Cole and Sailer were always the best statistical ninjas on Takimag. I'm sure if they collaborated they could write a book more controversial than The Bell Curve and Freakonomics combined.
One thing Dems need to take into account if they want Latino votes is that Latinos dominate whole industries in LA. Retail workers: mostly Latino. Security guards: mostly Latino. Restaurant managers & owners; maybe not a Latino majority in fine dining but they dominate some convenience foods.
These people really don’t want to lose a bonus (some retailers if a store ‘hits numbers’ will give bonus checks even to cashiers. Cashiers need that extra $200 & are pissed if shoplifters make them lose out on it). They don’t want to have to deal with crazy homeless people. They don’t want homeless people spanging in their taqueria or people dining & dashing.
Poet lady is like all the white people with MFAs who imagine it’s Les Mis/ the French Revolution and they had to steal a crust of bread. They aren’t real working people.
All any politician has to do right now is talk sense to working people. Nurses who don’t like seeing their patients stressed and not getting covered by insurance. Teachers who are sick of students being able to assault them. Small business owners. Security guards. Whoever does that?? Clean sweep.
Instead we have Trump platforming ketamine added Elon; his VP is Peter Thiel’s former twink crush; they’re running things to get richer and they’re openly taking bribes. And the Dems, terrified of alienating any adjunct professors ‘no you can totally keep your food stamps!’ or George Clooney.
Anyone sane who had a modicum of sense and probably no poli sci degree could sweep the nation. None of them will do it though.
Latinos are mostly apolitical, nothing cracks me up like the migrants selling hotdogs around the perimeter of the protest. Not protesting themselves. The ones who do vote just want whoever’s in power to stop fucking up their lives. All any candidate has to do right now is be kind of competent.
So it’s a bit unclear to me what ultimately caused the falling-out with Taki and Takimag. Was it because your (in my opinion effective) critiques of the MAGA cult had come to offend too large a percentage of the readership? Or were your defenses of a large bean presence in LA personally offensive to a man who thinks civilization has been going down hill since 500 BC Sparta? Inquiring minds want to know.
I’ve been reading Taki for 50 years, and at one time corresponded directly with him occasionally. I don’t want any dirt on the guy. But it seems that there are two very different possible explanations for your break up and I was curious. That’s all.
I meant no offense, Brian! I just meant that I do think my readers might want the inside scoop. There's no "dirt," just a series of events that spiraled to a point where we reached an impasse. Perhaps the story might indeed be of interest.
But Jim's a nonstop squeaky wheel. He don't take no guff from no wimmins! Me? I play things the company way. Head down, always agree with management. I never dreamed she'd start fucking with ME! I was always Mister Compliant!
The funny thing about Hispanics hating blacks is they rarely talk about it - they just all know that their fellow Hispanics are onboard with their distaste for blacks.
I find it especially funny when the Mexican gangs refer to each other using the n-word and cackle about it.
Once, I even refused to pay a portly Latina stripper to give me a table dance, and she referred to me as a "broke n-word"! (rhymes with rigger)
I laughed and decided to give her twenty bucks for the entertainment, then got one of her skinny friends to dance for me for about 20 dances x $20.
What's funny is that I had a secretary who made about $400 for an entire week's work at one of my businesses. Shows where my priorities are!
FWIW, Dave, was it actually the case that the majority, or even a large minority, of TakiMag readers are truly MAGA robots?
I mean, I was reading TakiMag for Dalrymple, Sailer, your stuff, and some others as they passed thru. Tasteful, grounded bigotry, not MAGA conspiracy stuff.
Who was Z Man, who did regular commentary a while back? I liked his stuff, also.
"Canada has so much in common with the Caribbean"... well, they keep promising us that global warming will make us as tropical as the Caribbean, but I guess the carbon tax they implemented to battle global warming really is working because I haven't been able to trade my parka for a sarong yet.
