(10:20) Morning all again, elevenses approacheth. (1319)
15. Moosh corner
14. To Ivanka
13. On VPs
12. On Elon
11. Realpolitik
10. Cash or card?
Going to put an argument, then a counter-argument to it, then a counter of my own to that counter-argument. First, the argument (no names, twas on X, need to protect the poster):
Pretty good argument. All right, one commenter wrote no, never cash, faeces all over it, unhygienic and he had a good point too … think of the diseases now we’re third world, esp. in the metropolises.
I do have a counter-counter argument and that’s that I had an inkling they’d stop cash, but as I had some anyway, withdrawn from the bank in bits over time, used to pay small things like a cab fare, those notes came out of the machine the teller used, not from any shop. I give close to the amount and tell them to put any change in a charity box.
That still doesn’t protect us from third world and nu-yoof levels of hygiene but it’s the best, imho, that we can do.
“ONE of the most infuriating things in politics is when leaders accuse voters of ‘misinformation’ while simultaneously hiding information from them. You see it all the time. On mass immigration. On crime. And, as we’ve recently been reminded, on the rape-gangs scandal.
Such is the disdain and contempt with which politicians and civil servants treat ordinary people that rather than be transparent, open, and honest about the information they have, they either conceal it or refuse to collect it.”
Not the slightest disagreement about the way pollies operate, not the slightest disagreement with academic sociologists or even classic philosophers about all the truisms they cling to … quite rightly, as valid explanations, in the main, of what they observe. That’s certainly how it operates … money too in large quantities … the pushing of credit, debt, fiat money, the essential valuelessness of bonds.
And this is the issue … I agree with all that … but it’s not a zero sum game. After you’ve finished patiently laying it out and asking if I comprehend … yes I do. And do you, in turn, comprehend what physical and metaphysical means?
To head off on a tangent for a moment … I was looking at the Pettibone sisters (three of them will be back on Friday in place of Ladies at Lunchtime, which will then resume the Monday following), explaining what girls get wrong, including the mania for “independence”, the hookup culture, single men brought in to service single mums as and when, pushed by schools from above, through heads, through karen middle management, to young teachers, to peers, to the culture out there now.
As good Catholic girls, they were listing reasons girls go astray early now, impossible to get them back on track.
There’s an Xer, Tessa, we mutually follow, she is belting out “independence”, don’t tell me what to do, the old clarion call. I did not say to her … welcome to your cats twenty years from now, childless or single mum, just as bad.
That Pettibone vlog was actually being shown in fragments by a MGTOW, who declared, in a zero sum way … these girls have a blind spot … it’s called hypergamy. He could fully see where the Pettibone girls “had it wrong” … they flatly did not ustd hypergamy, he concluded. Therefore all their female intuitive comment was as nought in his eyes. No doubt they’d argue with him in turn, two different species, no attempt to bridge the ravine.
Why can people not see an “in addition to” scenario, a “both” explanation? And throw in messed up young men today too. All safeguards gone, all underpinnings.
Why? Because of Schultz? Come on … what of the Lincoln School at the turn of the century 1800s/1900s (Wundt)? This thing is ancient, way before the Frankfurt School. The Khazar zionism, as in Nethanyahu? No argument. The death cult roots? No argument either.
At what point do supposedly rational thinkers with this a priori rejection of the metaphysical look seriously at accumulated evidence over millennia?
All right, let’s come at this from another angle. Cobalt is an element and as one lady explainer put it … it is not part of arsenic but tends to “hang out” with it. They’re seen closeby quite often. Susceptibly maybe? Maybe not. Anti “religious” Scientists look at that and say aha, you see, the mediaeval always explaining cobalts as sorts of goblins …when in fact, there are chemical reasons why.
There are superstitions, yes, and physical explanations, yes … and thinkers move into adversarial camps … always. Zero sum. I’m no way arguing for the presence of cobalt goblins but I’m certainly asking why superstitions arise in the first place? Ignorance only? Inability to clearly think?
Just saying there is very much a malevolent force or something which draws in and possesses … countless examples over millennia.
And after a deed … remorse, guilt, feeling of worthlessness. Why? Sheer coincidence? Come on … really? There is certainly a malevolent influence on this earth … it has the WEF in thrall, the upper echelons of the Templars, the Kali-ists, it reinvents as communists, anarchists, this cult, that cult, Jonestown etc. etc. … when humans are essentially left undefended, their defences now thrown away.
Humans do NOT rise to higher moral levels, no way. Think of the 1962 film Lord of the Flies. What’s all this depopulation too? Net Zero?
Human sacrifice, innit, for real … tricked out as something geophysical. Gaia.
How to stop this bollox? Only by each adult human in him/herself, finally tumbling to what’s been lost … causing a certain massed coming together in the way we think, unherdably, of each’s own volition, in each’s own time, when ready, on most issues … for a certain window of time. Such as with this MAGA landslide.
