positions with smaller and smaller numbers of soldiers. It’s a war of attrition at this point, Russia has direct supply lines, and no one’s coming to support the Ukrainian soldiers.

  228. @Anon215
    @stillCARealist

    And what if the driver has a dead body in the trunk? Or an illegal firearm? What if he’s drinking and driving?

    Police need to be able to make stops.

    Replies: @Thea

    Or live child.

    Polly Klass was alive in the trunk when her murdered was pulled over ( sadly let go but a kid could make enough noise to be rescued)

  229. Anonymous[954] • Disclaimer says:
    @Bill Jones
    Here's a nice summary of the recent brouhaha with cops.

    Fleeing from them is probably advisable.

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/28/documents-reveal-uvalde-police-violated-protocols-in-shocking-ways-made-egregious-decision-to-stand-down-n571382

    Replies: @Ben tillman, @Anonymous

    Here’s a nice summary of the recent brouhaha with cops.

    It’s a bad summary thanks to a bad implied premise.

    No police officer is legally obligated to “save” anyone from a mass shooter. That’s already been settled in the courts.

    I really thought the Rodney King riots would have made this very clear. If one was too dense to get it, the antifa riots were yet another of many examples of cops considering, and deferring to the future of their own wife and kids, as opposed to citizens in duress due to maniacs with guns.

    I could be wrong, as I don’t know the area, but the student body of that school appears to be a lot of poor Mexicans. The mass shooter’s parents and grandmother were poor, ignorant Latino trash.

    Again, if I were a white, Asian, or black police officer, I’m not going to be wading into that sad ethnic morass when the stakes are clearly my ass, if I have any say in it. It could also go beyond simple tribalism. It could be the fact that they’re all poor. A lot of middle-class cops of any ethnicity are not going to feel a passionate need to wade into that shitshow, especially when they know the perp is hunkered down and not on the move.

    Same equation works for the Rodney King riots. Most cops said amongst themselves, “I’m not going to be the cop killed in some South Central alley by some ignorant, pointless Jasper during the stupid Rodney King riots. I’m going home to my wife and kids tonight.”

    It’s tribe, race, and class that generally determines who’s going to be a hero for whom.

    But get it in your head: a police officer is under NO legal obligation to save you in your dire time if need.

    Note how this situation brings us back to why semi-automatic weapons might rationally be considered “necessary.”

    Maybe because when major shit starts flying, and a stupid mob is at your the door of your house or business, the police are under NO legal obligation to do anything to save you, or even help you.

    That will be up to you.

  230. @Art Deco
    @Jonathan Mason

    83% of the population was insured at any one time pre-Obamacare and half the uninsured are under 35 and have a low propensity to spend on medical care. The problem you run into are fictional prices wherein you have a notional chargemaster price which they would never attempt to collect from an insurance company but which appears on the bills of uninsured parties. (What's curious to me about your tale is that we went through the cancer treatment mangle in 2007 and 2008 and the sticker prices we were not charged amounted to about 1/5 th of what you say your friend owes).

    Replies: @John Johnson, @Jonathan Mason

    The story about my friend’s wife is obviously a bit more complex than one can describe in a few lines, but it included accepting surgeries which my friend in retrospect realized were a waste of money. At one point in the process my friend had to quit his job so that his wife would qualify for Medicaid after the bills went over the maximum that the insurance would cover. Anyway he did end up with vast bills and a lien on his house. He is 69 years of age and still working, or was when I last spoke to him about 3 months ago, and is earning about $22.50 per hour, so very unlikely to be able to pay off this debt.

  231. @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I’m afraid Ukraine is toast.

    I'm not convinced this is true and why should we assume that Russia has unlimited stock of artillery shells? They weren't able to provide enough rifles for their initial wave of conscripts.

    The latest report is that Russia is running out of battlefield commanders.

    The war could go either way. If Putin dies they will end the war.

    We aren't even to the lowest point of the Russian economic collapse. They are still running on imports.

    Once the magic American and German machines break down their inflation will get even worse.

    Putin didn't bother looking at import/export data before starting this war. Just as he didn't bother reading about NLAWs. He didn't even have a backup plan for the credit cards. His plan was to take Kiev and then negotiate away any sanctions.

    But once they’ve worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    So they level these towns in the name of liberation and then what? Send in troops to keep them?

    That would favor Ukraine. The Russian troops are demoralized and in a foreign country that hates them. Ukrainians have the drone advantage which favors troop combat.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Rooster15, @Joe Stalin

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Joe Stalin

    Finnish 155mm ammo too is in country.

    https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1530139841106780160?cxt=HHwWgIC93YKFk7wqAAAA

    NYT: Just DIE.

    https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1531774780352897024

  232. @John Johnson
    @Alden

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    It is also a lot harder to hide in a car.

    Just because there is a warrant doesn't mean the police can show up and search the home.

    All these doofus Nice Whites imagine Blacks getting pulled over for a tail light and then getting aggravated by the racism of the White police.

    They don't know how many stops lead to arrests over outstanding warrants. That is why they run. They don't want to go to jail. It isn't because they are trying to avoid a $100 traffic ticket.

    Replies: @Alden, @NOTA

    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    Sometimes baby momma or auntie someone will call and let a dispatcher know if her piece of trash is staying the night. Sometimes an informer sick and tired of being beat up or just for revenge for whatever makes the call.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Alden


    Just because there is a warrant doesn’t mean the police can show up and search the home.
     
    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    They can only search your home if the warrant gives them permission.

    A bench warrant from not appearing in court does not grant them automatic ability to enter the residence. That is a myth. In fact if you watch cop shows you will see them say "we have a warrant can we enter?" because they need permission from the owner. A judge has to approve a search warrant.

    Since Blacks move around it can be difficult to find them. This is why vehicle stops are effective.

    What you suggesting? Surveillance teams for basic warrants? Do you realize how much that would cost?

    Replies: @Alden

  233. @Joe Stalin
    @John Johnson

    https://twitter.com/AnitaAnandMP/status/1531622885768437765?cxt=HHwWioCxwcq5tcEqAAAA

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    Finnish 155mm ammo too is in country.

    NYT: Just DIE.

    https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1531774780352897024

  234. anonymous[315] • Disclaimer says:
    @Hypnotoad666
    @John Johnson

    Time will tell, of course. But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren't true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won't be collapsing. They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices. Sanctions against importing Western goods are effectively just a form of protectionism that incentivizes Russian companies to make stuff domestically. As a result, their trade surplus has exploded. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russias-jan-april-current-account-surplus-more-than-triples-96-bln-2022-05-16/ They have more U.S. Dollars and Euros than they know what to do with.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don't buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.

    Replies: @anonymous, @John Johnson

    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don’t buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.

    That’s not an encouraging parallel, for either side. The Civil War was extremely costly for the victors. Washington thought it would be a replay of the Mexican war: there would be a swift march on Richmond, a big victorious battle outside the city, and the U.S. would overthrow the government and do as it pleased with the defeated country. Instead it found itself in a years-long bloody meat-grinder war with huge casualties.

    The Russians had a similar plan in this war, which has gone wrong in a similar way, and for similar reasons: though Ukrainians won’t like the description, this is essentially a Russian civil war. Both sides have similar weapons, similar training, and a similar culture/mentality. A war like this will always be hard and bloody.

    This is a good article that warns us not to mock the Russians too much for their failures, because they’re trying to do something very difficult, which would also greatly challenge any western army placed in the same circumstances:

    https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-we-do-better-hubris-and-validation-in-ukraine/

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @anonymous

    The one thing we can say about this war is that there's a vast amount of propaganda, and most of it is pro-Ukrainian. Weren't Russia meant to be running out of weapons by the end of April?

    By contrast the "Russian trolls" aren't very sophisticated and don't even use obviously favourable incidents well.


    "According to the industry news site PRWeek, the initiative was launched by an anonymous figure who allegedly founded a Ukraine-based public relations firm.

    According to the anonymous figure, more than 150 public relations firms have joined the propaganda blitz.

    The international effort is spearheaded by public relations firm PR Network co-founder Nicky Regazzoni and Francis Ingham, a top public relations consultant with close ties to the UK’s government. Ingraham previously worked for Britain’s Conservative Party, sits on the UK Government Communication Service Strategy and Evaluation Council, is Chief Executive of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation, and leads the membership body for UK local government communicators, LG Comms."

     

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/

    I wonder if Francis Ingham is related to Bernard Ingham, Thatcher's Press Secretary?

    "THE NATO TO TIKTOK PIPELINE: WHY IS TIKTOK EMPLOYING SO MANY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENTS?"

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Untitled-design-1_edited-1.jpg

    Replies: @J.Ross

  235. @kaganovitch
    @John Johnson

    Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Ayn Rand specifically was against open borders for Israel?

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Ayn Rand specifically was against open borders for Israel?

    Yes she called Arabs savages and said that Israel should kick them off the land.
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/murray-n-rothbard/ayn-rands-monstrous-views-on-the-middle-east/

    All her proclamations about individualism ended at the Israeli border it seems.

    The libertarians don’t include any of this in their pamphlets for obvious reasons.

    • Thanks: Alden
  236. @Alden
    @John Johnson

    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    Sometimes baby momma or auntie someone will call and let a dispatcher know if her piece of trash is staying the night. Sometimes an informer sick and tired of being beat up or just for revenge for whatever makes the call.

    Replies: @John Johnson

    Just because there is a warrant doesn’t mean the police can show up and search the home.

    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    They can only search your home if the warrant gives them permission.

    A bench warrant from not appearing in court does not grant them automatic ability to enter the residence. That is a myth. In fact if you watch cop shows you will see them say “we have a warrant can we enter?” because they need permission from the owner. A judge has to approve a search warrant.

