When Kmele said “Moynihand,” I thought it was just another of his endearing mispronounce-iations, but lo and behold, thirty minutes later the man in question is planning to jerk off fellow Qantas passengers. Let’s all give a hand to handsy Moynihand, and to Kmele for the skillful foreshadowing.
Re: making guesses at people's sexual preferences, I was recently made aware of a 'gay test', where you ask a man to inspect their cuticles. If the man makes a kind of fist so as to look at his cuticles fingers-down, then he is straight. If the man puts his arm out with his fingers up, then he is gay. If he drops his pants and lifts up his cock, then he misheard you or is an idiot.
I can attest that the "cuticle gay test" passed as rigorous scientific fact among students in my Massachusetts high school circa 2002. Not sure about the whipping it out part though.
Was it a thing with anyone else, where if a guy got an ear piercing in the left ear, he was straight, but right ear it means he was gay? I was talking to a friend from S. Africa and he was saying this and I was like "Oh yeah, wow."
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Also, please don’t give me a hard time about using the phrase “gun violence”. I know that guns don’t kill people and my newsletter does not advocate for enacting addition gun control laws. (I believe we should enforce existing laws more ferociously.) I study homicides committed with guns, which is over 90% of homicides, and the variant of homicide that has been increasing recently. If I studied stabbings, I would use the term knife violence, but not because I think knives kill people.
Exactly. 538 did a public opinion poll where they asked Republicans and Democrats what their biggest concerns were and Democrats were a lot more likely to be concerned about “gun violence”, whereas Republicans were a lot more concerned about crime. Democrats are also a lot more likely to care about mass shootings when the victims are a bunch of sympathetic white schoolchildren than they are about the inner-city violence that comprises the vast majority of gun homicides in this country and mostly kills young black men. I have a real problem with selective outrage.
Haha. I created the newsletter because my academic research on the topic is paywalled and I wanted to share my analyses broadly. I don’t offer paid subscriptions and earn no money from it. My primary motivation is to debunk false claims made by journalists who have limited knowledge of US homicide rates in context, including a journalist who misrepresented my work to make it conform to a political narrative that he wanted to promote.
BTW, only tangentially related to the content of this episode, but a great call back to Clown World 2020, New York State governor and noted dimwit Kathy Hochul has called in the National Guard to enforce law and order within the NYC Subway system, thus calling to mind a certain Tom Cotton editorial that caused a bit of a ruckus.
State Universities should not have administrative departments dedicated to DEI, full-stop. I don't mind grievance studies departments, if there's a market for them and they can be reasonably self-sufficient (hahaha). Florida got off easy; their department was a tiny fraction of the size of others (H/T, my increasingly embarrassing alma mater in Charlottesville...).
The discussion around leftist European countries not tolerating the level of disorder seen in U.S. cities reminded me of the time my friend from Switzerland first witnessed homelessness in the US. We were sitting at a bus station, I think in South Lake Tahoe, and a very mentally ill homeless lady next to us started screaming at everyone. All of us Americans kind of sat there and awkwardly stared at our phones as you do, as she proceeded to bang against the glass windows and yell incoherently at all of us. Meanwhile my Swiss friend was visibly shaken by the scene and asked me if we should be calling the cops, to which I said "we'll maybe if she actually hurts someone, otherwise you just ignore it". He was totally flabbergasted by that explanation and then explained that this doesn't happen in Switzerland because you just don't find psychotic people wandering the streets. I found this shocking because I just assumed cities of any size were sure to have mentally ill homeless populations out in the open. Not sure what they do in Switzerland to address the issue, but just about anything seems better than what is currently practiced in US cities.
I would guess they have them committed to mental hospitals. We used to have a robust system but their was a campaign in the 50s and 60s (started in California, I believe, but can be read about at the surface level here - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20consumer%20or%20ex%2Dpatient,on%20Mental%20Illness%20(NAMI).) to basically say that give mentally ill patients anti-psychotic medications was wrong way to treat some of these individuals and they could get better (wrongly) on their own. Also it's incredibly costly to treat and house these individuals which led to many hospitals closing.
I read a great article on it a few years back but have not been able to find it since.
