I realize that the name Hitler has the distractive quality of pornography and so I cite it only with reluctance. Hitler, however, was not a fictional creation but a real man who was legally chosen to be Germany’s chancellor, and while Trump is neither an anti-Semite nor does he have designs on neighboring countries, he is Hitlerian in his thinking. He thinks the truth is what he says it is.
Soon after becoming chancellor, Hitler announced that the Jews had declared war on Germany. It was a preposterous statement because Jews were less than 1 percent of Germany’s population and had neither the numbers nor the power to make war on anything. In fact, in sheer preposterousness, it compares to Trump’s insistence that Barack Obama was not born in the United States — a position he tenaciously held even after Obama released his Hawaiian birth certificate.
At the time, people tried to make sense of Hitler’s statements by saying he was seeking a scapegoat and had settled on the Jews. Not so. From my readings, I know of no instance in which Hitler confided to an intimate that, of course, his statements about Jews were, as we might now say, over the top. In fact, he remained consistently deranged on the topic. He was not lying. For him, it was the truth.
Trump’s fixation on Obama’s birthplace is similar.
It’s great that WAPO has Jennifer Rubin, Dana Milbank, AND Richard Cohen. These oh-so-radically-different-just-happen-to-be-Jewish in that you would never guess way really cover the diverse national political opinions that exist at the DC shabbos table.
How many Jewish columnists does WAPO need to call Trump a fascist exactly?
I think some Jews really just want to be called out. Look at how many willingly, foolishly, still have those parenthesis around their name, signaling their tribalism.
Some tribal Jews have so convinced themselves of their ethnic superiority they don’t even take their ever-increasing enemies seriously.
>If you go to the @instapundit account, this is what you see:
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This is getting crazy. Twitter is blocking access to my blog, banning Milo, suspending Instapundit… it appears the thought police at Twitter are openly declaring war on the social media Right.
UPDATE: This was Twitter’s excuse:
UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds responds:
Sorry, blocking the interstate is dangerous, and trapping people in their cars is a threat. Driving on is self-preservation, especially when we’ve had mobs destroying property and injuring and killing people. But if Twitter doesn’t like me, I’m happy to stop providing them with free content.
Was just on Hugh Hewitt talking about this. Since Twitter won’t let me respond to — or even see — my critics, let me expand here.
I’ve always been a supporter of free speech and peaceful protest. I fully support people protesting police actions, and I’ve been writing in support of greater accountability for police for years.
But riots aren’t peaceful protest. And blocking interstates and trapping people in their cars is not peaceful protest — it’s threatening and dangerous, especially against the background of people rioting, cops being injured, civilian-on-civilian shootings, and so on. I wouldn’t actually aim for people blocking the road, but I wouldn’t stop because I’d fear for my safety, as I think any reasonable person would.
“Run them down” perhaps didn’t capture this fully, but it’s Twitter, where character limits stand in the way of nuance.
Meanwhile, regarding Twitter: I don’t even know that this is why I was suspended, as I’ve heard nothing from Twitter at all. They tell users and investors that they don’t censor, but they seem awfully quick to suspend people on one side of the debate and, as people over at Twitchy note, awfully tolerant of outright threats on the other.
Twitter can do without me, as I can certainly do without Twitter.
UPDATE: Apparently Twitter has reconsidered and unsuspended Glenn. For now.
Grave news: Youtube has gone the Reddit moderation path.
Volunteer-staffed mass flagging, comment removal, all that.
The internet is becoming a very coddled place.
They call it YouTube Heroes.
I think, at this point, we are going to have to assume that it is only a matter of time before Blogger is similarly converged and prepare accordingly. I’ve always had several backups running, of course, so I doubt much of an interruption will be necessary, but if Blogger goes the way of Goodreads, Wikipedia, Facebook, and now Twitter and YouTube, check in at either Gab or Castalia House to find the new location.
COMMENTS:
* To put it from their viewpoint, the election is coming up and The Donald could actually win. Got to pull out all the stops.
* They already shut down Hikok45’s YouTube gun channel by ‘accident’ last year. It’s back up but it appears in the last 24hours that the reality of Trump actually winning has them shatting their pants.
Banning Instapundit? He’s about as subversive as Mister Rodgers.
* As others have said, it must be about Trump. They’ve generally been far more circumspect until now. From their perspective, he’s worse than Nixon, Reagan, and W combined. They’re so self-absorbed that they think these actions will actually help their cause.
