Ben Shapiro On Dennis Prager

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

A friend says: Last Thursday Shapiro was on Dennis Prager’s show explaining the reasons he would never support Trump. It was amazing to hear how Shapiro was talking about devoting his whole life to the conservative movement only to see Trump who is not a conservative seize the nomination.

It is unprecedented for any candidate to come under such attack both from his own party as well as the other party.

Shapiro reminds me of what Kroeber said about Ishi (the last wild Indian living in California) that he thought of the white men who he came to live with as intelligent children – smart but not wise. That is what I think of Ben Shapiro. He was born in 1984 which should give you some idea of his perspective. He has no experience of the cold war. No first hand memories of any president before George H.W. Bush. No first hand memories of the Israeli Arab conflict until sometime after 1995 or so. His views on conservatism and Republican party are based on the only elected Republican he remembers George W. Bush, and the overwhelming influence of neo conservatives (especially Jewish ones) on American foreign policy. Again, he grew up in L.A. He attended both public schools although he graduated from Yeshiva. Then went to UCLA and Harvard Law school I don’t think he has had any real work experience outside of being a lawyer and commentator and doesn’t realize his limitations. The conversation with Prager was revealing since Prager although he has expressed his dislike for Trump, makes clear that he is still preferable to any Democratic nominee, because Prager asked plenty of questions and gave Shapiro plenty of time to answer them. In my opinion Shapiro came off as arrogant and vindictive in that nothing so far has been able to derail Trump’s path to the nomination, and since it hadn’t, Shapiro (out of principle as he put it, but out of spite as I perceived it) was taking his ball and going home.

We shall see if Professor Reynolds (or anyone else) retracts their position on the Michelle Fields claim.

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Economist Russell Roberts: Do You Care At All About The Chinese Escape From Poverty?

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

I care more about America than I do about China and I want a trade policy that favors American interests, including the dignity of American workers.

China cannot rise peacefully.

I reply to Russell Roberts: “China is our enemy. As they grow richer, they threaten the countries around them and US power. China cannot rise peacefully.”

“You say the welfare of Chinese is equally important as the welfare of Americans. You are a globalist, not an American patriot.”

“Do you not favor your children over other children? Why do you not favor the welfare of your country over other countries?”

“Free trade with Germany in the 1930s would have boosted Germany’s capacity to wage war, same with China today.”

Russell Roberts on KCRW: “Trade with China has accelerated the job loss in [America’s] manufacturing.”

“On the plus side of the ledger, hundreds of millions of Americans have been able to buy relatively inexpensive goods from China, which they love to buy.”

“I want to add something equally important that has not been mentioned by any of the candidates, which I find deeply depressing and may not be mentioned by anyone else on this program — that trade with China has transformed the lives of the Chinese people and I don’t think that’s irrelevant. I don’t know why people on either side of the political spectrum… ignore the tremendous benefits that have accrued to desperately poor people [in China]. Yes, it is hard for certain Americans with low levels of education to find work when they have to compete with people outside the United States. Let’s fix that by improving their skills and their opportunities and not by artificially keeping out foreign products that help those workers who are even poorer than ours. As a person who cares about humanity, I don’t know understand how you can suggest that we should not bring in their goods and allow them to be as poor as they have been in the past.”

Russell Roberts tweets:

* Dear Donald Trump: Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty. Replacing foreign factories w/US ones makes us poorer, not richer.

* Why do we only get one side of trade? Immigrants compete w/US workers, yes. But they also help consumers and themselves.

* Can’t someone explain that opening our borders doesn’t destroy American jobs, just certain kinds of jobs?

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Mexican Flag Raised in Chicago; ‘We Stopped Trump!’

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Joel Pollak writes: Protesters raised a Mexican flag in celebration after Donald Trump’s planned rally in Chicago on Friday night was canceled, according to news reports.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

Cheers went up among many protesters when the announcement came, but a chaotic scene soon emerged with protesters and Trump supporters scuffling on the arena floor.

Police rushed into the fray to try to restore order.

One person raised a Mexican flag amid chants of “We stopped Trump!”

“This is exactly what I was hoping for,” said Celso Ramos, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Everyone says our generation doesn’t do anything.”

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter also noted the flag at the time:

Trump has criticized illegal immigration from Mexico, as well as the Mexican government and Mexico itself. One of his core policies is to build a “wall” along the border — and have Mexico pay for it.