Also, I believe a doctor or doctors promoted a theory that the hospitals were causing mental illness and that if the patients were released, they would get better.
I live in Denmark and have never seen the kind of obviously, gravely psychotic people I encountered again and again in Midtown Manhattan on my last trip over. I'm not sure why.
In Australia, where I grew up, there was a little more visible homelessness and some definite free-range kooks, but not on the scale as one sees stateside. An old friend of mine down in Australia recently had the experience of having a psychotic break, losing her job, ending up on a mental health ward a few times, entering a sharehouse, then crisis housing, and now lives in permanent publically-assisted housing and recently got a job. She's not in touch with her family or many of her friends, so there was a real possibility that she'd end up on the street, but between some good doctors and decent (if frustrating) social workers the system kept her off the streets and helped her back on her feet. Despite long periods where she had a tenuous grasp on reality, the services she bounced between were integrated _just_ well enough to keep her on the right track - maybe that's missing, in the US, with the patchwork of private and public do-gooders? She's also smart and fairly well educated, something that gave her a definite leg up in navigating the bureaucratic maze, jumping hurdles and so on.
In the US, the ACLU has made it very difficult to commit people involuntarily. That combined with the unwillingness of DAs to prosecute vagrancy and here we are.
I have seen similar in Canada. But I am not well traveled outside the US and Canada. And of course it is a single anecdote, so take it with a grain of salt. However, I will also say that my buddy from Denmark had similar reaction to seeing Seattle homelessness. I don't have first hand accounts of Europe to compare, but I can say my two friends from there were genuinely shocked by the degree of disorder on our city streets.
I had a similar epiphany in Helsinki. We don’t go in to the capital often but we were roaming around down by the main train station and I suddenly realized there were no homeless people. Obviously it’s easier to manage a country of 5 million people than a US city larger than that, but still I was impressed
I visited my daughter in Denver about a year ago and was stunned at the level of disorder and homelessness (from Sydney). She is in NYC this weekend and I asked her what that problem was like there. She said no way near that of Denver. There isn’t an obvious answer that I know of as to why you have this issue. It isn’t just that Australia is that clever.
Let us reflect upon the irony of the ladies of MSNBC accusing the deplorables of not liking people who are different from them while never allowing anyone with a different opinion from them to enter their own spaces.
Thing that struck me about the discussion was the absence of nuance. Not a lot of “to be fair” or “on the other hand”, or “if you consider.” When I think about Hillary and the deplorable comment I still shudder.
Wake up ya cunts!
Motherfucker, you beat me to it!
When Kmele said “Moynihand,” I thought it was just another of his endearing mispronounce-iations, but lo and behold, thirty minutes later the man in question is planning to jerk off fellow Qantas passengers. Let’s all give a hand to handsy Moynihand, and to Kmele for the skillful foreshadowing.
Re: making guesses at people's sexual preferences, I was recently made aware of a 'gay test', where you ask a man to inspect their cuticles. If the man makes a kind of fist so as to look at his cuticles fingers-down, then he is straight. If the man puts his arm out with his fingers up, then he is gay. If he drops his pants and lifts up his cock, then he misheard you or is an idiot.
I can attest that the "cuticle gay test" passed as rigorous scientific fact among students in my Massachusetts high school circa 2002. Not sure about the whipping it out part though.
Was it a thing with anyone else, where if a guy got an ear piercing in the left ear, he was straight, but right ear it means he was gay? I was talking to a friend from S. Africa and he was saying this and I was like "Oh yeah, wow."
That was a thing when I was a teenager. If you were going to get an earring as a straight man, you had better be sure to do it on the left.
I failed this test when I was 10 :/
Comment of the day!
I could see myself doing either and/or both if asked about my cuticles.
At the risk of pedestrian humiliation I offer a full throated L O L!
Also please have Josh on more.
I got a copy of Biden’s state of the union speech. Did you know that Hunter died at the hands of a walrus in Antarctica?
Correction: it was a gorilla. Making a point about global warming.