    Since Blacks move around it can be difficult to find them. This is why vehicle stops are effective.

    What you suggesting? Surveillance teams for basic warrants? Do you realize how much that would cost?

    • Replies: @Alden
    @John Johnson

    I’m not talking about just bench warrants. Although, like any other warrant they give the police permission to arrest the person at any address in the warrant. Or if he’s stopped for a traffic violation. Or wherever he’s found m.

    The warrants for searching a house apartment t garage whatever must state specifically what the police should look for and where it probably is. Not a bedroom or one of the bedrooms but bedroom on the left side of the bathroom. North east bedroom.

    And if the police see anything suspicious or “ in plain sight” as they enter the home they can search the entire room. With open plan front door that opens into the living room. kitchen in plain view anyone entering can see everything but bedrooms and bathrooms.

    So your expertise about serving warrants comes from cop shows???? When the police knock on the door, they will enter no matter if the householder opens the door or not.

    I typed out thousands of warrants in 27 years. And took them to the Duty Judge to sign. Duty Judge is one who doesn’t have court scheduled for the day. He or she sits in their office all day as cops come and go with warrants to be signed.

    Judges are very respectful about rights the person in the warrants. They don’t just sign them. They speak with the officer or district attorney or probation officer who presents the warrant. It’s not all that easy to get a judge to sign a warrant.

    But once it’s signed police can go anywhere to arrest him. And enter any address in the warrant.

    I don’t like cop shows because they are not at all realistic. And full of liberal propaganda. Plus after spending my days in the criminal courts building, last thing I wanted to see for entertainment was judges courtrooms and criminals. Plus the liberal propaganda in every word of the script

    Different states rules about warrants vary a bit. It’s county judges who sign the warrants. Judges and county procedures vary too.

    But cops don’t need permission from anyone to enter a place if the address is in the warrant. ,

    Replies: @John Johnson

  237. @John Johnson
    @Reg Cæsar

    The vast majority of Asian (yes capitalist) use a public system.

    Singapore has a mixed system that covers everyone regardless of ability to pay and the premiums are heavily subsidized. Switzerland is similar.

    I would happily take that system over the "Free market" madness that is the US system where you can get stuck with 100k in bills even if you have insurance.

    Don't bother with these lame-o AM conservative talk show arguments where half-truths are told because the callers are screened.

    Most conservatives would call the Singapore system "socialist" if you told them that everyone is covered by government mandate.

    Conservatism is a lousy religion where one must kneel to billionaires with the hope that they might do more than pee on your face. Most of their economic beliefs come from a bitter woman by the name of Ayn Rand who openly mocked Christianity and supported open borders (but not for Israel).

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @Reg Cæsar

    If the state can run the hospitals, it can run the churches as well– and does, in places like Norway. And China. No need to separate body and soul.

    Likewise, the case against one is the same as the case against the other– the state has no business in the intimate details of our lives.

    They don’t call it the Nanny State for nothing:

    [MORE]

  238. @guest007
    @michael droy

    The issue is not catching the fleeing driver. The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

    Replies: @duncsbaby

    The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

    Most people used to understand that this was the fault of the fleeing driver, not the cops.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @duncsbaby

    Does it matter who is at fault when the people are still just as dead? What the cost/benefit analysis look like of justifying the deaths of people in high speed chases that started due to traffic stops?

  239. @Barnard
    @Charles Pewitt

    Do you think they still let Nancy drive? I would be shocked if she does.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    If I was an octogenarian Speaker of the House, I’d expect to be driven everywhere.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Steve Sailer

    The Speaker of the House is always driven somewhere since the speaker travels with security. In a talk by then Speaker Paul Ryan at CSIS in DC, he remarked that he hated not being able to drive his family anywhere. Supposedly when Barbara Bush left the White House in 1993, he was happy to tell her Secret Services to go away because she wanted to drive her own car.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Art Deco

    , @AndrewR
    @Steve Sailer

    I'm not an old fart like you and Pelosi but I would love to have a chauffeur 24/7.

  240. @another fred
    @Anon

    You are going to really love it when they put a kill switch and governor in your car.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “You are going to really love it when they put a kill switch and governor in your car.”

    As long as they shoot it to bits once you’re safely out!

  241. Anonymous[121] • Disclaimer says:
    @YetAnotherAnon
    @Hangnail Hans

    "See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs"

    I can be a bit more forgiving about student loans. In the UK they are "sold" with the encouragement of the teachers - who all have degrees themselves - and the universities, who send representatives out to speak to gullible sixth formers with zero life experience, often selling the university on its social life rather than academic standing.

    I know a nice girl, pretty and personable but not an academic whizz, who's working in a "distribution centre" i.e. warehouse, after three years of International History and Politics at a second-tier university (former "polytechnic"). I think she was hoping to end up working for an NGO and being interviewed on TV about the latest disaster. She'll owe about £60,000 plus interest.

    I work in financial services, and if we sold our products the way the universities sell theirs, we'd be the subject of non-stop investigations and prosecutions.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Hangnail Hans

    Same or worse in the US, which is why I favor total loan forgiveness despite long paid loans.

  242. @John Johnson
    @Alden


    Just because there is a warrant doesn’t mean the police can show up and search the home.
     
    Yes it does. If police have a warrant with a name and address in it, they can show up at any time to arrest the person if he’s there. They work early AM shifts, like 6 am to 2 PM. They go and collect the trash by 9 AM they deposit them at the jail and go out for more.

    They can only search your home if the warrant gives them permission.

    A bench warrant from not appearing in court does not grant them automatic ability to enter the residence. That is a myth. In fact if you watch cop shows you will see them say "we have a warrant can we enter?" because they need permission from the owner. A judge has to approve a search warrant.

    Since Blacks move around it can be difficult to find them. This is why vehicle stops are effective.

    What you suggesting? Surveillance teams for basic warrants? Do you realize how much that would cost?

    Replies: @Alden

    I’m not talking about just bench warrants. Although, like any other warrant they give the police permission to arrest the person at any address in the warrant. Or if he’s stopped for a traffic violation. Or wherever he’s found m.

    The warrants for searching a house apartment t garage whatever must state specifically what the police should look for and where it probably is. Not a bedroom or one of the bedrooms but bedroom on the left side of the bathroom. North east bedroom.

    And if the police see anything suspicious or “ in plain sight” as they enter the home they can search the entire room. With open plan front door that opens into the living room. kitchen in plain view anyone entering can see everything but bedrooms and bathrooms.

    So your expertise about serving warrants comes from cop shows???? When the police knock on the door, they will enter no matter if the householder opens the door or not.

    I typed out thousands of warrants in 27 years. And took them to the Duty Judge to sign. Duty Judge is one who doesn’t have court scheduled for the day. He or she sits in their office all day as cops come and go with warrants to be signed.

    Judges are very respectful about rights the person in the warrants. They don’t just sign them. They speak with the officer or district attorney or probation officer who presents the warrant. It’s not all that easy to get a judge to sign a warrant.

    But once it’s signed police can go anywhere to arrest him. And enter any address in the warrant.

    I don’t like cop shows because they are not at all realistic. And full of liberal propaganda. Plus after spending my days in the criminal courts building, last thing I wanted to see for entertainment was judges courtrooms and criminals. Plus the liberal propaganda in every word of the script

    Different states rules about warrants vary a bit. It’s county judges who sign the warrants. Judges and county procedures vary too.

    But cops don’t need permission from anyone to enter a place if the address is in the warrant. ,

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Alden

    I’m not talking about just bench warrants. Although, like any other warrant they give the police permission to arrest the person at any address in the warrant.

    Well of course they can arrest you at the address. But that doesn't mean they can enter the home without permission.

    Bench and arrest warrants are more common than search warrants. They do not let the police enter the home on their own accord.

    They can come to your home and ask but they can't bust in the door and search for Shawn-tre because he hasn't shown up for court. The baby momma can say "nah haven't seen him" and the police have to leave. You can see this in TV shows like First 48. I wasn't talking about Law and Order fictional type crap.

    This is why traffic stops are needed. Police don't have the resources to track down every Shawn-tre over arrest and bench warrants. There are (Democrat) city police departments that can't find enough manpower as it is.

  243. @anonymous
    @Hypnotoad666


    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don’t buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.
     
    That's not an encouraging parallel, for either side. The Civil War was extremely costly for the victors. Washington thought it would be a replay of the Mexican war: there would be a swift march on Richmond, a big victorious battle outside the city, and the U.S. would overthrow the government and do as it pleased with the defeated country. Instead it found itself in a years-long bloody meat-grinder war with huge casualties.

    The Russians had a similar plan in this war, which has gone wrong in a similar way, and for similar reasons: though Ukrainians won't like the description, this is essentially a Russian civil war. Both sides have similar weapons, similar training, and a similar culture/mentality. A war like this will always be hard and bloody.

    This is a good article that warns us not to mock the Russians too much for their failures, because they're trying to do something very difficult, which would also greatly challenge any western army placed in the same circumstances:

    https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-we-do-better-hubris-and-validation-in-ukraine/

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    The one thing we can say about this war is that there’s a vast amount of propaganda, and most of it is pro-Ukrainian. Weren’t Russia meant to be running out of weapons by the end of April?

    By contrast the “Russian trolls” aren’t very sophisticated and don’t even use obviously favourable incidents well.

    “According to the industry news site PRWeek, the initiative was launched by an anonymous figure who allegedly founded a Ukraine-based public relations firm.

    According to the anonymous figure, more than 150 public relations firms have joined the propaganda blitz.

    The international effort is spearheaded by public relations firm PR Network co-founder Nicky Regazzoni and Francis Ingham, a top public relations consultant with close ties to the UK’s government. Ingraham previously worked for Britain’s Conservative Party, sits on the UK Government Communication Service Strategy and Evaluation Council, is Chief Executive of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation, and leads the membership body for UK local government communicators, LG Comms.”