Everything has its season and if the window of opportunity to course correct is lost, the society is also lost.
7. And the award for the 1000th comment at this new site
… goes to IYE (prize is a naughty weekend with Kamala Harris or Rachel from Accounts):
6. Carrie Underwood
Ok, not strictly my thang … I looked at a music vid of hers … nothing wrong if you like early Millennial singing, seems a good bible belt gal, just one generation too far for mine but hey … go for it, gal. Nice that her fairweather fans are attacking her for singing at the Inauguration … also, Donny does have an eye for a lovely lass, Melania and Ivanka seem to approve.
5. Birthday and other occasions
Even the most insensitive male (and I have my share of that commodity, plus a shocking memory) knows there are certain bdays one does not ignore … not entirely … such as our Senior Patron and two ladies. Our other males (inc. me … my own is coming up) … wwweeellllll, may I say it’s not as life and death?
Some time back, I ran these:
Artistically, I’ll also stay oblique tomorrow, dropping not a hint, unlike Julia’s Feb 23rd.
Logically, if Jan 7 was Orthodox Christmas, there has to be a New Year in the Julian calendar, and there is … Old New Year on Jan 14. For Unherdables though, it may well be one holiday too far.
More personally:
For me in Russia, somewhere around the 10th, or if that was a Friday, then on, say, the 13th, it was back to work and that was that until Vosmoy Marta or March 8th Women’s Day. In the west, that is a non-celebratory day as it’s the day of communist feminazism, which Unherdables are against … but in Mother Russia itself, esp. after 1989, it became far more general for women, a revered day. Men’s Day is on Feb 23rd.
Though it was a bit of a downer after Jan 10th, the snow was usually still deep and crisp and even, so it was still a winter wonderland.
Biden, in his last act of spite, has ordered … well you can read it yourself:
Just who do the Demonrats think they’re fooling? That funeral is over, it’s done, it has zero to do with inauguration day. It’s quite obvious what it’s about. Paxton’s not having it, I’d imagine nor would Florida. Tomorrow, an Unherdables patron has a birthday … protocol is calling again … namely that Unherdables does not have one.
2. Steve at 936
Five: Newsome: “We Already Have a Team Reimagining LA 2.0” … cauchemar (Fr) … Biden Regime Launches … he’s in no position to launch anything … much more…..
Four: FBI Declares ‘No Known Threats’ for Trump’s Inauguration — 25,000 Law Enforcement and Military Deployed … yeah, right … much more…
Three: Uke sit-rep takes up most of this…..
Two: Populist incumbent sails to victory in Croatia, Musk, JD Vance: Biden Has Left the Incoming Administration a ‘Dumpster Fire’, more…..
One: Ivermectin and fenbendazole, UK Markets in Turmoil, much more…..
1. Immediate issues needing some words on
In Mon [14], I mention a Farage post at OoL … to my mind, there’s a more important Brit issue;
That issue is gas running out this week, which will be the OoL post;
There’s the Texas flag issue across the pond … this is for Tue [3 here], with Andy Tue [4].
(1515) A bit out of it just now, nothing terminal, a bit yuk, that’s all … felt I should run something just to check in. Was talking to DAD earlier … better but still not a well cat.
22. Some of you good readers may have erroneously formed the opinion
… that we at Unherdables have a scathing view of politicians and the political class in general, especially in Davos. I’d like to point out, if I may, that nothing could be further from the truth … finest bunch of men and women ever to climb the greasy pole beyond competence.
… asking who’s still listening to 70s music in 2025? I asked: “Wot, you mean like this?”
It was Buddy H in 1957, covered by Linda R in 1976, re-covered by this band in 2018.
19. A micro-roundup this time (1559)
18. IYE at Mon [10 to 13]
17. Steve at 936
And at Mon [10 to 13]:
Also at 936:
16. This 👇🏻
15. At Konstantin Kisin’s, I saw this
If the writer means what I think, then agreed … it’s not too far away from “tolerance is not a Christian virtue”. Post tomorrow morning here, laze and gem, not well enough right now.
14. This is from Lord T
… I’ll run a post tomorrow morning at OoL on the topic …
(0059) Here we are again … one of these middle of the night jobs. Each one of us must do as we can with sleep, given our state of health, character, meds, beds … I’m finding this 8 p.m. zonk, 1 a.m. wake, maybe 3 a.m. re-zonk, maybe 8 a.m. restart is working for now. (0216) Going to hit the hay again, chaps and chapesses, sleep well. (0217)
5. This 👇🏻
Precisely … sounds like utter bollox to me too … yet some will lap that up and continue to comply.
4. LA reality quite divorced from reality
The fires are quite real, judging by the footage, the responses quite unreal … their idea of what we can take as plausible, when it is in fact anomalous, the uncaring type of explanation only psychos would give. We are in the hands of psychos.
