* On the day after The Battle of Indiana, this is not a coincidence. The Donald does tend to generate energy wherever he goes, like swelling the ranks of Republican voters in primaries.
Let us hope he reinvigorates the nation as a whole. One grows weary of defeatism and despair.
And thank you, Mr. Sailer, for hosting a site so worthy of careful perusal.
* Now that Trump has it in the bag, my Trump news addiction is causing me to refresh everywhere hoping for a fix. It reminds me of the days following 9/11 on wnd. Maybe that is part of the reason for the comment record… people coming online in search of news and then posting.
* Steve is awakening more and more synapses in the American part of the global brain.
Smell the coffee.
(I only discovered this blog less than two years ago. Can’t remember how I stumbled upon it. Some cool black guy in sunglasses gave me a red pill…)
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2016
* WaPo’s Charles Lane does his best impression of Conservative Pundit. If you read this article, you can see why our betters want to replace us with a different electorate. Frankly, we’re stupid and dangerous as opposed to stupid and lethargic.
According to Lane, we shouldn’t blame the establishment for Trump’s rise. No, it’s those pesky voters who need to change their ways.
Here are some choice quotes:
“But there hasn’t been nearly enough blaming of the people most responsible for The Donald’s rise: his voters.
They are perpetually — indulgently — described as “angry,” or “frustrated,” or “fed up,” and no doubt they are. But exactly how reasonable are those feelings, and how rational a response to them is a vote for Trump?
The answers, respectively, are “only somewhat” and “not at all.””
Translation: The voters are just wrong, and we shouldn’t have to listen to them.
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“Trump’s voters are bitterly disenchanted because they think society puts the grievances of others above their own.”
The nerve!
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“I’m not sure what non-work has to do with it, since whatever else can be said about them, 91 percent of unauthorized immigrant men, Trump’s scapegoats, were either working or seeking work in 2012 — compared with 79 percent of U.S.-born men.”
Mr. Lane can’t seem to make the connection and notice that the latter number may be influenced by the former. Basically, he’s bringing up the Jeb mantra that American workers should quit complaining and act like Mexicans just happy to have a job and live at slightly above poverty levels.
* OT, from today’s NYTimes:
And from the top comments:
“When I had toddlers I child locked all the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, I gated off the stairs, I child proofed the house. I put them in car seats and strollers with straps. They slept in cribs with high rails and bumpers. I tested the temperature of their bottles. I treated them like the fragile precious beings that they were. My number one job for the first 5 or 6 years of their lives was to make sure they didn’t accidentally kill themselves. The thought of leaving anything dangerous within their grasp let alone a gun gave me anxiety. What kind of person leaves a gun anywhere near a child?”
I have no idea. Could there be any common thread that connects these parents? I don’t see any patterns. Is it possible that they were all Japanese?
* There are 26 articles about Donald Trump on salon.com today, including a laughable “How the Media Got Trump Wrong” essay.
He is the last thing keeping many liberal media outlets afloat.
* Recall that AZ passed the tough immigration laws, and earlier this year reports came out that AZ GDP fell about 2 percent. The MSM was trying to make the link that removing illegals would cost economic growth. But several commenters pointed out that after you account for the departed illegals, the per capita GDP of AZ was the same or even higher.
Today Reuters is running a story that Trump’s deportation plan would cost the US economy 2 percent in lost GDP.
* The Keating family is full of odd ducks. Anti pornography crusaders who were business criminals, a gold medalist swimmer who was a butcher of an ophthalmologist, a show boat gold medalist swimmer and a Navy seal.
* And not one post about golf course architecture? Man, how did you reel in those numbers without such crowd-baiting posts?
* OT: some big verdicts against Johnson & Johnson (talc) with the plaintiff attorney claiming, “Johnson & Johnson’s marketing targeted overweight women, blacks and Hispanics, knowing that those groups were most at-risk for talc-related ovarian cancer…”
Biodiversity: good for the tort industry, apparently.
* Here’s a 1+ hour discussion focused largely on white working class economic insecurity between Robert Putnam and Charles Murray, in which immigration is never mentioned, except that moderator David Gergen says how CEOs tell him Mexican men work much harder than white men.
* I was surprised to see this comment as a NYT pick:
Tom Honolulu 23 hours ago
You also underestimated the popularity of Trump’s position on immigration, his number one issue. There seems to be a huge gap between how many of the political/media/business elite view immigration and how many working people view immigration.
I also agree that Trump’s media savvy is a big part of his success. Someone on Bill Maher’s show recently noted the parallels with FDR in the 1930s who utilized the new technology of radio, and with JFK who utilized TV in 1960. Trump understands reality TV and social media in an intuitive way that the other candidates cannot match.
* What Silver fails to mention is that everyone has embraced identity politics and racial bloc voting, it’s just that whites are late to the party. It looks like the uppity goyim are revolting, despite all our soft power efforts (as the article alludes to). The other thing is that Trump supporters aren’t just aggrieved by immigrants, it’s the intentional flooding of our country with non-whites for the intent of diluting our power and our unity permanently that pisses a lot of us off.
Take a leaf from (((Brin))) and (((Page))). Adopt a “Don’t be evil” philosophy. The pogrom you prevent may be your own.
* So long as their paymasters make money off unchecked immigration, the media whores will never talk about immigration restriction as a serious or good thing.
They are under strict orders not to mention it unless absolutely necessary.
* Trump is like Obama. For the lion’s share of his support, he relies on a vague message (“make America great again”/”change”) that invites people to imagine he’s saying whatever they themselves believe. While for another group, smaller in numbers but greater in enthusiasm, he dogwhistles a harsher message (immigrants are bad/whitey must die).
