From the Chateau: During the Victorian era, men would sometimes hand out spinster shaming cards like these to ugly and unfeminine women on Valentine’s Day (any feminists reading this ought to consult a head asplosion doctor before continuing further):
Women can be shamed into behaving and looking more feminine. Which is a good thing. Too bad we’ve lost that lesson and do the opposite now: shame women for being feminine and looking thin and pretty, and glorify women who act masculine and look like dump trucks.
“Lean in,” lose love. That’s all you need to know, ladies.
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Washington Post: A few months ago, we brought you “Darth Trump,” a mashup of Star Wars inserting Trump’s face and voice rather seamlessly on to Darth’s body.
It worked, but it was also a little too on-the-nose.
Enter Trump-as-Game-of-Thrones character, via YouTuber huw parkinson. The juxtaposition of Trump’s rather plain-spoken, boisterous style with the more-complex dialogue works even better — in no small part because much of the dialogue on the show has to do with a massive wall.
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That douchebag Cameron is going to be left on the wrong side of history, and it couldn’t happen to a smarmier weasel, except maybe Blair but Blair is out of power now. Which is why Boris has defected – not wanting to be on the wrong side of history.
Everywhere, forward thinking politicians are going to start putting their long-term career ahead of party loyalty and loyalty to PC. Politicians are seeing the writing on the wall, and that writing says “Trump 2016!”. Best not to be the last guy on the last lifeboat. Best to make a “considered” evaluation and with heavy heart, embrace the change early.
Where the US goes, the world follows. I’ve long thought that once one country in the Eurosphere goes full alt-right and has some great results, the rest of the world will follow. When that nation is as powerful and as influential as the USA, there will be an alt-right domino effect in play.
* I was quite surprised when I saw Boris Johnson was coming out in favour of the UK leaving the EU. I also found it worthy of note when I saw last week that Louise Mensch was doing the same thing. Those are two people who are very good at self-promotion and career management and who would have ample opportunities to hear which way the smart money is betting. It’s just more evidence that we’re entering a weird new era whether we like it or not.
* BoJo has committed (as much as he ever does to anything) to the Brexit as a major plank of his relentless campaign to dish his old dining-club companero, Call Me Dave, and secure the Casey Jones place on the footplate of the UK gravy train as it heads towards its eventual Malthusian buffers.
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Steve Sailer writes: “The anti-white racism that the liberal establishment has been promoting increasingly in recent years serves to unify an electoral coalition that doesn’t otherwise have much in common unless it can be given an Emmanuel Goldstein to hate. Without endless explanations in the media of why everything and anything is the fault of hereditary white guilt, African-Americans and Chinese-Americans, for example, will tend to notice that their interests don’t overlap much.”
* Republicans hold a 49%-40% lead over the Democrats in leaned party identification among whites. The GOP’s advantage widens to 21 points among white men who have not completed college (54%-33%) and white southerners (55%-34%). The Democrats hold an 80%-11% advantage among blacks, lead by close to three-to-one among Asian Americans (65%-23%) and by more than two-to-one among Hispanics (56%-26%)
* There was a pro-Liang rally in St. Louis yesterday, but it was almost entirely white cops and their families and pro-cop white St. Louisans.
* Hundreds? There were 15,000 Asians protesting in NYC! Chinese immigrants come to the U.S. and push their kids to achieve and go to the best schools. Many end up at Ivies and get law degrees and invariably work for liberal political campaigns and liberal causes. And they vote heavily Democrat. So, Chinese-American community, enjoy the kind of society you and your progeny are working to bring about, I’m sure it’ll be a little more tolerable than the stretch Liang will be doing at Rikers Island. That is, if you stick to STEM and move to lily-white neighborhoods.
Btw, Trump has been constantly talking up how police are mistreated. Is this calculated? He must’ve seen the NYC news on this. Will it win over some East Asians voters?
* I watched the Mumia march through the West Bank near the University of Minnesota whatever year that was. The West Bank had become a primarily African neighborhood by then.
But all 30 or so people in the march were white. Except for one Asian girl, who was likely the girlfriend or adoptive daughter of someone white. (She certainly acted white!) The Africans ignored them.
So even the races and other demographic groups within the fringe can be further split internally.
* What I find funny is that Asian-Americans who are more stereotypically Asian tend to be less politically and culturally liberal. In contrast, all of the Asian SJWs I’ve encountered, both online and off, aren’t very different from white liberals, aside from their physical appearance. They get really offended by microaggressions like, “Oh, sometimes I forget you’re Asian!”
I bet there’s more of a likelihood that Asian-Americans who speak Asian languages at home tend to be apolitical, while Asian-Americans who speak English at home are more politically liberal.
It just goes to show how deranged “assimilation” is in the US. Asians who are more assimilated to American culture understand that they’re supposed to feel threatened, bitter and unappreciative. You get more wealth and power from complaining about how America is a white supremacist country, instead of being grateful about what’s available in the US.
* According to CNN State of the Union today, the Democratic primary is going to be all black victimhood, all the time. Commercials from Bernie with Eric Garner’s daughter (the extremely obese man who had a heart attack when the cops were trying to arrest him). The Hillary commercials will feature 4 black mothers including the mother of Trayvon Martin. Judging by the Nevada results, Bernie will get almost nowhere pandering to South Carolina black voters.
What will his young white supporters make of that? They don’t really believe that mothers and daughters of black criminals are saints; they’re just hoping it wins some some votes for Bernie to cater to them.
* The Coalition of the Fringes will last as long as the Republican party has *nothing* positive to offer the country.
Given a choice between “endless war, cuts to entitlements, pro-Wall Street policies, and upper-class tax cuts” and the Democrats, people who don’t have some sort of tribal loyalty to the Republican party are going to vote for the Democrats.
If Trump actually succeeds and makes the Republicans a middle class friendly party, then all of a sudden a lot more Asians and Latinos, and even some blacks, would start supporting the party.
* The man the ricochet bullet killed which is just bad luck/accidental as far as I am concerned. Akai Gurley. He was a drug pusher whose time had run out. Karmic justice.
Akai Kareem Gurley (c. 1986 – November 20, 2014) was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, and moved to New York when he was a child.[6] He was a resident of the Louis H. Pink Houses, where he lived with his girlfriend and two-year-old daughter. He has 24 prior arrests on his record, which consisted of drug dealing arrests.[7][8]
********Shows where “the community” is at to make heroes out of these repeat offender low lifes.
* The darker scenario, however, is that Asians and blacks form a durable high-low coalition against us. The Asians to complete their conquest of the universities and the tech industry; to open the door wide to immigration by their coethnics; and to facilitate the entry of plenty of servant-class Hispanics (Asians, especially Indians, feeling entirely comfortable living in a highly polarized society).