3. Shape of things to come
2. Lainey … mind like a galaxy
First the screenshots, then my notes, a sort of impromptu op ed:
Notes:
a. This is from Gab, which has it’s own increasing restrictions, just as X has … thus I had to split the quote … it’s counter-intuitive, non-predictive, poor IT but that’s what we have these days I’m afraid.
b. Lainey herself … one of two only gals left on Gab that I see, t’other being Julia, the one guy being Denileriverafter but not upfront … I have to use search to find him. Yet overall numbers, following-followed, are the same, more or less. Again, less user friendly than it once was.
c. Lainey, plus about three gals on X get the usual combination of alpha come-ons by would-be Adonises or else self-flagellating simps … and thus she’s taken to using a grandma profile pic … the gals get so much of this type of attantion … some is good, not this type though.
d. Overall, the guys are more succinct, blunt between ourselves, but friendly all the same. Gal to gal … I would not know, except what they let slip. Gals and our type … gals are definitely more responsive, caring, guys of our kind more effective, woke left men are really not good … can get vicious and bitchy.
e. During this post item, my engine room gave a warning signal, something indigestible to its good self, recovered … nice devices powering that, kudos to MMUTR. It does draw attention to how gossamer thin our connection to the net is and therefore the presence of HQ for you to read. It takes almost nothing for someone to interfere, from the providers to the hub to the platforms.
f. The warning from that is … not to panic too soon … this is a far more imprecise medium than it seems … in fact it’s a bloomin’ miracle it works at all … then there are the humans … you … at that end, in varying circumstances … me.
No DAD just now but he could well be taking a sabbatical, taking care of biz, whatever. Plus he’s in France, not here. So is IYE. Then our North Americans, Europeans, Antipodaeans.
My message is … no panic if things do disappear … they may reappear … they might not.
Best mindset is to just appreciate what we had and still have, think oh well if it suddenly alters, esp. with the Inauguration across the pond, plus the crash imminent, plus our poisoned food and water. Stay calm, carry on, find ways around things.
And the crazy solutions Jon mentions in comments … all good, they give not only the lads amusement but the ladies heart … all good in my book.
1. Steve at 936 … bumper edition
Five: Trump on Jack Smith, Vance on J6, Biden spending, much more…..
Four: Demrat fires per Alinsky, prisoners fighting fires, refusing NY help, much more…..
Three: Uke sit-rep, usual crew too…….
Two: MSM ignoring Syria genocide, DOGE, much more…..
One: Vaxx and cancer, mutton crew, Miliband, more….
What began as a “short-term” program has morphed into a full-blown weapon against American jobs—just the way the globalists (looking at you, Bill Gates) planned it.
“OPT was originally a 1-year work permit for international students graduating from U.S. colleges to gain U.S. work experience to take back to their home countries. It was never meant as a permanent immigration pathway, but rather a short-term opportunity for skill development
In 2008, Bill Gates lobbied Congress to expand H-1B caps, claiming a tech worker shortage. However, there was significant pushback and it was pointed out that Microsoft was laying off U.S. workers while simultaneously advocating for more foreign labor.
When Bill Gates couldn’t get his H-1B dreams to materialize, he called in favors from his high-powered buddies to rework the system in his favor.
After Bill Gates failed to get Congress to pass an immigration bill expanding H-1B visas, he enlisted lobbyist Jack Krumholtz to devise a plan using the OPT program to bypass the H-1B caps.
At a cocktail party, lobbyist Jack Krumholtz met then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff under George W. Bush and pitched his proposal to expand the OPT program. He suggested extending its duration beyond 1 year, effectively creating a workaround for H-1B visa caps.”
20. Bringing up an old topic again
… and I’m well aware the obvious rejoinder is: “Just block the bleedin’ ads,” to which my rejoinder is: “Part of my job is to monitor ads which range from weird to sickening … only on centre to right sites, never on leftwing outlets.” At the latter, the ads are all feelgood, almost no DEI … the obnoxious ads are only on Gateway Pundit, other renegade or conservative sites.
One of the strangest is Rumble war room which I just looked at … very weird, some wimpy demi-man, no one like Bannon and guests whatever .. speaking gently about “manifesting”, whatever that means in its hijacked form … I waited for “Skip” and did. Another hijacking is “Wellness” … well that one we know about … more wokery.
I’m wondering if these hosts have any idea about this? They would probably do what one site did long ago when I complained … say they don’t determine ad content.
Really? To a point I agree, e.g. at NOWP, where at least I can flag, can report and it disappears for awhile. Were it not for that, or at these other sites … the Wail is one … with revolting body functioning ads … every single conservative site is flooded with them … the ads having zero purpose but to nauseate … were it not for being able to Skip or backclick, I’d have installed a blocker long ago.
19. Meanwhile, Alex with a very good question
18. Steve and war room
17. Ghost of DAD
Not having heard from the worthy chap for some time … DAD, not his ghost … I went back to one of his posts to find one of his sources:
