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Titanically Stupid: 61-Year-Old White Guy Who Refused to Hire “50-Year-Old White Guys” Perishes in Hubristic Deep-Sea Quest to Ogle the Titanic’s Ruins
One of last week’s biggest stories involved the deep irony that during a mission to venture two miles underwater merely so that its five inhabitants could gander at the Titanic, a clunky little submersible known as the Titan endured a “catastrophic implosion,” scattering bits of the vessel and morselized body parts of its occupants on the ocean floor about 1,600 feet from the Titanic.
It was also ironic that the CEO of OceanGate, the company that produced the ill-fated Titan, was Stockton Rush, who through his father was descended from Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush, both of whom signed the Declaration of Independence.
Compounding the irony is the fact that at the time of his untimely implosion, Rush was married to a Jewess who was born Wendy Weil, the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Strauss, both of whom died when the Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in 1912. Isidor and Ida’s real-life demise were fictionalized in James Cameron’s massively successful 1997 film Titanic, which featured a scene where the couple held onto each other as water rose in their cabin.
Even more ironic than all that is the fact that Stockton Rush, who was by all appearances a 61-year-old white guy, had — before his death, of course — given an interview claiming that he didn’t want to hire “50-year-old white guys” because he didn’t find them to be “inspirational”:
When I started business, one of the things you’ll find for other sub operators out there, they typically have people who are ex-military submariners and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys. I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational. . . . And I’m not gonna inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational. So we’ve really tried to get very intelligent, motivated younger individuals to get involved.
Rush had also criticized a US law known as the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993, which regulated the construction of tourist vessels intended to dive deeper than 150 feet, claiming the law “needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation.”
Rush’s company had required would-be deep-sea voyagers to sign a waiver releasing OceanGate of liability should, oh, their vessel be crushed under overwhelming water pressure and their bodies blasted into tiny bits of fish food. Sample passages from the waiver:
- A portion of the operation will be conducted inside an experimental submersible vessel. The experimental submersible vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and may be constructed of materials that have not been widely used in human occupied submersibles.
- When diving below the ocean surface this vessel will be subject to extreme pressure, and any failure of the vessel while I am aboard could cause severe injury or death. I understand that I may decline to participate in any dive below the ocean surface or any activity of the operation at any time.
And now five people are dead — all of them male, two of them Pakistani and three of them white, including the white guy who virtue-signaled to the world that he didn’t want to hire white guys.
The biggest irony of the bunch is that the white guy who didn’t find white guys to be “inspirational” is no longer aspirating.
Juneteenth 2023: Slavery’s Progeny Celebrate Their Emancipation By Slaughtering One Another Nationwide
Juneteenth is a federal holiday based on the Junetarded delusion that on June 19, 1865, the black slaves in Galveston, Texas — who got the memo a few months too late that the South had surrendered and the slaves were suddenly free to start raping and killing Americans of all races — were actually the last black slaves in America to be emancipated.
The holiday’s official title is Juneteenth National Independence Day, and the fact that it includes the phrase “Independence Day” — as well as the fact that it occurs about two weeks before the other Independence Day — suggests it’s an attempt to overshadow and perhaps even usurp the celebration and significance of July 4.
This year, the three-day weekend included both Juneteenth and Father’s Day, which severely complicates matters for black communities nationwide. I mean, that’s freedom from slavery and freedom from baby mamas all in one weekend!
And according to the Gun Violence Archive, 19 mass shootings occurred over the three-day holiday weekend.
Two years ago, Juneteenth festivities left at least eight people dead, which is peanuts compared to the 13 who were left dead in Chicago alone during the joyous holiday weekend this year. In the Chi-Town area, an impressive 75 were shot — meaning that it’s impressive that so many were shot, not that any of them were impressive as people — in 51 separate incidents. During one late-night incident in a strip-mall parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois, 23 people were shot, but since the gunman or gunpersons were black, only one died. Chicago’s black mayor and black interim police superintendent vowed to do better.
So did Milwaukee’s black mayor and black police chief. Milwaukee police chief Jeffrey Norman asked:
Milwaukee, what’s going on with our children? Parents, guardians, elders, we need to engage and ensure that this violence that our children are bringing to these streets cease. No handgun, no weapon of destruction should be in the hands of our young ones. It’s important that all of us do something.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said:
Today was a glorious day. We celebrated Juneteenth. And I think it’s important to point out the fact that this incident did not happen during Juneteenth. . . . This happened after Juneteenth had concluded. But still, it is totally, it is totally, totally unacceptable for the incident that happened right in this neighborhood, right in this community.
Okay, now that Juneteenth violence has been declared “totally unacceptable,” victory is within our grasp.
