Below is my take on the U.S. “debt ceiling battle.”
Enjoy:
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(Since I mention ten percent inflation, a quick note: Since early 2021, at any given time, prices have been rising five to ten percent more than what the Government admits to. We all see that. When I say it’s ten percent today, here in the USA, that’s based on my own, recent personal experience, not some ridiculous Government number.)
You want to understand “asymmetry“?
Here’s asymmetry…..
I recorded the below audio…..
…..more than a couple of days ago.
It’s not new…..
But, nothing has changed.
When I say “weekend“…..
…..I mean the last one (May 6-7th)…..
…..not this one.
Here’s why I recorded it:
The USA is making clear…..
…..through its State Media…..
…..(Amazon Post, NY Times, Politico, CNN, etc., and I’d include WSJ as State Media, even if it’s not entirely Democrat…..)
…..that a full-scale Ukraine war…..
…..CANNOT continue beyond this year.
I am VERY surprised…..
…..that so many smart people…..
…..(mostly, Europeans)…..
…..in my audience…..
…..have NOT picked up…..
…..on this AT ALL.
It may be that…..
…..the U.S. Government’s “cues” on this matter…..
…..as conveyed in our State Media…..
…..have not yet reached Europe…..
…..and been sufficiently digested…..
…..and parroted…..
…..in the local media.
Anyway, I hope this clears things up.
Enjoy:
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The U.S. Border:
Too Bad, So Sad
My webmaster, email system manager, audiovisual editor, friend and mentor…..
Manny…..
…..thinks I missed the real story…..
…..on this one.
The real story, being…..
That the Democrats…..
…..deliberately erased…..
…..the U.S. southern border…..
…..so as to bring in millions…..
…..of future Democrat voters.
All costs be damned!
And…..
That this will change the country…..
…..irreversibly.
Well…..
Who would argue that?
It’s self-evident.
However…..
I don’t care.
It’s not the story…..
…..that I’m interested in.
Over many years…..
Republican leadership…..
…..(whose donors want cheap labor)…..
…..and millions of Republican voters…..
…..ALLOWED this to happen.
I mean, supposedly…..
…..we’re a democracy, right?
Which means…..
Nothing happens…..
…..unless The People will it…..
…..or at least, ALLOW it to happen.
In 2014…..
I was LAUGHING…..
…..at the ISIS craze…..
Because I could see…..
We had a Spanish ISIS on our border.
To my Republican readers:
What about you?
Sure, as a Republican voter…..
…..you can say…..
“Hey, I wasn’t given a choice.”
“The Establishment doesn’t listen to me.”
But how about…..
You take a look in the mirror?
If you got CONNED…..
By the ISIS story…..
Like a cat chasing a laser dot…..
YOU were part of the problem.
If you got conned and distracted…..
…..by a LOT of things…..
You were (are) the problem.
There are STILL Republicans reading me…..
…..who cheer for Brandon-McConnell’s war…..
…..against Russia.
Now, it’s just too late.
Respectfully…..
Tough shit!!!
As to…..
…..the country…..
…..being changed irreversibly…..
That’s ALREADY happened…..
More than once.
The USA is OBVIOUSLY…..
…..NOT the country it was…..
…..in 1787.
In 1890-1900…..
…..(with an 1890 population of around 63 million)…..
The USA accepted…..
…..roughly a million immigrants…..
…..each year…..
…..for ten years.
Most of them…..
…..(I’m generalizing, but again, most of them)…..
…..indigent illiterates…..
…..from southern and eastern Europe.
And, the modern…..
…..”urban” Democrat party…..
…..was born.
(BTW, there are photos from the famous “How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis, showing homeless immigrants sleeping at police stations. Much like, today’s headlines. That book was published in 1890, with photos from mostly the late 1880’s, so I’m sure things got much worse, further into the 1890s.)
The country hasn’t been the same, since.
So, it’s happened before.
But again, I don’t care.
Manny’s still half-into it…..
Because he thinks…..
…..that voting Republican…..
…..(as much as it hurts to do so)…..
…..will SLOW the drift…..
…..into a de facto one-party state.
My view…..
