Martin van Creveld writes: Women’s inferiority to men in respect to physical strength, aerobic capacity, endurance and, above all, robustness, is obvious to all. The price is paid by their male colleagues; when a female trainee in a mixed unit breaks down, as often happens, guess who is going to carry her and/or her weapons and pack? But the price women have paid for serving in “combat” units has been much higher. Many of the documents in question are classified so as to avoid angering Israeli feminists, an aggressive and often obnoxious lot, by presenting them with the facts. Some, however, have been published by a former student of mine, Colonel (ret.) Raz Sagi.
The picture that emerges is not pretty. Less than 3 percent of IDF “combat troops” are female. However, over the last few years they, or the lawyers acting in their name, have served 10-15 percent of the suits concerning compensation for injuries suffered while on “operational activity” (whatever that may mean). In proportion to their numbers, women sue three to five times more often than men. Sagi’s book bristles with interviews with young women who served as, or trained for, “combat” MOS and were seriously injured, sometimes for life. Such cases are brought before the courts almost every day.
Now let’s take a closer look at what “combat” actually entails. The largest group, 442 out of 1,593, serve in three mixed battalions named “Caracal,” “Leopard,” and “Lions of the Jordan” respectively. In each of these they form 60 percent of the total. What all three have in common is that they are permanently deployed along the borders with Egypt and Jordan. Those in turn have this in common that, over the last forty years, they have seen hardly a shot fired in anger. The remaining women are divided between “combat intelligence collection” (meaning that they look for all kinds of interesting things after the battle is over), border police (meaning that they stand guard against terrorists, as Hadar Cohen, who was mentioned on this blog a few weeks ago, did), civil defense, and artillery.
It so happened that, a day after I completed this article, I watched a clip of artillery troops on a route march. The men, heavily loaded with equipment of all kinds, sweated, grunted and did their best to keep up. One or two female soldiers were marching along, carrying a much smaller pack and looking as if they were on a lark. Whatever they may have been doing there, clearly they were not being tested as the men were.
Neither the infantry, nor the armored corps, nor the engineers, nor the special units, which between them form the bulk of the IDF’s “teeth,” have any women at all. Scant wonder that, during Operation Protective Edge back in the summer of 2014, out of 66 Israeli troops who died not one was female.
Meanwhile the terminology has been changing. Having just celebrated my seventieth birthday, I can remember the time when the term lohem, meaning fighter or warrior, used to be the highest compliment anyone in Israel could receive. Nine cases out of ten, it referred to a soldier, a male one of course, who actually fired at, and was fired on by, the enemy. Now its female form, lohemet, also refers to all the above units, not one of which are meant to face an armed and trained enemy soldier able to fire back. Scant wonder that, in popular slang, the plural form of lohemet, lohamot, is often explained as meaning lo-hamot, “not-hot.”
Why does all this matter? For four reasons. First, as the term “not hot” implies, in Israel as in all other modern countries armed forces the presence of women has contributed to the decline in the prestige of those forces and, with it, their ability to attract high-quality male manpower. Presumably that is why the “Lions” (arayot, in Hebrew) battalion, in spite of being made up mostly of women, is not called leviot “Lionesses.” Or else surely any proper man would have shot himself rather than serve in it.
Second, in Israel as in all other modern countries that presence has led to “gender norming” and, with it, falling standards which, in case of war, could be dangerous. Third, as the above figures show, too many women who, whether out of idealism or sheer penis envy, volunteer to serve in “combat” units are injured, with bad consequences both for themselves and, since they have to be paid pensions, the defense budget. Fourth, outside Israel quite some people, being misinformed about the true state of affairs, still take the IDF as an example to follow.
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Ironically, the anti-German argument for why Germany must take in millions of Muslims only makes sense using racialist logic:
– Either the German people are tainted by hereditary blood guilt for their ancestors’ crimes for which they must pay reparations to random Muslims; *
– Or Germans are so genetically fearsome that the threat they pose to the rest of the world must be diluted by mass migration;
– Or the innate destiny of we Germans is to rule Europe (and perhaps the world), so letting in the million Muslim mob is our brilliant PR feint to cover up the emerging New Order.
If you don’t actually believe that today’s Germans possess either hereditary guilt or hereditary superiority, then it’s hard to logically justify the Merkel government’s whim.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* The point seems to be that the new coalition of the fringes Germany now belongs to everyone but traditional Germans.
* The thing with the Germans that nobody seems to mention is they live in the ghetto of Europe, Mitteleuropa. At least compared to the snooty Brits and the oh-so-noble Americans with their English channel and 3000 mile Atlantic ocean, the Germans have enemies right across the river.
The Germans were forced into militarism by their neighborhood.
First Charlemagne came along in 782 and beheaded 4,500 Saxons(180,000 in today’s population) because they were not sufficiently Christian and loving like Charlemagne. Then in the Thirty years War, 1618-1648, the Great powers, like fearsome Sweden ran all over the many ununited little principalities forcing the Germans to drink Schwedentrunk and reveal where their daughters and their cows were hidden. The Germans lost a third of their male population.
They had to unite and be bad asses merely to be left alone.Thank Gott for the Prussians.The Germans finally get it together in the middle of the 1800s and then the Brits pitch a fit because they can’t have a strong continental power. WTF?
So we win WWI for the Brits, the Germans are pissed they got robbed of their time in the sun on the continent and they go with Adolf Ragnarok, they get carpet bombed back into Morganthau wilderness by Bomber Harris and now they end up as the depository of all the Guilt in the world. Its been going on for 72 years and we still have 36,000 troops there to keep the frothing Hun from bayoneting more babies.
All because they live in a lousy neighborhood.
* Former German vice Chancellor and foreign affairs minister Josef “Joschka” Fischer:
“Germans are just too smart and industrious and will therefore always provoke their neighbour’s jealousy. To keep the peace in Europe Germany has to be fenced from the outside and diluted from the inside.”
The man also taught as a guest professor at an elite USA university – Albright got him the job – despite never having finished high school.
* I’m not sure if it’s guilt as much as it is the combination of
1. The belief that all people and cultures are the same and therefore assimilable
2. That it’s racist to not think 1. Is true (which is why the opposition to her insane scheme is so muted) and
3. That Europe’s leaders don’t want to end up where East Asian countries are headed demographically so they’ll bring in millions of foreigners to avoid dealing spiritually and economically with the fact that they are on a path to extinction
As James Burnham pointed out, liberalism is not necessarily the cause of Western decline but it is the ideology that a great civilization has adopted to rationalize and cope with its suicide and portray each step towards death as a victory instead.
* Steve: You might try the Allies just after WW2 if you want to hear someone say quite a lot of that stuff you describe. They were quite vehement then on the point that blood guilt for Hitler falls on all Germans as a collective responsibility for which collective blame and punishment shall be assigned. Early occupation and pacification orders included instructions to make sure living conditions in Germany were the worst, to be explicit about how the Germans were being occupied not liberated, to break every institution that might ever make Germany fearsome again.
* Nothing about US foreign policy in the Middle East makes sense except that it has been captured by the Israel-lobby. How exactly does American benefit from a stable secular regime in Syria being overrun by salafists augmented by international brigades with passports that have automatic no 30-day no visa entry requirements for the US? How does prolonging an ethnic civil war work unless you don’t care about the outcome except to destroy the country it’s happening in.