In addition, some radical activists on behalf of amnesty for illegal immigrants believe that the southwestern U.S. should revert to Mexico. The Mexican flag is also waved in pride at some other, less radical pro-amnesty rallies.

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Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Is Calling For His Assassination

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

From a conversation on Twitter:

SemiAntite posts: #JewishPrivilege is amazing, so many openly calling for the murder of presidential front runner w/no worries

Dov Bear: I call BS on “many”

LukeFord: Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ is calling for his assassination. No meaningful difference. If Trump is Hitler, then kill him.

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Instapundit Glenn Reynolds: ‘YEAH, THIS IS A LOAD OF CRAP: Trump campaign claims Michelle Fields is ‘attention seeking’ and her story ‘entirely false.’ Trump needs to fire Corey Lewandowski.’

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

More here.

Glenn Reynolds looks like an idiot now that we have video of the incident.

Breitbart reporter accused of ‘crying wolf’ after new video is released

Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields has received mountains of attention this week over her claim that she was assaulted by Donald Trump‘s campaign manager.

But new video is casting serious doubt, not on who grabbed her, but on the severity of the incident.

Video published to YouTube on Saturday indeed shows a man that resembles Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbing her arm and moving her out of the way as she was about to chase after Trump, but the claim that she was almost thrust to the ground is beyond a stretch if this is the incident in question.

Fields has been in the national spotlight and appeared all over political television programs to talk about her “assault.”

She even filed a police report about the encounter.

Reactions have varied from “get over it,” or “she’s lying,” to demands that Trump fire his campaign manager and apologize.

So far, there has been no response from Fields or her supporters over the new footage.

Social media Trump supporters, including Ann Coulter, fired away on Fields over this new video.

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The Best Of Ramzpaul

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

From his Twitter:

* My dream is that my people can one day have a homeland as the Jews have Israel.

* The biggest “anti-racists” such as Tim Wise and Michael Moore always live in gated White communities. They personally avoid diversity.

* Non-Whites prefer to live in White civilization. They can’t create it on their own. This creates envy and hate.

* How about demanding that pit bulls act like poodles? Can’t change genetics.

* We don’t need Muslims in America or Europe. They have their own countries.

* And libertarians are OK if private groups use violence to shut down free speech.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Leaders Urge Supreme Court to Open U.S. Labor Market To Illegals

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are key members of the treason lobby. They want to replace American workers with foreigners.

From Breitbart: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a coalition of tech and business leaders are joining the administration’s call for the Supreme Court to “unfreeze” President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive-amnesty programs.

In an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court and released Tuesday by FWD.us, a Zuckerberg-founded immigration advocacy group, more than 60 tech business leaders say that Obama’s executive amnesty programs are essential to a stable national workforce.

“By clarifying its enforcement priorities and giving certain low-priority undocumented immigrants the opportunity to obtain temporary work authorization, the federal government can help stabilize labor supplies in these, and many other, industries, thereby reducing labor shortages and spurring economic growth,” the brief reads in part.

The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments on Obama’s 2014 executive amnesty programs — which would provide pseudo-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants — next month. Texas and 25 additional states have challenged the executive amnesty in court and have so far been successful in preventing the programs from moving forward in lower courts.

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Twitter Has No Problem With #KillDonald Hashtag

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

I wonder how many Twitter users who employ the #KillDonald hashtag are banned?

Twitter will do what it can to shut down the right and to promote the left. I get it. I wonder what the blowback will be for its operators? Do they think there will be no consequences for their choices?

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‘What it actually feels like to be targeted by Donald Trump’s neo-Nazi fan club’

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Short version: Matthew Rozsa hurls slurs at others and then is unpleasantly surprised when slurs are hurled back at him.

This Jew cries when he hits you.

If you don’t want to be slurred, don’t hurl slurs at others.

Matthew Rozsa writes for Quartz:

Although my articles have been attacked online by white supremacists in the past, my hate mail reached a new level once I began writing pieces critical of Trump. When I called him out for making anti-Semitic comments at a Republican Jewish Coalition event, Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer—one of the largest and most infamous white supremacist sites on the internet and an outspoken backer of Trump’s campaign–declared that “presently, Salon has a piece up by Jew parasite Matthew Rozsa, which they have reposted from the Jewish ‘Good Men Project,’ wherein a Jew condemns the Donald as an enemy of his evil tribe.”