It doesn’t matter anymore.
(The Establishment GOP’s response to Tucker Carlson’s “1/6” revelations, the Ukraine, and many other issues, prove that we already have a “uniparty.” The Republicans are just a token opposition, like the communist’s in today’s Russia.)
And…..
If Republicans want to be extinct…..
I don’t care.
(Worst case, I’ll have to wrap up this blog, which means I’ll have a lot more time for other things.)
Enjoy:
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Just had time to listen to the audio on the asymmetries of the Ukraine War.
For the Russians, this is THE only game, hence they must be in it to the end. (The US is hoping for some distractions along Russia’s long southern flank, to add some other real concerns to their plate.)
The US, being the global meddler it is, has concerns all over the place, as you mention (e.g., China/Taiwan, election 2024, southern border).
Again, very splendid audios. On immigration. I just want to be with my own kind. I’d prefer a white nation (with controlled limits on minorities), and let Hispanics have the southwest and Texas. It was their country anyway, as a Mexican army buddy of mine said, “we’re taking it back and there’s nothing you gringos can do about it.” Not said angrily, but with a smile, and he’s right. I visited him in Houston 20 years ago. He enjoyed business dealings in Texas and Mexico. His wife was from Colombia, and she saw no point to learning English. Everyone in Houston spoke Spanish. My friend took me to much of Houston which was all Hispanic. The corporate/university part was still Anglo (by day). I felt I was in another country, but that was okay. They’re good people, good food, and we let them come in (the political “we”). The idea that Texas is some big U.S.A. all-the-way place is wrong. That Texas is dying. The icing may be anglo, but the cake is becoming Hispanic. But again, I don’t hate these people, I just want to be with MY people, and I think both sides, making boundaries and keeping the GD political/corporate manipulators and meddling Karens out of the way, can get along.
Blacks are something else. These are different cultures, and I’d rather see our own cultures live apart and cooperate than be forced into some tacky corporate plutocratic mush.
Well, about your Central America comments. It’s not precisely feudalization, but empire fragmentation the cause of the troubles you are describing. The gangs and cartels, like other evils of the Hispanic America (civil wars, caudillismo, etc.) are proper of the republican era. They are an epiphenomenon of the adoption of the liberal ideology into the political lives of Catholic structured nations. There would be no gangs or narcitrafic if there was not another nation next door awash in cash and less-than-healthy habits proper of cultural liberalism (ie hippies of all sorts). In imperial times (as in Spanish Empire) these were not issues to contend with (except in the imagination of anti-Spanish propagandists of the time) because the economy was a closed circuit within the empire. In fact, the only people pushing for independence were contrabandists allied with the other empire (as in British Empire). The quality of life in Lima or Mexico at the end of the XVII century was much better than in any territory in the 13 colonies, and the dollar has that S like sign $ because of the success of the currency of the empire (as you know there is no S anywhere in dollar, it is likely due the two pillars of Hercules and the ribbon around them in the Spanish coat of arms). A further proof that it was imperial fragmentation which caused the problems in Hispanic America is that XIX Spain had the same or similar issues.
That’s why every time someone advocates for dividing the country to solve its problems I think; yeah, sure…
Thanks for the posts.
I said de-feudalization, not feudalization. Big difference.
I think you’d be laughed out of town, if you told Mexicans, Venezuelans, etc., that their independence was about contrabandists looking to trade with Britain. Simon Bolivar was a contrabandist??? I think it’s much more likely that you’re a crap artist.
As for your “there would be no LatAm gangs if no drug demand from the USA”….. Mexico and Central America have been one giant pipeline for drugs into the USA, since well before the gangs. Originally, it was quiet and peaceful because it was under control of governments, with no “competition.”
But, of course, I imagine everything is much more clear from Croatia, Slovakia, or wherever the hell you are writing from.
Thanks very much for the $25, but no one gets a pass to write idiotic comments on the Dreizin Report.
Brilliant explanation of asymmetry. Thanks.
[Debt ceiling battle]
Jacob Dreizin: “I know, this sounds crazy, but:
I’ve not joined the cult,
I’ve not been reading occult literature
I don’t think I am George PATTON” [aka M47/M48]
Bruhaha. Love that kinda dry, laconic inserts of humour, here & there.