The blacks, well, out of spite as always.
* In terms of political consciousness, East Asians are ethnocentric. They are not Wannabe-Whites or Defacto-Whites or whatever. In a prestige election — and nothing has more prestige than a presidential election — whenever it is or appears to be ‘White’ vs ‘Color Coalition’ thing, East Asians will reliably and strongly side with the latter. Note their overwhelmingly lopsided support for Obama, over three to one, if memory serves.
In a Bush vs Gore, they might go Bush, but they will be firmly anti-White (politically) in a context involving a hint of Ethnopolitics.
* I’m tired of working. Give me my “entitlements”. Tax the upper class, which is everyone who makes a penny more than me.
There are an awful lot of white folks in this country that think like blacks.
* Everybody knows that in Asia, the Chinese look down on the South East Asians, and the Japanese look down on the Okinawans, Koreans, and Chinese, while the Vietnamese and Thais think they are better than the other South East Asians.
* I have it in my bones to desire a cohesive middle class society. Want to know my neighbors, participate in the community, have opportunity for all. Yes, the smart and hustling moving up economically, the slow and lazy falling behind but generally being part of a big high-trust middle class society. All of us part of it; all of us benefiting. It’s a white thing. But people coming from stratified societies–and i know a lot of Indians–do not have this mentality. They’re fine, with their family pushing–make sure your kids get into top schools and marry well–ahead, and a dystopian slum of lumpen proles over there to be the help. Essentially they are unconcerned with the society doing well, as long as they keep themselves in their (high, successful) caste within it.
Though i confess, i realize this is the mentality that i have to adopt now as well. It’s not the 1960s i grew up in. It’s not a cohesive middle class society. I need to look after my kids and insure they end up in the high caste–though hopefully the white and highly fertile end of it.
Diversity is balkanizing us and making us more like these Asiatic societies.
* Wow. He had it all: immigrant; color; unmarried parent; public housing; rap sheet; victim of the war on drugs. Might be some Islam involved. A hero has been raised and delivered.
* This is strong evidence that Asian immigration is very dangerous for Whites. Asians vote pro-”immigration” as if they were the beachhead in a conquest of White homelands.
* People once understood this. Both Canada and the USA had long-standing total bans on Chinese immigration.
* East Asian Man is much more collectivist, tribalist (broadly speaking), than Western Man. They are also much more conformist. Add these together in the context of the U.S. Multicultacracy, and you’ve got a significant group of considerable talent and means that is”politically anti-white,” reliably. They won’t commit street crime, and they’ll be polite to your face, yes. East Asians save face. A lot of otherwise-bright Sailer commenters dream of a “White-Asian political alliance” but it’s just not gonna happen in the present dispensation.
* The GOP’s own coalition of the fringes seems to be coalescing around Marco Rubio. I was struck by the triumphalism in the Nikki Haley quote in the FT below. The daughter of Sikh immigrants was elected governor, and an African American was elected to the US Senate, by the overwhelmingly white Republicans of South Carolina. In response, Haley and Scott endorse the Cuban-American POTUS candidate who wants to elect a new people.
* The Chinese and Japanese perceive Koreans as being violent and thuggish, sort of like Blacks, I remember visiting Osaka and the tour guide warning to keep an eye out for certain people there, basically the Japanese view Koreans in the same way whites view black people.
* Prediction: a standard high school history exam from 2075 on will contain a version of the following question:
Explain how and why the notion of “a proposition nation” failed. Illustrate your answer with examples.
* Orientals are not us. They look down on us. They are discivic. We build a society that runs on rules, and they establish a sub-society that cares only to games the rules when they must, and cheat when they can.
Not to mention that you’d have to be an idiot to not recognize that they practice technological espionage on a massive scale. China does not allow its people to come here in order to strengthen America.
* The police have switched from revolvers to semi-autos for several reasons. First, they were utterly outgunned by criminals, almost all of whom these days are carrying large-capacity semi-auto weapons. Second, the self-cocking, single-action semi-autos actually give much better overall likelihood of accurate shooting if used properly. (Even out of the box, striker action semi-autos have a consistently lower trigger pressure than most unaltered revolvers.)
Third is the fact that in a firefight, or even a one-on-one exchange of pistol fire, it is the number of rounds fired that determines who will win. If you’ve shot a pistol on a range and never been in combat you cannot appreciate this. You don’t gain a target picture and then fire in combat situations. You don’t have time and your body is shaking with adrenaline. You point your gun in the right direction and empty it hoping that you’ll hit a bad guy or at least keep him ducking so he can’t hit you.
Within the past three years I was an eye-witness to a firefight where over three hundred rounds were fired at ranges of less than twenty-five yards. Of the dozens of people who were involved, one bad guy was fatally wounded and the other was wounded. One officer was badly wounded by friendly fire. I’ve heard of cases where two men emptied their pistols at each other from a distance of six feet and neither was touched. Anybody who claims that eight rounds is more than sufficient to take out an opponent in a real life combat situation is not just ignorant; he is an idiot.
* When I arrived in Asia 35 years ago I saw how popular McDonalds was and by extension naively assumed a great affection or at least empathy for American culture and, perhaps, Americans.
Not so. That overpriced fast food represented modernity, aspiration, international standards, whatever. It became clear to me fairly quickly that the great majority of those customers would have very little enthusiasm for being joined at their tables by caucasians, or any other ethnic group.
East Asians are highly chauvinistic and steeped in ethnic awareness. To be, say, Chinese is to be a privileged member of a giant club, as the old quip goes.
This is not criticism: it is just how it is. If this is not incessantly and openly discussed by the in-groups themselves this is not a conspiracy but merely reflects the fact that this tendency to look ethnically inwards is an stunningly obvious fact of nature and culture for the people concerned.
Sure one can can rank ethnicities for prickliness and point to exceptions and argue that sashimi has been a boon to the world but it doesn’t change any of the above.
PS My experience in dealings with Asians generally, mostly in Asia but also in the west, is that there is no much connection between fluency in English, cosmopolitan style and technical skills and empathy for democracy, enlightenment values, transparency and so on.
Some of the most stunning, bigoted crooks I have met have been extraordinarily suave Asian-Americans wholly at ease in America’s big cities.
(PPS Been to Vancouver lately?)
* Asians just got here or parachuted in here (look up California parachute students in the San Gabriel Valley) so I am against Ron Unz’s spergy efforts to shame Harvard/Ivies into higher Asian enrollments. They don’t play by rules when it comes to paying taxes for their all cash and cash oriented businesses so why should Harvard play by mechanistic admission standards the Asian pressure groups (and Unz) want to put in place? Especially in California state universities and in California where they are more numerous, more organized and have the power to nullify public high school admissions policies pushed by Hispanic legislators.
