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I'm setting up a bank account Thursday 5 May 2024, so I can transfer a few bucks to you every so often. I hope you're able to get to a proper doctor to care for your gout. https://youtu.be/Zo2aOEvdDug?feature=shared

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That's greatly appreciated, my good friend.

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Just want to point out you and Ann were the only two significant people on the right who both saw through Tucker and called him going totally off the deep end without anyone who could tell him "no" like when he was at Fox.

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Yep. I think part of it is just the kind of insight you get from being around long enough, from seeing people come & go. Ann and I have seen it all! Though I like to tease her that I was on national TV first!

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Morton Downey Jr. was the FIRST. Truth is that you West Coast people ARE ALWAYS FOUR HOURS LATE.;

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What are you going on about?

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Think he meant Mort was the first mainstream TV loon/nut burger.

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Yes! You must be from my generation! The five-boroughs, New Jersey, Philadelphia TV market of the mid to late 80's! Howard Stern too! I like DAVE COLE ..... but he´s just .... a KID!

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You realize Dave almost surely knew about Downey before he ever made it on TV because he was a notorious shock jock from Sacramento? In fact the guy who replaced him after he got sacked would go on to be arguably the most influential conservative media personality of the past 50 years: Rush Limbaugh.

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Happy Pesach Dave. Glad to see you here

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Thank you, my friend!

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Off topic but is it me or does Norman Finkelstein remind you of Maude? He looks like her and acts like the character.

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Agreed, but he's far less likable!

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Agreed. Super arrogant, he feels like because he has read all these books he can't be questioned. Well at least by whites. But fail to realize his whole life is based on this conflict. He has nothing else to show. I watched the debate with Benny morris. At least Benny has things other then reading about a conflict his whole life.

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I'm in favor of "diversity disruption" as well!

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I recall a lot of black people embracing being obese as empowerment, but now it isn't?

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Excellent points in the Takimag piece. Black women may consider their remarkable creativity in naming their children could be transferrable to the pharmaceutical industry, as you illustrated.

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Your Taki work, if summed up, is a bunch of dabs on the blacks and other "minorities". I've come to realize that you're basically a "pick-me" Jew. You tell the rightwing, "look at these poor coloreds committing all this crime! See, us Jews aren't your enemy, my fellow white rightwingers. Us Jews are wealthy with minuscule crime rates -- please don't persecute us! Don't listen to Nick The Catboy Fuentes, oyyy veeeyyyy!" Not to say this is necessarily a bad thing, it's just an observation.

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I choose… DAVE!

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I look at it as more of old-time comedy, back when everyone could take a joke with less sensitivity. Otherwise, it is social commentary via lampooning the ridiculous and convoluted societal norms that we somehow tolerate, and others are just scared to say what Ol' Dave says.

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Sure, that's fine, but to say David isnt prowhite and that his prowhiteness doesnt seep into his work would be ill-founded, at best. I highly doubt David wants the whites in the US to become minorites. And I highly doubt he thinks of himself as nonwhite.

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There is some debate among my right-wing friends that what is called pro-white is really anti-anti-white, a defense mechanism against a largely unacknowledged genocidal movement aiming to reduce whiteness. Perhaps, as a Jewish man and, therefore, an inheritor of a reflexive repulsion against genocidal movements, our man Dave has sympathy for the non-Ashkenazi whites.

I agree, though, that many Ashkenazi Jewish people are white.

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Yea maybe, but even if there was no white genocide I think there would still be anti-anti-white. For any group to not have a pro-themselves temperament, it would run counter to the most important elements of evolution: survival and procreation.

I think David and leftwing whites being in principle antigenocide, but for different causes, is probably some kind of psychological backwash due to being white. I read a book by Azar Gat, called Nations, it makes the case that the most successful states were the ones who committed the most successful genocides. Europe is so successful because untold numbers of Europeans have successfully genocided each other. By that, Gat means the flattening of ethno-linguistic units into single dominant units, via genocide, served to unit peoples and make their identities more cohesive. Also, the leftwing antigenocide stuff is probably a philosophical hangover from Christianity but secularized (I mean, to most people Jesus was nonwhite, Christians literally worship a brownie-muddy-third worldie person of color; how can you worship someone like that and still want to genocide?).

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Well-put!

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Thank you very kindly, sir. I appreciate that it comes from a writer of high caliber, such as yourself.

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You're overthinking a humor column, dimwit.

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My comment isn't strictly about this humor column, it just so happens to be a place for me to voice my thoughts. I've read almost all of your columns and I watched every video on your now-dead YT. Your columns are very explicit in pointing out that the radical elements of the rightwing are wrong in their going after the Jews, but, in the same breath, you have a very obvious anti-black/minority edge. Hence, pick-me.

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If you've read my columns, as you claim, you'd know that I've written many, many critical things about Jews. My "golems" column nearly got a judge fired and led to a statewide legal proceeding and hundreds of headlines. Sorry I'm not writing enough of those types of columns for you at the moment. Why don't you tell me what you'd like me to write about, oh brilliant one. Go on, don't be a heckler, be a helper. Pitch me a column idea.

