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Monthly Archives: September 2016
WP: A lot of Donald Trump Jr.’s trail missteps seem to involve white nationalists and Nazis
This is a trend. Donald Trump Jr. is Alt-Right friendly. Good for the Washington Post for linking to Alt-Right sources in this piece. Washington Post: Let’s recap: The “gas chamber” comment “The media has been her number-one surrogate in this,” … Continue reading
Divisions In White Nationalism
I just caught this podcast on Youtube. Host: “What causes these rifts? A lot of it is class. Boots vs suits. Then there are the wonks vs trolls. We’re doing right-wing journalism and winning the internet every day.” “There seems … Continue reading
Big-headed babies are brightest
Phrenology is real. Big heads correlate with big brains which correlate with high IQ. People with big heads typically don’t run fast because their body shape must change to support their big heads, so their hips get wider and then … Continue reading
Why Carl Schmitt Became A Nazi
From Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography: Wikipedia.
I Wonder Where The Washington Post Stands On Donald Trump?
From this afternoon:
Constitutional Theory
From page 191 of Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography: Schmitt defines the state as the ‘political unity’ of a people and interprets the ‘positive’ constitution as the ‘complete decision over the form and type of the political unity.’ Every … Continue reading
NYT: Hillary Clinton’s Supporters, Once Certain of Victory, Now Racked by Doubt
New York Times: Beside the olive display at Zabar’s, that iconic hub of lox and neurosis on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Linda Donohue was trying to talk herself down. Surely the polls she tracked anxiously were not to … Continue reading
Trump is doing everything right—including letting Jimmy Fallon mess up his hair
Jake Novak writes on CNBC: I suppose people have had better months than Donald Trump has had so far in September… maybe that guy who’s won the Florida lottery seven times, or that baseball star who’s engaged to Kate Upton. … Continue reading
Ann Coulter’s IN TRUMP WE TRUST Explains Trump’s Appeal
Washington Watcher writes: Ann Coulter America’s foremost polemicist, is most recently in the news for (1) unflinchingly enduring unbridled Leftist abuse at a Comedy Central “roast” for someone called Rob Lowe that, if it were anyone else, would have been … Continue reading
Regression to the Meme
James Taranto of the WSJ writes: Hillary Clinton’s campaign has published a parody of Vox, the liberal news site for young adults. Headline: “Donald Trump, Pepe the Frog, and White Supremacists: An Explainer.” Subheadline: “That cartoon frog is more sinister … Continue reading