* The most recent Fresh Off the Boat takes a jab at Jews in the form of mixed race (Jewish mom/Chinese dad) kid Phil Goldstein.
Phil sort of out-tigers Eddie’s family in everything with a smug talmudic arrogance. Remember the series is set in the 90s. And Phil starts Phil’s Faves and trashes the Wong’s restaurant in the reviews.
The Wongs come to speak to him at his house. He speak Yiddish to his mother and she says,
“I told you it’s not polite to speak Yiddish in front of Gentiles” , at once correcting Phil and being dismissive of the Chinese Wongs. And Phils rolls his eyes in dismissal of the Wongs.” He is a cross of both Jewish and Chinese arrogance, feeling superior to all, the true master race in his own mind.
The Wongs counter with their own page. The punchline from the mom, “Hard to believe the site “PhilsFaveHasWrongOpinions.com was available”. Phil’s counters with a typical jewish move. He creates a massive campaign about Web bullying of children online, entirely bogus, but effective. The school introduces it in the PTA meeting complete with a cop promising to find the offenders, these bullies.”
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* One thing is for sure, self-driving cars will be a boon for terrorists.
No need to kill yourself nor risk running out of courage on the drive to the target.
Just pack a self-driving car with explosives, place a couple of dummies in the car and give it a target.
Sounds like a winning combination.
* Beyond the automated bomb carrier for crazies and a way for drug lords to move drugs around without mules and patsies, these cars will be very tempting targets for computer hackers. I’m not talking about script kiddies and other wannabes but the hard cases who crack companies like Target and Home Depot like they were eggs. Oh let’s not forget hostile foreign nations either who have it in for Americans.
The first thing the bad guys will do is steal or buy one and dissect it, the same way safe crackers buy safes to learn how to crack them. Once they figure it out, they’ll run a couple rich dudes off the road in some spectacular fashion or simply turn the the cars on when they are in the garage and gas pipe the people living in the house then have the car go rogue like some deranged criminal. Then watch the stock price of Google and the car manufacturer tank.
The possibilities for mayhem with these robot cars will be endless.
* Anyone notice the commonality between self-driving cars and sex robots? Both of these nerd projects apparently have the goal of de-skilling teenage boys. In 20 years we’ll have a generation of young men who won’t know how to drive, and who won’t have to acquire social skills for dating girls.
I have to wonder if some of the same people play a role in developing both of these technologies and in propagandizing us about their alleged advantages.
* Keep this in mind: autonomous vehicles do not need to be autonomous everywhere in order to be viable products. Look at Tesla autopilot and, soon, Cadillac’s supercruise. Good on highways, not on surface roads. People will buy that. Drive to the freeway and then let the freeway part of the commute get done by computer. Makes the commute easier.
The range of conditions in which autonomous vehicles can operate will expand with time. As soon as an autonomous vehicle can handle some local roads a blind person who lives at a local road address an autonomous vehicle can handle can start taking trips to every place that the autonomous vehicle can go to. That’s a step-up in mobility.
As for avoiding pedestrians in parking lots: There’s already a pedestrian collision avoidance option on some luxury cars. The tech for doing this is going to get better every year.
Specific addresses in Santa Monica in 2025? Hard to say. But certainly some starting home addresses and destination restaurant addresses will be viable for an autonomous vehicle in 2025.
* The other alternative would be to have a homogenous, high-trust society like Japan’s, where the little kids just take public transportation home from school.
* I would guess that the very situations which we ourselves imagine would create the most difficult scenario for a self driving car — where a crash is about to take place — are the situations in which the self driving cars will do far better than a human driver.
It takes us a good deal of time to process something dangerous, but a computer with the proper sensors should be able to figure that out almost instantaneously, and know what the best response to it is to avoid a crash or reduce its harm. The physics here, of the objects in question and the car itself, and of the brakes and/or accelerator and/or steering, are pretty basic and easy to compute. (To me, there seems to be analogy here to how many people used to think that the hardest thing to get a computer to do was play chess well, when, in fact, it was among the easier things to accomplish).
The things that seem to elude the systems at this stage seem instead to be odd things one wouldn’t really anticipate. Evidently, the Tesla self-driving car, as I recollect, did some weird thing when it came to certain exits on a freeway, going off when they shouldn’t. But those are presumably things that are ultimately pretty tractable, once known.
What I personally would worry about more would be situations which are more predictably difficult, such as bad weather or night driving, where the information from the sensors may be greatly impaired.
* It’s easy to imagine, but why be terrestrial-bound? The unique selling point to raise the billions would surely be to float safely above the potholes, gridlock, mangy dogs, aggro humans and revenue-raising highway cops. This thing can’t run until it leapfrogs.
* Detroit has a light rail system that nobody uses and that loses money. It’s also terribly named. It’s called the “Detroit People Mover.”
* Pedestrians are easy for a self-driving car.
They have complete omniscience of what’s around them in a 360 degree radius with sensors. The only issue is pedestrians coming out of something like obscured corners the same way they are big issues for humans, if cars are connected and share information, probably not an issue at all.
The real issue is can we get sensors that work in all conditions? Eventually I hope so, we’ll have to. Decision making is the easy part with these cars.
Also if self-driving cars become a thing our whole country will be reshaped to fit them.
There will be very clear divisions between traveling zones and drop off zones. It won’t be possible for pedestrians to cross into traveling zones, same for cars in pedestrian zones. We won’t need parking lots, cars will just drop off and go to centralized area until someone else calls for them (like automatic taxis). We won’t own our own cars, we’ll subscribe to a service that sends a car whenever we need one.
Cars will congregate in a local standy by area where they detect higher density, people can schedule cars to be somewhere, e.g. before they leave for work.
If we can truly get self-driving cars working, the whole world will change. Cars are cheap, private, and it’s easy to build a ‘track’ for them. People will always prefer cars over public transportation, bikes, etc..
What I look forward to most is all of the jerks who are sitting on and overvaluing the land in prime city areas and see their values crumble. Who cares if I live 30 miles away from Manhattan, I can just take a nap/work while I commute there.
Density won’t be a concern with self-driving cars. We’ll be able to travel the same distance in half the time, and we can do whatever we want while we wait.
* You know how we’re all concerned about the power the SJW/lefty authoritarians have over our activities online? Now imagine them having that same power over most of our offline activities as well. That’s the potential of self-driving cars.
Say you want to make a 2am run to Taco Bell. You summon a self-driving car and enter your destination. The car measures your weight and body fat, and its Bloomberg Chip rejects your destination.
Or, say you summon a self-driving car to go the pub, after an argument with your spouse. She uses her smart phone to falsely accuse you of domestic violence, and that triggers the car to deliver you to your local police station instead for a debriefing.
The flip side of autonomous cars is less autonomy for you.