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/

    I wonder if Francis Ingham is related to Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s Press Secretary?

    “THE NATO TO TIKTOK PIPELINE: WHY IS TIKTOK EMPLOYING SO MANY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENTS?”

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Of course they're using TikTok, a Chinese company. They know who pays off The Big Guy.

  244. @Jay Fink
    @Anonymous

    I'm not a fan of Islam, especially their obsession with female modesty. But I do admire them on crime. They would never put up with this level of theft.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    In practice, Islamic justice is often a worst case iteration of the Asiatic dichotomy: superficial perfection, but whatever you want behind closed doors. Divine right monarchy doesn’t often track with objectivity.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @J.Ross

    Follow-up to this: a truly hilarious article in which an Arab Muslim promises to shoot as many of his employees as he needs to, in getting to the bottom of how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia could possibly have been accused of human rights abuses.
    Also, robot dinosaurs.
    Promised Saudi version of The Office is going to rock!
    ["Look, I know you used a perfidious Jew, I am simply demanding to know where you are hiding him, so I can throw him off a building, to determine his sexuality. There's a big diversity push right now."]
    https://archive.ph/mlNkT

  245. @J.Ross
    @Jay Fink

    In practice, Islamic justice is often a worst case iteration of the Asiatic dichotomy: superficial perfection, but whatever you want behind closed doors. Divine right monarchy doesn't often track with objectivity.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Follow-up to this: a truly hilarious article in which an Arab Muslim promises to shoot as many of his employees as he needs to, in getting to the bottom of how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia could possibly have been accused of human rights abuses.
    Also, robot dinosaurs.
    Promised Saudi version of The Office is going to rock!
    [“Look, I know you used a perfidious Jew, I am simply demanding to know where you are hiding him, so I can throw him off a building, to determine his sexuality. There’s a big diversity push right now.”]
    https://archive.ph/mlNkT

  246. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @europeasant

    Loud exhausts are obnoxious. I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it.

    Replies: @europeasant

    “I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it”

    Only if you break down the door. And then there might be some very, very loud noises with some projectiles of a 9mm size in concert with the noises. I could be liquored up substantially at this point and my judgement could be impaired. Not to mention the loud rock music coming from my high power amp and speakers further confusing my reasonable judgement. It is dangerous to break down doors in my neighborhood.

    • Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
    @europeasant

    You sound like a complete loser. How about I set the foghorn off from the street at 11 a.m., when you're still sleeping off your weed and liquor binge? Hey, public property bub.

    Anyway, you get the point: loud noises nobody asked to hear are really irritating. Now you know how people feel when you drive your prolemobile with its stupid, obnoxious pipes down the street.

    Replies: @europeasant

  247. @duncsbaby
    @guest007


    The issue is when the fleeing driver loses control, runs a stop sign, runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a road and hits another car, pedestrian, or bicyclist. Then everyone asks why people had to die because some one rolled through a stop sign that cause the chase to begin.

     

    Most people used to understand that this was the fault of the fleeing driver, not the cops.

    Replies: @guest007

    Does it matter who is at fault when the people are still just as dead? What the cost/benefit analysis look like of justifying the deaths of people in high speed chases that started due to traffic stops?

  248. @Steve Sailer
    @Barnard

    If I was an octogenarian Speaker of the House, I'd expect to be driven everywhere.

    Replies: @guest007, @AndrewR

    The Speaker of the House is always driven somewhere since the speaker travels with security. In a talk by then Speaker Paul Ryan at CSIS in DC, he remarked that he hated not being able to drive his family anywhere. Supposedly when Barbara Bush left the White House in 1993, he was happy to tell her Secret Services to go away because she wanted to drive her own car.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @guest007

    In 1947, members of both parties in the House individually chipped in to buy former Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn Cadillac because he was an honest man who couldn't afford an automobile worthy of his position.

    https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites%E2%80%8B/%E2%80%8Bsam-rayburn-house/history/rayburns-1947-cadillac

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Corvinus

    , @Art Deco
    @guest007

    I doubt Ryan was compelled by law to accept a security detail.

    The Washington Monthly did an article on this very issue 25 years ago, the burden of which was the propensity to consume security services had little relation to the threat to the office holder. They noted that Donna Shalala and Louis Freeh shlepped around Washington without a security detail, while the Secretary of Agriculture had a limo and goons accompanying him to cocktail parties. One think I like about Mitt Romney was the occasional story you saw about someone crossing paths with him in a retail store, doing his own shopping by his lonesome.

    If I'm not mistaken, we've had one former President in the last 50-odd years who voluntarily shed his government-financed security detail. That one was Richard Nixon.

    Replies: @guest007

  249. @drainage641
    @guest007

    Ghetto schools sometimes have special programs for roughly the top 5% of white students in the school district. There rarely are middle of the pack white students (let alone "bad" white students) at those schools. I'm not disagreeing with you that median white students outperform median black students. But using those ghetto schools is basically comparing the top 5% of white students to the median black ghetto student, which is a little deceptive.

    Replies: @guest007

    Before writing about any school, one can easily look up the racial/ethnic breakdown of a school at websites such as Niche. Oak Park and River Forest High school is 57% white, 18% black, and 13% Hispanic. As the documentary makes clear, there are classes and extracurriculars that have mainly black or Hispanic participants, and there are classes and extracurriculars for the college bound white students.

    Also, the school is only 18% free lunch, so the school is about as far away from ghetto as any public high school can be these days.

    https://www.niche.com/k12/oak-park–and--river-forest-high-school-oak-park-il/students/

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @guest007

    Oak Park is where my dad was born and the next-door Austin neighborhood of Chicago is where my wife was born. I've written a few times about how Austin was destroyed by integration but next door Oak Park was saved by Oak Park adopting an illegal but sensible "black a block" racial quota in the 1970s.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  250. @Alden
    @John Johnson

    I’m not talking about just bench warrants. Although, like any other warrant they give the police permission to arrest the person at any address in the warrant. Or if he’s stopped for a traffic violation. Or wherever he’s found m.

    The warrants for searching a house apartment t garage whatever must state specifically what the police should look for and where it probably is. Not a bedroom or one of the bedrooms but bedroom on the left side of the bathroom. North east bedroom.

    And if the police see anything suspicious or “ in plain sight” as they enter the home they can search the entire room. With open plan front door that opens into the living room. kitchen in plain view anyone entering can see everything but bedrooms and bathrooms.

    So your expertise about serving warrants comes from cop shows???? When the police knock on the door, they will enter no matter if the householder opens the door or not.

    I typed out thousands of warrants in 27 years. And took them to the Duty Judge to sign. Duty Judge is one who doesn’t have court scheduled for the day. He or she sits in their office all day as cops come and go with warrants to be signed.

    Judges are very respectful about rights the person in the warrants. They don’t just sign them. They speak with the officer or district attorney or probation officer who presents the warrant. It’s not all that easy to get a judge to sign a warrant.

    But once it’s signed police can go anywhere to arrest him. And enter any address in the warrant.

    I don’t like cop shows because they are not at all realistic. And full of liberal propaganda. Plus after spending my days in the criminal courts building, last thing I wanted to see for entertainment was judges courtrooms and criminals. Plus the liberal propaganda in every word of the script

    Different states rules about warrants vary a bit. It’s county judges who sign the warrants. Judges and county procedures vary too.

    But cops don’t need permission from anyone to enter a place if the address is in the warrant. ,

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I’m not talking about just bench warrants. Although, like any other warrant they give the police permission to arrest the person at any address in the warrant.

    Well of course they can arrest you at the address. But that doesn’t mean they can enter the home without permission.

    Bench and arrest warrants are more common than search warrants. They do not let the police enter the home on their own accord.

    They can come to your home and ask but they can’t bust in the door and search for Shawn-tre because he hasn’t shown up for court. The baby momma can say “nah haven’t seen him” and the police have to leave. You can see this in TV shows like First 48. I wasn’t talking about Law and Order fictional type crap.

    This is why traffic stops are needed. Police don’t have the resources to track down every Shawn-tre over arrest and bench warrants. There are (Democrat) city police departments that can’t find enough manpower as it is.

  251. @Hypnotoad666
    @Sean


    the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West.
     
    Scott Ritter was pushing that theory a few weeks ago -- i.e., that time is on the side of the Ukrainians. But I think he's been proven wrong. The cavalry is not coming for Zelensky. The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it's already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    In any event, we don't have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I'm afraid Ukraine is toast.

    People think its been a stalemate because the battle lines haven't moved much recently. But that's because they are fighting in a Maginot Line of trenches that Ukraine built over the last 8 years. Holding these trenchworks has been a death trap for the Ukrainians, however, because of Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority. Russia has been perfectly satisfied just patiently blasting its way through. (Imagine if the French were holding Verdun with no artillery of their own). But once they've worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Sean

    And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over.

    This, a million times.

    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the ’40s style, “Arsenal of Democracy,” still exists.

    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @The Wild Geese Howard


    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the ’40s style, “Arsenal of Democracy,” still exists.
     
    Hopefully, this war will cause some self-reflection in our military. Our military-industrial complex is designed to produce profits for contractors and jobs for national security bureaucrats. The American way of war is to blow up tents with cruise missiles. But that's not sustainable in a real war with a real opponent in which equipment and munitions get burned up fast.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

  252. @Hypnotoad666
    @John Johnson

    Time will tell, of course. But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren't true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won't be collapsing. They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices. Sanctions against importing Western goods are effectively just a form of protectionism that incentivizes Russian companies to make stuff domestically. As a result, their trade surplus has exploded. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russias-jan-april-current-account-surplus-more-than-triples-96-bln-2022-05-16/ They have more U.S. Dollars and Euros than they know what to do with.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    Like I said, time will tell. But in the meantime don't buy any Ukrainian war bonds, they will be worth about the same as Confederate war bonds.