Syria only makes sense from the perspective of Israel wishing to see the last functioning state in the levant being broken. Is it a serious strategic threat? No, but they’ve run out of better targets and they’re not paying the bills or shouldering the burden either. They’re continuously pushing against an open door. It’s like the quote from the IRA, reasonable people in the US government have to stop them every time to win, the Israel lobby only has to win once and the USAF or CIA proxies turn their target to dust. And since there is never a consequence for their failure. Ie, there was no punishment meted out to the people in the media, defence and state department for pushing for an insane confrontation with Iran, they’re free to try again and again. Eventually a president insufficiently appalled at a war with Iran will be weak and need some favours and boom, Western Persia turns into a sheet of glass and god knows what the consequences for the rest of the world will be.
* Ironically, very few, if any, Jews framed it in such terms. In fact, the vast majority of die-hard Zionists that I’ve read immediately said that Merkel’s idea was horrible and that it would destroy Germany.
* What possessed Merkel to do what she did, and why western Europe, the United States, and Canada seem helpless to say no to people whose large-scale migration is becoming self-evidently more disastrous every day, will be the debate of Russian and Chinese historians for the next 300 years. It may be as complex a case of mass psychosis as has ever existed in our species.
* And it was Merkel who just last year declared that multiculturalism was a flawed idea. But then her inner-Christian, that still, small voice buried deep in her soul, rose up and got the better of her.
* AIPAC, who were continually pushing for US intervention in Syria, went apeshit when Obama decided not to bomb Assad after the fake false-flag chemical attack in 2012, which the neocons tried to pin on Assad. Hirsch later also illuminated that shady operation. That was the first time I was impressed with Obama and Kerry. They managed to see through all the BS, and had the guts to grab the lifeline which Lavrov/Putin threw them. Very statesmanlike. The other good move was the Iran deal, which put the pet AIPAC Iran-bomb hoax to rest.
* In my experience, Germans need to be a part of a cause bigger than themselves. They don’t do well with just regular life; their morbid nature starts to get the upper hand so they latch on to a movement that will pull them up from their depression.
When I lived in Germany, they were all very intense (much more so than your average American) about some cause or the other, environmentalism, saving the third world, world peace, etc. The causes had the commonality that they were somewhat vague and could never really be achieved. Again, it wasn’t the results that they were after but an escape.
This whole refugee episode seems to be just another example of Germans being Germans.
* I’m not even sure that Israel was really all that eager to get rid of Assad, even in a “who will rid me of this troublesome priest” sense. Assad was a thorn in their side in that he cooperated with Iran in supplying Hezbollah and in building a nuclear reactor but as far as the actual Syrian-Israeli border was concerned, Assad was pretty scrupulous (because it was in his interest not to provoke a stronger enemy, not because he is a scrupulous guy) about maintaining peace with Israel. Israel knows that in a place like the Middle East, the next Pharaoh may be even worse than the bad Pharaoh you just got rid of – they were under no “Arab Spring” delusions. Whatever you say about Assad, he seems to be a pretty sane and rational guy by ruthless dictator standards. Saddam Hussein and Qwadafii had a tendency to take things too far and believe their own BS, but Assad does not try to overplay his hand.
* Ariel Sharon counseled Bush NOT to invade. Of course, AIPAC wanted Saddam gone but then Jews in the US who are neoconservative are pretty much opposite the Likud people in Israel. Likud wanted Saddam as a counterbalance to Threat #1, Iran. These are the choices of small nations threatened by neighbors — not much room for moral absolutism.
Merkel is flooding Europe with Muslims because she is a Christian. That is what Christianity is all about — and as the daughter of a pastor she’s as Christian as the Pope. Who also wants this. Christianity has the doctrine of universal brotherhood, preference for the refugee (as Christ was), a moral elect and eternally damned who are both predestined (in the Calvinist sense) and universal utopianism. Christianity was the garden from which both Marxism and Multiculturalism as religions arose, as Peter Frost noted.
Merkel is just another aging, post menopausal White women overcome with religious feeling and HATE HATE HATE of her beta male White peers. That the rapefugees are mostly young Muslim men swaggering around is just a lady part thrill to mix in with the moral superiority.
* The existence of that monstrosity known as the EU must bear a large portion of the blame.
Basically, the EU forbids member states to deter or remove anyone from anywhere who can utter the word ‘asylum’. And all the world and his brother have wised up to that fact.
Not only has the EU forbidden its vassal states from even attempting to stop ‘migrants’ it has dissolved borders between EU states. Thus Greece’s problem – which doubtless the colonels of 1968 could have solved in a weekend – becomes Germany’s problem.
Add in lavish social security and welfare bennies – including a free house for life – available in demand to ‘refugees’ who haven’t done a damned thing to earn. Again, all the world and his brother knows this.
Drizzle with a dollop of Swedish feminists addled brain nuttiness – theirs was the initial ‘idea’ that any warm body that wished to could live the good life in jolly good cold and dark old Sweden.
Add one menopausal, broody, mushy brained old bag. An old bag with Gorbachev type vanity and stupidity eagerly eyeing a Nobel prize and a bundle of lucrative directorships upon ejection.
And lastly dump in a great big pile of Economist steaming, stinky faecal waste, to add ‘gravitas’ and pungency.
And there you have it – destroying a nation through committee.
* Most people don’t realize that the cultural support for mass immigration in America includes the stick as well as the carrot.
The carrot: it feels good to help other people who are less fortunate, doesn’t it? America has infinite goodness and infinite money, we can invite all of these people in, especially the ones who can’t help themselves. A generous heart never counts the cost. Even if you can’t have children yourself (lots of feminists never finish their punchlist), you can be like childless Mother Merkel and welcome the refugee children of the world (even if a lot of them are working age men). Be open, forgiving, generous, helpful. Doesn’t it feel good?
The stick: America’s Original Sin is slavery, says the President of the United States, and everybody knows who he means. All of the white men in America are guilty, guilty, guilty regardless of what their actual ancestors were doing. There is no redemption for this Original Sin; no American Jesus who died for you. Reparations are only fair, but as Ta-Nehisi tells us, they will never be enough. Sin with no possibility of redemption – is there any way out for white men? Unlike most religious traditions, suicide is actually the recommended way out.
National suicide. Expunge the northern European heritage that also includes the blood guilt of the history of the Americas, the genocide of the native people and the economic slavery of the hispanic people. Welcome the black / brown nation, assuage your guilt, tear down the barriers, destroy the white men and all their works. Wash yourself clean with a flood of black and brown, America.
Whenever you see the carrot, look around for the stick. There’s always a stick.
* That’s a lot of mental yoga there when in fact this has very little to do with blood guilt. What blood guilt does Sweden have, or the Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, US, Canada, etc?
What joins all these countries isn’t blood guilt — it’s that they descend from a common Northwestern European stock and are in the end stages of a successful capitalist strategy that’s brought material wealth and easy living to their citizens. National, religious, and ethnic identities have broken as people now identify more with their careers / class and generally see themselves as actors on a global stage. Meanwhile there is zero thinking around HBD type issues and Blank Slate-ism prevails. So now barring 3rd world citizens from your country seems wrong, while letting them in seems like the moral, Christian thing to do. ‘They’re just like us and deserve a shot at a good life too, no?’
Germany is leading the most recent rally because Germany: they lead everything in the EU, and generally Germans have extreme dispositions which steer them to the logical endpoints of whatever path or policy they are currently taking.
* The bourgeois of the civilized world tend to even subconsciously obscure blood connections so the frame of reference is not so much heredity but historical/cosmic processes. So #1 and #2 from a bourgeois white pov is seen through those filters in this way:
1. Atonement — Trains in Germany once transported Jews to death camps; now the trains bring refugees from war zones to Germany for refugee. That’s cosmic justice and taking in a million refugees is restoration of the moral universe.