* Target/Home Depot hacks were nothing.
You don’t understand how laughably outdated most security is in retailers. There just isn’t much emphasis on fixing it because banks/credit cards will cover the costs, and they can cancel card #s in an instant.
There was nothing technically impressive about those hacks.
How often do you hear of hackers hacking mobile signals (e.g. LTE) and getting internet for free?
Never.
How often do banks lose money to hackers, excluding social engineering (getting password from someone?)
Never.
Everyone has this grand image of hackers in their head, but you can’t actually hack anything properly encrypted. 99.9% of hacking is social engineering.
* If gasoline is $2 per gallon and I can work in my car, why wouldn’t I want a big cheap house in the exurbs instead of an small expensive apartment in the city?
Similarly, much of the movement toward the city is driven by drunk driving crackdowns, but if I can drink and have my Google car drive me home, why pay to live in the city?
* I would think it is. A DUI conviction can cost thousands of dollars, and, in some highly-regulated fields, can cost you your job.
But another factor is probably sex. If you hit it off with a girl in a bar in a city, you’ve got a better shot of her sharing a cab with you back to your apartment in the city than, say, getting in your car and driving back with you to the suburbs, or getting in her car and following you, or taking the train with you.
* The difficult transitions are those where there’s some sort of “hump” to get over to get to the new state. For example a better system but one that requires a huge infrastructure expense, and\or deserting a bunch of current sunk costs.
In contrast this is an *easy* transition. It’s incremental on top of the system–human driven cars–we have now, and can produce immediate incremental benefits.
For starters auto transport is far and away our most dangerous “system”. It has about a 1% chance of killing you during your lifetime. We already have systems of insurance and legal resolution. So rather than an area where the failure of the new system is uncharted, potentially legally perilous territory, automated driving only has to be “as good as typical human” to gain significant traction.
Most people can drive adequately, but are not particularly good drivers. People are just *bad* at the core task of “paying attention”. Some people are just bad at even simply “looking down the road”. (The most annoying insist on looking at you when they talk–talk to the windshield jackass, i’ll still hear you.) Cell phones are have made the paying attention problem much worse, plus are chipping away at folks’ attention spans. And even the best drivers have human reaction times. (Which lengthen as you age.) In contrast, the automated cars can *always* pay attention, and have very fast reaction times.
And we’re already seeing the incremental technology. Cruise control long back. Then anti-lock brakes. Now we have collision avoidance systems and lane warning. We know Google has a bunch of fully autonomous vehicles already out there driving. There some obvious areas–like freeway driving, especially congested freeway driving–where it’s clear automated systems can already beat what humans do, improving both safety and capacity\congestion. The capability will only ramp up. Because of the failure of humans and it’s high cost, driving is actually a *ripe* area to be automated.
Finally there’s the obvious–there are huge cost savings from replacing humans. Even if the systems simply reached more or less safety parity with humans, ask yourself “does UPS want this?”. They can pay for a lot of extra accidents when they are saving the cost of a driver pulling down 50-100k in wages and benefits, taking holidays and paid vacations. (Postal service, even easier to automate at the delivery end. )
This is coming. It’s not my area of expertise, i don’t know timeline. But it’s obviously an area where rather than some big barrier to the “brave new world”, incremental improvement is both possible and already happening and the incentives for it are immediate and potentially enormous. Maybe this isn’t as clear cut as the case against open immigration, but it really is at that level. There’s no serious debate about this by anyone thinking critically.
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A goy messages me: “Why are so few Jews orthodox? Behind all my trolling, I really admire the orthodox. I even admire an Orthodox Jew who screws up all the time and retains a sad masturbation addiction or whatever. But these Pharisee reform “Jews” who pay no attention to the Law at all… What are they? It’s pure tribalist in-group stuff with no moral core. Disgusting. And of course all the editorial writers are this sort. John Podhoretz is the most revolting to me.”
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Oh wait. In a Crystal City story unrelated to the water problem: “Indicted were Mayor Richardo Lopez; council members Rogelio Mata and Roel Mata; former council member Gilbert Urrabazo; and William James Jonas, who served as city manager and city attorney. Ngoc Tri Nguyen, a businessman, was also indicted…Councilman Margo Rodriguez was indicted January 27 on unrelated federal charges of smuggling undocumented immigrants, KSAT reported.
That’s a lot of news in one month for a city of just 7,000 people. It’s not the first time a slew of Crystal City officials have been indicted. It happened back in 1976, as well. But it should be all ok once these good Latinos assimilate to American ways. Crystal City (95% Latino) has only been overwhelmingly Mexican-American since at least the early 60s.
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* FOX News viewers aren’t SWPLs; they’re old people. The median age of Bill O’Reilly’s show is about 70 (hence all the ads for Cialis, reverse mortgages, and catheters). Those people aren’t the next generation of the traditional Republican party. They are the last generation of it.
* Idea: Graphic analysis showing media truthfulness by ownership and editor/reporter/anchor ethnicity.
That could cover US, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, Australia, etc.
Truthfulness quantification might reflect some fact check/retraction or similar measures.
The a priori view is that media bias is present, determinable, and a damn nuisance. There may be a strong R-squared in there, as the daily onslaught on the truth provides ample data.
* I must admit, as bad as things are for our republic, the total humiliation of Jeb Bush has given me a totally thrilling bit of Schadenfreude (joy in the pain of others. Gotta love those big German words). At least the universe is not entirely without a sense of justice, or humor.
* Rubio is the “genteel” candidate in this race. There are lots of Republicans around who above all else are turned off by harsh-sounding rhetoric, and would sooner take an empty suit than a guy like Trump or Cruz.
* Yeah, the country club vote. Immigration, legal or otherwise, doesn’t hurt those characters. Neither does globalization. Hence, their concern with the capital gains tax, being respectable, and maintaining the status quo.
BTW, you saw the same thing in Iowa where Cruz got his lowest votes in the county with the state capital and biggest city.
* That’s true. But while immigration might not hurt them, it will hurt their grandchildren. They ought to realize that. Sadly, most of them don’t.
* You hit the nail on the head. This group is “embarrassed” by Trump due to their concern over their own “respectability”. Prime example being the jacketed gentleman at the CNN “Town Hall” on Thursday who asked abt Donald’s saying Bush lied any WMDs, and the real estate lady who went right before him. (Anderson Cooper followed up with both of these particular contestants then next evening during “regular” Breaking News and they both had decided they could not be associated with Donald Trump.)
* To be fair, nobody really predicted Trump’s campaign, which is what destroyed Jeb. Without Trump, Jeb would probably have a decent shot right now.
* Until now, Trump has been benefiting from the vote splitting. But with ¡Jeb! outta here, he’s going to be hurt by it, until and unless Cruz drops out.
