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.