Anyway, thank you for posting this, sir. Back when part 1 was posted on Taki's I was looking forward to reading the rest as I've always liked your LA inside baseball pieces. There's much to be learned from them which will probably be ignored by rightist politicos in other lefty jurisdictions (including the province I live in... one starts to suspect the fundraising is better when they're losing elections).
Genuine question: are any Caribbean countries still in the commonwealth? I feel like some of them rely on Scotland Yard to train their police etc. (I took a history of policing course in college, like a big dork). I know a lot of the islands were mad at ol’ blighty around the time of BLM but they still seem to need resources from there at times.
Love the novels of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler! And my hometown of Brockton, Mass. is named after Isaac Brock, the Brit general who opened a can of whipass on the Yanks in the War of 1812, himself falling in battle. My hometown used to be called North Bridgewater, but some prosperous city father vacationed in Brockville in Canada, and liked it so much there he got North Bridgewater renamed to Brockton.
So glad to finally read part two to that original article, was worth the wait for sure.
You describing the antics of MAGApedes is cathartic to read at least. Your point about coupling & purity spiraling is so spot on, it pervades everything.
I think you caught everyone off guard by posting 3 columns in 5 days. It's a great follow up to an equally great column. I am going to trust your stats as correct (even with no graph) because I trust your integrity and I would rather not look it up myself. Some very good points were made. That being said, I wouldn't mind a bit of gossip thrown about once in a while. Certainly looking forward to seeing more of those unused Taki columns. You were the only reason that I was still reading Taki. It's no fun anymore. Also, I really miss TWTP. They were the best.
The "Love the Whole Enchilada or Get the F*** Out" seems to pervade most political dialog these days. It's unnecessary & unfortunate because it prevents intelligent discussion. I'm guessing most voters have a more nuanced set of views than what they'll admit, the intelligent ones anyways!!
Was reading SFGate just now about a taco festival that self-cancelled due to fears about ICE.
“ In California, the food and restaurant industry employed about 1.42 million people as of April -- a sizable workforce that is being affected regardless of the immigration status of its workers. That includes nearly 600,000 people who work for full-service restaurants.”
Could this even be accurate? I feel like there must be more people in that industry. California’s population is 39 million, I feel like hospitality generally employs a large ish share of the population. Some hotels have 2 restaurants. Think of all the restaurants at Disney or universal city walk , and all the fast food places. I just googled, there are 154 Starbucks in LA alone & 63 McDonalds locations (319 McDs in LA county).
Then consider: hospital kitchens, school districts etc. I guess it partly depends on what they mean by the “food” part of food & restaurant.
But that must be an undercount, no? There are dozens of people working at any catered event. The servers, dishwashers, food prep people. This seems like it’s gotta be an undercount due to the lack of documentation for a lot of these people, no?
If some of these people do self deport it will change the state a lot.
Does definitely seem like an undercount. I could never get on-board with Coulter's "deport 'em all!" absolutism. Apart from being hugely unrealistic, it will also have many unintended consequences. Kathy Shaidle (bless her soul) always carped "MOW YOUR OWN LAWNS!" But one of the pleasures of being First World is to NOT have to do that, or make your own tacos, or clean your own hotel room. It's climbing up to the 90s here this week. In this heat, if I still had a house, I damn well wouldn't wanna "mow my own lawn."
I don’t have a problem with people who just want to keep their heads down and work. I did occasionally see overt racism by Mexicans, esp towards Blacks, but usually not. A lot of these are really humble decent people.
There is some weird stuff, like nationalism and wanting to keep non Mexicans from working or living in their neighborhoods. That has to stop: if we have to adjust to them, they need to assimilate and understand what the US means. But again I think that’s a real minority within the cohort
The ones who are committing crimes? Fine, deport ‘em. We shouldn’t have a Mayorkas style free for all where people from Asia and Africa were flying to Mexico, then walking in.
But deporting every nice humble Mexican (which is a lot of them) is not the answer.
If Coulter & Trump want them ALL gone their project should be revitalize Mexico tbh. Make Mexico Canada: safe and enough work to go around. They’re here because there’s no work there, period.
