Does anybody understand what’s happening with Ireland? They’ve gone off the deepest of ends but why? Why them specifically?
This is very unfortunate and sad. A formerly proud nation is turning into a frumpy, petty wokescold.
To offset my Christmas turkey disaster, I cooked an amazing duck cassoulet today. I can’t eat it because it’s not diabetic-friendly but judging by my husband’s reaction, my cooking skills are back.
I’m going to do a kick-ass New Year’s table because I’m so embarrassed about my Christmas fiasco. Negative motivation is everything.
This is the universal free childcare promised by Zohran Mamdani:
Taxing remittances of any amount at 90% is crucial. But it’s not getting done.
Turns out that while I was away I missed the funniest development of the year. Trump tricked everybody into thinking that he was going to declare war on Venezuela so that people would tune into his speech and there would be motivation to watch and air it on the networks.
And, obviously, there was no declaration of war. Instead, everybody had to listen to Trump explain his economic policy. Good for him. The “war is coming” crowd deserves that and more. I’m loving this trick.
This is what being out of the country does to you. You miss everything that’s happening.
If you had to guess, would you say that in 2025 fewer or more people were chosen to come to the US through diversity visa lottery than in 2023?
In other words, has the Trump administration reversed the policy on handing out green cards through a lottery to increase the country’s diversity?
Consider the absolute disrespect for the concept of citizenship. It’s been turned into a lottery prize. Something so trivial and insignificant that you don’t need to even try to qualify. Surely, the Trump administration put an end to that, right?
Well, we all know I’m being funny on purpose. In reality, more diversity green cards were handed out by the Trump administration in 2025 than the Biden administration in 2023.
I’m very glad that Trump voters are getting exactly what they voted for.
ChatGPT evaluated our interactions in 2025.
It’s not wrong, that’s for sure.
People asked what happened to the Russian nationalists whom Putin didn’t manage to kill. One of them was White Rex. A hero who was killed in battle yesterday.
White Rex wasn’t a “neo-Nazi”. The name-calling should stop. He didn’t want white people to be wiped out but that’s hardly an extremist position.
White Rex correctly saw Putin as the author of the greatest genocide against whites in the twenty-first century. He was a brilliant guy. If there was a hope for Russia’s renewal, that was him and his movement.
The EU bureaucrats hated White Rex. He was banned in Germany, for example.
This was a guy who did not need to go to war. He was successful, educated, never had trouble making a living. But he saw the ethnic cleansing happening and wanted to stop it. He fought heroically on Ukraine’s side from the first days of the war.
I didn’t want to write about this because it’s painful. I heard White Rex speak many times. I had great hopes for his movement to restore Russian nationalism. This is a great loss.
But I’m seeing all the usual rat bastards use this opportunity to not only rubbish White Rex but to equate nationalism with Nazism. These are disgusting lies about people who only want to live peacefully in their own countries. Losers who would never have an ounce of White Rex’s bravery and patriotism are spreading these calumnies about the fallen soldier.
There was nothing like this in Ukraine when I was growing up because in the USSR we weren’t allowed to know about Christmas, so I’m extremely glad that these ancestral Christmas traditions have been recovered and that so many young people participate:
I recommend the whole thread. It’s really pretty.
Once Christmas traditions are taken away, it’s extremely hard to recover it. I still care more about New Year’s than Christmas. It’s very important to preserve these rituals and involve young people in them.
It’s gotten to the point where I see a billboard saying “Book your next hotel stay with us!” and feel happy because the ad references books.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
RPMC boot camp, really ;-D
As a said earlier, moving to New Jersey was the best thing to happen to my family. My parents’ families…
This is why I like to say that the best thing my parents ever did was move to the New…
Actually assimilation is not complete until they intermarry, there was considerable resistance amongst many ethnic groups in western Canada until…
True. People who have assimilated will not prefer to hire from their immigrant group. At an office party, they will…
Arg. CCP=PRC
The Viet Kieu I have known all my life assimilated remarkably well. 1st gen are obviously not Americans, but tend…
There’s a common idea even on the more “racist” right that east Asian immigrants assimilate unusually well. They seem to…
Exactly. There’s some sort of weird parental anxiety involved. Like if the child steps out of the hustle for a…
Free, unstructured time when kids loiter around aimlessly is the most developmentally crucial and useful. People want to turn kids…
Bykov is extremely talented as a poet. But in what concerns his prose, he’s nowhere near Veller.
Shoot, not just resume padding. I’ve watched way too many parents regard any lacunae in their little kids’ time as……
“perception is that you can’t be a just a good student who otherwise enjoys his friends, free time” They’re not…
“nobody has to be intentionally diverted every second of the day” I am soooo glad I finished school before the…
only writer of value writing in Russian today” What about Bykov?
There’s this panic among parents (and it causes a lot of stress to the kids) that you have to have…
He is also the only writer of value writing in Russian today. Meaning serious literature. There is good entertainment lit…
And then they wonder why people no longer trust MSM.
“Since then the share of foreign born population has gone up and up, even while crime fell and fell.” I…
No, I guessed because he’s the only Russian speaking “famous writer” who would make such a comment. I mean, I’m…
Like: I don’t think people– adults OR kids– understand that nobody has to be intentionally diverted every second of the…
So much of the deliberate parenting strategy (it’s mostly accidental, but you know, the part where we actually have a…
I get it. He is very funny. But in my misspent youth the libertarian stuff sounded a lot better than…
What gets me most here is the absolute total mindblowing stupidity of the “guns baaaaad” “criminals… meh whatever: just give…
Or perhaps Kipling’s prophetic reference to the growing ideology of feminism: “On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the…
This chart https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-foreign-born-share-of-the-u-s-population-1850-2024/ shows that the percent of us population that was foreign born was at its lowest ever in…
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with…
Even the leftist media openly state that well over a half of ICE detentions are of people with criminal records.…
I think it’s waning a lot. It was mostly a boomer thing, and they are gradually shuffling offstage.
How many murders by foreign criminals is acceptable? And why are guns a problem when murder rates are drastically down?…
Here is a chart, compiled in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/murder-rate-drop-report.html, of US murder rates going back to 1900. It shows that…
The Reagan worship on the Right seems ridiculously unjustified. Dude really went all crazy with bringing in mass migration. He…
Please don’t tell me he mentioned my peasant face elsewhere.
Thank you, my friend, I really appreciate it. Some days are harder than others.
Was it Veller?
https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/sweden-shootings-down-80-and-no-shootings So apparently, just like in the US, Sweden deported a bunch of foreign gangbangers and– like magic– violent crime…
Town vs. country was one of the biggest divides in SA politics. The term Boer literally means farmer but more…
“have to earn the right to vote through national service” Earning the right to vote through some kind of national…
methylethyl Some of his writing is humour; some is insight. He does both very, very well ;-D “Women and cats…
Yes. It is a bit funny to see how hypocritical the left gets when anti-racism and defending a murderess conflict,…
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