The US has not been neglecting south of the border, it has been interfering extensively and comprehensively all over central and south America for many, many decades. A very large part of the reason these countries are feudal, have weak institutions, are “sh1thole” countries to quote someone else, is due to this interference.
The problem on the southern border of the US is entirely of its own making. I’m happy to argue this one out further if needed, but it’s obvious to anyone who takes any level of interest in the activities of the US government and deep state in this part of the world.
No argument. Stay tuned for my video.
Waiting for the Ukr. ‘counteroffensive’ may feel like waiting for the messiah, but as they say at the end of the Petliurite seder, ‘next year in Crimea.’
Hahahaha LOLOLOL
I’d be shocked if the country wasn’t vastly different now than it was in 1787. As far as immigrants changing things, I always thought that the key aspect was assimilation. So as long as the rate of immigration wasn’t too high, we could remain a (mostly) unified nation. And I’ve retained the impression (despite knowing much more now) that events like WW2 actually brought the population together. Even if, as you say, things fell apart in the 1800s, were we not still a unified nation at many times since? Of course, there are plenty of forces working now, and for some time, to tear us apart.
I really appreciate your articles and appreciate your perspectives. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Sorry that I’m not a paid supporter, but I’m on a fixed retirement income. If Social Security and my IRA survive another year or two, maybe I’ll be able to share a little with you.
The good news is that I retired on a Caribbean island (Roatan, Honduras) where my money goes a bit further. I’m a legal resident here. Much the reverse of many leaving here for the USA.
I don’t listen to audios. It’s all junk. But 3 minutes? Listened to your 3 minute rant, and you are gold. I’m hooked.
I do think it’s high time for screamin’ demon Lindsey Graham to lead the 69th Pansy Division* into south Texas and Mexico to secure the border. Of course our new “improved” Tranny Navy will need to park itself off of the Gulf of Mexico coasts for sorty support if needed.
*Currently stationed at the newly re-named “Fort Frankenfurter”.** (Formerly Fort Hood).
**Okay, okay….it wasn’t really re-named Frankenfurter. That’s the name they wanted, but they settled on the name of an honorable 33 year veteran of two wars with a Hispanic surname.
Alright. Very good work re UKR… now, can you comment on the Brits? Are they trying to escalate and provoke of their own free will, are they doing the bidding of Nuland et al? Obviously, there are several factions in Washington… are the Brits their own faction? P
I loved your audio and 100/% agree.
Shadowstats puts out…current and pre-reformulated numbers for inflation, unemployment etc. those numbers, as bad as they are are much worse
“Shadowstats” obviously just makes shit up.
Anyone who thinks that some lone blogger can tell you “scientifically” what the real GDP, CPI, **and** unemployment are, has deformities with their critical thinking.
For the CPI specifically, this guy claims to use “1970’s”, pre-fudge methodology… but where is it?
I never saw any methodology on his site. I can see he’s capable of making line graphs in Excel, that’s it. There’s nothing behind his curtain.
I’ll just go with my own observations, thank you. That’s the only “methodology” I need. I may be a few points off, but CPI is subjective anyway, it depends on what you buy. My CPI is not your CPI. Any “average consumer basket” is not a legitimate construct to begin with.
Supposedly they get a contractor to survey tens of thousands of people over some months or longer, but I’ve never been asked, and I’m not aware that anyone I’ve ever known has been asked, nor have I ever read of anyone writing about the experience, anywhere, ever. Hence, I must conclude, the entire concept is to some extent BS.
The Shadowstats guy just tries to out-BS the BS, from the comfort of his own keyboard. He has no fucking “methodology.” I wouldn’t pay a dime for his annual subscription.
Too many people take their preferred “alternative” sources as gospel. Just because it’s not the MSM or the Government, doesn’t mean it’s RIGHT.
I just hope you don’t end your blog when the Republican party becomes extinct – that would be a REAL tragedy – what would those of us who know what the hell is going on do then? Thanks for the awesome blog Jacob!
