One of the things I like about you is a strong sense of fair play that transcends the political BS, plus an ability to state your case forcefully. Very few people are equal opportunity scolds. Keep it up.
It also confuses people. They can't immediately categorize you. "Are you red or blue? Are we on the same team? Pick a side! My tiny head is exploding!"
They need a team to belong to, just like children playing Indians and Cowboys. MAGA's World is populated with "good guys" and "bad guys" and no matter how hard you try to explain there aren't such, just ordinary people making ordinary decisions, their little heads will explode.
Find it interesting that people on the right ranting about how the over the top treatment of Jones is the regime destroying one of it's critics can't comprehend the actual point was to goad the right into defending someone as indefensible as Jones and that they gladly took the bait.
Tldr: Ratibor is smarter than most people on the right.
I've met Mark Bankston, who is one of the attorneys, and let me tell you: the man just hates Alex Jones. He doesn't have any secret motives. His blistering anger at Jones is white-hot. He had no reason to fake it for me, a random blue-collar worker for another state.
I remember that pizza story, I had no idea he was out but it sounds like he should have stayed in there he is just too old to pull shit like he used to, that happens to those guys, the cops know it, now he is a burden to his mother & sisters but they put up with it. Probably psychologically tortures them afterwards guilts them to not kick him out. When I hear some conservatives wonder how Joe Biden got elected, the Alex Jones fan club is one big answer, the left has huge control over the media & entertainment so when things like that happen it is a gold mine for them & they use it to their advantage. They never learn, & turn people off to anything else they have to say.
As silly as I think it is to think that it's possible to hurt someone's feelings so badly it's worth 1.5B, you succinctly point out initially that the guy's beef is not with US law: it's with my side vs. your side and he probably had a "Hillary for Prison" sticker hanging in his garage. So, congrats for laying it out. Classic case of FOS.
The Redondo pizza bandit was kind of a scream and reminded me of a point a friend made when watching the Michael Brown/Ferguson tragicomedy unfold. You may recall that the gentle giant, like G. Floyd, was robbing a Korean convenience store before foolishly attempting to disarm a rather large police officer (spoiler alert, it was ill advised).
My friend noticed that in the film of the robbery, you can see that before leaving the store, Brown turns back toward the shop keep and menacingly steps toward him quickly while said shop keep immediately gets a pretty good case of the heebee jeebies and presumably almost soils himself.
My friend said: you can tell he's an asshole, he does this all of time, it's just another Tuesday night for Big Mike.
He wasn't just into stealing, he was really into being a dick, a menacing dick.
Luckily in this case, there was no jury trial because like Karma man.
Just so you know: Alex Jones also sent "reporters" out to harass the plaintiffs, multiple times, at their new homes, after they moved to a different state!
You expect it from the left because no one expects them to have principles - it’s one of their central operational tenants: “By any means necessary.”
The right likes to use its professed “principles” as an excuse for always losing: “That’s not who we are. If we do that we will be no different from them.”
I think the truth is that HUMANS in general have no principles that survive self-interest. Provide enough incentive, positive or negative, of one kind or another and its a rare human who will cling to his principles.
I disagree even from a modern perspective the self-interest theory doesn’t hold much value. Look at all your neighborhood dive bars. How do they stay in business? Regulars. It may not be based in kinship, but it’s tribal in practice.
While person x shovels dollars to the dive bar, person y is investing their capital in a side hustle
Therefore supporting the dive bar and hence their tribe is more important than advancing their own economic self interests.
This is what’s known as opportunity cost.
You could argue that “value” of the camaraderie received from the dive bar patronage is motivated by “self-interest” and I would disagree. Primarily because the benefits are intangible and not easily quantifiable
If we were all motivated by self-interest, we’d all be keeping ledgers and no one would have any friends, except the Jooz ;)
The Occidental Observer: "Cole has again shown why Jews should not be permitted power in White societies. Indeed, he’s again shown why Jews should not be permitted any presence at all in White societies."
This way of thinking is outdated for almost eighty years now. It's good you don't respond to this drivel. Discussing if Harry Truman will be a good President has more actual value.