* Trump is aware that this is war. Facebook, twitter, google (youtube) and reddit are all trying to sneakily sabotage his election. Trump doesn’t forget nor forgive. If elected he’ll antitrust their ass so hard they’ll never sit again.
* We need a YouTube alternative. I’ve been looking this morning. Vid.me looked possible… then I read this on their community standards page:
“No hate speech
No videos that promote racism, bigotry, physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.”
Hate speech is an SJW term. Too bad.
YouTube makes some serious money for good content providers with large followings. A problem with convergence is that it’s really going to cost some folk their income.
How long until income from Amazon gets cut too?
Most of my antifragile planning has been based on creating revenue from a range of sources. Most of these, however, are still tied into these large platforms and switching off of them may allow dissemination of content but without the associated revenue.
It’s not looking good.
* These large charitable trusts go on for generations and tend to accumulate Social Justice Warriors in their leadership. Defining charity much more narrowly would be helpful. Also one might require they spend, say, ten percent or more of their funds annually. That would tend to drain them down.
Universities are hotbeds of left liberalism and they more or less control who becomes a journalist. That produces a press made up of hard left or liberal folk. I know the management has a say, but complicating this model, making it less automatic, would be helpful.
* Infowars has a video of a rapper in Charlotte spreading the false flag on social media that the guy who got shot had a book, not a gun, and was just sitting there waiting for his son. A couple videos went up on Twitter of guys in Charlotte also spreading that false flag on social media.
These guys are the ones violating the user terms. They are the ones actually inciting real violence, not Glen Reynolds.
The enemy is pretty cagey here. We’d do well to penetrate and map these disinformation campaigns.
* /pol/ is trying to make saying “google” instead of “nigger” a thing, such that people who type “google” will get lead to examples of nigs nigging, as well as to just trash the word “google”, in general.
Ok, Operation Google is pretty funny. And I bet it would work. Fucking googles. pic.twitter.com/1shblW8FTk
* Regarding “funding” would someone please explain why would they ever run out of it? Not being expert at all the various fine points of how the racket works, and to what extent it is controlled by whom, there may well be unaccounted-for factors which render the points below off the mark in one way or another….
1. Money is nothing but zeros added to accounts by the counterfeiting cartel – used to create trillions of more phantom “money” via the derivatives rackets, etc., etc., etc.
2. Folks in the sanhedrin like (((Soros))) have access to a literally unlimited supply of such “money” which is accepted by most people – thanks in part to government decrees that it be accepted – as payment for hard assets and the like. For the few cranks who don’t accept it, they can come up with enough gold, etc. – or simply steal it outright or seize the assets they want by blackrobe decree. It’s not as if there is any rule of law to prevent this – just ask John Corzine’s customers.
3. As with the Slim-Duranty Times, Twitter, Faceberg, and the various converged entities can operate as long as the fake money is accepted as real and the debt-racketeering, derivative casinos and the like continue to spin along. “Cash” infusions can continue as long as those who call the shots need them to operate. Besides, most of these entities continue to make enough money in terms of cash flow that they’ll be propped up (or, more accurately, their propping up will be sold to institutional investors, etc. as prudent investing).
Yes it will eventually come crashing down – very hard. As VD himself noted quite a while ago, the (((Learned Elders of Wye))) already have an escape plan for when the Banana Empire finally folds. They’ll quietly slip away to China as the dindus, et al go for the final-solution for YT. Some YT might be awake enough to fight but most of those who don the uniforms of the Banana Empire remain in the pay of the enemy and will obey orders – until they wake up and stop doing so. Since (((Soros))) even owns the Roman Catholic Church, with High-Fellatin’ Franny as his shuffling, drooling step-n-fetchit dancing to every Klezmer rendition of YT must die, perhaps a better question to be asking would be what isn’t converged?
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Turks came to Germany as ‘guest workers’. They were supposed to provide some “necessary cheap labor” and then leave. But it didn’t work out that way.
And the topic has obvious implications for our own Gang of 8’s guest worker plan, which is going to lead to non-workers bankrupting the social welfare system even further.
Three million Turks live already in Germany already, while 2.5 million of them have German nationality, and the majority of them are conservative Muslims.
Very few Turks in Germany have a regular job; about 20%. The other 80% live on the so-called Hartz IV (state social benefits). 70% of their children have no GCSE; they left school before they finished their basic education.