I’m afraid public funding of political campaigns, as opposed to private donations, is not making any difference: it is what we have in most European “democracies”. All it does is shifting power from the donor to the party bureaucrats distributing the money: they decide who gets elected on their party tickets and it cements the oligopoly of established parties as only they have access to authorized campaign finance.
Obviously, politicians are just as corrupt here as in the US, their preferred bribes are BoD seats or consultancy jobs for themselves, like Barroso switching from the European Commission to Goldman Sachs, or for their wives, kids, nephews, mistresses, etc. That’s why they admire Brandon so much over here, i guess: he’s an inspiration to them all.
In the USA, there are no party lists. Each Federal office-seeker runs entirely his or her own campaign. It’s a completely different system. You should read about it. (I don’t get into state/local politics as that’s much dirtier and more complicated.)
Great insights Jacob into the signals on Ukraine from the US State media and correct it has not reached the British State Media yet which is still bleating on about it. Of course, the conflict is still being used by our Uni-party as a convenient excuse/deflector for the dramatic increases in the cost of living.
Due to reasons irrelevant to this discussion I had been extensivly following UK news media for many years, despite not being a Brit, or even European. It used to perform a certain quality and had clear “red lines” that weren’t crossed. Since the Ukraine war started its reporting quickly deteriorated to a level of utter garbage. What one used to find only at the free papers you get at Tube stations, is an approach dominating even the most serious columns and panel shows. Peter Hitchens being possibly the only notable commentator not getting caught by this wave of hysteria.
Josep Borrell actually said this past week that the conflict in Ukraine would end within a few days if the west stopped sending them weapons. An introduction of what’s to come….
I Love You, American brother.
America is “managed” by a bi-factional one-party system. It doesn’t give a damn about anyone so long as it gets to milk you till you’re dead. Everything else, the WWF Jerry Springer styled political cage match, the constant outrages and utter lunacy shoved daily into the collective maw, is just there to keep the ignorant monkeys occupied while their pockets are picked and their homes are burned down around their necks. Who cares! Moar moar moar! You gotta hand it to those at the top… they know what they’re doing.
Most U.S. citizens and residents are net beneficiaries; only the top few deciles are getting their “pockets picked.”
Oh man, that second audio clip (“asymmetry” 11:39) was a fucking classic. So many thigh slappers: Ukr doing a “metaphysical counteroffensive, not one that’s … really happening”. “Asking Russia to negotiate with the Ukraine is like asking Russia to negotiate with Oklahoma”. Hilarious. You are, indeed, the only one I’ve heard explaining that Russia is selling their Eurobonds to China.
And (this is my assumption): China sells both Russias and their own EU/US bonds to poor nations for gold and other commodities. Win win, poor nations can pay their western loans with the proceeds and China/Russia can divest from the liability(some might call them assets, but I doubt THEY do anymore).
Many wonder how Russia continues selling commodities to western nations, but my guess is the value of the frozen reserve assets is diminishing because they are being used to pay for those commodities. Why would Russia NOT force them to use those reserves for the essentials they can’t get elsewhere right? Few have questioned how the initial 600B descended to just 30B over the past year. When the frozen reserves hit zero the conflict likely ends because the US needs those commodities more than they need this conflict to keep going.
Descended to just 30B? What are you talking about???
What’s up…didn’t like my reply for some reason?
At 2:00AM US ET, I was asleep, you fucking dipshit. Get the hell out of here.
Mark Sleboda has said that this war will be another “frozen conflict” like Syria. That the ego-mind of the western empire would never accept anything resembling peace with Russia, and that Russia knows this: https://www.youtube.com/live/qwRF7FYWIyI?feature=share&t=3360
So? He lives in Russia. He doesn’t read the papers here in the USA. What the fuck do I care what he thinks about what the USA thinks? He’s free to tell us what the Russian papers are saying.