How many ¡Yeb! supporters are going to Trump? I’d guess it’s close to zero – most will go to Rubio. (Cucks!).
But when Cruz throws in the towel, his supporters will rally behind Trump. If Cruz were a true patriot he’d announce his campaign suspension tonight and endorse Trump. ‘Course it won’t happen, though what about a secret backroom deal for Cruz to withdraw and join the Trump campaign as the VP? The two of them would then spend the rest of the primary season hanging the Schumio bill around Rubio’s neck and cruise to the nom.
* Just watching Trump’s victory speech, I am rooting for him because of his stance on immigration, but also his other planks are good.
I do wonder if he’s making some statements he is going to regret. When he states that the US is ranked #30 in education in the world, if only the white population was looked at, it would bat a lot better but it has 12% blacks and however many mestizos dragging down the average. If some were deported however, it would definitely bump the average.
Overall though, Trump is the image of a strong leader. He resonates strength, this is someone you can get behind. And very quick on his feet. He’s the guy you want on your side negotiating with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, not to mention historical dwarfs and own-goalists like David Cameron and Angela Merkel.
* Of the 3 Bushes only W. had the common touch. Both Jeb and Bush I were terrible politicians. Bush I got lucky. Reagan picked him as VP and did nothing to ensure that a true conservative succeeded him. This allowed Bush-I to lie and falsely run as a “Reagan Conservative”. He then governed as a “Ford Conservative” and lost big time in 1992.
Jeb decided to be honest and run on what he truly was. Sad.
* Trump still has not broken 35%. When Christie and Fiorina quit their percentage seems not to have gone to Trump but to Cruz and Rubio. In France Le Pen with 40% lost to two 30%s.
* If Cruz and Carson both left, Trump could be hitting 50+%. Unfortunately, I doubt Cruz drops anytime soon. But I wish Carson would get out – that’s 5-10% that probably all goes to Trump.
* So even after Nimrata’ Nikki’ Haley endorsed Rubio, Trump still won handily. Haley was looking for a VP slot under Rubio.
* God bless Trump for speaking against the Iraq war – even saying the obvious, that we lied to, that the nuke intel was cherrypicked. What a pair on that guy! He just thought it up and did it.
* A business decision may result in a positive-sum outcome. All participants can benefit.
In a two-party system political decisions almost always have a zero-sum outcome. 1 party will benefit at the expense of another. It is ridiculous when the liberal pundits tells the GOP that they will benefit from more immigrants.
* Jeb has always struck me as a tragic figure. It’s always been very clear that politics just isn’t where his heart is. His brother was the same way, but he was better at faking it. Jeb is not very good at faking it.
* Two downward-pointing exclamation marks seem appropriate for a candidate who could never get it up.
It’s interesting to try and imagine where he would have ended up if he hadn’t been born a Bush. I’m thinking he would have been some kind of teacher or clergyman — a line of work where he would have been much happier.
* Jeb probably would have won or at least would have had a good chance to win if Trump hadn’t run. It wasn’t absurd for him to run. He just ran into the Trump train, which is sort of an unprecedented phenomenon. In fact, Trump went after him so hard so early because Jeb was arguably the frontrunner early on, and he never recovered.
* Maybe George P should get a clue and run for office as an anti-immigration American patriot. He can argue he is not a racist as his mother is a Mexican immigrant.
His argument should be that immigration was good for America in the past but after 50 years of mass immigration we need to pause it. This way he doesn’t look like a self-hating Mexican.
* I don’t know if George P. has charisma, integrity, smarts, or good political instincts, but he sure has this: crazy eyes. Not cross eyes, exactly, but something ain’t right. Like watching a Stanley Kubrick movie, something is “off” about what we see and people will pick up on this. George P is an otherwise handsome young man.
Who, besides the Bushes, advocate for the Bush dynasty anymore? They are done. In Texas, Bushes may still win for a while, but nationally no one cares.
* I was just thinking how odd it feels to ALMOST be the political mainstream…I was reading through some of my books on the two Bush Presidencies the other day (looking for mentions of Jeb), and it’s now quaint how over the top the denunciation of the Willie Horton ad is in every tome. Here we are with a leading candidate that is pretty much the Alt-right personified…like a mix of Roissy/Mystery/Ross Jeffries game tactics, MPC/Right Stuff nasty trolling, the Sailer electoral Strategy, Pat Buchannan’s economic nationalism, Derb’s Muslim moratorium…getting along with Russia, stopping nation building etc etc….Neo-conservatism is dead and Jeb’s goofy face is on the tombstone.
* Channeling Heartiste: exit cucklord. I think lowbrow agitprop is quite effective, grinning shitlord Donald knows that well. Let’s make Rubio the next cucklord. A Spanish news site translated cuckservative as cornuservador (cornudo), so Rubio would be the next cornuservador supremo.
* “I wonder if Jeb’s 2016 run has permanently wrecked his son’s chances?”
Unless there is a big sea-change in our culture- and I mean like a bunch of smart, charismatic, junior sh!tlords storming the liberal bastions of academia, media, and prestige professions real soon, I think Yeb Jr’s chances are unaffected. Bush Sr. was near-loathed by conservatives at the time of his departure from office (not just a liar- “read my lips, no new taxes”- but also a loser) yet that did not stop conservatives from rallying to Dubya a short 8 years later. Plus the media love turning wonky politics into engaging soap opera, and there is nothing more engaging than a story like “son rises to avenge humiliated father”. Plus unless there is that sea-change in culture I just mentioned I cannot see the media NOT pushing their line about the GOP being doomed unless they pander more to Hispanics.
“I must admit, as bad as things are for our republic, the total humiliation of Jeb Bush has given me a totally thrilling bit of Schadenfreude.”
I honestly felt really bad for George P. There is nothing worse in life for a youngish man than to see one’s father abjectly humiliated like that. And the fact that it was at the primordial level of schoolyard bullying, where so many traumas and fixations are forever implanted (witness Steve’s comments on Mathew “I was a teenage Nazi-hunter” Weiner). That moment where Yeb blurted out how he looked up after sliding out between Barbara’s thighs and instantly realized he’d “won the lotto”! Even the anti-Trump CNN analyst instantly picked up on the ick factor of that. It was like:
LITTLE DONNY TRUMP: Your mother’s a whore! And her c**t smells like a Brooklyn fish market.
Little Jebby Bush: My mother is not a whore! And I know personally she in fact smells wonderful- like fresh-baked bread- down there!
* Sometimes it makes me sad though– Jeb! being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more gray and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
* Thanks to Mr. Trump, Miss USA has finally left the past behind, caught up with the times, and shaved off her Bush.
* Trump just won a greater percentage of Evangelicals than total voters. He won their vote. Who can say the whys or whens of these things? But I suspect James Dobson will be sounding a Trumpet just as soon as he knows he will. Time is relative ya know.
