Steve Sailer writes: I’ve been pointing out for a long time that if you are looking for the foreign political leader whom Trump most seeks to emulate, it’s likely not Putin, Mussolini or Hitler, it’s the guy he made a campaign commercial for:
But the idea that the New Yorker Trump has followed Netanyahu’s massively publicized career and wishes to emulate it in an American context is apparently too mindblowingly out there for the press to deal with. Where do the really important issues — like the six-pointed star tweet — fit into this? How can Trump be the New Hitler if he’s (obviously) pro-Semitic? Trump’s concept that if nationalism is good for the Jews it’s good for the Americans too is far too alien for the media mind to contemplate.
On a another topic, I’d hardly be surprised if the Russian government had some kind of role in publishing the DNC emails. It’s kind of a tradition in Russian history to publish to the world foreign leaders’ secret documents. One of the first things Lenin and Trotsky did when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 was to publish the Czarist government’s secret diplomatic files, which caused much embarrassment to Russia’s ex-allies, France and Britain, when their plans for divvying up the spoils of war were revealed. I don’t have any proof who was behind recent releases of conversations by American diplomat Victoria Nuland on Ukraine and Anne Applebaum’s husband, the then foreign minister of Poland, on America, but they would fit within this tradition.
No doubt the Russians also have a more common tradition of keeping the results of espionage secret for blackmail, building atomic bombs, and other nefarious purposes, but the Russian government is rare among governments in having a tradition of posting stolen materials to the world.
COMMENTS:
* The helpful readers of the NY Times explained in the comments that Presidential candidates are NOT permitted to make jokes (how convenient for the humorless Hillary) involving foreign leaders because jokes don’t translate well (apparently neither does the text on “RESET” buttons). And that Trump is guilty of treason and should be tried and executed, or at the very least taken off the ballot so that the Republicans can nominate someone who is dull (even duller than Hillary) and beatable. It’s not fair of them to nominate someone like Trump.
* Part II is even better and is giving Leftists fainting spells (or at least their are feigning fake indignation) – Trump is disrespectful to a woman journalist, etc.
Here he makes utterly clear that he is speaking of past cybersleuthing – “if they have them, they have them” and is not encouraging future espionage. But the NY Times prints a dishonest headline anyway.
* The quote was out of context. A few minutes earlier he said that it was likely that the Russians had already hacked Hillary’s emails. So, at worst, he was not calling for the Russians to hack – but, to produce the fruits of their earlier hacking.
Of course, there is a switch here. The Hillary people are appalled that they might be released. But, if they were all personal as Hillary claims, there is no national security issue.
The anti-Hillary folks, who are supposedly convinced that Hillary deleted emails with state secrets, are the ones who think it is fine for the deleted emails to be released.
Trump did a corrective tweet afterwards saying the Russians should turn them over to the FBI. And that really is fine by any metric – if the Russians already have the deleted emails, turning them over to the FBI would bring out the truth without compromising national security.
* Trump does not suffer from the bear-baiting instinct and Russophobia that seems to be endemic among American bureaucrats and anyone else over a certain age in this country. Neither do I. I like Vladimir Putin, and I am not in the least concerned about any Russian “aggression” under his leadership. Only the Deep State is concerned about that, because Russia, as the last remaining Christian Great Power, is one of the largest threats to their globalist ideology. Ordinary people have nothing to fear from Putin.
The media’s reaction to Trump’s comments is literally hysterical in the Freudian sense—i.e. it is a neurotic reaction the desperately tries to repress what Trump is bringing to everyone’s consciousness, viz. that every foreign government in the world likely has Hillary Clinton’s emails and that SHE is the real threat to national security. The media blaming Trump for what Hillary actually did is a textbook case of transference. Oh Sigmund, why couldst thou not be living at this hour…
With that being said, I don’t think Trump was making a joke. I think he was reminding the media and Hillary of what we all already know to be the case but which must be suppressed for the sake of the narrative. One of the great difficulties in being a real Alpha male in this day and age—or even just having an intact, rational male psychology—is that no one ever actually “gets” you. They hear your words; but your point, your nuance, the inward form with which you imbue the words, are lost on all but a select few.