Why this conflict could not be frozen? Russians are really just getting started. I completely agree with you. They are about to iccuoy probably whole country to Polish ans Romanian borsers to horrendous shock of brainwashed pro-UA Western virtue signallers. It is possible (with maybe 25% probability?) that US deep state will be able to manipulate totally stupid and insane Polish government to “defend” Western Poland as “peacekeepers”. Which could lead to the war between RU and PL. Here in my Cenral Europe there is fear among people like me who see reality and are not brainwashed that US Deep state would use “inferior” EU Slavic people like Czechs, Polaks and Slovaks as proxy the same way as are now using Ukrainians. But I think and hope that this will not happen. So we will have Russians on Eastern borders of EU/NATO. And then this war get frozen. Without any peace agreement between RU and West because I cannot imagine West is able ANY concessions to Russia. At least not the current EU governments and EU commissioners. I think Russia is able if consessions but only for highest price which would include lifting of 100% sanctions but I cannot see West would lift even 1% of it. What regards to Mr.Sleboda I think he sees the reality the same way as you ehich means he expects probably the same or very simililar future events as I expect.
The only problem is that Syria isn’t frozen. It is a full win for the “sovereignty-block”. Syria even got the Arab-League-membership back. The hate towards wokeness and exceptionalism is so big that the Sunni Arabs are even prepared to talk seriously to the Shiites. A chunk of Syria is still under Turkish and American rule, but the US presence in Syria is an embarassing PR disaster.
If I would be a Russian decision maker I would never allow a solidifying “frozen conflict” a couple of hundred kilometres from Moscow. This is just not realistic. They had a frozen conflict for more than 8 years and we see how that has turned out. Despite this whole Prigozhin bullshit and the irrationally sensationalist-pessimistic bullshit from people like Escobar I think that the Russians will go all the way until there is a strategically acceptable situation for Russia on the ground.
Republicans bitching about immigration are stuck in a time warp. Who cares if they don’t look like you? In fact, they are more conservative than the average white guy will ever be. Even Jorge the Day Laborer gets a submissive wife.
Yeah the Democrats tried to cheat by bringing in massive numbers of Hispanics. It backfired.
If I were you I would be far more concerned about importing people from Europe, which by the way is a hell of a lot more likely now that we destroyed their cheap energy imports. If you don’t believe me, watch Eurovision. Where you think Globohomo comes from?
Conservatives (ordinary people, not politicians) are generally attuned to orderliness. Having laws against illegal encroachment and then ignoring those laws pisses people off. If everybody supposedly agrees that we need the encroachers – as workers, as consumers as the latest “marks” in the Social Security ponzi, then it should be super easy to change the laws to allow in anyone within walking distance. Nobody cares what they look like. My church is 75-80% Latino now. If I go to the Spanish service, I get to feel tall.
According to the “orderliness” in our Constitution, Congress gets to declare war. Not Joseph Bribem, not Rep McBolton, not Blinkered Blinken, not Cookies Nuland… Congress. How’s that working out for our constitutional republic?
Maybe, if we did’t go around wrecking Latin American countries without a declaration of war, their people wouldn’t be streaming across the border.
Exactly. No one talks about why the Central and far northern South American countries are such a mess.
The US Empire needs to fall. Period. I hope the country can somehow survive, but I’m not holding my breath.
Short to the point, love the audio bytes. You boiled down a one hour Mercouris show to 12 minutes. Excellent. Thank you for saving me time.
If you got conned and distracted…..
…..by a LOT of things…..
You were (are) the problem.
Given the fact that most people are not terribly perspicacious, I can’t help but sometimes have a small amount of sympathy with the crooks who run things. After all, sheep are there to be sheared and the clippers have been regularly used for much longer than we might care to remember.
Hello Jacob,
You’ve made the parallel with Vietnam where the USA was out-gritted by the North Vietnamese, and explained why (1) Putin will not negotiate with Zelensky and (2) Russia will not tap out any timie soon.
Do you consider potential internal pressure from the “liberal” (mainstream, not opposition) segment of Russia’s business and political classes to be something that either won’t manifest or won’t have any effect?
After all, AFAIK the big-name “Oligarchs” and most of the business community were aghast at the beginning of the war along with most of the Russian beau monde, and only somewhat shut up after the massive sanctions and cancellation campaigns began. From the little I read of them, most “Pro-Z” bloggers and commentators believe that, if the West offered an opportunity for Russia’s upper 5% of the population to get back to business as usual as it was before the war and played on their inferiority complex vis-a-vis Europe, these people would form a quiet but very wealthy and powerful pressure group lobbying to “end the fratricidal war” and “just develop the economy”.
