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Every time I check the DOGE X feed, I get a good laugh. The Democrats took their humiliation of the American tax payer up to 11, for instance by spending “$364,500 to reduce social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia”. A relevant question is of course what the money was really used for.
https://x.com/doge/status/1897023739960680843
Was it spent in Bolivia? Hookers and blow would be my guess. You want pure cocaine might as well get it straight from the source 🙂
I’m currently in med school and the medical “professionals” are bemoaning the inhumanity of the Trump administration in cutting off funding for PrEP and other AIDS meds to Africa. Nevermind the fact that these drugs are being wasted on these people because they simply aren’t disciplined or aware enough to adhere to the dosing schedule, their completely bizarre beliefs about raping virgin women as a way to cure their AIDS, or their practice of “sanding” a vagina to increase friction during sex increasing the chances of infection. The Western educated NGO class are truly dedicated to the infinite population expansion of Africa.
I have not heard of these people sanding the vaginas of their women but I wonder if this is deliberate or simply a consequence of their circumstances or general lack of hygiene. No matter what the reason is, it tells you a lot about their culture. The questions is for how long the NGO class will persist. Dismantling USAID will have many repercussions the world over. In fact, we are seeing this already. The mainstream in Europe is kvetching endlessly, and a lot of NGOs and supposedly independent media are loudly asking for money nowadays. I wish them good luck with their fundraising efforts.
One of the side effects of focus on AIDS prevention has been that fewer resources are dedicated to population control, which is one reason the women in Africa are birthing babies like crazy.
As hard as it is to believe today, it wasn’t until the mid-90s that Africa overtook Europe in population. Now Africa is approaching twice the size of the population of Europe.
In regards to sanding their vaginas, I believe they usually use plants, not sand. The practice is called “dry sex,” and is based on a twisted preference for having sex with women who are dry rather than wet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_sex
Remember, when there are massive wildfires in California, the root cause is climate change. Of course, if the same happens in the Hamptons, climate change as a root cause is not even an option, for whatever reason:
https://archive.ph/nCn4i
Anybody seen this guy? He seems pretty funny:
https://youtube.com/shorts/sjLU9aWzu3E?si=M7YJ7mRWWbvoRxmH
Most interesting is that such videos are allowed on YouTube nowadays. What happened to Susan’s big censorship machine? A few months ago people could only discuss this topic using coded language.
In the 90s I used to spend hours in my local Barnes and Noble, mostly in the computers and engineering section*, but also wandering through the economics and history sections.
* Which has done me exactly no good career-wise, because as Aaron pointed out, tech is a Clown World industry where rewarding competence and curiosity would be a racism.
Anyway, I’ve heard B&N stores are making a comeback. Good, right? I wandered into one on a recent visit to a blue enclave.
As far as I can tell, B&N’s customer base now consists of affluent white female liberals (AWFuLs) for whom books are an accessory/virtue signal to be placed on the coffee table.
The front display window was devoted to hagiographies of Kamala Harris(!) which gave me the eerie feeling of having stumbled into an alternate universe where she won (or at least didn’t suffer the most crushing liberal defeat since 1984.)
There were the usual groan inducers such as “Nevertheless, She Persisted” but also such titles as “Kamala Raised Her Hand,” which sounds like it was dreamed up by Communist propagandists. I also came across a tome titled “Men Who Hate Women: How Incels and ” – get this – “Pickup Artists Threaten Our Civilization” or some such dire prognostication.
As far as I could tell there was literally nothing in the entire store about Trump. Evidently, this is how the affluent left is coping: by retreating into a bubble reality where he simply doesn’t exist. No wonder the mainstream media is in such trouble: even the left doesn’t want to watch it for fear it might mention Trump.
There was no computer or engineering section. There was a history section, but it was the usual pop-history midwit fare along with the obligatory “ACKSHUALLY, blame whitey” revisionism. The “business” section was solely hagiographies of the likes of Oprah and get-rich-quick schemes by various other black female grifters.
Anyway, I accomplished the impressive feat of leaving a bookstore dumber than when I entered it. Incidentally, the nearby bookstore where I discovered F. A. Hayek 30 years ago now had a display titled “How White Men Are Ruining the World.”
I’m now seeing on other blogs the same thought we’ve had here: Clown World didn’t collapse because the people willed it – it’s being dismantled from within because some of the smarter elites realized that its war on reality was simply no longer sustainable.
These useful idiots and true believers have no idea of this. They’re like fish left stranded on the beach, wondering why they’re gasping and flopping and dying, as the uncaring tide recedes.
The question is how long white women, and white liberals in general, will be able to feed their delusion. Surely, Elon Musk and DOGE running rampant, cutting down tens of thousands of government jobs in one fell swoop, will have an effect. I read that in the Washington, D.C., area the supply of housing is increasing noticeably. Closely linked to unproductive government jobs are of course unproductive jobs in NGOs. The white liberal world view is one only the sheltered and affluent can afford, but once they can no longer make rent, for instance because their NGO employers have ceased to exist, then reality will come knocking, ready to deliver a hard punch to the face. I mean this completely figuratively, of course, albeit I could imagine scenarios in which liberal whites, faced with diversity, may end up in potentially dangerous situations for which they are wholly unprepared, thanks to the make-believe world they chose to inhabit.
I could witness the effects of liberals panicking in Berlin. There are some central districts that are heavily left-leaning. If you managed to get a rental contract one or two decades ago, you can live very cheaply there. However, if your landlord manages to find a way to kick these people out, then they get really desperate. Walking through an area like Prenzlauer Berg it does not take long until you find some poor soul’s fliers, begging the residents to contact him or her in case they know of a cheap place to rent. Failing to do that, these people normally have to move to less fashionable and highly diverse, yet fairly affordable, districts. Let me post some links to relevant videos.