Check out my newsletter for deep dives into violent crime rates, specifically homicide and shooting statistics, in over 1000 cities. It’s a myth that violent crime is at an all-time low. Homicides spiked a historic 30% nationally in 2020 and increased again in 2021 and 2022. Numerous cities have all-time high murder rates. The good news is the rates have gone down in 2023, but that’s in comparison to the previous years when rates were elevated, few cities have returned to pre-pandemic murder rates.
Magic is it lower than the 70’s?
I think we need Wake Up Ya Cunts t-shirts. Not Fifth Column merch.
Some posts from my Substack analyzing data on violent crime, specifically homicides, in US cities:
Yes, gun violence has increased in practically every large American city: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/yes-gun-violence-has-increased-in
Hundreds of "small" cities are also confronting heightened gun violence:
https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/hundreds-of-small-cities-are-also
Not as bad as the 1990s?: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/not-as-bad-as-the-1990s
Firearm Homicides Increased in Cities of All Sizes During the Pandemic: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/firearm-homicides-increased-in-cities
Too many cities are meeting adverse gun violence benchmarks: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/too-many-cities-are-meeting-adverse
Firearm homicides increased in over 400 US communities last year: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/firearm-homicides-increased-in-over
Also, a primer on firearm homicide rates in context: American Gun Violence: Defining the Problem: American Gun Violence: Defining the Problem: https://1000citiesproject.substack.com/p/american-gun-violence-defining-the
Also, please don’t give me a hard time about using the phrase “gun violence”. I know that guns don’t kill people and my newsletter does not advocate for enacting addition gun control laws. (I believe we should enforce existing laws more ferociously.) I study homicides committed with guns, which is over 90% of homicides, and the variant of homicide that has been increasing recently. If I studied stabbings, I would use the term knife violence, but not because I think knives kill people.
It's kind of funny that if you say "gun violence", conservatives will be mad; if you say "violent crime", progressives will be mad.
Exactly. 538 did a public opinion poll where they asked Republicans and Democrats what their biggest concerns were and Democrats were a lot more likely to be concerned about “gun violence”, whereas Republicans were a lot more concerned about crime. Democrats are also a lot more likely to care about mass shootings when the victims are a bunch of sympathetic white schoolchildren than they are about the inner-city violence that comprises the vast majority of gun homicides in this country and mostly kills young black men. I have a real problem with selective outrage.
It’s in the regulations in the sports league of The National Recreational Outrage Association. (So I’ve been told.)
Magic is it true there is a rough split between gang shootings, suicide and other with gun deaths?
Self promotion aside, seems you have the right attitude. Temper that with today's declarations re personal bias and the Russian judge will go 7.9.
Haha. I created the newsletter because my academic research on the topic is paywalled and I wanted to share my analyses broadly. I don’t offer paid subscriptions and earn no money from it. My primary motivation is to debunk false claims made by journalists who have limited knowledge of US homicide rates in context, including a journalist who misrepresented my work to make it conform to a political narrative that he wanted to promote.
Is the Camden at the bottom of the list, Camden South Carolina? Sheesh.
Who in the heck is dumb enough to pull a weapon on someone in Warner Robbins... they must be all suicides.
It’s App-uh-LATCH-uh for Christsakes Moynihan
*Moynihand
Stirewalt (the Wheeling Dynamo) has been on this podcast before (and should be again). He should have given a pronunciation guide to the hosts.
Thanks for doing that. I grew up in them there mountains, and it's not fancy enough to be called Aahp- ah - lash- ahn
BTW, only tangentially related to the content of this episode, but a great call back to Clown World 2020, New York State governor and noted dimwit Kathy Hochul has called in the National Guard to enforce law and order within the NYC Subway system, thus calling to mind a certain Tom Cotton editorial that caused a bit of a ruckus.
State Universities should not have administrative departments dedicated to DEI, full-stop. I don't mind grievance studies departments, if there's a market for them and they can be reasonably self-sufficient (hahaha). Florida got off easy; their department was a tiny fraction of the size of others (H/T, my increasingly embarrassing alma mater in Charlottesville...).