Speaking of low information, for all the crass ways Trump embodies this age, perhaps the people who can see into him something ancient are the most lively folks enjoying his show. You might educate yourself about about an ancient whore, a blood red moon, other stuff they said you must have ears to hear and codes to break.
I do think the most interesting thing Trump has said so far was his moral inventory from that SC Townhall on CNN. He said my great fault is I let people I know deceived me get away with their deception without ever letting myself forget the count. Struck me cause I was reminded that Trump said something early on about one thing that happened to him when he initially spoke out about the Iraq War. Most interesting of all maybe is that he has not said another word about that since. And I have to suppose that means we never will again.
My educated bet would be that Trump has no idea that he has already won, and that that will open up a fault line somewhere loud indeed.
* Similarly, a lot of commentators in liberal sites are exclaiming how they don’t know any Trump voters. Well, news flash, when you can lose your job and end up a pariah for going against the PC multicult group think, people tend to keep their opinions to themselves.
Nevertheless, they have their opinions and when you say something (clutching pearls) like “If that Trump wins, I’m going to quit my job and move to Canada!” and the other person just says nothing, or a non-committal “Oh really?”, well, you were probably talking to a Trump supporter and just didn’t know it.
* Trump’s wife has been married to Trump for about 10 years and has been in the US for around 20 years. Bush’s wife has been married to Bush, and in the USA, for around 40 years. So let Melania have another 20 years in the US before you compare her command of the language to Columba’s.
* Cruz’s acceptance speech tonight was proof for me that he’s the Frank Underwood of thr Republican establishment. After being spurned by the Bush’s and not getting the job he wanted, he decided to advance his career using the anti establishment mood in the country instead of following the traditional career path. He’s a globalist like the rest of the establishment shills, who’s loyalties are to the Israel lobby, the big banks, and the MiC. He’s just smart enough to use the country’s mood to advance his own career at the expense of some of the other establishment types. The way he sucked up to Jeb! And attacked Trump tonight means I bet he’s more likely to endorse Rubio than Trump once he realizes his path is gone. Let’s just hope the Cruz true believers are smart enough to avoid Marcobot. Marco might be even more easily manipulated by the major interests than W was.
* Yeah, that makes me look forward to a Trump/Clinton debate in which Trump goes after Clinton for voting for the Iraq war like an idiot.
What will my liberal friends and family members say when they see Trump dumping on Clinton from the left?
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* Thank heavens Jeb Bush ended it–the humiliation was becoming painful even to watch. But will the GOP Establishment try to push the almost-as-bad Marco Rubio, or will it hold its nose and support Ted Cruz in an all-out effort to stop Donald Trump?
I do note that Jeb Bush only suspended his campaign. Doesn’t that leave open the possibility that he could try to become the nominee at a brokered convention? Unlikely, but I don’t put anything past GOP cuckservatives at this point.
* Trump has just telegraphed to Hill and (pathetic, ghostly, debilitated) Bill that this is exactly what he will be doing once he gets the Republican nomination. Trump will be talking so much smack he might induce a nervous breakdown in her. Hillary knows she has never done anything useful in her political career. Devoid of any accomplishment except for the negative one of abandoning Americans to die Benghazi. Trump will also slam her non stop on Benghazi. Can you imagine ultra-lib Jimmy Carter leaving Americans to die there the way Hussein O and Hillary did?
Trump is 100% clean as a far as the Middle East tar baby goes while Hillary was the main promoter of the disastrous Arab Spring, helped along by our gay and feminist dominated leftist State Department. Europe can blame their current Muslim immigration invasion on dim bulb Hillary.
* The contrast between Melania Trump and Columba Bush is actually an interesting example of assimilation or its lack. I believe Melania Trump grew up in Slovenia. But hardly anyone outside Slovenia speaks Slovenian–why would anyone take the trouble to learn such an obscure language unless one planned to live in Slovenia? (Sorry if I’ve outraged all the lovers of Slovenian literature and poetry.) Donald Trump has no time or probably inclination to learn Slovenian and if there is a Slovenian community in the U.S. it’s got to be very small.
Columba Bush, on the other hand, can get by very comfortably in Spanish. Jeb learned it, her children speak it, there’s a large Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. She never had any incentive to really master English.
Moral: small community–assimilate or go back; large community–no need for assimilation.
* Ben Shapiro finally exposes himself. Like the National Review, he markets himself as “anti-establishment” while actually supporting the GOP elite agenda.
Shapiro has called for Cruz to endorse Rubio in an attempt to stop Trump.
Rubio is antithetical to anything Shapiro claimed to stand for,besides defending “our greatest ally”, but the establishment is crumbling and even needs its double-agents to lose their cover.
* Trump has Jeb’s testicles in a mason jar. Floating in brine.
And he often gazes upon them whilst sitting in his jet flying to his various campaign rallies.
So, there’s that….
* What is it with female political strategists? First Hillary’s ’08 disaster. Then Perry’s ’12 disaster and now Sally Bradshaw.
* I’d toss in ‘corporate’ Republicans too after seeing Trump barely carried Greenville County which is home to Lockheed Martin, GE, Caterpillar, 3M and Honeywell plants. OTOH Trump got almost 50% of the vote in Horry County ( Myrtle Beach etc.)
* Bush’s drop out will leave Cruz in a distant third place, but it also leaves him sort of in the middle between Trump and Rubio. His best bet is to go jujitsu on Marco Rubio over the immigration issue. Hit Rubio hard on betraying his voters on amnesty: one commercial after another, one stump speech after another. Don’t let voters ever forget that Rubio is a liar. There is almost zero chance that Rubio will be the Republican nominee, so it’s nothing Cruz will have to apologize for later, and it’s the only shot Cruz has at peeling off support from the other candidates.
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* “The focus of the article is on the danger of the government convicting somebody who isn’t much of a threat to commit terrorism. There’s another side of the coin, of course, but that goes unmentioned: the possibility of the government prodding somebody into actually committing terrorism.”
I wonder if the Bomb-Brothers were not an instance of this. Perhaps the FBI tried to recruit them for a fake bomb-plot, but did not realize that they were smart enough to initiate a real one. They (the Tsarnaev’s, I mean) might have also realized they were being played and thought it would be an amusing joke to play on the Feds. That scenario might explain what seemed to be a bunch of Craft security personnel hanging around that day, as well as the suspicious death of Ibrahim Todashev.
Regarding the federal fake terror-plot campaign, one should also not discount simple careerism. I would assume that both in the FBI and in the DoJ (so-called) making successful cases is a metric for promotion. GS-14s for everyone!
* A policy of bombing fewer Muslim countries and letting fewer Muslim potential bombers in to live in America would allow America to safely employ fewer of these agents provocateur.