    Replies: @anonymous, @John Johnson

    But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren’t true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won’t be collapsing.

    20% inflation is not shrugging off sanctions.

    They can’t keep this up. It isn’t the 80s where they can rely on their own manufacturing.

    They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices.

    It doesn’t matter because they are dependent on the West for heavy machinery and technology. We already went through this with Venezuela. They thought oil profits would save them but learned that you can’t just source everything from somewhere else. It as if they bought into the mythos of globalism without doing their homework. Venezuela learned the hard way that most medicine comes from a handful of US and German companies.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    According to intelligence reports the war isn’t popular in his inner circle and he is sick which is the better explanation for the invasion. He wants to live out some Tsar conquering fantasy while he can.

    The same intelligence agencies predicted the war while Putin’s defenders at Unz dismissed it all as US/UK propaganda. Putin claimed an invasion would never happen and that it was just a training exercise.

    I take all government reports with a degree of skepticism but it looks as if the West has a mole inside the Kremlin. I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    "I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying."

    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days. But it's pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies, and at least arguable that the man tasked with hunting down Soviet agents in the UK, the head of MI5, was one himself.

    https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/04/christopher-andrew-and-the-strange-case-of-roger-hollis/


    Pincher draws attention, moreover, to a number of developments in Russia in this decade which bear on the question of whether Stalin had a highly-placed mole in MI5 in the 1940s. These developments centre on the manner in which Moscow got a copy of the Quebec Agreement, a highly secret two-page agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt, only sixteen days after they had signed it. The Agreement stated that the two great Anglo-Saxon powers would collaborate to produce an atomic weapon and that neither would communicate any information about this to any third party without joint consent. The document was very, very closely held, as testified by several documents in the British National Archives, showing that even in June 1949 Clement Attlee was concerned that it might be revealed to a US Senate committee and then leak; while in 1951, Harry Truman was still agreeing with Attlee that the document should remain secret. Leslie Groves remarks, in his memoir Racing for the Bomb, that “For several years after the war the existence of the agreement was not known either to the American Congress or to the British Parliament.” Little did Truman, Attlee or Groves know that it had been sent directly to the GRU in Moscow by Sonia from her illicit radio near Oxford on September 4, 1943. This was the kind of work, kept secret for as long as she lived, for which Sonia was decorated as a super agent of Russian military intelligence by Vladimir Putin.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Kuczynski

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood

    Replies: @John Johnson

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @John Johnson


    The British for all their faults really are the masters of spying.
     
    The main objective of their intelligence services has historically been to manipulate the U.S. into doing what they want. So I hope they aren't too good.
  253. @gregor
    I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back toward normal policing but it's just not happening.

    This will lead to a cycle where 1) no willingness to arrest blacks, 2) blacks realize there are no consequences and behave worse, 3) racism against blacks becomes worse because of terrible behavior, 4) censorship and thought control must be ramped up to prevent people from noticing.

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo

    “I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back toward normal policing but it’s just not happening.

    This will lead to a cycle where 1) no willingness to arrest blacks, 2) blacks realize there are no consequences and behave worse, 3) racism against blacks becomes worse because of terrible behavior, 4) censorship and thought control must be ramped up to prevent people from noticing.”

    You would think, but I saw an absolutely astounding headline yesterday, from a mainstream new outlet no less. “Over a Dozen Mass Shootings on Memorial Day Weekend.” That’s right. Someone had the temerity to call run-of-the-mill black-on-black shootouts “mass shootings.”

    Imagine that! Maybe the media is simply realizing that people simply LOVE to read about mass shootings. Maybe someone has realized that ignoring black crime hasn’t made it go away. Whatever the case it seems like a step in the right direction.

  254. @guest007
    @drainage641

    Before writing about any school, one can easily look up the racial/ethnic breakdown of a school at websites such as Niche. Oak Park and River Forest High school is 57% white, 18% black, and 13% Hispanic. As the documentary makes clear, there are classes and extracurriculars that have mainly black or Hispanic participants, and there are classes and extracurriculars for the college bound white students.

    Also, the school is only 18% free lunch, so the school is about as far away from ghetto as any public high school can be these days.

    https://www.niche.com/k12/oak-park--and--river-forest-high-school-oak-park-il/students/

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Oak Park is where my dad was born and the next-door Austin neighborhood of Chicago is where my wife was born. I’ve written a few times about how Austin was destroyed by integration but next door Oak Park was saved by Oak Park adopting an illegal but sensible “black a block” racial quota in the 1970s.

    • Agree: JimDandy
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    How about focusing on the current destruction going on now when it comes to the rule of law and law and order.

    First, the topic is golf. It’s pretty hilarious how Republican lawmakers who were tripping over themselves to criticize NBA players about their financial dealings with China have yet to say anything of substance about all those PGA players participating in the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV golf event. What say you?

    Second, the topic is January 6, which I am quite certain you’re paying attention to privately but dare not provoke your paying audience. You’ve already alienated more than a few with your COVID and Ukraine positions.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1532002708911271937

  255. @guest007
    @Steve Sailer

    The Speaker of the House is always driven somewhere since the speaker travels with security. In a talk by then Speaker Paul Ryan at CSIS in DC, he remarked that he hated not being able to drive his family anywhere. Supposedly when Barbara Bush left the White House in 1993, he was happy to tell her Secret Services to go away because she wanted to drive her own car.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Art Deco

    In 1947, members of both parties in the House individually chipped in to buy former Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn Cadillac because he was an honest man who couldn’t afford an automobile worthy of his position.

    https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites%E2%80%8B/%E2%80%8Bsam-rayburn-house/history/rayburns-1947-cadillac

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Steve Sailer

    He could afford one. He was unmarried for 99% of his adult life and sired no children. His salary in 1947 was $12,500. Per the Statistical Abstract the effective federal income tax rate on that income was 22%, so he had disposable income of $9,700 per year. The average household in 1947 owned 0.72 passenger cars and devoted 4% of its consumer spending to automobiles and auto parts. Nominal consumer expenditures per household were about $3,900 per year in 1947, with expenditures on vehicles and parts averaging $155 per year. A household with one vehicle might expect to spend $215 per year, which would have amounted to 2.2% of Mr. Rayburn's disposable income. Annual household expenditure (on cars and parts) per factory sale (of passenger cars) amounted to $1,800 at that time (if you posit he could not or would not buy in installments).


    NB, Mr. Rayburn's pre-tax income put him in the 97th percentile of all American households in 1947.

    Replies: @guest007

    , @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    When are you going to open up your eyes to what is going on by dishonest men and women on your side?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1532002708911271937

  256. @YetAnotherAnon
    @anonymous

    The one thing we can say about this war is that there's a vast amount of propaganda, and most of it is pro-Ukrainian. Weren't Russia meant to be running out of weapons by the end of April?

    By contrast the "Russian trolls" aren't very sophisticated and don't even use obviously favourable incidents well.


    "According to the industry news site PRWeek, the initiative was launched by an anonymous figure who allegedly founded a Ukraine-based public relations firm.

    According to the anonymous figure, more than 150 public relations firms have joined the propaganda blitz.

    The international effort is spearheaded by public relations firm PR Network co-founder Nicky Regazzoni and Francis Ingham, a top public relations consultant with close ties to the UK’s government. Ingraham previously worked for Britain’s Conservative Party, sits on the UK Government Communication Service Strategy and Evaluation Council, is Chief Executive of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation, and leads the membership body for UK local government communicators, LG Comms."

     

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/

    I wonder if Francis Ingham is related to Bernard Ingham, Thatcher's Press Secretary?

    "THE NATO TO TIKTOK PIPELINE: WHY IS TIKTOK EMPLOYING SO MANY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENTS?"

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Untitled-design-1_edited-1.jpg

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Of course they’re using TikTok, a Chinese company. They know who pays off The Big Guy.

  257. @michael droy
    Speaking as a brit here - shouldn't you just arm the Police with faster cars than the general public?

    You know, like we give our cops truncheons and occasionally even Tasers to tilt the competition to them.

    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.

    Replies: @guest007, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @James N. Kennett

    Actually a related issue we do have is young kids on scooters in cities. They will grab a wallet or a watch after which they take their helmets OFF! Police have orders not to chase anyone without a helmet.

    Hadn’t heard about this escalation of the arms race. Thefts by riders on mopeds were greatly reduced when the police started to use their cars to knock over fleeing bikes. Now I suppose the thieves are one step ahead again.

  258. @rebel yell
    “Why is it we are so concerned about hot pursuits,” asked Martina Morris with the group Next Steps Washington at a February rally at the Capitol. “Because they are dangerous. They are the number two cause of deaths during encounters with police."

    Martina Morris has a sociology degree from Chicago, teaches at the UW, and looks like a very strict man hating lesbian academic:

    https://soc.washington.edu/people/martina-morris

    "The prime sponsor of House Bill 1054, Democratic state Rep. Jesse Johnson, also opposed lowering the threshold for pursuits.

    “I just do not believe pursuits in a 21st century policing system are needed,” Johnson said "

    Representative Johnson, the expert on 21st century science, is Vibrant:

    https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/johnson/

    The bill also requires that every fatal shooting by police be investigated by an Independent Investigation Team, to include "at least two non-law enforcement community representatives who have credibility with and ties to communities impacted by police use of deadly force."
    The community representatives will of course be sociology grifters like Martina Morris.

    Replies: @EdwardM, @ThreeCranes, @AndrewR

    Laws be racist n sheet, maing.

  259. @Anonymous

    The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis
     
    Was George Floyd really “murdered”? Is it accurate to refer to an accident as “murder”?

    Replies: @personfellowindividual, @AndrewR

    When you take power then you can lie with impunity too.

  260. @Steve Sailer
    @Barnard

    If I was an octogenarian Speaker of the House, I'd expect to be driven everywhere.

    Replies: @guest007, @AndrewR

    I’m not an old fart like you and Pelosi but I would love to have a chauffeur 24/7.

  261. Sean says:
    @Hypnotoad666
    @Sean


    the longer this goes on the more likely it’s Russia that begins to get clobbered, because in six months the Ukraine will be be completely rearmed and trained to use the new weapons, courtesy of the West.
     
    Scott Ritter was pushing that theory a few weeks ago -- i.e., that time is on the side of the Ukrainians. But I think he's been proven wrong. The cavalry is not coming for Zelensky. The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it's already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    In any event, we don't have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells). And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over. I'm afraid Ukraine is toast.

    People think its been a stalemate because the battle lines haven't moved much recently. But that's because they are fighting in a Maginot Line of trenches that Ukraine built over the last 8 years. Holding these trenchworks has been a death trap for the Ukrainians, however, because of Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority. Russia has been perfectly satisfied just patiently blasting its way through. (Imagine if the French were holding Verdun with no artillery of their own). But once they've worked through this very deep trenchwork there is nothing but open fields for hundreds of miles. And the war will switch from WWI to WWII real fast.

    Replies: @John Johnson, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Sean

    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells).

    It is not just the US who are supplying Ukraine, the EU is a billion people. Britain’s NLAWs were deadly. Their Brimstone “can be launched towards a defined target area and will then [radar] locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds’ at up to seven miles away”. There is a French artillery shell that separated into two automatic tank hunting munitions. Now Ukraine is using the Nato calibers it can use all their best equipment making advancing across open country after a breakthrough virtual mechanized suicide.

    The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it’s already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).

    Indicative of America’s rekatively unlimited financial resources is that money to pay for what the US is giving Ukraine is not coming out of the existing military budget, it is being voted in addition to the US army’s resources The Copperhead guided artillery shells are no longer made but Excalibur rounds are; they land within metres of a laser illuminated point, and a month ago was announced there are now such illuminators for even small drones. The aid for Ukraine is a gift from US taxpayers to US business. The industrial capacity is there and you can bet every defence contractor (not just in the US) is rubbing their hands.

    World war two, or rather the German tank drives in the earlier stages of it, are always re the model, but ‘neck or nought’ to the nth degree was a criminal risk that happened to pay off for the Germans in France alone, rather than any great formula for a repeatable blitz. Indeed the Russian procedure after the withdrawal from around Kiev seems to have gone to the opposite extreme by deliberately violating the principle to seize and retain the initiative by following up successes; they are moving so slow I think it is deliberate, and wonder whether the snail speed advance is a deliberate ploy to get the Ukrainians to stand and fight while the casualties mount from Russian artillery fire. Russia’s plan could be to use its fatalism against Ukraine . Zelensky agreed to mass surrender with Azov, he wants to be reelected above all. Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine’s forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia’s. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @Sean

    "when the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine’s forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia’s. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough."

    It's a brave man who makes any kind of prediction in this war.

    The only safe bet is that a lot more poor Slavs will die, whether they identify as Russian or Ukrainian.

    (Hand-rubbing intensifies in the State Department)

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @Sean


    Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine’s forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia’s.
     
    That's the "cavalry are coming" narrative. But it's just non-factual propaganda designed to create enough false hope to keep the Ukrainians in the (futile) fight.

    We can print money but we can't actually manufacture weapons fast. And we aren't going to leave ourselves unarmed by transferring all our weapons to Ukraine. It's hard to tell how high up our leadership chain believes its own propaganda. But the very highest people (Blinken, Austin, CIA director Burns, etc.), surely know Ukraine is destined to collapse. They are just doing the usual drill of "not letting a good crisis go to waste." The Ukrainians have been doing so much worse than anyone knows that the cognitive dissonance will be severe.
  262. @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren’t true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won’t be collapsing.

    20% inflation is not shrugging off sanctions.

    They can't keep this up. It isn't the 80s where they can rely on their own manufacturing.

    They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices.

    It doesn't matter because they are dependent on the West for heavy machinery and technology. We already went through this with Venezuela. They thought oil profits would save them but learned that you can't just source everything from somewhere else. It as if they bought into the mythos of globalism without doing their homework. Venezuela learned the hard way that most medicine comes from a handful of US and German companies.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    According to intelligence reports the war isn't popular in his inner circle and he is sick which is the better explanation for the invasion. He wants to live out some Tsar conquering fantasy while he can.

    The same intelligence agencies predicted the war while Putin's defenders at Unz dismissed it all as US/UK propaganda. Putin claimed an invasion would never happen and that it was just a training exercise.

    I take all government reports with a degree of skepticism but it looks as if the West has a mole inside the Kremlin. I'm not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

    “I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.”

    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days. But it’s pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies, and at least arguable that the man tasked with hunting down Soviet agents in the UK, the head of MI5, was one himself.

    https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/04/christopher-andrew-and-the-strange-case-of-roger-hollis/

    Pincher draws attention, moreover, to a number of developments in Russia in this decade which bear on the question of whether Stalin had a highly-placed mole in MI5 in the 1940s. These developments centre on the manner in which Moscow got a copy of the Quebec Agreement, a highly secret two-page agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt, only sixteen days after they had signed it. The Agreement stated that the two great Anglo-Saxon powers would collaborate to produce an atomic weapon and that neither would communicate any information about this to any third party without joint consent. The document was very, very closely held, as testified by several documents in the British National Archives, showing that even in June 1949 Clement Attlee was concerned that it might be revealed to a US Senate committee and then leak; while in 1951, Harry Truman was still agreeing with Attlee that the document should remain secret. Leslie Groves remarks, in his memoir Racing for the Bomb, that “For several years after the war the existence of the agreement was not known either to the American Congress or to the British Parliament.” Little did Truman, Attlee or Groves know that it had been sent directly to the GRU in Moscow by Sonia from her illicit radio near Oxford on September 4, 1943. This was the kind of work, kept secret for as long as she lived, for which Sonia was decorated as a super agent of Russian military intelligence by Vladimir Putin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Kuczynski

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @YetAnotherAnon


    I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.
     
    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days.

    Yea but that was mostly under Stalin when they had a cadre of native born leftist spies (yes heavily Jewish) in the US that believed in Communism or at least maintaining the USSR as a force against the US and any potential fascist revolution. FDR was a dope about Soviet spies and probably didn't want to know what he didn't know.

    And that was only in the US. It was Stalin that refused to believe that the Germans were going to invade until the guns fired. They depended on the US and British for information about what happened in Germany.

    But it’s pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies

    Yes and a taboo that is to never be discussed in the MSM since it leads to the revealing of politically incorrect realities.

    Anyways I am certain the British have a mole in the Kremlin. Not that high level however since some of the information has been wrong. But they had the invasion plan early on and were mocked for even suggesting it.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

  263. @europeasant
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    "I should be allowed to pop into your living room and set off a foghorn when I feel like it"

    Only if you break down the door. And then there might be some very, very loud noises with some projectiles of a 9mm size in concert with the noises. I could be liquored up substantially at this point and my judgement could be impaired. Not to mention the loud rock music coming from my high power amp and speakers further confusing my reasonable judgement. It is dangerous to break down doors in my neighborhood.

    Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic

    You sound like a complete loser. How about I set the foghorn off from the street at 11 a.m., when you’re still sleeping off your weed and liquor binge? Hey, public property bub.

    Anyway, you get the point: loud noises nobody asked to hear are really irritating. Now you know how people feel when you drive your prolemobile with its stupid, obnoxious pipes down the street.

    • Replies: @europeasant
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    " How about I set the foghorn off from the street at 11 a.m.,"

    At least you changed you mind about invading my domicile. This shows you have a reasoning mind. A good quality to have in our highly complicated and technical world.

    " loud noises nobody asked to hear are really irritating. "

    Wait till 4th of July when the M80's and cherry bombs go off. The show will start in two weeks or so, non stop explosions. I don't do fireworks, too expensive but even in my neighborhood with mostly Ricans and Mexicans there sure are a lot of firecrackers. Sometimes guns going off and I'm two miles from the Jungle. Glad you can afford to live in Whitopia.

    "Now you know how people feel when you drive your prolemobile with its stupid, obnoxious pipes down the street"

    Itz not as bad as the Harleys , Those MF'ers will wake up the dead. Itz not a "prolemobile". A prole mobile would be the older (pre 2002) Chevy Camaro SS.

  264. @Sean
    @Hypnotoad666


    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells).
     
    It is not just the US who are supplying Ukraine, the EU is a billion people. Britain's NLAWs were deadly. Their Brimstone "can be launched towards a defined target area and will then [radar] locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds' at up to seven miles away". There is a French artillery shell that separated into two automatic tank hunting munitions. Now Ukraine is using the Nato calibers it can use all their best equipment making advancing across open country after a breakthrough virtual mechanized suicide.

    The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it’s already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).
     
    Indicative of America's rekatively unlimited financial resources is that money to pay for what the US is giving Ukraine is not coming out of the existing military budget, it is being voted in addition to the US army's resources The Copperhead guided artillery shells are no longer made but Excalibur rounds are; they land within metres of a laser illuminated point, and a month ago was announced there are now such illuminators for even small drones. The aid for Ukraine is a gift from US taxpayers to US business. The industrial capacity is there and you can bet every defence contractor (not just in the US) is rubbing their hands.


    World war two, or rather the German tank drives in the earlier stages of it, are always re the model, but 'neck or nought' to the nth degree was a criminal risk that happened to pay off for the Germans in France alone, rather than any great formula for a repeatable blitz. Indeed the Russian procedure after the withdrawal from around Kiev seems to have gone to the opposite extreme by deliberately violating the principle to seize and retain the initiative by following up successes; they are moving so slow I think it is deliberate, and wonder whether the snail speed advance is a deliberate ploy to get the Ukrainians to stand and fight while the casualties mount from Russian artillery fire. Russia’s plan could be to use its fatalism against Ukraine . Zelensky agreed to mass surrender with Azov, he wants to be reelected above all. Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine's forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia's. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

    “when the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine’s forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia’s. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough.”

    It’s a brave man who makes any kind of prediction in this war.

    The only safe bet is that a lot more poor Slavs will die, whether they identify as Russian or Ukrainian.

    (Hand-rubbing intensifies in the State Department)

  265. @SafeNow
    @kaganovitch

    I read (Jared) that there are about 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and in every single one of the 13,000, the order of academic achievement is: 1) Asian, 2) White 3) Hispanic. 4) Black.

    Replies: @Mike Tre, @puttheforkdown

    Must be why Asians invented everything. Academic achievement!

  266. @guest007
    @Steve Sailer

    The Speaker of the House is always driven somewhere since the speaker travels with security. In a talk by then Speaker Paul Ryan at CSIS in DC, he remarked that he hated not being able to drive his family anywhere. Supposedly when Barbara Bush left the White House in 1993, he was happy to tell her Secret Services to go away because she wanted to drive her own car.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Art Deco

    I doubt Ryan was compelled by law to accept a security detail.

    The Washington Monthly did an article on this very issue 25 years ago, the burden of which was the propensity to consume security services had little relation to the threat to the office holder. They noted that Donna Shalala and Louis Freeh shlepped around Washington without a security detail, while the Secretary of Agriculture had a limo and goons accompanying him to cocktail parties. One think I like about Mitt Romney was the occasional story you saw about someone crossing paths with him in a retail store, doing his own shopping by his lonesome.

    If I’m not mistaken, we’ve had one former President in the last 50-odd years who voluntarily shed his government-financed security detail. That one was Richard Nixon.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Art Deco

    I once saw James Comey come out of the Capital Grill on Penn Avenue with at least three aides and then get into a black Suburban. On the weekend, their security may be different since it was nothing to see three and four star generals walking around someplace like Old Town Alexandria on their time off.

  267. @Sean
    @Hypnotoad666


    In any event, we don’t have stocks of the weapons they could actually use (like artillery and lots and lots of shells).
     
    It is not just the US who are supplying Ukraine, the EU is a billion people. Britain's NLAWs were deadly. Their Brimstone "can be launched towards a defined target area and will then [radar] locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds' at up to seven miles away". There is a French artillery shell that separated into two automatic tank hunting munitions. Now Ukraine is using the Nato calibers it can use all their best equipment making advancing across open country after a breakthrough virtual mechanized suicide.

    The $40 billion turned out to be almost entirely for our own military to backfill what it’s already given to the Ukrainians (and has been already used up on the battlefield).
     
    Indicative of America's rekatively unlimited financial resources is that money to pay for what the US is giving Ukraine is not coming out of the existing military budget, it is being voted in addition to the US army's resources The Copperhead guided artillery shells are no longer made but Excalibur rounds are; they land within metres of a laser illuminated point, and a month ago was announced there are now such illuminators for even small drones. The aid for Ukraine is a gift from US taxpayers to US business. The industrial capacity is there and you can bet every defence contractor (not just in the US) is rubbing their hands.


    World war two, or rather the German tank drives in the earlier stages of it, are always re the model, but 'neck or nought' to the nth degree was a criminal risk that happened to pay off for the Germans in France alone, rather than any great formula for a repeatable blitz. Indeed the Russian procedure after the withdrawal from around Kiev seems to have gone to the opposite extreme by deliberately violating the principle to seize and retain the initiative by following up successes; they are moving so slow I think it is deliberate, and wonder whether the snail speed advance is a deliberate ploy to get the Ukrainians to stand and fight while the casualties mount from Russian artillery fire. Russia’s plan could be to use its fatalism against Ukraine . Zelensky agreed to mass surrender with Azov, he wants to be reelected above all. Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine's forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia's. It is not obvious that Russia can force a decision soon enough.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

    Russia will not be able to use its bite and hold like a bulldog ploy forever. When the ground hardens late this year the Ukrainians will be trained and superbly equipped for all arms integrated Western style maneuver warfare. They are already trying a spoiling attack in the South and will gain invaluable experience. Over the next several months the quality of Ukraine’s forces will inexorably rise relative to Russia’s.

    That’s the “cavalry are coming” narrative. But it’s just non-factual propaganda designed to create enough false hope to keep the Ukrainians in the (futile) fight.

    We can print money but we can’t actually manufacture weapons fast. And we aren’t going to leave ourselves unarmed by transferring all our weapons to Ukraine. It’s hard to tell how high up our leadership chain believes its own propaganda. But the very highest people (Blinken, Austin, CIA director Burns, etc.), surely know Ukraine is destined to collapse. They are just doing the usual drill of “not letting a good crisis go to waste.” The Ukrainians have been doing so much worse than anyone knows that the cognitive dissonance will be severe.

  268. @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Hypnotoad666


    And American procurement is so glacial that we could not possibly manufacture anything new before this thing is long over.
     
    This, a million times.

    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the '40s style, "Arsenal of Democracy," still exists.

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666

    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the ’40s style, “Arsenal of Democracy,” still exists.

    Hopefully, this war will cause some self-reflection in our military. Our military-industrial complex is designed to produce profits for contractors and jobs for national security bureaucrats. The American way of war is to blow up tents with cruise missiles. But that’s not sustainable in a real war with a real opponent in which equipment and munitions get burned up fast.

    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Hypnotoad666


    Hopefully, this war will cause some self-reflection in our military.
     
    I think our military will need to get stomped for that to happen.

    Another point many overlook is that all these complex, relatively low volume military systems rely on lots of custom mechanical components single-sourced from the small and medium businesses the central planners are attempting to bankrupt.

    The planners don't seem to have a clue that the big boys like Lockmart and Raytheon contract out to those smaller shops because they have no interest in doing that work in-house.
  269. @John Johnson
    @Hypnotoad666

    But all of those are media propaganda claims that just aren’t true. In particular, the Russian economy has shrugged off sanctions and won’t be collapsing.

    20% inflation is not shrugging off sanctions.

    They can't keep this up. It isn't the 80s where they can rely on their own manufacturing.

    They are exporting all the oil, gas and grain they can sell at record prices.

    It doesn't matter because they are dependent on the West for heavy machinery and technology. We already went through this with Venezuela. They thought oil profits would save them but learned that you can't just source everything from somewhere else. It as if they bought into the mythos of globalism without doing their homework. Venezuela learned the hard way that most medicine comes from a handful of US and German companies.

    Even if Putin were sick, Western propaganda is just plain wrong in assuming that he is the only one in Russia who felt the war was necessary or wants to prosecute it to victory. They would never report this in the media but Putin is actually considered the moderate inside Russia and he is being criticized for not going all in by sending more troops to get the job done faster.

    According to intelligence reports the war isn't popular in his inner circle and he is sick which is the better explanation for the invasion. He wants to live out some Tsar conquering fantasy while he can.

    The same intelligence agencies predicted the war while Putin's defenders at Unz dismissed it all as US/UK propaganda. Putin claimed an invasion would never happen and that it was just a training exercise.

    I take all government reports with a degree of skepticism but it looks as if the West has a mole inside the Kremlin. I'm not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Hypnotoad666

    The British for all their faults really are the masters of spying.

    The main objective of their intelligence services has historically been to manipulate the U.S. into doing what they want. So I hope they aren’t too good.

  270. @Joe Stalin
    @Prester John


    When I appeared before the judge he asked me if I knew why the state requires driver licenses I told him “because the state needs the money.”
     
    Well, it's true. Someone's politically connected business NEEDS THE GOVERNMENT MONEY.

    In Chicago, I heard on the radio that some vehicle emissions facilities are going to be reopened after being shut down to to the WuFlu concerns.

    The facilities are run by private contractors.

    Whatever the rationale that existed for such facilities when the regulations were created: "You need to get the government to test your car so you can take it to a mechanic to adjust the engine until it meets our satisfaction" doesn't exist ANYMORE because cars have sensors and computers that run the engine properly.

    But the poor taxpayer is stuck paying the bills so that a useless business can collect and pocket your money.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    The primary purpose of government in the West is the succoring of rent seekers.

  271. @Steve Sailer
    @guest007

    In 1947, members of both parties in the House individually chipped in to buy former Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn Cadillac because he was an honest man who couldn't afford an automobile worthy of his position.

    https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites%E2%80%8B/%E2%80%8Bsam-rayburn-house/history/rayburns-1947-cadillac

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Corvinus

    He could afford one. He was unmarried for 99% of his adult life and sired no children. His salary in 1947 was $12,500. Per the Statistical Abstract the effective federal income tax rate on that income was 22%, so he had disposable income of $9,700 per year. The average household in 1947 owned 0.72 passenger cars and devoted 4% of its consumer spending to automobiles and auto parts. Nominal consumer expenditures per household were about $3,900 per year in 1947, with expenditures on vehicles and parts averaging $155 per year. A household with one vehicle might expect to spend $215 per year, which would have amounted to 2.2% of Mr. Rayburn’s disposable income. Annual household expenditure (on cars and parts) per factory sale (of passenger cars) amounted to $1,800 at that time (if you posit he could not or would not buy in installments).

    NB, Mr. Rayburn’s pre-tax income put him in the 97th percentile of all American households in 1947.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Art Deco

    Congressman had to maintain two homes back then due to not being able to live in their office and fly home every weekend on campaign money.