Deporting everyone is too expensive; it’s just silly.
Someone needs to do some MAGA fantasy art based on your descriptions of what they dream about all day. There are already those T-shirts with Trump floating on a cloud, fist-bumping Jesus, or riding a Harley running over AOC, and those are hilarious but you point out MAGA reverie better than anyone.
All those stats. Are you sure this isn’t an unpublished Steve Sailer article?
LOL!!!!
Hey, ol' Dave can do stats too!
Steve would have included a graph.
Steve would have found a way to parallel everything with Negro League baseball statistics from 1948.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
That was great!
And made available for subscribers only--or perhaps accessible to read but not to comment on.
Preceded by: "By contrast..."
Beat me to it!
Staticing !
Cole and Sailer were always the best statistical ninjas on Takimag. I'm sure if they collaborated they could write a book more controversial than The Bell Curve and Freakonomics combined.
With an introduction by Anthony Daniels (b/c using his pen name of Theodore Dalrymple would make the book look too fey).
Also, another British Anthony Daniels was the guy who played C-3PO. So readers would come away disappointed that there was no R2D2 gossip.
Agreed!
Good column, Dave.
One thing Dems need to take into account if they want Latino votes is that Latinos dominate whole industries in LA. Retail workers: mostly Latino. Security guards: mostly Latino. Restaurant managers & owners; maybe not a Latino majority in fine dining but they dominate some convenience foods.
These people really don’t want to lose a bonus (some retailers if a store ‘hits numbers’ will give bonus checks even to cashiers. Cashiers need that extra $200 & are pissed if shoplifters make them lose out on it). They don’t want to have to deal with crazy homeless people. They don’t want homeless people spanging in their taqueria or people dining & dashing.
Poet lady is like all the white people with MFAs who imagine it’s Les Mis/ the French Revolution and they had to steal a crust of bread. They aren’t real working people.
All any politician has to do right now is talk sense to working people. Nurses who don’t like seeing their patients stressed and not getting covered by insurance. Teachers who are sick of students being able to assault them. Small business owners. Security guards. Whoever does that?? Clean sweep.
Instead we have Trump platforming ketamine added Elon; his VP is Peter Thiel’s former twink crush; they’re running things to get richer and they’re openly taking bribes. And the Dems, terrified of alienating any adjunct professors ‘no you can totally keep your food stamps!’ or George Clooney.
Anyone sane who had a modicum of sense and probably no poli sci degree could sweep the nation. None of them will do it though.
Latinos are mostly apolitical, nothing cracks me up like the migrants selling hotdogs around the perimeter of the protest. Not protesting themselves. The ones who do vote just want whoever’s in power to stop fucking up their lives. All any candidate has to do right now is be kind of competent.
They're not beans. They're human beans.
LOL!!!!!
I'll have to use that!
The coupling & bundling--that's the essence of MAGA. There is no itemizing of issues in a cult.
You buy the whole package, or you worship Moloch and become their enemy.
Well-said!
So it’s a bit unclear to me what ultimately caused the falling-out with Taki and Takimag. Was it because your (in my opinion effective) critiques of the MAGA cult had come to offend too large a percentage of the readership? Or were your defenses of a large bean presence in LA personally offensive to a man who thinks civilization has been going down hill since 500 BC Sparta? Inquiring minds want to know.
Ah hell, maybe I'll write about it. Today's piece is laying an egg views-wise. Maybe a little gossip is what my readers REALLY want!
For what it’s worth Dave. Whoever replaced you. Doesn’t come close to what you produced. I would look forward to TWTP. Now? It’s an afterthought
That means a lot. Thanks!
Yeah, I read a little of the "new" TWTP and it's like wish.com Cole.
LOL!!!!!!
Be patient, Dave, give it time! This one has to be read with a fresh brain.
I’ve been reading Taki for 50 years, and at one time corresponded directly with him occasionally. I don’t want any dirt on the guy. But it seems that there are two very different possible explanations for your break up and I was curious. That’s all.