In New York City, which also has a black mayor and a black police chief, Juneteenth marked the “deadliest day for shootings in 2023 so far.”
“Multiple Stampedes” prematurely ended a Juneteenth festival in a Los Angeles park.
There were holiday-weekend shootings in Cleveland, Akron, Asheville, Washington, DC, and San Diego, as well as other places that I’ve sorely neglected to mention. In nearly every case, what were peaceful gatherings suddenly erupted into violence, bloodshed, and death. For your viewing pleasure, I’ve compiled a “Best Of” video highlighting some of the mayhem.
Musk vs. Zuck in MMA Cage Match?
Who would win in a mixed martial arts-rules cage match between tech giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? The world may soon find out the answer to that question.
“This would be the biggest fight in the history of the world,” opines Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White, who says he’s spoken to both Musk and Zuckerberg and claims they’re “dead serious.”
You can buy Jim Goad’s ANSWER Me! here.
First, the tale of the wallet:
As of the latest available tally, Musk’s net worth is $234.3 billion, while Zuckerberg’s barely eclipses $100 billion. Still, neither fortune is anything to sneeze at, although I’d probably sneeze aggressively and with extreme prejudice at both of their fortunes.
As far as their tech companies go, Zuckerberg’s Meta, which embraces Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has a market cap of nearly $750 billion, which dwarfs the estimated value of Musk’s Twitter, which is currently valued at around $41 billion.
Now, the tale of the tape:
Musk, 51, stands 6’1”, weighs an estimated 190 pounds, and has a 76-inch reach. Zuckerberg, 39, is a shrimpy 5’7” and weighs 157 pounds with a reach of 67 inches. Zuckerberg, though, is a white belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the lowest possible ranking out of the five available belts. Due to his ethnicity, I would have expected Zuckerberg to have trained in Krav Maga, AKA “Jew Jitsu.”
Musk, who as far as I know has no formal combat training, is notoriously prone to flabbiness and is the frequent subject of merciless online fat-shaming. Last week, he joked on Twitter about his apparent martial-arts inadequacies:
I have this great move that I call “The Walrus”, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing . . . almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air.
Accused rapist and sex-trafficker Andrew Tate, who was once a kickboxing champion, has offered to train Musk.
There has been bad blood brewing between the tech billionaires for years. After the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed that a private firm had been misusing data from Facebook users, Musk deleted the Facebook pages for SpaceX and Tesla. There are also rumors afoot that Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to release a Twitter competitor tentatively called “Threads.” Some speculate that Zuckerberg, despite his fame and wealth, is hobbled not only by his innate charmlessness but also by the fact that his triangular-shaped nose resembles that of Ray “The Scarecrow Bolger” from The Wizard of Oz as well as a random piece of candy corn. It is thought that by besting Musk in the Octagon, Zuckerberg hopes that some of Elon’s “cool guy” mystique may rub off on him.
Although none of the details have been worked out and the fight remains little more than gleams in both Musk and Zuckerberg’s eyes, I hope it happens. I also hope that Musk flattens him.
Six-on-One “Teen” Attack Occurs Less Than Five Miles from Where I Grew Up, Where There Were No “Teens” Even When I Was a Teen
I spent the first 19 years of my life in the humble brick-and-cement borough of Clifton, Heights, Pennsylvania. Since I was a map-and-census nerd in my formative years, it’s etched into my memory that the town’s population back then was 8,005. None of the residents were black; it would have caused a scandal. It was our general impression that blacks were not allowed to venture outside of Philadelphia’s city limits, which were about nine miles away. As of the 2020 Census, Clifton Heights’s population has dropped to 6,863, nearly a quarter of whom are black.
For a while during the 1970s and ‘80s, my sister lived with her kids and first husband in Havertown, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated area of Haverford Township that is a mere 4.5 miles from Clifton Heights. While attending college, I remember watching the Super Bowl in the basement of my sister’s Havertown house on a brutally cold Sunday in 1981 as the Oakland Raiders thrashed the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10. Even in 1981, spotting a black person in Havertown would have been as rare as seeing a Sasquatch. As of the 2020 Census, Haverford Township is still only 2.7% black.
But apparently it’s an ornery 2.7%.
I saw the news on Twitter, along with a video and the following description:
A 15-year-old white kid was beaten up by 6 black dudes between the ages of 14 and 17 while playing basketball on Monday night in Havertown, Pennsylvania.
A bystander filmed the attack while doing nothing to stop it and posted it on social media.
Police say they attacked him in order to steal his Yeezy slides.
In case you were unaware (I was), “Yeezy slides” are some kind of futuristic-looking shoes marketed by the mentally unstable Jew-naming Christian nationalist Kanye West.