* The ABCNNBCBS crowd spun it on the nightly news that Trump was ASKING Russia to hack current political and government accounts.
Yes, I watched it, and NO, there’s no other way they were spinning it.
“Trump is asking a foreign government to attack US email accounts.”
This is, of course, BS. Trump was clearly referring to the missing 30k emails. Past tense.
* Compared to all the things they’ve thrown against the wall with regard to Trump this is nothing:
-raciis
-misogyny
-Megyn bleeding out of he you know what
-Birtherism
-Trump U swindles
-mocking disabled
-hating on Mexicans in general
-disrespecting La Raza judge
-anti Muslim
-insufficient respect for Black Lives Matter
-campaign manager manhandling reporter
-violence at rallies
-namecalling at debates
-Cruz mistress crisis plot
-attacks on Heidi Cruz
-small hands = small unit
-Atlantic City failure
-multiple bankruptcies
-multiple marriage
-not really a billionaire
-Melania plagiarism
-wont release tax returns
-undermining NATO
It’s also hard to explain in one sentence so non political junkies wont understand. It also calls attention to Hillary’s old email scandal which they want everyone to forget. It also brings more attention to the current email scandal which is so big that people haven’t even read all the emails yet. There’s more dirt to be revealed there. Mostly it appears to be a sign that they are running out of ideas. A much better strategy would be to continue calling out Trump as a racist for being a successful white male.
That poll today that showed Trump 47 Hillary 40 must have been a real gut punch for the Left; they’re beginning to realize that Hillary could really lose to someone they consider a clown.
If only they could turn back time to last October when Biden announced he wouldn’t run.
* In the movie, As Good as it Gets, Jack Nicholson plays a writer and someone asks him how he writes women so well. He replies, “I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.”
Today’s press is feminized, often literally.
* I watched that press conference and thought trump was on his sterling A game. He’s great with the flippant insults, and then he did that John Lovitz bit. Great. He shall be The Great Entertainer if he wins; we have a hard time conceptualizing just how damn boring politicians are especially when they need not be because I suppose that’s the sea we swim in. Biden just gave a great speech though, that Irish verbal intensity. The other thing that struck me about Trump which I don’t think Trump mentioned is that asssange says he has emails that would get hillary arrested immediatly, and now Marsha Blackburn is calling to investigate the can of worms that is the Clinton foundation. Trump should remind people more frequently that Hillary is currently under investigation for stuff that might wind up sounding most like treason.
Shocking! I thought Judaism was all about #onelove.
Forward: The leader of a local Israeli government council said Thursday that he doesn’t want to see Arabs using public swimming pools in his locality.
“I don’t hate Arabs, but I don’t want them at my pools,” Lower Galilee Regional Council head Motti Dotanhe told a radio station. “I don’t go to their pools, either.”
“If I’d come in a sleazy bathing suit, or if girls in bikinis come with me, it’s clear to you what will happen to them, so that’s why they’ll [Arabs] stay in their pools and my guys will stay in our pools.”
Dotan claimed that his comments had nothing to do with racism. “It’s cultural differences, it’s not racism… In non-Jewish, Arab culture, you go into the pool with clothes, trying to dictate all types of clothing, and that’s why it doesn’t suit us. The culture of cleanliness isn’t the same as ours. Why is that racist?” he asked.
* While it is an outlier, the LA Times/USC national poll has reported the largest lead for Trump since the election began among reputable pollsters, putting him at 47 v 40 for Hillary. He is now +1.3 and rising in the poll average.
If I were Hillary I would make the background of the campaign focus on her and Kaine’s implicit whiteness, tamp down on BLM however possible, and run the same campaign against Trump as Obama did against Romney: a heartless rich guy.
Trump provides such a target rich environment with his long and sleazy business career and personal life that the Dems just can’t pick a line of attack and stick to it. And they always take his bait to make the conversation about “racism.” White Americans have had more than enough discussion about how they all suck and are awful racists. But the dems just can’t help themselves, they have to keep calling Trump a racist, I think it is an uncontrollable reflex for them.