According to the German state benefit system, every adult citizen who possesses the German nationality, unemployed and cannot find an appropriate job, is entitled to get monthly 482 € ($627). Additionally, parents get for each child under 18 years old, 200 € ($261), plus all their monthly expenditures in terms of rent, heating, power, health insurance, and public transport.
“Amazingly enough some Turks who live on the generous state benefits can afford to buy a house or an apartment and drive luxurious cars like Mercedes or BMW.” Says Klaus, a landlord whose tenants are a case in point.
That part is easy enough. Just like in the United States, you cash in by having a lot of kids. Bring over a whole bunch of family members, churn out some kids from polygamous marriages (the next frontier in marriage equality) and soon you’re bringing in 10 grand a month)
Kamal (46 years old) and his wife Shadia (42 years old) have ten children under 18 and live on Hartz IV (the German social benefit system). They have a monthly net income of about 3000 €. In addition, all their spending on rent, health care, transport, heating, etc. are paid by the state.
Kamal never worked or had a regular job, never finished school, and never learned a profession. Now he claims that he is “ill.” Klaus, the landlord of Kamal says, “The man is fit.” He even confessed to Klaus that he lies when he says he is ill. “He told me once, ‘Why should I work if I can live well without/'” Klaus quotes Kamal.
Kamal is obliged to regularly report his joblessness to the Federal Employment Office (Bundes Agentur für Arbeit) in his town. He does so when he is invited for a job interview. But he always alleges that he is “sick:” He allegedly has “unbearable pains in his back and joints.” Therefore, he cannot take any job. The only one who knows the truth about Kamal is his landlord Klaus.
Klaus and many other Germans are outraged about Kamal and his like. “It is us, taxpayers who have to finance odd buggers like Kamal. This makes me sick.” Klaus frowns at me.
On the other hand, Kamal’s neighbour, Dieter works for a mail company. For working 8 hours daily, he merely get 800 € ($1000) at the end of the month. From this salary he has got to pay his rent and the rest of his expenditure. Left for him is something around 400 € ($500).
This is much worse than Cyprus. And this will eventually break Germany’s back. Imagine millions of people living this way and reproducing at a much higher rate than the native population and the spending becomes completely unsustainable.
German citizens can enter Turkey with simply showing their personal identity card. Hence German Turks, particularly women, travel to Turkey and come back with a “leased” baby. They get the baby temporarily from relatives and claim at the German border that it is their baby who was recently born in Turkey.
Khaled, a Turk, told me that you can get “a false birth certificate” in Turkey for $10.
Back in Germany, the “new” baby is registered at the town hall administration, and the “mother of the baby” starts getting 200 € ($261) monthly.
And don’t kid yourself. This happens here too south of the border.
Nicole, a German school teacher told me once, when she asks her students what they want to become in the future, the majority of Turkish students say, “Hartz IV Empfänger” (state benefit receiver). When she asked one of her students, “Why is that?” The girl answered, “My parents live on Hartz IV and lead an easy life. They sleep longer in the morning, and always have got enough money.”
“The dream of having an Ottoman Empire is not dead among the Turks.” Says Jalal, a Kurdish freelance journalist living in Germany. He added, “The Turkish establishment believes that the Turks in Germany constitute a valuable spearhead for the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire. What could not be accomplished by force in the 15th century might, many Turks believe, become a reality in the 21st century in Germany, the heart of Europe. Besides, don’t forget that demographically, while the German population growth is almost null, it is even contracting, the Turks in Germany have an annual birth rate of more than 5%. Therefore, demographers assume that by 2050 the majority of people living in Germany will be of Turkish descent.”
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HILLARY CLINTON: “Maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, ‘Look, this is not who we are.’ We have to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.”
COMMENTS:
* She’s not helping with the perception that she is Obama Term Three. Next she will be saying: ‘Let me be clear.
* Just as Trump’s comments about stop and frisk were aimed solely at white voters and not outreach to blacks who will never vote for him anyway, these comments are aimed at blacks and white beta men/women who feel pleasure at the prospect of a national racial shaming session, and who will always vote for vote for the leftmost candidate in a general election. Trump is hoping for high white turnout and Hillary is hoping the shadow of Obama’s coalition will show up.’
* The sad thing is that Hillary’s absolutely in the mainstream of elite conservative thought here.
