According the PBS Frontline report, the Russians are dying like flies and losing equipment at a stupendous rate, yet strangely, they have a lot more volunteers and a lot more equipment than they did a year ago, while the Ukrainian army is shrinking dramatically. Odd that. The Pokrovsk agglomeration (Pokrovsk, Rodynske and Myrnohrad) is a city bigger than Bakhmut — remember how long and terrible the battle for Bakhmut was. But on August the fifth the Pokrovsk agglomeration had been …| Jim's blog
The state cannot tax beyond the Laffer Limit forever, and it cannot run enormous deficits forever. We have more urgent fish to fry than the deficit — nothing is going to be fixed until the deep state is behind bars and there are tanks in Harvard, and I suppose our enemies feel even less urgency about the deficit, more important to them to kill all “fascists”. Indeed right now they are confronting Trump on the principle that we should be …| Jim's blog
I should not post on the news of the day, for it is best understood months, years, decades, and usually centuries after it has happened. But every day I have been predicting the uselessness of the FBI for Trump’s anti terror measures. Its command structure is full of lunatics, and Kash Patel does not look capable of addressing this problem. It is not that they are lefter than regular leftists, they are not all that far left, it is that …| Jim's blog
Officially what has happened is that Trump has repurposed the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force to find Trantifa terrorism instead of straight white male Christian terrorism. For forty years the FBI Joint Terrorism task force has been monomaniacally searching for straight white male Christian terrorists, and over the years as they searched and searched and searched and never found any, they have slowly been getting weirder and weirder and crazier and crazier. This is why FBI shills usually glow ...| Jim's blog
A very short while ago, yet another leftist terrorist opened fire on an ICE van, injuring ICE agents and killing a couple of detainees. Immediately the legacy media and left influencers launched the usual barrage blaming Maga and ICE, and inciting violence against Maga and ICE. The swiftness and uniformity of this campaign would suggest that they got the memo from someone who knew in advance of the attack. And, at the same time as the legacy media was inciting …| Jim's blog
Ever since 2016, we have been telling Trump he has to cross the Rubicon, and he has not crossed it. Yet here we are, on the other side of the Rubicon anyway. For a long time “Sexist”, “Racist”, “Homophobe”, “Fascist”, “Nazi” meant to businessmen that they should do what they are told, or their business will be burned down, their staff beaten up, financial irregularities found in their books, and whatever they are creating will be found in violation of …| Jim's blog
Antifa has just been declared a terrorist organisation. Which is great, though a little late. It has been a terrorist organisation since 2016. But all the recent terror acts have been organised tranny terrorism, the Zizians and tranny Antifa (Transtifa) One of the bullets intended for Charlie Kirk had the name of the Utah tranny Antifa Discord group engraved on it. A fact that namefags seem oddly reluctant to mention, and if they can mention it at all, they bury …| Jim's blog
In order for people to live together in peace, you have to understand your adversary. You don’t have to agree but you have to understand why he says what he says and does what he does. You have to understand how he see the world and how he sees you. The left refuses to know their enemy, thus must be destroyed, or all normies will be destroyed If people will not discuss, war it is. The left, all of it, …| Jim's blog
The Bible clearly says they are not real. The Bible also clearly says that they are real. I am a pragmatist. Most people examining deep philosophical and the theological questions with no clear answer are ignorant idiots. Digression on quantum theory and too clever by half idiots: Some of them, including perhaps myself, are not simple idiots but too clever by half idiots. I will give those investigating the issue of the Bohr Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics, and the …| Jim's blog
Charlie Kirk was a normiecon. A normie. About half of democrats support killing him, and the other half are probably lying.| Jim's blog
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The current strategy of the war faction of Thermidor is to fight the war to the last Ukrainian in order to attrit Russia.| Jim's blog
The Biden regime promised the Ukraine a lot of weapons. Trump has relaxed secondary sanctions, something from which I have personally benefited, has not authorised any weapons, but did not, at first, cancel Biden authorised supplies. Now, as part of his program of giving warriors a more significant role in the military leadership, has authorised them to hang on to their stuff — that the Biden promises do not empower the imperial war faction, the “democratic” regime change faction, to ...| Jim's blog
The Maga right is a big tent that welcomes outsiders. The left vigorously polices purity. The left is forever holiness spiraling to ever greater evil, malice, viciousness, and depravity, and has been doing so since the late eighteenth, early nineteenth, century.| Jim's blog
If we continue to move left at the same rate as we were moving left in 2016-2024, then by 2032 the moderate left position will be that everyone should immediately torture to death everyone insufficiently left, the radical left position will be that everyone should torture to death everyone who is not purely and truly left, and no one is purely and truly left, the moderate right position will be that only the moderate right should be tortured to death (compare today’s moderate republican pos...| Jim's blog
For a long time Bitcoin transaction fees were high and unpredictable, as Bitcoin runs into its scaling limit of seven transactions per second. This has caused grave damage to the lightning network and to daos.| Jim's blog
As you know, the left is melting down over Trump allowing in white South African refugees because the refugees are “fleeing accountability for historical injustices”.| Jim's blog
Russia is winning, and the only possible peace settlement is to give them everything that they demand: Freedom and safety for Russian minorities in adjacent countries, Nato pullback from Russian borders, freedom for old type Christianity near Russia – and of course, international recognition of the borders that they claim. All of them.| Jim's blog
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.| Jim's blog
The left wants you to be fat, ugly, and sick. Which is why all the official advice on diet and dieting is designed to make you fat and emasculated.| Jim's blog
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And with the Ukrainian army disappearing on the battlefield, and the Russian army growing and becoming better equipped, if there is change in future, those terms will change for the better for Russia, the worse for Ukraine, and the worse for America.| Jim's blog
Disputes over sovereign authority inherently escalate until decisively resolved.| Jim's blog
Kepler reveals that sunlike stars have more storms than our sun. Our sun is abnormally quiet. Other sunlike stars have from time to time, flares enormously larger than our sun. Ordinary flares are rather more common than for our sun. Enormous flares are very rare, but enormously more than common than for our sun, and enormously bigger than those of our sun. Smaller stars have enormously more flares, and enormously more energetic flares, than our sun does. Larger stars are relatively q...| Jim's blog
Duterte has been arrested by the ICC.| Jim's blog
Hat tip Yarvin’s butterfly revolution.| Jim's blog
The Ukraine war is existential for Russia and Russians.| Jim's blog
I generally do not report on, nor pay attention to, the latest news of the day, because it is best understood years later, or centuries later. And I tend to discourage conversation about such news, because it is noise. The shills send in piles of links to latest noise, and I silently delete them.| Jim's blog
With two hundred thunderbolts coming from the president in a week, it is easy to overlook this one in the noise, but he has just struck the heart of the enemy.| Jim's blog
The progs believe that Marc Andreessen is the primary ideologist of the tech oligarch wing of the Trump coalition. This is an odd delusion.| Jim's blog
Trump’s inauguration was shock and awe.| Jim's blog
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.| Jim's blog
On available data, it looks as during this war, and in the lead up to this war, the Maidan regime recruited and conscripted about two and a half million men. The regime says the current size of its army is nine hundred thousand men under arms, but it looks more like two or three hundred thousand thousand men under arms, because the Russian army has seven hundred thousand men under arms on the Ukraine front, and outnumbers Ukrainian troops by two or three to one almost everywhere along the fr...| Jim's blog