* Well I awoke this morning expecting lots of media coverage of Trump’s alleged TREASON for making a wisecrack about Clinton’s inability to manage classified information but there is nothing at all about it. The libs were certainly unhinged about it last night. Shortest meme cycle I have seen to date.
* I watched most, but not all, of the speech. I found it interesting that he still claims the assassination of Osama Bin Laden as a big achievement (I agreed with SOD Bob Gates’ recommendation that we should have taken him out with missiles rather than risk Navy Seals), probably thinking it helped win the 2012 election so why not try it again, completely overlooking the fact that ISIS is the enemy du jour. I think it might have been an effective speech if we didn’t have the past 7-1/2 years of Obama reality to measure it by. A measure of how far we’ve come is that I heard Tim Kaine go through the list of past Democratic greats (from Jack to Martin to Lyndon to Bill) and the contributions they made and cited Obama for bringing us “hope” (“and Barack gave us hope”).Whatever happened to the second part: “change”?
BTW I recall Colin Powell endorsing Obama in 2012 and crediting him for ending the war in Iraq and arranging for the impending withdrawal from Afghanistan. Another great sales job by Gen. Powell. And another preemptive reward, like the Nobel Peace Prize, to a totally undeserving recipient.
* She was a National Merit Finalist: top 1/2 of 1 percent. Of course she’s never been right about anything in her life.
* First, Trump runs under the ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan. Then Democrat protesters at Trump events hold signs that read ‘America Was Never Great’. Now their leader has changed that to ‘America Is Already Great’. Which is it? Were we never great or are we great now?
* Obama has two things to his name: national health care, which has mixed reviews and basically amounts to a tax increase, and racial polarization, which he has managed to accentuate.
I think in the end Obama will be most associated with the continued economic sluggishness, and polarization and fragmentation of Americans along racial, ethnic, and sexual identification lines. “The Futility of Diversity” might be the title of a review of his presidency.
* I think Obama will be remembered in the history books for being the “black President”. Now that we have gotten that out of our system, I suspect it will be some time before we try that again. After Dinkins, NY did not elect any more black mayors and even in Phila which has as many blacks as whites the new mayor is white. After the 1st one you actually have to be qualified and not just black.
It’s just as well that he will be remembered for that because he won’t be remembered for anything else. The economy never fully recovered, there was no racial healing (in fact the opposite). Obamacare will probably self-destruct in a few years one way or another because the economics are not sustainable. So that his net legacy will be zilch.
* Watch out, Donald, they’re coming for you:
Trump's "jokes" inviting an adversary to wage cyberwar against the U.S. appear to violate the Logan Act and might even constitute treason.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 28, 2016
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/laurence-tribe-trump-russia-226371
In Obama’s America, the wrong sort of joke is Treason.
And you know what the wrong sort is — and if you don’t, you’ll find out soon.
William Lind writes: Martin van Creveld’s latest book, Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It, is so important that it re-defines the military reform agenda. Previously, military reform has focused on the problems that have led to America’s repeated military defeats. The issues van Creveld raises in Pussycats suggests we are moving from an American military that can’t win to one that won’t even fight.
The essence of Creveld’s argument is that we (both the U.S. and Western Europe) have de-militarized our military. The introduction of women is one of the factors, but not the only one, although if a military is to fight it must have an aggressively male culture. That is unacceptable not only to the women in the military but to a broadly womanized society and culture. It would not surprise our ancestors to hear that a womanized society can’t fight.
But Creveld looks at influences well beyond womanization. The de-militarizing of our armed forces begins, he argues, with the way we now raise children, especially boys. No longer do they “go out and play”, get into fights, get into difficulties they have to find their own ways out of. Rather, they live controlled, “safe” lives where they always have adult supervision and are instructed in how to do everything before they have to do it. Instead of growing up, they are forever infantilized.
This problem is very real. Recently, I recommended to a friend, a lieutenant colonel at the Marine Corp’s Basic School for new lieutenants, that they reinstitute the “Zen patrol”. In the Zen patrol, which TBS used to do, new lieutenants are simply taken out on a patrol, without having received any instruction in patrolling. They have to figure it out for themselves, which means they also learn how to learn.