2. It can never happen again — The historical roots of the disasters that befell Europe in the aftermath of WWI and WWII are the dual evils of nationalism and racism. Therefore to prevent the causes of those disasters is a counter reaction against root causes. If WWII happened because racist ideology held the superior Nordic race deserved to rule the world, conquer Eastern Europe, and multiple, then the appropriate counter reaction is extinguishing Nordicism: non-whites must be brought into Nordic lands and race mixing should be encouraged so that the Nordic race disappears and the conquering impulse relinquished.
So there is still heredity at play in this way of thinking but it’s not the main structure of elite ideological thinking.
* If the Nazis never happened, then there would not be the reflex adverse reaction to anything that is not an extreme rejection of all things Nazi. So today it would be ok for European countries to want to keep their own individual ethnicities. It would be ok to not want a flood of third world refugees whose culture is incompatible with Europe. It would be considered crazy to allow masses of lowly educated people with a backward culture to immigrate.
But not all the blame should be placed on the Nazis. Part of the blame goes on the victorious allies for being overly sanctimonious and actually believing themselves when they declared that they “saved” western civilization. Ever since then they have been actively destroying western civilization in a much more permanent way and in a way that the Nazis could have never imagined.
* If Germany must be punished, then Mongolia should be incinerated. And then Sub-Saharan Africa, for slavery. Then all the Muslims, for their barbaric practice of castrating their slaves.
* Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
By Ralph Lopez Jan 26, 2015 in World
Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has claimed that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
* I think a problem is people see how angry and vulgar people can be about this issue, partly because respectable people can’t talk about these things. We all want to be nice and respectable but what we know about the world makes that hard, try as we might we can’t go along with our new religion. So some cope by finding ways to separate themselves from ‘those people’, talking about ‘culture’ and assimilation and others cope by adopting this weird anti-Islam = pro-Israel stance. But just because unpleasant people hate Jews doesn’t mean that there isn’t a serious cohort of Jews in America who are zionists who do affect US policy in the Middle East. Thus we get ‘lol you guys always blame the joos’. The last 15 to 20 years has seen the Neo-cons very effectively co-opt the US State Department, Victoria Nuland being an almost parody of a neo-con.
1. Yes, Norway, Ireland and Sweden’s immigration policy and multiculturalism was entirely developed indigenously has been in no way influenced by the US. I think Americans underestimate how influential it is, American media and elite opinion matters in Sweden, at least to the Swedish elite. The United States was the most powerful country in the world and decided that anti-racism was the great You do not need an alienated ethnic elite in your country to feed you ‘anti-racism’ in TV, film and other media. The internet has driven this up to 11, being dominated by American. You think these ideas spontaneously took root? Modern Academic Sociology, the priesthood of this new religion is an almost entirely American field.
2. I can’t speak to why anyone was ever foolish or naive enough to think this is what thought helping Iraq looks like.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people who were pro war were all fully onboard with killing arabs, for different motivations perhaps, but invading a country after a heavy bombing campaign is rarely done out of concern for it’s inhabitants.
Once again, the people who start and propose these wars don’t believe any of that. They might convince others to believe it, but those people don’t start the wars, they’re just useful idiots.
3. Declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would do nothing. The Israeli government was ethnically cleansing it at apparently just the right rate not to ever bring serious pressure to bare and would do so afterward. It is a bizzarre decision because East Jerusalem was always supposed to be the capital of the Palestinian state. Recognising the entire city as the capital of Israel would end the ability of the US to even broker the (Admittedly farcical) two state solution talks. One of my favourite clips is the clear rigging of the vote at the DNC convention on changing the policy of the Democratic party on this issue. Whom was Villaraigosa afraid of? There were about equal numbers for and against…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sWTwbzAcw&t=0m51s
The Neo-Cons exist and make explicit their ideology. Hell, even Wolf Blitzer was once the head PR man for the Israel military in DC. Why did Clinton, Saunders and Trump (Even missing a debate) all go to the AIPAC conference, you know that annual event that average Americans care so much about?
If there is no powerful Israel lobby why are American politicians so terrified of it?
* Nazis are seen as the inheritors of many ideas that were robust in Western countries leading up to WWII. Racial science and nationalism. So the reaction now is against Nazism but also a repudiation of many of the dominant ideas of the early 20th century.
* “European countries who are doing the same, or worse, and you find no correlation whatsoever between pro-immigration policies and Jewish power/support for Israel.”
Except that we know Blair followed Bush into war with Iraq, against the wishes of the people. There is quite a large groundswell of opinion that Blair should stand trial for war crimes. And the ME massacre started with Iraq.
Except also that the voices in the media who advocate immigration are very often Jewish and so are those that support Israel. Maureen Lipman for instance overstepped the mark with her pro-Israel stance. Nowadays we even have an infiltration of Americans telling Brits what to think and how to vote.
Except also that the media never mentions Israel – a country that borders the region of civil war, does that not strike you as strange? And the public mention Israel very rarely but when they do, the big AS label is immediately brought out by a plethora of Jewish people complaining. And don’t forget Europeans can get a criminal record for being deemed AS. That’s a huge disincentive to open debate.
Every media portrayal of the KKK that I remember painted it as a horrible organization.
I don’t share this view. What is wrong with people standing up for maintaining sovereignty of the country their ancestors created? The KKK wants to keep WASPs in charge of America. What’s so horrible about that? That they might use violence to further their aims also makes sense because often the only way to maintain sovereignty is through violence. How do you think Israel was established? Jews used violence to establish and defend the Jewish state.
All groups are engaged in a fierce struggle for scarce resources such as land, water, and power. Most Israelis, for instance, wish that all Palestinians disappear. Most Muslims wish that the Jewish state would disappear. What person with the slightest self-awareness does not understand the desire to subjugate your enemies? The KKK aimed to intimidate outside groups so that they would not behave in ways contrary to the interests of WASPs. What’s so shocking?
If you hate your enemies, you naturally want them to disappear. That’s how it has always been in human history. The KKK didn’t invent genocide or even carry it out. It was never a mass murder machine. How many deaths in America can be laid at the feet of the KKK? A few thousand? As many in a century as Muslim terrorists caused on 9/11?
Every thinking person has a KKK approach to life (intimidation and subjugation of their enemies) just under the surface. It doesn’t require heroic efforts of moral imagination to put yourself in their shoes. From the perspective of Palestinians, Jews are poison. From the perspective of Jewish Israelis, Palestinians are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by the creation of a Jewish state, Jews are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by Muslims, Muslims are poison. From the perspective of Tibetans, Chinese are poison. From the perspective of the Chinese, the Japanese are poison. From the perspective of the aborigines, white Australia is poison.
“We need a new lexicon in Hebrew and so we need to add ‘Jewish terror’ to the dictionary,” Ami Ayalon, the director of the Shin Bet from 1996 to 2000, says in a deliberate manner, choosing each word carefully.
He has a baritone voice and a clear passion for this issue. “Maybe, maybe, maybe, the murder last week will wake us up to the fact that it is not a hate crime, it is not ‘wild weeds,’ it is terror and it is Jewish terror. It seeks to change the government,” he says, referring to the killing of Ali Dawabsha in the Palestinian village of Duma.
Since the burning of the Dawabsha home and an adjoining residence on the night of July 30, Israeli society has been convulsed by internal soul-searching.
In an impassioned speech to thousands in Tel Aviv, Nasser Dawabsha described the burning of his sister-in-law’s home.
“My brother Sa’ed and his wife Riham caught on fire. Despite the burns, Sa’ed carried his four-year-old son Ahmed outside the house. Riham grabbed a blanket, she thought that the child Ali was in the blanket. But they learned the child wasn’t in the blanket.”
