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Now that I'm back, here's a thread with my writing from the last few years
First up, the Riace Bronzes, menacing statues from the ancient world that MOG modern man
mythpilot.com/p/uncomfortablโฆ
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A lot of people will settle into believing the election was stolen. This is a far grimmer outlook because it claims Democrats can easily win red states with a secret election stealing machine and there's no real solution to it. Hardly any of the stolen election posts even bother to offer measures to stop this phantom menace in the future.
But it's a far more comforting notion. If you believe it, you can also still believe the Silent Majority still overwhelmingly backs MAGA. And feeling good is more important than figuring out how to win in the future.
โCongratulations, Youโre Stupidโ: GOP Senator Warns Republicans Against Downplaying Midterm Rout mediaite.com/media/tv/congraโฆ
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Immigration is necessary for economic growth, right? We hear that all the time. More bodies means line go up means more gooder.
I had GrokBot collect per capita GDP growth over the last 25 years (World Bank), and the net migration rate over the same period (UN, including temporary residents, guest workers, illegal migrants, etc).
In the first plot each point indicates one year. It's a scattergram with no significant relationship between migration and economic growth. Huh, that's weird, the high immigration countries should be growing more, shouldn't they?
The second plot averages each country over the last quarter century. The result is a clear negative relationship: countries with higher net migration rates have lower growth in GDP per capita. Venezuela, which experienced massive emigration due to the economic collapse precipitated by its third world communist dictatorship, is a clear outlier; removing it from the sample strengthens the negative relationship between migration and pcGDP growth. Countries with net emigration tend to have much higher economic growth. The secret to prosperity seems to be ... fewer people?
Huh.
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90% of office jobs in the federal Government could be replaced by AI in in 2 years. 90% of contractor jobs offering services to the poor could be replaced by AI withing 5 years. This would kill all the fraud in social services, and remove a vast amount of resources from disadvantaged communities. That's why Democrats hate AI.
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This actually proves the point that Hispanics are an ethnic 5th column. The U.S. gains nothing from having Hispanics in the country, theyโre financially burdensome, culturally alien & politically hostile.
They are the primary driver of demographic change & national decline.
Hispanics Said Enforcement Went Too Far
The polling question this post and others are pointing to asked voters to name the most important issue facing the country. It was not asking what drove their vote. Atlas Intel asked that question, and immigration enforcement came back as the most cited issue for Hispanics.
You don't have to like that result, but this same exit poll points the same way. Hispanics now trust Democrats over Republicans on immigration by 15 points. ICE is underwater with them by 38. And 68 percent say the administration's enforcement has gone too far. By the way, those voters broke for Democratic 87 to 10.
The same exit poll also shows 76 percent of Hispanics naming immigration enforcement as a crucial or a major factor in their vote. That group went Democratic by 23.
Did every Hispanic walk into the booth thinking about ICE? No. Three out of four of them did, but plenty didn't, and those broke for Democrats by even wider margins. Would Republicans have done better with Hispanics if the economy were stronger? Perhaps, but it's also not like the economy is in free fall. The Hispanic poverty rate hit a record low last year.
We should talk about the economy, but no honest 2026 post-mortem can pretend that immigration enforcement was not a factor in the GOP's losses with Hispanic voters. Tariffs don't explain Hispanic Democrats voting at record levels across the Rio Grande Valley. Neither does Iran.
What to do about this is for policymakers to debate. Whether it happened isn't debatable.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
I'd rather be at the mercy of superintelligent AI than these retards. That's really what it comes down to.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
DC officials won't crack down on fare evasion because the people responsible are overwhelmingly black. So instead they're making everyone else pay more. It's ridiculous.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
Shameful. Heโs a highly effective, extremely productive asset to the company and its country, and theyโre going to lose all of that because he dared to get some pussy.
It sounds like Iโm joking, but Iโm dead serious, the gynocracy will be the death of industry. Why the fuck would any ambitious, virile man ever build anything in the west when itโs in this state?