David Cameron speaking to the Tory Conference, 2015 – “Opportunity doesn’t mean much to a black person constantly stopped and searched by the police because of the colour of their skin.”
His successor, Theresa May, on taking over as PM – “If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.”
* May’s job before she became PM was to be in charge of the English police -they are run by the national government there- and she had a reputation for implementing the policies that the police wanted to be implemented.
On the other comments, African-Americans bloc vote, usually the Donk gets somewhat over 80% of them, and in the last presidential election Obama got 93%, as has been repeated endlessly on this site, because he is thought to be Black and the Republicans didn’t exactly put up the greatest candidate they could have. With a generic GOP and a generic Donk candidate, the GOP gets 10% to 20% of this vote which translates into another 1% nationally. Trump, by actually asking African-Americans to vote for him and having policy positions that will benefit them, may shave off another 10%, another 1% nationally. Of course, the problem is White voters who will automatically line up against whatever they perceive to be the party or candidate more favorable to Blacks. I think we are mainly dealing with whites in the Deep South, but there are some suburban voters who fall into this category and Trump really does need those.
* We just want them to leave us alone. Before jet travel, they were consigned to their own particular hell-holes and had to wallow in their own filth. Now they want to come over here and pollute our cultural environment. They won’t feel at home till corpses of dead relatives and animals are floating down our rivers, our tap water is undrinkable and open sewage runs down the middle of the streets.
* Maybe she can also speak to the black cops who have been shooting black perps. Tell them, “next time a brother points a gun at you, let him shoot you. Let him get at least one round off before you return fire. Once he has shot you, not even his family can complain anymore (nor will they get a big settlement). It might not even be a gun, just a convincing replica, or maybe it’s just a book that LOOKS like a gun to you. It’s the right thing to do – this IS who we are. Chances are it will hit your vest anyway. Should it happen to hit you in the head, I assure you that your family will be well taken care of, and you as well should you become permanently disabled. We might even name some side street or playground in your memory (I can’t promise you this, but I will do my best.) This will make white ladies feel better and cut down on destructive riots. Thank you.”
* You didn’t see Trump’s visit to the black church yesterday. The evangelical blacks, the deep south types, as well as the inner city victims, are giving him a hearing. He’ll get serious votes from that.
Trump will never get the “talented tenth” whose careers (current or hoped for) depend on riding the racial issue, shaming, etc. They know he’s deadly toxic to them and their hatred is palpable. But that’s not even most blacks.
* A good term to search Google news is ‘aspiring rapper’. They always appear to get in trouble or get killed just as they are turning their life around.
* Christopher Hart in the Daily Mail getting his iSteve on:
If you’re Amal Clooney, you might be flying between your various, luxuriously appointed homes. Your villa on Lake Como — oh sorry, two villas. (Perhaps she and George like to have separate bathrooms). Your mansion in Berkshire. Your beachside place in Mexico. And, of course, the pad in Los Angeles.
Although George and Amal have repeatedly talked about the need for the West to take in more refugees, it is not known yet just how many Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans or Eritreans they have personally welcomed into any of their lovely houses.
The greatest blessing of all in being a celeb, it seems, is that suddenly you are knowledgeable about everything, or at least you think you are. The most intractable international problems — which have baffled the greatest statesmen — become magically clear to you.
For Mrs Clooney, this means that the West should take in apparently unlimited numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, and then the terrible problems of Syria will be solved. She also has great faith that the UN can and should sort out that murderous bedlam, if only she demands it firmly enough. Why do our celebrity luvvies continue to have such faith in the UN? Perhaps because like them, it’s international, unaccountable, very generously funded and a little bit useless.
Amal Clooney is far from being the only culprit. Plenty of others, with zero obvious expertise in the area, have presumed to lecture us on how we must accept more refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, even jihadis — without ever troubling to explain how these very different groups might be distinguished.
* Zerohedge has a picture of a naked white man on all fours who was apparently assaulted during the Charlotte riots last night. These are not protesters, these are rioters and thugs. White Democrats in Pennsylvania need to be asking themselves if this is what they had in mind for Obama’s third and fourth terms, if this is the future they want for their children when resistance is futile.
If I may speak directly to Hillary, is that white man on all fours who we are?