He recalled her crying, “‘Where is Ali?’” He called on the IDF to find the killers, and for the Palestinian people to “get our freedom.”
Duma sits on a ridgeline about 15 kilometers southeast of Nablus near Route 458. In more pleasant times one might enjoy the view here over the pastoral hills that lead down to the Jordan Valley.
Now the village displays large posters with the picture of murdered Ali.
Last Saturday, protesters clashed with Israeli police and soldiers on the road leading to the village. Tear gas was fired, the empty canisters littering the road.
The sign to the village had been covered partly with a poster of Ali.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that the PA would file suit with the International Criminal Court about this murder and what the PA said were more than 120 attacks by Israeli Jews on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli society came together last week to condemn both the attack in Duma and the stabbing attack at the Gay Pride Parade on July 30. Shira Banki, 16, died of her wounds Sunday after the attack.
“The flames are spreading in our land, flames of violence, hatred and of false, distorted and twisted beliefs,” President Reuven Rivlin said to a large crowd gathered in Jerusalem rallying against violence.
But how to confront those responsible is not clear.
Jerusalem Report 2014: Ku Klux Klan faction offers membership to Jews and other minorities
A faction of the Christian-terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), will now open its membership to Jews, African Americans, Hispanics and gay people.
The notoriously racist white-supremacist group has decided to undergo a re-branding to expand its reach and mission. They will leave behind their legacy of burning crosses, lynching African Americans and committing other horrific racist attacks.
The new, more expansive group, known as “The Rocky Mountain Knights,” is meant to be a subsection of the KKK, based in Montana in the United States.
John Albarr, a KKK member from Great Falls, Montana, spearheaded the re-branding effort after reportedly having discussions with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His goal is that the new group will help to create a stronger and better America.
“White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan,” Albarr said, adding: “It thought it was a really good organization. I don’t feel we need to be separate.”
Despite this supposed re-branding, all members of Albarr’s “Rocky Mountain Knights” will have to wear the KKK’s traditional white robes, masks, and pointed hats– a uniform that historically conjured images of hate, persecution and terror.
It is unclear how many members this new sect of the KKK has.
In 2011, Abarr attempted to run for the Montana seat in the US House of Representatives as a Republican, with the goal of “saving the White race” on his manifesto. As a result, Albarr was denounced by other mainstream Republicans for his racist attitudes and political views.
The KKK is a protestant Christian organization considered to have an extreme right-wing political stance. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League.
When the KKK was first founded in 1865, after the American Civil War, they called for the purification of society and the elimination of non-white races.
Doesn’t every exclusive group look down on outsiders and maintain strong barriers against them?
Every victimhood contains a nationalism and every nationalism contains the capacity for genocide.
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* What a terrific reveal of the thinking of young asian-americans! Their voting patterns certainly suggested as much, but it’s becoming pretty clear that asians hate Whites even more than NAMs, but given their higher IQs (relative to NAMs) are much more classy about it. And of course they have swank degrees from cool schools to camouflage everything. This Chang guy’s fantasy world involves butchering Whites on a mass scale. Fantastic. He’s little different from the Korean guy with that Gagnam Style song a couple of years back who couldn’t say enough bad things about the US. The buggers jsut hate us Whites a lot. Could it be that too many American servicemen took too many liberties with these guys’ mothers and grandmothers on the Peninsula in the last 65 years. The Jews have their ancient grudges involving “exclusive” golf courses. At least the Koreans’ seems a little more understandable.
So much for Derbyshire’s alliance of the “Ice People”.
That’s why Steve’s coalition of the fringes argument isn’t very good. What unifies all non-Whites is their hatred of Whites. Asians hate us Whites a lot more than they fear AA or Blacks “dating” their daughters.
* You can tell this is a snow job by the fact that he lists a bunch of “boring” baseball superstars without mentioning the counterexample of Bryce Harper, the white Mormon reigning MVP with a highly colorful personality who is the biggest star in the game right now.
* Kang wrote probably the worst bit of Millennial* navel-gazing in this article that is ostensibly “about” Ichiro:
As a Mariners fan who liked Bill Simmons, I was excited that Grantland was doing a feature on Ichiro, but then bummed to find out that it was a feature on Jay Caspian Kang.
*I am a Millennial, so I’m free to gripe about this.
* Suppose I migrated to Asia or Africa and complained about the unbearable dominant human color in either place because it ia what it is – though changing for sure – in the U.S. and Europe – but not fast enough? The New York Times and mainstream media generally are owned and operated by whom and with what agendas? Is “white” in the way of those recently come to considerable power in the West? In the way of what? These are questions that should be asked openly and answered truthfully. Why aren’t they? Bad for business? Whose business? What if I migrated to “Israel” – or would I not be allowed? Why not? I pay taxes to help support that country. These are valid questions, are they not?
* “Mauer has probably made 10-15 times more money in baseball than he would have in the NFL.”
There are so many factors that make this true:
1. Baseball careers last longer, due both to injuries and the fact that skill is more important than pure athleticism.
2. Baseball has 10 times as many games in a season, which means way more tickets and hours of live TV programming to sell.
3. Baseball’s players’ union is stronger, because the players are not as desperate for an immediate payday and can wait out a strike, as compared to NBA and NFL players, for demographic reasons.
4. In fact factors 1 and 2 compound into factor 3 because they know most of them can look forward to a few more years of paychecks.
5. Baseball you can start making money right out of high school. NFL you have to be three years out.
* That CBS article mentions that MLB has the most minority managers.
It should be pointed out that baseball is the major sport where the head coach has the least impact on outcomes. MLB teams can take a flier on a well-liked guy who is kind of a flake, like Ron Washington. But football coaches have to be Belichek/Saban types, because that’s the only way you can win.
* Vladimir Guerrero got his big payday in 2004 from the SoCal Angels owner Arte Moreno, the billboard king who is a genuine self-made Mexican American billionaire (the only one, last I checked). Moreno pays a lot for Spanish-speaking superstars like Albert Pujols — part of his strategy is to win away the Los Angeles Dodgers Mexican-American fanbase.
One problem with Moreno’s strategy, however, is that the best Spanish-speaking ballplayers tend to be part-black Caribbeans like Guerrero and Pujols rather than mestizo Mexicans. The Dodgers cemented their hold on Mexican-Americans back in the 1980s with Fernando Valenzuela, a tubby but heroic highly Indio Mexican pitcher. They also got a few years out of East L.A. product Nomar Garciaparra, and now they have a solid first baseman in Adrian Gonzalez, a Mexican-American born in California. So the Dodgers still have done better at representing Mexican-Americans so far.
* The problem with a baseball career is you have to have specific skills rather than just all around athletic talent. For example Toby Gerhart, the runner up for the Heisman in 2009, was a decent college baseball player at Stanford, but his college batting statistics suggested he just wouldn’t get his bat on the ball at the major league level often enough to make use of his strength and speed. So he went to the NFL and backed up Adrian Peterson at running back.
* One thing he overlooks is virtually all umpires are white.
Umpires can play with the outcome of a game, like the 2011 world series when they refused to strike out Cardinals players until they scored a hit.
* Ta-Nehisi Coates made the front page of the Boston Globe today…for guest writing a comic book.
Let me just say that Coates isn’t doing anything new; many “nerdy” celebrities have guest-written a comic book for a while. Kevin Smith was a big one who did a Batman and a Green Arrow, but others have as well. It’s a gimmick marketing ploy and produces the typical subpar fair you’d expect when a celebrity in one field is given creative control in another field simply for the celebrity name value.