Labeling me as “a Jewish ethnic activist so twisted he actually believes he can stump the Trump,” Anglin characterized my ideological multiculturalism as part of a sinister plot, writing “they understand that if Whites are allowed to have an identity, they will be like ‘hey, who are these people with the beady eyes and hooked noses who are controlling all of our systems? I’m not sure who they are, but they’re definitely not us. Maybe we should remove them? Yeah, I’m really starting to think it would be a good idea to remove these people.’” “Salon has a piece up by Jew parasite Matthew Rozsa, wherein a Jew condemns the Donald as an enemy of his evil tribe.” 

The article circulated quickly between hate groups. One white supremacist promoted the piece by saying “this demonic kike is apparently upset that Trump made politically incorrect remarks about Jews,” while another showed a picture of me taken outside Lehigh University with the caption, “Look at this filthy Jew rat!” At the online forum Stormfront–which exploded in popularity following Barack Obama’s election in 2008, tripling its audience to more than 300,000 members–the piece was reposted with comments arguing that “this is exactly how the international Jewry declared war on Hitler and Germany and so started World War 2.”

Many of these Stormfronters wanted to make sure I read their remarks and so forwarded the links to my email address, which is how Anglin’s article found its way back to me.

At the time, I found this hyperbolic response rather amusing. As someone who was nearly murdered in an anti-Semitic hate crime when I was twelve, I’m adept at distinguishing between metaphorical sticks and stones and the real thing. I wrote as much in a follow-up piece for The Good Men Project, titled “Why We Should Laugh at Trump’s Nazis.” Anglin, not one for being laughed at, lashed out with a rambling article that meandered from further attacks on imagined Jewish conspiracies and “the Black communist agitator Martin Luther King” to a defensive rationalization of a botched Batman analogy.

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Why I can’t vote for Donald Trump

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Luke Ford

Joel Geiderman is the California Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and the former Vice Chairman of the United States Holocaust Museum, appointed by George W. Bush.

He writes in the Jewish Journal:

As a Jew and the son of a Holocaust survivor, what scares me about Trump is his treatment of people as groups, using negative stereotypes to stir up the emotions of uneducated and disaffected people, and appealing to the worst instincts of people. He disparages minorities before he says he “loves” some of them. For now, it’s Mexicans, Muslims, the Chinese. Jews, after all, are the ultimate minority. During the Diaspora, Jews spread out and shifted from country to country, based on acceptance by the majority in the countries to which they migrated. During World War II, we all know what happened when Jews found the doors shut. While I am not arguing for uncontrolled migration, the demonization of people seeking shelter or a better life is not compatible with our history.
One of Trump’s ex-wives alleges he kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside. I have no idea if this is true, but the fact that she thought people would find it credible is disturbing. I haven’t heard that come up in even the bitterest divorces. Trump’s failure to immediately disavow the KKK makes you wonder.
Furthermore, Jews don’t demean women. Woman are revered. Modern synagogues treat the matriarchs as we do the patriarchs, honoring them in daily prayers. Shavuot celebrates Ruth, and Purim, Esther. Jewish adults don’t make fun of a woman’s menses.
On Israel, Trump seems uninformed and naive. Being an even-handed broker between a Democratic ally and Hamas is ridiculous. The fact that he approaches diplomacy as he would a business deal (which for him often ended in bankruptcy) is foolishness. Trump’s defense of his bona fides on Israel is that he once marched in an Israel Day parade. This is reminiscent of the fact that he gets foreign policy advice from watching “the shows.” There is no substance here.

He doesn’t know if it is true that Trump kept a collection of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside but hey, it’s worth including in his essay.

Trump’s a bad man because he uses negative group stereotypes, but the Jewish Torah is wonderful even though it is filled with negative group stereotypes.

Jews don’t demean women except for when they do. I wonder if he has ever studied Torah? I’m not condemning Torah here. I’m saying that if you condemn Trump for saying things, you have to condemn the Torah at the same time for even more outrageous comments.

There is no objective definition of hate speech that would not simultaneously condemn much of the Jewish tradition.

Being the son of a Holocaust survivor does not convey an iota more wisdom than being the son of a Honduran ditch digger.

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