Notices by That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.club), page 2

A discussion about cars just reminded me of the concept of sumptuary laws:

“Black’s Law Dictionary defines them as ‘Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures for apparel, food, furniture, or shoes, etc.’”

And these are exactly what the US ruling trash are doing to us, except it’s household appliances that do their jobs like washing machines, dishwashers (remember Trump grumbling about them but doing nothing?), gas stoves that put out enough heat.

Soon internal combustion engine cars and 24x7 electrical service, perhaps also like in some of Europe enough energy to keep you warm in winter. Maybe also generators to tide you over during the coming rolling blackouts.

Other appliances plus some of the above are being regulated into extremely expensive versions, like hot water heaters using a heat pump instead of (granted, very wasteful) resistive heating. I suspect plenty of people won’t be able to afford these.

And now they’re talking about giving everyone alpha-gal syndrome allergies to meat….

Wikipedia then goes on to perhaps credibly claim:

“Historically, they were intended to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures, often depending on a person’s social rank.”

Tell me there’s not a lot of that going on…. Look at Nancy Pelosi’s over $10K worth of fancy freezers stocked with lots of ice cream. Milk, yeah, that’s White Supremacist and bad for the environment unless you buy indulgences like she has.

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

Heads up on the potential for a 2024 summer of love:

“Black Voters Saved Biden in 2020. Democrats Now See a ‘Red Flag’ in Slipping Support”

Based on public polling, but there’s a reason to do and publish it, there’s likely some fire behind the smoke. And negroes did for example change their allegiance in 1932 on I assume economic grounds, they didn’t do it because they loved the Southern segregationists who were a huge and because of seniority critical block of the FDR coalition.

If the numbers are anywhere correct (but also notice exit polls have been garbage for many many years, at first they became too expensive for the MSM to do correctly), “Biden” is in great jeopardy, negroes voting way above 10% for Republicans is fatal to their normal system, which will matter if 2024 is another 1980.

In any case, if the internal Democratic polling roughly matches this and continues or gets worse, to quote likely Jew Steven Green at the end of the piece:

“If you thought Democrats jacked up the racial division before, just wait until 2024.”

https://instapundit.com/601992/

@Zerglingman @Aether Never came across a women who had an abortion who wasn’t destroyed by it or morally dead (granted, this was in the 1980-90s, plus a sprinkling of cultural Boomers I knew in that period). Ditto the latter for women who support abortion but haven’t actually had one (upper class types too careful and self-disciplined).

BTW, that Hypocratic oath that includes an implicit “do no harm” requirement? It explicitly forbids abortion. It’s of course getting bent completely out of recognition, and in the US fewer and fewer doctors have any freedom of action as friction culminating in Obama’s “stimulus” bill requirement to make “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMRs) has far too many now working for the man, not for you, nor for their own conscience. Plenty of course just retired.

@DemonSixOne @caekislove @Jim @William_The_Dragonborn @akariposter Wouldn’t underlings be responsible for crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) process, or telling Trump he had to go through that? Are you saying he ignored much or all of the above? Which I can believe.

Perhaps here the bigger problem is that Trump has almost no loyalty to the people under him, aside from some commutations, and pardons at the last moment after they’d been ruined. I judged he was doomed for sure after he let the FBI and Pence railroad him into firing Flynn (in a process so corrupt Strzok took a month to revise a new form FD-302, that’s how the FBI records interviews/interrogations, conveniently no undisputable audio or video for them).

How long was it before Trump had very, very few loyal and competent subordinates? Like the sort of people who’d provide the above advice and competence in NRPM et. al.?

Note also McConnell slow rolled his political appointees such that he’d never have a full set had he been President for eight years, and prevented any recess appointments, but that’s of a piece with the general incompetence and as someone titled an essay I haven’t read yet, “fishing in the Rubicon.”

Meanwhile the GOPe is so clueless to fund a new HQ for the FBI instead of zeroing its budget; while it was useful in ridding them of the turbulent Trump, they don’t realize they’re on the menu sooner or latter in this early-ish stage communist coup as Peter Brimelow accurately puts it.