Normally, such a gimmick is given little publicity, since it’s largely cheap attention-whoring, like having hot chicks work your booth at a comic convention. But Coates gets front page of the Boston Globe, a paper he doesn’t write for, and an alleged “serious” paper than just had an Oscar-winning movie made about its “work” (Spotlight).
Man, to be black and whiny and to know the right people….
Too bad that still won’t make him any less of a disappointment and embarrassment to his father.
* So, basically, he figured out that no one much cares about an Asian man writing about his inner turmoil over his “Asianness,” unless he masks it with a lot of faux concern about Blacks….
* Or, perhaps the market incentives in the American media merely encourage ambitious Asian-American verbalists like Seoul Brother #1 to dwell publicly on how much they hate whites as a way to justify rule by the Coalition of the Fringes?
* While in high school college football recruiters were salivating over the prospect of Alex Rodriguez as a college qb. He was said to have a cannon arm. Instead he opted for baseball. The steroid controversy notwithstanding, he clearly made the right choice.
* Baseball isn’t nearly as punishing on the body as football, so baseball players tend to play longer. I remember thinking at the time Bo Jackson was crazy for playing both football and baseball instead of just the latter, and sure enough, after just four years he was seriously injured playing football. He did manage to play baseball for a few more years, but I’ll bet even with all the extra look-he-plays-both-sports endorsement money whether he would have been better off financially (not to mention physically) just playing baseball.
* As a baseball player on the major league level, Michael Jordan was a total bust. Ted Williams once said that the single most difficult act in sports is to make solid contact with a round bat on a round ball being thrown with “movement” at between 90 and 100 mph. Notwithstanding that he may have been the greatest hitter who ever lived, even Williams was successful only 34% of the time. In terms of skill sets, basketball, football and hockey simply pale in comparison.
* The talk about baseball ratings skewing white male is not a bad thing for baseball economics.
Blacks and hispanics have less money, watch more TV, and watch even more commercials by being less likely to have commercial avoiding techs and premium channels. Those factors combined make the attention of a white male to an advertiser about 5 times more valuable than a black or hispanic male.
* The fact that the NYT even published this article shows its low quality (in absolute terms… I know it’s still high-quality relative to the abysmal quality of most publications). In my ideal world, the editor would have called Kang up and said “You know Guerrero has chosen to never learn English, right? Do you really think anyone but Guerrero is to blame for his lack of fame in the US? If you send me another garbage pieve like this then you will never see one word of yours published in the NYT. You understand me, son?”
* I don’t think I’ve ever read a newspaper column or op-ed piece by a Korean-American journalist that wasn’t all about castigating whitey for his “racism” and trying to suck up to blacks. Korean-American journalists must win the prize for having the most boringly limited repertoire of any writers. Even black journalists exhibit more variety in their subject matter.
* Several NFL QBs like Russell Wilson and Brandon Weeden tried to play baseball and couldn’t get out of the minor leagues.
* Basketball is a close second, but basketball players still have to coordinate their actions during the game in a way that baseball players don’t. Baseball really is a mostly individual sport masquerading as a team sport. That’s why the baseball All-Star Game is, apart from all of the substitutions, played basically the same way as a regular game, while the NBA All-Star Game bears almost no resemblance to normal basketball, and the NFL Pro Bowl even less so.
The season prior to Kerr’s arrival with the Warriors, they had basically the same personnel and won 62% of their games. Since he was hired, they’ve won 85% of the time and will probably have two championships in two years. It shouldn’t be counted against Kerr that the system he put in place works so well that his assistant could run it to perfection during his absence. Plus there’s no way to know whether Luke Walton might be a great coach in his own right.
* Danny Ainge was at one time a two-sport guy, but couldn’t manage to achieve an acceptable MLB batting average. One story indicated that he was encouraged to leave the Toronto Blue Jays by an unusual message. It seems that there may have been a basketball thrown from the stands toward him in the outfield to suggest full-time relocation to the NBA. O, Canada.
* Turgid prose completely disconnected from reality? Check. Oh so serious attitude about an oh so serious subject? Check. I predict this young man will go far. But not far enough to suit me.
* Coach [Steve] Kerr comes from a family of WASP Arabists who helped found the premiere educational institution in the Middle East, the American University of Beirut. When I was at UCLA in the early 1980s, his father Malcolm Kerr had a nice job as UCLA’s Vice-Chancellor. But then Dr. Kerr quit to go back to Beirut in the middle of the civil war to rebuild the American University. He was assassinated there by some terrorist in 1984.
* It is sort of interesting that we are forever being told of the impending hispanic surge in America as they are ratcheting up their percentage of the population. They have now grown to 20 percent of the population and are possibly headed to 50%. The one game hispanics seem to participate in proportion to their numbers is baseball. Whether baseball embraces its hispanic stars or not, at least baseball has hispanic stars. Football and basketball have very, very few hispanic stars.
If anything baseball is diverse and more accurately represents the US population. Football and especially basketball do not.
BTW baseball does try to attract hispanics. Each year my local team has a special Viva Los Royals night that caters to our hispanic community. They also have a Los Royals website that is written in Spanish.
Football and basketball might be more popular at the moment, but baseball seems to have the demographics behind it. If the US is going to become part of Latin America it would appear that baseball and soccer are going to be the big games.
Maybe tomorrow the NYT can do a story about how football and basketball need to identify and nurture young hispanic talent so as to better diversify. But like you have pointed out before, the liberals only seem to be interested in uplifting blacks. Hispanics don’t really matter except for their potential at the ballot box. And as we’ve been told, they’ve been a great disappointment consistently punching below their weight.
* Asians are copiers. The overwhelming social dynamic in America in media and education (at all levels) is the SJW. Americanized Asians, hence, become SJWs. And since they have little religion, their religious impulses go towards Social Justice, which coincides PERFECTLY with their real religion, which is status climbing.
Chinese, Indians, Koreans — they are all insufferable when they get the SJW bug.
* Take out the Asian thing for a moment. He went to Bowdoin and then MFA from Columbia. How high is the chance that he is an assimilationist (citizenist, in your phrasing) conservative? He could be a white male with those credentials, and the chance of him being a self-loathing (in rhetoric, in anyway) SJW is pretty high.
Of course, posting something like this is a dog whistle move of sorts – it riles up the white nationalists: “See, yellows hate whites too!”
In reality, residential and marriage patterns show that, far from hating whites, most Asians are quite comfortable living next to, and marrying, whites.
I will concede this one point – the likes of Kang are certainly an indication that the universities are engines of indoctrinating the relatively ideologically naïve Asians into ersatz white SJWs… because I am pretty certain that the parents of the same are not.
* Unbearable straightness of professional sports
Unbearable gayness of the fashion industry
Unbearable Jewishness of Hollywood
The possibilities of this approach are endless…
* Where are the screams for diversity in the Korean Baseball Organization or the Nippon Baseball league? Koreans are probably some of the most racist/xenophobic people on the planet. I have no problem with that, but just shut the hell up when you come to the US. Funny how he keeps a Caucasian name as well.
* Baseball is actually more reflective of American demographics because 80% of Dominicans – a huge chunk of the Latino cohort – are in fact black, by conventional judgement of race. But don’t tell Dominicans that they are black. No, they are pure blooded criollos of ancient Castilian stock, at least that is what they tell themselves.
* Friend: “At least Sanders and Trump are honest.”
Luke: “I don’t think Trump is particularly honest.”
Friend: “He’s basically honest.”
Luke: “As honest as my invoices.”
* Dermatology is the best medical specialty, because your patients never die and they never get well. You just keep prescribing ointments.