I meant no offense, Brian! I just meant that I do think my readers might want the inside scoop. There's no "dirt," just a series of events that spiraled to a point where we reached an impasse. Perhaps the story might indeed be of interest.
Goad has mentioned that he didn't like how Taki's daughter edited his stuff.
But Jim's a nonstop squeaky wheel. He don't take no guff from no wimmins! Me? I play things the company way. Head down, always agree with management. I never dreamed she'd start fucking with ME! I was always Mister Compliant!
I read Goad's bio SHIT MAGNET, and thought "magnet? You ran into it!"
Jim would not want me to say this, but...you're right.
Goad be like: “Go ahead, skin it!"
Izzat a quote from a movie? It oughta be!
I liked Taki, and supported his views, but his letting Ol Dave go caused me to reconsider. I canceled my recurring billing.
Long Live Dave!
#MeTooCancelTakiSub !
I stopped donating when Taki came out as pro ruzzia
My very subjective (and possibly incorrect) perception of his writings (I'm not fond of his prose) is that he reminisces about the Achtung Juden days.
He wrote a memoir about the time he spent in prison:
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Declare-Memoir-Taki-Theodoracopulos/dp/0871134349/ref=sr_1_2
The funny thing about Hispanics hating blacks is they rarely talk about it - they just all know that their fellow Hispanics are onboard with their distaste for blacks.
I find it especially funny when the Mexican gangs refer to each other using the n-word and cackle about it.
Once, I even refused to pay a portly Latina stripper to give me a table dance, and she referred to me as a "broke n-word"! (rhymes with rigger)
I laughed and decided to give her twenty bucks for the entertainment, then got one of her skinny friends to dance for me for about 20 dances x $20.
What's funny is that I had a secretary who made about $400 for an entire week's work at one of my businesses. Shows where my priorities are!
Thank you for supporting the arts.
FWIW, Dave, was it actually the case that the majority, or even a large minority, of TakiMag readers are truly MAGA robots?
I mean, I was reading TakiMag for Dalrymple, Sailer, your stuff, and some others as they passed thru. Tasteful, grounded bigotry, not MAGA conspiracy stuff.
Who was Z Man, who did regular commentary a while back? I liked his stuff, also.
There's a whole Z Man story. Maybe I'll tell THAT, too.
Suffice to say if you liked Z Man's work, it's only because you likely also read it from someone else.
You've had me intrigued for the last couple of years.
Needless to say, never liked Z
Too esoteric to be conservative.
Let me check the guy's most recent column:
"This was Iran's Pearl Harbor"
Yeah...
"Canada has so much in common with the Caribbean"... well, they keep promising us that global warming will make us as tropical as the Caribbean, but I guess the carbon tax they implemented to battle global warming really is working because I haven't been able to trade my parka for a sarong yet.
Anyway, thank you for posting this, sir. Back when part 1 was posted on Taki's I was looking forward to reading the rest as I've always liked your LA inside baseball pieces. There's much to be learned from them which will probably be ignored by rightist politicos in other lefty jurisdictions (including the province I live in... one starts to suspect the fundraising is better when they're losing elections).
That is very true. And thank you for your readership!
Genuine question: are any Caribbean countries still in the commonwealth? I feel like some of them rely on Scotland Yard to train their police etc. (I took a history of policing course in college, like a big dork). I know a lot of the islands were mad at ol’ blighty around the time of BLM but they still seem to need resources from there at times.
Love the novels of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler! And my hometown of Brockton, Mass. is named after Isaac Brock, the Brit general who opened a can of whipass on the Yanks in the War of 1812, himself falling in battle. My hometown used to be called North Bridgewater, but some prosperous city father vacationed in Brockville in Canada, and liked it so much there he got North Bridgewater renamed to Brockton.
So glad to finally read part two to that original article, was worth the wait for sure.