The discussion around leftist European countries not tolerating the level of disorder seen in U.S. cities reminded me of the time my friend from Switzerland first witnessed homelessness in the US. We were sitting at a bus station, I think in South Lake Tahoe, and a very mentally ill homeless lady next to us started screaming at everyone. All of us Americans kind of sat there and awkwardly stared at our phones as you do, as she proceeded to bang against the glass windows and yell incoherently at all of us. Meanwhile my Swiss friend was visibly shaken by the scene and asked me if we should be calling the cops, to which I said "we'll maybe if she actually hurts someone, otherwise you just ignore it". He was totally flabbergasted by that explanation and then explained that this doesn't happen in Switzerland because you just don't find psychotic people wandering the streets. I found this shocking because I just assumed cities of any size were sure to have mentally ill homeless populations out in the open. Not sure what they do in Switzerland to address the issue, but just about anything seems better than what is currently practiced in US cities.
I would guess they have them committed to mental hospitals. We used to have a robust system but their was a campaign in the 50s and 60s (started in California, I believe, but can be read about at the surface level here - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20consumer%20or%20ex%2Dpatient,on%20Mental%20Illness%20(NAMI).) to basically say that give mentally ill patients anti-psychotic medications was wrong way to treat some of these individuals and they could get better (wrongly) on their own. Also it's incredibly costly to treat and house these individuals which led to many hospitals closing.
I read a great article on it a few years back but have not been able to find it since.
Also, I believe a doctor or doctors promoted a theory that the hospitals were causing mental illness and that if the patients were released, they would get better.
I live in Denmark and have never seen the kind of obviously, gravely psychotic people I encountered again and again in Midtown Manhattan on my last trip over. I'm not sure why.
In Australia, where I grew up, there was a little more visible homelessness and some definite free-range kooks, but not on the scale as one sees stateside. An old friend of mine down in Australia recently had the experience of having a psychotic break, losing her job, ending up on a mental health ward a few times, entering a sharehouse, then crisis housing, and now lives in permanent publically-assisted housing and recently got a job. She's not in touch with her family or many of her friends, so there was a real possibility that she'd end up on the street, but between some good doctors and decent (if frustrating) social workers the system kept her off the streets and helped her back on her feet. Despite long periods where she had a tenuous grasp on reality, the services she bounced between were integrated _just_ well enough to keep her on the right track - maybe that's missing, in the US, with the patchwork of private and public do-gooders? She's also smart and fairly well educated, something that gave her a definite leg up in navigating the bureaucratic maze, jumping hurdles and so on.
In the US, the ACLU has made it very difficult to commit people involuntarily. That combined with the unwillingness of DAs to prosecute vagrancy and here we are.
Sydney is much the same as you found it. In fact north of the harbour you would struggle to find someone on the street.
That's funny because I've witnessed similar behavior in Finland, Canada, New Zealand and Spain.
I have seen similar in Canada. But I am not well traveled outside the US and Canada. And of course it is a single anecdote, so take it with a grain of salt. However, I will also say that my buddy from Denmark had similar reaction to seeing Seattle homelessness. I don't have first hand accounts of Europe to compare, but I can say my two friends from there were genuinely shocked by the degree of disorder on our city streets.
I had a similar epiphany in Helsinki. We don’t go in to the capital often but we were roaming around down by the main train station and I suddenly realized there were no homeless people. Obviously it’s easier to manage a country of 5 million people than a US city larger than that, but still I was impressed
I visited my daughter in Denver about a year ago and was stunned at the level of disorder and homelessness (from Sydney). She is in NYC this weekend and I asked her what that problem was like there. She said no way near that of Denver. There isn’t an obvious answer that I know of as to why you have this issue. It isn’t just that Australia is that clever.
SZEPS! YES!
I’m generally closer to Kmele than Rufo but he should just give him the dub on the DEI closings. He can still be wrong about Stop Woke etc.
This was an excellent episode, gentlemen! I laughed a lot. Szeps is a gem, definitely going to check out his Substack.
Let us reflect upon the irony of the ladies of MSNBC accusing the deplorables of not liking people who are different from them while never allowing anyone with a different opinion from them to enter their own spaces.
Thing that struck me about the discussion was the absence of nuance. Not a lot of “to be fair” or “on the other hand”, or “if you consider.” When I think about Hillary and the deplorable comment I still shudder.