I wish those fuckers at The Occidental Observer could see that conservative Jewish people who are white are their allies against the kaffirs, and are quite irritated with left-wingers who love trannies and wokism, no matter what their religion or race.
We felt that way when we foolishly let the J Neo Conservatives in to National Review and throughout Conservative Inc - many were ex Trotsky Communists that turned against the USSR for reverting to Slavic White rule and marginalizing Js in Russia and elsewhere .
These supposedly “ born again Je$ new conservatives , Neo conservatives took over national review , conservatives Inc and they fired all the White non jé& conservatives that dared speak out against their endless J wars against Iraq, Syria , SERBIA and Russia again or else dared mention the Great Replacement of White Americans , White British , White Europeans in our traditional countries ?
Neo Conservatives Js like Max Boot , David Frum , Jonah Goldberg , Bil Kristol they ve been a curse . They are not on our side against Kaffirs or any non Whites
Or even if Harry Truman WAS a good President--- that one has gone on for 70 years. My take is, he was good if it wasn't your kid drafted into the army and killed in Korea.
Ethnic racial Js tend to be good comedians , court jesters .
Apparently the current J president of Ukraine with insider access to hundreds of $ billions of our $ tax dollars - gets standing ovations in US Congress , Canadian Parliament , apparently he was a decent , though vulgar comedian .
I thought Al Franken was funny back in the day , don t want him as a US Senator
Hi Dave! After reading your column, I tried to visualize myself dropping my kids off at school and heading to work only to discover, later that day, that someone had gone into their school and murdered them. I considered what my feelings might be and the pain of those feelings hitting me in the gut. Then I imagined, as I was grieving my awful loss, hearing voices coming through speakers within my hollowed out home accusing me and mocking the memory of my dead kids. It makes me feel shame that I live in a society where this could happen. Yes, there are those historical Reichstag-like scenarios where tragedy is used to manipulate and control the population, BUT one had damn well better have something more substantial than a hunch before he starts pointing fingers. Otherwise, be prepared to suffer the consequences.
You ought to be proud of that piece, David. The arguments are objective and unassailable. Well, at least to everyone who isn't a mouth breathing waterhead.
And of course frogtards are ranting about it being because of JOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZ and not, you know, things like the guy pulling a fire alarm like some juvenile delinquent trying to get out of taking an exam they failed to study for.
Someone on Twitter made a great point: The Dems got rid of a liability in Bowman and have a candidate who is essentially as far left minus the Jew hate but will win the election easy and not be an embarrassment in office. GOP is going to lose a ridiculously Republican leaning seat in Colorado running 80 IQ bimbo Lauren Bobbert who is down by double digits in the polls to the Dem.
Dave, I had to look up the meaning of "japery". I always learn something new from your columns. By the way, besides work boots, is there anything that blacks won't steal?
I'll always remember footage of the riots in South Africa a few years back where everything in a huge mall complex was smashed and looted clean except for a bookstore that went completely untouched.
LoL. Reminds me of an old Chris Rock video -- "Black people vs N***as" -- and a linguistics paper on the nature of various epithets (they're not all bad ... 😉🙂):
But the linguistics paper extensively quotes Rock's video in some "interesting" detail that underlines your "bookstore" comment:
"Niggas hate knowledge. Shit, I was talking about niggas breaking in your house, well if you want to save your money put it in your books. Cause niggas don’t read. Put the money in the books, shit, books are like kryptonite to a nigga."
I don't know if it's apocryphal, but I remember a story about some Western do-gooders trying to teach African tribesmen how to use condoms by rolling them on a broomstick. The population rate stayed the same, so they went back and found the tribesmen were "using" the condoms by rolling them on a broomstick.
On the night before the attack the Armed Forces Radio DJ on Oahu read out the weather for the next morning. He said it would be partly cloudy with a slight chance of a little nip in the air.
My daddy used to used that word. He was a professor and I learned a lot of unfashionably descriptive words from him. He used scofflaw in everyday life, the only man I knew to do that besides Mr. Magoo.
