Luke Ford

A friend of mine worked for a billionaire.

Luke: “Is he Jewish?”

Friend: “What do you think? I’d work for a goy?”

Comment: There’s a new Showtime series called Billions, about hedge funds in New York, which is debuting Sunday. The series is co-created by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times, who also wrote the book about the financial crisis that was turned into the HBO movie. If you click that link, you’ll see a description of the main characters, none of who appear to be Jewish.

Not that I’d expect all of the characters, or even most of them, to be Jewish, obviously, but none of them being Jewish seemed a little odd. So I asked Sorkin about it, via Twitter, after he said he’d be happy to talk about the show. No response.

@andrewrsorkin @mashbusiness Are any of the characters Jewish?

— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) January 13, 2016

* He wasn’t sure the name Pinsen was Jewish therefore couldn’t confide in you.

* Maybe it’s a thinly-veiled fictional exposé of Buddy Fletcher.

* Who owns Showtime?

CBS.

Who runs CBS?

Les Moonves and Sumner Redstone, nee Rothstein. I am sure they weren’t very interested in the development of a show that would take on the titans of high finance in their hometown of New York City, written by a star young reporter from the New York Times.

Mere coincidence, I am sure. Nothing to see here, please stop noticing all the WASPs who still run Harvard too.

* It’s a thinly-veiled expose of Steven A. Cohen (who the government is now settling with, incidentally) and a love note to Preet Bhahara.

* This is the kind of world I want to live in – an orderly world where, in a sense, success and wealth are “spread around”, not by the force or arbitrariness of government, but by cooperation among individuals who share a common sense of purpose, community, and cooperation.

* My son and I spent this fall attending presentation sessions by out of state colleges. The Harvard/Yale/Princeton/UVA (why UVA joined that group is beyond me) admissions presenters were: a Hispanic lesbian (Princeton), gay Asian male (Yale), Indian guy (Harvard), and black male (UVA). White boys need not apply – message received loud and clear. Coincidentally, or maybe not, it was the least informative of the nearly dozen presentations we’ve attended. They had a great time cracking each other up on stage, though. I took the opportunity to slam them in the feedback email.

* Steve – did you read about Rahm’s use of HUD rules to move Chicago black people to random midwestern cities?

* This college video practically says “white males not welcome” The contrast between the evil old white men (even marching like soldiers) in the first 25 seconds and the amazing vibrant diversity in the rest is stunning.

Uploaded on Feb 23, 2010: The University of Houston is uniquely positioned among other Texas universities to provide a different kind of college experience. UH is unified and defined by its diversity, and it gets its identity from its students, faculty, staff, alumni and its community. This video explains UH’s position, and the reasoning behind the “You are the Pride” branding message.

* I was hiking in northern Maine and the trail promotional materials had black kids! When was the last time you saw a black kid hiking in northern Maine?

* The (elderly) owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (the only 2 local dailies), just donated the company to a non-profit foundation. You could look at this a number of ways: he says it is to ensure quality journalism forever. Another angle is that his investment is worth zero anyway so there was no way he could sell it anyway (the papers continue to bleed money despite cut after cut). A third angle is that this is to permanently keep the paper out of the hands of non-liberals and safely in the hands of the Cathedral (the paper takes a conventional liberal line). And in case you are wondering, Lenfest is not a Joo.

If you’re a guest in a country, it is a dangerous thing to wear stuff that distinguishes you from the majority.

Mark Twain said that the Jew is always a stranger and even the angels don’t like strangers.

In general, Jews only deliberately act, dress and comport themselves in radically different ways from their gentile neighbors when they feel secure. Under pressure, they conform to gentile norms.