The video posted on Twitter was taken from a news segment by a local ABC affiliate. The reporter was a black woman named TaRhonda Thomas. According to the text on the local ABC website, which did not mention race:
Investigators say bystanders recorded video of the attack. It’s led to one arrest and a search for five other suspects who police say may have been after the victim’s shoes.
“They are punching, kicking and beating on this kid when he’s laying on the ground,” said Deputy Chief Joseph Hagan of the Haverford Township Police Department.
The video is disturbing as it shows six teen boys attacking a 15-year-old boy. Police say it happened at 9:15 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Glen Arbor Road in Havertown. The victim had gone there to play basketball not expecting to get jumped. . . .
“One of the kids put it up on social media and we were able to get that video off social media,” said Hagan. . . .
One neighbor, who didn’t want to go on camera, says juveniles have been causing problems in the area for a while.
You have to watch out for those juveniles.
Since the surname “Hagan” is Irish, I’ll assume that Deputy Chief Joseph Hagan is of Irish descent. I grew up around extremely thick Tidewater accents such as his. I didn’t grow up around smartphones or black people, and I certainly didn’t grow up around white teens who passively recorded black teens beating the shit out of a white teen on their smartphones.
Then again, I grew up before the Age of Progress.
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Were the kids standing around black or white? Reminds me of that other seventeen year old who was beaten to death and his friends, who were black , did nothing to help him.
Off topic, but relating to things discussed here, does anyone else think all these weird crazes and external threats are diversions in some way, from the elite shenanigans that people should be noticing, such as the epstein affair, the biden laptop controversy, or the political prosecution of trump? It started with the Chinese balloon scare, then there is AI scare which everybody is talking about, and now it seems to be moving to aliens really hard. They are trying to create the sense of an external threat to distract us from the current state of affairs, basically. Some think Qanon had similar origins and intent, and boy if they believe that, they’ll buy anything, I have to hand it to our elites! You notice, tucker Carlson had this aliens hobbyhorse, which was annoying, but now his replacement seems to believe in aliens too, lol! That tells me it’s some sort of top down thing. Maybe it’s the IT or whatever—one of the Gus believes in aliens, right?—or maybe the IT is folding into other elite strategies. What do you guys think?
I think chat Gtp or whatever is going to turn out to be a hoax. It’s like the Turk that chess playing automaton from the 1800s that turned out to have a person inside. It doesn’t work the way people think it does.
The video is hyperlinked on the word “Twitter” in the phrase “I saw the news on Twitter” in the story. It seems like it’s mostly white girls standing around and filming.
The only good thing about the preponderance of videos of “teens” beating the shit out of helpless white people is I won’t have to have John Derbyshire’s talk with my girls when they get older. I will just show them a few of these videos and say “this is what happens to well meaning white kids when they try to befriend a group of black kids.”
That video. My god.
But don’t worry. I was judging on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
We don’t have African-Americans. We have American Africans.
That last story, Mr Goad – that tells the tale.
It is the content of the character – as in we aint got none as a people.
Whatever conspiracy, psyop, or medication, likely all and more, worked spectacularly. We are absent our collective nads, this would have never flown when I was a youngun.
The guys I ran with would have gotten involved, and not in a heads up our own collective asses way either. It would have stopped or shit would have real, real quick.
We weren’t looking for trouble, we just had some raising.
In the suburbs of Philly, there are still maskers, Ukraine flags, BLM signs. The supine morons who will go along with anything the NWO want have raised even more indolent children, children who won’t even protect their friends. They may be white, but they sorely lack any of the spine we used to have as a people.
Indeed. The jackasses that gave us John Fetterman
Any white person that wears something called Yeezy anything could well do with a good beating.
About fifty years ago, on a trip to the zoo, I watched as 25-30 nigger boys beat the shit out of three white boys. It started as a chase, then the mob encircled the three. I particularly remember how the outer ring turned and faced outward to take on anyone who might try to intervene. I was momentarily seized with the idiotic delusion that because I weighed twice as much as any one of them, I could just pick up a convenient jawbone of an ass or something and wade right into them. Luckily for me, my frail and sickly wife gripped desperately onto my arm and begged “Don’t,” saving me from being severely beaten, maimed, or murdered. That was before cell phones and 911, so all I did was watch. It’s a sickening memory.
A very persuasive argument for concealed carry.
Where have you been? It is now illegal for White people to shoot non-Whites in self-defense. It’s called a “hate” crime and is punishable by defamation before trial, a lynch mob baying for your blood (and that of your family members), a follow-up public lynching for civil rights violations, and then multiple years (decades probably) in prison.