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
I was surprised at how much Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security are now propping up local economies and personal incomes
If you look through the data, Medicare/Medicaid have become the biggest sources of income for particularly non-metropolitan areas. Some stats in the data:
- Government transfers are now 17.6% of all personal income in the US, up from about 8% in 1970. Medicare and Medicaid are 46% of all government transfer dollars!
- 53% of counties get more than 25%+ of their income from government transfers (this covers about 72M people).
- Kentucky seems to be the home of the Colonel and government transfer programs. Twelve of the top fifteen counties receiving government transfers are there. Owsley County gets 63% of personal income from transfers, and Medicaid alone is 32% of all income in the county.
Those government transfers via Medicaid/Medicare get transmuted alchemically into jobs. Phoebe Putney Health System has 6000+ workers and is the largest employer in southwest Georgia. Dougherty County, where it's based, gets 34% of its personal income from government transfers.
In New York we have a program that pays friends and family as caregivers. In 2023 it grew by 57,000 jobs and became 38% of all job growth in the state (theyโve made changes to the program now that have flattened it).
We have become a country of healthcare jobs with a propping of government dollars. Is that fine?
I think this grand bargain worked for a while. We were still seeing economic productivity, government spending hadnโt yet gotten too crazy, etc. But a few things are happening now that suggest the bargain is falling apart.
Patriot
A Black Ole Miss student living in the apartment says one of the women caught on camera making monkey noises and gestures at her door doubled down when confronted at the time. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oleโฆ
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Nobody is having children anymore because they canโt afford to
โฆexcept the people the government pays to have children: the immigrants and the foreigners
You are being killed off by your own government
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Happy Veterans Day, especially to the infantry knuckle-draggers. Always keep your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
RLTW!
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
โFor every eight guys who retire in this trade, only one guy picks it up. The whole industry is in danger.โ
โWow. Would you hire me? Iโd love to learn it.โ
โAbsolutely not.โ
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The last week has been really shit, but nevertheless it's important to recognise that Trump actually has done very important stuff. Yes, this should have happened in his first term, but still.
๐จTrumpโs Border Wall Nears Completion
By the end of Trumpโs second term, the Trump administration is on pace to complete 1,418 miles of primary steel bollard wall, 708 miles of secondary steel bollard wall in high-traffic areas, 536 miles of waterborne barriers, and 536 miles of Smart Wall technology coverage in areas with otherwise impassable terrain.
Most importantly, Trumpโs new border wall is set to become a permanent feature along the United Statesโ southern border.
In California, Arizona and New Mexico, the wall sits on the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide strip of land owned by the federal government along the border. In Texas, the federal government has been acquiring private land through eminent domain. Once the government takes the title, the land stays federal.
And even if Democrats regain control of the federal government in the future, Trumpโs border wall is set to remain in place. When construction was paused in 2021 under Joe Bidenโs directive, the existing wall stayed up despite the Biden administrationโs best legal efforts to take it down.
In essence, President Trump has not only illegal-alien-proofed the southern border, heโs Democrat-proofed it as well.
Follow: @MorseReport
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ (Iron Age Arc) retweeted
My criticism of Mystery Grove is that it's not time to abandon Trump/MAGA he is still the kingmaker and has a massive sway over the white working class voters. Also, I don't think Trump is checked out and the tariffs did actually objectively work. It's possible if Trump does not endorse in the 2028 primary because he thinks his brand is too damaged but I think he'll be able to repair it in time.
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The Venetian ambassador Trevisano, visiting England in 1498, reported to his Italian readers that the English do not love their own children and so force them out of the house at tender ages, never to return. In exchange they take in unrelated children, who they then exploit.
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Historians used to bicker about the origins of capitalism, a debate that confuses modern readers who assume "capitalism" is a universal. But the old-timers were more right than wrong: there were once $20 bills lying on every street and, mysteriously, no one picked them up.
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