I realize that the sanctions war has failed, that economically Russia seems to be pretty much fine (and much better than in September), that the West is unlikely to actually lift sanctions even if an agreement is reached, and that even if it did lift those sanctions, the days of being “normal country” are over. However, the way the Kremlin has tried to keep the war as low-key domestically as possible indicates that it (1) does not believe that enough of the population see the war as truly necessary for Russia and (2) doesn’t want various lifestyle disruptions to piss society off too much; and it is difficult to over-estimate the Russian_Intelligentsia’s capacity for retarded self-delusion.
So once again, do you discount entirely the possibility of quiet but powerful pro-peace-at-great-cost lobbying in the event of a US offer to negotiate, or just discount it’s ability to influence the Kremlin’s political calculus?
Thanks.
The Kremlin is keeping the SMO low key because, the longer it lasts, the weaker OTAN and the Empire become. They are de-nazifying and demilitarizing the west (and dedollarizing the world) by proxy.
If, as a total outsider, I was to write an article on the current state of the US, which I never will because we have Dreizen for that, the headline would be: “The Country That Ate Itself”. No one did it to you; you were the hegemon and the world was at your feet. And just when it looked as you could never lose that status … whoops.
John Cleese said that the coronation of King Chilla looked to him like a Monty Python sketch. In the same spirit the decline and fall of the US looks to me like something written for the Theatre of the Absurd.
Only a playwright high on something would ever conceive of someone like Joe Biden or the lunatics who surround him. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Mitch the Bitch, Lindsey Graham; who dreamt up these characters to appear at this time, like a chorus of demons performing in a play staged in Hell for Lucifer’s amusement.
Thought it strange that the lame duck session didn’t raise the ceiling while they still controlled the House. Think they wanted this issue (just like abortion) to arouse their despondent base. Don’t vote now. Don’t vote ever. There is no Messiah.
On to Odessa
You can’t paint all immigrants with one brush. I’ve taught ESL on and off for years. My grandparents and their parents came over as indentured workers. Hard work, save a shekel or two and take care of your mother (Mother’s Day plug) This wave is different. Even my Michoacan farm managers won’t hire “Texicans”…Drugs, tats, weapons…it’s different. The Haitians, some Hondurans can’t survive at home, but don’t bring much to the table here. It took our general manager 10 years to get his citizenship, and believe me, he’s as ticked as the Mayor of Chicago…but he has a real job and doesn’t jabber in front of a camera or on line. I’m proud of my Spanish and German heritage and don’t feel less for it. But those shills in the Uniparty make me wonder where my country went. Keep the faith.. We might fight the inevitable, one vote at a time.
You can’t paint all immigrants with one brush
I have heard this type of comment regarding large groups, for decades. To my mind, it is an attempt to deflect from the essential point being discussed.
What other way can one speak about a large group but in certain generalities. We are not talking about individuals, but masses of people. Your general manager may be a sterling character, but it simply does not follow that the millions of others who have come here are the same. You admit this when you refer to Haitians and Hondurans.
Immigration policy is not written for individuals, but when allowing people to immigrate to the USA, acceptance should be done on an individual basis, not un-screened and en masse as is presently being done at the Southern border.
Unlike immigrants of the past, today’s immigrants often do not learn English or assimilate. Adding to this problem is the fact that they are often urged not to adapt but to maintain their “diversity”, too much of which is a profound weakness for a country, not a strength.
I know whereof I speak. My wife is an immigrant, and I have been to a couple of large citizenship swearing-in ceremonies in the past. (I helped a friend study for the history/civics test required to become a citizen) I have lived in several countries overseas and not one of them let me waltz in and work/live there without some sort of permit. In some of these countries I had to have health check ups to get that “Employment Pass”, “Work Permit”, and/or “Student Visa” stamp in my passport. I can assure you, no country I have ever visited, and I have visited 40, has the quite insane immigration policies that the USA has.