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Steve Sailer writes: The MacArthur Genius grants were announced and they’re the usual weird collection of legitimate nice white lady scientists, such as microbe researcher Diane Newman of Caltech, and hilariously shameless race hustlers, such as Genius T. Coates last year and this year, Claudia Rankine, a poetry professor at Pomona College, who won for her collection of microaggressions she and her friends say they have suffered. From the Wikipedia article on her award-winning 2014 book Citizen: An American Lyric:
The book consists of seven chapters interspersed with images and artworks. The first chapter details microagressions that have occurred to Rankine and her friends. The second chapter discusses the YouTube character Hennessy Youngman created by Jayson Musson, and discusses racial incidents in the life of Serena Williams and her public image. The third chapter features more microagressions and the nature of racist language. In the fourth chapter Rankine writes of the transition of sighs into aches, the nature of language, memory, and watching tennis matches in silence. Chapter five is a complex poem on self-identity, interspersed with more microagressions. Chapter six is a series of scripts for “situation videos” created in collaboration with John Lucas on Hurricane Katrina, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson, the Jena Six, the 2011 England riots in the wake of the death of Mark Duggan, Stop-and-frisk, Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, and the verbal error during Barack Obama’s first inauguration as President of the United States. The seventh chapter ends with “Making Room”, a script for a “public fiction” about finding a seat on the subway, and a list of African-American men involved in recent police shooting incidents that concludes with the phrase “because white men can’t police their imagination black men are dying”. The seventh chapter is a complex meditation on race, the body, language and various incidents in the life of the author.
… These factors, subtly and metaphorically penned in the first paragraph grants these citizens a means to press forward against the subtle microaggressions, which, metaphorically speaking, is a wake for them in the very wake of the book. … The first chapter immediately transfers the reader into a black persona who is quickly becoming invisible by the harassment of microaggressions. The necessity of tolerance ascribed by blacks, that is, in these occurrences even are subjected to children in grade school. Still consistent with second person perspective use of you, the short narration is of a child: “You”, who experiences a microaggression by first a student who is copying her work throughout the school year, and secondly, from Sister Evelyn, who never acknowledges the blatant incidences. “…… The microaggression described here is that, you are unworthy of a genuine acknowledgment of gratitude.
Chapter 3[edit]
This chapter, similar to Chapter 1, is composed of events in the form of micro-aggressions. … This form of micro-aggression reference is common throughout Citizen. …
Rankine refers to her own personal micro-aggressions and others of importance in real world situations that might have seemed flagrant. … Then continues to describe more moments of micro-aggressions. … ‘Did he just say that?’ ‘Did I just hear what I think I heard?’” (Believermag). These questions refer to responses made by Rankine throughout Citizen after instances of microaggressions. The way in which both the black body and the heads hold a history of racism and question instances of microaggressions supports Rankine’s purpose of relating the history of slavery and racism to the present form of racism in the form of microaggressions. …
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) winner[11][12]
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) finalist[11]
2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist[13]
2015 PEN Center USA Poetry Award[14]
2015 New York Times Bestseller[15]
2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry[16]
2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry[17]
COMMENTS:
* Apparently there is now an African American set-aside for MacArthur awards. It appears that the criteria for winning is is similar to that for Acadamy Awards, i.e., “Never go full retard.”
In the case of the MacArthurs, full retard would be, ““Burnin’ down shit ain’t going to help nothin’! Y’all burnin’ down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. [Pause] I don’t wear it. But we need it.”
The winning approach would be the one followed by Genius T. Coates and Claudia Rankine. Just retarded enough for black studies.
* THEONION: “ALBANY, NY—According to friends, the $500,000, five-year, no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowship awarded to Jim Yong Kim earlier this month went right up the 43-year-old scientist’s nose. “Kim’s efforts to eradicate drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in Russian prisons and Peruvian ghettos amazed everyone—as did his appetite for top-grade cocaine,” Marisa Amir said Monday. “As soon as that first check arrived, Kim was on the phone with his dealer, and two hours later, he was in a hot tub full of strippers.” His first installment of money gone, the scientist then returned to the task of developing a whole-cell cholera toxin recombinant B subunit vaccine.”
* I’m considering writing a book about all the microagressions committed by black people. Remember when urban black males walked around with giant boom-boxes on their shoulders blasting rap? Thanks for sharing, yo.
Wonder if I’ll get a MacArthur grant?
* What will Rankine decide to wear for a Halloween costume?
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