Bloomberg: French Jews Debate Danger of Wearing Kippa After Teacher Attack

France’s Jewish community is debating whether wearing a kippa has become a dangerous demonstration of their faith after a teacher in Marseille was attacked by a 15 year-old claiming to act in the name of the Islamic state.
Zvi Ammar, head of the Marseille Israelite Consistory, suggested the city’s Jews should take off their religious garb after the teacher was attacked Jan. 11. Yet the country’s Grand Rabbi Haim Korsia and the national council representing Jews in France have urged them not to take the small skullcap off their heads.
“We must not give way,” Korsia said on France Info radio.
The French government isn’t taking a position on the wearing of a kippa while pledging to “protect and denounce anti-Semitic acts,” spokesman Stephane Le Foll said on I-Tele news channel today. President Francois Hollande called the attack an “unspeakable act.”
The teacher was attacked with a machete by a young Turkish man from Kurdish background. The man claims to have acted “in the name of Allah” and “full of hate,” Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told the press Jan. 11. He was unknown to France’s police and intelligence services. He has been transferred to Paris to confront the anti-terrorism prosecutor.
This is the third attack against Jews in Marseille in the past six months. Since the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 in Paris, there have been regular threats “targeting the Jewish community more” Robin said Tuesday at a press conference in Marseille. The Mediterranean port city is the home to about 70,000 Jews, one of the religion’s biggest communities in France.

Goy: “Luke, do Jews in America lend money to other Jews at zero interest?–like, off the books, sort of? Or do Jews get loans for mortgages just like whites thorough Bank of America or whatever?
I’m really pissed about usury lately, and I’m wondering about starting some sort of Christian non-profit where Christians could lend to other Christians at zero interest. Don’t know about legality.”

Just Google “Jewish free loan.” All big Jewish communities have free loan societies, but they’re not normally for big things like mortgages. It’s not unusual for a Jew to move into a new town and the Jews there will welcome him and say, “What do you need?” And they’ll hook him up. The intensity and depth of Jewish generosity is unlike any I’ve known and the Seventh-Day Adventists I grew up with were highly charitable.

Goy: “I did! Amazing. 501c(3) non-profit status. No Christian equivalent. Should I start one? Circumvent usurers?”

Are you good at running banks? Not as easy as it looks, goy. Perhaps you should know your place.

The last time the goyim tried this, it lasted 12 years and did not end well. Just saying.

Goy: “No bunker. You mean when the pilgrims tried it in 1620 after getting off the Mayflower? Or? But yeah I guess it seems like I’d get shafted cuz nobody takes Christianity seriously. It would have to be accompanied by implicit in-group hiring practices so that each loan I gave was supported by my conniving network of Christian employers and industries. No bunker, no gun. But I’m a good natural athlete too so I’m confident I could be a reasonably good shot after about one clip’s worth of practice.”

“I’m just raging lately about our mortgage.”

How do you think we are supposed to support our yeshivas?

“The ‘PMI’ they tacked on… that won’t go away… even tho my wife and I have credit scores around 800.”

Every mortgage payment you make, I get a taste every month.

“I really only wanted to start that Christian non-profit zero interest loan program cuz I know it would piss off the usurer-Kings.”

That’s what Hitler said. He just wanted to breathe free and allow Jews to shine the light of Torah somewhere else.

“I don’t blame you for ‘joining them.’ It’s certainly the easier move. Hitler had a point. I saw something Ricky tweeted… About how if we don’t elect Trump now, we’ll elect Hitler later. That strikes me as true. But also, the demographic bomb makes me very pessimistic. We’re destined to lose. So I am thinking exit strategies.”

“Christianity is a real nightmare tho. A disease of the white mind. Going to be tough to dislodge that suicide-impulse.”

Christianity ran the white world for centuries. Christianity is flexible. It can go in any racial direction.

“Maybe seek asylum in Japan?”

Don’t you have an Israel?

“I think it’ll be England where the final battle to establish a new white Israel will be.

“Have you read any of that Rod Dreher or Ross Douthat’s stuff about a “Benedict Option?” That mentality… Just, retreat indefinitely–has to be rejected. And it’s been winning since about 1798. Ah, me!”

“If I had sons instead of daughters, I might become a Muslim. But as things stand, I’ll wait for conversion to be forced upon me. I’m not much of a joiner. I liked the earliest Jewish conception of a single unspeakable G-d. But I don’t like orthodoxies–they all try to put HaShem in a box and they all rely on special revelation, which is always easy to doubt.

“I can’t believe there isn’t more Western questioning of Mohammed’s “revelations.” He was epileptic and probably just had the spiritual visions common in people who have temporal love seizures.”