@drq @silverpill @cjd “[The Internet] has been since its inception as a part of the nuclear project - when maintaining atomic warfare parity between states was crucial.”

Not sure if you’re correct there; packet switching was (drilling down now to Wikipedia, but credibly) envisioned to make SAGE communications more robust in the middle of a nuclear war.

The ARPANET though, the very direct precursor to the Internet was developed to allow scientists etc. to share then very scarce computer resources. Arguably part of “the nuclear project” but much much removed from it.

Ultimately I think we have to win in the greater world, which I see possible after a preference cascade, or fall back to old concepts like USENET and create our own, almost certainly text with a few pictures only parallel network.

Although that’s getting more interesting as more and more things citizens and subjects of country need to use the net for basic things. In the meanwhile? The only paperless billing you should sign up for is your Internet providers. Not yet to the Father Coughlin stage of denying us access to the snail mail postal system.

@coolboymew Don’t think I heard that one, but how about James Taranto as the article reminds us, “If you can hear the whistle, then you’re the dog.”

“RFK Jr.’s Latest Tweet Is Being Widely Interpreted As A Nazi Dog Whistle”

Based on this recent Tweet, emphasis added:

“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.

“Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request….’

https://instapundit.com/599096/

@coolboymew @Moon My parents really liked their ink Brother printers (actually, one or both were “all in one” functionality monsters), but both eventually followed my long standing advice to get laser printers.

I just replaced a decade and a half year old duplexing one because the drum started to fail, and by now getting a replacement was prohibitively expensive compared to a new printer for the small volumes I print.

@Moon “Bare is the back without Brother.”

@AmericanChampion @GrungeQueef U.K. cops are under the control of the central government, that’s how Blair was able to withdraw police protection from areas that voted against Labour like rural ones or certain suburbs. Rhe Left knows how to use anarcho-tyranny to punish its enemies there and here in the US, I heard about that happening in D.C. in the 1990s when I was living next door in Arlington, VA (which didn’t ban gun ownership).

How much “Back the Blue” et. al. lost during the acute COVID years would depend entirely on how their political masters handled it. In my part of deep Red State flyover country and I gather most others, the police simply weren’t ordered to be nasty because that wasn’t the style of the political leaders from local to state. Completely different than communist Blue hellholes.

See Michigan and Vermont which went so far as to effectively ban gardening unless you were able to buy your seeds mail order and all your plots were at your residence. So here it was steady as it goes for the police, not that that stopped them from being their usual murderous selves.

@Marshall1Banana @idea_enjoyer Indeed.

@AmericanChampion Is a little early for word of mouth to do its thing (Barbie is said to be the usual woke garbage). And the fact Oppenheimer is three hours long doesn’t exactly say “summer movie!”

Hmmm, the polities that are really strongly for the latter are special cases, tiny D.C., very small New Hampshire, and of course New Mexico.

@jdeseo @lain @earthshine “US society encourages individualism.”

To a degree, especially historically. Until the Irish started coming over in large numbers, we’re from Northwestern European stock and inside the Hajnal line.

It was standard from thousands of years ago for couples to set up their own households, albeit in a context of communities that worked hard especially to store enough food for winter. This pattern was particularly strong in Scandinavia, thus their current extreme decline.

For a very readable academic treatment of all this and how it devolved as (((others))) used our altruism and outgrouping patterns for rule breakers see Kevin MacDonald’s latest, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1089691483/)

Fast forward to the colonization of America above the Rio Grande and note the huge importance of religion and churchgoing, including state churches like in Massachusetts. And how crime was handled in relatively homogeneous groups, although see Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Fischer for the major cultures that initially settled the US.

Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed)

“East Anglia to Massachusetts

“The Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States’ corporate and educational culture)

“The South of England to Virginia

“The Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States’ plantation culture)

“North Midlands to the Delaware Valley

“The Friends’ Migration (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States’ industrial culture)

“Borderlands to the Backcountry

“The Flight from North Britain (Scotch-Irish and border English influenced the Western United States’ ranch culture and the Southern United States’ common agrarian culture)”

Recently renamed Hajal Line article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern

@coolboymew Oops, should have mentioned these are the cases where Asians have sued Harvard (and the University of North Carolina) for in the case of Harvard utterly blatant admissions bias. Which of course is the angle Jews used to capture Harvard et. al. back in the day.

If the court rules against them, this will cause serious real pain to Harvard, especially since a likely remedy will include supervision of their admissions policy for some time.

And who knows what else, although my preferred remedy that starts with bulldozing Harvard Yard except for the libraries and I suppose church, and sowing the ground with radioactive salt is probably not on the table.

Might also cause some other institutions pain, although we know they’ll do everything to DEI even if officially forbidden.

Supreme Court omen from Gail Heriot:

“ARACHNOPHOBIA: I woke up at a ridiculous hour this morning so I could be ready in case the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard/UNC cases was announced. I have a whole list of things I need to do once the cases are decided, starting with ‘read the decision carefully.’

I dutifully logged on to SCOTUSblog on my iPad and the Supreme Court website on my Mac. Then I hit nervously refresh, refresh, refresh until it was clear that there were no more opinions for today.

But when I reached for my coffee, there was a giant spider (well … a medium-sized spider) in it. It was dead, drowned. It was an ex-spider, a no-longer-a-threat-to-all-that-is-good-and-holy spider. But is this a sinister omen? A benign one? Or just one more dead arachnid?”

https://instapundit.com/591916/

@icedquinn I can’t even begin to agree that Zuckerberg is the “least bad billionaire” and without much thought would put Musk way ahead, but I grew up on the Apollo program.

Zuckerberg personally funded county election operations with “zuckbucks” in 2020. Forgive me for the comparison, but that’s like the canon/fanon concept of Lucius Malfoy funding some of the operations of the Ministry of Magic and dictating what it does. In our context it’s high treason.

Facebook is much, much more invasive than Twitter, is notorious for creating dossiers on people who aren’t in it but for example bring their phones close to people who are running the Facebook app on their own phone. Going to be, if not already is a prime source of lists of future war criminals in our currently cold civil war. His services are massively more censorious than ElonTwitter, although the latter is not great.

@MarchionessDawn Assuming you got COVID, are you sure it didn’t subtlety damage you?

Survival is associated with a lot of varied morbidity: https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-will-biden-finally-shut-down-flights-from-india/#comment-4613645

@lain Indeed. Assume as a baseline that as much as 90% of all psychology research is wrong, one bit of fallout from the field’s replication crisis.

And some more on the Great Outdoors!

Based on people I follow who have focus on bear defense incidents, most any serious handgun does pretty well in stopping bear attacks, say 9 mm and above, although FMJ is preferred for its better penetration. But more is better as long as the recoil is not so much you fail to learn how to use the handgun well.

A 12 gauge shotgun with slugs or a serious rifle are of course standards, but it’s best to have a handgun backup.

https://www.facebook.com/MontanaFWP/posts/586376553638100

https://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2023/06/update-of-handgun-defenses-against.html

@DemonSixOne @PraxisOfEvil Much more sinister than that: due the irreversibility, except for a very few (so far) troons that have regrets and partly back out, it creates very committed bioleninists: https://spandrell.com/2018/01/21/leninism-and-bioleninism/

Plenty of them “fill their remaining days” with activism including violence, the become another solvent on Western society. And again, almost everyone they capture stays on this side, removing these people from the pool of future war criminals.

And so far I’m getting the strong impression the Federal courts are completely on the side of “the American tradition of poisoning, mutilating, and sterilizing” children. Which I hope will be a big mistake in the longer term, plus we haven’t seen what the Supreme Court will do with that.

The only thing wrong with the bioleninist plan is that I’m getting the impression plenty of troons burn out politically, many of the most prominent ones fade from view after a while.