    Replies: @Art Deco

  272. @Art Deco
    @guest007

    I doubt Ryan was compelled by law to accept a security detail.

    The Washington Monthly did an article on this very issue 25 years ago, the burden of which was the propensity to consume security services had little relation to the threat to the office holder. They noted that Donna Shalala and Louis Freeh shlepped around Washington without a security detail, while the Secretary of Agriculture had a limo and goons accompanying him to cocktail parties. One think I like about Mitt Romney was the occasional story you saw about someone crossing paths with him in a retail store, doing his own shopping by his lonesome.

    If I'm not mistaken, we've had one former President in the last 50-odd years who voluntarily shed his government-financed security detail. That one was Richard Nixon.

    Replies: @guest007

    I once saw James Comey come out of the Capital Grill on Penn Avenue with at least three aides and then get into a black Suburban. On the weekend, their security may be different since it was nothing to see three and four star generals walking around someplace like Old Town Alexandria on their time off.

  273. @Art Deco
    @Steve Sailer

    He could afford one. He was unmarried for 99% of his adult life and sired no children. His salary in 1947 was $12,500. Per the Statistical Abstract the effective federal income tax rate on that income was 22%, so he had disposable income of $9,700 per year. The average household in 1947 owned 0.72 passenger cars and devoted 4% of its consumer spending to automobiles and auto parts. Nominal consumer expenditures per household were about $3,900 per year in 1947, with expenditures on vehicles and parts averaging $155 per year. A household with one vehicle might expect to spend $215 per year, which would have amounted to 2.2% of Mr. Rayburn's disposable income. Annual household expenditure (on cars and parts) per factory sale (of passenger cars) amounted to $1,800 at that time (if you posit he could not or would not buy in installments).


    NB, Mr. Rayburn's pre-tax income put him in the 97th percentile of all American households in 1947.

    Replies: @guest007

    Congressman had to maintain two homes back then due to not being able to live in their office and fly home every weekend on campaign money.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @guest007

    They still maintain two homes, as a rule, although Richard Lugar was discovered in 2012 to be using as a voting address a house he'd sold in 1977.

    In Rayburn's case, he could have had a berth in a rooming house back home (Bonham, Tx, population 6,000) and a studio apartment in DC.

    Replies: @guest007

  274. @Steve Sailer
    @guest007

    In 1947, members of both parties in the House individually chipped in to buy former Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn Cadillac because he was an honest man who couldn't afford an automobile worthy of his position.

    https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites%E2%80%8B/%E2%80%8Bsam-rayburn-house/history/rayburns-1947-cadillac

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Corvinus

    When are you going to open up your eyes to what is going on by dishonest men and women on your side?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1532002708911271937

  275. @guest007
    @Art Deco

    Congressman had to maintain two homes back then due to not being able to live in their office and fly home every weekend on campaign money.

    Replies: @Art Deco

    They still maintain two homes, as a rule, although Richard Lugar was discovered in 2012 to be using as a voting address a house he’d sold in 1977.

    In Rayburn’s case, he could have had a berth in a rooming house back home (Bonham, Tx, population 6,000) and a studio apartment in DC.

    • Replies: @guest007
    @Art Deco

    Gerald Ford's children attended private schools in DC and Northern Virginia. Al Gore Jr attended private schools in DC along with Harold Ford Jr. Pre-1994 most Congressional members moved their families to DC and maintain a nominal residence in their home district unless they were independently wealthy. It was the Republicans winning control ub 1994 that changed everything with many congressional reps and senators flying back home each weekend and needing to go one political/campaign event to justify using campaign funds to pay for the ticket.

    These days, a Republican can get themselves into trouble if they move their family to DC. Ask Josh Hawley.

  276. NOTA says:
    @John Johnson
    @Alden

    The most efficient way of clearing or finding and arresting criminals with outstanding warrants is to just stop cars driven by black men.

    Showing up at the homes where they allegedly live at 6AM doesn’t work. Because they live at various addresses of women from grandmas to baby mommas to whoever they met last night.

    It is also a lot harder to hide in a car.

    Just because there is a warrant doesn't mean the police can show up and search the home.

    All these doofus Nice Whites imagine Blacks getting pulled over for a tail light and then getting aggravated by the racism of the White police.

    They don't know how many stops lead to arrests over outstanding warrants. That is why they run. They don't want to go to jail. It isn't because they are trying to avoid a $100 traffic ticket.

    Replies: @Alden, @NOTA

    You don’t run from the cops when you’re worried about gettin a speeding ticket. But if you’re driving a stolen car, or you have an outstanding arrest warrant, or you’ve got a bunch of drugs or stolen goods or an illegal gun in the car, well, the extra trouble you can get in for running is less than the extra trouble you can get in for those things, so….

  277. @epebble
    A license plate photo should enable them to track down the offender. A roof mounted camera (like the ones autonomous vehicles have) should be feasible.

    Replies: @bomag, @ic1000, @John Johnson, @guest007, @rebel yell, @Anon215, @Kim, @Larz in carz, @Colin Wright, @Don't Look at Me

    Do what the military did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow the offending driver with a drone. Cops can follow from a safe distance, out of visual range from the perp. When he stops and exits the vehicle, the police move in and make an arrest.

    • Replies: @epebble
    @Don't Look at Me

    If you watch one of those typical LA police chases on KTLA, that is what they do. They use a helicopter to keep the offending vehicle in sight and direct the cruisers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8xrVO6OGc

  278. @Twinkie
    I’ve been observing some harebrained driving in my relatively genteel area. It’s very noticeable now. Drivers are increasingly impatient and cantankerous, apparently, and are taking it out on the road and other drivers as cars tend to give some people a sense of invulnerability.

    You know something is going on when Indian (dot, not feather) moms are weaving in and out between other vehicles on the local highway. Yikes.

    Yet another episode in the Scenes from the End of an Empire that is America these days.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Goddard, @JohnnyWalker123

    Reminds me of this.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @JohnnyWalker123

    Not sure how Seth MacFarlane gets away with it. Here's another:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTl4DOjGxpM

  279. @YetAnotherAnon
    @Hangnail Hans

    "See also: mortgage cramdowns, student loan writeoffs"

    I can be a bit more forgiving about student loans. In the UK they are "sold" with the encouragement of the teachers - who all have degrees themselves - and the universities, who send representatives out to speak to gullible sixth formers with zero life experience, often selling the university on its social life rather than academic standing.

    I know a nice girl, pretty and personable but not an academic whizz, who's working in a "distribution centre" i.e. warehouse, after three years of International History and Politics at a second-tier university (former "polytechnic"). I think she was hoping to end up working for an NGO and being interviewed on TV about the latest disaster. She'll owe about £60,000 plus interest.

    I work in financial services, and if we sold our products the way the universities sell theirs, we'd be the subject of non-stop investigations and prosecutions.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Hangnail Hans

    Lots of loans and other financial products are sold under marginal pretenses. What do you say to people who worked two jobs and lived doubled up in crappy rental housing for decades to pay off their loans? FU? What about people who didn’t go to college? Why should they be taxed to pay for others’ irresponsibility?

    Why don’t we pay off people’s car loans too? None of this is different from mortgage cramdowns: the houses had lost value! BFD!

    Biden’s just paid off another half million student loan accounts yesterday. Where does he get the authority? Where is that money coming from?

    • Replies: @rebel yell
    @Hangnail Hans

    Agree. My family saved for years to have the money for my son's college education so he would have no loans.
    We took fewer, cheaper vacations. We shopped less. We ate out less.
    We were also offered less in financial aid, because we had been responsible enough to save and had a large college fund available.
    And now we will also pay taxes to pay off other people's loans.
    If anyone should take the hit for bad student loans, it is the college endowment funds.

  280. @The Anti-Gnostic
    @europeasant

    You sound like a complete loser. How about I set the foghorn off from the street at 11 a.m., when you're still sleeping off your weed and liquor binge? Hey, public property bub.

    Anyway, you get the point: loud noises nobody asked to hear are really irritating. Now you know how people feel when you drive your prolemobile with its stupid, obnoxious pipes down the street.

    Replies: @europeasant

    ” How about I set the foghorn off from the street at 11 a.m.,”

    At least you changed you mind about invading my domicile. This shows you have a reasoning mind. A good quality to have in our highly complicated and technical world.

    ” loud noises nobody asked to hear are really irritating. ”

    Wait till 4th of July when the M80’s and cherry bombs go off. The show will start in two weeks or so, non stop explosions. I don’t do fireworks, too expensive but even in my neighborhood with mostly Ricans and Mexicans there sure are a lot of firecrackers. Sometimes guns going off and I’m two miles from the Jungle. Glad you can afford to live in Whitopia.

    “Now you know how people feel when you drive your prolemobile with its stupid, obnoxious pipes down the street”

    Itz not as bad as the Harleys , Those MF’ers will wake up the dead. Itz not a “prolemobile”. A prole mobile would be the older (pre 2002) Chevy Camaro SS.

  281. @JohnnyWalker123
    @Twinkie

    Reminds me of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlH9RGLJqxE

    Replies: @Art Deco

    Not sure how Seth MacFarlane gets away with it. Here’s another:

    • LOL: JohnnyWalker123
  282. @Art Deco
    @guest007

    They still maintain two homes, as a rule, although Richard Lugar was discovered in 2012 to be using as a voting address a house he'd sold in 1977.

    In Rayburn's case, he could have had a berth in a rooming house back home (Bonham, Tx, population 6,000) and a studio apartment in DC.