I have researched and written a good deal about this, but this is Mr. Dreizin’s blog and will not abuse his welcome.
Yes, “This wave is different.” They are not Texicans, most are tough-as-nails Darien Gap crossers. IMO, that’s awesome!
I would rather have Darien Gap graduates than Woke.edu indoctrinees as neighbors.
Every wave of American immigrants is lazy, dirty, and “different” until they form the bedrock of America.
Well stated!
OK, we’ll take this one (only this one) a little off-topic, because it’s my blog and I do what I want.
Truth is, it’s complicated. I don’t know and don’t care about any Darien Gap. I absolutely need Hispanic immigrants to work for me. Landscaper, cleaning lady, painter/drywaller for my rentals, etc. They don’t say “no” to any work, I can run them around, it’s just a question of price. I respect that. You could literally get a Hispanic building trades guy to shine your shoes, if you paid him his regular rate, he won’t care, what does it matter? A gringo would say no, it’s beneath his dignity. But, money is money. I respect that. Seriously, do our kids care where their toys came from?
One time, two sullen black guys came to my house to deliver and assemble some IKEA furniture. One of them just helped himself and took a loud piss in one of our non-guest bathrooms, without asking permission. Just fucking gangsters. Next IKEA delivery was some Hispanics. Taking orders from my wife, it was all “Si, senora, yes, senora, sure, here’s my number if you need any more work, call me direct, senora.” And then black folks wonder why many of them can’t get ahead, the world is rigged, racism blah blah. 90 percent is the attitude!!! No Hispanic would EVER piss in my house without my permission. Hispanics will get ahead, eventually.
But, I don’t need them to live in my neighborhood. The only “dog incidents” in my neighborhood since I’ve lived here, were with Hispanics and their stupid pitbulls or bulldogs. It’s a real threat to my family, I am afraid to let the babysitter out “alone” (without me) with my young ones. They also have loud ass birthdays and other parties, oftentimes with an outdoor rented sound system (music heard round the block), maybe fireworks also. No gringo needs that shit.
Also, NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY, not even the DemProgs, certainly not the editors of the Amazon Post, wants their kid in a majority-Hispanic school, where most of the energy goes to teaching ESL and trying to manage issues such as untreated ADHD and gang recruitment. Sure, I’m generalizing, but when the parents are literally former peasants or tin-shack slum-dwellers, how much learning do you think is going on in those schools? From what I’ve seen with my own eyes, most of those kids are ROCKS.
Yeah, OK, their descendants will likely form the “bedrock” in 100 years… But in my area, once a neighborhood has gone Hispanic, it’s gone to shit, there’s no turning back, not in 15 or 20 or 25 years, and probably not in my lifetime, it’s NOT going to improve, because over the years, they bring their families, and families of families, and friends of friends, and it remains A DUMP, because there’s always someone “just off the boat” living there.
I know, some will say, this is the story with all immigrants. Well, if you think that, you obviously haven’t come across too many Koreans or Vietnamese.
We should also keep in mind that from a geopolitical point of view, Latin America being in a perpetual poor economic condition is by design. Since the days of the Monroe doctrine it was decided that the US will never tolerate a peer or near peer competitor on their hemisphere or anyone that could pose a threat . The US’s worse nightmare would be a strong, United, successful Latin America. It would be like the threat that China poses except much closer. Thus they have ensured, through regime change and meddling, that Latin America remains weak and impoverished to this day. I would go as far as to say that Canada would have suffered the same fate except that back then (early 1900’s) the US society was much more racist and Eurocentric than it is now. So they trusted Canadians much more than Latin Americans which they viewed as untrustworthy and alien (much like the way they viewed native Americans) compared to their Anglo-Saxon Canadian neighbors.
I know, some will say, this is the story with all immigrants. Well, if you think that, you obviously haven’t come across too many Koreans or Vietnamese.
Thanks for expanding on the subject. Too many Americans appear to adhere to the mantra, “don’t confuse me with the facts, I know what I believe.” An easy-to-check metric as regards how some ethic groups are more successful than others is the illegitimacy rates. Compare those of Hispanics to Asians.