You shouldn´t answer every comment. You´re supposed to be like Gore Vidal, not like Ronald Reagan, answering every letter. You know, my good friend Sal Grosso once answered a plumbing emergency at the Reagan´s in Bel Air. Ronny left a turd in Nancy´s bidet, on account of the dementia. The Secret Service guy pointed a finger at Sal and said, "Take care of it!" And Sal said, "Hell no, I ain´t touching THAT!" Like it was some kind of relic or something.
As soon as I read this column I go to X and some spam add says CNN is being suied for one billion dollars and you know the rightoids are masterbating when they see that. Probably at the same time they are reehhhing that Jones is being "oppressed"?
I am not sure if the delusional self-destruction of the US right would be as evident to me as it is to Dave. But at least I have him to keep me from going down that rabbit hole myself.
One of the things I like about you is a strong sense of fair play that transcends the political BS, plus an ability to state your case forcefully. Very few people are equal opportunity scolds. Keep it up.
Much appreciated, Brian. It's exactly what I aim for. Thank you for seeing the value in it.
"Very few people are equal opportunity scolds."
It also confuses people. They can't immediately categorize you. "Are you red or blue? Are we on the same team? Pick a side! My tiny head is exploding!"
Yep -- I do get that a lot!
They need a team to belong to, just like children playing Indians and Cowboys. MAGA's World is populated with "good guys" and "bad guys" and no matter how hard you try to explain there aren't such, just ordinary people making ordinary decisions, their little heads will explode.
I just want both teams to have fun!
Find it interesting that people on the right ranting about how the over the top treatment of Jones is the regime destroying one of it's critics can't comprehend the actual point was to goad the right into defending someone as indefensible as Jones and that they gladly took the bait.
Tldr: Ratibor is smarter than most people on the right.
LOL!!! True, too true.
I've met Mark Bankston, who is one of the attorneys, and let me tell you: the man just hates Alex Jones. He doesn't have any secret motives. His blistering anger at Jones is white-hot. He had no reason to fake it for me, a random blue-collar worker for another state.
I remember that pizza story, I had no idea he was out but it sounds like he should have stayed in there he is just too old to pull shit like he used to, that happens to those guys, the cops know it, now he is a burden to his mother & sisters but they put up with it. Probably psychologically tortures them afterwards guilts them to not kick him out. When I hear some conservatives wonder how Joe Biden got elected, the Alex Jones fan club is one big answer, the left has huge control over the media & entertainment so when things like that happen it is a gold mine for them & they use it to their advantage. They never learn, & turn people off to anything else they have to say.
Quite true, Gina. Thank you.
As silly as I think it is to think that it's possible to hurt someone's feelings so badly it's worth 1.5B, you succinctly point out initially that the guy's beef is not with US law: it's with my side vs. your side and he probably had a "Hillary for Prison" sticker hanging in his garage. So, congrats for laying it out. Classic case of FOS.
The Redondo pizza bandit was kind of a scream and reminded me of a point a friend made when watching the Michael Brown/Ferguson tragicomedy unfold. You may recall that the gentle giant, like G. Floyd, was robbing a Korean convenience store before foolishly attempting to disarm a rather large police officer (spoiler alert, it was ill advised).
My friend noticed that in the film of the robbery, you can see that before leaving the store, Brown turns back toward the shop keep and menacingly steps toward him quickly while said shop keep immediately gets a pretty good case of the heebee jeebies and presumably almost soils himself.
My friend said: you can tell he's an asshole, he does this all of time, it's just another Tuesday night for Big Mike.
He wasn't just into stealing, he was really into being a dick, a menacing dick.
Luckily in this case, there was no jury trial because like Karma man.
Great point. And yeah - a sadistic love of intimidation is part of what drives these monsters.
Just so you know: Alex Jones also sent "reporters" out to harass the plaintiffs, multiple times, at their new homes, after they moved to a different state!
You expect it from the left because no one expects them to have principles - it’s one of their central operational tenants: “By any means necessary.”
The right likes to use its professed “principles” as an excuse for always losing: “That’s not who we are. If we do that we will be no different from them.”
I think the truth is that HUMANS in general have no principles that survive self-interest. Provide enough incentive, positive or negative, of one kind or another and its a rare human who will cling to his principles.
Quite agreed.