    Replies: @guest007

    Gerald Ford’s children attended private schools in DC and Northern Virginia. Al Gore Jr attended private schools in DC along with Harold Ford Jr. Pre-1994 most Congressional members moved their families to DC and maintain a nominal residence in their home district unless they were independently wealthy. It was the Republicans winning control ub 1994 that changed everything with many congressional reps and senators flying back home each weekend and needing to go one political/campaign event to justify using campaign funds to pay for the ticket.

    These days, a Republican can get themselves into trouble if they move their family to DC. Ask Josh Hawley.

  283. @Hypnotoad666
    @The Wild Geese Howard


    People really need to get over this lurid fantasy the ’40s style, “Arsenal of Democracy,” still exists.
     
    Hopefully, this war will cause some self-reflection in our military. Our military-industrial complex is designed to produce profits for contractors and jobs for national security bureaucrats. The American way of war is to blow up tents with cruise missiles. But that's not sustainable in a real war with a real opponent in which equipment and munitions get burned up fast.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    Hopefully, this war will cause some self-reflection in our military.

    I think our military will need to get stomped for that to happen.

    Another point many overlook is that all these complex, relatively low volume military systems rely on lots of custom mechanical components single-sourced from the small and medium businesses the central planners are attempting to bankrupt.

    The planners don’t seem to have a clue that the big boys like Lockmart and Raytheon contract out to those smaller shops because they have no interest in doing that work in-house.

  284. @Don't Look at Me
    @epebble

    Do what the military did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow the offending driver with a drone. Cops can follow from a safe distance, out of visual range from the perp. When he stops and exits the vehicle, the police move in and make an arrest.

    Replies: @epebble

    If you watch one of those typical LA police chases on KTLA, that is what they do. They use a helicopter to keep the offending vehicle in sight and direct the cruisers.

  285. @Steve Sailer
    @guest007

    Oak Park is where my dad was born and the next-door Austin neighborhood of Chicago is where my wife was born. I've written a few times about how Austin was destroyed by integration but next door Oak Park was saved by Oak Park adopting an illegal but sensible "black a block" racial quota in the 1970s.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    How about focusing on the current destruction going on now when it comes to the rule of law and law and order.

    First, the topic is golf. It’s pretty hilarious how Republican lawmakers who were tripping over themselves to criticize NBA players about their financial dealings with China have yet to say anything of substance about all those PGA players participating in the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV golf event. What say you?

    Second, the topic is January 6, which I am quite certain you’re paying attention to privately but dare not provoke your paying audience. You’ve already alienated more than a few with your COVID and Ukraine positions.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1532002708911271937

  286. @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    "I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying."

    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days. But it's pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies, and at least arguable that the man tasked with hunting down Soviet agents in the UK, the head of MI5, was one himself.

    https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/04/christopher-andrew-and-the-strange-case-of-roger-hollis/


    Pincher draws attention, moreover, to a number of developments in Russia in this decade which bear on the question of whether Stalin had a highly-placed mole in MI5 in the 1940s. These developments centre on the manner in which Moscow got a copy of the Quebec Agreement, a highly secret two-page agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt, only sixteen days after they had signed it. The Agreement stated that the two great Anglo-Saxon powers would collaborate to produce an atomic weapon and that neither would communicate any information about this to any third party without joint consent. The document was very, very closely held, as testified by several documents in the British National Archives, showing that even in June 1949 Clement Attlee was concerned that it might be revealed to a US Senate committee and then leak; while in 1951, Harry Truman was still agreeing with Attlee that the document should remain secret. Leslie Groves remarks, in his memoir Racing for the Bomb, that “For several years after the war the existence of the agreement was not known either to the American Congress or to the British Parliament.” Little did Truman, Attlee or Groves know that it had been sent directly to the GRU in Moscow by Sonia from her illicit radio near Oxford on September 4, 1943. This was the kind of work, kept secret for as long as she lived, for which Sonia was decorated as a super agent of Russian military intelligence by Vladimir Putin.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Kuczynski

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood

    Replies: @John Johnson

    I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.

    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days.

    Yea but that was mostly under Stalin when they had a cadre of native born leftist spies (yes heavily Jewish) in the US that believed in Communism or at least maintaining the USSR as a force against the US and any potential fascist revolution. FDR was a dope about Soviet spies and probably didn’t want to know what he didn’t know.

    And that was only in the US. It was Stalin that refused to believe that the Germans were going to invade until the guns fired. They depended on the US and British for information about what happened in Germany.

    But it’s pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies

    Yes and a taboo that is to never be discussed in the MSM since it leads to the revealing of politically incorrect realities.

    Anyways I am certain the British have a mole in the Kremlin. Not that high level however since some of the information has been wrong. But they had the invasion plan early on and were mocked for even suggesting it.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @John Johnson

    "But they had the invasion plan early on and were mocked for even suggesting it."

    Well Russia and half the US/UK ambassadors to Moscow said Ukraine in NATO was a red line, so some sort of action was inevitable when the Minsk Protocols that Ukraine signed up to were ignored for 6 years. It wasn't exactly hard to predict.

    Which commentators here mocked people for suggesting Russia might defend Donbass? I don't recall any but it may be selective memory.

    Btw Russia responds to the US weapon promise. I've been wondering why they didn't interdict stuff closer to Ukraine's borders. The line's designed to carry 60% of Ukraine's exports to EU.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-strikes-ukraine-tunnel-border-27128043


    Kalibr cruise missiles hit the Beskydy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains, it is reported.

    A family, with notable fear in their voices, recorded the strike in the Lviv region, and said that two missiles had struck the area.

    Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko and Lviv governor Maksym Kozytskyy confirmed the late evening attack.

    “The goal is to try to disrupt the railway communication and stop the supply of fuel and weapons from our allies,” he said.

     

  287. @Hangnail Hans
    @YetAnotherAnon

    Lots of loans and other financial products are sold under marginal pretenses. What do you say to people who worked two jobs and lived doubled up in crappy rental housing for decades to pay off their loans? FU? What about people who didn't go to college? Why should they be taxed to pay for others' irresponsibility?

    Why don't we pay off people's car loans too? None of this is different from mortgage cramdowns: the houses had lost value! BFD!

    Biden's just paid off another half million student loan accounts yesterday. Where does he get the authority? Where is that money coming from?

    Replies: @rebel yell

    Agree. My family saved for years to have the money for my son’s college education so he would have no loans.
    We took fewer, cheaper vacations. We shopped less. We ate out less.
    We were also offered less in financial aid, because we had been responsible enough to save and had a large college fund available.
    And now we will also pay taxes to pay off other people’s loans.
    If anyone should take the hit for bad student loans, it is the college endowment funds.

  288. @John Johnson
    @YetAnotherAnon


    I’m not a fan of the British but they really are the masters of spying.
     
    Up to a point. Russia has historically been pretty damn good too, but that was perhaps in the old days. Not many idealistic young Oxbridge undergrads or middle-class Jewish girls look to Russia these days.

    Yea but that was mostly under Stalin when they had a cadre of native born leftist spies (yes heavily Jewish) in the US that believed in Communism or at least maintaining the USSR as a force against the US and any potential fascist revolution. FDR was a dope about Soviet spies and probably didn't want to know what he didn't know.

    And that was only in the US. It was Stalin that refused to believe that the Germans were going to invade until the guns fired. They depended on the US and British for information about what happened in Germany.

    But it’s pretty certain that McCarthy was right about Soviet spies

    Yes and a taboo that is to never be discussed in the MSM since it leads to the revealing of politically incorrect realities.

    Anyways I am certain the British have a mole in the Kremlin. Not that high level however since some of the information has been wrong. But they had the invasion plan early on and were mocked for even suggesting it.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

    “But they had the invasion plan early on and were mocked for even suggesting it.”

    Well Russia and half the US/UK ambassadors to Moscow said Ukraine in NATO was a red line, so some sort of action was inevitable when the Minsk Protocols that Ukraine signed up to were ignored for 6 years. It wasn’t exactly hard to predict.

    Which commentators here mocked people for suggesting Russia might defend Donbass? I don’t recall any but it may be selective memory.

    Btw Russia responds to the US weapon promise. I’ve been wondering why they didn’t interdict stuff closer to Ukraine’s borders. The line’s designed to carry 60% of Ukraine’s exports to EU.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-strikes-ukraine-tunnel-border-27128043

    Kalibr cruise missiles hit the Beskydy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains, it is reported.

    A family, with notable fear in their voices, recorded the strike in the Lviv region, and said that two missiles had struck the area.

    Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko and Lviv governor Maksym Kozytskyy confirmed the late evening attack.

    “The goal is to try to disrupt the railway communication and stop the supply of fuel and weapons from our allies,” he said.

  289. @Joe Stalin
    @kaganovitch

    Dem Oak Parkers is so smart they voted to retain on themselves a HANDGUN BAN to show how morally superior they were to the unwashed.


    Oak Park voters endorsed their suburb`s handgun ban Tuesday despite a pitched effort by ban opponents who had appealed to residents` concerns about personal liberty and increasing crime.

    With 81 of 83 precincts reporting on an advisory referendum calling for repeal of the ban, unofficial counts showed 7,758 votes to retain the ban and 6,115 to overturn it.

    The Oak Park advisory referendum on the handgun measure marked the first time in the nation that voters had been asked to repeal such a ban, and the National Rifle Association and the National Coalition to Ban Handguns had worked vigorously to woo Oak Park voters.

    The vote culminated nearly two months of emotional debate in the community of 54,887, which borders Chicago`s high-crime West Side. The Oak Park Village Board approved the handgun ban by a one-vote margin in April, 1984, after the shooting death of Oak Park attorney James Piszczor in a Daley Center courtroom. The ban, which prohibits possession of handguns in the village, took effect in October, 1984.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-11-06-8503160490-story.html
     

    Replies: @Charon

    Yet another law ready-made for enforcement against white people, and no one else.

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