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I'm going to jump in and cut off IQ 85 (higher than Elvis's 70!!) and suggest that Dave, you check out today's NYT article - A side of Cheez-Its: In the household of a self-proclaimed fat activist, there are no “good” or “bad” foods. I work w/ young women who espouse the same wack-a-do beliefs as this character, (although they are not making $200k a year writing about it and influencing others!) The young(ish) women I work w/ huff and puff when climbing the stairs, cannot squeeze into the closet to pull out folding chairs- and all believe that there should be free health-care! And all of them vote BLUE straight down the line!

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I don't read the NYT, so I rely on tips from readers. Thank you for recommending that piece! I just read it...wow...I will be able to make good use of it for The Week. Absolutely insane. Very much appreciated, Kate!

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I don't really "read" it either! I just do the puzzles and skim the crap that I have to plow through to get to them. Every now and then something grabs my eye, and being a big Cheez-it fan, I hacked in to take a peek. What I see as really sad is she kicked the sensible hubby out, and is raising a couple of little girls to have major daddy issues. At best she'll get a Lena Dunham out of one of them- and who needs another inflicted on our world? Glad to help out!! I love your stuff! I look forward to Taki every Sun. and Tues.!!

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Your critiques of Jews are usually from a prowhite, profree speech, rightwing angle. It's the leftwing Jews who are usually antiwhite, who want to censor everyone and import "muds". Writing about the golems that are created by self-hating leftwing Jews is still, in a roundabout way, you appealing to the white elements of the right. "If the leftwing Jews weren't so ethnomasochistic, the US would be whiter. See, my fellow whites, us rightwing Jews are bayyzeedd! The leftwing Jews are gigacringe!"

You never stopped writing those types of columns, tho. Every time you mention Soros, which is fairly often, it's harkening back to an identifiable antiminority and prowhite edge. "How the Hard Right Could Lose an Easy Win" wasn't written that long ago.

And I'm not heckling. I've written a couple comments on other pieces here that were somewhat critical of you, but critical in what I would argue is a friendly fashion. I don't hate you or hate your work.

The last person you want to ask for a column idea from is a guy named "Man with 85 IQ." But if you must insist . . . expanding on the idea of the woke rightwing would be cool. The right will rebuke almost every claim of racism the left makes, but when it comes to Ashkenazim -- who are just white people -- the right is quick to yell racism like they are Harvard leftists defending blackies. Jews are an *indigenous people* of the Middle East: the state of Israel is a Land Back operation. For the right, anyone who criticizes Israel must be racist. For the left, anyone who doesn't wanna give America back to the Native Americans must be racist. I have a very long essay stashed away that expands on this idea and the idea below.

Speaking of "Jews are white." Another idea to write about is that the left's racial theories destroy itself. For example, the left claims that white people can't experience racism. But they are quick to say Jews -- this includes Ashkenazim -- experience racism. Ergo, white people CAN experience racism. But ofc the leftist will say, "but the nazis said mean things to Jews! The nazis thought jews weren't white, thought they were inferior!" An easy rebuke would be to point out that Northern Europeans think Southern Europeans are basically black. One English aristocrat, Thomas Safford, in 1557 declared in his rebellion of the marriage of Phillip II and Mary Tudor that the foreigners were “spytefull Spanyardes, whose Morysh Maners, and spytefull Condytions, no Natyon in the Worlde is able to suffer." It was very common back in the ol' days for Northern Europeans to think Spaniards, with their "cursed condicions," were nothing but Moors on European soil. (See "Anti-Spanish sentiment in English literary and political writing, 1553-1603" by Mark G. Sanchez.) Moreover, a simple glance at 4chan's /his/ board sees an almost daily debate about if Italians and Iberians are moor r*pe babies. Therefore, Cortes, Columbus and the Spanish Empire are exempt from whiteness. 1492 wasn't racism, it was simply people of color meeting up at the homie's pad to chill and sheeit.

Sincerely,

Your only gay leftist fan who is not a heckler

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I'm beginning to doubt your claim about an 85 IQ!

Tell us something you like about Ol'Dave, please.

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Lol thank you for the compliment.

The moment I dipped my toes into the radical side of holocaust research is the exact time David come out of hiding. I've been following him ever since then. When I first found him, I was a wee little lad and I was exceptionally racist. Something I like about David is that he is radical, but not too radical. Open minded, but not too conspiracy driven. Racist, but not too racist. His book Republican Party Animal and his alcohol-inspired YT videos basically deradicalized me. Now I'm just a normal racist, instead of a full-blown nazi. So to that, I say thanks to him.

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Most states with lethal injections don't even have a doctor to carry it out, since doctors tend to object based on the Hippocratic Oath (no word on how that oath applies to sexually mutilating children). In Idaho's case, the "medical team" was all volunteer: two RNs and some EMTs: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1235290585/lethal-injections-death-penalty-states-volunteers

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Interesting! I didn't realize it was all volunteer. Remember the Terry Schiavo case? The woman on the ventilator? I recall doctors assuring the family that cutting off her feeding tube would result in "euphoria," the "euphoric" death that accompanies starvation. So when I've heard doctors object to lethal injection, I've always wondered why they don't instead favor just starving the condemned to death so that they can exit euphorically.

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Hell yes I remember; it was essentially down the street from me and it was also how Glenn Beck got his start, standing on the corner with protest signs.

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“Proselytizing indigenous people”, AKA, “practicing freedom of religion”

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