I disagree even from a modern perspective the self-interest theory doesn’t hold much value. Look at all your neighborhood dive bars. How do they stay in business? Regulars. It may not be based in kinship, but it’s tribal in practice.
How is that not self-interest?
While person x shovels dollars to the dive bar, person y is investing their capital in a side hustle
Therefore supporting the dive bar and hence their tribe is more important than advancing their own economic self interests.
This is what’s known as opportunity cost.
You could argue that “value” of the camaraderie received from the dive bar patronage is motivated by “self-interest” and I would disagree. Primarily because the benefits are intangible and not easily quantifiable
If we were all motivated by self-interest, we’d all be keeping ledgers and no one would have any friends, except the Jooz ;)
Maybe humans are motivated by perceived self-interest?
Oh, you were referring to the drinkers! I thought you were referring to the bar owners. My bad.
Yes, humans are not all extremely rational agents, and the only person who disagrees, Bryan Caplan, is kinda retarded.
We agree, thank you
It s the Washington Generals - also libertarian Constitutionalists …
Reading from a script
Playing to lose
The Occidental Observer: "Cole has again shown why Jews should not be permitted power in White societies. Indeed, he’s again shown why Jews should not be permitted any presence at all in White societies."
This way of thinking is outdated for almost eighty years now. It's good you don't respond to this drivel. Discussing if Harry Truman will be a good President has more actual value.
I wish those fuckers at The Occidental Observer could see that conservative Jewish people who are white are their allies against the kaffirs, and are quite irritated with left-wingers who love trannies and wokism, no matter what their religion or race.
Sigh
We felt that way when we foolishly let the J Neo Conservatives in to National Review and throughout Conservative Inc - many were ex Trotsky Communists that turned against the USSR for reverting to Slavic White rule and marginalizing Js in Russia and elsewhere .
These supposedly “ born again Je$ new conservatives , Neo conservatives took over national review , conservatives Inc and they fired all the White non jé& conservatives that dared speak out against their endless J wars against Iraq, Syria , SERBIA and Russia again or else dared mention the Great Replacement of White Americans , White British , White Europeans in our traditional countries ?
Neo Conservatives Js like Max Boot , David Frum , Jonah Goldberg , Bil Kristol they ve been a curse . They are not on our side against Kaffirs or any non Whites
They hate us .
Some hate "us," and some don't. You can't blame the right-wing Jewish people for the faggot loving, kaffir loving, left-wing Jewish people.
Or even if Harry Truman WAS a good President--- that one has gone on for 70 years. My take is, he was good if it wasn't your kid drafted into the army and killed in Korea.
Ethnic racial Js tend to be good comedians , court jesters .
Apparently the current J president of Ukraine with insider access to hundreds of $ billions of our $ tax dollars - gets standing ovations in US Congress , Canadian Parliament , apparently he was a decent , though vulgar comedian .
I thought Al Franken was funny back in the day , don t want him as a US Senator
Hi Dave! After reading your column, I tried to visualize myself dropping my kids off at school and heading to work only to discover, later that day, that someone had gone into their school and murdered them. I considered what my feelings might be and the pain of those feelings hitting me in the gut. Then I imagined, as I was grieving my awful loss, hearing voices coming through speakers within my hollowed out home accusing me and mocking the memory of my dead kids. It makes me feel shame that I live in a society where this could happen. Yes, there are those historical Reichstag-like scenarios where tragedy is used to manipulate and control the population, BUT one had damn well better have something more substantial than a hunch before he starts pointing fingers. Otherwise, be prepared to suffer the consequences.
Exactly, Terry. Well-said.
You ought to be proud of that piece, David. The arguments are objective and unassailable. Well, at least to everyone who isn't a mouth breathing waterhead.
Also, they actually showed a picture of the mass murderer in Las Vegas - and he is a colored guy!
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/5-dead-13-year-old-hospitalized-in-north-las-vegas-apartment-complex-shooting/
Dang...Ernie Hudson went batshit!
not Ernie Hudson, but Eric Adams!! Our beloved NYC mayor!! Who woulda thunk? I didn't think he had that much passion in him!
He just made some more ghosts to bust!