* There seem to be more and more Muslims in full regalia around West LA. Every day at the Century City mall is Sharia Day.
* “Goy: In that book, Submission, by Houellebecq, the protagonist, a French Lit professor in full decadent mode, says that he has heard that middle eastern women wear all black and hijabs and burquas in public and then come home and put on six piece lingerie and heels and wax etc etc. whereas western women put on sexy heels for work and then come home and put on sweatpants and burp in front of their husbands. Seems true.”
* How many people who follow my posts are clinically insane? One in three?
* Most people who want to convert to Judaism are insane. The rabbis know this and reject 99% of them.
* Does your husband ever make you wear a hijab around the house?
* Ever made your woman wear a hijab to honor our multiculti society? And because you love the Prophet?
* Apparently the direct approach works best on Tinder; “Wanna smash?” Goyim! At least I have Torah.
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When I see somebody’s use of themselves, I’m looking at how they talk to themselves. Unnecessary compression results from a punitive attitude to the self. I rarely find someone with terrible use who’s at ease with himself and I rarely find someone with good use who hates himself.
Take someone who complains of tight shoulders. What’s going on is that they are subconsciously tightening their shoulders. But what’s underneath that unnecessary tightening? I bet a punitive attitude to the self, a feeling that I am not good enough, that I need to make myself smaller so others won’t hurt me.
Another client might discover that he unconsciously tilts his head to the right. That feels normal to him. He goes through life with a weird tilt while he feels like he’s straight. So what is going on underneath that unnecessary compression that’s pulling him to the right? It may well reflect strain in his self-talk.
When people are happy, they are at their most buoyant. When depressed, they are pulled down.
Comments from other Alexander teachers:
* Emotional shields, makes people feel safer.
* This not only true some of the time, it is always the case. We address habits of mind along with all other habits of use, don’t we? How can it be otherwise?
* I agree wholeheartedly, Luke. And the ‘wholeheartedly’ is important, too, because it’s not necessarily when we can release/cease the unhelpful self-beliefs that we begin to flow better in our self, but when we simply drop the judgements about having the beliefs in the first place; giving ourself our whole-heart. I work in both arenas as one all the time now.
* You can’t address someone’s posture without addressing their emotional state. And many postural habits make people feel emotionally safer, and that need to feel safe needs to be respected.
* Luke, I mused and mulled more over what you say in your first post, and find it very interesting, and worth while to ask the questions you ask. It is a bit like me asking myself – and others sometimes – what I am really up to when I am doing something. What am I really up to right now, pulling my shoulders up and typing on that keyboard? I mean, apart from typing, pulling up my shoulders, and responding to your post, what am I really up to? And I find that I am in a desperate hurry to get my word in! Hence the pulling up of shoulders…. Your questions are definitely worth asking and considering.
* The Law of Correspondence was a statement that the inner and the outer are reflections of one another. But like musical notes, the same tone played in a different moment, or with different companion notes, could be part of a different effect. Having feelings is not an imperfection.
In my early forties, I decided I wanted to experience a form of body therapy known as structural integration (or, more popularly, “Rolfing,” after the originator of the method, Ida Rolf). This process involves deep massage and manipulation of the muscle fasciae to realign the body in more appropriate relation to gravity, to correct imbalances caused by entrenched muscular contractions, and to open areas of blocked feeling and energy. When treatment is successful, it leads to a general freeing up of the capacity to feel, greater awareness of and sensitivity to one’s own physical processes, improved overall coordination, superior balance, and increased energy. Not everyone gains these benefits to the same degree (or at all), but for me it was very much the right treatment at the right time in my development. I felt lighter than I had in years. I experienced a general deepening of self-awareness. I felt freer emotionally. I felt as if walls within myself had dissolved. And I had more energy. I was not surprised that I felt better. What did surprise me-what I was completely unprepared for was the change in my perceptiveness concerning other people.
During this period I was leading a number of psychotherapy groups, and my clients volunteered that they could notice changes in me week by week as the Rolfing progressed. I had had very little formal training in working with the body in psychotherapy, yet I found I was now able to “read” bodies to a new and astonishing degree. Slight changes in facial expression or eye movements, shifts of posture, subtle variations in ways of standing or sitting, changes of skin color, alterations in breathing patterns all suddenly seemed to convey volumes of information to me as clearly as articulate speech. It was as if, in becoming more transparent to myself, I had shifted to a space that allowed others to become more transparent to me.
* [When we look at someone at peace] we see eyes that are alert, bright, and lively; a face that is relaxed and (barring illness) tends to exhibit natural color and good skin vibrancy; a chin that is held naturally and in alignment with one’s body; and a relaxed jaw.
We see shoulders relaxed yet erect; hands that tend to be relaxed and graceful; arms that tend to hang in an easy, natural way; a posture that tends to be unstrained, erect, well-balanced; a walk that tends to be purposeful (without being aggressive and overbearing).
We hear a voice that tends to be modulated with an intensity appropriate to the situation and with clear pronunciation.
Notice that the theme of relaxation occurs again and again. Relaxation implies that we are not hiding from ourselves and are not at war with who we are. Chronic tension conveys a message of some form of internal split, some form of self-avoidance or self-repudiation, some aspect of the self being disowned or held on a very tight leash.
* We deny and disown our emotions when we (1) avoid awareness of their reality, (2) constrict our breathing and tighten our muscles to cut off or numb feeling, and (3) disassociate ourselves from our own experience (in which state we are often unable to recognize our feelings).
I don’t find George Will and Charles Krauthammer profound, nor such publications as the Wall Street Journal and National Review, while Paul Johnson and Tom Sowell are hit and miss. Important intellectuals in my view include Steve Sailer, Paul Gottfried, and Christopher Caldwell. In my view, these dissident right intellectuals overwhelm the conservatives.
I love this bit from a book review today by Paul Gottfried: “…he suggests the hatred directed towards the Dissident Right is motivated by fear of the intellectual threat we represent.” Bingo!
Paul Gottfried writes: Dr. George Hawley, [Email him] an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, has provided a badly-needed public service by producing Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Hawley’s work, published by an outstanding press for American studies at the University of Kansas, should bring him much deserved attention….
Hawley in contrast devotes respectful attention to his subjects’ scholarship, which leaves the impression that he is truly struck by the force of their ideas. He even explores my sometimes (alas) abstruse tracts on German political thought and devotes considerable space to Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and other mentors of the European New Right and its American disciples. In short, he suggests the hatred directed towards the Dissident Right is motivated by fear of the intellectual threat we represent.
My views have changed since then. I now think the paleos were largely a new movement of the Right born of a lost cause, trying to counter the rise of neoconservatives to a position of control over the Conservative Movement. But though the paleos gave it their best shot, they went nowhere as a counterforce after the defeat of Pat Buchanan’s briefly successful presidential runs in 1992, 1996, and 2000.
Hawley ascribes the view that “paleoconservatism is no longer a meaningful force in the United States’’ to me, and I won’t deny it. He says there are two reasons for paleoconservatism’s eclipse: first, the passing of the generation that identified with it and its defeat in trying to take back the movement; and second, the changing social and cultural face of America, which would be even less receptive to paleoconservatives than were the 1980s.
But that doesn’t mean the fight against Conservatism Inc. (and its neoconservative masters) is over. Both Hawley and I have discerned a new populist Right emerging, which focuses on the high costs of mass immigration and capitalizes on growing popular resentment against Leftist elites.
VDARE.com is obviously a part of this emerging political force. Peter Brimelow and VDARE.com are cited and Peter is singled out (not unfavorably) for his “scathing attacks on American immigration policy.” As a result, we are told, Peter “is no longer published in mainstream venues.”