That’s common sense and it’s not allowed!
* It’s a small step from this to agents deliberately cultivating losers into fanatics and then sending them on their way like missiles to their targets…or airplanes into buildings…
But that’s conspiracy, and we know that doesn’t happen.
* Some years back the Palestinian Authority claimed to have rolled up a counterfeit al-Qaeda cell being organized by the Israelis. Dupes would have thought they were being directed by AQ when in reality it would have been the Israelis pulling the strings. Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky has claimed the Achille Lauro incident was an Israeli engineered event. Quite clever and quite cynical, if true that is. One never really knows the whole story or who is doing what. There’s an awful lot of people out there with budgets to burn whose job it is to bamboozle the public.
* I was half-listening to something on NPR last week about this Buzzfeed investigation about the FBI visiting Muslims who are applying for citizenship or some other legal status to recruit them. If they don’t know or volunteer anything, the FBI puts them on a list somewhere that prevents them from becoming a citizen. Predictably, the report is all about noble family men who are here to improve us being victimized by jack-booted thugs, but it suggests there are some realists lurking in the government’s shadows who are working to protect the country.
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* You are forgetting that Trump has avoided attacking Rubio thus far in the election. Trump has gone after Jeb and Cruz instead. I think Trump will change tactic and go after Rubio realizing he is now the biggest threat.
Plus with Kasich planning to stay around till March 15 Ohio primary, Trump will have plenty of time to work on Rubio.
* If Rubio drops out soon, Trump is going to have a harder time of it because the GOP establishment is going to rally behind Cruz to stop Trump. If you look at South Carolina results, Rubio and Cruz each got 22%. If Rubio hadn’t been running and his portion of the vote went to Cruz, Cruz would have won South Carolina instead of Trump. Rubio staying in the race is preventing Cruz from winning.
* Of course Fox and others are playing the optimist hand for Rubio and the pessimist one for Trump. But the reality is this. As of now Trump is winning.
I am awaiting Trump going after Rubio and reminding the base continually about Chuck Schumer’s side kick on the gang of 8. I don’t think Rubio has the chops to stand up to withering attacks. Christie showed us that. Rubio has benefited from the media helping him along by not focusing on amnesty, and by Trump bashing Bush and lately Cruz. Conventional wisdom says that Rubio is helped by Bush leaving. But by Bush leaving Trump can stop attacking him and focus on Rubio. Let’s see how Rubio holds up when Trump focuses on him.
* True, but the NRA is totally AWOL on immigration issues, all of which have a profound effect on the future of our common law gun rights.
About 40% of the people in this country belong to peoples that the Founding Fathers did not believe had a right to bear arms. And that number is growing with each generation.
The Second Amendment is irrelevant– and worse, if it requires the Fourteenth. It’s a common law right, and “common law” means English.
* You’re right that Rubio is extraordinarily lame. Shocking that he’s the best the establishment can come up with. His record in public life is as weak as Obama’s was 2008, and he’s not nearly as smart or tough as Obama. Whatever else anybody can say about Obama, he ran a brilliant campaign 8 years ago. He devised the strategy, he wrote all of the speeches, and he made every important decision. Rubio doesn’t seem to be running anything. He’s just a mouthpiece, reading lines written by others and passively awaiting instructions from his handlers about what to do next.
* Since the units they need to conduct war rely on white southerners, there’s probably a naturally self-limiting nature to their support. If one of your neighbor’s kids gets maimed, he’s a hero in a heroic struggle. A bunch get maimed, nobody’s a hero, and everything is a tragedy.
* The GOP establishment is going nuts over at RedState – total meltdown. In fact, their lead story the night that Donald Trump won South Carolina by a large margin is:
Wait a minute. Didn’t Rubio lose by 10 points? And didn’t Trump win almost all the delegates? Shouldn’t victory speeches be reserved for the victorious, not guys who lose 100% of the states they run in?
“Watch Cruz Supporters React To Jeb Bush Dropping Out”
‘Cheers for the narrowing of the race, but also for Bush’s statement about policy mattering, a direct swipe at the superficial and childish campaign of the blowhard who won tonight.’
* Considering how Rubio nearly imploded in New Hampshire and Trump is a walking time bomb, Cruz would be nuts to give up right now. I want Trump to win, but it’s a long way from over.
* I’m concerned because Trump’s on a learning curve right now, and the experience he’s learning from in a 3,4,5,15-way race might not apply to the general election. It would be a better lab for him if he had to go head-to-head with a single candidate at this point.
* Nevada matters about as much as Iowa, which is not a lot. Caucuses are stupid. Last I checked, it looked like perhaps only 12 or 13 thousand people in Nevada even bothered to go through the process today.
Nevertheless, the outcome resembles what I think will happen for the Democrats all the way to their convention: The grifter will win more delegates, while the communist will gather enough stupid people to be an inconvenience.
The grifter will then lose to Donald Trump, but she will avoid a trial, thanks to the quid pro quo of the anti-American president whose ass she will continue to kiss.
* I think the Republicans should start beating the war drums against Obama and his possible grant of clemency to Hillary in that three-month window after the election and before he leaves office. They should try to create a firestorm around the email scandal and see if they can get the press to start asking whether he will swear to the American public that he will not consider granting a last minute clemency to Hillary after the election. Any such pledge would be legally unenforceable but it would bring the email scandal front and center during the campaign and cause embarrassment to Hillary. That’s one area where the Constitution needs to be amended. Either make all clemency decisions subject to the approval of Congress or limit clemencies to the first three years of a President’s term so they all have the potential of being considered by the voters in the upcoming Presidential election. I don’t think Clinton would have granted clemency to Marc Rich if he knew his scandalous decision might have affected the race of 2000 to succeed him in office.
* I would think that Republican-leaning government employees would be more likely to lean Trump than Rubio. Rubio sides with the Paul Ryan/Scott Walker crowd and will likely follow their track record of cutting government employee benefits and enriching contractors. At least Trump won’t enrich the contractors to the same extent. And since Trump is the least likely Republican to cut Social Security, it’s a safe bet he’s the least likely to cut government employee pensions as well.
* Apparently what forced ¡Jeb¡’s withdrawl was a combination of having burned through 100-120 million in funds and rumors that a number of top consultants were jumping ship for Rubio.
I actually see this as a disaster for Rubio.
First of all like others have said Trump can now focus on Rubio being Schumer’s cabana boy on the Gang of Eight Amnesty deal.
Second and I believe far worse is that Rubio will now be responsible for keeping all the money grubbing loyal Bushie campaign consultants happy. It is impossible to keep all the Karl Rove’s, Mike Murphy’s and their wannabees happy and flush with filet mignon, cigars and single malt. Does Rent Boy Rubio really inspire enough confidence in his donor base to lavishly fund his campaign?