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most storied events ofmodern history, legendary for its hubris of an “unsinkable” vessel sunk on its first voyage. Well such arrogance has now been topped by Stockton Rush’s iceberg melting vanity, complete with the requisite nod to modern wokespeak against “white guys”. I hadn’t heard of these quests until after the disaster, but I’m surprised there weren’t alarm bells ringing from the videos of him showing off that the ‘submersible’ was being controlled by one of those $50 bluetooth controllers for video games. The court of public opinion is starting to weigh in among amazon reviewers of the item, a Logitech F710,“Perfect for piloting a mini-submarine” to “Look elsewhere for your submarine needs…It worked great for Sonic the Hedgehog, so I’m surprised it didn’t work out”. You might hold off on a purchase as the company might have a limited Titanic-edition coming out.
In honor of the intrepid explorer Stockton Rush, here’s an hour of Baby Shark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bMOTTJqGgM
Does not Mr Zuckerberg fancy himself as Augustus (Caesar)? One presumes he has detected a resemblance in the portrayal of that noble Roman in the BBC/HBO television programme Rome. Lest that conception perplex some here, Mr Zuckerberg’s sister, a classicist of note, has been at pains to urge that the Romans were not, in fact, ‘white’.
Here’s that classicist of note:
When Education Does Not Mean Knowledge: The Case Of Donna Zuckerberg | Quintus Curtius (archive.org)
The Public Humiliation Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister | Return of Kings (theredarchive.com)
As a footnote, there’s a controversy over Stockton, the Declaration signer. He may (note I said “may”) have taken back his declaration. This is a really thorny subject. David Hackett Fisher, in his excellent book about the battle of Trenton, got stung when he, in a footnote, wrote that there’s evidence Stockton retracted his independence signature. Stockton’s ancestors are prickly about this, and I don’t blame them. Now this other Stockton messes things up and makes the family look bad again. The link below is only one of many, both pro and con.
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/patriot-who-was-forced-recant
I, for one, would not mind if Juneteenth replaces July 4th as the new “Independence Day,” because apparently the former has far more entertaining displays of “fireworks.” The only thing missing is the musical accompaniment of some schmaltzy, cheeseball ditty like Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”
So now what? Rush’s wife will take his fortune and use it to further our dispossession, replacement and looming genocide. Brilliant Stockton, descendant of two signers of the US Constitution. Brilliant Stockton is the perfect symbol of how we have been played. Then there is the white guy who can’t fight back. Typically if you show vicious intent and harm one of your assailants either, the rest will scatter immediately when harm becomes a possibility, or they will at least be stunned and stop, so you can escape through the route of the one who you took out.
I am very tired of seeing white guys, just laying down and taking getting a beating. I have a prediction. Rather than white guys manning up and learning legitimate self defense, they’ll turn to mimicking and joining in such gang violence out of cowardice. I hope I am wrong, but I have a sinking feeling about this. (pun intended Stockton)
Clifton Heights PA…originally known as Kellyville. Early 1800s, a couple of guys from Donegal, named Kelly, uncle and nephew, ran textile mills along Darby Creek. When I was little there was still a dark Satanic mill building calling itself Kent Mills. During the Civil War they’d manufactured blankets and maybe Yankee uniforms. In my day it was where you went to buy your prescribed school uniforms (private schools, mostly; not parochial). Everything was made of heavy serge or flannel. They now did the manufacturing elsewhere but otherwise the building can’t have changed much since the time of General Meade. Electricity had been laid on, of course, but only to the extent of hanging naked light bulbs from the ceiling.
In other news: Absolutely love the Schadenfreude in your Titan takedown, Jim. I wasn’t following the story so had no idea they’d all been blown to smithereens. In fact, I thought somebody was still searching for them.
Lantern-jawed “Mr. Submarine Man”, the late Stockton Rush – oh, what a name! – that for this seafarer was both appropriate and hubristic, looking just like the character ‘Roger T “Race” Bannon’ from the mid-nineteen-sixties Hannah-Barbera cartoon TV show “Jonny Quest”.
Apparently when he was a small boy, Rush (dob 31st March 1962) was obsessed with space travel and science fiction in general – 1960’s TV shows like “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea”, etc – dreaming of being the first man to set foot on Mars.
He didn’t get to fulfill his dream – despite being born late mid-century at a time when it appeared that White men could achieve just about anything they put their minds to – the social degeneration heralded by the later nineteen-sixties, not becoming properly apparent until the middle of the following decade.
However, he may well be remembered as one of the last men to try and see face-on the seaweed-smothered ship-wreck from 1912 upon which coincidentally, his great, great, great mother-in-law perished .
This incident truly encapsulates the “White Saviour” complex and the self-absorption of those who profess to love everybody – but in reality end up loving nobody but themselves, in addition to despising the readership of websites such as this.
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