Three other contributors to VDARE.com who have at least four pages lavished on them in Hawley’s study are: Steve Sailer, for his daring commentaries on sociobiology; John Derbyshire for his examinations of IQ differences and their effect on human behavior and professional achievements; and, well, me, for my studies on European political thought and for being a long-lived nuisance to the neocons. To his credit, Hawley reviews the purge of John Derbyshire by the shameful National Review with sympathy.
Donald Trump in the United States and the National Front in France are two examples of the emerging populist political force—sometimes called “National Conservatism.” In the present historical circumstances, a coalition of the dispossessed, built on the white working class is probably the best the Right can hope for. Hawley is already at work on a sequel dealing with this alternative, populist Right. From having seen his prospectus, I expect it to be entirely on target.
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Traditional Orthodox Jews usually avoid shaking hands with women (or any touching of women who aren’t family).
Not only the traditional Jew and Muslim are worthy of respect, but so are the norms of the nations, which insist on such hand shaking. If you won’t shake hands with your teacher, perhaps you shouldn’t live in Switzerland? Or perhaps you shouldn’t go to public school? You should go to your own kind of school. That way these questions won’t come up so much.
Awake Goy says: “It does seem like getting Israel established sorta changed the game. For some reason, I’d feel much more inclined to sympathize with Jews if they were truly wandering and homeless upon the earth. But it’s not that way now. I guess it’s still a silly question though to say, to you or to other Jews, why do you remain in Babylon?–why not go to the holy land?”
It’s widespread practice for schoolchildren in Switzerland to shake the hands of their teacher at the beginning and end of each day. Now, one school’s decision to exempt two children from this tradition – because the children are Muslim and their teacher is a woman – has caused a storm of controversy across the European state.
The two pupils at the school in the town of Therwil, near Basel, had requested an exemption from shaking a female teacher’s hand, citing their belief that it would go against Islamic teachings. The local school district later came up with what they felt was an acceptable compromise that could avoid discrimination: The pupils, who are age 14 and 15, would not be required to shake any teachers’ hands, whether they were male or female.
However, the plan hit a hitch when the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper reported on it, sparking a public debate about the compromise. “We cannot accept this in the name of religious freedom,” Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said in an interview with Swiss-German broadcaster SRF. “The handshake is part of our culture.”
Others agreed. “Today’s it’s the handshake, and what will it be tomorrow?” Felix Mueri, a member of the anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party and head of the Swiss parliament’s education commission, said in an interview with the 20 Minuten news site.
Both the Swiss Teacher’s Union and the local Therwil council have also come out against the plan. However, the school itself has defended the decision, despite the controversy. “They are no longer allowed to shake the hand of any teacher, male or female,” headmaster Jurg Lauener told SRF. “For us, that addresses the question of discrimination.”
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* He is not a flake. All you have to do is look at his wife, or wives, and his kids. The kids seem well adjusted. The wives have been pretty sharp and attractive ladies. Just because one has money doesn’t mean he gets the nicest girl. Just look at Jeb!
Trump is also a successful businessman who has the support of guys like Icahn. He wouldn’t get that support if he were a flake.
The reason you think he is a flake is because he has been under the microscope for 9 months. Not only that, but he has been under a hostile microscope. Think about how your perception of Trump would be if he were treated like the media treated Obama. Every hour of every day, every time he speaks, the media is out for that gotcha moment on Trump. That is a lot of pressure that I don’t t think many of us could handle.
The fact that Trump has not had a nervous breakdown is quite telling. He travels non-stop, sleeps 4 hours per night and almost never gives guarded answers. If anything that is his problem. He doesn’t know when to pipe down. But I suppose he is learning. From his Hannity interview last night I think he realizes the last couple of weeks were tough and that he contributed to it.
So no I don’t think he is a flake. He is just a guy who has undergone more attacks than any other politician in recent memory. From his own party, the democrats, the president, the loons in the British parliament and even the pope, who hasn’t attacked him? And he is still in first place and hasn’t lost his mind yet!
* BW: And why did Lincoln succeed? Thought about that at all?
DT: Well, I think Lincoln succeeded for numerous reasons. He was a man who was of great intelligence, which most presidents would be. But he was a man of great intelligence, but he was also a man that did something that was a very vital thing to do at that time. Ten years before or 20 years before, what he was doing would never have even been thought possible. So he did something that was a very important thing to do, and especially at that time. And Nixon failed, I think to a certain extent, because of his personality. You know? It was just that personality. Very severe, very exclusive. In other words, people couldn’t come in. And people didn’t like him. I mean, people didn’t like him.
* Trump is his own worst enemy but I’m not seeing any other option for change.
The Republicans are intent on Hispanic outreach but how, exactly, do they achieve this without going the racial bribes route? If Trump loses the powers that be will treat that as a voter repudiation of his agenda and they’ll feel empowered to go full steam ahead with amnesty and other racial bribes which they think will work to bring in Hispanics.
Also repudiated is white identity as a basis for a political movement. What follows is the racial bribes business comes at the expense of whites, in a who, whom contest.
Everyday I wish there was a candidate other than Trump who was positioned with his popularity, independence and positions, but there isn’t and because Trump’s candidacy is such a black swan event, I can’t see a path forward for a more typical politician who will have to depend on funding in order to get air time, so institutional interests are always going to be favored.
It’s Trump or bust. There is no upside to any other candidate and society is going to have to be more destabilized before institutional interests can be brought around to some of Trump’s policies. I saw a report today that 70% of voters supported the Muslim ban. Trump is the only one who is independent enough to actually dare put something like that in place.
Trump may well flake if he gets into office, but that’s a better outcome than not getting into office, for his defeat repudiates his policies, while his reneging on the policies doesn’t undermine their validity and appeal, the reneging simply becomes a reflection of Trump, the man, not the policy agenda he ran on.
* Never underestimate the stupidity of the average Republican. They voted for Ford over Reagan in ’76. 40% voted for Bush over Reagan in 1980. And they nominated:
– Bush in ’88
-Dole in ’96
-McCain in ’08
-Romney in ’12
And about 40% wanted McCain in 2000 ’cause Bush II was too ‘radical’ for them. Seriously, about 40% of Republicans are status quo, don’t rock the boat, everything’s fine, let’s just cut the capital gains tax and pray to Jesus dimwits.
Take away Reagan and you’re looking at the party of Nixon and 50 years of failure. And loving it.
* This is the first time I can remember a political party trying to damage their own leading candidate. It is not that they are backing someone else, that has happened before, but they are trying to damage Trump. They want him to lose, if he wins the nomination. Their criticism is relentless and is having an effect. I hear people questionong Trump’s conservatism. These were Bush voters. Well I would not vote for Cruz in the general. He reminds me of a tent preacher and he is just as phony. He is a complete fraud on immigration and his recent paean to NATO, an utter waste of money designed to give generals a good tour of duty in Europe, was the kind of robotic thinking that has walked America to the edge of a cliff. Trump was right, although it might have been better to simply ask why are we paying money to defend a wealthy Europe from …a Soviet tank attack?
* Trump’s bravado; his showiness, vindictiveness, self-aggrandizement, etc doesn’t play very well in the upper Midwest or Mormon territories.
* If the Establishment plays the long game, they challenge Trump brutally during the primaries, but avoid stealing his nomination outright. Disaffected Establishment Republicans, Neocons and 4 months of media onslaught from the New York Times to Fox News, The National Review and The Wall Street Journal would defeat Trump without destroying the system. Then the Republican Establishment can say that they gave the new realignment a chance and it failed miserably.