LOL!
Thanks for sharing-- I was still reeling from the guy in Arkansas who shot up a supermarket. The beat goes on and on and on.
Big political news today, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost his primary, supposedly the first incumbent Dem to go down this election cycle!
And of course frogtards are ranting about it being because of JOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZ and not, you know, things like the guy pulling a fire alarm like some juvenile delinquent trying to get out of taking an exam they failed to study for.
Ah, Bowman was the fire alarm guy, thanks for reminding me!
Someone on Twitter made a great point: The Dems got rid of a liability in Bowman and have a candidate who is essentially as far left minus the Jew hate but will win the election easy and not be an embarrassment in office. GOP is going to lose a ridiculously Republican leaning seat in Colorado running 80 IQ bimbo Lauren Bobbert who is down by double digits in the polls to the Dem.
Yep! The GOP seems only capable of making the wrong moves these days, in terms of its own choices and responding to the Dems' choices.
Dave, I had to look up the meaning of "japery". I always learn something new from your columns. By the way, besides work boots, is there anything that blacks won't steal?
I'll always remember footage of the riots in South Africa a few years back where everything in a huge mall complex was smashed and looted clean except for a bookstore that went completely untouched.
LoL. Reminds me of an old Chris Rock video -- "Black people vs N***as" -- and a linguistics paper on the nature of various epithets (they're not all bad ... 😉🙂):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vFbsZkhXU
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015000041
But the linguistics paper extensively quotes Rock's video in some "interesting" detail that underlines your "bookstore" comment:
"Niggas hate knowledge. Shit, I was talking about niggas breaking in your house, well if you want to save your money put it in your books. Cause niggas don’t read. Put the money in the books, shit, books are like kryptonite to a nigga."
I left a book on a New Orleans bus and found it in the same spot a week later.
You can buy hollowed-out books to put cash in.
The two things that didn't get looted in post-Katrina New Orleans were library books and the country section of the Wal-Mart CDs.
and condoms.
I don't know if it's apocryphal, but I remember a story about some Western do-gooders trying to teach African tribesmen how to use condoms by rolling them on a broomstick. The population rate stayed the same, so they went back and found the tribesmen were "using" the condoms by rolling them on a broomstick.
The one I heard was that they were using them as water balloons. That wasn't West Africa, though. I think that story was Egypt.
Father's Day cards - why bother, right?
LOL!
Good one!
After Pearl Harbor, the newspapers referred to it as "jap-ery"
On the night before the attack the Armed Forces Radio DJ on Oahu read out the weather for the next morning. He said it would be partly cloudy with a slight chance of a little nip in the air.
My daddy used to used that word. He was a professor and I learned a lot of unfashionably descriptive words from him. He used scofflaw in everyday life, the only man I knew to do that besides Mr. Magoo.
Dave , do you rant outloud while your typing ? Just wondering ? You could probably make some coin off it . Record you greatest hit's .
I never rant out loud sober.
But drunk? Look out.
Excellent column this week, an absolute banger.
Thank you, Skip!
You shouldn´t answer every comment. You´re supposed to be like Gore Vidal, not like Ronald Reagan, answering every letter. You know, my good friend Sal Grosso once answered a plumbing emergency at the Reagan´s in Bel Air. Ronny left a turd in Nancy´s bidet, on account of the dementia. The Secret Service guy pointed a finger at Sal and said, "Take care of it!" And Sal said, "Hell no, I ain´t touching THAT!" Like it was some kind of relic or something.
"Shits morning in America."
Rather than Gore Vidal, maybe Joe Sobran (and during on-the-wagon months, Joe Sobering).
As soon as I read this column I go to X and some spam add says CNN is being suied for one billion dollars and you know the rightoids are masterbating when they see that. Probably at the same time they are reehhhing that Jones is being "oppressed"?
I read the article on Dave Cole in the "Occidental Observer," and I think that guy is in awe of your wit, Mr. Cole - as he should be.
I am not sure if the delusional self-destruction of the US right would be as evident to me as it is to Dave. But at least I have him to keep me from going down that rabbit hole myself.
My pleasure!
Dying on a hill of shit.