You describing the antics of MAGApedes is cathartic to read at least. Your point about coupling & purity spiraling is so spot on, it pervades everything.
Thank you my friend!
Well geez Dave…
Seeing this example of the marked decline in the quality of your work, I can see why Taki fired you!
(I’m just yanking your chain)
Cheers!
LOL!!!!!!
I think you caught everyone off guard by posting 3 columns in 5 days. It's a great follow up to an equally great column. I am going to trust your stats as correct (even with no graph) because I trust your integrity and I would rather not look it up myself. Some very good points were made. That being said, I wouldn't mind a bit of gossip thrown about once in a while. Certainly looking forward to seeing more of those unused Taki columns. You were the only reason that I was still reading Taki. It's no fun anymore. Also, I really miss TWTP. They were the best.
I truly appreciate that, Sandy! Thank you!
Why wouldn't Taki pay for such fine writing? After all, since selling Bushido he should have a nice chunk of change.
Bushido the rapper?
The yacht:
https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/the-37-5-metre-sailing-yacht-bushido-in-saint-tropez
Bravo David. Your urban wanderings have obviously honed your wit and insight. Thanks again, Matt.
The "Love the Whole Enchilada or Get the F*** Out" seems to pervade most political dialog these days. It's unnecessary & unfortunate because it prevents intelligent discussion. I'm guessing most voters have a more nuanced set of views than what they'll admit, the intelligent ones anyways!!
Agreed!
Was reading SFGate just now about a taco festival that self-cancelled due to fears about ICE.
“ In California, the food and restaurant industry employed about 1.42 million people as of April -- a sizable workforce that is being affected regardless of the immigration status of its workers. That includes nearly 600,000 people who work for full-service restaurants.”
Could this even be accurate? I feel like there must be more people in that industry. California’s population is 39 million, I feel like hospitality generally employs a large ish share of the population. Some hotels have 2 restaurants. Think of all the restaurants at Disney or universal city walk , and all the fast food places. I just googled, there are 154 Starbucks in LA alone & 63 McDonalds locations (319 McDs in LA county).
Then consider: hospital kitchens, school districts etc. I guess it partly depends on what they mean by the “food” part of food & restaurant.
But that must be an undercount, no? There are dozens of people working at any catered event. The servers, dishwashers, food prep people. This seems like it’s gotta be an undercount due to the lack of documentation for a lot of these people, no?
If some of these people do self deport it will change the state a lot.
Does definitely seem like an undercount. I could never get on-board with Coulter's "deport 'em all!" absolutism. Apart from being hugely unrealistic, it will also have many unintended consequences. Kathy Shaidle (bless her soul) always carped "MOW YOUR OWN LAWNS!" But one of the pleasures of being First World is to NOT have to do that, or make your own tacos, or clean your own hotel room. It's climbing up to the 90s here this week. In this heat, if I still had a house, I damn well wouldn't wanna "mow my own lawn."
I don’t have a problem with people who just want to keep their heads down and work. I did occasionally see overt racism by Mexicans, esp towards Blacks, but usually not. A lot of these are really humble decent people.
There is some weird stuff, like nationalism and wanting to keep non Mexicans from working or living in their neighborhoods. That has to stop: if we have to adjust to them, they need to assimilate and understand what the US means. But again I think that’s a real minority within the cohort
The ones who are committing crimes? Fine, deport ‘em. We shouldn’t have a Mayorkas style free for all where people from Asia and Africa were flying to Mexico, then walking in.
But deporting every nice humble Mexican (which is a lot of them) is not the answer.
If Coulter & Trump want them ALL gone their project should be revitalize Mexico tbh. Make Mexico Canada: safe and enough work to go around. They’re here because there’s no work there, period.
Deporting everyone is too expensive; it’s just silly.
Someone needs to do some MAGA fantasy art based on your descriptions of what they dream about all day. There are already those T-shirts with Trump floating on a cloud, fist-bumping Jesus, or riding a Harley running over AOC, and those are hilarious but you point out MAGA reverie better than anyone.