If the Establishment tries to run Paul Ryan at the convention, it seems like a high risk strategy with little potential pay-off and a high degree of downside if Trump voters abandon the Republican Party. If you view the political parties first and foremost as businesses, the Republican Party will have to assume low revenues in 2016 in order to reap the benefits after the Trump campaign. A Hillary Presidency would likely be great for fundraising, but have little downside in terms of policy for the Republican Establishment. Of course, it is quite possible that the Republican Party cannot think that far ahead and will spite its future prospects just to maintain the gravy train in 2016.
* If you can, watch a rerun of last night’s (4Apr16) Hannity show on Fox. Trump was on the full hour. He acknowledged he should not have tweeted out that stuff that caused the big distraction over the past two weeks. His wife was on as well and she said Donald’s problem is he tweets too much and she wants to keep him off twitter.
I took this to mean that Trump and his wife know that he hosed things up with his impulsiveness. Hopefully he learns and focuses in on NY. Trump thrives off winning. It juices him up. And NY is the next battle and he stands to win big. Hopefully he will regain his mojo.
* Everyone else has a personality like drying paint, so they’re not going to get coverage. Trump is newsworthy in his own right and so gets coverage one way or the other, the problem is that Trump is shooting himself in the foot so damn often that the coverage he was going to get anyway gets diverted onto his cock-ups.
It’s these screw-ups which are playing a large part in alienating people who could/should vote for him. There are, essentially, two groups of opponents, those who disagree with what he’s saying and those who think he’s unfit for office. He could address the concerns of the latter group by showing that he can, indeed, master the nuance of policy. I was cutting him a lot of slack, I figured that he was bombastic in the beginning in order to clear the field, that this way buying him time to go deep on policy, to build up the campaign staff, and that we’d see a more in-depth Trump, but my patience is running thin.
People ragged on Palin but I defended her because I had actually seen her demonstrate mastery on Alaska’s energy politics, so I knew she could go deep on policy and perform her job and once schooled on other topics could do the same. I’m not seeing even unschooled Palin, winging it, kind of policy mastery from Trump. In the tread on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos someone posted a video of her giving a presentation and the buzzwords were flying and that’s what I’m seeing from Trump. I’d bet that there are hundreds of us in the Steve-o-sphere who could take his issues and clean the clocks of opponents who challenged his positions but Trump isn’t doing that.
Trump is going to get covered because he has a big personality and he’s engaging. He’d be doing us all a favor if that coverage was focused on substance rather than tweeting pictures of Cruz’s wife or alienating the pro-life crowd. Talk more about disbanding NATO. Show us that there is some damn thought behind the idea. Let’s talk about what a post-NATO world would look like. That’ll get lots of coverage. Talk about SCOTUS precedent for the Executive banning people from entering/immigrating to the US due to ideological positions and then make the case that Islam, religion of any kind, is simply a subset of a larger category we call ideology. Explain why the freedoms we extend to religion within the US do not have to be extended to people outside of our borders. I guarantee you that Trump talking about any of that is going to stir up controversy and will get lots of coverage but it will recast him to be a more substantive man instead of a boor.
* His failure to fund a serious ground game in the fly over states hurt him badly – all because he’s a cheap ass, his failure to address certain issues in some degree of specificity in public in a non flip flop manner like H1-B visa workers. In one debate he said he supported bringing in more H1-B workers then said the opposite afterwards.
I suspect he doesn’t listen to his advisers much or even read his position papers.
His rallies are all the same, he gives a generic rah, rah speech with next to zero specifics. It’s not bad, but with no ground game and ad campaign to follow it up, it fails to bring him the wins he needs.
His interviews aren’t much better, broad generalities and no specifics on much of anything. It’s not a confidence builder at all.
And what the hell was he doing even talking to Chris Matthews anyways. Was Trump taking his stupid pills or something? Mr. Tingly hates Trump and ambushed him good. And abortion is a serious hot button issue and he blew it. Even Roger Stone said as much in a polite manner.
And yeah on delegate selection he’s totally blown it. He let Cruz carve him up on this. I guess he couldn’t be bothered to hire the talent and invest the resource to make sure delegate flipping didn’t happen.
He’s so desperate for free PR he goes on every two bit radio or tv talk show he can find. All it does it bite him.
All these little wounds add up.
One other thing, He needs to show a more presidential persona in his rallies and selected interviews, he needs to tone down the rah, rah stuff and start talking like a statesmen. It really does impress a lot of people when it’s done right.
* The women in my family find Cruz repulsive and reptilian. These are GOP voters. I see what they mean. He looks in-bred to me. Every time he speaks I expect him to take a banjo out and begin playing the theme from Deliverance.
* I think it’s pretty obvious that, because Cruz is running against The Demon Trump, he is profiting from a premature Strange New Respect. Should he ever become the favorite, the powers-that-be will savage him every bit as much as Trump, and, I expect, he will crash and burn twice as fast.
* In the GOP civil war Cruz just had his Chickamauga, his last hurrah before a long, grueling and exhausting campaign that will end in what in hindsight will have been seen an inevitable defeat(just like the real Civil War). There are simply no states coming that are favorable to him, save New Mexico perhaps, and in recent polls in some of them he is trailing 20-30 points.
The worst part for Cruz is, that unlike the Civil War for the South, this campaign was actually winnable for him. Right from the begining it was obvious to everyone except GOPe (not for nothing is it known as “The Stupid Party”) that this is going to be a Trump vs. Cruz race. It wasn’t just the numbers, it was the fact that only Cruz understood what it takes to beat Trump: co-opt his message and present himself as a more credible messenger. GOPe in it’s arrogance and aloofness, however, insisted on their traditional platform of amnesty, open borders, free trade, tax cuts for the rich and perpetual war that was immensely unpopular as well as morally and ideologically bankrupt. They wen all-in with their boy Rubio who, on top of it all, was not the wonderful candidate he was made out to be. The decisive tactical mistake by GOPe was their desperate attempt to resuscitate the Rubio campaign between New Hampshire and First Super Tuesday. They tried to do it at the expense of Cruz and it only resulted in the latter being derailed just long enough (and in states that had favorable demographics for Cruz) to make the Trump Train unstoppable. Had a fraction of energy of what was spent to prop-up a dead end candidate like Rubio been used on helping Cruz, we propably would have been looking at a neck-and-neck race now where all bets would be off.
Cruz will lose and his supporters are deluding themselves if they think otherwise. He is a very capable politician in many ways, however. Unlike Rubio, I can actually see him rebounding from this loss however this race turns out.
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In 1999, I started an email group to discuss human biodiversity. Fortuitously, my project happened to bring Henry into contact for the first time with the physicist Gregory Cochran, who had developed an interest in applying and extending evolutionary theory. Together, they went on to set off sparks that might someday be recognized as the leading intellectual development of the early 21st century.
Their overarching breakthrough was the realization that the rapid development of human culture since the invention of agriculture roughly 10,000 years ago doesn’t mean that Darwinian evolution slowed down, as was nearly universally assumed in the late 20th century. Instead, the development of new and different cultural pressures on different continents implied that selection must have sped up, increasing the biodiversity of humanity.
In 2005, they illustrated their general thesis with a stunning paper on “The Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence.” One of the great scientific papers of the age, it elicited admiring attention from Steven Pinker and Nicholas Wade. Henry and Greg noted that the proliferation of European Jewish genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and torsion dystonia are likely offshoots of selection pressure for literacy and numeracy in white-collar occupations in medieval Europe. Just as black Africans are more prone to sickle-cell anemia because it’s a quick and dirty malaria-fighting mutation, European Jews may have evolved IQ-boosting mutations that extract a medical price.
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