Some of these consultant crapweasels are going to be left with out a musical chair to land on. There will be hard feelings and because they may realize that three decades long Conservative Inc gravy train may be ending with the rise of Trump and Populist/Nationalist politics, some of them may spill the dirt on Rubio for spite. Also remember ¡Jeb¡’s professional Hispanics are Mexicans, Rubio’s are Cuban, so no love lost there.
Last, with the death of Scalia, the Neocon mega donors have a chance to pour tens of millions into bribing the Republican Senate into helping Obama nominate a SCOTUS justice who will give them what they really secretly desire, hate speech laws and internet censorship that will block any criticism of Israel, shutdown the BDS movement and continued Open Borders. In Europe we see the Jewish Neocons and Marxist left working in concert to promote hate speech laws and Anarcho-Tyranny repression of the historical nationalist population.
Rubio is no longer necessary for this to happen. The Jewish mega donor focus for the next several months will be on locking down the SCOTUS for the next several decades. Remember the Notorious RBG is also likely to announce her retirement by summer.
Finally, Kaisich is a nothing burger who always was on the Jack Kemp track. A long shot at being a VP nomination and then cushy life attending country club Republican functions and golf tournaments.
* I have pointed out to my Leftist friends that Trump will go to the left of Hillary on the use of US troops in our now yearly invasions of the Muslim world. They don’t care. They would not care if Trump adopted Bernie’s economic plan either. Trump’s anti-immigration position, that his his position on keeping America American, makes him a heretic, a warlock, whatever else it is that got you burned at the stake in the Middle Ages. If Bernie said he was going to build a wall on the Mexican border in order to raise wage rates among the poorest Americans, he would be abandoned by liberals and called a racist. African Americans who are not liberal, might appreciate it, but not your liberal friends.
* Rubio has been living hand to mouth from his Miami donors for his entire political career – AmEx card accounting improprieties, no accumulated personal wealth, wife employed as consultant by car dealer donor.
He has hit the big time now, as Silicon Valley has plenty of Fed funny money to shower on him, and they won’t put him on as tight an allowance as his Florida masters did.
* All Cruz’s foreign policy advisors are neocons like Woolsey, Abrams etc. He has just mimicked Trump’s positions on immigration and foreign policy, I sincerely doubt his sincerity. The more conspiratorially minded might see it as scheme to keep Trump’s numbers down, or it might just be a campaign strategy, either way Trump gets the most transfers from Cruz. Carson dropping out would also boost Trump more than others. Of course momentum can take those supporters anyway. Interestingly Trump also gets one point from Bush whereas Rubio gets two, so not the boost certain folks are hoping for, especially as those dropping out are polling so low it makes little difference.
I expect a lot Rubio’s support will be from old people who are the only people who still consume solely the traditional media, as well as the country club and patronage vote.
* The Jewish pundits are going crazy against Trump on my Twitter feed today. I guess they just have an atavistic fear of whites getting any kind of nationalistic feeling. It must make them feel unsafe as a successful “market minority.” And they promote non-white immigration into white countries to dilute white power.
* It seems that Trump’s criticism of the Bushes, looking at it from a purely horse race perspective, set him back tactically but will help him strategically. To be more specific, it cost him votes in the South Carolina primary but will help him in the general election campaign if he wins the nomination.
Candidates usually don’t do things like this, because the general election benefit of course is useless if you don’t win the nomination, so its too uncertain to risk losing a critical primary like South Carolina. Actually, I think Trump was just saying what was in his head at the time without being calculating at all. But if he was calculating, he would have realized that he was far enough ahead in the polls in South Carolina that this was a good move, in the short term it would just mean winning with a lower vote percentage, which is what happened.
I am not a Republican, but I imagine most Republican voters don’t want to hear criticism of the Bush decision to invade Iraq, and the reasons Bush gave at the time. In most cases they had voted for Bush himself in 2000 and 2004, believed Bush’s reasons, and defended Bush, as the leader of their party, against his critics. They would have to accept that they themselves were wrong. The equivalent for the Democrats is probably immigration policy, but even there the legislative change was made in 1965, before most voters were alive, and in very different circumstances.
So Trump’s statements cost him votes. On the other hand, it enhances the reputation he is developing for being forthright, and it spares him from having to defend something that has become an albatross around the Republicans’ neck. And since Hilary Clinton backed both the Iraq invasion and the “invade the world” policy generally (as does Biden and Bloomberg), he has more ammunition against her.
The Trump candidacy is in some ways a resurrection of the older, pre-Cold War, Republican Party which was protectionist, somewhat isolationist, and not on board with the benefits of massive immigration, and if that is going to be your program you will wind up coming out against the Iraq War at that point.
And it also may have knocked Jeb Bush out of the race.
* There will be absolutely zero pogroms under Trump’s tenure, and that’s something that can be taken to the bank.
* There are many — likely most –Americans who don’t give a small damn about The Other, except insofar as The Other impinges on their own lives and genuine interests. It will be a salutary exercise for these Americans to see how few Democrats and liberals see things the way they do.
What these liberals and Democrats won’t like to have to do is explain to ordinary Americans just why it is that it simply doesn’t matter what Trump thinks about foreign wars or the health care system, and why he remains Evil Incarnate solely because of his views on immigration.
* When political\cultural control passed out of the hands of founding stock Americans–and i’m only fractionally one–we’ve seen a whole plethora of understood basic rights of Anglo-Saxons– notably the critical and most basic right of “freedom of association”–just disappeared. Telling people who they must bake wedding cakes for is the sort of intrusive abusive nonsense that the founders would have listed as a provocation in the Declaration.
When people claim to be “conservative” and are pro-immigration, they are a joke. Exactly what are they “conserving”–nothing. What a conservative loves and “conserves” is his people and culture–his *nation*.
(And it’s in this way that Trump is actually the most conservative guy in the race even though he’s not very conservative. Cause the other guys are outright engines of destruction.)
* The trouble is that many “conservatives” are prey to magical thinking and believe the Constitution will act as a ghost shirt to protect them from the consequences of race replacement. Even as things stand, much of the legislation and court rulings are a grotesque perversion of what the Founding Fathers intended. This is with courts and legislatures that are still mostly white.
* There was an interesting short interview of RNC Chairman Rience Preibus by George Stephanopoulus this morning. George hit him with a wishful thinking leading question about whether Trump would get the full support of the RNC if he won the nomination, instead of one of the establishment candidates. Preibus shut him right down and said that the nominee would get all the resources of the Party thrown behind him, no matter who it was. Rience also made a point of adding that the GOP has corrected its problems from 2012, and that they think their infrastructure, data systems, voter turn-out and overall ground game is now superior to the Democrats.
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