> some will say, this is the story with all immigrants. Well, if you think that, you obviously haven’t come across too many Koreans or Vietnamese.
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Asian (and African and middle eastern) immigrants usually come by airplane. A long, trans-pacific flight is a filter. This filter works on all races and ethnicities. That’s one of the reason African immigrants are the most successful immigrants in America… better educated, better social scores,… than every other immigrant group.
When you allow immigrants from patriarchal cultures into America, that’s a win, especially if you consider where we are right now in terms of wholesale ‘tardness.
I would rather a policy filter but knowing how our “betters” make decisions, if there were such a filter, it would be a wokeness filter.
I would prefer to have my kids educated with Asian, Hispanic, and African immigrants than with native-borns only. Saner, language-learning opportunities, and the opportunity to escape rah-rah-we-are-the-bestest programming/indoctrination at an early age.
We don’t get to trash Latin America with illegal, cruel, and downright evil sanctions, coups, wars, etc. (CAUSE) without expecting and receiving a flood of political and economic refugees (EFFECT).
We Americans need to understand that we cannot do onto others for decades without dealing with effects. Unfortunately, our ruling class does not understand knock-on effects.
Or Eastern Europeans, after at least 2 or 3 generations they are fully integrated in most cases. I’ve got family in Canada, Australia and the US and most of those people have more “financial strength” than I, who has a strong education and a good job, but who still lives in You-Rope.
I admit it….I got conned by the GOP.
I believed, and voted, and it was all for nothing. My bad.
Now I just work, prep and hope I can escape before things really go to hell. But at the rate the US is going with Ukraine, I don’t think I’m going to make it. Things are getting stupider faster than I can put my escape plan together.
Government bureaucracies are overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats so they also want millions more dependent clients to increase government payrolls and budgets.
You already have a uniparty as far as anything important is concerned, as far as I can see.
Any two party system inevitably becomes a single two faced party with cosmetic changes on either face, say red lipstick on one and rainbow hair on the other.
Republicans stood by and let uncontrolled migration occur? Hell, “Saint Reagan” gave what we thought were huge numbers “amnesty” 35 years ago. I grew up in San Antonio and had to flee way back in 1990 after the wife and I promised each other to take off when the billboards went 50-50 Spanish/English. Crime, filth, traffic, 15 hour ER waits…..that is what “immigration” is good for. I forgot to mention Mexican style corruption within city and county and now state government.
The country is done gone. You cannot polish a turd.
We do have the Constitution. Our current crew may try to ignore its power, but few countries have such a document. Hope you’re wrong, but you are right about San Antonio. It’s changed a lot.
Sorry, that’s nonsense. The Constitution is like the Bible. Multiple interpretations of each chapter, each few lines or even one line. We have a bullshit constitution. If it’s a “living document”, it’s all just political. We have no final law beyond whatever they can get past public opinion.
Even if a perfect constitution came floating down from heaven, the problem would remain. As Auron MacIntrye said, “no person has ever been ruled by a document”.
Re.Inflation . Back in 1980 and again in 1990 the US Government changed how inflation was calculated . The reason was to reduce the amount which was paid in indexed linked Federal Payments . This was copied by other Western Governments because low inflation makes politicians look good . There is a site called ” John Wilsons’ Shadow Government Statistics ” which calculates inflation the old way . I can’t link to it as I don’t have a subscription ( which is expensive ) but you can view their charts .
I agree with you about the Ukrainian Conflict . It will end when Russia is good and ready for it to end . Perhaps in the run up to the 2024 election ? I think that here is one in Russia in 2024 as well .The message from on high in Washington has not trickled out to the general public on this side of the Atlantic . Only people who use alternative sources of information like your blog etc. will have realised that something is up . The impression which I have got over the last few weeks is that there is a power struggle going on between different Neocon factions about what to do .
John WIlliams, not John Wilson. The website is shadowstats.com
I look forward to when “the Ukraine” (Meaning US) tries to negotiate a DMZ with Putin. I can foresee him saying, “Okay, the DMZ will be the border with Poland. I’ll call you when we get there”.